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(ELECTRICITY CRACKLES)

(THEME MUSIC PLAYS)

Argh!

(GIGGLES)

(BOTH SCREAM)

(TRAFFIC BUZZES) (BELL CHIMES)

(MUMBLES INDISTINCTLY)

(TINKLING)

(LAUGHS)

(CLANKING)

(MURMURS)

(SNIFFS) What's wrong, Rufus?

(MURMURS) (CLATTERS)

What's there?!

Uh...

(CLATTERING) (BARKS)

Huh?

Hey!

(MURMURS)

Agh!

(GROWLS)

This is the security...

Argh!

(GROWLS)

Come on, show your face!

(GRUNTS)

Show your...fa...

..face.

(HUFFS)

(GROWLS)

(MENACING LAUGHTER)

You don't scare me.

(GROWLS)

(GASPS) What the...

(GASPS)

(SNORES SOFTLY)

Sweet dreams. (SNICKERS)

(SNORES SOFTLY)

(GLASS SMASHES)

(ON PHONE) Jewellery store...

(YAWNS) ..forensic science detectives

are working on site,

but for the moment we've had no updates.

BRO: Clever! You won't believe your eyes!

I am going to show you the ultimate modern detective accessory,

the most advanced high-tech creation made by human genius.

The elastic stretch sticky paw!

Hm?

Oh, cool.

It's the new gadget on Brian's counter,

and it's awesome!

I'll give you a demonstration.

You'll see. They're super light and creamy.

Well?

They're far too light for my taste.

(TITTERS)

(MUNCHES)

And you can use it to move around too. Look.

Ha! Ah!

Heh-heh. Yah!

Whoo-hoo!

(CHUCKLES) Ta-da!

Incredible, huh? (ELECTRICITY CRACKLES)

A client. Hurry.

Hey, Clever, come on, tell me what you think.

Isn't my sticky paw awesome?

It would be if there weren't that bothersome problem of unsticking.

What problem of unsticking?

Huh? Whoa!

THAT problem.

(MOANS)

Question of practice.

Oh, hello, Clever. I came to...

You want us to accompany you tomorrow night to the British Museum

to catch the mysterious diamond thief.

Huh? By my chequered vest, that's exactly it! How did you guess?

I saw the news on Brian's telephone.

The city's diamonds are being stolen in descending order of size.

Indeed. Last night the third-biggest diamond

was stolen from a Mayfair jewellery store.

And the next one on the list is on display at the British Museum.

After that, our queen's diamond is not very far down the list.

So, you want to arrest the robber before he goes for her necklace.

(GRUNTS)

Ugh!

Oopsie. (CHUCKLES)

Congratulations, Mac.

You've come to the best-equipped detective team in the world

thanks to this elastic stretch sticky paw!

Oi! I really do not see the usefulness of that...

Oh!

..revolting object.

Bleugh!

I'll show you.

And, hey, presto!

You probably shouldn't have stuck it

to a particularly big, precariously perched encyclopaedic volume.

Agh. Oh, no!

(GRUNTS)

Uh... I'm fine!

Hm. Be that as it may,

every precaution has already been taken at the palace.

The Queen is wearing a fake diamond,

and I personally hid the real one somewhere impossible to find,

even for you, Clever.

Are you sure, Detective?

I'd rather you didn't try to guess.

Any clues about the thief?

Rufus, the guard dog at the jewellery shop,

described a shaggy-haired gnome who moved objects from a distance.

Hm, telekinesis.

Now, that sounds promising.

I can't wait to start investigating.

You'll have to wait until tonight to enter the museum.

That's when the master of Horace, the night watchdog, takes his break.

Perfect.

We'll meet up tonight in front of the museum with your equipment...

(GROANS) ..though not necessarily Bro's gooey paw.

Elastic sticky!

The world's best accessory!

Are you sure you want to use that barbaric thing inside a museum?

With a weapon this powerful

you have to accept a bit of collateral damage.

Hm.

(BARKS)

Good evening, Detective.

Horace, the coast is clear?

Mm-hm. Follow me.

Maximum security is in place.

You won't be able to move about inside the museum

as easily as usual.

You'll need to take the secret passageway.

Go through the ventilation shaft.

The diamond room is in the second hatch on the left.

Let's go.

Be careful. There are at least two humans in the room at all times.

(GASPS)

By my chequered vest, the humans are out cold.

And the diamond's gone!

We got here too late. The gnome already dropped by.

The thief managed to knock two humans out cold,

and he doesn't seem bothered by the protective laser field.

Hmm... He must have a sticky paw in his bag. He's a pro.

Hmm...

This is a recent scratch.

That would explain at least one of the mysteries.

Which one?

The suspect is not gifted in telekinesis.

He throws sharp projectiles at objects with remarkable precision.

Maybe something like darts.

He can disarm a person from a distance

or make them believe he's at one end of the room or the other

just by launching projectiles in the dark.

And knocking them out?

Bingo!

The signs of a sting.

The projectiles are surely coated with an anaesthetic.

We need to find one.

I don't see any projectiles.

(SNIFFS)

Eucalyptus?

(SNIFFS) I confirm. It smells like eucalyptus.

Surely a scented cleaning product.

Hmm.

That's strange.

(SCRAPING)

(GRUNTS)

By Nessie, the gnome!

He's still here.

An echidna! Otherwise known as the spiny anteater.

It's an Australian mammal covered with nail-hard spines.

Now we know what the famous projectiles are.

What are they looking for in that sarcophagus?

(POTTERY SMASHES)

Look - he found another diamond!

Police! Don't move! Those diamonds belong to the museum!

Huh?

Huh? Huh?

(SNICKERS) You're far too slow.

Ah!

(GASPS)

(GROANS)

(SNORES SOFTLY)

(GASPS) Mac!

Bro, stay hidden. He hasn't seen us.

It's too dangerous to attack him head-on.

(SNICKERS)

Look at that - he's cleaning up.

He's covering his tracks.

(GASPS) Watch out. He's coming our way.

An elastic stretch sticky paw-per like myself

cannot let a criminal get away.

Bro. No!

Yah!

Huh?

(METAL CLANGS)

Hey, cactus head.

My sticky paw crushed you!

You were right, Clever.

No head-on attacks.

I also said that spiny anteater spines were nail-hard!

The helmet!

Argh!

Agh! He's stealing my ideas!

We need to set off the alarm!

I've got it! Ha!

Agh!

Yah!

Agh!

No! Not my sticky paw!

Show yourself, Rodents.

Bro, the laser beams! Quick!

Argh! Argh!

(ALARMS BLARE)

(GRUNTS)

Bingo! He's freaking out!

Do we go after him?

No, it's too dangerous.

But we learned lots of interesting things about him.

Hm? What's gone on in here?

We'll explain later.

But, for now, the humans mustn't find Detective McFlair in here.

(TRAFFIC ZOOMS)

(SIREN WAILS)

OK. I have to go back to my dog handler now.

But first I'll warn the neighbourhood agent.

(HOWLS)

Thank you, Horace.

Good luck.

Pfft. That gnome had no respect for anything.

Agent Paxton!

Miss Clever, what happened to Detective McFlair?!

Don't worry. The detective had just been anaesthetised.

(SIGHS) Got it.

He'll receive medical care

and be brought back to the kennel by a special team.

Rest assured, this is a routine yellow-coat event.

A far cry from an orange alert.

Everything's under control.

Everything except the Diamond Gnome.

(TRAFFIC DRONES)

(TITTERS)

Luckily, Brian hasn't sold all of them yet.

Hmm... How did the gnome know

there was a diamond hidden in an ancient clay statue,

which was, in turn, hidden at the bottom of an ancestral tomb?

Who could have given him that information?

Either he's lucky or he has a good nose.

(GASPS) Truffle hounds!

Uh... Truffle hounds are historians?

No, truffles the mushroom, the ones found in the ground.

They're highly valued by humans.

I don't see the connection between diamonds and mushrooms.

Well, men use the keen sense of smell of specially trained dogs

to find these mushrooms,

which are buried several inches deep in the ground.

The gnome was trained to detect diamonds?

The gnome comes from Australia,

where humans look for raw diamonds in mines.

Maybe he was trained for this.

The one inside the statuette was impossible to unearth otherwise.

It's the only explanation.

Oh, that means that no diamond in town will escape him.

It also means that the gnome will fall into our trap

drawn by OUR diamond.

But we don't have a diamond.

(CHUCKLES SOFTLY)

One more effort.

(BOTH GRUNT)

Good evening, Detective. Here's the gas I told you about.

Is everything ready? Yes.

This concrete planter will be the ideal cage

for our new spine thrower.

Let's recap.

Travis will wait behind the food stall

and let go of the rope upon your signal, Detective.

And the planter will fall like a bell cover over our thief.

Then Lloyd will spray sleeping gas inside the planter

through this tiny drain hole. (GAS HISSES)

And once he's asleep

our thief will be transferred to a special secure cell

in Greenside Prison.

All we have to do now is place the bait.

Hm. I hope I will not regret listening to you, Clever.

If the Queen's diamond were ever to escape us, my career would be over

and I'D be the one to end up in Greenside.

Mac, you know perfectly well

sooner or later the gnome would have detected your super hiding place.

thanks to his diamond radar.

(GROANS)

Here.

I propose that me and my new elastic sticky paw

be designated to watch over the diamond.

I'd rather that your paw and the Queen's diamond

did not come into contact.

For greater security

Agent Paxton will be in charge

of never letting the diamond out of his sight.

As soon as the gnome is captured

he'll fly off with it and put it safely back

in my secret hiding place.

(GRUNTS) There.

Wedged in tight so that the gnome can't shoot it out with his spines.

Everything's ready.

(TINKLING)

(INSECTS CHIRP)

(SNIFFS)

(ALL GASP)

He smelled a trap.

He's going to run away.

No, he can't resist.

He thinks he's invincible.

Be patient.

Get ready.

Travis, now!

Ugh!

Lloyd, Paxton, go!

Agh!

(GAS HISSES)

What's that metal plate doing there?!

I thought it would be better to keep it as a shield against his spines,

just in case.

For goodness sakes, Lieutenant,

the metal plate was supposed to be hidden in the soil

at the exact spot of the trap.

The ground here is extremely hard. He'll never...

Spiny anteaters are burrowing animals, like moles.

Detective, the gnome got away.

What?!

(All GRUNT)

She's right! He got away!

Paxton! Watch out!

Agh! Agh! Scarlet code!

Scarlet code!

(PANTS) Quick, Detective! Paxton is being targeted!

I don't believe it. This gnome is a devil!

Agh! Scarlet code!

Agh! Agh!

I was hit! Mayday!

Mayday!

Mayd-a-a-a-a-a-y-y-y-y.

(SNORES SOFTLY)

Over there!

Huh?

By Nessy!

(GASPS)

Ha-ha!

(GRUNTS)

Argh!

Run!

(SNICKERS)

(GRUNTS) Oh, darn.

(GRUNTS)

(GRUNTS)

(SNORES SOFTLY)

(GASPS) Hurry! We'll hide in that hut over there!

Oh, no! Watch out!

Yah! Yah!

(GRUNTS) Argh.

Yah!

See, Mac? My sticky paw and the diamond get along like a dream!

(ALL GRUNT)

(GASPS) No!

The diamond.

I told them to put the metal plate in the dirt...

(LAUGHS MENACINGLY)

Sweet dreams!

(MOANS)

Where's... What?

He got the diamond.

Our defeat is total.

(YAWNS)

At least this time my sticky paw is still in one piece.

Damn it. We have no clues whatsoever.

(SIGHS HEAVILY)

I'm going to have to tell the Queen that I lost her precious diamond.

(GASPS) Under a eucalyptus!

Excuse me?

We DO have one clue.

The smell of eucalyptus.

The cleaning product at the museum? What's the link?

The problem is that the product in the cleaning cart was lemon-scented.

For a long time I wondered how the gnome got into the museum

for, unlike us, he didn't have an ally

who could let him into this fortress.

He hid in the cart

right before the cleaning company employees entered the museum.

And to get back out he waited inside the cart.

Which would mean that he's the one

who left the eucalyptus scent behind on his trail?

Yes, from trampling on dried leaves

and sleeping rolled up like a ball on them.

The eucalyptus is a tree from Australia, his native land.

It would be logical for him to choose to set up his burrow there.

And hide his stash.

To my knowledge, the only eucalyptus tree in London

is in the small Lexington botanic garden.

Bingo!

Hm.

My sticky ball won't be enough. We'll all need one.

What?! (TITTERS)

I think I just found the truly ultimate weapon.

Please tell me it's not sticky.

Here is the Lexington botanic garden.

Hm... Looks like we're at the right address.

We're good. The park is empty.

Go on, Bro. Show him our anti-gnome smoke bomb.

(SMOKE HISSES)

(COUGHS)

You again? But it's impossible!

Don't move! You're under arrest!

In your dreams.

Run for shelter!

(SNICKERS) Idiots.

(GRUNTS)

Now!

(CHUCKLES)

(BLOWER WHIRRS)

No!

Watch out!

Oh, no, not agai...

Agh!

Nice try, but I'm the one who hit my mark again.

Clever, we need a plan B!

Oh! I know! Bro, You're going to... (WHISPERS INAUDIBLY)

Yeah!

Ooh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!

Show yourself, rodents.

(BLOWER WHIRRS) Yeah!

Missed!

No use hiding.

It's only a matter of time.

(INHALES DEEPLY)

OK, you're right.

Ah, there we go.

That's one rodent.

And here's the second one!

Agh! Touche!

(GASPS)

Oh, no!

Oh! Oh...

(SNORES) Yeah!

Bro, you were fantastic!

Whoo-hoo! I told you! The world's best accessory!

(CHUCKLES)

The elastic sticky paw found its proper home.

Ah, rest assured Bro has totally moved on to something else.

Very well.

Another piece of good news -

all the diamonds were returned to their rightful owners

by human detectives.

Did you find anything out about the gnome?

I learned that his name was Warragal

and that he'd arrived from Australia one month ago.

He'd been trained by men to detect diamonds

from his earliest childhood,

but they never let him have any.

And he couldn't stand it any more. He's crazy about them.

When his masters came to London, he decided to escape

and hid in a burrow under the eucalyptus tree

in the botanical gardens.

Exactly.

He concocted a mixture of exotic plants

that had an anaesthetising effect

and coated his spines with it.

Then he set out in pursuit of the diamonds

he needed to satisfy his hunger.

Well, then, say goodbye to Bro for me.

Uh... I think he'll want to tell you himself.

Uh...

Ugh!

Ah!

Hello, Detective.

What?! Don't tell me it exists in foot version too!

Yeah! Awesome, isn't it?

(BOTH LAUGH)

Eugh! Bro, I confess! It's disgusting!

(LAUGHS) Take it away from me, Bro.

Bro! (GIGGLES)

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