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Ha! (LAUGHS)

(BOTH YELL)

(BELL TOLLS)

(DOGS BARK)

Come on, Marcus.

Give it everything you've got.

Ugh...yah!

Wait, Rover. Don't go over there.

Huh? Why not?

Just forget it. It's lost.

What?! No, it's not.

It's right under the bridge.

Don't go there. Stay away.

Dogs have been disappearing right and left at that spot.

It's an evil place.

(SCOFFS) You got to be kidding.

No, trust me.

Each time a dog walked along the shore under the bridge,

they were never seen again.

Bah! It's broad daylight.

Nothing can happen to me.

Rover, stop!

We'll find another ball!

The ball's right over there. I'll be back in two seconds.

Oh, no!

Rover?

Rover?!

(BARKS)

MAN: Rover?

Rover!

Come on, boy. It's time.

Say, there. Where'd your buddy go?

Rover?

(LAUGHS)

She's gonna have the fright of her life!

(ON RECORDING) Clever! Help!

Huh?

BRO: (ON RECORDING) Clever! Help!

(GASPS) Bro! (LAUGHS)

(BOING!)

Boo!

Huh? Uh...

Huh?

(SCREAMS)

(LAUGHS) (PANTS)

Are you crazy?!

I see nothing wrong with scaring someone who's trying to frighten me

with something as crude as...

..a watch gadget recorder.

BRO: (ON RECORDING) Clever! Help!

Phee!

I bet you carried out some long, complicated investigation

to deduce that I was going to play a prank on you today.

(LAUGHS) Complicated? Seriously?

Your recorder is above all a watch. (BEEPING)

Last night, you forgot to switch off the clock function,

and it beeped every hour.

I had to get up to find out where the noise was coming from.

While analysing the settings to silence it,

I noticed the recording function.

Next time, pay more attention to detail.

Or else don't take on the world's greatest detective.

BRO: Ah!

A watch that tells time too?!

Eh!

CLEVER: Ah! A client!

Bro, look at your watch.

Playtime's over.

(MOCKING) "Playtime's over."

Hello, Detective.

Clever, Bro. Glad to see you.

Oh! Nice watch, Bro.

Phah! Alright already!

I know that it's a watch.

Uh... (LAUGHS)

Pay no attention, Detective.

He's having problems with the alarm clock function.

And you have a problem too. Am I right?

I'm going to go bananas with all these dogs going missing

behind the Lexington Alley bridge.

Runaway dogs?

No. Instantaneous disappearances.

Not a trace, not a trail.

No explanation.

Now, this sounds like a promising case.

Why didn't you tell me about it earlier?

Up to now, it was only rumours, but...

..yesterday, Rover, the dog of one of our detectives,

went missing as well.

So you admit that you're not intelligent enough

to solve this case alone?

What?! No!

I'm simply saying

that Clever sometimes has flashes of genius that help to...

But you admit that you're less intelligent than us?

What?! That I'm less intelligent than you?

Bro, you are out of your mind.

Bro, please.

Detective, can you be more precise

as to the place where the dogs disappear?

No. It's a blind spot at the foot of the bridge.

This is the sixth report of a dog disappearing from this precise spot.

But you...surely you went there to investigate and you didn't disappear.

Indeed. I took this risk with Travis.

Huh! But nothing happened to us.

CLEVER: Hmm. A secret passage.

McFLARE: We checked every stone on the bridge,

every square inch of ground.

It's incomprehensible.

You'd think that...

(ON RECORDING) ..that I'm less intelligent than you?

(BRO LAUGHS)

McFLARE: (ON RECORDING) ..that I'm less intelligent than you?

Isn't it awesome?

Hm! Will you delete that at once?

(LAUGHS) And why? Well, because...

(ON RECORDING) ..that I'm less intelligent than you?

(LAUGHS)

(LAUGHS) (GROWLS)

I'm confiscating that watch as an exhibit.

OK, OK, OK! I'll delete it.

If we want to find out more, we need to visit the scene,

but taking certain precautions.

Hm? What's that, again?

It's right back there.

(LOUD LAUGHTER) Ah! By Nessie!

Alert! Alert!

(LAUGHTER STOPS)

(LAUGHS)

That's Brian's laugh when he watches his favourite sitcom.

(LAUGHS) Pretty freaky, huh?

Oh! A watch that sophisticated must be waterproof.

Am I right? No way!

We'll use a pole fitted out with a mirror

to explore the area without physically being there.

Uh, what are you doing, Mac?

Have no fear. I personally am in no danger.

I visited the zone and I didn't disappear.

No! We must take no risks!

McFLARE: Shh! I think I hear something.

Uh, uh! (GENTLE SPLASHING)

Mac?! Mac?! Wait! It's too dangerous!

Let's hurry and finish the mirror first.

It's...it's incredible.

He's gone. (BRO GASPS)

What do we do? Should we follow him?

Oh, no. That would be walking straight into the lion's den.

I need to think. There must be some detail I overlooked.

(GASPS)

Hey, rodents!

Clever! Rats!

And they don't look very friendly.

(LAUGHS)

It's the same clan as in the Invincible Adversary affair.

(WHISTLES)

Hyah!

(RAT LAUGHS)

Oh! Ugh!

Hey, guys. What's up?

Did you lose something? (LAUGHS)

Who's paying for your services this time?

You'll find out soon enough. (LAUGHS)

Huh? They want to force us to seek refuge under the bridge.

In the disappearing zone!

We need to get out of here.

RATS: Huh! Huh! RAT: Boo!

(CLEVER AND BRO GASP) Where do you think you're going?

(LAUGHS)

RAT 2: You're outnumbered.

This time, you have no chance against us.

(LAUGHS)

(BICYCLE BELL RINGS) Bro, he's right.

A successful escape is a victory over a more powerful enemy.

Huh? Follow me.

(AIR HISSES)

Whoo-hoo!

Whoa! Ow!

Basket! Bingo! (LAUGHS)

Ah!

Phew! That was a close call.

(GASPS) What about Mac?

Don't worry. We'll come back.

I'm going to need to concentrate to resolve this mystery.

(MEDITATION MUSIC)

McFLARE: (ON RECORDING) ..that I'm less intelligent than you?

Don't you worry, Mac. We'll find you anyhow.

Besides, I didn't show you my watch gadget recorder's tune function.

CLEVER: I think I'm missing something.

The ground, the wall, no passageway.

There has to be a clue!

Huh?

(AUDIO REWINDS) A camera?

No, there's no lens.

What is it?

A pollution catcher?

Hmm. Unless...

(AUDIO REWINDS)

(GENTLE SPLASHING)

The pond!

(BEEPING) Huh?!

Bro! Your watch.

Ugh! Fine! I'll switch it off. (BEEPING STOPS)

But you have to admit it's the most complete accessory of all time.

Maybe. That'll depend on how much it can do for me. Hand it over.

(AUDIO REWINDS)

McFLARE: (ON RECORDING) I'm in no danger.

I visited the zone and I didn't disappear.

CLEVER: (ON RECORDING) No! We must...

I knew it! You recorded everything, didn't you, little bro?

Uh...oh! Maybe I forgot to press pause.

CLEVER: (ON RECORDING) ..must take no risks!

McFLARE: (ON RECORDING) Shh! I think I hear something. Uh, uh!

(GENTLE SPLASHING)

Bingo! I found it! Did you hear?

Oh, nothing but some outside noises, which are normal in a park.

I clearly hear McFlare slowly entering the pond.

And I saw, without paying attention at the time, the ripple he created.

But why would Mac have done that? He knew we'd investigate.

Someone convinced him to do it.

But there was no-one there!

Other than a small cylinder and then, well, those rats.

Bro, we are going to take out our bathyscaphe and earplugs

and explore the bottom of that pond.

Yes!

With our watch gadget recorder.

(FANFARE PLAYS)

(PANTS)

Alfred Airlines at your service.

After a little break.

Thanks, old pal.

We're off to solve the Lexington Alley Mystery.

Oh! We're almost under the bridge and still no McFlare.

CLEVER: Bingo! Another cylinder!

BRO: What is it? CLEVER: It's a sonar.

It emits soundwaves which are inaudible

but which the brain can pick up.

And it's those waves that order anyone who comes under the bridge

to enter the water.

I see no other logical explanation.

Then maybe we should wear our earplugs, right?

Well, for the moment, our submarine's plexiglas repels the soundwaves.

But as soon as we get out, we must definitely protect our ears.

A dog could easily fit inside this large pipe.

Let's follow the trail.

BRO: Aw! A dead end. The pipe is blocked off at the end.

CLEVER: Nope.

I think we just need to activate the manual opening,

like these teeth marks suggest.

(RUMBLING)

Whoa! Oh!

Whoa! Cool!

BOTH: Whoa!

Whoo-hoo-hoo! Wah!

Yah!

Wah!

Wah! Whoo-hoo-hoo!

CLEVER: Ah!

Yee-ha! That was cool!

Do we have time to do it again?

Bro, put on your earplugs.

We'll take an extra pair for the detective as well.

Hmm.

(DING!)

(CRACKLING) (GASPS)

(BOTH GASP)

Creepy!

(CLANG!)

Detective! Detective, can you hear me?

Mac!

Oh, he's not reacting!

Yes, he is! Mac, it's us!

Uh-oh.

Oh! Ah!

(GROWLS) Bro, watch out!

It didn't work!

BRO: Go easy, buddy.

Run!

(DOGS GROWL)

(PANTS)

(DOGS GROWL)

(GASPS)

We're trapped!

Stop or I'll blind you with my light beam!

(DING!)

(GROWLS)

(GASPS)

Hurry up!

(GASPS)

(BOTH SIGH)

Hey, your earplugs! What are you doing?!

They didn't work on McFlare, which means they're no use for us either.

Then maybe the mind control must come from some sort of serum.

A dart? FEMALE VOICE: Wrong!

On all scores. (LAUGHS)

BRO: Anastasia!

Huh! I thought it was you.

So, all this is vengeance, isn't it?

You've already ruined my plans twice!

And weren't you supposed to be, uh...

(CROAKS)

Yes!

After destroying my mistress's secret lab, I was dying.

But during the explosion, chemical products and mixed hormones

caused a reaction that made my internal sonar mutate.

And today I can use it to get inside people's heads.

Bro! Wake up!

Uh! Uh!

(LOCK CLICKS)

(LAUGHS)

Uh! Uh!

Uh, Clever! Put your earplugs back on.

She got inside my head and made me do all this!

(ANASTASIA LAUGHS)

These aren't soundwaves.

They're mindwaves.

I can make anyone who gets in front of them

come under my control whenever I decide.

Hm.

And that casing on your back is the central limiter

that propagates the mindwaves with the support of the small sonars.

Precisely. (LAUGHS)

Hmm.

ANASTASIA: No use looking for an escape route, Clever.

Even if you manage to memorise the code to the padlock,

you'll soon be under my influence!

(LAUGHS)

There's still time to stop all this, Anastasia.

Think hard before doing something

that will send you straight to Greenside Prison.

I had months to plan.

First, I found this ideally situated spot,

which I then deleted from the memories of the sewage workers.

I thought of everything -

the disappearing zone in the park,

McFlare not being able to lead his investigation

and calling on you for help.

You managed to escape the rats I hired,

but in the end, you walked straight into the lion's den anyhow.

I only had to make you think you were in control

until the very last minute,

when all along, I was.

(LAUGHS)

Huh? (GASPS AND PANTS)

What do you think, Clever?

That you can escape my control by hiding behind a radiator?

Hm!

Clever! (GASPS)

(LOCK CLICKS)

(LOCK CLICKS)

Huh?

ANASTASIA: You see, Clever?

You cannot resist me, despite all of your super-intelligence.

(LAUGHS)

Gotta admit, I don't see what you were trying to do either.

Any other ideas?

And now, this is how you're going to disappear.

The dogs and you will wait patiently for me to order our friend McFlare

to press down on the detonator!

(GASPS) It's horrible! (LAUGHS)

It's time for me to say my farewells.

Quick! Think of something intelligent before she...

(GASPS) This time, I win.

(DOOR SLAMS) (LAUGHS)

How ironic.

It's YOU who shall disappear in an explosion.

(LAUGHS)

(BOTH SIGH)

(BUZZING)

(WATER SPLASHES)

(LOCK CLICKS)

(BOTH GASP)

Care to explain?

I quickly deduced that the only way to block Anastasia's mindwaves

was to change environments.

The waves sent through the air cannot spread in water.

That's why there was a sonar situated

underwater in the pond

so close to the one on the bridge.

Before falling under her control,

I saw that the aquarium didn't have a sonar.

It was the only protected place in the room.

I turned the radiator up to maximum

so that we would quickly start to die of heat and thirst.

Anastasia was controlling us.

How can we go drink water without her permission?

CLEVER: I noted that McFlare drank even under her control.

This means that the deep brain

continues managing needs related to survival,

such as thirst.

So I hoped that my brain would find a way to get me into the aquarium.

And that's what it did. BRO: Great.

And now do you have any ideas how to stop Mac from blowing us all up?

I think I just might if you let me use your watch gadget recorder.

(LAUGHS) I was so hoping you'd say that.

We have to act fast.

Based on Anastasia's walking speed,

I calculated that she would be far enough away

to set off the explosion in approximately three minutes.

Follow me. (GASPS)

(GASPS)

OK, Detective. It's your turn to play.

Press down.

(BUZZING)

(SILENCE)

Huh?

Detective!

Press down on that button! It's an order!

(BUZZING)

It's impossible!

CLEVER: Anastasia!

It's all over. (GROWLS)

CLEVER: You failed once again.

I'm here, and you can't control me.

Huh?

CLEVER: (ON RECORDING) I'm here, and you can't control me.

Boo! Ah!

Ah! What the...?!

(SCREAMS)

(LAUGHS)

I knew that prank would work one day.

Huh?

Huh? Huh?

By my chequered vest!

What am I doing here?

Don't scrimp on the tape, Bro.

Our friend mustn't be able to get out.

I'll go fetch the doggy.

(GROWLS)

Uh!

My last memory is playing in the park with my friend Marcus.

Is she harmless now?

(SCREAMS)

As long as she's in an environment that's isolated from ours,

we're safe.

Trust me, we will take every necessary precaution

to prevent her from using her mindwaves

while transferring her to a secure vivarium at Greenside.

Now, tell us how you did it.

We used the decorative helmets as airtight bubbles

against Anastasia's mindwaves.

Then we hurried to prepare her capture.

She's way more intelligent than you.

(LAUGHS) And more than YOU

and all of us put together.

By the rings of Nessie.

Bravo, Miss Clever.

BRO: Clever! Help!

(SIGHS) I don't believe it!

BRO: Clever!

Help!

(SIGHS) The same prank twice? Seriously?

Come on.

Your watch was useful during the investigation,

but now it's time to move on.

BRO: Boo! (GASPS)

(SIGHS) (LAUGHS)

A good old-fashioned method.

Nothing beats it. (LAUGHS)

(BOTH LAUGH)

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