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♪ Another day in the city ♪

♪ Ride around in trains to see something pretty ♪

♪ Draw the curtains Pull the blinds ♪

♪ Feels alright to me I think I'll stay here a while ♪

-[bones cracking] -Ow!

♪ Until it drives me crazy ♪

♪ No self help for me ♪

[blender whirring]

♪ I've been expelled as far as I can see ♪

[music and blender go quiet]

Nan?

Nicola!

What are you doing here?

Is that how you welcome your favourite cousin?

Bring it in.

I've missed you, Smeesh!

So, tell me about your cute, tiny island life.

Nan didn't say anything about this. Why are you here?

I just needed a break from the mainland.

My parents spoke to Nan

while you were out training last night.

What were you training for anyway?

Nothing. Nothing at all.

Is this it? The Rock Island Challenge.

Maybe I'll do it too. Sounds fun.

No, it's not fun.

You will hate it. Everyone hates it.

A-ha.

I'll see you there, Smeesh.

[dramatic music] [birds calling]

[Meesha] Ah! Liquid energy.

[Meesha] What? Darius? This area as well!

[electrical humming]

[Meesha breathing deeply]

[Ellis] Oh, how do you spell winner?

[all] M - E - E--

Okay, wait, wait! Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop!

I'm not that bad, am I?

Well, you didn't really nail the side hip into the 'M' move.

[Meesha] It's not that, but she is right.

Anyways, get this.

So, Rebuild Assist have zoned off more of the island

because of contamination - like a lot more.

Well, did you see what they were doing?

No, I couldn't really get a good look.

Ellis, no! They're my protein balls!

[electrical humming]

[Ellis exclaiming]

-Let go of me! -You let go of me!

Um, what just happened?

[electrical buzzing]

♪ It's a curious situation♪

♪ A strong case of speculation how♪

♪ It takes more than intuition♪

♪ To work the situation out♪

♪ It's right before your eyes ♪

♪ Can you feel it ♪

♪ It's right between the lines ♪

♪ Try to reveal it ♪

♪ So look until you find all of the pieces ♪

♪ Put them together Now you see it ♪

♪ Rock Island Mysteries ♪

Oh, no, no, no, no!

[Nori] Ha ha. Very funny.

Ah, they're stuck together. What a mystery.

You think I would joke about something like this -

today of all days!

First my cousin Nicola shows up and now this.

Your cousin?

Okay. Your strong feelings are noted.

Okay, this is not good.

Understatement, Liles.

I need to win this race. Nicola can't beat me.

Not again!

There are more important things than winning.

Like how am I going to type? Or tie my shoelaces?

I can't take off my jumper. Is it getting hot in here?

[both] This is a disaster!

[exhaling] Okay...

Each of you grab one of us and pull.

Ah, yes.

Wait, no! Don't touch us.

You could get stuck too.

[Meesha] What? No, help us.

-No. -Yes.

-No! -Yes!

You must have just touched some glue or something.

Okay, why don't both of you grab a side of the BQ and pull?

[Lila] Go!

[electrical humming]

[Meesha] Yes!

[Ellis gasping]

No!

Okay, definitely not glue.

It's like there's some sort of force.

[Lila] Making them hold hands forever.

Ah, that's so romantic - for two other people.

Definitely not you two. I mean, no one can--

-Okay, stop talking. -Yeah. Sorry.

We're going to the institute.

You need to figure out how to fix this before the race.

Whoa!

Whoa. What are you all doing here?

I, er, I, um, I, I...

Ellis is just showing us a project he's been working on.

Yeah, he just, um, wanted our opinion.

[Lila] Yeah.

Aren't they just the best friends?

It's always nice seeing you, Emily.

Bye.

Oh, get off, get off, get off!

[Lila] Nori!

So ticklish.

-Keep it down, guys. -Oh, sorry, sorry.

[Ellis] Ow! Ow! Ow!

Now my watch isn't working. What's the time?

Ah, 10:30.

The race starts in two hours. I don't have time for this.

Okay. I need you to be on lookout.

I don't want anyone in here.

I don't want anyone seeing us like this.

A 'please' wouldn't hurt.

Get out!

[electrical crackle]

Oh, what was that?

[Ellis] Er... hard drive glitch.

Unusual, but I mean, it's-- [electrical crackle]

No!

[electrical crackle]

It's you.

You corrupted the hard drive.

Think! What did you do differently today?

The same thing I do every morning.

Wait, didn't you say you ran past the contamination zone?

Was there anything unusual going on there?

No. I couldn't get close enough to see.

[mobile phone buzzing]

Registration for the race closes in 15 minutes!

But my phone's working.

You corrupted the hard drive and your watch stopped working.

Both of those things have rotating parts

and the only thing that could affect those

and not your phone would be a magnetic force!

Great! The others will investigate.

-We're signing up. -What?

[Meesha] Magnetised or not -

this race is happening with me in it.

[Ellis] I'm not signing up. I don't even know what this is.

[Meesha] It's an extreme obstacle course, okay? Easy!

But I don't like obstacles, or running.

[Ellis] You have to forfeit.

I'm not forfeiting.

Good morning, by the way.

No! No!

[Nicola] Good luck, Smeesh.

Smeesh?

You brought your boyfriend. How cute, cuz.

He's not my boyfriend.

We're just... He's... We're just friends!

He's my friend.

That's your cousin? She seems nice.

She is not nice. She's the complete opposite.

We have to do this race. I have to show her I can beat her.

[Ellis gasping]

[Meesha inhaling]

Alright, we're going to win. Let's go!

[electrical crackling]

-What did you just do? -Do not come any closer to me.

[both straining]

[dramatic music] [both exclaiming]

Okay, according to Meesha's running app,

this is the exact spot where she stopped.

So we think something here turned her into a human magnet.

[Lila] Sure are busy over there.

We need to get a better look. See what they're doing.

Oh, I have just the thing.

I'm sure Ellis wouldn't mind us borrowing Dave.

Okay.

[drone whirring]

[Lila] Ooh, Taylor always made this look so easy.

[mobile phone buzzing]

Ellis and Meesha need our help.

[Lila] Oh, there's some serious looking machinery down there.

[mobile phone buzzing]

Meesha again. This time in all caps and ah...

Ten exclamation marks.

[both] We should go.

[dramatic music]

[both groaning]

It has to be the smoothie. I had some this morning.

Right before we got stuck together.

What did you put in it?

This is all Nicola's fault.

She was lurking around the blender when I made it.

She must have put something in there.

Clearly there's some history between you two,

but sabotage?!

It was her. I know it. We can't let her win.

-We have to start training. -What?

Okay. Up... Star jumps.

[both straining]

Okay, just help me stretch, alright.

Oh, too heavy...

Are you even trying?

Help is here!

Wow! You guys really are stuck together.

[Lila] Are you okay? Does it, like... hurt?

Yes! Everywhere. Lungs, muscles, bladder.

I need to pee.

No one is peeing until we're unstuck.

[Nicola] Hope your friend isn't distracting you, Smeesh?

Nicola's going to beat me, again!

Oh, is that your cousin?

Really? She seems nice.

She is not nice.

This is the worst day of my life.

Everybody thinks we're dating

and there is no way I'm going to win while we're attached.

We need to work out what's in her smoothie.

When she drank from it, we got more stuck.

How will we test it?

Take a sample of the smoothie

and run it under the spectrometer at the lab.

-Spectral-- -I'll send instructions.

Alright, enough chit chat.

Ellis and I have to train.

Please hurry.

Come! Come, come here. Come here.

[Ellis] Ow!

Squats. Let's go.

[both groaning]

This... this is impossible and I'm exhausted.

You can rest when it's over.

Come on! High knees.

[both groaning]

-Oh, Ellis! -I'm sorry.

I'm trying, but I need a break and you're being kind of mean.

Ellis, I...

This is all Nicola's fault.

Why? What happened with you two to make you so...?

She'd do anything to win.

[flashback music]

Ready to lose, Smeesh?

On your marks!

Get set!

[air horn blaring]

[Meesha] It turns out that Nicola messed with the blocks.

After that, I had to win.

I worked harder and longer than anyone else and it worked.

-But now I'm acting like her. -You don't have to be like that.

I don't think I can control it.

I might as well give up now. I'm not doing the race, Ellis.

Let's see what we have here.

Spectrometer, spectrometer.

Spectrometer!

Ooh, hello. You go in here.

What are they doing?

Make sure to only use a small sample.

It'll be fine.

I think I can make out what it says.

Valadium Magnetics.

Well, all signs are pointing to magnets.

[Nori] Hmm, not just any magnet. I'm on their website.

It's kind of a mega magnet. A neodymium magnet.

It says caution should be taken

when used in close proximity to humans.

You think that has something to do with what happened to Meesha?

I don't know, but it can't be a coincidence, right?

How's the smoothie analysis?

Hopefully we'll find out any second.

-[machine beeping] -Come on...

Why isn't this thing--

[liquid splattering]

The smoothie!

Oh, it's all over me!

[Lila grimacing]

[Nori] Oh, here we go.

Great! More smoothie ingredients.

Well, since we can't test the actual smoothie Meesha had.

We go back to the source.

I know.

Okay, well there's nothing weird here.

Bananas, spinach, oat milk.

Ah, excited for the big race?

You can help me cheer on Meesha and Nicola.

Oh, and who will you be cheering loudest for?

Because I hear Nicola can play dirty.

Nicola!?

No, she's the sweetest girl.

You know, she popped in earlier just so she could take Meesha

her protein balls before the race.

Ahh...

[Lila] Ugh.

Does Meesha put seaweed in her smoothies?

Or was that Nicola, because that is definitely sabotage.

Seaweed! What kind is that?

The kind that doesn't have a label.

[gasping]

Oh, that definitely isn't the right strain of seaweed.

Ooh...

[bird calling]

[trumpet fanfare]

I turned into my enemy.

No, I'm worse than my enemy,

because I've dragged you down too.

You're not like Nicola, at all!

Firstly, you don't cheat.

Secondly, you're kind and you care about your friends

and you train hard and, and--

But I always have to win, just like her.

Yes, but there's lots of ways to win.

What if this isn't about coming first,

but being the first people to run this together.

Three-legged style. She can't beat you at that.

Just being your best is winning.

I just have to show her that she can't stop me.

Yeah...

Let's put some fun in this run.

-Hmm... -Yeah.

Okay, just bring it, yeah...

And then...

[both exclaiming]

[mobile phone buzzing]

You've been putting weird seaweed in your smoothies?

[Meesha] Ah yeah, I got it at the local market.

The guy said it was like super high in iron.

You've been consuming big amounts of iron?

-Yeah. -[Lila] There's more.

The contamination site is using machines

with neodymium magnets.

The strongest rare-earth magnets in the world.

When exposed to the magnetic field,

the atoms begin to align their electrons

with the flow of the magnetic field,

which makes the iron, in this case Meesha,

magnetised as well.

Yeah, I'm not following.

These magnets are really strong,

like 'crush anything that comes between it' kind of strong.

That and the abnormally high iron...

... is what's making me magnetic?

I think so. So you weren't sabotaged.

But that doesn't explain why only Ellis is stuck to you.

Ah, I didn't have any of the smoothie.

My protein balls!

They had the same seaweed supplement in them.

I only had one.

Okay, I had three. I'm sorry.

Has anyone else had any?

No, the rest are in the fridge at the Milk Shack.

Ahh... No, they're not.

Nicola took them!

[announcer] Attention, participants.

All runners are required to take their positions

at the starting line.

[Meesha and Ellis] 1, 2, 1, 2, 1--

Left, left...

-Left, left, left. -Okay. Okay.

There she is!

Yeah, 1, 2, 1, 2...

Nicola, stop! Don't eat it!

[tense dramatic music]

[electrical humming]

What are you doing? Get off me.

[humming]

This couldn't get any worse.

[blender whirring]

Sunny was a vegetarian?

For a week.

I did a deep dive into nutrition research

to make sure he was eating right.

So, seeds, nuts, legumes, grains.

They all contain phytic acid.

And it can help prevent absorption of iron in your body.

A-ha.

[blender whirring]

Oh no! The race is about to start.

Well, that'll have to do - a one time only, iron blocking,

somewhat gross smoothie, coming up.

-Okay, let's go. -Hm-mm.

-Let go of my hand. -She can't.

We are stuck, Nicola!

You have to chill.

Okay, where are the rest of my protein balls?

And did you give them to anybody else?

-Get off me. -Where are they?

[announcer] Racers, to your positions.

Everybody on your marks.

I hid them to mess with you, okay?

Just, get off me.

-[announcer] Get set! -I would love to,

but because you ate them, we're going to have to run like this.

[announcer] Go!

And you're about to see that nothing can stop me.

Not even you.

[all exclaiming]

[Ellis] You're here!

Please tell me you figured something out.

Trust us. We hope.

Okay, ready?

[gulping] [stomach rumbling]

[groaning]

What is in that?

It's probably better you don't know.

[Lila] Yeah.

Come on, Ellis!

[retching]

[Ellis] Um...

Ah, maybe drink some more.

[retching]

[electrical humming]

It's working. It's working!

I'm not drinking that homemade concoction.

Do you want to be stuck to me forever?

[Lila] Come on, just one little sip.

[retching]

[humming stops]

Oh my God. Yes!

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Wait! Where is Nicola?

Later, Smeesh!

Go Meesha! You can beat her.

What happened to 'be your best' is winning?

That was before I met her.

-Let's go. -Yeah.

[Ellis] What?

-[Meesha] Come on, Ellis. -Okay.

[Nicola] Come on, Smeesh

Your friends have made you suck!

[Meesha] At least I have friends.

[Nicola] Whatever! I'll see you at the finish line.

[Ellis] Ah, a little help here!

[Ellis] I don't know what's worse.

My fear of heights or my fear of falling.

Meesha! What are you doing? You have to beat Nicola.

I'm not leaving you up a wall, Ellis.

But, you won't win.

Okay.

[Meesha] Remember, just one step at a time.

[announcer] Let's give a big Rock Island cheer

for the late entrant, Nicola Ray.

I won!

I won!

Oh, actually you came third last.

The other competitors have finished already.

[puffing and laughing]

Has the smoothie worn off?

No, I just thought we should do it together.

Well, just so you know, you came last, so I still beat you,

But, I won.

I just finished the race with one of my best friends

and I had fun doing it.

[phone ringing]

Mum, you need to come get me. You were wrong.

I don't love it here.

[Nori] Oh well...

[birds calling] [waves crashing]

Look at this.

The Rebuild Assist workers

are digging holes through the contamination zone.

If the area's contaminated,

why aren't they wearing any protective gear?

It's like they're digging for something.

-[laughing] Hi. -Hey.

[Meesha] Okay, so...

One of the judges saw me helping Ellis

and said I had 'leadership qualities'.

[Ellis] And I've never been happier

to go to the bathroom freely.

-Thanks. -Thank you.

-[tense music rising] -Hang on!

Huh, huh, huh...

[Ellis gasping] No, no, no!

Got ya!

I am never eating anything I don't make for myself, again.

-[Nori] Never? -Never, ever.

Not even Nan's Raspberry Delight?

[Ellis] Good point. Just nothing Meesha makes.

[theme music instrumental]

♪ Rock Island Mysteries ♪