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Previously on Itch...

This one rock alone, it's quite possibly

the most powerful energy source on the planet.

It could change the world.

That power can do more than change the world.

It can destroy it.

MAN: We're more interested in its military capabilities.

You want to weaponize the rock?

CHLOE: The woman that went to prison for the Greencorp oil spill

is Tim's Mum.

Please, no, Itch! That rock could save my mum.

It's too dangerous. I have to get rid of it.

So long as the rock's here, Greencorp will be after it,

and I can't let them get it.

Radiation sickness is very dangerous. Usually fatal.

LUCY: Itch has been carrying around that rock for days.

I'll take the rock, thank you. Not a chance.

Well, what's it gonna be, Itch?

Are you gonna save the world, or you gonna save your cousin?

No! No...

JACK: Tim!

He saved me.

ITCH: We could drop it down the old mine shaft,

the deepest one in Australia.

Come on...

(BELL RINGS)

JACK: I thought the bell would never ring.

It feels like I've been waiting for the holidays all year.

Well, technically you have.

I can't wait to hit up the beach.

Same, but I also need to work on a project

for the Duke of Edinburgh Awards, for my university applications.

You're already planning applications?

I haven't even figured out what I want to do once school finishes.

Well, I was planning on doing Duke of Ed Awards, too.

Maybe we could do something together.

Sure.

Quinn? What about you?

I'm tied up doing workplace experience at the animal shelter.

Ah, I'll be studying.

And when I'm done with that, more studying.

I don't think you're getting the concept of 'summer holidays'.

Yeah, school says I have to catch up

on everything I missed while I was in hospital.

You'd think they'd accept radiation poisoning as an excuse.

OK, I gotta go.

Golf match at the country club?

Scuba diving. But you were close.

I have to go too.

Right, OK... Itch!

Look what the school loaned me.

I'm learning the tuba.

Because drums weren't loud enough?

Here. It's really heavy.

Of course it is. It's a tuba.

Good luck.

Earth to Itch.

Yes, OK.

Let's go. Mm-hmm, I'm going.

Carrying, in case you hadn't noticed, a tuba.

Yeah, thanks for that. Yeah, you're welcome.

WOMAN: We still don't have the data for the trial.

Then keep trying.

And don't call me again until you have something.

MAN: Mr Lannister, the lab called.

The tests are complete and the system is online.

Get the car.

Why don't you just ask her out?

It's not that simple. Yes, it is.

"I really like you, Lucy. Do you wanna go out?"

Yeah, and what if she says no?

If I've read it wrong, it'll ruin everything.

You're going to have to say something,

or Itch will just keep giving you meaningful looks

and quietly pine away.

It's not that simple. Yeah, it is.

"Hey, Itch, I know you like me,

"and for some weird reason, I like you too. Wanna go out?"

Well, I did want to say something,

but I couldn't do it while he was in hospital.

I couldn't ask her out while I was in hospital.

If she'd said yes, it would have felt like a pity date.

And it didn't feel right, so soon after I broke up with Darcy.

Yeah, but it's been six months and Darcy's fine.

He's moved on.

He's just a mate.

Quinn, on the other hand.

Jacqueline! What?

I can see something might be there,

but maybe mates is all Lucy and me are meant to be.

So you'll risk your life to save the world from some radioactive rock,

but you won't ask a girl out?

I wasn't afraid of the rock rejecting me.

But you're right.

If I keep chickening out, nothing's ever going to happen.

(MESSAGE ALERT TONE)

It's Lucy.

She wants to meet me at the beach cafe tonight.

Well... Uh, what do I say?

"Sure, they do awesome smoothies there."

You know, keep it casual?

Or maybe, "Yeah, it'd be nice to hang out."

"Cool. See you there at six." Done.

Watch out for the dead fish at the beach, though.

There were loads when I went this morning.

That's cool. You're not listening, are you?

Not really.

(THEY'RE PLAYING MY SONG BY MONATOMIC PLAYS)

Who's on the periodic table? You're on the periodic table.

Lofteum, baby.

Hey, Lucy. Lovely to caesium you.

You can tell I'll never be a boron.

I'm always spinning solid gold. (LAUGHS)

I feel sick.

Hey. Hey.

BOTH: Thanks for meeting me...

Sorry... Sorry, go ahead...

No, it's OK. You go.

Right.

So.

I was so glad when you texted me,

because I need to tell you something, and...

What happened? That fishing boat exploded.

Is everyone OK?

(ALARM BLARES)

They're going over every inch of the system

to try and figure out what happened.

Fix it. I want to be back online by tomorrow morning.

They say it could take up to 72 hours to find it and...

..fix...the...the fault.

OK, I'll let them know they only have until the morning.

REPORTER: And in our top story,

investigators say yesterday's seaside explosion

was most likely caused by a natural gas leak

and that there's no connection

to any offshore drilling by energy giant Greencorp.

DR FLOWERDEW: This one rock alone could power entire cities.

LUCY: That power can do more than change the world.

It can destroy it. ITCH: We have to get rid of it.

NICK: OK, let's do it.

We could drop it down the old mine shaft, the deepest one in Australia.

Itchingham Lofte. Hey, Cake.

Ah, bad news, I'm afraid.

Beach market's closed due to the explosion.

Shame, too.

I ah, got some new bits and pieces

I thought you might like for your element collection.

That's OK. I, ah, actually came to talk to you about the explosion.

See if you'd heard anything?

Mm, you're the second person to ask me about that today.

Do you know how much plastic is in the ocean?

Uh, 100 million metric tonnes.

It's actually 150 million.

It kills marine life and clogs the waterways.

So you are...?

Organising a beach clean up for the Duke of Ed Awards.

Nice.

Ah. I was just talking to Cake about the explosion.

Yeah, there was a lot of chatter on the boards

saying that the official version - that it's a natural gas leak -

it got some holes in it.

What about the dead fish? That is still a mystery.

I mean, they've taken some samples,

but there's no toxicology report out there yet.

But they could be linked? Maybe.

You know who we should talk to?

Tim's Mum.

Lenora? I mean, yeah.

She knows more about Greencorp's operations than almost anyone.

But good luck finding her.

She went into hiding as soon as she got out of prison.

Yeah, but I wouldn't want to bother her anyway.

I'll see what I can find online.

I'll see you.

Itch.

Wait up.

Last night, we kind of got interrupted.

But you said you had something to tell me?

I'm...

I'm worried that the dead fish

might have something to do with Element 126.

But the rock was destroyed.

Not exactly.

That's what my Dad told everyone.

The truth is I sent it down a mine shaft

where no one can get it.

But...what if the radiation leaked into the water?

I'm sorry, I couldn't tell anyone. I...

We need to test the water ourselves.

The mine shaft is back there.

So if there's any contamination,

we'd find increased radiation in the water here.

I probably should have asked this

before we rode a bus all the way here,

but shouldn't we check in Seaburgh?

That's where the dead fish are.

If the rock is leaking radiation into the sea,

we need to check by the source.

There's an ocean current that runs all along Western Australia,

past Seaburgh and beyond.

The only way to know if it's Lofteum

is to dust for fingerprints here

and match that to the fish.

Fingerprints? Mm-hmm.

Radioactive fingerprints.

It's a unique signature made by the combination of isotopes.

I borrowed this testing kit from my Dad.

When I was little, we never did anything normal

like go to the zoo, or the movies.

Our father-daughter bonding time was testing rivers for pollution.

We'll still need to take this to a proper lab to be sure.

But this'll give us an idea if there's increased Caesium 137.

Caesium, atomic number 55.

And Caesium 137 is a radioactive isotope.

Exactly.

Thank you.

Huh.

It's around 2 becquerels per cubic metre.

Oh, no.

That's normal.

I thought you were the science guy.

I'm the element guy, not the radiation guy.

So, if I didn't poison the ocean -

which, don't get me wrong, I'm pretty stoked about -

what IS killing the fish?

We'd have to test one to find out,

but I'm sure the Environmental Agency is already doing that.

Yeah, I guess.

I just can't help feeling that, you know,

if there's a problem, Greencorp will cover it up.

Are you sure you don't want to try and track down Lenora?

Not just because she's a scientist,

but it would help her to know exactly what happened to Tim.

I just...

I don't know what to say to her.

Tell her that when it mattered, Tim did the right thing.

He saved Jack, and she needs to hear that.

(TUBA NOTES PLAYED LOUDLY)

Chloe.

(TUBA CONTINUES)

Chloe!

(TUBA STOPS)

I have to practise. It's not that.

I mean, it's terrible. But I need your help.

Sorry, can't hear you over the sound of my terrible tuba.

I'll pay you five bucks.

Chloe's help line. How may I assist you?

Remember when you found out which hotel

that rapper you're totally obsessed with was staying at?

I'm not into him anymore. That was ages ago.

It was last month. But that's not the point.

Can you help me find someone? Lenora Curran.

Tim's Mum?

Yeah, I need to talk to her and I have no idea where she could be.

Alright, give me 20 minutes.

That's 10 minutes to search,

and 10 minutes to eat the sandwich you're going to make me.

Can't work on an empty stomach.

(MUTTERS) Can't work on an empty stomach...

I think I've got something.

Her address? No.

An interview about women in STEM.

She talks about clean energy being the future of our planet.

OK, so you've found out she lives on earth.

Can you narrow it down?

She says her dream is to live self-sufficiently,

and that she bought a plot of land in the south-west

to one day turn into a solar farm.

Oh, you think that's where she'll be?

Does it say exactly where it is?

No, but there's only one solar supplier in the area, and they've...

Oh, there's a phone number.

Ah, hello. This is, Uh, Geoffrey...

..Tuba...

From the Solar Panel Association.

Yeah, we're researching solar energy usage

and are keen to speak to customers

who purchased panels in the last six months.

Maybe for a solar farm.

Right.

Of course, you can't give out that information over the phone.

Good.

Data protection is very important to us, too.

OK, that didn't work. Obviously not.

But if you would have let me finish,

I was going to say

they have pictures of their installations on their website.

And they're dated two weeks after Lenora left prison.

And there's an address on that mailbox.

Jack?

I need you to get me some transport.

Hi. Ah, I'm...

Itchingham Lofte.

And you must be Jack.

I never got to thank you for getting me out of prison.

Well, you should never have been there in the first place.

How did you find me? I thought I was pretty off the grid.

Oh, I...tracked you down via the solar panel supplier.

Very resourceful.

But, then, I shouldn't expect anything less.

We won't bother you. We just wanted to ask you something...

Could I have some water? I'm really thirsty.

Stay here.

What? I am.

So, what did you want to ask me?

I know you're not involved with Greencorp anymore.

But from your time with them,

do you know anything about their offshore drilling?

You think they were involved with the explosion on the beach?

They say it was a natural gas leak.

But Greencorp have a history of environmental disasters.

And their drilling could have opened up pockets of gas below the sea bed.

Exactly.

By law, they need to keep detailed logs,

and this would include monitoring gas levels.

What's to stop them faking those records?

Not much. It'd take somebody on the inside to blow the whistle.

But everyone who tries to stand up to Greencorp ends up in prison.

Wasn't there something else you wanted to talk about?

She's told me everything she can... That's not what I mean.

You're seriously going to leave without saying anything about Tim?

Tim saved my life.

I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for him.

Thank you, Jack. That means a lot.

I know that everything Tim did trying to take the rock

was only to help you.

You did the right thing by destroying that rock.

Greencorp would have stopped at nothing.

Is that why you moved all the way out here?

Are you still worried about Greencorp?

I had to get away.

Seaburgh's not safe.

TIM: She means for me.

She moved here to protect me.

Tim! I said stay inside.

Mum, they have a right to know what happened.

We can't let anyone know that Tim's still alive.

Greencorp see me as a threat,

and they use your loved ones against you.

I can't believe it.

You let us think you were dead.

I... I had to.

No, we grieved for you.

I blamed myself.

Do you have any idea what...?

(ENGINE REVS)

You were followed. Everyone, quick, inside.

Now what?

We need to get out of here.

The car's out the back.

Go. I'll meet you at the car.

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