[adventurous music]
- [yells]
- Rufus! That's impossible.
No.
[engine revvs]
- Jerome!
- He was dead.
- Jerome!
- [grunts]
- He's not gonna get away with it this time!
- The worm is in the hole.
Eddie's laptop is virused to the max.
- Excellent work, guys.
- Now all we have to worry about is tracking down that dollhouse.
- Yeah.
- Someone must have seen something.
I mean, it's a big dollhouse.
- Yup, it was the middle of the night.
No one would have seen anything.
- Shame the walls don't have eyes.
- Alfie, that's brilliant.
Both: Lounge cam.
- Lounge cam.
- Maybe we're starting to get somewhere.
- The crown is the same as the one on the woman in the footage.
- We don't think it's sarah now.
We think it's a spirit brought here With the artifacts in the exhibition.
- You think the lady in the video Is the unknown ruler?
- It doesn't matter what we think.
I mean, imagine how many hits we'll get on this baby.
I mean, you wanted eyeballs.
- So what do we know about her?
- Well, nothing.
She's the unknown ruler.
- Let me see the picture of her in the cellar again.
- Yeah.
[computer chiming]
- What's the matter?
- I don't know.
The file looks corrupted.
Umm Oh, don't worry.
You type it up, and we go live tomorrow.
- Cool!
- I do believe you're getting the hang Of this journalism game, mara.
- This is a disaster! We've lost the dollhouse, And now that article is gonna get every amateur Ghost hunter in school down there.
- Not to mention the information it's going to give victor.
- [sighs]
this is hopeless! There's nothing we can do.
- There is one thing.
Fabian could try and persuade joy not to.
You know, just sweet talk her.
- Are you serious?
- I think I am.
- [laughs]
congratulations, buddy.
[laughs]
you're bait! [laughs]
- And patricia, you need to apologize to eddie.
- What?
- It's a two
-pronged att*ck.
You work on eddie, and fabian works on joy.
- Are you going to ask me to get close to alfie, Because I wilt, you know, if that's what you want.
- Yes, actually.
I need the two of you to watch lounge cam And find the dollhouse thief.
- Are you sure about this?
- No, But right now, it's the only plan we've got.
- Yes, that's it.
Would you? Now.
Aha! Look, vera, it's the falcon symbol.
Excellent.
This is indeed one of the reflectors.
- Oh, ingenious.
[gasps]
- Mm?
- And have you made some progress with the next one?
- Ah, yes.
Now.
Um Right.
See, you see, the sun hieroglyphic Is used as an ideogram.
This is an elongated wave symbol.
Now on line r
-10 of the rosetta stone
-
- What?
- [sighs]
Victor, that all seems very complicated.
What if it's actually deceptively simple?
- [laughs]
[coughs]
You are surely not suggesting That we are looking for the sun, my dear?
- Yes, actually, yes.
That's exactly what I think we're looking for.
- Mm?
- Come with me.
- Mm? [door opens]
- They see you?
- No, but they might have had a camera Watching the camera.
I'm starting to get paranoid.
- [sighs]
boring.
Fast forward.
Stop.
Rewind.
- No.
- Jerome?
- [gasps]
the sun!
- Under our noses the entire time.
- [sighs]
isn't everything?
- Oh, yes.
The falcon! Excellent!
- Oh, victor, we make the perfect team.
- Mm
-mm
-mm.
- [whispering]
gotcha.
But who is he? I've never seen him on the antique circuit.
- [whispering]
you might know him as rene zeldman.
- Rene zeldman? No.
- No.
Don't!
- Trudy's in there.
- Just stay there, jasper.
Please.
You don't know what this man is capable of.
He's pure evil.
- I don't get why I have to say "sorry.
" I didn't do anything.
Feels li I'm selling out.
- That's not selling out.
That's a relationship.
Now go, make up.
Now, you.
[sighs]
Go in there.
Just be nice.
That's not too hard, is it?
- Right.
No, no, no.
No, no.
- You charm her.
You convince her that putting this article online Would be an error.
- An error?
- Sorry.
I'm nervous.
- Yeah, you
-
- [coughs]
You and me both.
- [laughs]
I'll be fine.
You'll be fine.
- What? Um What I do if, I don't know, I have to ask her out to eat or something?
- Why would you ask her out to eat?
- Oh, I don't know, I'm just asking, What's my limit?
- I don't know! Just remember, fabian, There's a lot riding on this, okay?
- [sighs]
Please.
- Good luck.
[knock at door]
- Oh, if it isn't blabs.
- Will you stop giving me goofy nicknames?
- Stop doing goofy stuff.
- Just shut up for a second.
I've come to apo
-
- I've come to apol
-
- I mean, I was r
-
- I just want to say s
-
- [sighs]
no, I can't do it.
You're a doofus.
- Worst apology ever.
- I'm not sorry, because I didn't do anything.
I kept your secret.
I'd keep any secret of yours.
Yeah, I was mad at you, but I'd never do that.
And the fact you think I would really makes you a doofus.
- [sighs]
- Now why would I want to pull this story? This is gonna make my relaunch.
- I just have a feeling that this is a hoax.
- Oh, you have a feeling.
- Oh, come on, joy.
Ghosts? Haunted egyptian relics?
- I've seen stuff, remember? Stuff that we don't talk about Because you and the scooby g*ng shut me out.
And after everything I went through last term, Being shut away with just my parents, A chess board, and no phone, And you Well, you chose that exact moment To finally get a girlfriend.
Besides, we've got proof.
- It's just a blurry image, joy.
- No.
The spirits on the bid video.
I sh*t it myself.
- It's a hoax! Effect software.
- Do you know this for a fact, Or are you just guessing?
- Well, no, I don't know this for a fact.
Look, what I they're not real though?
- People don't care about the details, fabes.
They want to believe in this stuff.
- What if you're being taken for a ride? Don't you care?
- Well, why do you care so much?
- Because I do care!
- Really?
- Yeah.
Yeah, of course I do.
- Fine.
I'll drop the article.
- You will?
- But on one condition.
- Anything.
Anything.
- You kiss me.
- [gasps]
- I kiss you?
- Well, if it means that much to you.
Do it properly this time Knowing that it's me and not under false pretenses.
- [gasps]
- [stammering]
I can't.
- Why?
- I'm sorry, I just can't.
- Still not over nina?
- No.
No, I'm not over nina.
And she may never want to get back together again, But I can't move on.
- I'll drop the article.
- [gasps]
[whispering]
yes.
Yes.
- [muffled]
- You really need me to do this, so I'll do it.
- Thank you.
- [sighs]
So
- So
- You didn't do it on purpose.
- No.
- You know I knew that before you came in my room All high horse and stuff.
- And what about mara?
- What about mara.
- Admit it: You're trying to make me jealous.
- Don't push it, yacker.
[sighs]
okay, maybe a little.
Will you cut me some slack now?
- I guess.
[footsteps approaching]
- [sighs]
are you okay?
- Of course.
I'm joy.
- Okay.
- [inhales shakily]
[exhales shakily]
- I did it.
- You did?
- Yeah.
She's not going to publish the article.
- Wow! That's fantastic! [giggles]
- Hmm.
- Eddie, about this article
- Uh
-huh.
- Mara aside, I don't get why you're doing it.
I think it's kind of lame.
- [scoffs]
I think it's really cool.
I mean, I don't know if ghosts really exist, But the more you look into it, the less lame it gets.
Trust me.
- Wow, you're really serious about it.
- Sure.
But, I mean, you think it's stupid, so
- No.
Actually I don't.
But don't do it the way joy wants it.
Mara's right.
You need it to be taken seriously Or you won't be taken seriously.
- Yeah.
You're right.
- [exhales heavily]
Is this a raid?
- Sit down, buddy.
We've got something to talk to you about.
- [scoffs]
- Tell me this isn't as bad as it looks.
- It's actually much worse.
- Do you want the good news or the bad news?
- What's the good news?
- Eddie and I are good again.
- She couldn't do it.
- I couldn't do it.
- That's all right.
Fabian was amazing.
I mean, you must have been.
He got joy to drop the article.
- There you are.
Jerome's got something to tell you.
- Tell them.
- He took the dollhouse!
- What?
- Sorry, you tell them.
- I took the dollhouse.
- But wh
-
-
- wait.
There's more.
- It was for jasper! Sorry.
- I knew it.
I knew it! Why would he do that?
- 'cause he was being blackmailed.
- Amber!
- Sorry.
Sorry.
- Jasper is not the bad guy, fabian.
He was being blackmailed By the person who kidnapped trudy.
Both: What?
- Get out.
- Vera
-
-vera is his agent.
- Whose agent, jerome?
- Rufus is back.
- Rufus.
No! No, he's dead.
We read his obituary.
- Trust me, he's alive and well.
- How?
- All I know is if he doesn't get what he wants, Then trudy is d
-
- Trudy is in trouble.
- What does he want?
- Something in the house.
He's been searching high and low For anything and everything frobisher.
That is why he wanted the dollhouse.
- Not to play dolls.
- Hey, I'm sorry I didn't tell you, But there was so much at stake, okay? Trudy, you
- Me?
- You threatened jasper, fabian.
We couldn't tell you.
We couldn't put you in danger.
- It's okay.
- What now?
- We have to tell victor.
- Rufus zeno is dead.
- Well, then he faked it, because he's not now.
- Victor, I saw him with my own eyes! And vera's involved.
- Now you have gone too far!
- It's true.
She works for rufus.
- Ask yourself how she got the job.
Were there any other applicants?
- No one could have possibly
-
-
- Vera devenish is the finest housemother This place has ever had.
This is outrageous!
- Mara was right.
- She's evil.
- Enough!
- What's all the commotion?
- [clears throat]
- Victor?
- Nothing.
Usual nonsense.
Be gone, all of you.
- Victor
-
-
- now! [clears throat]
- What's going on?
- Nothing.
[clears throat]
We'll, um, have to stay close to them, though.
[clears throat]
- You're what?
- You heard me.
I'm not running the story.
- Well, why?
- Because I'm the editor, and I say so.
- But it's a great story.
It could be huge for the site.
Think of the "eyeballs.
"
- I'm just going to have to make the jackal A success without it.
You're not the only one around here who can write, mara.
- This was my only chance to get my work out there.
- I know, and I'm sorry.
But after what sweetie said, I wouldn't be able to put your name to it anyway.
- Huh.
Well, that marks the end of my "making an effort" phase.
- [sighs]
- I brought you a cup of tea and some fig rolls.
- Oh, I'm not hungry, vera, thank you.
- Victor, you have to keep up your strength.
Here.
- Oh.
- [giggles]
Any progress?
- Um, well, some of these pictures
-
- The scarab with the ankh on its back, the cupbearers
-
- I think I've worked out that together They refer to a silver goblet Which once belonged to sarah frobisher
-smythe.
- Did you know her well?
- Hmm? Oh, yes.
Yes.
All my life.
- What happened to her?
- Oh, well, we grew apart, and Soon after I found her again, she
-
-she
-
-she d*ed.
- Oh.
I'm sorry to hear that.
- Well, death comes to all of us eventually, vera.
Well, most of us, at least.
- Uh, so this silver goblet
-
- where is it now?
- Ah, now, that is the problem.
It stood in the downstairs dresser for decades and decades, But it is no longer there.
- Well, they've beaten us to it.
- It's possible.
- But victor
-
-
- oh, not to worry.
They're not going anywhere.
We have three of the reflectors, you know.
- He's got three reflectors? That must mean he has the doll's eye and two others.
What are they?
- Search me, but he's onto us.
He's figured out the goblet's missing, And they know it was us.
We heard him telling vera.
- Wait, he talked to vera about this?
- Yup, and trust me, there is a significant amount Of romantic tension between those two.
- Yeah, but she's working for rufus.
- Maybe she's a double agent.
- You've got to hand it to her.
She is good.
- Yeah, she is.
The lying, double
-crossing mask
-hijacking witch! Hoodwinking us with her cakey ways.
- Back in the room, alfie.
Maybe victor and rufus have teamed up.
- Well
-
-
- that is not a nice thought.
- Either way, vera's got victor wrapped around her finger.
Did you see the way she stuck up for him the other day?
- Yup.
A total puppy dog.
So in love.
- I
-
-I don't know what's going on here.
All I do know is that we can't trust either of them.
- Can we recap on who I can trust, Because my head is literally about to explode.
- Whoever he's working for, guys, it doesn't matter.
We've got the other three reflectors, remember? [door opens]
- Do you recognize this?
- [shakily]
yeah.
It was junk.
I threw it out.
- That's why you're there and I'm here.
This thing is priceless.
It's worth more than you, in fact.
- What does that mean?
- It means simply that very soon, You will no longer be needed.
02x69 - House of Sabotage
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Follows a group of English boarding school students try to solve a mystery involving their dormitory named after the Egyptian god of death, Anubis.
Follows a group of English boarding school students try to solve a mystery involving their dormitory named after the Egyptian god of death, Anubis.