02x04 - One Door Closes, Another One Opens

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Do what? Form an alliance.
Our groups against the other two.

Just the first challenge.
Then you're on your own.

An adventure camp. Sweet!

Today's challenge will take place
in Landslide's Alternate.

MACHINE: Choose a ride to win.

You said you'd help us!

It's Glen! He's the one!
Meg, she can't touch it!

Please?

Listen to me, this is important.
You can't trust Greenfro.....

We can't trust Greenfront.

That's what Maeve said to us
before, you know...

I liked Maeve.

Want to see something cool?

Here. Hold this.

Where are we going? What is this?!

Three wire coat hangers,
a bed board,

some repurposed screws
and a coaxial cable.

I don't think we're meant to
go up there. They won't know.

The point is, if Maeve was right
and we can't trust Greenfront,

how can we be sure they sent them
home? That's what has us thinking.

I suppose I hadn't really
thought much about it.

Where are we going? The roof.
We do whatever Greenfront tells us.

We take everything
they say as a fact.

What do we really know for sure?

What we need is a way to prove
Greenfront are telling the truth.

Are you two related?
No. Do we look similar?

No, but you talk similar.

I still don't quite understand
why you're telling me all this.

You'll see. Are you abnormally
small for your age?

No!

Anyway, they let us go
wherever we want in this place

and they don't really
keep anything locked.

So, we had an idea. How to prove
Greenfront are on the level.

That's where you come in.

Finally!

Could you... Could you get the door?

Yeah, sure.

Why are you looking at me like that?

Oh, my... You brought me here just
to see if it would wipe my memory?

Did it?

No! I can't believe you two!

We were, like, 80% it would be OK.
Don't make a big fuss about it.

It was mean.

We couldn't use anyone
from our group.

You're an important part of this.

This should do, Isabel.

You'd better tell me
what we're doing up here.


the whole world talking about it.

It would be a huge deal.

We're going to watch the news.

So, it's a week ago.

We're all here
but there's no sign of Dragonfly.

Greenfront are panicking.

They think, we'll just
get their symbols

and use some other random kids.

Where they're going to get
these kids from, I don't know,

but that's the plan.

And so the Artefacts won't notice,
they build this.

Monika and Isabel helped them
make it.

Those two are like, weird, genius
engineers that can build anything.

Then you four show up.

But we use this anyway because it
does something they didn't expect.

It allows us to go in by ourselves
without the rest of our group.

Fairground, adventure camp.

There are two more environments.

Finding out what they are
can help us win.

And you know how to get into them.

I should go.

I helped you...

..in the challenge.

You go into yours, I go into mine,

and you come get me.

Why not ask the others?

Because you get it.

Sometimes you have to break
the rules to get what you want.

MECHANICAL ROAR

I think it'll be great.

Come on, best of three.
Are you even going to try?

Luka?

It wasn't what I was expecting.

It was a game.
We had to touch the right ride.

But there was something else.
Something else?

It's like...

Like it wanted us
to remember things.

Some of us had been in
that fairground before.

How is that possible?
It's not a real fairground.

I know. You know what I meant.

But you said they chose us
for a reason.

You're not like the others, Louis.

You're curious. Sneaking into your
Artefact in the middle of the night.

Of course we'd know.
Whatever you're up to, I don't mind.

But my advice?

Don't go digging too deep
about who the aliens are.

She went in on her own.

They're going to meet up there.
Why would she do that?

Look, Meg, you'll understand
when you get...older.

But, erm...

..Kaz and Jay...

I'm 12, not nine.

You have a photo of Bea in
your pocket. I'm not judging.

Yep. OK. He's using her.

He's trying to take her
away from us.

Just a bit further.

He was right.

Louis.

The Alternate environments are in...

..outer space.

So how do we get into them?

There are hatches. They have weird
shapes - numbers, maybe - on them.

Yours is back there.

Why do you want to win so badly?
Don't say, "To save the world".

I don't know.

Why are you always so angry?

And the whole scary hair thing.

I'm tired of people older than me

telling me what I need to do
with my life.

And I'm not always angry!

Me, Dev - we all just hang out
and play video games.

Get into trouble.

I'm never going to be anybody.
I know it.

I see it in my parents' faces.

They know it, too.

It's like, all the smart kids
at school want to

make their parents proud and I
just want to prove mine wrong.

But this...

..I win this...

I can show them all...

..I'm somebody.

You're not nobody. I mean...

..you're on a spaceship.

Louis said we're billions
of light years away from Earth.

So right now...

..it's just the two of us...

..billions of light years away
from everybody else.

Hey.

With a basic TV aerial, you can
just pull channels out of the air.

We all just disappeared. If Maeve
and her group suddenly just show up,

it's going to be all over the news.

Then we know Greenfront are telling
the truth about letting us go.

Sorry about earlier.
It wasn't personal or anything.

I want to be a part of this,
wherever it leads.

You owe me. OK.

How do you know how to do this?
The aerial?

We can build anything.

We were always quite good
at taking things apart

and then putting them back together.

And then we just started putting
things together. It's like people.

Who knows what goes on
in their heads?

But to understand a machine,
you just open it up,

look inside, and it tells you
exactly what it is.

We've got something!

TELEVISION: Plinky Plonk
has a green ball.

Gree baww! Yayyyy!

Plinky Plonk loves his green ball...

You showed him! Really?! Don't
start. We wouldn't have got through

the first challenge without him
and you were the one who wanted to

form an alliance. Yes, until
we knew what we were doing.

Meg was worried about you.
Meg was worried about me?

Can you slow down?!

How is this any different
to you four sneaking down here

in the first place?

Cos we weren't trying to break into
other people's Alternates!

Which we did do,
but not intentionally.

We came down here to find out
who they were, not to cheat.

They wouldn't like this.
They wouldn't like it?!

He's not down here
because he's worried about you.

He just doesn't like me down here.

You ever seen this before?

No.

MACHINE ACTIVATION SOUNDS

MACHINE EMITS
ELECTRONIC SOUNDS

They've been watching us.

It wouldn't be right.

Are you sure?

What happened in here?

This whole place feels empty.

Maybe they're shy.

So, what do you think they're like?

They breathe oxygen.

CONTROL PAD BEEPS

We're wasting our time in here.

You find anything?

I'm not sure.

MACHINE BEEPS

BEEPING SPEEDS UP

That's an airlock.

ALARM SOUNDS

Kaz!

Louis! What's happening?! Louis!
What is this?

Kaz! She can't hear you!

What is it? It's an airlock.
It's going to open.

Get me out of here!

Talk to her! She reads lips!
What?!

Tell her it's going to be OK!
It's an airlock.

We're going to open it.
We're going to fix this.

I can't get chucked into space!

Argh!

Open it! I'm trying! I don't know
what any of this stuff does!

Look for an emergency override,
like on a train.

Help me!

It's pressurised!
That's not going to work!

ALARM SOUNDS

Come on, come on, come on!

What are you doing?!

It's not going to work!
It's impossible, Jay!

Come on!

KAZ AND JAY GASP FOR BREATH

Kaz?

Kaz, are you OK?

We're leaving.

Now!

KAZ BREATHES HEAVILY

Kaz.

What is that?

It's that thing again.

ELECTRONIC RUSHING SOUNDS

What just happened?

LOUD SIREN

If they didn't know we were
here before, they do now.

We need to go! Go!

Come on!

Our hatch is over here. We can only
exit through our own Artefacts.

My hatch is that way, right? Jay..

I'll be fine! Go!

Kaz, come on!

SIREN WAILS

Go left!

Come on, move! Go!

THEY GASP FOR BREATH

No, no, no! No, no, no!

No!

Come on.

They're not letting us
back down there again.

Oh, come on, come on, come on,
come on, come on!

MECHANICAL ROAR

Where have you been? Come on,
you've got to check this out.

Look, about before.

I just, in the airlock...
It doesn't matter.

What's going on?
Sh! We're trying to listen.

TELEVISION: The mystery of the
four local kids who went missing

just over a week ago
took a surprising turn today

when they were found just outside
a local authority building

with apparently no memory
of their time away.

Where have you been?
We don't want to talk about it.

How is it you can't remember
anything? Leave us alone. Go away!

Maeve.

You all right?

TELEVISION: Thanks for that report.
Over to Chloe for the weather.

Who's that?

Don't go digging too deep
about who the aliens are.

They're not letting us
back down there again.

What are you doing?

Who are you?!

MACHINE POWERS UP

To understand a machine,
you just open it up,

look inside...

..and it tells you
exactly what it is.