The Mystery of the Missing Millions Grandpa In My Pocket

-BOTH:

-Not the shrinking cap, Grandpa!

Catch me if you can.

Come down, Grandpa.

HELICOPTER BUZZES

PLANE BUZZES

Ah!

Grandpa!

It was a quiet morning at the Mill on the Marsh,

Elsie had gone to play tennis with Uncle CJ

and Grandpa was with me, painting Gordon.

Oh, he'll be as clean as a whistle after this coat of paint, Josh.

It'll be like flying on a brand-new seagull.

Don't even think about it, Grandpa.

Great Aunt Loretta was in the kitchen with Auntie Jules.

You better stay here, Mr Beetle Brooch.

Don't want you getting sucked up when I'm muck-sucking.

Great Aunt Loretta was helping today, as a very important guest

-was staying.

-Suck up the muck! Suck up the muck!

The very important guest was Lady Prigsbottom.

She'd come to stay because the builders were doing up

her big posh house.

Coo-eeh! It's only me.

Oh, you haven't half brought some lovely stuff with you.

SHE CHUCKLES

Oh, look at all your bits and bobs.

They're not bits and bobs!

They're priceless antiques and I brought them to keep them safe.

Ah, they'll be safe as houses here with us.

SHE CHUCKLES

Now, don't mind me while I give you a bit of a going over.

Mind your feet.

And again.

SHE GROANS

Feet up, feet up.

-This is hopeless. I'll be back when you're finished.

-That's a good idea.

Suck up the muck! Suck up the muck!

Lady Prigsbottom came and sat with me, Grandpa and Wulfy.

I don't know how you put up with Loretta.

Oh, her heart's in the right place.

Finished. All spick and span, Lady P.

It is Lady Prigsbottom, not Lady P!

Great Aunt Loretta was polishing

Auntie Jules' silver seaside ornaments.

You're my favourite, you are. There we are.

-Bright and shiny as a new pin.

-Disaster! There's been a disaster.

-Disaster?

-What disaster?

-A precious piece of jewellery has gone.

-BOTH: Gone?

-My diamond necklace - it's worth millions, millions!

Yes, today we are going to solve...

-You! You were in there last. Where is it?

-I didn't touch it.

-Thief!

-Me?

A thief! Are you calling me a thief?

I won't stand for it!

She was last in there. She's taken the necklace.

-It's obvious.

-Come now.

Loretta may be many things but she's no thief.

I'm going downstairs to talk to Jules.

I don't know how this happened but I'm going to find out

and the best way for me to catch a thief is if I'm small.

-HE GASPS

-Not the shrinking cap, Grandpa!

Catch me if you can.

Now, when Grandpa shrinks, he can run so fast you can't catch him.

He can fly my helicopter. He can chuff about in the Sunnysands train.

He can hide in really tiny places where you can't find him.

And today was one of those days. Where've you gone, Grandpa?

I'm here.

Quick, take me to Lady P's room.

If the thief comes back, I'll catch him.

Meanwhile, in the kitchen...

THEY ALL SPEAK AT ONCE

-There's nothing shifty about...

-Calm down.

Just calm down!

I'm going to the...

Great Aunt Loretta can't say the word toilet out loud

because she thinks it's rude.

I'm calm, but I will not remain here any longer

if there's a thief in the house. I'm packing up and leaving.

Wait! Lady Prigsbottom!

I'd just put Grandpa into Lady Prigsbottom's room when

-she came steaming back upstairs.

-Don't try and stop me. I'm off.

Oh, please don't be off. Loretta's upset. You're upset.

-I suppose Grandpa's gone for a little lie down.

-I don't blame him.

Oh, dear. Oh, please.

I'd put Grandpa in the vase on the dressing table.

Lady Prigsbottom was packing.

She was about to see him but he ducked down just in time.

She was in such a hurry that she accidentally did this.

She packed the vase! The vase that had Grandpa in it.

Lady Prigsbottom, I'm sure we'll solve the mystery.

No, I'm not staying in a house with thieves and robbers.

Auntie Jules gave up and Grandpa tried to escape

but then this happened...

Just in time, Grandpa managed to scramble out of the suitcase.

He jumped onto the floor and ran out of the door.

It's no good, she's leaving. I can't persuade her.

Just then, Grandpa ran in and I was really pleased to see him.

-Grandpa, did you catch the thief?

-No. Nobody came in.

WOMAN SCREAMS

-This is a disaster!

-Great Aunt Loretta.

Come on. I picked him up, put him in my pocket

and we went downstairs to see what was the matter.

It's gone. My lovely shiny beetle brooch has gone.

-I only went to the toi...and it's gone.

-I don't believe it.

-Who could have taken it?

-While Auntie Jules and Great Aunt Loretta

looked for the shiny beetle brooch, I put Grandpa down.

Go and tell Lady P that someone else has had something taken.

So off I went and Grandpa jumped down onto the floor

and made his way to upsy-downsy, without being seen.

He pressed the button...

..and up he went.

He arrived upstairs just as I did and Lady Prigsbottom was leaving.

Lady Prigsbottom, you're not the only one.

Great Aunt Loretta's had something taken too.

-Her precious, shiny beetle brooch.

-Her beetle brooch?

-She's not making it up?

-No.

-Lady Prigsbottom. We all want to get

to the bottom of this mystery. There has to be an explanation.

Oh! Oh, no. What's happening here?

My silver seaside ornaments all over the floor.

-What's the matter?

-Then, she saw that one was missing.

-The little silver lighthouse. It's gone.

-ALL: Gone?

My necklace. Your broach. Her lighthouse.

I think we ought to all go downstairs,

have a cup of tea and keep calm. There has to be an answer.

So they all went downstairs together

-and just then, I heard Grandpa calling me.

-Josh.

I'm going to hide in here to see

if the thief comes back for another ornament. You wait outside.

-I'll call you.

-OK.

Grandpa jumped out of upsy-downsy and climbed up and up

and up, as high as he could to get a really good view of the thief.

And sure enough the thief came back.

It flew right in through the window,

grabbed a silver shell off the table and flew right out again.

A bongle bird, I might have known. Josh!

I rushed back in.

It's a bongle bird. You know how bongle birds like shiny things.

-I'm going after it.

-Right.

Grandpa jumped down and ran out onto the balcony.

Then, he jumped onto Gordon and flew off to the meadow. I ran after him.

The bongle bird was sitting in the nest in the big nut tree.

And when he saw Gordon flying towards him, he did this...

and Grandpa landed in the nest.

BIRD SQUAWKS

It's here, Josh. It's all here. We've found the missing millions!

Grandpa was just about to pass all the shiny things to me,

-when the bongle bird went...

-BIRD SQUAWKS

And the bongle bird's screeching

brought the others into the meadow.

It's the bongle bird. He's the thief.

And when the bongle bird heard this, he took off and flew away.

And there's his nest.

Oh, Josh. Did you frighten him out of his nest with Gordon?

How did you get him up so high? Good throw.

And it's my guess that the missing millions are in his nest.

Auntie Jules was sure to find Grandpa.

First, she handed me Gordon.

Then she put her hand in the nest and...

Your necklace, Lady Prigsbottom.

Your silver, shiny beetle brooch, Loretta.

And...the little lighthouse.

-Oh, and the shell. Anything else?

-She was about to see Grandpa!

Just a bit of bongle bird shell. I'll show you.

I guessed Grandpa was hiding in the eggshell. No-o-o!

Never touch a bongle bird egg. It's...

really unlucky.

-We've had enough bad luck for one day.

-Quite.

Loretta, I'm sorry I called you a robber.

And I'm glad you got your shiny beetle brooch back.

-It must be an old favourite.

-Let's all go inside and celebrate.

Why not?

I just had one more thing to do.

Jump, Grandpa.

I put him down on the grass...

Cap off, quick. He came back to his normal size.

Well done, Josh.

-I think we deserve to celebrate too.

-Of course.

-We did a great job. Teamwork, eh?

-Teamwork.

Come on.

Well, at least Lady P has calmed down and gone to unpack.

-Green gloop, Loretta?

-Yum.

Oh, been for a little lie down have we, Grandpa?

Well, we solved the mystery without you.

-Where were you when I needed help?

-I just went for some fresh air.

-And how was it?

-Eggs-ellent.

Teamwork!