0:00:02 > 0:00:06So, Mr...Bailey,
0:00:06 > 0:00:11what makes you think you could be a SKUL agent?
0:00:11 > 0:00:14Well, I've tried everything.
0:00:14 > 0:00:18Lollipop man, librarian, shoving the stuffing up chickens.
0:00:18 > 0:00:23And I thought, "Hang on. Why not try...Master Criminal?"
0:00:23 > 0:00:26I've got the look. And I've got the rabbit.
0:00:26 > 0:00:28Say hello, Mr Tiddles. "Hello."
0:00:28 > 0:00:30I'd be perfect!
0:00:31 > 0:00:34HE SCREAMS
0:00:36 > 0:00:39Next! Who is next, Flopsy?
0:00:39 > 0:00:42Nora Braithwaite.
0:00:42 > 0:00:44I hear you're hiring for a bank raid.
0:00:44 > 0:00:46The biggest bank raid in the history of...
0:00:46 > 0:00:50And I hear that so far you haven't recruited anybody.
0:00:50 > 0:00:54- MR BAILEY: - Ooh, your cellar's a bit warm!
0:00:54 > 0:01:01Thankfully, I have a way to find younger, less frazzled SKUL agents.
0:01:01 > 0:01:06A way to "re-educate" schoolchildren.
0:01:10 > 0:01:14The 21st century faces a new kind of threat.
0:01:14 > 0:01:16The old school spies have had their day,
0:01:16 > 0:01:19and MI9 must create a new breed of skilled undercover agent.
0:01:27 > 0:01:30Hidden in a place no villain would think to look.
0:01:30 > 0:01:32SCHOOL BELL RINGS
0:01:33 > 0:01:35Welcome to MI High.
0:01:39 > 0:01:41SCHOOL BELL RINGS
0:01:48 > 0:01:51Miss, what's going on?
0:01:52 > 0:01:54Haven't you seen the news?
0:01:54 > 0:01:58There's a nit outbreak! Schools everywhere have been hit by nits.
0:01:58 > 0:02:02Ew! Nits? The things totally gross kids who never wash get?
0:02:02 > 0:02:06Actually, nits prefer clean hair. Yours'd be perfect.
0:02:07 > 0:02:08You!
0:02:08 > 0:02:11- Give me that!- Daisy!
0:02:19 > 0:02:22Oi, what you doing pushing Stewart around?
0:02:22 > 0:02:24Checking him for nits.
0:02:24 > 0:02:27Wouldn't be able find 'em anyway, not in your mophead.
0:02:28 > 0:02:32- RADIO:- 'News just in, there's a nit outbreak at Hatherway High School.
0:02:32 > 0:02:35'I'm sure they're just itching to tell everyone.'
0:02:35 > 0:02:38Oi, Critchley! Hatherway High School. Now!
0:02:41 > 0:02:42Stew, what you doing?
0:02:42 > 0:02:45There's a 15-mile nit-free zone around St Hope's.
0:02:45 > 0:02:47Until the nits enter it, we're safe.
0:02:47 > 0:02:51I meant, what are you doing letting them boss you around?
0:02:51 > 0:02:54- Mind of your own?- You can't push people around forever, Julian.
0:02:54 > 0:02:57Have a think what you want to do with your life.
0:02:59 > 0:03:01And we can confirm a report of yet
0:03:01 > 0:03:04another nit outbreak, this time at Monseniors Academy.
0:03:04 > 0:03:06Monseniors?
0:03:06 > 0:03:08That's inside the exclusion zone.
0:03:08 > 0:03:10PANICKED SHOUTING
0:03:47 > 0:03:49Wow. Imagine if Lenny got nits.
0:03:51 > 0:03:53HE WINCES IN PAIN
0:03:54 > 0:03:57Don't worry. Routine operation on the old war wound.
0:03:57 > 0:04:00Suits you, Grandpa.
0:04:00 > 0:04:04All kinds of top-level communication and security systems
0:04:04 > 0:04:06are being scrambled across Britain.
0:04:06 > 0:04:09Leaving national defence open to attack?
0:04:09 > 0:04:13These are the affected areas. The police, emergency services,
0:04:13 > 0:04:15the army are all unable to function properly.
0:04:15 > 0:04:17Must be some sort of interference.
0:04:17 > 0:04:20MI9 want you to study the data, find out where it's coming from.
0:04:20 > 0:04:23I'm guessing that's no ordinary pencil case.
0:04:25 > 0:04:28A body scanner, to pick up any scrambling devices
0:04:28 > 0:04:29concealed on a person.
0:04:36 > 0:04:38No devices. No brain.
0:04:38 > 0:04:42There's been another report of interference, not far from here.
0:04:42 > 0:04:45- It's near Monseniors. - Monseniors? Give me a minute.
0:04:48 > 0:04:51I've got a theory.
0:04:51 > 0:04:54Come on, Critchley, faster!
0:04:54 > 0:04:55The nits are on the rampage!
0:04:55 > 0:05:00- They're nits, not elephants. - I'd rather have
0:05:00 > 0:05:01elephants in my hair any day.
0:05:01 > 0:05:03- What?- And who said you could speak?
0:05:03 > 0:05:05Get a move on!
0:05:10 > 0:05:14The communication breakdowns are in the same areas that have nits?
0:05:14 > 0:05:16That's your theory?
0:05:16 > 0:05:19I'm cross-referencing the schools on Stewart's map.
0:05:19 > 0:05:22They've all been treated by Nit Solutions.
0:05:22 > 0:05:25- You want to bring Nit Solutions to St Hope's?- How?
0:05:25 > 0:05:27We don't have a nit problem.
0:05:27 > 0:05:29Hi, Ginger, it's Lenny.
0:05:29 > 0:05:30Gadgets department.
0:05:30 > 0:05:34Got a bit of a strange request.
0:05:40 > 0:05:42MI9 has delivery jets?
0:05:42 > 0:05:43Cool.
0:05:49 > 0:05:54They're nits, all right. So which one of us is going to, you know?
0:05:55 > 0:05:58You can forget about it, no way!
0:05:58 > 0:06:02Nits are disgusting, and so are you for even thinking about it!
0:06:02 > 0:06:03Look, Rose needs to figure out
0:06:03 > 0:06:06how communications got scrambled. I'll do it.
0:06:09 > 0:06:12Ew, that is so gross!
0:06:15 > 0:06:17All right, ugly, you know the drill.
0:06:21 > 0:06:23NITS!
0:06:23 > 0:06:26SCREAMING, WARNING SIREN SOUNDS
0:06:31 > 0:06:35Warning, we have an infected person in the area!
0:06:35 > 0:06:37Do not go near Blane Whittaker!
0:06:37 > 0:06:41Repeat, do not go near Blane Whittaker!
0:06:41 > 0:06:47Blane Whittaker? Don't you mean Blane Nittaker?
0:06:47 > 0:06:50LAUGHTER
0:06:50 > 0:06:53Yeah, Blane Nit...
0:06:53 > 0:06:56Blane Nit...
0:07:01 > 0:07:03Nittaker?!
0:07:03 > 0:07:07LAUGHTER
0:07:07 > 0:07:12The blue dots are the banks we plan to rob. The red dots, nearby schools.
0:07:12 > 0:07:16Hatherway. Monseniors. Puh!
0:07:16 > 0:07:21They don't sound like criminal hotbeds, do they, Flopsy?
0:07:21 > 0:07:24They contain weak-minded children!
0:07:24 > 0:07:29And given that SKUL is crying out for minds of any kind.
0:07:29 > 0:07:30What's that, Flopsy?
0:07:30 > 0:07:32No, I don't like her either.
0:07:32 > 0:07:35The fact is,
0:07:35 > 0:07:40I've found over 50 potential bank robbers in schools just like them.
0:07:40 > 0:07:41PING!
0:07:41 > 0:07:45I wonder how has she found them.
0:07:46 > 0:07:49Amazing!
0:07:49 > 0:07:53That's near the Bank of Britain. I'll have to go.
0:07:53 > 0:07:56Ow!
0:07:56 > 0:07:58And I shall be taking these with me.
0:08:03 > 0:08:08The NHS couldn't supply a nit nurse for another three weeks, apparently.
0:08:08 > 0:08:13Fortunately our caretaker Bicknall suggested Nit Solutions.
0:08:17 > 0:08:19Nora Braithwaite.
0:08:20 > 0:08:22I bet they call you Nitty Nora.
0:08:24 > 0:08:26Or not.
0:08:36 > 0:08:40Now, my pretties, time to go to work.
0:08:49 > 0:08:54You ready yet? These things are doing my 'ead in.
0:08:58 > 0:09:01Only one thing for a case this bad.
0:09:01 > 0:09:03Keep your head still, boy!
0:09:11 > 0:09:15There, that wasn't too painful.
0:09:15 > 0:09:20Oh, and don't worry about mixing with other kids -
0:09:20 > 0:09:22you're past the contagious stage.
0:09:22 > 0:09:24That's it, I'm treated?
0:09:24 > 0:09:26My job here is done.
0:09:54 > 0:09:56I've scanned the nit nurse.
0:09:56 > 0:09:59Nothing to scramble communications. She's clean.
0:09:59 > 0:10:02- PHONE SIGNAL FADES - Rose?
0:10:02 > 0:10:03Rose?
0:10:07 > 0:10:09Hang on, you're leaving?
0:10:09 > 0:10:11But I've got nits as well, you know.
0:10:11 > 0:10:14Here. Smear a big dollop of that on twice a day -
0:10:14 > 0:10:17should clear them up in a month or so.
0:10:17 > 0:10:19A month?
0:10:21 > 0:10:24Urgh, that is so yuck!
0:10:24 > 0:10:28- Might as well shove your head in cow dung.- At least we know
0:10:28 > 0:10:31Nit Solutions had nothing to do with communications being scrambled.
0:10:31 > 0:10:33That's weird.
0:10:33 > 0:10:37Same thing happened to my communicator earlier.
0:10:37 > 0:10:42You'll be pleased to hear Phase One of my operation is complete.
0:10:42 > 0:10:46One school near every bank we plan to rob
0:10:46 > 0:10:49has been infected with my Nano-Nits.
0:10:51 > 0:10:56They've been spreading like wildfire.
0:10:56 > 0:11:03But how do robotic nits find potential bank robbers,
0:11:03 > 0:11:06ones we can turn into SKUL agents?
0:11:06 > 0:11:12Once in place, the Nano-Nits scan children's brains,
0:11:12 > 0:11:17detecting weak minds, ones open to suggestion.
0:11:20 > 0:11:22Oh, no! Not nits, please!
0:11:22 > 0:11:25Everything all right, Ms Templeman?
0:11:25 > 0:11:31Oh...I was just wondering what to have for lunch.
0:11:31 > 0:11:33Do you want to know how I decide?
0:11:33 > 0:11:36Monday, it's bun day. Tuesday, it's muesli.
0:11:36 > 0:11:41Wednesday, no meat. Thursday, a treat. Friday...
0:11:41 > 0:11:43It's pie day. Yes, that'll do!
0:11:44 > 0:11:50Pie day? Hmm. And all this time I've been having lasagna.
0:11:50 > 0:11:53Urgh! Sir's got nits!
0:11:53 > 0:11:56# Sir's got nits! #
0:11:56 > 0:12:01ALL: # Sir's got nits! Sir's got nits! #
0:12:01 > 0:12:03Amazing.
0:12:03 > 0:12:11My Nano-Nits have just located six weak minds in one school alone.
0:12:11 > 0:12:16- Including two adults, would you believe?- What is this thing?
0:12:16 > 0:12:19Are you trying to do away with me?
0:12:19 > 0:12:21All in good time.
0:12:21 > 0:12:25I'm downloading your personality onto the computer.
0:12:25 > 0:12:29Ooh... It tickles!
0:12:29 > 0:12:32- 'Download complete.' - I've downloaded the personalities
0:12:32 > 0:12:35of the world's most notorious criminals.
0:12:35 > 0:12:41My Nano-Nits will now transmit those personalities directly
0:12:41 > 0:12:45into the weak children's brains.
0:12:59 > 0:13:01'Personality transfer complete.'
0:13:01 > 0:13:03There.
0:13:03 > 0:13:05Any weak minds my Nano-Nits detected
0:13:05 > 0:13:09have just become criminal masterminds.
0:13:09 > 0:13:12Just think, Flopsy.
0:13:12 > 0:13:18Kids acting like different criminals, all working for me.
0:13:18 > 0:13:19EVIL LAUGH
0:13:23 > 0:13:26Oi! watch where you're going!
0:13:26 > 0:13:28Stew?
0:13:28 > 0:13:29What are you doing?
0:13:33 > 0:13:35You, you and you.
0:13:35 > 0:13:37Pocket money later. You,
0:13:37 > 0:13:40wipe that look off your face. And you...
0:13:44 > 0:13:46..deal with it!
0:13:46 > 0:13:50TRANSMISSION SIGNAL FLICKERS
0:13:50 > 0:13:53Yours too?
0:13:53 > 0:13:56Someone's definitely scrambling communications.
0:13:58 > 0:14:00Hey.
0:14:01 > 0:14:05- What's the matter with you? - What's the matter with me?
0:14:05 > 0:14:07Have you guys looked in the mirror?
0:14:07 > 0:14:09Hey! Forgetaboutit.
0:14:09 > 0:14:12- Forgetaboutit?- Forgetaboutit.
0:14:12 > 0:14:15It's your lucky day.
0:14:18 > 0:14:22- You'll never guess what I just saw. - Whoa! Not too close, nit boy!
0:14:22 > 0:14:24Stewart, acting like a...
0:14:26 > 0:14:28Hey, Gringo!
0:14:28 > 0:14:33No-one taps that shoulder but me, El Templeman.
0:14:33 > 0:14:38- Lady, I've worked out what I want to do with my life.- That is good!
0:14:38 > 0:14:43Now go tell someone who gives a pinata.
0:14:43 > 0:14:46But I'm going to be a cat burglar!
0:14:46 > 0:14:48Fajita!
0:14:48 > 0:14:52Although I'm not quite sure why I'd want to steal cats.
0:14:52 > 0:14:57Is it me, or is everyone with nits acting really weird?
0:14:57 > 0:15:01Yeah, but Blane's got nits and he's not.
0:15:01 > 0:15:03Well, no more than normal.
0:15:03 > 0:15:06Team!
0:15:06 > 0:15:09Over here!
0:15:09 > 0:15:11MANIC LAUGHTER
0:15:14 > 0:15:16Sir?
0:15:16 > 0:15:17Are you OK, sir?
0:15:17 > 0:15:21What have I told you about calling me sir?
0:15:21 > 0:15:23Call me...
0:15:23 > 0:15:24the Headmaster.
0:15:26 > 0:15:28Now...homework.
0:15:28 > 0:15:32Tonight you will read The Hound Of The Baskervilles
0:15:32 > 0:15:35in its entirety.
0:15:35 > 0:15:39Oh, yes, Flipsy - all 700 pages.
0:15:49 > 0:15:52That time I met him, it's just how the Grandmaster spoke.
0:15:52 > 0:15:55This proves one thing. SKUL are behind the communication breakdown.
0:15:55 > 0:15:58- They've infiltrated the school? - And are making everyone act
0:15:58 > 0:15:59like freaks somehow.
0:16:10 > 0:16:13Argh!
0:16:13 > 0:16:16- I need to follow him. - Don't worry, we'll get on to it.
0:16:24 > 0:16:26PHONE BEEPS
0:16:26 > 0:16:32So, kids everywhere have been turned into criminals.
0:16:32 > 0:16:37- 'What now?'- In each infected school, the nits will lead the infested
0:16:37 > 0:16:42children to the assembly halls for your mission briefing.
0:16:42 > 0:16:44BEEPING
0:16:52 > 0:16:55Let's get closer.
0:16:55 > 0:16:56To them!
0:17:10 > 0:17:15With your help, my dear, he won't be in charge much longer.
0:17:18 > 0:17:22I've been looking for weak minds in schools all over Britain.
0:17:22 > 0:17:25St Hope's was a goldmine.
0:17:27 > 0:17:31Now this buffoon is about to give you a mission.
0:17:31 > 0:17:35Succeed, and afterwards we can overthrow him.
0:17:35 > 0:17:38Say, "Yes, Grandmistress!"
0:17:38 > 0:17:40- ALL:- Yes, Grandmistress!
0:17:40 > 0:17:43Now listen carefully.
0:17:45 > 0:17:47'Congratulations.
0:17:47 > 0:17:52'You are now SKUL's newest recruits.
0:17:52 > 0:17:54'Your mission -
0:17:54 > 0:17:59'the biggest bank robbery in history.
0:17:59 > 0:18:02'At the same time as you rob a bank,
0:18:02 > 0:18:08'fellow SKUL agents will be doing the same across Britain.
0:18:08 > 0:18:14'I wish you good luck in the most audacious bank raid ever...'
0:18:14 > 0:18:17- The Grandmaster!- Nitty Nora works for SKUL?!- Why can't I have a look?
0:18:17 > 0:18:20Cos your nit-ridden bonce is coming nowhere near!
0:18:20 > 0:18:23THUD!
0:18:26 > 0:18:29If I find 'em, I'll crush 'em.
0:18:42 > 0:18:46Yeah, this is so much better than having nits.
0:18:46 > 0:18:49Lenny? Lenny, come in!
0:18:49 > 0:18:53Maybe they're carrying whatever's been scrambling communications.
0:19:03 > 0:19:05Nothing. Just wire cutters.
0:19:07 > 0:19:13Must have been...children playing.
0:19:13 > 0:19:17Let's vamoose, amigos!
0:19:17 > 0:19:19Come along, Flipsy.
0:19:23 > 0:19:27OK, so if they're off to rob a bank,
0:19:27 > 0:19:31the nearest one to us is... the Bank of Britain!
0:19:31 > 0:19:33You two follow them, I'll go back to HQ.
0:19:33 > 0:19:37How come I have to go with nit-brain?!
0:19:37 > 0:19:39I've got to figure out what SKUL's done to everyone.
0:19:39 > 0:19:41We must've missed something.
0:19:41 > 0:19:44- Unless you want to extrapolate the skeletal data...- OK!
0:19:44 > 0:19:45We're going!
0:20:15 > 0:20:19So, the Nano-Nits took out the security systems.
0:20:19 > 0:20:21But how are they gonna take out that?
0:20:24 > 0:20:26Manual door lock. Cutting edge.
0:20:26 > 0:20:28But hey,
0:20:28 > 0:20:30so are these babies.
0:20:30 > 0:20:34SKUL are robbing all major UK banks as we speak.
0:20:34 > 0:20:38- Can anybody respond? - Email, phones, even the emergency
0:20:38 > 0:20:39networks have been scrambled.
0:20:39 > 0:20:42There must be something we've missed.
0:20:49 > 0:20:51EVIL LAUGH
0:20:53 > 0:20:56Hey, amigos. Let's get to work.
0:20:58 > 0:21:00Look!
0:21:00 > 0:21:04The x-ray we took of Stewart. If I zoom in close...
0:21:04 > 0:21:06His head's covered in...
0:21:06 > 0:21:09What is it covered in?
0:21:09 > 0:21:10They're mechanical.
0:21:10 > 0:21:13They look like nano-bots.
0:21:13 > 0:21:16That nit nurse must have infected kids with Nano-Nits,
0:21:16 > 0:21:20- which turn them into criminals somehow.- A personality transfer?
0:21:20 > 0:21:23SKUL could then control kids all over Britain to rob the banks.
0:21:28 > 0:21:31He's sedated like the others.
0:21:31 > 0:21:34I'm gonna try and call for back-up again.
0:21:37 > 0:21:40There's huge signals coming from ten banks across Britain,
0:21:40 > 0:21:44all leading back to a central source. The data's being scrambled.
0:21:44 > 0:21:47But it's somewhere here, in the school.
0:21:49 > 0:21:51Lenny? Where are you going?
0:21:51 > 0:21:53Daisy and Blane may be in trouble.
0:21:53 > 0:21:55I've got to find that control source.
0:22:01 > 0:22:06It's no use. I can't get in contact with anyone. Here.
0:22:06 > 0:22:09So they don't recognise us.
0:22:09 > 0:22:11Splendid.
0:22:11 > 0:22:13At last, Flipsy,
0:22:13 > 0:22:18SKUL's finest hour is upon us.
0:22:18 > 0:22:21Problem is, so is MI9.
0:22:24 > 0:22:26One of us needs to go and get help.
0:22:26 > 0:22:28I'll stay. I never get to hang out with Stew these days.
0:22:28 > 0:22:30I'll be quick, I promise.
0:22:41 > 0:22:47Rose, the source of the signal, what kind of thing am I looking for?
0:22:47 > 0:22:49SIGNAL FADES
0:22:54 > 0:22:59Ew! Smells like Blane's nit cream.
0:22:59 > 0:23:04'Kids will be raiding banks right across Britain.'
0:23:04 > 0:23:08100 SKUL agents at my command.
0:23:08 > 0:23:12'Yes, at your... What?!'
0:23:12 > 0:23:14Once the raids are complete,
0:23:14 > 0:23:18I will be taking over command of SKUL.
0:23:18 > 0:23:20'You?
0:23:20 > 0:23:23- 'This is an outrage!'- Idiot!
0:23:25 > 0:23:28A megalomaniac AND you stink of nit cream.
0:23:32 > 0:23:35So you don't like nits?
0:23:35 > 0:23:37That is a shame.
0:23:42 > 0:23:45- That is gross!- It's the mother nit,
0:23:45 > 0:23:48where all the other Nano-Nits are being controlled from.
0:23:57 > 0:24:00Why don't you take a closer look?
0:24:07 > 0:24:10I hate nits!
0:24:19 > 0:24:20Daisy!
0:24:25 > 0:24:27Get away from him, you witch!
0:24:35 > 0:24:39MI9 is so getting my resignation!
0:24:41 > 0:24:46Looks like you're the victim of bully-on!
0:25:06 > 0:25:10Time to see if you're ugly as well as stupid.
0:25:12 > 0:25:14That one's for Blane.
0:25:14 > 0:25:16That one's for Rose. That one's for Lenny.
0:25:16 > 0:25:18And that one's...
0:25:18 > 0:25:21just cos you're a nit.
0:25:24 > 0:25:26Oh!
0:25:26 > 0:25:28Oh!
0:25:38 > 0:25:42Er, where am I?
0:25:42 > 0:25:45Well, I'm guessing it's not double maths.
0:25:45 > 0:25:48OK, bit freaked out here.
0:25:48 > 0:25:50What are we doing in a bank vault?
0:25:50 > 0:25:52Why am I in a suit?
0:25:52 > 0:25:54Fashion nightmare!
0:25:57 > 0:25:59It's all right.
0:25:59 > 0:26:01You've all been part of a government mind control experiment.
0:26:01 > 0:26:03I bet this is your fault, Critchley, for reading
0:26:03 > 0:26:07- that stupid Conspiracy magazine! - That's rich,
0:26:07 > 0:26:09coming from someone wearing tights.
0:26:09 > 0:26:12Nice one!
0:26:12 > 0:26:17I mean... Come on, let's get back to St Hope's. Come on, let's go!
0:26:20 > 0:26:24Ma'am, send police officers to every major bank in the country.
0:26:24 > 0:26:26SKUL have been...
0:26:30 > 0:26:33I may have a dodgy hip,
0:26:33 > 0:26:35but I'm not totally useless.
0:26:37 > 0:26:39So Braithwaite started the whole nit epidemic
0:26:39 > 0:26:41just so she could spread her nano-bots.
0:26:41 > 0:26:44And they didn't haven't any effect on Blane,
0:26:44 > 0:26:46cos he's actually quite strong-willed.
0:26:46 > 0:26:48It is the mark of a ninja.
0:26:48 > 0:26:52Yeah, but you also managed to give me the real nits,
0:26:52 > 0:26:53which is the mark of an idiot!
0:26:53 > 0:26:56Anyway, Rose was right, nits do prefer clean hair.
0:26:56 > 0:26:59And only another four months of treatment to go.
0:27:03 > 0:27:08So, you thought you could overthrow me?
0:27:08 > 0:27:14Alas, Ms Braithwaite, SKUL is not for the taking.
0:27:14 > 0:27:17And since you also ruined my bank raids,
0:27:17 > 0:27:20you must now pay the price of failure!
0:27:22 > 0:27:25HE LAUGHS EVILLY THEN CLEARS HIS THROAT
0:27:25 > 0:27:32I know it's sad, Flopsy, but she made me so angry.
0:27:34 > 0:27:37'Ere, 50, what's that crawling on your head?
0:27:41 > 0:27:44It's so cool. Whatever the government did to us.
0:27:44 > 0:27:46What, in this mind control experiment?
0:27:46 > 0:27:50- It's like, now I've got a mind of my own.- That's what I said!
0:27:50 > 0:27:53Pity you couldn't have been there. You miss all the cool stuff.