The First to Crack M.I. High

Gentlemen, what my team has created is the ultimate antidote.

Just one drop will make agents immune

to the most deadly poison on the planet.

How do we know it works?

Because we've tested it on the most deadly poison on the planet.

It's OK, relax. It's only poisonous if exposed to air.

Which is why you'll be keeping it in this specially designed holding safe.

CRASH!

Careful! Smash that and you kill everything in a ten mile radius!

So, any ques...?

Hands in the air. Now!

Stop peeking!

ALARM SOUNDS

The 21st century faces a new kind of threat.

Old school spies have had their day

and MI9 must create a new breed of skilled undercover agent.

Hidden in a place no villain will think to look.

Welcome to M.I. High.

You may have thought more traditional toys were dead.

But recently the entire world has been gripped by this,

Pendrix Puzzle mania!

The puzzle is the latest from toymaker Quillian Pendrix.

A strong opponent of the computer game.

'This is Sarah Kapalski for Top Talk London.'

Oh, this thing is driving me nuts!

Anyone up for some one on one?

No?

Seriously?

Whatever.

Must admit, collected all of the Pendrix puzzles over the years,

not that I've ever finished one.

Can't even get one side to match.

Mrs King says I'm stupid for even trying.

I'm used to her insults, it's just the way she says it, it's like...

-My word, you're stupid!

-Exactly.

These blooming puzzles. I can't get anyone to concentrate on anything.

-Sorry, what was that?

-Hmm?

I'm on fire, I haven't missed a basket the entire day.

OK, I bet you can't get this in Stark's coffee.

Quick, while he's not looking.

Oh! Arh!

LAUGHTER

Nice one!

Agent Stewart, I might have known.

Uh, sir, can I have my ball back, please?

Argh!

It's all one big game to you, isn't it, Stewart?!

Remind me again why you're on this team? Huh?

-Excuse me, but Carrie's physical skills...

-Her physical skills

are the least you'd expect from an agent. I don't understand

how they let anybody with a brain, not even this big,

anywhere near MI9!

Agent Stewart happens to be an important member of my team.

Now, if we can get on.

Thanks.

Team, one month ago a safe was stolen from MI9.

That safe contains the most deadly poison on the planet.

Is that you asleep on the job, sir?

No. I was zapped unconscious during the raid.

Oh, right. Cos that's far less embarrassing.

For the past month Chief Agent Stark's team

have been trying to find the safe, but they've drawn a complete blank.

While the safe is impenetrable,

it's only a matter of time before the thieves break into it.

Your first job is to check the laboratory for clues. Please.

We need that poison. With it, you could hold the world to ransom.

Are you sure about this?

We've been trying to open that thing for a month.

Now get ready.

I'll tell the boss. His plan had better work.

Hey, look what I found!

Yeah, it's this guy. Ripped his boiler suit. It's standard issue.

So, it's no use then?

-Sorry.

-Wait, you missed something.

CJ1. It must have ripped right down to his boxer shorts.

-Now that's a clue. CJ1's are well expensive.

-So?

So, only a few shops sell them.

It means we can find out who's bought CJ1 boxer shorts recently.

Great. Can I miss anything else?

-I didn't mean to!

-It's an acidic reaction!

-Quick, get some chloride.

-What can I do?

Out of the way.

It's OK, we neutralised it.

I could have killed us all.

CHATTERING

All right, settle down, everyone. Quiet, please.

-Thank you. From now on, Mrs King thinks...

-Ahem!

WE think that all Pendrix puzzles should be banned from school.

What?!

So, puzzles away and, Avril, turn that telly off now!

'You join me here live at the factory of Quillian Pendrix,

'where he's about to launch...'

-Wait!

-'..the biggest competition in history.'

-Don't touch it.

-'Here comes Mr Pendrix now.'

Ladies and gentlemen. I have a dream that one day every child

will hold aloft their computer console and throw it into oblivion!

CRASH! MEOW!

As such, I'm here to announce that the first five people

to successfully solve the Pendrix Puzzle will be invited on...

wait for it!

A tour of my very own puzzle factory.

Hah, a tour! Of the puzzle factory!

'They will also have the chance to win an amazing mystery prize.'

No, it's not a car, or a holiday. Just to be clear on that.

And I thought you were an idiot.

So, now there's a buzz...

..go and get puzz-ling!

'You know, go and get on with it.'

Excuse me. Excuse me!

The headmaster told you that those puzzles are banned!

Is anybody listening to me?

I'll show her who's an idiot.

Right, there you go, guys.

Oh, I'm sorry!

-I'll get it!

-Don't worry, I'll do it. I'll do it.

Check this. Names of everyone who's bought CJ1 boxer shorts

in the last six months.

Rose?

I've just noticed, this mirror. Enhance 224 to 176.

Must have been standing right under the camera.

Enhance 34 to 36.

Stop. Enhance.

Reverse image.

P-E-N-D.

-What is that?

-I don't know.

But this guy's got the same pen. Let me try something.

There! Damon Travers. Works for Pendrix Puzzles Ltd.

So whoever these guys are, you think they work for Pendrix?

'Just hours after the competition began, you join me live in Moscow.'

Everyone, I give you Alenka Yurkovich.

The first person in the world to solve the Pendrix Puzzle!

Ha-ha!

But how? How?!

-Working hard, Mr Flatley?

-Yes, I'm...

just finishing the attendance register.

David Price is late again.

Frank.

SMASH!

Taking it apart is so cheating.

I wasn't going to make out I'd solved it.

I promise.

Any news?

Yeah, they've got a lead on whoever stole the safe.

Yeah, we reckon they work for Quillian Pendrix.

Pendrix?!

That's weird. Look at the mechanism.

I'm looking.

OK, watch this.

Here's the schematics of the safe that was stolen. Check out the lock.

Now, compare it to the mechanism inside the puzzle.

It looks kind of similar.

It's like the puzzle's a simple version of the lock.

If you can crack the puzzle then you might be able to crack the lock.

Check this out. Two more children solve Pendrix Puzzle.

Hans Gruber and Mia Takahashi.

What if Pendrix designed the puzzle to find someone to crack the safe?

It would explain why he's inviting people to his factory.

If you're right, he'd be exposing these kids

to the world's most deadly poison. What do you think, Carrie?

Does it matter? I haven't done anything on this mission.

Well, apart from nearly kill everyone.

Hey. we're a team, remember?

Yeah, and you can be the one that tells Stark about Pendrix.

Can't wait to see his face.

Pants?! You want to arrest Hendrix based on a pair of underpants?!

Yeah, well, one of the men who stole the safe bought a pair of CJ boxers.

Oh, really? Frank, who bought your underpants?

-Uh, well, m-m-my mumma did. They were a Christmas present.

-Thank you.

No man buys his own pants. What makes you think this guy did?

-Well, because he had a Pendrix pen in his pocket.

-Ah!

So have I!

And I've got CJ1s!

No, wait a minute, but...

B-b-b...maybe I stole the safe! Or maybe your entire case is pants.

Look, all we need is a warrant to search Pendrix's factory, OK?

Before some innocent kid opens that safe.

They could end up handling a poison that could wipe out a city.

I need more evidence.

We haven't got time for...

Get me evidence, then you get a warrant. Frank, get out of here.

Guys, it's my fault. I should have explained it better.

It's not your fault, Stark's a moron.

Though how do we get inside the factory now?

'News just in, the fourth person to have cracked the Pendrix Puzzle'

has just been named as Bud Denver from America!

Which means there's just one place left on the Pendrix factory tour.

Come on. You heard her, there's only one place left.

Then we'll work through the night.

Rose, if anyone can crack this thing, you can.

Bye, Mrs King.

Go and get my sample.

Rose, get on those computers, do some calculations,

we need to go and fast, fast, fast! Move, come on!

MUSIC PLAYS

Right.

MUSIC PLAYS

MUSIC PLAYS

What do you think, girls?

Morning.

Rose, are you OK?

Are you OK?

Rose.

-Rose?

-I can't believe it.

Don't believe what?

I don't believe... I've done it.

-Rose, you genius!

-I finished! I actually did it!

Look at it.

TV: 'That's right, the big news this morning is that the fifth

'and final person to have cracked the Pendrix has just been found,

'and I'm here with the man himself, Kenneth Flatley.'

ALL: Mr Flatley?!

So, Kenneth, what was it like the moment you solved

one of the most difficult puzzles in history?

Oh, no, no, no. That would make me one of the cleverest people

in the world! Ever!

No, but it was about five o'clock this morning, I think, when I...

Let me through! Excuse me!

Mr Flatley, what on earth is going here?

Mrs King, please, if you don't mind,

I think you'll find you're in my shot.

Any idiot knows that.

Now we're never going to get into the factory.

If I can just stop you there,

we are now going live to the Pendrix puzzle factory.

Today is a sad day.

A solemn day... A...A Wednesday.

Because today, I discovered that Budd "The Cheat" Denver

took my puzzle apart, the cheat,

and then glued it back together,

like a cheat!

OW!

Well, incredible scenes there as it seems there's one place left

on the Pendrix factory tour.

So, who wants to be on telly?

So, here we are, folks. The big day at last.

Nice to see you again, Hans, Alenka, Mia...

Kenneth and, of course, our final winner, Rose.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

So, what, no parents, you two?

Er, her mum couldn't get time off work.

-Yeah, and his mum thinks you're an idiot.

-Timothy, please!

What? It's what you said, bro. Scoop Doggy.

School's most improved student.

Yes, Timothy's grades have gone from abysmal to appalling.

-That's quite a leap.

-Right, well then. If everyone's ready,

See ya! Wouldn't want to be ya.

REPORTERS: Mr Pendrix! Mr Pendrix! A quick word!

SCANNER BEEPS

Uh-oh, bug scans. Ditch comms.

SCANNER BEEPS

Come on, Timothy.

SCANNER BEEPS

No cameras. Boss's orders.

HE WHISTLES

He didn't say anything about chocolate.

SCUFFLING

Now then, before the big... Whoa, whoa, whoa!

Almost forgot.

ALARM BLARES

-Can't you switch it off?

-It has to switched off the other end.

ALARM STOPS

A bit of a pain, but at least it stops you sleep-walking.

This way, morons. Sorry, visitors.

Oh, look!

-Be careful!

-No sign of the big mystery prize.

Oi, Pendrix, you promised my man a prize. Where is it?

The key to the prize... is right here.

Everyone say hello to the greatest puzzle I've ever invented.

-The lock for the safe.

-Come on.

The first one to crack it wins...ooh, an amazing prize.

Love the chocolate scanner.

-Who wants to go first?

-Oh, let me, let me!

-Not you.

Ah, Mia. You've been giving it all that.

Let's see how good you really are.

Must be a false wall. The rest of the safe's behind it,

-and the poison.

-So, what do we do? Those guys have stun gloves.

We've got the evidence we need.

Let's get back-up in to secure the poison.

They've got to believe us now.

So, guys, just how proud are you of Rose and Mr Flatley?

THEY CHEER AND SCREAM

Imbeciles. Talking of which, we had a deal.

You deliver the poison, I give you the virus.

-You stole that safe over a month ago.

-I know,

but the kids are about to open it any minute now, sir, I promise.

I want that poison,

or that safe won't be the only thing that gets cracked.

Mr Pendrix, Mr Pendrix, Hans couldn't do the puzzle after all.

What?! I don't get it! If he can crack this,

how come he can't crack that?!

Now's your chance, go.

Rose, Rose! Guess what. Alenka can't do the puzzle either,

-which means we get a go!

-Actually, I wasn't feeling too well.

I'm just going to go outside for some fresh air.

What, and miss my Kenny's big moment? Stand aside, people,

there's a genius coming through.

If I pretend I can't open the safe either,

Pendrix has to let us out, right?

SAFE LOCK CLICKS

HE CHUCKLES

COGS WHIRR

I don't believe it! They don't call me Fingers Flatley for nothing.

You're kidding me.

HE GASPS

-Is that my prize?

-Don't touch that!

I mean, no. It's just a thing, inside a thing

-surrounded by another thing...

-What? W-Where's the prize? Is there one?

Of course there's a prize! Duh! If you'd all just like to follow me,

we'll find out exactly what that prize is.

I bet it's a year's supply of chocolate.

MR FLATLEY GIGGLES

Wasn't that Willy Wonka?

Let's get this thing out of here, quick.

Erm, guys, wait. It's been activated.

Yeah, by the switch at the other end.

-Carrie, please tell me you've got that bouncy ball.

-Yes!

You threw in Stark's coffee. That was a much smaller target.

What, you want me to throw it at the switch?

-Are you nuts?!

-You had faith in me, remember? Now it's my turn.

-You see, I told you I'm useless.

-Come on, you're not... Uh-oh.

-This doesn't look good.

-ALARM BLARES

-A book?

-A signed autobiography.

-My Kenneth spent hours...

-Days!

-..months doing your puzzle,

and all you give him is some stupid... Argh!

ALARM BLARES

I can't take any more!

It's technical.

There they are! Get them!

We can't let them get the poison!

BANGING ON DOOR

Quick, find another way out!

It's locked.

SHE SCREAMS

Well, well, well.

Try and puzzle your way out of this one.

So how much are SKUL paying you for the poison?

All I'm getting out of this is a computer virus,

one that will destroy every games console on the planet.

Pendrix - one. Spotty computer nerds - nil.

-You want to wipe out computer games?

-Why not?

They tried to wipe out my puzzles.

You're giving SKUL the most dangerous poison on the planet!

-They'll hold the world to ransom.

-The only thing stopping us,

is you three.

-Get back, Pendrix. I mean it! One more step and I'll...

-You'll what?

Drop that and you'll kill everything within ten miles of here.

I said, stay back.

Hello, is anyone out there?

Don't worry, I'm sure they'll be back soon.

Besides, who's ready for chapter ten?

ALL YELL AT ONCE

Think about it. Three men on guard...

make that four men,

albeit one in his underpants,

and you're holding one of the most deadly chemicals known to mankind.

Carrie, take it. I'm going to drop it, I know I am.

No, no, I can't do it.

E-Everything I've touched lately, I've either dropped,

-or broken, or smashed...

-You're having a bad day, we all have them.

-You do it then!

-No. You can do this. It's what you're good at.

Carrie, I can't hold it any longer.

Look, I can't do it, OK. So just leave me alone.

-Rose, take it, please.

-Maybe you should just put it down.

-I'm trying, but it's like I'm frozen.

-The nerves, you see.

-The more you panic... Whoa!

-Oscar, come on, just put it down.

-I haven't got time for this.

-Oscar!

Carrie, no. Tell me you're not going to do something stupid.

-You said you had faith in me.

-I know but...

-Yeah, well...

-it's time I had faith in myself.

-ROSE AND OSCAR: Carrie!

What? You didn't think I was going to drop it, did you?

Wait, wait, wait! There's cameras outside.

Besides...

two spies are worth a lot these days.

Carrie! Carrie, what's going on? Whoa! The poison.

Crikey.

The Grand Master has agreed to buy the pair of you. Oh, yeah,

-every visitor gets a free pen. Yay(!)

-Not so fast, Pendrix!

But at least you haven't been caught with your pants down.

Oh.

Right. That's everything. I'll take this back to MI9.

-Sir, are you forgetting something?

-Like what?

Er, like an apology, that we were right about Pendrix and the pants.

Right. Y-Y-Yea...

There's a chance that given the er...given the, given the outcome...

that possibly you...

AGENTS LAUGH

Argh!

THEY LAUGH

Looks like I'm back in the room. Oh, yeah!

SHE GIGGLES

Oh, no.

So, Mr Flatley, you knew Pendrix was up to no good all along?

Oh, the minute I opened the safe and saw the poison.

That's when I hid everyone in his office for safety.

And, Mrs King, could you tell us what it's like

working under not just a puzzling genius,

but a master crime fighter as well?

-I think that means she's very proud.

-MR FLATLEY CHUCKLES