The Final Endgame M.I. High

Mr Flatley was Regional Morris Dancing Champion.

THEY LAUGH

Red, green, blue, yellow, green. Red...

-They're laughing at each other's jokes like idiots.

-Shhhh.

I'm in deadly combat with the Booger.

-You get weirder, you know that?

-He's some online geek.

He claims to be "the greatest player in the galaxy!"

So he's probably a ten-year-old nerd from Leeds.

This is one of his games.

He calls it "Final Endgame". He says it takes a week to play.

I've been playing for four minutes and...

the Galaxy has a new champion!

I get about 10 of these challenges a day.

Shouldn't you be doing something more constructive?!

It's a quiet day. Even KORPS seem to have taken the day off.

KORPS never take the day off! If they seem quiet,

it's because you haven't worked out what they're up to.

80 DNA matches. It's not possible.

ALARM BLARES

HE GASPS

MARCUS GASPS AND COUGHS Marcus! Are you OK?!

Oh, no, Marcus! What's happened to you?!

HE GASPS AND GROANS

MAIN ALARM BLARES

Crime Minister, this is Nick Tesla

at the STERNUM Heavy Extranium Reactor Plant.

We have a serious containment breach!

I don't know how much longer...

Master, our plans are coming together. It won't be long now.

Begin preparations for the Final Endgame!

EVIL LAUGH

The 21st century faces a new kind of threat

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

Hidden in a place no villain will think to look,

welcome to MI High.

Earlier today, MI9 tech saw a spike in the Kappa radiation levels.

Untraceable and brief. Possibly a false reading,

we nevertheless have to investigate because...

Kappa radiation is a by-product of a Heavy Extranium reactor.

-Exactly.

-But nobody would be crazy enough to actually build one.

I mean even small quantities of Kappa radiation could damage

the fabric of time and space.

KORPS' scientific wing, STERNUM,

were developing just such a device ten years ago

under their Scientist General, Dr Steinberg.

-The same Steinberg KORPS demanded we release a while back?

-Yes.

Sounds like they're trying to build another reactor.

We should talk to Dr Steinberg. Can I go?!

-Please, let me go.

-What's got you all excited?

-Are you kidding?!

He invented the Odysseus Robot. He's a scientific genius!

-Yeah, an EVIL scientific genius, Tom.

-Hey, nobody's perfect!

Of course the original idea for the Odysseus

was to create a robot using only recycled components.

So you created an android using tin cans and mobile phones.

-That's brilliant!

-You're too kind.

-Tell me, where did you come across one?

-It tried to kill us.

The uses KORPS put my inventions to...

I'll carry the shame for the rest of my life.

Please, believe me when I say

I rarely knew the purpose of the projects I was working on.

Oh, please! Why invent stuff when you don't know

exactly what it's going to be used for?

We think they're trying to build another Heavy Extranium reactor.

Then they'll do it without me! I won't be manipulated again!

Shame you didn't feel that way when you built your Doomsday Reactor!

-Dan. You're not helping.

-It was a terrible mistake.

When I realised what it was capable of,

I shut it down and destroyed all the plans.

That's what I was doing when I was arrested by MI9.

Was there anyone on your team that could have built one without you?

No. Well...there was one young man with promise.

He split an atom using only a Rubik's Cube, a digital watch

and a magnifying glass. A first-class mind.

Nick Tesla. It's like he vanished.

The evil old man's info turned out to be useless. What a surprise(!)

We don't know he's evil.

I thought after your sister, you'd be less quick to trust people.

Something wasn't right. Just can't put my finger on it.

At 21, Tesla was a successful scientist,

then two years ago, he disappears.

The usual search protocols can't find a thing.

-What about family members?

-Searching now...

No sign of Nick Tesla, but his grandad, Herbert,

just got checked into an old people's home.

I feel another school trip coming on.

This is most strange...

Look, we have all the paperwork for the school trip.

I understood it was a community scheme

to build bridges between the young and the old.

Never heard of it. Clear off.

-Now, I don't want to be rude...

-Then let me handle it. Ah, flunky!

School trip in triplicate. Old people's home?

It's more like a prison. Grrr!

No, I'm not your brother, Harry. My name's Kenneth.

Oh, that's a shame, because I had something I wanted to give Harry.

Oh, maybe I could pass it on to him.

Would you, dear? It's very important.

I imagine it's a rather valuable family heirloom.

Yes, well, I'm sure it has sentimental value.

-You can count on me.

-Sorry, miss.

I wish I COULD help you, but I haven't seen Nick in years.

-OK, visit's over! Everyone out!

-What?! 15 minutes?!

-What kind of a visit is that?!

-The only kind you're getting. Out!

Right, you heard the man! Out!

Come on!

You know, I miss the time I spent with Nicky.

Always used to slip a fiver in his pocket when he left.

Always worth checking your pockets,

you never know what you might find there.

Out!

-Bye, Harry!

-It's Kenneth.

-Bye-bye!

He didn't know where Nick is.

I tried to push him, but all he did was keep telling me

a story about Nick checking his pockets when... Oh, that's it!

-Do you think maybe I should...

-Oh, come on,

there can't be security measures on the...

HE GROANS

Maybe we should let Tom?

Do it.

SCANNER BEEPS, LOCK CLICKS

OK, who's going in...first?

HE SNORES

Shhh!

Thought I'd see you lot again. MI9?

-Eh? Right. Let's wake up the others.

-Others?

-We're all prisoners here.

You get us all out and I'll tell you where Nick Tesla is.

We're taking everyone.

-How many more after this one?

-Just these two.

-Three. Beryl's back.

-Beryl, stop wandering off!

-Visiting hours are over!

-Aneisha, Tom, get the rest out the back.

We'll deal with these.

Are we going to the seaside?

We haven't been on an outing before!

We kept our end of the bargain, now tell us where Nick Tesla is.

-He's right here. I'm Nick Tesla.

-You can't be! You must be 60!

On my next birthday, I'll be 25 years old.

There was an accident at the reactor.

Kappa Radiation leaked out

and aged the whole scientific team 50 years in an instant.

Forgive me for doubting you, Mr Tesla,

but we just broke you out of an old people's home.

It isn't an old folks' home, this is a STERNUM prison.

They keep us here locked up and registered as our own grandparents.

You want proof, don't you?

Well, I know the location of the Heavy Extranium Reactor.

Nick Tesla's information checks out. We know where the reactor is.

All the scientists are at the STERNUM prison.

They've been held there to keep them quiet since the accident.

Some of them tried to escape, but were too old.

One old lady stole a tiny amount of Extranium from the reactor

to try and get it to us.

But just being near it meant she carried on ageing.

She doesn't even know what she did with it.

You're 15 minutes late for your lesson, Mr Flatley.

Your class are climbing the walls.

-Oh, I'm so sorry, Mr Mac, erm... Mr...

-McNab!

-Must have just slipped my mind.

-You're meant to be the headmaster!

Look, if you're not up to the job then just retire,

-let someone else do it.

-I'm far too young to retire!

That'll explain all the grey hairs and the wrinkles then.

I'm confiscating this. You can have it back at break.

Huh! Grey hairs and wrinkles?

Oh, dear. Must get some new glasses.

A full assault makes sense, Frank.

If the reactor melts down, it'll destroy half of Europe.

Last time we launched a ground assault against KORPS

-we lost everyone!

-That was ten years ago, Frank!

History doesn't repeat itself.

-Yet here we are fighting KORPS again.

-What do you suggest?

Send in my team, covertly, to shut the reactor down first.

You can follow us in with the troops once we've neutralised the threat.

But they're young, new, inexperienced.

-Are they ready for something like this?

-She knows we're here, right?

I'm leading them myself.

And there's no-one else I'd want to have my back.

It's great to have you on board, Frank,

but we've still got a big problem.

Yeah. None of us knows how to shut down a Heavy Extranium reactor.

-Nick Tesla?

-He knows how to build one.

STERNUM never bothered to work out how to shut it down.

There is someone who knows how to shut one down. Steinberg.

Tom, he was the Scientist General of STERNUM! We can't trust him.

At present, Steinberg's our only option.

Let's go and see if he'll co-operate.

So, everybody,

what were the origins of these events?

Huh?

What was I saying again? BELL RINGS

So, are there any questions? Huh?

Where did everybody go?

I'm sorry, Mr McNab,

I'm trying to find the rightful owner of the, erm...

-What?

-Don't know. Seem to have forgotten.

Just so tired, these days.

HE GROANS

-What's going on?

-Dr Steinberg, how would you like the chance

-to make up for some of the things you've done?

-I'd do anything.

OK. Let's go.

Sorry about this, Dr Steinberg, you're still technically a prisoner.

Totally understood.

Tom, do your worst.

OK, looks like I can override all the core security systems from here.

-It'll take a few minutes.

-Zoe, get down to the core

and help Dr Steinberg shut it down. Dan, Aneisha, go with them.

Guard the core entrance, stay clear of any KORPS soldiers

and buy Zoe some time if there's any trouble.

Frank, you're looking a bit older.

It's a reaction to the Heavy Extranium.

The core must be melting faster than we thought.

-How come we're all unaffected?

-You're not.

It just has a slower effect on the biochemistry of the young.

-On the bright side, Frank, free bus travel.

-Good luck.

First, containment suits for safety.

It'll stop the radiation ageing us.

We can't get the suits on if we're handcuffed!

We've got to trust him, Zoe. We've no other choice.

Thank you.

-FRANK ON THE RADIO:

-'Stella and the troops will be about 10 minutes,

-'what's your progress?'

-We've avoided detection so far.

Zoe and Steinberg are at the control room now.

'OK, we're on our way to the core.'

Dr Steinberg,

can you shut down the reactor to stop it ageing everybody?

Now, let me see.

Sorry about Dan. He's normally really nice.

Oh, I don't blame him for not trusting me.

I have, after all, been lying to you the entire time.

I don't understand!

SHE SCREAMS

HE LAUGHS EVILLY

A 1,000% increase in the rate of meltdown

ought to keep your friends busy.

ALARM BLARES

Shall we go?

When the sleeping gas wears off, we have big plans for you.

-No, no, no, no! Zoe!

-Dan, Aneisha, get here, something's wrong.

-What's Steinberg doing?

-He's gone. Zoe too.

-What? How?

-I don't know, there must be another way out.

-I've got to get her back!

Dan, we've got about five minutes before the core explodes

-and Western Europe dies instantly of old age.

-But...

-Focus!

We have to shut the reactor down first!

That's the problem, Frank. We can't.

The processes are almost infinitely complex.

I mean, have you seen the control boards in there?

-There must be something!

-No, Steinberg is the only one.

-Hang on.

-I've seen those sequences before.

-Yeah, me too...

-It's the Booger's Final Endgame.

-What are you talking about?

-It's the game I was playing online, I can shut it down, but...

-But what?

It's so much bigger.

There are two consoles and I can't operate them both.

I need someone to come in and help me,

but there's only one containment suit left.

Whoever goes in will be dead in minutes.

Well, if one of us doesn't make the sacrifice now,

we'll all be dead anyway!

-How do we decide who goes in?

-Team. It's been an honour.

Frank! No!

-What do we do?

-What we always do - we save the world.

Now help me get this on. It'll stop me ageing in the core.

EXPLOSION

GUARD: MI9! Nobody move!

Stella.

Everyone! On the floor now!

Secure the area! Rendezvous at the core.

Frank?

-Frank, are you OK?

-We haven't got time for that, Tom.

-Where do we start?

-OK, the large panel.

-COMPUTER:

-Core meltdown in three minutes.

I need you to touch alternately red, green, blue, yellow, green.

I'll do the same in my console,

but we have to hit them in the right order.

Have you got that, Frank?

I'm old, I'm not stupid.

Red, green, blue,

-yellow, green.

-HE GASPS

-Go.

-What?

Find her. MI9 Special Forces will be here soon. I'll be fine.

-Situation report?

-Zoe and Steinberg are missing.

Dan's gone to find them.

Tom and Frank are in the core attempting a shut down.

Where's Frank's containment suit?

It needed two people, but there was only one suit left.

Frank went in before we could stop him.

ALARM BEEPS

Stella?!

Has everyone gone nuts today?!

-COMPUTER:

-'Core meltdown in two minutes.'

Keep going, Frank.

Blue, yellow... Green.

Back to, erm...

Red, green, blue, yellow...

Yellow.

It's OK, Frank. We'll do it together.

This is a situation?

We've been in worse.

-No. We haven't.

-No, we haven't.

-COMPUTER:

-'Core meltdown in one minute.'

It's OK. It's up to me now.

I'm sorry, Frank.

What happened during the KORPS assault all those years ago...

I shouldn't have let it come between us.

-It wasn't your fault.

-It wasn't your fault either.

We wasted so much time.

-COMPUTER:

-'Core meltdown in 20 seconds.'

At least we got to grow old together.

-COMPUTER:

-'Core meltdown in 10...

-ALARM BLARES

-'..nine, eight,

'seven, six, five...'

-Nearly there.

-'..four, three, two, one.'

ALARM STOPS I've done it!

I just need to reverse the ageing process.

Erm...

-Can we forget...you know...

-No, I'm not sure we can.

OK. Report!

-Core deactivated. We're safe.

-Well done, Tom, you saved everybody.

Not everybody. Special forces have swept the entire building.

-They can't find Zoe and Steinberg anywhere.

-Actually...

Dan, I'm sorry. I was wrong to trust Steinberg.

-I think he took Zoe.

-What?!

There's only one person who could have taught me

how to shut down the reactor, and that's Steinberg.

He was the online gamer I played.

He must have known he wouldn't be shutting it down himself!

He was planning to escape all along.

Can you both just PLEASE stop talking? We need to find Zoe!

Frank, use the Genetic Tracer.

-They can't have got far.

-I'm sorry, Dan, we can't.

All the other DNA matches make it impossible to trace her.

-She's a needle in a haystack.

-What other DNA matches?

It seems Kloe wasn't Zoe's one and only twin.

-There were over 80 others.

-What?!

How can she have 80 twins?!

She can't...there's something going on, we just don't understand yet.

Can someone pull their finger out and tell me HOW WE GET ZOE BACK?

-NOTHING?!

-OK, OK.

To play me online, he must have had internet access.

If we can find his computer we may find who he's been in contact with.

Ah! V-9-5. So glad you could finally join us.

-I'm ready to start the transference.

-It's time for you to meet someone.

Who could you possibly know that I would want to meet?!

I am the Master Mind.

EVIL LAUGH

Any chance we could hurry this up!?

It's not like Zoe's life's at stake or anything!

Dan, just give him a chance.

He created an Odysseus computer.

A laptop made from household junk.

-It's just not possible.

-Incredible.

It took me four minutes to beat him on Final Endgame

and he was playing it on a toothbrush!

He's been running STERNUM from his prison cell for the last ten years.

Yeah, Tom, he's brilliant. Great. Whatever. Where's Zoe?

It'll take ages to wade through all this stuff.

There's everything from the order to create the old folks' home,

to detailed plans for the...

Uh-oh. We have to get back there right now!

-I don't see it.

-I do!

The chamber there is connected to the core.

There must be a secret way in. Zoe's still there!

-I have waited many years for this.

-Father?

-Father?

-No, not "Father". Creator!

-I don't understand.

You aren't my daughter...you're me.

A living person created from my DNA, a duplicant.

-But...

-To cheat death, the Master needed a vessel

into which I could transfer his consciousness.

-So I made you.

-But Kloe... I've got a sister.

-Ah, the B-9-2.

A failed attempt...one of many.

But you were always the only perfect match.

For the last ten years,

all of our plans have been building up to this moment.

We lost you to SKUL, then to MI9 but now, finally, we're ready.

We have the reactor to power the process, we have the good doctor.

AND we have you! HE LAUGHS

I'd explain how I managed to make adjustments to the reactor

to make it safe, but you wouldn't remember.

You're about to lose your mind.

HE LAUGHS

It seems like you thought of everything.

-But there's one factor you haven't.

-What factor?

The value of friendship.

DAN!

Get him!

Dr Steinberg, complete the process!

Dan, over here!

-I knew you'd come back.

-Dan! This could be dangerous.

-We don't know how this is wired together.

-How does it feel to fail?

How does it feel to be a fish tank?

We need to stop the mind transfer. I'll try and override the reactor.

-You're too late!

-Help me!

-Dan, do something... Please...

-We need to disconnect her. Now!

Nooooo!

Don't touch the master!

It'll overload the reactor!

-It's not working.

-Keep trying.

Three, two, one.

-No!

-SYSTEM SHUTS DOWN

-It's me.

-It's going to blow!

He's right! Run!

Save the Master Mind!

HE SCREAMS

-What about them!?

-No time.

HE SCREAMS

SCREAMING

-SHE SCREAMS

-No! Nooo!

LOUD EXPLOSION

BOOMING EXPLOSION

SMASHING AND CRASHING

I guess that's the last we'll be seeing of the Crime Minister,

the Master Mind, and the Scientist General.

I wish that were true, Aneisha, but I've been here before...

We both have.

And you can bet that they and KORPS are very much alive

and just waiting to launch the next attack.

-We'll be ready for them.

-Now we know what they really want.

They can build world-threatening weapons,

take down entire governments.

They can create a virus that controls an entire nation,

but what they really want...

Is me.

Well, they can't have me.

LAUGHING AND SHOUTING

Settle down! What?! Who said that?

-I thought you said you could reverse the process?

-I can.

-I thought it might be more fun to leave it for a bit.

-Tom!

THEY LAUGH