Free Runner M.I. High

ALARM SOUNDS

SIRENS SOUND

HE GRUNTS THROUGHOUT

No one escapes the Guardian Runners.

'The 21st century faces a new kind of threat

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

'Hidden in a place no villain will think to look.

'Welcome to MI High.'

Here, check this out.

"Yesterday, a wanted jewel thief was captured

"by a group of masked vigilantes thought to be the Guardian Runners."

No way! And they caught one on video?

Whoa! Those dudes have got skills.

Sorry, what are Guardian Runners?

They're like crime fighters only they use parkour - free running.

Dan's like the master. Go on show us a move.

-No.

-Go on.

-Come on.

-ALL CHANT: Do it! Do it! Do it!

All right. All right. All right. Just keep an eye out.

ALL CHANT: Back flip!

Daniel Morgan!

Have you any idea how dangerous that is?

I've read all about this park our,

and the people who do it have professional training.

Now, maybe you can do some research in detention.

HE GROANS Morning, Mrs King. Morning, everyone.

Now, I hope you're all in a splendid mood.

Excellent, because today we have a brand-new supply teacher.

THEY GROAN

Everyone, I'd like you to meet Miss Freeman.

Stella?

I mean, er, stellar news you found a supply teacher, Mr F.

Oh.

Now, I know what you're all thinking,

"Supply teacher, bad breath, out of touch."

But I'm here to learn just as much from you as you are from me.

Look, Miss, I can teach you how to juggle.

Give us a go.

Stand back, this could get very messy.

LAUGHTER AND SHOUTS OF "WOW"

KLAXON BLARES

OK, one, you are totally rocking that look.

And two, hello, what are you doing here?

I take it you've all forgotten?

It's time for your MI9 annual assessment.

What? We've had like five tests already this year.

Yes, and this time I wanted to see how you worked above ground, too.

The teaching job was the perfect cover.

Cool. We'll get to hang out.

And she'll get to spend more time with Frank.

-Well, yes...

-HE CLEARS HIS THROAT

Assessment or not, we still have a mission.

Yesterday, this high-security military base was broken into.

The thief stole two state-of-the-art capture rays.

Ah, those things are well freaky. I want one.

However, the only lead we have is this, taken from a security camera.

Hey, isn't that one of the guys that you and Roly were watching earlier?

One of those Guardian peeps?

Got it. The Guardian Runner?

-It's the same jump.

-Come on, anybody could do that move.

It's enough. Dan, Keri, I want you to infiltrate the Runners.

You wouldn't steal two of these, unless you were planning something big.

Oh, Frank, you're not serious?

The Runners are just like us, the good guys.

Technically, they're illegal vigilantes.

Looks like they patrol the town centre. I'd look there first.

Great(!) While the people who actually did this get away.

Frank, it's a complete waste of time.

No, it's an order! Unless there are any other questions?

Fine, you want me to prove the Runners innocent, watch me.

INDISTINCT POLICE RADIO

Brunus, I think we've got action.

Oi! Get off!

Well, don't just stand there!

It's always the pretty boys.

Guardian Runners at your service.

Seriously, these are the guys you want to join?

Hang on, you know him?

We just did this to meet you.

We want to do what you do.

-So does everybody, but, no. We don't take newbies.

-Wait.

Sorry about Lloyd, he can be a bit cautious.

I'm Sky, captain of the Runners. Nice moves.

Thanks.

So, would you do everything we say?

Live by our rules and act on our orders without question?

Free running's not about following,

it's about living your own way, question everything.

We're heading back to the hide-out.

If you can follow us, if you can keep up, then, maybe, we can talk.

Runners, no rules.

No rules.

-Dan! Wait for me!

-I've got to go or we'll lose them.

Dan!

Please, call me Hermione,

and, yes, we really do run a tight ship here, don't we, Mr Flatley?

Hm?

Are you all right?

Um, no, no I've got a worrying letter from the Board Of Education.

It says if we don't improve our academic performance,

-they could close the school.

-What?!

The inspectors will make a decision soon.

What?! They can't.

Do you know how many times I've had to move school?

I knew it. I've been saying this all along.

No discipline, no results, isn't that right, Miss Freeman?

Well, it is a school, not a prison.

Exact... What?

I just think we should take a more experimental approach.

Kids don't need rules, they need space to think and explore.

Put them in a box and look at them, soulless, brain-dead expression.

Hm?

But put them in a field and they'll, they'll...

They'll tread on a cow pat.

Get chased by goats.

Oh, where was I?

Something about a cow and a barn.

Yes! Mrs King, see, they're already starting to imagine.

That is what I is talking about - respect.

-Now, Miss Freeman...

-I know what we can do.

We can ask the pupils what they would do to improve the school.

Come on, let's go!

Wow, she's good.

OK, I've got to admit I thought there was no way you'd keep up.

Are you all right?

What, me? I couldn't be better.

I've just got a... HE COUGHS

I'm cool.

Sky, I don't trust him, he's got one of them faces.

You're an idiot. I've got a feeling about him.

He's one of us.

You can hack into the CCTV?

And listen to police radio.

Don't ask me how, I'm so not a computer geek!

Sorry. Totally cool cyber-chick.

-Where did you get all this stuff?

-Oi! We ask the questions.

It's my dad's. He runs an electronics company.

We sort of borrow his stuff and hide out in his warehouses.

I'm sure he'll be fine about it.

Guys, we've got action. I just saw two men break in.

Cranberry Crescent. That's about a mile away.

-A mile?

-Eh, do you want to be a Runner, or not?

Yeah, I'll get changed on the way.

Go, Danny boy. He made it.

The Runners' secret base?

So, your ideas to make the school more funky.

So far, we have, instead of dinner ladies, how about dinner monkeys?

And, a swimming pool full of custard.

It doesn't have to be custard, it could be blancmange.

No, no, no, no, no, Roly's right. We need to think big.

We want to make changes that are going to inspire you to learn.

I know, how about some free pens?

Preston, learning's not about pens. It's not about paper.

-It's not about...

-"Not about pens..."

Mr Flatley...

Sorry, I snuck in. Only,

your class sounded a lot more fun than marking.

So, Miss, is you saying we don't need any books, or anything?

Yeah, because these books are proper boring.

If the books aren't inspiring you, then I say...

I say, we hold aloft those books,

and we chuck them in the bin.

Who's with me?

I said who's with me?

Down with boring, old textbooks.

Miss Freeman, what on earth...?

-It was either this or dinner monkeys.

-BELL RINGS

I nearly forgot my pen.

Frank.

Oh!

Man, that was awesome.

You were awesome. That double back flip!

-I didn't even see you coming.

-Just snuck up right behind him.

You're all right, I suppose.

Although ask him where he learned to do all them fancy moves.

I, er... I studied you on the internet.

Seeing you guys in action, it's like watching a superhero.

I suppose we're a bit like super...

I'm watching you.

So, despite Lloyd, do you still want to join?

Are you kidding? You guys do what you want, when you want.

It's like, I don't know...

Maybe this is where I'm meant to be.

Boyfriend?

As if! The first guy I put in jail,

before the others joined me.

A superhero!

What have you done to yourself?

Stella, just face it, they didn't steal the capture rays.

I looked everywhere.

Perhaps you could have told us, then, Agent.

MI9 protocol states that you should've reported back in over an hour ago.

That's what I love about the Runners -

no tests, no protocols. We're just free to go after the bad guys.

Did he just say "we"?

Everyone quick, Tom's made a breakthrough.

So, the Runners radio system.

The jammer is amazing, even using MI9 satellite,

I could only get a few seconds. But, here's what I found.

MAN'S VOICE: "My boss, Sergei Alexandrov, he will meet you, Mountfield Park Road,

"11 o'clock. Bring capture ray."

Sergei Alexandrov a convicted arms dealer,

spent 12 years in Darkmeer Prison.

Frank, the Runners listen in to all kinds of radios

to find out about crimes going on.

You've no proof that message was meant for them.

-Frank, it's nearly 11.

-Get over to Mountfield Park Road.

If the Runners are selling weapons to Sergei, you might be able to catch them red-handed.

Dan?

What are you doing?

This stuff's easier to run in.

Guys, it's Sergei Alexandrov.

And that guy with the totally stolen capture ray.

-Don't tell me - Runners.

-It's not them.

It doesn't look like he's giving him money.

It looks like a map.

Guys, we need to move.

I'll go.

HE GRUNTS

Dan! Dan!

Dan, can you hear me?

Dan!

Are you all right?

-HE PANTS

-I think I scared him off.

-What if the Runners have gone back to their hide-out?

-I'll go.

-We'll come with you.

-No.

-Why? Scared of what we might find?

For the last time, we don't know it's them.

I know Sky and I trust her. I said I'd go.

Sky?

No, no!

Idiot.

Frank, it's Dan.

Dan. The others told me where you are. You could be in danger.

It's all right, they've gone. The Runners, you were right about them.

"I was stupid to trust them."

I'm sorry.

"Listen, I know where we might find them."

I need you to look up a firm, Plinkett Electronics, quick.

OK. Plinkett Electronics.

"Who are they?"

Sky said her dad owns it, that Runners use his equipment,

use his buildings for hide-outs.

I can see five business addresses,

three shops, a warehouse, and a lock-up.

A lock-up? Where?

Under the arches of Parkway Station. But, you can't go there on your own.

Frank, don't tell the others. I need to do this.

Dan! Dan!

Now, you're sure? This is what you really think of the school?

From the heart to the page, via the pen of truth.

I just used the biro.

Oh, good!

Now we know exactly what people think about me and Mr Flatley.

-What? No! I didn't... I only asked them...

-Oh, no. I get it.

You're all new and exciting, and I'm just old and boring.

Please, Hermione...

Well, I would much rather be boring than a jumped-up stirrer.

PUPILS GASP

Miss!

"Top secret annual assessment to judge ability of performing."

Tom?

Aneisha!

Keri.

No way!

Dan, how did you know where we were?

Figured it out. One of your dad's places.

I was going to call you.

Someone tapped into our radio, police probably.

You know how they feel about vigilantes. We had to move quick.

-I mean, what's the problem? We're only trying to help people.

-Just stop.

I know, OK? I know everything.

I just want to know why you did it.

Dan, what are you talking about?

I trusted you. I trusted you and you lied to me.

Actually, she didn't, but I kind of did.

Lloyd? What...? What are you doing? What is that?

I was just about to tell Sky the truth.

But, seeing as you're new bezzie mates...

Tie them up! Both of them.

-He's still not answering.

-Right, that does it, you three get to the lock-up.

If the Runners are there, Dan could be in trouble.

Sir! Sir! You won't believe it.

It's Miss Freeman, she's not who she says she is.

She's not even a real teacher.

"Top secret, annual assessment."

Mr Flatley!

"Daniel Morgan shows a lack of focus and is easily misled."

I told you, sir. She's not even a supply teacher.

Roly!

She's an inspector.

She must be here to decide if the school gets closed.

You're kidding me.

You broke into a military base and stole whatever that is.

It's a capture ray,

just like the one you gave Sergei Alexandrov in exchange for your map.

One last crime and you've no idea what I'm going to steal,

do you, Mr MI9?

MI9! You're MI9?!

I'm not the bad guy here.

How did you know I was a spy?

You show up out of nowhere asking all these questions.

Who else is going to investigate a secret organisation?

Wait,

so if you never wanted to fight crime, why did you join me?

And why did you become a Runner?

Isn't that him? The first guy you arrested?

His name's Hector. I never told you, did I?

But, Hector, he's my brother.

And, thanks to you, he's now rotting in jail.

Pay back time.

Runners, forget no rules,

now it's our rules.

ALL: Our rules!

-What is that?

-Poisoned gas.

Miss Freeman, if you have been inspecting the school,

you can give it to me straight.

I can take it like a man... HIS VOICE FALTERS

All right. (Oh, an inspector...)

As you know, I asked the kids what they thought of the school.

Well, Preston, Roly, Lady J,

I think you should read this.

"The things we don't like about school.

"The truth is, it's not that bad."

"We like how funny Mr Flatley is.

"We know he doesn't mean it, but the guy's just a clown."

SHE CLEARS HER THROAT

"I know Mrs King can be a right old stressy,

"banging on, and on

and on..." My word.

Anyway. "She fair, she safe, she real, she cool."

S-so, you can't shut us down,

you just can't, because you, know what, this place...

..rocks!

CHEERING

-Dan.

-Dan! Let's go.

I don't know what to say.

I had no idea.

THEY COUGH

Dan!

Dan, can you hear me?

Sky, wake up.

Lloyd. We need to get Lloyd.

One last robbery. He was studying that map.

Must be wherever they're breaking into.

But where is it?

What is it?

All I know is that Lloyd showed me this. It's his brother.

Turns out I helped put him into prison.

"Hector Lewis was sentenced to 20 years in prison

"for armed robbery.

"He was sent to Darkmeer Prison."

Darkmeer.

That arms dealer, Sergei Alexandrov,

wasn't that where he used to be in prison?

That's it. A prison. What if these are cells?

What if Lloyd stole Sergei a capture ray

in an exchange for a map of Darkmeer Prison?

Now Lloyd knows how to break in,

he can get his brother, Hector, out of jail.

-SHE LAUGHS

-No way! That's so cool.

That he figured it out, I meant.

Look, we need to warn the prison.

Lloyd's got a capture ray and he's going to break in.

Yeah, we can do it on the way.

Darkmeer's not far from here, we can run.

Again with the running!

ALARMS AND SIREN BLARE

Agh! Get off me! Oh!

Agent Jones, MI9. I take it you got the warning?

-Yeah, we got him.

-Where's Lloyd?

Over there, and his brother!

Hector!

Hector!

-Move!

-I can't!

Sorry, bro.

Leave this to us.

Agh! Don't! It's too high, you can't make it.

-Are you OK?

-Just go!

Not again!

See you around, loser!

I'll do it!

What is it they say? You can run, but you can't hide.

Turns out you can't do either, mate. Ha!

So, not only are Lloyd and Hector behind bars,

but, thanks to our lead, MI9 have also found Sergei Alexandrov.

All that, and we found out how cool Stella really is, hey, Frank?

Hang on, you don't get round me that easily. Now, your assessment.

Look, I know what you're going to say -

everyone told me the Runners were dodgy.

You're not the only one who makes mistakes, Dan.

What counts is that you put it right as a team.

I think MI9 will be happy for another year.

Hey! So, guess what,

Stella's asked me to work for MI9.

And she wants me to train a unit of free-running spies.

And I was hoping that you might come with me.

I can be a spy and a free runner?

That's true. Sometimes, I just want to run off, do my own thing, but,

you saw how that turned out.

-So, I'm sorry.

-Hey, I get it.

This is where you're meant to be, right?

-Yeah.

-Well, hello,

at least a hug, maybe?

Don't MI9 have a rule about mushy stuff?

I'm just saying.

Would you like to go on a date with me?

I was thinking you, me, a date? No.

About the whole you and me thing...

Ah, Stella, I...

Stella, would you like to go on...

Frank, what sort of flowers are those?

Here you are, Miss.

They're to say sorry for going through your bag and that.

Yes, and I really shouldn't have called you a...

Well, I know you were only trying to help.

Look what I've got, everybody! It's an e-mail saying

thanks to a special report, St Hearts is no longer under threat of closure.

What?!

-From the Minister Of Education?

-Friends in high places.

HE SNIFFS AND COUGHS

Frank, are you wearing aftershave?

-PUPIL:

-Oh, what?!

-THEY COUGH

It's burning my eyes, innit?

What did you want to say?

Er, is that a window needs cleaning?