Octonauts and the Crawfish Octonauts

-SIREN WAILS

-Octonauts, to your stations.

Barnacles!

Kwazii!

Peso!

-Explore.

-Rescue.

-Protect.

Octonauts!

-Thanks again, and see you later.

-Bye-bye.

That gator was the last swamp creature that needed our help today.

Time for us to head back home.

-SHE GASPS

-Peso, Shellington, look at this.

-There are all sorts of holes in the swamp floor.

-Hmm.

Those holes look like crawfish burrows.

-They dig them with their claws.

-It's like a little village.

Oh! Flapperty flippers! what are they doing?

Ooh, boy, our shells is itchy.

We use anything we can to scratch these itches.

Let me see if I can help.

Their shells are covered in spots. What do you make of it, Peso?

I've heard of this. It's called shell rot,

but I've never seen cases this bad before.

Someone must have made everybody else sick.

Have any of you recently travelled outside your village?

No way, no how. We stay put. It's safer for us that way.

Did any strangers recently come through your village?

Now that you mention it,

there was a stranger what come through a few days back.

Was right after folks started getting the spots and all sick.

-Do you remember what he looked like?

-Hmm, he was a strange-looking fella.

-Strange-looking in what way?

-Lots of ways, I suspect.

I didn't pay much never mind.

Truth told, the swamp was so muddy that day,

couldn't hardly see my claw in front of me.

Plus, I was just falling off into my nap.

Oh! I can't even take a nice nap on account of these terrible itches.

Every single crawfish is sick here. This is a major medical emergency.

-Peso to Captain Barnacles.

-This is Barnacles.

We've got a whole village of crawfish here

with itchy spots on their shells.

-I think you'd better...

-Sound the Octo-alert?

-SIREN WAILS

-Octonauts, to the launch bay.

Octonauts, a whole village of crawfish has come down with

a case of strange, itchy spots.

Captain, we've got to cure the crawfish

and keep them from spreading the spots to other parts of the swamp.

-Ah, sounds like an all-hands-on-deck situation.

-Yes, indeed.

Every Octonaut and vegimal is needed. To the swamp!

All right, we'll need to split into three teams.

Peso, Shellington and Inkling,

set up a medical tent to treat the sick crawfish.

Dashi and Tweak, you and the vegimals make sure

nobody enters or leaves the village.

This'll keep the sickness from spreading.

Kwazii, you and I will search the swamp for the mystery creature

who made everyone sick in the first place.

Octonauts, let's do this.

All right, vegimals, our job is to keep the sickness

from spreading if we can.

Just hang onto this rope, stay put,

and don't let anyone get past you. Got it?

VEGIMALS CHIRRUP

We need to try and find a cure for the shell rot, and quickly.

-The poor crawfish are really itchy.

-Oh, boy, that's the truth.

You can poke around my shell all you want

if it'll help you find a way to stop this itching.

It appears that the shell rot is caused by a fungus,

extremely fast-growing. No wonder it spread so quickly.

-Excellent work. The shell rot is caused by a fungus.

-A fungus?

There's a fungus among us? There's a fungus among us!

There's a fungus!

Yes, and we need to find a cure.

Luckily, I have just the thing - anti-fungus cream.

-KWAZII GASPS

-Something moving.

Straight ahead, Captain. It's another crawfish with spots.

Since he's out here, he mustn't be from the village.

Meaning there's a good chance he's the outsider

that spread the shell rot to the other crawfish.

Excuse us, we need to talk to you. Please come out. We're here to help.

Only help we need is with this itching.

Ugh, the missus got it too.

Let me guess,

a stranger came through a few days back.

Next thing you know, you all ended up with those itchy spots?

Now, how do you know that?

The same thing happened to some other crawfish nearby.

-Can you tell us what the stranger looked like?

-He was big.

You got swamp mud in your eyes or something? He was tiny,

but he did swim fast.

The missus here, she doesn't always get the facts right.

-The truth is, he swam slow.

-It was fast.

Excuse me, is there anything that you both agree on

about this stranger?

Yeah, he was kind of furry, would you agree, missus?

Well, yeah, maybe. More like hairy than furry,

at least what I saw of him, seeing as how he was swimming so fast.

-You don't know what you...

-Um, right, yes. Thank you.

We'll be back to help as soon as we find a cure.

A lot of good that did us.

Well, they both agreed he was hairy or furry.

That gives us something to go on.

I wonder how Peso's getting on with a cure.

And now some anti-fungus cream for you.

So far, so good. None of them seem to be itching any more.

Oh! Ooh, ooh!

Never mind.

I don't know what else to try. The anti-fungus cream usually works.

I wonder if the muddy water the crawfish swim in

is part of the problem.

Perhaps it would help to wash them with fresh, clean water.

It's worth a try.

Tweak, come in, Tweak.

Can you spare a couple of the vegimals to run an errand?

-VEGIMALS GIGGLE

-Sure can. Tunip, Codish.

I just need them to go to the Octo-pod

and bring back some fresh water from the kitchen sink.

You got it, Peso.

-Hear that? Fresh water.

-VEGIMALS CHATTER

THEY GIGGLE

TUNIP CHATTERS

Whoa!

Oh. Ugh.

-Aha! OK.

-HE GIGGLES

Mystery critter up ahead, Captain, and he's a furry one.

Bet it's that scallywag we're looking for!

-Let's find out.

-Wait!

Hold it right there, matey.

-Ah!

-Easy, now. We're looking for a creature

who's been spreading shell rot around the swamp.

Someone furry, like you.

Spreading shell rot? Ha!

I'm a nutria. I don't even have a shell.

-And he doesn't have any spots, either.

-Aye, but...

-KWAZII LAUGHS

-Something's tickling me feet.

-Hey!

-Hey, yourself.

Look, he's getting away.

Stop, you!

Did you see the crab's shell, Captain? Covered with spots.

And her claws were furry-looking.

She must be the one we've been looking for.

-Uh-oh, looks like she's heading back towards the crawfish village.

-Why?

She's already given everyone there shell rot.

Something tells me she has no idea where she's heading.

I think she's lost.

Well done, you two.

Fresh water straight from the Octo-pod sink.

Now let's see if the fresh water has any effect on the shell rot spots.

-CRAWFISH SPLUTTERS

-Yuck!

This here water's salty.

-Indeed.

-CODISH CHATTERS

It spilled and you refilled it with water from the launch bay pool?

-TUNIP GROWLS

-But that's ocean salt water.

-Not fresh water.

-I'm so sorry.

I know you crawfish only live in fresh water, never salt water.

Ooh, your spots, they're looking better.

And I don't hardly feel none of that itchiness no more.

Jumping jellyfish,

the saltwater dip seems to be the cure we've been seeking

for the shell rot fungus. It's going away!

-Super, Codish.

-CODISH LAUGHS

Dashi, Tweak, round up every crawfish villager you can find

and bring them here for treatment.

Captain, we've found a cure for the crawfish.

Wonderful. But, Peso, there's a strange crab heading your way.

We think she's the creature that caused the shell rot to begin with.

Oh, no, she could make everybody sick all over again.

We have to catch her and cure her, too.

We're working on it. Wait, there she is, Captain.

I can't take it, I tell you!

Oh, I can't take this itching!

Easy, now. We're here to help.

Well, how about that, a Chinese mitten crab.

She's not from the swamp at all.

She's what we call an invasive species, Captain.

-She doesn't belong here.

-It's true, I'm a long way from home.

Poor thing. She must have got the shell rot in her travels

and spread it to the crawfish when she passed through.

I didn't mean to. Do you think I like having this?

I just want to get rid of this itch and go home.

I think we can help on both counts.

-CRAWFISH:

-Ooh, boy.

Thank you folks for curing us of all them itches.

Oh, me too.

Feels so good to be rid of that itch.

There's no more fungus among us.

Actually, there's still a little fungus among us.

Two last patients for you, Peso.

The missus can go first. She's got the most spots.

I've got the most spots? You've got the most spots.

You got your facts all wrong. I think you've got the most spots.