By the Book Odd Squad

My name is Agent Olive. This is my partner, Agent Otto.

This is my lucky pencil.

But that's Otto and me.

We work for an organisation run by kids

that investigates anything strange,

weird

and, especially, odd.

Our job is to put things right again.

Who do we work for?

We work for Odd Squad.

All right, Goopy Gus, Filthy Paul.

It's Gooey Randall.

Really?

Where did I get Paul?

You'll be surprised how often I get that.

-You know, sometimes...

-Partner...get back on track.

All right, Gooey Randall, Goopy Gus.

Let's go over the evidence.

Exhibit A.

City Hall covered in goop.

-It's beautiful.

-Exhibit 2B.

There are only two villains in town that cover things in goop

and that's you

and you.

Exhibit three.

The lady that works at City Hall.

Do you guys live here?

Sorry, um...

I saw that it was one person that did it,

but I couldn't really see who it was

because I was, you know, covered in goop.

Thank you, ma'am.

So, in conclusion, we know one of you did it.

-BOTH:

-Wasn't me.

Fine. We'll do it the hard way.

We'll stay here all night if we have to,

until one of you admits it.

Hey, hold on a second. We know our rights.

You can only hold us for 20 minutes before you have to let us go.

20 minutes? That can't be right.

Goopy Gus is right. You have to do this one by the book.

It's all right here...

in the book.

Odd Squad rules state you can only question someone for 20 minutes.

If you can't prove they caused oddness, you have to let them go.

You guys don't have much time. See that clock?

The little hand is pointing to the one. That means one hour.

And the long hand is pointing to the 12.

That means it's the beginning of the hour, so zero minutes,

which makes the time right now exactly one o'clock.

What about the red hand?

That keeps track of seconds, but don't worry about that right now.

So if we only have 20 minutes,

that means we only have until the minute hand gets to the four.

Four? I thought we had 20 minutes.

When you're counting minutes, each number stands for five minutes,

so that's five, ten,

15, 20 minutes.

-1.20.

-Do I have to remind you guys

how much time you're wasting talking about time?

You're right. Otto, let's split up.

I'll go see if Owen has any security footage of City Hall.

You keep an eye on these guys.

Don't forget, play by the rules.

Seriously, Ms O?

I'm more serious than anything you could ever seriously think of.

-Global warming.

-Touche.

OTTO SIGHS

Owen, quick.

I need you to show me City Hall when it got covered in goop.

Let's see what we've got here.

Boom. Point of contact.

That's it. Can you get any closer to the image?

Sure thing.

-Oh, I meant can you make the image bigger?

-Yeah.

Oh, I can't see his face.

All I can see is that he's gooping up City Hall with his left hand.

MUSICAL RING TONE

-Gopher Olive.

-What's going on?

Bad news. I can't tell who it is.

-Any luck on your end?

-Well, apparently, at the four-minute mark

I have to have a staring contest with them.

I mean, don't get me wrong, I love a good staring contest...

Hang on a sec, Otto.

There's somebody else in the picture.

Can you get any closer?

Can you zoom in?

That's Delivering Debbie

and she's painting a picture.

Maybe her painting can tell me who did it.

Hang tight, partner.

Let's do this.

-Gah!

-The jig is up.

Gooey Randall already told me it was you.

Just confess and we'll go easy on you.

No, he didn't.

Gooey Randall has been sitting right here beside me the entire time.

I would never sell him out. It goes against every rule in the book.

-Really?

-Not your rule book.

Our rule book.

Otto, how are those smoothies coming along?

Smoothies? What smoothies?

The rule book clearly states that suspects get smoothies

halfway through their 20 minutes.

Yeah, and if I don't get a smoothie, I'm leaving.

Probably even go to the store to get a smoothie.

I have to go to the bank first to get some cash.

Of course, I want to go to my branch cos other branches' cash machines

charge me fees. The point is, I'm out of here.

Quick, Ms O, what's half of 1.20?

Half of 20 is ten, so they get their smoothies at 1.10,

when the big hand points to the two.

But that's in one minute.

Where am I supposed to get a smoothie in one minute?

I guess we're leaving.

Not so fast.

There's nothing in the rule book that says they have to be good.

Now take these.

Enjoy your smoothies.

-Debbie. Hey.

-Oh, hey.

-Debbie.

-You were painting City Hall when it got gooped, right?

-Yeah.

I think your artwork just might be the key to solving my case.

Well, you are in luck.

-What is that?

-City Hall.

To be fair, I've only been taking art classes for a week.

Did you see the guy who covered it in goop?

Definitely. Look at this.

That white smudge with two blue dots on it?

That's a face. How are you not seeing that?

MUSICAL RING TONE

-Gopher Olive.

-How's it going?

Sorry, partner. I got nothing so far.

How are things on your end?

Well, I just had to take them trick or treating around headquarters.

It's not even Halloween yet.

I feel like I put way more effort into this than you. You know?

Boo!

This rule book is really odd.

I'll keep trying.

OK, well, maybe this guy can help.

-Who am I looking at?

-That's Janitor Jerry.

Seriously, how are you not seeing that?

Can I take this painting with me?

I guess what you're saying is I have some real talent?

Yes, absolutely.

-OK.

-Got to run.

OK, we had the staring contest.

You had your spa treatment

and now you are sitting in the best chairs

in Odd Squad headquarters.

No way. Not comfy.

-We're out of here.

-Gone.

-What do you mean they're not comfy?

-Please!

-Not that comfy.

-Where are you going?

-Whoa.

The rules clearly say comfortable chairs

and those chairs are not comfortable.

-They're not comfortable.

-My back, it's killing me.

His back is killing him.

On behalf of Odd Squad, I am sorry for the way you have been treated.

I do hope your back feels better.

Finally, it's nice to see someone with some manners around here.

-CRACK

-Whoa!

Oh, Zeus's beard. Ow!

-How's your back now?

-My back?

It feels wonderful. You fixed it.

Great. Now, sit down.

OK, we'll sit down,

but when not going to like it.

Oh, no! It's 15, 16, 17.

1.17. There's only three minutes left.

Olive better come back with something good

cos this investigation is going nowhere.

You guys have any Brie?

-Brie, I love Brie.

-Like, Brie cheese.

-With some crackers.

Ah, is good.

-I saw the whole thing.

-Great. Can you describe what happened?

Well, let's see. There I was minding my own business

when I saw somebody drop a potato chip bag,

a candy wrapper and a banana peel.

OK, so our thief is a litterbug.

Are there any other details you can give me?

The banana peel was bruised,

which means he didn't take care of his fruit.

-Do you know what he looked like?

-No.

But I can say I'm glad to see Odd Squad

is finally cracking down on litterbugs.

Hey, don't forget to recycle.

Ah, it's coming up on 1.19.

When that happens you've only got 60 seconds

-before you've got to cut us loose.

-Whoa, hold your horses!

Why are you talking about seconds when I've still got a minute?

-Who told you about my horses?

-Don't answer that.

-He's trying to stall for time.

-But...

-We've only got a minute.

There are 60 seconds in a minute.

Remember that little red hand I told you not to worry about?

-Well, now's the time to worry about it.

-No!

Once it reaches the 12, we've only got one minute, or 60 seconds,

before it goes all the way around and comes back to the 12 again

and then these guys are free to go.

-Olive, you're back. Which one of them did it?

-I have nothing.

BOTH: What? LAUGHING

All I found out is that we're looking for a left-handed litterbug

who looks something like this.

You just solved the case.

-I did?

-She did?

-And it can all be explained in a flashback.

-You've got 30 seconds.

-Go.

-When Ms O handed the smoothies to the suspects

only one of them took it with their left hand.

And then, when they got back from trick-or-treating,

only one of them littered candy wrappers all over the floor.

And when we had the staring contest, only one of them had blue eyes.

ALL: Goopy Gus.

Busted.

And you figured it out in time. Right at 1.20.

I got to fix it.

It's in the villain rule book.

Great work, agent Olive. Agent Otto.

I'll see you around, Randall. It's gooey.

Gooey Randall. On behalf of Odd Squad,

I am sorry for the inconvenience of the last 20 minutes.

Are you kidding me?

The last 20 minutes have been the best of my life.

Staring contests, trick or treating,

massage chairs.

I'm thinking about going out right now to commit an odd crime

just so I can get back in here.

It was glorious.

Maybe we should think about rewriting that rule book.

-Yeah.

-Yeah.

-Definitely.

I do not want to do that again.