Alli and the Wish Friend Rocket's Island

Why are you so hung up on Bethany Summer?

-You must have noticed she's always in my face.

-Not really.

I did have a dream last night. Rocket Boulsworth was in it.

Seriously, though, you dated someone who talks to chickens?

-You told her you didn't mind.

-I thought it was weird.

-Chickens for friends?

-HE SCOFFS

If you walk away, we're through.

THUNDER RUMBLES

OWL HOOTS

-ROCKET:

-"In the days of long ago,

"there was only one star in the sky,

"and although it shone brightly over Wales,

"Ireland was left in darkness.

"And a Welsh boy by the name of Owen Dungannon

"realised that if he climbed to the top of an enormous mountain,

"he could touch the star -

"and that gave him an idea."

Rocket! Will you go to sleep?!

"He yanked it down to earth,

"and the moment the sky was star-less,

"the entire world went black,

"and one of the three-headed giants of Ireland

"yelled, 'Who's...done...that?!'"

Think I just heard something.

Jade's scared!

"Thud! Thud! Thud!

"The angry giant stormed across the sea,

"each one of his heads determined

to eat Owen Dungannon for their tea."

TWIG SNAPS

I heard that!

I've got to finish this by tomorrow, and if...

Someone's there!

YELPING

Oi! You can't come in!

What are you doing here?

-MADISON:

-So you don't just have manky chickens

and a dumb old horse for friends, then?

Come on, guys. Let's go.

Enjoying your sleep-over with all your little mates?

I'm not even staying, actually - just making sure they're OK.

Then why's your duvet in here, and why've you got your PJs on?

You know, you should ask Mrs Sparks

if you can move back down to Year 7.

You'd be well happier there.

SIGHS

Oh, Alli!

Oooh, chocolate. I'll have that.

Good night, kids.

Beware of the giants.

THUNDER RUMBLES

WIND HOWLS

WHEEL CREAKS

I wish...

..for a friend.

My own age.

Who gets me.

If this really is the Wish Cave...

..make it come true!

ROOSTERS CROW

SHEEP BLEAT

Time is it?

Time you had your breakfast and got ready for school!

Jade! Brandon! Alli!

Alli didn't stay with us - she went off on her own last night.

Come on! I know where she'll be.

ALARM CLOCK RINGS

DOG BARKS

Stable service!

Now, I need you two to be on your best behaviour this week.

Yeah?

Wendy Sparks is convinced that Jade and Brandon

are leading you two astray,

so let's prove to her that you're not.

So no taking eggs, no breaking eggs,

and no skipping school.

OK?

Mmm.

Alli?

I hate Tyler McCray.

Just cos you two aren't together any more

doesn't mean to say you've got to make each others' lives a misery.

Why have an enemy when you could have a friend?

Oh, you are gross.

What's wrong with her?

Two words. And the second one's "McCray".

-I'm never going out with anyone.

-Me neither!

Girls are way boring.

All they talk about is boys, hair and felt tips.

Daniel Jerome Sparks will never put a girl before a friend.

Tyler.

-Why don't we try...?

-BICYCLE BELL RINGS

Aw, how was the rest of your night, Alli?

Did you play with your dolls, and swap stickers?

I cannot wait to tell everyone about it.

Alli-no-mates.

Come on, Tyler. Let's go.

Tyler!

Where are you going?!

We're not allowed to skip school, remember?

Watch me!

I'll call you during registration.

What? So you can laugh at me?

I haven't laughed at you once.

Keep your phone on, and you won't get done.

Is this from you?!

Bethany Summer just sent me a love letter.

She can't stop thinking about me.

She got it bad.

SCHOOL BELL RINGS

CLICKS FINGERS RHYTHMICALLY

-TEACHER: Sasha

-Abbott. Sir.

-Jenson Bailey.

-Sir.

Alli Boulsworth.

MOBILE PHONE KEYS BEEP

ALLI: 'Yes, sir.'

Madison Creetch.

-Madison Creetch.

-Uh, sir.

-ALLI:

-'Thanks, Lucas.'

GIRL: Alli?

Bethany Summer is basically the most popular girl in Year 7...

And 8.

I was speaking to some kid in Year 8. It's Year 8 too.

You can't ask her out, mate -

you've no chance.

She's the Champions League, and we're the...the Sunday League.

We need to know our place.

Rocket, I need to talk to you.

Something crazy's happened. Rocket?!

When are you ever going to think about anyone but yourself, Alli?

Alli, am I a genius or what?

You made the register,

and no-one noticed you weren't there all day.

You all right?

I say you should do it - ask her out.

Thanks, Brandon. I will.

Bethany Summer. How are you?

Hey.

STUTTERS

D...d...d...

..ib...

Dibber... Uh...

Dib...ber. Uh...

What was that?!

I was trying to find something clever to say,

but "Dibber" was all I had.

Definitely Sunday League.

Least she knows your name now.

I could always speak to women before.

Talk to my mum regularly.

But now I like someone,

and I know they like me -

I've lost the gift!

I'm never going to be able to ask her out.

You just need training in the art of romance, that's all.

-And who's gonna do that?

-What are friends for?

I offer a Beginners Level,

which will make you about as popular

as the least popular one in a boy band.

The one that can dance but can't sing.

And I also offer the Full Advanced,

which basically turns you into the one that goes solo first.

-So, which is it to be?

-As if!

You've been out with exactly the same amount of girls as us -

zero.

I've been out with plenty! Just...not round here, that's all.

Back on the mainland, I have something of a reputation.

OK, then.

If you're so good with girls, prove it.

Let's see how you get on with Madison Creetch.

-And then it happened all over again.

-MADISON LAUGHS

It's true.

I don't believe it.

I'll take the Full Advanced, please!

Stay close to me.

-Maybe you just imagined it.

-I didn't!

-Could've been anyone.

-She knew my name!

Alli, if you wanted to spend time with me -

like, without the others around -

you didn't have to make up a whole story.

Arggh!

CLOCK TICKS

RATTLING AND RINGING

There's no such thing as ghosts.

Well, there must be - cos I just saw one.

And I'm going to catch it.

Jade reckons the Knot's haunted!

Maybe it is. I'd believe anything today.

I saw a reflection of someone in the pans in the kitchen,

but when I turned round,

there was no-one there.

I thought I asked you to hang this lot out!

It's not ideal right now, Sarah -

I'm building a ghost trap.

Where's that blanket gone?!

What was the reflection of?

A girl - about your age.

It's her!

-Who?

-I...made a wish last night.

For a mate.

And when I went in the cave this morning...

..someone was actually lying there!

Wishes have to be for other people.

Rocket reckons a wish for yourself

could destabilise the whole of time and space!

Well, we're still here, Jade.

Yeah - but we're not alone any more, are we?

-Fish and chips, then?

-Oh, yes!

-You want something?

-Yeah.

Lucas?

I need a favour.

-Jonathan Healey.

-Oh, Miss.

MOBILE PHONE KEYS BEEP

-Jade Hollis?

-Miss!

Brandon Kelleher?

KNOCK AT DOOR

Brandon?

-BRANDON:

-'Miss.'

Lucas asked me to do it.

They've gone off with your sister!

I knew it!

She took this from the line.

She's been staying here!

What are we going to do?

You wanted to catch a ghost, didn't you?

Stage one - courage under fire.

Girls like a boy to be a bit of a hero.

What we need is for Bethany Summer to find herself in danger,

and you to swoop in and save her!

But...I might have to wait years for that to happen.

Not so, Daniel, not so.

It's going to happen this very lunchtime.

-BRANDON:

-What are you doing in our cave?

Now!

-JADE:

-Got ya!

Alli? Alli Boulsworth!

CHATTER AND LAUGHTER

Go, Healey.

You haven't heard about a girl showing up in the village, have you?

-Someone who's not from around here?

-GASPING

-Mum!

-It's really important. The police are after her.

Mum!

Dibber!

Bethany Summer!

Jonathan Healey - my office! Now!

-STUDENTS: Oooh!

-What happened?!

It wasn't my fault!

There's a crazy murderer loose on the island,

and she's thirsting for blood.

HE SIGHS

My name is Shada.

I have come a long way.

But I think something has gone wrong.

Is this London, England?

No - Ballabungie, Dirgelmor.

Something's definitely gone wrong.

Mamma hid me in a van on a ship.

We were not safe back home.

She said that when the doors opened,

we would be in London, England.

Someone would be waiting for me,

and she would follow the next day.

But when the doors opened,

there was just a shouting driver and a sandy beach -

so I ran!

You're not a ghost, then?

Cross my heart and hope to die.

If you're already dead, that won't count.

This is all your fault!

No - it is just a terrible mistake.

Alli made a wish for herself,

but a wish for yourself can shake up the universe,

so making a ship sail to the wrong port would be well easy!

When I saw the faces on the wall -

your face, and Rocket's,

over and over I thought,

"If so many children have turned from sad to happy here,

"maybe I will change from sad to happy too".

-That's how you knew my name.

-Yes.

And it is in your book!

It was very good.

Where is Rocket?

We've fallen out.

He doesn't know you're here.

-We need to tell your mum and dad.

-No!

They will send me back home.

But I need to go to London!

You can't! It isn't safe, and we don't know where your mum is!

There must be someone you can call - someone she'll call too.

My...my grandfather.

He does not have a computer or a phone,

but Mamma said she would write to him when we arrived.

-Maybe I could write to him also.

-Perfect!

You can tell him where you are, and he'll tell her.

But until we hear anything,

you're not going anywhere.

We always have kids stay with us,

but this time, we're just going to have one in secret!

How do we know she's telling the truth?

I just do.

DIBBER: Wish we knew what this crazy murderer looked like.

International criminals are masters of disguise.

Er, hello. Waiting to deliver Stage Two here.

Follow my Introduction to Small Talk,

and before long, Bethany Summer will be all yours.

-What are you saying about my sister?

-Sister?

Didn't even know you had a sister.

Bethany-what-was-it?

-Has Alli found that girl yet?

-What girl?

The one she thinks is living in the cave.

What are you talking about?

That's why they weren't in school.

They've gone to try and find her.

Grandad, call the police, and Mum.

Alli Boulsworth's in trouble!

Come on, then - cough up.

I don't remember a magazine being part of the deal.

For managing to convince a single person

that I could possibly like you in any way whatsoever -

even for a nanosecond - I deserve a whole lot more.

Come on, Dibber!

Come on, Dibber, hurry up!

Welcome home!

I did this to go with your letter. It's a map of the Knot.

-SHADA:

-I can't believe all you have done.

Why?

Don't you know what I wished for?

You.

-What are you doing with her?!

-Rocket Boulsworth?

-You can't say anything!

-Why didn't you tell me?!

I tried!

-She's wanted by the police, Alli.

-She hasn't done anything wrong.

Tell him.

We only know what she told us.

Shada!

DONKEY BRAYS

RINGING AND RATTLING

-The ghost trap!

-Watch out!

HE SCREAMS

SIREN WAILS

-WENDY:

-I said they were leading Alli and Rocket astray.

-DIBBER: No, they're not!

-I've been watching them!

-BRANDON:

-When we did that phone trick,

you didn't even know we weren't there.

My office, tomorrow morning!

I never thought they'd take to harbouring criminals.

She isn't a criminal!

How do you know?

-Because...because she's my friend!

-Alli!

These kids are out of control.

-Out of control?

-Hey, hey. Come on.

I thought I told you not to hang around here any more.

Well, it isn't all bad news.

I think I just completed Stage One!

Tomorrow, Bethany Summer is going to be swept off her feet.

SCHOOL BELL RINGS

Aw, thanks.

Mate, don't do it.

What are you talking about?

Seize the day!

Ohhh.

Hey, Bethany Summer, um, I was wondering, um...

..would you like to come out with me sometime?

-No.

-OK. Thanks.

STUDENTS GIGGLE

MADISON SNICKERS

-MADISON:

-"To Alli, thank you for being my friend.

"Kiss, kiss!"

MADISON LAUGHS

ALLI SIGHS

Daniel Sparks is quite sweet,

but the note wasn't meant for him -

I told her to give it to the boy leaning on the bike sheds,

but you moved!

It was meant for you, Rocket.

Would you like to come out with me sometime?

I can't.

Dibber's not just any mate.

He's the kind of mate that you wish for.

-What were you two talking about?

-You.

She actually said you were quite sweet.

What went wrong?!

You should have waited until you'd completed Stage Two!

By the time I've finished with you, she'll be ready for marriage.

When conversing with a girl,

always pretend to be interested in the boring things that they are.

Healey - you're the best mate ever!

Alli! Follow me!

I'm sorry about Shada.

Me too.

You never finished that story.

OWL HOOTS

"The giant raged at Owen for stealing the star,

but Owen said, "I didn't - I took it to share!"

"And he threw it against the ground,

"and it shattered into a thousand pieces,

"lighting up the whole sky -

"not just Wales, but Ireland too.

"And realising that he'd never be in the dark again,

"the giant flung the mountain into the sea

"so that the two new best friends

"would have a stepping stone in between them.

"And that is how this island came to be."

FOOTSTEPS APPROACH

Bet that's Tyler and the others again.

I'm not going to let them bother me any more.

TENT ZIPS OPEN

-SARAH:

-This is our new foster kid.

PETER: You were right, Al.

Shada was telling the truth.

She can only stay until Kim finds her somewhere more permanent.

Alli's posted your letter. Your family will find you!

Shada?

If I had a star, Alli Boulsworth,

I'd break it for you!

Brandon Kelleher - he has a secret.

People have the right

to know what it is.

Stop it, Healey.

What did he see

in those records?

Don't worry - I know exactly

what you're trying to say.

It's a fallout shelter.

What is so legendary

about spending an hour in the dark?

It's haunted.

THEY SCREAM