Izzy Wizzy and the Weeping Oak Rocket's Island

Maybe we don't take on any more kids.

-Don't you need an A in that test to be a solicitor?

-Oh, no!

Izzy! Peter said to leave them where they were!

They wanted to be together.

Go on inside, Izzy. I don't need your help.

We basically have to be angels from now on.

I can do that.

COCK CROWS

BELL TINKLES

OUTSIDE DOOR CLOSES, HENS CLUCK

BELL TINKLES

Speak to me!

I'm listening!

Speak to me!

Izzy!

Izzy!

Please!

-I'm running out of time!

-What are you doing?

It's OK, it's only me.

IZZY SCREAMS

IZZY CONTINUES SCREAMING, COCK CROWS

-Whoa! What happened?

-She was talking to the tree.

-What?!

She told it she was running out of time, then shoved me and ran.

Hey! what's going on?

-Don't say anything.

-Like I would!

-Nothing.

-Well, what's all the shouting about, then?

I-I gave Izzy a fright.

She had gone for a walk and didn't realise I was out here too.

Well, what are you doing out here at 4.30 in the morning anyway?

-Frightening Izzy.

-How about I go look for her?

No, look, I'll go.

I'll take Wayne II for his walk at the same time.

WAYNE II BARKS

Izzy Wizzy!

-Izzy!

-Speak to me!

-QUIETLY:

-Tickah, tickah-tickah, tickah-tickah-tickah-tickah.

What are you doing?

Is Alli OK? I wouldn't have pushed her if she hadn't crept up on me.

Yeah, well, she's fine. You probably didn't hear her.

You're too busy talking to our oak tree.

I was busy listening to it.

Well, do you know what I was listening to, Izzy?

You screaming so loudly that you woke Mum and Dad up.

I couldn't help it.

Izzy, we all agreed that we'd be on our best behaviour

after we all messed up with the calves.

Now Dad's already wound up and he hasn't even had breakfast yet.

I made breakfast.

Coming in?

I'm busy!

Don't be like that, Peter.

I was up early as well.

-Go round the other way.

-Yeah?

Well, maybe if they weren't so disruptive,

it wouldn't take me twice as long to do everything else.

They're not disruptive all the time.

Well, it's starting to feel that way.

ROCKET KNOCKS

Mum and Dad are arguing about us. We have to be super careful from now on.

We're not the ones you have to worry about,

especially now she's started talking to trees. What's that all about?

Hey, you're back!

You all right, love?

I'm going back to bed.

BELL TINKLES

What could she mean she's running out of time?

To do what?

I wonder if it's connected to all that tickah-tickah-tick stuff.

It must be some sort of tree language.

Why has Izzy Wizzy suddenly started talking to trees?

What was she writing down?

The tree's crying.

TREE CREAKS Look out!

WAYNE II BARKS

-Is it warning us off?

-Or trying to show us it needs help.

Cheer up, love!

You know that's the worst thing to say

-to someone who needs cheering up?

-I do now.

What's up? Or is that the worst thing to say too?

Everyone's off having a better time than me.

What have I got to look forward to?

Doing the same old thing I did last year.

By Christmas, you'll be one step closer to being a solicitor.

Yeah. Got my future all buttoned down(!)

I thought that's how you liked it.

It's not bad.

Go home! I don't need baby-sitting!

I'm not, I'm keeping you out of trouble.

Wait a sec!

I don't get it. You'd think the tree would start crying

AFTER it lost a branch, not before.

And how does Izzy Wizzy fit in?

Cos she's joined you on the bridge of the Starship Cuckoo?

Sorry. But it's hard to buy into all this.

Trees can't issue warnings.

They can't ask for help and they definitely can't cry.

Yeah, well, our tree CAN cry. I saw it.

You are not, under any circumstances,

to talk to my father about a weeping oak.

So it's weeping.

-You've heard of it before.

-Mum, don't encourage him.

Once, when Daniel was a baby.

It's going to make your grandfather ill if he hears of it.

The weeping oak's not catching, is it?

No, but last time he was obsessed with it,

endlessly banging on about summoning tree sprites.

Then he set up camp in the tree,

and wouldn't come down until experts came to treat it.

I told you there was something wrong with our tree.

I do not want that happening again.

I won't say anything to him, I promise.

If you want to buy our silence, it works better with cake.

ROCKET'S PHONE RINGS

Jade?

What? Really?

Izzy's vanished.

Right in front of Archie's eyes.

By an oak tree.

Well, here's what you do.

Find Izzy Wizzy. Find Izzy, Wayne II.

WAYNE II BARKS

-WHISPERS:

-Psh-sh-sh-shhh. Psh-sh-sh. Shu-shushhh.

Come on. Go on, boy, go on.

Well done, Wayne II.

What's with that bell?

You see? She's talking to the tree.

Have you ever used W2TV to spy on me?

-Dibber!

-Just asking!

Well, what would you have done that I'd need to spy on you for?

I wonder what she's writing now.

I need to see that notebook.

-So much for fostering privacy!

-Yeah, well, there's not going to be

any more fostering if anything else goes wrong.

KNOCK AT DOOR

Hey, want to help me do my nails?

What's Dad said?

Oh, that he had totally bombed in trying to cheer you up.

Is this about your resits?

You know, it's just a little hiccup in your life plan. That's all.

I've always admired the way you knew what you wanted to do.

Even when you were a kid.

You are so like your dad.

Hey, I've just been looking at your "weeping" tree.

It's caused by something called oak dieback.

So you think the tree is dying?

Probably why that branch fell off.

Can you save it?

No promises, but nature has a way of sorting these things out.

Oh, Peter, it's a lovely old tree.

Well, maybe it's time we make way for a lovely new tree.

BELL TINKLES

Izzy? Where have you been?

It's a bit far fetched, even for you.

An oak tree enchanting Izzy?

I think it's draining Izzy's energy to keep itself alive.

There has to be something we can do.

Sparko said that the Oldest Man kept talking about summoning sprites.

That's a type of fairy, isn't it?

Actually, it's a cross between a fairy and an elf.

They live in trees to help them stay healthy.

Borrowed it from Grandad.

Healthy Trees: Arboreal Almanac.

Does it say how much we need?

All it says is, "With leaves and twigs and woodland floor,

"encircle their bed, victims fear no more."

So, stage one is summoning the sprites to save the weeping oak?

And stage two is putting this all round Izzy Wizzy's bed

so the tree lets her go.

But what if the sprites haven't actually got there yet

and the weeping oak picks on one of us?

I'm definitely doing my bed!

Me too.

I'm not sure that comes under

the heading of being your best behaviour.

LOUD CRASH

Izzy, don't!

Hello.

What's with the noise?

I'm sorry I shoved you over.

I'm sorry I give you a fright.

What were you doing out there?

I like the sound when the wind blows through the leaves.

And what were you doing in the woods with Archie?

-He said you vanished into thin air.

-I wanted to be on my own.

-I wish I could draw like you.

-I love art.

Well, why aren't you doing it at college, then?

Cos I'm going to be a solicitor.

Oh, so you love that more than art?

Not even close.

But I've been planning to be a solicitor since...

-since I was your age.

-I don't know what I want to be yet.

But I'm never telling when I do.

Not if you're not allowed to change your mind.

She's going to go mad.

The book says we need it. It won't work without it.

She's asleep.

-QUIETLY:

-I'll keep a lookout.

BELL TINKLES

CLOCK CRASHES, BELL JANGLES

-WHISPERS:

-Sorry, and I can't find the notebook

WHISPERS: Come on.

Go on, then. Before you burst.

I wish you could make a living out of drawing.

Loads of people do.

Designers or illustrators.

Or in advertising.

Do you think I could do something like that?

So, after all these years,

solicitor as a career choice is finally getting the old heave-ho?

Do you think Dad will be OK with it?

You're the one that's got to earn a living

at whatever it is you choose to do,

so as long as it makes you happy, that's the thing.

If sprites are meant to keep trees healthy,

then why aren't they looking after the weeping oak?

They're only tiny. If they're living in the woods,

they probably don't even know our tree exists.

Right, well, I think this is far enough.

It says we have to be facing a healthy oak tree.

Archie, you stand in front of Jade.

And you'll need this.

Archie, are you ready?

Arms up, twigs out.

Let's get ready to guide those sprites out of there.

Sprites, I summon ye

This ancient oak has a hideous blight

But we raise this call to all the woodland sprites

Please come and heal this ailing tree

And with your power set Izzy Wizzy free.

-BOTH:

-Sprites, we summon ye.

-ALL:

-Sprites, we summon ye.

-BELL TINKLES

Look!

It's working.

That's stage one of our Free Izzy Wizzy campaign complete.

I can't wait to get on with stage two.

SIREN WAILS

All right! Izzy!

-Stop. Stop.

-Izzy.

-What's wrong?

-That's what we're trying to find out. What's up?

SOMEONE STOLE MY BELL!

This is for emergencies!

-IT

-IS

-AN EMERGENCY!

Your department, I think.

Let's see if we can find your bell, yeah?

I'll do it myself!

We can't do that now. Dad will go ballistic.

What if the weeping oak won't let Izzy go?

We've summoned the sprites, we just have to hope that

when the tree's been healed, it will release Izzy.

Wait, that might take weeks.

No! We can't risk setting Dad off

or else he'll stop fostering kids at The Knot.

There'll be no more foster kids anyway if Izzy does anything else.

I'll see if I can get any more information out of Sparko

that might help us with Izzy.

Oh, and stay out of Dad's way.

And promise me you won't do stage two.

WHISPERS: Psh-sh-sh-shhh. Psh-sh-sh.

Ticker-ticker-ticker...

-Stop snooping!

-Sorry! I was just trying to...

Did you put that there?

I had to borrow it for something.

-You should have asked.

-I couldn't.

I'm really sorry.

Me, Jade and Archie, we were trying to protect you from the weeping oak.

What do you mean?

Well, you know how sometimes you do some pretty random stuff?

And...

you've been really tired recently?

And you know how the oak tree is really sick?

We think...

the oak tree is draining your energy to keep itself alive.

So it's the tree?

It keeps trying to talk to me, but it's all muffled and mumbly,

like I'm underwater.

I can never make out what it's saying.

So you've been writing it down.

They're my favourite sounds of the island.

Water in the stream,

wind in the leaves,

sea by the Wish Cave.

Rocket's going to kill us.

Unless Peter gets us first.

We need to free Izzy Wizzy.

And protect ourselves.

Please! Is there anything you can think of that might...?

Rocket, he was exhausted. It took him weeks to recover.

-There isn't anything else.

-Yeah, but...

-We're done!

I knew the summoning wouldn't work.

It did, actually. But Izzy's still the same.

There's always the woodland floor.

-We're not doing it.

-Eh?

Long story.

Which ends in Mr B and no more kids coming to The Knot?

BELL TINKLES

Rocket is really going to go off on one when he finds out.

He'll be thanking us when he sees we got Izzy back to normal.

Spit it out.

Ferryhead College isn't running the art and design course this year.

-Why?

-Not enough students applied.

The first time in, like, ever

I felt properly excited about the rest of my life.

Now it's over before it's begun.

Alli, wait!

-Sarah?

-Hang on. Alli?

-SCREAMS:

-Who put this muck in here?!

I just need a hand moving that branch.

Get out here!

Come on!

Is it like that in your rooms too?

We had to, to save Izzy Wizzy and protect yourselves.

She has been enchanted by the weeping oak.

We're trying to set her free and stop it getting us instead.

What am I missing, Dibs?

Why does Izzy think she's running out of time?

-Time to do what?

-The bit I don't get

-is why she'd write all that stuff in her notebook.

-What do you mean?

Why would anyone bother to write down all their favourite sounds

when they can hear them whenever they want?

-Dibby, you're a genius.

-You only just noticed?

Hey! I gave you the answer! At least tell me what it was!

You're making me ill!

What do you want?

Please, we'll make it up to you, we'll...

We'll do double farm chores for a week.

I don't want you two anywhere near my farm.

In fact, you're both banned.

-Dad!

-We're so sorry.

How many more times are you all going to apologise...?

-I know what's wrong with Izzy.

-Not now!

Dad! Come outside, quickly! It's Izzy Wizzy!

Stop!

Turn it off! Stop! Turn it off!

Izzy! Izzy, turn off the engine!

-SARAH:

-Rocket!

-SCREAMING

Rocket!

Rocket!

What were you doing?!

Killing the tree, so... so it will let me go.

And did you lot put this idea in her head?

Yeah... No... But, Dad...

I can't do this.

Leave me alone! I can't hear what you're saying!

Dad, it's not just the tree she can't hear.

Dad, it's everything.

That's what she meant by "running out of time".

Dad, she's going deaf!

BELL TINKLES

It gets fainter every day.

That's why you were writing down all the sounds of your favourite places,

for when you can't hear them any more.

Why didn't you tell us?

I thought you'd send me away.

It's said the only island greater than ours is the one beneath it.

You have to promise me you won't go anywhere near those mines.

Peter !

-RUMBLING

-What's that?

-I...have no idea.

We have to get them out of there.

Run!