The Hot Zone The Sparticle Mystery

-Where are the grown-ups?

-What will we do?

You must travel to the Sparticle Project and realign our dimension

with your dimension.

Where the ley lines cross is where Reese can open wormholes

and see through to the other side.

We agreed we wouldn't encourage her any more.

When you get to the Sparticle Project,

you'll get to a voice-activated door.

We have Barker's voice on dictaphone to get you in.

-Sadiq, I want to help.

-I don't trust Callum.

How else will you get the dictaphone?

-Wow! Look at the sky!

-Look at that!

Look! Come on, let's go.

THEY CHATTER EXCITEDLY

There's a person!

-That looks like fun!

-More like crazy!

He's coming in to land.

-Come on, let's see!

-Let's go.

What is that?

I'm looking for the Sparticles. Are they still staying at City Hotel?

-We're here!

-It's Callum.

I know where they are.

For a price.

Do you think I flew hundreds of miles

to pay a bum like you for information?

-What do you want, Callum?

-The dictaphone.

-What dictaphone?

Don't play games with me.

Your tribe need the tape with Kat's dad's voice on it.

So, please. Hand it over.

-I don't trust you.

-And neither does Sadiq.

-That's why I need to deliver. And fast.

-So how are they doing?

Kat's confident she knows what to do at the Sparticle Project.

If they get through the voice-activated door.

The Dictaphone, it's gone! Someone's stolen it!

Is Fizzy still operating this patch?

Who do you think you are?

The dictaphone's our property, so we're coming with you.

It isn't coming from under here.

Hey, Reese. Not about to explode are you?

Where IS that noise coming from?

CLICKING

What are you doing?

Writing postcards to Mum and Dad.

I just want them to know how much I miss them.

Things have been difficult with Mum and Dad, but I still love them.

Holly, you...

You do know there's no actual way of sending them, right?

Course.

-Do you have a spare one?

-Sure.

Arrgh!

Ah! Yaah!

Oh! That sound is driving me NUTS. What IS it?

Looking for this?

We stopped for this?

I picked it up in the underground bunker. Thought it looked neat.

-What is it, Sadiq?

-Oh, who cares?

Go and tell the girls that we're leaving.

Well, shift!

Oh! Reese?

What are you doing?

We're near a weak spot between the parallel worlds.

Oh, la, la, la, la, la, la.

Hey, maybe it's a metal detector!

We're looking for hidden treasure.

CLICKING

It's a Geiger counter, you moron.

-A what-er counter?

-A Geiger counter. It measures radiation.

GEIGER COUNTER CLICKS

In fact...it's...

it's measuring radiation.

COUNTER CLICKS RAPIDLY

Why is it getting such a high reading here?

COUNTER CLICKS RAPIDLY

Oh, please no.

Kat? What's that building?

A nuclear power plant. With no adults working there.

I think something's gone wrong with the reactor.

-How do you know that?

-Because of this!

It can measure things that we can't see, taste or smell.

Nuclear radiation.

And that can kill.

RUN!

Go!

What's going on?

-Go!

-Hurry!

Sadiq, DRIVE! Get in the front, go!

-Kat, what's up?

-Just drive!

-Where am I going to?

-Anywhere. Just... Go.

Good.

The metal body of the van is shielding us.

The further away we get from the power station, the better.

-Power station?

-Yeah! A great big huge one...and it's blowing a gasket.

Kat. Look.

"You are entering a hot zone".

That's a radiation sign.

They're telling us to stop.

If this is happening here...

it could be happening everywhere, all over the country.

Let's turn around.

Get to the Sparticle Project, head another way.

There's no point in realigning with the adult world.

Why?

We'll be dying...

or dead from radioactive poisoning.

Are you sure about this? We shouldn't be on the tracks.

I know...but this stock ain't been shifted since the war.

These tracks ain't live.

Hold on.

-Jeff, you look after Liam and Frankie.

-Gotcha.

I'm here to see Fizzy.

Remember me?

LOUD MUSIC AND CHATTER

Callum!

You still thieving, Fizz?

-You remember Dim?

-Unlikely to forget.

-I like your eye candy!

-Ahem!

-I need your help.

I've "lost" something. Actually, Tia has. A dictaphone.

About so big, with buttons on it. Records sounds, memos and stuff.

Dim, check the booty bag.

That's it!

What's so special about it?

-The fate of...

-..a special friendship depends on it.

It's got a recording on it. The voice of Tia's dad.

It's the only memory she has left of him. Right?

Right.

The only memory.

You've gone soft on a girl!

Ha ha ha.

-SHUT IT YOU MONKEY!

-Argh!

Sorry. Dim's got no manners.

Ow.

If you'd like this back, there's this little job I need doing.

It's even hotter up ahead.

Someone's left a message on the fence. Listen!

"Our mums and dads worked at the power station.

"When the tags on their clothes turned black,

"we knew there had been a leak."

It's black already! Ah!

-We need to find another route!

-No.

What we NEED to do is tell the stupid adults in the other dimension

what is happening here!

What's the matter?

Everyone else back in the van. We shouldn't be out here. Come on.

Kat, we can tell the adults when we bring them back...

then they can fix things.

It'll be too late, Holly. If that nuclear plant blows up, then,

depending on which way the wind blows,

half the country will be covered in radiation.

We can't wait until we get to the Project!

-We have to tell them NOW.

-But we can't.

There's no communication between the worlds.

Only my make-believe postcards.

Ha. If only we could just chuck a message down a wormhole,

just like we did with bottles in the sea!

We could try.

We're near where the ley lines cross.

Like when I saw adults in the library

and Muna in the fairground and on the farm.

-It won't work.

-Have you got a better idea?

Don't listen to her!

Where is it, Reese?

GEIGER COUNTER CLICKS

Well, it just would be.

Are you sure?

It's not science.

Neither are half the crazy things that have happened on the Quest.

So we're diverting again for some long-shot attempt

to send an SOS to the adults via a wormhole?

If we do manage to realign the worlds,

the adults need to be ready to deal with a massive emergency.

We have to warn them.

It's our only chance.

We need to go through there and sort it out.

If I do trust you on this...

how are you going to send the message?

I don't know.

We're...

We're working on it.

Buckle up!

I want to take my establishment on tour. Only, I can't.

Because of this lock.

Tried sawing it, snapping it, waggling it, draggling it.

Reckon you can handle it, Cal?

Those things are foolproof.

Let's hope Callum's no fool. For your sake.

I really want to travel. Capiche?

-Callum's got to get that clamp off!

-You can do that, right?

I used to have a kit for picking locks but I traded it in.

That's convenient(!)

Do you really think I want to deal with those people?

The last time I crossed Fizzy, his sidekick knifed me.

Look, if you don't trust me, fine. I don't actually care.

I promised Kat I would get her into the Sparticle Project. And I will.

-What you reading?

-It was in the kit bag.

It's a "what to do" guide, In The event Of A Nuclear Fallout.

We're lucky the wind's blowing away from us. One bar.

As long as it doesn't get to ten.

Well, let's hope the wind doesn't change direction.

Turn left!

Now!

GEIGER COUNTER CLICKS

Where's she taking us?

Check this out.

It says here certain clothing can protect you from radiation.

-This way.

-Why've you brought the laptop?

To shield my heart chakra from radiation.

You'd better be right about this.

Check out these clothes.

Geiger counter is up to two bars.

Well, where's this wormhole, Reese?

I...I can't "see" anything.

She's not the only one.

I'll see if there's a generator.

-It's a theatre!

-What are you doing?!

Protect and Survive.

Heavy cloth keeps out Alpha radiation

and leather protects against Beta and...

I can see the wormhole now!

I can see someone!

Muna!

It's Holly.

We're up to three now, guys.

The plan?

Without Muna as a go-between, we can't send a message to the adults.

What?!

So why have you bought us to the danger zone, Sadiq?

I should have never listened to you.

KEYBOARD CLANGS

Maybe we could send the adults a sound message.

How?

Well, think about it.

There may be adults here, in this theatre.

We can't see them, they can't see us

but maybe, just maybe, they can hear us.

Reese, give me the laptop.

I know how to send the adults a message.

We broadcast it using radio waves.

This is not a radio.

No, it's better!

It's decked out with all the latest geeky gear including Max-Fi.

Give it to me.

-Is this going to take much longer?

-Nearly there.

Trouble with a lock like this is, you've got to visualise it.

Try and imagine how it would look like from the inside.

There, now I just have to...

SNAP!

If you don't get that off, Fizzy won't give us the dictaphone

and we never get the adults back.

Maybe if you looked after the dictaphone in the first place...

Tia, you're not helping. Callum, you're doing fine.

-You've changed your tune!

-Well, he's right. You were careless!

"Careless"?!

When was it my responsibility to look after the dictaphone?

I need something thinner.

This any good?

OK.

Frankie. Hold this.

Right, now, don't move a muscle...

-Yes-s-s!

-Woohoo! Haha!

Hoo-hoo-hyah!

Good job, Callum!

Hand it over, Fizz. The dictaphone.

Not so fast. Like I said...

you've done a good job.

So now you have the opportunity to WIN the dictaphone back.

At the card table.

Here's my stake. Your precious dictaphone.

What's yours?

What a load of old toot.

I'm losing my sense of fun.

The paramotor's back at Tent City.

Paramotor?

A motorized parachute.

-A flying machine.

-Let's play.

Oh!

Oi!

SNAP!

CROWD CHEERS

Winner takes it all.

-We'll pick up the paramotor this afternoon.

-Wait!

In exchange for the dictaphone...

Take me. I'll come work for you...

for free. I can wash, clean, serve behind the bar.

-What d'you think?

-No, Jeffrey. I won't let you...

-It's OK, Tia.

Hahaha! You're no good to me, you're useless.

Let's go and find Frankie and Liam and tell them we've lost...

everything.

XYLOPHONE RINGS

-Got it!

-How's this going to work exactly?

Well, I assigned a letter of the alphabet

to the first twenty six notes to create a really simple code.

Any remotely musical and/or semi-intelligent adult

should be able to decode it.

-What's the message say?

-"Mayday. From the Children.

-"Severe nuclear situation."

-How will we know if it works?

Well...

we won't.

We just have to hope.

BEAUTIFUL TUNE PLAYS

COUNTER CLICKS RAPIDLY

Bar seven.

How bad is Gamma?

Bad.

Only metal can protect us, Holly.

So...this is useless.

Let's get out of here! Come on.

Holly, come on!

TUNE CONTINUES

What's Callum up to? I don't trust him.

I do.

Why, after what he's done?

He wants to impress Kat.

He couldn't care less about bringing the adults back.

But he cares about her.

Maybe I should tell Fizzy about the dictaphone. Why we need it?

You heard what Callum said. Fizzy's got a good thing going.

If he knew it could bring the adults back,

he'd wipe Barker's voice in a heartbeat.

Don't take any notice about what Fizzy said. It's not true.

You're really useful. And clever, brave, and...

..not feeling bad at all!

Nope.

Fizzy says I'm no use, huh? Well, we'll show him!

Callum, you lost our dictaphone and our trust.

-I want to settle this with you... man-to-man. Outside.

-Oooh!

You get the plasters ready, Dimbo.

Hahaha.

-He'll wipe the floor with him!

-Yeah.

-OK, Jeff. Let me have it.

-Follow me.

Stop! Listen!

COUNTER CLICKS VERY RAPIDLY

The highest this goes to is ten.

It's touching nine. And that's in here.

COUNTER CLICKS VERY RAPIDLY

-I'm going to reverse the van.

-You'll get a massive Gamma dose!

If I do nothing...

..we all die.

Who do you think you are? Some sort of knight in shining armour?

Sadiq?

I've got an idea.

Thought we'd bring it to you, Fizz.

Could do with a man like you, Cal.

Be just like old times.

Yeah, tell you what, why don't we talk about it over a bottle of fizz.

Please yourself.

Should have seen me take those losers.

Add this to the collection.

Walkie-talkies?

Getaway car?

You've got to be kidding me?!

The principle is simple. It's basically a big kettle.

You boil water to create steam,

that drives the pistons that turn the wheels.

But we can't go anywhere until that's in the red.

Better fill up the firebox!

Since when did you become an expert on driving a train?

Since every Sunday spent with my Grandad,

volunteering on the local steam railway.

Where's Liam?

Yes!

All aboard!

BEAUTIFUL TUNE PLAYS

BEETHOVEN'S FIFTH SYMPHONY PLAYS

It's a message from the adults!

It's a reply!

QUICK!

BEAUTIFUL TUNE PLAYS

BEETHOVEN'S FIFTH SYMPHONY PLAYS

What were they saying?

-Sounded like Morse code.

-Because it is Morse code.

Da da da daah is... dot dot dot dash.

It means the letter V.

-V?

-I did that in history!

During World War Two, the four notes from Beethoven's Fifth

stood for V for Victory!

The adults understood our message about the meltdown.

And they know how to fix it!

ALL: Yeah!

Get in there!

Hahaha!

CAR HORN HONKS

CLANG!

Come on, Liam.

MOTOR REVS

MOTOR ROARS

Oof!

Help me!

Look, he's got the dictaphone.

All aboard!

What's happening?

Sorry!

Oi, you lot!

Come back with my train!

Who are you calling useless... Useless?

-Argh!

-Bye-bye!

Next stop, the Sparticle Project!

TRAIN WHISTLE BLOWS

If the adults don't fix things,

the whole planet will go toxic. Come on.

-No. No.

-Come on.

-No.

At midnight, I'll be in another dimension.

It's not going to happen to you.

Easy for you to say, it's not your birthday tomorrow!

-Ami!

-It's his diabetes. He needs insulin.

-It's not going to stop in time!

-Get them!

Let's hope she's gone for good.

REESE SCREAMS

You know that I hate you.

Goodbye.

SCREAMS

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