The Invasion The Sparticle Mystery

The Sparticle Project was switched on today.

All our teachers hid from us. It was so cool.

-The world is full of children.

-What are we going to do?

-Anything we like?

-What are you up to?

-Anything I want.

-Leave her alone.

Kids hanging out, looking after each other.

Stick together. We need space, food,

and a door to lock to keep out trouble.

It's the end of the world as we know it.

CAR ALARM BLARES

I'm trying to find out what the Sparticle Project is.

The internet's not working.

No internet, no mobile phones, no TV or no parents.

Which is worse do you think?

Um, no mobiles. Hang on! No TV.

Hello, City Hotel? A smile's our way to make your day!

Where've you all gone?

Bread's ready!

Aargh! You've baked a brick!

How good's your pancake then?

Mmm, crunchy. Eggshells.

Argh.

-We've got to stop wasting food.

-You sound like my mother.

I AM your mother, and everybody else's, or hadn't you noticed?

Pink rice pudding anyone?

Would you like a lemon with that?

It's Kat, she's come back! Unlock the doors.

Sadiq said not to let anyone else in.

Sadiq's not around.

Just for a minute, Reese...please?

The tribe's closed.

Remember?

Let me out then, I don't want to be in your stupid tribe.

I'll take my own chances.

Suit yourself, short stack.

Come and get your little friend.

Where were you? I came back to the loading bay, and you were gone.

I had to lay low for a while, there's a gang hanging around.

Come on, let's get inside.

This is so cool.

I love triangular spaces,

they've got such great symmetry. I'm well into my symmetry.

Did you know for every particle there's an invisible twin?

A super symmetrical particle or sparticle?

Umm. Fascinating.

Look, the tribe's closed. Sorry.

We can't let everybody and anybody in.

But I'm not just everybody or anybody.

My father is Henry Barker the famous physicist!

No! Not THE Henry Barker!

I don't care.

None of that matters now, does it? They've all vanished.

Sadiq, the pancakes are disgusting.

-Sadiq, I think we should let Kat join.

-Give it up.

Please!

-Can you cook?

-I'm a girl so of course I can.

None of us can.

You're unbelievable! Do you want me to do your washing as well?

Oh, yeah, if you don't mind.

Laundry's round the back. Here.

-Do you want to start with this.

-Do you know what, we don't need you!

We need to find more about The Sparticle Project.

-It's important we find out about it and Kat's dad.

-Not now!

-All right?

-What's it to you?

Just making conversation.

Them lot didn't seem to want to.

Little lad... he your brother, is he?

No, but I said I'd look after him until his mum gets back so...

And now Sadiq won't let you in.

-I'm old enough to manage.

-I bet you are.

The world's changed.

It's not safe to be on your own any more.

I looked out for you last night, but you legged it.

I didn't mean to scare you.

-You didn't.

-What's your name?

Katherine, but everyone calls me Kat.

That's my favourite animal.

You hungry? We've got breakfast cooking.

-We?

-Yeah, me and my gang.

Come on.

I won't bite.

Hey, Lemonhead,

get my girl a hotdog.

-Thanks.

-Do you want one?

-Is it all right?

-Sure.

Come on then.

Where you stopping tonight?

-Same place as last night.

-If someone else ain't bagged it.

We're on the move later on.

Somewhere a bit more cosy.

Why don't both of you come with us?

-You're asking us to join your gang?

-Sure.

You're smart, and tough. And I need a deputy.

Plus I like you,

a lot.

Oi!

-Thanks.

-So what do you reckon?

I'll take of both of you.

-All right.

-All right.

Can I talk to you about the Sparticle Project yet?

-It's important.

-PHONE RINGS

All the phone lines are dead.

-Someone's ringing from inside the hotel.

-Ami, get the phone!

Er, hello. Room service?

Yes, OK, uh-huh, yep.

Wants bacon, egg and orange juice.

-So do I!

-Can I have your room number, please?

-There's a woman in room 35.

-Thank you.

A woman? Are you sure?

The Sparticle Project, exhibition at the library.

Room service.

Who are you?

I just thought Mum and Dad let me sleep.

I get really bad jetlag. We travel a lot.

Are you saying I slept through it all?

I reckon UFOs came down and beamed them all up.

Never saw no spaceships.

I don't care where they are. I love it not telling me what to do.

Pack it in, Ami.

Yes, Sadiq.

Sadiq? It's that Callum again.

-What's he doing here?

-He must want something.

-And I bet I know what it is.

It's this place.

We've got to check the doors and entrances are secure.

And quickly.

Jordan, Jeffrey, take care of the lifts and the loading bay.

Tia, Frankie, Ami, you're coming with me.

Wait, wait, where's Reese?

Must be in reception on that computer.

All right. Let's go! Move it!

BANGING

-It's locked.

-That's because we don't have a swipe card.

-How are we going to get one?

-Give it a rest.

Why don't you try being part of the solution

instead of being part of the problem?!

Just get out of the way!

Hello, Blondie.

Do you remember me?

-What are you doing in our car park?

-Wasn't aware it was your car park.

We're not stopping.

-You tell Sadiq that, all right?

-I will.

-Where are you going?

-To the library.

You haven't seen a girl leaving the hotel? With a little boy?

I need to ask her about her dad.

-Yeah, we have.

-No, we haven't.

-Oh. No, we haven't.

-Well, if you do,

tell her I'm looking for her.

We have seen her. She's over there.

I know that, Lemonhead. But I am thinking, so shut up.

I don't know why I couldn't just grab that swipe card off Blondie!

-I thought you said we were taking over the hotel tonight.

-We are.

Then we need her swipe card.

-No, we just need Blondie.

-I don't understand.

That's why you do all the jobs for me that no-one else would.

You're a complete meat head.

Thanks, Callum.

Here you go. Present.

Oh, Thanks, Callum. Agh! Urgh.

Got it. Follow me.

Kat.

I think I've fixed the gears.

Thanks. That blondie from the hotel was looking for you.

-I didn't know where you were.

-Oh, Sadiq probably sent her to apologise.

Nah. Something about your dad.

Really? I wonder what she wanted.

If you hurry you'll catch her. Said she was going to the library.

We'll look after Liam.

Won't we, Lemonhead?

Anyone find her?

When we secured the place, we forgot one thing.

To check that Reese wasn't on the outside. With Callum.

-But the front doors are locked.

-The lift swipe card is missing.

The Sparticle Project.

Go away!

Emily! Emily!

Mummy's looking for you!

Please, where are you?

The game of hide and seek finished a long time ago.

I thought Luke might have come here.

-Emily...

-Always reading.

-Are you here?

Somebody's taken the children!

We're here, we're all here. We're safe.

..Here when she disappeared....

It's the last place I could think of...

-Is it really you?

-You're crazy.

Why were you dancing with yourself?

I've got to go.

No, you can't do this.

What's your name?

-Reese.

-OK, Reese, stop shaking and start talking.

What is a sparticle?

Well, every particle has an invisible twin that you can't see.

So, particle - super symmetrical particle or sparticle.

So what was The Sparticle Project for?

Well, Dad has a theory.

Our universe is in fact just one of many

and we're all existing in different dimensions

just invisible to one another.

OK, so we're on one dimension over here.

But there is another one over here.

Only we can't see it.

So that's what The Sparticle Project was built for,

to try and see into these parallel dimensions.

I think I just did.

Kat, I think I just saw the grown-ups.

-Here.

-Here?

In this library?

All the grown-ups in the world are here in this library?

No, just the one's in the library, like us.

You know, it's like they were here, I was here.

We were next to each other but invisible to each other.

I don't believe you.

Really I did.

The mum, she had this weird coloured hair

and she wasn't wearing any shoes.

What if there are little spy holes

between our dimension into parallel ones?

You mean like wormholes?

Yeah! What are they?

They're little tears in the fabric of time and space.

Kat, what if I just saw into another dimension

where all the grown-ups are? That would explain everything.

Everything, and nothing.

This is way beyond any science I've ever heard of.

But if the grown-ups aren't here

then they must be somewhere else.

Wait.

What colour hair did you say that mum had?

Red. And her feet were bare.

That's her. Do you believe me now?

Scientists work on...on proof and...and evidence,

and being able to recreate things and can you do that for me?

Er... I'm not really sure I want to.

Then I'm sorry. I've got to go.

Kat, you're back.

-Ladies...

-Bye then.

-No! Please come up to the hotel.

-I'm not welcome there.

-You are here.

And I thought I was the geek.

So you'll come? Please, Kat.

You're the only one who knows what I saw,

and the only one who knows about The Sparticle Project.

I need you, and they don't know it yet, but they need you too.

Fine by me.

Blondie needs a hand with all these books.

Just make sure you come straight back down after, yeah?

Before I miss you.

Nice one. Using your girlfriend like that.

She's not my girlfriend, you idiot.

She's a way of getting us into the hotel

and once we're in,

she's history.

Nice one.

Right, Reese has been taken hostage and Callum's on his way.

Everyone has to be ready. This is our best chance.

You mean this is our only chance.

We've got Plan B.

I feel, like, so reassured.

-On my cue. Right?

-ALL: Right.

GO!

Sadiq! Stop!

-Reese!

-Hi.

I just wanted to find out more about The Sparticle Project, I'm sorry.

It's all right. I'm just relieved it wasn't Callum, that's all.

Want to tell us what you found out?

No, no, it's OK.

Maybe later.

KNOCK ON WINDOW

Callum!

Sadiq! Callum needs help, he's bleeding. Callum, what happened?

I fell over these handlebars onto a load of broken glass.

I hurt my arm. I've really slashed it bad.

Sadiq! Open the door! He's really hurt!

Where's his gang? They should be looking after him.

Check the CCTV!

They found out about some fairground that was working proper.

-They've ridden off and left you?

-Kat, help me.

Reese? Is the coast clear?

I can't see anyone.

I don't trust this. Something's wrong.

We're watching someone bleed to death.

- If you won't let him in, then let me out and I'll help him!

It's OK, Callum, I'm coming.

Let me look at your arm, we've got to stop the bleeding.

What's wrong?

Callum?

It's fake blood.

They tricked us! They're coming!

Plan B! Plan B! Plan B!

-No!

-Great job, Kat.

Well done.

THEY CHANT

Right!

Come out, come out, wherever you are!

-Search the hotel!

-You two, with me now!

-Let's go.

-Let's show these guys who's boss.

OK. Ready?

GROANS OF PAIN

Get out of here, go!

Get her!

HE SCREAMS

Blast them!

Drink anyone?!

Ugh! That's disgusting!

How do you feel?

What do you think you're playing at?

Watch out!

-Didn't expect that one, did you?

-Come on, boys, let's go.

All right, Sadiq. Let's settle it.

You and me, old style.

You're on.

-That's not old style.

-No, it's my style.

It's over, Callum.

Give up and get out.

HE SNIFFS

What's that burning smell?

I think it's coming from the kitchen.

SMOKE ALARM BEEPS

Do you think it's going to be like this every day?

-I hope so.

-SHE LAUGHS

Hi. Are you hungry?

Thank you.

You forgot to say thank you to Kat.

Where are we going to go now, Kat?

-Hi.

-Hi. We'll be off soon.

No rush.

-That was really smart what you did with the ball and...

-Oh.

It was just angles and trajectories.

I can explain it if you like.

It's all right. I don't have that kind of a brain.

But your brain might be useful.

Fancy a bit of brain food? Grub?

You mean you've managed to cook something?

Sure. Figured it out. Beef stew and dumplings.

Come on, it's a big enough home.

Thanks, Sadiq.

Wait till you see the washing up!

Keep looking for us and we'll keep looking for you.

An adult. We're not on our own.

The keys. It's got the hotel keys. Kat. Chase the dog.

-You're making acid?

-Delicious.

-Follow that tent!

If you're not back when the time's up, I'll detonate the experiment.

-You've got 15 minutes left.

-Anita!

-You won't make it. The gas.

-Jeff!

One adult and she's mad.

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