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And today on Island Life,

we're at Rock Island's first ever Invention Battle!

Yep, it's nerd V nerd

in the hottest science comp of the island,

where favourite, Ellis Grouch, is currently...

..having a panic attack.

XT plus one equals KXT bracket one minus XT.

XT plus one equals KXT bracket one minus XT.

XT plus one...

- Lila! - ..one minus XT!

Do random numbers and letters help settle your nerves?

It's the formula for chaos theory.

Because right now, my thoughts are pure chaos!

Focus on first prize. You love your drone - Dave.

Imagine what you could do with his underwater cousin - Davina.

Check it out! Brock Jefferson.

Ellis's nemesis.

Ellis's nemesis. Try saying that 10 times.

Ellis's nemesis, Ellis's nemesis,

Ellis's nemesis, Ellis's nem...

OK, everybody. The Invention Battle is about to begin.

Please follow me.

You've just gotta look your competitor in the eye

and let them know you can crush them!

Slowly.

Think of Davina.

Who's Davina? Ellis, do you have

a secret girlfriend you haven't told me about?

Davina's an underwater drone.

No judgement.

It's OK to be nervous. I get nervous too.

You? Never.

Stress rolls off you like a hydrophobic lipid in water.

Thanks. I think.

Except, after your battle's finished,

I've got to present an award - tonight.

The Charlie Young Award for Scientific Exploration,

and I'm worried I'm going to mess up my speech.

You never mess up anything.

I'll probably throw up, pass out, or both at the same time.

I need to lie down!

Where are you going?

If I know my symbology, this is the Institute sick bay.

I don't think you know your symbology.

So it's not the sick bay, but it'll do.

It's me.

I thought you'd be pleased to know

today is all going to plan.

Yes, Professor James. I will make sure.

♪ It's a curious situation

♪ A strong case of speculation how

♪ It takes more than intuition

♪ To work the situation out

♪ It's right before your eyes Can you feel it?

♪ It's right between the lines Try to reveal it

♪ So look until you find All of the pieces

♪ Put them together

♪ Now you see it

♪ Rock Island Mysteries.

Come on, Ellis. Time to get your big brain inventing.

Whoa! This looks like a symbex.

If this is just an attempt to help distract me from my fear,

it's working.

What's a symbex, and how come I've never heard of them?

Uncle Charlie wrote about them.

If you twist them the right way,

they unlock all kinds of bizarre properties.

Perfect! It might help me de-stress.

Wait! Uncle Charlie also said they're highly unpredictable.

Give it back.

Ellis!

Is that what you meant by 'bizarre properties', Taylor?

A blinding light?

I was hoping for something a little more exciting, Ellis.

That light must have messed with my vision,

because these don't look like my hands.

Or legs.

In fact, they look like they belong to...

Stress levels so high!

Fully dissociating! Sense of self, gone!

Give me my face back!

I can't! It's stuck on. This isn't happening.

- The symbex! - It can't be happening!

It's caused us to...

Brain swap!

This is mind-blowing!

It's a nightmare! We need to switch back. Immediately.

We need to figure out what this symbol means.

Someone's coming. Quick! Hide the symbex!

I meant in your pocket.

Forget it. Don't give anything away.

What are you two doing in here?

I was feeling super nervous

so I hid in here to gather my thoughts.

I get nervous because I have a really big brain

and know too much about everything.

Then I came in and saved the day,

like I always do.

Mysteries rule!

Hmm...

You seem a little off, Ellis. Is everything alright?

You know Ellis?

I mean...me?

Yes, I saw your application for the competition.

You are Ellis Grouch, aren't you?

Well, who else would I be?

Good.

I need you at the top of your game for the Invention Battle.

Let's go, kids.

I'll meet you there. I dropped my...

..lucky Taylor thing.

You can look for it after the challenge. Off we go.

- Taylor, what do we do? - Ellis, you need to calm down.

How am I supposed to calm down?

- Just keep cool... -Oh, there he is!

We were worried you'd bailed, Ellis.

The most amazing thing ever just happened.

Ellis.

Taylor, I've been waiting for you.

You said you wanted to run through your speech.

Taylor.

Oh! Uh, I-I mean...

Taylor Young is here to present you the award...

Are you sure you want to speak in the third person?

I'm not sure of anything anymore.

Are you...sweating?

That's unlike you, hon.

So very true.

Well, maybe we could practise together.

No!

He means... I mean...she means, no need.

Her speech is great.

OK, well, I'd love to hear it, then.

Why don't you go and help out, Lila?

Who better to give honest performance feedback?

I do like to judge.

Ellis! What are you doing out here? It's showtime.

Yay!

Let the Invention Battle begin!

The award's arrived. Be back in a sec.

The suspense is killing me, Tay!

What was the goss? What happened?

I'm not Taylor. I'm Ellis!

Yeah...imagine.

I don't have to imagine, because it's happening!

Taylor and I found a symbex

and somehow we activated it, causing a brain swap.

You're seriously trying to tell me you're Ellis...in there.

Yes! Look at me.

I can't stop wondering why Einstein's theory of relativity

received more press than his ground-breaking work

on the photoelectric effect.

If you really are...Ellis...

- Spider! - Get it off me!

No...way!

What is Ellis saying?

"I'm a sailor"?

Ms Newman?

Ellis is cheating. I saw him communicating with his friends.

Put your arm down, Brock. Ellis doesn't need to cheat.

I expected a lot more from you.

You have the perfect components for a smartphone projector.

Really?

I mean, of course I do because...you know Ellis -

who is me -

I love to subvert expectations.

Since when was brain-swapping a thing?

Since the symbex came along!

We need to go back into the marine storage room

and re-swap brains.

Here it is!

Now, let's hear this speech.

OK.

Just give...

Hi. I'm here to present the Uncle Charlie Award.

Oh, you're going to refer to the award

by its proper name, right?

The Charlie Young Award for Scientific...

..Looking.

Exploration.

That's it.

Anyway...I'm so proud

to be presenting this award on behalf of my uncle.

Whenever I saw him, he was always so...

..gorilla-y?

What?

My brain's fuzzy. Think I need a break. Lila, walk?

- Uh-huh! - I could do with a wander.

- No! - It's meant to be a surprise!

We know how much this award means to you,

so...we wanted to buy you something to celebrate.

Exactly, Mrs Young.

Mum. Mama. Ma?

OK, but don't be too long. Your speech needs some work.

I'll meet you in half an hour.

If we're a second longer, Taylor will empty

the dishwasher for the rest of the year.

- Right, Tay? - OK, don't let me down.

If anything, we'll let you up.

Being Taylor is more nuanced than I imagined.

He's losing it.

Go Ellis! Push through the pain!

Miss, this is grounds for disqualification.

I can't hear myself think over his friend's boorish wooting.

Brock's right. I should be disqualified.

Oh, well, next year.

I am not disqualifying you.

What has gotten into you today, Grouch?

If you connect any more wires to that contraption,

it'll blow.

Here goes nothing.

Amateur hour. Ha.

Everybody stay calm and evacuate the room.

I know what you're doing, Ellis. Come with me.

I can see exactly what's going on here.

Could you please explain it to me?

Brock psyched you out,

so now you're trying to give up on the challenge.

Yes, that.

I won't have it.

Why do you want me to do so well?

While I sort out the alarm, you get your head together.

Everything alright, Ellis?

Ellis has left the building.

And Taylor has moved in.

Why are you talking about yourself in the third person?

Ellis and I have switched brains.

Huh?

One of your weaker prank attempts.

I'm not pranking. I'm Taylor!

- Sure. - Alright!

Nori, I'm sorry to have to do this,

but remember that time you and I were swimming

at Horseshoe Bay after you ate dodgy takeaway chicken

and I had to turn away while...

Whoa, whoa, whoa!

Only Taylor knows that story.

But...

What did you...? How did you...?

I second all of those questions.

Let me guess. Taylor just told you about the brain-swapping.

We must find the symbex, Ellis.

Good idea, Taylor.

We'll explain it on the way.

It was definitely in a tub with a yellow lid. Right, Ellis?

Maybe, Taylor.

None of these tubs have yellow lids.

Honestly, I don't even trust the concept of yellow

at this stage.

My brain hurts.

At least yours is in the correct skull.

- Maybe Raquel took the tub. - She can't have.

We've been with her ever since she left this room.

I'll have to do public speaking!

Actually, your pauses for effect were very good.

I was frozen with fear!

Focus, Ellis. What else was in the tub?

Dead fish?

That's what they feed the sharks.

Sharks!

Let's do this, gang. To the shark exhibit!

Why do they have sharks?

If we don't reverse the brain-swap soon,

you'll miss the entire Invention Battle, right, Ellis?

Sharks!

Wait, is that the tub?

It's the tub. OK, Nori and I will distract.

Ellis, Meesha and Lila, get the symbex back.

I appreciate you giving me a simple task

at a time like this.

Excuse me, can you help us? Sorry, but we're really lost.

It's been a confusing day.

This way.

Is the symbex in there? Ugh! Gross!

That's it!

Oh-ho-ho!

So this is the symbex? Cool!

Uh, oi, give it back.

Hey, I'm still looking at it!

Where are the muscles I've worked so hard for?

What...is...going...on?

It's happened again!

- Lila? - Meesha?

Is that you?

We've brain-swapped! We need to swap back now!

Give it...!

Uh-oh!

Ugh! This can't be happening!

- It's in the shark tank! - No, no, no, no, no, no!

My brain can't be stuck inside Lila.

What's so wrong with me, Meesha?

Ah, your spaghetti arms for one, Lila.

If they weren't so weak, I could've held onto the symbex.

If you weren't so freakishly strong, Meesha,

the symbex wouldn't have flown out of my hands.

- What if a shark eats it? - Ha! Shark dive!

I've been training for this my whole life!

What if a shark comes along and eats you?

Lila, go down to the viewing area.

You'll be able to see exactly where the sharks are.

You can call Ellis, who can talk to me on the comms.

- I'm goin' in. - Look after my body, Meesha.

That top is brand-new!

Woo-hoo! I've got all this extra speed!

I don't think this is a good idea, Meesha.

Maybe don't play with weird symbexes next time, Ellis.

Here, hold this.

Ow! Ooh, I've pulled a muscle.

Lila's body is not warrior standard.

Ugh! I don't think I can swim.

You'll have to do it, Ellis.

Swim in a shark tank? No.

If a shark eats that symbex,

we could be stuck like this forever.

Please, Ellis.

Oh...

Hey, Ellis! I suppose Meesha has been a big hero

and dived in already to show off.

This is Meesha, Lila.

Ellis is going in because I pulled a muscle.

What? I was gone, like, 15 seconds.

You better not do any more damage to my body!

Meesha, can't we discuss this again?

Be brave, like Taylor.

I'm a little over doing things like Taylor today.

I can't see any sharks. Go!

Go.

Stay on the radio, Ellis.

We'll help you.

Can you see the symbex, Ellis?

Meesha! What are you doing here?

Hey, Emily! I'm just...

..hangin' out.

Thinking about sports, you know. Typical Meesha stuff.

Have you seen Taylor?

Nope!

Oh, if you stick around, it's shark-feeding time...

It's always entertaining.

- It's shark-feeding time soon. - What?!

Ellis, get out of the water.

He's frozen with fear!

Oh, pulled muscle or not,

I'm diving in.

Ellis, just swim and you're home.

He's moving.

He's got some sort of jet propulsion. Look at him go!

Amazing!

Ugh. Egh. Meesha's voice has no range.

Ellis one, shark zero.

You two brain-swapped and Ellis swam with sharks?

How did it happen, Meesha?

I'm Lila, and we don't need to get into that now.

We just need to undo it. Ellis...

- I'm working on it, Meesha. - Good work, Ellis.

I'm still Nori, just FYI.

I've found the symbol.

It's Mayan and represents the uniting of opposing forces.

To restore balance, I think we need to show unity!

But how do we show unity?

I have an idea.

What if we join hands to re-create the unity symbol,

just like this yin and yang on the symbex?

Hello, voice of a generation!

Hello, beautiful biceps!

Agh! Ow!

It is sore.

I'm back! Yes, it worked!

Heightened anxiety. Dry hair.

The feeling my bladder could fail at any moment.

I'm definitely me!

Probably not the worst outcome.

Are you sure you guys

didn't just imagine all the brain-swapping?

Yes!

OK.

Ellis, if we hightail it,

we can get back before the end of the Invention Battle.

- You up for it? - After what just happened,

inventing doesn't seem so scary.

You've left it too late, E-Minor.

Don't count on it, B-Flat.

And in first place,

with their creation of a wooden storage device named a symbex,

with a lock of seven sides,

goes to...

..Ellis Grouch.

Congratulations.

Aw, Davina.

Brock should get the drone.

The world's been crying out for a rotating ice-cream cone

for years.

But you won. I insist you keep it.

Thanks, but I prefer the flowers.

I can't believe you rejected the underwater drone.

You've been dreaming about it for months.

Raquel was being strange.

When I took a closer look at the drone,

I saw it has an extra transmitter,

which would allow someone to see

what the person using the drone saw.

She was going to spy on us.

You said you'd be half an hour.

Did I say that?

You did. But Taylor got you a gift, just as promised.

They're beautiful, thank you.

We still need to practise your speech.

And I feel like I'm ready to do that now.

Great.

But you're still emptying the dishwasher -

every night for the next year.

What?

You may want to talk to Lila.

Lila!

♪ Rock Island Mysteries.