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And today on Island Life at Rock, Island's first ever invention battle.

it's nerd be nerd in the hottest science comp of the island where favorite Ella

Scrouch 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 equals KXT bracket 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 fewer chaos.

Focus on first prize.

He loved you during Dave.

Imagine what you could do with his underwater cousin.

Davina.

Give it out.

Brock Jefferson.

Ellis' nemesis.

Ellis' nemesis.

Try saying that ten times.

Alice's nemesis, Alice's nemesis, Alice's nemesis, Alice's nemesis. Okay,

everybody, the invention battle's about to begin. Please, follow me.

You've just got to look your competitor in the eye and let them know you can

press them.

Who are we?

Think of Davina. Who's Davina?

Alice, do you have a secret girlfriend you haven't told me about?

Davina's an underwater drone.

No judgment.

It's okay 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 is finished, I've got to present an award.

Tonight, the Charlie Young Award for Scientific Exploration. And I'm worried

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 sickbay.

I don't think you know your symbology.

Don't stop the thick paper.

It'll do.

It's me.

I thought you'd be pleased to know today is all going to plan.

Yes, by the name.

I will make sure.

Strong case of speculation.

How? It takes more than intuition to work a situation out.

It's right before your eyes. Can you feel it? It's right between the lines.

to reveal it. It's all I can do. You'll find it. All the pieces put them

together.

Now you see it. Right down in the streets.

Come on, Ella. It's time to get that big brain of yours inventing.

This looks like a Simbex.

If this is just an attempt to help distract me from my fear, it's working.

What's a Simbex and how come I've never heard of them? Uncle Charlie wrote about

them. Apparently, 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.

Go back.

you meant by, does our property tailor 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 they.

In fact, they look like they belong to... Stress levels so high,

fully dissociating, sense of self gone.

Give me my face back.

This isn't happening. The Thymbex. It can't be happening. It's caused us to...

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 Thymbex.

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 it here to gather my thoughts. I get

nervous because I have a really big brain and know too much about

Then I came in and saved the day, like I always do.

Hmm.

You seem a little off, Ellis. Is everything all right? You know Ellis?

I mean me?

Yeah, I saw your application for the competition.

You are Ellis Grouch, aren't you?

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 tailor 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? There he is.

Who were you? You failed, 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.

I mean, Taylor Young is here to present you the award. Are you sure you want to

speak about yourself in the third person?

I'm not sure of anything anymore.

Are you?

Wedding? That's unlike you, hon.

So very true.

Well, maybe we could practice together.

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

The speech is great.

Okay. 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.

Alice, what are you doing out here?

It's showtime.

Yay!

The awards arrived.

Be back in a sec.

The suspense is killing me, Tay. Oh, with the garth, what happened?

I'm not Taylor.

I'm Ellen.

Yeah, imagine.

I don't have to imagine because it's happening.

Taylor and I found a synbex 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 groundbreaking work on the photoelectric effect.

If you really are... Ellis.

It's me!

No.

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...

rain -swapping thing.

Since the Simbex came along, we need to go back into the marine storage room and

re -pop rain. Here it is.

Now, let's hear this speech.

Okay.

Hi.

I'm here to present the Uncle Charlie Award.

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... Gorillary?

What? My brain's fuzzy. I think I need a break. Lila, walk. I could do with a

one to two. No!

It was 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.

Mom. Mama.

Ma?

Okay, 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.

That's it.

Okay, 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, Ellen! Go through the pain!

Miss, this is grounds for disqualification. I can't hear myself

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.

Everybody stay calm and evacuate the room.

I know what you're doing, Ellen.

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, Will?

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

Everything all right, Ellis?

Ellis has left the building.

And Taylor has moved in.

Why are you talking about yourself in the third person?

Alice and I have switched brains.

Huh? One of your weaker prank attempts.

I'm not pranking.

I'm Taylor.

Sure. All right.

Laurie, I'm sorry to have to do this, but remember that time you and I were

swimming at Horseshoe Bay after you ate some dodgy takeaway chicken and I had to

turn away? Whoa, whoa, whoa.

Only Taylor knows that story.

What did you...

How did you... I second all of those questions.

Let me guess.

Taylor's just told you about the brain swapping. We need to find the Simbex,

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 effects were very good. I was frozen with fear.

Focus, Ellis. What else is 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?

Chucks!

Wait, is that the tub?

It's the tub.

Okay, Nora and Abel, Strack, Ellis, Misha and Lila, get the Simbex 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.

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

on? It's happened again.

Misha? Is that you?

We need to swap back now.

Uh

-oh.

This can't be happening.

It's in the shock tank.

wrong with me, Misha? Uh, your spaghetti arms for one, Lila. If they weren't so

weak, I could have held onto the Simbex. Well, if you weren't so freakishly

strong, Misha, the Simbex wouldn't have flown out of my hands. What if a shark

comes along and eats it?

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. You can talk to me on the comms.

I'm going in.

Look after my body, Misha.

That top is brand new.

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

Maybe. Don't play with weird Simbexes next time, Ellis.

Here, hold this.

Ow!

Poor muscle.

Lila's body is not warrior standard.

I don't think I can swim.

You'll have to do it, Ellis.

Swim in a shark tank?

No. If a shark eats up Simbex, we could be stuck like this forever.

Please, Ellis.

Hey, Ellis. I suppose Misha has been a big hero and dived in already to show

This is Misha, 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

Misha, 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.

Done!

Hanging out.

Thinking about sports, you know, typical Misha stuff.

Have you seen Taylor?

Nope.

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

It's always entertaining.

Shark feeding time soon.

What?

Ellis, get out of the water.

I'm diving in.

Ella, just swim and you're home.

He's moving.

He's got some sort of jet propulsion.

Look at him go.

Amazing.

Misha's voice has no range.

Ella Squad, Shark Zero.

You too. brain swapped and Ella swam with Shark.

How did that happen, Misha?

I'm Ella. We don't need to get into that now. We just need to undo it.

Ellen, I'm working on it, Misha. Good work, Ella.

I'm still Nori, just FYI.

I 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?

What if we join hands to recreate the unity symbol, just like this yin and

on the Simba?

Heightened anxiety?

Dry hair?

Fiffling 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!

Okay.

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

Simbex, with a lock of seven sides, Go to... Alice Grouse.

Congratulations.

Aw, Demina.

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 he rejected the underwater drone. You've been dreaming

for months.

Raquel was being strange.

When I took a closer look at the drone, I saw it had 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 practice your speech.

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

Great. First... You're still emptying the dishwasher every night for the next

year.

What? You may want to talk to Lila.

Mysteries.