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-[Lila] Come on, Raquel. -[phone ringing]

Pick up already!

You could at least just message me back!

Still nothing from her?

I thought being ghosted by Luca in Year 5 was bad.

But nothing compares to being ignored

by the woman who's supposed to be helping bring Taylor home.

They look upset.

So, who's Luca?

Not the point here, Ellis.

Lila's right.

We haven't heard from Taylor or Uncle Charlie in weeks.

And now Raquel's M-I-A overseas?

And if Raquel can't find a crystal,

then Taylor's stuck...

[whispers] ..wherever she is, alone.

We'll get her back, Liles.

[Meesha] Check this out.

It's all the new toxic areas.

People's houses are now off limits, including Faraz's.

[Nori] They're all over the island.

This feels wrong.

Darius has been totally sketchy about all the details.

We need to look into this.

Oh, whoa, it's awful,

but we need to focus

on bringing Taylor and Uncle Charlie home.

She said that any mystery can help lead to her. Remember?

Well, it's not a mystery. It's a... contaminant.

Besides... Darius is just trying to keep us safe.

Right?

Every time I look at him, my mystery radar pings.

It's more of a whoop-whoop!

The ping is a misconception.

Did you see that?! He didn't even recycle!

[Nori] I'm with Meesha on this one.

We should take a closer look at Darius

and his "contamination zones".

Yeah, we can't just sit here waiting for Raquel.

I need to do something.

Guys, we need to talk about Darius's recycling.

Yeah, yeah, he's--

[eerie music swells]

♪ 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.♪

[Lila] Okay, Meesh. [chuckles awkwardly]

Let's hear a "I told you so".

My mystery radar is finely tuned.

But where did he get it from?

More importantly, where did he take it to?

[Nori and Meesha] The contamination zone!

Something is going on behind those fences,

and we need to find out what.

I'll take floaty to the lab, strap it down and study it.

Okay?

Whoop-whoop! Darius is on the move.

What are you doing here?

This better be good, Greig.

I was just trying to butter 'em up to sell.

-[Greig] Any luck? -Did he just say "to sell"?

I swear that old biddy could talk under water.

That's my nan he's talking about.

Shh.

So much for Mr Nice Guy.

When's the last time you showered, mate?

Oh, the same day I slept last.

Wednesday.

-I did it. -What?

-I processed it. -Wait, it's done?

We need to figure out what they're up to.

[Darius speaking indistinctly]

[Meesha] What's he doing?

Ooh! Oh!

-Oh. Oh, sorry, mate. -[Darius] Excuse me.

Ah. Okay, let's do this elsewhere, shall we?

-Yeah, yeah, sure. -Go.

Ah, okay...

-[bird calling] -[dramatic music]

Morning.

-Hey, Ellis. -Hey.

Wait. Isn't it your day off?

[Ellis] Er...

I just... miss my seaslugs.

They're like family.

Oh! Okay.

Um, while I have you,

Darius not allowing independent testing of the contaminant...

Substandard, no?

Yes. But, look, don't worry.

Our boss Annabelle, she's insisted on--

[Ellis gasps]

Just airing out my armpit.

Whew. Yeah.

Right. [chuckles awkwardly]

Well, Annabelle's insisted on independent testing,

but, in the meantime,

Darius shared his report on the contaminant.

Oh. And?

Well...

[Nori] My phone's showing Darius all the way out here.

So, what's the dodgy dude up to?

Maybe he's found something

that gives you the power to levitate.

And he's going to turn himself

into some sort of sad superhero - Floating Man.

[chuckles]

-Okay, probably not that. -[Meesha] Mm.

[mysterious music]

All right. I'll scout us a way in.

[phone dialling]

-[Ellis] Lila. -Ellis.

Any results on floating can?

Not yet. But I've got some intel from Emily.

Okay. Spill.

Actually, it's more of a gas leak.

Darius has a report showing high levels of sulfur dioxide -

volcanic gases -

are leaking from fissures around the island.

Wait, so there is something toxic?

I thought the whole contamination story

was just a lie.

I'm not sure, but one thing I do know is

sulfur dioxide does not make things float.

So something else is going on.

Just be careful. Sulfur dioxide has a pungent smell.

Don't go near it without a mask.

[Lila] Thanks, Ellis.

[Meesha chuckling]

[Meesha grunts]

It's like they're just inviting us in.

[tense music]

[power tools whirring distantly]

[Lila, whispers] I can't smell anything.

I think it's safe.

[blows]

[Meesha] Darius isn't wearing a mask.

[Nori] And digging equipment?

And there goes my phone. Something smells suss.

Or doesn't smell.

Which is extra suss.

I need my phone back.

Now's our chance.

[tense music builds]

Agh! So basic.

[Nori] Lila, come on!

Thanks.

[quiet hissing]

Now, where are you, phone?

[Meesha] Whatever they're doing, it's industrial scale.

[Nori] Oh, score!

[Lila] Guys, look!

[unearthly humming]

[Meesha] This is not a gas leak.

Mystery radar is going off!

[Meesha] What's that blue stuff?

Well, it's definitely not a gas.

Yeah, and Darius isn't trying to cover it up.

Have you seen anything like this?

-[footsteps approaching] -[Lila gasps]

[Nori, softly] What's going on?

Well, come on, then, Greig. Share your toys.

What have we got here?

The first of the processed Omnia.

Omnia?

[Greig] Well, the extraction and purification process

created a bucketload of waste, but it was worth it.

Is it stable?

Just be careful with it.

Distilled Omnia's capabilities

are like nothing I've ever seen.

-[Darius] Wow. -Or imagined.

It's revolutionary.

It could be used for green power or--

If the price is right,

I don't care what my buyer does with it.

Okay.

I need you ready to upscale processing

as soon as I can convince those residents to sell.

Send that back to my office.

[Meesha] Quick, duck!

Don't let me down, Greig.

[Lila] That was too close.

[dramatic music swells]

[pants rapidly]

[mutters to himself] Okay...

Um...

Right.

Incredible!

[high-pitched hum reverberating]

[Ellis] That defies everything.

[car engine rumbling]

[panting] Oh, that was way too close.

[Meesha] Or just close enough.

What?

Since we jumped out of a plane,

I need a really high level of adrenaline to feel anything.

[car door opens]

[Meesha] Go, go, go.

[car door closes]

[phone vibrating]

Ellis, you're not gonna believe this.

There's this strange glowing

liquid bubbling up from under the ground and--

Let me guess, it's blue?

Yeah. How--

I got a tiny trace of blue residue off Darius's can.

The things it can do.

Defy gravity, warp space, affect light.

It's incredible.

Wow. You sound like Darius's science guy.

They called it Omnia.

And Mr Dodgy wants to start buying up people's homes.

I think he wants to mine under them.

You said the Omnia could warp space.

Could it help us get Taylor back?

From what I've seen, it's powerful but unpredictable.

I haven't been able to repeat any of my experiments.

I'd need a proper sample to study.

On it.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!

We can't just go back in there without a plan.

-We have a plan. -We do?

First, we take 'em out at the knees.

-And then we-- -Get caught.

We need to strategise.

This goes to the office, pronto.

Or maybe we don't.

Huh. I'll distract, you retrieve.

[breathing heavily]

[imitates bird trilling]

[imitates bird trilling]

It's got a combo lock!

Zero, zero, zero.

Okay, it's not gonna be that basic.

Or maybe it is that basic.

The license plate! 1981.

Try... one-nine-eight.

Hey. What are you doing here?

This is a restricted area.

Oh, well, it used to be restricted to

the breeding grounds of the Spotted Island Sparrow-wren.

[imitates bird trilling]

But after the mine got set up, no one sings back.

[imitates bird trilling]

You're lucky the big boss didn't see you.

Now get out of here.

Yeah.

[tense music builds]

[imitates bird cawing]

He's coming.

Nine-eight-one?

[Meesha] Nine-eight-one.

[clicking]

-Yes! -[laughs]

[Nori imitating bird cawing]

[tense music crescendos]

[laughing] Yes!

-Let's get out of here. -[sighing] Yeah.

-It's locked! -[van engine starting]

[uneasy music builds]

[Nori] This is bad.

Very, very bad.

[phone vibrating]

No, I can't science any faster.

Lila and Meesha are locked in one of Darius's vans.

I can't catch them on foot. You have to help.

Me? But I'm lab guy!

Yeah, and no pressure

but can you come up with something asap?

That is the definition of pressure!

[muttering to himself]

[door opens]

[footsteps approach]

[woman] Hello.

[van rumbling]

When we finally stop, you run with the Omnia.

We can't let them take it. Not when it could help with Taylor.

And it definitely proves Darius is a liar.

Maybe...

we should cover our tracks.

Yes, yes, yes!

-Come on. -Meesha, come on.

-Yes. Okay. -Go, go, go, go, go.

[both exclaim]

[tense music]

[handbrake cranks]

We're stopping?

[van door closes]

[footsteps padding outside]

-You ready to run? -I'm ready to take them down.

-[Meesha] Bring... it. -[tense music intensifies]

[Meesha shouts]

-[thud!] -Ooh! [inhales sharply]

What the...?

[both] Ellis?!

-Huh?! What? Wait, what? -Go!

[Lila] Ellis! What are you doing?

What?

[woman] I was starting to think I'd be stuck here forever.

[car engine starts up]

[mysterious music builds]

[Lila] Is that...?

[soft, wondrous music]

Raquel! [squeals excitedly] You're back!

[giggles]

Er, clearly, I need an update.

But not here.

Sure, but I want spoilers!

Did you get the crystals? To get Taylor back.

I found three Rock Island crystals

on three different continents.

But they turned to dust.

That's what happened to the crystal

we found in that crypt too.

These ones disintegrated the exact same day

the energy source was destroyed.

Which means...

No portal.

-[melancholy music] -[Ellis] Lila--

Relax, Ellis.

I'm having big feelings, but good ones.

Because now we have this! [chuckles]

What is this?

Where did you get it?

Remember Darius and the Rebuild Assist crew?

Here to "clean up the island" after the tremors?

Yeah, well, he's really here to mine that stuff.

He calls it Omnia.

If this is what I think it is, it would explain a lot.

Whoop-whoop!

I'm sensing incoming South Section intel...

We always believed there was an underground network

of meteoric veins that caused the island's mysteries.

Veins containing Omnia?

We never had a name for it and we couldn't locate it,

but... yes.

Pretty good intel. Deserves a bump.

[Ellis] When the ground opened up after the tremors last year,

it must have revealed the Omnia.

And if Omnia causes the island's mysteries,

then what will mining it do?

I don't know, and I don't think we want to find out.

But maybe the Omnia

could help us get Taylor and Uncle Charlie back?

That's a big maybe.

But it could mean we don't need a crystal.

[low thrumming]

Whoa, it's like they're drawn to each other.

I'm not getting magnetised again.

It's not magnetism.

They're synergistically activated.

So... can it synergise up a portal?

I'm not sure, but it might at least

help us communicate with them.

[Raquel] Communicate how?

I took the equipment you gave us

and hooked it up to the BQ's radio.

Impressive.

-[Ellis] It hasn't worked yet. -[Raquel] Less impressive.

But this - this could change things!

Guys, don't forget about Darius.

We have to stop him

before he starts buying up people's houses.

Lila, give me your phone.

Everyone needs to see your video of the mine.

But we can't tell anyone about the Omnia.

We need it to get Taylor and Uncle Charlie back.

If the Omnia is a part of Rock Island's ecosystem, then...

no one else can find out about it.

What, so you're telling me we can't expose him?

That's right. But... Darius doesn't know that.

-[phone vibrating] -[Darius] Just gonna take this,

but, Faraz, consider my offer.

[Darius] If the price is right,

I don't care what my buyer does with it.

I need you ready to upscale processing

as soon as I can convince those residents to sell.

[computerised voice] We know what you're doing.

You're not cleaning a contaminant.

You're mining Rock Island.

Unless you stop and leave Rock Island,

we'll send this video to the authorities.

[Rock Island FM DJ] In breaking news,

Rebuild Assist has called an urgent community meeting.

To learn the latest on the contamination site,

head down to the Milk Shack.

[Nori] Our message must have worked.

Why else would he call an emergency community meeting?

I reckon it's goodbye Mr Dodgy.

Getting any kind of anonymous message would scare me.

[Lila exhaling] All set.

Please, please, please work.

You know Omnia is powerful but it doesn't guarantee--

But there's a chance.

Taylor's lucky to have you...

never giving up.

I think I got that from her.

[electricity crackling, buzzing]

-[static buzzing, whining] -Taylor? Taylor?

Thanks for coming, everyone.

I have some news I'd like to share.

Just say you're leaving and scram.

[Nori] Why's he smiling?

What I'm about to announce is fantastic news for Rock Island.

[Taylor] Hello?

Taylor, is that you? It's me and Raquel!

Taylor, are you okay?

[Taylor] Raquel?

I'm fine, but something's wrong here.

It's hard to describe.

What does Charlie say?

[Taylor] I haven't found him. I just got here.

Only just got there? But you've been gone for weeks.

[Darius] For weeks, we feared the worst.

But the contaminant we uncovered

isn't as widespread as we first thought.

In the course of cleaning up that toxic gas,

we found a powerful new substance.

[Taylor] It's like something powerful here has shifted.

Lila, I'm worried.

We're going to bring you home. We found something.

We found something completely safe.

[crowd murmuring]

-What is he doing? -He's spinning the story.

We call it...

Omnia.

-[Taylor] Omnia? -We're on it.

They're mining this stuff, but don't worry,

we're shutting it down right now!

[Taylor] Lila, Lila, I can't hear--[breaking up]

Taylor? Taylor?!

Can you hear me?

No!

We've been running tests on Omnia

and we believe this new green power

is set to revolutionise the world's energy use,

all thanks to Rock Island.

When did all this happen?

You were telling me to sell my property for a pittance.

Exactly.

That's right.

And now it's worth a bomb.

You will all be amply compensated

if you cooperate, okay?

So that's why today we are closing Rebuild Assist

and setting up Omnia Extraction Enterprises.

-You're building a mine?! -Yep.

Please tell me this isn't happening.

We have a sign-up sheet over here

for those who'd like to find out

what compensation will be available.

-No, don't. Don't sign. -Please.

But I promised Taylor I'd stop this.

[Ellis] I sent Dave over the mine this morning.

[Meesha] Can't believe they've only done this in a few days?

Wow, they haven't wasted any time.

Which means we can't waste any time.

[clears throat] Um, say no to mining.

[man] Yeah, sure.

We have to stop him.

Oh!

I still can't get Taylor's voice out of my head.

I mean, what she's going through, it sounds awful.

But at least you got to talk to her

and hear that she's kind of okay.

The only way to save Taylor and Uncle Charlie

is to close down that mine.

Nan is talking to everyone she knows,

convincing them not to sell.

And I'll hit the streets,

get some more signatures for our anti-mine petition.

And we have some pure Omnia now.

I can start running proper tests at the lab,

see if we can somehow harness its power.

Poster, flyers, petitions - do you think it's enough?

Well, we have to cover all bases.

So I'll upload the drone footage of the mine

and put it on socials.

It's hard to argue with those visuals.

[Nori] Darius can't be underestimated.

We've already seen how far he's willing to go

to protect "his" Omnia.

But...

we've got a secret weapon -

someone on the inside.

[quiet hissing]

Raquel Newman. I'm starting here as a research assistant.

Great. Let me show you around.

I'd like that.

[phone buzzes]

She's in!

[Nori] We have our own spy?

Using Raquel's evil genius for good

is both terrifying and brilliant.

We'll know Darius's move even before he does.

So it's game-on, Darius.

No one messes with my sister.

Or Rock Island.

Whatever it takes,

we'll stop that mine and get Taylor back.

Let's do this.

[dramatic music swells]

[theme music]

♪ Rock Island Mysteries. ♪