"What's that?" "Who's there?" "Psssh psssh psssh psssh" "is he still up there?" "Sshhh." "He hasn't got her!" ".." "Right, let's get the key from patricia." "Patricia, give me the key." "I haven't got it." "Liar.." "Seriously!" "I haven't!" "Where is it then?" "I....." "Threw it out the window.." "You did what?" "Which window?" "This one?" "Yeah." "I...." "Think it went in the bushes." "We won't be able to look for it till morning." "What a mess." "I think we should go and tell victor everything." "No, we can't do that." "Well we can't just leave nina in there.Ome on." "Nina?" "Nina?" "Nina?" "Arrghh!" "Hi!" "What's the matter?" "You guys look like you've seen a ghost." "How did you?" "Sssh!" "You'll have victor up again." "Are you ok?" "Yeah." "So what was it like up there?" "See any ghosts?" "No." "Just mice." "And some spiders." "Possibly a rat." "Ugggh!" "You are so brave!" "Night you two." "See you in the morning." "Night." "You did good." "Thanks." "Don't tell patricia, but my hands were shaking so hard." "It took me three tries to get the clip in the lock." "Hey, your secret's safe with me." "We were certain victor was going to get you." "Yeah, either victor or the flesh eating zombies." "No zombies." "Mostly rat bones." "Cool." "Was it really scary up there?" "I thought it would be worse." "It was actually kind of cool." "I might move up there." "Don't you think she was brave?" "Even you have to admit patricia" "Nina passed her initiation test with flying colors." "No." "She didn't bring anything back did she?" "Well actually ...." "Yes" "Patricia." "Wait!" "Hey!" "Nina." "I just wanted to ask if you did'nt mind if I....." "Do you fancy walking over with me?" "Yeah." "Ok." "Sure." "I would "fancy" that." "Sorry." "This all just takes some getting used to." "But this is weird even for England." "No, no wait, I'm just looking for something." "That much I got." "What are you looking for?" "Hang on, hang on." "I'm hanging." "Yes." "I got it!" "Unless you wanted that there." "I think this needs to find its way back into victor's key box before it's missed." "No actually because I'm going to need this when I go back into the attic." "You're going back up into the attic?" "It didn't sound so crazy until I said it out loud." "Why would you risk getting caught again?" "Even though I was terrified when I was up there," "It was the first time since Iíve been here that I wasn't thinking about gran." "Or trying to get patricia to like me." "And I just..." "I really need to know..." "Need to know what?" "If I saw someone up there." "You saw someone?" "Ok, I know it sounds crazy," "Ok." "What if there really is something weird about joy's dissapearance?" "What if joy is still here?" "Yeah, you're probably right." "Crazy!" "Ok, I've been thinking ." "You should do something for amber." "You know, something 'romantic'." "She's made the first move, with that kiss," "Now you need to follow it up with a few moves of your own." "You're right!" "Like what?" "Oh, the maestro has a few tricks up his sleeveö." "Who's the maestro?" "Me!" "I'm the maestro." "Oh, ok," "But you gotta let me know when you change nicknames." "I mean, last week you were "captain spaghetti"." "I don't understand why you're so upset that nina passed your test." "It's not about that." "Nobody seems to be taking this joy thing seriously except me." "She would have called me by now mara!" "You know she would." "It is strange;" "I'll give you that." "Strange?" "It's more than strange." "But no-one cares." "Everyone's more interested in buddying up with the new girl." "As if joy never even existed." "I wonder....." "What are you doing?" "You can't just break into her locker." "Watch me." "Vandalism will not be tolerated in this school patricia." "You will pay for that to be repaired and you are also grounded." "What have you done with joy?" "Where is she?" "Pull yourself together young lady." "Why won't you give me her home number at least?" "Patricia." "Leave me alone." "Hey mick." "He's still pretending to be jealous." "He'll make a big gesture soon to win me back," "I know he will." "So this panel just opened when you fell against it?" "Sort of." "Sort of?" "What kind of an answer is that?" "Well, there are some other things." "You're a real girl of mystery aren't you?" "Look, if you're going up there again, then I'm coming with you." "And that's all there is to it." "Wow." "That was forceful." "It was, wasn't it?" "You can trust me nina." "I promise." "Ok, before you do anything drastic to prove your loyalty," "I'll tell you.." "It's just her frustration coming out she'll calm down eventually." "Don't worry." "But all this could have been avoided." "There was no need for such haste." "The betrayer is long dead." "Victor felt caution was our best option." "And for once, Iím inclined to agree with him." "I'm telling you patricia will not let this go." "She's determined to find out what's happened to joy." "And we must be equally determined to make sure she never does eric." "There's too much at stake." "Mara, you have to believe me." "Something bad has happened to joy and the teachers are involved in it." "I need your help." "Uh-oh." "I need joy's home telephone number." "I have to speak to her parents." "I need joy's home telephone number." "I have to speak to her parents." "I mean what if they don't know anything about this?" "What do I have to do?" "Act as a look out while I go into mr sweet's office and steal her file." "What?" "!" ""in the laundry room tonight?" "11 p.M.?" "Kiss kiss kiss a"." "The laundry room?" "Now that is classy." "That's dumb, right?" "No, no no no." "It's not dumb at all." "It's very intimate." "Yeah?" "Lets go." "Oh dear" "You see, my plan totally worked after all." "Mick wants to meet me in the laundry room tonight." "I obviously made him wild with jealousy." "And now he wants to apologise for his bad behaviour with mara and kiss and make up." "I'm sure that's true." "If he's the one who sent the message." "Of course he is!" "Nina, sometimes I think you miss so much because you're an american." "It's ten o'clock." "You have five minutes precisely." "And then I want to hear a pin drop." "Jerome, are you sure this is a good idea?" "Of course I am." "Look at you." "You are a single, successful guy..." "In a very shiny suit." "What girl could resist alfie?" "Yeah, you're right." "I'm a catch." "You are a catch." "See you mate!" "Yeah, see you...." "Good luck." "You poor sweet stupid fool ha ha." "Hey are you ready?" "Yeah." "Oh, are you two on a date as well?" "No." "Not really, no not at all." "Never." "Whatever." "Catch you later." "See ya." "Bye let's go." "You ready?" "As ready as I'll ever be." "Do you need the torch?" "I don't think setting fire to the place will help us right now." "Amber." "Alfie!" "You look nice." "You look weird." "Do you usually do your laundry dressed like that?" "Good one." "Sorry, you have to go." "I've only just here" "I don't want mick to find you." "Mick?" "He left me a message on my bed, written in sweets." "And if he sees you it'll ruin everything." "What do you want anyway?" "T-shirt." "Very nice." "Almost as tasteful as that bow-tie you're wearing." "Now just go, go, go!" "It's a portrait." "It's just a portrait." "Look." "That was seriously scary!" "The eyes were glowing and looking at me and...." "Urgh!" "It's okay," "I won't tell anyone that a painting of a little girl made you so scared you screamed." "I didn't scream!" "I know her." "Itís the same girl." "I wonder who she is?" "Wait." "Wait, what's that?" "It looks like egyptian hieroglyphics." "You know, the old lady said there was treasure hidden in this house." "What kind of treasure?" "Well, she hardly knows her name so she wasn't that specific." "But..." "Maybe we should go talk to her?" "Amber?" "Amber?" "!" "Mick?" "Well this is a first, amber millington voluntarily stepping foot in the laundry room." "What's wrong?" "What ís the matter?" "Boys." "Oh love, come here." "Well I suggest you go and freshen up." "Unless you want to go to school smelling like alfie's old socks." "I just can't believe that amber was expecting mick instead of you." "Do you reckon someone messed with your message?" "Duhh what do you think?" "But who would do that?" "Mick obviously." "Ha ha yeah!" "Mick, of course." "I should've thought of that." "Trying to wheedle his way back in with amber." "Looks like he succeeded." "No, no no no." "Amberís still got the hots for you man." "Without a doubt." "Didn't look that way when she was pushing me out of the room." "Okay look." "Twenty says that I can get mick totally out of amber's life by the end of the week," "And pave the way for you to move in there." "Easy...." "Twenty." "No." "I need payment in advance, cashflow problems." "Thank you" "Ok, if sweetie comes along, just keep him talking." "I'm not so good at that talking to people thing." "Oh, mr sweet?" "Hey." "Yes, mara?" "I was wondering if I could talk to you." "About some things." "On my mind." "Things I've been thinking about and wanting to talk about with you." "Alright, mara." "Go ahead." "Just things." "Like...." "Endangered..." "Endangered hedgehogs." "Hedgehogs?" "Yes, what's wrong with hedgehogs?" "Well nothing," "It's just because they're not sweet and furry." "Hedgehogs demand our respect mr." "Sweet and our sympathy." "Hundreds of them get killed on our roads every year and we need to do something." "Teach them road safety?" "I thought you liked animals." "Alright mara." "Perhaps you're right." "Perhaps I'm not being entirely fair to the hedgehogs." "So, please, tell me more." "Nah, you're right, it's pretty borg." "See you later mr." "Sweet..." "Hi patricia." "Hi mara." "Better hurry, we're late for history." "Victor, what beautiful roses!" "It's funny, I found this one in the laundry this morning." "Wondered why it didn't hum as much today..." "Now I wonder how on earth that got there?" "I haven't the faintest idea, but it's wilting." "Well it was a lovely gesture anyway." "Brightened up my day it did..." "Why didn't you just write down the number?" "Er I didn't have time did I with your brilliant hedgehog distraction?" "Keep a look-out for teachers." "Yes!" "It's got her home number." "Great." "Now let's get back and I'll give her a call." "Hello?" "It's me." "We have a situation." "Joy's file has been taken from my office." "I'll do what needs to be done." "Coats, bags now." "What for?" "I need to search them." "But we haven't got anything in them." "No buts." "Give them to me." "You can have them back in half an hour." "What's going on?" "We have to have our bags searched." "Why?" "Patricia?" "No." "Something to hide patricia?" "What's gone missing?" "Something very valuable indeed," "And whoever has taken it is in deep, deep trouble." "Now give."