Episode 1--- It's been a year since Mera returned her home 'Planet of
Ocean' and Neri decided to stay. When Dianne,Jason and Brett
are driven back to ORCA from their vacation, they find that
UBRI is on board at ORCA. UBRI corporation has won the
construction contract of the underwater station 'ORCA city.'
They're planning to destroy a natural fish breeding ground
to relocate and expand the construction site.
Dianne then immediately starts the environmental check at
the construction site with Jason. Jason is accidentally
trapped under the building material but luckily Charley
finds him and Neri comes to rescue him.
Dianne accuses UBRI of building the foundations on the
breeding ground at the hearing and the members of tribunal
accept Dianne's submission and instruct UBRI to stop.
However UBRI secretly sets a sonic grenade on the breeding
ground to kill all the fish and the person who planned it is
Dr.Hellegren. The plan is interfered by Neri. Dr.Hellegren,
who does not know yet that Neri is still around, threatens
Jason and Brett not to interfere with him again.
Episode 2 (by Germano Kern)
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Jason, Brett and Neri are on the island and Brett wants to
find a way to get in the spacecraft, but they suddenly have
to go because Neri tells them a storm is arriving. On ORCA
Jason has to follow a special course for future ORCA-City
commanders, where he meets Sallyanne, who is his partner in
this course. In the meantime Brett and Ben meet Cassandra a
young American girl that is not at all happy to be on ORCA.
Cassandra, despite Brett warning her about the incoming
storm, decides to go for a sail, but she is soon forced to
take shelter from the storm on the nearest island (Neri's).
Dr. Hellegren goes to the dry land to see his daughter Lena
who tells him she wants to pass her holidays at home. The
next morning Neri finds an entrance to the spacecraft and
calls her friends. While they are on the island trying to
enter the spacecraft Cassandra sees Neri and hears
everything they say. Neri discovers Cassandra's presence
just while she is leaving the island to return on ORCA and
tell everybody what she has seen, but then as the sailboat's
boom hits her full in the face, she faints and when she
wakes up she says she can't remember anything of what
happened in the last 24 hours... what a luck! but Jason
wants Brett to become Cassandra's friend in order to be able
to prevent disasters in the case she gets her memory back.
Episode 3 (by NOREO)
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Jason looks for a pump to suck up the water out of the space
craft and he finds one owned by UBRI. At the night Jason and
Brett sneak into UBRI's storage and successfully take the
pump back with them. Cassandra plays a trick on Brett and he
does back on her. Jason and Sallyanne blew their first
simulation exercise. UBRI starts to locate Neri's space
craft. With Brett and Benny's help Cassandra tries to wash
her sister Morgan in the elevator in revenge for making her
wash Morgan's uniform again. But she accidentally washes her
sister and the commander in the elevator. Neri comes to ORCA
to tell Jason and Brett that the pump sucked out all the
water but Brett has to clean the floor as a punishment for
their trick. Then Jason and Neri go down to the space craft.
While Jason and Neri are trying to seal the spot leaking
water Brett comes in and he slips down to the place that
looks like a lab. Jason and Neri join him there and they
find a boy in some sort of coffin but he is not dead...
Episode 4 (by Germano Kern)
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In the spacecraft Neri accidentally finds a switch that
lifts the coffin, goes to the boy and awakes him�: he says
his name is Kal.
Meanwhile Benny meets Larissa, a girl who is very interested
in him... especially in his notes disk which she plans to
use to cheat in the next day's exam, but Benny doesn't
approve this incorrect behavior and doesn't give away his
disk.
Neri, Jason and Brett tell Kal where he is and what happened
to his parents... but he seems not to be very surprised or
sad.
Lena comes to UBRI to see his father, and this time he has
to take her at home. Dr.Hellegreen is not very happy on
having his daughter at home, but Lena manages to convince
him.
At the exam Larissa secretly steals Benny's disk and slips
it into her terminal; She is quickly caught and eliminated
from the exams, but what is worse is that Benny has to say
that he has lent her that disk, not to let her pass as a
thief, and is also eliminated.
Kal is a very strange boy: he falls down a tall tree without
hurting himself, seems not to know what fear is, and thinks
that women are superior than men. Jason and Brett start to
wonder what a weird society there must be on Neri's planet
and they decide not to tell anybody about Kal's existence.
Episode 5 (by Merijn van der Meer and NOREO)
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Neri tries to teach Kal about living in the island and he
learns fast. However Neri is anxious about Kal is not
laerning any human emotions so she asks Jason to talk to
Kal. Althouh Neri tells Kal not to leave the island while
she's gone for ORCA Kal follows Jason and he finds a boat
which ORCA use to dive and climbs aboard. Because Brett,
Cass and Benny get diving lessons as a punishment for the
trick Brett planned to play on Cass but unfortunately her
sister Morgan fell for.
Dr.Hellegren takes her daughter Lena to ORCA where she meets
Jason and Brett. Brett tells her that her father and UBRI
corporation are hated by every one because of their illegal
activities which she doesn't believe.
When they are in the water and Benny is told to return to
the boat he sees Kal aboard who starts the motor which the
others think Benny did and don't believe him when he tells
them that a strange young guy on board did.
Jason and Brett seem to know more about it and their mother
wants to know what's going on.
Episode 6 (by Merijn van der Meer)
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To keep Kal away from ORCA Jason suggests Neri to show him
the spaceship because he wants to see it. So when Jason and
Brett are back to ORCA Neri shows him the ship, in fact it's
more that Kal knows which way he wants to go. They finally
arrive at the workroom of his parents. There's a screen and
Neri goes to ORCA to get Jason and Brett.
In the meantime at ORCA base the bad news is that Winston is
fired, because he can't swim. Kellar from UBRI wants to
replace him with a qualified for the job UBRI person.
However Benny finds in the regulations that a non-qualified
worker has the right to take lessons and to get qualified
within an agreed period. They show the commander and Winston
gets a week to practice. Just when Jason and Brett want to
see Winston's first lesson Neri picks them up.
In the workroom they see a sort of mask hanging in front of
the screen. Neri puts it on and the screen lights up. A log
of the journey is told by Kal's mother. She speaks of a
mission. The person who touches the crystal will have to
fulfill the hard and dangerous mission. Neri takes the
crystal and the mother explains about the mission ... Neri's
father's mission! So now Neri finds out that an instrument
called "The Synchronium" had been dropped to earth and that
the mission is to find the 9 parts and put them back
together and then it would save the ocean. However in the
hands of the wrong people it could lead to disaster. If the
oceans would die then the earth would get out of his orbit
and lead to chaos which would end in the destruction of the
Ocean planet (Neri's homeplanet) So Neri decides to take the
mission. She asks for the help of Jason and Brett, which she
gets.
Back at ORCA Winston has to do his swimming test. He mades
it because he thinks Neri's closeby. Everybody's happy but
he still has to learn how to dive.
Jason and Brett think that they will have plenty of time to
find the 9 parts thinking that no-one else is looking for
the parts, but they would be surpised if they knew who was
searching for them too .... !!
Episode 7 (by Merijn van der Meer)
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Kal wants to go to ORCA, but Neri forbids him, then later
Neri has to go and Kal disobeys and does go to ORCA. He
finds ORCA and it's people very interesting. And then just
when Brett has his diving exam he spots Kal and warns Jason.
But it's too late, Kal already joined the biorobics group
and they see a lot of possibilities with his tremendous
condition. Kal sneaks away and Jason takes him away just
when he's made a date with a girl on ORCA. While Jason
doesn't want to answer questions about Kal he also goes to
the date of Kal.
Meanwhile Brett, Benny, Cass and Winston have their diving
test. Neri tells Winston to believe in himself. In the water
he first panics but seeing Neri comforts him and he passes
the test. UBRI doesn't like that since they wanted to
replace Winston with one of their own people.
Lena, dr Hellegren's finds out about the whalesinging, but
her father's assistant tells her to keep her nose out of
business which doesn't concern her.
That night although Jason solved the "dateproblem",he and
Brett are still worried. Since his mother and Winston want
to meet Kal the next time he's on ORCA. On top of it comes
that Neri reminded them about their promise to look for the
9 parts of the Synchronium.
Episode 8 (by Merijn van der Meer)
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Kal slips to ORCA and Dianne (Jason's mother) and Winston
finally get to meet him. On her way up to ORCA Neri finds
out that UBRI wants to blow up a part of the seabed and
warns Dianne.
Dianne asks for a tribunal, but since it's a new explosive,
which wouldn't harm the surroundings according to UBRI, they
may continue the explosions.
Being on ORCA Kal plays a game in which Benny is the ORCA
champion. Everyone thinks Benny will win, since it's the
first time Kal plays it. But Kal learns very quickly and
everyone is amazed as he wins.
Jason and Brett start to locate the synchronium parts with
the aid of HELEN, the computer. They locate one, but it's
Kal who is able to calculate the exact position. And he is
right! Neri finds the first piece. That's one step on the
way in completing the Mission.
Episode 9 (by Merijn van der Meer)
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When Neri takes the first part of the synchronium and holds
it in the water the water becomes active.
While Brett tries to find more pieces with HELEN, UBRI
locates one in the desert on the mainland. Then Brett also
locates that one but only up to 15 km approximately and they
again ask Kal. Only UBRI has allready taken action and find
a capsule with their metal detector.
Not knowing this Neri, Jason and Brett go to the mainland
and go into the desert on camels. But it's too late already,
UBRI finds the second piece. So when the three arrive the
piece is gone and they have to run when Kellar (dr
Hellegren's assistant) spots them and chases them.
Fortunately the car gets stuck and they can get away.
Lena (dr Hellegren's daughter) asks Brett about her father
but he doesn't want to tell her anything.
Now dr Hellegren also finds out that the mysterious object
generates a tide in the water.
Episode 10 (by Merijn van der Meer)
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To keep the piece safe Neri hides it in an underwater cave.
Benny's father want Benny to study harder so he will be a
step in front of the others, but Benny wants to spend time
with his friends investigating the report of a sunken Dutch
ship loaded with treasures, which went down a few hundred
years ago.
Neri asks Brett to look for the other parts and reminds him
that other people are searching too.
Cass thinks she saw a person in the isle. Later she finds
that person, it's a runaway boy who run because else he and
his parents would be send back to their country. Cass takes
care of the boy and gives him food.
Brett and Benny take an expensive device and go diving, but
at the end of their dive the instrument falls into the water
and Benny goes back to get it, but he's low on air and
faints. Fortunately for him Charlie (the whale) sees him and
warns Neri who comes to the rescue. In this way Benny finds
out about Neri.
From surveillance tapes the commandor finds out about the
little intruder. Winston finds the boy incidently and
confronts Cass with it, but then the boy panics and runs off
... Right into the arms of the commandor, who calls
immigration to get him picked up.
Benny gets severely punished for the detector when they find
out and his father is furious. However Benny decides to lie
about the truth and keeps Neri's existence a secret.
But it's not a secret anymore to another person. Lena learns
about Neri from her father's files when he's away.
Episode 11 (by Merijn van der Meer)
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Kal visits ORCA and sees a couple kissing and find that
people of the opal planet have weird habbits. He asks Neri
what it means and she explains him what it is. She also
explains about happy or sad feelings.
Cass is experiencing nightmares where she sees an island,
fear, running away and then not remembering anything.
Benny now visits the island with Jason when Brett comes
after locating another piece of the Sync. in the ocean. UBRI
also detects it and plans a search for the day after.
Kal calculates the position again and Neri doesn't want to
wait another day and goes alone. On their way back Brett and
Benny get stuck on the way to ORCA. But Neri upon her return
brings them to ORCA as she didn't find anything.
Some new guy on ORCA (Moose) bothers Brett and wants him to
hand over the expensive device Brett got for his birthday.
The next day Neri, Jason and Brett take a boat to search
again. Neri dives and she now finds what's she's looking
for. When she comes to the surface UBRI just arrives and
they flee just in time. UBRI later sees that the capsule's
there but the part missing and they want to make a plan to
get rid of those kids.
Back at ORCA Brett gets attacked by Moose when he doesn't
want to give his device to him. Kal FEELS loyal and helps
Brett. Since Kal is really strong Moose gets scared and runs
off. Now that Kal has experienced a feeling he wants to get
to know every human feeling!
Episode 12 (by Merijn van der Meer)
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Cass starts to remembering more and more about two other
kids on the island. She thinks one of them resembles Brett.
Lena overhears a conversation of her father and Kellar to
get rid of the ORCA kids. They plan to make a broadcast of a
falling star on a nearby island and set a trap for the kids.
In commandor training they have to fly a helicopter and
Jason is uncomfortable and just can't do it.
Kal longs for a thing to remember his parents and goes into
the spaceship. He finds a sort of a music instrument and
starts playing. Brett and Benny arrive on the island and
hear from Neri where to find Kal. They also go into the ship
and they see Kal crying. Brett explains Kal the meaning of
crying.
Lena sneaks out of the house and goes to ORCA to warn Jason
and Brett, but when she gets to speak Jason Brett is
allready on his way with Neri.
So he asks for the helicopter test again and Morgan (Cass'
older sister) has to go with him.
The plan from dr Hellegren fails because Jason succeeds in
warning Brett, who returns immidiately thereafter.
Kellar suspects an internal leak in the UBRI organization
and finds dr Hellegren's daughter very suspicious. Jason and
Brett are unaware of this.
Episode 13 (by Merijn van der Meer)
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Mera tries to warn Neri telepathically that her mission is
in danger and that there isn't much time.
Neri then visits the new ORCA city site and warns Dianne
after it since her intuition says there's something really
wrong.
Kellar has questioned almost everyone from UBRI and all seem
loyal, so she suspects Lena, but dr Hellegren doesn't want
her to question his daughter. So Kellar watches Lena's
activities at UBRI.
Jason finally tells Lena the story of Neri and now Lena will
try to help him to locate the part at UBRI. In the meantime
UBRI wants to speed up the work under water by increasing
the amount of explosives.
Cass sees a shrink because of her dreams, but this shrink
reports her story to dr Hellegren. When back at ORCA Cass
confronts Jason and Brett with the fact that she now knows
that they are the two she saw on the island. Jason and Brett
have no choice and they tell her about Neri and they all
visit the island. Like Ben she's now one of them.
Dianne's request for a new tribunal is denied and UBRI even
gets permission to increase the power of the explosives by a
150%.
Kellar plays a surveillance tape for dr Hellegren and Lena
from which it is clear that Lena spies on the Ocean Girl
files. She gets trouble with her father and decides to
leave.
Kal experiences fear when a new big explosion occurs when
Neri's in the water. Winston then thinks that the danger
lies under the seaground and thinks that Neri could be right
about a very big danger.
Episode 14 (by Sonesay Phouthavong)
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Benny is trying to access H.E.L.E.N. for more information
about any possible sitings of the synchronium pieces.
However she is refusing to co-operate, even after Jason,
Brett and Cass have tried.
Meanwhile at UBRI headquarters, Kellar informs DR Hellegren
that they have located the piece and are beginning a search
for it. On the way out of the room, Kellar asks Hellegren if
he has had any further contact with Lena. Dr Hellegren
stoically replies, "I have no daughter".
Lena arrives at ORCA city and tells Jason and Brett that she
has left home. They both agree to help her by asking Dianne
to let Lena stay in the spare bunk in her room. Dianne
reluctantly agrees, and then asks for Lena's ID so she can
clear it with the Commander. Upon seeing that Lena has UBRI
credentials and is a Hellegren, Dianne says that she hopes
the boys know what they're doing.
Jason and Brett then take Lena to the island to meet Neri.
Lena is showed the spaceship and is told of how the locator
got smashed, making it difficult to find the synchronium.
Lena says she would like to try to get information from
H.E.L.E.N. When they get back to ORCA, Lena is pulling files
from H.E.L.E.N. and Cass resents her being there. They
finally find a landing point for the piece and call Kal in
to show on the map where it landed.
Meanwhile Dianne is perplexed as to why the Seismic tremors
are not registering. Winston suggest that they may be too
deep below the sea floor for the sensors to pick up.
Jason, Brett, Neri, Cass, Lena, and Benny go in search of
the synchronium, but when they get there, the capsule is
open and the piece is gone. Back at ORCA, Brett suggests a
raid on UBRI headquarters to get the pieces back. They all
agree and Neri says she will go too. Jason pulls Neri out of
the room and explains to her that it is too dangerous for
her to go in case Dr Hellegren sees her again, but Neri
insists on going. Brett says OK, but tells Neri that they
will go in two days time. Neri leaves and then Jason tells
the others they go the next morning, without Neri.
The next day on the island, Kal says he wants to go with the
others to UBRI, but Neri tells him he must stay and that she
goes with Jason. Neri goes to ORCA to see Dianne, but finds
out that Jason and the others had gone to UBRI earlier than
she was told they would. Neri is angry about being deceived.
Meanwhile, at UBRI, Dr Hellegren and Kellar are shown on a
videotape the synchronium's power to change the flow of
water. The raid at UBRI goes as planned until they make
their getaway with the synchronium pieces they took from the
strong-room. While running from the guards, Lena trips and
falls down. Benny then helps her up, and as he is trying to
block the stairs with some containers, the synchronium that
he is carrying slips out of his hands and tumbles down the
stairs to the feet of Kellar. The gang get away, but with
only one of the synchronium pieces.
Dianne's and Winston's suspicions about the fault lines ago
unheeded, as they are told there is insufficient evidence
for a tribunal hearing.
Kal's jealously of Jason begins to surface more as Neri
worries about Jason's safety in the raid on UBRI.
Jason and Brett take the piece they recovered to Neri on the
island. While Neri and Jason take the piece to the hiding
pace, Brett is telling Kal about the raid, but Kal says he
doesn't want to hear about Jason. When jason and Neri get
back, they are splashing water at each other as Kal looks
on, his jealousy becoming more intent.
Episode 15 (by Sonesay Phouthavong)
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While diving, Neri is worried that the coral reef is not
spawning. Kal feels left out when she doesn't tell him
what's wrong. Jason and Dianne go diving to spot any changes
in the sea floor that may help in providing evidence to stop
the blasting. They don't see anything visibly wrong, and
Neri tells them about her fears of the coral not spawning.
She calls it the "Dance of the Summer Moon". So it is
decided that Jason and Neri go to the reef to film it. They
would then use the tape to convince the board and tribunal
of the damage to the sealife and ocean.
Winston is expecting a visit from an old flame, Camilla and
so is a bit wary about his looks. When she arrives, Winston
gives Camilla a tour of ORCA. Meanwhile, Lena is not having
much success with information from H.E.L.E.N.'s database.
Kal asks Neri to watch him in competition for his final
class, but she says that she has business with Dianne and
Jason. Kal feels hurt, saying, "It's always Jason".
Winston introduces Camilla to Dianne and Brett. Brett
becomes suspicious of Camilla's motives on ORCA when she
asks him if he'd seen any mermaids on his adventures on
ORCA, so he follows her around the complex. Camilla feigns
illness so Winston will leave her alone. When he does, she
sneaks off to a store room where she makes contact via with
Dr Hellegren and explains to him that everything is going
according to plan and that she will find out about any
reference to the "Ocean Girl" in ORCA's computers and from
Dianne and Winston, not knowing that Brett is in the room
with her until he stumbles out of hiding. Camilla quickly
runs out and locks the door, stopping Brett from getting
out.
Sally-Anne asks Jason to be his partner at a party in the
rec room later that night. She then gets a bit annoyed when
he doesn't show up (that's because he's diving to film the
coral reef spawning). Kal comes first in his gym class and
rushes back to the island to tell Neri. Upon arriving he
finds Neri and Jason sitting by a fire. Kal says its his and
Neri's island and tells Jason to leave. Neri admonishes Kal
for his behaviour but invites nim to go with her and Jason
to film the coral, but Kal refuses to go.
Brett decides to climb along the air vents and manages to
get out and warn Dianne and Winston. They catch Camilla
trying to hack into the computer system and Winston asks her
to leave ORCA.
At the filming of the coral reef, Neri is saddened that it
does not spawn. While sitting on the beach Jason consoles
her by putting an arm around her shoulders. Kal see this and
runs back to their camp in rage. He then retreats to the
spaceship, citing it as his own place and that he has no
friends. Neri and Jason leave Kal alone at his request and
as they come back to the surface a huge seismic tremor rocks
the island and ORCA city...it is the fault line!
Episode 16 (by Sonesay Phouthavong)
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After the last tremors, Dianne demands a tribunal hearing.
Dr Hellegren and Kellar insist that the tremors and the
faultline are not due to the blasting. Lena locates another
piece of the synchronium on H.E.L.E.N. but they need Kal's
help in assessing a landing point. Neri says that Brett must
go since Kal is still angry at her and Jason. Brett and Cass
go to the spaceship, but Kal is reluctant to help. Cass
explains to him the concept of jealously, but Kal does not
grasp this. He finally does show them the landing point of
the synchronium on a hand-held computer they brought with
them.
Neri, Cass and Brett go in search of the synchronium which
landed at a place called Deans Gully. The three come across
a homestead and are invited in for refreshments. Here they
befriend a blind girl, Patty. Patty points to a painting on
the wall of the kitchen which shows Deans Gully.
Neri, Cass and Brett arrive at Deans Gully but find the
capsule containing the synchronium empty. Dejected, they go
back to the homestead, to say goodbye to Patty but they are
surprised to see the piece of synchronium sitting on Patty's
dresser drawer. Patty is quick to tell them that she doesn't
let anyone touch it...ever. The three decide to stay
overnight whilst they think of a way to ask for the
synchronium.
Back at ORCA city, UBRI have been given permission to store
radioactive waste in cannisters in the school section's
storerooms much to the dismay of Dianne. While Benny is
catching up on some school work in the computer labs,
another tremor hits. The cannisters break open causing a
contamination scare. H.E.L.E.N., sensing no-one in there,
begins to initiate shut down of the section. Sallyanne says
that she saw Benny go in there and so she and Jason go to
get him out just in time. While coming up in an elevator,
Lena comes across her father. She threatens to go public
with the hidden files she had seen in UBRI's computers if he
doesn't leave her alone.
At the homestead, Neri shows Patty a gift that Patty had
thought was lost with her eyesight. The gift of creation.
Patty is frustrated that she cannot paint anymore, and so
Neri shows her that she can create hand-made clay
sculptures. Patty is grateful for this and gives Neri the
synchronium in return. Neri says that she does not feel
right about taking the synchronium from her. Patty reassures
Neri saying, "It's okay. You've given me something better."
Neri takes the piece to the hiding place and as she runs her
hands over the smooth polished surface, she is thinking of
Patty moulding her sculptures.
Episode 17 (by Sonesay Phouthavong)
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Brett visits Kal on the spaceship and tries to explain
friendship to him, but Kal refuses to understand. Dianne and
Dr Hellegren argue over the validity of UBRI's construction
work in contributing to the widening gap in the sea floor. A
tribunal hearing is called and as Dianne is speaking, a
large tremor hits, wreaking havoc at ORCA. This new tremor
causes Charlie to become beached on the sand bank near the
island. Brett, Cass, Lena, Benny and Jason go to help. Kal
comes out of the spaceship to find Neri is gone. He swims to
ORCA to look for Jason and Cass, but does not find them.
At the tribunal, it is ruled that UBRI stop the blasting yet
be allowed to continue their construction work unimpeded.
Unhappy with this decision, Dianne goes diving to look for
more casual evidence.
The race to save Charlie continues as they wait for high
tide to try to shift him. They construct a cover out of palm
branches to protect Charlie from the harsh sun, but time is
running out for him. Neri, distraught, says that they can't
wait until high tide to try. Benny suggests wedging a sling
underneath Charlie and use a couple of wave-runners to shift
him off without having to wait until high tide. Jason races
back to ORCA to enlist the help of Winston. Winston explains
to Neri that Charlie's sense of guidance has been adversely
affected by the tremors and if they succeed in moving him,
he may just swim back to shore again. Neri says she won't
let this happen. They finally succeed in getting Charlie
back to deep water as Neri leads him away.
Back at ORCA, Kal meets Sallyanne and they begin talking.
When Jason and the others get back to ORCA, Sallyanne says
goodbye to Kal and goes to talk to Jason. Again Kal feels
abandoned so he just stays back.
Later on the island Kal is eating a coconut when Neri comes
to ask if he has come back. Kal wants to know why he wasn't
asked to help Charlie. He then storms off, unsatisfied with
the answer Neri had given him.
Kal is sitting on a sandbank surrounded by water, brooding.
He gets up, runs and then dives into the water. A safe
distance away, Kellar and some UBRI personnel have been
photographing and filming Kal...
Episode 18 (by Sonesay Phouthavong)
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Back at UBRI headquarters, Kellar shows Dr Hellegren the
video of Kal. This of course fascinates Hellegren as he
begins to devise a plan to catch Kal.
On the island, Kal agrees to come back if it is just himself
and Neri. But the sound of a wave-runner disrupts his
reverie. Jason asks Neri if Charlie is okay, but Kal tells
him to leave and then stalks off to the spaceship. Neri
admonishes Kal for his rudeness to Jason, giving him an
ultimatum - be the old Kal or find another place to live.
Kal chooses the latter option and leaves.
Brett tries to set Dianne up with Dave Hartley and tells
Jason of his plans. Jason doesn't want anything to do with
it. Brett then asks Benny to help him write a love letter
using Jason's computer.
Kal returns to his sandbank to contemplate his situation,
unaware that he is being watched. This time Dr Hellegren is
also watching on board a boat. The sudden lurching sound of
the motor being turned on and the boat speeding towards Kal
startles him. Frightened, he runs to the water and dives,
but is confronted by men with nets laying in wait and is
captured and hauled on board the boat. Kal is taken back to
the UBRI headquarters, his mind reeling. What had he got
himself into?
Kal is locked up in isolation in a room with no windows, and
a cold hard bench for a bed. The lights are left on and he
is being filmed and monitored by Dr Hellegren. Kal refuses
to talk or eat and is hostile towards his minders.
Neri worries about Kal not returning to the island.
Meanwhile, Sallyanne accidently receives the love letter,
thinking that it is from Jason. He tells her that he did not
write it and that he thinks of her as a "good buddy",
leaving her feeling hurt.
Neri, Jason and Brett search the island for Kal but to no
avail. Kal's already fragile state of mind becomes even more
precarious. He has not eaten or slept for a couple of days.
Dr Hellegren tempts him with oysters and finally Kal
obliges. Hellegren's plans for Kal are only just beginning
to take shape.
Episode 19 (by Sonesay Phouthavong)
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Neri again tries unsuccessfully to find Kal. Brett is also
worried about him but Jason seems unperturbed by Kal's
disappearance, saying that its jus an act; that he is
wanting attention. Mera appears to Neri in her sleep warning
her of new troubles saying that the danger is growing for
both their worlds. She urges Neri to wake and begin.
Kal finally talks to Dr Hellegren. He asks for more food and
a softer bed, among other things. He lets slip that he had a
soft bed on the island. Dr Hellegren decides to indulge
Kal's greed in order to find out more about Kal and the
island. Kal tells him about being to ORCA, about the power
of the synchronium, how they find the pieces, how many
pieces they have and about Neri.
Another piece of the synchronium is found by Lena, but the
exact location cannot be determined. Lena asks H.E.L.E.N. to
assess a probable landing point so they can search the
general area for it. UBRI have also got a fix on its landing
point and have gone after it too. Kellar and the UBRI team
arrive after Neri, Jason, Brett, Lena, Cass and Benny but
decide to follow them unnoticed until they recover the
piece. Cass spots the capsule down the side of a cliff.
Jason elects to go down for it using the rock climbing
equipment they brought with them. Kellar and UBRI move in to
get the piece. Brett seeing them coming warns Jason who
tells the rest to get Neri away to safety. UBRI reach Jason,
and Kellar threatens to cut the rope that is supporting
Jason unless he gives her the piece. He begrudgingly
obliges. When asked if they should take Jason back to Dr
Hellegren, Kellar replies, "What do we need him for. We
already have his strange, young friend". Jason then realises
that UBRI have got Kal.
Dr Hellegren asks Kal where the recovered pieces of
synchronium are, but is disappointed when Kal doesn't know.
Instead, he begins to plant seeds of doubt and mistrust in
Kal's mind about Neri and the ORCA kids. Hellegren offers
Kal his "friendship" and in return asks for Kal's help in
finding and assembling the whole synchronium. Dr Hellegren
promises Kal power over the island, over Neri and ultimately
over the earth if they succeed in assembling the
synchronium. The notion of master of the island appeals to
Kal and so with a hand shake, he seals his agreement with Dr
Hellegren.
Episode 20 (by Sonesay Phouthavong)
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Dr Hellegren further indulges Kal's greed by giving him
various toys and computer games. He instills in Kal, that on
this planet, men are leaders and women are followers when
Kal says that he wants control over Neri. Dr Hellegren
weighs up the possibilities that his influence over Kal has.
The ORCA gang and Neri decide on devising a plan to get Kal
back. Cass and Brett volunteer to break into UBRI offices at
ORCA by crawling through a series of air ducts. Unwittingly
they trigger a security sensor, alerting Kellar to their
presence, thinking that she had heard them. In their haste
to get out, Brett loses his identification badge in one of
the ducts. UBRI find the ID and Kellar is told by Hellegren
to put it back, anticipating the kids will go back for it.
When they do go back for another attempt at breaking into
the UBRI office, Dr Hellegren had planned for them to know
about Kal's whereabouts. In this way he could return Kal
without raising suspicion, knowing that they would attempt
to rescue him. As a last means of preparing Kal for his task
as informant, Dr Hellegren gives him a little test - one in
which Kal has to lie about his capture. He is quick to grasp
the concept. The "rescue" goes according to plan and the
gang get Kal back to the island. Whilst sitting around a
campfire, Kal tells them of his terror at the hands of his
captors. He has them all fooled. Once alone, Kal sneaks out
to see Dr Hellegren who is waiting for him on a boat. Kal
says to Hellegren, "Soon it will be Neri who tells me where
she is going".
Episode 21 (by Sonesay Phouthavong)
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Lena finds another piece of the synchronium. Mera appears to
Neri in her sleep again, telling her to fulfil her quest
before time runs out. The next morning, Kal is taken to ORCA
city to assess a landing point for the new piece. He is
hesitant in doing so, not wanting to give them an edge over
UBRI. He says that this time, it is too hard for him - that
he must think awhile. Kal excuses himself saying he will go
swimming. Neri says that she will go too, but Kal is quick
to insinuate that she doesn't trust him. Neri says she does
trust him and so lets him go by himself. Lena suggests
directing more power to H.E.L.E.N. in order to locate the
piece themselves. While doing so, another large quake hits,
leaving ORCA city devastated. Cass, Lena, Benny and Brett
are put on clean-up duty for accessing H.E.L.E.N. whilst
during a crisis and without permission. Jason is rostered on
stand-by duty, so it is left up to Neri to go in search of
the synchronium herself. Her trek takes her inland, in the
desert. All that she takes with her is a water bottle,
making it difficult to rehydrate herself. Neri comes across
a dingo and offers it some water, but drops the bottle and
runs for safety as it charges at her. Without the water, and
with the harsh sun beating down on her, Neri collapses.
While lying there, a young Aboriginal girl, Lila, comes to
Neri's rescue and takes her to a water hole. Neri is
grateful for this, but Lila says that Neri is a water-spirit
like the one before who came out of the sky and crashed into
the earth making a water hole. Neri dives and after a short
search, finds the synchronium piece. Neri starts her way
back, walking for what seemed to her like an eternity. She
does finally get to the coast and is much relieved. She
takes the piece to the hiding place, and exhausted, rests
beside them. Jason, Brett, Lean, Cass and Benny, worried for
Neri's safety go to the island and await her return. Seeing
her surface, they quickly run to her aid. Later that night
as Kal and Neri were asleep on the island, a spaceship lands
on the island. Three cloaked and hooded figures emerge from
the craft and make their way towards Neri. One of them
climbs the tree and removes her hood. Mera has returned to
help Neri.
Episode 22 (by Sonesay Phouthavong)
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Mera tells Neri of the danger inherent if they do not find
the synchronium in time - a total destruction of, not just
earth, but all worlds. Mera assures Neri that they will
recover the synchronium together and make it work. Kal,
standing in the background, looks on with contempt. Mera and
Neri are told by the other two elders that they will return
in a short time, whether the quest had been completed or
not. After being reunited with Brett and Jason, Mera tells
them that they already possess the trigger for activating
the synchronium - Charley's whale song. Kal, hiding, in the
trees hears this and steals away to tell Dr Hellegren at
UBRI headquarters. Dr Hellegren is under increasing pressure
from his financial backers to deliver the synchronium in
working order and so greatly welcomes this news. Mera is
introduced to Lena, Cass and Benny, and is reunited with
Dianne and Winston. Brett and Jason are surprised by her
newfound maturity. Mera asks if there is another way of
getting the synchronium back. Lena says that there is but it
is impossible to do it. It is a key that hangs around her
father's neck on a chain. Cass still doesn't trust Lena.
Neri and Mera convince Lena to help them get the key while
Dr Hellegren sleeps. Only Neri, Mera and Lena go, without
the others knowledge. Kal is following them through the
shrubbery, but is found out. He asks to go along and Neri
agrees. As Neri is about to remove the key from around Dr
Hellegren's neck, Kal deliberately pushes a vase off its
pedestal waking up the doctor. Hellegren grabs Neri's hand
but she struggles free and they run. The next morning on the
island, Mera, Jason and Brett admonish Kal for his
"clumsiness", but Neri is quick to defend him. While Jason
and Brett stay with Kal, Neri and Mera go to check on the
synchronium. The sisters sit hand in hand and call upon
Charley to sing. Meanwhile, at UBRI headquarters, Dr
Hellegren and Kellar are also testing the synchronium in
their possession. As Charley's whale-song is heard, the
synchronium illuminates, much to the delight of Dr Hellegren
and Kellar.
Episode 23 (by Sonesay Phouthavong)
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Cass and Benny sneak into UBRI offices at ORCA City to try
to find anything they can about the synchronium, at the
insistence of Cass. They find out about an exchange that
will occur between Dr Hellegren and a mining magnate, Mr
Lee. The deal is; safe passage of Mr Lee's cargo supplied by
UBRI in exchange for the synchronium that is in Mr Lee's
possession. Cass, Benny and Lena go to Mr Lee's office
building in order to try to retrieve the synchronium. With a
little ingenuity, they get in under the guise of caterers.
Brett returns to the island to ask Neri, Mera and Kal to
help him search the spaceship once more for any clues they
may have missed. Neri says she will join in the search after
she has checked on the hidden synchronium. While the others
are searching, Kal sneaks off to follow Neri. But before she
gets to the hiding place, Charley warns her that Kal is
following. He is admonished by Mera. Benny searches one
office, while Lena and Cass search another. The two girls
see the synchronium piece sitting on a trolley alongside
dozens of opals. While about to grab the synchronium, they
are found out and start to run. The two are caught while
Benny runs in another direction and escapes. Cass finally
trusts Lena when she realises that Lena's loyalty lies with
her friends and not her father, when Lena had a chance to
get herself off the hook. Cass and Lena are left alone in
the locked office when Benny breaks in and they all escape.
When they get back to ORCA, they tell Jason and Brett that
the synchronium in Lee's possession will be transferred to
UBRI on the pier. They decide to try to recover the piece.
Episode 24 (by Sonesay Phouthavong)
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Another large quake rocks ORCA City. The magnitude of the
quake forces the Commander to ask for voluntary evacuation
of ORCA City. Neri worries about this latest quake and
reaffirms to Mera that the synchronium won't go back to Dr
Hellegren. Sallyanne asks Lena for advice about Jason. She
wants to know is Jason has a girlfriend. Lena says that she
should just let him know how she feels about him. The ORCA
gang make plans to recover the synchronium piece from the
exchange. They choose straws as to who will stow away on
board the UBRI craft. Brett gets the dubious honour. Jason
and Morgan are diving to record any further damage to the
reef near ORCA City. As they are doing so, Morgan accidently
places her hand on a poisonous stonefish, injecting her with
a deadly venom. She goes into convulsions as Jason gets her
back to ORCA. She is stretchered away to sickbay and lapses
into a unconsciousness. Cass rushes to her sister's bedside.
Sallyanne reassures Jason that it wasn't his fault. Grateful
for her comforting words, he hugs her. She begins to tell
him that she fancies him just as Neri appears in the
aqua-duct. Jason leaves her. On board the boat, Brett
sabotages the ships engine so that it stalls. While the crew
are checking it out, Brett grabs the synchronium. He is
discovered and cornered. He throws the piece over boat and
then jumps in after it. Neri and Mera are waiting underwater
with an oxygen mask for Brett as they make good their
getaway. While Cass is sitting at Morgan's bedside talking
to her, she wakes up. Benny has the courage to tell his
father that he should have more say in what he wants to do
and hence earns his father's respect and admiration. Kellar
blames Kal for not warning them about the planned raid. Kal
defends himself, saying that he was being watched too
closely by Neri and Mera. Dr Hellegren, growing impatient,
tells Kal that the most important thing in his life is to
find out where the synchronium pieces are hidden. At the
hiding place, Neri tells Mera that they must get all the
pieces before time runs out. "Before this world ends?", asks
Mera. "Before everything ends", Neri replies.
Episode 25 (by Sonesay Phouthavong)
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Voluntary evacuation of ORCA city begins in a chaotic
fashion. Dianne expresses her concern for Jason and Brett's
safety, asking them to return to the mainland, but the two
are adamant on staying. Neri's concerns for the seas and the
planet heightens her urgency to recover all the synchronium
pieces. Kal asks to see where the other synchronium pieces
are hidden and as Neri agrees, Mera angrily snaps at her
saying that he doesn't need to know. Lena finds another
piece of the synchronium on H.E.L.E.N. and Kal is brought in
to assess a landing point. Kal then sneaks off to tell Dr
Hellegren about the location of the new piece. Dr Hellegren
and Kellar lock horns over the slowness of getting all the
synchronium pieces. Back on the island, Mera begins to
question Kal's loyalty and trustworthiness when he is again
absent. Sallyanne confronts Jason about him avoiding her.
Jason doesn't know exactly what to make of this until Lena
explains to him that Sallyanne "likes" him. She suggests
telling Sallyanne about Neri and Mera. Dianne decides to let
Jason and Brett stay at ORCA during the evacuation. Dr
Hellegren tells Kellar to avoid any confrontation with the
ORCA kids in her recovery of the latest synchronium piece.
She says that it may not be possible. Dr Hellegren is
angered by her petulance. Neri, Jason, Brett, Cass, Benny,
Lena and Mera's search for the synchronium takes them to the
heart of the jungle. Their only means of access, by river in
an inflatable. The UBRI team find the capsule housing the
synchronium, but no synchronium. Kellar decides to plant an
explosive device in the capsule for the unsuspecting ORCA
kids and then retreats. When Brett goes to open the capsule
the timer counts down and they all run moments before it
explodes. After regrouping, Neri looks up towards the trees
and sees the synchronium nestled among the branches of a
tree. They take it back with them to the island. Mera again
expresses her disapproval of Kal's absence, so Neri gives
the piece to Jason and Brett to take to the hiding place
while she and Mera search for Kal. Unbeknownst to Jason and
Brett, Kal follows them to the hiding place. He quickly goes
to Dr Hellegren to tell him about the location. Once having
delivered the synchronium, Kal demands his part of the
bargain as ruler of the island. Dr Hellegren brushes him
off. Back on the island, Neri and Mera are warned by Charley
that UBRI have possession of the synchronium. Neri goes to
tell Jason. Jason begins to tell Sallyanne about Neri, but
she doesn't believe him. Neri tells Jason and Brett that the
synchronium works in sympathy with its operator saying, "If
bad men use, it will make worse what is happening now.
Destroy everything, not just this world everything". A
sudden chill of realisation at what had just been said
washes over Jason and Brett.
Episode 26 (by Sonesay Phouthavong)
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Another large quake, this time registering over 9 on the
richter scale, prompts an order for compulsory evacuation of
all ORCA personnel under the age of 18. Dr Hellegren begins
to piece together the synchronium components at UBRI
headquarters. Kal, looking on, is angered that Dr Hellegren
has not kept his part of the bargain. After a heated
confrontation with the Doctor, Kal is roughly escorted out
of the room by two guards. Dr Hellegren lets Kal know he has
no need for him anymore. Kal attempts to run away with one
piece of the synchronium, but is stopped at the main gates,
and taken back to his cell. Kal, locked up in a cell again,
now realises Dr Hellegren's insincerity. Brett, Cass, Lena,
Neri, Benny and Mera think of a way of preventing UBRI from
using the synchronium. They plan to snatch it before it
boards the boat to go out to sea. They all agree on the
plan, but need a boat themselves. Jason and Sallyanne are on
a boat out at sea when Sallyanne sees a massive humpback
whale. Jason tells her that its Charley, but she
sarcastically shrugs it off in disbelief at his insistence
on the story. At that moment Neri surfaces and Sallyanne
realises it's the truth. The gang plan to sneak away to the
pier during the evacuation so they won't be missed and then
if all goes to plan take the synchronium to Neri on the
island. At the pier, the ORCA kids are spotted by Kellar,
and are rounded up and tied. Dr Hellegren forcefully takes
Lena aboard against her will, saying that he won't have her
as an enemy. Kal cunningly escapes from his cell and races
to the pier. He helps untie Jason and the others and
expresses his shame at what he had done. On board the boat
out at sea, Dr Hellegren is about to activate to
synchronium, when the sound of Neri's voice makes him pause.
Neri and Mera plead with Dr Hellegren to stop, warning him
of the death and destruction he will cause if the
synchronium were to enter the water by his hands. Lena tells
him that Neri is telling the truth. But driven by the hunger
for power he ignores them. He places his hands on the fully
assembled synchronium sphere,which is now glowing red in
response to the whale song. The skies ominously darken, the
seas churn violently, the earth shudders and lightning
crackles in the air. Neri again pleads with Hellegren, this
time offering herself for him to study if he doesn't put the
synchronium in the water. Hellegren refuses. Lena pleads
with him to stop, saying he will kill Neri and Mera.
Hellegren looks to Kellar for affirmation and she says, "So
what? We have the boy, Kal". Lena, not knowing what else to
do, jumps overboard into the water. She screams up to
Hellegren, "Will you kill me father?". All the while, Kal is
desperately trying to reach them. Dr Hellegren moves to stop
the winch from lowering the synchronium, but is pushed aside
by Kellar. AS the synchronium falls towards the water, Kal
surfaces underneath it and stops it just in time. Together
with Neri and Mera, the sphere is taken back to the island.
Dr Hellegren tells Kellar to give it up; that the game is
over. He throws Lena a life buoy. At the island the time has
come to use the synchronium the way it was meant to be used.
Neri and Mera successfully heal the oceans reversing the
destruction caused. Mera says goodbye to Dianne and Winston
back at ORCA City after Jason and Brett explain about the
synchronium. On board the spaceship, Kal says his goodbyes
and is put in deep sleep for the journey home. Mera also
bids Neri a teary farewell. Neri, Jason and Brett watch as
the spaceship lifts off and leaves the earth in a flash of
light, satisfied that all is right with the world once
again.