The following is a transcript of "A Circle at Both Ends".
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(Episode begins in the hallway between the Cosy Room and the Gym, where Three is with her Buddy Blocks.)
Three: (Humming to herself) "La-la-la-la."
(On her way to the Gym, Three sees Six. He is with one of his Buddy Blocks.)
Three: "Six! Hey, Six!"
Six: "I’m just going in the Gym."
Three: "Great."
(Three and Six head for the Gym.)
Three: "Oh, great, you’ve got one of your Buddy Blocks."
Six: "Yes."
Three: "Cos, you know, your Buddy Blocks can turn into Buddy Sticks."
Six: "They certainly can." (Six’s Buddy Block transforms from a block to a stick.) "One Buddy Stick."
Three: "Well, I’ve taught my Buddy Blocks to do the same thing. Go on."
(One of Three’s Buddy Blocks transforms, however, something is very different.)
Six: "Great." (He looks carefully at Three’s Buddy Stick, then back at his own Buddy Stick) "Not quite the same as mine."
Three: "What?"
Six: "The ends are round."
Three: (Staring with surprise) "Oh." (Trying to sound like she meant it to happen.) "Oh. Oh, yes. That's exactly what I wanted."
(Six isn’t convinced. Three’s Buddy Stick twirls around to show both sides.)
Three: "Round. A circle at both ends. This is…" (Three’s Buddy Stick moves beside her) "…a Circle Stick."
Six: "Um... Can your other Buddy Blocks turn into Circle Sticks?"
Three: (Nodding) "Of course. Go for it!"
(The Buddy Blocks start turning into Circle Sticks, but they’re a bit different from Three’s first Circle Stick.)
Six: "They’re not quite the same."
Three: "No, they’re fine." (One of Three’s Circle Sticks continues to grow taller.) "Circle Sticks. Sticks with a circle at both ends."
(The Circle Stick grows until it almost hits the ceiling.)
Six: (staring upwards) "That one’s very tall."
Three: (Frowns a bit, but smiles as her Circle Stick stops growing) "Lovely."
(The Circle Stick wobbles about until it falls down, landing on the last Circle Stick.)
Three/Six: (Leaping out of the way) "Oh!"
(The third Circle Stick rolls off further in the gym. When it stops, it starts to expand in size.)
Six: "And that one’s very fat!"
(It starts rolling toward them.)
Three/Six: "Whoa!"
(They crash into something offscreen, as does Three’s fat Circle Stick)
Three: "Oh!"
(Three then recovers as her Circle Stick is still clattering into something.)
Three: "Maybe… maybe my Circle Sticks aren’t quite ready yet."
(Alarm rings)
Six: "Never mind. We’ll see them later."
Three: "Let’s go."
(Six hops into the gym’s lift while Three uses the gym’s boing. Five’s been on duty and Four was checking over the Brain-Gain machine nearby. Three and Six join Five.)
Five: "Come on, we’ve got a call coming in." (She turns her gaze over to Four.) "Four, come on!"
Four: "I need to check the Brain Gain machine is okay."
Three: "We don’t need it now."
Six: "Come on, Four."
Four: "Well, okay."
(Four joins his friends at the Diamond Screen, just as the agent calls in.)
Agent 44: "Agent 44 here."
Five: "What’s happening?"
Agent 44: "Things are going wrong."
Three: "But not for long!"
Agent 44: "Look at this boy and his chalk."
Four: "Putting it on screen."
(The screen comes down and reveals the boy is using chalk on the blackboard… but the chalk is going haywire)
Three: "He can’t draw at all with that chalk!"
Agent 44: "He needs help."
Six: "And we’re the ones to help him."
Agent 44: "Thank you."
Five: "I’d like to help that boy."
Six: "Okay."
Four: "In that case, Five is going out!"
(Three gives a bit of a frown in disappointment)
[Song Sequence: The Launcher Song]
Agents: ♪ Hey! Hey! ♪
♪ We’ve got a problem, what should we do? ♪
♪ Who’s going out there? Who do we choose? ♪
♪ Need to get out there, who will it be? ♪
♪ Who’s going out there? ♪
Announcer: "Number Five!"
(Five is scanned, her number comes up on the number board and then she hops into her pod, patiently waiting to be launched. Back in the Control Room…)
Six: "Good luck, Five."
(Five is shown on screen in her pod)
Five: "Thank you."
Four: "Ready for launch." (He flicks the screen to change it from Five in her pod to showing the living room.) "And I’m scanning the room… And it’s all clear."
Six: "Let’s do it."
Three/Four/Six: "5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0!"
(Six presses the launch button, and Five goes streaming through the sky in many little teal number 5s. Back in the Control Room, Four is on the scanner.)
Four: (scrolling through the numbers) "Finding a 5… Finding a 5… I’ve done it!"
(Five’s particles start coming back together.)
Five: "Oh…" (she hops down from her landing number.) "Oh. Okay. Time to do some helping out." (She hops off.)
(Alarm rings)
Three: "More problems!"
Agent 63: "Agent 63 here."
Six: "Where’s the problem?"
Agent 63: "It’s in the garden centre."
(Four had gone back to check on the Brain-Gain Machine.)
Four: "Can someone put it on screen while I check this?"
(Six and Three turn their attention to the screen; Three decides she’s going to work the scanners today.)
Three: (hopping to the scanner) "On screen."
(The gardener is carrying a bit of wood, but is staggering all over the place)
Agent 63: "She’s struggling to move the wood." (The gardener bumps into various pots and hanging baskets of flowers.) "She’s supposed to be helping the customers."
(Now the gardener is bumping into various vine frames.)
Four: "She’s making a mess instead!"
Three: (As the gardener bumps into a lot of plastic buckets, and they clatter to the ground.) "That’s a very strange bit of wood."
(Diamond Screen goes off.)
Six: "More problems!"
Agent 81: "There’s a man delivering a rolled-up carpet."
(The screen shows the man in question walking out of a shop.)
Four: (Still checking over the Brain-Gain machine) "I’ve a feeling this is going to go wrong."
(The man starts staggering around with the carpet and lands on a rack outside.)
Man: "Whoa!" (He spins around as he tries to avoid two other people.)
Three: "That carpet is out of control!"
(Five hops over to check out the carpet.)
Five: "Why are all these things going wrong?"
Four: "Is there anything the same about the chalk, the big bits of wood, and the carpet?"
Six: "I don’t know."
Agent 81: "It's the shape. They're all the same shape."
(Six turns around to the Diamond Screen.)
Three: (She presses a button.) "Putting them on screen."
(The chalk, the carpet and the wood appear on the Diamond Screen.)
Agent 81: "Can you see what's the same about them?"
Three: (Getting excited as realisation hits her.) "Oh! Oh! They’ve all got a circle at each end. Like my circle sticks."
Four: "Put them on screen, Three."
Three: "Oh, yes." (She pushes the button and her Circle Sticks appear on the screen.) "They do look different, but they've all got a circle at each end."
Agent 44: "I think shapes with circles at both ends are called cylinders."
Six: "Okay, so we know what all these things going wrong are called - cylinders. But why are things this shape going wrong?"
Five: "I think I know. Listen!"
(Laughing is heard)
Three: "It’s the Shape Japer!"
Six: (He turns back around to Three.) "What do we know about the Japer?"
Three: (She presses a button) "This."
[Song sequence: The Shape Japer's song]
Singer: ♪ Looks like the Shape Japer's back ♪
♪ Shape Japer, ♪
♪ She's really very strange,♪
♪Shape Japer, ♪
♪ She loves to make things change, ♪
♪ Changing faces, ♪
♪ Changing sides, ♪
♪Changing shapes,♪
♪ Every single time, ♪
♪ Changing shapes,♪
♪ Is the Japer's game,♪
♪ The Shape Japer's back again, ♪
Five: "Look!"
Shape Japer: (Transforming from her sphere form into a new one) "Cylinder." (Laughing)
Four: "Wow!"
Three: "She's got a circle at both ends."
Shape Japer: "Cylinder!"
Five: "And I bet she's going to make trouble."
(The Diamond Screen chimes.)
Six: "Looks like you’re right."
Five: (Bouncing off) "I’m after her."
Agent 63: "More trouble. Someone's got something to eat."
(A boy has a container full of jelly beans)
Three: "I think there's going to be…" (the container rattles, spilling jelly beans everywhere) "…a problem."
(The boy is so startled, he puts the container down, now revealing there to be a hole at the bottom of it too.)
Shape Japer: "Cylinder!"
(Five glances over at a nearby café with a cook.)
Five: "There's more trouble here."
(The cook is getting a paper towel roll down from the cupboard but it rattles around in her hands and bounces all over the room and up the stairs. The paper starts to come off the roll as it moves.)
Five: "Oh, dear."
(The paper towel roll is now devoid of any paper at all.)
Five: (As the Shape Japer hovers over the paper towel roll) "Is it another cylinder going wrong?"
Three: "It’s got a circle at both ends."
Shape Japer: (She goes through the holes) "Ha-ha-ha-ha!" (Transforms into a cylinder) "Cylinder!"
Five: "She’s back!"
Shape Japer: (Going through the holes) "Cylinder. Ha-ha-ha-ha!"
Five: "Well, The Shape Japer says these things are cylinders."
Six: "She might be trying to trick us."
Agent 81: "They're open at the end and don't have a middle."
Six: "But they have got a circle at both ends."
Three: "Let’s get some Brain Gain to sort these cylinders out."
(Four is shaking his head at the mechanics of the Brain-Gain machine.)
Four: "Just one thing. The Brain Gain isn't working very well today."
Three: "Oh, no!"
Four: (The internal mechanics of the Brain-Gain Machine go back into place and the ‘leg’ of the machine comes back) "We’ll only be able to use it once, so we can only fix one type of problem."
Six: "So we’ve got to be sure everything we send Brain Gain to really is a cylinder."
(Diamond screen chimes)
Agent 44: "More problems!"
Three: "Will they be cylinders too?"
(The screen shows the delivery man, getting a package out of the car. It starts rattling about in his hands)
Six: "The delivery man is in trouble again."
Three: "It's very different from the carpet." (The man drops his package and rushes after it) "But it has got a circle at both ends."
Five: "There’s more trouble in the kitchen!"
(The cook goes over to a cake)
Three: "Is that cake a cylinder?"
(The cook picks up the cake, which starts rattling around in her hands)
Four: "Well, the top of the cake is a circle."
(The cake is forced onto the cook’s face, and she removes the tray it was on, putting her hands on her hips)
Six: "And so is the bottom of it."
Five: "If cylinders come in all these different types, there could be trouble anywhere! (She starts to imagine) "Tins of food in the supermarket have got circles at both ends, so they are cylinders that could go wrong." (A child is slurping from a straw) "A drinking straw is a long hollow cylinder, so that could be a cylinder that goes wrong!"
Child: Ew! Oh!
Five: (cont. Imagination) "Or even a really short and fat cylinder like a cheesecake. If that goes wrong... it could be very messy!" (Five snaps back to reality) "All those different cylinders! So many things to go wrong!"
Three: "We’ve got to put the cylinders right. I'll start the Brain Gain machine!"
[Song sequence: The Brain-Gain song]
Singer: ♪ Brain Gain, Brain Gain, to sort a problem use our brain ♪
♪ The way to get your brains all linking up together, joined-up thinking ♪
♪ Getting brain power now! Brain Gain! ♪
Four: "Let’s just hope that all the different things were cylinders because we’ve only got one chance with the Brain Gain!"
Three: (Hopping around in the Brain-Gain Machine) "Cylinder Brain Gain. Cylinder Brain Gain!"
Six: "Sending Brain Gain now!"
(The Brain-Gain leaves the sofa and hits Five.)
Five: "Cylinder Brain Gain now!"
(She fires it at the chalk; the boy starts happily drawing with it.)
Three: "Cylinders back to normal!"
(Five fires it at the carpet and the delivery man picks it up. The gardener also picks up the wood)
Four: "Long cylinders back to normal."
(Brain-Gain is fired at the paper roll and the paper appears back on it.)
Six: "Cylinders with open end back to normal."
(The boy picks up his jelly bean container and tips the container to pour out some jelly beans. The package the delivery man had trouble with stops rolling and he picks it up.)
Three: "Short fat cylinder back to normal."
(Brain-Gain is fired at the cake and it goes back down onto the tray in the cook’s hands; no icing is left on the cook’s face.)
Five: "Thin, flat cylinder back to normal."
Four: "Yes! The Brain-Gain worked for all of the things!"
Three: "Because they were all cylinders! Hooray!"
Shape Japer: (Agitated) "Ha-ha...aaaargh!"
Three: "She’s not happy we've put everything back to normal."
(The Shape Japer continues to shriek in a strangled way and flies off, very angry and upset.)
Five: "She’s gone!"
Three: "Hooray!"
Six: "Come back now, Five."
(Five fades into tiny teal 5s and starts flying back.)
Three/Four/Six: "One, two, three, four, five!"
(Five flies in the door and it closes behind her. Five comes up on the boing from the gym and she joins Three, Four and Six.)
Three: "Well done, Five."
Five: "Amazing, all those different cylinders."
Four: "And you can see them all on the screen."
(The Numberjacks all turn to the screen. The events from earlier start to play back.)
Six: "The boy had trouble with cylinders."
Five: "And the gardener and the delivery man were struggling with their cylinders."
Four: "And the cylinders with open ends gave lots of trouble too!"
Three: "So did this cylinder."
Six: "And the cake was a very messy cylinder."
Four: "And one lot of cylinder Brain Gain sorted out all those different-looking shapes."
(Down in the gym, Three and Six were hanging out with Three’s Buddy Blocks.)
Three: "Well, my three Buddy Blocks weren’t quite like yours, Six."
(Three’s Buddy Blocks transform into Cylinders, smaller than there were the first time)
Six: "Not exactly."
Three: "But they did help us solve the problem with cylinders."
Six: "That’s true."
Three: "Lucky my cylinders aren’t doing strange things." (Even as Three speaks, her Cylinders start circling around her and the thin one starts waving about.) "Oh." (She starts jumping back a bit each time she speaks) "Oh. Oh! Oh! You are very silly Cylinders."
(By now, Three is trying her best to keep out of her Cylinders’ way, but she’s struggling as they chase after her.)
Six: "I wonder, how many different sorts of cylinders can you find?"
Three: (Six glances back at her) "Oh. Oh. Oh!"
Six: "Remember to look for a circle at each end."
Three: (In the background of Six’s last line) "Cylinders! Whoa! Whooaaaa! Hey!"
Six: Find big cylinders, small ones, thin ones, fat ones, long ones, short ones and call the Numberjacks!
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