Cyberchase
A Piece Of The Action: Act 3
Clip: Season 3 Episode 4 | 6m 22sVideo has Closed Captions
Hacker traps the CyberSquad with their tiny friends the Scritters.
Digit disappears while visiting his friends the Scritters, so Motherboard sends Matt, Jackie and Inez to investigate. They discover that Hacker has found a supply of Magnetite, and will use it to fill up a rocket capable of erasing all of Motherboard's memory disks. Can the kids stop Hacker before he collects a hundred percent of the Magnetite he needs to launch the rocket?
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Cyberchase
A Piece Of The Action: Act 3
Clip: Season 3 Episode 4 | 6m 22sVideo has Closed Captions
Digit disappears while visiting his friends the Scritters, so Motherboard sends Matt, Jackie and Inez to investigate. They discover that Hacker has found a supply of Magnetite, and will use it to fill up a rocket capable of erasing all of Motherboard's memory disks. Can the kids stop Hacker before he collects a hundred percent of the Magnetite he needs to launch the rocket?
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INEZ: OH WHAT DO WE DO?!
WHAT DO WE DO?!
(EVIL CHUCKLE) MATT: HEY, WHAT'S THIS?
WHATEVER IT IS TURN IT!
MATT: THIS WAY!
(ROCK WALL CRUMBLES) (DRILL LOSES POWER) BUZZ: DRATS!
I'M POWERLESS!
DEEDEE!
I NEED MORE POWER!
DEEDEE?
WHERE ARE YA?
ROXY: PHEW!
THAT WAS A CLOSE ONE.
MATT: BET THIS THING COULD GET US THROUGH TO HACKER!
INEZ: BUT I HEARD BUZZ SAY IT'S OUT OF POWER!
JACKIE: GREAT!
NOW WE'LL NEVER GET INTO HACKER'S CONTROL CENTER AND IF WE CAN'T GET IN THERE WE CAN'T STOP HACKER.
AND IF WE CAN'T STOP HACKER HE'LL ERASE MOTHERBOARD'S MEMORY WITH THE MAGNETITE!
CYBERSPACE IS DOOMED!
DOOMED, I TELL YOU!
(OVER DRAMATIC SOB) DOOMED!
AND THE AWARD FOR BEST DRAMATIC OUTBURST OF THE DAY GOES TO... JACKIE!
MATT!
INEZ: LOOK WHAT I FOUND!
THIS THING GETS ITS POWER FROM THE SAME POWER CRYSTALS WE USED TO OPEN THE DOOR TO GET DOWN HERE!
IT SAYS HERE, THAT TO POWER THIS CAR, WE NEED A CRYSTAL THAT CONTAINS BETWEEN 65 AND 85 PERCENT ORANGE POWER STRIPES.
I KNEW THESE THINGS WOULD COME IN HANDY.
ACCORDING TO THIS... LESS THAN 65 PERCENT AND IT'S A NO GO.
MORE THAN 85 PERCENT AND THE MOTOR BURNS OUT!
INEZ: IT'S GOTTA LAND SOMEWHERE BETWEEN 65 AND 85 PERCENT TO GET GOING AND TO GET US OUTTA HERE!
BUZZ: OH, THAT WOULD BE VERY NICE, WOULDN'T IT, DEEDEE?
GET 'EM!
NOWHERE TO HIDE NOW!
YEAH, AND NOWHERE TO RUN EITHER!
(LOUD SCREECH) NOW!
(WHIR OF VACUUM) BUZZ AND DELETE: (SHOUT) DIGIT: FEEL FREE TO STICK AROUND FOR A WHILE, BOYS.
BUZZ AND DELETE: HELP!
GET US OUTTA HERE!
DIGIT: TIME TO POWER UP!
MATT: WAIT!
REMEMBER WHAT THE SIGN SAID?
THE CRYSTAL HAS TO BE BETWEEN 65 PERCENT 85 PERCENT ORANGE OR IT WON'T WORK.
YOU'RE RIGHT.
WE GOTTA FIND OUT WHAT PERCENT OF THESE CRYSTALS IS ORANGE!
LET'S DO WHAT WE DID BEFORE - COUNT THE STRIPES TO GET THE FRACTION OF EACH CRYSTAL THAT'S ORANGE.
YEAH, THEN WE CAN TURN THE FRACTION INTO A PERCENTAGE LIKE WE DID WITH THE SCORES.
JACKIE: THIS ONE IS ONE HALF ORANGE.
INEZ: THIS ONE IS THREE FIFTHS AND THE LAST ONE IS THREE FOURTHS.
ROXY: NOW WE GOTTA TURN THOSE FRACTIONS INTO FUR-SCENTS, I MEAN PER-CENTS.
RIGHT?
YEP, PARTS OF A HUNDRED.
THE FIRST IS EASY.
ONE HALF IS THE SAME AS 50 OVER 100 OR 50 PERCENT.
MATT: AND 3 OVER 5 IS THE SAME AS HOW MANY OUT OF 100?
LET'S SEE... THREE OVER FIVE IS 6 OVER 10.
AND SIX OVER TEN IS 60 OVER 100 OR 60 PERCENT.
DIGIT: THE LAST ONE IS 3 OVER 4, WHICH IS UH... WHAT PART OF 100?
INEZ: WELL, 4 TIMES 25 IS 100.
AND 3 TIMES 25 IS 75.
SO THAT'S 75 OVER 100, WHICH IS THE SAME AS 75 PERCENT!
PERCENTS REALLY HELP WHEN YOU HAVE TO COMPARE DIFFERENT FRACTIONS.
THEY SURE DO!
AND ONLY ONE OF THESE CRYSTALS IS BETWEEN 65 AND 85 PERCENT ORANGE - THE 75 PERCENTER!
(MACHINE WHIRS TO LIFE) FIRE IT UP, DIDGE!
(BEEP) JACKIE: HACKER, HERE WE COME!
HACKER: 99 PERCENT FULL!
AND I'VE GOT THE FINAL ONE PERCENT RIGHT HERE!
(LOUD BANG) (DOOR CRUMBLES) KIDS AND SCRITTERS: STOP!
SORRY KIDDIES, TOO LATE!
(ROCKET TOP CLANGS SHUT) MATT: WE GOTTA STOP IT!
HACKER: SAY GOODNIGHT, MOTHERBOARD!
(EVIL LAUGH) KIDS AND SCRITTERS: (SHOUT LOUDLY) (WHOOSH) PUT'EM ON, QUICK!
HACKER: WHAT A DAY!
DISABLING MOTHERBOARD AND GETTING RID OF THOSE KIDS ALL IN ONE FELL SWOOP!
THAT'S A WIN-WIN FOR ME, BOYS!
(MORE RED SPOTS POP UP) BUZZ: HEY BOSS, YOU GOT MORE RED SPOTS!
(HORRIFIED GASP) DID YOU BRING A SCRITTER ON BOARD?
NO BOSS, NO SCRITTERS, JUST SOME MAGNETITE SOUVENIRS.
WE'RE ALMOST TO MOTHERBOARD CONTROL CENTRAL!
INEZ: WHAT DO WE DO, MATT?
UH...
I DON'T KNOW.
DIGIT: I DO!
HANG ON!
(ROCKET ZOOMS) INEZ: YOU FORGOT YOUR MAGNETITE, HACKER!
HACKER: AH, MAYBE I'M NOT ALLERGIC TO THOSE SCRITTERS AFTER ALL.
MAYBE I'M ALLERGIC TO... BUZZ AND DELETE: MAGNETITE!
HACKER: UGH, AHH!
GET THIS STUFF OUTTA HERE!
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