Episode 2x09: Trust No One
Ep starts at Al's place. The slow-talking guy is taking out the rubbish when he is attacked by something and the words "trust no one" appear on the screen in green writing. This could be good.
Mouse is at the Diner. She's tying up some loose ends. According to the police chief, there's been an abduction (Al's Chef), and Dot's been abducted as well.
Bob goes to check it out. Mouse has more unfinished business to attend to so she leaves as well, leaving Ms. Brodie, Enzo and Andraia's gratuitously Scottish teacher, in charge of the kids
At Al's, Bob asks a waiter about Dot. Suddenly, two people who are already there say "you ask a lot of questions...guardian."
IT'S CGI SPECIAL AGENT FAX MODEM AND CGI SPECIAL AGENT DATA NULLY.
X-FILES PARODY. YES. THIS IS AWESOME.
They work for Fawng.
Mike TV reports on the situation and Mouse is there, "back on level 31"...and has found "another victim!"
Modem and Nully are on to her, Bob doesn't believe it. Modem puts it down to her fangs. "I suspect she is a web creature."
"These aren't theories, they're...delusions!"
Modem tells a story about his sister being kidnapped when he was a kid. Bob scoffs, "next you'll tell me you've seen the user!"
"there is no user, that's just induced mass-psychosis engineered by the guardians"
"but what about the games"
"sent by the guardians to promote the user myth"
LOL
Modem doesn't know WHY Mouse is kidnapping these people though.
Nully reminds Bob of Dot while a report of another victim comes in. After Mike completes his report, he is kidnapped!
MOUSE KNEELS OVER THE BODY OF MOUSE, IT WAS MOUSE.
Modem and Nully appear and draw guns on Mouse, Bob is shocked, and Mouse distracts them and slices their guns off with a sword. She kisses Bob! Then runs. He gets a tracer on her and follows.
Modem and Nully bring Mike around.
Bob still doesn't think it's Mouse, because it is shedding its skin. Mouse is at the base and tells her boss, Turbo, that she will rescue the mainframers before getting an ID on the Web Creature
She has the badass sword agan as she enters a room of stuff hanging from the ceiling. Mouse breaks one open and...DOT is inside! Mouse cuts her down.
The creature feeds off their energy. Dot says she's OK. Mouse and Dot cut them all down and they hear the web creature again. It emerges and is...a big thing with huge teeth. It tries to recapture Dot. Mouse wants proof it exists!
Modem and Nully shine a light in its eyes to make it let go. Mouse confirms the web creature to her boss, and Bob is shocked she is working for him...then berates Mouse. Apparently Guardian protocol to deal with a web creature in a place like Mainframe is to destroy the WHOLE PLACE.
Turbo doesn't want to destroy Bob but has no choice, it is protocol. Turbo kind of looks like Duke Nukem. Guardian quickly probes the communicator Mouse has been using and THAT is the device that will destroy everybody. Bob takes it and runs, saying he has to get it out of Mainframe. Meanwhile, the security force arrives with industrial-strength flashlights to keep the creature at bay.
Bob flies incredibly high into the sky to get a safe distance away. It explodes. Bob can't be heard!
The web creature escapes!
Bob is OK, it turns out the tear caused interference.
But the creature can use the tear to form a portal...uh oh...and there's nothing to stop it as it flies to the huge tear that was formed and creates a portal.
"You say Nully...the web is out there."
"No Modem. It's here."
XD
Uhoh. Ep ends with Bob saying to prepare for war.
Rating: 8.5/10
The way the last few eps have linked together was cool. Finally, a proper arc.