| ReBoot Episode | |
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| Hack, Slash and the ship inside Enzo's brain. | |
| The Great Brain Robbery | |
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| Episode no. | 1.10 |
| Written by | Jono Howard |
| Story by | Jono Howard, Lane Raichert |
| Original Airdate | 9 November 1994 |
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"Help me get this straight: Bob is going to shrink down, fly inside my head, and battle Hack and Slash for control of my brain?" - Enzo
"Basically." - Dot
"Cool!" - Enzo
Summary[]
Knowing Bob will not willingly give him the access codes to the Super Computer, Megabyte hires Mouse to infiltrate Bob's brain, but things don't quite go as planned.
Plot[]
Megabyte has hired a mercenary hacker named Mouse to assist in his ongoing attempt to access the Super Computer. He employs a Data Compression Command to shrink an ABC vehicle as part of his most recent plan to enter Bob's neural interface for a direct link to the Super Computer's access codes. Once inside, Mouse, along with Hack and Slash, are to infiltrate Bob's brain using a Neural Matrix Scrambler to extract the access codes. Once situated inside the ABC, the hired hacker and henchbots are miniaturized and given to Sergeant Smiley. Meanwhile, Agents Six and Twelve monitor Bob's movements and keep Megabyte informed while Smiley awaits further orders.
None the wiser, Dot and Enzo accompany Bob to Al's Diner for a post-game energy shake. However, in the kitchen, Megabyte's viral spies have subdued Al and taken over food preparation for Bob's order. Sergeant Smiley inserts the shrunken ABC—containing Mouse, Hack, and Slash—into Bob's straw to ensure it will enter his body with the first sip. But when Bob's order arrives, Enzo asks for a taste and Bob agrees. Unbeknownst to Megabyte and the passengers of the ABC, the vessel enters Enzo's body instead.
Mouse, Hack, and Slash eventually arrive at the central nervous system. Upon exiting the vessel, Hack and Slash fall into a bouncy neural web and begin fooling around, causing Enzo to move erratically and uncontrollably. Concerned by his bizarre behavior, Bob and Dot take Enzo to Phong for examination.
At the Principal Office's medical facility, Phong peers into Enzo's ear and spots Hack and Slash inside his head. He alerts Bob and Dot to the situation and collaborates with the Guardian on a plan to send him into the boy's head as well. After some adjustments, Bob is shrunk using a Bpeg and inserted into Enzo’s ear to confront the intruders.
Still fully unaware of the situation, Megabyte instructs Mouse to access what he thinks is Bob's memory. Mouse complies, and all Megabyte hears are nonsensical statements from a child's voice. Suspicious, he orders Mouse to take manual control and find a reflective surface to see who they're dealing with. Upon approaching a mirror, he sees they're actually inside Enzo's body. Megabyte is furious at the blunder, but quickly notices that Enzo is already within the Principal Office. Seizing the opportunity, Megabyte changes tactics, opting instead to use Enzo to access the Operating Core. By controlling Enzo's motor functions, he directs the sprite to the Core and forces him to override security to breach it.
Back inside Enzo's brain, Bob fights his way through Hack and Slash to reach the ABC and its controller. There, he encounters an old flame, Mouse, who momentarily traps him in a Liner Stasis Field. When they recognize each other, they briefly revisit the memory of their last encounter, back when Bob arrested her.
Bob quickly explains the immediate danger of Megabyte sending Enzo, and therefore everyone inside him, into a fried state by directing the sprite into the Core. Realizing she was being mercilessly sacrificed for Megabyte's schemes, Mouse decides to sever his control. She breaks his connection to Enzo's neural interface, and starts to escape with Bob at her side.
Relieved, Enzo bolts out of the Core as soon as he feels he has regained control.
Furious over Mouse's betrayal, Megabyte cancels the compression field, which is set to deactivate within nanoseconds. Bob, Mouse, and a bewildered Hack and Slash make their exit through Enzo's nose, just as he sneezes, expelling the ABC moments before they all return to normal size.
Dot fumes with jealousy and distrust at the presence of Bob's strange and womanly companion, but before Bob can introduce Mouse, she vanishes, leaving only her insignia on the door.
Back at the Silicon Tor, Hack and Slash are sent back to Megabyte, re-compressed by Phong.
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References[]
- The episode title is a pun on "The Great Train Robbery", which refers to a £2.6 million postal train robbery committed in 8 August 1963 at Bridego Railway Bridge, in Buckinghamshire (UK). Also, the reference can lend itself to a 1903 Silent Western movie of similar title.
- This is the first episode Mouse appears in. She was previously mentioned in The Crimson Binome.
- The entire episode is a parody of the 1966 20th Century Fox film, 'Fantastic Voyage'.
- When Al is being tied up various boxes and crates in the kitchen are all labeled "Silicon Implants".
- Enzo's brain is making various dial tones, such as Dual-Tone Multi-Frequency (DTMF) signaling used for telecommunication signaling over analog telephone lines. Usually heard from modems using dial-up communication.
- While Phong is doing a checkup on Enzo, a traditional Snellen eye chart is used to measure visual acuity can be seen in the background, showing binary numbers instead of letters.
- Enzo sings a parody of the nursery rhyme "I'm a Little Teapot". The nursery rhyme parody mentions "source code", which is any collection of statements or declarations written in some human-readable computer programming language.
- This is the last episode to feature Jessie Moss as Enzo. However, he would return as Slimey Goober in The Episode With No Name.
- This is the only episode in which Al appears on screen, though he is tied up from head to toe in rope.