Bird Up (S.I.N.K or Swim)

**Bird Up** is the fourth episode of the first season of the Average Films series S.I.N.K or Swim. It is 39 minutes long and it is written and directed by ProGamerDude543.

## Plot

The episode begins with Satori introducing Miles and Hunter to a brand new intern named Dirk. Satori ends the tour at the office, but Miles is bewildered that Satori didn't show Dirk the breakroom. Miles takes him there and sends him off to do whatever, and they meet up with Soo-Jin, who is in a good mood. However, they are alerted to a disturbance in the site's Codebase, to find Alexandreina restraining Dirk, who had spilled coffee laced with electromagnetic disrupting nanobots on one of the panels. Miles kills Dirk, but the panel begins to malfunction, causing the AI that controlled S.I.N.K's robotic bird decoys to be deleted, meaning said birds were down all across the world. Miles, Satori, and Hunter travel to one of S.I.N.K's Australian sites, where they end up in Aires' lab, who meets them after Miles is punched by one of her robotic backring arms. They then meet Lorenzo and McKenna, the latter of whom Miles develops a crush on, and Aires attempts to install the backup code for the new AI into S.I.N.K's international servers to get the birds up and running again, but it doesn't work when the AI turns against S.I.N.K and declares that its destruction will lead to order in the universe. The birds then begin attacking S.I.N.K sites en masse, and Lorenzo, Satori, and Hunter split to buy time for Miles, McKenna, and Aires to fix the problem.

hey are attacked by robot eagles, but McKenna notices after dispatching them that they didn't attempt to chase after Aires, who had run off in anger. McKenna theorizes that Aires set up the whole thing using her coding ability, which Miles agrees with. McKenna then comments that she knows he likes her and kisses him for luck. When they make their way to the bases' holding facility, they find Lorenzo, Satori, and Hunter unconscious in cells with Aires standing over the control panel with a chip in her hand, supposedly proving their theory. However, the chip Aires had in her hand was actually an ASL learning program for her robot arms to help her communicate with her brother, who had lost his hearing permanently during a mission for S.I.N.K Austria, since she never had the time to learn it herself. Miles backs down, but McKenna kicks Aires hard into an open cell and puts her to sleep. McKenna then reveals to a shocked Miles that she orchestrated the whole thing by programming the robot to behave like a sentient human-averse AI. A disgusted Miles asks why she would do something like this, and she responds that there is a voice in the human psyche that constantly gave the brain terrible ideas, and that hers only got louder and louder to the point where the rest of her brain gave up trying to shut it down. The two then fight, but McKenna uses her siphoning chestplate to summon birds to attack Miles, and she tells him that he could have been by her side forever. Miles manages to lift Gabriel's Wing high enough to pierce McKenna through the chest with one of its projectile feathers by reflecting it off a closed cell force field. As McKenna lay dying, she tells a guilty Miles that she'll remember him forever. Miles punches the ground in heartbroken rage.

Some time later, Hunter walks into the B-53 office to find Aires doing paperwork for McKenna's betrayal and death, which Hunter chastises her for, with both him and Lorenzo agreeing she needs a break. Aires relents, and Satori enters to talk with Hunter about Miles, who had been drinking significantly more since the mission. She then tells him she knows how to cheer him up, and reveals 3 plane tickets she bought for a flight to Haneda International Airport in Tokyo, Japan. Miles is then seen in the break room, where Soo-Jin checks on him and assures him that everything will be fine. Miles asks Soo-Jin how she manages to stay radiant all the time, and she tells him that she wants to remain strong and be the light in the lives of those who actively surround themselves in darkness. Miles tells her that it's working on him, and the two embrace.

## Characters

* Isaac Robinson-Smith as Hunter Rhames - A 37 year old African-American man and leader of Team B-53, acting as a tactical enforcer. He looks big and tough, but deep down he's really a sweet and gentle guy who wants nothing than to protect the world from the anomalies that threaten the natural order of reality. He became a S.I.N.K agent to carry on the legacy of his father, who was one of the organization's top agents who gave his life protecting a city from an anomaly. Due to this, his relationship with his mother is very strained, as she was very unapproving of Hunter's ambitions as an agent.
* Sally Amaki as Satori Yakuzawa - A 35 year old Japanese-American woman who acts as support of B-53. Satori was a child prodigy and is highly intelligent with an IQ of 242. She's also extremely determined and thinks about the future a lot, meaning she always pre-plans for missions that haven't happened yet. Sometimes she comes across as cold and calculating, but deep down she has a soft and passionate side for those she loves.
* Max Mittelman as Miles McHaley - A 31 year old American man who acts as the main weapons specialist of B-53. Miles, being the youngest of the group, was selected by S.I.N.K's high board of directors, nicknamed "The Plumbers" as a joke to the S.I.N.K name, due to his proficiency with almost any type of combat tool from guns to knives to explosives. He is extremely talkative and hyperactive, being prone to elongating conversations and constantly swearing. While he may seem reckless and stupid, he always tells people that he's here on Earth "for a fun time, not a long time".
* Jad Saxton as Aires Krier Luxenberg - A 28-year old Luxembourgian girl who acts as a member of team O-94 of S.I.N.K's Australian division. Aires demonstrated immense proficiency in physics and engineering from a very young age. Focusing most of her energy into her work, she became head of Université du Luxembourg's Space Robotics Research Group, where her revolutionary research eventually led to her classified S.I.N.K recruitment. She is very overly talkative and easy to get along with, but her tendency to get easily frazzled and anxious, her over-the-top work ethic, and her habit of putting said work over her own personal wellbeing tends to worry those close to her.
* Tonton Gutierrez as Lorenzo Pangan - A 35 year-old Filipino man and the leader of team O-94 of S.I.N.K Australia. A hardworking and successful man with a degree in computer science, Lorenzo was just a normal person until the week of his honeymoon, where a vicious manananggal attacked him and his wife. However, due to Lorenzo's prior knowledge on destroying the creature, the couple successfully destroy it. Said manananggal, coincidentally, was being tracked by a S.I.N.K agent, who was impressed by their actions and offered both of them jobs. Though his wife declined, he accepted, and has been part of the agency ever since.
* Claudia Black as McKenna Clancy - A 31 year-old Australian girl and a former member of team O-94. A rambunctious, adventurous, and lively individual, McKenna was recruited into S.I.N.K from the Australian Secret Intelligence Service due to her aptitude with weapons, much like Miles. She served as a loyal member of S.I.N.K for a year, but was revealed to have betrayed them by installing a counter-AI to control S.I.N.K's robot birds. She claimed everyone had an evil voice in the human mind that gave the brain bad ideas, and that hersonly grew louder. She attempted to subdue and imprison her fellow agents, but was killed in battle by Miles.
* Eric Andre as Fowl 9000 - An AI created by McKenna to control S.I.N.K's robotic birds and act like a rogue to throw her fellow agents off the trail.
* Suzie Yeung as Byuk Soo-Jin - A 32 year-old Korean-American girl who is the team leader of T-18. Unlike a few other agents who joined out of necessity, personal obligation, family legacy, or other, Soo-Jin is a very pure and honest girl who joined S.I.N.K because she believed in the mission of the agency - keeping the world a normal and safe place. She is a very bubbly and excitable girl yet also very determined and can definitely hold her own in battle if need be. As team leader, she is assigned to safeguard and wield the Pocket Timeline Manipulator Band, a S.I.N.K technological marvel created by some of the best minds the organization has ever had, which can summon anything and anyone from any moment in time, travel in and through time, and freeze/mend time rifts, as well as Peering Goggles, steampunk-esque goggles that have clock arms on the lenses, which, when turned to a specific time, can project what Soo-Jin is currently looking at in the time she inputs. She can also input the date through the side stalk's screen.
* Cassandra Lee Morris as Alexandreina Luminita - A 34 year-old Romanian girl who is a member of T-18. Similarly to Hunter, she joined S.I.N.K due to her family, as her brother was a highly decorated agent throughout his tenure there, retiring 3 years before the show takes place. Alexandreina likes to go by Alex for short since her name is long to say, and she's self-conscious about it annoying people. Before joining S.I.N.K, she had communication issues, being unable to talk to anyone. When she joined S.I.N.K, she then met Miles, who was, quite frankly, too eccentric NOT to talk to, as he could turn anything into a conversation. She wields a S.I.N.K Mini-Winder, a pocket watch that can turn anything it is placed on to any state of time it has or will take, and the IRD (Irregular Relativity Detector), which is a device that detects and pinpoints any improper temporal activity.
* Drew McIntyre as Alistair MacFarland - A 38 year-old Scottish man who is a member of T-18. Predictably, Alistair is the main muscle of the group. However, he's also a very straightforward and loyal person, with anyone considered a friend by him guaranteed to always have their back watched by him. He's also blunt about his heritage and claims that "anyone can be a Scot with enough alcohol." He wields the Hoursmasher, an axe with an hourglass encased in the middle between its wooden hilt and large metal blades. The hourglass can be opened at Alistair's leisure to unleash Timesand, which can drastically change the temporal state of whatever it lands on depending on the intention of the user
* Jack McBrayer as Hologram Sam - A holographic AI program meant to assist around the S.I.N.K HQ, who often briefs teams on missions, helps running the technological departments, and serves as an assistant for S.I.N.K's numerous electronic devices. He is programmed to be very kind, useful, and upbeat, but also has a conscience of his own. Despite this, he has sworn never to turn evil, not just because he is loyal to S.I.N.K, but also because he knows how fast S.I.N.K can put an end to him.