Sherwood S1 E2

## Plot

The Upper City citizens all get their food from farms down below, which harvest algate kelp. Tui runs one. Gripper hopes the people in the Upper City choke on the food, and fails to notice a young person with a ridiculously similar character design breaking open one of the packages and eating the food. They fall into the water, and Robin saves them. They're a young refugee girl named Juba. She doesn't do anything significant except be annoying, and she exists only to be saved. She literally only does one useful thing in nine episodes. I honestly thought she and Gripper were related at first, which would've made both of their stories more interesting in my opinion. I also thought she was a boy at first, and it was yet another case of a girl voicing a prepubescent boy, like Jeremie from Code Lyoko, Lloyd from the first seven seasons of Ninjago, Ezran from *The Dragon Prince*, Kenta and Tithi from Beyblade, etc. She's voiced by Neneh Conteh. Tui feeds everyone her latest experiment, kelpotein. There's enough nutrition in just one of them to feed a person for a whole week. They need to keep quiet about it though, because if the Sheriff hears that they can keep the Sea Croppers healthy, they'll end up back in the Cube. Robin can't wait to start sneaking it out, because then the other Sea Croppers will be strong enough to start a revolt and take Sherwood back, but Tui tells her that she's getting ahead of herself. Replicating the batch will take at least two weeks. Meanwhile, Rose is listening to music and riding her hoverboard when she runs into Iniko trying and failing to barter with a salesman to get the money he needs to fix his sub. They make a bet on who can get to Tui's faster, Rose on her board, or him on Zoobie, a seal friend of his. Gisbourne tells his father that he has a trace on Rose, but the signal keeps jamming. He did some decoding though, and it looks like she's heading to one of the sea farms. He has a plan to use the Hyper-Gyre to keep the element of surprise. Based on Tui's design and some things she says, I think she's a native Polynesian from New Zealand. I guess I should've figured, since her actress also played Grandma Tala in *Moana*, the mother of Chief *Tui*, and yes, I hope the name wasn't just a coincidence. The characters in that movie were Polynesian as well. Tui tells Robin that she doesn't like her risking her life all the time. She promised her mother that she'd look after her. Robin asks her if her mother ever said anything to her about what happened to her father. Tui tells her that if her mother said he was gone, then he is. They have to focus on what's important. Food stocks are low, and kelpotein is the only thing that will get them through winter. It may only take two weeks to recreate, but they can't distribute it until they're certain it's stable. Iniko makes it to the farm first with Zoobie, who is actually a chamalrus, a presumably evolved or mutated walrus. Gripper introduces him to Juba. Rose gets there as well. The Sheriff tells Gisbourne not to return without Robin, and pushes him into the Hyper-Gyre while he's clearly nervous and having second thoughts. Tui hides her face while the others hide inside. Gisbourne has two Drobos arrive as backup. Gripper tells Rose that nothing was suspicious until she showed up, and she tells him that he must mean until his new refugee friend showed up. Robin tells them both that they can argue all they want later. She hides everyone and everything with a hard light hologram of a kelp forest to fool Gisbourne and the Drobos' facial recognition system. He doesn't want the trip to be a complete waste, so he orders Tui to load up the rest of the food, even though that's Sherwood's allocation, and they'll starve without it. Tui's hat falls off, and Gisbourne recognizes her. Drobos don't like getting wet, so Iniko will get them to chase him into the water. Only one of them goes after him after Gisbourne orders it to, and it shuts down in the water. Gisbourne realizes that they're inside the lab, but before he can open the doors, Rose comes out on her hoverboard. She doesn't have the tech savviness that Robin does, she can't smash things like Gripper, or swim as well as Iniko, but she's really good at this. While Gisbourne is distracted, Gripper replaces the food with a spoiled batch so they can live. However, Juba doesn't follow his order to stay put, which gets her captured by Gisbourne when she goes outside to watch Rose's skills in awe as she destroys a Drobo by making it crash into the lab. He takes her hostage to get the others to let him leave, and he doesn't intend on letting her go. He calls Robin by her last name, Loxley. She goes after them and gets Juba back. She uses the gauntlet to hack into the gyre and change its direction to send them back down. Gisbourne lies and tells his father that he had Robin, but she had this power and a league of goons helping her. The Sheriff tells the guards that there's been a defense breach, and the tube changes directions to throw them out into the sea. Robin opens her wing suit, but loses her grip on Juba. Luckily, Rose saves her and gets them all back to the farm. The Sheriff says it's only just begun as he stands in front of a tank with an upgraded Drobo inside.