The Black and White Case

**The Black and White Case** is the forty-eighth episode of Season 2 of Fishtronaut and is the one-hundredth episode of the series.

## Summary

The episode opens with Fishtronaut, Marina, and Zeek playing with dominoes as an ant is curious what the trio is doing. Suddenly, a P.O.P. arrives towards the trio.

**P.O.P. Clues:** a croissant and a yin yang

Receiving the clues, Marina explains that the clue Zeek cannot eat is a croissant, a type of French bread that's rolled up, buttery, flaky, and very tasty. Fishtronaut puts the croissant clue away to keep it safe from anyone who likes to eat croissant. It is then known that the second clue is a yin yang, a Chinese symbol that shows how everything in the universe is made up of two sides (the black side is Yin, representing the feminine side and the white side is Yang, which represents the masculine side, very similar to the sun and moon). The yin yang clue could mean to help find a black and white animal, such as opossums, zebras, rabbits, gorillas, sheep, and cows, and the animal closet to the trio is the opossum's den. Suddenly, Zeek sees a drawing of a panda on a tree, a black and white animal from China, which is linked to the P.O.P.'s clue. The trio then sees two types of footprints: one human and one panda.

Suddenly, the trio encounters a girl named Inez who has a panda cub on top of her head. Marina asks Inez to know if she saw a pair of pandas. Inez knows that she did see a pair of pandas who asked her to take care of their baby while they are away. Inez doesn't know where the panda cub's parents went. It is then known that the panda cub doesn't know how to talk yet, but he can understand some words said. Fishtronaut and Marina ask Inez to help the trio to know if someone to knows about pandas on the mission. Inez agrees to help, because she loves pandas. Fishtronaut tells Zeek that Inez also speaks French (which is linked to the croissant clue). Inez explains that she can help, but not too long, which can make her parents worried. Fishtronaut decides to fly over the Bamboo Forest to find pandas as Inez gives him advice to look inside the caves, because pandas like hiding inside caves. Fishtronaut did not find the pandas inside the cave, as Marina didn't know that pandas like to stay inside tree trunks so they can make nests inside. Suddenly, Inez and Marina see the panda cub on the tree while Inez explains that pandas are agile animals that like to climb up and down on trees, especially bamboos. Fishtronaut then knew that there are no pandas inside the caves or in the Bamboo Forest and the cub's parents are missing. Fishtronaut is then curious where the cub went.

Suddenly, the cub is eating honey from a beehive as a swarm of bees gets angry at the panda cub for stealing their honey. The trio and Inez are surprised that the panda is about to get stung by a bee. A bee almost stings the panda cub, but Fishtronaut blows the bee away with his fan gadget to save the cub from being stung and brings the cub to Inez, Marina, and Zeek. The gang decides to investigate the Bamboo Forest to know everything is okay with the habitat. The shade, the temperature, and the water are okay in the forest. Inez asks the panda cub that if he wants to swim, so the cub agrees what Inez said. It is revealed that pandas can swim, but Marina is curious to know what caused the panda population to leave, probably the food. Upon seeing bite marks on the bamboo leaves, it is revealed that there are fungi in the bamboo leaves and the Bamboo Forest is very sick, because of the root rot. The sick forest is the reason why the panda population left this place. Fishtronaut tells the gang to make a plan before the Bamboo Forest is infected with fungi. Fishtronaut and Zeek decide to take care of the bamboo by removing the ones infected with fungi on them while Inez and Marina decide to find the missing pandas. Meanwhile, Inez and Marina find the panda cub's parents. Having reunited the cub to his parents and removing the bamboos with fungi, the forest is safe from the fungi with help from Inez. Suddenly, another P.O.P. arrives towards the gang.

**P.O.P. Rewards:** musical instruments made from bamboo

Receiving the reward, the trio, Inez, and the pandas decide to play with the instruments made from bamboo.

## Trivia

* At the end of the episode, an image appears saying, "This episode is in honour of Ines Galvão-Schaller, the little star who will never stop shining", which is a tribute to a real-life girl named "Ines Galvão-Schaller". Also, the character Inez is named after "Ines Galvão-Schaller", a tribute to the name of a real-life girl. This image, however, was omitted during the episode's broadcast in Qubo.