Cracking the case

Sasha and Thomas start an investigation into Detective Terra.

## Episode Summary

The episode begins in Sasha and Thomas’s flat. Thomas is having breakfast, while Bark is sitting beside him, begging him for food. Thomas promises to go on a walk with him later. Sasha enters, slamming a pile of papers on the table. The motion jolts Thomas’ plate and it goes crashing down on the floor, Bark immediately eating up the splashed food. Thomas asks Sasha what her deal is. She frantically starts explaining the results of her surveillance on Detective Terra, and tries to explain by showing Thomas her papers, which are glued together newspaper cutouts, but then gives up and drags him into out of the room.

Sasha opens a door to a small closet, and turns on the lights. The room is illuminated by a single light bulb, and we see that the walls are covered by pinned on papers, photographs and newspapers with articles circled. They are all connected with yellow strings. Thomas, shocked, asks what all of this is, and Sasha starts explaining the complex conspiracy theory that she has, going in circles around the room and gesturing at some parts of the wall for proof.

She has been conducting research in Detective Terra’s movements between the US and the UK, and has come to the conclusion that they are physically impossible. She points out several cases that Detective Terra solved on different continents within only hours between each other. She wonders out loud how nobody else could have notices this discrepancy. We cut to Casey and Lieutenant Morry sitting in Detective Terra’s office, Casey having tea and reading a morning newspaper. Morry asks the detective how she manages to solve the cases from different parts of the world so efficiently, and she reminds him that she said she owns an underwater submarine. The lieutenant immediately believes her and apologizes for asking.

Back in Sasha’s conspiracy closet, Thomas reasons that they should just ask Flaw about this. Sasha shakes her head and says that they need to spy on him instead. Thomas vehemently refuses, but he is then forced to agree by Sasha proposing she wash the dishes for the next month.

The screens slide-cuts to Sasha and Thomas sitting at a small table at an outdoor cafe patio. They are wearing disguises which barely hide their identities. Bark is there with them, once again longingly looking at Thomas’s food. After a moment, Flaw steps out of the Detective Terra’s office across the road and sets down the street. Thomas and Sasha hurry to follow him. After a one-sided chase, during which the two (plus the dog) keep losing Flaw as they are being cut off by traffic, a passing clowder of cats and other unexpected disturbances, they are eventually caught in a barrel which rolls down right to Flaw’s feet. He helps them out and asks what they were doing there. Sasha and Thomas smile sheepishly. Thomas then decides to outright ask how Detective Terra manages to travel between the continents so quickly, to whoosh Flaw answers that he’s got a private underwater submarine. Thomas asks if they can use it, and Flaw laughs and shakes his head.

We cut to Sasha and Thomas back in their flat, Thomas cleaning off splinters from their failed chase. Sasha is tinkering with something on the computer. Thomas looks at her computer screen, and Sasha tells him that while they were talking with Flaw, she pick pocketed him and put a GPS tracker on his phone. Thomas frowns and reminds her that Flaw told her not to do it again, but Sasha insists that it’s for the greater good, aka solving the mystery. The two (plus the dog) then set out to his location.

The tracker leads them to a riverside promenade. They notice Flaw walking in the distance, and speed after him, however a strong gust of wind creates a tall wave and it splashes them. Their tracking device glitches, and starts showing a location different to the one it did before, but Sasha doesn’t notice. The group walks further, turning into a dark valley, while the camera pans over to Flaw sitting down a few feet away, ordering a drink.

The alley leads them to a dead end, and Sasha is confused, as this is where her tracker lead her. Thomas notices a manhole hatch, and opens it up. Sasha concludes that this is where Detective Terra’s secret base must be, and the group descends down. It’s dark there, and a loud sound of rushing water can be heard. They stumble around blindly, until they notice a light coming from further down. Thomas notes that this is the direction where the river is supposed to be at. They walk towards it, and discover a large underground room, where three submarines are docked. Sasha and Thomas are shocked, while Bark barks excitedly and jumps onto one of the submarines. The hatch into it is open, and the dog jumps inside. Thomas springs after him, and Sasha has no choice but to follow. Inside the submarine, Thomas chases Bark around, the dog having got a diving helmet stuck on its head, and Thomas accidentally presses a few buttons, starting up the submarine. It lowers down in the water and, after reaching acceptable depth, speeds off, leaving only bubbles and the sounds of screaming Sasha and Thomas behind. We cut to a couple of military men entering the alcove we saw the other submarines in earlier. One of them inquires if there were more submarines there before, and the other one shrugs.

The submarine is still moving, and Sasha is desperately trying to operate its controls. Thomas asks what the problem might be, since she usually is so good with technology, and Sasha tells him that she isn’t particularly knowledgeable about submarines. After some time, the submarine slows to a halt, and finally stops. The group exchanges a look and climbs out of the hatch. They see a nearest person and ask where they are, but the person tells them they can’t hear them in a British accent. The three exchange a look again, and go back down into the submarine again, and Sasha presses some buttons to start up the submarine again to get them back to the US. The camera cuts back to the supposedly British person scratching their head. Another person comes up, and asks them, in an American accent, what the deal with that was, and the supposedly British person says that they probably came to the wrong side of the river. They gesture to a map, where we see that the promenade is just across the river from here.

We cut back to Sasha and her friends (including the dog) climbing out of the hatch in the alley. As they round the corner, they notice Flaw, who is drinking a cocktail. He asks if they want a drink too, perhaps.