Moray's Word of Honor

**"Moray's Word of Honor"** is the tenth episode of the first season of *Sammy & Co*. It premiered on December 25, 2015, on Netflix.

## Synopsis

Irked by Big Boss treating him like an idiot, Philip decides to go back to school, but his brother Marco misses him so much that he cannot do his job.

## Plot

The episode opens at Big Boss's shipwreck where the seahorse is demanding Philippe to give him his snack as he wanted. However, Philippe reveals to Big Boss that he misinterprets his boss's order when he assumes he said “it was alright” when his boss actually said, "All right, you can bring me my snack!”. Angry at his henchman's incompetence for not following his order correctly, he demands Philippe to leave the shipwreck immediately. While Philippe is on his way out, he rants to Marco about his problem about how he's fed up with being called a "numbskull" all the time by their boss, so he decided to leave to get some fresh air while Marco has to deal with the tyrannical seahorse.

Philippe swims to the reef village and while exploring it as well as accidentally scaring a couple of fish because of his presence, he arrives at the shell school to watch Lulu teaching his students. He overhears Lulu asking his class what's an iceberg and after he dismisses Ella since he wants someone else to answer the question, Philippe answers the question out loud which caught everyone's attention. Lulu is especially surprised by Philippe showing up to the school and asks him if he would like to join them in their lesson. Philippe was at first reluctant to do so since he doesn't want to be a bother, but Lulu doesn't mind at all and welcomes him into the classroom as his new student.

A little while later, Philippe is back at the shipwreck and announces to everyone that he quits his job working for Big Boss so he could go to school. Big Boss and Marco all thought he was joking, but Philippe tells them that he's actually telling the truth. Upon realizing that he's serious, Marco tries to stop Philippe from leaving, and while Philippe suggests he can come with him to study at the reef, Marco refuses since he loves his job better than school so he lets his brother go.

The next day at the reef, Ricky, Ella, Pipo, and Annabel are all uncertain about whether or not they should trust Philippe. Ricky and Pipo are suspicious of Philippe suddenly becoming nice and reminds Ella and Annabel that he used to work for Big Boss, however, the girls tell the boys that maybe Philippe has changed and they should give him a chance since they believed he got tired of being Big Boss's henchman. Ricky, still doubtful, tells his friends that they should keep an eye on him just in case. He then decides to crack a joke by telling Philippe that they have to be ready for "the surprise quiz", which the moray eel feared since it was only his first day at the school and he's about to swim away, but Ricky tells him that he's only joking and there isn't really a surprise quiz, much to Philippe's relief. However, the joke is ruined when Lulu announces to his students that he has a surprise quiz for them for real, but Philippe continues to take it as a joke. While the students all get inside the classroom, the Rockfish all decided to play hooky and they get out of the reef to see Big Boss so he could hire them as his new assistants, wanting everyone in the reef to afraid of them once they found out they work for the tyrannical seahorse.

At the shipwreck, Big Boss is once again upset that he didn't get his snack after he demands Marco to do it for him. Suddenly, the Rockfish all arrive and tell him that they came to apply for the job as Philippe's replacements. However, Big Boss doesn't take them seriously and demands to leave while he's trying to think.

Later, Philippe and the kids are at recess and they're all playing the coin toss. After Philippe misses his catch and when he's about to retrieve the coin back, Big Boss shows up and tries to convince Philippe to come back to him. However, the moray eel refuses to listen since he's very happy at the reef with his new friends and he's very nice to them since they treat him with kindness, unlike Big Boss. Angry at Philippe not coming back to him, Big Boss swims back to the shipwreck, unaware that the Rockfish are spying on them and they're following him to his home.

At the shipwreck, Jax is comforting a crying Marco about missing his brother and he's not coming back to work for Big Boss anymore. It's gotten to the point where Marco can't even work with his boss since he's too busy thinking about Philippe all the time, much to Big Boss's chagrins. However, the Rockfish all return to the shipwreck and are still wanting to work for him, so Big Boss decides to hire them and wants to see what his new assistants are capable of if they really want to be Philippe's replacement.

During a class field trip, Lulu takes Philippe and the kids to a cave to look at a very rare form of algae that only grows on walls that can make the most incredible patterns. While inside the cave, Big Boss and the Rockfish are about to sabotage the field trip by having the trio push a giant rock to block the cave entrance. However, their plan was foiled when it's revealed that there's actually another way out which infuriates Big Boss that he fires the Rockfish for their inability to set up a decent trap. When Philippe swims out of an exit hole above him, he gets himself stuck and there's no way for the kids to help push him out. Big Boss arrives and taunts Philippe about his situation and tries to manipulate him into letting the seahorse help pull him out, in exchange for him to give Big Boss his moray's word of honor that he'll come back to work for him forever. However, Philippe sees through Big Boss's manipulation and he refuses to listen to him.

While Big Boss swims back to the shipwreck, he is unaware that Marco has also arrived and he sees that his brother is in trouble. So when Big Boss returns to his home, he gets mad at Jax for not telling him that Marco headed off in the direction of the cave a while ago which means Big Boss has to go back to where he came from.

At the cave, Marco pushes the rock out of the cave entrance and helps Lulu and the kids get out of the cave while he has to help Philippe get out of the exit hole. However, when Lulu and the kids all get out of the cave, they have another problem to deal with and it is a battery of barracudas a few miles away from the cave. The kids all tell Marco what they saw, which gives the yellow moray eel an idea on how to free Philippe, but he's gonna need some bait to go with his plan. So when Big Boss arrives next to Philippe outside the cave, the green moray eel tells his brother that they should use *him* as their bait which Marco agrees with since it will serve as a payback for Big Boss mistreating them all day.

Philippe tells Big Boss that he'll give him his moray's word of honor and if he could help get everyone out of the cave, Philippe will come back to work for him. Big Boss was at first happy to hear that Philippe will return to work for him, but what he didn't realize is that he's been used as their guinea pig for their plan. When the barracudas all notice Big Boss in front of the entrance of the cave, the seahorse rapidly swims inside the cave with the barracudas all chasing him and hides, which leads to the barracudas all swim to where Philippe is and unintentionally push him out. With everyone, except the barracudas, all outside the cave, the moray eel brothers all block the entrance and exit of the cave and trap the barracudas inside.

Philippe reveals to his classmates and Lulu that he made a deal with Big Boss and has given his moray's word of honor, which means he's back to work for Big Boss. He thanks his former teacher for everything before he leaves with Marco and Big Boss to get back to the shipwreck.

At some time later, Philippe attends his last day of school at the reef village and he's being taught by Lulu all about icebergs.

## Characters

### Major characters

* Ricky
* Ella
* Pipo
* Annabel
* Lulu
* Philippe
* Marco
* Big Boss

### Minor characters

* Glitz
* Crudd
* Babbles
* Jax
* Barracudas
* Mika (background)
* Reef inhabitants

## Trivia

* In the French version, the episode is called "Parole de murène", meaning "Word of Moray".
* Despite this episode is the tenth to aired on TiJi like its US airing order, it's the ninth episode to aired in France on M6.
* This is the only episode in which Philippe is seen attending Lulu's class.
* This episode revealed that Marco and Philippe are both brothers, something that was first hinted in "The Abominable Seamonster" when Philippe mentioned that he is older than Marco.
* As seen inside the cave where Lulu and his students are taking a field trip, the algae form an image of a moray eel.
* The Rockfish briefly worked for Big Boss as his assistants in this episode. Even though they all get fired by him at the end and Philippe goes back to work for him, Big Boss doesn't mind the Rockfish's willingness to help him with his many schemes to take over the reef in later episodes, presumably because he grew to appreciate them as more than just a gang of troublemakers.
* This is the first episode in which Philippe and/or Marco either quit or fired from Big Boss and they return working for him at the end of the episode.
* It's revealed that Philippe and Marco both stick with their word of honor while working under Big Boss.

## References

1. ↑ https://instantwatcher.com/title/80042306
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 https://playtv.fr/programmes-tv/m6/19-09-2014/
3. ↑ https://playtv.fr/programmes-tv/tiji/01-03-2015/