Sherwood S1 E5

## Plot

Iniko is waiting to pick up Robin in his submarine. She stole a self-charging liquid capacitor. When Iniko calls her a master thief, which gives me slight *Sly Cooper* and *Lupin III* vibes, she tells him that's what King Richard's security used to call her. Back then, she stole things for fun. Now she does it to survive. They wonder what happened to the king. He disappeared when they were only kids after all. Whenever Robin tried to ask Tui, she'd change the subject. Iniko once again tries to convince Robin that her dad is a bad guy, but she still refuses to believe him and says it's none of his business. Other than that though, their relationship is pretty much normal. When they get back to the farm, they see that Zoobie, Iniko's chamalrus friend, is sick. Gripper and Juba found him in the lagoon. Tui says the water has been poisoned by a massive electromagnetic charge. If it spreads to the whole lagoon, then there will be no more kelpotein, no one will have access to freshwater, and they'd all die, including everyone in the Upper City. Iniko vows to get to the bottom of this and make whoever is behind it pay, and Robin and Juba come with him. Gripper and Tui stay with Zoobie. It's the result of Thomas's new probe. It's generating a massive amount of power, but the contamination radius is double what he predicted it would be. Why are you testing it in freshwater, you idiot?! Nothing would be sustainable in the aftermath of a full-scale extraction… at least, nothing for the sea croppers, but Gisbourne makes it clear that he only cares about the Upper City. Thomas wants to test it first, but Gisbourne tells him that they don't have time for that. Another super-storm is forming, and this one could be powerful enough to destroy the Upper City. Thomas asks Gisbourne why he puts up with his father's behavior towards him. He shouldn't have to take it. He just tells Loxley to get back to work. Sure enough, his father berates him for not getting an exact date. Iniko, Robin, and Juba arrive in the poisoned part of the lagoon, which is so bad that they can't even recognize it as the same place at first. They start approaching the probe, but they can't stop, due to the electromagnetic interference messing with the controls. Robin uses the anchor to stop the sub from being pulled in. I really hate Juba. Even when Iniko and Robin state the obvious around her, she never listens and still does stupid things. She's so concerned about saving the fish that she goes into the water by herself, even though it's poisonous, and Robin heads out to save her, but they can't swim back, so they let themselves get pulled up to the probe. Sheriff Nottingham decides to ask Thomas about the probe himself, and when Gisbourne tries to tell him that he had it under control, he tells him to shut up. Using sustained hydrogen fusion and stable barometrics, something called the Ascension Project will work, which will enable the Upper City to go wherever they want. Basically, a flying city. Poor Gisbourne looks like a kicked puppy when his own father tells *Thomas* that he's proud of him. Robin tries to use the gauntlet to shut down the probe, but her father notices what she's doing and tries to stop her. They basically have a hacker battle. Thomas almost blasts her off by releasing an electromagnetic pulse. He switches to visual and sees her, and maybe Juba, but he's clearly more focused on Robin. When Gisbourne interrupts him, he yells at him to leave him alone and let him work in peace, basically treating him the same way his father does, which he appears to realize after the fact. He claims the security breach was just the result of him running tests, but Gisbourne sends Drobos anyways. He confuses Robin for someone named Ada at first, but realizes that she's too young. He activates audio control to talk to her. He's so focused on finding out who she is that he doesn't even seem to notice when she shuts down the probe. He realizes that she has his gauntlet, which makes her realize that he's Thomas Loxley, but she doesn't tell him who she is, mainly because she's in shock and focused on saving Juba. Meanwhile, Iniko fixes the sub with the self-charging liquid capacitor and picks them up. Robin tells him that she talked to her father, and while she still hopes that he's a prisoner or a spy, she doesn't know anymore. He wouldn't poison everyone. How do you know? You don't even know him! This was the first time you two have ever met or interacted, ever! Before they can talk about it more, the power dies, and they start sinking. Gisbourne tells Thomas that the Sheriff knows that the security breach wasn't caused by him running tests. They see that whoever caused the breach is sinking. Gisbourne finds it interesting, but Thomas says they have no power, and there's no coming back from that. He tells Gisbourne that he can tell his father that he doesn't have to worry anymore about the insurgents who caused the breach, but it's clear that he feels incredibly guilty about his part in it.