Inadvertent Inversion

"**Inadvertent Inversion**" is the eighth episode of the first season of *Elliott from Earth* and the fourth episode in Chapter Two, written by Mic Graves, Tony Hull, and Richard Overall. It aired on March 31, 2021 in the United States.

## Synopsis

As Elliott, Mo and Frankie all try something new at the Hive, they find their worlds are about to be turned upside down again.

## Plot

At the Hive, many parents and caretakers drop their kids off for classes, including Frankie, who is bringing Elliott and Mo to a "gym class". As they prepare to go into class, Elliott asks Frankie what she'll spend the day doing. Frankie tells the duo that while she's waiting for news about the search for the rock, she's not entirely sure what to do next. Once Elliott and Mo say goodbye and head to class, the Hive Director, after overhearing the conversation, offers Frankie some work assisting her for the day.

Elliott and Mo enter the class, and after Mo asks who "gym" is, Elliott explains that gym class isn't run by a person named "Jim". Mo ends up being right, though, when the class turns out to be a culinary class named for its teacher: Gym. Gym explains to the students that due to the diverse range of species on the Centrium, a variety of foods, ingredients, utensils, and eating habits are used and seen. Different alien species demonstrate their own unique ways of consuming food, and Gym allows the students to try mixing two new substances and sampling the taste of it.

Meanwhile, the Hive Director chats with Frankie as they walk to her office. Frankie says that ever since she settled on the Centrium, she's had a hard time adjusting to everything new, and says that she isn't sure what to do with herself now. The Hive Director lets Frankie wait in her office, assuring her that they'll find something for her to do. The Hive Director's husband also briefly enters while carrying a case, and introduces himself to Frankie. A moment later, when he and the Director leave the room, he ends up leaving his case of tools behind. Frankie accidentally knocks it over, causing the items inside to spill. As she picks everything back up, she curiously inspects the items, finding gadgets that adjust the lighting of the Hive and the Head's shape, as well as a handheld device that makes an alarm go off when she tries to put it back. Frankie quickly presses a random button on it, and the alarm stops.

Suddenly, the entire interior of the Hive begins to rotate, shifting 90 degrees. In Gym's class, many of the students go flying, but Mo quickly manages to grab onto one of the tables and Elliott holds on to his tail. After the rotation stops, Gym tells the class that there is an emergency override switch that can be used to fix the rotation. However, the switch is on the opposite wall to them, which is now the top side of the room.

A tiny alien attempts to reach it by having a larger, worm-like classmate sneeze him up to it, but the plan fails when it turns out that this classmate lacks a nose. Other students try to use their unique properties, such as natural glue-like substances or invisibility, to reach the switch, but nothing works. Elliott and Mo, the closest ones to the switch, are called upon to try and reach it, and they precariously climb up toward it. Meanwhile, Frankie hits another button on the device, and just as Elliott and Mo almost reach the switch, the rooms rotate 90 degrees again.

Elliott and Mo, now on the top side of the room and holding on to a table to keep from falling, attempt to reach the switch again by swinging Mo's tail toward it. They manage to push it at the same time that Frankie tries a different button on the device, causing a malfunction in the system that causes the Hive's interior to continuously rotate. The Hive Director returns to her office in the middle of the chaos, instructing Frankie on how to use the device properly, and Frankie is able to stop the rotation and return the Hive's interior to its regular orientation.

Once the situation is resolved, Gym decides to end the class there, and the students go home for the day. Meanwhile, Frankie heads out as well alongside the Hive Director. Frankie thanks for the offer of something to do, but decides to take some more time to adjust to her new normal on the Centrium instead.