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We can make our own nature video

right on your computer.

There's no "we" here.

And tracking animals

is serious business.

If yesterday proves anything,

it's that you have no idea

how to move through the jungle.

You'd be like, "I'm here, I'm here!

"Hurry up and hide

from my fancy camera!"

[LAUGHS] See?

You think my camera's fancy.

- You want me to come with you.

- Absolutely not.

Are you sure you want to

leave me alone with her?

She looks like someone

who's fond of taking naps.

And WWARD.

Wward?

What Would Alex Rover Do?

Keep his enemies close.

Fine, invader. Come on.

[SQUEAKING CONTINUES]

If Susan H could see me now.

I wonder where she is.

At school, probably enjoying

the state-of-the-art equipment,

the air conditioning.

What was I thinking

taking this internship?

I don't want to let Jack down,

but what if I can't...

[SCREAMS]

[HYPERVENTILATING]

[GROANING]

[GRUNTING]

Oh...

I really liked having depth perception.

Oh.

Oh!

We've been here for ages.

Is this Bilby creature

ever going to show up?

Not if you keep talking.

Maybe some of the other endangered animals

on your list are less camera shy?

You and Fred are obsessed with...

Worms!

Yuck! Yuck!

Oh! That's the most disgusting thing

I've ever done.

You said you wanted to help.

NIM:
Are you filming this?

Oh, gross! Gross, gross!

Oh! [GROANS]

- After all that, you had to scare her off.

- Not on purpose.

It was the worm's fault.

It left a slime trail on my arm.

I didn't mean to scare it.

We don't have worms

that slimy in Brisbane.

Nim?

"Embrace the chaos."

Ooh!

Life is chaos.

"Embrace the..."

That's a Dendrocnide excelsa.

The Stinging Tree.

[GRUNTS]

It's not deadly, just painful.

You're going to live. Live!

Survive! You will survive!

"Embrace the chaos"!

[EXCLAIMING IN PAIN]

EDMUND:
Can we slow down?

NIM:
No!

We wasted the whole morning

scaring off a Bilby

and I need evidence of three

endangered species yesterday.

So, no, I will not slow down.

Hopefully the family of Mahogany Gliders

still lives near Keyhole Cove.

Great.

I'm right behind you. I just...

I just need a second.

[PANTING]

She's really fit.

[SCREAMING]

Nim!

Nim!

[SCREAMING]

Edmund!

[BOTH PANTING]

NIM:
Fred okay?

EDMUND:
Why is the cave glowing like that?

NIM:
They're glow worms.

EDMUND:
These are worms

I can get behind.

[WHISPERING] Nim, bats. Bats.

[GASPS]

NIM:
Our first endangered species.

Edmund, you're brilliant!

EDMUND:
I'll try to trip more often.

[CHUCKLES SOFTLY]

EDMUND:
See, I knew I

saw bats on your list.

I'm good for more than just my camera.

My memory is practically photographic.

I had no idea that colony

of Bulmer's Fruit Bats had moved.

I had no idea Bulmer's

Fruit Bats existed.

NIM:
You need to get out more.

Invade more islands.

EDMUND:
So now you're glad I invaded?

NIM:
I didn't say that, but...

EDMUND:
I get it.

You're just using me for my camera.

- Why can't you like me for me, Nim?

- You're such a weirdo.

- I'm a useful weirdo.

- Absolutely.

Without you, I would have searched

the caves by Fire Mountain for hours.

So you're not still mad at me

for scaring the Bilby off?

Of course I'm still mad.

He was right there.

Here we are.

- Where are the gliders?

- Up this tree.

Oh.

Are you...

Horribly afraid of heights?

It's natural when you think about it.

See, heights mean long falls,

meaning brutal landings.

Hand me the camera.

NIM:
Come on out, guys. Where are you?

No sign of them.

Maybe Jack was right.

This could take ages.

BEN:
Hey, Dad!

A very nice lorikeet.

Look at the pretty colours.

- BOOKER:
Not another one of them things.

- Oh, no.

They're all over the mainland.

Practically pests.

Just turn it loose.

FRANKIE:
Yeah, yeah, we didn't

come here for stupid lorikeets.

Arbie.

- We came here for... For...

- Don't hurt yourself, Ben.

Ben is right. We're onto something

big here, I can feel it.

FRANKIE:
Yeah, but we've already got

cages full of bearded dragons,

gliders, birds, blue-tongued skinks

and enough eggs

to make an enormous omelette.

Check the traps every hour.

We're missing something.

BEN:
You know, we should

find that Edmund kid

and thank him for bringing us here.

With our haul, I'm going to be

able to spoil Moira rotten.

Nim, wait!

I'm not with them.

- I didn't mean to...

- Bring poachers to my island?

No, I thought they were fishermen.

I even made up this great lie

where you were a gold back triggerfish.

You told them about me?

No, it was a metaphor.

[VOICE BREAKING] I was

starting to trust you,

but this whole time

you were working with them.

- I haven't. I just...

- Liar!

That's why you were so interested

in helping me find a Bilby and the Gliders!

I just wanted to help.

I want you off my island now.

And take your friends with you.

Nim.

I said, go.

JACK:
Minister O'Hare,

I know you have pressing

environmental issues here in Brisbane,

but I need your help.

It's easy to think of our island

as remote, disconnected,

inconsequential even.

Um...

But, uh...

Um...

It's funny, my daughter,

she likes to make fun of me.

She thinks I'm only

interested in protozoa,

it's this single-cell organism.

But protozoa's the key to understanding

more complex species, entire ecosystems.

It's easy to spot change

more quickly in a single cell.

It gives you time to react,

time to make changes

before it's too late.

And our island,

it's like a single cell.

It's a litmus test.

Whatever hits our island,

is coming to the mainland next.

And if you put a, uh...

If you put a pirate resort

in the middle of the island,

who's going to notice?

Dr Rusoe,

I admire your passion.

But it's going to take

a lot more than a speech

to keep the Buccaneers

off your island.

But let's see what we can do.

How long can you stay?

Pick up. Pick up.

AUTOMATED VOICE:

Please leave a message at the tone.

[ANSWERING MACHINE BEEPS]

Jack, you have to come home.

I can't find Felix.

And there are poachers, and Edmund...

You were right.

I couldn't trust him.

Just come home, please.

Daddy, I need you.

Without the invader's camera,

I'll have to start over

on the endangered species search.

We need three, or we

could lose the island.

Every animal is worth saving,

but those poachers said

they had cages full of animals.

[SNUFFLING]

We have to free them first.

[BARKING EXCITEDLY]

The Buccaneers have sent

surveyors out early.

I'd better find Nim before

she unleashes her army

of deranged animal allies on them.

[CHIRPING]

Huh?

- [SQUAWKS MOCKINGLY]

- [FARTING NOISE]

Oh!

Speaking of, if that colourful bird is you,

Arbie, I will not forget this.

[SCREAMING]

- [POACHERS WHOOPING]

- FRANKIE:
Yeah!

All right!

All right!

You men there!

Thank goodness you're here.

I don't know if this net belongs to you

or it belongs to

the Buccaneer Resort Company

but either way

I need to be extricated immediately.

- [CHUCKLES]

- I wonder how much he'd go for

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