Zak Saturday (narrative): Everybody has secrets. My family just has bigger ones. They're called… Cryptids. All the strange, exotic creatures that regular science don't believe in. At least not yet. Skunk Apes, Chupacabras, the Bishopville Lizardman... I've been studying these things with my mom and dad since I was born, and trust me: there's a lot of weird stuff out there.
Doc Saturday: So… who wants to tell me… what's going on here?
Zak Saturday: Science?
Doc Saturday: That's my boy!
Drew Saturday: Doc. Doc, the frog.
Zak Saturday (narrative): There are other people out there like us. Okay, not exactly like us. They're scientists mostly, like my mom and dad, all working together to solve the mysteries of the universe first, so that the bad guys never get the chance. They call themselves "Secret Scientists." I mean, I would've gone with something like "Blaster Minds" or "Destructo-Brains" but nobody asked me. U.F.O.s, quantum physics, paranormal abilities… anywhere there's a secret left uncovered, they've got somebody working on it. And the cryptids? That's what we do. Any kind, any size, anywhere in the world- the Saturday family is gonna get the call. So, yeah. Two scientists, their kid, a Komodo dragon, and a seven foot gorilla cat called the Fiskerton Phantom. We’re the only ones standing between you and all the things that go bump in the night. That's gotta make you feel safe, huh?
Van Rook: You check over there.
Miranda: [Coughing before gasping] This is a research station!
Miranda: Whatever you're looking for- [Gasps]
Cheveyo: No, you couldn't have known.
Cheveyo: I've been so careful!
Argost: Greetings and "bienvenue", Dr. Cheveyo.
Argost: My name is V.V. Argost.
Argost: You may recognize me from my delightful television program, "V.V. Argost's Weird World"?
Argost: Or perhaps from the time you and your friends broke into my home and stole a wonderful giant stone from me.
Argost: Did I mention I'd very much like it back?
Drew: Do you think your cryptid influencing powers can handle this?
Zak: A frog?
Drew: Every cryptid is different, Zak.
Drew: There's still so much we don't know about this - thing you can do.
Doc: It's a controlled experiment.
Doc: He's got to test the extent of his abilities sooner or later.
Doc: I'd rather it happened with his parents right next to him.
Doc: ...And it is a frog.
Drew: Remember, the Hand of Tsul 'Kalu is just an artifact, a tool to help you focus.
Drew: See, you're the one with the power.
Drew: Find your center.
Drew: Let your instinct tell you when to-
Zak: Mom, I got it.
Drew: Not. food.
Doc: The legendary Cameroon flashlight frog.
Doc: I'd say we verified the existence of another cryptid.
Doc: Nicely done, Zak.
Zak: Oh, you like that, huh? Zak Saturday working the cryptid powers.
Zak: Frog on, frog off.
Zak: Frog on, frog off.
Doc: Please don't toy with nature.
Zak: Frog on?
Doc: I'd like to measure the lumens on that glow.
Doc: Think you can keep the connection going, Zak?
Zak: No problem.
Drew: Now, don't push the Hand of Tsul 'Kalu too hard.
Drew: Mystical objects are unstable things.
Zak: It's okay, Mom. I'm--
Doc: Careful with the tongue, Zak.
Doc: Its saliva is highly toxic.
Zak: Dad, really, I can--
Drew: Darling, let him focus. He's losing--
Zak: Mom, I'm fine!
Doc: Give me three more seconds, Zak.
Drew: Okay, break it off.
Drew: Break it - it's too much.
Zak: Guys! Really, I got it!
Doc: That's from home.
Drew: Somebody tripped the alarm system?
Zak: Cool, a break-in!
Drew: No, don't even think about it.
Drew: You know the rule.
Drew: Any sign of a fight, you boys stay in the airship.
Zak: Ugh. Dang.
Fiskerton: [Garbled] Aw, dang!
Van Rook: Where is it?
Van Rook: We've turned this whole compound over top to bottom three times.
Van Rook: Our customer said it would be here!
Apprentice: Did you check under the bed?
Van Rook: You think this is funny?
Van Rook: What's the first thing I taught you?
Van Rook: Reputation.
Van Rook: That's what the people pay me for.
Van Rook: If that chalk-faced freak gave me bad information, it's his fault the job doesn't get done.
Apprentice: ...But we will bill him anyway.
Van Rook: Now you're learning.
Doc: Another new apprentice Van Rook?
Doc: Didn't you warn him what I did to the last one?
Apprentice: He did.
Apprentice: I'm better.
Doc: Prove it.
Van Rook: Drew, you're looking hot as ever.
Doc: Huh?
Doc: Why would you throw a TV?
Drew: I'm sorry.
Drew: I I just-- I get in the zone.
Van Rook: I told you two charges at a time was plenty!
Van Rook: The other six come out of your pay!
Apprentice: Told you I was better.
Apprentice: Time to go boom.
Drew: Boom.
Apprentice: You could have mentioned - the sword.
Van Rook: Ugh!
Drew: You let him surprise you with concussion grenades?
Drew: ...Rookie.
Doc: Oh, that wasn't you I saw tied up in Van Rook's multibolo.
Drew: Who saved who, big man? Mwah.
Zak: Zak Saturday to the resc-!
Zak: Oh...
Zak: What? You knew I wasn't gonna stay in the airship.
Zak: So, any idea what Van Rook and his new sidekick were after?
Zak: Pretty bold to attack us at home, don't you think?
Zak: Got to be something big.
Drew: Don't try to change the subject.
Drew: You're still in trouble here.
Zak: I'm just trying to be part of the team!
Drew: You're not our partner, Zak.
Drew: You're our son.
Drew: And I don't think bringing you into a fistfight with mercenaries is going to win us any Parent of the Year awards.
Zak: Dad, come on.
Zak: Talk to her.
Zak: You're the one who told me to test my abilities.
Doc: Well, that's true.
Doc: ...But I'm 100% with your mother on this one.
Doc: There's a clear line between adventure and danger, and we're trying to keep you on the safe side of that line.
Doc: The Kalmykian snakes were different.
Doc: We didn't know they exploded.
Zak: Yeah, but I handled it.
Zak: Look, I'm not saying I want to go looking for trouble.
Zak: I just think I'm ready to do what you guys do.
Zak: You know, fight the bad guys.
Zak: Save the world.
Drew: You know you're 11.
Doc: We'll talk later.
Drew: Wait, wait. Talk about what?
Drew: Talk about...
Drew: He's 11!
Doc: Doc. Answer.
Miranda: Oh, thank heaven you're all okay.
Drew: Miranda, what happened?
Miranda: Argost's beastly stool, that one, paid me a visit.
Doc: Are you all right?
Miranda: No, I'm not "all right".
Miranda: He took my piece of the stone.
Zak: Stone?
Drew: ...Van Rook.
Doc: That must have been what he came for.
Miranda: You too?
Miranda: Did you get it, then?
Drew: No, no, ours is all right.
Drew: But... but Henry?
Miranda: I've been trying to reach him.
Miranda: Nothing.
Doc: Let me pull up satellite coverage on his observatory.
Doc: ...Zak?
Doc: Why do we have 19 recorded episodes of "V.V. Argost's Weird World"?
Zak: Uh, research?
Zak: Know thy enemy?
Argost: Forgive me, children.
Argost: My little pets get so excited when I have visitors here at Weird World.
Drew: Mm-hmm? It's saved under favorites.
Zak: Well, maybe research is my favorite.
Doc: No satellites in the area right now.
Drew: We'll check it out in person, Miranda.
Miranda: Be careful.
Zak: Hey, it's us.
Miranda: You're taking him along with-
Drew: No, I did not say he-
Zak: Sorry, Dr. Grey.
Zak: Gotta go.
Zak: Come on, people.
Zak: Action time.
Fiskerton: [Garbled] Action time!
Zak: ...Nasty.
Cheveyo: Sorry I didn't tidy up.
Cheveyo: Didn't know I'd be having company.
Doc: Looks like you got the worst of it.
Doc: Who was it?
Cheveyo: Argost - himself.
Zak: Argost was here?
Cheveyo: Yes.
Cheveyo: And he blew up my lab.
Cheveyo: How cool for me.
Zak: -Yeah right.
Zak: Bad guy.
Zak: I hear he puts on a pretty good TV show, though.
Doc: Apparently my son has been doing a lot of Weird World - research
Cheveyo: Well, if your research finds a way to get my stone piece back from Argos, let me know.
Drew: He got it?
Doc: Then it's starting again.
Zak: Okay, guys, seriously, with the mystery, do I get to know what's going on here?
Zak: What's starting again?
Zak: What stone pieces?
Drew: ...The Kur stone.
Drew: The ley to finding the ancient Sumerian beast called Kur.
Drew: According to the legend, whoever controls the cryptid Kur, controls the world.
Drew: Ultimate, limitless power.
Drew: Kur can give it to you, and only the stone can lead you to Kur.
Doc: Your mother and I led the team that discovered the stone.
Doc: At first, we didn't even know what we had.
Doc: But somebody else did.
Drew: Argost disguised himself as a member of our crew, and by the time we found out, he was already gone... with the Kur Stone.
Doc: The Secret Scientists tracked him down to Weird World.
Doc: We went in with a team of fifty.
Doc: By the time we left that house of horrors...
Doc: ...There were only seven of us.
Drew: Argost escaped, but we got the stone.
Drew: And now that we knew what it was, we decided this was one secret that needed to stay secret, even from ourselves.
Doc: We split it into three pieces, each left in the care of a different Secret Scientist, as long as we kept them apart, the key to finding Kur was safe.
Zak: But you didn't keep them apart.
Zak: Argost just got two of the pieces, right?
Zak: And you guys have the only one that's left?
Doc: Yes, but-
Zak: Then why are we sitting around here?
Zak: We have to get back home before Argost does.
Drew: Zak, Zak, relax.
Drew: Our piece isn't at home.
Drew: We found a hiding place in the Amazon River basin years ago.
Cheveyo: What?
Cheveyo: You've left it unguarded all these years?
Drew: Give us some credit, Henry.
Drew: I did not say it was unguarded.
Zak: No, he's right, Mom.
Zak: Argost knew where to find two of the pieces.
Zak: How do you know he didn't already find the third?
Zak: Why did Dad build a super fast airship if we're not going to use it?
Zak: We should go now!
Zak: Back me up, Fisk.
Fiskerton: Huh?
Doc: Zak, even if Argost knew where to look.
Cheveyo: No, we have to go get it. Find some other way of keeping it safe!
Drew: It is safe, and I really don't think you're in the best shape for a trip to Manaus, Henry.
Cheveyo: This isn't just your decision.
Cheveyo: The whole world is affected by...
Zak: Komodo!
Zak: No, bad dragon!
Zak: Get down!
Zak: Uh, mom?
Zak: What's... uh.
Drew: It's a neural parasite.
Doc: It feeds on impulses from the nervous system, converting them to radiant energy waves.
Doc: Everything Henry sees and hears is being broadcast to anyone who knows how to tune in.
Doc: He's listening right now, isn't he, Henry?
Doc: ...Argost?
Cheveyo: I- I'm sorry.
Drew: He heard everything!
Cheveyo: I just couldn't fight him again.
Cheveyo: I'm sorry.
Cheveyo: I- I'm sorry. Uh!
Doc: Henry!
Argost: [Through Cheveyo] Greetings and bienvenue Saturdays. Mwahahahaha!
Argost: [Reprisal] Greetings and bienvenue Saturdays.
Zak: Dad, that's.
Drew: No, no, this is impossible.
Drew: The parasite doesn't transmit both ways.
Argost: Impossible?
Argost: Only one with a tragic lack of imagination would use such a vulgar word.
Argost: We deal with cryptids, my dear.
Argost: We live in the world of "impossible".
Doc: Where are you, Argost?
Argost: Eleven years you've kept my prize from me.
Argost: Eleven years of tracking down which of you miserable so-called scientists had pieces of the Kur Stone.
Argost: Eleven years of planning this operation to perfection!
Drew: I wouldn't call two out of three pieces perfection.
Argost: We'll see about that in Manaus, won't we?
Zak: Fisk, no!
Zak: Dr. Cheveyo's still in there somewhere.
Zak: We can't hurt him.
Argost: Sweet little boy.
Argost: I've waited eleven years for this.
Argost: What makes you think I'd let anyone else do the hurting?
Argost: The Al-Kaseem Firecracker Beetle.
Argost: Nature gave it a highly flammable defensive spray.
Argost: All I give it... is a spark.
Zak: Heads up!
Cheveyo: No, he promised he wouldn't hurt you.
Zak: Huh?
Doc: Run!
Cheveyo: No! You have to stop Argost!
Zak: Aah!
Zak: Here's the plan.
Zak: I'll tie the tether line.
Zak: We've got one chance to get this right.
Doc: Everybody okay?
Zak: You know, in my plan, nobody got power wedgied at six thousand feet.
Drew: I'm sorry, baby, I grabbed the first thing I could.
Doc: How is he, Odele?
Odele: Henry took the worst of that blast, but he'll be okay.
Odele: Argost must be on his way to Manaus already.
Doc: He can't be allowed to get that last piece of the Kur Stone.
Odele: It's going to be dangerous.
Odele: Why don't you leave Zak with me until you get back?
Zak: Wait, what?
Zak: We get the biggest mission of my life and you're leaving me with Odele?
Doc: Zak.
Zak: Is this still about the Congolese giant spider stampede?
Zak: I told you that was an accident.
Zak: Fiskerton dared me to throw the rock at the web.
Fiskerton: [Garbled]
Zak: Come on.
Zak: What was I supposed to?
Doc: Zak, you're coming.
Zak: Wait, really?
Doc: I don't like the idea either, Drew, but we might need him.
Drew: No, no, I'll handle Argost myself if I have to.
Doc: It's not Argost that I'm worried about.
Zak: Okay, whatever's going on.
Zak: I'm sounding really important in it.
Zak: Tell me more.
Doc: Manaus, Brazil, the heart of the Amazon rainforest.
Doc: The last Kur Stone piece is buried here.
Drew: It's a watering hole for the Tapira Ihuara, one of the most dangerous cryptids in South America.
Drew: Amphibious, predatory, fearless.
Drew: They're why we chose this hiding spot, nature's security system.
Doc: We watched that riverbank for weeks just to get a safe five-minute window to bury the stone.
Doc: If we can't stop Argost before he gets there, we'll need to hold off those cryptids long enough to retrieve the stone piece.
Zak: ...You'll need my powers.
Zak: Yeah, I can do that.
Fiskerton: [Garbled] What about me?
Zak: Don't worry about it, Fisk.
Zak: I'm sure you're important in this plan, too.
Fiskerton: [Garbled]
Drew: ...Absolutely!