“I didn’t make a mistake.”
- Release Date: 10th March 2003
- Season 1
- Episode 24
- Director: Will Meugniot
- Writers: Mark Edward Edens, Michael Edens, Eric Lewald,
- Nick Dubois, Michel Trouillet, Paul Francis
The team find themselves on a desert planet, and encounter N’Shuma, one of the natives of his planet, who invite them to their village. They find that there’s a drought, and the only well has limited water. Seattle promises to help them solve it, with Ec’co using the sensors on the buggy to confirm that there is water lower down.
Stacey shows one of the villages how the sensors work and finds a strange energy reading, narrowing it down to a glowing rock in N’Shuma’s tent, where the others are discussing how to power a pump and that windmills will get damaged by sandstorms (for how pedantic these people like to be, nobody corrected with the term wind turbine). The rock won’t have that much energy, but N’Shuma says it was found in a nearby canyon.
Seattle takes it upon herself to investigate, ending up in an underground cavern with a giant glowing rock. Energy from the rock hits Seattle and she has a flashback to her childhood of hearing her parents argue and her dad being too proud to go back to their old home when working in the city isn’t going well (I have no idea what this has to do with anything). She doesn’t mention this to anyone, so they set up wires to transfer energy from here to a pump in the village.
The rock overloads the receiver, and Seattle says she’ll figure out what happened on her own and fix it. She acts like she’s possessed, but this is just her. She puts a feedback doofer on the receiver and sets it up again, which causes the glowing rock to use more force and a giant ball of electricity is sent slowly down the wires towards the village.
They try to fight it but it’s no use, but eventually trap it in a loop using cable. Draga attempts to communicate with it and Seattle hears that it’s looking for part of itself – and she realises it means the bigger part of the rock. She grabs it and takes it to the main rock and everything calms down. I was expecting some kind of revelation that these are lifeforms and are mother and child, but they just shoot the cavern and bury both of them, even though they have no idea what they are.
Ec’co builds the villagers wind turbines that can be folded down to protect during sandstorms, thus solving the problem in a very simple way without using unknown energy from a strange rock, and the villagers are happy.
This episode doesn’t go anywhere at all, stuff happens with no meaning and none of the plot threads are actually followed up on. It’s just a very dull episode.
