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Slippery When Wet

Episode 4
Written by Melissa Bubnic
Directed by Michael Matthews

Almost at the point of starvation, they reach an island. They gorge on fruit. Nemo, Humility and Blaster, searching for water, are captured in a net trap, about to be retrieved by Captain Mogg and his squalid officers — survivors from the shipwrecked Ariadne — when Casimir rescues them. They make it to the Nautilus, but a monstrous eel wraps itself around the vessel. Its electrical charges maim the Nautilus, and alert the Dreadnought. Is this the end?!

A flashback to Prince Dakkar (Nemo) as a boy, being bullied by older white boys at an English boarding school. As they repeatedly push his head underwater, we see that Dakkar has one ally, one friend. Billy.

In Karajaan Bay, Nemo cracks the glass of the Dreadnought’s underwater gun turret with the axe, and the Nautilus escapes. The Dreadnought have Jagadish as well as the Rajah, who lost them the Nautilus and a territory, for which Crawley summarily executes him.

Almost at the point of starvation, they reach an island. They gorge on fruit. Sated, Loti finally admits her attraction to Kai. Nemo, Humility and Blaster, searching for water, are captured in a net trap, about to be retrieved by Captain Mogg and his squalid officers — survivors from the shipwrecked Ariadne — when Casimir rescues them.

Casimir takes them to her hideout. She hides because those who stay with Mogg disappear one by one. Blaster is captured by Mogg, and pushed on a raft out onto the lake of ‘The Collector. ’ Humility distracts Mogg’s men, while Casimir drops a rope down to Blaster. The Collector — a giant electric eel — emerges, and takes Mogg as its meal. Blaster tosses a fuse grenade, and the crew run!

They make it back to the Nautilus, but the monstrous eel wraps itself around the vessel. Its electrical charges maim the Nautilus, and alert the Dreadnought. Is this the end?!

Cast (in order of appearance):

• Shazad Latif as Nemo
• Thierry Frémont as Benoit
• Benedict Hardie as Edward Cuff
• Tyrone Ngatai as Kai
• Arlo Green as Turan
• Pacharo Mzembe as Boniface
• Kayden Price as Blaster
• Ashan Kumar as Ranbir
• Georgia Flood as Humility Lucas
• Céline Menville as Loti
• Ling Cooper Tang as Suyin
• Chris White as Dreadnought Soldier
• Luke Arnold as Captain Billy Millais
• Cameron Cuffe as Algernon Pitt
• Damien Garvey as Director Crawley
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• Darren Gilshenan as Punch
• Jacob Collins-Levy as Captain Youngblood
• John Russell as Gunner
• Dhruv Rao as Dakkar
• Finn Treacy as School Boy
• Blake McFarlane as School Boy
• Riley Armstrong as School Boy
• Paddy Duffy as Young Billy
• Richard E Grant as The White Rajah
• Chum Ehelepola as Jagadish
• Noah Taylor as Captain Mogg
• Bryan Probets as Tibbs
• Burgess Abernethy as Mogg's Officer
• Muki Zubis as Casimir
• Socratis Otto as Mr. Haris
• Elvis as Archie the Dog