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Anguille Fumée

Episode 5
Written by Sonya Desai
Directed by Ben C. Lucas

The giant eel suddenly releases the Nautilus when an eerie red glow appears. The Ring of Fire. A range of underwater volcanoes. The Nautilus will not rise, even as the temperature does. Worse yet, Blaster discovers a crate of guncotton that will blow if it’s not cooled. One by one, the crew fall sick with an illness from the island. With everyone else onboard unconscious, Humility must fight off succumbing to a comatose state, and save them from certain death.

Humility, hiding as ‘Pierre Marchand ’at the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, is discovered by her mother Jacqueline, who has hired Loti — ‘the devil in a dress’ — to drag Humility off to Bombay to marry Lord Pitt.

On the Nautilus, Humility finally has it! Reverse current in the engine and shock the giant eel off. She says it needs 1,500 volts. Nemo approves 1,000 — any more and the engine will blow. Aboard the Dreadnought, Jagadish’s claims about the direction Nemo is headed in are contradicted by the electrical pulses, and they race off in that direction.

When nothing happens at 1,000 volts, Humility takes it to 1,200. The wiring burns out, and Ranbir is injured. Loti confronts Humility about her grave error, but also professes her belief in her abilities. One by one, the crew fall sick with an illness from the island — jagged crystals form in the eyes, grey mottling appears on the skin, hallucinations, finally a comatose state.

The eel suddenly releases the Nautilus when an eerie red glow appears. The Ring of Fire. A range of underwater volcanoes. The Nautilus will not rise, even as the temperature does. Worse yet, Blaster discovers a crate of guncotton that will blow if it’s not cooled.

On the Dreadnought, Millais reveals to Jagadish that he was Billy, Nemo’s school friend. Humility observes the illness is countered by the cold. With the rest of the crew unconscious, she clambers into a diving suit, singing herself awake. A piece of seared eel has jammed the diving plane into the ‘descend ’position. To reach it, she must untether herself. The Nautilus finally rises, but crystals fill Humility’s eyes, and she drifts away, into the big blue…

Cast (in order of appearance):

• Jim Daly as Professor
• Michael Cameron as Student Ecole Polytechnique
• Georgia Flood as Humility Lucas
• Céline Menville as Loti
• Caroline Goodall as Jacqueline Lucas
• Thierry Frémont as Benoit
• Ashan Kumar as Ranbir
• Andrew Shaw as Jiacomo
• Ling Cooper Tang as Suyin
• Pacharo Mzembe as Boniface
• Tyrone Ngatai as Kai
• Arlo Green as Turan
• Benedict Hardie as Edward Cuff
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• Shazad Latif as Nemo
• Kayden Price as Blaster
• Elvis as Archie the Dog
• Socratis Otto as Mr. Haris
• Jacob Collins-Levy as Captain Youngblood
• Cameron Cuffe as Algernon Pitt
• Darren Gilshenan as Punch
• Chum Ehelepola as Jagadish
• Damien Garvey as Director Crawley
• Luke Arnold as Captain Billy Millais
• Shabana Azeez as Renouka
• Samara Wheeler as Mya
• Donnie Baxter as Marine Farr
• Pete Murray as Humility's Father