by SpiderBraids
Morning. Spazz wakes up in some sort of coop. She finds a local dress. She tries it on... lookin' good! Debbie tries some of the local food for breakfast, and gags when she sees that Boko takes it from the termite hill he's pointing to :D EW! The other locals are dragging the Congo-Comm in. So they can fix motorbikes. Uh huh. Right. Anyways, Debbie takes out her soda from the bike and tries it. "Delicious!" Boko tries some, with hilarious results. "Delicious!" Debbie's watch beeps (time to continue looking for Eliza), and Boko queries about her beeping bracelet. After explaining how good it is, she decides to give it to Boko in return for the dress. Riiight. Give high-tech to someone who doesn't even understand it. Deb: "Boko give Debbie" Boko: "Debbie give Boko" Deb: "I'm so good at this communication stuff!" And now, her drive out of the tribal village... is among the funniest parts of the film. First she gets stuck in vines, then she gets stuck in a circle. Anyone care for a "Where's Bianca?" joke? ;)
Okay, now she's leaving for real. Some geezer (Boko's dad?) has Boko go over to her. She's not letting Boko come with her tho because she doesn't want to drag him into family business, and she is completely unaware of a snake that's out to get her... until Boko wrestles it. Cue Spazz giving him a helmet ;)
Over at the Blackburns', E&D are looking for Donnie. He comes out from inside the trailer, and they discover Donnie, and all sorts of displays and gizmos and things... and Tally in a cage. The Blackburns come in and take away Tally from her. Sloan reveals that he took Tally from the savannah ("I picked him up, right off the ground"). Bree taunts Tally: "How are you going to grow big enough to make me a coat?" This so-called "plot twist" must have prompted the response, "No spit!..." from some viewers. Sloan and rhetorically asks, "How many volts of electricity does it take to kill a thousand elephants?"
Back to Debbie and Boko. Debbie is telling Boko all about her sister running away from school, saying that she did it "without any consideration for me, her only sister..." Boko picks up the phrase "brat sister"... as well as Snooty's eye cloth, some footprints, and a strand of her hair. Boko also knows about Tembo Valley.
Blackburns' trailer. E&D are being tied up, Sloan refers to her as a troublemaker, citing the incidents with Tally and the rhino ("He's *not* your rhino"... I'm thinking about The Amazing Race incident in season 5 where Mirna Hindoyan took Colin Guinn's taxi and said "That was not your taxi"), and notices that there are several things in Eliza's story that don't add up. She was on the train when the rhino was shot, but knew it was shot at the river. No one saw the fence being built, and yet she knows about it. Sloan asks if she's partnering with Jomo, or her parents maybe. Gee, nice time to tell that you're not, Eliza. And while Sid and Stinky got away with "guessing" about Iggy's PJs (HA!, "Arnold Betrays Iggy"), she's not going to get away with saying that she guessed about those. Sloan tells her that he's invested so much into this effort.
While Sloan's threatening Braceface, Bree sez they've got some company. D&B are here. Tally tells them about "firesticks" and loud noises. Explosives. Meanwhile, while Tally's busy undoing their ropes, E&D are talking to each other about this whole mess: "I thought they were just like me" "When are you going to learn that no one's just like you!? What more do you need?! The shaman gave you a gift. Use it." Braceface sez, "For once in your life, just be quiet!" Yep, that was mean.
Anyways, Debbie queries about E&D (there's a camera pointing at Debbie?), and D&B end up getting a full-on assault from the Blackburns (Boko is knocked out pretty quickly here). Tally bites off E&D's ropes, and Braceface runs out and tells Sloan to let go of her sis. Sloan insists that she tell her source, and she insists on saying that she guessed about everything, including the explosives, which Sloan points out that he never mentioned. His wife is holding Eliza, and he drags Spazz to the cliff, threatening to throw her into a river if Braceface doesn't reveal her source.
Thus, cometh the moment that had been foreshadowed by the talk in the tent (and perhaps "Gift of Gab"). The sky darkens as Eliza sez. "I know these things... because... I can talk to animals." Oh, you're questioning why she'd save her own big sister, when she was never on her better side (cf. the date that never was, ["Operation: Valentine"])? I suggest you watch ["Olga Gets Engaged"] from Hey Arnold! Same diff. That aside, here comes some streams of blue and green light, and some strong wind. Blackburns run into a chopper and take off. Boko and the Congo-Comm have blown away ("Please be alright..."). The trailer's turned over. Eliza tells Deb to run into the woods. Lest we forget, Eliza's lost her powers, as she discovers when she hears Darwin making typical chimp noises, as she's taking Tally. We have some serious rain. They all climb on to a log in a river, fade to black.