Satellite (Code Lyoko episode)
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"Satellite" is the ninth episode of the French animated television series Code Lyoko. It premiered in France on October 29, 2003 and in the United States on April 29, 2004.
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[edit] Summary
During class, everyone's cell phones suddenly go off, and all of them are confiscated. Sissi is not happy about this, and organizes a protest in response. Yumi joins the protest, since having cell phones is a necessary part of the group's fight against XANA. Meanwhile, Jeremie investigates the strage occurrence and learns that XANA is using the school's antenna to take over the nearby television antenna. From there, XANA could take over a laser-equipped, military satellite. While Odd and Ulrich head to Lyoko to prevent XANA from doing so, Yumi stays behind to support Sissi's protest. As they head for the tower, XANA succeeds in taking over a military satellite and turns it on the school. Odd, who gets devirtualized, has to keep Aelita safe while Yumi and Ulrich look for a tower that seems to be invisible.
[edit] Recap
In Lyoko's Ice Barrier Sector two Hornets circle around an activated Tower.
Meanwhile, Odd, Ulrich, and Jeremie are in Mrs. Hertz's class, listening to her lecture on neutrons. She asks the class what happens when two of these subatomic particles collide and Hervé raises his hand. Suddenly, everyone's cell phone (referred to as "mobile phones" in the show and pronounced "moe-bile") rings simultaneously. The students answer their calls, only to find out no one is on the line. Sternly, Mrs. Hertz orders Sissi to recite school policy on cell phones. Speaking in a monotonous voice, she says,"All mobile phones have got to be turned off before entering the classroom, under penalty of having them confiscated." Immediately, Mrs. Hertz orders the students to turn in their cell phones, just as the bell rings. Reluctantly, the students put their phones on her desk and walk out.
In the hallway, Yumi runs up to Odd, Ulrich, and Jeremie, telling them that all the cell phones went off in her class. Suspicious, Jeremie leaves to check if XANA is involved. Ulrich notes that without their cell phones, XANA will have a major advantage.
Sissi and her gang walk up to them. Sissi tells them that she's organizing a meeting regarding the cell phone confiscations and asks if they're with her. Much to Sissi's surprise, Yumi agrees to it. Sissi then tells her to go to the Auditorium after lunch.
In the Factory, Jeremie establishes a connection with Aelita, who is sitting within a Tower. He asks her if she's detected anything strange on Lyoko. Aelita tells him no, but says she will feel around for pulsations. After terminating the link, Jeremie starts scanning each Tower to check for a XANA-related activation.
In the Cafeteria, Odd quietly converses with Yumi about taking back their phones discreetly. Yumi dismisses it as stealing. On the other side of the Cafeteria, Headmaster Delmas, Mrs. Hertz, and Jim are also having lunch. Headmaster Delmas tells Jim and Mrs. Hertz that he won't be returning the phones anytime soon, saying the students were warned before. He tells Jim to take the School Antenna off line, which would terminate cell phone service on campus.
Back at Odd, Yumi, and Ulrich's table, they are still debating whether or not to take back their cell phones. Ulrich tells them that they have no choice, considering what would happen should XANA attack and they can't be in contact. Yumi turns around to look at the administrative staff. When she turns back, Ulrich and Odd are gone.
In the Administrative Wing, Odd and Ulrich sneak into the teacher's lounge. Ulrich keeps watch in the hall, while Odd tries to pick the lock on Mrs. Hertz's locker. With a click, the lock is broken and Odd sees the cell phones inside. He suddenly hears Ulrich greet Gilles Fumet. Immediately, Odd ducks under the table in the middle of the room as the teacher walks in. He sees Fumet's legs walk up to the table. A pen rolls off the table and onto the floor, definitely a bad thing if the teacher looked down there. Luckily for Odd, Fumet feels around with his feet and slides the pen out, picking it up without looking. Fumet then leaves the room, allowing Odd to get up and gather a few cell phones.
In Jeremie's room, Yumi and Jeremie are still watching the screen, looking for activated towers. Odd comes in and drops three cell phones on the bed. They take their phones, but on their screens is the Eye of XANA.
Yumi leaves to go to Sissi's meeting as the three boys go to the School Antenna on the rooftop of the Library to check for network problems. They come up to the roof to see Jim about to disconnect the antenna. Suddenly, he is electrocuted and falls, but Odd and Ulrich grab him and drag his unconscious body back up. Odd and Ulrich take Jim to the Infirmiry, but Jeremie stays behind with an EM detector to look for problems.
Yolande Perraudin walks into her Infirmary and is shocked to see Jim lying on a bed. Odd, who is standing next to him, tells the nurse that Jim's a live wire.
On the Library's rooftop, Jeremie is using his EM detector to scan individual sky scrapers and office parks surrounding Kadic. He finds an unusually powerful electromagnetic field in the direction of a building in the nearby Industrial Zone. Upon closer inspection, the EM field is centered around a large satellite dish atop the skyscraper owned by the PAJH Television Corporation.
In the Auditorium, people are signing Sissi's petition as Yumi walks in. As she is about to sign it, Headmaster Delmas and Mrs. Hertz enter, demanding to know what's going on. Sissi confronts her father, showing him the petition. Headmaster Delmas responds, saying that students don't make the rules, and that Mrs. Hertz's locker was opened by someone and several phones were stolen. Jeremie appears in the window, telling Yumi to meet him outside. Yumi runs out of the building as Sissi rallies her protesters in a walk-out of school.
In Jeremie's room, Jeremie explains to his friends that XANA used the School Antenna to plug into the television dish on top of the PAJH Television Corporation's tower. In doing so, XANA jammed the frequencies and set off everyone's phones. He adds that from the TV dish, XANA can take control of a military satellite.
Jeremie finds an activated Tower as Aelita pops up on the screen and reports an activated Tower in the Ice Barrier sector. She asks if XANA infected any other buildings in the city. Jeremie assures her, saying that XANA's control was limited to the PAJH Tower. They leave to go to the Factory, but Kiwi manages to escape and follow them, undetected.
Outside, Sissi is preparing her followers, wielding signs, for a protest. She comes up with the line,"No more phones? No more school!".
Jeremie and the others come outside, where Yumi tells them she will stay to look out for a XANA attack. The boys then leave without her. Seeing Yumi ditching her responsibilities to the effort, Sissi tells her to join the ranks. With a toothy grin, Yumi walks over.
The boys arrive at the manhole cover in the Park, but they find Kiwi following them. Jeremie comments, "Incredible. For a dog, he's as stubborn as a mule." They then climb down into the Sewers, with Kiwi.
Jeremie starts up the computer interface in the Lab as Odd and Ulrich enter the Scanners. Jeremie then virtualizes them into the Ice Barrier sector, near Aelita, whilst he starts looking for military satellites XANA may hack into.
Meanwhile, Sissi's protesters are having a sit-out in front of the Administration Wing, shouting, "No more phones? No more school!"
Back in the Factory, Jeremie hacks into the military database. There, he finds an entry for a satellite, called U4-66, which is armed with a highly destructive laser beam. Jeremie knows that XANA wouldn't fire on the Factory, because that would lead to his own destruction. However, Yumi isn't there and can be the laser's target. Unfortunately, her phone was confiscated and they can't contact her. Jeremie then realizes that he can send Kiwi as a messenger.
Headmaster Delmas comes out of his office and demands the protesters stop their strike. Kiwi comes up to Yumi with a note attached to its collar. Seeing this, Principal Delmas drags Yumi and Kiwi back into his office. Immediately, she becomes a martyr to the others, who chant, "Free Yumi!"
On Lyoko, the three are informed the activated Tower is across a narrow bridge. Unfortunately, it is guarded by several Hornets. Jeremie warns them of the Hornet's poison, which will kill off their life points. Odd wonders why the Hornets aren't firing. Jeremie replies, saying the Hornets are to keep them there until XANA takes control of the satellite. Odd then fires the first shot, but misses. A Hornet squirts poison, but misses, just inches from Aelita.
In his office, Headmaster Delmas is scolding Yumi. Yumi, takes the note from Kiwi's collar, reads it, and runs out, telling him that everyone has to evacuate. Headmaster Delmas just lies down in his chair and sighs.
On Lyoko, ponds of poison separate the Lyokons from the Hornets. Odd decides to distract the Hornets while Ulrich and Aelita run towards the Tower. He runs past the Hornets, who follow him. He loses 70 life points to the lasers and poison as Aelita and Ulrich run across the narrow ice bridge.
In the Lab, Jeremie finds out that XANA has just taken over U4-66.
Yumi runs out of the Administration Wing, where Sissi asks why she got out. Making up an excuse to get everyone off campus, Yumi tells her that they have to bolster their movement and recruit people off-campus by demonstrating in town. This surprises Sissi. Agreeing, she rallies the others and they begin to march towards the school gates.
Jeremie watches live telemetry on his computer screen of the laser's targeting lock. The young genius comments on the satellite's remarkable level of technology as XANA-operated U4-66 targets major cities at random scattered throughout Europe, the Middle East, India, Northern Africa and the British Isles. After bypassing Cairo, Mumbai, Vienna, London and Mecca, the crosshairs highlight the entirety of the characters' nation (apparently France), then their home city, then the city block Kadic is on.
As the protesters approach the gates, Headmaster Delmas shows up and blocks them, forbidding them to leave the grounds.
On Lyoko, Ulrich and Aelita reach the specified location, but there is no activated tower in sight. Odd is devirtualized by laser fire from the Hornets, which then fly off towards the other two Lyokons. Ulrich and Aelita jump off a plateau onto a ledge. Here, the Hornets catch up and start firing. While Aelita makes her way down, Ulrich uses Triplication and fights the Hornets.
In the Lab, Jeremie wonders aloud how precise the satellite can get as the crosshairs further zoom in onto the school buildings. When he sees the targeting crosshairs lock onto a person's head, Jeremie becomes concerned. Infrared imaging confirms that Yumi is the target. Odd comes up to the Lab, when Jeremie warns him that the satellite laser is locked onto Yumi.
At the school gates, Yumi pleads with the Headmaster to let everyone off-campus. Headmaster Delmas then suspends Yumi for a month and tells her and her dog to get off campus immediately. He then orders the other students back to their classrooms, effectively quashing the "Bring Back Mobiles!" protest. Odd runs out of the Park, shouting that the satellite is after Yumi. She then runs off to catch up with him.
On Lyoko, Ulrich stabs a Hornet, but he's still losing the fight. One of his clones is hit and disappears, while the real one is hit and falls from the ledge. Aelita dodges laser fire, noticing a waterfall near her.
Meanwhile, Odd and Yumi dive out of the way as a laser bolt streaks down from space and blows up the ground in the Park. In its wake is a massive crater. Seeing the smoldering crater in the distance, Principal Delmas orders the evacuation of the school.
Aelita decides to look behind the waterfall, finding the Tower surrounded by a moat.
Meanwhile, Odd and Yumi are hiding under some trees. To get to the Boiler Room and to the Factory, they have to run across the Track and sports field. They run, but the laser has already been fired. Yumi trips and falls on a clod of dirt and screams as the laser streaks towards her head.
Aelita deactivates the tower, stopping the laser bolt, just inches from Yumi's face. Jeremie then activates a time reversion, sending everyone back to the beginning of the day.
Odd, Ulrich, and Yumi put signs on the windows of the Cafeteria. Sissi comes out and reads the poster,"Official School Policy Reminder To All Students: All moblie phones not turned off before entering the classroom will be immediately confiscated." She dismisses the three as teacher's pets, dares the teachers to try and confiscate her cell phone, and walks away.
[edit] Memorable Quotes
- (after bringing Jim to the nurse post-electrocution)
- Ulrich:Hey, Jim, can you hear me?
- Odd: He smells like roast chicken, huh?
- Ulrich: Jim? Hey, Jim! You, hoo!
- Yolande: Odd, Ulrich, What are you doing here? Jim! What happened to him?
- Odd: Oh, you know how he is. He's a regular live wire!
- Yumi: You're going to take back your cell phone? That's called stealing, you know that!
- Odd: No it's not. Taking back what belongs to you in the first place, is not what I would call stealing.
- Ulrich: He's nuts! (stands there for a moment) Okay, let's go.
[edit] Trivia
[edit] Cinematic Notes
- When Jeremie and Kiwi leave the elevator, Kiwi is not seen, only Jeremie.
- Throughout the scenes when Aelita searches for the Tower the red glow is not seen behind the concealing waterfall, but when she kneels with Ulrich, the red glow can be seen.
[edit] Culture Notes
- The scene when XANA-operated U4-66 targets the entire nation, it is clear that the characters live in France or a nation modeled after France, with their city and Kadic located in a city near (or perhaps is) Paris.
| Preceded by: "End of Take" |
Code Lyoko episodes | Followed by: "The Girl of the Dreams" |
