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Operation: Down The Drain

Now without the Agency, Scooter tries to set himself up as an "independent operator" and finds his first case ­ to save Binky ­ Suzie's much loved teddy bear that fell down a storm water drain.

He travels the underworld of the drains, strong in his conviction that this kind of dirty work is what separates the average Secret Agent from the fantastic one. With a little help from Katrina and her homemade but effective gadgets, he finds the bear. His first solo mission is a success.

Operation: Double Oh

Scooter opens an office in the bowling alley, but spends more time playing pinball than attracting clients. In the meantime, Danny who manages the alley, has been pursuing Melanie. He asks Scooter for advice, thinly disguising his motives with talk of a break-in problem. Scooter has no idea how to woo Melanie but doesn't mind if Danny wants to try. Melanie decides to go out with Danny because Scooter is never available anymore. Melanie hopes going out with Danny will make him a little jealous. However Scooter is too caught up in the break-ins to notice.

Scooter has a stakeout to do. Once again armed with Katrina's gadgetry, Scooter catches the intruder. It's just Freddy, a kid from the circus who's a master at gymnastics ­ and pinball. He's harmless - he has just been breaking in to the bowling alley to sleep and beat Scooter's pinball score. He offers Scooter some pointers on the game.

The next day Melanie and Scooter make up. Scooter has realised that even a top Secret Agent needs to make time for his friends.

Operation: Dollface

On a pizza delivery round, Scooter bumps into Ratborough, racing away from a jewellery store. The police catch Ratborough yet as he has nothing on him, they don't press charges. But Scooter finds a clue ­ it's a Little Princess doll. The police don't believe Scooter when he says that Ratborough is probably involved in a more serious crime so Scooter decides to go it alone.

In the meantime, Scooter has also landed another job. Nigel, an annoying nerd with a bullying problem, needs protection. Nigel's neighbour, Jaws, is a biker who collects dolls and his knowledge proves invaluable. Scooter works out that Ratborough's doll has been used to smuggle diamonds so he goes to Mackenna's warehouse to catch him. Luckily Jaws' gang of bikers also arrive and the multi-million dollar smuggling operation is halted. Scooter's biker mates also come in handy in scaring off Nigel's bully making two successes in one day.

Operation: Wombat

Scooter believes Mackenna is planning to steal some rare wombats from the Zoo. On a stakeout, Scooter is caught and hauled to the police station for questioning. Once again no one believes his wild accusations about Mackenna, who is a benefactor of the Zoo. Scooter is stuck. He uses his one phone call to speak to Melanie, asking Attilio to pick him up. But Attilio can't ­ he's too busyfussing over the mystery reviewer he's sure is dining in his restaurant.

Once out of jail, Scooter catches Ratborough in the act of smuggling the wombats and calls the police. Scooter's name is cleared but Ratborough still isn't caught. Mackenna covers for him, saying that it was a planned test of the security system.

Operation: Aphrodite

It's Valentine's Day and Melanie hasn't received a card from Scooter. But Katrina has something for the gang ­ a homemade comm-link. Scooter is ecstatic ­ they can help with missions! Melanie disapproves, until a Valentine's card arrives. Certain it's from Scooter, she changes her tune now thinking everything Scooter says is a great idea. Until she finds out the card is from Danny. But once again Scooter's uncrushable optimism wins her over. Together, the kids go to the Aquarium where Mackenna's gang have hidden a valuable statue. With Katrina's gadgets, Melanie's logic and a bit of Scooter's bumbling luck they beat Mackenna's gang and save the statue while another Agent gets all the credit. Melanie finds another Valentine's card and, sure it is from Scooter this time. By dusting the cards for fingerprints Katrina finds out he didn't send it, Attilio did, to cheer her up.

Operation: Crystal Clear

The kids log into the Agency and hear about Lewis Sloan, the son of kidnapped billionaire parents. To protect Lewis from another possible kidnapping, Scooter and Melanie stakeout the house while delivering pizza shop pamphlets. They are seen and asked inside by Lewis who likes the look of Melanie. Soon enough, he is trying to win Melanie over and Scooter can't help but feel a bit jealous. But he has a job to do.

The kids discover that Masters, the head of security, is selling off the Sloan's priceless artworks and try to help Lewis escape. In doing so, Scooter leans against a stairway banister which tilts sideways which in turn opens a wall panel to reveal Lewis' missing parents captive in a secret room. Lewis turns nasty asit is revealed that he has kidnapped his own parents and is in cahoots with Masters. A fight ensues, smashing the entire art collection, but Scooter catches the crooks. By the time the real Agent on the case arrives, the mission is already solved.

Operation: Under Par

Scooter's latest tactic is to stake out Mackenna's haunts in the hopes of catching him in the act of something illegal. It works. Scooter discovers Mackenna is mixed up in a crime. He has been robbing his rich golfing buddies by using remote controlled golf balls. The kids get to work to bust Mackenna at a golf tournament but only succeed in getting him thrown out of the Golf Club. Mackenna is not happy. He and Scooter have a major confrontation. Mackenna thinks Scooter is still a Secret Agent working for the Agency and now he finally has him in his power.

Luckily, the real Agent on the case organises a swat team to swarm the area. Taipan arrives and informs Scooter that his meddling almost blew the cover of the Agent assigned to this case and she is sick of him interfering in Agency business. It's no place for a kid.

Operation: Stealth

Ratborough steals the comm-link that Katrina made from the kids and hears about the delivery of an important data card, the controlling device for a space-based vaporising weapon called the Micro-Sun. The bad guys decide to intercept the delivery.

Luckily Scooter steals back the comm-link but the damage is already done. Mackenna's gang get the data card and Scooter has to act fast. He finds Mackenna's gang poised to strike and the target is mistakenly his own commlink, held by Katrina. Taipan's second-in-command, Agent Wilson arrives for the mission but it is Scooter's bumbling that saves the day. At the last moment he succeeds in deflecting the vaporising beam and saves the girls. Yet he now loses his last link to the Secret Agent world. The Agency fries the circuits of Katrina's comm-link to stop Scooter ever accessing their missions again.

Operation: Senior Citizen

Scooter delivers a pizza to Mr Clemments, and finds out he is a former Agent. Clemments is writing his memoirs and Scooter is so enthralled by his stories that it spells the end of his delivery job. Attilio finally fires him. Melanie demands that Attilio give Scooter back his job, but Attilio won't budge. Then Scooter finds that Mr Clemments has been kidnapped. Mackenna is behind the abduction and Scooter and Katrina step in to the rescue, using all Clemments' old Agency gadgetry.

Back at the pizza shop, Attilio has a change of heart. It seems Scooter's replacement Ed, was a tad light fingered and so Scooter is offered his old job back. Scooter soon delivers a pizza to Mr Clemments again and stops in for a chat. Clemments tells him that after what he's seen, Scooter's got what it takes to be a real Agent.

Operation: Kidnap

While innocently delivering a pizza, Scooter stumbles upon some Agents on a stakeout watching Karla Prescott, the daughter of a world famous chess champion. Scooter can't help but get involved even though Wilson makes it abundantly clear that his help is not welcome. His involvement inadvertently gets both Karla and Melanie kidnapped by Fridge, so Scooter decides he has totake charge and fix things. He goes to Karla's father and organises how to deal with the kidnappers. Mr Prescott must throw his last chess match to ensure his daughter's safety. Scooter visits Mackenna to sort out the deal. All is going to plan until Wilson and the Agents barge in and grab Mackenna before he has handed over the girls. Scooter's not done with Mackenna yet and so with Katrina's help, they get the girls. Scooter proves his abilities are better than many of the Agents.

Operation: Replication

Taipan finally comes to Scooter for help with a mission. She makes him an Agent-For-A-Day to help them find the criminal who is cloning all the Agents ,including a clone of Scooter. Melanie and Katrina don't believe a word of his fantastical story. Then the Scooter clone pays them a visit, acting very strangely. He even kisses Melanie. When the real Scooter tries to explain about Mackenna's cloning operation to Melanie she is still suspicious.

Eventually she and Katrina come around and help Scooter. The Wilson, Taipan and Scooter clones close in on Scooter and for a while it looks as if the cloneswill win. Eventually Scooter manages to out manoeuvre the clones but Taipan is captured and Mackenna is revealed to be acting under orders. The question is ­ whose orders?

Operation: Deception

Tension rises between Scooter and the girls when they can't agree on how to solve the crime of the cloned Agents. Then when Mario and Attilio go missing Scooter calls the Agency before he tells Melanie. This is the last straw for Melanie and Katrina who vow never to work with Scooter again. Scooter decides he better patch things up but finds the girls have also gone missing. They've been taken to an underground warehouse at Mackenna's. Scooter calls Wilson for help but finds Wilson is the one behind all of this. He is also planning on selling the controls to the Micro-Sun to the highest bidder. Scooter rushes back to the warehouse to rescue the girls himself. However, just as he arrives Wilson vaporises the warehouse with the Micro-Sun in an effort to show Mackenna who's boss! To Scooter, it appears as if his best friends have been vaporised too! Unseen by him however, Fridge has Melanie, Katrina, Attilio, Mario and all the other Agents in suspended animation in the back of a truck heading for a mystery location.

Operation: Endgame

Scooter goes back to the Agency to avenge the girls' death. There he discovers that everyone is actually alive, just frozen in suspended animation. He re-animates Melanie and Katrina then uses Katrina's gadgets in a showdown with Wilson. Just when Scooter, now operating with all the skill and precision of a top Secret Agent, overpowers Wilson, Mackenna steps in and steals the Micro-Sun controls. Melanie has re-animated Taipan who offers Scooter all of the Agency's resources. But it's Scooter, Melanie and Katrina who find Mackenna at the docks, and in a high-speed water chase involving Melanie and Katrina on ajet ski towing Scooter on a parasail, Scooter overwhelms Mackenna (by jumping on him from the parasail) and reclaims the Micro-Sun controls.

Mackenna and his gang are taken into custody and Scooter finally meets the real X-19. He's actually alive. It turns out he washed up in the Maldives and has spent all this time being nursed back to health. Then Taipan awards Scooter the best prize of all. She inducts him into the Agency as a real Secret Agent.

Scooter remembers he still has the controls to the Micro-Sun. As he hands them over to Taipan, he accidentally pushes the self-destruct button. Whoops!