Children shout, BOT!

[Gentle futuristic music plays, whirring]

A grey spaceship flies past stars in space. It has a red, yellow and green light on top.

Children shout, BOT! BOT!

[Slide whistle, clanking]

A silver robot with a blue circle between its eyes assembles in the spaceship. The robot moves on three wheels. Green text above the robot reads, “B.O.T.”

Children shout, BEASTIE OBSERVATION TRANSMITTER! BOT AND THE BEASTIES!

Text reads, “B.O.T. and the Beasties.” Beasties run and knock the text over.

[Horns blare, boinging, energetic music plays]

Children shout, BEASTIES COME! AND BEASTIES GO! BEASTIES, BEASTIES! BEASTIES, BEASTIES! OH NO!

A round, blue beastie floats above the floor and smiles.

[Gibbering]

The beastie splits into two smaller, round, blue beasties, and they float away.

A narrator asks, WHAT IS THIS BEASTY?

[Gibbering]

The narrator says, BOT, THIS IS YOUR MISSION. DETECT BEASTIES.

[Whirring, clicking]

The narrator says, COLLECT SOUND DATA. COLLECT PICTURE DATA. GO!

A round door opens on the floor of the spaceship, and Bot drops down.

Red leaves grow on top of thick greenish-grey tree trunks. Purple, red, and green bushes cover much of the ground beside a green river. Two suns shine in the red sky.

[Birds chirping]

The narrator says, JUNGLY SPLASHY WORLD!

Bot lands in the green water, and four startled triangular fish swim away.

[Futuristic music plays, whirring, splashing, grumbling, slide whistle]

Bot sinks in the water and lands on a giant, round, blue beastie. Bot’s circle turns red.

[Boinging, beeping]

The narrator says, BEASTY DETECTED!

The beastie bounces Bot up into the air.

[Squeaking, gentle hooting]

The narrator says, SPLITTING!

The beastie splits into two small, round, blue beasties. Bot floats up and sinks again, landing on rocks at the bottom of the river.

[Gentle music plays, clanking, whirring]

The narrator says, SPLITTING!

Bot takes out a camera and extends its legs. It then floats between the two beasties and pulls its legs up to its body. The beasties split, and pieces of Bot float inside each of the four beasties. The beasties stretch their sides.

[Cooing, whooshing, gibbering]

The four triangular fish swim to the beastie, which has Bot’s head trapped inside. The fish poke the beastie, and the beastie deflates.

[Narrator gasping, air hissing, gibbering]

The beastie shrinks, and Bot’s head falls out into the water. Bot’s head sinks between the three larger beasties. They split into six smaller beasties, and Bot’s body parts fall onto Bot and reattach.

[Gibbering, bubbling, clanking]

Bot extends its arm and takes a photograph of the six beasties. The beasties split again. Twelve smaller beasties float in the water.

[Whirring, cooing, camera shutter snapping, bubbling, gentle music plays]

The circle on Bot’s face turns yellow.

[Beeping]

The narrator says, PICTURE DATA COLLECTED!

Bot stands. The beasties float down and look at Bot. They each split again.

[Cooing]

The narrator says, SPLITTING!

Bot takes out a microphone. The four triangular fish swim down and Bot lowers the microphone. The twenty-four small beasties cluster together. The fish swim into the fish and pop them. The beasties drift across the water as they deflate. Bot rolls on the rocky river bottom behind the deflating beasties.

[Popping, gibbering, wheels squeaking]

Bot steps carefully on smaller rocks. It extends its legs and pulls itself onto a hydrothermal vent. Bot falls into the vent and its head sticks out the top.

[Whirring, rocks clatter, tense music plays]

Bot looks at the beasties as they pass over its head.

[Gibbering, whirring, beeping]

Bubbles rise from four hydrothermal vents beside Bot. Bot shakes in their vent.

[Bubbling, rattling, tense music plays]

Bot floats out of the vent. Its body lands upside down on the same vent, and Bot’s head lands on the tallest vent, the vent furthest from its body. The vents bubble again.

[Clattering, rattling, bubbling, tense music plays]

Bot’s parts float up and it attaches the pieces.

[Clanking]


The beasties swim into Bot and get stuck in the tallest vent. Bubbles rise from the other vents, and the beasties inflate and grow around Bot.

[Gibbering, clanking, whirring, bubbling, blooping]

The beasties float up from the vent, carrying Bot with them. The beasties combine into one giant beastie, with Bot trapped inside.

[Bubbling, happy gibbering, clicking]

The giant beastie smiles. Bot and the beastie watch the triangular fish swim closer.

[Grunting, whirring, clanking, upbeat music plays, water sloshing]

The fish push against the beastie’s side and bounce off.

[Creaking, tense music plays, happy gibbering]

Inside the beastie, Bot takes out a microphone.

[Whirring, clattering, microphone feedback]

The giant beastie splits into four beasties. Bot floats in the water between them.

The narrator says, SPLITTING!

[Recording of gibbering plays back on microphone]

Bot’s circle turns green.

[Whirring, beeping]

The narrator says, SOUND DATA COLLECTED!

Bot puts the microphone away.

[Whirring]

The narrator says, ALL DATA COLLECTED FOR JUMBLY SPLITTER!

The blue beasties, now called Jumbly Splitters, split into dozens of smaller Jumbly Splitters.

[Blooping, whirring]

The spaceship pulls Bot up through the cluster of Jumbly Splitters. The Jumbly Splitters combine into one large Jumbly Splitter as Bot floats higher.

[Futuristic music plays, creaking, upbeat music plays, cooing]

Bot floats up out of the river and into the spaceship.

[Splashing, futuristic music plays]

The narrator says, MISSION COMPLETE!

[Upbeat music plays, whirring, gibbering, boings, slide whistles]

End Credits. Narrated by Kieran Lilley and Children from the School of Theatre Excellence Birmingham. Music: Andrew McCrorie-Shand. Producer: Chris Wood. Executive Producer for C-Beebies: Sarah Legg-Barratt. Executive Producer: Mark Hollingsworth. Created, Written and Directed by: Anne Wood, Steven Roberts, Joel Stewart.

Logos: A Ragdoll Production for B.B.C. C-Beebies B.B.C. CAKE.

Copyright Ragdoll Productions Limited. Twenty twenty-one.