MISSION: PLAY (Malay: MISI: MAIN) is the sixteenth episode of Agent Ali Series and the third episode of Season 2. It was aired first on October 6, 2017, on TV3 Channel; and followed on April 17, 2019, on Disney Channel Asia.
Synopsis[]
General Rama sends the agents of M.A.T.A. Academy for their first mission - to stop a villain who has hacked into the Cyberaya train station!
Plot[]
In Taman Maya Cyberaya Transit Station welcomes the arrival of the last train for tonight. Unbeknownst to anyone, a small four-legged drone descended from the train, penetrated the air duct vents, entered the transit network's main control room and hacked into the network's control system. The presence of the drone was not noticed because the guard on duty was asleep.
The next day, Dr. Ghazali knocked on the door of Ali's room to tell him that he would be working this weekend. Not hearing a voice from inside made him feel puzzled. Ali wakes up quietly, still reeling from his defeat in the last training mission , where he is reprimanded by his mentors for his and his team's poor performance, especially Agent Leon who scolds them for acting rashly without strategy or cooperation. Agent Karya advises that it is better to look for intel elsewhere than against an opponent beyond your capabilities. Agent Geetha reprimands Ali for leaving the team to face a bigger opponent. His teammates, Moon , Jet and Iman were also disappointed with Ali's recklessness.
Dr. Ghazali loudly called his son, startling Ali from his reverie and answering now. Dr. Ghazali orders his son to go down for breakfast, rushes down to catch up with time and orders the starving Comot to watch over Ali. Just as he was about to leave, he bumped into Viktor who came with a tablet. Dr. Ghazali shyly admits that he didn't talk to Comot earlier and asks Viktor to go upstairs to meet Ali.
Viktor knocked on the door of Ali's room, but Ali thought his father was coming again. After Viktor spoke up singing "Ali, Ali, Ali, open this door, hey!" Ali got off the bed, tripped over something and opened the door. Viktor showed the latest Detective Jebat game and helped Ali install it. Ali apologizes for his messy room; Viktor apologizes for not being in his room. Viktor asks why he's gloomy, so Ali replies he's depressed because of the stamp club's activities. Viktor shows that Ali's game has finished downloading but Ali is still puzzled.
Dr. Ghazali arrives at Taman Maya Train Station, where the drone from yesterday crawls out of the control room having completed its work. The effects of drone disruption occur when the entire station experiences total system disruption: flashing lights, jammed train doors, escalators and ticket machines out of control, and so on. The guards in the control room tried to stop this "unprecedented" incident but failed. A public announcement rang out at the station asking for passengers' patience but stopped halfway due to a power cut. Dr. Ghazali was afraid to witness this phenomenon.
Ali and Viktor are passionate about their new game. Viktor cheered celebrating his "Super Mega Combo Ultra Platinum High Score" while Ali growled at losing again and threw his tablet. Viktor told Ali that losing now doesn't mean that everything is over, in fact the defeat is beneficial because it gives an opportunity to recognize one's own weaknesses and improve them later on. Suddenly Ali's phone rang to receive a call from Alicia. Viktor interrupts and teases Ali for dating Alicia; Ali immediately denied and said this was the stamp club's business. Ali answered the phone and was told by Alicia to meet at the Academy because there was a mission.
Ali rushes in the Academy and sneaks up to the classroom. Suddenly, he was startled to the point of gasping by the presence of a hologram of General Rama who scolded him for not breaking his habit of coming late since joining the Academy. Ali was stunned to see the fierce General's face again. He got back up and took his place between Alicia and Khai in the circle of students surrounding the main hologram beam where the General's image was also beaming. The General continued the briefing that the students will be given different tasks in the form of missions that will be carried out as a team and led by a mentor. He also told Ali that he would be returned to his old team with Agent Bakar and Alicia due to his poor performance in the last training.
Alicia asks what the mission is this time; to answer that question, the General assigns Agent Leon with a mission to investigate the leak of the Beta Core reactor with caution as there are several small explosions. Leon calls Bulat, Moon and Chris to join him. The General assigned Agent Karya to protect Leon's team by forming a line of defense to prevent outside threats. Karya calls Khai, Iman, and Jet into his team. On the call of the General "Act immediately!" Leon and Karya's teams continued to move away.
The General assigned Agent Bakar with the mission of investigating the virus disturbance at Taman Maya Transit Station with orders to report to MATA if necessary. Bakar accepted the assignment and asked if it was necessary to wear a face mask; The angry General clarified that the virus in question was a computer virus. With that, Bakar reluctantly admitted that he just wanted to test Ali's knowledge and called Zass to join his team. Ali wonders why Zass, so Alicia asks back if she wants to be with Rudy. Ali glared at Rudy, and Rudy glared back with a scowl on his face. Before Ali moves on, General Rama warns him not to mess around in his first mission as an Academy student.
Bakar's team consisting of Ali, Alicia and Zass and Comot lay in wait in the back alley of Taman Maya Station, where the police team came to investigate but were prevented from entering by a shutter that suddenly came down. Ali plans to help the police but is stopped by Bakar who reminds them that MATA operates in secret and therefore its existence is unknown to the police. With that, Ali plans to use IRIS to find a way in, but Alicia stops her because Zass has already done so. Zass was at the end of the lane, signaling the way to his teammates.
Bakar's Team quietly infiltrates the station and descends the stairs to the lobby to begin their quest to find and eliminate the virus. Suddenly, the echo of electronic voices welcomed them to play. In the screens around the station, there was a symbol with a scrawled face of a ferocious human. Ali identified him as Neonimus, an outsider who had hacked into the MATA base's defense system. Neonimus expressed his pleasure at seeing the agents in the dark and challenged them to delete the virus before he threatened the station more devastatingly.
Alicia figured they should go to the main control room to monitor the entire system, so that's where they rushed. In the control room, Alicia installs the MATA Defender device on the panel and executes the manual controls. Ali, Bakar, and Zass watched Alicia's actions while Comot guarded the rear. The system successfully rebooted, but it didn't last when Neonimus cut the supply again just to make the game harder. Alicia concluded that Neonimus was attacking the system through other machines connected to the network. Bakar asks how that can be, so Alicia guesses that either his people are inside the station or he used something to break in.
Ali notices Comot is missing, so he uses IRIS to scan the entire station for him. He is surprised to find Comot chasing a "strange robot" in the station lobby. Alicia identifies the robot as a drone used by Neonimus to hack the station and plans to capture the robot in order to trace the source of its signal, so the whole team heads out.
Comot chased the drone up to the ticket machine and made haste. As soon as Bakar's team arrives, Zass rushes to the ticket machine and tries to grab the drone, but the drone escapes by jumping. Drone crawled to the mine fence, and Zass gave chase but still had trouble catching him. The drone ran back to the waiting room, so Bakar helped Zass surround him. The drone ran around until Bakar and Zass were confused until they collided and fell. The drone entered the train, so Ali and Comot chased it there. The movement of the drone in the train made Ali jump and run on the seat until he tripped. The drone comes out again and the train doors close, leaving Ali trapped inside.
Bakar and Zass get back up and help Comot chase the drone. Comot turns invisible and intercepts the drone from entering the vent, clawing at it. The drone bounced back; Bakar jumped up to try to capture it but the drone escaped from his embrace, so Bakar fell flat. Bakar wakes up and is happy to report that the target has been destroyed as the drone is crushed by it.
Alicia managed to restore the system a second time. Neonimus praises Alicia for being faster than expected and begins to give her a "real challenge". Ali tried to open the train door, but suddenly the train moved. Questioned by Alicia, Neonimus explained that he had altered the track so that the train Ali was on would collide with the train traveling from the opposite direction. Alicia, Bakar, and Zass got up anxiously, even Alicia struggled to bypass the system but was unable to.
Ali called Bakar from the train. Neonimus confirms that Ali is trapped in the train because he is a special boy who needs to be challenged more, giving four minutes. Alicia calls Ali and instructs him to manually drive the train to move it to another track. Ali accepted and moved towards the front of the train. Neonimus further complicates matters by sending a freight wagon to hit Ali's train from behind; the violation causes Ali to fall.
Ali wakes up and is shocked by the presence of a train-breaking mecha, brought in by Neonimus to mark it as the "boss" stage of his game. Ali got up anxiously and ran towards the front of the train. The mecha also sped up and hit Ali, and then it threatened Ali with stomps and laser shots, but all were deflected. Ali installed the IRIS X-ray function and found the driver's compartment was getting closer. He used his Aero Boots to intercept the mecha, but the mecha threw him back. Neonimus said he was not happy to acquire this mecha. The mecha fires a laser at Ali, and Ali jumps left to right on the seat to dodge and attack again.
Alicia successfully intercepts the drone's signal and shows the location of the source to Bakar and Zass. Bakar asks Zass to catch the train and help Ali. Zass accepted and immediately sped up there while Bakar asked Alicia and Comot to go to the location of the source of the signal. Comot was messing with the drone carcass until Alicia asked her to come along.
After being thrown several times and deflecting shots, Ali hid under the bars of the seats arranged horizontally. The Mecha threw all the seats but could not find Ali, then he realized that Ali had run to the front carriage, so he chased there. As soon as it passed the carriage, it was jolted by Ali's impact, but it was ineffective and the mecha threw Ali. Neonimus spoke up mocking Ali's boring demeanor as he controlled the mecha to lift Ali upside down.
Fortunately, Zass came and removed Ali from the mecha's grip. The mecha also fired at Zass, but all of them were dodged with nimble acceleration. At the same time, the firing device on the mecha's right arm stopped; Ali scanned it with IRIS and found it overheated. Zass pulled out the train's handle and sped around the mecha, hitting it repeatedly to confuse it. The mecha raised its left arm to stop Zass's acceleration, sending him flying backward. Ali felt he had an idea and asked Zass to distract the mecha.
The Mecha turned and fired back at Zass. Ali attacks the mecha from behind with his yoyo blast. The mecha spun again and fired at Ali, and Zass spun around again to cover him. Once again the laser shooter ran out of energy, making Neonimus furious. Ali attacks again with a yoyo under the mecha, and at the same time, Zass hits the mecha in the face until it falls. Ali attacked again with a series of yoyo strikes.
Neonimus revved up his mecha and cursed Ali and Zass for playing rough. Zass once again baited the mecha to chase, and then Ali grabbed the mecha's right arm with a yoyo rope. The mecha immediately turned and tried to shoot but still lacked energy. Neonimus lost his patience and acted to disconnect the shooter. Ali pulled back the yoyo while beating Neonimus with "it's just a game". Neonimus roared in anger and rigged his mecha with a self-detonation system. Zass pulled the emergency switch to open the train door, and Ali used the yoyo rope rotation to push the mecha out. The mecha ended up exploding on the track.
Neonimus announced his boredom with the game and the challenge stopped. Ali and Zass rushed to the driver's compartment to try to restart the train, and Ali even called Bakar to ask for help. Bakar tried to listen to Ali's order but it was not clear. The emergence of a trend from the opposite direction highlights Ali and Zass. Zass wanted to take Ali away but Ali stopped because he felt something was wrong. Apparently the other train just passed by. Zass faints from anxiety, while Ali wonders why Neonimus said he was going to crash. Meanwhile, Bakar, Alicia and Comot arrived in front of the premises of an Internet cafe where Neonimus' control signal came from, but they didn't have time to face Neonimus because his people had already fled.
At night, Ali plays Detective Jebat until late in his dark room. He finally won and achieved "Super Mega Combo Ultra Platinum High Score" like Viktor, and even Viktor who was connected via video call also congratulated him. Suddenly Dr. Ghazali called, so Ali quickly put his tablet aside and lay down. Dr. Ghazali enters and sees Ali's tablet facing up with a game display. He was upset to see his son play until he fell asleep and put a blanket over Ali before going out. After Dr. Ghazali comes out, the Neonimus symbol appears on Ali's tablet.
Characters[]
Main characters[]
Supporting Characters[]
- Dr. Ghazali
- Geetha
- Dream Geetha
- Leon
- Dream Leon
- Karya
- Jet (do not speak)
- Dream Jet
- Iman (do not speak)
- Dream Iman
- Moon (do not speak)
- Dream Moon
- Viktor Ong
Minor Characters[]
- General Rama
- Khai (doesn't speak)
- Chris (doesn't speak)
- Bulat (does not speak)
- Mika (do not speak)
- Roza (does not speak)
- Rudy (doesn't speak)
Trivia[]
- A day before the premiere date, the profile and cover images in the official Ejen Ali Facebook page has been changed to the symbol of Neonimus, hinting that it has been "hacked".
- There is one post that is typed with alphabets and numbers: "pr355 574r7! 5.30pm d1 7v3 m4l4y514 #3j3n4l1 #4n1m4710nmy".
- "pr355 574r7!" is "press start!"
- This episode is entitled "MISSION: MAIN" because Neonimus plays with the main characters as if they are in a game.
- The word main means play in Malay.
- This is the first episode of the series in which the title wasn't changed into English translation.
- This means that the word "main" is an English word, but it's not the same as the Malay pronunciation.
- This is the third episode to occur outside of school times (MISSION: COMOT, MISSION: UNO).
- This is the third episode of the series that Viktor unknowingly gives an advice to Ali that will affect him later on.
- The first one is MISSION: I.R.I.S, then followed by MISSION: PROTOCOL GEGAS.
- This is the second episode that Viktor teases Ali being close to Alicia, the first being MISSION: EVIDENCE.
- Ali and Alicia recognize Neonimus as the one who hacked into M.A.T.A. defense systems, which confirms that Ejen Ali: Emergency game app is canon and is taken during Season 1 (Jenny was still working for M.A.T.A. in the game).
- This story is similar to Season 1 Episode 3, MISSION: EVEN.
- The villain uses a drone to carry out their evildoings.
- In MISSION: EVEN, Komeng and his gang snatch all flying drones that are used to rob a bank. In this episode, Neonimus used a drone to hack into the computerized system of Cyberaya Train Station to cause mayhem.
- Both of the gadgets used by the villains can shoot lasers (The flying drones used by Komeng and his gang; the robot deployed by Neonimus).
- The hands are the targets to disable the villains' gadgets.
- The flying drones rely on gloves that emit Wi-Fi signals to control them, so taking the gloves off will disable the drones. While for Neonimus' robot, the Gatling laser gun (the robot's right hand) can get overheated due to constant use, making it vulnerable and unstable.
- In both episodes, Ali must work alongside an unfamiliar agent.
- Instead of Alicia, it's Zass in this episode.
- The villains are never caught in both episodes.
- The villain uses a drone to carry out their evildoings.
Allusions[]
- The train line system in Cyberaya is named CRT, which is a play on LRT (Light Rapid Transit), the train line system used in Malaysia.
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