Cyberchase
A Perfect Fit: Act 2
Clip: Season 3 Episode 7 | 6m 3sVideo has Closed Captions
The kids must master the secrets of tessellation.
The monster Gigabyte returns! At least that's what Hacker has planned. The bad guys bring the wrecked robot deep into a tropical jungle for the one day of the year when the position of the cybersun atop a Mayan-style pyramid can bring Gigabyte back to full power. Jackie, Matt, Inez and Digit must work their way past giant snakes, spiders and other creepy critters in order to block the cybersun.
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Cyberchase
A Perfect Fit: Act 2
Clip: Season 3 Episode 7 | 6m 3sVideo has Closed Captions
The monster Gigabyte returns! At least that's what Hacker has planned. The bad guys bring the wrecked robot deep into a tropical jungle for the one day of the year when the position of the cybersun atop a Mayan-style pyramid can bring Gigabyte back to full power. Jackie, Matt, Inez and Digit must work their way past giant snakes, spiders and other creepy critters in order to block the cybersun.
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ALL: WHOA!
MATT: SURF'S UP, GUYS!
JACKIE: AT LEAST THE MUD'S GONE!
HACKER: LOWER.
LOWER.
GOOD.
NOW SET HIM DOWN GENTLY.
I JUST WANT YOU TO KNOW, DELETE, I AM NOT JEALOUS!
YOU ARE, TOO!
AM NOT!
DELETE: ARE TOO!
HACKER: I SAID GENTLY!
GIGGIE!
HACKER: I HAVE IT.
I HAVE IT.
BUZZ: GREAT CATCH, BOSS!
(LAUGH) YOU'RE THE BORG!
AT HIGH NOON, THIS HORN WILL BECOME PART OF THE MOST DARING EXPERIMENT IN THE HISTORY OF CYBERSPACE!
THE CREATION OF LIFE!
(EVIL LAUGH) (GASP) UH!
THOSE EARTHBRATS ARE HERE!
JACKIE: LOOK!
IT'S HACKER!
YOU THINK HE SAW US?
MATT: I DON'T KNOW, BUT AT LEAST WE KNOW WHERE HE IS.
INEZ: LET'S SEE, ACCORDING TO THE GUIDEBOOK, THE ONLY FASTER WAY TO THE TOP IS - THAT WAY!
DIGIT: IS IT JUST ME, OR IS IT HOT IN HERE?
MATT: IT'S HOT, ALL RIGHT.
WEIRD.
YOU'D THINK IT WOULD BE COOL INSIDE A PYRAMID.
JACKIE: (GASP) WHAT WAS THAT?
MATT: NO WONDER IT'S SO HOT!
JACKIE: LAVA!
MATT: THIS PYRAMID MUST BE BUILT ON A VOLCANO!
INEZ: OOPS!
PAGE ELEVEN.
I FORGOT TO TELL YOU THAT PART.
DIGIT: NO BIGGIE!
THE LAVA'S THERE, WE'RE HERE AND HACKER'S UP THERE.
LET'S GET HIM!
HACKER: THIS OUGHT TO KEEP THOSE NOSEY NELLIE'S BUSY FOR A WHILE!
JACKIE: YOU SURE THIS LEADS TO THE TOP?
INEZ: IT'S RIGHT HERE IN THE BOOK.
IT HASN'T BEEN WRONG YET.
(RUMBLE SOUNDS) INEZ: HEY!
WHAT IS THAT?
RUN!
ALL: AHHHH!
JACKIE: UP HERE!
DIGIT: EITHER THE FORMER RESIDENTS OF THIS PYRAMID JUST SENT US A MESSAGE, OR HACKER KNOWS WE'RE HERE!
JACKIE: WELL, WE CAN FORGET ABOUT GOING BACK UP THESE STEPS.
DIGIT: SO HOW DO WE STOP HACKER?!
INEZ: THERE'S ONE OTHER WAY UP TO THE TOP - THOSE STEPS OVER THERE!
BUT THE FLOOR'S RED HOT!
WE'LL NEVER GET ACROSS!
HACKER'S GONNA WIN!
NO WAY.
THAT IS NOT GONNA HAPPEN.
INEZ: HEY!
WHAT'S THIS?
TILE?
JACKIE: LET ME SEE.
WHOA!
WHOOPS!
SORRY!
INEZ: LOOK, IT FLOATS, AND IT SHIELDS THE HEAT!
MAYBE WE CAN MAKE A PATH ACROSS THE LAVA WITH TILES JUST LIKE WE MADE A RAFT TO GET ACROSS THE RIVER!
MATT: BUT THESE TILES ARE SO SMALL!
WE'LL NEED LOTS AND LOTS TO MAKE A PATH WIDE ENOUGH TO WALK ON!
AND THEY HAVE TO FIT TIGHT - NO GAPS.
OR OUR TOES WILL BE TOAST!
JACKIE: NO PROBLEM!
LET'S TESSELLATE THEM!
PROBLEM!
NONE OF THESE ARE SQUARES!
ONLY SQUARES GIVE US NO GAPS OR OVERLAPS, RIGHT?
WE DON'T KNOW THAT FOR SURE, DIDGE.
MAYBE WE CAN DO IT WITH TRIANGLES!
HOW?
THESE HAVE THREE SIDES, NOT FOUR.
WAIT!
AT LEAST THE SIDES ARE ALL THE SAME LENGTH, LIKE THE SQUARES.
AND EVERY TRIANGLE IS THE SAME SIZE, TOO!
THAT HELPED WITH THE SQUARES.
LET'S TRY THEM!
NO.
OH, NOT WORKING.
GAPS EVERYWHERE.
MATT: WHAT IF WE SLIDE THIS TOP ROW OVER A BIT SO THE CORNERS MEET, LIKE THE SQUARES DID.
JACKIE: HEY!
THE GAPS LOOK JUST LIKE OUR TRIANGLES ONLY UPSIDE DOWN!
MATT: SO FLIP THE TRIANGLES!
DIGIT: THE TRIANGLES FIT TOGETHER EXACTLY.
NO GAPS, NO OVERLAPS!
IT WORKED!
INEZ: LET'S SEE WHAT HAPPENS IF WE ADD MORE TRIANGLES HERE.
A TESSELLATION!
AS LONG AS WE USE THE SAME PATTERN OF TRIANGLES, WE CAN MAKE THE PATTERN AS BIG AS WE WANT!
START TESSELLATING!
HACKER: HIGHER, THE HEAD GOES HIGHER!
GIGABYTE MUST BE IN EXACT ALIGNMENT WITH PRINCIPAL FOCAL POINT OF THE LENS WHEN THE SUN REACHES IT'S ZENITH.
OH!
JUST MAKE SURE HE'S FACING THE LENS.
HAVE YOU THOUGHT ABOUT WHAT HAPPENS WHEN GIGGIE COMES BACK TO LIFE?
YEAH.
IT'LL BE LIKE HAVING A BIG BROTHER WHO THINKS JUST LIKE ME.
HACKER: HIGHER!
WE MUST BE PRECISE, OR IT WON'T WORK!
HM.
YOU NEVER BROUGHT ME A PILLOW.
YOU NEVER ASKED.
GIGABYTE DIDN'T ASK.
HE WOULD IF HE COULD.
HIGHER, I SAID!
YEAH, WHATEVER YOU SAY, BOSS!
HACKER: OH.
I CAN'T WAIT TILL HIGH NOON.
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