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| 53 :03x01 - The Awakening (Oct/26/2009) |
| Cleo and Rikki are about to face their final year at school together without Emma, who?s gone overseas. They're confident they've overcome the affect of the full moon and know everything about Mako Island and its magic. Zane surprises Rikki with an offer for her to join him as a partner in a new upmarket cafe, while Lewis is taking his relationship with Cleo a little too comfortably. When Will, a boy with remarkable skills underwater stumbles upon the Moon Pool, he encounters a strange water force and is knocked unconscious. That night, at the opening of the new cafe, Rikki and Cleo meet Bella, a new girl who helps Rikki out of a tricky situation by stepping in to sing in Nate?s band. In a break outside, Rikki's attacked by water and dragged out to sea. Bella sees this and joins Cleo to rescue Rikki. Cleo's shocked to find Bella's a mermaid too! Rikki's saved from the encounter but they find the new boy Will in the Moon Pool. The girls realise something has changed on Mako Island, and it appears Will is now on the trail of their magic and secret.
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| 54 :03x02 - Jungle Hunt (Oct/27/2009) | First day back at school and the girls are surprised to discover Will's attending too. Will's thrilled to find Rikki and approaches her seeking help to return to Mako Island to find any confirmation of his earlier experience. Bella?s smitten with Will and enthusiastically volunteers to accompany him instead – to keep him from relocating the Moon Pool. Cleo and Lewis use the opportunity to do their own investigation in the cavern. Concerned Bella's in over her head, Rikki trails her and Will on the island and when Bella falls into the creek is able to dry her out. Will becomes suspicious when he finds Rikki on the island and doubly so when Bella accidentally uncovers the land entrance of the Moon Pool and they catch Cleo and Lewis in the cavern. The girls use the opportunity to interrogate Will to learn what he encountered on the night of the full moon. Sensing how close he is to their secrets, Rikki takes action and discounts his memory of the night. Will?s defused and Bella's left conflicted by what they did to convince him. After he's left, the girls and Lewis find evidence that the Moon Pool has changed and that it has new magic.
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| 55 :03x03 - Keep Your Enemies Close (Oct/28/2009) | Cleo applies for a new job at the Marine Park as an assistant dolphin trainer. Bella's supportive but Rikki's wary. Cleo's soon in over her head when she catches Will innocently swimming with Ronnie the dolphin in the holding pool. He's a natural and has Ronnie leaping through the air. Cleo's supervisor Laurie is impressed with Cleo when he sees Ronnie do the amazing leap – apparently at her own instruction.
He arranges Cleo to join the main performance show. After hearing Nate's latest love song at rehearsal in the cafe Rikki fires the band. She doesn't want customers vanishing! Bella spars with Rikki, thinking it's her she's really upset with – until she finds that the issue is really with Nate!
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| 56 :03x04 - Valentine's Day (Oct/29/2009) | Valentine?s day hits, but the girls are at the point in their lives where it presents them with challenges, not carefree romance. Rikki finds all the work to establish the new cafe is eroding her relationship with Zane, not bringing them closer. Cleo?s forced to put Lewis plans for a date on hold to restrain Kim?s out of control love-life, while Bella?s crush on Will deepens and she struggles to communicate her interest toward him. A routine Marine licensing inspection leads to a romantic encounter for Don but is brought to a rapid halt when the representative, Samantha is thrown overboard and it looks like Don?s set to be fined. Rikki and Zane find a way to connect when it?s apparent some one-on-one is required. Cleo helps Kim understand what real love is and following Don?s encounter with Samantha, he?s now inspired to find some of his own.
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| 57 :03x05 - Big Ideas (Oct/30/2009) | Zane?s management style is steering the cafe into debt and Rikki?s not impressed by his latest plans for a complementary dirt bike hire business. He concocts a dirt bike race, knowing he?s the best bike racer in town, to raise some urgent funds for the cafe. Bella helps Will enter and Zane?s surety of winning is threatened. Making amends for his disinterest in the water attacks, Lewis accompanies Cleo to return to Mako Island to investigate the new cascade in the Moon Pool. When Bella discovers that Nate and Zane plan to rig the race, Rikki decides to teach them a lesson. Bella uses her mermaid power to ensure their plan falls flat. Rikki makes her own event to help get the cafe out of debt, while Cleo and Lewis make a surprising discovery when they mix the waters from the pool and cascade in the Moon Pool.
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| 58 :03x06 - Secrets & Lies (Nov/02/2009) | Bella's infatuation with Will deepens and she can't help but follow him around! She tries to set up a study date, but finding herself stood up she confronts Will at the Boatshed only to discover he's apparently already got another girl! Lewis' apparatus to test the properties of the magical Mako water attracts the attention of their Science Teacher – Ms Taylor who believes it is his Science project. Caught with evidence of their Mako secrets, Lewis is in trouble until Cleo uses her powers to replicate the effect and help him submit an alternative project. Ignoring Rikki's advice, Bella continues to pursue the truth about Will and the mystery girl and follows them diving.
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| 59 :03x07 - Happy Families (Nov/03/2009) | Cleo's placed in an awkward situation when Don takes the family to the beach to help his daughters bond with his new partner Samantha. When Cleo is unable to join them in the water and accidentally hits Sam in the face with a towel, Don interprets Cleo's behaviour as a disapproval of Samantha and draws his relationship with Sam to an end. Seeing the upset she's caused, Cleo's quick to convince Don that she is cool with Sam and counsel Kim who's not. Rikki's put in the middle when Will?s ambitious sister Sophie competes with Bella for a job at the cafe.
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| 60 :03x08 - Kidnapped (Nov/04/2009) | The girls prepare to sleepover at Cleo's in an effort to protect themselves from any water attack. Lewis too is on the front foot and has installed a camera in the cavern of the Moon Pool to capture any evidence of the mysterious water force. Reminded of his previous experience on the last full moon, Will's inspired to return to Mako Island. When he arrives at Cleo's seeking Bella's assistance – Bella disappears! She's apparently been taken by a water tentacle to Mako Island. The girls rush to her rescue and charge Lewis to keep Will away.
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| 61 :03x09 - The Sorcerer's Apprentice (Nov/05/2009) | Disregarding Lewis' advice not to experiment with the gravity defying water they created from the Moon Pool, Cleo contrives an opportunity to keep him occupied for a day so she can. When Rikki accidentally gets the magic water in Cleo's aquarium, Cleo's favourite fish Hector becomes suspended in a floating bubble of water! Cleo's aghast when all their hasty efforts to retrieve Hector result in him going down the drain. The girls are joined by Bella and use their powers to retrieve Hector from the canal outside Cleo's home before he's lost forever.
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| 62 :03x10 - Revealed (Nov/06/2009) | Cleo and Rikki warn Bella to back off from Will as they know he's on the trail of their mermaid secrets. It's difficult for her as Will's becoming more intrigued by Bella and his increasing interest is making her feel a relationship may finally happen between them. Bella's left with no option but to stop seeing Will. Unfortunately, the directive comes too late as a close encounter with water leads Will to recognise Bella's secret and expose her as a mermaid! Bella's left on tenterhooks when Will stalls at keeping his incredible discovery private.
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