Scene: Interior, Dupain-Cheng Residence, Sabine's bedroom. An alarm clock beeps as it strikes at six in the morning. Sabine turns it off and steps out of her room with a towel rolled on her head. She flips the calendar to the 14th.
Sabine: Ah! Ding Ox, fire and yin. Not so great. Unless... (while arranging a flower vase) There. This should prevent negative energy from flowing in. (She grabs her pen and book from the table beside her bed and heads to get their laundry basket. She places the laundry basket at the bottom of the staircase) There!
"I see you practice Feng Shui," Master Fu pointed out with a smile to Sabine who nodded in confirmation much to most of the audience's confusion.
"Feng what?" The people who are not familiar with the term asked.
"It's the art of arranging furniture, so that spiritually, positive energy will flow in while negative energy will flow out," Sabine explained, though some people are still confused. "I know it seems unrealistic for most of you and that's ok, but that's how I was raised to believe. Just because I'm settled in Paris, it doesn't mean I should leave my traditional Chinese upbringing and traditions behind," Sabine added with a smile towards the audience who nodded to her in respect of her commitment to her Chinese background.
Scene: Interior, Dupain-Cheng Residence, living room. She turns on the television to play calming music and starts meditating. As the music continues to play, she gracefully places her book on the table and a sponge on the floor. She prepares tea on the table, turns on the thermos and the stove on, organizes her painting materials and dials the phone.
"What is that? Some sort of weird yoga?" Chloe asked, referring to Sabine practicing Tai-Chi in the living room on-screen.
"It's called Tai-Chi, Chloe. The slight difference between that and yoga is that yoga is about holding your body still in poses while Tai-Chi is all about constantly moving your body. It's like a slow martial-arts dance," Sabine explained to the blonde girl who nodded in understanding.
"While I'm quite familiar with the art of Feng Shui, I've never heard of putting a sponge on the floor before," Kagami said in confusion along with everyone else towards Sabine putting a sponge on the floor on-screen.
"Oh, that's not for Feng Shui. It's for my beloved but clumsy daughter," Sabine said with a chuckle in which her daughter blushed in embarrassment while everyone else still remained kind of confused.
Sabine: Dim Sum Delight? Yes, I'd like to make a reservation. For noon. Two people. (She continues to prepare breakfast as the music continues playing as she finishes her mediation. Marinette comes down the stairs, yawning, trips on her feet and tumbles down, causing her to fall on the laundry basket Sabine placed earlier.) Morning, honey. Did you stay up all night doing homework again? (The news starts to be broadcasted on television.)
"Same thing for the laundry basket at the bottom of the stairs," Sabine said as she and everybody else laughed hard at Marinette clumsily tumbling down the stairs and landing on the laundry basket on-screen. Well, except for Marinette, who blushed in embarrassment at seeing more of her clumsiness.
"Please don't tell me this happens every morning, girl!" Alya said as she continued laughing at her best friend's clumsiness.
"Of course not! Just when I'm extra tired in the morning," Marinette said as she defended herself, though she's still blushing and everyone else continued laughing.
Nadja Chamack: (on TV) Last night, Ladybug and Cat Noir successfully prevented the explosion of a turbine of a cocoa shop factory, saving Paris from drowning in rotten chocolate.
"I guess that was my "homework" for the previous night," Marinette jokingly said as she put air quotes on "homework" in which everybody else chuckled in agreement.
Man on the TV: It's a bunch of lies! The chocolate turbine was perfectly cleaned!
Marinette: (chuckles) Yeah, lots of homework, Mom.
Sabine: Will you start the laundry please, honey? (heads to the bakery and gives Tom a cup of coffee) Your coffee, my love.
Tom: Aww, thanks, my sweet honey bun. (He kisses Sabine. Sabine goes back upstairs and swiftly checks on Marinette's height, marking it on the wall with her pen.)
Sabine: My, you've grown again! (Marinette sits on the dining table and pours milk on her bowl. She shortly bumped her arm on the milk carton, causing it to spill on the floor.)
Marinette: (nervously) Ah! Sorry!
Sabine: It's alright, sweetie. (grabs the sponge that absorbed the spilled milk)
Marinette: (spots the magazine on the table) Oh, Mom! My shoes are getting too small. Do you think you could buy me a new pair?
Sabine: What a good idea, honey! Why don't you meet me right after my painting class?
"Painting class?" Adrien asked both Marinette and Sabine curiously as well as everyone else.
"My mom teaches a painting class at the school in the art room on weekends," Marinette explained in which her mother nodded in confirmation.
"Specifically painting with Chinese ink brushes," Sabine explained further in which everyone else nodded in understanding. "In fact, Nadja Chamack is one of my students."
Marinette: Oh! Let's get some dim sum for lunch before we go to the store!
Sabine: Of course!
"Wow! Psychic mom much?!" Alya said in surprise as well as everyone else towards Sabine's organization skills while the woman in question smiled in pride.
Clara Contard: (on TV) We interrupt our regular newscast for a sentimonster alert. Lollipop Boy has just made a reappearance near the city's street square.
"AGAIN?!" Everyone in the audience shouted out in exasperation at another re-appearance of the lollipop sentimonster.
"Seriously?! It's like watching bad reruns on TV!" Alix added in which everybody else murmured in agreement.
Marinette: (panics) Ah! Oh, boy! Oh, boy! I'm super late for class!
Sabine: Marinette, it's Saturday. There's no school today.
Marinette: Oh, right. I meant, late for Alya's. We're doing a presentation together.
Sabine: You won't forget to meet me at the end of my class?
Marinette: I won't!
Sabine: And you won't forget to buy a ticket for the bus?
Marinette: Promise!
Sabine: And you won't forget to change, will you?
Marinette: (realized that she's still wearing pajamas) What? AH! (dashes to her room upstairs)
Scene: Interior, Dupain-Cheng Residence, Marinette's room.
Tikki: Your mom is really amazing. Even though she's so busy, she always manages to organize so well!
"Please don't say this to them because we love them, Mrs. Cheng, but you make our moms look kinda…lame," Nino reluctantly said on behalf of the other teens who murmured in agreement, though they're reluctant as well.
"As flattered as I am, children, let's be fair. I bet none of you have a complete understanding of what your mothers go through every day. Some of your mothers probably have highly-stressful jobs, so they can provide for you all. Plus some of you all have siblings, therefore more children for your mothers to look after while I only have one child," Sabine wisely pointed out with a smile in which after some thought, everyone else nodded in agreement.
Marinette: The exact opposite of me. Do you realize Tikki, I'm more than a month late for Mother's Day?! I wanted to make her something but with everything going on I barely had time to get started on it. It's such a bummer because today would've been the perfect time to make it up to her. (Gasps) Hang on! What if I buy her a gift before going to meet her, and give it to her at the restaurant?!
"Seriously?! I'm more than a month late for Mother's Day?!" Marinette asked in exasperation towards herself as well as Shadow Moth for keeping her busy, but Sabine tenderly touched her daughter's shoulder in comfort.
"Which is why you're spending the day with your mom. You two are practically celebrating Mother's Day that day," Angel explained in which mother and daughter nodded in understanding while they smiled at each other.
Tikki: Great idea, Marinette! But first, we've got to take care of a sentimonster.
Marinette: (nods) Tikki, spots on! (A red light flashes from inside her room and Ladybug appears, swinging from off the balcony)
Scene: Interior, Tom & Sabine Boulangerie Patisserie
Tom: (Handing Sabine a to-go bag as she approaches him) The chouquettes for your students are ready to go, my brilliant artist!
Sabine: Thanks, my love. (Sabine kisses him goodbye and heads out the door)
Scene: Interior, Art classroom at the Collège Françoise Dupont. Sabine is running her painting class.
Sabine: Chinese paintbrushes are very different from Western paintbrushes. (One student takes and eats a chouquette from the plate. The six students are shown stroking their paintbrushes against their paper) They allow you to easily master the five shades of ink. Dry, concentrate, thick, clear and diluted. (Walks over to Nadja Chamack and fixes her position of the paintbrush) If you use them well, all these nuances can make up all the colors, texture and light you need to represent the world. (The tables shake and a loud thud occurs from outside the building. The class got up to look out the window.)
"Lila's in your painting class, Mom?!" Marinette asked her mother in shock as soon as she saw her worst enemy on-screen as well as everyone else.
"Not at the moment now. But, maybe in the future," Sabine answered. "I'll ban her from my class if indeed she does sign up."
"Don't, Mom. She'll probably make a big deal by saying you're discriminating against her because you're my mom. Just keep an eye on her and try not to let her get to you if she does talk to you about me," Marinette said after some thought in which Sabine nodded in agreement with a smile towards her daughter.
Scene: Outside the Collège Françoise Dupont. Lollipop Boy walks past the building while dragging Ladybug who's trying to hold him by wrapping around his waist with her yo-yo.
Ladybug: Cat Noir, use your stick to block his way!
Cat Noir: (Running along on top of the school) Got it, m'lady! (Cat Noir spreads his staff to the ground to stop the lollipop sentimonster, the class watch Lollipop Boy trip and fall to the ground)
Scene: Art classroom
Sabine: Those poor kids. They spent the whole night saving Paris, and they're already back in action.
Ladybug: Miraculous Ladybug! (The Miraculous cure is summoned and fixes the broken structures caused by the Lollipop sentimonster. Ladybug and Cat Noir jump from building to building)
Nadja Chamack: (On a phone call) I'm here and watching it right now.
Scene: In the alleys. Ladybug lands.
Ladybug: Spots off! (Ladybug de-transforms back into Marinette in her pajamas and feeds Tikki a macaroon)
Marinette: Now we can go meet up with my mom!
Tikki: But Marinette, you can't go looking like that.
Marinette: (realizes she's still in her pajamas) AHH! I gotta get back to the house! Hide, Tikki! (Starts to run out from the alley)
Scene: Art classroom. The classroom is empty and Sabine packs up her chouquettes in the bakery bag and leaves.
Scene: Outside the Collège Françoise Dupont. Sabine walks out and down to a nearby bus station. She turns on her phone and calls Marinette.
Marinette's voicemail: It's Marinette, leave a message! Beep!
Sabine: (To Marinette's voicemail) Honey, it's Mom! You have exactly four chouquettes to show up. (The bus arrives and Sabine gets on) Good day, sir. Would you mind if I put this here while I look for my wallet?
Bus driver: Oh wow, chouquettes!
Sabine: A few left over from my class. They're homemade. You'd be doing me a favor by eating them, as long as it doesn't hold up the bus.
Bus driver: Well, if I can be of service to a commuter! (Takes and eats one chouquette) Mm, exquisite! (Takes another chouquette) Mmm, delicious! (Takes a third chouquette) Scrumptious! (Takes one more chouquette and starts licking his fingers. Marinette suddenly arrives tired)
Marinette: EHH! I'm here! (Leaning on her knees out of breath)
Sabine: This is my daughter, Marinette, who I'm certain did not forget her bus ticket.
Marinette: (Gasps) Oh shoot! Um well- uh huh the thing is-
"I knew it. I knew it," Sabine said as she sighed softly in annoyance towards her forgetful daughter who blushed in embarrassment while everyone else chuckled in amusement.
Sabine: Marinette, I asked you to remember it.
Marinette: Ah, it's no biggie, I'll just buy one. (Digging into her purse) Ahh no I forgot my change.
Sabine: Luckily I've always got a few spares (Holding up two tickets)
Marinette: Thanks, super mom! (Hugs and kisses her mom on the cheek) Mmwah! (Sabine scans their tickets on the scanner and they begin to walk through the aisle)
Passenger: Mhm mhm, look. In terms of the process, when it comes to the re-evaluation of the online-offline products, the market demands a high yield in terms of productivity see what I mean? Mhm. (Standing in the handicapped area of the bus while a person in a wheelchair is struggling to move)
Sabine: (Walks over to the passenger) Hello, sir. Would you be so kind as to let this person access the spot that's reserved for their use?
Passenger: Hey, I'm on a conference call here. So what I was saying- Yeah I mean concomitantly with the situational adaptability, the direct manager should make the negotiable systems converge. (Sabine forms a plan, which shows up in a yellow background with trees, using a traffic light, the rude passenger, a gear on the handicapped person's wheelchair and a paintbrush. Sabine places the paintbrush on the floor in front of the rude passenger.) No no no we need a strong plan. If we aren't flexible regarding our immobilized relations then we're gonna get cre- (The bus slows and pulls to a stop at a corner, the passenger on the phone trips on the paintbrush Sabine placed on the floor. The person in the wheelchair is moved uncontrollably to the handicapped area)
Sabine: Thank you, sir. Your sense of civic responsibility is much appreciated. (Marinette looks to her surprised then pleased)
After a moment of silent jaw-dropping shock, everyone in the audience applauded for Sabine on-screen.
"That was amazing, Mrs. Cheng!" Sabrina said on behalf of everyone as she applauded.
"Well, no question that being Ladybug is in your genes, m'lady. In this case, it's your mom's genes," Adrien then said to his girlfriend in which everyone else murmured in agreement.
"Indeed. I am very impressed, madam. Ironically, if I were to choose adult holders like Grandmaster Su-Han wanted, you'd be my choice for the Ladybug Miraculous," Master Fu then said to the woman in question.
"I'm very flattered, Master. But I'm afraid if that's the case, I wouldn't be able to keep it a secret from my family," Sabine pointed out with a blushing smile. "In a way, I can understand why you chose my daughter. Teenagers rarely tell anything to their parents these days," Sabine added in which everyone else chuckled in agreement.
Voice on intercom: Next stop, Louise Michel.
Marinette: Shoot! I forgot the pres- (covers her mouth and looks at her mom) uhh the presentation. It's a magazine. They're presenting a new magazine with Adrien on the cover. Can I borrow your wallet? I really have to get it.
Sabine: Are you sure? I don't think you'll have time to get off and back on during the stop.
Marinette: (Hugging Sabine) I'll be so quick, please please please please pleaseee? (Sabine nods)
Voice on intercom: Louise Michel (Sabine hands Marinette her wallet and Marinette sprints out of the bus)
Marinette: Thank you!
Scene: At a nearby flower shop.
Marinette: This one please! (Pointing at a flower bouquet with pink roses and white flowers) Hurry hurry hurry hurry hurry. (Marinette pays and the florist hands her the flower bouquet)
Tikki: Um, you're buying a present for your mother with her money?
Marinette: Yeah yeah I know but I don't have cash with me. I'll pay her back later. (Looks back and gasps at the bus starting to leave) Nooo! (Runs after the bus) Waittt! Awww (Stops and catches her breath)
Scene: Inside the bus Sabine counts on her fingers for five seconds until Marinette calls her.
Voice on intercom: Next stop, Claire LeCone.
Marinette: (on her phone) Mom, the bus left without me!
Sabine: I know, honey. I'm on it.
Marinette: What do I do now?
Sabine: I'll get off at the next stop and wait for you. Meet me there!
Voice on intercom: Claire LeCone. (The ticket inspector stands in Sabine's way)
Ticket Inspector: Ticket inspection, please!
"And since Marinette's got your wallet, ma'am, she unfortunately also has the bus tickets which doesn't fare well with that ticket inspector," Angel explained the starting point of Sabine's akumatization into Qilin to her audience.
Sabine: Hello, sir. My daughter got off earlier with mine, but we're supposed to meet up at this stop. She shouldn't be too long. Why don't we get off and wait for her together?
Ticket Inspector: No one's ever tried that one on me before. Non-payment affair, that's a 50-euro fine! How will you be paying?! (The bus leaves)
Sabine: Unfortunately, sir, I have no money with me. My daughter has my wallet.
Ticket Inspector: Of course, and I suppose you don't have any ID with you either.
Sabine: Well, obviously. I just explained to you that my daughter has my wall...
Ticket Inspector: Right! Well, I guess we'll just see at the next stop. But not with your imaginary daughter, but with a real police officer, who's going to take you in!
"WHAT?!" Everyone in the audience asked in shocked anger towards the ticket inspector on-screen, especially the Dupain-Cheng family.
"Who lies about having a daughter just to ride the bus for free?!" Tom rhetorically asked in anger on behalf of his wife on-screen as everyone else angrily murmured in agreement.
"And check out that rude guy from earlier. He's so smug about my mom being in trouble!" Marinette angrily pointed out.
Sabine: What? But... That's so unfair!
Ticket Inspector: What's unfair is committing fraud and stealing from Parisians who do pay for their tickets, ma'am!
"Is no one seriously defending her right now?! Not even the bus driver who loved the chouquettes she gave him?!" Alya asked in anger.
Scene: Bus stop.
Marinette: Where is she?
Scene: Outside the Hôtel de Ville.
Ticket Inspector: Hey there, Roger, I got a customer for you. No ticket, no money, no ID! And get this, she even made up a family with a daughter and everything!
Sabine: Ah, Roger, perfect timing! Tell this man I'm not lying. Our daughters are together in the same class.
Ticket Inspector: (laughs) Seriously? This woman just can't stop lying!
"SHUT UP!" Everyone in the audience yelled in annoyed anger towards the ticket inspector on-screen.
Roger: Uh, well the thing is, yeah, it's the truth, but...
Sabine: The truth but what?
Roger: Well, I'm sorry, Sabine, but you were on the bus without a ticket, that's a violation, and without ID to boot, you know it's my duty to take you in for an identity check.
"ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!" Everyone in the audience asked in shocked anger towards Officer Roger on-screen. Everyone, that is, except for Sabrina who sank to her seat in embarrassment towards her father.
Sabine: An identity check? Are you kidding, Roger? We've known each other for years!
Ticket Inspector: Watch out, she's getting aggressive! She's getting aggressive!
"That's hardly aggressive," Mr. Damocles sternly noted in his student's mother's defense along with everyone else.
Roger: The law is the law. (Sabine's phone starts ringing from her bag.)
Sabine: Oh, hang on.
Ticket Inspector: Whoa, whoa, whoa! (snatches her back and hands it to Roger) Don't move! Check her purse!
"Well, that was uncalled for!" Mylene said as soon as she saw the ticket inspector taking her friend's mother's purse with everyone else murmuring in agreement.
Sabine: What is wrong with you people? It must be Marinette, I have to answer, she must be worried!
Ticket Inspector: You never know, she might have some dangerous stuff in there! (Roger inspects her bag quite roughly, leaving her belongings falling down, and her painting soaked in a puddle.)
"What does that ticket inspector think I have in my purse?! A bomb?!" Sabine asked in exasperation.
"I think I know what this is! This is racial profiling!" Tom expressed his opinion on the situation. Though they're not 100% certain, the other adults are starting to agree while the teens (except for Max) and kwamis are confused by the term.
"What's racial profiling?" Adrien asked curiously on behalf of the teens and kwamis in the audience.
"Racial profiling, children, is a social issue where certain people are accused of criminal activity by the police because they're a different race or ethnicity from the majority of the population," Miss Bustier said, teaching her students about the social issue.
"So, the point Mr. Dupain is trying to make is that the ticket inspector and the police are so aggressive with Mrs. Cheng here about the bus tickets is mostly because she's Chinese. Therefore, very different from most people in France," Angel explained further in which the teens and kwamis began to understand.
"That sounds unfair!" Tikki expressed her opinion on the matter with everyone else murmuring in agreement.
"True. That is one major flaw most of us humans have," Sabine said to the kwamis who nodded in understanding.
Roger: Oops.
Sabine: Oh, come on! Be careful will you! Between you and your nonsense and him and his nonsense it's... all nonsense!
Roger: Whoa! You need to calm down right now, because you are two inches away from insulting a public official.
Ticket Inspector: Yes, that's right. Insult, insult!
Guards 1: Is there a problem here, Roger?
Sabine: Yes? I am a victim of an injustice!
Guards 2: You'll speak when asked to, ma'am.
Roger: Sabine, we've been as reasonable as we can about all this, but since you're refusing to cooperate, I have no choice but to do my duty.
"Whatever happened to the "innocent until proven guilty" saying that your father keeps telling us, Sabrina?!" Chloe asked her nervous best friend in anger as well as most of the audience.
"Now, now. We're not angry with Sabrina. Just her father," Angel explained, trying to cheer up Sabrina much to her appreciation.
Sabine: What? But I haven't done anything!
Ticket Inspector: You're not really helping your case, man! (Officer Roger put handcuffs on Sabine)
"HANDCUFFS?! REALLY?!" Everyone in the audience angrily asked on Sabine's behalf.
Roger: The law is the law.
Sabine: I don't believe this! Are you people humans or robots?!
Scene: Shadow Moth's lair. The lair's window opens up.
Shadow Moth: Injustice, abuse of power and blind ignorance. Three powerful plagues that can cause even the most stable of souls to waver. (turns a butterfly into an akuma) It's our responsibility to tip her over the brink! So she can become a choice weapon against Ladybug and Cat Noir! (The akuma flies away.)
Scene: Hôtel de Ville. The akuma lands onto Sabine's handcuffs.
Shadow Moth: (from his lair) Qilin, I am Shadow Moth. They put you in handcuffs despite your innocence. Thanks to me, you can repair this injustice.
Sabine: I refuse to hurt anyone! You can keep your power, you devious insect!
Shadow Moth: (from his lair) Oh you're judging me without knowing me, when I'm actually just like you. A victim of misunderstanding. And like you, I don't want to hurt anyone.
"Uh, most of us beg to differ, Father!" Adrien said in exasperated anger towards his villainous father with everyone else murmuring in agreement.
Sabine: I don't believe you!
Shadow Moth: (from his lair) Here's proof. If you accept, I will offer you a mighty power to accomplish your noble mission.
Sabine: So be it! When all the injustices have been righted, peace will prevail! (Sabine transforms into Qilin)
"Well, at least you tried to resist, Mrs. Cheng. Which really can't be said for most of you," Angel pointed out in which her audience reluctantly nodded in agreement. Meanwhile, the Dupain-Cheng family gasped with tears in their eyes upon seeing one of their own being turned into a supervillain.
Scene: Bus stop.
Sabine's voicemail: You've reached Sabine Dupain-Cheng's voicemail.
Marinette: This is so weird, Tikki. My mom would never have just left me like this. (A horde of police cars along with a helicopter pass by Marinette.)
Guards in helicopter: You're under arrest! Give yourself up now! (Qilin blows strong winds against the helicopter)
Qilin: Take these handcuffs off me! (The winds brought the helicopter down. The guards run away in fear)
Marinette: Oh no! What if Mom's in trouble? (hides behind an ad of Adrien Agreste) Tikki, spots on! (transforms into Ladybug)
Scene: Parisian street.
Guards: No way I'm going back there! (The guards continue running away. Ladybug sees the bus driver struggling to get out and helps him)
Bus driver: Thanks, Ladybug.
Ladybug: Where's mom— I— ma'am! The ma'am with the chouquettes.
Bus driver: She was arrested by the police.
Ladybug: Arrested? There's no way!
Scene: Hôtel de Ville. Qilin is surrounded by the police.
"Is that me?" Sabine asked about her akumatized form along with everyone else in which Angel nodded in confirmation.
Qilin: You're unworthy of your mission. Ignorance has corrupted your souls! Qilin will show you the true meaning of justice. Move the mountains! (blows the guards away with her wind powers) Climb the lightning bolts! (uses her power of telekinesis to move a few cars) Hang from the clouds! (blows the police helicopters away with her wind powers)
Roger: General, use the armored trucks to block the perimeter we need to attack from the west!
Ticket Inspector: Ask for backup! Get more backup!
Roger: Sir- I mean, Mr. Mayor, where are those tanks you promised and the fighter jets?
Qilin: Quake the Earth! (stomps on one of her hooves to create an earthquake, shaking Officer Roger and the ticket inspector off a car. Qilin then breaks a building and leans it towards the two men) I am innocent. Get these handcuffs off me otherwise it's you who will suffer under the weight of injustice! (Ladybug pulls the building back with her yo-yo and leaps in front of Qilin)
Ladybug: Stop! You're putting innocent lives in danger!
Shadow Moth: (from his lair) Ladybug, where was she when your innocence was in question, Qilin? Don't listen to this hypocrite, take her Miraculous!
Qilin: If they're serving injustice, then they are not innocent, and if you defend them, then you're not on the side of justice either! (lifts a statue, a lamppost, and a few statues with her telekinesis and aims them towards Ladybug. Cat Noir appears)
Cat Noir: Careful m'lady, the weather forecast predicted a shower of objects! (Using his staff in umbrella mode to defend them both)
Ladybug: Good thing you've got your staff umbrella then, kitty cat.
Cat Noir: First one to catch her gets to release the butterfly! (charges towards Qilin)
Ladybug: This isn't a game, Cat Noir! (shoots her yo-yo towards Qilin)
Qilin: Roll back the waves! (uses her wind powers to blow back the yo-yo string, in which Ladybug gets tied up and falls to the ground)
Cat Noir: Woohoooo!
Qilin: Capture the rainbow! (Qilin caught Cat Noir by his staff and tossed him in the river. More police guards arrive and charge towards Qilin, but blows them back in their vans)
Cat Noir: She's impossible to catch!
Ladybug: Not to mention even getting near her!
Cat Noir: How do we break the object that holds the akuma?
Qilin: Bring in the net, and flip the turtle! (lifts the police vans with her telekinesis and flips them over) An injustice to one is a threat to all. Take these handcuffs off me!
Ladybug: I think things are more complicated than they seem, we have to find out more. Cover me! (Cat Noir leaps over lampposts)
Cat Noir: Those are some poetic nicknames you have for your attacks. I like them a lot. Where do you get your inspiration from?
Qilin: Crush the cat! (tries to crush Cat Noir with the police cars as he runs away)
Cat Noir: Not such a fan of this one! (Meanwhile, Ladybug opens a police van)
Ladybug: Do any of you know what injustice the supervillain's talking about?
Guard 2: How would I know? She started it!
Guard 1: It's not our fault! We're just following orders!
Ladybug: What was she like before she got akumatized?
Guard 3: Terrifying, really stubborn and a liar.
"She's just a tiny woman! Jeez!" Alix said in exasperation towards the police guards with everyone else murmuring in agreement. "If they find her so terrifying without the akuma, they seriously are wimps!"
Guard 2: She kept saying she had a daughter who got off the bus with the tickets.
Guard 1: But insisted she was coming back. A lot of baloney! (Cat Noir lands near Ladybug)
"IT'S THE TRUTH!" Everyone in the audience loudly pointed out to the police guards on-screen.
Ladybug: Daughter? Who got off with the tickets?
"That's when you realized that akuma was your mom," Angel pointed out to Marinette who nodded in understanding.
Cat Noir: Well, how about we find that daughter? (They leap and hide behind a police van)
Ladybug: That could work! The injustice will be repaired. She'd have no reason to stay akumatized. Let's see if your idea is really that good. Cover me!
Cat Noir: (to Qilin) Excuse me, I got the impression you were trying to say something just now with that flying truck. (Qilin tries to crush him with a few cars) All right, it's much clearer now!
Ladybug: (from behind the police van) What you don't know, kitty cat, is that for Marinette to appear, I'd have to de-transform. That's pretty risky, I better be sure it'll work and calm down Mom before I do it. (Tying her yo-yo to a lamppost)
Ladybug: Qilin! Roger! It's silly to fight over a few bus tickets!
Roger and Qilin: It's not a matter of tickets, it's a matter of principle! (Qilin blows Ladybug away with her wind powers)
Ladybug: (holding on to something while being swept away by the strong wind) If we find the girl who has them, we can prove that all of this was just a misunderstanding!
Shadow Moth: (from his lair) She's lying, it's a trap!
Qilin: Really? They'd all stop attacking me?
Ladybug: I promise you. (The wind stops)
Qilin: Take these handcuffs off me!
Roger: Absolutely not! My duty is in question, you were on the bus without a ticket, you were breaking the law!
Ticket Inspector: And the law is the law!
Qilin: You're mistaking law for justice! Integrity without intelligence is nothing but blind ignorance!
Roger: General, begin Operation: Butterfly Net!
Ticket Inspector: (while clapping) Yes, yes, yes, yes! (More police helicopters appear as they throw large butterfly nets)
Qilin: Chase the storm! (blows the butterfly nets away with her wind powers, therefore netting the helicopters, making them fall in the river)
Cat Noir: Oh well, so much for my great idea. Back to the old-fashioned way: miraculously swipe those handcuffs and break them!
Ladybug: Exactly. Lucky Charm! (She gets a ray gun.) A ray gun? (She looks around and only Roger's keys light up) To stop this, all we need to do is remove those handcuffs and I just need the key to do that, so why a ray gun? (to Roger) Roger, give me your keys!
Ticket Inspector: Are you out of your mind? She's already unstoppable with handcuffs! If we take them off, she'll destroy everything!
Roger: He's right!
Ladybug: Stop being so stubborn! (Coming towards Roger with her yo-yo in shield mode while pointing the ray gun at him) If you don't give them to me, I'll take them by force!
Roger: In that case, you two will be breaking the law, Miss Ladybug! (Blows his whistle) Guys, cover me!
"IDIOTS!" The teens in the audience loudly said in exasperation towards the police on-screen.
Guards: Charge! (The guards slowly charge towards Ladybug. Her vision sees the guards, one of their shields, a manhole cover and Cat Noir)
Ladybug: Of course! That's what I was missing!
Cat Noir: More opponents?
Ladybug: Sort of. In order to de-akumatize Qilin, we also have to stop the attacks from the police! Here's my plan! (She whispered the plan into his ear and Ladybug grabbed the shield in which she placed it over the manhole cover. She uses the ray gun to make it shape removing the cover. Cat Noir slides down and Ladybug places the glass over the manhole afterwards)
Cat Noir: Cataclysm!
Ladybug: (using her yo-yo to move the guards towards the manhole) This way, officers! (Once Officer Roger is over the manhole, Cat Noir Cataclysms the shaped shield)
Cat Noir: Roger, fancy meeting you here! (removing Roger's keys) Sorry.
Scene: Sewers. Officer Roger chases Cat Noir.
Roger: Destruction of public property, theft of authority's equipment, absurd little cat ears and bell!
Cat Noir: It's for justice in the common good. You'll thank me later, Roger! We're on the same side here!
"Sorry we apparently have to do this to your dad, Sabrina, but it has to be done!" Marinette apologized to Sabrina who nodded in agreement while also embarrassed by her father's stubbornness.
Scene: Hôtel de Ville.
Cat Noir: The key to our problem! (He gives Ladybug the keys. Qilin lifts some cars but drops them once Ladybug calls her)
Ladybug: Qilin!
Qilin: You again!
Ladybug: Here are the keys! (Showing her the keys) See? I keep my promises!
Shadow Moth: (from his lair) Qilin, don't let her trick you! Take her Miraculous! (Qilin prepares to but hesitates leading to a silent stand-off between her and Ladybug)
Qilin: No. That would be unfair! (Qilin breaks the connection between her and Shadow Moth)
"YES!" Everyone in the audience cheered that Qilin had surrendered.
Scene: Shadow Moth's lair.
Shadow Moth: Nooo!
Scene: Hôtel de Ville. Qilin detransforms back into Sabine. Ladybug remove the handcuffs and breaks them, therefore releasing the akuma which flies away.
Ladybug: No more evil-doing for you, little akuma! (swipes open her yo-yo) Time to de-evilize! (captures the akuma) Gotcha! (opens her yo-yo and releases the purified butterfly) Bye-bye, little butterfly! (throws up her Lucky Charm) Miraculous Ladybug! (The magical ladybugs repair the Hôtel de Ville and everything else back to normal. Ladybug takes a magical charm out of her yo-yo and hands it to Sabine.) Here is a magical charm. Always keep it with you. It'll protect you from Shadow Moth.
Ladybug and Cat Noir: Pound it!
"Pound it!" The two heroes fist-bumped and kissed in victory.
Roger: All right, let's go! To the station now!
Ticket Inspector: Yes! Identity check, custody and the whole works!
"Seriously?! Have they learned nothing?!" Tom asked about Officer Roger and the ticket inspector in anger on his wife's behalf along with everyone else who shook their heads in exasperation.
Cat Noir: Hang on, I know Miss Dupain-Cheng! No one in the world is more upright and honest than she is!
Ladybug: Roger, we won't stop you from doing your duty, but you have to promise me you won't use those handcuffs, and you'll wait for this lady's daughter to come back before you make any decisions. The law is a good thing, but you need humanity to apply it as well.
Roger: Well- I promise, Ladybug.
Ticket Inspector: What do you mean, Roger?
Roger: She's right! (The two heroes leap away)
Ticket Inspector: Uh- stay there, you're not gonna get akumatized again, are you? (Sabine groans)
"UGH!" Everyone in the audience groaned in disgust and annoyance along with Sabine on-screen towards the ticket inspector.
"That guy really needs to shut up. His big mouth has been nothing but trouble!" Alix then said in which everyone else loudly murmured in agreement.
Marinette: Mom! I've been looking for you everywhere! Happy Mother's Day, Mom! I'm a bit late, I know! (laughs nervously) But I- I just had so much work recently, but someday i'll manage to handle it all just like you. (hugs to Sabine)
Sabine: I know, darling.
"AWWWW!" Everyone in the audience gushed at the sweet moment between mother and daughter on-screen.
Marinette: Here are our tickets! I ran into Ladybug. She explained the problem to me.
Roger: So? (The ticket inspector scans the tickets which proved to be valid)
Ticket Inspector: They're… they're valid. (Sabine groans) You weren't lying.
Roger: Does this mean we can cancel the fine and the ID check?
Ticket Inspector: Well, that doesn't change the fact that this lady was on the bus without a ticket! The situation is a bit complex. But I guess that- yes it would be reasonable to cancel it all.
Marinette: The truth is- I was out of line too. (to Sabine) I am so, so sorry, Mom. This is all my fault, which is why I'd like to pay the fine with my pocket money.
Ticket Inspector: That's quite a responsible act, young lady! (He prints the bill and gives it to Marinette)
Marinette: But, (laughs nervously) just for now could you lend me the money? Please?
Everyone in the audience chuckled in amusement while Marinette blushed in embarrassment. Sabine then tenderly touched her daughter's shoulder with a smile and Marinette smiled back.
"OK, everyone. The next episode is called Dearest Family. Another group of old re-akumatized supervillains," Angel announced to her audience.
"Let me guess: this re-akumatized group's a family?" Alya asked, based on the episode name.
"Yep! Care to take a lucky guess which family based on these akuma names: Qilin, Weredad, Befana, and Bakerix?" Angel asked her audience who immediately figured out which family it was.
"Tom, that's us and…," Sabine said to her husband with a gasp.
"... and Grandma and Grandpa!" Marinette finished with a gasp as well.
"Yep! All you Dupain-Chengs are akumatized. Except for you, of course, Marinette," Angel said as she pointed to the Dupain-Chengs much to everyone else's shock.
"Please don't tell me I caused my own family's akuma," Marinette pleaded with a groan, hoping that is the case along with her parents.
"Technically, no, you didn't cause the akuma, Marinette. It's not your fault. But your family did get akumatized for your sake. You'll see why as we watch it," Angel answered.
"And what about the magical charms? Didn't I give them - at least my mom and my grandpa - one?" Marinette then asked and everybody else murmured in agreement.
"You did. But, don't forget you also gave Mr. Agreste a.k.a. Shadow Moth one too. So…," Angel explained, then Adrien finished for her.
"My father has finally found a way to overpower those magical charms, hasn't he?" Adrien asked with a groan in which Angel nodded in confirmation, making everyone else groan as well.
"Alright then, onto the episode!" Angel said as she played the episode.