This episode is loosely based on all those TV episodes (like Family Matters and Diff'rent Strokes) where a trial held a character guilty.
MAJOR SPOILERS FOR WISH!
S1 E10: Who Bunn It?
It was a bleak November morning in London, Judy had recently recovered from the night in which she, her baby sister Molly and little niece Cotton experienced a demonic nightmare; a creepy goblin terrorizing whomever entered the cabin.
The young rabbits were playing outside with Wilde and Mrs. Otterton by their side while Judy went to pick up a few things.
"I feel so bad for Judy and her family had to experience that" said Mrs. Otterton as she served tea to Dr. Wilde.
"Yeah, I feel real bad for Molly and Cotton" Wilde sighed. "At least Dick and Muttley can relax at home now that we fixed their home… And added a bathtub for them to shower and whatnot."
Mrs. Otterton nodded in agreement, petting Blazey behind the horns and ears.
"And to get someone like Bazeema to help him get back on is feet is quite a change. I just don't get why's she so shy?."
Suddenly, there was a loud crash.
"What was that?" gasped Cotton.
"I don't know" Mrs. Otterton replied with a frown. "It must have came from upstairs."
"Maybe we just imagined it" scoffed Wilde.
The loud noise came again, scaring the animals.
"Either we just imagined it again or the flat is haunted!" panicked Cotton.
"It can't be!" said Mrs. Otterton. "I've been working here for years and never Mr. Holmes or anyone else has told me about ghosts in Baker Street."
Molly and Cotton huddled close to Wilde, trembling and whimpering.
Everyone was panicking.
Now normally, Judy knew that there had to be a perfect explanation for the danger they were in.
Wilde believed that Dastardly and Muttley were behind this, just to tease them. Of course if Judy were there right now, she would knew better.
Suddenly…
KA-BOOM!
Judy's flat exploded, chemicals were everywhere. Luckily no one was inside.
Wilde and Mrs. Otterton gaped in horror, shock. They have never seen like this happen before.
Mrs. Hudson, Sherlock Holmes' housekeeper and Mrs. Otterton's co worker, opened a window above them and gasped.
"Otterton, what in heaven's name happened?!" screamed Mrs. Hudson.
"I don't know!" panicked the otter.
Judy arrived at the scene of the accident, upon hearing the loud ka-boom on her way home.
She was horrified to see the mess!
Gabo (Wish), one of the teens that were originally from the Kingdom of Rosas, happened to see the explosion.
"Did your girls do that?!" snapped Gabo.
"No! My sister and niece had nothing to do with it!" Judy frowned.
The next day, the Teens were cleaning up the lab. Well, expect Simon, who has been sleeping on the job after scrapping chemicals off the floor.
They happened to find a bullet hole on the floor, leading the the roof/ceiling of the living room.
"It's a shame Miss Hopps' lab blew up" sighed Hal.
"I feel bad for her" agreed Dahlia, who was carefully organizing books.
Bazeema slowly swept the floor, she was quiet as a mouse and shy.
"So what is the next step?" asked Safi, who sneezed after dusting the shelf.
"Judith Hopps has taken this to court" replied Dahlia. "Actually, she asked one of Dastardly's allied partner, Mr. Big to be the judge and several of her friends as the jury."
"But who are the witnesses?" frowned Gabo.
"It's obviously Mrs. Otterton, Mrs. Hudson, the girls and Dr. Wilde. But I heard several people stopping by and telling Judy what they saw briefly."
"Sounds like an interrogation rather than a trial" Dario said, anxiously before he jumped with excitement. "They better find the guilty one!"
"The sooner they find the fiend the better" Gabo said.
Soon, Judy entered the room.
"Oh, hi, gang." she greeted.
"How is the cleaning coming along? From the looks of you, it must've been kind of exhausting. Come to the kitchen and have some cookies and hot chocolate."
The teens cheered and ran out the door, following Judy.
Bazeema, however, stayed quiet for the rest of the day. Something was bothering her, but she couldn't say anything.
If only I could tell the truth she thought to herself.
At the home of Mr. Big, the ballroom was full. Mr. Big's polar bear henchmen were the only security guards. Everyone wanted to find the guilty one imprisoned. Hopefully Dick Dastardly.
Judy sat at the defense table with Dr. Wilde and they stared nervously at the Crown Prosecutor and the Jury stand.
"Carrots, are you sure you want to go through with this?" Wilde asked, whispering through his lips.
"I have somewhat the evidence I need to prove that someone is guilty" replied Judy.
"Not all the evidence. No one was in the flat when it happened."
"Yeah, but Molly is not old enough to explain the truth without being too silly. We'll see."
Soon, Lieutenant Destin Mattias stepped up, quieting the room. Then, he finally spoke.
"All rise. Court will come to order. The honorable Judge Big presiding."
One polar bear carried a tiny chair and placed it on a stack of books.
"Call the first case" said the shrew. "You all may sit and please let's get this trial over with, because the judge has other better things to do."
Once everyone sat down, Koslov banged the gavel on the table.
"Now, will the rabbit detective make her opening statement?" Mr. Big said.
Judy stepped up, slightly anxious.
"Thank you, Your Honor" she began.
"Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, normally I use clues to find and prove a culprit is guilty of their crime and see that they're to be arrested. But this time, with no hand or foot prints in sight, I see to seek out the witnesses and then punish the culprit."
The jury murmured quietly, unsure of this rabbit detective.
"Call your first witness" ordered Mr. Big.
Mrs. Otterton was the first one called to the stand.
"Raise your right hand, put your left hand on this book" Mattias said, holding a book.
"Do you swear to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth, even if this is the Royal Family's cookbook and not a Bible?"
"I do" Mrs. Otterton answered, loud and clear.
The otter stepped up to the stand and asked by Judy.
"Mrs. Otterton, you have been my housekeeper for fifteen to sixteen years of my life" said the rabbit formally. "Can you please tell the court in your own words tell us what happened in the day in question?"
"Yes, Miss Hopps" answered Mrs. Otterton, before going on with her side of the story.
"I was washing dishes when you said you had to go out to the market and asked me to watch over Molly and Cotton. I said yes as soon as I was done with the dishes. Once you left, I finished them dishes, made a pot of tea and shut off the stove before we went out in the snow. We were talkin' here and there, then we heard crashing sounds and then a loud ka-boom."
The jury waited in anticipation as Judy continued to question her housekeeper.
"Mrs. O, did you lock the door after you made tea?"
"Yes, always have the spare key on me."
"Did you lock all the windows?"
"Yes, but when we searched the flat afterwards, I saw a shattered window in the kitchen window near the sink. No trace of fur or footprints."
The jury gasped in shock.
Judy couldn't believe what she heard. "Mrs. Otterton, did you happen to see the culprit jump into the kitchen window?"
"No" answered Mrs. Otterton.
"Anyone aside from my baby sister and niece and Dr. Wilde, were there anyone else at the scene of the crime?"
"No, just a few people passing by."
"No further questions."
Soon, it was Wilde's turn to take the stand.
"Dr. Wilde, you are my partner in crime" said Judy. "What were you doing before the explosion took place?"
"I was doing what you told me, Carrots" Wilde whimpered nervously. "You told me to stay at the flat while you were at the store just like that."
The audience groaned at Wilde's stupid rhyme.
Judy rolled her eyes and continued on.
"Now, as you know, you often at times accuse Dick Dastardly as the offender even when he is not present. Would you agree with that ludicrous statement?"
"Yes" Wilde sighed, guilty. "I do not deny it, sadly."
In the audience, Dastardly facepalmed himself while Muttley quietly snickered.
Idiot.
"Allow me to rephrase the question" the rabbit detective said. "Can you tell the court of some instance of the time Dastardly had helped us on some cases?"
"Well" began Wilde, reluctantly.
"Some of the cases where Dastardly had helped us often took place in places like Cotton and Molly's camp, his own home or the time he had to risk his life to save Muttley from that blood thirsty crocodile."
"And yet, you often blame him regardless of his slow redemption. Especially where he is out of London right now."
"I guess I was anxious with the explosion, I jumped to the wrong conclusion."
The jury murmured softly to each other.
"You know, Wilde, if this was a real trial, that would be blackmail" Judy sighed, shaking her head.
Then, it was Cotton's turn.
The small rabbit hopped over to the stand.
"Cotton, darling, will you please stand?" whispered Mattias in a gentle voice.
"But, Mr. Mattias, I am standing" Cotton replied.
Mattias realized that Cotton is standing on a large chair, since she's too small to sit in it.
"Oh, sorry" he apologized. "Now, do you swear to tell the truth?"
"But I can't swear. Children who swear are naughty."
The jury quietly laughed in response, thinking it's cute.
"I've been swearin' for the last two hours and it done me no good" whispered Mrs. Otterton to Muttley.
Judy finally spoke.
"Cotton, what Lieutenant Mattias is asking is do you promise to tell the jury what you saw."
"Oh, yes, I promise" squeaked the small bunny.
As soon as Judy questioned her own favorite niece, the small rabbit explained herself the best she could, loud, clear.
"Molly and I were playing with our toys" she began. "And you, Auntie Judy, had to go shopping. Uncle Nick and Mrs. Otterton were at the flat to babysit us."
"But what did you do before you went outside?" asked Judy.
"Molly wanted a glass of milk, but couldn't reach the ice box and almost fell into the stove, where Mrs. O was cooking lunch. So while Mrs. O was talking with you, I lowered the heat and used her footstool to get the milk. But I know that the stove was off after Mrs. O finished cooking."
The jury looked at each other questioningly.
Mr. Big was thinking this over.
Judy knew that this meant that she and the others were doomed.
Bazeema finally couldn't take it any longer.
"Wait, Your Honor!" she cried. "I saw the perpetrator who blew up the lab!"
The jury and audience gasped in shock, then talked among themselves, seemingly skeptical.
"Bless me bagpipes!" screamed Scrooge McDuck, fainting.
Judy was outright anxious, her face sweating.
The chatter continued until Koslov banged the gavel.
"Order in the court!" demanded Mr. Big. "Another outburst and I will clear this ballroom. Miss Bazeema, you claim that saw the person responsible?"
"Yes" squeaked Bazeema.
Judy was concerned.
"Well, how -—"
"I peeked through the kitchen window" replied Bazeema.
"You saw everything that happened?"
"Everything."
"Well, why didn't you say something before?" frowned Mr. Big.
"I didn't want to get in trouble."
Judy understood what this shy girl was going through. She would have been nervous if she saw what she couldn't explain.
Bazeema then told her side of the story.
She was with Dick Dastardly and they happened to pass by Judy, who left. When they were passing by Baker Street, Dastardly had to stop Muttley from eating a neighbor's cookie sale, his back to Bazeema. Both Dastardly and Muttley didn't know that she slipped over to the flat and peeked in.
"I could see Dr. Wilde and Mrs. Otterton leaving the building" said Bazeema. "Both Molly and Cotton had gotten their glass of milk. As soon as they all left, the intruder crept in, carrying a gun. A weasel. He may have had it, but he was scared than all of us."
The jury listened carefully as Bazeema told more.
The burglar had finally got in, then everything happened at once. He accidentally turned on the heat, fell into the pot of Otterton's famous fish soup and he began to scream and running wildly in the flat.
"I heard the gun go off" Bazeema said. "The burglar went up the stairs and into where the lab was."
"That explains the bullet hole in the roof" Wilde gasped.
The story concluded that the burglar had a panic attack and couldn't stop. Bladebeak tried to get into the act, but he only got in his own way (got stuck on a chair). The burglar banged his head into a beaker, knocking a chemical into a burner and caused the lab to blow up.
"And that's really the way it happened" finished Bazeema.
The court room fell silent.
"That's incredible" smiled Wilde. "But what about the weasel?"
Judy searched around the court room. Then, she saw a familiar weasel sneaking out of the room.
"Arrest that weasel!" she cried.
The polar bears grabbed the weasel and brought him to the stand.
"Duke Weaselton" frowned Judy. "Dick's former spy."
"What's it to you, hoppsy?" snapped the weasel. "Can't a guy have a life?!"
"You, my friends and I all know that you escaped Muttley's hammer of doom like the whimpering coward you are. What were doing in my home Weselton?"
"It's Weaselton. Duke Weaselton. And I was gonna hang out with your little girls, honest."
Judy, Wilde and Dastardly knew that Duke was lying through his teeth. That weasel just wasn't trustworthy.
"My sister and cousin know better to hang out with people or animals like you" glared the rabbit detective. "Tell the jury the truth or Muttley will do something he should have done a long time ago."
Growling, Muttley pulled out his mallet (the very same weapon of choice he used whenever one of the Rotten Robots upset Dastardly).
Duke yelped in shock and grabbed the stand.
"All right, all right, all right! I'll talk!" he panicked. "I came over to your place to get back at Dastardly!"
The crowd gasped.
"Impossible" Judy protested. "Dastardly and Muttley have been living in their new home since his black wolf curse had lifted."
Dastardly glared at Duke with murder in his eyes. He was almost ready to kill his ex-henchman for trying to betray him.
Koslov banged the gavel.
"Has the jury reached a verdict?" asked Mr. Big.
"We have" replied Sebastian, one of the jury members. "We find Duke Weaselton guilty. And sentence him to five years in prison."
One polar bear snagged Duke as he began to struggle and protest.
"Hey, why can't we talk this over, Hopps, hmm?" he begged. "I mean, you don't have to press charges. Why don't we just let bygones be bygones?"
Judy didn't budge, crossing her arms.
"After you broke into my home, almost held my family at gunpoint and threatened their lives?" she frowned.
"Hey, nobody's perfect."
"Take him away."
As soon as Duke was taken away, the crowd cheered and hugging each other.
Bazeema was even praised by her friends and Dastardly thanked her for her help.
"I don't I want to do this again" chuckled Judy. "Too confusing."
"I agree" smiled Wilde. "It feels nothing like our cases."
"I thought I could do something different, but it just didn't work."
Suddenly, Bladebeak popped up.
"Hey, I thought it went swell" he squawked.
Everyone frowned in response.
"Bladebeak…" warned Judy.
"I know, I know. Go home."