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The Palace of Clues

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The Palace of Clues is the 5th episode of season 2 and 18th overall episode of the animated series.

Plot[]

In Brantford, Peter and Judy are torn between getting tickets to see a new movie instead of getting Aunt Nora a beautiful birthday cake. In the attic, the two end up decorating a cookie instead of buying the fancy cake, and roll the dice to play "JUMANJI", drawing the clue "WHEN YOU FIX WHAT HAS BEEN BROKEN,
THEN YOU'LL KNOW THE EYES HAVE SPOKEN."

Arriving in front of Trader Slick's Shop in "JUMANJI", the two are scared by the appearance a large roaring skeleton head in front of them, but the head is revealed to just be controlled by Trader Slick, who just sold Alan a can of paint for decorating the new front door to his treehouse. After the trio paint Alan's door a sparking ruby red color, Slick reveals that the paint is very rare and as such Alan will be paying it back for the rest of his life plus 3.5 years, but plans to have him pay it off by doing odd jobs for him. Alan is horrified by this newly acquired debt and considers simply not paying for it as Slick didn't tell him about the expenditure. Trader Slick departs from Alan's treehouse, citing that deals set in stone should not be broken, since there are severe consequences.

While the three are trying to figure out what to do about Alan's debt, bold explorer Ashton Phillips suddenly shows up and after admiring Alan's door, decides to invite Alan, Judy and Peter to join him on his adventures and has them go inside Alan's treehouse to discuss their plans. Judy is suspicious of Phillips' intentions, but since he plans to travel to the Palace of the Lost Clues where there's a lot of gold he intends to take, he explains the palace also holds records of all of the clues that "JUMANJI" gave to players of The Game. Considering what their clue said, Alan and Peter are hopeful that they can find Alan's long-lost clue there so he can go home, but Alan is initially reluctant to go due to his debt to Trader Slick, but Phillips convinces him to since he may be able to earn some treasure to pay off his debt.

On the journey to the palace, Phillips reveals there's a curse of not coming back alive from the palace but he doesn't seem to believe in it, before the four accidentally fall off a cliff. Luckily they land on a ledge lower down, but Alan is forced to cut off Judy's pack. Phillips is angry when Judy refuses to acknowledge that he saved her and about her cutting lose her bag with his things in it. Phillips calms down and promises smooth sailing from there, but they end up in the middle of a blizzard and have to take cover inside a cave to rest. Inside the cave, the trio try to rest, but Judy can't stand Phillip's loud snoring so she heads backwards into the darkness, until they spot a gathering of sleeping Bats overhead and are initially safe until Phillips loudly wakes up with a joyful yell and wakes the Bats up too. The agitated Bats attack the four, so Phillips runs away, but Judy's torch burns a hole in the ice which Alan escapes through. As the cave starts to rumble, they find out that they were sleeping inside an abominable snowman, who Phillips identifies as the legendary man of the mountain before he realised the palace is very close by, so he runs off to find the palace and abandons the trio to get his treasure. The kids try to get free of the ice man, but as Alan tries to help them by hacking the giant's ankle, he only makes the behemoth more angry, but Alan is too far away to hear Judy's yells to stop him. The kids manage to blind the giant by piling snow in his eyes which causes him to crash to the ground.

Meanwhile, as Phillips finds the Palace of Lost Clues nearby, Peter then starts to turn to ice, which Alan remembers what Phillips said about the curse and suspects that Peter is being picked on yet again by "JUMANJI" as an apparent consequence of Alan planning on escaping from his deal with Slick. The three realize Peter's only hope is to solve their clue and go home, but Phillips selfishly tries to keep them out of the palace and accidentally causes part of the bridge to break. Alan and Judy then use Peter's freezing body to cross over the gap, but it also causes the bridge to disintegrate behind them. Inside the palace they find windows on every wall, and a Lion statue with ruby eyes that shine lights onto each window and reveal recorded clues inside each one. Guessing the statue eyes they must be the exact eyes from their clue. As they start searching the walls of the palace for Alan's clue, before they can finish reading them all, the spotlights disappear when Phillips greedily removes the rubies from the statue's eyes, causing the palace to start to collapsing and Peter's now frozen body to shatter to pieces. Alan and Judy are horrified at Peter's apparent destruction, but the rumbling tremors cause the rubies to fall out of Phillip's hands, landing onto Peter's eyes and restore him not only from his shattered state, but back to his real self as well. The palace of clues continues collapsing so the trio quickly try to escape, but a couple of boulders block their path while Phillips tries to collect as much gold as he can despite the ground starting to into a whirlpool of quicksand. Alan tries to save Phillips but he stubbornly goes down with the temple, proclaiming he doesn't care as he has his gold and will be sinking rich with it. The three escape from the palace without Alan's clue but with the two rubies from the statue.

Glad to be back in the jungle, Alan later uses the two rubies to pay Slick, whom gladly accepts and expunges Alan's debts. They realize that their clue referred to the debt being broken but fixed with the eyes of the statue, and the two return home to Brantford. Before Alan starts to leave Trader Slick's shop, Slick interrupts his departure by attempting to interest him with some wallpaper for his house. At home, Judy and Peter initially pretend they've forgotten their Aunt Nora's birthday, but then reveal they bought her the cake instead of the movie tickets they wanted after all. Nora is truly touched by her kids thoughtfulness and sheds tears of joy and doesn't know what to say, but Judy simply tells her, her eyes have spoken for her.

Continuity[]

  • The Palace of Lost Clues is one of two Palaces in the animated series that serves as the equivalent to the Golden City from the original picture book.
  • Of all the clues on the walls in the Palace of Lost Clues, only three are vaguely readable:
    • "TRY AS YOU MIGHT TO ESCAPE YOUR FATE..." This is the clue belonging to the old man who believed he was the Master of Jumanji, seen in the next episode.
    • "WITHOUT WINGS YOU SOAR SO HIGH... " This was the previous episode's clue.
    • "IF YOU LOOK..."
  • The plot of the Jaguar Shrine and its eye in Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle may have been influenced intentionally or unintentionally clairvoyant from this episode in several ways:
  • The Palace of Lost Clues' interior Lion statue with ruby eyes that serve an important role to the temple by lighting the recorded clues on murals, later seen in the 2017 film when the Jaguar Shrine (big cat) colossus serves an important location.
    • Until the Palace begins to collapse when the Lion is "blinded" when Aston Phillips steals the ruby eyes by gorging them out with a knife, also seen when Professor Van Pelt "blinds" the Jaguar Shrine the exact same way by stealing it's gem eye and placing the Jumanji realm under a curse.
      • Peter's apparent death and subsequent resurrection through contact with the rubies is clairvoyant of Ruby Roundhouse using up her spare life to regenerate and return the eye to the shrine much easier.
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