Six and Three are in the Cosy Room. The former is reading a funny book, while the latter is bored and starts jumping around and singing gibberish. Six tells her off for being too loud, so she jumps around without singing, but says, "Jip-jip" instead. Six tells her to go to the gym, but she likes hanging out with Six. Then, One slides down a slide. Three tries to get her to join in, but One only makes one noise at a time and does little jumps. Six likes One's behaviour because she's less distracting, but Three is unimpressed. She tries to make only one noise at a time but can't.
Then, the alarm goes off and Three and Six head to the control room. Agent 55 reports a problem. Pretty standard, since solving problems is what Numberjacks is all about, yet she seems more on edge than the standard agent reports. As it turns out, the problem is that a young girl has fewer toys than usual.
Six is launched, due to both having had a good night's sleep and feeling a bit bored, and lands on a chalkboard. He goes towards the girl's bedroom, and the Numberjacks ask the agents why some toys were taken and some left. The agents conclude that the thief has taken most of the toys but left one of each kind.
A gardener prepares to plant some seeds, but then Six spots the Numbertaker sneaking up on him. When the gardener's back is turned, the Numbertaker takes all but one of the seeds, then the gardener goes back to get more, and the Numbertaker grabs the fork. The Numberjacks ask why and the agents speculate that he will take two of the fork's prongs. They're right, and he takes most of the rake's prongs too. Then, he steals most of the holes in a watering can and one of the gardener's boots, then leaves.
Six heads off and the agents suggest not letting the Numbertaker see things of which there are more than one. They notice a four-wheeled trolley and Six guiltily scares away the old lady who was pushing it. That gardener from before pushes a wheelbarrow, but he's fine since it has only one wheel.
Five imagines the Numbertaker taking all but one of some cereal, a flower's leaves and petals, and some people. The Numbertaker tries to take Six (because, while there's only one of him, he's a number more than one), so they decide that, since he isn't interested in ones, they have to launch One.
She lands on a plant's label, and then the Numberjacks decide to enlarge her with brain gain to keep her safe and scare away the Numbertaker. He runs away, One shrinks back down to normal, and they come back.
After the recap, Six goes back to his book in the Cosy Room, Three slides down the slide and manages to only make one noise ("Yay!"), and Six asks the viewers what they have one of at home.
This episode provides examples of
- Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: Exploited. One is made bigger (about six feet tall) to keep her safe from the Numbertaker and scare him away.
- Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: Five imagines the Numbertaker taking bits of cereal, leaves, petals, and finally people.
- Happy Dance: When the enlarged One scares away the Numbertaker, Six and the Numberjacks in the control room leap about in joy.
- Sticky Fingers: Exaggerated here, where the Numbertaker even steals holes.
- Subverted Catchphrase: This is one of the episodes where Five does not say, "Anything can happen" before her daydream.
- Tempting Fate:
- The Numberjacks say that the fork will be all right, but later the Numbertaker takes two of its prongs.
- Five says, "Surely nothing else can go wrong," and then it's revealed that the Numbertaker took the holes of the watering can.
- Tough Love: Six feels guilty about scaring the old woman, but Five says that it was for her own good.
- The Unreveal: One is launched, but we don't hear the launcher song, so we don't know how the song goes when One is launched.
