Robert Jefferies

Robert Jefferiesis a characers who appear in the second book of the series "The Prime Minister's Brain and the Television adadption of the book which make up the last three episodes of the first series.

Character
Robert, along with his sister Camilla Jefferies, are one of the many "Brains", a nickname given to the people who beat the Octopus Dare game and got to the final round of the Junior Computer Brain Of the Year along with Dinah Hunter.

When they first meet,Dinah remarks that Robert is younger than his sister and is about the same age as her. Whilst Camilla is talkative and a outwordly bubly person, Robert is more reserved at first. When they get to the Canteen Robert to eat Robert is upset about the lack of choice in food and seems to aready have worries about the competition and how they are being controled like they are machine. He alo thinks there is something pecyliar about the way tthe Director uses the Octopuses to distract there attention as though he can switch off their minds with them.

This worry leads to him to interrupt the Headmaster when they return to the control room and attempt to ask him questions but is instead carried off by the Controlers men in White coats. A couple of chapters later, The other members of SPLAT bump into him on a diffrent floor of the buildimg where he is still struggling againts the men and the have to request rope to tie him up to keep him under control and take him to a diffrent floor in the lift.

Splat climb up another floor of the building and come across the restraint room where Robert and another disbehaving Brain, Doug Grant, are being kept. Robert is tied up but is able to resist the Octopuses by keeping his eyes shut and not looking at the screen, whilst Dog is sat there hynotised. When Splat enter the floor, all the members of Splat apart from Harvey and Ingrid become hypntised until Ingrid is able to shut the Octopuses off. Splat free the two boys and Robert tells them that Dinah said she knew the controller and that he was an old headmaster of theres. Robert and Doug argree to join Splat and use the building rubbish shoot to climb futher up the building, where they finally reach the controk room where Dinah is just as the Headmaster is setting the building's Booby trap system to prevent anyone from using the computer system to stop his plans or to escape.

After the Headmaster leaves by Helicopter, Robert and Splat enter the room and are immediately caught in another Octopus trap where the Controler has programed Octopuses to appear on every screen in the room. Harbey and Ingrid switch off all the screens in the room, freeing the Brains and everyone agrees to try to stop the Headmasters plans even though trying to will start a fire in the lift. LLoyd tells the Brains that there is an escape, that they can all leave the building via the Fire Escape whilst Dinah, Robert, Lloyd and Harvey staying to use the computer to stop the Headmasters plans.

With Roberts help Dinah accesses the Prime Ministers computer and removed the Headmasters name from the accepted people list and put a warning that the Computer had been hacked. They realise that the Headmaster still has the days passwords and so may still be able to get into Downing street so they take control of the Headmaster's Helicopter as well. They get some contol of the Helicopter but not enough to change the cources and so think about just crashing the Helicopter but are unable to actually kill someone so instead flick the Helicopter up. With the day saved the last people climb down the Rubbish shoot and are safely able to leave the burning building.