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(jim)every story has a beginning. we were just an ordinary family until... (man) hold on! (j.j.) oh, my god! (grunts) something extraordinaryhas happened. aah! (george) you can jumpjust over a quarter mile, can lift 11,000 pounds.
(whoosh) (stephanie) i'm fast. (overlapping thoughts) (daphne)i can hear people's thoughts. (j.j.) i've got, like,this super-brain. any time you wantto tell mom and dad you have genius powers,let me know. so you turned your garageinto-- what every secret crime-fighterneeds--a lair.
don't you see? i can finallymake a difference. you thoughtyou were the only one? find out who know about him,and then take care of it. (stephanie) okay,be honest with me, daphne. what do you thinkabout these sneakers? i think they look exactly likethe pair you just bought three days ago.can we go now? as soon as i try them out. not bad.
they havegood arch support. oh. i'm spending more moneyon shoes than gas these days. you know,if you think about it, do you even really needa car anymore? because a car would makea perfect birthday present. mm. or the perfect incentivefor you to get a little something calleda job. these are pretty cool.what do you think? dad, really,my old cleats are fine.
j.j., you'reon the football team. i think you earneda new pair of cleats. what if i told you i'm notas good as you think i am? for once in your life, will yougive yourself some credit? you're good, really good,and you didn't need anyone's help to do it.i'm proud of you, kid. (rumbling) what's that? earthquake.
mom! big earthquake. (both) aah! (metal clanks) stay down! jim! (man) watch out! jim! oh! (rumbling continues)
(sighs)everybody all right? yeah. (girl) help! i can't get out! (whooshing) dad! what? if you pull that,it'll crush her. come here. (pants) okay,pull that straight out,
and don't let it touchanything. (whispers) how do you-- dad, do it! (metal creaks) (daphne and stephanie) aah! (clatter) j.j., how did you knowhow to do that? (chuckles)totally lucky guess. thank you.
(chuckles) (typing) honey, if j.j. had powers,he would've told us. then how do you explainthat life-size game of jenga he just played? that was a guess. it was a demonstration ofadvanced mechanical engineering. oh. but admit it,j.j.'s been different
ever since we got backfrom brazil. yes, you're right. he's been working harderto compensate for the fact that his entire family has been givena superhuman gift except him. jim, our learning disabled sonis suddenly a b-plus student and a varsity football player? all right. then--then what's his gift? realizing his potential?steph, he looked us in the eye, a-and he told usnothing had changed.
well, i want to test him. i got a better idea. why don't you trust him? we tried that. look, we haveto know if he has powers. (chuckles) so what areyou gonna do, honey? y-you're gonna tell your sonyou don't believe him, and then what,ask him for his d.n.a.? i think i can come upwith a more subtle approach. you want me to pee in a cup?
j.j., i told you, in orderto research our powers, i need a control groupwith the same filial d.n.a.-- someone who doesn't have powers,like you. you must really thinki'm stupid. what, you want to test mebecause you think i'm lying to you? ahem. no. no. no, j.j.you're the only one who's still themselves,and we need to know why.
look, it's no big deal. justtake the cup into the bathroom, turn on the faucet-- (laughs)mom, i know how to pee. it's just thati'm kinda late for school, and i already went this morning.i'll do it tomorrow. i will drop it by the labon the way home. okay. tomorrow it is. (hums) caramel frapp, extra whip,little mocha on top,
just how you like it. george, thank you,but we talked about this. yeah. you did somethingto your hair, didn't you? i-- yeah, you did. oh, my god.and it's working for you, girl. oh, no, no, no, no, no.stop it. no. and you know what?the green, with your eyes-- george! stop it.i can't keep talking to you about these cases.
why not? you keep me informed.i keep you caffeinated. we're a team. because it's privilegedinformation. that is why. you're an a.d.a.why don't you just talk to the district attorney? why would i want to talkto some pruny old man when i can talk to you? george. what? so tell me, what isthe inside intel on crime
in pacific bay? i'll leave youalone. just give me that. mnh. fine. but this isthe last time, okay? (whispers) the last time. (lowered voice) all right. they haven't released itto the press yet, but apparently there wassomething rather unusual about that earthquake yesterday,as small as it was. (lowered voice)okay, like what? like it wasn't one.
(dayton) dr. powell. dr. king. excited for your big night? mm. i was, until i found outhow many board members were flying in to honor,well, a plant. the reception's honoring you,stephanie. (cell phone rings) mm. you'll do great. excuse me.
there's a slight crisisthat needs my attention. (lowered voice) how could therehave been a sector 7 breach? security was everywhere. three guards are in i.c.u.one is dead. realize we're dealingwith a deadly weapon, one that needs to becontained immediately. no worries. something that powerfulcan't stay hidden for long. good morning, katie.
good morning. how's it coming along-- well, that doesn't look likethe powerpoint presentation... (beeps) you're supposed to be workingon for my speech. well, that's 'cause it isn't.it's way more interesting. douglas volson? (lowered voice)this is the only trace of the late doctor inthe entire global tech archives,
and consideringthat he was researching the same mutated chromosomethat your family has, i decided to take a peek. (disk drive clicks) and? the entire thing is encryptedwith a 64-bit algorithm. but in the unlikely eventthat i can crack the code, it may give us some insight intohis research on superpowers. great, 'cause i couldreally use some answers...
(sighs)starting with my son. (lowered voice) i thinkj.j. has abilities, too. j.j.? mm-hmm. oh, my god! that's fantastic.what does he have? don't tell me.invisibility. no! flying. i knew it made no sense thatnone of you were airborne. i mean, that's, like, the firstthing your mind goes to. no. katie! katie,he can't fly, all right?
in fact, he's not evenadmitting that he has powers, which is why he's coming intomorrow to be tested. so he's trying to maintainhis secret identity. most superheroes don'treveal their alter egos to their families. i'm his mother, katie. interesting tidbit--mostsuperheroes don't have mothers. most of them are deador away on their home planet or something like that.
you know, there area lot of coffee places much closer to schoolthat are hiring. (scoffs)and serve bailey browning and her skank friends?no, thanks. is that... (speaks indistinctly) what's olivia doingwith our english teacher? oh. mr. robbins,olivia, hi. hi.
megan, daphne. thought it was a coincidencerunning into olivia. uh, what brings you guysall the way out here? job application. figure it's never too earlyto start working for the man. y-yeah, me, too.uh, then i saw mr. robbins, so i thought i'd harass himabout my book report grade. anyway, i should, um, go. right. uh, good-bye, olivia.
and i'll be sure to takeyour grade under advisement. bye. bye, olivia. bye. (chuckles) mr. robbins, i didn't thinkthat you lived around here. i don't. (thinking) huge mistake meeting her like this. if they suspect anything, i'm screwed. no line.
huh? there's no lineat the register. probably want to getthat application in. right.um, bye, mr. robbins. oh, my god.they're so doing it. what? how do you know? duh. don't you know the waypeople act when they do it? but mr. robbins isher teacher. in more ways than one,i guess.
listen to this. that earthquakethat you were in... yeah? the reason it wasn't feltmore than a few blocks away from the store is becauseit wasn't a natural disaster. it was man-made. at least that'swhat my sources tell me. you have sources? what, you can have superpowersand i can't have sources? this is what i do.
okay. so what elsedo your sources tell you? well, they're stillsifting through debris, but investigators think it wassome sort of concussion grenade. it was no grenade, george. no, no. not the kindthat g.i. joe uses, okay? it's--it's like--it doesn't use explosives. it actually, like, sends outan electromagnetic shock wave. it almost killed my family. (lowered voice)yeah, well, get this.
in the middle of allthat quaking, the in-store pharmacywas robbed. thousands of dollarsof meds lifted. the one thing is, it's usuallynavy seals, military commandos tossing around these explosives,not drugstore cowboys. so, what, they're using the grenadeas some sort of diversion? exactly.so while families like yours are at a pharmacy, stocking up on supplies--
mom's buying 2-in-1 shampoos, kids are begging for candy-- suddenly, without warning, everyone's life is changed with one simple boom. fearing for their lives, the customers run out, while the perp walks in and helps himself to whatever drugs he wants. god help anyonewho tries to be a hero. another pharmacy was hit. pay-rite on marine.pharmacist is dead.
let's go, people! ♪♪♪ (bell rings) hey. i got your pee, man. dude. are you kidding me?not here. (sighs) is it yours? nah. i got stage fright. but it's froma reliable source, though. what's going onwith you right now?
my parents are all over me.think i'm dopin' or something just 'cause i'mon the football team. but if you're clean,what do you need this for? uh, my asthma meds. (chuckles) high probabilityof a false positive. and if that happens,i'm dead. well, this'll cover you,i promise. we're gonna get 'em offyour jock once and for all. all right. thanks, dude.i owe you, big-time.
see ya. you owe me. (lowered voice)oh, here comes olivia. i'm gonna launcha light investigation. (lowered voice) megan, don't.you're the opposite of subtle. (normal voice)oh, hey, olivia. hey. so weird running into youat that coffee place way on the other sideof town. wh-what she means is,
first you run into mr. robbinsand then.. we run into you. (thinking) they so don't get it. yeah. i guess. i mean, me--i'd go anywhereto meet mr. robbins for a cup of coffee.(chuckles) (whispers) subtle! look, if you guys think there'ssomething going on between us, you couldn't be more wrong,okay? (whoosh)
they can't know about this. god, i hope they just leave me alone. sorry, olivia. megan had too much sugarat lunch. w-we should get to lineup. (knocks on door) excuse me. any updates? as you know,my family and i were on-site for the first robbery,so we're pretty curious.
it looks likeanother concussion grenade. this one took outthe pharmacist, shattered his spine. ohh. guy was dead on impact. any leads? yeah, we got a surveillance tapewe're analyzing. well, maybe i could takea look at that. i don't--you know, sketch the guy?
what part of "we have himon tape" didn't you understand? just trying to help. we gotta get our handson that footage, george, figure out what kind of lunaticwe're dealing with here. i'd help if i could, but i'm currently in betweensources at the moment. cordero won't let usanywhere near it. he's got it locked awayin evidence. what? what?
seriously? uh... (lowered voice) oh. no, n-n-n-no,no, no, george. yeah! no, no, no, no, no!i can't break into evidence. even if i could get pastthe lock, i'd be seen. (lowered voice) not if youwere moving fast enough. unh-unh. no.
just--george! stephanie would never help mewith something like that. hey.you cannot be too sure. you never knowuntil you ask. absolutely not. just because you've decidedto clean up the city doesn't make crime-fightingthe family business. i understand. (sighs) george and i will figuresomething else out.
(sighs) yeah. yeah, we'll probablyhave plenty of time to plot strategywhile jim's behind bars. excuse me? actually, jail isn't wherethey'd put someone like jim. more ofa government research facility with that "area 51"kind of vibe... (stephanie) uh-- bright lights, metal slab.you're a scientist.
you know the drill. what are you talking about?what is he talking about? uh, that'sa pretty good question. what jim isn't telling you isthat that surveillance tape, currently inthe precinct's evidence locker-- jim, i will not keep the truthfrom her any longer! i cannot! it's of your husband hereusing his powers. oh, jim. stephanie...
he did not want to tell you,but i can't lie to you. it was just a matterof time with all those risksyou've been taking. i'm not the only onearound here taking risks. fine. i will get that tapefor you, but just this one time. after that,you are on your own. (whispers) what? hey, just because you won'tlie to your wife does not mean that i can't.
what's she gonna doif she finds out, make me sleep on the couch?we got it! j.j.! i'm sorry.i didn't notice you there. i've been spending hourstrying to crack the last wall in this encrypted data code. anyways, i come bearing...this. (chuckles) huh. (inhales deeply) ew. this is the samplefor the control group? yes.
looks complicated.(chuckles) complicated? "inception" mademore sense. i'm gonna take thisto the lab before it starts to smell likemy college dorm in here, okay? (whooshing and beeping) whew. sure is hotout there today. (chuckles) yeah. ahh. (sighs)
busy, busy, huh? must've blown open. let me get that for ya. (clank) once. next time,you're on your own. (telephone rings in distance) (ring) (george) i thinkthat went pretty well. oh, yeah? which part? the partwhere you deceived my wife
into committing a felony?you mean that part? here you go. (taps key) check outmr. special ops here. that's our guy. that's not our guy. that's our girl. (utensil clatters) (lowered voice) mm. hey.
thanks for your helpwith that thing yesterday. couldn't have done itwithout you. so were you on the tape? uh, no. unh-unh. as itturns out, no. uh, got lucky. (normal voice) okay, anybodywants a ride, now's the time. j.j., i want to hear aboutyour game this weekend. all right. all right.bowls in the sink. (bowl clatters) oh, crap! (inhales deeply)
oh! oh. no, uh,it's all right. it's all right. you can't be crying overspilled milk, can you? daph? mom, with these powers,what do i do if i should accidentally overhearsomething that i shouldn't? well, if it involvesyour father, me, or whatever i was thinking when he got out of the showerthe other day-- ew. gross! uh... i think olivia schaeffer issleeping with mr. robbins.
your english teacher?uh, are you sure? that's the thing.olivia didn't exactly confess. in fact, she denied it. but you read her mind. this just isn't fair.i just wanted a job, not to get stuckin some after-school special. oh, honey. you're right.it's not fair. and we didn't askfor these powers, but we've got them, so nowwe have to do what's right.
so i should say something? it'sa very serious allegation. you have to beabsolutely certain. her name's rebecca jessup. police already havean a.p.b. out on her. spent a year and a half inprison for writing bad checks. got out early for good behaviorsix months ago. no history of violence.no history of drug use. this doesn't make sense.
doesn't have to make sense.she's stealing drugs. she was probably as highas the pizza delivery guy when she dreamed upthis plan. nah, it's a good theory, only the drugs she's beenstealing don't get you high. she stole carbamazepine. says hereit's an antiepileptic drug. why the hell is shedoing this, george? hi, katie. i got your message.you wanted to see me?
j.j., yes.thank you for coming. do you notice anything differentabout this lab today? no. no? okay.well, i'll tell you. it contains one lessunsolved algorithm... thanks to you. i don't knowwhat you're talking about. j.j., yesterday when i tookyour specimen for testing, you cracked an encrypted filein seconds,
and that can only meanone thing. you came back from that tripwith superpowers, too. you're a genius, aren't you? here's what i don'tunderstand, though. why would you lieto your parents about it? oh! oh! uh, sweetheart,what are you doing here? math tutoring with katie.(chuckles) yep. oh. wow. you do that, too?you're amazing.
i saw the volson file.you cracked the code. (chuckles) to be honest,i didn't think you could do it, but, wow, you are a genius. it was no problem. she's being way too modest.you are being way too modest. truth is,i don't say this enough. you are a tremendously gifted scientist,and i am so lucky to have you working beside me. i will see you at home later. great. great job.
(stephanie) okay! (lowered voice) that feelingthat you're having now-- that's the reason i didn't tellmy parents about my secret. because if they knowthat i have powers, i'm not specialbecause of me anymore. i'm just this kid witha mutated gene, you know? okay. j.j.,i'll cover for you for now, but you're gonna haveto tell her the truth, and soon.
oh! i-i gotyour test results. well, you can go aheadand give 'em to her, because i know for a factthat they're normal. they are.except for one minor detail. j.j., you're pregnant. mr. robbins, can i speakto you for a second? if you need more time on your"pride and prejudice" paper, just please-- no. it's not that. i...
i need to talkto you about olivia. what about her? why werethe two of you meeting so far away from school... alone together? i told you,it was a coincidence. i bumped into you, too. what,are you gonna read into that? please, mr. robbins, i'd like tobelieve it's that simple, but-- look, daphne, i know you haveolivia's best interests
at heart. i do. but i would never get involvedwith one of my students. okay. i'm sorry. (thinking) i thoughtall this lying would end when i stopped sleeping with her. you have my word. see you next class. i gotj.j.'s test results back.
well, according to katie,he's normal. (sighs)see, i-i knew it. i knewour boy would not lie, not--not like that. wait a minute. something tells meyou still don't believe him. i don't know. call it a scientific hunchor mother's intuition, but... but he's just notthe same boy he was
before we took our trip. yeah, but you tested him.katie gave you the results. hey, look, i don't want to beright about this, all right? you, me, and daphne--every day we are faced with some new moral dilemmabecause of our powers. do you think i want j.j.to have to also? i'm sorry. it's george. might be something,you know, important. hey, george. (sighs)
i got three words for you--robbery in progress. i'm kind of in the middle ofsomething with steph right now. let the--let the copsdeal w-- jim! it's another pharmacy. if the pattern holds, there'sgonna be another grenade. no one else can do it! it'sgotta be you. fifth and main. go! now. (thud, siren wailing) she's probably leavingthe pharmacy right now.
you need to get to herbefore the cops do. (panting) rebecca! stop. i know what you're doing. you stay away from me. easy.i'm not gonna hurt you. i know you won't. that's why there wereno bomb fragments, no explosive residue.
she's the weapon. first a teleporter.now a human earthquake. why do bad guys getall the cool powers? (scoffs) my powers are cool. she must be hard-core, too, 'cause you're supposed to bemore powerful than a train. it's a locomotive, and i think you'reconfusing me with someone else. uh, she could makethese, like...
(grunts) these sort of wavesthat, like-- with her hands-- some sort of shock wavesor something. shock waves. damn.(chuckles) i know. cool power. hey, yeah, but why is she usingit to steal epilepsy meds? maybe she's trying to controlher power somehow. oh, jeez. hey, no sudden movement.you might have a concussion. ought to get stephto check you out.
no, i can't tell herwhat happened. why not? as far as steph knows...(sighs) superpowers just runin the family. i haven't told herthere are others. wow, and you thinkthat i'm the one that's good at lyingto your wife. hey, j.j. (giggles) (sighs) kenny.
i thought you said the peeyou gave me was 100% pure. it is. 100% pure girl. dude, i didn't thinkit mattered. it's just-- it doeswhen the girl is pregnant. what? it's not like you'rethe one who got busted. (lowered voice) no, no. dude, that pee that i gave youbelonged to my girlfriend. what am i gonna do?man, my life is over. it's not that bad.
we used protectionand everything. it's gonna be okay. condoms areonly effective 98% of the time. if women are fertile37% to 42% of the time, applicationof standard deviation actually raises your oddsof pregnancy to-- j.j. yeah, buddy? stop trying to make mefeel better, man. daphne!what are you doing here?
oh, i was just dropping offa note for mr. loeb. i have a question aboutthe european history exam. you ever hear of e-mail?(chuckles) i gotta go. my mom's making memeet with a college counselor. (scoffs) so lame. bye. (katie) i don't get it. blueprintsof some building. what arearchitectural blueprints doing onvolson's computer disk-osaurus?
you know what?maybe we're missing something. do me a favor.run another decryption. i doubt volson wentto all this trouble just to protectsome blueprints. right. right. uh... okay. i'm just, um... gonna runthis algorithm again... like i didthe first time...
all by myself. (taps keys) just dowhat you did before. right. right. uh... okay. this is the thing.i had a little help. okay. katie, it's nothingto be embarrassed about. it was a tough codeto crack. exactly. and i don't knowwhat he did to crack it. katie, who crackedthe encryption?
we need to talk. about? the lies that someonein this family is telling. okay. here's the deal-- your son has superpowers. my--what?what are you talking about? well, for lack of a better term,he has a genius-level intellect. technically, it's justheightened cognitive function facilitated by rapid somatictransfer between neurons.
j.j.! wh-why didn't--why didn't you tell us? look, when i started to get a'sand play football and stuff, i don't know, i just-- what does playing football haveto do with your powers? everything. football is allangles, trajectories, velocity. i see it all my head. that's how you madethe team. don't you get it? this isthe first time in my whole life
that you guys haveactually been proud of me! that's not true. yes, it is, and i didn'twant you to think that it wasbecause i had powers. i wanted you to thinkthat it was because of me. so you lied to us? all right. why aren't youmore angry about this? what? i am. sort of.uh... (sighs) honesty is complicatedwhere our powers are concerned.
yeah, as far as other peoplefinding out, but this is our family. there shouldn't beany secrets between us. and you should not be using yourabilities on the football field! it's an unfair advantage.it's called cheating. so no more football. until when? until you either loseyour powers or... forever, whichever comes first.
no, this isn't fair. i am notleaving this team. no way! jim. everybody in this family usestheir powers. i am, too. and you guys wonderedwhy i didn't want you to know? (footsteps retreat) wow. you werea really big help there. great parenting. you know what?just get dressed. we're gonna be latefor the reception.
(classical music playing) (indistinct conversations) look at this way. a-at leastnow we know the reason j.j. didn't get powers isbecause... he got powers. yeah, but he couldn't eventell us about them. what does that sayabout us as parents? well, as parents, we're breakingtotally new ground here. we should've had thiscontained days ago. she's off the grid.
there's no way to track heruntil she uses her powers again. (lowered voice) actually,i think i... found her. rebecca. thank god you're okay. i was worried. you should be. robbing pharmacies... killing innocent people...for what? i want my life back.
i want to be normal again.those pills don't work. ah. nothing does. you should've come to me.i could've helped. by locking me up again? maybe this is who i am now, but at least i can stop youfrom doing this to anyone else. (whistles) (thud)
transport her backto the dormitory, and... (lowered voice)do it quietly. (stephanie) saving lives has always been the cornerstone of global tech research. (voice amplified) countlesspeople from around the globe have been curedof debilitating afflictions... (elevator bell dings) and have gone on to live healthy, productive lives. i am so fortunate to be a partof this continuing legacy
with my own researchinto this extraordinary plant, the trilsettum coronis... put her in the back. (door slams) a species whose d.n.a. isunlike any other. (rumbling, glasses rattling) (explosion, metal creaks) oh, my god.it's an earthquake. some kind of--what's going on?
it'smy very first earthquake. (rumbling and rattling stops) and it's already over. (sighs) everyone okay? whoa. oh, my god. (rumbling stops) (mouths word) (sighs) tell stephaniei'll be right back.
rebecca, stop!i-i don't want to hurt you. i just--i just wantto talk to you. how are you still standing? you should be in a morgueafter what i did to you. yeah, well, we're a lot morealike than you might think. highly unlikely. (car alarm sounding) you're one of us,aren't you? they got you, too.
one of who? who got us? look, if you can bringyourself to trust me, i can help you find the answersyou're looking for. you can't help me. leave. i can't do that. (lowered voice)please. trust me. (strained voice) no. of course they'd sendsomeone with powers. it's the only way they thinkthey can capture me.
(grunting) (knock on door) hey, olivia. principal ackerman talkedto mr. robbins today about an inappropriate relationshiphe's been having with a student. megan knew nothing about it. olivia, i'm sorryi went behind your back, but i was just tryingto protect you. you don't know anything.
he was taking advantageof you, olivia. by dating my mom? (laughs and sniffles) you might havethe perfect family, but for me,seeing my mom happy and having a nice guy inour lives meant something... until they broke up. he was taking meto coffee that day to basically say good-bye.
he was always so nice to me, like i had hopeda father might be. i am so sorry, olivia. i didn't know. (laughs and sniffles)now he's humiliated, and everyone thinks i'mhaving sex with my teacher, so thank you so much for trying to protect me. olivia, i'm sorry! i...
jim. jim.jim, do you hear me? honey.honey, open your eyes. honey, are you okay? (strained voice) uh... not surethat's the word i'd use. who did this to you? steph, there's somethingyou need to know. j.j.'s not the only onewho's been lying... and i'm sorry.
are you sure you're okay? yeah, i'm--i'm fine.i'm perfectly fine. i promise. good. now i can be furiouswith you. why didn't you tell me therewere others out there like us? it seemed likea lot to process... (water running) and i didn't want you to worryany more than you already do. i'm a scientist, jim.i can handle the fact that the world is filled withstrange, inexplicable things.
(turns off faucet) why did she come toglobal tech? more often-- no, it's not global tech.it's volson. look, uh, i've beentracking this scientist, uh, douglas volson. he was experimentingwith chromosome mutations a lot like ours. well,now who's keeping secrets? volson is dead.
and his research hasbeen mothballed. rebecca must not haveknown that. well, whoever this volson guy isand whatever he was working on was clearly dangerous.you need to leave it alone. (sighs) look, the whole worldis dangerous-- from renegade scientiststo superpowered criminals, even regular criminals. and we can't controlany of that. the only thing we can controlis how we deal with it.
and how we teachour children to. exactly. mr. robbins? daphne. (sighs) you probablyalready know this, but i'm the onethat wrote the note. i just thought-- i... i saw the two of you,
and then you were bothsaying things that made me think... i'm so sorry. don't be. don't be sorry for lookingout for your friend. it's--look, it's whati was trying to do, too. but you--you still can. you can still be therefor olivia. i can't.
look,i-i still have my job, but these kindof allegations have a wayof following you for a long time. i guesswe'll both have to be a little bit more carefulnext time. mom already said i can play,so if you're here to stop me-- i didn't come herefor that, kid. i came to apologize.
(lowered voice) look, i hatethat you lied. i hate it. but if i did anythingto make you feel like you're not good enough,i'm so sorry. (lowered voice)dad, these powers and what they allow me to do--it's like i'm living someone else's life--someone cool, someone smart, someone thati've always wanted to be. i get that, more thani'd like to admit, but these powers--they--they also trick you.
they trick youinto thinking y-you're only specialbecause of them, and that's not true,and that's not fair, either. so what,are you gonna tell me that by playing with them tonight,it's cheating, right? (sighs) yeah. it is. it's cheating yourself. you think you need them to become this personthat you want to be,
but i think you can do iton your own, j.j. i just wish--i wishyou'd believe it, too. powell! game time.let's go! (cheering,bugle playing in distance) (blows whistle) (band playing) (crowd cheering) hut!
you know, i-i was so sure thatwhat i was hearing was true, but i couldn't have beenmore wrong. doing the right thingisn't always so simple, with or without powers. is that reallywhat you think? oh. no, no. unh-unh.do not read my mind, especially duringheart-to-heart talks. come on. powell. you're in. go get 'em.
come on. hurry up. hurry up. (daphne) what? they're putting j.j.in the game. oh. they are? (stephanie) really? yeah.they're putting him in. all right, everybody.x-jet 25 sidewinder on 1. ready. break! all right, j.j.!
all right. (josh ritter's "change of time"playing) blue, 25! blue, 25! set! and one! ♪ i had a dream last night ♪ pass! pass! ♪ your shoulder blade,your spine ♪ ♪ were shorelinesin the moonlight ♪ ♪ new worlds for the weary ♪
♪ new lands for the living ♪ ♪ i could make it if i tried ♪ ♪ i closed my eyes,i kept on swimming ♪ he's breaking. wait. (daphne)wh-what are you? break! go! ♪ time, love ♪ ♪ it's only a change of ♪
i got 20. (crowd) ohh! (groans) sorry, j.j. (cheering) almost had it. (chuckles) no, i didn't.the guy almost decapitated me. yeah, but if you gotaround that corner, you were home free.
thanks.i appreciate it, dad, but what's the return policyon the cleats? hey, if you kept the receipt, we could trade them infor baseball cleats. dad.
