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I may be in trouble.
If anything happens to me, find Detective Leroy Wright
and Dr. Max Jennifer. They can help.
Hey, uh, excuse me.
If you're really into the mechanics
of unmanned space flight, I'd go with the one on the right.
Oh. It's a gift for my husband. Always tough picking out.
Oh, yeah, I know how that goes.
- You married? - Yeah.
Or no. Sort of.
Oh, are you going through a divorce?
No, no, no, no, nothing like that. God, how awkward would that be?
No, uh, she was abducted by aliens.
Sweetie.
Okay, I know what you're thinking. I am not crazy.
Come here.
- Actually, I was a professor at Stanford. - Put down.
- Astrophysics. That is a cute child. - Time to go. Yup. Okay.
- Let's go look at my phone. - You know, even if I was crazy,
it doesn't mean you can't buy the book for your husband. They're unrelated.
Listen here, Jermaine,
your dad and I spent 15 years together on the LAPD
before I started working at this disgusting mall
and he always told me his dream was for you to go to college.
So...
Aw.
SAT prep course?
- Dude, I'm 12. - Jermaine, say thank you.
- That was very kind. - Thank you.
Turn to page 60, you little bitch.
There's a video...
Quiet.
Now, when you get to level 18, give me a call,
'cause there's some tricky stuff I got to walk you through.
And if I hear that you haven't been studying, I'm-a come
see you, and it's not gonna be pretty. Do you understand?
Yes, sir. I understand you, sir.
Good, becau...
Oh, Eddie! Come on, man!
What's up, Leroy?
Other crazy people got to drink out of there!
At least aim it! I got to mop that up.
Excuse me.
Pee in the damn fountain...
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Oh, cool, you're awake. What's up? How's it going?
I'm-I'm Max. What's your name?
- Leroy. - Leroy. Hi.
I've been awake for a few minutes, taken-taken stock of our situation here.
It appears we're-we're in the back of some sort of van.
I see that.
What do we do? You have your uniform on. What do we do?
First thing to do is remain calm.
- What do we do, man? - Don't yell at me, okay?
- I'm not yelling at you. I'm not. - Well, you just kind of
- yelled at me. - Well, okay. I'm sorry.
"What do we do, man?" Yeah, that was yelling.
I apologize.
Oh, dear. You're not supposed to be awake yet.
- Who the hell are you?! - Why did you take us?!
I'm Barry. I'm your kidnapper.
And I work for a top secret government agency.
And, unfortunately, that's all I can say about that.
That's not very fair, is it? I work for the Bureau Underground.
We investigate the paranormal and anything outside the scientific realm.
Is this a hidden camera show? Where's Alex Trebek?
Wait, did Alex Trebek have a hidden camera show?
- How did I miss that? - Oh!
- Looks like we've arrived. - What...
- Stay away from me! Stay... - What are you doing?
What are you doing?
Nuh...
What the hell?
Where are we?
And who are we? And what do we want?
I'm sure you must have a million questions
that I'm not gonna answer. Straighten your leg.
Wh-What are you doing?
I am measuring in case I need to build you body armor. Or a coffin.
Probably just body armor.
They're awake!
- How are they? - Not great.
Gentlemen, I will keep this brief.
I am Captain LaFrey, and this is the Bureau Underground.
Two days ago, one of our finest agents, Mike Checker, disappeared.
That same day, he sent us this.
I may be in trouble.
If anything happens to me, find Detective Leroy Wright
and Dr. Max Jennifer. They can help.
Checker thought that you can help, and I hope like hell you can.
one mission, two days.
- Are you in? - Hell no.
Yeah, I'm sorry, but why would we help you?
You were a brilliant astrophysicist,
but Stanford, they called you crazy.
Well, guess what, I think they're wrong.
I can help you clear your name and get your job back, Professor.
Okay, I'm in.
- Are you kidding? - What?
I've never seen this Checker before in my life.
Yeah, but he asked for us specifically.
- They kidnapped us! - Okay.
What do you care what I do?
I'm just concerned that this might be, like,
a package deal-type thing. I'm getting the vibe
it's, like, a package deal-type thing or...
I have to go. I have things to do.
Like what? Like meet up with my boys.
We meet at the Panera Bread every morning and discuss world affairs.
And I'm kind of like the unofficial leader.
Unless Jerry's there. Then it gets all weird, 'cause they're not really
- into him like that. He's so aggressive. - Right.
Well, that is incredibly sad, Leroy, especially
since you were the best missing persons detective the LAPD ever had.
Tell you what, you help me find Checker,
I'll get you back on the force.
The Bureau Underground was created under the Truman administration
to protect humanity from paranormal forces that threaten our existence.
Extraterrestrials, poltergeists, cryptids.
- Have y'all seen a yeti? - Yes.
Our field agents are equipped with the latest
in weapons technology thanks to Annie Carver, our weapons and tech expert.
Unidentifiable evidence is handled by Dr. Barry Shaw.
If you ever tell anyone of our existence,
we will do everything in our power to make sure
no one believes a word you say ever again.
Let's get to work.
Agent Checker kept us largely in the dark
on his last investigation, but we believe
that it had something to do with travel through...
the multiverse.
The multiverse? I literally wrote the book on the multiverse.
I know. He didn't ask for you 'cause he liked your smile.
Hold on. You mean... So this is real?
I was right?
Okay, ding-dong! Ding-dong!
If I'm gonna do this, let's bring it back
to Earth for a second. Where was Checker last seen?
Did you go to his house? You talk to his wife?
Checker never married, no close relatives, and his apartment was clean.
Do you have access to his cell phone location records?
Cross-reference the cell phone data with the location
of his credit card charges.
Lay those two maps on top of one another.
What do we got?
Looks like a gas station and a storage facility.
Bingo. Checker had a storage space. Did you know about that?
No.
Start there. See what you find. Good luck.
- You have 48 hours. - Cool.
Ooh, is that from right now, or when we got kidnapped, or...?
- Leave. - I know. That's cool.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right.
You know, at MIT, it was just, you know,
Academic Superstar.
Blah, blah, blah." You know? I was...
Inside, I was still just this angry teenager.
# And we try to see... #
Okay, I'm yammering. Uh, what about you?
W-What's it like being a detective? Is it cool or is it weird?
# Bring me a higher love... #
Hey, what happened with you and the LAPD?
# Bring me a higher love Oh, uh... #
- Nothing happened with you and the LAPD. - # Higher love #
Okay, great.
# Higher love... #
What happened with you and the LAP...
What happened with you
and the LAPD?! What happened?
- Higher love! - Hey! Listen, man.
You have a beautiful voice, okay? There, I said it.
But if we're gonna be partners, we're gonna have to open up to each other
and have a conversation at some point.
Number one, we are not partners.
Number two...
What are you doing?
Get out.
- What? - Go ahead. Get out.
The yellow brick road ends here, Toto.
- Are you serious? - Yeah.
- You want me to get out the car. - I want you to get out of the car.
Take care.
Listen, Leroy, the past couple years, I have lost everything,
and everyone, good in my life, 'cause they all think I'm nuts.
Okay?
So I need this. Please.
Fine.
What freaky stuff are you hiding in here, Checker?
Books.
Oh, my God, Leroy.
This is amazing.
Checker was reading my book. How cool is that?
Oh.
Should I sign it?
- You should totally sign it, yeah. - Right?
- He's clearly a fan. - Shh. I'm trying to think.
All right.
Time for clues.
"Are you in the dark?"
What are you doing?
Damn, what is this?
Whoa.
It all leads to Waterbridge nuclear power plant.
What the hell?
- Max Jennifer, Ph... - Let's go.
Yeah. Okay.
Annie hacked the perimeter security feed at Waterbridge nuclear power plant.
Turns out Checker was working undercover there
- before he disappeared. - Affirmative.
We need you to get inside that reactor
and find out what Checker was doing.
Well, how are we gonna do that?
Those places are guarded with, like, small armies.
Stand by, gentlemen.
- Hi. Yeah, the printer is jammed. - Well, isn't that just the worst.
I'm gonna send over two of my best guys.
Just be quiet and follow my lead.
Uh, I did a little improv in college, okay? I think I'm good.
- We'll take it from here. - Oh, actually,
if you could show me how to fix it, that'd be great.
These things jam all the time.
- Just gonna set down my tools. - Oh.
And this will probably be a-a while, so you might want to...
Oh, that's okay. I'm not busy.
All right.
Uh, Max, you-you want to show her how to fix it?
Sure, David.
Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
This is one of those, uh... This is a copy machine.
Uh-huh.
I'm, uh, more of a fax machine guy.
"Max the Fax Machine Guy."
If-if my name was Max, that's what it would be.
But my name is...
S-Steve.
- Okay. Well, Steve, - Nice to meet you. Yeah.
Uh, that's actually a fax machine; it's both.
This is both of those things.
- Two in one. - Yeah, sure.
So since this is a-a-an all-in-one wrap-around,
I think that's more your specialty.
Well, I mean,
since I'm your boss, maybe you should just go ahead and do it.
All right, but right before this, I talked to Sanchez.
He promoted me. I'm in charge now.
- Congrats. - Well, that's interesting,
'cause Sanchez got fired.
- That's enough back talk, bro! - Okay. Yeah, I'm gonna go.
No. I want you to see this.
Why? She doesn't need to.
You will show me the respect I've earned.
Yeah, I can't be here for this.
And... scene.
That was great. Did you feel that? Could you feel it?
- Watch your face. - What does that mean?
- Let's go. Let's go. - Wait. You're not joking?
Whoa. Wow.
Uh, okay. This is our first mission.
It's a big moment. Uh... What do I do?
- Try being quiet. - Okay.
Look.
That's weird. That looks like a magnetic coil.
- What's it doing here? - Get a pic; let's go.
Yeah, yeah. You're right. Uh... okay.
Give me the phone.
How do you focus this thing?
It's so blurry.
- You're not supposed to be here. - You're right.
Let's go! Let's go!
Guys, stay calm, everything is gonna be just fine, probably.
We're in the reactor room of building C.
Security's tracking us. We need a way out now.
There's a door in the northwest corner. See it?
Negative, negative! We can't go that way. What else you got?
Oh, oh. Is everything okay?
Get down to the lower level.
Hang in there, chaps. I'm thinking of you. Oh, God.
I can't believe you let me come with you.
You begged me, remember?
Leroy, please, I need this.
Everybody hates me. I'm a loser.
All right, bottom floor. To your right there is an exit.
I'm gonna try and open it.
They have guns and bullets and we are frightened.
- Annie. - Sorry. Sorry, I hear that.
I hear the guns. I'm so sorry.
I repeat. We are very, very frightened.
Come on, man. Let's go!
Annie, come on. Get 'em out of there.
Hold on.
Almost there.
Got it.
Okay, the magnetic coil
at the power plant was illegally syphoning electricity,
which means there has to be a second coil somewhere receiving it.
But what do they need all that power for?
I bet Checker knew and they got him.
Annie, see if there are any
large-scale deviations in the magnetic field.
We find that second coil...
We find Checker.
Yes.
Meanwhile, how are you guys doing, huh?
I know getting shot at can be stressful. Can I get you anything?
Yes. I'll take a PB and J.
- Good... Yes. - No crusts, extra "J."
- Yes. Mm-hmm. - No PB.
Captain, large-scale disturbance
in the magnetic field downtown.
This is it. This is it.
Go. Go, you guys. Get downtown. It's Checker.
We getting paid for this?
Quickly.
Come on, Leroy.
So, in the multiverse, there's another universe exactly like ours.
So there's another me, there's another you,
but that Max and Leroy probably don't even know each other, right?
What about Kevin Spacey?
- Kevin Spacey. - Is there another Kevin Spacey?
Well, yeah, sure.
Really good example... of course there is.
I think we got the best Kevin Spacey.
Yeah. Well,
- I mean, s... - Keyser Soze.
- I'm sorry? - Keyser Soze.
But actually, what I was kind of getting at
was, if it is possible to travel through the multiverse, like Checker asserts,
then we are open to attack from anywhere.
I got a question.
- Yeah. - What happened with your wife?
Well, you know what happened; I told you, she was abducted.
But the night she disappeared, what happened?
She, uh... You know, we were just at home.
Um, we'd had a small fight. Actually, not that small.
Um, and she was, you know, she was just like packing a bag.
- She was packing after a fight? - Yeah, Leroy.
People do all kinds of things when they get abducted.
They're riding a bike... Bam, you're abducted.
- I mean, that... - Your wife left you, Max.
- No, she did not. - I've seen it a thousand times.
She's probably on a beach in the Bahamas with Kevin Spacey.
No. No, she wouldn't do that to me.
Look do you think that I haven't questioned my own sanity, Leroy?
I do, all the time. But I have faith that I'm not crazy.
Well, I don't.
What are you doing? What's going on?
Leroy.
You're staying here 'cause you're certifiably nuts
- and you might get me killed. - No, no. Leroy. Wait.
- Thank you. - No. Forgot my Fitbit.
Got to get my steps in.
What?
Leroy!
This is a real bummer, man!
Whoa!
Leroy!
Whoa! Whoa!
Come on, Checker, where are you?
Max!
What the hell, man?! I could have died in there!
- What is wrong with you? - Aw, somebody need a hug?
Everything's a joke for you.
- You know? - Want to go
to an independent coffeehouse and talk it out?
What happened with you in the LAPD, anyway?
Don't go that way.
Let me guess, you did something psychotic.
- Am I getting warmer? - Leave it alone.
Why don't you tell me, then, what happened with you and the LAPD?
I got my partner killed!
I made the collar going in without backup,
he followed and got shot... is that what you want to hear?
Not really. I mean, that's...
an incredibly sad story.
- I'm so sorry. - I locked you in the car...
'cause I didn't want it to happen again.
That's a very thoughtful thing to do, as it turns out.
And... if you don't mind, I'd like to take you up
on that hug you offered earlier.
I know you were kidding, but check this out.
There we go, yeah.
See?
Hey! That thing attacked the car. Checker might be in there.
- Stay your skinny ass behind me. - Okay.
Something's going on over there.
My God, this is so scary.
Lift me up. I'm gonna peek through the vent.
Yeah, okay. Or-or just, like, for logistical reasons,
maybe we do that the other way around?
- Why? - Um... no... Yeah, no, you're right.
I'm just messing with you, dude. Come on.
Thank God. Okay.
Okay.
Checker. They got Checker.
- You see Checker? - Yeah.
Nice.
You got to let me down.
- Oh, my God. Oh, my God. - What happened?
Remember the big guy? The big guy from the... the power plant?
- Yeah. - He's in there.
He took his own head off, and he just, like, set it on a table.
Hey, when I left you back at the car,
- Yeah? - did you get super high?
Because you sound stupid.
- Oh, I sound stupid. Really? - You sound stupid.
See for yourself.
Oh, my God.
- What the...? - Right?
Listen to me, we have to distract him.
We have to get that big guy out of there
- Yeah. - so we can go in and get Checker.
Good, good, that's good. Okay, you go in and grab the head.
When he follows you out, I'll stay back and get Checker.
Or, just, like, as a different idea,
you go in there and you get the head...
What, you're scared of heads?
It's okay, we're all scared of something, you know?
I'm scared of ducks.
- You're scared of ducks? Well, you... - I don't trust them.
You know what, don't even talk about 'em, don't even talk about 'em.
Fine. I mean, what-what am I thinking?
I'm not gonna go in and get the head?
- You got to go get the head. - Of course. Yeah.
Hey, what's up?
Abort!
What the hell is this thing? Shut it up.
Um, excuse me, sir? Hi. I-I'm gonna need you to be quiet.
Sir, I don't want
to have to ask you again.
- Shut up. - Shut up.
- I swear, I'll do it. - No, let's be nice, let's be nice.
He bit me, he bit me.
Shut up.
He's biting me, he's biting me.
It hurts, hurts.
All right, listen...
Aah! Oh!
Take it, take it.
You okay?
- Yeah. - Come on.
We got to get to Checker before he does.
Yeah.
He's gone.
The roof.
Checker!
Checker.
It's real. It's all real.
Hey! Don't move.
- Uh, please don't hurt me. - Who are you?
And who put your head back on?
I didn't...
I-I don't remember anything.
They took Checker up... up in the spaceship.
Spaceship?
Oh, come on... you didn't just see that?
You're sure you're not high?
Okay, so he said
that something was controlling his body, right?
So my theory is, is that the light
was some sort of extraterrestrial or multidimensional life force
that had taken over his body.
- Why was the head yelling? - The head should not have been yelling.
That is a good question.
And one that we intend to answer.
I'm kind of sorry to see you both go.
But a deal is a deal.
Leroy, we're gonna get you back on at the LAPD. And, Max,
Stanford is a no-go, but good news is,
we got you reinstated at the bookstore.
Whoa, whoa. Hold on. No, no, no. No. Our mission isn't over.
Look, I just found out that everything I was called crazy for believing is real.
- We can do something about this. - I want to find this dude.
- I mean, we were right there. - Yeah.
All right. All right.
Gentlemen... welcome to the Bureau Underground.
What?
Congrats, man.
Wow!
Congrats to you, partner.
- Okay, you just called me part... - Shwaa!
I, uh, I just heard the good news, huh?
Congratulations.
Nice to have a couple of dudes
in the old henhouse. Ugh.
Yeah, he doesn't have a lot of male friends.
- Or any friends at all. - What's going on over there?
Oh, uh, that's just a group of people
we've been monitoring who have
a remarkably similar abduction story to your...
big man today.
- Oh, my God. - What?
That's my wife.