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The Jefferson Davis Junior
High School science fair

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was only a couple days away,

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and a few of us stayed late
to work on my project.

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By 7th grade, I'd taken my
game to the next level.

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Then... add a catalyst

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and stir and...

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Just wait till I make my
own yeast out of potatoes.

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I bet you could win the
science fair this year, Dean.

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Me? No.

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Of course I was winning.

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I'd been doing experiments
ever since my aunt

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got me my first chemistry
set when I was 8.

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I was still holding out
hope that a lab accident

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would bestow me with
superpowers, but no luck yet.

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Goliath is kinda cool, huh?

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See, in comics, you could
be a nerdand be cool.

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Peter Parker, Bruce Banner, Hank Pym...

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all were superheroes that
started out as scientists.

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What you doing, nerd?
Reading like you white?

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Leave my stuff alone!

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Or what, dork?

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In that moment, the spirit
of every scientist superhero

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coursed through my veins.

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Standing before me was the most
evil supervillain ever born,

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and I owed it to the
world to do something.

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Read! This! Science! Boy!

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Hey! Pick on someone your own size!

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You know he can't fight!

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Was there anything more
embarrassing than your crush

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calling you a wimp in front
of the entire school?

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Get off my son! You know he can't fight!

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Yeah. Guess there was.

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Mom, what are you doing?
I almost had him.

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I did not raise you to
be out here fighting.

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What is your name, young man?

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Michael Simms, ma'am.

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Back then, there was
an unspoken agreement

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that Black parents
were allowed to parent

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not just their own kids, but
all the kids in the community.

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Both of you, butts in the car.

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Now!

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www.subtitulamos.tv

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Unh-unh. You wanna fight?

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Then you're gonna have to pay the piper.

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Your parents are gonna
wanna hear about this.

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Come on.

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Let's go. Come on.

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Michael, are your parents home?

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Who was supposed to pick you up?

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My brother.

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But he usually has to work late.

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Are you home alone?

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I-It's fine.

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- Tell me about your friend Michael.
- He's not my friend.

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How do you begin to describe
someone that is so evil,

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diabolical, dastardly,

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antithetical to everything good
in the world?

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He's a butthead.

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Can you believe this boy's situation?

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I mean, clothes thrown
all across the sofa.

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And I'd hate to see the kitchen.

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- Probably dishes everywhere.
- It's a real shame.

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And I was talking to some of the moms...

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You mean the mom busybody gossip line?

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Speaking of which, Miss Doris
said she saw you at the mall,

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and I said that was impossible because
you told us you were at the library.

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Keys.

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Now, anyway, as I was saying,

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I found out that Michael's
older brother is 22 years old.

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Can you imagine? A boy
being raised by someone

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who's practically a child himself.

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Well, at least they have each other.

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I bet Michael could use some guidance

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and a warm meal, too.

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Michael definitely didn't
need another meal.

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He was already the size of
a linebacker in 7th grade.

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Okay, Lil. I see where
this is going, and no.

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You let that boy in here,
he gonna steal something.

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I don't know what you mean.

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You can't fix every baby
bird with a broken wing.

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- Even if it is Dean's friend.
- He's not my friend.

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You remember Homeless Joe?

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How many batches of hot water
cornbread you bring him?

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- Still on that stuff.
- Well, that ain't the cornbread's fault.

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And what about your Cousin Joanne who
needed $100 to start that hair salon?

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Then she met a man with a Cadillac,
and we never saw her again.

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Well, I will not apologize
for being Christ-like.

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You weren't so Christ-like when
that co-ed from my college

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needed a place to stay.

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What that girl needed was a job

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and a shirt with a neckline.

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Anyway, I'm not gonna
be helping Michael.

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- Dean is.
- What? Why me?

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Because you said so yourself.

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He doesn't do well in school,

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and look, we've been
blessed with so much,

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which is why you do so well.

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I think it'd be a good idea for you
to help someone who's less fortunate.

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What my mom was asking
was just as ridiculous

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as asking Spider-Man to
team up with Doc Ock.

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I mean, sure, it happened once,

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but only because Spidey had amnesia.

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Wait, can't I help Homeless Joe?

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I bet he never finished school.

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This is happening.

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I promised my mom I'd
offer to help Michael.

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Sure, I'd been working on
my project for a month

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and he hadn't even started his.

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That'stotally fair.

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My mom says I have to help you
with your science project.

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Shut up.

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Cool.

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Well. I tried.

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I knew my mom was hoping I'd try harder,

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but there was no way I was
teaming up with a guy

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that's been tormenting me since
we were in the 2nd grade.

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That's Michael Simms

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in yourkitchen.

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Well, it was nice knowing you, man.

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I'm gonna work at my house.

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Mom! What is he doing here?

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I told you he didn't want my help.

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Yes, and I'm sure you
asked very sincerely.

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My mother definitely had my number.

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And since I'm not about to let
this boy show up empty-handed,

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we decided to make a potato clock

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using one of your old science kits.

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But you're gonna do all the
work yourself, you understand?

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Yes, ma'am.

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But those are the
potatoes from myproject.

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Sweetheart, don't be silly.
There are plenty of potatoes.

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Who knew root vegetables
could be so interesting?

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I did.

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Michael was just reading
about the role electrolytes

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- play in conduction, weren't you?
- Yes, ma'am.

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Well, alright, then. Go ahead.
Keep reading.

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We don't have all year.

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"An elec-trolyte

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is a soob-sti-nin-a-nence wich

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e-mits ions when..."

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Dangit!

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You don't use that language
in school, do you?

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Yeah.

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I mean, no.

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- Sorry, ma'am.
- Alright. That's what I thought.

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Now, keep going.

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I can't.

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Listen, you use that word
"can't" one more time,

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and not reading will be
the last of your worries.

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What was my mother doing?
You don't poke the bear.

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She was racking up a swirly tab

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that I was gonna have to pay
for tomorrow at school.

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Your mom said I have to ride the
bus home with you after school.

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He was coming back for more?

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What type of madman would
do homework with my mother

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if they didn't have to?

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You're not gonna hit me?

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What a weirdo.

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While my mom spent the
last couple of days

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working with my archnemesis on
a rudimentary potato clock,

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I was working on splitting oxygen atoms

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like a real scientist.

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Unfortunately, Michael
Simms was clearly intent

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on disrupting my peaceful lair.

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That's hilarious, Michael.

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Dean never told me how funny you were.

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Well, maybe if I got to drink
beer and watch Richard Pryor,

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I'd be funny, too.

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Mom loves spending time with
her new favorite son, huh?

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Shut up, Kim.

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But she had a point.

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What if they got so close,
my mom tried to adopt him?

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Now, don't blow up my house, son.

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- Now, wait just a second.
- The lighting's better in here.

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Remember to keep them from touching.
It won't work if they do.

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Which reminds me, I have to check on

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my potato yeast that I'm making.

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By myself.

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From scratch.

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Mrs. Williams, where do these wires go?

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You connect your two
potatoes to the clock?

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- Then you move those...
- Sorry I'm late.

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Dinner almost ready?

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Ooh, I'm so sorry.

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We were working so hard, we
completely lost track of time.

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At last. The one cardinal
sin in a Black household

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is putting someone above
the dad in the food chain.

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There's no way my dad was
gonna stand for this.

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I'll just heat up leftovers
since you're busy.

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Well, that was unexpected,

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but at least family dinner meant
Michael would finally have to go home.

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Michael, it's getting late.

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You should stay for dinner.

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Drat. Curses. Zounds.

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All that stuff.

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Perhaps there's still time
to poison his next course.

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Michael, can I offer you seconds?

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Yes, please.

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I'll just take bologna to the office.

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You know, Michael, Kim has
been looking at colleges.

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Is that something you might
be interested in doing?

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Haven't I seen you hanging
around Jacque's house?

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- I don't think so.
- Yeah.

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No, it was definitely you.

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Man, those parties are so loud.

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And the kissing.

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I've never seen that many
people locking lips in my life.

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Keys.

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Must be your brother.

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I'm so proud of the work you did today.

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That clock is really coming along.

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You know, if you applied yourself,

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one day, you could become
a really great scientist.

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Thank you, Mrs. Williams.

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Good night.

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And good luck tomorrow.

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Good night.

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Well.

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This is really great.

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Project's coming along nicely.

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- I guess.
- Is that a nuclear power plant?

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Maybe.

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I found your potato
water on the counter.

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You want me to put it in the fridge?

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Whatever.

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Obviously, I was handling the situation

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with the utmost maturity.

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You know, I'm so proud of you
for doing all this on your own.

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Yeah, and maybe I'llbecome a
great scientist one day, too.

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Okay.

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Come here.

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I get that this is probably
very uncomfortable for you.

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How could you be so nice to
someone who's so mean to me?

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Well, the thing you have to
understand is that Michael

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hasn't had an easy life.

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You get love from me and
your father every day.

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Michael isn't blessed
with that type of love.

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There are things he misses out
on that we take for granted.

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So, he's allowed to beat me up?

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The reason Michael lashes
out is because he's angry.

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What could he possibly be angry about?

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He gets to keep everyone's
lunch money every day.

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Well, it's complicated.

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I think the big part of it
is the fact that his parents

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aren't there to support him
the way we do for you.

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Then he shouldn't have killed them.

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He didn't. Dean.

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Michael shared with me that the
reason his mother's not around

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is because she's not able
to take care of him.

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She had to go into a mental hospital.

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It happened a few years ago,

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when he was around your age,

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and he hasn't seen her since.

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That is bad.

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Wait,

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does that mean if something
happens to you and Dad,

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I have to live with Kim?

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First off, nothing is
gonna happen to us,

262
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but it's important to put
yourself in someone else's shoes.

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That's why I helped him.

264
00:13:18,926 --> 00:13:21,508
I can't imagine how
hard his life must be.

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Does that make sense?

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Right.

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And I hope you remember that
I'll always be proud of you.

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Now, get some rest. Got
a big day tomorrow.

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- Good night.
- Good night, Mom.

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Despite the years of bullying,

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I found myself genuinely feeling
sorry for Michael and his mom.

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Pretty sure he still
killed his father, though.

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The science fair.

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One of the best days of the year,

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next to Christmas, my birthday, and
Mama's short rib Sundays, of course.

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Carrol, how's it going?

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Hey, Tom, good luck.
You're gonna need it.

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Just kidding.

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- The boy ain't right.
- Shush.

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So, you feeling confident?

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A little.

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A little? Please.

283
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I was gonna win this thing hands down.

284
00:14:20,482 --> 00:14:22,149
I mean, look at the competition.

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00:14:22,342 --> 00:14:24,433
A baking soda volcano?

286
00:14:24,459 --> 00:14:26,185
What are we, in 2nd grade?

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Oobleck? Wow. You mixed
corn starch and water.

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Did you do that yourself?

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00:14:34,730 --> 00:14:37,159
Why is Neptune bigger than Jupiter?

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Come on, Larry. Everyone knows
it's seven times smaller.

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If I'm looking at the future of NASA,

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then the Russians have
nothing to worry about.

293
00:14:45,248 --> 00:14:47,503
Hey, Dean, check it out.

294
00:14:47,529 --> 00:14:50,034
I painted my shoe box so it
looks like an actual oven.

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Cool, right?

296
00:14:55,975 --> 00:14:57,738
S-Sorry, sorry, sorry.

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Michael.

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I'm glad you made it. Everything okay?

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Yes, ma'am.

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Hey.

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Good luck.

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00:15:10,049 --> 00:15:11,136
Thanks.

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00:15:12,725 --> 00:15:15,703
You know, Lil, in spite of
my concerns, I got to admit,

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you were right this time.

305
00:15:18,320 --> 00:15:19,800
Wait, is that my shirt?

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00:15:20,034 --> 00:15:23,245
I knew he was gonna steal something.
See, you can't help some people.

307
00:15:23,271 --> 00:15:25,058
I gave him the shirt, Bill.

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00:15:25,084 --> 00:15:26,941
He didn't have any good clothes to wear.

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00:15:26,967 --> 00:15:30,870
- Besides, you haven't worn that thing in years.
- And like I said, you were very wise.

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00:15:36,456 --> 00:15:38,779
Michael, this looks interesting.

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00:15:38,805 --> 00:15:40,437
Did you do this all on your own?

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I had some help.

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00:15:43,888 --> 00:15:46,584
Can you tell us about your project?

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- it's a potato clock.
- And how does it work?

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It tells the time?

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The science, son.

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00:15:54,554 --> 00:15:57,592
Well, the potatoes have acid,

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which eats the nail,

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00:16:00,282 --> 00:16:02,326
and that makes...

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electrons.

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00:16:07,592 --> 00:16:10,053
The penny then picks up the electrons,

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00:16:10,079 --> 00:16:12,256
and that makes electricity.

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00:16:13,366 --> 00:16:16,286
Can't wait to see you apply yourself
like this in the classroom.

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00:16:16,312 --> 00:16:19,221
Even if it was a low bar,
I was happy for Michael.

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It was the first time I'd seen him smile

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when he wasn't beating somebody up.

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00:16:23,032 --> 00:16:26,350
Let's just hope he remembered that
other things could make him happy.

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00:16:26,376 --> 00:16:28,928
Our future scientist.
What have you made for us?

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Today, I will be demonstrating

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the principles of a
nuclear fission reactor

331
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with a dash of pizzazz.

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00:16:34,399 --> 00:16:36,108
Nuclear power plants generate heat

333
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by splitting unstable uranium atoms.

334
00:16:38,274 --> 00:16:40,596
In my experiment, I will
be creating a similar

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exothermic reaction by splitting oxygen

336
00:16:43,143 --> 00:16:45,051
and unstable hydrogen peroxide

337
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with potato yeast I made myself.

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00:16:47,024 --> 00:16:49,241
Safety first, though. You never
know when there's gonna be

339
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a cool nuclear meltdown
of radioactive foam.

340
00:17:02,173 --> 00:17:05,795
Just a moment. You know, potato
yeast can be a slow catalyst.

341
00:17:07,892 --> 00:17:11,201
Maybe it just needs a good stir.

342
00:17:17,816 --> 00:17:20,172
The ratios are probably a little off.

343
00:17:20,198 --> 00:17:22,912
Maybe I need a little bit
more hydrogen peroxide.

344
00:17:25,569 --> 00:17:29,086
As my nuclear reactor
turned into a sad swamp,

345
00:17:29,112 --> 00:17:32,217
I realized that I had been so
distracted by my mother and Michael

346
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that I hadn't made my yeast properly.

347
00:17:34,376 --> 00:17:35,608
Ta-da?

348
00:17:37,335 --> 00:17:39,830
My yeast must have died.

349
00:17:40,144 --> 00:17:42,834
Shame. I was really
excited for this one.

350
00:17:43,412 --> 00:17:45,639
I guess science is about failure, too.

351
00:17:45,665 --> 00:17:48,780
I had never known this level
of embarrassment before.

352
00:17:48,806 --> 00:17:52,358
Science was my thing. How
could I let this happen?

353
00:17:58,624 --> 00:18:00,705
I don't know what you're laughing at.

354
00:18:00,731 --> 00:18:02,984
At least I did my project by myself.

355
00:18:03,010 --> 00:18:04,451
You needed help from my mom

356
00:18:04,477 --> 00:18:07,053
because your mom is so
crazy, she got locked up.

357
00:18:20,094 --> 00:18:22,554
I'd finally vanquished the supervillain,

358
00:18:22,580 --> 00:18:25,139
so why did it feel like I had lost?

359
00:18:27,306 --> 00:18:30,366
Wait a minute. Was l
actually the villain?

360
00:18:33,924 --> 00:18:37,109
As kids, we don't pause to
think that every supervillain

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00:18:37,135 --> 00:18:39,866
probably has a complicated backstory.

362
00:18:41,615 --> 00:18:44,834
And that superheroes don't
always do the right thing.

363
00:18:46,303 --> 00:18:48,824
Or that there are some things
in this world that hurt

364
00:18:48,850 --> 00:18:50,983
even more than getting beat up.

365
00:19:17,080 --> 00:19:20,030
They announced the winner
of the science fair.

366
00:19:20,483 --> 00:19:23,123
I didn't even make it
into the top three.

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00:19:26,133 --> 00:19:28,037
I know I didn't deserve to win.

368
00:19:31,553 --> 00:19:34,044
No, you didn't.

369
00:19:34,274 --> 00:19:36,148
God don't like ugly, Dean.

370
00:19:36,209 --> 00:19:38,808
Yikes. I guess that business-casual belt

371
00:19:38,834 --> 00:19:41,840
was also a Lasso of Truth,
but I had it coming.

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00:19:41,866 --> 00:19:43,912
How you treat people comes back around.

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00:19:43,938 --> 00:19:45,424
Remember that.

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00:19:46,405 --> 00:19:47,769
I'm really sorry.

375
00:19:47,794 --> 00:19:51,039
I expect you'll find a way to say
that to Michael one day, too.

376
00:19:52,735 --> 00:19:54,185
Yes, ma'am.

377
00:20:02,314 --> 00:20:05,295
I figure you'd want to start
practicing for next year.

378
00:20:05,924 --> 00:20:07,247
Thank you.

379
00:20:07,273 --> 00:20:10,717
All my mom wanted to do was
help someone less fortunate,

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00:20:10,743 --> 00:20:12,375
and I ruined it.

381
00:20:12,685 --> 00:20:14,787
I wasn't a superhero at all,

382
00:20:15,063 --> 00:20:17,834
but if I kept my head
down and watched closely,

383
00:20:17,859 --> 00:20:21,182
I had the chance to learn
from an actual superhero...

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00:20:21,208 --> 00:20:22,483
my mom.

385
00:20:22,709 --> 00:20:25,269
Maybe one day, in an alternate universe,

386
00:20:25,295 --> 00:20:27,311
she'll have her own storyline.

387
00:20:27,373 --> 00:20:30,631
Hopefully, it'll be a rare reboot
that's better than the original.

388
00:20:34,581 --> 00:20:36,475
Finally found a box big enough.

389
00:20:36,501 --> 00:20:38,959
Goodwill will be very happy.

390
00:20:40,100 --> 00:20:42,271
I'm very proud of you, son.

391
00:20:42,297 --> 00:20:44,967
I found a few more shirts
I'm not gonna use anymore.

392
00:20:48,278 --> 00:20:49,878
That's my lucky belt.

393
00:20:50,217 --> 00:20:52,523
Trust me, I'm doing you a favor.

394
00:20:52,548 --> 00:20:54,808
But as disappointed as I was in myself,

395
00:20:54,834 --> 00:20:57,402
the fact is in all comic book stories,

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00:20:57,428 --> 00:20:59,324
every great failure sets up a sequel

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00:20:59,350 --> 00:21:01,981
where the hero gets a
chance to redeem himself.

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00:21:02,006 --> 00:21:04,629
He just needs to take
that first step forward.

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