"( Horn honking )" "I'mAlexMack." "Iwasjustanaveragekid untilanaccident changed my life." "Andsincethen..." "Nothing'sbeenthesame." "( Zapping )" "MybestfriendRay  thinks it's cool." "MysisterAnnie thinks I'm a science project." "Ican'tletanyoneelse know ." "Notevenmy parents." "IknowtheChemicalPlant wants to find me andturnme into some experiment." "Butyouknowsomething?" "Iguess I'm not so average anymore." "No!" "( Barking )" "What is that?" "That's gross." "Robyn:" "Disgusting." "That's so cool." "Louis, there is nothing cool about toxic chemicals being dumped into a creek." "Well, how do you know they're toxic?" "I don't know but it's a good guess." "Look where it's coming from." "Louis:" "Paradise valley chemical." "Robyn:" "Ugh." "This stuff is bad news." "It could really have harmful effects." "This gets into the water we can all be poisoned." "There could be illness, disease and worse." "Worse?" "She's right." "People can end up with three eyes webbed feet or, my luck, bad hair." "If I had a third eye in the back of my head" "I could check out that girl who sits behind me in geometry." "If there was a test and I hadn't studied..." "You guys are lame." "You just don't get it." "We get it, Nicole." "We just know there's nothing we can do about it." "We're only kids." "Nobody takes us seriously." "Well, I'm about to change that." "Are you sure he saw you use your powers?" "Yeah." "Is there any remote possibility that he didn't see you use your powers?" "Remote, yes." "Well, relax because that remote possibility is probably what happened." "It's just that he's so weird." "He's been here, what, a month?" "And he never even says hi." "No one knows what he does." "All I ever see him do is garden in his backyard." "There's something really sneaky about him." "That's why I call him creeps." "I'm a little bit worried about what he's planting in his backyard." "What are you saying?" "Victims, Alex." "Just stay away from him." "( Loud growling )" "( Snarling )" "( Growling )" "Looks like creeps got himself another victim." "Ray, it's his dog." "Well, well." "Looks like rain." "( Thunder rumbling )" "Annie?" "What?" "What's the matter?" "Outside." "It's creeps Hanson, our neighbor." "There's nobody out there." "I think he saw me use my powers today." "Wait a second." "That guy saw you using your powers?" "How many times have I told you to be careful?" "I didn't know he was watching." "I doubt that he saw you using your powers." "And if he did it's too late to do anything about it." "Why would he be out there?" "He's probably walking his dog." "Turn out the lights and go back to bed." "We'll worry about it tomorrow." "( Thunder booms )" "( Knock at door )" "Good morning, Alex." "Morning, Mom." "You have some visitors." "( Door creaks )" "There she is." "We've been looking for you." "Come with us." "( Echoing ):" "No!" "( Thunder crashing )" "( Birds chirping )" "I'm afraid you're right, Nicole." "There are a number of pollutants contained in this sample." "It's definitely toxic waste." "That's all I needed to know, Annie." "Thanks." "Now will you go to the Plant and complain?" "Exactly." "Good luck." "Now, how may I help you, Miss, uh..." "Wilson." "Wilson, yes." "I want you to know I'm onto you." "This plant is polluting our city dumping chemical waste into Paradise Valley Creek." "I had this stuff analyzed and I saw that..." "Wait, first of all, it's not a creek." "It's a drainage way." "And we don't dump chemicals." "We dispose of them." "That smokestack out there is polluting the atmosphere." "That smokestack has been inspected recently by the federal government and was found well within their emission regulations." "I've seen your workers littering everywhere." "Tell me who-- they will be reprimanded." "Your truck spilled toxic chemicals." "Rarely, very rarely they do." "This is ridiculous!" "I'd like some real answers, please." "Miss Wilson the Paradise Valley Chemical Plant is an institution dedicated to making life in our fair city prosperous." "More fulfilling." "It's very important for us to know that there are citizens out there that are keeping their eyes out for these types of minorenvironmental infractions." "Minor?" "I've written down everything you've said and I assure you they will be addressed immediately." "I want to thank you very, very much for coming in." "And have a nice day." "I'll be back." "Oh, my door is always open." "All right?" "Good-good." "He was standing in the rain in the middle of the night just watching you." "Yes, he knows about my powers." "He'll tell someone." "We've been waiting for this." "What should we do?" "Annie says we should wait until we learn something more." "Hey, you guys!" "Hey, Nicole." "Oh, you look good." "Yeah, whatever." "I just came from having a talk with Mr. Klondike the community services guy at the Plant about their environmental policy." "He gave me the runaround." "Surprise." "What are you going to do?" "Start a petition document all their abuses and get this community behind me." "You want to take on the Plant?" "I love being the underdog and taking on the powerful." "But our parents work at the Plant." "This has nothing to do with our parents." "At this point this is between Danielle Atron and me." "So, are you guys going to help me fight, or what?" "Oh, we'd love to." "But we're trying to take on the Plant in other ways." "And it's best if we stay inconspicuous." "You surprise me." "I thought you cared." "We do care." "More than you know." "It's kind of cool when Nicole gets worked up over something like this." "Yeah, I wouldn't get in her way." "Look!" "What...?" "Stay low." "Stay low, shh." "Check it out." "It's creeps." "Do you think he saw us?" "I don't know." "I don't think so." "What's he doing with all that stuff?" "I can't tell." "Creeps is weird." "( Faint metallic clanging )" "( Shutter clicks )" "( Faint metallic clanging )" "Miss Atron." "Yeah, I promise you this information is going to be very important." "I'll have a final report very soon." "Then we can discuss the best way to address this problem." "You're very, very impressive." "You know, I usually don't see outsiders but when you said you wanted to interview me for the Atron Junior High School paper" "I couldn't say no, could I?" "To be honest, that's not exactly what I wanted to talk about." "Is that so?" "Yes, I knew if I had told you what my real purpose was, you'd never see me." "I've compiled a report that documents the pollution and hazardous waste that is a product of the Plant." "I'll have you know, I'm well aware of the problem." "You are?" "Well, of course." "In fact, we've begun implementing several environmentally correct measures." "You have?" "Mm-hmm, and we plan on taking much more dramatic action than your little report recommends." "You do?" "When I talked with Mr. Klondike the community services..." "Mr. Klondike has been terminated." "You killed him?" "( Laughs ) No... we fired him." "You know, Nicole you remind me of me when I was your age." "An idealist always seeking the truth looking for justice to be served." "So what happened?" "I started working here." "Well, as I was saying it's been a pleasure talking with you." "You are a most impressive young woman." "And-- up-up-up-up-up-- maybe someday, um, you can come to the Plant to work for me, huh?" "Thank you." "Bye-bye." "See to it that that young woman never sets foot on the premises again and get Klondike in here immediately." "( Clears throat )" "Are you crazy, Alex?" "You can't just sneak into his house." "Annie, he knows about my secret and he's going to the Plant, I know it." "You don't for sure." "That's the point, to make sure." "Look, he isn't home." "Ray watches, you and I go in check things out and leave." "No big deal." "Wait, what do you need me for?" "He had some monitoring device." "Alex:" "We didn't know what it was but you would if you saw it." "Ray:" "If he can detect GC-161 then he's definitely onto Alex." "You guys are ridiculous." "You're fantasizing." "I can't believe I'm doing this." "( Dog barking )" "( Barking )" "Alex:" "Uh-oh." "Ray, the dog!" "( Barking )" "I don't know, Annie, I don't see any monitoring stuff." "Maybe I was wrong." "Annie?" "( Equipment beeping )" "( Buzzing, hissing and beeping )" "( Beeping )" "With this stuff he probably knows everything." "( Footsteps )" "He's back." "Quick, close the door!" "( Phone ringing )" "Yeah, Hanson here." "Oh, Miss Atron, yes, I, uh..." "Finished your report as promised." "You meet me in five minutes at the place we discussed." "Fine." "Annie, I have to follow him." "He's got the report." "He's taking it to Danielle." "Mom's car's out front." "I'll take it and follow him." "You'll drive?" "I don't think so." "I'll go alone." "I'll stay and erase the computer files and then meet you back home." "( Zapping )" "Don't bother." "( Knocking )" "Would you like to sign my petition that will force the Paradise Valley Chemical Plant to become more environmentally responsible?" "Would you like to sign my petition that will force..." "Hi, would you like to sign..." "Don't blame me if you get poisoned and die!" "( Knocking )" "Hey, Nicole, how you doing?" "Okay..." "I guess." "What's the matter?" "I don't suppose you'd like to sign my petition against the Chemical Plant." "Oh, um, Nicole, you know Alex's dad works at the Plant and I do work for them in public relations." "Yeah, I already met with Mr. Klondike there." "Oh, Ed Klondike, yeah, I worked with him once." "I'm sure he wasn't much help." "None." "I've tried to get other people behind me but everyone in town's tied in with that plant." "Well, wait a second, you got a few signatures here." "But most of them are from my own family." "I'm sure you'll get more names, Nicole." "But people don't want their jobs threatened." "I know, but..." "You see something you disagree with so you decide to take a stand and fight for what's right." "And in the end you realize, why fight?" "You can't win." "But you can win." "Are you serious?" "I'm just one measly eighth-grader against a Chemical Plant that's big and powerful." "So are you going to sign my petition now, Mrs. Mack?" "Absolutely." "Who's Barbara Hoffman?" "That's my maiden name." "Atron:" "So, what do you have for me?" "Hanson:" "You'll find my observations quite revealing considering how uncooperative the subject was." "Would that be your report?" "I'm a very busy woman." "I don't appreciate having my time wasted this way." "Miss Atron, we're not done." "For now we are." "Hey!" "Hey!" "Hey!" "( Tires squeal )" "Don't come any further!" "Stop!" "Wait a second." "Aren't you my next-door neighbor?" "Yeah, that's right." "Did you toss my report in the creek?" "Why would you do that?" "Why do you think?" "You must be protecting the Chemical Plant." "Why would I?" "I hate the Plant." "Well, then, tell me what you've been doing?" "You snoop around my house, and now you sabotage my work." "You were spying on me." "Spying on you?" "I'm not spying on you." "I work for a private watchdog group that's monitoring the Chemical Plant's toxic waste dumping." "This whole time that you've been sneaking around with all that equipment in your house..." "That you probably have in your house you're studying toxic chemical waste?" "Yeah, you got it, kid." "And I ruined your report?" "Yeah." "Oh, no." "Now, would you tell me what you thought you were doing?" "Do you mind if I don't?" "And I just admit that I made a huge mistake?" "Do I have a choice?" "Not really." "I'm really, really sorry." "Wow, you've documented all of this activity on the Plant?" "Yeah, I'm going over there now to give it to them." "If they don't implement these clean-up measures they shell out thousands of dollars in fines to the E.P.A." "But... how do you know they'll comply?" "Oh, well, they probably won't." "That's why I need you here to keep the pressure on them." "But be careful." "Yesterday somebody from the Plant broke into the house, destroyed all my computers." "Man, that Plant, they'll do anything to get what they want." "Yeah, well, luckily I had everything on a backup diskette." "That Plant doesn't scare me." "Thanks for your work, Mr. Hanson." "No, thank you, Nicole." "See you, Alex." "So, where are you going now?" "Well, I've got another case." "That's the bad thing about this job." "Since I've got to lay low and be secretive" "I sometimes come off as..." "Creepy?" "( Laughing ):" "Yeah, I guess, creepy." "I hope I didn't scare you guys." "Sorry about the report." "Ah, it's no big deal." "So I'll catch you later?" "Hey, Mr. Hanson?" "I was wondering... while you were here observing the Plant did you ever observe anything, you know, peculiar about me?" "Well, I can tell you this." "I've seen a lot of things in my work and you are one special kid." "You obviously have the power to do anything, Alex." "Especially for good." "Use it." "( Starts car )" "( Honks horn )" "Think he knows your secret?" "I'm not sure." "You're not sure?" "( Dog barking )" "Up... good boy." "Ray, sometimes you just got to trust people." "( Honks horn )" "Yeah." "Captioned by Grant Brown"