"[♪ music ♪]" "Rocketed from a distant planet to a bold new destiny on earth  found by a Kansas family and raised as Clark Kent... he learned he possessed the strength of steel the speed of light  and the desire to help all mankind  He is Superboy." "[♪ music ♪]" "The Mysticism of Flying." "[office noise]" "Mm hm." "Mmhm" "I got another one." "Right over Downtown." "[laughter]" "There." "[talking and laughing]" "I wonder if they're somehow related to ..." "I don't believe this." "Clark is the least curious person I know." "[♪ music ♪]" "Who are you people?" "I can step out into space and I can fly." "[laughter]" "Careful." "[screaming] [whimpering]" "Kee-ah..." "What?" "Ah..." "I am..." "Katia." "As far as his family is concerned, he was a normal guy." "How's it coming?" "Slowly." "What are you doing?" "Superboy told the police the guy's last word." "Katia." "I thought I'd run it through some of our linguistics programs." "Anything come up?" "Well, a couple of things." "In Gaelic it's a whiskey that's served at wakes." "[laughs]" "Wrong kind of flying." "And in Mongolian it means... [laughter]" "I'd keep looking." "Matt can I see you a minute?" "What's up?" "I just need you to make some quick checks, file a few reports, you know make us look good at the home office." "Basically sweep a few things under the rug to meet our quota." "We're paid to be skeptical." "That's not why I took the job." "I thought we were supposed to identify and investigate unexplained phenomena, not make up rational explanations for em and file em away." "Just play ball with me this once." "I'll get someone else next month." "As I see it, we're responsible for what happened to Malcolm." "If we hadn't started this, he never would have died." "No my brothers." "No." "What happened was tragic." "But it was not a sign or a warning." "It was an accident." "Nothing more." "Now." "I have gathered all of you here so that we may celebrate our birthright." "A gift given to us by God himself to put us above all other men." "All our lives we have scraped and scratched to survive in this world." "They will call us Gods." "They'll look up at us in wonder." "Now I don't know about the rest of you but I just can't walk away from that." "But, isn't this all irrelevant." "We need seven to summon up the powers." "I have found another descendant of our people... right here in Capitol City." "Who is he?" "Matt Ritter?" "Yeah." "Son of Delano Ritter, grandson of Clement Ritter?" "What can I do for you?" "My name is Tio Valjean." "I have some information that could very well change your life." "Well, I have everything I need, Mr. Valjean." "But thank you." "What if I told you that your bloodline gave you the opportunity to be a God among men?" "...to do things other men only dream about?" "I'd say what I was gonna say before." "Goodbye." "Well, whether you like it or not, you are one of the Katia." "Still skeptical Mr. Ritter?" "Well, I can understand how a myth like this could have been created by slaves longing for their freedom..." "This goes way beyond slavery." "It's about our heritage." "Faith in our history." "Faith in yourself." "It's our destiny." "And I can assure you Mr. Ritter, this is no myth." "This is Matt Ritter." "He's gonna give us our power back." "Whoa, wait a minute." "I can't..." "How can you be so sure?" "What if we bring him in and he isn't one of us?" "Then the power will be taken away." "Well Joseph there's only one way to find out." "[drumming]" "Katia." "Katia." "Katia." "[chanting] Katia." "Katia." "Katia." "[chanting continues]" "Katia." "Katia." "Katia." "Katia." "Katia." "Katia." "[all chant and shout]" "Katia." "Katia." "Katia." "Katia." "Katia." "[shouting] Ah!" "Katia." "Katia." "Katia." "Concentrate, Brother." "Katia." "Katia." "[drumming]" "Katia." "Katia." "Katia." "Katia, Katia." "Katia." "Katia." "Katia." "Katia." "Katia." "Katia." "Katia." "[sizzling sound]" "Katia." "Katia." "Katia." "Welcome, brother." "You resigned." "Why?" "I came here to explore all the big mysteries of the world." "Now I'm finding that sometimes the biggest mysteries are bottled up inside yourself." "I don't know if you guys can appreciate that." "What happened to you?" "You play with fire, you get burned." "Why can't you say you grabbed a hot frying pan, like a normal person?" "I'm gonna miss you guys." "Look I gotta go to payroll." "I'll talk to you guys later." "[beeping]" "I found it." " What?" " Katia." "It's an ancient African dialect." "It's the name of a tribe." "It translates to "the flying people."" "Damn lawyer." "Bet he's never done an honest day's work in his life." "How long have you known Teo?" "About what?" "About the fires." "What do you know?" "That they only happen when we do a ritual." "You knew about it, didn't you?" "Look." "That's just a natural side affect." "That's not our fault nor our concern." "We've been given a gift." "A power that gives us dignity." "Do you want to give that up because of a few fires?" "What happens when the others find out?" "The power is strong." "Matt and John are the only two who haven't felt it." "After they've experienced it, they won't care either." "Tio." "They came to the Lecroix plantation in the year before the Civil War." "The cotton was in full bloom." "There were ten of em all men." "Had just been bought fresh off the boat from Africa." "They were sort of wild acting, and not trained in the ways of the Lecroix plantation folks." "Anyhows, my great-grandmamma who was nothing but a young girl and looking for a husband." "She could tell that there was something else different about these Africans." "One of them took a liking to her." "And every time he got a chance, he'd sneak up on her and whisper, "Katia." "Katia."" "Then he'd point to the sky." "Anyhows, late that night, she snuck over." "And there she saw the Africans dancing and singing around that fire." "But then just as she was watching, one by one, the Africans began rising up in the sky." "She ran out just as her friend was climbing up, like he was climbing a ladder into the sky." "And she screamed, "Take me with you." "Take me."" "But he just looked at her." "Smiled." "Touched his chest and said, "Katia!"" "And flew off." "Before she knew it, they were all gone." "Every single one just up and flew away as free as you please." "She told everybody." "She never got tired of telling the story of them Africans who could fly." "She told it to all her children." "And she told them to tell it to all there children." "Once there was a tribe of Africans who could reach up and touch the sky." "So then the recent sightings are descendants from the original tribe?" "Well after the Civil War, my great-grandmamma learned that the Katia had settled nearby... living as free men." "She began to keep track of all the male descendants." "Because they carried the power in their blood." "She passed it on to my mother." "And now I keep the record." "All the modern descendants are on this chart?" "If they're Katia, they're there." "Matt's on here." "Is this a friend of yours?" "Yeah." "There's more to the legend that's not pleasant." "The legend has it that when a man goes into the sky, a fire creature is forced down upon the earth .trapped drawn to whoever is keeping him here so that he can be released." "How does that fit in with your great grandmother's story?" "The night the African's flew, the Lecroix plantation burned to the ground." "You can still see the ruins just outside of town." "The power is best left untouched." "I hope Matt gets home soon." "Look at this." "Malcolm Elliot died here right?" "Mm hm." "And here are where the fires are broken up." "All within the radius of the Lecroix plantation ones." "We interrupt this broadcast for another special report." "More fire have been set off throughout the city as a result of some strange and unusual mass that has taken violently to the streets." "This time in the Northeastern part of the city." "Oh, no." "The police advise that everyone stay off the street..." "I was supposed to get the viewer's reportto the fire chief and I never did." "I better get down there and hand deliver it." "I can drive you." "No, uh." "Wait for Matt." "It'll be better." "It'll be faster if I take a cab." "I, I... trust me." "Trust you?" "The Northeastern section." "[drumming and chanting]" "[shouting]" "Katia." "Katia." "It's your time." "[drumming]" "[chanting]" "Matt!" "You have to stop this." "What are you doing here?" "You're endangering people You have to stop." "What are you talking about?" "You shouldn't be here." "Every time you fly, this thing comes down and starts fires." "What?" "Is that true?" "No." "No, no." "She's lying." "She's jealous." "It's on the radio if you don't believe me." "Don't listen to her." "We have to stick together, Matt." "Or they will come and try to turn us against each other." "How can this be wrong." "It's not wrong." "God gave this to us." "How can it be wrong?" "Matt, it's your time." "I can't." "Not if it means putting other people in danger." "We have been placed above other people." "God gave us this right." "No." "Nothing gives us that right." "No." "No." "No." "No." "John." "John." "John, you're with me." "John." "Stephen, Stephen." "They're trying to tear us apart, Stephen." "Joseph, Joseph, Joseph stay with me." "Stay with me, Joseph." "We started." "We were together at the beginning, Joseph." " No." " OK." "OK!" "I don't need any of you." "I'll do it by myself." "I don't need you." "Katia." "Katia." "Katia." "Katia." "Katia." "[laughter]" "Look, look, look." "I can do it by myself." "I don't need anybody." "I can do it by myself." "[screams]" "Matt." "I just wanted people to respect me." "They were always looking down on me." "Just once." "I wanted them to have to look up to see me," "You all right?" "I came so close." "Matt." "Whoa." "Yeah." "[â™ª music â™ª]"