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I'm Alice Mack.

I was just an average kid until an accident changed my life.

And since then, nothing's been the same.

My best friend Ray thinks it's cool.

My sister Annie thinks I'm a science project.

I can't let anyone else know.

Not even my parents.

I know the chemical plant was to find me and turn me into some experiment.

But you know something?

I guess I'm not so average anymore.

I'm just going to throw all this stuff away unless you see something you want.

I haven't seen anything worth keeping yet.

You seem really excited.

Of course I'm excited. I'm going to one of the best universities in the world.

I can't wait to get there.

Finally, the room will be yours. That must make you happy.

Honestly, Annie, I'm very happy.

You've had control of this room forever.

Well, I had seniority.

I bet it'll get lonely in here without me.

I'll survive.

So?

Twice a week.

That's what we agreed on, right?

Nice try, Annie. It was once a week.

All right, but you have to do it. I know. You've told me a hundred times.

Remember, when you email me, never use the word I or me.

All right.

You need to make sure to keep in touch with me. There's no one else to look out

for you.

Oh, never call me from a phone and talk about your powers unless you're at a pay

phone. And, um, I'll try to call you once a day, but I don't know if... I

you're in a little bit of denial here. I mean, you're going away to college.

You're going to meet zillions of new people, work really hard.

You may even end up getting a boyfriend for more than a few weeks.

You're not going to have all this time to look after me.

You know that.

I know, but it doesn't mean that I won't miss you. I'll be fine.

If you didn't think I was going to be okay, you wouldn't be going away, right?

Excuse me, there's an unconscious woman over there.

Where?

I need a gurney now!

We have an unconscious woman, she's breathing, respiration is shallow, pulse

low.

Her pupils are unresponsive. Left pupil is dilated. I need complete death in a

blood culture. Let's go!

Do you know this woman's medical history?

Did you bring her here?

Did you?

Yeah, I brought her here.

Do you know how long she's been unconscious?

She was unconscious when I found her, like 15 or 20 minutes ago.

Did she stop breathing while you were transporting her here?

I'm not sure.

Okay, who drove you?

No one.

Well, how did you get her here then?

Okay, please wait. I'm going to have to ask you some more questions.

Whoever you did it, you may have saved her life.

So is there anything that you're going to need for school, sweetheart? I'm

over to the mall tomorrow, and it'll be my last chance to pick something up for

you. I told you I was ready. If there's anything I've forgotten, then there's

always stars in Cambridge, you know.

Well, Annie, there is one thing you'll find out when you go away to college.

Everything costs a lot of money. Right, George?

Mm -hmm.

I know.

I'm just telling you that we're not going to be able to send you a lot of

every month. You know, you're just going to have to put yourself on a budget.

I know. So I'll get a job.

Well, I hope you can find one, sweetheart. It's not always easy to find

Am I right, George?

Oh, definitely.

Mom, you act like I'm totally incapable of taking care of myself, of living

outside this house.

No, that's not what I'm saying, sweetheart.

Well, what I'm saying is, although you've had this very successful academic

career, going off to college requires some skills, social and

otherwise, that you just don't seem to have a lot of practice at.

You know, I really resent you talking to me like this. I'm completely ready to

go away. Getting along in the world is not as difficult as you guys are making

it out to be. I'm 18 years old.

You know, would one of you please show me how to use this?

Hello?

Yes, this is Barbara Mack.

What?

What?

Alex, is she... Okay, we'll be right there.

That was Paradise Valley Hospital. It's Alex.

She's not hurt.

She refuses to tell them about... Listen, we have to get over there. I'll

explain it in the car. Come on.

What happened?

The woman apparently had a mild stroke. She was out taking a hike alone, and if

Alex hadn't found her, she probably would have died there.

I just found it strange that Alex wouldn't tell us how she got the woman

I thought you might talk to her.

I think the woman's going to be okay. I'd just like to have a little more

information for her family.

Again, your daughter really is a hero. We just need to know more.

Thank you, Doctor. Of course we'll talk to her.

Great.

Listen, maybe Alex is in some form of shock. Maybe I should go talk to her

first. No, you're not going to talk to her first.

We're going to ask her how she got the woman here, and she's going to tell us.

I can't tell you.

Okay, let's try a different question.

Why can't you tell us? I just can't.

Alex, whatever you did, we know you did it for a good reason, but somebody had

to drive you. You couldn't have carried this woman a mile and a half.

Who was it?

Okay, was it a man or a woman?

What difference does it make?

Alex, why are you covering for this person? You saved the woman's life.

Exactly. But the doctors and the woman's family, they have the right to know

what happened, and you need to tell them. Look, I promise I wouldn't tell,

I promise.

Please don't make me.

Oh, Alex. This is just absurd.

All right.

We'll go home and let you get some sleep.

But tomorrow morning, we're going to ask you the same question.

And tomorrow morning, you're going to answer us.

Local story, a woman from Winding Oaks collapsed today in a deserted area of

Paradise Park, the victim of a mild stroke.

She was rescued and brought to the hospital by Alexandra Mack, 15.

The twist of the story is that the young girl refuses to tell anyone how she

managed to get the woman there.

Leading authorities wonder just how their... A small teenage girl managed to

carry this large woman a mile and a half to the hospital without aid.

Police are not saying that Alex Mack might be somehow involved in foul play

regards to the victim, but they are not ruling it out.

Detective Eric Michaels.

The girl has no reason not to talk to us. Of course we're suspicious.

Somebody drove her. Why can't she just say who it is?

That's ridiculous.

First thing in the morning, Alex.

I'm not kidding.

Annie, something is wrong with Alex.

I mean, look at everything that's happened over the past couple of years.

That one day that she turned into that evil little person. And the Woman of the

Year banquet when she acted like a stormtrooper.

Her disappearing acts. The list goes on.

I'm pretty sure she's just going through these phases. Come on, Annie. Alex's

behavior has been strange. You know that.

Is this really how you guys feel?

I think you're exaggerating.

Annie, your father and I realize that you and your sister have secrets

We're not blind.

Or completely clueless.

Annie, if there's anything wrong with Alex, anything serious that you're aware

of, your father and I should be told about it, especially with you going off

college.

So, you found the woman unconscious and you double morphed her to the hospital.

Yeah.

What could I tell them?

You should have made something up.

I couldn't think that fast.

Let's make up something right now, together.

You mean you want me to make something up?

Yeah, that's what I mean.

Allow me.

Alex, this is exactly what I'm concerned about.

You're going to make bad choices like that. You're going to use your power

selfishly. And without me here, you're not going to be able to make anything up

to get yourself out of it. You're going to get caught.

I won't. Of course you will.

And if the truth comes out about you while I'm away, I will never forgive

myself.

Oh, so this is about you now?

Truth is, Annie, if after the accident I'd just been able to tell Mom and Dad

what happened, I wouldn't even be in this situation right now.

I don't care what you say. I was doing the right thing by helping that woman

today.

I wasn't being selfish.

Oh, either way.

Now you have Mom, and you have Dad, and you have the entire Paradise Valley

community waiting for you to explain what happened today.

You'll help me, right, Annie?

You always help me in these types of situations.

It's too late, Alex. I can't help you anymore.

Maybe you're right. Maybe I didn't tell Mom and Dad about you.

Because I wanted you as my own research project. I don't know.

I'll be okay, really.

I don't know.

I think it's time. I really do.

Time for what?

It's time to tell Mom and Dad the truth about you.

Sorry to get you up this early, Ray, but this all sort of involves you, too, I

guess.

Sort of.

If you tell your parents about the accident, my dad's going to find out.

my dad finds out, he's going to kill me first and then ground me for a month.

I know, but maybe Annie's right.

Let's face it, she has bailed me out of like a million situations.

And with her gone... There's only me.

I know I can't help you the way Annie can, Alex. I admit that.

It's just... Just what?

Well, once everyone finds out about you, it's going to change everything.

Would that be so bad?

Maybe they could find me an antidote. I mean, I know it's been real fun and

everything, but I wouldn't mind not having the powers anymore.

I don't think.

We would just go back to being like we were before the accident.

That's what I'm afraid of, Alex.

Things won't be the same again.

She'll be all over their papers and everything will be different.

I like our secret, Alex.

The best secret in the whole world.

It's not like I want to tell anyone.

You don't know what the pressure's like on me now.

I just don't want anything to change.

Yeah, but life is always changing.

Even if we don't think it's gonna.

I have a feeling you and I are on the same page right about now, Vince.

Alex Mack?

Yeah. When I heard the news, it hit me.

I don't know exactly how that woman got to the hospital, but it seems to me it

had to be by some sort of superhuman mechanism.

I mean, otherwise, why the silence?

I had the same thought, Miss Citron.

We've had that kid in our sights before, and we're never exactly a bit clearer.

Well, that's my point. And then there's her father and her sister, and suddenly

it all just started adding up.

Which is why you call me?

I'll be honest with you, Vince.

The perfection of GC -161 is happening so rapidly that I don't need that kid

testing anymore.

But she could be trouble if she talks.

Oh, she could be a major problem if she talks.

What is it you want me to do?

I want her gone. And where might gone be?

I don't care.

But by the end of the day, I want to hear that Alexander Mack is missing,

nobody knows where she is, and that there's not so much as one clue left

Then, in one week's time, you give me a phone call, and I will figure out some

sort of way to get your money to you.

Which would be seven figures.

Seven figures.

And with that threat out of the way, our relationship will be terminated and

everybody will be happy.

Everybody except Alex Mack and her family.

Well, she has till the end of the day.

Unless she comes up with some sort of logical explanation, do what you have to

do.

Good luck, Vince.

I won't need it.

Alex and Matt will.

Alex,

we've been looking for you. Yeah, Max, fill it. What the heck happened

yesterday? Come on, Lewis, don't pressure it.

It must have been something really terrible if you won't tell anyone.

You guys will find out soon enough, don't worry.

Could you please tell us first? I mean, if I get to spread the news before the

media finds out, I think my popularity at school could skyrocket.

Sorry, Robin, I can't.

Nobody would believe you anyway.

Here's my theory, Mac.

You were involved in something illegal and unethical that caused the woman's

stroke in the first place.

Then you and an accomplice took her body to the hospital where, panicking, your

accomplice fled, leaving you holding the bag, so to speak.

You can handle Alvarado, but fovea?

That's too risky.

Look, I'm going in to talk to my parents right now. In a few hours, everyone

will know.

I'm willing to offer you 20 bucks for that info right now.

Forget it, Lewis.

Both of you just go home and turn on your TVs.

It won't take long for the truth to come out.

Pressure is mounting on young Alex Mack.

Reveal her part in a serious rescue of a stricken Paradise Valley woman.

Well, here goes.

Hi.

Are you ready to tell us what happened yesterday?

Okay. Can we go in the kitchen to talk?

Mind staying here for a few minutes?

What I'm going to tell you is probably going to shock you.

See, Annie, Ray, and I have had this little secret.

And Annie and I decided that since she's leaving, we should probably let you

guys in on it.

Now, you have to promise not to be mad, okay?

Alex, tell us what it is and we'll decide whether it's worth getting mad

Okay, um...

On my first day of junior high, I was walking home from school.

Yo, everybody, you gotta come right away.

Now!

I've decided I can no longer remain silent about what occurred yesterday.

The fact is...

Alex Mack was covering for me.

Yesterday I was driving the company truck, even though I wasn't working at

time, which is prohibited under PV chemical rules.

I was taking a drive through Paradise Park when I came upon Alex and the

I stopped, helped them inside, and drove them to the hospital.

When I dropped them off, I told Alex not to tell anyone because Ms. H .H. would

find out and I could probably lose my job.

She promised she wouldn't.

Alex is only holding up her end of the promise, but I can't let her get in

trouble for me.

I'll have to throw myself at the mercy of Ms. Atron and hope for the best.

Of course Mr.

Watt will not be punished.

His heroic actions were in the great tradition of Paradise Valley Chemical

Plant's age -old slogan, Progress at Any Cost.

Alex, is that true?

What I don't understand is why you went to such great lengths to

protect Dave.

I'm not really sure why I did either.

Hey, listen. Unless you guys need me, I'm just going to take off.

I mean, everything is okay here.

Everything is going to be just the way it was, right?

Yeah, right. Everything will stay exactly the way it was.

Except after Sunday, I won't be here.

Take it easy, Annie.

I will.

Take good care of her.

I promise.

All right.

So, what were you about to tell us about your first day of junior high?

Oh, nothing. It was just a long, drawn -out version of that story.

Thank you.

Your flight's on time. You and Daddy better get going.

Okay. Okay.

Oh, things are never going to be the same without you.

I'm going to miss you so much, honey. I'm going to miss you, too.

Listen, we're always here for you, okay?

If you ever need anything, or if you just feel lonely for this place, you

me, okay?

I will.

Collect.

How's your sister doing? Is she going to be okay?

Are you kidding? She's probably jumping off the walls waiting for me to leave.

Well,

this

is it.

Annie, why do you think Dave did what he did?

I don't know.

And let's not question it.

You can't count on him again.

Now's the time for you to grow up and take care of yourself.

And I'm only going to remind you one last time.

Be careful.

I will.

And no matter how far away I am, I will always be with you.

I love you, Annie.

I love you, too, so much.

Gotta take off, Annie.

Okay, I'm coming.