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Santiano once said, those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat

Well, if that's true, then I'm screwed.

Because here I am, repeating history all over again.

See, I was a thief.

A good thief.

Okay, not so good.

I got caught.

Tried, convicted, then I got a reprieve.

Or so I thought.

Turned out, I was better off in prison.

But somewhere in this room is my ticket out of this mess.

Hey, you know the JFK quote about not asking what your country can do for you,

but what you can do for your country? Well, I may not be a patriot, but I know

thing or two about gratitude.

Death by lethal injection.

There's a project we've been developing. We finished animal testing a month ago,

and now we're ready for a volunteer.

Volunteer? You mean like a, as in like a guinea pig? As in possible. Pardon if

you'll do it.

We've engineered a biosynthetic gland.

We're going to attach it to your cerebral cortex.

Once the gland is activated, it secretes a synthetic hormone I call Quixel.

You're invisible, not because we see through you.

but around you.

You also have the ability to Quicksilver other objects.

Remember, if you can learn to control the gland, you may be able to achieve

partial invisibility.

Because Quicksilver doesn't reflect light, we find the subject's surface

drops below freezing.

Okay, now here's the downside.

Quicksilver madness.

Unfortunately, the gland also works as a cerebral disinhibitor. It can lead to

violent outbursts.

We've managed to put together a counteragent to block the gland.

It should hold you for six days.

I mean, I gotta get, like, fixed up every week.

Or more, if you go invisible too much.

You need your shots, we need your services.

Sounds like a trade to me.

Oh, yeah. My country had given me a lot, all right.

And now, it was time for a little payback.

Who the hell are you?

I'm your keeper.

There once was a story about a man who could turn invisible.

I thought it was only a story.

Until it happened to me.

Okay, so here's how it works. There's this stuff called quicksilver that can

bend light.

Some scientists made it into a synthetic gland, and that's where I came in.

See, I was facing life in prison, and they were looking for a human

So, we made a deal.

They put the gland in my brains, I walked free.

The operation was a success, but that's where everything started to go wrong.

What's the best thing about government service?

For me, it's the health plan.

You can get better, you can get worse, or you can just get with the program.

This is the story of how Darian Fox got all three.

Come in here!

I'll undo it to put up with this.

Oh, we'll see.

All I see is him giving the attitude. You said you could break him in. I

say it would be easy.

Blackmailing him with a shot of counter -aging won't make him a willing

participant. Hey! Hey! Hey, round boy!

Woo! Hey, buddy!

Hey! This guy's about to turn into a walking head.

What are you going to do, just hold back on his shot?

No, I'm going to do more than that.

I'm going to get him to trust me.

Looking good, mate.

Well, I'm trying to make the cover of Lab Rat monthly.

What's your excuse?

Oh, I've been up 49 hours.

Hi, babe.

Watching you?

Shyness is cute, but it's only bringing you closer to the madness.

Yeah, what do you know? I know the excess quicksilver is breaking down your

higher portable functions.

I know it's releasing your darker inhibitions.

I'm handling it. And I know that the madness takes hold after 30 minutes of

quick silver use, and even if you don't go invisible, the glands still secrete.

Most sanity you can ever expect to have is six days, mate, and I would say

you're three minutes short of that.

I want you to trust me.

You've got a gift, mate. One that could do so much good. All without guidance to

destroy you.

You call me crazy, but... I kind of like you alive.

Well, you're a real sweetheart then, aren't you?

If you get to know me.

You want to get to know me?

I'm not going to be your freaking slave.

Then show me you can be more. Accept the official's deal. Help him, and let me

help you.

Why should I trust you?

Because I came in here knowing you could go insane and kill me.

Trust works both ways.

That's gospel.

I mean, sons of bitches, they couldn't see my ass in Laos, and they couldn't

my ass in Cambodia. I mean, it got so good in the end, I couldn't see it.

Blessing and a curse.

You know what I'm saying?

I know you can't move.

I'll do it for you.

All right, Casparov.

Gotta take Big Blue.

Take it easy now. You don't want to mess around.

Give me some gloves and I'll help you. Warren, we got it.

You ain't gonna take him for any more of those shots, are you? Gotta make him

feel better, Warren. Get a musician back.

Get that paperwork, please.

Where's that?

He hates those shots!

Fogarty hasn't hated anything for 30 years.

What do they do to you, Warren?

H -bomb test.

Son, bitch, they had me observing at ground zero.

You're really here, right?

You're not messing with me. I'm not messing with you. And I'm not letting

mess with you anymore.

What are you doing?

Breaking you up.

All right, Tigers, up and at them.

This is him.

So this guy, Charlie Fogarty, breaks out of some asylum.

And you want me to catch him?

I thought you schmucks were in the spy racket.

Our racket is handling cases other agencies can't. Or won't. Or don't.

Point is, I... No, I got it, I got it. This schmo isn't just some head case.

He's a Katavari.

Is that a...

Sexual position or an Italian opera?

What he is is our business.

All you need to know is what he does.

Draws pictures with crayons? He kills people, Mr. Fox.

Very quickly, very violently.

So, uh, why do you guys think I could take him? He can't kill what he can't

Plus, we think your quicksilver coating wax is a barrier against his touch.

Touch? What makes him lethal? Skin?

Nails? Bodily fluids? Whoa, whoa, whoa. Is this guy going to kill me or date me?

It's irrelevant what he tries.

You're going to bring him in alive.

Why alive?

That's personal.

Okay, you know what?

Fellas, I'm not a bounty hunter, okay? I mean, really, I wouldn't know where to

start, okay? Hey, don't worry about it. We're linking you up with our top guy.

It's okay. Your last top man almost got me killed.

It's different this time.

I get my parking validator. No, it's in my contract. Trust me.

Just you have to pick it, okay?

Because I said so.

What's going on?

He's been in therapy.

What?

Hey, can I ask you a question? 50 milligrams.

You don't like it? Get out and walk.

Thanks, Hoss.

Look, I understand you may have feelings about working with me. Most people do.

But I also know that you're new at this. Like a child wandering in the woods.

And I, as your senior, have been asked to shepherd you.

What is a catavari?

They didn't tell you that, did they? No, Mr. Ooh, I'm so unseeable, I get twice

my partner's pay. Look, it's a simple question. Either you know me or...

is simple in this business, pal. Not the blood, not the guilt.

Vacation that fat schmuck goes me. I was asking about the mission. You don't

ask. You can't do that. You don't get that kind of clearance, son.

You do the mission. Oh, without knowing anything.

Unless you know the happy you are.

Now that's intelligence.

No, that's retarded. That's freedom, my friend. The right to shut up and do as

you're told.

If you don't like it, move to Russia.

You must please to excuse the air of chaos and hopelessness. As you can see,

are very shortly staffed at the current moment.

Lips are epoxy blue.

They were poisoned.

It's a neurotoxic cerebral disruptor. It paralyzes the muscles and then turns

their brain into so much wet mismatches. Let me get this straight. You're saying

that... He did this by scratching.

He's the catcher, buddy.

What are you, not brief?

You get brief when he grows up.

Wounds are different.

I don't see how that matters.

This guy comes in here, right? Kills all the doctors, but just one patient.

I think there's something going on here.

Excuse me, were they friends?

Yes. What's your point?

Would you excuse us for a second, please?

Thank you.

Yeah, you got something? Let it out. Why don't you answer me something first,

huh?

Is this some kind of agency nut house?

Well, what if it is?

Because I'd rather die than end up here. Well, that's patriotic. Yeah, well, it

may be why I friend off this guy, huh?

Look, look. See the wounds?

How gentle they are, how calm this guy looks? What are you saying, some kind of

mercy killing? No, I'm saying go back and look at the doctors, the guys that

poked and pricked and prodded him. Look at the slash marks. Look, look, there's

slash marks on this guy's face. What does that say to you, Hobbs? Huh?

Revenge. I'm telling you, this guy wanted revenge.

You know what I think?

What?

I think he's not finished yet.

Revenge? Well, yeah, that's my theory, yeah.

On who?

Well, actually, I was... You done?

That depends.

What's Katavari?

A word.

Oh, okay. You know what? Why don't you cut the three days of the condor crap,

okay? You got a fruitcake out there with poison fingers and a pretentious Latin

name. Now, I want some answers.

Ooh, la -dee -da.

Next, he's going to want to know who killed Kennedy, right?

What have I been trying to teach you? It's do or die in this job, huh? You

answers, go to college.

Wait, wait, look.

I just, I want to know what I'm risking my ass for. Your country.

My country. But you know what? I got better things to die for. Yeah, like

Like me.

Sit down, will you please?

Well, you aren't you anymore.

Embrace the whore. You're serving the state.

Oh, yeah?

Huh?

Just like the catavari did?

What, you guys didn't think I figured out he was one of yours?

Come on.

He was at an agency nuthatch.

You know, I'll tell you guys something.

If I was him, I'd be doing the exact same thing.

Meaning? What, going after the guy who put me there in the...

Give me Senator Miven.

We two are on protection duty.

What?

Senator Miven was head of the agency doing the Katowari program.

Miven put him into the nuthouse.

Since when did you start listening to me?

Since I think you've got some unique insight.

Inspector, would you cancel the televised speech on an hour's notice?

Gentlemen, this campaign is in a dead heat. I am not about to commit political

suicide. Senator, you have to understand... What am I talking to you

Where's the FBI? Where's the Secret Service?

Well, sir, actually, the agency thought you'd want to handle this in -house.

Under the hood.

You know, on the QT, so to speak. Boy, I'm told you can protect my dignity as

well as my person.

Oh, you mean, can I be your bodyguard without making you look like a total

coward?

I guess that depends on what you're afraid of.

Son, I have served this nation too long and too well to be intimidated by a

malfeasant freak.

I guess it takes one to know one.

Mickey Cone 1 and Mickey Cone 2, what's your stick?

Well, there's nothing here but us malfeasant freaks.

Just stick by them at all times. Anything happens, you go saran wrap.

Hey, I go see if you're lying in 30 minutes, you're gonna have two psychos

your heads.

This is campaign 2000.

Two and three zeros.

Zero crime, zero drugs, zero control on guns.

And what's your name, little girl?

Yes.

You all right?

No. I told you this would happen if I stayed invisible too long. Yeah, well, a

lot of good it did.

Hey, what do you want? I did my duty. Really?

I don't recall getting a United States Senator killed in the job description.

I saved a freaking pig. That's not doing your duty. That's being a nice guy.

What was I supposed to do? You were supposed to get to Kalamari.

The what?

You heard me.

No, I didn't.

What did you say?

Kalamari.

You don't understand.

I understand fine. You don't even know what a catavari is. It was a need -to

-know assignment.

So why didn't they tell you?

Obviously, I didn't need to know.

What do you want?

I want the damn answer.

Hops. What?

I looked it up in the dictionary.

Catavari. Right. It's old Latin.

The Romans, they used to take babies, you know, little babies, and they would

feed them poison, hops.

Right. And they would do it for years, just enough so it wouldn't kill them,

it would build up in their system, see?

And then... Eventually, they would become poisonous.

Do you see what I'm saying?

What are you saying?

Poison, baby, what?

Fox, don't go in there. Do you want to get me fired?

This is not a good time.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Okay, up.

Okay. Easy, Charlie, easy.

Okay.

Box,

give me the shot.

Give me the shot, Box.

Fuck you up, bro.

Give me the shot, Box.

Out of the way. Give me the shot.

You're going to give me up to him?

See?

Apply knowledge.

Use the freezing qualities of the quicksilver. That point of exposure

been quickly frozen. That poison was spread throughout your entire system.

I'll encourage him.

I don't want your encouragement.

You didn't get him.

I would have if you let me take the shot. Screw you, man.

You didn't see? What?

Food in his teeth?

Nose hairs? No, no, no. His eyes.

They were mine.

He's an experiment, isn't he?

Just like me.

You were part of it, weren't you?

Yeah.

1969.

You have to remember everything was different then.

Berlin had a wall.

Russians had the bomb.

Ike was dead.

And I can't excuse us by saying everybody was doing it. But they were.

KGB, CIA, FBI.

Everybody was experimenting with new chemical weapons.

We had to keep up.

Or get left behind.

So we developed the Katavari program.

A human chemical weapon.

It's not complicated.

You introduce poison gradually into the body. It builds up in the subject's

bodily fluids to deadly levels, while the carrier himself becomes immune.

And he can destroy with a touch.

So you schmucks did just copy the Romans?

And the ancient Greeks, the Goths, Persians.

You think you were the first human experiments?

We didn't use babies, we used one of our own.

Charlie Fogarty was the fair -haired boy of the agency.

The best of us. More than anything, he wanted to serve his country.

He developed a poison we thought could be infused into his body without killing

him. Brain -destructive, like the one that causes the Quicksilver Madness. But

he miscalculated.

The drugs given Fogarty paralyzed his body and literally blew out his mind.

He's been a full catatonic ever since.

So what the hell woke him up?

Well, we decided to try a series of injections to try and clean out the

in his body.

But we assumed his mind was long gone.

Gone? Yes.

That guy's been aware of everything.

What? My brain shall fall like crazy fingers.

It's a Grateful Dead song from the 70s.

Exactly. Your pal has been stuck in frozen crazy hell for over 30 years.

Wait a minute.

That's why you sent me to catch him, isn't it?

You send an experiment to catch an experiment.

Can you think of a better idea?

Hey.

What the hell didn't you tell me?

Would you have gone against the guy if you knew what he was? Hell no!

There you go.

Marion, Charlie Fogarty was my best friend.

I was hoping you'd bring him in alive.

I think we still can.

No, kid, no.

No, if you go after me, he'll go after anybody.

So what are you saying, you want to kill him now? I'm saying we have to put

aside the personal and look to the greater good.

What greater good?

There's no difference between him and me. He tried to kill me, and you saved

life.

I'd say there's a difference.

Anything going on out there?

Negative. All clear.

There's at least 30 people associated with the Katabari Project.

That's Dr. Ike, the guy in bed with the poison.

You sure he's the next target?

Why is this all my call?

Well, you're an angry experiment, and a boy's an angry experiment. The big

kahuna thinks it's a simpatico vibe.

What do you think?

What do you think?

You don't, do you?

You don't ask questions. You just, you bitch and you moan, but hell, you'll

do whatever they tell you to, won't you?

That's right.

You're sitting there whining about how the bad men put that nasty gland in your

head. Some of us have been out here getting our butts shot off. Now I have

starved and frozen and bled for my country, and I would do it again.

Well, there's a big difference now. Yeah, what's that?

This time somebody told you what you're really up against.

Hobbs, you don't get it, do you?

I mean, this guy Fogarty, he's both of us.

The fat man is sending you to kill you.

Yeah? Well, that's fine, because I would kill me if I thought I was a threat.

Now, are you sure this guy's the next target or what?

Well?

That's who I'd go after.

Bye.

Take your freaking position.

And don't think I don't know where you are 24 -7, my friend.

What are you looking at?

If I'd been shot, I wouldn't go

after the guy who made the bullet.

I'd want the guy who put it in me.

Dr. Ike didn't count for squat.

He was his keeper, Fogarty was after him.

I sure hoped I was right, because the way my head was pounded, I was on the

verge of becoming as whacked as Fogarty.

I know you're there, bro.

I can hear you breathing.

Charles Fogarty. That particular dude went on a long trip, bro.

So, uh, you knew I'd come.

You knew I'd be here.

That's who I'd have gone for if I were you.

You are me.

So, they gave you one too, huh?

A keeper.

Did she pull that enigmatic crap on you? Oh, you mean the dart guns and stuff?

Little messages in a bottle?

Oh yeah, the whole you got a gift speech?

Sucks, doesn't it?

Could be worse. And it gets worse.

See?

You start out hating her.

What she's doing to you.

But then after a while, it's kind of like growing up together.

Pretty soon you realize that all you really want to do is touch her. But by

then, you can't touch anything.

No, don't.

Don't do it, Charlie.

What do you care?

Oh, you want to arrest me, bro?

No, Charlie.

I just want to keep you alive.

Oh.

Yeah, listen to me.

They're not screwing around, okay?

Can't be brought in, they're going to kill you.

And you're going to save me. Is that it?

You can't even save yourself.

Yeah, well, we can try.

In the next three minutes?

Because that's when they're going to be here, bro.

What are you talking about?

Check out the sole of your right foot.

That's where they put him when I was an agent.

I gotta look on his location.

I'm there in ten minutes.

You see, the geeks put a gland in your brain.

You didn't think they'd figure it out that you'd try to double -cross them?

Relax. I'm not gonna let them mess with you.

They're not going to mess with any of us anymore.

Charlie, come on.

You're not just going to kill us all.

Kill us?

I'm just ending the experiment.

Charlie, we... Don't you get it?

What they did to me just laid the groundwork for you, and you're just

them on a path to someone else.

Now it's over.

We're not going to let them have one piece of us, not one atom.

Nice try.

Nice try, but then again, you're not my keeper, are you?

I've got eight quarts of neurotoxin in my blood. Do you think your little

tranquilizer is going to put me to sleep?

Don't let him.

He's not listening.

He's not like you.

No, and he never will be.

The future you want?

To be me?

To go through 30 years?

Every day your body frozen, your mind melting away?

To wake up and not be able to touch the thing you love the most without

destroying it?

Okay. We're going to do this.

We're going to go.

Let's damn well go together.

Roll.

I can't touch you.

Yeah, well, I don't want to die alone.

I can.

Come on, give me your hand.

There you go. Take it.

That's it.

Yeah, that's it.

Trust works both ways.

Let's move out.

Get away from him. It's okay, it's

over. I said get away!

We put out in the freaking gun house. This guy's under my protection.

You don't know what you're dealing with, folks. You stay back.

Stand down, folks.

Stand down, folks!

Have a good...

Under the circumstances, I would have to say you did your duty.

Well, I guess I'm just a real team player.

You tell me, kid.

You caught a killer and you saved a baby.

What's not to feel proud of?

He was your best friend. How do you feel?

Like I served my country.

They tell me Charlie could have killed you.

Maybe he was coming around.

I think it was revenge.

How do you feel?

Hmm.

I guess like you.

Went to a room where a guy could go insane and kill me.

Except I couldn't save him.

Can I ask you a question?

All right, let's say I use this little gift thing, right?

Okay, you know, play the hero, do everything I'm supposed to.

How do I know I don't end up just like Charles Flurry?

Thank you.