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And so the last hope for victory rests on the shoulders of the youngest hockey

player ever to turn pro.

Charlie Boyle!

He takes the puck from out the air. Knifing through all -star defense.

Creases, pads, breadsticks, leaving Lindros in the gut. To him the goalie

Mono a mono.

He shoots. He scores!

The crowd goes wild.

Hey,

Charlie. Oh, hey, Dad.

I want to show you something.

Well, you make it quick.

Nice shot.

Thanks. I've been working on a technique that maximizes puff velocity by

calculating the exact rate of forward momentum required in the impact, too.

English.

Oh, um, it's all in the wrist.

Gotcha. You get changed out of your school uniform, hop on the Zamboni. I

clean ice for the afternoon crowd.

Oh, no can do. I've got to be somewhere.

Charlie.

I thought I told you not to bring these blasted things in here.

Bad for business.

Besides, I need you around here.

Can't Sam Boney with a bad backbone.

He.

You won't have to.

I built this for you.

This is what I want to show you.

Not radioactive, is it? I don't want to lose any hair.

Go ahead and put it on the ice.

It emits a positive magnetic charge along the ice, briefly transforming

electrons into positrons.

which temporarily ruptures the covalent bonds between molecules.

Once the bonds reform, then... Charlie. Right.

English.

Um, push that button right there and she'll be smooth as a baby's butt.

Oh, one more thing.

Over here.

Dad,

I gotta go. I'm late for some street hockey. I have a feeling that they're

finally gonna let me play today.

See ya.

Yeah, see ya.

I would like to play.

You know, for someone so smart, you're pretty stupid. What makes you think we'd

ever like to play? Oh, I don't know.

Maybe this?

We play on the street, genius.

This hook won't work.

This one will.

Watch.

to resist friction on concrete.

Designed it myself.

Not bad.

Not bad at all.

Okay, Brainiac. You're in.

Cool! Okay, let me just take off my scarf.

Okay.

Ready!

Great.

You know, it's my ambition that someday designed pups that will actually float

off the ground. But, of course, they'll require the manipulation of gravity.

Why don't you play defense?

You know, Dr.

Crixine is the real authority on the subject. He's kind of my hero. He gets

gay fetter off.

Oh, man, I just realized something.

If you're on our team, that makes the sides uneven.

So I'll tell you what. How about you go sit on the curb, and we'll work you in?

Oh, okay.

Come on in.

Brought you some brain food.

Don't eat it.

Got any cool, popular, socially well -adjusted food?

Sorry. I ate all that.

So, you, uh, you skipped dinner to spend your evening in the room futzing with a

hockey stick and feeling sorry for yourself?

Not entirely.

Took a minute to feel sorry for the people in war -torn countries.

Well, don't let it get you down, Charlie.

I'm sure that...

Things will look up once you're at Harvard.

Princeton.

MIT. My college scholarship work came back. CalPAC.

Charlie's going to college.

Everybody wants him. Hey, Charlie's going to Congoline.

Charlie's going to college. I have a photographic memory.

I've got to live with these images for the rest of my life.

Yeah, well, that's the problem with you geniuses. All brains and no rhythm.

You know, Charlie, your mom and I are very proud of you.

Because nobody in this family has ever gone to college.

And you are going five years early.

So, if there's anything I can do to help you decide... Already done.

Northern University, Wisconsin. I didn't know you applied there.

Didn't want to jinx it.

All expenses paid. I just have to teach a few classes.

Charlie.

Every one of these is all expenses paid.

All right.

The truth is, there's this guy at Northrop, Dr. Craigstein.

Craigstein? Isn't that the guy you've been reading about?

Right. He's this close in discovering the graviton. Do you know what this

If we can figure out how the graviton works, we might be able to manipulate

gravity.

Defy it.

Think of a world where bridges won't collapse, where planes won't crash.

A world where your mother's souffle won't fall.

I heard that.

Hey, you sure about this? I mean, I've got Harvard here.

Positive. The lab where I'll be working, completely state -of -the -art. Dr.

Krikstein uses the ice from the hockey rink to cool his particle accelerator.

You see, the lab is directly under the hockey rink. Science and hockey, my two

favorite things in the world.

If you're sure about this, son, I'm sure too.

Charlie's going to Northern.

Charlie's going to Northern.

Charlie's going to Northern.

Hey, Charlie's going to Northern. Dad, I used nanotechnology to give this stick

here an electromagnetic charge every time it touches a puck, creating super

power and speed.

Wait till the guys get a load of this.

Now, you new guys need to be aware that good old Rumson ain't always so good,

especially when they execute the Rumson rack.

What's the Rumson rack?

Oh, nothing much, really.

They just create a distraction.

gonna give old Crick in the neck the boot and let us have our arena back.

They were, until they recruited some super genius kid to help them solve the

mysteries of the universe or some such garbage.

Man, we almost had the arena to ourselves.

What's a little pit whiffer's name anyway?

Not everyone.

I think they hate me.

What, that bunch of losers?

Who cares about them, huh?

Here, let me tell you something.

They lose that big game with rums in them. It's goodbye, coach, no win, big

game.

Beautiful, ain't they?

Yeah. Huh?

Best in the country, I think.

Here we go, right down here.

It's kind of chilly.

Chilly? Cold as an admiral bird's underpants.

Not much to look at, either.

I don't like it down here.

Stuff to do. I am Dean, after all.

Professor!

Charlie!

Charlie Boyle! I am so excited to see you.

Welcome, my friend. Come with me. I've got a lot to show you, buddy.

This is the particle accelerator.

What do you think?

She looks kind of old.

Well, it is...

It's what's under the hood that counts.

Shh.

You wait right here.

I've got something for you.

Son, if you're so sure, I'm sure, too.

So much for Harvard.

Here you go, Charlie. Got your own lab coat. Put it on. It's a little chilly

down here because we're right underneath the ice rink, but it does help keep the

accelerator nice and cool.

How's that feel, huh?

Fit good?

Come on.

Come on over here. I got more to show you.

Here's your workstation.

Oh, Charlie.

I read your paper on the symmetry of fractal entropy.

It blew my mind.

Charlie, look.

I know you're a little disappointed.

The place is not exactly what you expected. It's just that the funding's

coming in like it used to. But I'm not worried.

Because I know you and I, we're going to find a graviton, Charlie. We can do it.

Together. What do you say?

Yeah.

Together.

Things aren't really so bad here, I guess.

At least my roommate turned out to be a nice guy.

Yeah, you met him already?

Actually, no.

I'm going to go meet him right now. I spoke to him on the phone, though. He

that the left side was his.

Help me here.

And the sodas in the fridge were his.

And later, dude.

And this is nice?

He called me dude.

See you later.

See you later, Charlie.

Layer. Cool.

Hi, guys.

What are you doing here?

Oh, I kind of live here.

Oh, no. There's no way I'm sharing a room with Crick Stein Jr.

But this is my housing assignment.

The layer just became the diaper den.

Who are you laughing at?

There's going to be a long year.

I know I have to teach classes as part of my scholarship, but why do I have to

teach this particular class?

Well, duh.

You're a physics genius.

It's a physics lab.

What do I got to do? Draw you a road map, son?

Huh? Come on.

Where you going?

Hello, I'm Charlie and I'll be teaching this class

Hello,

I'm Mike and I'll be disrupting it

to myself.

in the quad, and then it went to the arena.

And then it ended up in the common area where I had to listen to it all night.

That sounds like fun.

How come you didn't just join them?

Because all the other reindeer hate my big, red, shiny nose.

Why do you think? I mean, they just don't like me. Come on. Don't like you?

You sure?

I've had this problem before. I try to make friends.

Never works.

Well, why don't you try something different?

Like what?

That's funny.

You're asking for social advice from my guy that's been alone in the lab for the

last 15 years.

Good point.

I'll see you after my workout.

Okay. Hey, one thing.

What I really meant was that a good scientist doesn't keep repeating the

experiment over and over, expecting to get different results.

Right?

Yeah. You know what I mean?

Yeah. Okay. Have a good workout. I'll see you in the lab. All right. Thank

buddy. Bye.

But if she wants the gold, Dick, she's got to nail the double -toed loop.

I'm Claire.

Aren't you?

A

good

scientist doesn't keep repeating the same experiment over and over, expecting

get different results.

Chaz.

Chaz from Chicago.

Where do you go to school?

Excuse me?

Where do you go to school?

Where do you go?

Franklin.

Well, there's your answer.

Cool.

So, I guess I'll see you around.

Definitely.

Cool.

Bethlehem Junior High just got a new student, Chad Inson.

Chaz Anthony?

Chaz Anthony?

Chaz Anthony?

Uh, yeah. Yep, yo.

So glad you decided to join us. Please, take a seat.

I said, take a seat, young man.

I see first impressions are your strong suit.

Well, you can either take a seat here, or you can take a seat just outside the

principal's office.

Just kidding.

Hey, man.

Nobody ever dared to work off all these furloughs before.

Paula Donald.

Friends call me Odie.

You're hardcore, man.

Settle in, Chaz.

I'll be teaching this class all year.

And I'll be disrupting it.

And it took many, many

years before Galileo could prove his theory to be correct.

That, indeed, the planets travel around the sun in a circular orbit.

Elliptical.

What?

Well, technically, you're right, Chaz.

Well, I'm very impressed.

Uh, I was, uh, skating and some geek told me that the ice shrink was

Didn't think that the info could come in handy while sticking his tongue to the

ice.

All right, all right.

As you may or may not know...

Hey,

Chicago. Yo.

Is this Dion?

Hey, Holmes.

Yo.

Oh, these things are damn.

Mind if I do it?

Sure. I mean, yo.

Oh, man, I gotta go finish my experiment.

Experiment?

Uh, yeah.

Experiment to see how long I can stay in school without ever actually going to

school.

Hey,

how's it going?

Hey.

I finished the calculations for today's experiments.

Oh, yeah?

Yeah, the data's right there on your desk underneath your 8th grade geometry

book, Chaz.

So how'd you find out?

My computer told me.

So, who's Chaz?

A guy who has a life.

I've gone through life so far as Charlie Boyle, and it isn't any sleigh ride.

Today Chad's met a whole group of guys who thought he, I, was cool. Me.

That has never, ever happened to me before.

Ever.

And I'm going back.

Okay.

Okay?

Charlie, I'm not your dad.

You're in college now. I don't care what you do as long as you get your work

done.

Good. But I need a partner who's going to be dedicated.

Right. When I'm here, it's all about work.

Good. Besides, nothing else.

Glad to hear it.

So they really thought you were cool?

One kid even gave me his lunch money because he thought I was going to beat

up.

Love to love you, Claire.

And I mean that.

Love to love you, Claire.

And I mean that.

You, your bed was sunned.

I like you, Claire.

Oh, it's half.

Oh, it will.

Oh, and this one where I flip my Harley.

I got an appendix scar.

Bear, bear.

Listen, it's not the scar.

It's the story.

Girls like bad boys.

Okay?

Okay, girl. I think that was something.

Bad boys, huh?

with five whole minutes left. Another personal record.

Well, the skeleton lecture sounded awful interesting, so I thought I'd vary my

routine a little.

Park it, Mr. Anthony.

And lose the blades.

Catch you later, Claire.

All right, everyone, settle down.

Dude, you're spinning your wheels.

Claire Addison's in the Honor Society.

And Chance Anthony's not.

Honor Society girls never like Honor Society.

Trust me on this one.

Sounds like a risky game plan to me.

Look, I've analyzed the situation, and now I'm enacting a strategy just like

good Psy... Psy -co for the honey shit madman would do.

Cool.

Now there's something bringing up today's boring lecture.

So, we've learned that the skeletal frame is the structure upon which our

are built.

Of course, alone, it's not much good. It requires a complex series of muscles,

tendons, and nerves to actually move.

And

remember,

just because your skull is made of bone, that doesn't mean you have to be a

bonehead.

I just wish you'd use your powers for good, not evil.

When exactly did you go over to the dark side?

What are you talking about?

Well, it took a lot of thought to rig that up. A lot of scientific thought.

Maybe you're a genius and you don't even know it.

There are geniuses your age, you know.

I was talking to a colleague over at Northern. He was telling me about a

man. Ah, some geek in science club helped me rig it up.

And I'll wager you, his future doesn't include the words.

Do you want fries with that, sir?

All right, now who wants to come up here and finish charting these

points on the pulling graph for me?

Okay, Mike, let's see it.

I'm pooned on my own chalkboard with a crude caricature essayed by that

wag, Mike McGregor. You know, I used to think that you were cool.

Jerk.

Ooh,

look at me. I'm japesome.

Yellow. Hey, Charlie.

Progress report.

Oh, hey, Dad. Well, the graviton continues to elude my grasp. I can't get

square one with this girl I like. And my students have become openly hostile.

Not to mention the dorm food.

Not bad, huh?

Well, the only fatherly advice I can give you about the science stuff is just

keep plugging away.

As far as the girls are concerned, I know less about that than science. But

tell you this.

If those rotten students were bugging me, I'd flunk the little weenies or make

them get a tutor.

I guess it does run in the family.

You're never going to guess what I've got right here.

Okay, I'm guessing Stephen Hawking's autograph.

Not even close.

Okay.

Evidence of a graviton?

My first F.

Your first F?

Your first F?

I gotta hang this up somewhere.

Do we have a refrigerator in here? What am I saying? This whole place is a

refrigerator.

Uh, Charlie, I know I'm a little out of the loop on this thing, but why are you

so happy about getting your first F?

I gotta go.

Yo, dude, there she is.

but I'll get better grades.

And I would care because... Because I need a tutor, and you're pretty okay.

Can't you find anyone else?

No. I mean, well, you're the first one on my list. Maybe we can work something

out. Like a theory of unity thing.

I'm not interested.

And I guess I should start practicing.

You want fries with that, sir? You want fries with that, sir?

My schedule's very busy.

I only have time after school and before practice.

Oh, great.

Just what I want to do after school. More schooling.

Take it or leave it. Take it.

Bye. Bye.

If it's wrong in the right hand, try and make a stand. Got it when you can.

The new Backstreet Boys.

Yeah, you know, just a sick day.

That's good, isn't that? I mean, that's what we're supposed to be listening to,

right? I mean, do you like it?

Yes.

Thank you.

Hey, so what's with the museum?

Oh, it's my dad.

He's the hockey coach over at Northern.

Do you want to meet him?

Hey, Daddy!

What is it, honey?

Friday, 13th.

Part 12, The Coach's Nightmare.

I'm just going to get my things here.

Nice meeting all of you.

Okay.

I don't know, Charlie.

I can't say I approve.

Although, I would have loved to have seen Coach Addison's face.

I'm glad he didn't see mine.

I had to smooth things over with Claire, too.

That was 20 miles of rough road on the apology turnpike.

Hey, Doc?

Hmm?

You ever have a girlfriend?

Yeah, sure.

You know, when I was your age for my science fair project, I built a robot

called Cheryl, and we became very close.

I hope you're kidding.

Maybe.

Look at this.

Nothing again.

I don't get it, Charlie.

We have tried every permutation in the book, and still there's no sign of a

graviton. Well, maybe if we take our minds off it, it'll just come to us. You

know, if we sit back, relax, and have a little fun.

Archimedes. The Eureka Syndrome.

Yeah, you know, Edison really believed in that. Whenever he had a problem that

he couldn't solve, he would just do another activity, and then, boom, the

would come to him.

Eureka! That's what I'm talking about.

Come on.

Oh, no.

I don't think so.

Come on, what have you got to lose?

Uh, you don't want to know.

The alarm!

Doesn't that mean we've isolated Gravify?

It's impossible, Charlie. It's the same experiment we just ran. Nothing's any

different. Except for the music.

We've been looking at a...

He has a particle up until now, but you just as easily think of it as a wave.

You said so in your book. Particle -wave conflict.

How could I miss this? Okay, okay, what does this mean? Um, the music. Not a way

to turn the music.

Set up our phase harmonic, which affected the nuclear matrix, and release

graviton. In other words, Groovin' Little House features the lots of

of the universe.

We did it, Charlie! This is baby!

after all.

Maybe you just had a good tutor.

Well, Chaz, you may not be a genius, but you are going to meet one.

After the skeleton incident, I got to thinking it might be good for you to

a kid your age who's not ashamed of being smart.

Good, he could probably use a one -on -one with the kid who's not ashamed to

kick his butt.

Yes, well, not just you, the entire class.

I've arranged a field trip today to Northern. I spoke to Dean Wallace about

hour ago, and he's invited us over to meet the young man.

So let's go, everyone.

I'm going to meet you there.

Track trials next week.

Out of shape, out of practice.

Doc,

Doc. Charlie, Charlie, come here. I've got to show you something really cool.

Doc, would you be careful?

You get that stuff on you, it's going to turn your skin six shades of purple.

Doc. My eighth grade science class is coming here right now to see Charlie

Boyle.

Oh.

What? Well, that explains why the dean was trying to find you all morning.

Well, that's great. What am I going to do?

Well, can't be in two places at once.

Violates all the laws of physics.

So.

Wait.

Wait, wait, wait, wait.

Six shades of purple?

We are very pleased to count among our ranks today the youngest particle

physicist to ever grace the pages of Scientific American, Mr. Charlie Boyle.

before I bring Mr.

Boyle out, I have some startling news.

A terrible lab accident has left young Mr. Boyle temporarily disfigured. But

lucky scientist that he is, he has agreed to come out and talk to you

if only for a short time.

Please make him feel at home here. A nice round of applause.

Mr. Charlie Boyle. Charlie.

Thank you,

fellow teens.

Please do not let my gruesome appearance frighten you. I assure you that my

awful pain will eventually subside.

Since I am in obvious discomfort, I will now take my leave.

Talk to you about electrons and stuff.

Well, uh, electrons.

Okay, so... Just excuse me for one second. I think I have a call.

I'll be right back. Just talk amongst yourselves.

What?

How do I get this purple junk off my face? It's starting to burn.

Just use soap and water.

Right.

and you go out there and keep up the good work. What am I supposed to say?

I don't know. Make it up.

Many

times

I think that an atom is very much like the universe. I've got to go pay the

water bill. The nucleus and the...

orbiting electrons.

Chaz?

This is a very valuable clue.

Thymine has changed to uracil.

Here at the university, we have T1 lines.

Chaz Hampton, I'm shocked you even showed, but glad.

You're the main one I wanted to meet, Charlie Boyle.

Actually, my tie was a gift.

from the head of the anthropology department. Excuse me, Dr.

Crickstein. Perhaps if Charlie isn't well, I should phone Dean Wallace and

schedule another field trip.

No, there's really no need to involve Dean Wallace in this. I'm sure I can

convince Charlie to come back. It's just that right now, he's getting his

nourishment, and he has to do that first.

The intoxicated cruel has forced that into what now passes for his esophagus.

It appears that Charlie is in need of assistance, so I'll be right back.

What? What are you doing?

It's too much.

Yes. Why don't you tell him I go back out there?

Because that teacher was going to tell the dean to reschedule. If we don't do

this again, let's just get it over with. Okay, okay.

Give me a push.

I need some help.

You need help?

With what?

Well, you name it.

Physics, chemistry, poli -sci.

What difference does it make? You have everything.

Well, I could say the same about you.

Me? Ha!

Look at you, Mike. You've got looks, charm, confidence, women, poise,

women.

And looking forward to getting kicked off the hockey team, losing my

scholarship, and getting a job as a forklift operator in a cheese factory.

Not a bad trade -off.

Yeah, right.

Look, I want more than that out of life, Charlie. I want something that you've

got and I don't.

And what's that?

A future.

So you want me to tutor you?

Yeah, and if there's anything I can do in return...

Well, there is something.

Okay, more of a someone, really.

What's her name?

Claire.

I just, I don't know how to make my move. I mean, I've done a great deal of

exploratory research. All right, look, shut up.

Listen to me.

Take all of the information that you've gathered, everything you've learned.

Yeah?

And forget it.

What?

Research is no good when it comes to girls.

You think too much, and you're dead.

You just gotta relax and do what comes natural.

Do what... Don't think, just do.

Don't think, just do.

Right.

Let's hit the books.

Do you want to catch a ride with me and dad to the northern game tomorrow?

Oh, you and your dad?

Um,

no, I can't expect that. I really can't go at all.

Why not?

This is the year we're finally going to kick some rumps and tail.

Yeah. I'm sorry I have to watch my sister.

I thought you said you were an only child.

I am.

Sister Mary Catherine.

She's a nun and an invalid.

See you Monday, then.

Later.

Later, dude.

Yo.

Isn't it beautiful?

I love the snow.

Yeah, it's all right.

All right.

Well, at least here it stays white.

Back in Chicago, it always ends up dirty.

Like the main streets.

You're not so tough.

You talking to me?

Are you talking to me?

I know what you did to that little boy.

You weren't tired.

I just need a break, that's all.

This is it.

Okay.

Give it a sec.

Let her wonder.

Great mystery.

Three more seconds.

Turn and... Don't think.

Just do.

So, uh, where'd you learn how to skate like that? Your dad?

No. I learned how to skate like this from my dad.

She was a figure skater.

That's how she and Dad met.

When I was little, I was kind of a tomboy.

I wanted to be a goalie like Dad.

Then one winter, Mom took me to Lake Chenoweth to see her compete in their

annual outdoor figure skating competition.

She was good and all, but nothing earth -shattering.

And then, right in the middle of her routine...

The heavens opened up, and snow started to fall.

And her whole attitude changed.

Suddenly, she was no longer just a skater doing compulsory moves for the

She was a ballerina in a snow globe.

The next day...

I traded in my goalie mask for a sequined skirt.

She was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen.

You're the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.

Okay, kid. I'm off to the conference in Milwaukee.

I'll be back.

A couple of days.

Hey, why don't you just go upstairs and watch the game?

Because half the people up there think I'm a genius, and then the other half

think I'm a punk.

Put yourself.

Hey, I'm going to use the particle accelerator while you're gone. Might as

get some work in as long as I'm stuck down here.

Me particle accelerator, a soup particle accelerator.

Just to be fair and be real careful, okay?

It's the only one we got.

Igloo City.

Mike.

Yeah, it's the particle accelerator.

The ice from the rink cools it.

Listen, I got my midterm report card back, and I wanted to say thanks for

passing me.

Hey, you have nobody to thank but yourself.

Sure I do.

So, uh, here.

For me and the guys.

Thanks.

Hey, good luck today.

Well, we're at the top of our game, so Rumson's going down.

What if they cheat?

What if they come after you with that Rumson rack the coach is always going on

about? Well, the guys will just have to watch my back.

I don't know of any way to defend against it.

I might.

Dude, those are the Rutgers fans. It turns out they only respond to negative

reinforcement. I hear they recruit exclusively from broken homes.

All right, now the three to worry about are Stoker, Ryder, and Cross.

Now, Cross, we usually distract the referee here, while Stoker and Ryder

our best player, which is me.

Yeah. So how do we stop it? Well, we don't.

We sent somebody else out there with my number and we let him get racked.

That's your plan? We still lose a player in the process?

Not necessarily.

We could just lose an equipment manager. And you come at him with a phony

number.

Thank you.

You weren't going to show. Come on.

I'm thinking of canonizing her.

What's that? He's over there.

Wait, the boy I was telling you about, he's here.

What's this, sweetheart?

He's here.

He was just there a second ago.

He was trying to hide his face.

Claire!

So who's Charlie Boyle?

Claire, let me explain. Explain.

Then it's true.

Just what was all of this? Was it one of your experiments? Were you making a

study of the local culture?

No, I... Then I guess you were just having a laugh at my expense.

Imagine. Me...

thinking I could teach you.

Why did you do this to me?

Because I'm a big fat liar.

want to see you again

I need to apologize to everyone at Franklin.

Mostly, I want to apologize to my friends.

They were the best ones I ever had.

Please forgive me.

Thanks.

Well,

if it isn't the con artist formerly known as Chad.

Never meant for anything bad to happen.

You just wanted to make us look stupid for your own sick, twisted pleasure.

But not for anything back.

Come on, guys.

Hey, that was pretty funny with the announcement, you know?

Breakaway. I'm immersing myself in fictional characters.

They can't get mad at you. I love Breakaway. Oh, is that the one where

goes to Mars and saves Queen Schlock from the Argalites?

No, that's February.

This is the one where Zoran finds subatomic particles and how they're

to a mysterious quantum force.

Oh, yeah. You know, that's an old one.

But you know something?

That's actually based on something that happened.

It was Geneva, 1997.

These Swiss scientists were able to split a photon.

And even though the particles are six miles apart, whatever one does, the

one does exactly the same thing.

Cool.

You know, if we split our graviton, we could study its quantum force and maybe

unlock the secret as to how it works.

And then...

Defy gravity.

Let's get to work.

Two -seven, three -seven, and the output level is nine -nine -nine.

Okay.

Now, this chip has thirty trillion graviton halves.

Yours has the counter parts.

Why are they over -coating? They look like Super Bowls. It's just for

protection. Now, when I press this button, whatever mine does, yours can do

same thing.

Here we go.

One, two, three.

Hey, Charlie.

Yeah? Why, you hit yourself in the head.

Hey, uh, Charlie?

Are you...

It means I can make amends for all the damage I've done.

What are you talking about?

Well, with what we just discovered, I figured out a way to help Northern leave

Brompton. And then they'll win the championship, and Claire's dad can keep

job, and my friends will be happy with me again. And maybe Claire might like me

again, too.

A little.

Maybe.

All I know is that I've let everybody down, and if I get a chance to make it

right, I gotta take it.

Wait a second.

First of all, you haven't let me down.

You've deceived me.

Charlie, I could have never done this without you.

You're more than my assistant.

You're my friend.

Thanks, Doc.

I got to go.

Why are you here?

I need help.

You got that right.

I figured out a way to help the team tonight.

Keep Rumson from cheating.

Give our guys a chance to win.

Why? So you can look good.

No. So Northern can finally beat Rumson. So your dad can keep his job.

I'm doing it for everybody.

Don't do us any favors.

Why don't you just leave us alone, Chaz?

I just wanted to make things right.

My name's not Chaz.

It's Charlie.

Charlie Boyle.

I can't do it alone.

I need a go, no go, on Operation MacRumson.

Skates is a go, Ops.

Video?

Roger that.

Blades? I would like it to be known that I am here under extreme protest, and

I'm only doing this so my father doesn't wind up stage managing the ice cream.

I'll take that as a go, Blades.

Skates, Rums and Bush should be in target range.

Hey, Charlie.

How's it going?

Videos ago.

Where's Blaze?

Right here.

I'm tired.

We're great.

Let's just hope this works.

Is it me, or did it just get colder in here?

from here.

How is that possible?

I've implanted microchips in the skates of Ryder, Stoker, and Cross, the three

main players who give up the Rumson Rack.

Now, each microchip is infused with trillions of graviton halves, like the

Superballs I showed you.

Corresponding microchips with other graviton halves will be in our skates.

whatever our skates do, their skates will be forced to do.

Monkey say, monkey do.

Exactly.

We only need to keep Romson from cheating. All right, guys, let's move to

rest.

Now, when the time comes, Dion will flip the switch, activating the particles,

and we're on.

And I helped you get a C in science.

You sure did a number on this lab.

Won't that professor guy care?

Nah, I'll have it back to normal after the game. Besides, I've arranged his

schedule so that he'll be gone all day. At least every year during the hockey

games. What's going on here?

Okay, almost never.

Charlie, this has gone way too far.

I looked the other way when you almost destroyed the accelerator, but I can't

that again. I told you I had to do what I had to do.

No, this has got to stop. This has got to stop right now. I thought you were on

my side.

You know I'm on your side, but you're putting everything we've done in

and I've always been about science first. Ahead of what?

You could solve all the mysteries in the world, but what would it mean without

friends?

Nothing. The chance to make up for all the selfish things I've did, to help my

friends, that means everything in the world to me.

So please, help me.

I'm sorry, Charlie. I can't be a party to this.

But wait!

Charlie, forget it.

We've got some action here.

Odie.

Proud of you.

Okay, I'll take Brutus.

I'll take Smithson.

Then I'll take Van Boren.

Man, you're sticking me with him?

Come on, what's wrong?

Look, I'm getting good, and I'm learning. Look.

That's right, and today he's learning on your team.

Hey, Boyle!

Hey, Mike.

Hey, listen, if you want to get off the ice, then... Well, we're thinking about

slapping the puck around a little.

Okay, we'll just play out. Come on, guys.

Well, we need somebody to play against.

You're interested.

We heard about what you did.

Thanks.

How'd you find out?

The coach.

How did he?

No.

Maybe I talk in my sleep.

Okay, but on one condition.

Name it.

You get crick -stied.