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Victor, I don't know that it's... Mom, you have to wear the glasses.

It's 3D, honey.

Oh, yes, of course.

So that's where my candlestick went.

Isn't that your grandmother's tablecloth?

Yeah.

That looks great.

Whoa! I just thought that was a cat.

Send in the Marines.

That's you.

He certainly wasn't fighting.

Yeah, it was a big finish.

Well done, son.

I can fix this.

Come on, boy.

All that time he spends up there.

A boy his age needs to be outside with his friends.

I don't know that Victor has friends, Jim.

Other than Sparky.

That's my point. I don't want him to turn out, you know, weird.

There's nothing wrong with Victor.

He's just in his own world.

Easy, boy.

See you later, sweetie.

Have a good day.

Picture. Come on, honey. You're going to be late. Go put Sparky in the backyard.

Good morning, Mr. Burgermeister.

Your dog has been sniffing around my Dutch dazzlers.

The other day I caught him peeing on my flamingo.

I'll keep an eye on him.

You better.

Yes, sir.

Go on, Sparky. That's right.

Good boy.

I think you're going.

School?

What about that dog of yours?

She's not in the house, and she's away from your tulips.

I want you to remember something.

While your parents are away, I am in charge here.

Yes, Uncle Bob.

Dutch Day is coming up, and I don't need any trouble.

How's your son coming?

Okay. Keep at it.

Dutch Day is a big day for me.

Yes, sir.

Good morning, children.

I am Mr.

Zgrulski.

I will be your new science teacher.

Apparently, Mr.

Holcomb had an incident.

He got hit by lightning.

Well, that is bad.

But he did not get hit by lightning.

Lightning does not hit a person the way one is hit by a baseball or a cabbage.

Lightning is simply electricity.

The cloud is angry, yes, making storm.

All the electrons are saying, I am leaving you. I go to the land of

The ground says, yes, we need electrons trained in science, just like you. Come,

come, welcome.

So both sides start to build a ladder. This man...

He comes out to look at the storm.

He does not see the invisible ladders. When the two ladders meet, boom!

The circuit is complete.

And all of the electrons rush to the land of opportunity.

This man is in the way.

But it's very rare to have such incident.

But it's not rare.

Lightning happens to people all the time here.

There's a thunderstorm almost every night.

My dad got it twice.

They built New Holland on an abandoned coal mine.

I heard it was a cemetery.

That's where they buried the miners.

It's the windmill that does it.

Turning, turning the air until the sky itself rages against it. Good night.

Yep.

On your way out, take a permission slip for the science fair.

First prize is a huge trophy.

Hello,

Victor.

Hi. Mr. Whiskers had a dream about you last night.

How do you know?

Because this morning, I made this.

Oh.

Did you get that out of the litter box?

It's an omen.

Last month, he dreamed about Bob.

He found a manhole.

He dreamed about Toshaki.

Today, he pitched a perfect game.

At the start of the day, he got knocked unconscious.

If Mr. Whiskers dreams about you, it means something big is going to happen.

You can keep it.

One day you'll dream about me, won't you, kitty?

How you doing?

You'll be my partner, right, Victor?

Because you have to have a partner for the science fair, and whoever's your

partner is going to win. You know the most about science, so pick me as a

partner. I have lots of ideas.

We can make a death ray.

It says no death rays. See?

Oh, man.

I still want to do it. Come on. Who else would be your partner?

You don't have friends and neither do I.

I'm sorry, Edgar.

I just don't need a partner.

I have to work alone.

Will you sell my permissions, look?

Dinner's ready.

Victor, have I ever talked to you about what I do for a living?

You're a travel agent?

I sell dreams.

I tell people you can sail to Italy.

You can do the hula in Hawaii.

Will you sign my form?

I'm getting to that.

Okay. In my job, sometimes you have people who don't want quite the same

right? Say a husband wants to play golf in Scotland, but the wife wants to

paddle down the Amazon.

All right, you've got two conflicting ideas here. And it's my job, Victor, to

help them meet halfway.

Say Scottsdale, Arizona.

He gets the golf, she gets Indians.

But there's no river.

And no jungle. Nobody gets what they want.

Exactly. And wrong.

They both get what they want because they compromise.

You'd like to do the science fair, and that's great.

I'd like you to try sport.

Say, I don't know, baseball.

Science fair, baseball.

Science fair, baseball.

How do you choose?

Guess what? You don't have to.

No reason you can't do both.

You meet in the middle.

Everyone's happy.

Look at what Toshiaki's doing. He's keeping his eye on the target, never

his concentration.

Strike three next, batter!

I want you to concentrate.

on your project for the science fair.

Come on, honey!

Look,

nice and touch, Sparky. Come on, Victor, please.

Tie Sparky up and get your head into the game. I'm out!

Sorry, boy.

Nice try, son.

When conducting an experiment, trying is the important thing.

It is okay to fail as long as you keep trying.

Victor, run!

He was a great dog.

A great friend.

The best dog a kid could have.

When you lose someone you love, they never really leave you.

They just move into a special place in your heart.

He'll always be there, Victor.

I don't want him in my heart.

I want him here with me.

I know.

If we could bring him back, we would.

Try and get some sleep, sweetheart.

Things will seem better in the morning.

system is electricity.

We are wires and springs and cables to send the messages.

Even after death, the wiring remains.

Watch as the muscles respond to the electricity.

Hi, Victor.

How cool.

Okay.

Shoo!

You're alive!

You're alive!

Dorothy! You're alive!

I can't breathe it! You're alive!

French toast or waffles?

Waffles. Then I'll need my waffle iron back, Mr. Director.

It's my science project.

It's a robot.

A robotic bucket?

Yes. For mopping, I suppose.

Yes. Then maybe when you're finished, you'll let me use it.

Sorry, boy.

But I can't let anyone know about you.

They may not understand.

So you need to stay here today.

Yeah.

Apparently it affected the whole neighborhood.

Sweetie, you okay?

Here you go.

So anyway, Jack loves it here.

But if the schools weren't so great...

All right.

Good, gotta go.

Sparky?

Sparky?

There you are.

Good boy.

Sorry you had to stay here alone all day.

What's the matter, boy?

You okay?

Here, let's top you up.

Victor? Can you come down here, please?

Victor?

Your friend is here.

Edgar?

Hey. Edgar?

What are you doing here?

I know.

What?

I know.

Know what?

You know.

No. I think I know what you know I know.

Look, I don't know what you think I know, but I don't know it.

Your dog is alive!

That's impossible.

I know. I know it is so impossible.

But you did it. You did it.

So show me how, or I'll tell everyone.

Oh, Mrs.

Frankenstein.

I think the wind and the lightning are part of the same thing.

Some kind of strange force.

But the wind isn't strong enough to bring an animal back from the dead. For

that, we need lightning.

So when can I do it?

You can't. This isn't an experiment.

It's my dog.

Show and tell, Victor.

You show me, and I won't tell.

Can I help you, young man?

I'd like to buy a fish.

Certainly. Which one?

This one.

What happened to it?

What did you do?

I don't know. It should have worked.

It's invisible.

It's an invisible goldfish.

Why is it invisible?

I have no idea.

You can't tell anyone.

You understand that, right? Not until we figure out how it works.

Okay, okay.

Promise?

Promise.

How are we supposed to see an invisible Gordovish?

Put your finger in. You can feel it.

Ah! It bit me!

Let me see it.

and it's top secret.

Yeah? Well, our science fair project is even cooler.

What is it?

Double the top secret.

Emo.

You gotta come up with something better. Bigger.

I know. The science fair's in two days.

I know.

Just a smart one.

I know.

Sit still.

Sparky, no!

No!

Sorry, boy.

But we can't risk anyone seeing you again.

Toshoki says you have an invisible fish.

No, he didn't. So you don't? I didn't say that. Who said I did?

Toshoki says it's your science fair project.

If it was, I couldn't tell you.

So it isn't?

Or it is?

No. Yes.

I'm confused. Do you have...

An invisible fish.

Okay. But you have to keep it a secret.

Swish your finger around.

You can feel it.

It's just water.

There's nothing there.

No, it's invisible.

Huh?

I don't know what kind of game you and Victor are playing, but that trophy will

be mine.

Victor!

Something's wrong with my fish.

What is it? It's not there anymore.

Maybe it just hopped out.

Did you have to lid on it?

Yes, ever since... since I left your house.

I mean, it was there when I went to bed.

I'm thinking maybe they don't laugh.

They're only there for a little bit, and then they're gone.

No!

Sparky!

Sparky!

Don't worry.

I can fix that too.

Good night, boy.

Are you sure this is going to work?

No, that's why it's called an experiment.

We have to collect data.

Do we have to collect it on me?

Ready? No.

Ten, nine, eight. We could use a test dummy or something. Seven, six, five.

Computer simulation.

Four, three, two.

I have to pee.

So I can't sit idly while a teacher endangers our children.

The man is a menace.

He's crazy.

Have you looked through this science book they're using?

Apparently, Pluto isn't good enough to be a planet anymore.

When I was a kid, Pluto was a great planet. This guy comes along and

the rules.

In fairness, he didn't write the textbook.

Mr. Mayor, Edward Frankenstein.

Your neighbor, of course.

I just would like to say that our son, Victor, is just crazy about the new

teacher. Thinks he's great.

My Cynthia has been asking all sorts of strange questions about things I've

never even heard of.

Shouldn't we at least give the man a chance to explain himself?

Yes. Please come up, Mr.

Ladies, gentlemen, I think the confusion here is that you are all very ignorant.

Is that the right word, ignorant?

I mean stupid, primitive, unenlightened.

You do not understand science, so you are afraid of it. Like a dog is afraid

thunder or balloons.

To you, science is magic and witchcraft because you have such...

Such small minds.

I cannot make your heads bigger but your children's heads.

I can take them and crack them open.

This is what I try to do. To get at their brains.

Wait till they're home any minute.

Victor? Hi, Elsa. What are you doing?

Practicing my song for Dutch Day.

It's nice.

Did you get a new dog?

No. I heard a bark.

Yeah, that was me.

You were barking?

You must really miss Barky.

I gotta go.

Bye.

Bye.

I feel so sad for him, Persephone.

He really misses his dog.

Where's Mr. Rice -Kruski?

All I know is I'll be teaching the class for the rest of the semester.

Do you know anything about science?

I know more than you do. Mr. S. Kruski knew a lot.

Well, sometimes knowing too much is the problem.

What about the science fair?

Oh, it's still on, but it'll be judged by someone who's not insane.

Me. Now get cracking and may the best person win.

I can't believe they'll let the gym teacher be the judge.

She's not even interested in science.

Back home, everyone is scientist.

Even my plumber wins Nobel Prize.

Your country does not make enough scientist. Always needs more. You should

scientist, Victor.

Nobody likes scientists.

They like what science gives them, but not the questions, no.

Not the questions the science asks.

Actually, I have a question.

That is why you are a scientist.

I was doing my experiment, my project, and the first time it worked great.

But the next time it didn't. I mean, it sort of worked, but then it didn't.

And I don't know why.

Then maybe you never really understood it the first time.

People think science is here.

But it is also here.

The first time, did you love your experiment?

Yes.

And the second time?

No.

I just wanted it over.

Then you changed the variables.

I was doing it for the wrong reason.

Science is not good or bad, Victor.

But it can be used both ways.

That is why you must always be careful.

I can't believe I broke my arm for nothing.

None of us are going to win.

He has an invisible fish.

No, he doesn't.

You fell for a parlor trick.

You're saying he faked it?

That the fish you showed us, was it real?

It was.

And it was dead, too.

You brought an animal back from the dead?

No, Victor did. With lightning. And boom.

And... Impossible.

I swear. I mean, he already brought back his dog.

He brought the back of Sparky?

Victor will win the science fair.

Unless we can do better.

Bigger.

You say you know Victor's secret?

Now is your chance to prove it.

Now, where's my muffin tin?

Victor?

Sparky? Sparky's alive!

Sparky?

What have you done?

You said yourself if you could bring back Sparky, you would.

Yes, but that was different, because we couldn't. It's easy to promise the

impossible. What you did was a very serious thing.

Crossing the boundary between life and death.

Reanimating a corpse. It's very... upsetting.

I just wanted my dog back.

Oh, sweetheart.

We'll help you look for Sparky. But when we get back, I think we need to have a

little talk.

Understood?

Yes.

Now, let's go find your dog.

to do with the lightning.

I don't really understand it.

Oh, but I do.

Tonight, we shall bring the dead to life.

Thank you so much.

And now, it's my pleasure to introduce this year's little Dutch girl,

my niece, Elsa Van Helsing.

I don't think this is safe.

We have the fire chief over here.

You know a lot of girls would kill to be in your place.

I'd welcome death.

I'm going to win.

No, I shall win the science fair.

In our house, tired and safe, we have nothing to

fear.

Ah, the tomb of Colossus. Soon you shall be awakened.

And we shall be reunited once again.

. . .

Isn't she adorable?

Bye.

rise from your tomb

Sherry? Sherry?

Sparky? Sparky!

Sparky, it's okay, boy. It's just me.

I thought you were gone.

I never want to lose you.

I promise you'll never go running off.

Okay?

Come on, boy.

What's going on here?

Bigger, I need your help. Did you see those things? They were like sea

You know how on the package, they're like in a happy kingdom and everyone's

smiling. Yeah?

They're not like that at all. Big death. I need your help. I asked him first.

No problem, Bigger.

Yeah, he's right.

something really big.

Victor, is there anything we can do for you?

You said that I need to let him go.

Sometimes adults don't know what they're talking about.

there's beauty on the inside the outside there's nothing to