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(bright upbeat music)

(whimsical sound effects)

- Hey, hands off the jacket.

- Sorry.

I don't wanna be late to class.

- Why?

Isn't your brain full already?

- I'm sorry, okay?

(slow ominous music)

- This time.

- DNA, deoxy ribonucleic acid.

We all have it. And it makes up who you are.

You can see what people look like on the outside.

Let's find out what we look like inside.

Way inside.

Let's start collecting samples

we can test for the presence of DNA.

Corrine?

(bright upbeat music)

(machinery whirring)

Human DNA makes up about 30,000 genes.

But look around, none of us is exactly alike.

Just a small variation in how those genes are organized

can have a huge effect on who we are.

- Like whether you keep your side of the room

so pristine that no one can live in it?

- Possibly.

- Or so messy that no one can find anything?

- Well, suffice to say that DNA is nature's roadmap,

but it's how you follow it that counts.

I'll process your samples after class

and have your unique DNA profiles,

your DNA fingerprints, ready for tomorrow's class.

For now, just take a look at someone else's slide

and see how it compares to yours.

- Cool.

- She sure is.

- Then go say hello.

- I can't.

She's new, but she's already been drawn into

Madison's solar system of cool.

I'm just a satellite orbiting the outer edges of her system.

A lifeless asteroid, caught in a zero gravity universe.

- So make like a marauding comet

and fire through that uncharted system.

Go over and ask her if you can look through her microscope.

(bright expectant music)

- Katya?

- Hello, is it Louie?

- Cas, it's Cas. I mean Lucas.

Lucas.

- Lucas Lucas?

(bell ringing)

- [Teacher] Okay, ponder this as you go,

if DNA is your life's roadmap, what would you

add or remove from it if you could?

- Chaos.

- Perfectionism.

- Cool, you managed to convey fear by saying your name.

- My asteroid burnt up on reentry.

Another one of my typically smooth moves.

(DNA zapping)

- Okay, so my mom drops me at this boring school.

And I'm thinking it's like all the other places I've gone.

Students.

Teachers. Principal.

You know, like normal schools.

But it's not.

Weird stuff happens here, really weird stuff.

And what's this guy doing here?

Something's going on.

And someone's behind it.

And you're gonna get to the bottom of it.

- There's nothing wrong at Blake Holsey High.

(rushed frantic music)

(boys laughing)

- Hey, I thought I told you to be more careful.

- And you should watch where you're going.

- What did you say?

- If you can't remember, I'll repeat it.

- No, no, no he won't.

We need to get to gym class.

- Maybe you wanna repeat it with no teachers around.

- Just tell me when, meat brain.

(boys snickering)

- Three o'clock, out back.

- All right, everybody inside.

Let's save some of that for real gladiator, Stew.

(serious quizzical music)

- Well that can't be.

That can't be what it is, unbelievable.

- You believe that little squirt?

He wonders if my brain is working.

Listen, I'm not the one meeting me at three.

If I was him and not me, I'd be afraid of me.

- Did Lucas spike his hair?

- We're going straight to the top.

Anybody wanna race?

- Straight to the top?

You get vertigo wearing high tops.

- Not today.

The Lucster's got it goin' on.

- See you up there, geek.

(Stew clapping chalk)

- The Lucster.

- When did he start talking like that?

- I guess about the same time

he conquered his fear of heights.

- All right, on my whistle.

(whistle blowing)

(crowd cheering)

- He's gonna win.

- I can't look.

(upbeat rock music) (bell ringing)

(crowd cheering)

- This doesn't change a thing.

You and me, after school.

You're still going down.

- We're both going down, it's all a matter of gravity.

I'll prove it.

(pants ripping)

- What are you doing? Hey!

- Isaac Newton proved it with an apple,

I'll prove it with these.

(crowd cheering)

The Lucster's got it goin' on.

- I don't understand this.

On this side, overflowing academic accolades.

And on this side, a virtual desert

of any serious disciplinary breaches.

I can't ever recall you being in this kind

of trouble, picking a fight with a football player?

Now I realize that Stewart Kubiak

can be a bit of a a tyrant, but that does not

excuse your behavior today, Lucas.

- You know what?

When you're right, you're right Amanda.

Can I call you Amanda?

- No.

- So Amanda, Stewie's a bully.

He pushes people around and the whole school knows it.

I think you're gonna thank me when I take him down, no?

- Absolutely not.

I cannot allow you to take the law into your own hands.

And furthermore, don't ever call me Amanda.

- Hey listen, everyone knows you're the law, Dursty baby.

But if Stew calls me up, I have to answer.

- Mr. Randall, detention.

This afternoon and all next week.

- If you can't do the time, don't do the crime.

- Dursty baby?

(bright whimsical music)

- Good to see you back on the ground,

and wearing pants again.

(milk erupting)

- Lucas listen, I know this guy.

I felt how hard he hits in football practice.

And that's with pads on.

- Since you're gonna be dead by three o'clock,

can I have your laptop?

- The Lucster needs a date for the big dance tonight.

Who's gonna be the lucky lady?

- We've always just gone as a group.

The Lucster says it's time for that to change.

Hey baby.

- Please tell me he did not just say that to us.

- Katya, do you know what this is?

It's a magical crystal ball,

that allows me to see into the future.

I can see you and me at the dance tonight.

- Dancing, tonight?

- Tonight. Pick you up at seven?

- But -

- But, it's the future baby.

And you can't fight the future.

Caio bella, te amo.

The Lucster's got it goin' on.

- It's about time we find out

exactly what the Lucster's got goin' on.

(bright mysterious music)

Professor Z, there's something crazy going on

with - - Lucas?

Judging from this, one of his chromosomes has been altered.

- So that's why Lucas has been acting so weird.

- Unfortunately, if what you've told me

is correct, yes it is.

- I think I like the Lucster.

He's not afraid, and he's living out

every picked on kid's dream.

- That's the problem.

Something caused his DNA to change.

Lucas has become so fearless

that he's lost all sense of self-preservation.

Of course, there is a small chance

that as he explores the environment around him,

he might relearn some degree of self-control.

- But if he doesn't, he has to fight Stew Kubiak at 3:00 PM.

- Then it's up to us to reset him.

Your body does it naturally, thousands of times a day.

Our cells are constantly reacting

to the environment around us.

Within those cells are repair enzymes,

that are constantly repairing and refiling things

in their proper order.

- Like a librarian reshelving books.

- Exactly.

Thousands of mini librarians at work

every day, reshelving your DNA books.

- In Lucas' case, an outside force has gone in

and made a mess of the library.

- It's almost two o'clock and we need a plan.

- Josie, why don't you keep an eye on the Lucster?

Make sure he doesn't come to any harm in his current state.

- Got it.

- We can collect some pre fearless DNA samples,

to compare with his current DNA.

- Excellent idea.

(footsteps receding)

- Have you guys come up with anything?

'Cause Stew's on a demolition mission.

- Vaughn, I need you to keep an eye on Kubiak.

Make sure he doesn't face off with Lucas ahead of schedule.

- Okay, I'll try to scrape some hair off his brush.

And you see if you can find any Kleenex in his trash.

- I'm getting in the shower.

- Amanda, it's come to my attention that there

is no policy (speech becomes indistinct).

- What are they always talking about?

It's like they have some big secret

they're trying to hide from us.

- You're not gonna do what I think you're gonna do.

Use your brain.

Do you really wanna take on Victor and Durst today?

- Everybody tiptoes around Victor.

I'm not afraid of him.

The Lucster's got it going on.

- You've got way too much going on.

Think, prioritize, analyze. What are you about to do?

- Get thrown in detention, before I can fight Stew.

- That's using the old Lucas brain power, I think.

- Absolutely. I'll leave Victor for now.

- Great.

- Because the Stew has a lesson to learn.

And Lucster's school of hard knocks is in session at three.

- Yes.

- Just doing an experiment, on reverse motion.

Walking backwards. Quickly.

(bright upbeat music)

- Excellent work.

These are prime samples you've collected.

- You should have seen the ones we left under his bed.

- Now we have a baseline that we know is unaltered Lucas.

- We were thinking we could try to reset Lucas

by exposing some of his altered DNA

to something as powerful as

whatever changed it in the first place.

- We found out there are a lot of things

that might be able to do that.

- Such as?

- Environmental conditions like hot and cold,

different specter of light, electromagnetic radiation.

- Excellent.

They all affect us on a molecular level

but I think the last two are our best bets.

- Whatever we're gonna do, let's do it.

It's almost three o'clock.

(bright mischievous music)

- Let's see if ultraviolet light is the answer.

- I'll go see if it worked.

- [Crowd] Lucas! Lucas!

- That definitely didn't work.

- [Crowd] Lucas! Lucas!

- It's too late.

- The electromagnet's ready.

(crowd descending stairs)

- This had better work.

- Look out, Lucas.

(noises slowing down) (sounds distorting)

(crowd cheering)

- Lucas? Lucas?

- What was I thinking?

- Well it worked.

Lucas' fear factor has kicked in, big time.

- But, what about them?

- Go stall Kubiak, bye Lucas some time

to think this through.

- Oh I can so do that.

- Josie, no fighting.

That won't solve anything.

- I can't fight Kubiak.

- You don't have to.

Violence is never the answer.

- But, the whole school is out there, waiting for me.

- Lucas, you have to accept responsibility

for your actions today.

- I guess I could apologize for taking his gym shorts.

- You're smart.

And this is just like any other problem.

- Yeah, come on.

You got this!

- Where's your friend?

- Try to come through me and find out.

- Lucas?

(soft somber music)

- I pantsed you, and that was wrong.

But I think we were both wrong

for letting things escalate to the point

where we were gonna end up in a fight.

- It won't be long.

- No, it won't.

I have no doubt you'll win.

I publicly admit that.

You're bigger and stronger than me.

And if you feel you have to prove that,

then that's what you have to do.

But if you do hit me, what will it prove?

I've already admitted you are the winner

before the first punch was even thrown.

But, if you're afraid that

people won't think you're as strong as me,

then I guess you have to hit me.

- You owe me a pair of gym shorts!

I want them by tomorrow morning.

- That was smart of you, turning the tables on him.

- I guess.

- Smile. You just took on Stew Kubiak and won.

- He was only gonna hit me.

I've still got Katya waiting

to make a fool of me at the dance tonight.

(electrical zapping)

- You have to knock on her door, dude.

- Maybe I'll get lucky,

and she'll have transferred to another school.

- Remember what Z said?

Think it through.

- If I don't knock on her door.

I'll never be able to look her in the eye again.

(knocking at door)

- I saw what you did today, Louie.

You were wonderful.

Ready to go to the dance?

- Si, bella.

- Molto bene.

(upbeat Italian music)

- The Lucster's got it goin' on.

(bike bell chiming)

- These are your DNA fingerprints

from yesterday's experiment.

Notice all the little markings

that look like piano keys?

They correspond to a set of DNA markers,

unique to each of you.

DNA is a blueprint for who we are.

However, some of us manage

to overcome that nature through nature.

That's when we learn from our mistakes,

and from our successes.

(bell ringing)

So, do you have an answer for yesterday's question?

- You mean if I could change

one genetic trait, what would it be?

I think I'm fine the way I am.

- That's good to hear.

- Gotta run.

Principal Durst is waiting for me in detention.

- Professor Z, we can't find our fingerprints.

- Maybe we don't exist.

- Oh, I could have sworn I had them earlier.

No.

Your slides are gone too.

That's odd, where could they be?

- These two share an unusual DNA marker.

(dark unsettling music)

I'm sending them through.

(laser evaporating)

(explosion sounding)

(bright upbeat music)

(bright music fades)

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