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(suspenseful music)

(fast-paced music)

(knocking)

- What do you want?

- Hi, we're looking for...

Food.

- That's it.

That's the third club that's turned us away.

- We're going to starve to death if this keeps up.

- Right, two days ago,

the whole world wants me to be their leader,

and now they won't offer us a ham sandwich.

- That's politics Jay!

Reject the people and the people reject you.

- This is crazy, I'm going back.

(knocking)

- What do you want!

- Don't shut the door.

My friends and I haven't eaten in two days, please.

- You can eat, but we want you out before the big game.

- What is this big game?

- Think fast.

Good hands.

You ever play this game?

(knocking)

Go defense, whale 50, hut!

- Afternoon sir.

- We were collecting for Macro.

- Toys.

- What for?

- Taxes.

- We don't have any toys.

- Everyone has to pay, sir.

- All we have is our equipment,

and we can't play without that.

- You play with it?

- It's a toy.

- Wait, I have something Macro might want even more.

(ominous music)

- Is that who I think it is?

- We've gotta get outta here.

- Fumble!

(everyone yelling)

- I'm not here to make trouble,

I'm just here to find my dad.

Is that a crime?

- Did they give you that tie or is it your own?

- It's mine.

- [Tall Collector] Can I borrow it sometime?

- Are you two even listening?

- It's no use Jay,

Macro's collectors are specially trained not

to listen to the public.

- [Male] Stop the wagon!

Secure the perimeter.

- [Donna] Check it out!

- [Male Collector] A Flash Calc 900!

- [Female Collector] You must've been talking

to my fingers and toes.

- I hear it does instant percentage add-ons.

- Ugh, Atara would never get us these.

- [Both Collectors] Ambush!

- Jay, we're rescuing you!

- [Donna] It's Yudo!

(grunting)

(everyone yelling)

- Ah yeah!

- Hey, this is silk!

- [Warrior] Yah!

- [Jay] We're free let's go!

- [Warrior] Come on!

- Sorry I was late, yeah report cards today.

Not me, but Keith's going to have some explaining to do

when he gets home, McGiven gave him an F in science.

- Hi, Donna, How are you?

- Fine Mrs. Ziegler.

- Do you mind if Jay and I have a moment alone?

- Oh, no, I'll wait outside.

- Oh good, I'd like to talk to you after.

- Sure.

See you later, Jay.

(solemn music)

- Your dad left us a life insurance policy

and I haven't wanted to cash it up until now.

Maybe part of me was hoping he might show up one day,

but now it's time for us both to face facts.

- [Jay] Lila.

- Hey, Jay, Flash, Alpha, are you alright?

Macro's punks are after you.

- You got that right.

- Any luck finding your dad?

- Not yet.

- But we're going to help him find him.

- You will?

- Of course we will.

Cause you're going to help us.

We know that big people and kids once lived

in the same world.

- [Jay] Where'd you get that?

That's my dad's fishing rod!

- This?

- Yeah, he had it in his hand the last time I saw him.

- That's the proof.

- Proof of what?

- Jay's the key,

when Jay finds his dad ...

- Two worlds become one.

- Uh-oh, collectors.

- Quick better hide behind here.

- Why, we can take them.

- No, better they don't find you here.

I'll get rid of them.

Come on!

Well, well, well collectors, come on in.

Boy, I didn't know they let guys like you out of the Tower.

- I don't mind coming here every day, honest.

And Jay likes it.

- Mm-hmm, he's lucky to have you for a friend,

but it's you I'm worried about.

- What's the problem?

Well, you must have other things you want to do,

friends you want to see.

- No, not really.

- I think it's important that we try to take back our lives.

You've got to get out more,

it's not healthy for you to spend every day in here.

- But I want to be here, with Jay.

- And you will be.

Listen, I know it's tough,

but let's not make it any harder than it has to be.

We'll make a schedule, say twice a week, three times.

- (chuckling) You know Lila,

Macro doesn't get all the toys.

Some of the best toys we've taken

are in my own private collection.

- You know, I'd really like to see that sometime.

(knocking)

All clear.

- You have proof of my dad?

- I've heard it's called the Certificate of Fate,

everyone's got one, even the big people.

- That's ridiculous!

We've never heard of any Certificate of Fate

at the Library Club, and we're in charge of all the records.

- Have you ever heard of the Hall of Darkness?

- That's just a story we use to scare little kids.

- [Yudo] Think about it.

What better way to keep a secret?

- What will it tell us?

- His fate, if we can find it.

- You mean his future?

- And yours too.

- Listen to what he's saying Jay,

you can't really believe him.

- Can you take me there?

- Jay, if you go there with him, you have to go without me.

- But what if he's right?

This is what have been looking for.

- If he is right and you get what you want,

then my world dies.

No Alpha, when the two worlds become one-

- You haven't seen it!

You don't know what you'll be like if that happens.

What if you're different in that world?

I don't want to take the chance.

- Alpha, I have to find him.

- I know Jay.

Goodbye.

- Alpha, wait!

- Don't make this any harder than it already is.

(knocking)

(doors creaking)

- What is it?

- A girl.

She claims you'll want to see her right away.

- Who is it?

- It's me, Alpha.

- Where's Jay?

- It's not where he is, it's where he's going,

and we have to stop him.

- Well, I'm glad you finally come to your senses.

(eerie music)

- [Yudo] The whole darkness is so scary,

it isn't even dark.

Fear is enough to keep people away.

- How scary can it be?

- [Male] I've never heard of any kid wanting to go there.

- [Alpha] After what Udo said, nothing will stop Jay.

We have to hurry.

- Can't you go any faster?

- We'd go faster if we got off this stupid thing and walked.

- In these shoes?

- Do you want to beat Jay or not?

- Halt!

All right, we're walking.

- [Yudo] This is it.

- [Flash] The Hall of Darkness.

(eerie music)

Yeah, well, I'm not afraid, let's go.

- [Jay] We walk in,

get the certificate and we're out before dark.

(gate rattling)

- If this place is so scary

how come they have to lock it?

- To keep the hypocrites out.

There's always a test.

- Wait, that's gotta be the key.

- I thought you were the key.

- No, the key to the gate, look.

- There's no way to reach it.

- Maybe there is, give me the rod.

- It's not long enough.

- Time to try the conquerer of 40, Dad's killer spoon.

- You're not gonna eat with that?

- I learned this from my dad.

We used to do this all the time together.

Let's see if I still have the old touch.

- You got it!

- Yes!

So, this is what you enjoyed doing most with your dad,

retrieving keys.

- No, fish.

- Fish?

- Never mind.

(gates creaking)

- [Medea] Hope we didn't keep you waiting.

- [Blonde] Hey!

- [Medea] Why thank you.

- [Flash] Hey, you can't do that!

Come on!

- [Male] Hey!

- I thought you said you didn't want

to come to the Hall of Darkness.

- No, she just didn't want to go with you.

- So why are you here?

- Well, we're very curious

about Jay's dad's Certificate of Fate.

- Well, what are we waiting for?

- The Hall of Darkness is a school.

- You know this place?

- It's a place where grownups teach kids things.

They learn how to spell and do math and homework.

- What's homework?

- When you don't finish all of your work at school,

you do it at home and take it back the next day.

- How do you get out of school?

- You get a report card.

It tells you how you did, and if you tried hard enough.

You graduate, go on to another stage of your life.

- The Certificate of Fate.

You really do know this place.

- [Flash] Sounds pretty awful to me.

- Well, you get used to it.

- Wait, what's a school hour?

- Nine to three, unless you get detention.

- Sounds like this place has a lot of rules.

What's a detention?

- When you break the rules, they keep you here.

- Keep you in the Hall of Darkness?

- Maybe we should come back tomorrow,

we don't make the Big People mad.

- Yes, I think we all should wait.

- We can all go in tomorrow

and face the consequences together.

- Swear it.

But you won't try and go in until morning.

- Big people aren't just a dream to me Jay,

they're real I can feel it.

- You're right, just relax.

- Not me.

Not until my belief BEcomes something I can see

and hear, and touch and talk with.

I can never just relax.

I can only keep searching.

- That's how I feel about my dad.

- We'll find him, Jay.

I promise.

(suspenseful music)

(papers shuffling)

(door creaking)

- Ugh!

(door creaking)

- This must be hard for you, Mrs. Ziegler.

- It has to be done.

- Basically it's illegal affirmation that your husband

is in fact deceased.

That you have no reason to believe he's still alive.

- I believe that.

I mean...

- I understand.

(drawers rattling)

- Mrs. Ziegler?

- I just can't help, but wonder if by signing this,

I'm making it true.

- Where's Flash?

- Are you ready?

- Why is this one open?

(ominous music)

You think this is it?

- Well, there's only one way to find out.

- He's dead Jay, I'm sorry.

- He can't be!

- [Alpha] That's what it means, look.

Incomplete means he didn't finish his assignments,

indefinite suspension must be his fate.

- This can't be his fate!

He did stuff after he left the Navy.

- That's the man in my vision.

You must be the key.

- [Flash] Get me outta here!

Get me outta here!

- Big People!

We'd better go!

- [Jay] Flash!

How long you been in there?

- All night, I fell asleep.

- Flash, you broke our agreement!

- I'm not the only one, Medea was in here too.

- Me?

You must be joking.

- I bet she did something to the certificate.

- Sleeping in a drawer must have affected your brain Flash.

- Let's get outta here.

- But!

- This certificate doesn't matter.

This isn't about some old piece of paper.

It's about what I know in my heart.

(solemn music)

- The seventh hour, of the seventh day,

of the seventh month,

July the seventh, 7:00 AM.

Jay, you must come with me!

I can show you what you're looking for.

- Yes Jay, go with Yudo.

- [Yudo] We found the proof Jay, you are the key.

Come on.

- [Alpha] Give it up Jay, stay here with us.

- You don't believe that I'll find my dad do you?

- No, I think you're fooling yourself.

I mean, as soon as you realize you belong here-

- I don't belong here.

- Then we don't belong together.

- I guess we don't.

- You did your best, you were honest with him.

- Yeah, but it wasn't enough.

- [Medea] They're made for each other,

Jay and Yudo, off chasing ghosts.

- See ya.

(intense music)

(digital music)