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♪ ♪

Fuzz. Fuzz.

Are you pointing the dish to the southeast?
'Cause you have to.

How about now?

- [clicking]
- Fuzz.

- Ooh, fuzzy porn.
- Sounds good to me. Help me in.

Are you joking? What about Supremo-Destructo
Martial Arts Combat Challenge?

- SMACC!
- This morning you were going on

about how, despite your generally
pacifistic ways, SMACC...

Is no mere bloodsport,

but an outlet for
man's primal angst

in the barbaric sterility
of the modern world.

So, Lace, how could you settle for
fuzzy porn over the martial arts?

I know I might have
said martial arts

is the most confrontational
of all the arts,

but that's before I
was in danger of

a multiple-story faceplant
from adjusting our

Cold War era hand-me-down
satellite dish.

[Wendy] I think it's coming in.
I see a crowd.

No. It's Varsity Fanclub.

[Wendy] What's Varsity Fanclub?

Only the most popular
boy-band in the world.

How could you be alive and not
know Varsity Fanclub, Dub-Dub?

How can you know Varsity Fanclub
and not want to end it all?

[vocalizing along with band]

♪ Bad habit ♪
[vocalizing]

- What?
- Oh, my God, you love them.

- I do not.
- You had all the dance moves down pat.

As if practiced all
night every night.

Whatever, guys. I'm
a quick study.

And lying to us about your
secret love for Varsity Fanclub.

I'm not having
this conversation.

You know, Wendy Watson,

I think we should buy Lacey
Varsity Fanclub tickets.

- Totally, for her 14th birthday.
- [knock on door]

Oh, look, the door. I'll get it.

Hey. Pip.

Wow. Are my three favorite

illegal subtenants
having a party?

Sure, you can come in.

I was just dropping
by to invite you

to my gallery show
tomorrow night.

You got your two-hour-plus
spoken word opus

Hey, Mr. God into
a gallery show?

No. It's for my paintings.

You got your nude self-portrait

- into a gallery show?
- That was my sister.

And, no, my period of erotic
sibling representation is over.

This gallery show,
it's something new.

I'm calling it Deus Ex Pip.

It's Latin for "The
Machines of Pip."

- That's not what it means.
- Whatever!

So, the deets.

Tomorrow night, The Gate.

Wait, The Gate?

The gallery for
up-and-coming artists?

Sayonara, squatters.

- I gotta see these paintings.
- To the Internet.

How did that troglodyte get
his paintings into The Gate?

Oh, man, this photo of Pip!
[laughing]

Oh, wait.

That isn't...

Oh, my God, that's my painting.

♪ Middleman ♪

Is it lame clinging to the hope

that despite all
evidence to the contrary

this is just a
weird coincidence?

Like the mutual
discovery of DNA,

or the collective unconscious?

Come on. I wouldn't put anything
beneath that scum-sucker.

He copied your painting.

Then Pip is a being of the
purest, darkest evil.

And a confusing one.

Who bogarts your
work and tells you?

Don't worry, Dub-Dub.
Confrontation is my business.

Pip is about to
reap the whirlwind.

That means we're gonna
do bad things to him.

[watch beeping]

- [groans]
- [beeping continues]

[muffled scream]

I'll give you a second.

- What is it, Ida?
- Can't a woman just call?

Maybe I'm lonely.

Seriously, can't this wait?
I've got a crisis here.

There, there, buttercup,
of course it can,

if you don't mind there's been
a rip in the fabric of space!

[watch beeping]

It's a good thing you have
that nude self-portrait

for your facial reconstruction.

What is your major malfunction?

If you're gonna copy my work
at least be smart about it.

I went to the gallery website. I saw
the paintings you stole from me.

The paintings I stole from you?

You know, Wendy, I didn't
want to bring this up,

but the thing is, your
work is kind of...

...exactly like mine.

You're trying to gaslight me?

I'm just saying it's tough to
prove who painted what when.

You're gonna reap
the whirlwind, Pip.

That means we're gonna
do bad things to you.

Ooh, let me guess, you
and Lacey the wonderdog

are going to douse fake
blood on my canvasas

or melt them with a hair dryer.

How could I share a roof
with you guys after that?

I'd have to call my dad

and have you illegal
subletters kicked out.

Same goes if my nose spontaneously
breaks in the next few seconds.

Are we clear?

Good. I do hope to
see you at the show.

[quacking]

Wow, there really
is a hole in space.

[Middleman] With a
duck caught inside.

Guess this kind of stuff
really does draw a crowd.

Which one of our
schmancy fake Ids

are we gonna use to
disperse this mob?

No badge this time, Dubbie.

The present situation requires the
derring-do of a different sort of ruse.

[clears throat]
Ladies and gentlemen,

what you see before
you is no mere trick,

for you are witness to the
astonishing street magic

of Rene the Remarkable, and
my lovely assistant...

Uh, Marion the Enthusiastic.

Now, for my next bit
of street magic...

That's it, folks. Show's over.

- Nothing else to see...
- Thank you for coming.

Please watch our show,

coming this summer
to basic cable.

- Drive safely now.
- [indistinct chattering]

The fabric of space is tearing,

a duck's life hangs
in the balance,

and you want to do card tricks?

My magic flip of the fingers

usually kills at a
time like this.

It's a crack in space!
To my untrained ears

that sounds like a
world-ending big deal.

Make no mistake,

a crack in space is
no laughing matter.

But what we have
here is a warp hole.

Made properly, one of these babies can
link any two points in the universe

giving anyone the ability to
travel anywhere instantly.

Lucky for us, this hole's
only half a drake deep.

So do we just yank out Howard,

zip up the hole and
be done with it?

Only way to zip it back up

is to find the machine
that made it.

We've got to remove the
duck from the warp hole

and take measures to keep
any further lookie-loos

from poking their noses
where they don't belong.

Don't suppose we have a
laser beam fence handy.

Better. Pound for pound the most
powerful deterrent force in the world.

Rene the Remarkable
strikes again.

[quacking]

Vitals and intelligence
within normal limits.

This duck is nothing more
than an innocent victim.

Punching a warp hole
into the fabric of space

requires an enormous
amount of energy.

Get on the HEYDAR and
do a global search.

No one can generate that much
energy without leaving some trace.

Give me a minute. I'm tracking
down the perfect orange sauce.

Now that's just depraved.

Wait, so soulless androids from
parts unknown actually eat?

- Take a step closer and find out.
- Bring it, Marvin.

I'll not have this escalate
into a donnybrook.

This duck's seen things

no feather-bearing
waterfowl should ever see.

[quacking]

Need to find the machine
that opened that warp hole,

- and we need to find it now.
- Oh, don't blow your diaper.

- I'm on the case.
- So what's in the box?

Every now and then a box
comes in with weapons,

gadgets and things...

Yeah, yeah, I got
that on my first day.

I mean, specifically.
What's in the box?

Ah. Two small
indistinguishable gizmos.

That's not necessarily the case.
One's a truth bomb,

the other a concussive
stun field generator.

You can tell by just looking?

Books, Dubbie, are our friends.

Gee, Sugar Britches, don't make us
wait for the inevitable wisecrack.

Yeah. Heart's not
in it today, Ida.

Hold the onions. Wendy
Watson too glum

to tête à tête? This
is most unusual.

It's nothing, really. Just...

Some art stuff's getting to me.

Ooh, art stuff.
I'm scintillated.

If you're not firing
on all cylinders

the Middle Organization is
not firing on all cylinders.

[sighs] Pip, the malignant
nematode son of my building owner

is ripping me off and selling
my work in a gallery.

Back up 200 feet. Did you say
you're being plagiarized?

That's dirty pool.
I'll clean his clock.

What happened to taking
the middle road,

and using violence
as a last resort?

There's no negotiating
with plagiarists, Dubbie.

You take credit for a man's
ideas, you rob his spirit.

It's one thing to forego
credit for saving

the world as a Middleman,
but art and the artists

behind it are what make
the world worth saving.

I agree. You should
quit immediately

and pursue your art full-time.

Look, as buoyed
as my spirits are

by your mutual
outpouring of support...

...this is my problem.
I will deal with it.

She means with doobage.

- Ooh, I'm finding something.
- [bell dings]

It won't take me more than a
few seconds to pin it down.

- [zapping]
- Aaah!

Chocoholics Anonymous! Ida!

- Somebody pinged me.
- Pinged you? How?

[machine beeping]

There's another
HEYDAR out there.

[groaning] She's my sister.

She's my daughter. [whirring]

My sister... My daughter...

Another HEYDAR.

They're scanning my circuits.

Unplug me.

- [humming slows]
- [sizzling]

[voices] Blue, blue!
Blue, blue...

She's in blue screen crash.

What are we supposed to do,
hit Control-Alt-Delete?

I have an important question
before I activate this.

Answer truthfully.
Are you pregnant?

- You kidding?
- I'm as serious as Mao-Tse Tung's heart attack.

- No!
- Is there any chance you might be pregnant?

Only with anticipation of what you'll
do with that tubey gizmo thing.

- Seriously, no chance?
- I'm pretty sure...

Pretty sure's not sure.

You want me to go into
the stark details

of my post-Ben dry spell
where the only things I see

when I meet a guy are the 428 pressure
points that incapacitate him?

- [whirring]
- [groans]

Oy gevalt! I am
seriously considering

changing my stance on
capital punishment.

- Really?
- No. I star-69'd that second HEYDAR.

I've got an address.

Whoever did this,
I want payback.

- [printer whirring]
- [bell dings]

Dr. Elliot Marshall,
Henry Jones University.

Professor of
theoretical physics.

Think about it. In
the exact same day

we're looking for someone
punching holes in space,

an unlicensed HEYDAR,

a device only Middlemen
are supposed to have,

hacks into our system.

Coincidence. [scoffs]
I don't think so.

[cell phone ringing]

It's Lacey. You
mind if I get this?

Bill of Rights says OK.

- Hey, roomie.
- Hey, Wendy Watson.

Noser and I are at
the screen printers.

I have the idea to
print protest T-shirts

for everyone to wear at Pip's
opening tomorrow night.

Can you say public humiliation?

- Guys, stop.
- [Lacey] Why?

Lace, you don't have to turn everything
into a piece of confrontational art.

Is this a situational thing,

or you asking me to
rethink my entire life?

[Wendy] I want you to
let me handle this.

My own way. Please?

Pretty please?

Look, I gotta let you go.

My boss is giving me an
inordinately weird look.

- What's with the inordinately weird look?
- Nothing.

It's just this Pip situation
really steams my clams.

I'm no advocate of reckless
strong-arm tactics

and physical coercion
but remember, Dubbie,

people, people like myself,
people who are trained,

can do things, things that hurt.

That's fascinating. Turn here.

[bike bell rings]

Steel yourself.

These mad scientist types
can be tough nuts to crack.

Anti-establishment
weirdoes, all of them.

If I have to give them a taste of
the hard candy, avert your eyes.

Or watch. See what I can do.

Hi. Can I help you?

- Dr. Elliot Marshall?
- Yes.

Agents Brody and Forrestal

of the Federal Unified Atomic
Regulatory Commission.

Central's tracked a power
spike to this house.

We have reason to believe
it's due to the activity

- of an unlicensed HEYDAR.
- Really? Wow.

- Am I under arrest?
- Depends on your level of cooperation.

I'd love to cooperate. Come
in, I'll show you my lab.

Come on.

Ah.

So HEYDAR is the one
that looks like...

Silver ball that gives
us answers to things.

Silver ball, yeah. Exactly.

Doctor, would you please
identify this device for me?

Of course, yes. Uh, that is...

It's kind of complicated. Uh...

- [girl] Dad!
- If you'll excuse me just a sec.

My daughter, Cindy.

These nano-circuits are beyond the most
sophisticated man-made tech I've seen.

- Think that's our warp hole puncher?
- I don't know.

But it seems to be
missing a power source.

This is darn fishy.

Really? That Dr. Nimrod, Ph.D.
has all this high tech in here,

but can't tell his
HEYDAR from his elbow?

Or that he's supposed
to be a dangerous

anti-establishment type, but
he let us flash a badge

and waltz into his top
secret super lab?

Actually, I was referring to the
height of these lab tables.

They're, uh, kind of
low, aren't they?

[Elliot, indistinct]

Your goose is cooked, baby.

I'm free, once and
for all, I'm...

- [thump]
- Aah!

[both] Really low lab tables.

Who are you? And what do you
want with that black box?

Gosh darn... idiots!

See you in hell!

[jet engine whirring]

Dubbie, that is one fast Huffy.

[Elliot] Never seen
Cindy behave that way.

Did she mention
building a machine

capable of punching holes
in the fabric of space?

I know it must be hard
to accept your child's

- capable of such menace...
- Not really my daughter.

That repugnant little moppet
landed on my doorstep one day

with fake adoption
papers and a promise.

If I did as she said,

she'd get me tenure
at the university.

What did she have you do?

Our lab equipment is all
physics department property.

Tenure was just a lie she
used to get me to steal it.

She blackmailed me
for stealing it.

- I want out.
- Tell us. The black box, what does it do?

I don't know. All she'd tell me

is it's next to useless
without the right battery.

- That's all you know about it?
- That's practically all I know about her.

Cindy's been here for a year,

but only two things stood out.

- This lab...
- And?

Varsity Fanclub?

[Wendy] Varsity Fanclub.

The world's most
popular boy-band.

If you're a fan,
just kill me now.

[Middleman] I'm a country man. Jimmie
Rogers, the Carter family, Hank.

But I've always been
fascinated by the ability

of preassembled sets of
submasculine archetypes

to tug at the heartstrings of
a 12-to-17-year-old fan base.

Funny. I've always been fascinated by
their ability to bring up my lunch.

I think Cindy'd take
issue with that.

If we're gonna figure her out,
we have to figure them out.

You have Jayk, the crooner.

Thomas, the heartthrob.

Bobby, the street tough.

Drew, the charmer.

And the requisite man
of mystery, David.

Is Drew a guy or...?

- Why do you think David needs a cane?
- Crazy, isn't it?

It's no joke, Dubbie. Jayk,
Bobby, Thomas, Drew and David

have themselves one
seriously depraved fan,

a 14-year-old warp
hole punching menace

with a profoundly mysterious
little black box.

[watch beeping]

Hey. Despite my better judgment,

I ran another HEYDAR scan.

Way to climb back
on the horse, Ida.

Helps to be devoid
of human weakness.

Now get a load of
these hot tamales.

No power source yet, but I
found five more warp holes,

each incrementally smaller

than the duck-sucker
you saw this morning.

The smallest one is barely
the size of Wendy's brain.

Get it? 'Cause it's small.

So it seems the holes
are growing larger.

- Maybe she's trying out batteries.
- Where are they?

Oh, all over tarnation.

Newark, Toledo, Albany...

[Wendy] Kalamazoo and Cleveland.

[Ida] Right. How'd
you know that?

Varsity Fanclub's tour map.

The warp holes open up at each
of the stops on their tour.

Solid sleuthing, inspector.
Where are they playing tonight?

Metro Theater, here in town

Varsity Fanclub should be performing
a sound check as we speak.

Now, let's try to get there

before that little girl sucks
the band through a hole.

- In space.
- [cell phone rings]

- Lace?
- You were right about that whole Pip thing.

Yeah. Why do I have to turn
everything into a performance piece?

This is a legal issue,
not an aesthetic one.

[Wendy] OK.

Which is why we hired a lawyer.

- You did what?
- It's our good friend Joe 90.

Joe 90? That guy from 5A

who makes those creepy
phallic sculptures?

And you're on speakerphone.

[Lacey] Not only is Joe
90 a talented artist,

- but, also, he's a law student.
- Former.

Former law student,

who thinks you might totally,

possibly, have a case
against Pip, maybe.

Absolutely. If you have any way to prove
when you began painting your works,

we could file a...

- ...an injunction.
- [chuckles]

Will you put me on
un-speakerphone?

Lacey, please, I know
you guys love me

but a half-baked,

genitally-preoccupied
law student

isn't gonna do me any good.

Tell me you have
a plan, Dub-Dub.

Tell me there's some hellaciously
Byzantine revenge strategy at work

that you can't tell me about.

You gotta stop, OK?
I promise you,

everything's gonna work out.

- Isn't that enough?
- I didn't hear the words

"hellaciously Byzantine"
or "revenge,"

but it'll have to be.

I could tie him to a chair.

Just sayin'. The rest
takes care of itself.

♪ Scream, girl Scream
your love for me ♪

♪ I gotta get it
from your love ♪

♪ Scream, girl Scream
your love for real ♪

♪ Let's tell the whole world
so they can know how I feel ♪

- ♪ Scream, girl... ♪
- Cut it!

David, if you can't get
this right by showtime,

we're gonna be a
four-member band, got it?

- OK.
- [murmuring]

Sorry, it's the biggest
show of the tour tonight.

Security tells me you're from...

TLI. Threat Liquidators
Incorporated.

We're a boutique security firm

specializing in high-risk
celebrity clients.

- Haven't heard of you.
- We keep a low profile,

but I assure you we
work with the best

and most threatened
names in the business.

I can't break confidentiality,

but I will say a
certain metal band

with a singer predisposed to
shout "Ya-yee, yeah, yeah"

is on our list.

And you think Varsity
Fanclub needs protection?

Sir, during a routine
monitor of fan chatter

on the various inter-,
intra-, sub-and extra-nets,

we came across a threat
warranting your notification.

- What's going on here?
- Dude thinks we're in danger.

Meet Cindy Marshall, classic
threat level three.

[Middleman] We'd like to manage
your security free of charge.

Or, for maximum security, aid you
in canceling your show entirely.

- Whoa, whoa, no.
- Hey, go get the books.

Look, we dig you coming
down here to warn us.

Yeah, guys. This Cindy is not the
first fan a few sandwiches shy.

[Jayk] There's not a
single girl in here

who hasn't threatened to
kill us, kill for us,

[chuckles] maim us, or
maim someone for us.

What's this one?

It's parents of the
girls we slept with.

David didn't always
have that cane.

- Ah.
- So thanks, man, but we're cool.

We got tip-top security.

And as they say,
the show must...

♪ Go on ♪

[all harmonizing] ♪ On ♪

- [watch beeping]
- Excuse me.

- [sniffs]
- Ida, you have an update?

Yeah, I'm buying
Wilderness Girl cookies.

You like Skinny Mints, right?

Uh, Bora Boras, actually.

I find the mix of caramel and
coconut tasty and refreshing.

Is this some sort of esoteric
joke, or do you have an update?

No! I'm back at the
ranch with an adorable

Wilderness Girl buying cookies.

You know how much I love
adorable little girls,

'cause I love little
girls so much.

Ida, can you contain
her until...

- [groans]
- Ida?

Cindy's at Jolly Fats.

We clear every room.

Chutes and Ladders. She
ripped out Ida's battery.

- Is she dead?
- She's an android, Dubbie.

The words life and death

have zero relevance to her
condition at any point.

Well, looks like Cindy
gave us the slip.

So what now?

Now? I'd suggest you
avert your eyes.

Why?

Concussive stun field generator.
Yeah.

She's pretty cute for an alien.
Are you sure?

Only thing that makes sense,
given her know-how and abilities

and how handily she dispatched
Ida to get to her battery.

I'd never thought I'd say it,

but I'm gonna miss the walking,
talking, insulting version.

And you, don't think
you can come in here

with those big sad eyes and
get a promotion off of this.

The HEYDAR tells me, now
powered with Ida's battery,

this black box generates
particle waves

with the exact opposite
polarity of those recorded

within the warp
hole's event horizon.

Dubbie, this isn't the
warp hole generator.

This is a reverse switch for
the warp hole generator.

So the Ida-killing obsessed
fan is a good guy now?

If I rob a bank and close the
vault behind me, am I a good guy?

If this box is ever activated,

Ida's battery will be depleted.

So how do we get the
little delinquent to talk?

Cindy, I won't mince words.

You're in a real tight spot.

You're a mysterious alien,

using alien technology,

in a world you didn't make.

That means no
trial, no clemency.

I'll offer but one
chance to save yourself.

Who are you, where is the
warp hole generator,

and what does this have to
do with Varsity Fanclub?

- [grunting]
- Don't bother, kid.

Those cuffs have
more tech in 'em

than ten of your
little science labs.

Your dark side powers
are useless here.

I'll begin again. Who are you?

My name is Quithaalian Rii.

My rank is Commander Mark Two,

and my service number
is X700-3T-Epsilon-5.

Sorry. Name, rank,
and serial number

won't cut it with me.

What's your business
here on Earth?

Come on, commander!

There's no sense
holding back now.

My name is...

My rank is... mark two,

and my service
number is X700...,

you slimy... before I
shove a boot up your...!

Wait a minute. Say that again.

...sucking... smacking...

...munching Yank!

No, no, the serial number.

Never mind. I've got it.

[clears throat]

Ida, run a search on the...

Let's see what ESDI has to say
about our uninvited houseguest.

- ESDI?
- Extraterrestrial Serial Data Index.

Cindy here is a soldier

from the war-torn
Clothar galaxy.

A rebel soldier, by the
looks of her serial number.

- A rebel soldier?
- Yes.

According to ESDI, rebel forces fought
against the Pentharcs of Clothar,

five nefarious oligarchs,

who held the galaxy in the
thrall of oppression.

OK, so Cindy isn't just an alien
masquerading as a 14-year-old girl,

she's a rebel alien
soldier sent to Earth

- to close warp holes?
- [sighs] Even ESDI has limits.

Either way, the implications of a
member of her species on Earth...

With access to warp
hole technology...

...are gravely unsettling.

Jeez, Elroy, what do you want?

I am High Aldwin,

supreme commander of the
Clotharian Rebel Fleet.

It's a message beamed to us
from billions of miles away.

This is a message beamed to you
from billions of miles away.

By executive decree 24,

five, 17, eight,

93, 55...

two, 39, three,

you are hereby
ordered to release

Special Forces Agent, Earth
name Cindy Marshall,

with her instrument to complete
her most vital mission.

With all due respect,

I invoke the Scrolls of Xanthor

and demand an explanation
of Cindy's mission.

The Scrolls of Xanthor?

Your acumen with Clotharian
law is impressive.

- Yeah, seriously.
- Very well.

Five years ago the
Pentharcs of Clothar

were captured and sentenced to
exile to your pathetic planet

where they would live out
their days in disgrace,

or so we thought.

The Pentharcs' plan for escape

is sheer elegance
in its simplicity.

They formed the boy-band,
Varsity Fanclub.

The boy-band Varsity Fanclub

is actually five
intergalactic dictators?

And through a rigorous schedule
of promotion and touring,

amassed a fortune atop
your popular music charts,

so they might build a device

capable of warping them
back to Clothar Five.

That truly is sheer
elegance in its simplicity.

So now you see why Cindy must be
allowed to complete her mission.

But the battery powering
her little black box...

Silence! Once activated,

the black box will emit
a disturbance wave,

reversing the warp
hole generator,

and unleashing an
explosive shock wave

to vaporize the Pentharcs
once and for all.

Nice and neat.

However, if you do not obey,

should you interfere with the
completion of Cindy's mission,

the entire Clotharian Rebel Fleet
shall open a warp hole to your world

and finish off your
planet without mercy.

Tell me you're not walking
with purpose to release Cindy.

I am walking with purpose
to release Cindy.

Are you sniffing glue?

We're just supposed to
blindly follow the orders

of some intergalactic
Monty Python wannabe?

If they sent those
five psychos to Earth

- this is their problem, not ours. Why should we...?
- No choice.

If we stop Cindy from using her black
box to close those warp holes,

the entire world pays the price.

She'll use that black
box and kill Ida.

- That she will.
- Ida's your friend.

Ida doesn't deserve to go out
like this, and you know it.

Are you trying to make this
harder on me than it already is?

Sometimes you have to take
one on the chin, Dubbie.

Based on what I've
seen of you today

you know that better
than you let on.

The eyes of your paintings
are on you, Wendy Watson.

Oh, good Lord, Lace.

Do you hear their cries? [sobs]

They cry for justice,

for you to step up

- and...
- Pip's blackmailing me.

He is?

- With what?
- Eviction.

Eviction? I can't swing the
rent on this place alone.

- He might as well evict us both.
- Oh, he will.

You, me, Noser.

Half the building, if I
interfere with his show.

[sighs] We'll just have
to explain to everybody,

- and if it comes down to it...
- Lacey, no.

Yes, Dub-Dub. And, if
it comes down to it,

we're just gonna
have to move out.

Move where? We can barely
afford our illegal sublet.

It doesn't matter. What
matters is your art.

Hey, this place is just a...

...unrealistically affordable
yet fantastically large loft.

But it isn't. If
we get kicked out,

you'll move back home and Noser will
go live with his parents in Monaco.

And Joe 90 will
probably move into

one of those weird
utopian co-ops

where everyone's
naked all the time.

All of our art gang
shenanigans will be over.

No more art crawl,
cable Fridays,

Thursday night drunk.

Name That Stanza.

Stump the Band. All gone.

♪ I am just mumbling ♪

♪ Let the words hang in the air ♪

Why didn't you just tell?

I guess I just
thought, you know,

this is my cross to bear.

It hurts, Lace,
but, you know what?

A few paintings or my
awesomely bizarre family?

Sometimes you just gotta
take one on the chin.

No, Dub-Dub. I'm sorry.

I can't believe that.

And I don't think you do either.

♪ Tonight I'm going back
to where we both belong ♪

[door opens]

Hello, young lady.

Welcome to the Jolly Fats
Wehawkin Employment Agency.

- So now we have to run the front too?
- I don't know.

A Middleman's never been
without Ida before.

Lots of stuff for us to do now,

like, uh, paperwork.

Interrodroid 4000 is all
thumbs with the stuff.

Ida loved paperwork.

Yeah, Ida loved a lot of things.

Like belittling my
every accomplishment.

- Mmm.
- Calling me a drug addict.

- Threatening me with physical harm.
- Well, she was a pistol.

You know, we may have agreed
not to interfere with Cindy,

but that doesn't mean we
can't console our grief

by going to see Varsity
Fanclub in concert.

Hmm.

And, perhaps, should
we stumble on

the device they're using to
punch their hole in space,

destroy it before Cindy gets a
chance to use her black box.

Your tickets are totally
better than mine.

Sometimes it's good
to be the Middleman.

Come on, Dubbie, let's
lay down tracks.

- [cheering]
- [up-tempo music playing]

[vocalizing]

♪ Girl, I've got some things to say ♪

♪ Sit down, put your phone away ♪

♪ Don't let the interruptions... ♪

You see Cindy?

Keep your peepers peeled.

♪ You're trying to cut me off, baby ♪

Hi. I'm, like, the world's biggest fan

and I'm collecting signatures from
all of Varsity Fanclub's crew.

- Could you sign my shirt?
- Sure.

[groans]

♪ 'Cause every single moment ♪

♪ My heart says that I just can't quit ♪

You know, I don't
get these guys.

We've got five Great
Gazoos who want to go home

and unleash their doomsday device.
What else is there to know?

This seems like a pretty cush gig.
Look at the stage.

Whole thing's an applause meter.

Hawks of the Luftwaffe!
That's it, you cracked it.

That fancy applause meter
isn't just decoration,

- it's a scream harvester.
- Scream harvester?

[Middleman] In layman's
terms, a giant battery.

Well, if that's the battery,
where's the warp hole generator?

That's just it, Dubbie.

The entire stage is the
warp hole generator.

That's why Ida couldn't locate a
power source with the HEYDAR.

Only tweenage screams of
ecstasy have the strength

to cut a hole in space itself.

How could I not see it before?

Uh, because it's
completely insane?

So insane it just might work.

That scream-o-meter is
getting pretty high.

- [buzzing]
- Look above the stage.

And that would be a warp hole.

Lightning round, Dubbie.
Our irascible teen alien's

going to activate that
black box any moment.

If there's any chance to save Ida we've
got to find Cindy and find her now.

Head to the backstage entrance.

You know the drill.

I'm Sgt. Ravenwood, you're Sgt.
Jones.

- You do the talking.
- Yep.

♪ I never forget ♪

♪ You got me goin' in circles... ♪

Pull out a lash and
blow on it, Dubbie.

It's gonna be a nail-biter.

- [explosion]
- [man screams]

Tread careful. This
stinks of Cindy.

[man] Everybody, it's time
to scream your love for me.

Let's rock! One, two, three...

- [techno music playing]
- ♪ Scream ♪

- ♪ Oh! ♪
- ♪ Scream ♪

♪ Scream, scream
your love for me ♪

♪ Scream if you want more ♪

♪ You're gonna have to scream
Scream your love ♪

[music continues, muffled]

Trail ends here. Now what?

I'm not sure. There's
something tugging at me.

That would be me, you stupid...

Cindy! She's been shot.

[groans] Damn right I have.

- Right in the old breadbasket.
- Cindy, listen to me...

- It's the black box.
- Gimme!

- ♪ Scream it! ♪
- [crowd screams]

♪ Feelin' your strength
makes me feel all whole ♪

- ♪ Scream, girl ♪
- Come on!

Gotta be another way. The
warp hole generator's

- just a machine with vulnerabilities.
- Your weapons are useless.

I'd have used them if I could.

That box is the only thing

that can seal the hole and
kill those maggot-eating...

♪ Scream, girl ♪

♪ All your love could
never cause a strain ♪

You want to know the
real bitch of it?

[winces] I was two weeks...

[inhales] ...from retirement.

Cindy. Cindy!

[vocalizing]

♪ Scream, girl
Scream your love for me ♪

♪ You gotta give me
some of your lovin' ♪

Wait. There has to
be another way.

- There's no time.
- [machine whirring]

- [crowd screaming]
- ♪ If you will scream, girl ♪

- What about Ida?
- We tried, Dubbie.

At least we gave her that.

♪ So let's scream ♪

[humming]

[lightning crackling]

I can't believe it.

Ida's battery's really dead.

We've lost her.

But we've saved the
world as we know it.

Come on, cowgirl.

Better saddle up before
the fuzz gets here.

I really like to think
I'm beyond influences.

Now, is it too much
to say at this point

I'm influencing myself?

This is very much the
opposite of cool.

Hello, ladies, Noser.

I've got an interview, but
I'm so glad you came.

Uh, pretty sure at this
point you can drop the act.

- Act?
- You've defeated unknown Wendy Watson,

who was never even
competing with you.

Enjoy your success.
I'll be here,

hanging with the
friends you've lost.

I won't be hanging.

When you do that interview,
and you see my eyes,

you'll see a mirror
staring back.

And you will be moved
by truth and shame

and whatever good is still left
in you to renounce your sins.

Yeah.

Or not.

You know you could
never wash that cheek.

What's Sexy Boss Man doing here?

Hey, what are you doing here?

Uh, settling a score.

You might not want to be
here a moment from now.

Are you gonna kill him?

Only his painting career.

- Ma'am.
- The way I see it,

I was brought into this
world against my will...

[inhales]

I mean, because I
would have chosen

to have actual talent instead
of doing what I did,

which was to steal
Wendy Watson's art.

[woman] Excuse me?

[Pip] I'm sorry. Uh,
what I meant to say was

I snuck into Wendy
Watson's apartment

and digitally photographed her
paintings so as to copy them.

Lord, what's happening to me?
I can't stop.

- Oh, my God.
- My gaze. It's working!

I am a talentless hack.
I know that.

Everyone knows. Why pretend?

I stole her paintings.
I stole them all.

Clap for the real artist.

- To Wendy Watson!
- [applause]

Their eyes.

I can't escape their eyes.

[shouts]

- You set off a truth bomb?
- Yep.

I thought we weren't supposed to use
Middlegear to solve personal problems.

Well, there's personal, Dubbie,
and then there's personal.

Wait. You're not immune to
the truth bomb, are you?

No, I am not.

If I asked you a question,
you'd have to answer it?

That I would.

What's your name?

My name is the same
as my father's.

Take care, Miss Watson.
Drive safely.

I don't even like art.

I'm just here for the babes.

That's nothing. I'm a
critic and I'm colorblind.

I've taken the bar 16 times.

I can't believe my words
actually got through to Pip.

To confrontation.

Guess he's gonna have a lot
of checks to return, huh?

Yeah, when they find him.

It shouldn't be too hard.
Last thing I heard

he was running down the street
screaming, "Their eyes, their eyes!"

- [chuckling]
- You comin'?

Something tells me we're in for a microbrew-fueled
round or two of Name That Stanza.

There's something
quick I gotta do,

but don't start the Beat
poets round without me.

Ginsberg's ass is mine.

[Wendy] Nice bugle.

Oh. Thank you.

It was my father's.

You know, I didn't have
a chance to thank you

at the gallery. And I just...

An artist should never
have to hide her work.

You are living a
double double life.

In my humble opinion, that's
one double life too many.

That's why you stopped by?
To thank me?

Guess I just wanted
to say goodbye.

You know...

The idea that her sacrifice'd
lead to peace and prosperity

for hundreds and billions of aliens,
not to mention save Earth itself,

think it would have
really ticked her off.

That's a good one.

Now, if you'd both
please excuse me,

I'd really appreciate a
moment to mourn alone.

I'll see you tomorrow.

[playing Taps on bugle]

[electricity crackling]

Hey! Finish rolling that spliff

and get me out of
here, you dope fiend.

Ida?

- Is that really you?
- Bet your Bosco it's really me.

I'm back!

What is this, recess?

Let's get our world saving on.