All language subtitles for Me - S01E09 - Head in the Sand.en

["Peace" playing]

[song continues on radio]

[song fades out]

Help! Yates is here! [panting]

[panting]

[Max] Look, I get it, okay?

You're in a new house, at a
new school, and it's a lot.

- What are you doing?
- [gasps] Uh...

Listen.

[Max] I have this, like, rule
where, when something big happens...

Boom! I reinvent.

And, you know, it may seem small

but you gotta figure out what you
wanna do and who you wanna be.

[Ben] Who did I wanna be?

[phone chimes]

[Ben] How was I supposed
to know who I wanted to be?

I was 12.

[sighs]

[Ben] Most of my life was spent putting
on clothes someone else bought me,

believing I was the
person others said I was.

[camera clicks]

[Ben] But part of growing up
means thinking for yourself.

[camera clicks]

[Ben] Making your own choices.

"We need you."

I could only bury my head
in the sand for so long

before I had to take a
hard look in the mirror

and face the truth
that stared back at me.

[sighs]

[officer] I figured that was
probably... There you are.

[sighs]

Your lucky day.

Ran the kid with all the holes in his
face through the system and got a hit.

Aleister Morris.

- Current address?
- [chuckles] You won't believe it.

But this can't be right.

- [clatters]
- [students laughing]

[scoffs]

[Owen] Here. Let me help.

- I have the same shirt in marinara.
- [chuckles]

Me and some other guys
were thinking about

going to the dance as a
group next weekend. You in?

Yeah, for sure.

[sighs]

Everything good at
your mom's, Max?

Yeah.

[sighs]

We got an email from the PTA. They were
looking for chaperones for the dance.

Ben, you plan on going?

Yeah.

With who?

Just some friends.

- How about you, Max?
- Yep.

[Phil] With Kenny?

Can I please be excused?

[sighs]

[sighs]

Hey, Ben. Uh, maybe later on,

you can show me some of those
photos you've been developing, huh?

Sure. Or you could go in yourself
and invade my privacy again.

Ben!

- [door slams]
- [Phil] Okay.

So, maybe not the best time to let
them know we volunteered to chaperone.

[Phil sighs]

- Phil built you that darkroom...
- Darkroom.

Yeah, I know. And he
puts a roof over my head

and makes sure I have my
favorite breakfast every morning.

Your point?

[scoffs]

Ben...

I need you to try.

[Elizabeth clears throat]

[Phil] Guys, breakfast!

- Thank you.
- [Phil] You're welcome.

Hey, um...

I, uh... I shouldn't have
taken them without asking.

You shouldn't have been in
there in the first place.

[Phil] Well, no.

Ben, I'm still the parent, and in the
interest of keeping you kids safe,

I'm allowed to go
where I choose.

- But you're not my parent.
- Ben!

[Phil] It's okay, it's okay.

Ben, look.

You are allowed
to be angry, okay?

[prison door rattles, slams]

[guard 1] Step back
from the prisoner.

[guard 2] Okay,
you can go through.

[guard 3] Five more
minutes, gentlemen. Five.

[clears throat] Thank you.

So, Aleister. It's,
uh, Detective Kennedy.

I need to ask you
a few questions.

There was an incident at
the mall the other day.

I'm trying to locate this guy.

[stammers] I don't...
I don't understand.

- I've been in here, that's not...
- It's not you.

I know.

I know.

How is that even possible?

Someone is out there, Al,

using your face,

your identity,

your everything.

My home.

Even that.

Listen to me.

The guy in this photo
is after my daughter.

So, I need to do everything
I can to find and stop him.

- Do you understand?
- Yeah. Yes. Yes, sir.

The name Yates Skurk.

That mean anything to you?

Yates Skurk means
everything to me.

That's right, Detective
Kennedy. I know who you are.

I know who your daughter is.

And I even know
who your wife was.

[chuckles]

[clears throat]

Well, he didn't take
your form, did he?

I gave it to him.

Yeah, after the others tried to rob him
of everything, he came to me for help.

So I helped him.

[chuckles]

[clears throat] Yeah, so
what did you give him?

Hmm?

You're a thief.

Oh, I'm so much more than
that, Detective Kennedy.

I can steal anything.

Including powers?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

How? 'Cause you... you can't just
transfer what's inside of you...

Yeah, that's what they had
us believe at the Center.

"Be careful, kids, you could hurt yourself
if you don't know what you're doing."

But believe me, I
knew what I was doing.

I sacrificed myself for Yates, and
one day he'll reward me for it.

[scoffs]

He doesn't care about you.

He used you, same way
he uses everybody.

[slams fist]

You don't know what
you're talking about.

Yates is coming for all of you
and especially for your daughter.

[Darren sighs]

[sighs]

- I thought we agreed never to...
- Never to reach out to you.

This is too important.

That's everything, including
where he's likely staying.

Aleister Morris's house.

Thank you.

All right.

Ben.

Ben.

Look, I know you're afraid,

and I know this isn't your
fight, but it is mine.

- And if we don't stop Yates now...
- World domination, blah, blah, blah.

Okay, just be
honest. Look at me.

- I have zero control over my powers...
- It doesn't matter. I need you.

- He's a shape-shifter.
- Okay. Are you sure?

[Carter] When they learned about you,
and discovered what you could do,

I broke the rules.

I was told to stay
away, but I didn't.

Well, why not?

I had to know.

Before you, there was only one other
shape-shifter we knew about. Yates.

I had to know if you could be
used in the fight against him.

Used how?

To trick him.

Into thinking I was you.

Bait. Bait. You
want me to be bait.

Excalibur is in the young
adult section over there.

If you need anything
else, just let me know.

Um, I'll probably
be right over here.

- [doorbell chimes]
- Max.

- Morgan?
- Max, we need you.

He won't listen to me. He
won't listen to Carter.

There's only one person
he will listen to.

[Elizabeth speaking
indistinctly]

Mom?

[Elizabeth speaking
indistinctly]

Hello?

[Elizabeth speaking
indistinctly]

I think you got very lucky.

That's a stop sign
over there, you know?

Mom?

[Elizabeth] Ben? Is that you?

Yeah, it's me. I'm coming down.

Poor guy. Crashed
his motorcycle.

I'm going to find an ice pack.
Grab the pot when it boils.

[Ben breathing shakily]

Ben, Ben, Ben, Ben.

What's so special about you?

[breathes shakily]

You're just the bait.

[screams]

- [grunts] No!
- Ben.

No. No, get off.

- Ben. Hey.
- [Ben grunts]

- [grunts]
- [Elizabeth] Ben!

Sweetie, wake up. You're
having a nightmare.

It's just a nightmare.

It's only a dream.

Hi. You okay?

Okay.

[gasps]

[sighs]

[Max] Ben.

- Ben, we need to talk.
- [Ben] Right now?

You need to go to Morgan.
You've got a gift, Ben.

And yeah, sometimes you're an idiot
and don't use it the way you should.

What's the point of having
powers if you won't use them?

- Why are you smiling?
- I'm on my way to Morgan.

And you were just gonna
let me keep talking?

Thanks to Detective Kennedy, we've got
almost everything we need on Yates.

Where he's been hiding.
Whose identity he's assumed.

Yates isn't expecting us
to bring the fight to him.

- So, we'll have the element of surprise.
- Come on. Let's do this.

[Morgan] He wants Carter.
So, we'll give him Carter.

[Ben grunts]

[Morgan] We can use this as a
diversion for the real attack.

[grunting]

[both grunting]

Hold on. Great story and all, but
aren't her powers invisibility?

There's more to
Carter than just that.

- Her mom's powers are with her.
- It's what Yates is after.

Right now, that's our only hope.

[Carter, Yates straining]

[Morgan] He stole our powers, and
Carter's gonna help us get them back.

[Yates shouts]

[Carter strains]

[Yates grunting, groaning]

- [Yates groans]
- [Ben] Hold on.

When I was at the mall with Carter,
she took my hand and made me invisible.

Couldn't we somehow do
the same thing with Yates?

What happens if I turn
him into someone else?

We don't Power-Bridge,
and she never should have.

[Ben] Well, why not?

How about we leave all
the ideas to teacher, kid.

- Hey, how about you shove...
- [Morgan] Okay.

It's too dangerous. It
could be the end of you.

We follow this plan.

There's no more hiding.

No more threat.

No more Yates Skurk.

We can all go on with our lives.

Max, hang back a moment?

I'll be outside.

[sighs] Okay, I'll start.

Um, you're welcome for bringing Ben here.
I'm assuming that's what this is about.

Is that really what you think?

You're the one who told me to stay
back, so I'm hoping you'll just tell me.

- Maybe it was just to thank you.
- Okay.

So, like I said before,
you are welcome.

[sighs]

You know what? No. This sucks.

- I can do this. I can help.
- I know.

You don't think I've noticed you
by his side every step of the way.

Watching.

Listening.

Supporting.

[sighs] I swear, if this is all that
"accumulation of precipitation" crap...

This is not simply about
you bringing Ben here.

This is about you, Max.
You're a part of this now.

[Ben] So, what was
that about back there?

[Max] Geez, FOMO much?

[Ben] No.

[Max] You really suck at lying.

- [Ben] No, I don't.
- Yeah, you do.

[Ben] You know, I thought
I sucked at storytelling.

[Max] You can suck at
more than one thing.

Come on. Admit it. You're just
dying to know what Morgan told me.

- N-No, I'm not. [chuckles]
- No?

- Maybe.
- [Max] Come on.

Remember when you were like, um,

"Max, uh, I-I'm sorry everything's
always about me, but"...

So, you were
listening. [chuckles]

I mean, why can't it be
about me for a change?

- Never said it couldn't.
- Good.

What?

- Nothing. [sighs]
- No. Come on, just say it.

I can't. We agreed that it wasn't
always gonna be about me for a change.

[sighs] Get over yourself, Ben.

I think I finally
figured it out.

Figured out...

Who I wanna be.

I wanna be me.

[Ben] I know that I said you
weren't really my family...

But I'm sorry.

Whatever it is that I need to
do to make it right, I'll do.

Oops.

You are toast.

[grunts, groans]

See you in class, Jason.