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In our top stories this morning,

racial tensions lead to another nightclub shooting,

a five-year-old girl is kidnapped from her home on Vancouver Island,

and police still have no... Jeez, why do all the news get so bad?

Gabe, come on, we gotta go!

If you don't get down here, there's gonna be consequences.

Like something really bad that you won't like.

Morgan Pym.

We'll give you a name for a cookie.

Can we skip the games for once?

You're a sourpuss.

Being a client is more fun than a barrel of monkeys. Roasting over an open fire.

Just give me a name.

Larry Emmerich.

A quarter?

That's the best you can do.

Come on, baby, admit it. I get the right windshield.

I don't freaking believe it.

How you been? Hey, Cindy.

How you doing?

I'm freaking plastic. Let's grab a beer and catch up.

It's 8 a.m. It's the Breakfast of Champions.

Look, Cindy, I'm sorry.

I just worked a great job. I'm wiped.

Come on.

Friends forever, remember? Granny's rocking on the porch,

passing around a big ol' spliff.

I gotta get home.

You got a place?

We'll grab a six-year-to-go.

No, I... Sorry.

Look, seriously. I need a place to fix.

I'm totally jonesing.

I can't, Cindy. I'm clean.

What do you do for fun?

Look, I can give you some money.

Forget it. I only take charity from friends.

It's open.

Hey, are you hungry? I was thinking we could grab a bite to eat.

Sorry, I have to go. There are leftovers in the fridge. Help yourself.

But... It's all right.

Thanks.

Hi, where can I find Larry Emmerich?

He's just down there.

Oh, I'm sorry, does Morgan Pym still live here?

Yeah, but he's not here.

Oh, will he be back soon?

Um, okay.

Hang on.

Hello.

Hi. I'm looking for Larry Emmerich.

He's not home. I'm his grandmother. Oh.

Okay, can I talk to you for a few minutes?

Are you a Jehovah's Witness?

Um, no.

Taking a survey? I love answering questions.

No, ma'am, I... A steam cleaner?

These rugs could really use a once-over.

Actually, I'd like to talk about your grandson.

Oh, even better. Shut up.

I'm going out. Hello.

Dwight and Angie, they're a lovely couple. It's such

a lovely group of people here. Won't you come in?

I raised Larry myself, you know, family troubles.

Oh, there he is on the first day of school. He was so excited.

And there he is coming home the first day.

What happened to his eye?

Children can be so cruel. The swelling went down after a few hours.

Have you known Larry long? No.

We have a mutual friend. Do you know where I can find Larry?

Well, he usually works till six.

I already tried the newspaper. It wasn't there.

That's strange.

Larry's very dependable.

I'm sure he'll be home soon.

And there he is at his favorite get-up.

They teased him about the L.

I think that's why he became a journalist.

So he can be like Clark Kent.

Mrs. Emmerich.

Connie Rose.

Rose.

I was wondering if you could tell me more about his recent life.

Say, over the last ten years.

Yes, of course.

But I have to get a different photo album.

I should go.

I'm not his girlfriend.

What?

We're just friends.

He lets me eat his food.

I'm not either.

His girlfriend.

I've only met him once, actually. He, um...

You knew my sister, Jerry Slate?

Oh, the reporter. I haven't seen her around in a while.

She's dead.

Oh.

Sorry.

So you knew her, too?

Not really.

She just asked me some questions once.

Well, a couple of times.

About Morgan?

Well, yeah, actually.

Was she, like, obsessed?

Oh, yeah, actually.

See, that's why I need to talk to him.

My sister, she just, um... I don't know what happened to her.

It was like she was seeing some kind of worldwide

conspiracy or something at the end, and... Thanks.

And then she was in this horrible car accident with this stranger,

and I was thinking maybe Morgan might know something

about the woman she was with when she died.

What happened to her son?

Gabe?

Yeah.

She brought him over to my place once.

He was different.

He's autistic.

I've got him now.

My sisters and I talked, and we felt it was best if

he stayed in the same house, same school, you know?

So I moved in, but I don't know if it's going to work out.

Why?

I found him halfway out the window this morning, about to fall.

But you caught him, didn't you?

This time.

What is wrong with you? I don't know what the hell I am doing,

and I don't want to bail out on him, but what if he gets hurt?

But he didn't get hurt.

You did good, really.

I'm sorry. I didn't mean to, like, invade your life with my problem.

Hey.

My name's Maya.

I'll tell Morgan you came by.

Nah.

Forget it.

The Slate family's already caused him enough grief.

Maybe I just needed to talk to somebody.

Mr. Emmerich?

Stay back!

It's not my time yet.

You know who I am?

Of course.

You look different, but you're still full of fire.

You've got x-ray vision.

Yeah, well, you would know. You gave it to me.

Is that what your deal was?

To have superpowers?

Who are you?

My name is Morgan Pym.

I work for the devil, but I'm not here to collect.

I'm here to offer you a chance at redemption.

Redemption?

Mr. Emmerich, if you've had these powers for ten years, why don't I know about you?

There have been sightings of flying men fighting supervillains.

I haven't heard of them.

You haven't heard of me because I failed, all right?

You don't have to mock me.

I do enough of that myself.

I know it was a stupid, childish idea.

Now...

I'm sorry.

What do you mean, fail?

I mean that everything I did made things worse.

Worse how?

Picture, if you will, a woman lying unconscious on the floor of a burning building.

Our beloved hero swoops in to save the day.

Pulls her from the building and streaks off across the sky.

Let me go!

I was just a month into my deal when I dropped her.

Jenny Ackerman of 344 Clinton Street, apartment 3B, found dead after tragic fall.

You're wasting your time, Mr. Pimm.

Even if I hadn't sold my soul,

there'd still be a hundred reasons why I should go to hell.

I'd suffer anything for you.

I would walk through fire.

It's begun.

I no longer care for God, or love, or life.

Use me as you wish.

Maya, it's Cindy.

You gotta help me.

Cindy, how'd you get this number?

I'm in the emergency room.

They're gonna lock me up.

You gotta get me out of here.

Cindy, if the doctors say you need treatment, you gotta let them take care of you.

Please?

I can't stay here. I gotta score.

I'm sorry. I can't.

Hey, brother! Spare change?

My hero.

Starting to doubt yourself, aren't you?

Wondering if doing good's even possible in a godless world.

What do you want?

I want to save you from moping over the inevitable.

Brochettes of Larry Emmerich.

Medium rare.

Nothing's inevitable.

You've never heard of entropy? Things fall apart.

And slapping band-aids on while humanity hemorrhages is pointless.

I'm not trying to save the world. I'm just trying to save one soul.

You pathetic man. 700 years and you still don't know when to give up.

Look, Gabe, I don't know how to put this politely,

but you almost gave me a freaking heart attack this morning.

Am I the neighbor to see you pull something like that? You'll go to foster care,

and I'll go to jail. I mean, I know that I am no substitute for your mom, all right?

But...

I mean, I'm not that bad, am I? I mean,

I'm not so bad that you'd try to kill yourself or something.

Gabe, I need to know, is that what you were doing?

Yes, Grandma, you can come in.

I don't know how he does that. He has ears like a cat.

You skipped work today.

Yep.

Didn't see the point.

Doesn't look like I'll be collecting my pension.

Well, you might, if you work with me.

Cut myself shaving this morning.

That hasn't happened in ten years.

Bulletproof skin, you know?

You're losing your powers.

It happens in the last two days.

It's funny.

I was so scared when I saw you coming yesterday,

but now I'm relieved. I'm finally gonna die.

No, you still have another 32 hours.

You don't get it. I don't want another 32 hours.

Oh, so that's it?

You jump and all your ideals about doing good end

up splattered with your brains all over the alley?

I made my deal when I was 19.

Everyone wants to save the world when they're 19.

But by the time you're 29, you realize there's nothing here worth saving.

That's a convenient excuse.

But Jenny Ackerman had a better one. What are you talking about?

The woman you dropped?

She was bipolar manic depressive.

I talked to her doctor this morning. She was off her meds when she died.

You never checked into it, did you?

You just found out her name and her address so you could torment yourself.

Checked into what? Why the building was burning that night.

It was arson, and it started in Jenny Ackerman's apartment.

She was trying to kill herself. Think about it, Larry. No!

No!

It doesn't matter.

I should have been able to save her. You couldn't.

It was a setup. I had superpowers.

Did you ask for the power to make things better? What? When you made your deal,

did you specify that you wanted to use your powers to help people?

Why else would I ask for them?

He tricked you.

He arranged it so that nothing you could do would make things better.

No!

If you give up now, The devil's one.

But if you really want to be a hero, this is your last chance.

What the hell is this?

Hey, Angie, sorry about the wall.

Let me guess, Laverne was playing Incredible Hulk again.

I kind of lost my temper.

There's a reason he lives with Grandma.

Angie and Dwayne.

There's a nice group of people here.

Forget about the hole in the wall. Let's go save your soul.

Why?

Look out the window.

The world isn't just fair.

And evil is winning. That's why the world needs you.

You can still make a difference. How do you know that?

Because the devil went to so much trouble to convince you, you couldn't.

My guess is there was something about all the people you tried

to save that made it impossible for you to help them.

So by trying, you made their lives worse.

So you think that they're the ones who suffered for my deal?

Well, I can't make amends to Jenny Ackerman.

She's dead.

There were others.

And if we can find them, maybe that'll be enough.

Who else did you try to help?

You want to hear the list?

Grandma wasn't the only one with photo albums.

Jenny Ackerman was only the beginning.

Every time I made the news, I put it in here.

Magda Dawson.

She got her foot caught when she was crossing some train tracks.

I swooped down and grabbed her just before the train hit her.

Scared her so much she had a heart attack.

Ah, and then there was my heroic attempt to apprehend

Bernard Freak, who was robbing a bank.

Except I tackled him so hard, his gun went off and killed a hostage.

There was a proud moment in my career.

And here, here's the real piece de resistance.

Yanis Radek.

Older guy.

He rented a fishing boat, took his sons out.

He fell overboard. I could hear his sons screaming his name.

Never ask for super hearing, it's a curse.

I tried to save him, but by the time I was 50 feet down,

I figured out that breathing underwater wasn't

on my list of powers. I almost drowned myself.

If that was the worst, then that's where we'll start.

We're doing an article on boating safety.

Your dad's name came up in the database as one

of several fatalities over the last 10 years.

Wow.

Hard to believe Edmund still cares about our story.

Well, we want to make sure this kind of thing doesn't happen again.

Yeah, well, we should have never went out on that boat. I mean,

my dad was almost 60 years old.

Of course, he didn't want to wear his life jacket.

Too proud. Anyways, we go fishing.

Says he wants to catch a big one.

And he gets a bite.

I don't know what it was that pulled him over the side of the boat,

but by the time me and Ivan jump in, he's already under. Oh,

these guys are from the newspaper. He's doing an article about Dad's accident.

Yeah?

Well, I'll tell you what happened.

Somebody killed him. Ivan. Hey, Mick.

We both saw a guy, right? Yeah, but we still don't know exactly what happened.

Yeah, there wasn't even another boat around.

You saw somebody?

In the water.

He drowned our dad.

Yeah, the cops looked for him but didn't find anyone.

So you want to write our father's story?

Find that guy. Give him what he deserves.

Thanks a lot.

Thought at least I hadn't made things worse by trying to save him.

If I hadn't shown up at all...

They'd just be sad that their dad drowned.

Now they have to live their lives thinking his murderer got away.

Maybe.

Maybe? Maybe? Were you listening in there?

I might as well be a super villain.

I deserve what I'm gonna get.

Larry, if you're gonna condemn yourself to eternal damnation,

I just wanna make sure you're guilty first. Come on.

Gabe! Gabe!

Gabe, your mama's gonna be home soon, okay? You

gotta calm down. Gabe, you gotta calm down!

Saving your mom, huh?

That's real sweet. You're a little late, though. I mean, you know.

She's already buried and everything.

Whoa, easy. Just wanted to tell you.

You're missing something, and you're trying.

I thought you'd be interested to know Morgan was there when your mother died.

It's open.

Find anything?

Maybe. You ever think about buying a house in West Vancouver? Yeah,

but I've never won the lottery.

Janos Raddick's sons both have houses there.

Mansions, judging from the property values.

They bought them a year after your attempted rescue.

They're not having any trouble getting around either.

According to this registry search,

Ivan's got a Corvette and little Mikhail's got three SUVs.

Didn't know there was that kind of money in self-storage.

Anything?

Starting to get fuzzy in there. Can only see heat, you know, like night vision.

Where are they?

They're on the top floor.

All right. We'll go in the back, have a look around. Wait.

What?

There's someone else in the basement.

Should I?

Be my guest.

Impressive.

Two days ago I could do it with my teeth. That was impressive.

There's a silent alarm.

They made me mad.

Hey, we did it. We made something right.

What does that mean?

It means we did a good thing, just not the right good thing.

Talk to the police.

Leave my name out of it. I'll wait for you at my place.

Where have you been? I've been calling your cell for hours.

So the cops took it away from me.

And they wouldn't let me leave until they found a

translator to tell them what Janusz was saying.

Apparently, Janusz's sons needed money to get

their gun-running business off the ground.

So they faked Janusz's death to collect the insurance.

He was never even on the boat.

He's been locked in that basement for almost ten years.

But you know what?

I saved him.

I finally used my powers to help somebody.

Good for you.

Hey, guys.

How's it hanging?

Can I even be?

You know her?

So do you.

What's the matter, Lara? You don't remember me? That's right.

Last time I saw you, I was a big fat guy working the

counter of the comic store that you like so much.

No way.

What do you want?

Just to clear things up a little.

That's my job.

Clear what up?

That Laverne here should not feel so good about himself.

He didn't do that old fart any favors, is all I'm saying.

I mean...

Yeah. He doesn't have to sit in his own crap in the basement anymore. No.

Now he gets to sit in his own crap in a freaking institution.

While the only people he knows in the whole world rot in jail.

Nice work, douchebag.

I'm sure the freaking Justice League will come knocking on your door any minute.

Don't you ever think that the powers I gave you are even a millionth of what I have?

You were nothing when I met you, and you're even less now. See ya now.

You can't let the devil stop you now, Larry.

He wouldn't try to discourage you. You didn't have a chance.

It's too late.

My powers are almost gone.

If I couldn't make anything right with them,

how am I ever going to make anything right without them?

I spent the night researching the people you tried to save.

Bernard Frake, Magda Dawson.

I'm guessing that in every case there was a reason you couldn't help.

There must be something else they had in common. Some way you can make a difference.

I stopped by my place on the way over.

Some stuff I want you to have. This is all I have left of my comic book collection.

I threw the rest away after Jenny Ackerman. I don't want to talk about comic books.

This is important.

To me.

You reminded me that I used to believe in things.

In justice.

In fairness.

In good triumphing over evil.

That's why I want you to have them.

All my best ones are in here.

Showcase number four.

His first appearance of the Silver Age Flash.

Raven the Bull, number 28. That was the first appearance of the Justice League.

Guess the devil really knew I liked that one.

Tales to astonish. Number 59.

The Incredible Hulk shows up as a villain.

Of course, that was before he was Incredible.

He was just the Hulk then. But by the next issue, he was a superhero.

The Incredible Hulk.

Let me guess, Laverne was playing Incredible Hulk again.

That woman, Angie, she called you Laverne?

Yeah, she doesn't really like me anymore.

She did when we were kids.

Actually, she was the one who saved me from the

kids who beat me up on the first day of school.

She was kind of my hero.

Was she into comic books, too?

Oh, yeah. I got her into them.

When did she stop liking you?

I don't know.

Probably when things started falling apart.

After Jenny Ackerman.

That's when I moved back in with my grandma. I was just angry all the time.

Actually, Angie and I hadn't really talked for years till yesterday.

Why?

Angie!

I know you're in there. Open up.

Hello, dear.

Grandma.

Is that Angie's baby?

Yes, and I think the silver monkey needs a diaper change.

Rose, where's Angie?

She went to pick up her severance check.

Dwayne apparently walked out on her this morning,

which is probably good because he was actually kind of a bastard.

So now she's going to quit her job and take the kids on holiday.

She's leaving town?

Yes.

Apparently her severance check is going to be quite generous.

She said her ship has finally come in. Isn't that exciting?

We really need to find her. Do you know where she worked?

Oh yes, it's just a few blocks away.

Radic Self Storage.

Thanks.

And he asked specifically for me?

Oh, that is so cool.

Gabe! That's sick!

Put that stuff away!

Did he say what the job was?

No, no, I can't.

I can't work nights.

Yeah, if I've got a kid to take care of.

Can you see anything?

No, it's fuzzy.

Wait, somebody on the top floor.

He's gotta be her.

Wait.

Ivan and Mikhail got released on bail this morning.

Turns out that they have a real good lawyer.

Don't think that they'll be happy to see Angie again, though.

Especially not with her hand in the cookie jar.

She's trying to steal their money?

Give it up, Blair Bear.

You're much too little too late.

Oh my god. What am I gonna do?

We can catch them.

Wait!

There's a faster way.

You see her?

She's opening up her vault.

They'll kill her.

Can you pull me up?

No, I'm slipping.

I can't hang on.

Let me go.

It's five stories.

You've got to get her out of there, Larry. I can't run you.

I can't do that again.

I'll be all right.

No.

There's no more time.

Let me go.

Larry?

How did you get up here?

Angie, we need to get out of here right now.

No!

I don't know what you're doing here, but just get the hell out.

Angie!

McKayla and Ivan are here. They're coming upstairs.

Angie!

You're not going anywhere without my money.

Your money?

The money I earned running guns for those two creeps.

You work for them? Yes, Larry, I work for them. I'm a crook, a bad guy, okay?

I thought you worked in an office. It was ten years ago, Larry.

Kaylin Iben.

Why then, how could you end up working for them? It's a long story. Well,

tell me the short version.

My best friend got pushed off a roof all right. Her name was Jenny Ackerman.

I'm thinking, why am I working so hard to stay on the straight

and narrow when the world sucks so bad anyway?

So I found an easy way to make money from my cousin Magda.

Agatha Dawson, who died of a heart attack.

Yes.

When she died, the Raddick boys needed a new courier. It was dicey at first.

They almost got Nell when their partner got caught robbing a bank. Bernard Frake.

How could you know that?

And then, Mikhail and Ivan's father died,

and they had plenty of money to fund their business.

Okay, what's going on, Larry? How do you know about all these people?

I did this to you.

I made you into a criminal.

Don't give yourself too much credit.

Put the money back, Angie.

This isn't what we believed in.

Back off, Larry. I'm not a comic book character.

Okay.

You're right. We're just ordinary people.

But we can still do the right thing.

Put the gun down, Angie.

You don't want to hurt me.

You want what Larry did to mean something.

He didn't take that bullet just to save your life.

He did it to save your soul.

I shouldn't have done this.

I don't deserve it. Go home, Angie.

Go be with your kids.

Start over.

Am I going to hell?

No, Superman. You're going to the hospital. Right now,

you're gonna wait for the cops to get here.

What do I tell them?

The truth.

That you're a hero.

Yeah, I heard shots fired at Radix Self Storage on Bailey.

I think you should get somebody up here.

Hey, kid.

I'm sorry it was so snappish.

What do you say to some emotional healing with ice cream?

So good triumphs over evil, huh?

Only in comic books, my dear boy.

She must have found out where I live.

You know her?

She took me in when I got into town.

She showed me how to get around on the streets.

She's sweet to me.

Maya.

It's all my fault.

I shouldn't have listened to my sponsor. I should have helped her.

You did what you thought was right.

Who cares about what's right? The world is all wrong.