PAGE ONE (four panels)

Panel 1. BART as Kid Flash stands in Broome Park, looking around impatiently. Behind him, NEGOSHIAN is crouched behind a boulder preparing to strike.

BART CAP (expressing BART's thoughts):

Peter told me we'd film some "Kid Flash Investigates!" action here at 4:00.

BART CAP:

That was three minutes ago.

Panel 2. BART stands, arms folded and one foot tapping furiously. Behind him, we can spot PETER KARLSON crouched with his camera.

BART CAP:

Come on come on come on.

SFX:

FOOM

BART CAP:

"Foom?"

Panel 3. BART has been bubbled into the air by the anti-gravity particles that NEGOSHIAN has shot out of the wrist tubes of his silver jumpsuit. In the near background, NEGOSHIAN shouts his triumph in familiar super-villain fashion.

BART CAP:

Whoa!

NEGOSHIAN:

You, Kid Flash, have met the power of Gravitas!

Panel 4. Title and credits space.

TITLE:

Now the Battle Was at Its Highest

CREDITS

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PAGE TWO (five panels)

Panel 1. Horizontal panel. BART kicks at superspeed through the air like a swimmer, propelling himself toward NEGOSHIAN.

BART CAP:

Ha! I'm coming for you, big loud silver guy-

Panel 2. Horizontal panel. The anti-gravity bubble bursts, and BART bellyflops to the ground. NEGOSHIAN gloats and launches a boulder into the air.

SFX:

Thuddd

BART CAP:

Ow!

NEGOSHIAN:

My bursts of negative gravity may not last long…

SFX:

Fooom

Panel 3. NEGOSHIAN taps the levitating boulder so that it floats over BART, threatening to crush him when it falls. BART is on his hands and knees on the ground, looking up apprehensively.

NEGOSHIAN:

…but they last long enough to crush you!

BART CAP:

Okay, time to think.

Panel 4. BART has jumped up onto the side of the boulder and is kicking through the air again, pushing the boulder over NEGOSHIAN, who reacts with surprise.

BART CAP:

Ha! Where's your big silver mouth now?

Panel 5. BART is jumping up and down on top of the floating boulder while NEGOSHIAN crouches underneath it, keeping it in the air with his anti-gravity puffs.

SFX:

Jomp Jomp Jomp

SFX:

Foom Foom Foom

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PAGE THREE (ten panels)

Panel 1. The boulder crashes to the ground, BART riding it down. NEGOSHIAN runs out of the way, and as he does BART notices a detail on the back of his silver costume.

SFX:

THOMP!

BART CAP:

Ooh! A control thingie!

Panel 2. Inset panel showing what BART has spotted: an on/off switch.

Panel 3. BART easily catches up with NEGOSHIAN and switches the costume control panel to the off position.

SFX:

Klik

BART:

Gravitas is a stuuuupid name.

Panel 4. NEGOSHIAN whirls so he faces BART again and reaches behind himself to switch his outfit back on.

NEGOSHIAN:

Hey!

SFX:

Klik

Panel 5. BART mischievously zips around NEGOSHIAN and flips the switch back off.

BART:

If you're all about "negative gravity," shouldn't you be Negravitas?

SFX:

Klik

Panel 6. Small stacked panel. Close up of NEGOSHIAN's finger flipping the switch to on.

SFX:

Klik

Panel 7. Small stacked panel. Close up of BART's finger flipping the switch to off.

SFX:

Klik

Panel 8. Small stacked panel. Close up of NEGOSHIAN's finger flipping the switch to on.

SFX:

Klik

Panel 9. Larger panel once again. BART is reaching around NEGOSHIAN to flip the switch again, but NEGOSHIAN gives him a shove on the side of his head.

BART:

It took me only two seconds to think up a better name for-

NEGOSHIAN:

Get off!

Panel 10. Close up of BART's face reacting with surprise and hurt.

BART:

Ow!

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PAGE FOUR (five panels)

Panel 1. BART, angry and remembering what he's there for, pounds NEGOSHIAN in the gut with a series of superfast punches.

SFX:

pudpudpudpudpudpudpud

Panel 2. NEGOSHIAN is on the ground retching. Some of the tubes in his costume have come loose, leaving it powerless. BART stands over him.

BART:

And let that be a lesson to you!

NEGOSHIAN:

Keck! Keck!

Panel 3. Police OFFICER SUAREZ strides into the scene. BART points out NEGOSHIAN, who's still on all fours.

OFFICER SUAREZ:

All right, you two clowns-knock it off!

BART:

Officer, arrest this man for assaulting me!

Panel 4. SUAREZ responds with skepticism while BART gets more indignant.

OFFICER SUAREZ:

It looked to me like you were thumping each other.

BART:

But he's a villain! Look, he's wearing a costume! And a mask! And…oh.

Panel 5. Close up of BART, looking nervous.

BART:

Er, I have a Titans I.D. card.

BART CAP:

At home.

BART CAP:

Somewhere.

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PAGE FIVE (five panels)

Panel 1. PETER runs into the scene holding his camera. BART looks pleased, OFFICER SUAREZ a little exasperated.

PETER:

It's just a student film, officer!

BART:

Oh! Yeah, yeah-this is part of our movie!

Panel 2. OFFICER SUAREZ lectures PETER.

OFFICER SUAREZ:

You know you should have a permit to film in the park? Since you're students, though, I'm gonna let you off with a warning.

PETER:

Yessir, sir.

Panel 3. PETER walks away with NEGOSHIAN and BART trailing on either side. NEGOSHIAN isn't happy, but PETER is so stressed that he's looking a little sick.

NEGOSHIAN (whisper balloon):

Your uncle's not gonna like hearing about this.

BART:

Hey! Families are off limits!

Panel 4. PETER dismisses NEGOSHIAN as BART looks on cluelessly.

PETER:

Look, you did your job, okay? Let me handle my uncle.

Panel 5. As NEGOSHIAN shambles off in the background, BART continues to trail after PETER happily without noticing PETER's emotional state.

BART:

Tough working with actors, huh? Hey, where's Hannah and her sound thingies?

PETER (muttering in small letters):

I didn't think she should see this.

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PAGE SIX (four panels)

Panel 1. BART and PETER are walking on the Keystone Community College campus. PETER is still looking sick, and BART is still buzzing around chirpily.

BART:

That's too bad! I'm all set to talk to the camera.

Panel 2. PETER has stopped in front of the classroom building.

PETER:

Look.

PETER:

I gotta go to class, okay?

BART:

Oh, yeah!

Panel 3. PETER is standing in front of the building, pulling his phone out of his pocket. Behind him, BART's crackly trail shows where he's just run out of the scene.

BART (off panel):

See ya!

Panel 4: A few seconds later PETER is in the same place, speaking on his phone. Behind him, BART reenters the scene in his street clothes, carrying his criminal justice textbook and whistling to look casual.

PETER:

Uncle Jimmy, it's Peter. You gotta trust me, okay? I got a much better idea…

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PAGE SEVEN (five panels)

Panel 1. The Criminal Justice classroom at Keystone Community. The window shows that it's darker outside. PROFESSOR McDONNEL is at the lectern. BART is sitting with DESIDERIO and HERSEY, and other students are also in their project groups.

PROFESSOR McDONNEL:

Okay, people, good discussion. I'll see you all next week. Remember your appointments with me to discuss progress on your group projects.

HERSEY:

So we goin' over to rookie's house to question Chambers?

BART:

Yeah!

DESIDERIO:

No, we're going to help Darrin move into his family's new apartment near Saunders.

Panel 2. HERSEY is driving DESIDERIO and BART in his pickup through the streets of suburban Keystone.

DESIDERIO:

And if Darrin feels like telling us what he told the police about Raemond Ferguson's murder, we can certainly take notes.

Panel 3. As HERSEY's pickup waits for him, DARRIN CHAMBERS comes out of the GARRICKs' house carrying a paper bag of things JOAN has pressed on him. His bruises have faded more. He's once again dressed in the clothes he wore in episode 16, though they're now cleaned and pressed. JOAN has come out to bid him goodbye, carrying a sweater vest with a diamond pattern.

JOAN:

And you can have this vest-Jay hardly wears it anymore.

CHAMBERS:

Thanks, Miz Garrick, but I couldn't.

CHAMBERS:

I really couldn't.

Panel 4. HERSEY drives his pickup in the other direction, now carrying CHAMBERS as well as BART and DESIDERIO.

CHAMBERS:

Thanks for finding a new place for my grandma, Mrs. D. I don't know how to say thanks enough.

BART:

Well, actually you could-

DESIDERIO (balloon interrupting BART's):

Don't mention it, Darrin. I just made some calls.

Panel 5. HERSEY's pickup arrives in a neighborhood near Saunders College-Victorian houses that have been divided into apartments for students and workers. The truck passes a car with the silhouettes of four men sitting in it.

HERSEY:

Huh. Nice neighborhood.

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PAGE EIGHT (three panels)

Panel 1. On the porch of one of those Victorians, the CHAMBERS family greets DARRIN happily. The family consists of his GRANDMOTHER, his SISTER DEBRA, and a yellow kitten DEBRA holds in her arms.

GRANDMOTHER:

Oh, my baby! I thought I'd lose you again!

DEBRA:

Just wait till you see this apartment. And the neighborhood is so much safer.

Panel 2. GRANDMOTHER expresses her gratitude to the family's helpers, hugging DESIDERIO. BART reacts with smug raised eyebrows to her remark.

GRANDMOTHER:

You folks have done so much for us.

GRANDMOTHER:

You're all heroes! Just as much as Kid Flash!

FREDDY BOZIC (off panel):

Little G.G.!

Panel 3. The four men from the parked car are ranged on the CHAMBERS family's lawn, looking threatening. One is armed with a baseball bat, another with a nightstick. They are the BOZIC brothers, with FREDDY BOZIC the oldest and best dressed. They are in their late teens and twenties, looking like criminal muscle, which they are.

FREDDY BOZIC:

Big G.G. wants to see you.

FREDDY BOZIC:

And we're the guys who're gonna deliver you.