The Past Comes Back to Haunt You

(ESTABLISHING SHOT – Still in SYD's nightmare. She's chained to an examining table, wearing hospital garb. DEMENTOR walks in)

DEMENTOR: Well, if it isn't S060787. Are those restraints too tight?

SYD: (glares)

DEMENTOR: I suppose you're wondering why you're here.

SYD: (struggling against the restraints) What...was...your...first....clue?!

DEMENTOR: (said with disgust) You're definitely a LIPSKY...pity you didn't take after your mother in the brains department.

SYD: I have no family.

DEMENTOR: I see they've wiped your mind yet again. Pathetic.

SYD: How do you know me and my family?

DEMENTOR: Your whole family disgusts me. Your mother and father have stolen things that should rightfully have been stolen by me.

SYD: 'Rightfully'?

DEMENTOR: (slaps SYD hard in the face) Let me continue. Your aunt has foiled my plans many, many times. You will be a tool for my revenge.

SYD: (confused) What?

DEMENTOR: You are going to kill her.

SYD: No! No!

(SYD flares her hands, sans metal claws, and tries to break free. She succeeds after much struggling)

SYD: I'm not killing anyone.

DEMENTOR: Yes...keep letting your hands flare...

SYD: Oh, I will.

DEMENTOR: You're the perfect villainess....

SYD: Leave me alone!

(SYD races off, looking for a way out)

SYD: Where is it....there has to be a way out...

(DEMENTOR follows her)

SYD: Found it...(tries climbing the window. DEMENTOR knocks her out)

(Later, SYD groans, unconscious. Voices of AGENTS are heard)

AGENT 1: Yep, he's locked up this time. For a long time.

AGENT 2: There's S060787.

AGENT 1: She's unconscious.

AGENT 2: What's that on her claws? Metal?

AGENT 1: Yes, metal.

AGENT 2: Do you think she's alive?

AGENT 1: Possibly.

(They walk over to SYD)

AGENT 2: She's breathing.

AGENT 1: We'd better get her back to base.

(SYD snaps out of the nightmare, screaming)

SYD: Good thing everyone here's a heavy sleeper...otherwise AUNT JESSIE would end up screaming herself hoarse.

(Later, in gym class, SYD is climbing a rope. She suddenly grabs her head with one hand, grimacing. She falls off the rope and onto the mat.)

JESSIE: (rolls eyes) Imagine that. She faints on the very day that I substitute.

SYD: (unconscious)

TERRI: (to JESSIE) I don't think she's faking.

JESSIE: SYD?

SYD: (Groans)

(In SYD's nightmare, she's in DEMENTOR's lair before the AGENTS find her. She stares ahead, her expression one of fear.)

DEMENTOR: (approaching) So, S060787, are you ready to help me destroy JESSICA?

SYD: Who's that?

DEMENTOR: Don't be stupid, that's your aunt.

SYD: (glares) If she's my aunt, then I'm not helping you kill her.

DEMENTOR: (pressing a button on a console) Prepare for deactivation.

SYD: Yeah right! (runs off)

(SYD groans once again and opens her eyes, which aren't the normal green. They are purple with orange where the whites are supposed to be. She glares at JESSIE)

JESSIE: SYD? Why are you staring at me like that?

SYD: (lets the metal claws grow)

JESSIE: S-SYD?

SYD: (glaring)

TERRI: (stares)

SYD: (to JESSIE) You're the reason DEMENTOR kidnapped me.

JESSIE: (pausing for a second in thought) DEMENTOR? As in PROFESSOR DEMENTOR?

SYD: Who did you think?!

JESSIE: (thinking) I thought I had defeated him....

SYD: (glares harder)