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Same Night: Rose Hills, Tennessee
Outside: Street
Dipper's foot stuck between some metal rubble and soaked from the now-destroyed water tower. He looks up to see Giffany with Timmy over her shoulder and Giffany mocking Timmy's voice, "Help me! Help me!" Dipper tries to lift the metal off his leg that's still trapped under some rubble, but it's too heavy, as Giffany puts down a chair and sits in front of Dipper, pulling a struggling Timmy down on her lap, "Anyway." Giffany holds Timmy tightly as she glows red, "Hey, kid, what would you like for Christmas?"
Timmy calls out to Dipper, "Mr. Pines, I am so sorry!"
Giffany interrupts sarcastically, "Oh. No, no, no. I think he was trying to say, 'I want my goddamn file.'"
Dipper assures Timmy, "It's not your fault, kid." He then gives Timmy a hint, "Remember what I told you about bullies?" Timmy stops struggling and gasps as he remembers, and Dipper gives him a nod. With a brave-confident look, Timmy pulled out the object Dipper gave him earlier and quickly pointed it away from his face. Pressing the button on top with his thumb, Giffany yells out as the dazzling light shines on her face. Dipper yells out to Giffany as Timmy runs after Giffany lets go of him, "You like that, Westworld?" Giffany waved her arms around her face, blinded, and fell back to the ground in her chair. Dipper looks at Giffany, who stands up looking at Dipper, "That's the thing about smart girls. They always cover their ass." Dipper lifts his right hand up, and his circle blaster attaches to it. Dipper blasts Giffany. At the same time, another blast hits Giffany, who flies back into some rubble unconscious with burn marks on her left cheek and shoulder. Dipper quickly takes the blaster off his hand as it burns him, "Ah!" Dipper throws it in another direction.
Dipper takes a second, remembering that Giffany was hit with two blasts. He looks at Giffany, confused. A voice calls out, "Dipper!" Dipper quickly looks over his right shoulder and sees Iron Woman's suit's right hand up in Giffany's direction, holding the car battery in the other and one of Jazz's big black medical bags she brought. Jazz holding up a conscious Mabel. Jazz's left arm is around Mabel's waist to keep her up, with Mabel's right arm around Jazz's shoulders while her left holds the blanket on her left shoulder to hide her injuries and is wearing Dipper's headset to control the suit. Jazz calls out again as the Iron Woman suit walks over and grabs the metal bar that's trapping Dipper's foot, "You okay?" Iron Woman lifts the metal bar and tosses it to the side carelessly, freeing Dipper.
Dipper quickly gets up, tapping the suit's shoulder, and breathes out, "Thanks." Dipper steps off the rubble and speed-walks over to the girls, "What happened? Why are you guys not in the garage?" He goes to Mabel's left side and helps support her as she is about to fall.
Jazz explains as she gives Dipper pointed looks, "Well, as I was waiting for your phone call, a guy breaks in and goes to attack me, and in defense, I stab him with a crowbar."
Dipper looks at Jazz, surprised, as the Iron Woman suit walks over to them, "You stabbed a man with a crowbar?"
Jazz defends herself, "He came out of nowhere. But the weird thing happened. His eyes glowed red, his wound healed instantly, and a woman came in with the same orangey glow, and her hand heating up." Dipper sighed as he fought two people in that exact description.
Dipper asks Jazz as they move along, "Did they say what they wanted?"
Jazz answers as she adjusts Mabel's arm around her shoulder, "They wanted Mabel." Dipper looks down at Mabel as she stares ahead weakly.
Dipper nods to Jazz, "Get her car keys." He nods over at Giffany. Jazz gives him a weird/frightened/worried look, "Don't worry. We're right here." Jazz nods, and Dipper switches places with Jazz, wraps Mabel's arm around his shoulder, and looks over as Jazz jogs over to Giffany and grabs her car keys from her pocket, looking at her cautiously as she does. Jazz runs back over to them.
Minutes Later: Street
Dipper walks out of the bar with the file in hand as sirens are heard in the background, and Dipper looks up to see Jazz leaning against Giffany's driver's backdoor to hide the Iron Woman suit, even though the car windows are tinted.
The Iron Woman suit is sitting beside Mabel, who is leaning her head against the window weakly, twisting her face in pain.
Timmy walks up to Dipper, wearing a cowboy hat and an oversized coat, "You're welcome."
Dipper looked confused, "For what? Did I miss something?"
Timmy tells Dipper, "Me, saving your life." He taps Dipper's arm.
Dipper points out smartly, "Yeah. A, I saved you first. B, thanks. Sort of. And C, if you do someone a solid, don't be a yutz." Jazz pushes herself off the car and starts walking around to the passenger side, "All right? Just play it cool. Otherwise, you will come off grandiose." Dipper stops walking at the driver's side.
Timmy questions, "Unlike you?" Dipper opens the car door and looks at Timmy, whose expression is soft, "Admit it, you need me. We're connected."
Dipper tells Timmy seriously, "What I need is for you to go home, be with your mom, keep your trap shut, guard the suit-" Dipper takes the hat off Timmy's head, "-and stay connected to the telephone because if I call, you better pick up. Okay?" Dipper takes a second and ignores Jazz's look for the way he's talking to the kid, "Can you feel that? We're done here." Dipper taps Timmy's shoulder as Jazz opens the car door and gets in. She closes the door as Dipper tosses the hat inside the car, landing in Jazz's lap. Dipper tells the kid as he gets in the car, "Move out of the way, or I'm going to run you over. Bye, kid." Dipper gets in the car and closes the door. Timmy steps closer to the window. Dipper rolls down the window with one hand on the wheel and tells him a little softer, "I'm sorry, kid. You did well."
Timmy looks at Dipper sadly, "So, now you're just gonna leave me here, like my dad?"
Dipper blinks a few times before nodding a bit, "Yeah."
Jazz's expression softens as she listens to them. Dipper then realizes and looks at the kid pointedly as he narrows his eyes at him, "Wait, you're guilt-tripping me, aren't you?"
Timmy lowers his head, still keeping eye contact with Dipper as he hugs himself and says childishly while pouting, "I'm cold." Jazz looks away, putting her elbow on the door, fingers to her lips, chuckling to herself as she believes the kid for a second.
Dipper gives Timmy a sarcastic pout and tells him mockingly, "I can tell." With her eyes closed, Mabel smirks knowingly as she listens to him, "You know how I can tell?" Dipper switches into gear and gives Timmy a sarcastic pouty fake smile, "Because we're connected." Dipper sped off, leaving Timmy standing on the road.
Timmy drops his arms and the act as he says to himself bluntly, "It was worth a shot."
Another Area
Giffany, still lying on the pile of rubble, the glowing red hot in her veins, healed her face and shoulder. Then Giffany wakes up, coughing, and slowly sits up, groaning as she finishes healing.
Inside: Television Broadcast Station
A saleswoman's voice narrates as the TV commercial broadcasts a woman putting up Christmas decorations, "You get this. It's affordable. It's gorgeous. It goes with any decor-" Suddenly, the feed cuts out and changes to The Mandarin symbol.
A tech woman asks as she looks at the screen, "What happened to the picture?"
Another tech woman says out loud, "Go to override." The technicians converse as they need clarification about how the feed went out. A woman walks in as tech woman 2 asks, "How is this happening again?"
Tech man 1 says, "Fine. Override to Los Angeles."
Another station shows that their feed is cut out and shows The Mandarin symbol. The technicians continue to converse, tech woman 2 responding to tech man 1, "I'm trying. There's nothing I can..."
Tech man 2 interrupts, "Well, where is the feed coming from?"
A third station also shows that their broadcast feed is out, only showing The Mandarin symbol. The technicians continue. Tech man 3 answers tech man 2, "I don't know, it's in all of our receivers, and I..."
Back at the first station, tech man 2 says, "The entire East Coast, the satellites are down." The leading man is standing near him, looking at him in disbelief.
Tech woman 2 adds, "It's not just our station."
The leading man asks, "What about a backup manual?"
Inside: The White House
Aide voice says, "We have an unauthorized broadcast cutting through..."
A man sitting at a desk on a laptop grabs the Vice President's attention, who is staring off, deep in his thoughts, "Mr. Vice President, I think you should see this." He looks over before looking at the big screen in the room, seeing The Mandarin symbol in alarm.
Vice President Tyler Cutebiker mutters, "Oh, God, not again." He asks out loud, not looking away from the screen, "Is the President getting this?"
Inside: Air Force One Plane
People around the room, either sitting or standing, all conversing indistinctly as the President, sitting at the end of the table, look at his TV screen in surprise to see The Mandarin symbol. The feed changes to a few clips before changing to the main feed, showing The Mandarin without his sunglasses on.
The Mandarin is staring at the camera as his voice starts, "Mr. President. Only two lessons remain."
Inside: Broadcast Station 2
The Mandarin on the screen with people watching. His voice says, "And I intend to finish this before Christmas morning."
Unknown Location: Studio Room
The Mandarin is sitting on a throne, pointing a handgun at a man lying by his feet, "Meet Thomas Richards. Good strong name. Good powerful job."
Inside: Air Force One Plane
The President watches the feed as The Mandarin voice continues, "Thomas, here, is an accountant for the Roxxon Oil Corporation." Thomas sobbed hard, afraid for his life. The President sits up, more alarmed.
Unknown Location: Studio Room
The Mandarin looks at the camera as he continues, "But I'm sure he's a perfect guy." Thomas continues to sob hard. The Mandarin says, "I'm going to shoot him in the head. Live on your television in 30 seconds."
Thomas shouts, "No!" When he hears that, he's about to be killed.
The Mandarin explains as he points at the phone on his left, "The number for this telephone is in your cell phone." He points at the camera to the President. With a bit of humor, he says, "Exciting, isn't it, imagining how it got there?"
Inside: The White House
The Vice President, along with the people in the room, watching The Mandarin feed on the screen, the Mandarin's voice says, "America, if your President calls me in the next half-minute, Tom lives. Go!"
Inside: Air Force One Plane
As soon as The Mandarin's voice commands, the President puts on his glasses and goes on his cell phone as people converse indistinctly.
The President asks as he shows his cell to the man on his right, "How did he hack my phone?"
The man tells the President sternly, "We can't allow terrorists to dictate-"
The President interrupts as he takes off his glasses, "I have to make this call."
The man tells the President, "I'd strongly advise against that."
The President slowly stands up as he tells the man, "This is the right thing to do." He calls the number, putting the phone up to his ear.
Unknown Location: Studio Room
The Mandarin continues to stare at the camera. He hears the phone ringing beside him. His face continues to look cold but has a hinted look of fear. Thomas looks relieved when he hears the phone ringing.