Hank: [voiceover] I still think about the night your mother and I had to leave you...
[The camera cuts to a young Hope van Dyne, who is walking out of her bedroom into the hallway. There, Janet van Dyne and Hank Pym are talking to a woman.]
Janet: [to the woman, faintly] Hopefully, it's not for long, but I'll call you when we get settled.When I have a better indication of what's going on.
Young Hope: Mommy?
[Janet and Hank turn around to face their daughter. Janet sighs as Hank gets the bags situated.]
Janet: Oh, Jellybean. [She kneels down to meet eye-level with Hope.] Daddy and I have a last minute business trip, so Rose is going to stay with you for a few days.
Young Hope: No. I don't want you to go.
Janet: Ugh! It's gonna be so boring! I won't be able to keep my... eyes...
[Janet then pretends to have dozed off. Hope giggles as Janet snores. Hank walks up to his daughter.
Hank: Goodbye, sweetheart. Alright, we'll see you soon. [He kisses Hope on the forehead. He then touches Janet's shoulder.]
[Janet snorts "awake." Both girls giggle.]
Hank: [voiceover] I wish we could have put down our bags, and tucked you back into your bed, but too many lives were at stake.
[Cut to a shrunken Janet and Hank flying onto a metal surface, leaves flying through the air.]
Hank: Oh my god! They've already launched!
[A missile flies up from the surface.]
Janet: We have to stop it! Come on!
[Hank grapples himself up on the bomb while Janet flies. As the missile rockets through the air, Hank and Janet hang onto the steel, desperately trying to disarm the missile.]
Hank: [voiceover] The only way to disarm the missile was to get inside it, but the plating was too thick. The only way in was to shrink between the molecules.
[Janet flies up beside Hank, putting a grapple line onto her waist.]
Janet: I can't get through! Hank...
[A landmass comes to view through the clouds, meaning the missile could wipe out that place any second.]
Hank: [voiceover] We both knew that if you go that small, there's no coming back.
[Hank tries to turn a button on his belt, but it sparks and fails. Janet watches.]
Hank: [voiceover] It should have been me, but my regulator was damaged. Your mother's wasn't.
[Janet flies up into the air and turns a button on her belt, making the red light flash.]
Janet: Tell Hope I love her...
Hank: [voiceover] She turned it off.
Hank: Janet, no!
[Janet flies into the missile, and shrinks until she cannot be seen. She flies through various systems, disarming the machine and making sparks fly everywhere.]
Hank: [voiceover} And went subatomic to deactivate the bomb.
[The rocket tumbles and splashes into the ocean.]
Hank: [voiceover] Your mother saves thousands of lives that day, knowing she'd be lost in the quantum realm. Alone. Afraid. Gone forever.
[Young Hope looks back at the doorway and disrupts her playing to greet her father at the door, who looks tired and traumatized. Hope's lip quivers, and Hank pulls her in for an embrace.]
Hank: [voiceover] Telling you that she wasn't coming home, was the hardest thing that I ever had to do.
[Cut to present day, with a grown Hope and an older Hank.] But then Scott showed up...or should I say, broke into our house. And when he went to the Quantum Realm... he came back, everything changed. I started to wonder...could your mother still be alive? [Hank stands up, and Hope follows.] So I dusted off some old plans.
[Hank pulls a rubber band off a rolled up white piece of paper and unfolds it on the huge table. The plans are a blueprint for a "quantum tunnel."]
Hope: Dad, what are you saying?
Hank: I think it's possible to bring her back.
[Present Day]
Scott: Okay. We're in. [A flashlight clicks and turns on, illuminating Scott's face. He shines the light around.] Aw, this place is a maze. Where's that map? ['Scott grabs the map and shines the flashlight on it] We're definitely close. [Scott lowers the map to reveal his ten year old daughter, Cassie, is with him.] Are you ready?
Cassie: I'm ready, Daddy.
Scott: Are you sure? Cause once we're inside, you show any hesitation or fear, we're done.
Cassie: I eat fear for breakfast.
Scott: Wow. That is super cool. Come on.
[Scott and Cassie crawl through the cardboard maze; a fake ant face shows up]
Scott: Look! It's Anton. He'll show us the way. Anton, which way do we go? [There's silence. Scott sighs.] (louder) Anton, which way do we go?!
[Startled, Luis quickly gets up and runs toward the cardboard maze; he grabs two strings and pulls, making the ant's limbs point right.]
Scott: Thanks Anton!
[Luis runs back to his computer; Scott and Cassie continue through the maze]
Scott Lang: Look! The ants have burrowed into the tech facility.
Cassie Lang: Oh, no! Lasers!
[Pieces of red string appear with a red glow, making them look like real lasers. Cassie wiggles through the "lasers" with ease; Scott gets tangled by one]
Scott Lang: Oh! I think I got lased!
[The duo make their way through the lasers; A green, glowing "eye scanner" appears]
Scott Lang: The secret vault. Tell me you brought the contact lens.
Cassie Lang: Yup!
[Cassie puts a huge paper plate with an eye drawn on it over her face.]
Scott Lang: Perfect! Right there.
[Scott pulls a lever; the glowing disc dings. Cassie takes the lens off her face; the cardboard doors open]
Cassie Lang: There! It's the microtreasure!
[A small trophy is on a plate.]
Scott Lang: My trophy?
Cassie Lang: It looks like treasure.
Scott Lang: Oh, it is to me.
Cassie Lang: I wanna take it to show and tell.
Scott Lang: Oh, you can't do that. Can't. It never leaves the house. It's too important. This is the best birthday present you ever got me. I'm so touched you think I'm the 'World's Greatest Grandma.'"
[The camera cuts to the trophy plaque, which indeed says 'World's Greatest Grandma.']
Cassie: (giggles) It was the only one they had.
Scott: Makes me wanna knit you a sweater.
[Luis lifts up the sheet covering the maze, laptop in hand, so he can face Scott.]
Cassie: Oh no! The fuzz!
Luis: Hey, Scotty. I was looking at the schematics for the Karapetyan buildings, and I think we have way too many security cameras, don't we?
Scott: No, no, not at all.
Luis: You sure? 'Cause it's a lot of security cameras.
Scott: I know what he needs. Who's the security expert in our business?
Luis: You are, but I'm running the company, and if we oversell it, he's gonna go somewhere else. I mean, we gotta land this bird.
Scott: He ain't goin' anywhere. And the expression is "'land this fish."
Luis: No. It's "land the bird." Just like you land a plane. You gotta land the plane to be in business.
Scott: I know it's silly to get hung up on these kinds of things, but I do.
Luis: How am I gonna land a fish? It can't walk. And if it swam up on a shore, and it battled a hawk, who's gonna win?
Scott: You really turned me around on this thing. It's okay. We're gonna land Karapetyan. Now, if you just excuse me, I'm in the middle of trying to steal something with my daughter.
Luis: Imma go recheck it.
[Scott pulls a string, making an alarm clock ring.]
Cassie: To the escape ant.
[A cardboard door lifts open.]
Cassie: Let's bounce before the po-po come back.
Scott: The po-po? How do you even know that? [Scott and Cassie get on a paper-mache ant.] Let's fly Antionette. Let's fly!
[Scott pushes a stick holding the ant in place, causing it to slide down the stairs. Scott and Cassie scream and whoop as the ant slides through a cardboard slide down the stairs, through the hallway, and eventually down the porch steps into the backyard.]
Scott: Crash landing!
[Sure enough, the ant crashes into the fence. Scott and Cassie tumble into the ground in laughter. Cassie props herself up on her elbow.]
Cassie: I wish we could shrink for real.
Scott: Oh, that is pretty cool!
[Luis sticks his head out the top window, calling out to Scott.]
Luis: Hey, I'm headed to the office, Scotty. And sorry about freaking out earlier, you know. But I feel like I'm way better. My heart is definitely beating way too hard and stuff, and my hands are shaking, but I think that's unrelated, you know?
Scott: It's gonna be great, Luis. You got nothing to worry about.
Luis: Yeah, yeah. I'm the boss, I'm the boss, I'm the boss... [Luis shrinks back into the house, almost trying to convince himself that it's going to be fine.]
[There's a shrill beeping.]
Cassie: [points] Daddy!
[The camera shows a black attachment outside the house beeping and blinking a red light. Scott looks at it in fear, then looks at his left foot, which is through the hole in the fence. Scott groans.]
[Cut to FBI agents looking through Scott's house. Agent Woo looks through the house, Scott and Cassie following him.]
Scott: Come on, Woo! I got three days left. Why would I try to escape?
Woo: I'm sorry, Scott, but rules are rules. You trip the perimeter alarm, we search the place. Keel to stern. Soup to nuts.
[A woman accidentally bumps the lampstand, sending a glass object to the ground. Scott looks as it shatters.]
Scott: ['sarcastically to the woman] Thank you. [to Woo] It was an accident. My foot went through the fence.
Cassie: Our flying ant crashed.
[Woo looks at Scott in confusion and concern.]
Scott: Hey, you try entertaining a ten-year-old when you can't leave the house. You know the lengths that I've gone to? [Scott holds up his hand, and flicks it, making an Ace of Spades card appear in his hand out of thin air.] Close up magic. [He flicks the card away before putting his hand behind Cassie's ear and making another Ace of Spades return to his hand. He tosses it behind again.] I learned that.
Cassie: Why can't you just leave my daddy alone?
[Woo looks to Scott in amusement before kneeling down to face Cassie at eye-level.]
Woo: Oh, Cassie. This must all seem like a bunch of confusing grown-up stuff to you, huh? Well, think of it this way: Your school has rules, right? Like...You can't draw on the walls. Well, your Daddy went to Germany and
drew on the walls with Captain America. And that was a violation of Article 16, Paragraph 3 of the Sokovia Accords.
[Woo is now rambling, seeming to forget a child is front of him.] Now as a part of his joint plea deal with Homeland Security and the German government, he's allowed to return to the U.S., provided he serve two years under house arrest, followed by three years of probation. and avoid any unauthorized activities, technology, or contact with any former associates, who were or currently are, in violation of said Accords, or any related statutes. [Woo looks satisfied with his answer. Cassie, however, has her eyes wide, trying to process all of the things he said.] Okay sweetie? Said Woo.
Darren Lang point of view.
I crahsed landed in my dad living room fighting some mysticsl beying I didn't know what it was but it was putting a pretty good fight.
"This world will be mine Lang there is nothing more you can do stop me!" He said.
"Thats where you're wrong, Rocket now!" I said.
"No! You cant defeat me I was going to rule the universe and plante Earth, you cant do this!" He said.
"Well then what are you going to do, this is my plante no matter what, you do you tell your best friends that if you come to earth i will destroy you." He said.
"Your quite funny." I said.
"I will see you again." He said.
"Darren?" Said Scott.
"Hello dad mum Cassie Woo." I said.
"So your not break any rules?" I asked.
"No I am not i just saved the world from yourselfs, so you should be thanking me." I said.
"Well then, thank you but I am putting you under a rest for fighting Captain America in Germamy." Said Woow.
"Yes but, i dont persnonly agree with you!" I said.
"Well your broke the law there fore you shall be placed underhosue arerest for three days do you understand?" Said Woow.
"Yep sure." I said. Scott: Three days... Easy-peasy.
[A montage starts of what Scott does to pass the time while the song "Come On Get Happy" by the Partridge Family plays.]
[Scott plays the toy drums.]
[Scott has toy pins set up. He throws a ball to hit them. The ball instead bounces over the pins. He pauses, frozen in the stance.]
[Scott watches a magic trick video on Online Close-Up Magic University.]
Man in the Video: Snap your fingers. That gets them to look over there. Now that is misdirection. [Scott imitates the trick shown to him, shaking the deck and snapping his fingers. making the card change to a six of hearts. He looks at the deck with satisfaction.]
[Scott has a karaoke screen on his TV, singing along to the song playing during the montage, "Come On Get Happy" by The Partridge Family.]
[Scott is crying while laying on his bed reading "The Fault In Our Stars" by John Green.]
[Scott perfects a yellow oragami swan he's hung from the ceiling.]
[Scott bounces a racquetball on the floor, which goes onto the wall, bounces onto the other wall, bounces on the floor and goes into a Nerf basketball hoop.]
[Scott works on a layout for his business.]
[Scott gets readyi to take a bath. He takes a plastic bag and uses a rubberband to seal up the bag so it doesn't get wet. He slides himself into the bath and sighs.]
Scott: Easy-peasy...
[He dozes off. Suddenly, he is back in the quantum realm. As he floats, Janet appears with him. Then, he is taken to a hallway in a home.]
Scott: [voiceover] What?
Janet: [voiceover] I'm gonna find you, Jellybean. [Young Hope can be heard giggling. A large, red wardrobe with horses on it comes into view. It is then opened by a hand extended into the camera's view. Hope is found inside.] I found you!
Young Hope: You always find me, Mommy.
Scott: [voiceover] What the hell?
[There's a mirror on the inside of the wardrobe. Scott looks to see that Janet is the reflection. He then snaps awake.]
[Scott breaks the wall in his room and grabs an old, outdated phone from it. He dials a number, and then puts the phone up to his ear.]
Scott: Hey, Hank. It's been a while. Umm... I don't even know if this is your number anymore... and, I'm probably the last person you wanna hear from. But... I just had a really weird dream. And I know that doesn't sound like an emergency or anything, but it just felt... very real. I was back in the Quantum Realm, and... I think I saw your wife. And then I was your wife. I mean, not in a weird way... You know... hearing this out loud, I'm thinking, it's not an emergency. I'm sorry to bother you. I'm sorry for a lot of things." [Scott pulls the phone away from his ear and hangs up. He then snaps the phone in two and throws it away to make sure they don't trace the call back.]
[Scott is sitting on the couch in his bathrobe, eating a bowl of cereal and watching TV. He takes a bite and swipes away a bug. The bug seemingly bites him, and he winces. He suddenly grows tired, and quickly passes out on the ground.]
[Scott's eyes flutter open to see that he's been put in the passengers seat of a car. He looks over and sees Hope behind the wheel
Scott: (drowsily) Hope? [She looks over at Scott before turning back to the road.] Is this another dream?
Hope: Do you think it's a dream, or is it possible that you really saw my Mom down there?
Scott: I'm not sure... [He suddenly remembers where he's supposed to be; at home. HIs eyes snap open.] I can't be here! I can't be, I'm under house arrest. [Scott tries to open the doors to the car.]
Hope: They won't open while the system's engaged, Scott. [Scott yells as his passenger window is greeted with a pigeon eye. The care has shrunk down. Another car drives over it, unaware of what lurks beneath.]
Scott: You have to take me home. They can show up any second.
Hope: Relax. As far as your nanny cops know, you're still at home.
[Scott looks down at his ankle to see that his ankle cuff has been removed.]
[Cut back to Scott's house, where an enlarged ant is sitting on the couch with a box of Froot Loops and Scott's ankle cuff on. Luis stumbles in and yells at the sight of the ant.]
Luis: Woah! Scotty?
[Cut back to Hope's car.]
Hope: He's programmed to replicate your daily routine. Nine hours in bed, five hours in front of the TV, two hours in the bathroom - whatever that's about.
Scott: (defensively) That's totally inaccurate. And how do you know about my daily routine? Are you spying on me?
Hope: (with sharpness) We keep tabs on all security threats, all right? And so far, the biggest one we've had is you.
[The car drives through a steel pipe]
Scott: I'm sorry about Germany. They just showed up. They said it was a matter of national security, that Cap needed help-
Hope: (as a scoff) Cap?
Scott: ...tain America. Captain... Cap. It's what we call him. (cocky and self-inflating) If you're a friend. I think I'm a friend, a little. I know him. He's nice. Whatever... I'm sorry! All right? I didn't think I'd get caught.
Hope: You didn't think about a lot of things.
Scott: How's Hank?
Hope: We're still running, the house is gone. So is our freedom. How do you think he is?
Scott: I'm sorry. I know you're mad.
Hope: I'm not looking for an apology, Scott. The only reason why we're even talking is because we need what's in your head.