SCENE 8

DASH said" Mom. You're making weird faces again."

HELEN said" No, I'm not."

BOB said" You make weird faces, honey."

HELEN said" Do you have to read at the table?"

BOB said"Uh-huh. Yeah."

HELEN said" Smaller bites, Dash. Yikes! Bob, could you help the carnivore cut his meat?"

DASH said" Ow."

HELEN said" Dash, you have something you want to tell your father about school?"

DASH said"[nervously] Well, we dissected a frog."

HELEN said" Dash got sent to the office again."

BOB [distracted] said" Good. Good."

HELEN said:"No, Bob, that's bad."

BOB said" What?"

HELEN said" Dash got sent to the office again."

BOB said" What?! What for?"

DASH said" Nothing."

HELEN said" He put a tack on the teacher's chair...during class."

DASH said" Nobody saw me. You could barely see it on the tape."

BOB said" They caught you on tape and you still got away with it? Whoa! You must have been booking. How fast did you think were you going?"

HELEN said" Bob! We are not encouraging this."

BOB said" I'm not encouraging, I'm just asking how fast…"

HELEN said" Honey!"

BOB said" Great. First the car, now I have to pay to fix the table…"

HELEN said" The car? What happened to the car?"

BOB said" Here. I'm getting a new plate."

HELEN said" So, how about you, Vi? How was school?"

VIOLET said" Nothing to report."

HELEN Said" You've hardly touched your food."

VIOLET" I'm not hungry for meatloaf."

HELEN said" Well, it is leftover night. We have steak, pasta. What are

you are hungry for?"

DASH said" Tony Rydinger."

VIOLET said" Shut up!"

DASH said" Well, you are."

VIOLET said" I said, shut up, you little insect!"

DASH said" Well, she is."

HELEN said" Do not shout at the table. Honey!"

BOB said" Kids! Listen to your mother."

DASH said" She'd eat if we were having Tony loaf."

VIOLET said" That's it!"

HELEN said" Stop it!"

DASH said" You're going to be toast!"

HELEN said" Stop running in the house. Sit down!"

DASH said" Ow! Hey, no force fields!"

VIOLET said" You started it."

HELEN said" You sit down! You sit down! Violet!"

BOB said''Simon J. Paladino, longtime advocate of superhero rights,is missing''? Gazerbeam."

HELEN said" Bob! It's time to engage. Do something! Don't just stand there! I need you to intervene!"

BOB said" You want me to intervene? Okay. I'm intervening. I'm said intervening!"

HELEN said" Violet, let go of your brother!"

JACK-JACK said" Hello?"

BOB said" Get the door."

DASH said" Hey, Lucius!"

LUCIUS said" Hey, Speedo. Hey, Helen. Vi, Jack-Jack."

BOB said"He-hey! Ice of you to drop by."

LUCIUS said" Ha! Never heard that one before."

DASH said"[gargling] Lucius!"

LUCIUS said" Whoa!"

LUCIUS said" Ha, ha."

DASH said" Oh! I like it when it shatters."

BOB said" I'll be back later."

HELEN said" Hey, where are you two going?"

BOB said" It's Wednesday."

HELEN said" Oh. Bowling night. Say hello to Honey for me, Lucius."

LUCIUS said" Will do. Good night, Helen. Good night, kids."

HELEN said, "Don't think you've avoided talking about your trip to the principal's office, young man. Your father and I arestill going to discuss it."

DASH said" I'm not the only kid who's been sent to the office, you know."

HELEN said" Other kids don't have superpowers. Now, it's perfectly normal…"

VIOLET said" Normal? What do you know about normal? What does anyone in this family know about normal?"

HELEN said" Now, wait a minute, young lady."

VIOLET said" We act normal, mom. I want to be normal! The only normal one

is Jack-Jack, and he's not even toilet trained."

[Jack-Jack laughing]

DASH said" Lucky. I meant about being normal."

Later

"Ring ring"

Violet said" Hey Midori I need some advice?"

Midori said" How do you keep your secret identities a secret, and how can you put up with my parents?"

Midori said" It is hard, just don't tell anyone any details about them, my family has been rangers for a thousand of years and has been passed down, only a few know of it"

Violet said" And how as do you confess to a boy you like?"

Midori said"Aww you have a crush ?"

Violet said" Yes, my brother was teasing me tonight at dinner about it"

Midori said" First crushes are hard at your age, you should try to interact with him"

Violet said" I don't know how, I can't even talk to him"

Midori said"Aww a little shy, everyone is at that age, when you are experiencing new things"

Violet said" Yes"

Midori said" Well, just practice and have courage and be confident in yourself, you are the daughter of Mr incredible and Elastic girl, be proud of that"

Violet said" Okay I will try"

Dash said" Violet are you talking to the Watanabe's, I want to talk to them too"

Violet said" Okay here I am done" gave her the phone

20 minutes later, he hung up

SCENE 9

LUCIUS said" So now I'm in deep trouble. I mean, one more jolt of this death ray and I'm an epitaph. Somehow I managed to find cover, and what does Baron Von Ruthless do?"

BOB - He starts monologuing.

LUCIUS said" He starts monologuing! He starts like this prepared speech about how feeble I am compared to him. How inevitable my defeat is, how the world will soon be his! Yada, yada, yada."

BOB- Yammering.

LUCIUS said "Yammering! I mean, the guy has me on a platter, and he won't shut up."

POLICE RADIO

Municiberg, we have a 23-56...

BOB said"23-56, what is that? Robbery?"

LUCIUS said" This is just sad."

BOB said" Yeah, robbery. Want to catch a robber?"

LUCIUS said" No. Tell you the truth, I'd rather go bowling. Look, what if we actually did what our wives think we're doing? Just to shake things up."

WOMAN said'He's not alone. The fat guy's still with him. They're just talking."

LUCIUS said" What are we doing here, Bob?"

BOB said" Protecting people."

LUCIUS said" Nobody asked us."

BOB said" You need an invitation?"

LUCIUS said" I'd like one, yes. We keep sneaking out to do this, and...you remember Gazerbeam?"

BOB said" Yeah. There was something about him in the paper."

LUCIUS said" He had trouble adjusting to civilian life, too."

BOB said" When's the last time you saw him?"

LUCIUS said" I don't see anyone from the old days, Bob. Just you. And we're pushing our luck as it is."

BOB said" Oh, come on."

LUCIUS said" It was fun the first time, but if we keep doing this, we're going to get–"

POLICE RADIO announced -We have a report on a fire...

BOB said" A fire. We're close! [yelling] Yeah, baby!"

LUCIUS said" We're going to get caught."

BOB said" Woohoo! Haha! Fire! Yeah!"

LUCIUS said" Is that everybody?"

BOB said" Yeah, that's everyone."

LUCIUS said" It better be."

BOB said" Can't you put this out?"

LUCIUS said" I can't lay down a layer thick enough! It's evaporating too fast!"

BOB said" Well, what's that mean?"

LUCIUS said" It means it's hot! And I'm dehydrated, Bob!"

BOB said" You're out of ice? You can't run out of ice! I thought you can use water in the air!"

LUCIUS said" There is no water in this air! What's your excuse, run out of muscle?"

BOB said" I just can't go smashing into walls! The building's getting weaker by the second! It's going to come down on top of us!"

LUCIUS said" I wanted to go bowling!"

BOB said" All right! Stay right on my tail! This is going to get hot! , Yeah"[realizes they're in a jewelry store...] said"Uh-oh." [...and unknowingly trips the alarm] said"Oh, good."[alarm sounds]

LUCIUS said" Oh, now...that ain't right!"

LUCIUS/BOB said" We look like bad guys! Incompetent bad guys!,- You can get water out of the air!"

POLICE OFFICER 1 said" Freeze!"

POLICE OFFICER 2 said" Freeze!"

LUCIUS said" I'm thirsty."

POLICE OFFICER said" I said freeze!"

LUCIUS said" I'm just getting a drink."

POLICE OFFICER said" Alright. You've had your drink. Now I want you to…"

LUCIUS said" I know. I know. Freeze."

[police radio chatter] POLICE RADIO "Shots fired!"

OFFICERS said" Police officers!"

LUCIUS said" That was way too close. We are not doing that again."

MAN[over radio] said"Verify you want to switch targets? Over."

WOMAN said" Trust me. This is the one he's been looking for."

SCENE 10

HELEN said" I thought you'd be back by 11."

BOB said" I said I'd be back later."

HELEN said" I assumed you'd be back later. If you came back at all...you'd be ''back later''.

BOB said" Well, I'm back, okay?"

HELEN said" Is this rubble?"

BOB [with mouth full]" It was just a little workout. Just to stay loose."

HELEN said" You know how I feel about that, Bob. Darn you! We can't blow cover again!"

BOB said'The building was coming down anyway."

HELEN said" What?! You knocked down a building?!"

BOB said" It was on fire. Structurally unsound. It was coming down

anyway."

HELEN said" Tell me you haven't been listening to the police scanner again?"

BOB said" Look, I performed a public service. You act like that's a bad thing."

HELEN said" It is a bad thing, Bob! Uprooting our family again, so you can relive the glory days, is a very bad thing."

BOB said" Reliving the glory days is better than acting like they didn't happen!"

HELEN said" Yes! They happened! But this, our family, is what's happening now, Bob. And you are missing this! I can't believe you don't want to go to your own son's graduation."

BOB said" It's not a graduation. He's moving from the fourth grade to the fifth grade."

HELEN said" It's a ceremony!"

BOB said" It's psychotic! They keep creating new ways to celebrate mediocrity but if someone is genuinely exceptional…"

HELEN said" This is not about you, Bob. This is about Dash."

BOB said" You want to do something for Dash? Then let him actually compete. Let him go out for sports!"

HELEN said" I will not be made the enemy here! You know why we can't do

that."

BOB said" Because he'd be great!"

HELEN said" This is not about you!"

BOB said" All right, Dash. I know you're listening. Come on out."

HELEN said" Vi? You, too, young lady."

BOB said" Come on. Come on out. It's okay, kids. We're just having a discussion."

VIOLET said" Pretty loud discussion."

BOB said" Yeah. But that's okay. Because what's important is that Mommy and I are always a team. We're always united against, uh, the forces of, uh…"

HELEN said"Pigheadedness?"

BOB said" I was going to say evil or something."

HELEN said" We're sorry we woke you. Everything's okay. Go back to bed. It's late."

DASH said" Good night, Mom. Night, Dad."

VIOLET said" Good night."

HELEN said" In fact, we should all be in bed."

[crickets chirping, dog barks]

SCENE 11

WOMAN [on phone] Request claim on claim numbers 158183...

MR. HUPH [over the intercom] said" Haven't you got him yet?! Where is he?!"

HUPH'S SECRETARY [over the intercom] "Mr. Huph would like to talk to you in his office."

BOB said" Now?"

HUPH'S SECRETARY [over the intercom]" Now."

MR. HUPH said" Sit down, Bob, I'm not happy, Bob. Not happy. Ask me why"

BOB said" Okay. Why?"

MR. HUPH said" Why what? Be specific, Bob."

BOB said" Why are you unhappy?"

MR. HUPH said" Your customers make me unhappy."

BOB said" What, you've gotten complaints?"

MR. HUPH said" Complaints I can handle. What I can't handle is your customers' inexplicable knowledge of lnsuricare's inner workings! They're experts. Experts, Bob! Exploiting every loophole, dodging every obstacle! They're penetrating the bureaucracy!

BOB said" Did I do something illegal?"

MR. HUPH said" No."

BOB said" Are you saying we shouldn't help our customers?"

MR. HUPH said" The law requires that I answer no."

BOB said" We're supposed to help people."

MR. HUPH said" We're supposed to help our people! Starting with our stockholders, Bob. Who's helping them out, huh? You know, Bob, a company…"

BOB said" Is like an enormous clock".

MR. HUPH said"...is like an enormous clo-yes. Precisely. It only works if all the little cogs mesh together. Now, a clock needs to be cleaned, well-lubricated and wound tight. The best clocks have jewel movements, cogs that fit, that cooperate by design. [chuckling] I'm being metaphorical, Bob. You know what I mean by cooperative cogs? Bob? Bob? Look at me when I'm talking to you, Parr!"

BOB said" That man out there, he needs help."

MR. HUPH said" Do not change the subject, Bob. We're discussing your attitude!"

BOB said" He is getting mugged!"

MR. HUPH said" Well, let's hope we don't cover him."

BOB said" I'll be right back."

MR. HUPH said" Stop right now or you're fired! Close the door. Get over here, now, I'm not happy, Bob. Not happy."

BOB said" He got away."

MR. HUPH said" Good thing, too. You were this close to losing your Jo–"

BOB said"Uh-oh."