Stretch Armstrong & the Flex Fighters (2017) s02e09 Episode Script

1
Charter City is stunned
by the sudden roll-out
of Rook Unlimited's
most fantastic device ever
[chirrups]
the SmartMark.
Throw your other devices away,
because the SmartMark
is more than just a phone,
it's part of you.
-Use it as cash.
-[chirrups and beeps]
Book your travel.
And even shoot video.
Distribution points are all over the city.
And don't let the lines discourage you.
The Rook Unlimited SmartMark
is worth the wait.
I never realized how wonderful technology
could make me feel.
The SmartMark has brought
order to my life.
And the best part? It's absolutely free!
A gift of thanks to our city
from Rook Unlimited!
[crowd cheers]
Twenty-three percent of the population
has been given the SmartMark, Number One.
Time to test our system, Number Six.
The Flex Fighters are out there somewhere,
teaming up with Jonathan Rook.
Let's put our new recruits to work.
Subtly.
[chirrups]
[electronic chirruping]
We should find the Flex Fighters.
-[chirrups]
-I ought to find the Flex Fighters.
[all] We should find the Flex Fighters.
[man 1] We should find the Flex Fighters.
[man 2] We should find the Flex Fighters.
The most dangerous people on Earth
are those who are under control of others,
but don't realize it.
This is bad in every conceivable way.
Stretch Armstrong ♪
So fantastic, super elastic ♪
Stretch Armstrong ♪
Saving the world
when times are drastic ♪
Stretch Armstrong! ♪
Pull back, snake shot ♪
Bad guys getting caught ♪
Flex Fighters never stop ♪
Never seem unstoppable
doing the impossible ♪
Stretch Armstrong! ♪
Stretch Armstrong! ♪
I gotta find the Flex Fighters.
So every single SmartMark user
is now a Tech-Men-controlled,
Flex Fighter-hunting zombie?
Party for you. You love zombies.
In movies, dude. And TV. And video games.
And sometimes my dreams.
But not in my neighborhood.
Don't worry.
I already have a plan for us to employ.
"Us"? We tried "us." It started fine.
Then you poisoned our snow cones, man.
Snow cones! Not cool!
The Tech-Men's SmartMark
is based on research
I submitted to the Epsilon Society
when I was a kid.
I alone know how to shut it down.
Whatever, Mr. Ego-Face.
Dr. C could probably build
an Anti-SmartMark doodad
out of two wires and a can of beans.
Wrong. I jam the transmitter,
the Tech-Men will just deploy another.
Exactly.
But a device I've designed can disable
all the SmartMark units permanently.
And this device is where?
It doesn't exist yet.
I'll need access to your lab.
Once I build this thing, the Flex Fighters
will have to get me past the Tech-Men
into Rook Tower to activate it.
Yeah, too bad we don't work
for you anymore.
I'm pretty sure you fired us
when you were firing at us.
There's no way we should team up
with this madman, right, Dr. C?
Rook is, unfortunately, our best chance
to stop Kane and the Tech-Men.
[loud clunk]
Blindstrike! Stand down!
You think I don't know what I'm asking
you to do, after the people he's hurt.
This will not be easy for me either.
But this city needs to be saved.
So we choke back our feelings,
we sacrifice our personal needs.
We do what it takes!
Do you understand?
-Any more objections?
-What? No.
-Great idea.
-Let's do your plan.
I knew you'd all see the light.
Now first we--
First, we get something from you.
I am Jonathan Rook. But I'm also
the creature known as Stretch Monster.
I'm the one who brought down
Dr. Cleo's plane over the Pearl Islands.
She was the only survivor.
My illegal experiments created
Smokestack, Circuit-Stream,
and the other super-powered villains
that swept through Charter City.
And, yes,
I framed the Flex Fighters for my crimes.
In reality, they were always the heroes
the city believed them to be.
You understand,
once we help you stop the Tech-Men,
we'll release this confession
to the media?
I care about this city
more than I care about myself.
-[muscles creak]
-[groans]
Thank you.
What do you need to build this device?
Three hours. And your help.
Fine. But you're wearing this.
A control collar? Really? Let me guess.
Don't step out of line,
or it will cause me immeasurable pain?
No, do step out of line.
Blindstrike's been dying to try it.
Three hours is enough time
for us get to our families.
Maybe we can stop them
before they get marked.
Dad! I'm so glad you're here.
Hello, son. I was checking
traffic cameras around town,
trying to spot the Flex Fighters.
I should have been doing this for months.
My SmartMark.
Rook Unlimited Employees were the first
to get them installed.
And they gave me one
to bring home for you.
-Pays to know people, huh?
-No. I'm good
You need one if you're going to compete
in today's world. Give me your arm.
Grandpa, Mr. Savic, where is everybody?
Ah, they all went to get
those foolish new devices.
What? No, they can't!
Grandpa, those things are dangerous!
It's a conspiracy! Mind control!
Ha! I knew it!
I was two moves away
from closing my Albin Counter-Gambit!
Are you listening, Oleg?
Rook is making a move on the city.
Besides, I would have shut you down
with a symmetrical defense.
Symmetrical defense? Hardly.
Come on, come on.
Mom, don't get the Smart--
Yeah, the reception's great. Okay. Okay.
She had to hang up,
so they could all go look
for the Flex Fighters.
Isabelle too? Even she has one?
Erika? Oh.
[labored breaths]
She's just not herself today, poor thing.
She needs help.
You are right, a SmartMark.
That'll make her feel better.
I'll have our Rook Unlimited rep
arrange an in-home installation.
[groans]
[electrical crackle]
That's not the right interface.
It's an update I developed.
The Rook Unlimited model was too slow.
Nice. Just like old times.
The good old days.
Before you tried to kill me three times.
You know, we came up
with some amazing innovations together.
You have to admit.
We both produced better work as a team.
-Epsilon Society. I know the name.
-Keep searching.
Any information we can find
might be able to help.
[door opens]
My dad's one of them now.
A SmartMark zombie.
I just barely got away.
Same with my family. I hope
Riya was able to warn Erika in time.
We should get back.
Gather the troops.
We've found the Flex Fighters.
We can't wait for Blindstrike any longer.
We need to install the device directly
at the signal's source in Rook Tower.
Sure. We'll just ask
the Tech-Men to give us a tour.
Kane will be all, step right in.
Rook can get us inside.
He knows where the tunnels are.
Tunnels? What?
Okay, yes, How did you know?
You had to be going in and out somehow
as Stretch Monster.
Security probably would've noticed
an elastic beast in the lobby,
So lead the way.
[loud grunts]
They found us.
Rook, this ends now.
Submit to our SmartMark and join
the glorious victory of order over chaos,
or you will be eliminated.
Order's overrated.
You call yourself a man of science?
World Order is our destiny.
For all your brilliance,
you understand nothing.
Yes, I am brilliant.
Wanna know how that works?
You study, work, and experiment.
Then, once you've got
all that knowledge rolling around,
two ideas that don't belong together
suddenly crash into one another, and bam!
A world-changing innovation hits you!
See? Brilliance only happens
with a healthy dose of chaos.
No. Progress is born by orderly minds.
Orderly minds are too focused
to be creative. Look at you.
So focused on me,
you let the Flex Fighters sneak around
-right behind you.
-What?
Hey there!
[groans]
See? A little chaos can be fun.
[grunts]
Flex Fighters! No more. Shut this down.
You were never any fun, Kane!
[grunts] Whoa!
You think you can beat me? I trained you!
I know every move you're gonna make
before you even think of it!
But there was always something
you could never see coming.
What are you talking about?
A blind strike.
[grunts]
-[cock guns]
-[grunts]
Blindstrike really is amazing. You know,
I am looking for a new head of security.
Yeah. Keep looking.
[men grunt]
[cock guns]
You're strong.
But there are too many of us.
One thing I should have taught you.
When to give up.
I've triggered the self-destruct.
Everyone, run!
[loud boom]
Tech-Men, advance! The Flex Fighters
are all that stand in our way.
We must eliminate them!
Spread out! Don't let them get away!
[electronic beeps]
Erika! What happened to her?
I know these symptoms.
A variant Flexarium-isotope poisoning.
-If she's not treated soon--
-I can help her.
But we have to get her
to one of my safe houses.
I'll take Erika. The rest of you,
keep going. Keep an eye on Rook.
It's up to all of you
to stop the Tech-Men now.
Let's go. We only get one shot.
I can't hold my breath much longer!
You're not holding your breath,
you're talking. Now shush!
[both exhale]
These fascist dudes are everywhere,
like ogres in a 5th-level dungeon.
Truth. But there's gotta be one
un-guarded exit in this joint.
If somebody had read my proposal
for invisibility suit research,
maybe we'd be transparent right now.
Well, it's hard to read proposals
that are covered in wing sauce, dorkis.
Let's move.
[grunts] Ooh, ooh.
I'm stuck! I'm stuck! Give me a tug!
I spend far too much of my career
pulling you out of ducting.
Three PhDs for this jazz?
You were stuck because you stuffed
your pockets with game dice?!
I'm not gonna leave behind
my sweet dice hoard.
Hello! "Tech-Men"? Obviously nerds.
Which means
they'd totally have stolen my D20s!
And what are you gonna do if they attack?
Make a saving throw?
Maybe. Shut up.
The Flex Fighters
couldn't have just disappeared.
Time to go to the next level
on the SmartMarks.
Moving from search mode
to attack mode, Number One.
It would be so great
to find the Flex Fighters. To
to destroy the Flex Fighters!
They built the new Academy library
right over the top of the old one,
still filled with its written records.
I'll bet answers
to the Epsilon Society are here.
Ha!
A locked door means nothing
to a good reporter.
[grunts] Ah-ah-ah!
[bleeps]
I teach here, remember?
This one's sealed, too.
Kane must have hunted out my tunnels.
The fastest way into Rook Tower
would be from the surface.
The coast seems clear.
Over there. We found them. Destroy them.
[low growl]
No!
They're innocents controlled by Kane.
We can't hurt them.
So the plan is, what?
Let them take us down?
[clamoring]
Destroy the Flex Fighters! Get them!
Destroy the Flex Fighters!
Destroy the Flex Fighters!
Everyone! Back here!
Would do you please just, move!
-Brick and Mortar?
-Thanks for coming to help, guys!
Yeah! Help. Obvs.
We weren't just looking for a way
to escape. At all.
Take off!
-Ow!
-[clamoring]
Number One, they're inside Rook Tower.
Get us there.
We're entering the final phase.
You guys love new tech.
You didn't want to get SmartMarked?
No way. That's clearly some shady biz.
Who wants to be content all the time?
It's creepy.
Can you get us to Rook's office?
Sure. By now we know these vents
like the backs of our hands.
Well, the front of our hands.
I made a map of the whole network
on my palm, see?
Guess I got a little sweaty.
But it's a left up ahead.
-Or a right.
-Which means it's probably straight.
We need to pull the Tech-Men's attention
away from here.
We're great at attracting attention.
That's probably the number one thing
about us.
Birth certificates, corporate records.
This is a jumbled mess.
Nothing on the Epsilon Society.
I think someone's been here recently.
Maybe we aren't the only ones
searching the library?
Oleg! I think I've got it.
-[laser blast]
-What was that?
[grunts]
[laser blast]
Sorry not sorry.
They really are good
at attracting attention.
[computer chirrups]
[men laugh]
[both gasp]
The EMP Blaster!
Don't move.
These fools are just another distraction.
You two deal with them.
The rest of you, with me.
Saving throw!
[clattering]
[both grunt]
-My sweet dice hoard
-Life rule: "Never look back!"
There. Now we just bring it online and--
[cock guns]
Hmph.
Ha. Exactly what we needed.
Right.
Like you were planning this all along.
You were planning this all along!
There was one missing component we needed
that we weren't unable
to engineer on our own.
And since you know the science
better than anyone,
I knew you could and would create it,
given a need.
What are you talking about?
That device couldn't-- Oh, no.
Don't you "oh, no" right now!
If I'm correct, you engineered this
to manipulate
the SmartMark transmission waves,
which is precisely
what us, Tech-Men, required
to take our device to the next level.
And put our real plan in motion.
Thank you.
No!
Still having fun?
We've only gotten 28 percent
of the city population
to install SmartMark so far.
But your chip makes it possible
to control everyone in Charter City,
whether they're marked or not.
[chirrups]
[beeps]
[electromagnetic pulse]
Hmm.
I'm sorry for causing so much trouble.
I'm so much happier now.
Seriously, why fight the Tech-Men
when we can obey them?
Progress comes from an ordered mind.
We now control the entire population
of Charter City.
-What about them?
-They are nothing to worry about.
There is no better prison
than mind control.
See how content they are?
Phew.
Okay, I think they bought it.
Bought what?
Right. Very funny. Now come on. Guys?
Keep your masks on! Stop!
The security cameras!
[grunts]
[all grunt]
Huh?
Have you gone crazy?
You're Flex Fighters, remember?
You're heroes!
They're brainwashed, then why am I not?