The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes! (2010) s02e05 Episode Script
To Steal an Ant-Man
Previously on Avengers Tony, wait! I joined the Avengers to help people.
Including the villains.
You maybe the only one that gets it.
Hank, you did it.
You've saved the world.
It's because of him that the world was in danger in the first place.
Ultron was his machine.
She's right.
I quit.
The Avengers mean a lot to me.
I thought they meant something to you, too.
And there came a day unlike any other, when Earth's mightiest heroes found themselves united against a common threat.
On that day, they became the Avengers: The invincible, armored Iron Man, Thor, Prince of Thunder, The Hulk, strongest hero there is, and Captain America, the first Avenger.
Assemble, we are strong forever fight as one Avengers, assemble! Hank! You're back! I knew it, I knew you'd come back.
- This is where we belong! - Jan You'll get your lab here up and running again, You'll bring all your weird bugs back.
You'll do some more crazy experiments.
I was thinking maybe we could upgrade my stings, maybe give me a power boost.
Hank? Um, what are you doing? I only came back to clean out this lab, Jan.
I know you can't accept this, but I'm done.
I'm done with the Avengers.
This isn't me anymore.
No.
You're Ant-Man! I'm not, Jan.
I haven't been since Ultron.
And honestly? Probably even before then.
This is for the best.
- Okay, but - I'm leaving.
You're leaving what? You're leaving the Avengers? You're leaving me? Jan, you and I, we're just we want different things.
- The Avengers - Are not a solution to the world's problems.
One day, you'll see.
This is all a house of cards.
It can't hold forever.
$20 million disappeared in what we can only describe as a flash of light.
Bank personnel were not available for comment, but the police confirmed What does that even mean? You don't like all the fighting, I get it.
But maybe you could work with the team in other ways.
I mean, you're a genius, Hank! We need you.
If you hate all this so much, then help us find a better way! Walking away isn't going to help anyone! Can't you see how much this is hurting me? Hank? Are you even listening to what I'm saying? I'm sorry.
I have to go.
Are you kidding me? Hank.
Hank! No.
No, no, no.
This can't be happening.
Jan.
Hank? Are you seriously calling me? I'm shocked you still have your ID card.
I figured you'd have already burned it - before it made you beat someone up.
- Jan, listen What are you, calling to quit again? I get it, Hank.
You're not Avengers material.
You've made it perfectly clear.
I just didn't want to believe it.
Well, I'd never sit around and cry about things like Ultron.
I'd do something about it.
So the question is, Hank, what do you want? I just wanted to tell you that I'm sorry.
Someone has stolen Ant-Man.
Whoever the thief was, they knew who I was, what I had, and where to find it.
Not to mention that they were able to circumvent one of the most advanced electronic locks on the planet.
All of my systems and alarms were disabled without me ever knowing it.
I'm not dealing with some common thief, but someone of incredible intelligence.
The rest of the lab appears untouched.
It's obvious the Ant-Man gear was the target.
The helmet, costume, belt all of which are dangerous in the wrong hands.
But the biggest danger is to whomever stole it.
If the thief were to activate the Pym Particles in the belt, they'd find themselves in what would look like another world.
Trust me.
Things look different when you're an inch high.
But more importantly, at that size, you enter a whole new level of the food chain.
And ants are nothing if not territorial.
But even at ant size, subjects exposed to Pym particles will maintain strength and speed levels relative to being full sized.
'Ant-Man' is strong enough to take down full-sized humans, and fast enough to keep up with them.
All that being said, the insect population has distinct advantages over an intruder poison, any number of secretions.
No.
No! Stop! This makes communication key.
The Ant-Man helmet allows for communication and influence of insects essentially allowing the wearer to control them.
Land.
What worries me most, however, are the Pym discs.
They were in development before Ultron before.
They were designed to be applied to a target and activated, theoretically shrinking them.
I thought I thought they'd be a non-violent way to subdue super-villains.
The discs weren't stabilized, yet.
And when used, the affected targets don't stop shrinking.
They go subatomic.
For all intents and purposes, they shrink right out of existence.
It's vital the thief be found and subdued, before he or someone else is hurt.
The damage that could be done it staggers the imagination.
So please, will you take the case? Sure.
But we'll need half our fee up front.
Down! I said, down! Hey! Yeah, this is Michelinie.
I need backup! I've got a super-hero snooping around here.
The money.
Freeze! Lie down on the ground or I will fire.
Please, just wait.
Why us? I mean, why would Hank Pym come to us? Why not go to his own team? He's an Avenger.
I don't get it.
I do.
Man's got pride.
Some dude stole his super-powers, started robbing banks with them.
He probably didn't want to have to tell his Avengers buddies how bad he messed up.
That's a good point.
I wouldn't want to tell Captain America that.
But without his gear, he needs some muscle to take this guy down.
What are you thinking? This bank it's a front.
I remember some punks telling me it's run by HYDRA.
This guy's not too bright if he's ripping them off.
Pym said that whoever this is, they didn't even get the money.
He said it got sucked into something called the microverse.
- That sounds messed up.
- Luke.
What are you so happy about? We're working with the Avengers Power Man and Iron Fist? Working with the Avengers.
Kind of exciting.
Man, knock that off.
And I told you never to call me Power Man, Danny.
If this guy botched the job, he'll try it again.
And if he's ripping off crooked banks, maybe he'll rob another.
Time to shake down some informants.
Okay, fine.
Your informant was right.
You still didn't have to bend him like that.
Check it out.
Looks like we've got some more super-heroes here.
Do we look like super-heroes to you? You mess with us, you're not going to jail.
You're going to the hospital.
It's called unbreakable skin, fool.
Tough guys.
They were on the lookout for more super-heroes.
Maybe they ran into "Ant-Man.
" You should be using that magic fist of yours to crack heads, not to focus your Feng Shuei.
Focusing my chi.
Maybe if you were open to focusing your own energy, you wouldn't be so angry all the time.
It's not healthy, Luke.
Luke.
Sweet Christmas.
Uh, sorry.
Wrong turn.
This is crazy.
I can't even see him now! He's there! He's heading your way! Got him.
That was easy.
I don't want to fight you! Too bad.
He came back for the money! And he's gone.
All right, for real, we're never telling anyone about that, ever.
Agreed.
He caught me off guard.
I'm just saying.
Sure he did, Luke.
Cage.
It's Hank.
I finished the Pym Particle detector.
We can track the thief now, wherever he goes.
That's just great.
I'm going to give you one chance to end this peacefully, I suggest to Scott? You know this guy? Scott Lang.
He's the maintenance man for my lab at Greyburn.
Dr.
Pym.
Why? Why have you done this? People could have been hurt by my work! I'm sorry.
I don't want to hurt anyone, I Hello? I've got it.
I've got the money.
Please, don't hurt Mister Lang? Scott? What's going on here? You wouldn't know this, but I used to be an electrical engineer, a pretty good one, but then my daughter got sick.
She had a rare disease, and there was a doctor.
She needed money to finish the cure, a lot of money.
I got involved with some bad people, people who thought that I could put my engineering skills to use opening bank vaults.
Turns out they were right.
And you gave it all up to mop floors? Not exactly.
I got caught.
But I did my time, and Cassie got better.
But when I got out, there weren't a lot of engineering jobs for ex-cons, so I took the janitor position at the college.
I didn't care.
All that mattered was that Cassie was alive.
But then my old partner from the bank jobs found me.
Cross.
I never told him that I used all the money for Cassie's treatments.
He thought I hid it away before I got caught.
He thought I still had it, and he wanted his cut.
If I didn't give him what he wanted, he said he'd he'd I didn't have time to research and pull off a bank job, but I knew who you were, Dr.
Pym.
The work you did in that lab, it was amazing.
And I knew I could use your equipment to get what I needed fast.
Why didn't you come to me? I could have helped.
Forget that.
You should have just gone and taken these chumps out.
Go all "Ant-Man" on them and save your daughter.
Are you crazy? I'm no super-hero.
I'd just be putting Cassie in more danger.
No police, no heroes.
This is my daughter's life we're talking about.
We can help you, Scott.
No.
No one can help me.
No! Danny, you got him? I'm guessing he went out the window.
It won't be long now.
I've known your dad a long time, little Cassie.
Cross.
See? I told you.
Scott Lang is nothing if not reliable.
I've got the money, Cross.
Let her go.
Please.
Lang? What are you? Is this a joke? Are you Ant-Man? Cross.
William.
Please.
Ant-Man? You should have told me.
Can you imagine what we could have been doing all this time? There's no vault we couldn't get into, no secret we couldn't steal.
Scotty, my boy, we're going to be very rich men.
No.
You got the money.
That was the deal.
Let Cassie go.
Guess what, 'Ant-Man?' The deal just changed.
I've got my very own super-hero now.
I'm afraid I can't let that happen.
No! Get out of here! I told you to stay out of this! And who are you three supposed to be? The Avengers? Yeah, we're the Avengers.
I'm Captain America.
My friend in the pyjamas is Thor.
Now how about you back off the girl before we avenge you upside the head? - Pym? - Everything is under control, Scott.
Really? I'm confused because last time I checked, I had the girl.
I hold all the cards.
I disagree.
No! Dad, can we do that again? I need you to stay right here, Cassie.
Do you understand? Daddy's got something he has to do.
You should have stayed out of this, heroes.
You have no idea who I am! They don't, but I do! You will never threaten my daughter again.
Do you hear me? Or what? You're not going anywhere.
Dad! It's okay.
It's okay.
I'm here.
I thought I'd lost her.
When you shrunk her, I thought she was gone forever, like the money.
The discs you used were prototypes.
The one I used on Cassie wasn't.
Thank you.
I'll hand over all your equipment, and then turn myself in.
Ant-Man was on an undercover mission for the Avengers.
They'll explain the bank robberies to the police.
- I don't I'm not Ant-Man.
- You are now.
For someone claiming not to be a super-hero, you're pretty good at it.
Want a job? Yo! Pym! Where should I send our bill?
Including the villains.
You maybe the only one that gets it.
Hank, you did it.
You've saved the world.
It's because of him that the world was in danger in the first place.
Ultron was his machine.
She's right.
I quit.
The Avengers mean a lot to me.
I thought they meant something to you, too.
And there came a day unlike any other, when Earth's mightiest heroes found themselves united against a common threat.
On that day, they became the Avengers: The invincible, armored Iron Man, Thor, Prince of Thunder, The Hulk, strongest hero there is, and Captain America, the first Avenger.
Assemble, we are strong forever fight as one Avengers, assemble! Hank! You're back! I knew it, I knew you'd come back.
- This is where we belong! - Jan You'll get your lab here up and running again, You'll bring all your weird bugs back.
You'll do some more crazy experiments.
I was thinking maybe we could upgrade my stings, maybe give me a power boost.
Hank? Um, what are you doing? I only came back to clean out this lab, Jan.
I know you can't accept this, but I'm done.
I'm done with the Avengers.
This isn't me anymore.
No.
You're Ant-Man! I'm not, Jan.
I haven't been since Ultron.
And honestly? Probably even before then.
This is for the best.
- Okay, but - I'm leaving.
You're leaving what? You're leaving the Avengers? You're leaving me? Jan, you and I, we're just we want different things.
- The Avengers - Are not a solution to the world's problems.
One day, you'll see.
This is all a house of cards.
It can't hold forever.
$20 million disappeared in what we can only describe as a flash of light.
Bank personnel were not available for comment, but the police confirmed What does that even mean? You don't like all the fighting, I get it.
But maybe you could work with the team in other ways.
I mean, you're a genius, Hank! We need you.
If you hate all this so much, then help us find a better way! Walking away isn't going to help anyone! Can't you see how much this is hurting me? Hank? Are you even listening to what I'm saying? I'm sorry.
I have to go.
Are you kidding me? Hank.
Hank! No.
No, no, no.
This can't be happening.
Jan.
Hank? Are you seriously calling me? I'm shocked you still have your ID card.
I figured you'd have already burned it - before it made you beat someone up.
- Jan, listen What are you, calling to quit again? I get it, Hank.
You're not Avengers material.
You've made it perfectly clear.
I just didn't want to believe it.
Well, I'd never sit around and cry about things like Ultron.
I'd do something about it.
So the question is, Hank, what do you want? I just wanted to tell you that I'm sorry.
Someone has stolen Ant-Man.
Whoever the thief was, they knew who I was, what I had, and where to find it.
Not to mention that they were able to circumvent one of the most advanced electronic locks on the planet.
All of my systems and alarms were disabled without me ever knowing it.
I'm not dealing with some common thief, but someone of incredible intelligence.
The rest of the lab appears untouched.
It's obvious the Ant-Man gear was the target.
The helmet, costume, belt all of which are dangerous in the wrong hands.
But the biggest danger is to whomever stole it.
If the thief were to activate the Pym Particles in the belt, they'd find themselves in what would look like another world.
Trust me.
Things look different when you're an inch high.
But more importantly, at that size, you enter a whole new level of the food chain.
And ants are nothing if not territorial.
But even at ant size, subjects exposed to Pym particles will maintain strength and speed levels relative to being full sized.
'Ant-Man' is strong enough to take down full-sized humans, and fast enough to keep up with them.
All that being said, the insect population has distinct advantages over an intruder poison, any number of secretions.
No.
No! Stop! This makes communication key.
The Ant-Man helmet allows for communication and influence of insects essentially allowing the wearer to control them.
Land.
What worries me most, however, are the Pym discs.
They were in development before Ultron before.
They were designed to be applied to a target and activated, theoretically shrinking them.
I thought I thought they'd be a non-violent way to subdue super-villains.
The discs weren't stabilized, yet.
And when used, the affected targets don't stop shrinking.
They go subatomic.
For all intents and purposes, they shrink right out of existence.
It's vital the thief be found and subdued, before he or someone else is hurt.
The damage that could be done it staggers the imagination.
So please, will you take the case? Sure.
But we'll need half our fee up front.
Down! I said, down! Hey! Yeah, this is Michelinie.
I need backup! I've got a super-hero snooping around here.
The money.
Freeze! Lie down on the ground or I will fire.
Please, just wait.
Why us? I mean, why would Hank Pym come to us? Why not go to his own team? He's an Avenger.
I don't get it.
I do.
Man's got pride.
Some dude stole his super-powers, started robbing banks with them.
He probably didn't want to have to tell his Avengers buddies how bad he messed up.
That's a good point.
I wouldn't want to tell Captain America that.
But without his gear, he needs some muscle to take this guy down.
What are you thinking? This bank it's a front.
I remember some punks telling me it's run by HYDRA.
This guy's not too bright if he's ripping them off.
Pym said that whoever this is, they didn't even get the money.
He said it got sucked into something called the microverse.
- That sounds messed up.
- Luke.
What are you so happy about? We're working with the Avengers Power Man and Iron Fist? Working with the Avengers.
Kind of exciting.
Man, knock that off.
And I told you never to call me Power Man, Danny.
If this guy botched the job, he'll try it again.
And if he's ripping off crooked banks, maybe he'll rob another.
Time to shake down some informants.
Okay, fine.
Your informant was right.
You still didn't have to bend him like that.
Check it out.
Looks like we've got some more super-heroes here.
Do we look like super-heroes to you? You mess with us, you're not going to jail.
You're going to the hospital.
It's called unbreakable skin, fool.
Tough guys.
They were on the lookout for more super-heroes.
Maybe they ran into "Ant-Man.
" You should be using that magic fist of yours to crack heads, not to focus your Feng Shuei.
Focusing my chi.
Maybe if you were open to focusing your own energy, you wouldn't be so angry all the time.
It's not healthy, Luke.
Luke.
Sweet Christmas.
Uh, sorry.
Wrong turn.
This is crazy.
I can't even see him now! He's there! He's heading your way! Got him.
That was easy.
I don't want to fight you! Too bad.
He came back for the money! And he's gone.
All right, for real, we're never telling anyone about that, ever.
Agreed.
He caught me off guard.
I'm just saying.
Sure he did, Luke.
Cage.
It's Hank.
I finished the Pym Particle detector.
We can track the thief now, wherever he goes.
That's just great.
I'm going to give you one chance to end this peacefully, I suggest to Scott? You know this guy? Scott Lang.
He's the maintenance man for my lab at Greyburn.
Dr.
Pym.
Why? Why have you done this? People could have been hurt by my work! I'm sorry.
I don't want to hurt anyone, I Hello? I've got it.
I've got the money.
Please, don't hurt Mister Lang? Scott? What's going on here? You wouldn't know this, but I used to be an electrical engineer, a pretty good one, but then my daughter got sick.
She had a rare disease, and there was a doctor.
She needed money to finish the cure, a lot of money.
I got involved with some bad people, people who thought that I could put my engineering skills to use opening bank vaults.
Turns out they were right.
And you gave it all up to mop floors? Not exactly.
I got caught.
But I did my time, and Cassie got better.
But when I got out, there weren't a lot of engineering jobs for ex-cons, so I took the janitor position at the college.
I didn't care.
All that mattered was that Cassie was alive.
But then my old partner from the bank jobs found me.
Cross.
I never told him that I used all the money for Cassie's treatments.
He thought I hid it away before I got caught.
He thought I still had it, and he wanted his cut.
If I didn't give him what he wanted, he said he'd he'd I didn't have time to research and pull off a bank job, but I knew who you were, Dr.
Pym.
The work you did in that lab, it was amazing.
And I knew I could use your equipment to get what I needed fast.
Why didn't you come to me? I could have helped.
Forget that.
You should have just gone and taken these chumps out.
Go all "Ant-Man" on them and save your daughter.
Are you crazy? I'm no super-hero.
I'd just be putting Cassie in more danger.
No police, no heroes.
This is my daughter's life we're talking about.
We can help you, Scott.
No.
No one can help me.
No! Danny, you got him? I'm guessing he went out the window.
It won't be long now.
I've known your dad a long time, little Cassie.
Cross.
See? I told you.
Scott Lang is nothing if not reliable.
I've got the money, Cross.
Let her go.
Please.
Lang? What are you? Is this a joke? Are you Ant-Man? Cross.
William.
Please.
Ant-Man? You should have told me.
Can you imagine what we could have been doing all this time? There's no vault we couldn't get into, no secret we couldn't steal.
Scotty, my boy, we're going to be very rich men.
No.
You got the money.
That was the deal.
Let Cassie go.
Guess what, 'Ant-Man?' The deal just changed.
I've got my very own super-hero now.
I'm afraid I can't let that happen.
No! Get out of here! I told you to stay out of this! And who are you three supposed to be? The Avengers? Yeah, we're the Avengers.
I'm Captain America.
My friend in the pyjamas is Thor.
Now how about you back off the girl before we avenge you upside the head? - Pym? - Everything is under control, Scott.
Really? I'm confused because last time I checked, I had the girl.
I hold all the cards.
I disagree.
No! Dad, can we do that again? I need you to stay right here, Cassie.
Do you understand? Daddy's got something he has to do.
You should have stayed out of this, heroes.
You have no idea who I am! They don't, but I do! You will never threaten my daughter again.
Do you hear me? Or what? You're not going anywhere.
Dad! It's okay.
It's okay.
I'm here.
I thought I'd lost her.
When you shrunk her, I thought she was gone forever, like the money.
The discs you used were prototypes.
The one I used on Cassie wasn't.
Thank you.
I'll hand over all your equipment, and then turn myself in.
Ant-Man was on an undercover mission for the Avengers.
They'll explain the bank robberies to the police.
- I don't I'm not Ant-Man.
- You are now.
For someone claiming not to be a super-hero, you're pretty good at it.
Want a job? Yo! Pym! Where should I send our bill?