There are kids in this world who are different, special.
One of them found us and became family.
“But her time ran out and now that girl is missing.”
There are kids in this world who are different. There are kids in this world who are different. I mean, you said the portal led to 1989. Is that where we find her? But how would we get to her?
At Penn, he opened the portal. You know him? He's the new kid in my class. He's in your class. And so is Casey, the girl with the electrical powers.
If they're working for Whittier Group, odds are they're not going to want to work with us. Penn's mother said she's an old friend of yours, James. Mirabel Solstice? Friend.
Colleague, maybe.
She's definitely not on our side.
So, what do we do? Find a way to kidnap Penn? It's not the worst idea.
“You know how Adam, you really chose well when you and the others decided to make never land your home base?”
I heard you speak. You can drop the silent treatment. How did you find me? Fate, serendipity. I'm not even sure what decade we're in.
But I do believe I was brought here for the reviews and maybe I'm cursed. Depends on how you look at it. On the one hand, if I hadn't arrived here, you'd still be offline buried in the sand and on the other. I'm ahead without a body.
And you're carrying me around like a volleyball. Indeed. You think this is funny, don't you? Funny. And that would be cruel of me.
I'd run it, perhaps. Considering you detonated a bomb to foil my plant and blew yourself up in the process. I knew I should have fought away before it went off. But you couldn't resist watching, could you?
I needed to see that smuggler look wiped off your face. Speaking of which, you have some sand on your cheek. Ooh, allow me to... Hey, hey, stop that. I'm just trying to help.
How long have you been here on the island? I don't know. The last thing I saw was one of little pennies portals. Maybe I ended up in one of them. I can't believe this.
I dreamed of this moment my entire life. Of being a disembodied head. Of being stranded with the father who abandoned me. Freed a hunt and torment you until you begged for mercy. And now you're helpless to do anything about it.
Ooh, anything else for that matter. And that's... I get bored. And decide to use you as a volleyball. [music playing]
Cyrus! Friendly! Hey! Oh, I... Sorry.
Uh, Doug was presumptuous. No, it's... I was just happy to see you after the ice. And... How are you feeling?
Not bad.
Finally stopped shivering.
Me too. Me too. Oh, I already said that. So, are we good with this plan? Yeah, I mean, I made it pretty foolproof.
Once your class starts, I'll come in and pretend the principal sent me to get you and Penn. Right. And since Penn doesn't know the school will walk him into the lab instead.
“Then lock the door and threaten to expose the secret if he doesn't help with his portal powers.”
I guess the one thing we still need to consider is... Casey. I mean, can we trust her? I honestly don't know anymore. She tried to save us with your corp, but...
We just have to be careful.
Well, this is it. Go in it. Ah. Yeah. See you in a bit.
Bye.
He was going in for a hug.
Oh, we're getting together. Bring me focus on the plan.
“You were bigger than whatever you were feeling for Cyrus.”
Oh. What am I feeling for him? Nope. Don't get distracted. Got to stick to the plan.
Here we go. Excuse me? Yes. Excuse me. The principal has sent me here to get Cyrus and Penn to...
Huh? Penn's not here. And neither is Casey. I just got to know that Penn is no longer enrolled in this class. One day and out.
Strange. Yes. Very strange. Five. Six.
Seven. James? There you are. Knowing. You're working out again.
Yeah. Kind of. It came in here to think and figured... I could turn the guest room into a gym. Maybe I'll use it.
Right. What's going on? I was headed to work.
“When I got a message from Whittier Corp.”
They've officially put me on leave. I guess I can't say I'm surprised. We definitely stumbled onto something. Did they give you a reason? Nope.
Probably came straight from Angelica Graves. It's going to make things a lot harder for our search. We'll figure it out. I should let you get back to your workout. Monica.
Room never really felt right as a home gym.
Did it? Never felt right as a guest room either. Too cold. Empty. Yeah.
Yeah. This was her room. Wasn't it? Holidays. In another life.
I think so. But James. How could we forget we had another child? Seems like we've forgotten a lot. And there's so much we don't understand.
Kids with powers, underground training facilities, portals. What does it all mean? Cyrus.
“You think he and Brinley made their move on Penn already?”
I'll put it on speaker. Hey, I'm here with Mom. Is it done? No. Penn's gone.
What do you mean gone?
She dropped out of the class, maybe even the whole school.
Ah, so much for the plan. What? How do we figure out this holiday situation without access to a portal? Sounds like a project for my team at work. Project. Huh?
Holiday project. Adelaide, where do you hear? What about her? Sorry, I'm just putting it together. When we had that strange meeting, Adelaide said,
"Good luck with the holiday project." So she must know something too. But holiday project. What does that even mean? I know what it means.
Sibot? Robot. Anders' fam. The holiday project is robots. [MUSIC PLAYING]
[MUSIC PLAYING] [GRUNTING] Oh, wow. Wow. Go to the end. I'm down, come to the end.
Morning. Whoa, that's a high one. What do you mean? I hope I don't drop you off. Rolling.
[LAUGHTER] You'll be sorry. Diff. Sorry. I don't drop you.
I have very short hands. Yes, yes. Bye. Oh. Every toss. Every slight.
It only fuels my wrath. [LAUGHTER] Rath, you say. Hopefully dramatic for a jattering head. Whoa.
Yeah. No offense, Aden. But you're sounding emotionally unstable. I don't have emotions. Rage is an emotion.
Trust me. I know. Ugh. You sound like holiday. Oh, well.
I created her, too. And the time I spent with her recently, I was... Wait. Aden. You remember holiday, huh?
Why wouldn't I?
You're a machine.
“You're not bound by the same rules of time.”
Space.
You can remember what others forget.
Wait, why do I remember? Hmm. Fascinating. Here. Let me set you ahead on this rock, so we can talk.
Ugh. Ugh. I have nothing to say to you. I wouldn't be so sure of that. It seems to me you may be more valuable than I thought.
Perhaps we can help each other. Why would I help you? Because I believe together, we can rewrite our stories. Undo our mistakes.
I'd rather shut down forever.
Shame. You'll just have to figure out how to get yourself out of the sand as well, then. Huh? No. Wait, wait, wait, wait.
Hmm. Hmm. Hmm. Hmm. Hmm.
I'm listening. James, what are you doing? Trying to give Sybot a tune-up. Shouldn't we wait for Syros? Oh, Syros is not here right now.
And Sybot clearly knows a lot. So, given a deal, college try. Let's see if it worked. Hey, Sybot. I hope I didn't mess up too much in there.
You said the holiday project was about robots,
“but what do you remember about our daughter holiday?”
Perhaps I could replay a memory from my archives. A memory? From the other reality? You can do that? Of course.
You just had to ask. Okay. Play it then. Commencing recording playback. We don't know each other too well,
but would you mind if I was not? Is that you and went through your order or? I'm sorry, did you just ask permission to... holiday? Was birdie?
It would be rude to do it without asking. Commencing link. Commencing link. Did she just... She did.
Holiday linked to you. To read your memory. She's very powerful. Are you saying holiday? Our daughter.
Is a robot? A biohybrid to be exact. They look like you. And they act like you. But they are not you.
Amazing. James. If someone built her, that means... We can rebuild her. We can get our daughter back.
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