1 00:00:34,835 --> 00:00:37,305 * * 2 00:00:39,039 --> 00:00:41,375 TICK: Hello, world. 3 00:00:41,442 --> 00:00:44,312 This is The Tick. 4 00:00:44,378 --> 00:00:47,481 Don't worry, I'm not in outer space. 5 00:00:47,548 --> 00:00:49,350 I'm not even in this yet. 6 00:00:49,417 --> 00:00:51,085 But I know what's coming-- 7 00:00:51,152 --> 00:00:53,821 an epic tale rife with destiny, 8 00:00:53,887 --> 00:00:56,023 adventure, and blood loss! 9 00:00:56,090 --> 00:00:59,893 The ultimate struggle of light against darkness, 10 00:00:59,960 --> 00:01:01,762 of good against evil, 11 00:01:01,829 --> 00:01:03,697 of... 12 00:01:03,764 --> 00:01:04,898 neat? 13 00:01:04,965 --> 00:01:07,067 * * 14 00:01:07,135 --> 00:01:08,869 Okay, this is it. 15 00:01:08,936 --> 00:01:13,174 This is where it all began. 16 00:01:16,210 --> 00:01:18,679 (distant whooshing) 17 00:01:28,956 --> 00:01:31,459 -Hmm. -Hmm. 18 00:01:31,525 --> 00:01:33,127 (cracking) 19 00:01:33,194 --> 00:01:35,028 (boom) 20 00:01:35,095 --> 00:01:37,498 (gasping, grunting) 21 00:01:42,136 --> 00:01:44,372 (grunting) 22 00:01:44,438 --> 00:01:47,308 (reindeer crying in distance) 23 00:01:53,781 --> 00:01:56,217 (crackling) 24 00:01:57,885 --> 00:02:00,688 TICK: Finally, human meets superhuman. 25 00:02:00,754 --> 00:02:06,527 And so begins the dawn of the Age of Superheroes! 26 00:02:06,594 --> 00:02:09,263 (Muzak playing) 27 00:02:11,765 --> 00:02:14,202 (grunts, sighs) 28 00:02:16,270 --> 00:02:18,005 (applause on TV) 29 00:02:18,071 --> 00:02:20,274 WHOOPI GOLDBERG: And we're back with the world's first 30 00:02:20,341 --> 00:02:23,577 -and greatest superhero, Superian. -(applause, whistling) 31 00:02:23,644 --> 00:02:26,280 We were talking about your nemesis, The Terror. 32 00:02:26,347 --> 00:02:27,881 -(door bells jingle) -Yeah. By the '90s, 33 00:02:27,948 --> 00:02:30,584 I had been going up against The Terror for decades. 34 00:02:30,651 --> 00:02:34,822 I mean, I had been up against him since I first got here. 35 00:02:34,888 --> 00:02:37,358 If he were alive today, well, I think I'd know that. 36 00:02:37,425 --> 00:02:38,959 WHOOPI: Well, thank God he's not. 37 00:02:39,026 --> 00:02:41,595 It is The Terror. I mean, look, it's The Terror. 38 00:02:41,662 --> 00:02:42,696 And there he is. Who can forget this? 39 00:02:42,763 --> 00:02:44,698 -(audience gasping) -I mean, look at him. 40 00:02:44,765 --> 00:02:46,734 He's still frightening. 41 00:02:46,800 --> 00:02:48,469 I have to breathe whenever I see this picture. 42 00:02:48,536 --> 00:02:50,070 It just knocks me out. 43 00:02:50,137 --> 00:02:53,006 I mean, even though he's not been around, 44 00:02:53,073 --> 00:02:54,808 you say he's gone-- I get it-- 45 00:02:54,875 --> 00:02:57,945 but a lot of people, you know, remember those days. 46 00:02:58,011 --> 00:03:00,648 The last time you fought him was in 1998, 47 00:03:00,714 --> 00:03:02,283 and that's a battle you won. 48 00:03:02,350 --> 00:03:04,552 How do you feel about the conspiracy theorists 49 00:03:04,618 --> 00:03:08,989 -who say they believe somehow The Terror -Uh-huh. 50 00:03:09,056 --> 00:03:11,259 -survived that fire? -Whoopi, 51 00:03:11,325 --> 00:03:12,926 the authorities found his teeth-- 52 00:03:12,993 --> 00:03:17,130 all of his teeth-- stuck in the walls of a crater that I made 53 00:03:17,197 --> 00:03:18,832 out of him. 54 00:03:18,899 --> 00:03:21,835 -(applause) -These conspiracy theorists 55 00:03:21,902 --> 00:03:24,505 and these fringe people, they're just not rational. 56 00:03:24,572 --> 00:03:26,507 -People be crazy. -People be crazy. 57 00:03:26,574 --> 00:03:28,108 People be cray-cray. 58 00:03:28,175 --> 00:03:29,943 -We'll be right back. -(grunts) 59 00:03:33,681 --> 00:03:36,584 (beeping) 60 00:03:44,024 --> 00:03:46,093 (line ringing) 61 00:03:46,159 --> 00:03:49,029 (man wailing) 62 00:03:49,096 --> 00:03:50,364 Arthur? 63 00:03:50,431 --> 00:03:52,300 Oh, Dot, hey. Uh... 64 00:03:52,366 --> 00:03:53,634 I didn't think you'd pick up. 65 00:03:53,701 --> 00:03:55,469 I-I thought you were on your shift. 66 00:03:55,536 --> 00:03:56,604 I am. What's going on? 67 00:03:56,670 --> 00:03:58,672 Yeah, right, no, um, I just, uh... 68 00:03:58,739 --> 00:04:01,875 -I want to, uh, say thank you, you know? -(clattering) 69 00:04:01,942 --> 00:04:03,544 Just, uh, thanks. 70 00:04:03,611 --> 00:04:05,279 You've helped me a lot. 71 00:04:05,346 --> 00:04:06,880 More than a lot, um, 72 00:04:06,947 --> 00:04:09,450 in the last couple of years, you know, since... 73 00:04:09,517 --> 00:04:11,752 m-my last... thing. 74 00:04:11,819 --> 00:04:13,687 You know, you're-you're a good sister. 75 00:04:13,754 --> 00:04:15,489 Okay, now you're scaring me. 76 00:04:15,556 --> 00:04:17,425 Yeah, see, no, I knew it'd sound weird. 77 00:04:17,491 --> 00:04:19,293 You're not having thoughts, are you? 78 00:04:19,360 --> 00:04:21,194 I mean, nothing obsessive? 79 00:04:21,261 --> 00:04:22,963 (sheepishly): What? 80 00:04:23,030 --> 00:04:25,566 No, no, no. No, I'm good. 81 00:04:25,633 --> 00:04:28,035 That's-that's why I'm calling, because I'm good. 82 00:04:28,101 --> 00:04:31,505 I'm doing really well, and I owe you for that. 83 00:04:34,107 --> 00:04:35,242 Okay. 84 00:04:35,309 --> 00:04:36,944 You know, and just... 85 00:04:37,010 --> 00:04:39,212 just thanks, in general. 86 00:04:39,279 --> 00:04:40,213 (man wailing) 87 00:04:40,280 --> 00:04:42,015 Okay, um, I got to go. 88 00:04:42,082 --> 00:04:43,417 Somebody new is bleeding. 89 00:04:43,484 --> 00:04:46,954 Hey, Arthur. 90 00:04:47,020 --> 00:04:48,589 Keep it real, okay? 91 00:04:48,656 --> 00:04:50,591 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Yeah. 92 00:04:50,658 --> 00:04:53,727 -(man continues wailing) -All right! I'm on my way! 93 00:05:14,114 --> 00:05:15,783 (door opens) 94 00:05:15,849 --> 00:05:17,718 (door closes) 95 00:05:17,785 --> 00:05:20,053 * * 96 00:05:25,593 --> 00:05:27,395 RADIO CALLER: The Pyramid Gang runs this city, 97 00:05:27,461 --> 00:05:29,196 and I want to know where's the cops. 98 00:05:29,262 --> 00:05:32,566 RADIO HOST: The city has been literally taken over by crime. 99 00:05:32,633 --> 00:05:34,301 RADIO CALLER: Yeah, th-that's what I'm sayin'. 100 00:05:34,368 --> 00:05:36,303 We need superheroes. 101 00:05:36,370 --> 00:05:37,638 We need a new Flag Five. 102 00:05:37,705 --> 00:05:39,106 You know, other cities got heroes. 103 00:05:39,172 --> 00:05:40,240 What about us? 104 00:05:40,307 --> 00:05:42,042 I mean, we got screwed, right? 105 00:05:42,109 --> 00:05:43,511 You know? We lost our team, 106 00:05:43,577 --> 00:05:45,513 like, uh, Brooklyn losing the Dodgers. 107 00:05:45,579 --> 00:05:47,715 RADIO HOST: The Dodgers moved to L.A.! 108 00:05:47,781 --> 00:05:51,452 The Flag Five was blinded by weaponized syphilis 109 00:05:51,519 --> 00:05:52,986 and shot to death! 110 00:05:53,053 --> 00:05:54,455 Hey, can we shut this off? 111 00:05:54,522 --> 00:05:55,856 -Please? -Kind of apples and oranges there, caller. 112 00:05:55,923 --> 00:05:57,124 (radio clicks) 113 00:05:57,190 --> 00:05:59,660 (horns honking) 114 00:06:02,262 --> 00:06:04,732 * * 115 00:06:13,841 --> 00:06:15,476 (shifter clunks) 116 00:06:30,824 --> 00:06:32,960 (indistinct chatter in distance) 117 00:06:37,431 --> 00:06:40,100 -(grunts) -(backpack ripping) 118 00:06:40,167 --> 00:06:41,902 (exhales) 119 00:06:44,772 --> 00:06:48,041 (indistinct shouting in distance) 120 00:06:55,248 --> 00:06:57,718 (indistinct chatter) 121 00:07:12,633 --> 00:07:14,167 MS. LINT: How'd it go at Customs? 122 00:07:14,234 --> 00:07:15,803 THUG 1: Shit through a goose. No paperwork. 123 00:07:15,869 --> 00:07:17,838 -No inspection. -THUG 2: Wasn't cheap, though. 124 00:07:17,905 --> 00:07:20,774 MS. LINT: It was worth it. All this stuff is super tech. 125 00:07:20,841 --> 00:07:23,811 Mad science. Reminds me of the old days. 126 00:07:23,877 --> 00:07:25,979 THUG 2: Looks like a goddamn bunny suit. 127 00:07:26,046 --> 00:07:27,981 MS. LINT: I bet it's bulletproof. 128 00:07:28,048 --> 00:07:31,018 THUG 2: Yeah? And who's gonna test that bullshit out? 129 00:07:31,084 --> 00:07:32,753 You are. 130 00:07:34,522 --> 00:07:35,989 (wrench clanks) 131 00:07:49,236 --> 00:07:51,171 * * 132 00:08:03,951 --> 00:08:05,085 (shrieks) 133 00:08:05,152 --> 00:08:06,687 Don't turn back now. 134 00:08:06,754 --> 00:08:08,822 I think we're onto something. 135 00:08:08,889 --> 00:08:11,992 The henchmen of some vile mastermind 136 00:08:12,059 --> 00:08:14,194 hammering out their heinous night hotcake 137 00:08:14,261 --> 00:08:15,763 and itching to sell. 138 00:08:15,829 --> 00:08:17,831 You're a superhero. 139 00:08:17,898 --> 00:08:20,701 That's what it says on my mailbox... I imagine. 140 00:08:20,768 --> 00:08:22,903 And you're-you're staking them out. 141 00:08:22,970 --> 00:08:25,172 So that-that means that I'm right. 142 00:08:25,238 --> 00:08:27,040 You fingered foul fruit, friend. 143 00:08:27,107 --> 00:08:29,810 Well, do you think it's the Pyramid Gang? 144 00:08:29,877 --> 00:08:30,911 What does it matter? They all work 145 00:08:30,978 --> 00:08:32,580 for the same wretched tyrant. 146 00:08:32,646 --> 00:08:34,882 Wait. You believe that, too? 147 00:08:34,948 --> 00:08:37,317 Evil wears every possible mitten. 148 00:08:37,384 --> 00:08:39,152 -Ready? -No. No, no, no. 149 00:08:39,219 --> 00:08:40,888 Stop, stop, stop. 150 00:08:40,954 --> 00:08:43,123 You can't just go down there. There's, like, a dozen men. 151 00:08:43,190 --> 00:08:46,059 -Neat. -No. Look, you can't tip them off, right? 152 00:08:46,126 --> 00:08:47,628 Like you said, they're a bunch of henchmen. 153 00:08:47,695 --> 00:08:48,862 I need to use them 154 00:08:48,929 --> 00:08:50,430 to lead me to the mastermind. 155 00:08:50,497 --> 00:08:52,532 Mastermind. Spidery? 156 00:08:53,333 --> 00:08:54,434 Reclusive? 157 00:08:54,501 --> 00:08:55,603 Evil? 158 00:08:55,669 --> 00:08:57,337 And he's not on the premises? 159 00:08:57,404 --> 00:08:59,940 No, no. I-I can't prove that he's alive, yet. 160 00:09:00,007 --> 00:09:03,143 -So you counsel finesse. -(fingers squeak) 161 00:09:03,210 --> 00:09:06,479 Yeah. I... finesse. 162 00:09:06,546 --> 00:09:08,749 What do they call you, chum? 163 00:09:08,816 --> 00:09:11,719 -Arthur. -(chuckling): Arthur. 164 00:09:11,785 --> 00:09:13,721 And this is your costume? 165 00:09:13,787 --> 00:09:16,056 They're my clothes-- yeah. Yeah, sure. 166 00:09:16,123 --> 00:09:18,391 Well, we'll cross that bridge after we've burned it. 167 00:09:18,458 --> 00:09:19,426 What is... 168 00:09:19,492 --> 00:09:21,561 Wow. Look at that 169 00:09:21,629 --> 00:09:23,864 three-pound universe chugging away in there. 170 00:09:23,931 --> 00:09:26,499 You got the soup, don't you, Arthur? 171 00:09:26,566 --> 00:09:27,668 We can use that. 172 00:09:27,735 --> 00:09:30,303 Wh-Who are you? 173 00:09:30,370 --> 00:09:34,241 I am The Tick. 174 00:09:35,475 --> 00:09:37,144 The-The Tick? 175 00:09:37,210 --> 00:09:38,746 The Tick. 176 00:09:42,883 --> 00:09:44,685 You feel it, too, don't you, Arthur? 177 00:09:44,752 --> 00:09:47,387 Destiny's warm hand in the small of your back, 178 00:09:47,454 --> 00:09:49,456 pushing, pushing. 179 00:09:49,522 --> 00:09:51,692 She's on a roll tonight. 180 00:09:51,759 --> 00:09:54,327 -I-I don't, I don't know. -(siren wails) 181 00:09:54,394 --> 00:09:55,629 (grunts) 182 00:09:59,099 --> 00:10:00,834 Destiny! 183 00:10:00,901 --> 00:10:02,770 -Huh? -(whoops) 184 00:10:02,836 --> 00:10:05,038 TICK (in distance): Destiny! 185 00:10:10,443 --> 00:10:12,279 (tires squealing) 186 00:10:13,380 --> 00:10:15,615 (siren wails) 187 00:10:15,683 --> 00:10:18,752 POLICEMAN: Freeze. Let me see those hands! 188 00:10:18,819 --> 00:10:21,021 -There we go. -I'm the good guy, I'm the good guy. 189 00:10:21,088 --> 00:10:22,823 -OFFICER: Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. -ARTHUR: I'm the good guy. 190 00:10:22,890 --> 00:10:25,358 POLICEMAN: Hands on the car. 191 00:10:25,425 --> 00:10:27,961 (grunts) I'm the good guy. 192 00:10:30,864 --> 00:10:33,000 -(imitates rocket engine) -* * 193 00:10:34,935 --> 00:10:37,304 The mountain is destroying itself. 194 00:10:37,370 --> 00:10:40,407 The Flag Five has only seconds to act. 195 00:10:40,473 --> 00:10:41,975 Arthur, don't let it melt. 196 00:10:42,042 --> 00:10:44,144 Okay. I'm gonna join them, you know. 197 00:10:44,211 --> 00:10:46,246 Don't you have to be a superhero to do that? 198 00:10:46,313 --> 00:10:49,082 Yeah, you do. 199 00:10:49,149 --> 00:10:51,484 Your mom and your sister should be back soon. 200 00:10:51,551 --> 00:10:54,187 Meter's almost up. 201 00:10:54,254 --> 00:10:56,056 Hang on, okay? 202 00:11:09,803 --> 00:11:11,839 (rumbling) 203 00:11:11,905 --> 00:11:14,708 (engine approaching overhead) 204 00:11:21,782 --> 00:11:24,584 PSYCHIATRIST: Arthur. 205 00:11:24,651 --> 00:11:26,686 -Arthur... -Uh, yeah. Yes. 206 00:11:26,754 --> 00:11:28,856 -Everest? -Yeah. Arthur Everest, yeah. 207 00:11:28,922 --> 00:11:31,391 Doing some trespassing 208 00:11:31,458 --> 00:11:33,927 on private property, Arthur? Some kind of 209 00:11:33,994 --> 00:11:36,396 unlawful, uh, surveillance. 210 00:11:36,463 --> 00:11:39,232 No, s-- that's actually a misunderstanding. 211 00:11:39,299 --> 00:11:41,802 -I told the officer over there. -That you were bird-watching? 212 00:11:43,771 --> 00:11:45,705 There any birds over to the wharf? 213 00:11:45,773 --> 00:11:47,507 At night, I mean? 214 00:11:47,574 --> 00:11:48,942 Gulls, maybe. 215 00:11:49,009 --> 00:11:51,378 But they'd be sleeping. 216 00:11:51,444 --> 00:11:53,180 Gulls, maybe. 217 00:11:53,246 --> 00:11:55,015 Okay. Arthur. 218 00:11:55,082 --> 00:11:58,018 -Do you understand why you were brought here? -No. 219 00:11:58,085 --> 00:12:00,120 I don't, actually, because none of this is necessary. 220 00:12:00,187 --> 00:12:02,189 I'm the judge of what's necessary at this point. 221 00:12:02,255 --> 00:12:04,457 All right? So we're going to assess you, 222 00:12:04,524 --> 00:12:08,228 and see if I need to recommend an involuntary psychiatric hold 223 00:12:08,295 --> 00:12:12,532 -for a court-approved maximum of 72 hours. -Jesus. 224 00:12:12,599 --> 00:12:14,835 (lock buzzes) 225 00:12:14,902 --> 00:12:17,070 (clears throat) Now, have you been 226 00:12:17,137 --> 00:12:19,339 -taking your medications? -Yeah. 227 00:12:19,406 --> 00:12:21,842 -Yes? -Yes. 228 00:12:21,909 --> 00:12:25,078 And they would be... wow. 229 00:12:25,145 --> 00:12:28,081 Amisulpride along with 230 00:12:28,148 --> 00:12:30,617 -the Celecoxib, am I correct? -Yeah. Yeah, that's correct. 231 00:12:30,683 --> 00:12:32,652 -Look... -(lock buzzes in distance) 232 00:12:32,719 --> 00:12:34,721 I'm taking my medication. 233 00:12:34,788 --> 00:12:36,756 I have an apartment here in the city, 234 00:12:36,824 --> 00:12:38,291 my own apartment, you know? 235 00:12:38,358 --> 00:12:40,060 I-I have a job. 236 00:12:40,127 --> 00:12:42,896 I'm a together person. 237 00:12:42,963 --> 00:12:46,934 Arthur, I'm looking over your record and I'm seeing 238 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:49,669 a long history of incidents 239 00:12:49,736 --> 00:12:53,306 like this one tonight (scoffs) going back to, uh, 240 00:12:53,373 --> 00:12:56,810 community coll-- no-- to high school, even to... 241 00:12:58,278 --> 00:12:59,947 Oh. 242 00:13:04,217 --> 00:13:06,519 My God. 243 00:13:13,260 --> 00:13:16,763 You're the little boy from the photograph. 244 00:13:16,830 --> 00:13:19,599 (sirens wail) 245 00:13:19,666 --> 00:13:22,002 -(indistinct shouting) -(car alarm blaring) 246 00:13:24,037 --> 00:13:26,874 -(groaning) -ATLAS: I can't see. 247 00:13:26,940 --> 00:13:29,442 SHOOTING STAR: Atlas, Uncle Samson is dead! 248 00:13:29,509 --> 00:13:31,644 ATLAS: That missile was full of syphilis. 249 00:13:31,711 --> 00:13:33,080 -(Sedona groans) -(Atlas grunts) 250 00:13:42,822 --> 00:13:44,057 (Sedona gasps) 251 00:13:44,124 --> 00:13:45,692 SHOOTING STAR: Captain, what do we do? 252 00:13:45,758 --> 00:13:47,094 Captain? 253 00:13:47,995 --> 00:13:49,229 (gun cocks) 254 00:13:49,296 --> 00:13:51,831 -ATLAS: Stay together. -(The Terror laughs evilly) 255 00:13:51,899 --> 00:13:54,267 If it isn't the Flag Five. 256 00:13:54,334 --> 00:13:56,303 (laughs) 257 00:13:56,369 --> 00:13:58,538 MAN (in distance): It's The Terror! 258 00:13:58,605 --> 00:14:00,040 What are you waiting for? 259 00:14:00,107 --> 00:14:02,109 My virus ate their eyes. 260 00:14:02,175 --> 00:14:04,011 They're all blind. 261 00:14:04,777 --> 00:14:07,014 (gunshots) 262 00:14:07,080 --> 00:14:09,382 MAN: Stop! 263 00:14:13,286 --> 00:14:15,422 The short one, don't kill. 264 00:14:15,488 --> 00:14:16,789 Just crush his hands. 265 00:14:16,856 --> 00:14:18,959 -(bones crunch) -(grunts, moans) 266 00:14:27,834 --> 00:14:29,869 (camera snapping) 267 00:14:29,937 --> 00:14:31,604 (Shooting Star screaming) 268 00:14:34,975 --> 00:14:36,476 Hello there. 269 00:14:36,543 --> 00:14:38,946 -(bones crunching) -(screaming continues) 270 00:14:40,647 --> 00:14:42,049 Oh. What you got 271 00:14:42,115 --> 00:14:44,184 behind your ear? (chuckles) 272 00:14:44,251 --> 00:14:46,353 Oh... 273 00:14:46,419 --> 00:14:47,921 It's nothing. 274 00:14:49,522 --> 00:14:50,757 (wheezing cackle) 275 00:14:50,823 --> 00:14:53,293 You got nothing! 276 00:15:02,569 --> 00:15:05,438 Ah. All right, let's go. 277 00:15:23,156 --> 00:15:24,691 You poor, broken man. 278 00:15:26,459 --> 00:15:29,562 Under the, uh, circumstances, 279 00:15:29,629 --> 00:15:31,131 what we can do is, uh... 280 00:15:31,198 --> 00:15:32,732 Well, what we can do is just... 281 00:15:32,799 --> 00:15:34,434 we can call your legal guardian, 282 00:15:34,501 --> 00:15:36,536 and if she'll take responsibility, 283 00:15:36,603 --> 00:15:38,305 then we'll just... 284 00:15:38,371 --> 00:15:40,140 That's your sister, Dorothy? 285 00:15:40,207 --> 00:15:42,875 Oh, God, please don't call my sister, 286 00:15:42,942 --> 00:15:45,112 -please... -Hey, asshole. 287 00:15:45,178 --> 00:15:47,347 Where do you want to spend your weekend? 288 00:15:50,450 --> 00:15:52,585 (indistinct police radio chatter) 289 00:15:56,656 --> 00:15:58,958 TICK: Arthur. 290 00:15:59,026 --> 00:16:01,161 Arthur, it's me, The Tick. 291 00:16:01,228 --> 00:16:03,030 What are you doing here? What do you want? 292 00:16:03,096 --> 00:16:05,965 What do they want? Didn't you tell them about all the evil? 293 00:16:06,033 --> 00:16:07,567 No, I ca... I can't. 294 00:16:07,634 --> 00:16:10,403 But you're on the trail of a villainous mastermind. 295 00:16:10,470 --> 00:16:11,871 This isn't the place to talk about that. 296 00:16:11,938 --> 00:16:12,905 I have a history. 297 00:16:12,972 --> 00:16:14,307 And if I talk about that here, 298 00:16:14,374 --> 00:16:15,375 then they'll think I'm crazy. 299 00:16:15,442 --> 00:16:16,676 I'm just trying to get out. 300 00:16:16,743 --> 00:16:17,910 Say no more, chum. 301 00:16:17,977 --> 00:16:19,112 Thank you. 302 00:16:19,179 --> 00:16:20,847 I'll get you out of there. 303 00:16:20,913 --> 00:16:22,382 Step away from the window. 304 00:16:22,449 --> 00:16:23,650 What? What are you talking about? 305 00:16:23,716 --> 00:16:25,352 There may be some structural damage. 306 00:16:25,418 --> 00:16:27,420 -(creaking) -Tick, Tick, no. Let go of the window. 307 00:16:27,487 --> 00:16:29,056 They're about to let me out. They're letting me out, 308 00:16:29,122 --> 00:16:30,257 so you don't have to do anything. 309 00:16:30,323 --> 00:16:32,625 -Oh. -Yes. Good. Just hold there. 310 00:16:32,692 --> 00:16:34,427 No physical contact with the building whatsoever. 311 00:16:34,494 --> 00:16:36,096 -Okay? -DOT: Arthur. 312 00:16:36,163 --> 00:16:37,630 -Thank you. -(door closes) 313 00:16:37,697 --> 00:16:39,832 Who are you talking to? 314 00:16:39,899 --> 00:16:41,268 I was just... 315 00:16:44,037 --> 00:16:46,106 No one. 316 00:16:47,374 --> 00:16:49,576 Come on. 317 00:16:55,348 --> 00:16:57,550 DOT: Bird-watching? 318 00:16:57,617 --> 00:16:59,018 I know what you were doing. You think you're 319 00:16:59,086 --> 00:17:00,920 tracking him again, don't you? 320 00:17:00,987 --> 00:17:03,456 Don't you? 321 00:17:03,523 --> 00:17:06,693 We're gonna go through all this again. 322 00:17:06,759 --> 00:17:08,161 The Terror is dead. 323 00:17:08,228 --> 00:17:09,462 Superian killed him the year after 324 00:17:09,529 --> 00:17:10,697 -Dad died. -He was tricked. 325 00:17:10,763 --> 00:17:11,731 He wasn't tricked. 326 00:17:11,798 --> 00:17:12,732 You can't trick Superian. 327 00:17:12,799 --> 00:17:14,201 This is The Terror 328 00:17:14,267 --> 00:17:16,002 -we're talking about. -They found his teeth. 329 00:17:16,069 --> 00:17:17,604 His teeth? 330 00:17:17,670 --> 00:17:19,206 Really, Dot? 331 00:17:22,275 --> 00:17:23,710 He still runs the city, 332 00:17:23,776 --> 00:17:25,978 and I'm the only one who knows about it, okay? 333 00:17:26,045 --> 00:17:27,580 And he's gone underground, 334 00:17:27,647 --> 00:17:30,217 but he's more powerful now than he's ever been. 335 00:17:30,283 --> 00:17:33,353 I saw one of his enforcers there, tonight. 336 00:17:33,420 --> 00:17:36,656 But Arthur, you see things, remember? 337 00:17:36,723 --> 00:17:38,458 Sometimes. 338 00:17:38,525 --> 00:17:40,793 -Things that aren't there? -Well, this wasn't that, so... 339 00:17:40,860 --> 00:17:42,929 So, no weird visions? 340 00:17:42,995 --> 00:17:44,431 No voices telling you what to do? 341 00:17:44,497 --> 00:17:45,765 Stop trying to diagnose me, okay? 342 00:17:45,832 --> 00:17:47,867 You know, you're the one who's always telling me 343 00:17:47,934 --> 00:17:49,169 to keep it real, right? 344 00:17:49,236 --> 00:17:51,538 The Terror is moving weapons 345 00:17:51,604 --> 00:17:52,939 into this city. He's planning something. 346 00:17:53,005 --> 00:17:54,141 I don't know what it is yet, 347 00:17:54,207 --> 00:17:56,309 but he's planning something terrible, okay? 348 00:17:56,376 --> 00:17:58,611 Okay. What if you are right? 349 00:17:58,678 --> 00:18:00,647 What if The Terror is still alive, 350 00:18:00,713 --> 00:18:03,450 still in control of everything-- what then? 351 00:18:05,285 --> 00:18:06,919 You can't possibly think you're the one 352 00:18:06,986 --> 00:18:08,221 who's supposed to stop him. 353 00:18:08,288 --> 00:18:10,423 Because that would be crazy, right? 354 00:18:30,177 --> 00:18:33,112 I'm... I'm okay. 355 00:18:34,013 --> 00:18:35,948 Good. 356 00:18:36,015 --> 00:18:38,885 'Cause I need you to be. 357 00:18:44,857 --> 00:18:46,793 (engine starts) 358 00:18:53,032 --> 00:18:55,168 * * 359 00:19:19,259 --> 00:19:21,394 * * 360 00:19:30,937 --> 00:19:32,605 TICK: Arthur. 361 00:19:33,706 --> 00:19:35,442 Arthur? 362 00:19:35,508 --> 00:19:37,244 (singsongy): Arthur. 363 00:19:41,281 --> 00:19:44,917 What are you gonna do about it, Arthur? 364 00:19:44,984 --> 00:19:47,186 Please, leave me alone. 365 00:19:47,254 --> 00:19:49,256 You've seen it. 366 00:19:49,322 --> 00:19:50,723 The toothy maw opened wide 367 00:19:50,790 --> 00:19:53,626 and ready to guzzle up a whole world. 368 00:19:53,693 --> 00:19:55,762 Shut up. 369 00:19:55,828 --> 00:19:58,398 Arthur. 370 00:19:58,465 --> 00:20:02,969 What are you gonna do about it?! 371 00:20:03,035 --> 00:20:04,571 (gasps) 372 00:20:10,510 --> 00:20:12,645 TICK: Wicked men! 373 00:20:13,546 --> 00:20:14,981 The hell was that? 374 00:20:15,047 --> 00:20:16,816 Wicked men. 375 00:20:16,883 --> 00:20:18,251 Look at you, 376 00:20:18,318 --> 00:20:20,887 beetling away at your dunghill of contraband. 377 00:20:20,953 --> 00:20:24,023 I am The Tick, 378 00:20:24,090 --> 00:20:26,225 and I say unto you... 379 00:20:29,496 --> 00:20:31,798 ...stop your evil ways! 380 00:20:35,702 --> 00:20:37,304 Listen, friend, guns aren't gonna 381 00:20:37,370 --> 00:20:39,071 solve your problems. (sighs) 382 00:20:39,138 --> 00:20:40,440 New policy. 383 00:20:46,012 --> 00:20:47,213 All right. 384 00:20:47,280 --> 00:20:48,581 Ah. 385 00:20:48,648 --> 00:20:51,117 Come to our senses, have we? 386 00:20:51,183 --> 00:20:53,119 Aah! 387 00:20:53,185 --> 00:20:54,421 Sneaky. 388 00:20:54,487 --> 00:20:56,088 (thug grunts) 389 00:20:56,155 --> 00:20:57,189 (gas hisses) 390 00:20:57,256 --> 00:20:59,158 That was your own fault, sir. 391 00:20:59,225 --> 00:21:00,993 -Coming through. -(grunts) 392 00:21:01,060 --> 00:21:02,429 (glass shatters) 393 00:21:02,495 --> 00:21:04,564 Enough of your hot little bullets. 394 00:21:04,631 --> 00:21:06,866 -(yells) -(crashes) 395 00:21:08,368 --> 00:21:10,370 (guns cocking) 396 00:21:10,437 --> 00:21:11,971 -THUG: Smoke him! -(laughing) 397 00:21:12,038 --> 00:21:13,906 (bullets ricocheting) 398 00:21:13,973 --> 00:21:15,074 (gas hissing) 399 00:21:15,141 --> 00:21:17,644 (laughing) 400 00:21:17,710 --> 00:21:19,245 Oh. 401 00:21:19,312 --> 00:21:21,914 TICK: Go tell it on the mountain! 402 00:21:21,981 --> 00:21:23,416 (explosion) 403 00:21:23,483 --> 00:21:25,918 (glass shattering) 404 00:21:31,891 --> 00:21:34,293 (alarm blaring) 405 00:21:37,397 --> 00:21:38,831 (alarm stops) 406 00:21:40,400 --> 00:21:43,336 Oh, I'm not going crazy. I'm not going crazy. 407 00:21:43,403 --> 00:21:44,837 You're not going crazy, Arthur. 408 00:21:44,904 --> 00:21:47,374 You're going sane in a crazy world. 409 00:21:47,440 --> 00:21:49,409 -Oh, God. -(thudding) 410 00:21:49,476 --> 00:21:51,411 (groans) Nice bed. 411 00:21:51,478 --> 00:21:53,446 -Wha...? -Thanks for turning off that beeping. 412 00:21:53,513 --> 00:21:55,047 You're real? 413 00:21:55,114 --> 00:21:56,749 Don't get stuck on trivia, man. 414 00:21:56,816 --> 00:21:59,318 We got a tiger by the tail. 415 00:21:59,386 --> 00:22:01,354 So this is your HQ, huh? 416 00:22:01,421 --> 00:22:03,022 No, this is my apartment. 417 00:22:03,089 --> 00:22:04,891 -This your secret trigger? -What trig...? 418 00:22:04,957 --> 00:22:06,526 -Don't touch anything! -(metallic clanging) 419 00:22:06,593 --> 00:22:08,895 Whoa, check out the crime lab! 420 00:22:08,961 --> 00:22:11,964 It's all thorough and complicated. 421 00:22:12,031 --> 00:22:15,034 You've got ideas, theories. I like that in a sidekick. 422 00:22:15,101 --> 00:22:17,804 Sidekick? Who's saying anything about sidekick? 423 00:22:17,870 --> 00:22:20,172 -Don't touch this. -Perfect. You've got the brains. 424 00:22:20,239 --> 00:22:21,408 I got the everything else. 425 00:22:21,474 --> 00:22:23,309 Come on, man. Don't you feel it? 426 00:22:23,376 --> 00:22:25,778 We're part of a plan that's bigger than the both of us. 427 00:22:25,845 --> 00:22:27,447 What are you talking about? 428 00:22:27,514 --> 00:22:29,248 I'm a superhero, Arthur. 429 00:22:29,315 --> 00:22:30,717 I'm nigh-invulnerable. 430 00:22:30,783 --> 00:22:33,420 I have the reflexes of an Olympic-level jungle cat. 431 00:22:33,486 --> 00:22:36,088 I have the strength of ten, perhaps 20 men. 432 00:22:36,155 --> 00:22:38,357 A crowded bus stop... of men. 433 00:22:38,425 --> 00:22:41,360 But my greatest power is this. 434 00:22:41,428 --> 00:22:43,863 When destiny speaks... 435 00:22:43,930 --> 00:22:46,032 she speaks to me. 436 00:22:47,266 --> 00:22:49,569 She says hi, by the way, and... 437 00:22:49,636 --> 00:22:51,604 -she wanted me to give you this. -Don't slam... 438 00:22:51,671 --> 00:22:55,107 -(slams) -...on the table. 439 00:22:55,174 --> 00:22:56,876 What... what is this? 440 00:22:56,943 --> 00:23:01,247 Everything that survived last night's explosion. 441 00:23:01,313 --> 00:23:03,983 Explosion... Tick, did you, did you attack that gang? 442 00:23:04,050 --> 00:23:05,885 Aha. 443 00:23:05,952 --> 00:23:09,756 Oh. I broke a few eggs, but the omelet is huge! 444 00:23:09,822 --> 00:23:13,225 Listen, Tick, look, I'm sorry, but I am not part 445 00:23:13,292 --> 00:23:16,463 of any sort of bigger plan that you have going on here, okay? 446 00:23:16,529 --> 00:23:19,198 I'm trying to prove that The Terror's alive, and that's it. 447 00:23:19,265 --> 00:23:21,768 You're gonna have to do more than just prove it. 448 00:23:24,504 --> 00:23:26,939 I mean, what am I supposed to do with that? 449 00:23:27,006 --> 00:23:30,477 Destiny is calling you, Arthur. Look at me. 450 00:23:30,543 --> 00:23:31,844 Yeah, I'm looking at you. 451 00:23:31,911 --> 00:23:34,113 I'm over here answering our destiny. 452 00:23:34,180 --> 00:23:35,448 Come on over. 453 00:23:35,515 --> 00:23:37,283 It's good, it's warm. 454 00:23:37,349 --> 00:23:39,018 It's like the inside of bread. 455 00:23:39,085 --> 00:23:41,087 I'm not gonna get inside of bread with you. 456 00:23:41,153 --> 00:23:43,122 Do you understand that? 457 00:23:43,189 --> 00:23:44,757 Not really. 458 00:23:44,824 --> 00:23:46,358 Look, I don't even know you. 459 00:23:46,425 --> 00:23:47,927 You know me. 460 00:23:47,994 --> 00:23:49,962 I'm the "you" you always wanted to be. 461 00:23:50,029 --> 00:23:53,265 You want to come over here and be me, but you can't, 462 00:23:53,332 --> 00:23:54,701 because you're standing there 463 00:23:54,767 --> 00:23:56,435 -right in your own way. -No. 464 00:23:56,503 --> 00:23:59,706 But you make a better door than you do a window, chum. 465 00:23:59,772 --> 00:24:02,742 So, why don't you swing wide open, 466 00:24:02,809 --> 00:24:06,579 let you walk through you, 467 00:24:06,646 --> 00:24:09,482 right on over to me? 468 00:24:11,618 --> 00:24:15,755 Destiny wanted us to meet, Arthur, so we did. 469 00:24:15,822 --> 00:24:19,125 Destiny also wanted me to cause that very big explosion 470 00:24:19,191 --> 00:24:20,893 last night, so I did that, too. 471 00:24:20,960 --> 00:24:25,665 And the only thing that survived is this. 472 00:24:27,667 --> 00:24:29,702 A hero's mantle 473 00:24:29,769 --> 00:24:33,706 sized to your tiny proportions. 474 00:24:35,542 --> 00:24:37,510 I think the meaning is clear. 475 00:24:41,848 --> 00:24:44,884 What? What's wro... what's wrong? Something...? 476 00:24:46,485 --> 00:24:47,987 (quietly): What? What's happening? 477 00:24:52,091 --> 00:24:53,425 (glass breaks) 478 00:24:53,492 --> 00:24:54,861 Hey, my mom bought that for... 479 00:24:54,927 --> 00:24:56,629 Look, there-there is no trigger 480 00:24:56,696 --> 00:24:58,464 for any sort of secret headquarters. 481 00:24:58,531 --> 00:25:00,567 You'll find me on the rooftops. 482 00:25:00,633 --> 00:25:02,134 Yeah, well, probably not, though. 483 00:25:02,201 --> 00:25:03,870 (Tick groans, thuds) 484 00:25:05,337 --> 00:25:07,039 (Tick grunts) 485 00:25:07,106 --> 00:25:08,941 (car alarm blaring) 486 00:25:17,984 --> 00:25:19,418 He was blue? 487 00:25:19,485 --> 00:25:20,853 And huge. 488 00:25:20,920 --> 00:25:23,155 A super, no question. 489 00:25:23,222 --> 00:25:26,325 If you ask me, he was working with that little guy 490 00:25:26,392 --> 00:25:30,096 -that was spying on us last night. -MAN: Hey! 491 00:25:30,162 --> 00:25:34,266 Hey! Hey. 492 00:25:34,333 --> 00:25:35,434 Get me down! 493 00:25:35,501 --> 00:25:38,237 TICK: Light against darkness. 494 00:25:38,304 --> 00:25:40,506 Up against down. 495 00:25:40,573 --> 00:25:43,142 A struggle as old as time, 496 00:25:43,209 --> 00:25:46,412 but with a beat you can dance to. 497 00:25:46,478 --> 00:25:50,249 And as the sun rises on a new day in the city, 498 00:25:50,316 --> 00:25:53,319 so rises a new hero! 499 00:25:53,385 --> 00:25:56,555 A precious balloon of hope girding his loins, 500 00:25:56,623 --> 00:25:59,091 making ready for the fight. 501 00:25:59,158 --> 00:26:02,895 He may be on the compact side as heroes go, but... 502 00:26:02,962 --> 00:26:06,465 that's just the way Destiny crumbles her cookies. 503 00:26:06,532 --> 00:26:08,901 It's not supposed to be easy. 504 00:26:08,968 --> 00:26:10,970 It's not supposed to be comfortable. 505 00:26:11,037 --> 00:26:13,105 It's supposed to be dangerous. 506 00:26:13,172 --> 00:26:15,241 -(beeping) -And interesting. 507 00:26:15,307 --> 00:26:16,709 (whoosh, click) 508 00:26:16,776 --> 00:26:19,245 -That's the hero's journey. -(trilling) 509 00:26:19,311 --> 00:26:21,280 That's why they get up in the morning-- 510 00:26:21,347 --> 00:26:26,185 to go mano a monomyth with the darkness. 511 00:26:26,252 --> 00:26:31,791 To win the elixir and save the world because 512 00:26:31,858 --> 00:26:33,325 villainy is real. 513 00:26:33,392 --> 00:26:36,495 It has guns and scars and tattoos, 514 00:26:36,562 --> 00:26:38,430 and it's licensed to drive. 515 00:26:38,497 --> 00:26:41,200 It wants nothing but to murder 516 00:26:41,267 --> 00:26:44,003 and take, and it's coming for them all. 517 00:26:44,070 --> 00:26:48,174 So two new avengers take their place on the front line. 518 00:26:48,240 --> 00:26:52,211 They will face evil with a song of battle in their hearts. 519 00:26:52,278 --> 00:26:56,916 Destiny's got her hand way, way up in their puppets. 520 00:26:56,983 --> 00:26:58,818 It's an unpleasant tingling. 521 00:26:58,885 --> 00:27:01,387 -The deepest of wriggles. -(beeps) 522 00:27:01,453 --> 00:27:03,522 (whooshing, glass breaking) 523 00:27:03,589 --> 00:27:06,092 And its only reward 524 00:27:06,158 --> 00:27:08,160 is... drama! 525 00:27:13,700 --> 00:27:15,167 New plan. 526 00:27:34,453 --> 00:27:36,388 * * 527 00:28:05,484 --> 00:28:07,419 * *