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Narrator: Morning.
Glad you joined me.
Ultra City... a bad place to be alone.
Ask Little Grace. She'll tell you.
I won't be with you much, this one.
I mentioned that other job has me hopping.
Today.
♪
[ Cellphone rings ]
Lady Andrea: Where are you, honey?
I'm getting a little worried.
I'm here for the underground semis.
Wrestling announcer: Cool. Come on in.
You're gonna be wrestling a series of chimps.
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World's Most Dangerous Man: Donella Smith -- Did you handle that?
Kevin: Oh, that is handled.
Now, we need to do something about that pesky homicide dick.
He's a dick?
Uh, no, no, he -- I don't know him.
I meant "dick" as in detective.
I was trying to use my tough-guy street lingo
'cause you scare me.
Well, I'm taking care of the cop.
But I don't want to discuss that in the open.
You know what? Let -- Let's meet later.
I know the perfect place.
Same gun. Smith.
10 hours later, you.
What is the tie-in, Tim?
You got thoughts about who put you in that chair?
'Cause they likely put Smith underground.
I angered the actress this week.
Stamped her life down for cheap news, that McSapphire.
Yeah, I police-station-babied her.
I jammed her hard, McSapphire.
Maybe she jammed me back
while I was getting some bubble gum there in the park?
Getting interesting out there in Ultra City.
Hey, what is a bubble gum, anyway?
Oh! [ Laughs ]
So, it's when the other dude --
♪ Action
♪ Star system filled with wishes ♪
♪ Crash in, ocean of messages ♪
♪
♪ Static attraction
♪
♪ The universal wishing well
♪ Of all you wish to see and feel ♪
Wrestling announcer: Ladies and gentlemen, our featured match of the night,
former women's heavyweight champion,
Lady Andrea the Giant!
And in this corner, our series of chimps --
Mr. Stevenson,
Buck Thompson,
Big Buck Thompson,
Cocaine Lonnie,
Win Tzu the Chinese Nightmare,
the Old and Also Insane Cheater Sisters.
Let's get it on!
[ Bell dings ]
[ Chimps screeching ]
Kevin: Oh, tweens, I'm so excited to have you
at Tween Appreciation Day today, tweens.
I have a big surprise for you tweens.
Oh, tweens, I'm so excited to have you
at Tween Appreciation Day today, tweens.
Penny: Nico. Johnson: Yeah.
I have a big --
There's a darkness here in Ultra City.
Smith was fighting against it,
but now he's dead.
Nico was trying to solve it,
and he's dead too.
Something heavy's coming down,
and Mills has to figure it out and stop it.
And now he's all alone.
Good cop?
Good cop.
Tough cop.
He's a fragile young man.
Something's wrong inside.
David.
♪
Narrator: It's all coming down on this kid.
Where's he going?
Might be going lime.
Yeah.
Not the best time, kid, to go lime,
when you're in their sights, next in line.
Better to stay sharp than to go all lime.
Dispatch: That's a search-and-arrest
warrant request for a Paula Smith,
alias Trish McSapphire?
You got it.What's the basis?
Basis is I may find her with the gun
that knocked down our Carpenter Smith.
He was gonna make this a gentler place.
I'll get back to you.
Hey, sweetheart.
Yeah, I guess you're at Mommy and Me.
I just -- [ Sighs ]
I just needed to talk.
I'm just here in a bar
during work
with a lime.
I'm really looking at this lime a lot.
I am just really getting into looking at it.
Oh, shit. I don't know.
I don't -- I don't want to do this again, honey, you know.
Get all into limes and --
I lost my partner today,
the hard way, and now, shit, I'm with this lime.
God damn it.
And I know how hard that is, babe, when I go distant.
Your job is tough. Nurses...
are totally where it's at, and I know it.
When you come home, when you want to tell me about
how Melissa Ramirez wouldn't take your shift
and you took two of hers and she's being a bitch
and I'm just sitting there at the kitchen table,
looking at a lime, and all I say is
"Man, limes are weird," and then I go quiet.
And then I say, "Weird in a good way."
I know how hard that is for you, hon.
Anyway...
[ Clears throat ]
[ Grunting ]
Who's this person?
Oh, that man's my handy ass clown.
I decided to hold meetings here,
as no one would expect something dead serious was taking shape.
And have things become dead serious
for our feisty turnip-truck homicide cop?
They have.
The plan involves his former partner's son.
Tell me more.
I got a -- I got a grip.
I got -- Shit!
Trevor's voicemail: Please leave a message.
Hey, I'm just -- Listen.
I'm gonna try to take the afternoon off.
I'm gonna try to get you after school
and we'll go do something fun maybe.
Maybe we can go to the boardwalk, to the arcade.
Dispatch: Robbery at First Eastern Bank.
Madison and 110th.
Suspects are several armed, old, male prostitutes.
Robbery at First Eastern Bank.
♪
What are you doing? Why aren't you coming?
Come to what?
The mayor thing.
Nah, um, my mom's coming.
Just tell me about it, alright?
She wants to go play arcade.
First Teller: Oh, she's just kind of cycling through there.
Street hustler boy: Excuse me?
Hi.
I have a gun.
[ Siren wailing ]
[ Tires squealing ]
Who called the cops?
We've been standing here with our guns out for eight minutes.
FBI agent: Place your weapons on the floor.
Oh, my God.
Step away from your weapons.
Lay on the floor!
You're surrounded!
Okay.
Uh, I need a hostage.
[ Women scream ]
Just one.
I'm gonna let everyone else go.
So, is there --
Which one of you guys is, like --
Is there one of you who isn't cool
or who's maybe, like, a dick or --
or is mean or something?
One of you?
Uh, Angela?
What? Angela.
She, like -- She's kind of a dick.
What are you talking about, Rosie?
You're kind of a dick.
D-Dick how?
You're a dick in the way that you write your name
on your food in the break kitchen fridge.
It's because someone's been taking my food.
Yeah, it bothers me too.
"Angela" on all of her food.
On her [bleep] cupcakes.
Ugh. Yeah, me too.
Angela.
Every time I open the fridge,
just to get, like, my [bleep] half-and-half, it's Angela.
Angela: Tina starts rumors.
No, I don't.
Oh, come on!
All day with the rumors.
"Oh, Denise is having a really hard time getting pregnant."
Tina! I told you that in private!
Really hard time getting pregnant.
Man, now we have a total s-load
of cool handmade friendship bracelets,
just like the mayor wanted.
The city is ours through friendship bracelets.
Yeah, there they go.
With the big bag that caused some big trouble
for the little one.
Crazy, man.
They used that money to make
40,000 friendship bracelets for the mayor.
Crazy, man.
Well, maybe not so crazy here in Ultra City.
I guess we'll see what that's all about.
Other job.
Private dick -- just kidding.
I don't call it that.
Private investigator, one client,
30 years, famous case.
You may have heard of it.
Police Station Baby.
Mom wants...very badly.
Mom wants to know who and where he is.
Been checking fingerprint matches every day.
Hospitals, universities, police stations.
30 years.
You get it?
Voice on phone: Okay, thanks for holding.
You still there?I am.
We actually have a match today.
Homey found a snack.
What's the latest on the money and Little Grace?
No latest. Just the same.
Nothing.
I don't feel good about that at all.
I'm trying to make a way for us, honey.
I don't want to hurt Grace.
But, man, you should've seen those [bleep]
when The Most Dangerous Man walked up.
Tough man.
DeMaximum, Krieger shaking.
Do you know how he got paroled, The Dangerous Man?
Not 'cause he got nice.
Every member of everyparole board he went up against,
year after year, murdered six hours after their "no" vote,
so eventually they get the message and he gets paroled.
That's hard and these are the men in my world.
They're scared of him 'cause that's who he is.
That's not you.
I don't think you can hurt Little Grace if you tried.
Yeah, well, people can't say
people can take things from me in Ultra City.
So I have to try.
♪
Are you the senior officer?
Gail Johnson. Robbery.
We're gonna set up tactical.
I don't know what we're gonna do yet,
but I'm leaning towards storming these [bleep] 400 strong.
♪
That's my brother.
Trish?
You were magnificent. 'Gainst those chimps.
You saw the match?
You're my sister.
I wouldn't miss your semis.
Were you harmed?
It was hard to determine what was taking place
beneath them at times.
They ate my toes.
Sissy.
I want you to think about running for mayor.
My chance is over, but you're a Smith too,
and you can carry on Carpenter's wish for a gentler Ultra City.
Yeah, I can't.
I had that Patty Hearst thing when I was kidnapped
and lived in a closet,
then joined the kidnappers in their violent group.
Get on the ground, whites.
Oh, yeah.
We were alone a lot too, Donovan and I.
I don't know if I really knew who I was for a lot of my life.
Well, you have a new family now.
You know, Donovan is a Smith too.
Oh, man, I was really hoping
I wouldn't have to ask your brother to run for mayor.
[ Cellphone rings ]
Hey, Donovan.
Donovan: Hey, Sissy, it's Dono.
I just woke up.
I'm in someone's house, and I can't find my clothes,
and I don't have any money.
Can you please meet me with 8,000 clean singles?
♪
Mills: Hey, Gail, it's David. I'm going lime
and I just wanted to call you and -- 'cause I need ya.
Gail, you are the best cop on these bad streets,
and I'm going lime now.
My eye's not gonna be on those dark corners.
I need you. Okay.
Lime.
Dispatch: Search-and-arrest warrant for Trish McSapphire granted.
Kevin: Oh, tweens!
Little Grace?
She's gone, Trish.
She didn't go to school, but she's not home.
She's gone somewhere.
She's in -- We'rein trouble.
That's why I'm fighting chimps.
I think she might've run off.
Could she have gone to her father?
She asked about him yesterday morning out of nowhere.
Is that bad if she's gone to him?
Yes. Her father is Peppito Quatro.
The gangster?
I grew up in foster homes,
unselected forever by adoptive parents due to my gigantism.
I mean, why take the big one?
I never faulted anyone.
Nevertheless, longing and need my companions ever.
I finished elementary then high school without a friend, really,
and I was taking classes at court stenographer school.
And, well, one night, on 63rd...
[ Wolf whistle ]
...I became involved with the first person
who showed me affection.
Peppito thought big, even then.
His work never bothered me greatly.
It's Ultra City.
Got to pick a pocket or two.
And, well, we fell in love.
Making love, well, a few times a day.
Such is young love.
And then?
And then we had Little Grace.
And then?
And then he killed a young man, work-related.
Peppito.
The jurors got greased.
The state said innocent.
But he told me so.
And we left him.
I had Little Grace,
and I no longer felt longing and need,
and I knew we didn't have to live with darkness like that.
♪
Trainer: You're hurtin' him! Punch to the body!
Donovan: Okay, this is weird. [ Chuckles ]
I don't understand why we're watching this.
Why are we watching this?
There are lessons in it to help you on your mayor journey.
It starts today.
You can take a lot from this movie,
about rising to the occasion.
B-B-B-B-B-But --
But when are they gonna do it?
Do what?
Do it. When's he gonna do it with the other guy?
It's taking forever.
Do -- Do what?
Make love?
Yeah.
It's two guys. [ Chuckles ]
Hey, um, just wondering where you are, Mom.
Um, I'm excited to arcade with you.
So, okay, bye.
Kevin: Oh, hey, tween.
You don't know what a story is?
Well, I know when I watch movies,
people do it, and this is --
That's pornography.
Okay.
And what is this?
A regular movie that doesn't have pornography in it.
You're Trevor, right?
How did you know that?
Oh, you're one of the town's top tweens.
Say, you coming to Tween Appreciation Day?
What's that for anyway?
Tween team building, getting the tweens together to say,
"Hey, tweens, I'm into you in the way that you're important
to the city, and I appreciate that."
Oh, well, I'm going with my mom to the arcade.
Would you like to know the sweetest thing about a tween?
Well, you see, the sweetest thing about a tween
is a tween's going to be a teen,
then the teen's going to be Y.A.,
then A.
Adult?
Oh, yes, and that sweet someday,
when all of Ultra City's A's are my special friends...
Well, you see, my tween battalion,
it becomes an adult army, trained since tweenhood to,
well, work with me and, well, my designs for the city.
I would really love for you to join the other street tweens
at Tween Appreciation Day today.
I've got a gift for you all,
but you especially, Trev.
[ Laughs ] Oh, what fun we'll have.
Well, hello, darling.
[ Sirens wailing ]
I made my decision!
We're storming this [bleep] 400 strong!
He'll be killed.
We're storming!
♪
This is your neighborhood?
Yes.
What is it?
I just thought it would be more movie star.
Well, that's just a means -- my work --
to an end, finding my boy.
Oh, my.
That's my investigator.
Will you pardon me a moment?
Of course.
♪
We found him.
Hey, Gail, did you tell me that your new half-brother
was kind of a short,
cute, washed-up, male prostitute, cowboy hat?
'Cause he's robbing this bank,
and it looks like they're gonna storm this [bleep] 400 strong.
I can fend them off for a while.
I'm Space Bitch, women's wrestling champion of the world.
But I don't know how long.
Alright. Love you.[ Cellphone beeps ]
Alright!
We're coming to storm you [bleep] 400 strong!
[ Beep ]Street Hustler Boy: Hey, it's Street Hustler Boy.
I'm going to jail. I think. Or to hell.
It looks like they're storming me 400 strong.
I'm in trouble.
I'm calling you because you're a policeman.
And you're my sister.
So, okay.
Okay, later.
Or not.
So.[ Beep ]
Trevor: Mom, I don't know. You must've got called to work.
Okay, I'm gonna go to the mayor's thing.
I'll see you later.[ Beep ]
Mills: Hey, Gail, it's David.
I'm going lime and I just wanted to call you
'cause I need ya.
♪
What are you going to do now that you know his name?
Are you going to tell him?
[ Knock on door ]
♪
Yes?
Mills: Detective David Mills, Ms. McSapphire.
I have a warrant for your arrest.
♪
[ "Bound" plays ]
♪ I wake with a locomotion
♪ Like the break of a row of waves ♪
♪ On a rolling ocean
♪
♪ I'm bound hour upon hour, man ♪
♪ Then and now and after, I am
♪
♪ Bound