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Explosion levels tab. That's great.

Delivery man Irwin P. Freely was critically injured in the blast during

explosion at McGinty.

Gas line in the kitchen exploded at approximately 7 o 'clock.

Mr. Frehley, can you hear me?

Hey!

Surprise!

Surprise!

Happy birthday!

Happy birthday, Gar.

Mom? Dad?

What if you knew, beyond a doubt, what was going to happen tomorrow?

What would you do?

There's no easy answer for a guy who gets tomorrow's news today.

Not too big a thing.

He's upset.

Oh, he's not upset.

You know, you're upset.

You've done me up a fake paper. What do you expect me to be? It's not a fake

paper. It's just a fake front page.

How are we supposed to get you to come down here? You weren't going to throw

yourself a party.

Delivery man, Erwin P.

Freely.

I pee freely.

I get it.

You're upset.

Yeah. It was your mother's idea.

Look, I appreciate the concern, but this is not something that you want to mess

with. Now, can I please have the front page of the real paper? All right, son.

Maybe we did go a little too far.

We were concerned about you. It's your birthday.

Concerned about what?

About this, Gary. This is all you seem to do.

You're missing out on the good things in life.

You need to have some fun.

Your mother's right, kiddo. You need a little balance.

Friendship. When's the last time you had a date?

I have lots of dates.

I have companions that... Look, do we have to talk about this in front of Mom?

Let's just say I have lots of friends, all right? Lots of friends, huh? This is

your birthday party. Look around.

You can count your friends on one hand.

Well, that's because Crum's not here.

Now, can I have the front page, please?

Well, all right.

Just one favor.

What?

Do you remember Renee Callahan?

Renee Callahan. You were in the third grade together. You know, she had

pigtails, used to come around selling campfire candy.

Mom.

No, no, no.

No blind dates. Oh, no. I told you. I ran into her mother at the food king the

other day. And you know what? Renee lives right here in Chicago. No blind

Mom. Well, I knew you were probably going to say that, but I just want you

reconsider. Help!

Somebody help me!

That is exactly why you don't need to mess around with this.

It's not funny. Oh, come on, Gar. Where's your sense of humor? That's not

didn't do that.

Ah, it's my cousin Joey.

Happy birthday, buddy.

Joey!

Jack's in the mail.

We're just trying to lighten you up a little bit, son.

I don't need lightening up.

Well, we looked in the paper. There's nothing going on that needs your

yet. What about this, Mom?

That woman mugged in a park. Now, I'm supposed to just let that happen? Is

what I'm supposed to do? But that doesn't happen for an hour.

We're your parents. We know what's good for you. Come on, have a little of your

birthday cake.

Look, I know you went to a lot of trouble for all of this, and I

that. It's very nice of you, but I've got to get dressed, and I've got to go

what it is that I do.

And I'm going to go do that.

So, thank you.

Thank you.

Just getting older.

you missed you got a second um no actually i'm gonna hurry the purse oh no

honey hey how you doing ah i'm sorry i'm late still time to make lunch though oh

i didn't know that you uh you're gonna bring friends i didn't oh well can i

you then uh our mistake

you all

right yeah yeah i think so um how did you know

They didn't look too friendly. I thought they might be up here first, sir. Yeah,

he does that.

Would you like for me to walk with you for a while? Or can I buy you another

pretzel? A line?

Huh? Oh, is that a line?

I don't know. Is it working?

Might be.

Really? Renee Callahan.

Oh, Carrie.

What?

Al, what? I don't believe it. I fell for it again.

Fell for what?

Renee Callahan from Hickory, Indiana. Where are they? Where who?

Mom, Dad, you can come out now.

Did I miss something here? You don't know when to quit. That's the problem.

Gary Hobson. Look, you can quit acting like you're not in on this, all right?

on what?

The whole thing, the setup, the blind date.

Blind date? Yeah, you know, my mom gets in touch with your mom, so your mom can

get in touch with me, so you can get in touch with me. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,

whoa. You think that I had my mom get in touch with your mom to set up? Look,

you can stop the act, my sweetheart, huh?

Sweetheart, I cannot believe this is happening to me. You know what? You're a

very good actress, but I've got more important things to do. So goodbye, Mom,

and goodbye, Dad, wherever you are. Renee, it's been very nice seeing you

But next time, just call.

You had to do it, didn't you?

What's that, son?

I told you I didn't want to be set up, but you had to go ahead and do it

huh?

Come on, Renee Callahan in the park.

You saw Renee?

Oh, yeah.

What are you doing in my apartment?

Feng Shui.

I saw it on the Discovery Channel. It's very big in these Asian Rim countries.

What you do is you rearrange the furniture to focus your energies.

Excuse me, we're talking about Feng Shui here. How did you get her number?

I didn't get her number.

Wait a second.

You're telling me that you didn't have anything to do with this?

About what?

Cross our hearts.

Oh, I'm so confused.

I am getting lost here.

Gary, what did you do?

You didn't insult her, did you? I mean, Betty Callahan is one of my dearest

friends.

Hello?

Oh, hi, Betty.

Oh, no.

Oh, dear. I am so sorry.

Still time for you to jump out the window, son. Yeah, give it to me.

Well, of course.

Of course I will.

Well.

Too late.

I've never been so humiliated in my entire life.

Sure you have. Remember that cruise we took to the Bahamas? You got caught in

the undertow and your swimsuit went south. Hush.

Now, Renee Callahan is a dear, sweet girl.

And I don't know what you said to her, but... I didn't say anything. Well,

according to her mother, you insulted her. I didn't insult her. And her

Look, if I insulted her, I'm very sorry, but after what you two pulled this

morning, what do you expect from me? Well, I'll tell you what I expect.

I expect for you to go over and give that girl an apology.

And so does Betty.

And so does your father.

I think your mother makes a good point, son.

She's still at work.

Thanks, Dad.

Well, I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll go and I'll give this girl a call, okay?

I'll stop by and I'll say hello. You know, I've got things to do today. Well,

can help you with the paper. No, you don't.

I just want to help out.

And look, you two, you stop with this Bengali stuff or whatever it is. You're

too old for that kind of thing.

Hello?

We're down here.

Gary?

Renee?

Wait, what are you doing here?

I just stopped by your office because, listen, at the park. I wanted to

apologize because my parents, I thought that my parents... Okay, were you just

talking to someone a minute ago? No, see, I came by to apologize.

See, I wanted to say I was sorry for the missing... Okay, quiet, quiet.

Huh?

Hold it, please.

Don't move. You're under arrest.

Arrest? What for? Hands up front. No, this is not a mistake. This is an

Hey, look, we'll straighten it out at the station. What are the charges?

I said we'll straighten it out at the station.

Give me your hand.

Off my lead.

Quiet.

Get up.

Get up.

Michael. Michael.

Michael.

Hurry up. What's going on?

The park. The park. Yes.

How do you drive? I don't believe it.

No more blind dates for me.

Do you think we're intruding?

Intruding? We're his parents.

He loves having us here.

Yeah, but he's socialized.

What social life is practically the Pope?

Well, Ave Maria.

Mom, Dad, do you remember Renee?

Oh, of course, Renee. You look great.

Hi, Mrs.

Hobson, Mr. Hobson.

Long time no see, Renee.

I went down to Renee's office and... We ran into a little bit of trouble.

Oh, dear.

And you kids got up to a fast start.

Police staff.

So who's got the key?

That's the trouble.

Are you sure they didn't follow you?

Oh, no, not a chance.

See, we took the Eisenhower over to the Dan Ryan, the Dan Ryan down to the

Stevenson. From the Stevenson, we hopped down to the tri -state and then quick

loop back around to the Eisenhower and here we are. Believe me, with her

directions, no one followed us.

Hey, I got us here, didn't I?

Huh?

Do you think that's going to work?

Apparently not. Ouch!

Okay.

Scrapped a penknife. Carol, where are you keeping a blowtorch these days?

Give me this.

Now, why were those guys pretending to be cops?

Oh, well, probably for my research.

What research?

Yeah, your mom told us you worked at a think tank, but she never told us what

you were thinking about.

Yeah, what is it, top secret, high tech, Tom Clancy kind of stuff?

It's math, Dad.

What? You see, I am developing algorithms that can be used to help

weather patterns.

Oh.

Uh, why would they want to steal your weather patterns?

Yeah, who's chasing you, Al Roker?

Now, I say we call the police right now. No, no. She can't do that.

Why not? Well, you see, my project is funded by a government grant, and...

I can't do anything unless I talk to the Washington office first, and I had to

sign a security agreement.

So call them.

We tried.

Can't. They're closed.

They don't open until 7 o 'clock in the morning. Even a home shopping network

has 24 -hour operators.

I think you're going to need bolt cutters there, Jack.

Oh, do you have some of those?

Oh, yeah, I do.

Yeah, I do, for every time that I get connected to someone with handcuffs.

There's no need for sarcasm here, Gary.

Looks like you kids are stuck until morning.

Oh, no. What am I going to tell Betty?

Nothing. We'll tell Betty nothing.

You kids are going to be here tonight.

We are.

I am.

We're all in this together.

The eagle has landed.

So, who's up for Scrabble?

handcuffs, remember?

Yeah. I gotta get the paper. Okay, easy. What's the rush? What's the rush?

Stay put, kids.

I'll get the paper.

No, Dad, don't do that. Don't worry. I won't let him read it.

No. No, loud.

I won't let him read it out loud. I mean, every morning.

Okay, um, can I use the phone now?

I think I can get through now.

Phone?

Morning. Phone number.

Yes, this is Renee Callahan with the Wayland Corporation. I need to speak to

project manager.

Oh, um, 7727B, as in Bravo, D as in Delta, and K as

in... Knowledge.

Kilo? Yeah.

No.

There's something wrong, Leland. I need to speak to someone about my data.

No, I deleted the files.

I have a disk with me.

It's the only copy.

Oh.

Yes,

I understand.

Okay.

Get back to me.

Going over the boss's head, huh?

Always risky when you start jumping a chain of command.

Thank you, Liz.

Scribner, we have a problem.

Renee Callahan.

She wants to come in.

Lauren says she's dealing on the side trying to cover.

Let's give her an escort.

Send the postman.

Listen, I, uh... Look, I'm sorry about the sleeping

comment. I hope you slept all right. Oh, hey, at least I had a bed.

You should have seen me when I was an undergrad at Seattle.

You see, I can't tell you how many nights I slept in the stacks of the

I still go there when I need time to think.

The park was... No, no, don't start that again.

No, no, I'd like to apologize.

Oh, you should.

Yeah.

You see, it was... Well, it was a misunderstanding, because I thought that

No, you thought... That the poor little math nerd was so desperate for a date

that she had to have her mommy help set her up, right?

No, I didn't think... Of course you did. Because everybody wants to date Gary.

Mr. All -American, baseball playing, stingray bike riding, mowing everyone's

lawn with his shirt off.

Yeah, I noticed.

Teacher's pet.

It wasn't All -American. It was All -State.

Whatever. Gary, my point is... No, what I'm saying is... Look, what I'm trying

to say is that... I'm sorry.

And the two little people, they change.

I mean, you've changed.

You've changed.

So you've planned on shaving the rest of that sometime today?

Oh, you want to raise your hand a little bit? Let me.

Don't you trust me?

Don't worry.

I'll be careful.

Ow! Something's going on.

In there, you think?

No, not in there, Bernie. Renee's job.

It doesn't make sense, Bernie. I mean, she predicts the weather. Big deal. Why

would someone be after her?

Are you kidding me? The weather is big business these days. If you could

the next El Nino, you could make a fortune.

How?

I don't know.

Umbrella sales.

Don't be such a baby. I'm bleeding.

It is just a little scratch.

Gash. Scratch.

So what's it going to be, kids?

Hardware store?

Bolt cutters?

Yeah, but there's something else first, Mr. Hobson. I need a favor.

Anything, kiddo.

Okay, I need you to get something for me.

You sure can, hon. I gotta clean out your Freon recondenser.

That's, uh, your air conditioner.

But we didn't... It's a part of the service plan. There's no extra charge,

Uh, it says here in the, uh, work order that it's located above the kitchen,

which is this way?

That way.

All right, uh...

43 .45 with tax.

Is that cash or charge?

I can get this. I can do this.

It's a business expense. I can write it off.

Sure.

Sorry,

we got a problem here.

Are you over your limit?

No. Like this any of your business?

What?

The system's down. It'll take a few minutes, all right?

Excuse me, Mr. Lawrence.

We got her.

She tried to use her credit card.

Gerald's Hardware, 8400 Block State Street.

Move.

Yeah. Sorry to bother you, but have we changed your building maintenance

contract?

Why? Can't you do anything? Lady, it's not me.

Gary, we have to go. Well, we've got to get the bolt cutters. No, we've got to

go now.

Okay, you see, we're kind of in a hurry here. I understand that. You understand

that. The machine doesn't understand.

We've got to go.

Hey, you can't do that.

Hey, what are you doing?

Listen. It's them.

Huh? Them.

Exactly.

They traced my credit card. I mean, they must have.

They can do that?

Oh, yeah, and they're asleep.

Listen, oh, wait a second. Who is they, first of all? Hello, Gar.

Lois, I don't think we've had the pleasure.

But obviously you have.

Excuse me?

Renee Callahan, this is Chuck Fishman and Marissa Clark.

Gary and Renee grew up together.

Oh.

It's a long story. Well, we'd like to hear about it, wouldn't we, Marissa?

Yeah. Delivery for Gary Hobson.

What are you crazy? What's going on? I don't know, but Renee's kicking ass.

Get up!

Please!

Nobody points a gun at my son.

Did I miss something?

Pull him, Chaco.

I am pulling. You pull.

How did you know that he was... How did you know he wasn't real?

Facial hair.

What? Well, Federated Courier Service has a strict grooming policy. There's no

goatees. Oh!

And how do you know that?

Okay, so I dated a Federated Courier Serviceman once for about three minutes.

He looked so good in shorts. He had these cats. Look, enough with that, all

right? We know the courier guy wasn't real. Who sent him?

Well, they didn't say it's the hardware store, right? And Whaling Corporation

has absolutely no clue where I am.

That leaves Washington.

You mean a government agent?

Wait, didn't you call Washington for help?

I did.

And they sent someone to shoot you. Well, now, that sounds just like the

government. What about all the karate?

Oh, my dad taught me.

No need to worry about that guy. He's out cold. And just in case, I got the

little guy watching him in the cooler.

Guess what I bought on the way home?

A hacksaw.

Put him up there. Now, Bernie, be careful.

I want to be the first guy to interrogate him when he wakes up. Yeah,

enough of that. Now, listen, you know, the federal government, they send an

armed courier guy here.

It gives me an idea you're working on more than the weather at this think tank

of yours.

Oh, um...

It's complicated, you know. We got plenty of time. Go ahead.

Okay, uh, this may sound a little far -fetched, but what would you guys say if

told you I can predict the future?

Well, this is gonna be very interesting.

Okay, um...

The theory goes like this.

Certain future events are predictable by solving a complex series of partial

differential equations, or PD. I don't understand a lick of it.

That's okay.

Most computers don't either.

Not without the right code, which is what I've been working on.

See, Gary, I told you not to drop out of second year algebra.

I think this is a little different from algebra, Mom.

So you were saying... Okay, long story short.

Einstein said time is a river.

With this code, I'm trying to get the computer to predict what the next bend

the river is. Listen, how close are you to figuring this thing out?

I don't know.

But I may be closer than I thought.

You see, all year I've been turning my calculations to my boss.

But last week, I discovered that he's changing the data. He's simplifying it

before sending it on to Washington.

I mean, he's making it look like I've made no progress whatsoever.

Well, why would he do that?

Again, I don't know.

Maybe he doesn't want them to know how close we are.

Or maybe this guy's taking the information for himself.

Wait, who is they?

I mean, who's funding the research?

The Department of Agriculture.

You see, they want to forecast weather cycles, crop developments, famine

That's why I took this job.

I thought I could help people.

Sounds to me like your boss wants to help himself.

A fella could predict the future. He could make a killing in the stock

No. You see, they've been trying to apply PDEs to Wall Street for years.

Nobody's had any luck.

Not yet.

As far as I know, I'm closer than anyone in the world.

Well, so what's on this disc?

Well, um, this is two years of work.

When I saw what was going on, I deleted all my files from the mainframe.

This is the only copy.

There's stuff on here that my boss has never even seen.

So if there is a way to tell the future...

It may very well be right there.

The, uh, fake delivery guy?

He left.

I don't get it. I taped this guy's ankles together with duct tape. How far

guy hop? He must have cut the tape.

With what?

With scissors. Now, where did he get scissors?

From the desk.

Wait a second.

How did he get to the desk?

Oh, it must have been when I went to the kitchen to get a soda.

What?

I had a tickle.

Oh, look, this... Wait, wait, wait.

I have to go.

Go where?

I don't know who sent that guy.

I don't know who I can trust.

Well, you can trust me.

Right now, I don't need any more complications.

Oh, now I'm a complication.

No, I just think it would be the same thing for all of us.

If I just disappear for a while.

I don't want to cause any more trouble.

Renee!

You're no trouble.

You want to talk about it?

Nothing to talk about.

Can't sit down?

Mom?

Hmm?

How many chances do you think you get?

Chances.

Chances, happiness, chances.

Oh, 42.

I got a smile out of you. I haven't seen that in a while.

You're right about her.

Well, you should listen to your mother.

Gary, do you want my advice?

No. Well, I'm going to give it to you anyway. Look, you are sitting here

wondering if you've let your best chance for happiness get by you.

And you're asking yourself, is this your last shot?

Well... You can just sit there and wonder about it, or you can go get the

How did you find me here?

You told me you liked it here.

What are you doing here?

I just... I just wanted to make sure that you...

That you were all right.

I was going to call.

You are?

I mean, you know, I...

I figured you were going to.

Look, I was just... We were all... wondering where you were going to stay

tonight. Oh.

Don't think my apartment's really safe.

Oh.

Have a long chat.

I just love these cinnamon rolls.

Hey,

I'm walking.

Hey,

what is this?

You just let them walk out on their own. Gary, they are adults.

Adult? My dad?

Well, one of them's an adult.

Renee, you have a phone call.

Oh, Renee.

Hello?

It's a shame it's come to this, Renee.

Lawrence, what do you want? Well, you've got something I want, and I've got

something you want.

Don't deal with him, Gary.

No negotiating with terrorists.

Remember the Maine.

I think you recognize the voice.

I know you recognize the attitude.

Are they all right?

Well, they will be when I get the disc.

Fine. Where do you want to meet?

Washington Park.

Yeah, yeah, 51st Street side.

Oh, that's... Wait a minute.

51st Street side.

That's unacceptable.

Don't make this difficult, Renee.

There's a warehouse.

Mackinac and 93rd.

Meet in the parking lot out front.

Ten minutes after eight.

It's a neutral place, wide open. There's no possibility of a double cross.

No. How about I... Look, take it or leave it. You have plenty of time to

it out. Do you want the disc or not?

Fine. Ten minutes after eight.

A warehouse?

Trust me.

You, um... You have a plan, right?

Kind of.

Kind of?

Kind of.

The disc?

What about my mom and dad?

Mom, Dad?

Don't worry about us, Gar.

We're fine.

Now, do this.

I guess I should be flattered you want my research, even if you are using it

illegally. What?

Nothing wrong with making a little money.

Okay, a lot of money.

Still preferable to what the government was going to do with your work. You mean

feeding people, preventing famine?

You know who really pays our bills?

The Department of Agriculture.

Try the Pentagon.

Your research will be used to destabilize governments, quell

political unrest. No, I don't believe you. Believe it.

Suddenly there's nothing wrong with little capital gains now, is there?

Now give me the dish.

Verify it. Nobody move.

Gary.

It's a real thing.

Everybody get down.

Nice doing business with you.

Pleasure to finally meet you. You have some big fans in Washington.

You have a funny way of showing it.

We didn't know if you could be trusted.

You could have asked.

I believe you have a disc for me.

I can't give it to you.

What you've done is research.

Pure research.

What'll happen with it, that'll be on my conscience.

Forget it.

That belongs to the government.

It's ours.

One way.

Or the other.

I'm going to get it.

Excellent.

The explosion was a nice touch.

Maybe someday you'll tell me how you pulled it off.

I doubt it.

Well, you have my number.

government got the disc?

Not quite.

Wait a second. If that's the disc, what do they have?

Did you see any of those government guys sneaking around the Grey Ghost?

No.

Why? My CD is missing.

What CD?

The Best of American Bandstand.

It's a classic.

It's not available in stores.

You know, you gotta buy it on the tube.

Your damn government can pay for their own CD.

Pretty clever.

I thought so.

But, you know, they're going to come after you, don't you?

Fine.

You know what? Suddenly my math skills have gotten really fuzzy.

I don't seem to remember a thing.

Well, what about that?

Get her this. Pull her on this joint.

All right.

I'm on it.

So, um... Oh.

Have a good time.

You're sure you're okay about this? Are you kidding?

Go. Have a good time.

And don't worry if you don't make it home tonight. We've got the paper cover.

Look, I'm going to dinner and a movie, and I told you where I'm going to be,

you've got the beeper number. Gary?

There's only two things in the paper. You don't need to worry about that.

They're in the metro section. I saw them. You already told us about them,

Garrett. Here you go. Dessert's on us, pal.

Wow! I wish I had a camera. Hi.

Uh,

uh, okay. Well, thanks, Dad.

Yeah, Mom.

Tell Betty I'd say hello. I'm sure you'll talk to her soon.

Bye. Bye.

Those two together was a good idea.

I have a feeling this is what the paper wanted all along.

Want to drive? Sure.

Great.

Hey.

Um, Gary?

Hmm?

There's one thing that's still bothering me.

The explosion?

At the warehouse?

How did you know about it?

Well, uh... And then there's your parents' abduction.

And my mugging in the park.

You know something I don't?

What

if

I told you...

Then I get to Ma's newspaper today.

Every morning.

I'm like, doorstop.

With a cat.

And you see, that way I'm able to predict the future.

You almost had me there.

Except for the cat.

I mean, had you said a dog, oh, I would have been all yours.

If it would have been a dog, it would have worked out.

I wouldn't believe that.

Dogs.

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