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Hello, this is the second sentence.

I got it!

I got it! You're up now.

Come on, alien!

Get the space going out!

Get the space back!

Kick it, alien!

All of you, stop that.

It's not nice.

Pick it, robot man.

It's monster! Sam! That's it.

Stop it, Sam!

Sam!

Sam!

Stop it!

Break it, Sam!

Listen, Santa Florida, I don't need to go.

Your father will miss both of you if you don't visit him before school starts.

I'm not leaving you alone with a drug smuggler.

He's a banker, Josh.

Jean-Pierre is a very honest and respectable banker.

You can't even see it.

That's why you need me here.

And that reminds me, do you know anything about a $200

charge to his gold card from the Urban Outlaw catalog?

I don't know about that.

How would I know about that?

And I'm not accusing Sweetheart.

Jean-Pierre had to cancel his account over it, and I thought you might know.

You're my Outlaw catalog.

Oh, the babysitter, thank God.

It's so obvious.

Sally Longer's drug money.

Mrs. Whitney, I'm afraid Sam started another fight in school.

Honey, what are you looking at?

See, Mom, this is what happens when you drink while you're pregnant.

Josh, stay out of this.

We know Sam's an intelligent boy.

He's tasted very high, but he just hasn't paid any attention in his summer classes.

I'm afraid this school has no choice next month but to have him repeat the second grade.

Hello?

God, it's now another whole year in the second grade.

So?

Why can't you come?

I have to leave in 15 minutes.

So no one of you get along with Dad's stepson so well.

They're brain dead, too.

All right.

All right.

Goodbye.

I'm sure Sam will be fine when he gets to Florida.

His father knows how to talk to him.

Then send him there alone.

Both of you go to your room and pack your suitcases.

I will not leave until tomorrow afternoon.

Now?

Now?

I don't want you missing your plane again.

You wouldn't know where I can find a babysitter on short notice.

No, I wouldn't.

You know, Sam, I didn't want to mention this with Mom around, but I know where

there's the secret place that all the other kids of failure grade get together.

Yeah, you know, it's way out on the bluffs, high above the Pacific Coast Highway.

What do they do there? Jump off.

Mom, why are we in such a hurry?

I mean, our plane doesn't leave for another two and a half hours.

Well, Jean-Pierre has lunch reservations.

Oh, so me and Sam have to hang out at the airport because he's hungry?

Honestly, Josh, it's better to be early anyway.

Oh, God, he's here.

And please, no more jokes about Jean -Pierre's cologne.

It's not cologne, Mom.

It's a fire hazard.

I think it's what killed Sam's cat.

What little got run over by a car?

I know, Sam, but can't we really rule out suicide?

I mean, maybe JP's fumes are just too much for him.

She flung herself under the wheel.

Shut up.

Josh, stop it.

Hi.

How are you? Fine.

So can we drop them in front this time?

I'm Jean-Pierre.

Come on.

They're not my brother anymore.

What?

I just decided it.

Same way Dad is Mom's husband anymore.

You must be dumber than Dad's deaf sons.

You can't divorce me.

Uh-huh.

Dad could take you away forever like he took the lawnmower and the barbecue.

That wouldn't matter.

I'd still be your brother, wherever I was.

Even if I was a thousand million miles away.

I wish you were.

Excuse me.

Um, who's that kid over there?

Well, that's your brother.

See? Not anymore.

I'm not.

Say it all you want, Sam.

You still can't change who your brother is.

Or even your parents.

You're stuck with whatever you get, forever.

Uh -uh.

When I get to Florida, I'm making Curtis something on my real brothers.

Because they don't like you either.

Tie out!

Stop the game!

Emergency substitution!

How?

How? They're here.

They're here.

Everything go okay, Ellen? Yeah, fine.

And what do we got here?

What do we got in here?

We got us a killer Sam!

Oh, a killer Sam! Oh, buddy.

Oh, and his gruesome twin, Josh.

Yeah.

So, Sam, you want to go out for a long wind? Hey, Curtis.

All right.

Here, hike it.

Ready?

Hike!

Oh,

yes!

Yes!

Oh, the crab goes wild!

Killer Sam!

Killer Sam, give me a big one, my old boy.

So, I hear you're having a little trouble in school? It's okay.

It's something people make fun of me.

Like Josh.

Like Josh, huh?

And who's here to make fun with these skinny little archers?

I thought I told you to put on some muscle before you came back.

Yeah, but Mom made me come anyway.

Hey, Tom, throw me one.

No, no, no.

Josh's turn.

Dad, can I just go inside, please?

Hey, come on, Josh.

Just catch the ball, huh? Come on.

Let's show these guys how it's done.

Hey,

Sam.

Why don't you tell Josh what we heard your dad say he's afraid he might be? You tell him.

Come on, Sam.

Do it.

Why?

You guys are the ones who heard it.

Yeah, but you're his brother.

You should tell him.

A homosexual, okay?

Yeah, he was afraid you might be a homo.

We already know you are.

You're gonna cry now?

Curtis, Leon, you knock it off.

Dad, can I be excused now?

And for God's sakes, Josh, just...

clean your plate.

You know what?

I think you're real dead.

He's probably some homo in California.

Bet your mom did it with a bag.

And then you were born.

Here.

There.

Is that clean enough for you, Dad?

Josh, go to your room.

My room?

You're in my damn room.

Sam?

I'm in trouble, Josh.

After what you did last night.

And Curtis heard you in Dad's office at three in the morning.

I don't care.

It doesn't matter either.

Okay.

I guess I just discovered something really bad that I have to tell you about.

I already know you're a homo.

No, Sam, this is real.

I found something serious on Dad's computer last night.

Something he's been keeping a secret all this time.

So? It's about you.

He's not.

You know, you're probably right.

What is it?

Well, the real reason why you're having trouble at school.

Why you're always fighting with kids' recess and getting into trouble.

And even when you're so good at playing football.

Why?

I found proof on Dad's computer that you were genetically

engineered and secretly trained to be a fighter.

A soldier.

A child warrior.

You're making this up.

No, why do you think they're always calling you Sam? It's my name.

It's your acronym.

It stands for strategically altered youth.

Listen, I have more proof from this.

I tossed some secret documents out this morning.

I'll watch out for Dad.

You go look under the window of his office.

Go get him.

This is me.

Yeah.

See, this here shows how you were genetically altered to be a fighter.

This is a diagram of the electronic aiming device they put inside your right eye.

And this describes your enhanced tactical mental powers for war strategy.

But... I failed second grade.

Only because you can't learn like normal kids.

You absorb information only with special numbers and coded words.

Josh, why did they tell me?

Because they were only thinking of themselves.

When they deliver you to the Pentagon, Mom's going to use their money to go off

to Europe with JP and get this.

Dad's sending you off to fight a war just so

we can send the buttholes to football camp.

Josh, I don't want to fight.

I don't want to go to war.

Hey, don't worry.

I'm not going to have to.

But you know what?

We have to keep this quiet, and we have to stick together.

No more teaming up with Curtis and Leon, because they're in it too.

Come on.

We better get back.

Hey!

Cue Sam!

Uh...

Josh, Sam? Uh, there's something I gotta tell you.

Uh, I know this is very sudden.

Tomorrow afternoon, you boys are flying back to California.

And you're going to pack up your rooms and spend

the last week of your vacation with your mother.

Tom, don't you think you should talk to them alone?

No.

This is a family matter.

And now that we're going to be living as a family, we'll just discuss this together.

What do you mean, Dad?

Your mother called last night.

And it seems that her boyfriend, uh, Jean-Pierre, asked

her if she would live in Europe with him for the next year.

And she said yes.

And now, she's going to Jordan to help?

That's right, Sam.

How can she pay for this?

How is she getting the money?

Maybe, excuse me.

It's not your business how she's paying for this.

Josh, I'm not finished.

Josh, this must mean they're sending me to war now.

How can you say you don't want to talk about it?

What can you do, Sam? It sucks.

I can tell Mama now the truth.

I can show her the documents.

No.

If she sees them, she'll destroy them.

That'll say I made it all up.

Come on, Josh, please.

You've got to help me.

Yeah.

Well, I didn't want to tell you this because I didn't want to get your hopes up.

But I read on the computer about the others escaping on this thing they called

the Underground Roadway.

You mean like a big long tunnel?

No, not exactly.

It's like a secret escape network that uses back roads

and special drivers so the army won't catch them.

To where? To Canada.

I know where that is.

I can go there, too.

No, not alone.

Not without finding the Supreme Commander first.

Right down there, right now.

She's probably leading a new group to safety and freedom.

Fair Commander?

She's a girl? A woman.

A great woman.

I've got to find her, Josh.

What'd she look like? I don't know.

I've never seen a picture of her.

But the computer described her as having long

and wavy blond hair and real beautiful looking.

And she wears a red hat when she's out on a mission leading mutant children north of Canada.

They don't know her name, except that she's called Liberty.

The Liberty Maid.

Yeah.

That's what they call her.

Ladies and gentlemen, the captain has turned on the fasten seatbelt sign.

We are experiencing turbulence due to a storm over Dallas.

Josh, why didn't you come and get me, too? I don't know.

Maybe it's not your time yet.

Maybe you're still safe.

Here.

I want you to chew on this foil, okay?

If your brain is running an excess charge, you should

feel a slight electric tingle in your back teeth.

Ow! Oh, God.

It hurts!

You're activated.

We can't help it, sir.

It's a wind shear alert.

Don't expect the airport to open till very early in the morning.

No, you can't do this, Mom.

Sam is behaving real strange.

I don't think this is a good idea now.

Josh, it's just one night in a hotel.

I'm sure Sam will be fine with you there.

Well, Mom, I mean, it's not good for you to leave at all.

Sam is acting even better than before.

He needs you to take care of him now.

I'm sure your father will take very good care of him.

But I need to take care of myself now.

You understand, don't you?

You always understand.

I just saw Jean-Pierre in 60 minutes confessing everything.

He was in the shadow, but I could tell by those big lips of his.

Stop it, Josh.

I never want to hear that again.

Jean-Pierre is going to be part of our lives now, and

there's nothing you can say that will change that.

Josh?

Josh?

Mrs. Whitney, yes, we got your note.

Yes, everything's taken care of.

Yes, thank you.

Hi, Josh.

Come on, let's get your brother off.

Well, good night, boys.

Let's behave ourselves, okay?

What happened?

What did you find out at the airport? Africa.

I don't think it's a good idea to talk in here because I think it's bugged.

What's going on in Africa? A war.

A secret and brutal war that they want you to fight in.

They can't do that.

I know they can't, because I'm not going to let them.

So, listen.

I'm going to go downstairs and use the payphone and see

if I can find a driver from the underground roadway.

It may take a couple of hours or more, so don't open the door for anyone.

And don't tell anyone where I am, okay?

Why can't I go with you?

Um, because there may be a scout down there from the Pentagon, and they know

what a killer Sam looks like, so don't go anywhere or do anything till I come back,

okay? Okay.

So long, Sam.

Who

are you looking for? My mother.

What's her name?

Here she is, Michelle Gary.

No.

It can't be.

These are the ones who aren't here because of the airport closing.

She's been gone for almost two hours.

She must have forgotten to come by and think of her button, kind of like she

forgot to give me and my brother a room key.

There she is.

Damn it, Mom.

Michelle Gary.

You've become a little boy.

Oh, I'm not really her.

You're right.

She was bigger.

Uh, no.

She's my mom.

Michelle is.

Yes.

Yes, I can see it.

I surely can.

Josh can't come to the phone because he's in

the bathroom, and he'll be there a long time.

That's fine, Sam.

You just make sure you have your bags packed tonight.

They're picking you up at 7 a.m.

Okay.

Well, I really ought to be going.

Way to say, Josh, is your father here with you?

Yeah, who did Michelle finally end up with, huh?

That was some rich guy.

You know, I don't know who my father is.

I don't even know his name.

Well, I'd really better be going.

Wait!

Did Jo-Ma ever mention the name Derek Baxter?

Uh, oh, yeah, sure.

She talks about you all the time.

She did really?

What the hell are you looking at?

God, it couldn't be him.

It has to be.

Who else?

Don't pay no attention to what they say, Josh.

It's all lies.

They barely knew me.

Your mother and I, it's really special.

I mean, special.

I really better be going.

I'm staying with my grandparents, and they're coming to pick me up.

Hold on, hold on, Josh, Josh, Josh.

Well, we gotta talk somewhere.

Really?

How come?

Because your mother and I... Josh!

Josh, it's me, Sam!

Uh, this is my brother Sam.

He has problems.

You don't... you don't mean these.

Is this his driver?

No.

Yes, and I'm driving you both to get a juicy steak and some of them big french fries.

Now, how's that sound to you, Sam?

I think I want to go straight to Canada right now.

Uh, Mr. Baxter, maybe we should just stay here.

What?

Eat this cold chicken crap?

Hell no! Come on, hurry.

We gotta get out the back way.

Sam!

Sam, wait!

Yeah!

Whoo!

It's too bad we're driving this Reddit car crap, you know.

My real car is a Corvette.

It's in the shop, though.

You know, there's this blue thing I want to ask you, Josh.

What day were you born on? Uh, June 17th.

That's nine months back.

That's the night we beat Garland.

That's perfect.

Don't come in now.

I knew it!

Uh, knew what, Mr.

Baxter? Don't call me that, Josh.

Call me Dad.

This is so great!

Well, here we are.

Where are we?

This is in Canada.

Don't you recognize your old grandparents' house? Oh, yeah.

Let's go in and tell them the news, huh, and invite them out to dinner.

Oh, wait, no, no, no, no, no.

We really can't go in and surprise them like that, because my grandfather has a

bad heart, and it may kill him to hear this.

What are you talking about, Josh?

So I'll go see if they're awake, but you stay here, okay? All right.

Suit yourself.

Okay.

Oh, shit.

That man out there is my brother.

He's crazy, and he's drunk, and he thinks he's my father.

Can you call the police?

Please call the police.

Um, they must have gone back to get us, but you can

leave us here, because I'm sure they'll be back soon.

What, and leave my only son here on the street? Oh, I know.

Um, sometimes they leave the back door open.

I'll go check.

Thirsty? Thank you.

Come on.

It's okay.

Josh, you've got to get a new driver, because he's not doing us right.

Uh, it's okay, Dad.

You can go now.

No, it's not okay, Josh.

I had some good times in this house, right here on this couch, in fact.

Uh, listen, Dad, my grandparents are gonna become home soon as it's getting late.

Old Sam here was, uh, telling me quite a bit there back in the car about how you

discovered he was really a genetically engineered soldier, and I had to take you

both to Canada so as he wouldn't be sent to some secret war there in Africa.

Kids.

Yeah, kids.

Come on, we've got to find someone else.

Uh... This is Michelle.

Now, who's this guy?

Uh, I don't know, but listen, Dad, maybe you

can teach me how to play pool or something.

Don't you call me that.

The others.

They put you up to this to me.

Well, I made it up myself.

I'm sorry.

I should have known you were... Why did you find another rock?

Stop that!

You stop that now!

I'll snap your bloody little neck!

I warned you!

It worked, Josh!

My aim was activated!

You little shit!

Is he dead?

Did you kill him?

Yes.

Shit, yes, I killed him.

Come on, Sam, we've got to get out of here.

No, wait, wait, wait.

Someone will see us coming out.

No, they've already seen us tonight at the hotel.

They're going to know I'm the killer, and oh, God, shit! Fingerprints.

Fingerprints.

They're all over the place in here.

So we've got to wait and look, Josh.

Come on.

Oh, my God, Sam.

I'm a murderer.

In Texas.

And they're giving the lethal injection here.

It's like a shot, you know, but it kills you, and they even give it to minors.

And Josh, you've got to have Texas.

You have to come with me to Canada.

Okay.

Sam, don't you see that this is real?

It's not like all that stuff I told you about

being a child warrior and the liberty maid.

I made all that up.

You liar.

I'm sorry, Sam.

I really am.

You always want to leave me out of everything.

No, Sam, I really made it up.

Don't forget it.

I'll go by myself.

Wait, where are you going?

Canada, goodbye.

Sam,

you can't drive a car.

I can, too.

I watched Mom, and I have a map here in this magazine.

I can find a liberty maid and get to Canada on my own.

Sam, I told you, you're just a normal kid.

I made everything up, all on Dad's computer.

You did not.

Sam, it's not real.

Don't tell me what's real.

Why else would Mom be leaving right now?

Right when the war is starting.

There is no war, Sam.

Mom's just leaving.

That's all.

Why are you trying to get rid of me?

Let's move over.

Canada is north from here.

I know that.

Put your seat belt on.

I need to put this thing here on D.

They are pressing that.

Shut up.

We're never going to get there.

Where are we?

Josh, what about the kids at school?

What?

What about them? They knew.

They knew what I was.

How could they know, Sam?

I made it up because I was mad at you for getting up with Curtis and Leon against me.

But everyone at school called me alien and spaceman.

Well, maybe it's because you're always staring up into space.

And playing by yourself and never paying attention in class.

But I wasn't paying attention because I was always thinking about being dead.

Like Grandma and Buttonwell after she got hit by the car.

And now I know it's all because I was programmed

to give up my life like all the other killer Sams.

Isn't that right?

Isn't that what you said?

Then why are you trying to lie to me now?

Why are you telling me I'm not what you know I am? Sam, I'm sorry.

Well, don't do it again.

Because if you do, I'm going to take this car and go to Canada without you.

Sam, what are you doing? I'm leaving.

Forget it, Josh.

It's my turn to drive and you know it.

But Sam, you're going way too fast.

I am not.

Look, it goes up 220.

Okay, look at the ropes.

Look at that.

See, I got a fun liberty made and then the ground road went to Canada.

So there's really no reason I can't drive now.

So go back to sleep or something, okay? Listen, Sam.

We know that you have the ability to drive.

But no one else knows that.

And anyone who sees you thinks that you're just a

regular seven-year-old kid driving a car way too fast.

And if the police saw that, they'd pick you up and then send you to the Pentagon.

So you should let me drive, not because I'm better.

We both know that you're better, but because I'm older.

And I don't look as strange driving a car.

Do you see what I mean? Okay, great.

So now the first thing you have to do is pass

down the brake and put this thing here into end.

I got it.

Hi.

Just changing drivers.

Oh, God, Sam, your head's bleeding.

I know, but we got to keep going.

We got to find the liberty made and all the others.

No, we got to find a hospital.

No, those are just fixing up and then they'll send me off to war.

I can take care of myself.

Look, I got my hand over it.

Josh, there's a light streak in the sky.

Oh, shooting star, probably.

Really?

Well, it's not really a star.

It's...

It's like a rock, going through space and burning up in the atmosphere.

But Mom used to say that if you make a wish after you see one, it'll come true.

She never told me that.

Well, it was when you were little.

I don't believe it anyway.

No, me neither.

You're in Colorado now.

I'm hungry now.

Eat your own candy bar.

Ech, why can't you use those credit cards at Denny's?

Because they're only copies, and a kid can't use their credit card anyway.

But they'll work when we get to a cash machine,

because all it does is read the magnetic stripe.

Hey, I one time saw JP read a credit card over the telephone for Chinese food.

Sam, you're a genius.

Yeah, well, it's not my fault.

They made me that way.

You got a large half pepperoni, half pineapple, and two large root beers?

Yes.

Great.

This pizza... ...a milky...

...masseyl...

...masseyl, yes? My wife.

..

She no make the pizza.

No more!

Now, the credit card...

...yes, the master sign, Jean-Pierre Latourette.

Yeah, he's in the field, going to the bathroom.

In the field.

He's out there in the field.

Out there in the field.

Yeah, he's out there in the field.

Out there.

He has diarrhea.

He has diarrhea.

Diarrhea.

Diarrhea.

Yeah.

That's nice.

Okay, master sign...

...Mr.

Diarrhea is in the field.

You know, it's really okay.

I sign for him all the time.

All the time? All the time.

Yes.

But master sign...

...for the diarrhea...

...is better.

Yeah, you're probably right.

Yes.

Yeah, because last time I signed... Yes.

Please.

I left a $50 tip.

Well, maybe you can sing.

Okay.

Why not? I know, Sam.

Mom must be pretty worried with us missing like this.

Not even a human being to her or dad.

But they're still your family.

I don't have a family anymore, and I never did.

Well, what about me?

What am I to you? My driver.

Your band is falling off.

You know, Sam, after I discovered this thing about you...

...uh, I did a lot of thinking.

And it seems to me that Mom and Dad really did begin to love you as a normal kid.

And they were actually gonna change their minds about selling you to the Pentagon.

So why is Mom...

...your Mom leaving with J.P.

? Well, maybe she isn't anymore.

Maybe she's waiting to hear about you and know that you're okay.

It just makes me sad to think that you don't care about anybody anymore.

I mean, doesn't it make you feel sad inside?

Genetically altered inside.

I'm all meddling wires.

It's cold.

I don't feel things like you do.

Come on, Sam.

Don't you think we should get in the car now? It's too small.

I'll sleep on the ground.

But Sam, this isn't home.

Someone could get us out here.

It'll hurt us.

Don't worry.

Then we touch us.

You're not with me here.

Sam, I'm not gonna tell Mom where we are.

I just want to tell her that we're okay, so she won't worry.

She's only worried because she won't get her money.

Turn around!

No, Sam, that'll just make her more suspicious.

But they'll see us if we pass them.

They'll see me!

Sit up high in your seat, and hold up that map like you're reading it.

He did see us.

You gotta turn around!

Josh!

Keep the map up, Sam! There.

We passed them.

Stop!

Stop the car!

Why?

It's here!

It's a Liberty Main!

Sam, it's impossible!

And this night, I whisper on 10 shooting stars last night.

Wait, I thought you said you didn't believe in that.

I don't, but it worked anyway.

Come on, hurry up! Thanks.

That was close.

Where you all headed?

Same as you, Canada.

Oh?

Huh.

That policeman, he knew who you were, did he?

No.

No, I told him I lived up the road and he believed me.

They're real dumb around here.

But you're the Liberty Main, aren't you?

Liberty Main?

Well, what makes you say that?

Because you look exactly the way the Pentagon said you'd look.

You have the red hat, but he must have cut your hair.

Jesus.

Let me out of here now.

Wait a minute, I can explain.

Why do you want to leave? Just pull over.

I'm gonna be here when Dad finds his car gone.

My dad's in Florida.

We've been driving for two days from Dallas.

Don't you get it?

I'm Sam Whitney.

Strategically altered me.

Sam, I told you, she's not the Liberty Main.

The Pentagon was gonna send me to fight a secret war that's going on in Africa.

It was my brother and me had to escape to Canada.

But now that I saw you, you can bring us to all the others in the underground roadway.

Listen, if you drive the car for us, we'll pay for food and gas.

I don't believe this.

Well, take it wherever you're going.

It's true, you have to believe it.

You have to help me.

You know, I don't believe they have the nerve.

Usually, what, 18?

When they make them go off and kill people?

I'm not killing anyone.

No way.

Good.

Good.

It's wrong to kill people.

Wait a minute.

How come you didn't stop them?

How come you never came to get me?

Because she's not the Liberty Main.

He is, too.

Maybe it's because we moved back and forth a lot.

My parents got divorced after they sold me the Pentagon.

I'm not surprised.

They usually split up after they pull something like this, and you know what?

It really pisses me off.

I'm sorry I didn't recognize you, Sam.

I'll drive you to Canada.

Jesus, girl!

Your name is Liberty.

Liberty made.

See, I told you it was her.

I'm keeping an eye on him, Liberty.

Make sure he doesn't do anything wrong in the bathroom.

Don't worry, I got him covered.

Why did you tell him all that stuff, and you know it's not true?

Who says it's not true?

Give me the keys.

Give me a dollar.

I want a soda.

I only got 18 cents.

18 cents?

How are you going to pay for everything with 18 cents?

I got credit cards.

I just need to find a cash machine, that's all.

I should have known.

You look like the type to carry plastic.

Hey, Kotec's head.

Don't you know this is a paid toilet?

Yeah, you forgot to use our five bucks.

I'm making a big mistake here.

I'm not what you think I am.

The guy inside says there's an auto-teller couple miles up the road.

Don't you get it?

I know it's not true, because I made it up.

All that about Sam, and the Pentagon.

And the Liberty made? Yeah.

Got your blonde hair and red hat off a juice box.

Lord almighty, I've met my maker.

Hello, Jean-Pierre.

Um, Carolyn Whitney, please.

I'm sorry, my wife does not come through the phone right now.

Your wife?

Joshua?

Joshua! Is that your.

..

Liberty, stop him!

Sam, I just want to call Dad and find out what's going on with Mom.

And tell him where we are so the helicopters can come and pick me up.

I'm not gonna tell him.

He won't.

Hello?

Dad?

Josh?

Where are you?

Where's Sam?

It's none of your damn business where I am, mister.

Sam?

Good Sam, be firm.

Dad, Mom's married.

When did she get married?

Before you were missing, okay?

She wanted to tell you all about it herself.

Now listen, I want you to call the police there right now.

You understand me?

No, Dad, I can't.

I killed a man.

Of all the crap that's ever come out of your mouth.

He was drunk.

I'm going after Sam.

So I had to beat him to death with a pool stick.

Now I have to run for my life.

Josh!

Josh, you couldn't even kill a squirrel!

He did, and I helped him, because I'm the one killer you've made me.

So I hope you're happy about it.

Mr. Whitney?

Yeah, this is your worst nightmare the Liberty made.

Yeah, I got a message for you and your Pentagon cronies.

See,

you gotta do what I did, Josh.

You gotta forget about your mom and dad and only think about getting to Canada.

I know it would be easy for you, because you still have feelings.

But it's what you gotta do.

Do carts have any of these symbols?

Um, I don't know.

I didn't copy them down.

Those are the carts?

Well, they're copies, but they should work.

You never tried them?

This is a computer, Josh.

Maybe I can talk to it with my head.

Yes!

Yes!

See, Josh, it worked!

What

are we gonna do? We can go.

I got it.

Oh, by the way, Sam, when I talked to Dad, he told me to give you your allowance.

It's for the rest of your life.

Thanks.

So, did you really kill a man?

Well, he was gonna hurt us.

I had to do it.

He knocked him over the head.

He was so mad.

You must feel kind of bad taking someone's life like that.

Yeah, kind of.

Well, don't worry.

You guys are safe with me.

Thank you.

What do you do that for?

For being such a good provider.

Well? Allison.

My name is Allison.

Allison.

It's more like it.

And ever since I started leading children over the border, people call me Liberty.

It's okay, Josh.

I'll save you, too.

Don't you see?

You're just making what I did to him worse.

He's never gonna stop believing it now.

If you don't think it's true, why don't you tell him?

I tried, but he won't believe me.

It's like it makes everything make sense for him.

It explains all the bad things.

But what can I do?

A wanted man with a screwed up brother.

I'm a murderer.

Josh, we're here!

Canada!

Sam, wait a second!

Allison, where are we?

Took a shortcut around Salt Lake and I got stuck here.

Got stuck how?

I ran out of gas.

There you go, son.

And I'll hold your chain until you bring the can back.

Okay, thanks.

What are you doing? We gotta go.

Sam, we've been walking all morning.

It's time to rest.

You can't eat your breakfast.

Okay.

You guys eat.

I'm gonna take this to the car and then drive back and get you, okay? No, you're not.

I have to.

Huh?

Why is it so important? Come here.

I mean, you got us here.

Sam, what's wrong? It's okay, Sam.

He doesn't know.

He's just a normal boy.

He does know.

He doesn't know.

Sam, you can't look at people like that.

Morning, officer.

Hi.

I'm their babysitter.

My parents hired me to take him out for a little morning drive, you know?

Toward the desert.

We see all the cars running out of gas, so...

Your driver's license.

Can I see it, please? Sure.

Hannibal, Missouri.

It's a long morning drive.

Yeah, well, we just moved here.

To Utah.

Often.

Me, me, my parents did.

I want to call the boys' parents.

Oh, you can't do that because they don't have a telephone.

Yeah, yeah.

Of course they do.

They just got one.

They can tell you all about Alice.

Good.

I'd like to hear all about Alice.

Oh, wait.

I'm hearing the TDD machine from your car.

Huh?

Yeah, the TDD machine.

Both my parents are deaf.

I don't have one of those.

I don't get it.

How do you talk to deaf people over the phone?

I don't talk to deaf people.

My mom and dad have told me there'd be places like this.

People like them just weren't wanted.

But they couldn't even use the phone if a burglar was in their house trying to kill them.

No, they'd just die, and no one would even care.

Especially now the police don't even carry a TDD machine

in their cars so they can hear their calls for help.

This is some kind of joke, isn't it? Oh, yeah.

Sure.

You know, maybe it's a joke to you, mister.

In fact, maybe that's all you do around here,

is talk about deaf people behind their backs.

Or they can't even read your lips.

But let me tell you one thing.

They can do the same thing to you.

Come on, let's go.

I don't really gotta miss you guys.

Why?

Where are you going?

Come on, let's run for it.

No, Sam, we can't run.

It's too late.

I can talk to this guy.

I know I can talk him out of this.

Hey, back at the station, we got one of those TDD machines.

Oh, great.

Um... Uh, I'll go call them.

You guys stay here, okay? No, all of you.

Where's he going?

Sam, wait!

Sam!

No, Sam!

That was in the fun car!

Come on!

Allison, come on!

Come on!

Get off that now!

I lost those kids!

They're on foot and they're heading for the lake!

Sam!

Stop it!

Don't make me hurt you!

Sam, you could've gotten killed by that train!

Good God, I waited for the wheels to go by!

You would've gotten chopped in half!

Get in the car!

Now!

Come on!

Okay, it's safe now.

Why are you so mad at me?

You know what I am.

Okay,

size eight, size twelve.

Who was that guy?

Hey, anybody here go by Liberty 005? Yeah.

Honey, that's the strangest name I ever heard of.

Fight or flight for 49th.

Yeah, that's me.

Okay.

Bye.

What happened?

What's wrong?

Who was that?

The secret war in Africa.

It's over.

You can go home now.

It's just that something happened that the Pentagon never expected.

What happened?

Well, it's kind of hard to explain, but you know how you have enhanced mental

powers like you can remember things and all that? Yeah.

And you also know how you're not afraid of danger like other people are.

Yeah.

Well, what happened in Africa was that when the fighting broke out, those two

qualities that all the killer Sams have combined together to make them stop fighting.

And so they put down their weapons and all stood up together and said they were more

willing to die than to kill another person.

And that's it?

That's how it ended? Uh-huh.

My contact told me that all the killer Sams were deactivated by satellite last

night and it was all over by the time we woke up this morning.

Stop the car.

Point to a letter.

Uh, the P in pass.

Well, maybe they haven't done it yet.

Or maybe they haven't because they're never gonna.

Maybe it's all a lie.

Have you ever thought about that?

She's gone bad, Josh.

She made that all up so she can quit and get rid of me.

No one's getting rid of you, Sam.

We're all going to Canada together.

You don't have to go home ever until you're good and ready.

How can I believe that when you're the one telling me?

Um, I'll just sleep on the floor, okay?

No, there's plenty of room.

Good night, little brothers.

He's gonna have an accident.

I know it.

He's gonna drive that car right off a cliff or into a truck or something.

Josh, he's been gone all morning.

I just bet the police have caught him by now.

Great.

I'll send him back the floors.

So, it really doesn't sound so bad there.

It will be if he thinks my dad's pulled him to the Pentagon.

You know he could do anything and I started this.

I screwed up all his thinking.

I have to find him again.

You'll make him better.

How?

You can't do everything, Josh.

I mean, you're just a 12-year-old kid.

That's what you think of me?

Hey, listen, I really like you, Josh.

I do.

I mean, you're smart.

And you're real funny.

And you're brave.

I want you to come with me.

Listen.

This is all about Seattle, Washington.

This magazine rates it as the most livable city in the country.

See?

Look at these houses by the water down there.

You can't go there.

You know that I can't.

Maybe he didn't really kill that guy.

You know, if you just hit him on the head once, you probably just knocked him out.

I wish that, but I took his pulse.

It was nothing.

Well, maybe you took it wrong.

Huh?

We gotta find Sam.

Stay safe, old man.

Goodbye.

Sam? Damn it.

Yes, Daddy, I saw the truck, but I didn't see anyone on top of it.

I saw him behind that plane up there less than a minute ago.

Okay, dear, well, I'm sure he's flown away by now.

Look, there he is again.

Daddy, please.

Oh, my God.

Sam?

Sam!

Sam!

Get back to your seat, son.

My brother's in that truck right there.

Sam!

Get back to your seat.

You have to stop that truck.

Sam!

Sam!

You can barely move to the border guard.

Sam!

Hey!

What are you doing up there?

Hey!

Come on, Josh, we gotta get the candle.

We're in Canada still.

There's the border.

It's not any difference.

The difference is that you're safe now.

Hold this.

Why don't you go with Liberty?

Because I had to come and find you.

Oh.

She wasn't the Liberty needed, was she?

No.

She was just a girl running away from something, like us.

Something bad, I think.

I think I know it all along, but I don't want to believe it.

Something wrong, Sam?

What is it?

You can tell me.

No place to go.

I know.

But guess what?

What?

I don't have any place to go, either.

No.

Is everything all right here?

It will be if you let us stay for a while.

You stay as long as you want.

Thanks.

I'm sorry, Josh.

What for?

Well, only here could you save me from that direct guy.

Well, you... you saved me, too, by throwing that pool ball at him.

I should have known you never would have let them saw me.

And if I had been genetically altered, I never would have been such a problem to you.

And we'd be at home now.

I think we would have been friends all along.

Yeah.

You're the only one to ever help me.

What's going on?

Where are we going?

Sam, what would you think about flying back to

Orlando and living in Dad's house like a normal boy?

But I'm not a normal boy.

It's not safe for me in that country.

You know that.

Look, Sam, I was reading your papers last night, and I discovered that I could make

it safe for you by burning out all your circuits.

Josh, even if you could burn out all my circuits, they'd just put new ones in me.

I know.

I already thought of that.

But the problem is, they altered me everywhere.

My cells and all that.

And there's only one way to alter cells back and burn out circuits at the same time.

How is that? Radiation.

Ionizing radiation.

Oh, don't worry.

This is just a front.

Hey!

I said not the front door.

Jesus, I could go to jail for this, giving gamma rays to an American,

especially a miner.

Why not?

You ever done this before? Oh, yeah.

I get an ultra mutant here every week.

Most of them are up on the underground river.

You mean the roadway? Right.

But after the exact amount of radiation, you're just like everybody else.

You can't tell the difference.

Are you ready, Sam? Yes, ready.

Listen, have you got a word processor?

I've got a typewriter.

I've got a fax machine.

Oh, yeah, sure, but you know...

Thank you.

Please, this way.

How does it feel, Sam?

So cold and metallic inside?

No, it feels good and warm, like you and Flush.

And I don't have a ticket.

Don't worry, I already took care of that.

You just look sad.

Real sad.

Really?

How come?

Both his parents were killed last night in a camping accident.

His uncle Thomas Whitney faxed this, and prepaid a one-way fare to Orlando.

It's a propane stove explosion?

Is that why his face looks like that? Yeah.

I was pretty shook up about it.

Is all the paperwork here? Yes, it's all.

You know, Josh, you're really good at making up the stuff.

Oh.

Well, you better keep that to yourself.

All right.

Now, you guys, wait right here.

I'm gonna make sure and get you a really good seat, okay? No, Josh.

You forgot all about my special mental powers.

My dance memory and all that.

That wouldn't have been all too bad, because I had that thing on my face.

Keep them, Sam.

You deserve something for all the stuff they put you through.

I wish there was somewhere that you could take back the murder.

I mean, make it all better so you can come back with me.

Yeah.

I wish that too.

But even if I could, I don't think I'd go back to Florida.

Why not?

I know what it's like for me there.

My dad thinks of me.

I do better by myself.

Yeah, but I'll be there.

And now I like you.

Wouldn't that be enough?

Either way, there's no point in wondering.

I still can't go.

Yeah, well, even though I'm going back to live with Dad, I already decided I'm not

even gonna talk to him.

No, Sam, you gotta talk to him.

After what he did to me.

Sometimes people do stuff because they don't know any better.

And then later they find out that it wasn't such a good idea after all.

Dad still did it.

I can't ever forget because I still have that enhanced memory.

Okay.

But you also have something that came along with that.

That I bet you didn't even know about.

It's a real strong mental power.

It lets you forgive people, even if you can't forget what they've done.

And it's also power to trust.

Be worried or even scared.

Whatever you are now, and however bad it is, you

can always make it better just by using this power.

Sam, you have to board now.

I'm not gonna see you again.

I don't know.

I can't tell you where I am until I'm sure they won't come after me.

This isn't working.

I wanna stay with you.

Just remember that I'll always be your brother.

I'm still gonna be your best friend, no matter where I am.

Go back into what I said, okay? Bye, Sam.

Remember your power.

Ow! Oh, no.

Of course it hurts.

The foil reacts with the silver in your fillings.

You know about this? Everyone does.

Everyone who has fillings.

Sam.

Sam?

Yeah?

Um, is this Derek Baxter?

There's a kid in there.

There's that damn kid, isn't it? Calm down.

I just called to say that I'm sorry and I'm glad you're alive.

Don't you tell me that, you little shit!

I wanna know what I-

I told you, Dad.

He didn't tell me cause he knew the police would come after him.

And then he'd have to die by the lethal injection.

Sam, Josh didn't kill anyone.

I talked to the police in Dallas.

He only knocked the man out, that's all.

I have to go back and find Josh.

We have to tell him the truth.

If you got any idea where Josh is, you have to tell me.

Did he say anything at all?

Why do you care, Dad?

I never liked Josh anyway.

Sam, of course I like Josh.

I love Josh.

He's my son.

But it wasn't the way you wanted him to be.

Cause you were always trying to make him different.

Sam, nothing is ever the way we wanted to be.

I always wanted to have one family and my children to have one home.

But, I guess you're right.

Yeah, I guess you're right.

I always wanted Josh to be tougher and stronger than I

was because I know what a cruel and mean world it is.

And I just wanted Josh to be ready for that.

He must have done a good job.

Why do you say that?

Cause I think Josh likes the cruel and mean world better than home.

Here you go, sweetie.

Yeah, he was wearing a blue denim jacket.

You mean Josh really did kill a guy?

My dad is trying to come over.

But I saw him.

He beat him over the head with a pool stick.

He was so mad.

Before?

Why was he so mad?

See that?

I'm stealing him a football after he burned out all my circuits.

And I used my special mental powers to pass on my tests.

So I don't have to be held back.

So I'm gonna start the third grade tomorrow.

Oh, that's great.

Don't you think?

You lied to me, Josh.

Everything you told me was all a lie.

I could have gotten killed by that drunk guy and crashed the car.

And gotten run over by that train.

And fallen off at the top of that truck.

And gotten beaten off by those two big kids.

Cause you made me wear a coat that's on my head.

I tried to tell you the truth, Sam.

I really tried.

But you wouldn't believe me.

Why'd you come back?

Cause you're here.

I came back to be with you.

I'm sorry, Sam.

Josh, there's something I have to tell you.

What's that?

Well, when I got home, Dad left his safe open and I found this big file inside.

So?

It was about you.

It was about you.

It was about him.