My Science Project Page #2

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Nice meeting you, Louise.

Come on, Skipper.

Ciao, Michael.

Louise?

- You're really out to impress me, Harlan!

- What?

- Breaking and entering on a first date!

- Come on!

I can't believe this.

I must have a masochistic tendency

I didn't know about.

Doesn't anybody

wine and dine a girl any more?

Come on!

Keep it down, will you? Get down!

Oh, come on, Harlan. Wait up! Harlan!

This may be a stupid question,

but what are we doing in a junkyard?

- This isn't just any junkyard.

- What's special about it?

It used to be an old military testing ground.

Now they just dump all their old junk here.

I thought you'd like it.

- You want to be a reporter, don't you?

- Yeah. Or a psych.

- What's that got to do with anything?

- Look around.

Everything here's got a story behind it.

Yeah. You know, you're right.

I never really thought about it.

Harlan!

What are we doing here?

I need a project to graduate.

I can't do anything scientific.

What I can do is... is restore old machines.

I might find something to pass off

as my science project.

Michael! Are you OK?

Yeah. Just get that light out of my eyes.

Sorry.

- What is it down there?

- I don't know. A fallout shelter or something.

"You can protect yourself

from radioactive fallout. "

- Michael, what is it?

- Nothing. Please keep your voice down.

OK.

Michael, where are you?

Michael, it's really spooky up here.

Please come back.

Yeah. Just a second.

"Property of US Government".

Michael, I think I heard something.

"To be opened by authorized personnel

"only under controlled conditions".

- Ellie, toss me that big light.

- OK.

Thanks.

What...?

Michael, please come out so I can see you.

Hey, Ellie?

OK, that's it, Harlan.

This is the end of the line for me.

What are you doing up there?

We've gotta get outta here.

- On that ratty ground?

- There are worse things than rats.

- Yeah? Such as what?

- You kids! Hold it right there!

- Jail. Come on!

- Oh, God!

This is Federal property!

Just great! I'm gonna get arrested and end

up in some woman's prison somewhere.

Will you stop talking and run?!

- So, you come here often?

- Come on!

Come on, girl. Let's get 'em.

So what do you do for fun?

Hurry up.

Stop, you two! Freeze!

Hold it!

- Well, a night to remember.

- Look, I...

What was that?

I don't get it.

What did you do?

Nothing. It just died. Doesn't make sense.

I just tuned this thing.

- What's going on?

- Don't ask me. You're the car nut.

- What's going on?

- I don't know.

Damn!

Lucky we're close to town.

- Yeah? How's that lucky?

- We can walk.

- Not me.

- What are you talking about?

- I'm stayin' here.

- Staying here? Why?

First, I'd never leave my goat here, all right?

Secondly, if I walked into town

the whole world would know I broke down.

- Come on! It happens to everybody.

- Not to me.

Then why are we standing here?

- Oh, thanks.

- Are you OK?

I got a little car problem.

Can I use your radio?

Sure.

- Can I get channel 18?

- Yeah.

- Slower...

- Brooklyn Boy! Do you read me?

Rene...

Brooklyn Boy, read me?

Whoa! Come on.

Wait a minute. Wait. Oh, man!

Mike, is that you?

Yeah, it's me.

Listen, I got an SOS, OK?

Five miles north of town on 73,

do you read me?

- Hey, I'm comin'. Chill out.

- Hey, Vinnie!

My partner needs me. We're outta here.

So what am I? Kryptonite?

- Do you want a sip?

- I don't like beer.

Right.

Sawyer and Harlan!

Wait till Crystal finds out about this.

Rene, zip it up!

Hey, you punks! Move that piece of junk

to the side of the road.

Sit on this, butt plug!

Punk!

All right! Yeah!

OK, ease up. This is it.

That's good, Vinnie.

Not now. I'm not in the mood no more.

- You'll be begging me later.

- If you're lucky.

Motorhead Mike broke down?

Wait till we spread that around school.

I had a... really neat time tonight.

Yeah. Sure you did!

No, no, really. It was...

It was a surprise.

Like you, Harlan.

Hey, Ellie?

The name is Michael.

OK?

OK, Michael.

- Good night.

- 'Night.

- Let's go, Vinnie!

- Blasting off!

I thought you had dibs on Sawyer, Sherm.

Look, do we have a deal or what?

Messing with Harlan and Tonto's

gonna cost ya.

- How much?

- One video cassette.

- Term paper.

- Science project.

You got it!

Let's go.

Ninety-seven, ninety-eight,

ninety-nine,

one hundred.

You ain't exactly been

the perfect date, Vinnie.

- You ain't exactly been a perfect date.

- Since when?

Since you still ain't turned

into a pepperoni pizza!

Well, you can just drift, hum hole!

The sock ain't foolin' anyone!

Poor girl. You know, I've seen this movie

where this haunted car flames guys out.

Yeah! Wonder what the hell

shorted out the electrical system.

- This starter's totally shot!

- I swear somebody's got it in for you, Mikey.

- It pisses me off.

- I remember this "Mannix".

These dudes are after another dude

so they put dynamite in the first dude's car.

- When he turns the ignition...

- He gets flamed, right?

- You seen it too?

- Oh, Vinnie!

What's this piece of junk?

I don't know.

I found that at old Dawson Field.

Figured I'd pass it off as my science project.

Well, good luck. You'll need it.

Yeah. Thanks for helping me out, Vinnie.

No sweat. See ya at the brain fest tomorrow.

- OK. Take it easy.

- Yeah, 'night.

Good night.

Somebody's definitely got it in for you, Mikey.

- Yeah? Like who?

- Some low-octane type. Crystal, maybe.

Right.

Vinnie?

Holy sh...

- Look at this!

- My God!

- You all right?

- Yeah.

- What do you think it is?

- Could be an engine.

But an engine to what?

I wonder what this thing runs on.

Unleaded.

- Maybe premium!

- Shut up, Vinnie!

Holy smoke! My box! Ga...

- What happened?

- I don't know. Brand-new batteries.

- Yeah.

- That pisses me off.

Go get that battery.

I wanna run some juice through this.

All right. Move, move.

- OK, hook it up.

- Why me?

If it blows up in your face you've got

nothin' to lose. OK, move outta the way.

Where shall I put this?

I don't know. Be careful.

Sh*t!

- Put that thing out! It'll blow up.

- I'm getting outta here.

Holy smoke!

What's it doing? Vince!

What was that noise?

- Look, look, look.

- Yeah! Disconnect it!

You disconnect it. I'll watch.

What's it doing?

Vince?

Weird!

We're hallucinating, right?

No "Outer Limits" I ever seen had

this stuff before. What do we do?

We disconnect it. Come on.

You disconnect it. I'll watch.

- Go ahead. I'll stand guard.

- Yeah.

OK.

Mike, remember the show

in which the Egyptian vase just...

Give it a rest. OK, Vince?

Yeah, sure. I'm cool. Yeah.

- Yeah, we're working on the car.

- I don't work on the car.

- Should we tell sombody...?

- No. Not yet.

The science final! Grab that thing!

Just grab it! Come on!

Put that on there.

- That's good.

- OK. Come on.

That's weird.

Wait a second. It's gotta be wrong.

So how come everybody's leaving

like school's over?

- I don't know.

- Stay tuned.

- We went two hours into the future.

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