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Like I said, I can't.

I need this. It has to happen!

Yeah, screw you!

What did you say?

I dare you to say it to my face.

Look, I'm not afraid of you.

All right, some paisano think he's gonna

be Captain America, huh?

- Yeah?

- Oh, yeah?

Hot shot. Think you're a big man?

You think you're better than me?

Come on, guys, cut it out!

Now!

What's going on?

You really have to ask?

You know what?

We keep going.

The rest of us. Without him.

We'll just spend the next day and a half

splitting up Lorenzo's stuff.

Bro. You good with that?

It's a blow to the team.

If you guys still wanna compete,

I guess we could go if you want to.

Are you even gonna be there?

Of course I am.

What are you talking about?

You know what I'm talking about,

Mr. Cameron.

He was talking on the phone.

With some guy named John-somebody.

What's he talking about?

It's got nothing to do

with the competition.

What's got nothing to do

with the competition?

He's taking a job. He's leaving us.

I haven't decided yet.

Are you or not?

Just tell us.

You know, what if I am? Okay?

I'm an engineer.

I'm not a teacher. It's not what I do.

It's not gonna interfere with Santa Barbara,

so what's the big deal?

Right, it's not a big deal.

Hey, go get 'em.

Hell!

You almost ruined your surprise!

Come here. Hi.

Can we talk?

Yeah.

Are you trying to break up with me?

Without a dead weight,

you can have a normal life.

- Real jobs. College.

- I don't think so.

If you don't wanna be with me,

then let that be that.

Don't be trying to set me free.

I don't give up that easily

and neither do you.

I can't go home!

I slept on the school floor last night.

In the bathroom!

It is not fair to you.

You do not wanna be with someone

who can get picked up anytime, anywhere!

I do if that guy's you!

There are things that I can't change.

You know what?

If you find Oscar,

tell him to open that in California.

Excuse me!

Can I talk to you a second?

You should know upfront,

it's not possible to make me feel any worse.

We'll see.

I heard you got a real job.

That's nice for you.

Okay, I was wrong. I could feel worse.

Here's the thing

about winning someone's trust.

You don't break it.

Every day in a hundred ways,

they are told that they are worthless.

That they are beyond hope.

Just when they think

that maybe they're wrong,

you just straightened them out.

They're not adults. They're kids.

They need protection.

Who's that?

That was my daughter, Rosie.

My wife was driving her to Gymboree

and a Range Rover ran a red light.

She was three.

And the worst thing,

where my wife was at in the accident,

she wasn't hurt at all.

She never got over that.

We never got over it.

So...

I go from job to job.

And then I show up here.

And I find these kids.

And the more they need me,

the more I start to wonder,

am I up for this?

Am I gonna let them down?

Are you?

In five years,

you guys might not even

remember my name.

But you'll always regret

that you had a chance to see the ocean,

and you didn't go.

You sure you got time for us?

More than anything else in the world.

You really wanna smuggle

four illegals across state lines?

Yeah, put you guys on top of the van.

Cover you with a blanket.

You'll look like picnic equipment.

Welcome to California, guys!

Look! The Pacific Ocean!

This is it.

Hey. That line's shorter.

That's the Explorer class.

That's the division

that's meant for colleges.

Meant for?

Could we enter with them

if we wanted to?

If we come in last

against other high schools,

then it'll be humiliating.

But if we come in last

against other colleges, then,

it'll be, like, expected.

Plus, look, even if we beat one college,

we'd have to feel pretty good

about ourselves, right, guys?

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, it's a good idea.

I like it. Come on.

You guys in high school?

Carl Hayden Community.

After the senator from Arizona?

Yeah. It was renamed after him in 1957.

He's our brain.

But, not exclusively.

I'm kind of a rounded kind of guy.

That's different.

No, I mean, it's like analog, you know.

Old school.

Is that a CCD camera in there?

Yes.

The male side of the PVC union

holds it with the O-ring

in the face plate,

and the female side is the

- polycarbonate cover.

- Polycarbonate cover.

Very cool. Have you seen MIT's yet?

Apparently, it's under

a tarp or something.

But it looks like the Death Star.

Anyway, good luck out there.

Okay, guys, let's surface

and put Stinky into position.

Okay. Pitch 40 degrees up, Lorenzo?

I'm trying. It's not, like, working.

Okay, wait a minute.

I can't go left either.

What's going on?

Look, I'm pulling it all the way back,

but it won't go up.

Pull Stinky. Pull him now.

A millimeter, maybe two.

But enough to short your electrical

during your run.

Can't we just smooth it out?

No, if you mess with the seal,

you always make it worse.

How do we fix it?

Wait. Who says we gotta fix it?

Luis, give me your sock.

So, what do you think, sir?

I mean, I like it.

It at least buys you time

for a longer run,

but, I think we could do better

than a sock,

a towel or a sponge?

I mean, let's think.

What's small and really absorbent?

Not it.

What's not it?

It's not gonna be me.

Men buy women tampons

all the time, guys.

It's not a big deal.

So, why don't you go do it?

I ain't going in there.

Excuse me, lady?

Sorry to bother you.

We're with this robotics competition

with NASA.

And our robot had a leak in the brain.

We were wondering if we could

soak the water up with something.

You want my help with what exactly?

You know, the things, that ladies use.

You mean tampons.

Hey, hey, guys?

These things are amazing.

This just absorbed 80 cc's of water.

Yeah, the lady said these were best for us

'cause they don't got applicators.

What does that mean?

Damn. Guys, guys!

Come and take a look at this.

Come on. That was perfect when I did it.

The sun was beating down

on it the whole time.

Please tell me that we can fix this.

Well, you'd have to start fresh.

You'd have to lose all this,

re-strip the wires and you'd have

to re-solder every one of the pins.

Okay, let's go, come on. Let's do it.

Hey, it took me five hours

the first time.

So?

So, it's late.

You know, if I nod off and nick one pin,

the whole connector would be shot.

I mean, Stinky'd be dead.

Stinky's as good as dead

if you don't do anything.

Our chances are a lot better

if you help.

Right there.

Look, I said some stuff about you

and the army and everything

and it wasn't cool.

It's all right.

I didn't mean it when I called you

a pinche pendejo either.

- You never said that.

- You weren't around.

Why'd you wanna join

the army so bad, anyways?

I wanted to serve

ever since I was a little kid.

They don't want us here.

They're the ones

that are trying to kick us out.

They took my mom back to Mexico.

I mean, I haven't seen her

for six years.

I'm sorry.

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