The Posthuman Project

You think you know everything

there is to know about heroes?

Yesterday I woke up

and I thought

i knew everything there

was to know about my life.

But I was wrong,

and I wasn't just

wrong about my life,

i was wrong about my friends,

about my family,

about where I come from.

Way, way wrong.

Help! Help!

Ah! Ah!

Don't kill me.

Please don't kill me.

Shut up.

I already told you,

I don't know anything

about postman project.

Stand.

Shut up,

and hold still.

What are you going to do?

What, what?

Aren't you going to kill me?

Well, not right now.

Nope.

Aargh.

Sir,

I got a negative reading

and a viable candidate.

Very good, mister Finch.

You know what to do.

Copy that.

Report back when

you're finished.

I've had an idea that

will take us a little

closer to home.

Sir.

I know about you.

I know who you work for.

What he wants is impossible!

You said you weren't

going to kill me.

Well,

I said, "not right now."

It's not right now anymore.

Denny,

you've been hitting

snooze for half an hour,

so, I know you can hear me.

Mom's working so you're my ride.

If I'm late again,

I get detention.

Come on wake up, Denny.

The morning comes to

take your dreams away

hold them in tightly

don't let them fade

hold them close with

every breath you take

you're tossing and turning

your body is aching

while I pick a point

and stare at it wide awake

while you are sleeping

there is something

i must say

but I see and sense it

all just sounds the same

Denny!

You ready, killer?

We need to hurry.

I have a test first period.

How's your leg?

Half man, half machine,

all in.

Oh.

This is Finch,

just spot security visual

on the Burke children.

Waiting orders. Out.

- Oh, Oh

- Yeah, yeah

- Oh, Oh

- Yeah, yeah

- Oh, Oh

- I see

- walking this way

- Where, where, where

now could I get a little time

in here what it look like

It's a moonlight,

It's a high rise

three doors and they all say good

life which one do you choose

If you knew you could lose,

and it might be your exit

goodbye, with the three one

two you could become new

not be some dude If you

would like yeah, yeah

what I would like, little more

time gotta get the hopes right

with the look by,

talking polite

had the life 'cause I

never been the book type

And that's the final bell,

Denny.

Dude, you know my legs makes

me slower than I used to be.

No, I'll just tell Mrs. Nelson,

you completely suck.

Dude!

Whoa, slow down, Archie.

You don't wanna fall down

and bust open that brain.

I can't, I'm late again.

Good morning, den.

Good morning, Gwen.

You know, If boy Brainiac

gets any more tardies

you're going to ruin his chances

of being valedictorian.

Yeah! Brother of the year,

right here.

Hey, no, I got it.

Yeah, but I got it easier.

How's the leg?

Physical therapy hurt yesterday,

but If I want to walk across

that stage without crutches...

At least someone

is getting a diploma.

Well you know,

summer school is not the

end of the world, Gwen.

You just tough it

out till August,

You'll be with us by spring.

Yeah, so I can room with

the un-popular girl,

with that wicked bieber

fever over the fall

and sings you

"smile" in her sleep?

Never say never.

No thanks,

besides, academia

isn't for me anyways.

It doesn't have enough grease.

Are you still thinking of

working at the shop full time?

Stringer wants me to.

People will always

have cars, Denny,

and They'll always need fixing.

The people or the cars?

If they end up like you,

it'll be both.

Oh, just one more

day of this place,

and then the world is ours.

Us in charge of the world.

What could possibly

go wrong with that?

Mutually assured destruction.

Can anyone tell me what that is?

You seniors,

I know It's your last day,

but the rest of you

need to pay attention.

This is gonna be on the final.

Well, maybe you guys are

too young to remember

life before cell phones,

or Facebook.

So remember what it was like.

What?

Remember what was what like,

Mrs. Perry?

Very good, mister hall.

I'm glad someone's awake today.

Goodness.

Mister Burke.

Happy you could join us.

Ah, come on,

Mrs. Perry,

I was trying to

sneak in unnoticed.

And you failed spectacularly.

Please take your seat, Denny.

I'm gonna mark you as tardy.

Hey, I think Lisa's

still mad at you.

Yeah, I got that, thanks.

Okay, mister hall.

When you play basketball...

state championship basketball.

Pellian city high school.

Yes, yes, yes, we're well aware

of your accomplishments

on the court.

But, how do you know

who wins the game?

Uh, the team with the most

points at the end wins?

Okay.

And how do you score points?

Uh, I don't know, but...

You put the ball

through the hoop

until the game is over, right?

Now, what If,

every time you scored a point,

you wiped out the other team?

Yes.

Well, you have to keep

the other team from scoring.

But, by winning you'd

be killing everybody.

So you'd need your own

ball for protection.

So then who wins the game,

miss Thompson?

Nobody does.

It would be at a standstill.

Stalemate.

You see,

no one wins If everyone dies.

Warfare's about

tactical advantages.

Someone gets one,

one.

They're just trying to

score the final point,

before the buzzer.

Heavy stuff in peds today.

What a great note to end on.

Really man,

don't worry about it.

We've been cool with the

Russians since like the '70s.

The cold war ended

in '89, meathead.

No wonder you're

failing poli sci.

Okay, I'm a '90s kid,

all right, Gwendolyn?

We're '90s kids,

why do we have to worry about

who used to have missiles?

And I'm pulling a solid c

in that class.

It's the missiles that

aren't the scary part,

It's the concept, Adam.

Oh, yeah.

I kinda like it.

Someone burns you,

you burn 'em back.

Yeah, but then you're

both left with scars.

Guys, guys, guys.

We graduate soon.

All right?

And tomorrow,

Denny's climbing his first

Mountain in over a year.

Yeah, If we can even

get into the place.

Tanner said some guy bought all

that land and closed it off.

Yeah. Well, life's

about workarounds.

Are you sure this

is a good idea?

We could just go to

the practice wall.

Practice? Denny, you're

an award winning climber.

I was... with 100 documented

hours on the ropes.

You've climbed some

of the most dangerous

mountains in the country.

And If it wasn't for

your little accident,

which wasn't your fault,

I might add,

you would have gone

on mount doom already.

Look, the point is,

we're about to graduate...

some of us do.

Some of us, right.

Ah, well, we've got to get

all of the stupid stuff

out of our systems

before we split up

and go to different colleges.

Ya'll know college kids

don't do stupid stuff.

They're responsible adults.

If worse comes to worse,

We'll all be together.

Looking up at that

ridiculously high Mountain,

and you guys, please tell me,

why is the Mountain there?

So it can be conquered.

Boom. Thank you.

Exactly.

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