01x05 - The Boy with the Wound on His Chest

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[detective] The victim's mother has
reported the case to the school board

-so that action can be taken.
-[♪ tense music playing]

COWARD

[teacher] Who can tell me
the meaning of this word?

I need to know who did this to my son.

-[Nacho] We're gonna get caught.
-[Jairo] Get caught how?

[Nacho] What do you mean, how?
They've called a meeting with

-the parents and us. Why call the meeting?
-[birds chirping]

Because they're crybabies, that's why.

I wish you were in the hospital
instead of him!

-Leave me alone.
-I'm not a coward.

You betrayed him.

-It's not my fault that he's crazy.
-Don't you ever say that!

[dragon] Spit fire at him
and tear off his skin.

-I said no!
-[dragon growls]

Then what will you do, girl?

I don't know.

If you had known
they were bullying your friend,

would you have done something or not?
Huh? [laughs] Come on.

I find out from my wife
that a teacher has assaulted my son.

And you ask me to be patient.

If you had been in my place,
you would've done the same thing as me.

I helped you when I had to do it.

-How do we solve it? Huh?
-By talking to the investigator.

The only one who has to talk to her
is MM. And he's not gonna.

Nobody touches me. Got it?

[Blanca] What have you done, son?

BULLY

[♪ music fades]

[♪ classical music playing]

[birds chirping]

[car engine revs]

-[Blanca] Babe, look at the road.
-[laughs] Son, are you proud of your dad?

Very.

Did you like seeing your dad
pick up that award?

-[Blanca] Luis.
-[Luis laughs] That's my boy...

-[Blanca pants]
-...of course he is. [breathes deeply]

Why don't I drive?

[Luis laughs] Blanca,
can you calm down, please?

[Blanca] No, I won't calm down.
I w... won't...

[Luis] But everything is fine,
can't you see we're driving through?

[Blanca] Yes, but you've been
drinking a little...

Can you let me have this conversation
with my son, which is important?

[Blanca] It's also important
that we get home.

Tell me, what did you like the most?
Tell me, huh?

[Blanca] Babe, you can talk
when we get home,

-now is not the time, please.
-[Luis] We won't talk at home,

we're gonna talk here.
Everything is fine, Blanca.

[Blanca] Stop the car
and just let me drive.

No... Stop... Can't you let me have
this conversation with my son?

-[tires screech]
-[horn honks]

-[Blanca] Luis!
-[car crashes]

-[glass shatters]
-[♪ music fades]

[♪ tense music playing]

[Capi] In a good story,
there's always a struggle.

You face something or someone.

Good versus evil.

The supremacy of love...

or the violence of hate.

Spider-Man against the Green Goblin.

Captain America against Red Skull.

Super Captain Wasp against Virus.

No story makes sense without a villain.

[Virus growls]

[Capi] And every villain
has their own story.

[♪ indie rock music playing,
Yeah Yeah Yeahs "Burning"]

[Capi] They say there's always a day.

A day that changes everything...

and marks them forever.

THE BOY WITH THE WOUND ON HIS CHEST

After what happened,
we need to be very careful.

He's not strong.

He can't play sports
or do any strenuous activity.

[principal 2] Well...

MM...

Are you ready?

I hope you make your new classmate
feel just like one of us. Hmm?

-Okay? Very well. Right.
-[laughing, indistinct chatter]

♪ Lay your red hand on me, baby ♪

♪ Ooh... ♪

[Capi] Then the world...

becomes a hostile place.

Becomes an awful place to live in.

[all chanting] Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight!
Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight!

Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight!

[indistinct clamor]

♪ Into the sea, out of fire ♪

♪ All that burning ♪

[Capi] And they need to
find a way to survive.

Leave me alone!

I never want to see any of you again!

[camera clicking]

♪ All that burning ♪

♪ Into the sea, out of fire ♪

♪ All that burning ♪

[Capi] They choose... to turn
their flaws into their strength.

[door closes]

[Capi] There's no going back.

♪ What you gonna do? What you gonna do? ♪

♪ What you gonna do? What you gonna do? ♪

♪ What you gonna do? What you gonna do? ♪

♪ What you gonna do
When you get to the water? ♪

♪ Well, I'll release her ♪

♪ From the bindings of her teachers ♪

♪ What they're hiding there... ♪

[engine revs]

♪ Flow, flow, flow ♪

♪ What you gonna do
When you get to the water? ♪

[Capi] Their rules, their game.

♪ What you gonna do
When you get to the water? ♪

[Capi] Hatred as a shield.

♪ What you gonna do
When you get to the water? ♪

[Capi] Love as a trophy.

♪ What you gonna do
When you get to the water? ♪

♪ Into the sea, out of fire ♪

♪ All that burning ♪

♪ Into the sea, out of fire ♪

♪ All that burning ♪

♪ Into the sea, out of fire ♪

♪ All that burning ♪

♪ Into the sea, out of fire ♪

♪ All that burning ♪

[Capi] And then they're ready
to conquer the world.

Because a superhero can't exist...
if there isn't a villain.

-[pants]
-[♪ song concludes]

But in the stories, the superhero
always beats the villain, right?

[Capi] It's not that easy.

The superhero is always alone.

No one knows who they really are.

But the villain...

the villain is never alone.

Why is that? Tell me.

The villain is nothing
without someone to protect them,

someone to follow them.

They have their own army.

[Luis] Seriously, I told you not to
worry, just listen and trust me, okay?

Absolutely nothing's gonna happen, really,
I'm telling you.

-[water filling]
-[Luis] The principal and the investigator

are on our side.

Besides, it's all just a big show
for the press, that's all. Nothing more.

[Blanca] Enough already! You know
you can't always fix things your way.

[Luis] Blanca, I'm asking you,
please, okay?

Let's try to keep the peace,
I've just gotten home from work,

don't do this to me right now.
I'm tired and I'm stressed.

[glass clinks]

[Luis] There's no way I'm going
to that meeting, you hear me?

[Blanca] Then we'd be the only ones
who don't show up.

We'd be singling ourselves out.

[Luis] Blanca, dang it,
there's nothing we can do there.

Can't you see?
Absolutely nothing we can do.

[Blanca] Then do it for your son.

-[Luis] Do it for my son?
-[Blanca] Yes.

[Luis] I do enough things for my son
and for you. Understand?

What do you do? Huh?
What do you do for me?

Feed me? Buy me clothes? [scoffs]

Do you even know how I am?
[breathes deeply]

You haven't even talked to me for years.
You don't even look at me!

And do you know why?
Because you're a coward.

-Get out. Out.
-[laughs softly]

Get outta here.

[♪ somber music playing]

[birds chirping]

-[phone opens]
-[clicking]

-[breathes heavily]
-[line trilling]

[phone ringing]

[phone beeps]

Hey. Hey, babe. Betty. Hey...

I need to go out.
Let's go to the movies or something.

C'mon, babe, huh? Whaddya say?

-I... I can't, I've got plans. [exhales]
-What? Got plans with who?

-With the girls. [exhales]
-[MM] Excuse me?

Besides, I don't feel like going out.
Let's go to the meeting. [sniffs]

[MM] What's your deal? Whaddya mean
you're going to the meeting?

You can't go to that meeting, all right?

-Dude, I... I have to hang up.
-[MM] Are you dumping me?

[exhales, inhales softly]
Are you dumping me? Is that it?

Don't you even think of hanging up, huh,
Betty? Betty! Betty don't you hang...

[phone hangs up]

[MM and Betty laugh]

[MM] True, I thought high school
was gonna be the worst.

[laughs softly] I don't know, I thought...

I wasn't gonna fit in,
that I was gonna like it at all.

[laughs] What are you saying?
Everybody loves you.

[laughs] Yeah, the truth is I fit in.

[♪ soft music playing]

Well...

And I found something I like.

Math class?

No.

A much better subject.

Oh, really?

Well, if you like it so much,
you'll have to study hard.

Right?

And you can't miss any of the classes.
Or your grade will go down.

Wouldn't miss it for the world.

[inhales] You're gonna have to become
a huge nerd in that subject.

I'll get nothing less than an A.

Promise me that you're never gonna fail.

I promise.

I wanna show you something.

Nobody else knows this.

[♪ song concludes]

-You're MM's girlfriend, right?
-Yes.

-[detective] Are you okay?
-Yes.

Does he treat you well?

Yes.

-[detective] Are you being bullied, Betty?
-[laughs softly]

-No. Of course not.
-[bike engine revs]

HIGH SCHOOL OF SECONDARY EDUCATION

[♪ somber music playing]

[MM] And what are you laughing at?

Nothing, Marina, she's a sophomore.

-[birds chirping]
-[indistinct chatter]

[grunts] C'mon, lemme see,
I wanna laugh too.

[shouts] What are you doing?
Give it back now!

What's the matter?

Can't I see your texts? Huh?

-Do you have any secrets?
-[indistinct chatter]

[inhales] You're a jerk.

Check whatever you like.

Come on, let's see what you find.

[indistinct chatter]

[birds chirping]

[door squeaks]

See you in a bit.

Okay.

[indistinct chatter]

It's all right. It's just a thing...

-[Olivia] Mom, Dad.
-What?

-Come on.
-Let's go, see if we can get a seat.

I thought you might not come.

He's still my best friend.

My parents came here too.

You've visited him, right?

Yeah.

How do we fix all this?

[exhales] I don't know.

[indistinct chatter]

[student coughs]

[indistinct chatter]

[door closes]

-[bell ringing]
-[indistinct chatter]

[Jairo laughs]

[MM] You, fat face.

What are you doing on your own? You don't
go out for recess or what? [laughs softly]

-[Capi] Leave me alone!
-What are you hiding in there?

-Nothing, it's nothing.
-[MM laughs]

-What is this garbage, Captain Tomato?
-Lemme see.

-[laughs]
-Please, give it back to me.

-[laughs]
-"I'm sorry, Kiri." Shut up, rat.

-I'm in charge here, okay?
-[Capi breathes softly]

-[Jairo laughs softly, inhales]
-[MM] Don't you doubt that for a second.

-[Jairo laughs]
-[Capi pants]

-He's a loser, huh? [laughs]
-Sit down.

Oh, cutie pie! Cutie pie, cutie pie!

Come on, guys! We have a little surprise!

-[Jairo and Nacho speak indistinctly]
-[Capi] Leave me alone!

-[Betty and MM laugh]
-[indistinct chatter]

Please! Give it back.

All right, guys, ladies and gentlemen!
A moment of your attention!

Are you ready to see the latest nonsense
from Captain Tomato?

-Please, no! No!
-[Nacho laughs, speaks indistinctly]

-Huh?
-[MM] What? Are you ready?

-[Nacho] Yeah!
-[MM] Huh?

-What's happening? What's going on?
-[MM] Huh? Are you ready?

-[Capi pants]
-Captain Tomato is in love!

I'M SORRY KIRI

-[all cheer, laugh]
-[exhales deeply]

Look, freckles!
The weirdo is in love with you! Huh?

[all laugh]

-Dude, stop it already!
-[MM inhales, laughs]

-Forgive me, forgive me, freckles.
-[all laugh]

-[kisses]
-[indistinct chatter]

-I'm sorry, I'm your Captain Tomato!
-[all laugh]

[indistinct chatter]

-You're an idiot, Jairo!
-[laughs]

-[paper crumpling]
-[Jairo] Oh, yes, Captain Tomato!

-[all laugh]
-[breathes heavily]

No one...

is ever going to love you.

-[breathes heavily]
-Loser.

-[yelps]
-[indistinct murmurings]

[breathes softly]

What are you doing, throwing the eraser
at me, huh? What are you doing?

All right, all right, all right.
What's going on here?

-Can someone tell me?
-This idiot threw an eraser at me!

Is that true?

-Come on!
-Out of the classroom. Go, now!

[breathes softly]

And you, to your seat.
And you to yours. Come on!

It wasn't like that, sir!

Silence! I don't want to hear a sound.
Now sit down!

-But what they did to him...
-No buts, no excuses. All right?

Come on.

Come on, sit down, please.
We're going to get started.

[indistinct chatter]

[Capi] Sometimes, the more I wanted
to be invisible,

the more people would see me.

Are you okay?

[Capi] On the other hand,
when I wanted everyone to see me,

that's when my body decided to disappear.

-[indistinct chatter]
-[♪ music fades]

Do you know who was bullying them?

Relax.

I don't know.

No.

-No idea.
-[detective] No idea?

Besides, I don't know
why you're asking me.

Me, I'd look somewhere else.

[detective] Zaro, do you know
who was bullying him?

It was MM.

From the beginning.

You may go.

[door opens, closes]

-Principal, I believe you have a problem.
-[bell ringing]

[door closes]

[indistinct chatter]

Capi!

-Crap.
-Capi, look at me.

I... just want to say that...

-Listen, about the drawing, I... I didn't...
-No. No, no, no, it's not that.

[♪ gentle music playing]

The drawing was really nice.
[breathes deeply]

What I want to tell you is that...

That I also...

[breathes softly]

[school employee] Miss, I got the thing
that you need to sign. Here's your form.

Look here, this is the one
your mom needs to sign.

[sighs, breathes softly]

Oh, and... and, wait, I need
to give you a few more things, all right?

-[Kiri sighs]
-Look.

Here, this is the one
your mother needs to sign.

Here, you'll put down your address...

and on this one,
you'll put the bank details.

Hey, hey, are you listening?

[phone opens]

[keys clicking]

Hi, Kiri.

-I just wanted to tell you...
-[door opens]

-[♪ music fades]
-[♪ tense music playing]

[heart beat pounding]

[door closes]

[door opens]

Nobody touches Betty! [shouts] Huh?

-[chuckles]
-[whistles]

-[grunts, inhales]
-[pants]

-[inhales, grunts]
-[Capi pants]

[grunts, pants, screams]

No, I don't want to!
Help! Help! Help! Help!

No! No! No, no, no! Help! [cries]

[speaks indistinctly, cries]

[pants]

[pants]

[speaks indistinctly, pants]

-Next time you'll think twice, huh?
-[pants]

-[Nacho] Let's go, let's go.
-[MM] Come on.

-[Nacho] Let's go, let's go.
-[MM] Come on, let's go!

-[pants]
-[door closes]

[pants, cries softly]

[indistinct chatter]

-[locker opens]
-[all laugh]

[indistinct chatter]

[Nuria] Good morning, sorry for the delay.

[indistinct chatter]

[Nuria] Take out your phones,
we're gonna play a game of Kahoot.

-[Olivia] Oh, cool!
-[student 3] Woo!

Don't laugh, man. [laughs]
Stop laughing, dude. Will you stop?

-[Nuria] The prize...
-Don't laugh, bro. Don't laugh. [chuckles]

[shushes] The prize is a bonus point
on the final exam.

[Capi] Hi, Kiri.
I just wanted to tell you...

[door opens]

[Olivia] What's up?

-I don't know.
-[Nuria] You can log in.

-[phone clicks]
-[keys clicking]

-[chuckles softly]
-[exhales softly]

-[clears throat]
-[chuckles softly]

-[Nuria] Yes?
-I have to use the bathroom.

You should have thought
of that before, miss.

We just started the class.

Miss?

[Nuria] You're wide awake today,
aren't you, Kiri?

-I'm on my period.
-[Betty's friend chuckles softly]

-[student 4 blows raspberry]
-[Betty's friend chuckles softly]

Okay, go on then, go.

The rest of you,
let's get on with it. Huh?

-[♪ somber music playing]
-[Nuria] Come on. We're on section one.

[inhales, laughs softly]

[door opens]

[Kiri] Hello? Capi?

Don't say anything, please.

-But... Capi...
-Promise me.

What did they do to you?

They didn't do anything, okay?

[sighs] This is enough.

[inhales] You're not okay.

This is not okay.

You need to tell someone.

-No one will listen to me.
-[Kiri] Just try.

There's no one.

[inhales] That's not true.

-I'm here.
-No, Kiri.

You aren't here either.

People don't like hearing the truth.

It scares them.

It doesn't scare me.
I want to know the truth. [exhales]

I want to know your truth.

Excuse me? What do you mean by that?

[Capi] It's not fair.
It's only me telling you things.

[chuckles] I know, but the thing is
you are the patient.

You are the one
who has to tell me your secrets.

There's only one person who knows them.

Who?

-[crickets chirping]
-[♪ mysterious music playing]

[Capi pants]

-[teacher hisses through teeth]
-[Capi pants]

Wait! [pants]

Wait... [pants]

[pants]

You do run fast, don't you?

Are you following me?

[pants] Yes. [pants]

I saw you run out of the school.
[breathes heavily]

You saw me? [pants]

Yes, of course.

I always see you.

Don't you have class?

Don't you?

So, where were you going?
Or is it a secret?

-[♪ music fades]
-[door opens]

[♪ suspenseful music playing]

[♪ somber music playing]

Those... those are just silly things I make.

-Drawing is the only thing that...
-This is wonderful.

That is when Super Captain Wasp

runs at supersonic speed
to escape from Virus.

-Super Captain Wasp?
-Yeah, the... the superhero from my comic.

See? Here, for example,

he spits poison to finish Virus off.

And here,

he fine-tunes his hearing to know
well in advance when Virus is coming.

Now...

I was going to write one
where Virus tries to choke him.

But he doesn't know
that Super Captain Wasp

can breathe underwater.

And this one here?

Here... he's kissing the girl he likes.

[teacher] You know?

I have a secret too.

What? Everybody has one.

Mine is also a drawing.

-Can I see it?
-[chuckles softly]

Come, look.

It's Inferno of the Star Mounts.

A legendary dragon I use
as my commander in Magic.

[laughs]

I want you to look closely. [sniffs]

Don't just focus on the drawing,

look at everything else,
everything that's around it.

[Capi] Sometimes, we only see
what we want to see,

and we don't notice
everything else around us.

But there are people who see beyond that.

So much so, that they're able
to even see our secrets.

-[♪ music fades]
-[♪ intriguing music playing]

I know who's doing this to you.

[detective] You know what happened
and who did it.

-Why don't you tell me?
-[♪ gentle music playing]

[inhales] Would that solve anything?

-We could take action against the culprit.
-Action?

Who are you protecting?

[inhales] Look...

the only thing you're doing
is trying to find the culprits.

Do you really think
this won't happen again?

What we need to do is find a solution,
so that it doesn't happen again.

-And do you have one?
-No, I don't, no.

But I know it exists. And unlike you,
I'm doing something to try to find it.

NERD

[♪ music fades]

I'm sure you all know this word.

Yeah, but most of us
aren't actually nerds. [laughs]

[all laugh]

Well, today
we're going to practice using it.

Let's construct some sentences
that contain this word.

Zaro, give me a sentence.

"The boy...

passed the test because he was a nerd".

-[all chuckle softly]
-[teacher] Really?

Passing an exam is for nerds?

Oh, no. But getting an A+ is, that is.

Okay.

Another sentence?

"I like hanging out with my friends,
not with nerds."

-[chuckles]
-[student 1 laughs]

[teacher] Are nerds boring?

[Jairo laughs] Oh man, more than
a class with Bacterio.

[all laugh]

I don't know if I agree with you, Jairo.

[inhales] How many of you
have a PlayStation?

And it's fun, isn't it?

-Yes.
-Yes, of course.

-Oh, yeah.
-Yeah.

[inhales] And who do you think makes
the PlayStation games?

Someone who gets an A in computer science
or someone who gets an F?

Wow, miss, you're actually kinda the best.

-[chuckles softly]
-[student 7 laughs]

[student 5 whispers indistinctly]

-An A, right?
-[laughs softly]

You all have a phone, don't you?

-[all] Yes.
-Yes.

And do you like it?

-Yes.
-Yes.

-You have phones thanks to nerds.
-[student 1 laughs]

I'm serious. [laughs, inhales]

Do you think it's easy

to build a device that allows someone here
to talk to someone in New Zealand?

-No.
-No. [chuckles softly]

[teacher] To build something like that,

you have to dedicate
a lot of time and effort.

Like the kid who gets an A on the exam.

Passing is about doing
what you need to get by.

[inhales] But to get an A,

you have to invest time and effort
into learning and mastering knowledge.

Who likes to travel by plane?

-I do.
-[all] I do.

-I do.
-It scares me.

[both laugh]

[laughs softly, inhales] Who would
jump on a plane tomorrow

to go to the greatest island paradise
in the world?

[student 7 chuckles]

[inhales] And would you jump on that plane
if the pilot was the slacker from school?

-[all] No.
-No.

-No.
-No.

[teacher] Better to have
someone who's reliable, right?

A nerd.

I'm sure you all have a story

in which, if it hadn't been for a nerd,
things would have ended badly.

[Izan] My sister spent two months
in an incubator.

I'm sure it was some nerds
who invented that thing.

If it wasn't for them...

my sister wouldn't be here.

The doctors who looked after her.

I'm sure they were nerds.

[dragon] Now, make him see it. [growls]

[♪ mysterious music playing]

And what if one day I had a car accident?

-I'm proud of you too, son.
-[car screeches, crashes]

My car goes off the road
and it rolls over and over.

-[car tires screeches]
-[crashes]

[glass shatters]

Something gets lodged in my chest.

[moans]

-[groans] Son...
-[young MM cries] Dad...

-[groans]
-[Luis grunts]

[Blanca grunts]

-[child MM moans, cries softly]
-[Luis groans]

[gas hissing]

[teacher] I'm about to die.

I spend a long, long time in the hospital.

Who will save me?

Who saved you?

[♪ somber music continues]

[door opens]

[door thuds]

[door closes]

[♪ music fades]

[screams]

[breathes deeply]

[psychologist] Every hero has a weakness.
What many don't know is

that some villains also have one.

You know a lot about villains too, right?

[inhales] I knew one, yes.
[chuckles softly]

[Capi] Did you beat him?

[exhales]

[♪ indie music playing,
Radiohead "Karma Police"]

♪ Karma police ♪

♪ Arrest this man ♪

♪ He talks in maths ♪

♪ He buzzes like a fridge ♪

♪ He's like a detuned radio ♪

♪ Karma police ♪

♪ Arrest this girl ♪

♪ Her Hitler hairdo
Is making me feel ill ♪

♪ And we have crashed her party ♪

Hey, bro, you okay?
Do you want us to go get Tomato?

Leave me alone! Okay?

Leave me alone,
I know what I have to do.

-[Nacho] Hey, MM!
-[Jairo] What's up with him?

♪ Karma police ♪

♪ I've given all I can, it's not enough ♪

♪ I've given all I can ♪

♪ But we're still on the payroll ♪

[indistinct chatter]

-[Betty] What? [laughs]
-[Betty's friend] What do I know... [laughs]

-[MM] Why did you hang up?
-[♪ song concludes]

[Betty breathes heavily]

I'm gonna head out.

-[breathes heavily] I'll go with you.
-Nobody dumps me.

-[breathes heavily]
-You hear me?

[cries, breathes heavily]

Why now?

Huh?

[voice breaks] Why now?

[breathes shakily]
Because you're pathetic.

And I don't want to be
with someone like you.

Not anymore.

You're gonna end up alone.

[breathes heavily] You are alone.

[♪ somber music playing]

[cries]

-[sniffles]
-[♪ music fades]

-[♪ solemn music playing]
-[birds chirping]

Are you okay?

[Capi pants]

[door screeches]

-[♪ music fades]
-Hey. Hey, hey, hey, just...

-Easy, okay? Easy.
-[breathes shakily]

-[MM] Easy.
-[breathes shakily]

-[MM] What...
-[pants]

Hey, I...

-I...
-[Capi pants]

[fluid dripping]

[♪ upbeat music playing, Yeah Yeah Yeahs
"Spitting Off the Edge of the World"]

[Cami sobs]

[Zaro shushes, grunts]

♪ ...Here's the sun ♪

♪ So bow your heads ♪

You're a coward! It's all your fault!

Say it was you! Say it was you!
Say it was you!

It was you too!

♪ Done, and the kids cry out ♪

♪ We're spitting off the edge... ♪

[Zaro groans, screams, sobs]

♪ Out in the night ♪

-♪ Never had no chance ♪
-♪ Nowhere to hide ♪

DO NOT TOLERATE INJUSTICES

[♪ song concludes]

BULLYING IS STILL VERY PRESENT
IN OUR CLASSROOMS,

AND VICTIMS ARE STARTING TO EXPERIENCE IT
AT AN INCREASINGLY YOUNGER AGE.

IF YOU WITNESS IT, REPORT IT.

IF YOU ARE BEING BULLIED,
ASK FOR HELP FROM AN ADULT YOU TRUST.

BASED ON THE NOVEL "INVISIBLE"
BY ELOY MORENO