02x05 - Worlds Within Worlds

[bunniefuu]

[humming]

That's it! I've done it!

I've just harvested

an entirely new element

from a totally

unknown dimensión!

Let's see, historical precedents

dictate that I name it.

Hmm. How's this, ah, Reedium?

- Uh-huh.

- It's a joke, darling.

Try "Goop," Mr. Wizard.

You're taking the night off

to go to the movies with Johnny and me.

And it'll be good for Johnny.

All he does is mope around

since he lost his girl, Crystal.

- Sittin' this one out, Ben?

- Yeah.

My girl Alicia's on her way over.

We're gonna march to my tune.

Eatin' munchies

and watchin' The Three Stooges.

Don't let anything

disturb my new discovery, Ben.

[Sue] Reed!

Oh!

[laughs]

I got lots better uses

for Stretcho's gizmo

than makin' purple jello.

Namely corn-poppin'!

You know, this is ten times

faster than Susie's microwave.

And it pops all the kernels.

Man, I I am gettin' hungry.

[roaring]

No! No!

Please, no!

Wh

No!

No, please. Go away.

What's wrong with me?

I'm shakin'

like a snowbound sunbather!

- Don't hurt me!

- That's right, creature.

Tremble! Quiver in terror!

Such is the power of Psychoman!

The beast that you shrink

from is but an illusión.

No more than the symbol

of your own deepest fear,

fear of losing control

over your beastly, inhuman strength.

And as your fear grows, so grows the

[gasps]

Where is the element?

Ben! Ben, who's that?

Alicia!

No!

Deal with it, Grimm! Deal with it!

Remarkable! I've never seen anyone

whose courage was a match

for my fear ray.

Huh?

It's okay, sweetie.

Hey, Benjy's right here.

Hey, rockpile, this guy must've been

one heavy-duty boogeyman.

Tonight you better sleep

with your night-light on.

Yeah? Well, scarin' Alicia ain't funny!

What is funny

is you in a full body cast!

Ooh!

Let me show you how a pro does it.

Fascinating. My scan

of the armor's molecular structure

reveals that this Psychoman

came from another dimensión.

The same one my new element came from.

Are you following any of this, darling?

Gee, afraid not, darling.

Poor Reed, it must be so trying

to have to explain everything

to your backward wife.

Really, Susan!

Such sarcasm is hardly called for,

especially from a girl who moves

her lips when reading the time.

Hey, hey. Lay off of Sue,

you egomaniacal egghead.

She's much smarter than you ever

give her credit for.

What's the matter, you blue-eyed baby?

That orange hide turnin' yellow on you?

Come down here and say that,

you glorified gas log!

Stop it, you two!

I can't stand you when you act

like spoiled children!

Now you're the one acting like

Hey! Hey, hey.

- What the ding-dong am I doin'?

- More like what are we doing?

It's this element.

It must have some radioactive effect

on the molecular structure

of the brain's chemicals.

- It affects our thinking?

- And our emotions.

In the wrong hands,

it would give someone

the unlimited power

to manipulate people.

Oh

My head's spinning. I need some air.

Me too. Come on.

Let's go get a nice cup of coffee

down at the café.

And I want to store this,

as Ben calls it, goop

in my negative-field ionizer,

where no one but the

Fantastic Four can get at it.

No one but the Fantastic Four?

[tuts]

Well, then, I shall have

to activate my membership.

Ben just hates trying on clothes.

- Really?

- And he's impossible to fit.

The popping buttons

have put five salesmen on disability.

You think he's hard to fit?

Try buying a sports coat

that'll stretch 500 feet.

Reed! Hi! That was quick, darling.

- Where's Johnny and Ben?

- Something's come up.

No time to explain.

We're needed immediately!

Well, uh, okay, sure, Reed.

But Alicia

Oh, I'm fine, Sue. I'll take a cab home.

Hey, Alicia. Ben stayed to guard the

Hey, wait a minute! Where's Sue?

Sue? Why, she went with you.

I love those mouthy meeces!

[phone rings]

- Talk to me.

- Ben.

Reed needs you to bring

Element F to him right away.

- Bring what?

- The goop.

We're at the Avenger's Mansión.

- Ow!

- [dead line]

Goodbye to you, too, Susie.

I wonder why Susie wants this stuff,

anyhow.

- Taxi

- Give me that container!

Or you will meet your ultimate defeat

at the hands of

Malice, Mistress of Hate.

Forget it, lady.

I ain't givin' nobody nothin'.

And Ben Grimm

sure ain't fightin' no lady.

[splutters]

Y'know, after some ruminatin',

I've decided you ain't no lady.

Ow!

[chokes]

- I can't breathe.

- Aw!

Poor little Thingy out of breath?

[chuckles]

Take a hike, toots.

That's a good little superhero.

Reed Richards! You will die!

Yes.

As I promised, Reed Richards

will become your prey.

But first, we return to my worid

to set a little trap.

For the rest of my family?

So the next thing I know

is I wake up in the alley alone.

- Johnny, any sign of Sue?

- Sorry, brother-in-law.

No luck.

Hey, we'll find her, Stretch.

She couldn't have just vanished

off the face of the Earth.

- Did you get the images?

- Sure. Right here.

Ben, you said Sue told you

to bring her Element F, right?

Yeah? So what?

Well, the trouble is,

I never named the new element.

In fact, there's only one being

who might know its name.

This heat-image tracer

can replay pictures of recent events

by capturing the residual heat

images that remain behind.

Right. They just had a clearance

sale on those at Bloomie's.

Hey, that's the dame, all right.

Spiked collar, red cape.

Reminds me, Mother's Day

is comin' up soon.

Look, it's Sis!

[Reed] Now, if the coordinates match

Malice, Mistress of Hate, is Sue.

Oh, man.

Mamma mia!

You mean I was goin'

toe-to-toe with Susie?

Hey, slow down, Reed!

Where are we goin'?

To get Sue back! If Psychoman's

hurt her in any way at all

But why the Reducto-Craft?

Psychoman's armor revealed he

came from a subatomic dimensión,

one that can only be reached

by shrinking to microscopic size,

then passing through

a dimensional portal.

Ah Figures!

Why can't the bad guys

ever live in Waikiki?

We're now in a place

no human's ever been.

A worid within worids, the Microverse.

Because of our Reducto-Craft's

limited charge,

we've only got a half-hour

to find Sue and get her back.

After that, the portal closes up again,

trapping us for ever.

Get real! How are we gonna

find them in a half-hour?

It's my guess Psychoman will find us.

We're hit!

Something's jammed the micro-gyro.

Johnny, take over!

[Thing] Speed racer!

Slow this rust bucket down

or you're gonna wear my breakfast!

Oh!

[Thing groans]

Look! Over there! Flame on!

What? Nothing.

I could've sworn I

No. It's just a barren wasteland.

Actually it's just the opposite, Johnny.

Look at the shape

of those crystalline structures.

Notice their grid-like placement.

What are you guys talkin' 'bout?

Hey, yeah, almost like buildings

or somethin'.

Exactly like buildings.

We've landed in the middle of a city.

- Whoa!

- Hey!

What's goin' on?

No!

Flame on! Help! Flame on!

Flame on! No!

No!

Lay off the kid, you creep!

Ain't it enough you kidnapped Susie

and swiped Stretcho's goop?

Actually, Ben,

I'm afraid we're the thieves.

Say what?

If my theory is correct,

the element I took from this dimensión

belonged to Psychoman.

It's the fuel for his psychoweapons,

which he obviously uses to enslave

the inhabitants of this worid with fear.

Oh, a charming necessity, I assure you.

Once I saw your amazing powers,

I realized you could be

enormously useful

in controlling my subjects,

as my fear police.

So, with your lovely wife as bait,

I lured you to my dimensión,

and reduced you even more

to your present puny size.

And to force us to carry out

your sick orders,

you're brainwashing us

with your psychological t*rture.

Call it a hobby. And now to continue.

[screams]

Let me at him!

Ah Interesting.

If I reduce my molecular cohesión

to a minimum

All right. It's Dr. Blob.

[Thing] Whoa!

Takes a lickin' and keeps on tickin'!

[Reed groans]

Oh, yeah. Stand back!

It's clobberin' time!

Flame on!

Back off, Ben! He's mine!

Huh? Hey!

What the? He shrunk!

No, Ben, he was never any bigger

than what you see.

- The rest was just an illusión.

- Huh?

Well, maybe now he'll stick to charades.

Let's move! Only five minutes till

the dimensional portal closes forever.

And I'm not leaving without Susan!

- Looking for me dear?

- [all] Susan!

Correction. Malice.

Susan Richards was a pathetic creature.

Someone to be ignored at worst,

patronized at best.

Someone you stifled

and frustrated at every turn.

Wait a minute. Hold on, Susie.

Long-winded as he can be

- Keep out of this!

- Dang!

Sis! Why are you doing this

to the ones who love you?

Liar!

And now my dear, devoted husband.

Susan!

[Reed groans]

It's all over, darling.

And now you are going to die.

That's right, Reed.

It's a force-field bubble

inside your body.

Growing, expanding, pressing outwards.

- [yells]

- Sue!

- For pity's sake, stop!

- Silence!

Or I will crush you too, baby brother!

I'm gettin' real intimate here

with my spleen.

You got any brainstorms, Doc?

Just one.

Susan!

Stop this nonsense at once!

I'm in no mood to put up

with your silly drivel!

What? You dare speak to me like that?

Susan, I'm ordering you to be quiet!

I've indulged your tantrums for years.

But now is not the time for such games.

What? Games?

Yes, games!

I'm sick of coddling you.

Face it, you never could

carry your weight in this group.

- We all know that.

- That's a lie!

Susan, I said shut up!

- I hate you!

- Yes! Go ahead! Hate me!

You weak, silly, spineless

[yells]

Very clever, Richards.

But completely wasted.

Pity, you'd have made

such exemplary fear police.

I'm afraid you're dangerously

over-qualified for the position.

Malice, release them.

As you say, master.

[groans]

My achin' everything!

I take it now you'll dispose of us?

With a little assist

from my hate cannon.

A hundred times more potent

than my previous psychoray.

Shall we test it?

Master, permit me to pull the trigger!

As you wish, my dear.

Y'know, what we need here

is the worid's best marriage counselor.

- This one's for you, monster!

- What?

[Psychoman] No!

[screams]

You!

- Attagirl, Sis!

- We got her back!

Thank heavens it worked.

I forced Sue's hatred beyond her means

to hold it inside.

The psychic explosión freed her

from Psychoman's control.

You stupid, ugly, demented,

loathsome weakling!

You failed!

You're a miserable failure!

I'll destroy you! Destroy you!

Extraordinary.

[jabbers]

[Reed]

He's consumed with total self-hatred.

Let him write Dear Abby.

Meanwhile, we got one minute to boogie!

No sweat! One boogie buggy comin' up.

[Reed] That's it for Psychoman

and his fear weapons.

Maybe now the inhabitants of this worid

will get a little taste of freedom.

Ben, Johnny, Reed.

- I'm so sorry about

- Oh, I know, darling.

It's just good to have you back.

Although you do look fetching in black.

- Johnny, take the controls.

- I'm all over it. Cool.

Aw, no!

Don't let the kid drive!

[Johnny laughs, Thing groans]

[Thing] I think I'm gonna flash my head.

[Thing gags]