You're learning is all.
It's okay.
[SCREAMS]
We'll figure this out together.
I promise.
It's gotta be the limiter.
So if I just remove the limiter,
you're saying that this is
gonna work hours a day?
You know what? I got an idea.
- What do you want?
- Join us.
The Young All-Stars.
It's never gonna happen.
The DNA, it's not human.
It's Cindy's father.
Dragon King.
Whoever has The Gambler's laptop,
that's who k*lled him.
I knew it.
I'm gonna kick her ass.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪ How ya, how ya like me ♪
♪ How ya, how ya like ♪
♪ How ya, how ya like me now ♪
♪ Like me now, like me now ♪
♪ I'm going in for the k*ll ♪
♪ Won't stop till I get my fill ♪
♪ Move fast, big talk ♪
♪ Get ready for the feature film ♪
♪ One time for the underdog ♪
♪ I'm coming right back
like it's my job ♪
♪ Keep up, don't fall ♪
♪ Bet you didn't think
that I could go this hard ♪
♪ How ya, how ya like me ♪
♪ How ya, how you like ♪
♪ How ya, how ya like me now,
like me now ♪
♪ How ya, how ya like me ♪
♪ How ya, how you like ♪
♪ How ya, how ya like me now,
like me now ♪
♪ Now, now, now, now, now, now ♪
♪ Now, now, now, now, now ♪
♪ Now, now, now, now, now, now ♪
♪ Now, now, now, now, now ♪
♪ Now, now, now, now, now, now ♪
♪ Now, now, now, now, now ♪
♪ Now, now, now, now, now, now ♪
♪ Now, now, now, now, now, now ♪
♪ No, we're not messing around ♪
♪ I make them bounce,
I do it all by myself ♪
♪ I keep the world spinning round ♪
♪ I'm outta town, places
that you can't pronounce ♪
♪ I don't think you can handle this ♪
♪ This combination too scandalous ♪
♪ The way that my b*at
bang in your chest ♪
♪ Then I do it again, do it again ♪
♪ How ya, how ya like me ♪
♪ How ya, how ya like ♪
♪ How ya, how ya like me now ♪
♪ Like me now, like me now ♪
♪ How ya, how ya like me ♪
♪ How ya, how ya like ♪
♪ How ya, how ya like me now,
like me now ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Now, now, now, now, now, now ♪
♪ Now, now, now, now, now ♪
♪ Now, now, now, now, now, now ♪
♪ Now, now, now, now, now ♪
♪ Gonna make that, take that,
flip that, switch that ♪
♪ Get that gat-gat, mm ♪
♪ Gonna make that, take that,
flip that, switch that ♪
♪ Get that gat-gat good ♪
♪ Run and tell everybody on your block ♪
♪ Go tell everybody
in your neighborhood ♪
♪ Gonna make that, take that,
flip that, switch that ♪
♪ Get that gat-gat good ♪
♪ How ya, how ya like me ♪
♪ How ya, how ya like ♪
[TIMER BEEPING]
♪ How ya like me now, like me now ♪
♪ How ya, how ya like me ♪
♪ How ya, how ya like ♪
♪ How ya, how ya like me now,
like me now ♪
♪ How ya, how ya like me ♪
♪ How ya, how ya like ♪
♪ How ya, how ya like me now,
like me now ♪
♪ Now, now, now, now, now, now ♪
♪ Now, now, now, now, now ♪
♪ Now, now, now, now, now, now ♪
♪ Now, now, now, now, now ♪
♪ Now, now, now, now, now, now ♪
♪ Now, now, now, now, now ♪
♪ Now, now, now, now, now, now ♪
[SHOUTS INDISTINCTLY]
[STATIC BUZZING]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[GROWLING]
♪ ♪
[CHUCKLING]
[BELLS TOLLING]
Bless me, Father, for I have sinned.
[SIGHS] I broke into
someone's house last night.
And I stole something.
- Stealing, Yolanda?
- It was for a good reason.
There's no justification
for breaking God's commandments
- or the law.
- I had to expose a liar.
Okay? She was manipulating
my best friend.
And I have proof of it all.
The ends don't justify the means.
♪ ♪
Someday, when it's safe, Father,
I will tell you everything
about Blue Valley.
But you should know
that there are people
in this town who have secrets,
terrible secrets, who have
done terrible things.
Especially Cin...
[SIGHS] Sinners.
They're sinners.
Careful who you judge.
Don't learn the wrong
lessons about judgment
from your own family.
I don't want to talk about them.
All right.
You will be forgiven
for what you've done.
No, I don't think you understand.
I'm not asking forgiveness
for what I've done.
I'm asking forgiveness
for what I'm about to do.
[MACHINE WHIRRING]
Wow, Mike, look at you juicing.
You're making a mess.
It looks like a farmers' market.
Where did all this come from?
The Crocks.
When I got up for my route,
they were in the kitchen messing around.
You kidding?
And look at you being healthy.
Yeah, but they took away all the cereal.
They took away the doughnuts.
Yeah, he's in here yesterday,
throws away my beer.
It's light beer.
Yeah, it's your house, Pat.
Stand up for it.
Okay, Crusher and Paula
are a little much.
But you know what?
They do have good habits.
And I think it would be great
if some of them rubbed off on us.
I hear you, but I was just
under the impression
we were trying to help them
be better people, right?
Yes.
Morning.
- [GROANS]
- Hello.
Late night?
There's no sign of Dragon King.
Feel like I'm on a wild-goose chase.
Okay, so just to clarify,
it's not Dragon King?
Well, it could be or couldn't be.
We can't rule anything out.
Where's Courtney? I should update her.
- She already left.
- This early?
Any idea where?
From what Yolanda said last night,
she was meeting with Icicle's kid,
Cameron Mahkent.
- [SCOFFS]
- [SIGHS]
[BIRDS CHIRPING]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
[MYSTERIOUS MUSIC]
♪ ♪
Remember, how you feel
affects what you do,
so if you're scared or angry,
the ice will be too.
But if you keep focusing on the good,
those you love and
the love I know you have
for the rest of the world,
then your heart will control it.
I still don't understand
how you know all this.
♪ ♪
My coach told me the same thing...
on the gymnastics team
back in California.
You should keep your distance.
I'm not worried.
[ICE CRACKLING]
Focus.
[SWEEPING ORCHESTRAL MUSIC]
♪ ♪
I did it.
It's my dad.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪ ♪
It's beautiful.
♪ ♪
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
♪ ♪
[UPBEAT MUSIC]
What if she doesn't eat sugar?
Well, then she can eat the flowers.
And if she doesn't like the flowers,
well, we'll have to bribe her
with something else.
But she's gotta join us.
Even if everyone thinks she's
working with Dragon King?
Yeah, especially because of that.
Cindy Burman might be
guilty of a lot of things,
but k*lling The Gambler? Please.
That is, like, beneath her or something.
- Yeah, she's got class.
- And information.
And she's got access
to all the files on the ISA,
stuff the others don't even know about.
So while Courtney's slacking off,
we can figure out this puzzle.
Wasn't the whole point of
everything your sister wanted
was for us all to work together?
Yeah, but nobody wins
if we do that. I want to win.
I'm just saying.
Courtney wants us all
to trust each other,
but then this m*rder happens,
and no one trusts anyone.
We should be transparent.
I'm as transparent as a window. Okay?
♪ ♪
Ah, my good lady.
The Young All-Stars bring you offerings.
No.
[DOOR SLAMS]
I followed your advice,
Sylvester, about Cindy,
and it paid off.
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
- Is that...
- The Gambler's laptop.
I found it hidden in her room.
- So she did it.
- But why?
Beth, we need what's on
this laptop right now.
There are probably the usual
encryptions and firewalls,
but I should be able to get through them
with an assist from the goggles.
Once you're inside, download everything.
And then, Yolanda, I want
to you put the laptop
back where you found it.
Why would we do that?
Because if Cindy knows
the computer's gone,
she'll know she's busted. She might run.
There's still a chance
Dragon King's a part of this
or someone else.
You know, you didn't have to come.
Well, I think
it's a little less suspicious
if we're both here.
Yeah, I thought I was worrying too much
and you were fine
with Courtney having a crush.
I am fine with her having a crush,
but it's Cameron Mahkent.
I mean, it's the grandparents
I'm concerned about.
They definitely knew something
about the mind machine
that Jordan was building.
Yeah, well, what if they
know about Courtney
and Mike and you and all of us?
Could get real complicated.
No, it could get really dangerous.
Courtney's got great instincts,
so I think if she sensed something...
Pat, love can cloud your judgment.
Her eyes might not be
as wide open as we think.
- Just want her to be safe.
- Right, yeah.
[DOORBELL RINGS]
Should we keep some of this fruit?
- No, it's for them.
- Put a couple of these bananas
- in your purse.
- Hi.
- Hi.
- Pat and Barbara. Why, hello.
You guys are looking good.
We bought you some, uh... some fruit.
- Smoothies, our favorite.
- Lovely.
Fresh as it comes. May we?
- After you, Barb.
- Thank you.
- [DOOR SLAMS]
- Oh, wow, this is lovely.
Yeah. Oh, lot of books, huh?
It was my son's library and
my daughter-in-law's studio.
I know that Cameron
is quite the artist too.
Oh, please, have a seat.
Oh, thanks.
Lily and I don't entertain much.
But we'd like to offer you
a Norwegian specialty:
lutefisk.
Lutefisk? Thank you, it looks very...
- Delicious.
- Interesting, yeah.
[BOTH SPEAKING NORWEGIAN] _
_
We really came by just to tell you
how delighted we are
that Courtney and Cameron
are spending a lot of time together.
Yet you're here.
I'm assuming you have concerns?
Us? No, no concerns at all.
We just wanted to come by
and tell you...
Tell you that Cameron
is such a nice young man.
He sure is. Good kid.
Well, your daughter is...
We think she's very special too.
Special how?
Well, I think what Barb means is thanks.
Thank you. She's... she's
a good kid. You're right.
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
♪ ♪
I never had a chance
to personally tell you
how sorry I am about
what happened to Jordan.
♪ ♪
He was a great man.
He was.
Tell me, Barbara.
Do you know how it feels
to lose a child?
Mom?
Pat?
What are you doing here?
Hey, hi. [SIGHS]
[UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING OVER SPEAKERS]
♪ ♪
Hey, Zeek.
Boys, what do you say? What do you know?
Well, we got a little bit of a problem.
- That right?
- A girl problem.
Well, fellas, you have come
to the right place.
See, there's this girl that we both...
- We both like.
- Mm-hmm.
But she won't even pay attention to us.
- Mm.
- She'll barely talk to us.
How do we get her to give us a chance?
Ah, yes, young romance.
Competing for a lover's heart, huh?
- Oh, no.
- No.
No, no, that's not...
I've taken my turn on love's
cosmic merry-go-round,
round and round, ah, yes.
I've danced under the moonlight
on the beaches of Monaco
with the duchess of Liechtenstein.
And I've had my heart broken
by a poor chimney sweep's
least interesting daughter.
You danced with a duchess?
Oh, yes, I did, and then some.
She showed me every swift move
of the Viennese waltz,
and I taught her the funky chicken.
We were quite the pair.
Anyhoo, I've found there are
two universal truths in life.
One, you can't un-strip a screw,
and two, you can't give up on love.
You still miss any of them?
Do I long for love lost?
No, sirree, bob. Mm-mm, not me.
You see, so far,
there's only been one girl
in all the world
that I think has tamed
this wild heart of mine.
If it's meant to be boys,
trust me, it'll be.
Well, that was a waste of time.
I thought it was...
interesting.
Why didn't you call me?
You were ignoring everyone.
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
Courtney was just helping
me on a new sculpture.
A sculpture, Cameron?
I'm sure it's fine.
There was really no reason
for you to come all the way out here.
Yeah, but then I never would
have gotten to try lutefisk,
which, for me, now enters
the pantheon of great fish.
Right up there with catfish,
grouper, and tilapia.
[CHUCKLES]
You know... [CLEARS THROAT]
We should get going.
Oh.
'Cause we don't want
to wear our welcome.
You all have been so hospitable.
Like I said, we just wanted to come by,
say hello, wish you two good luck,
- and... right, hon?
- Yeah, absolutely.
As long as our children are both happy,
that's all that matters.
Isn't that right, dear?
Lily, Cameron and Courtney being happy
is all that's important now,
isn't that right?
Of course.
♪ ♪
- Bye.
- Thank you.
Enjoyed it. Thanks.
That was humiliating.
What are you doing here?
We were worried about you, Courtney.
You're the ones always telling me
I can't just be Stargirl.
Look, your mom and I were
just concerned, that's all.
How many times do I have to tell people,
Cameron's not his father.
Right, but it's the grandparents, okay?
They knew Jordan was up to something.
- Mm-hmm.
- And how do we know they don't have
the same abilities that Icicle did?
Well, they probably do.
- According to Cindy, anyway.
- What?
She thinks she saw his grandmother
have the same type of powers Jordan did.
But even if she does, if they both do,
if they wanted to hurt us,
wouldn't they have done it already?
- Why wait?
- We don't know.
I love old people, but they
scare the hell out of me.
[SINISTER MUSIC]
♪ ♪
[STATIC BUZZING]
[GROWLING]
♪ ♪
[KEYBOARD CLACKING]
[COMPUTER BLIPPING]
[KNOCK AT DOOR]
Come in.
Beth.
We've been trying to call you all day.
Your father and I couldn't
seem to get through.
Mm-hmm, so we came home.
Did you really block us?
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Why?
I told you,
it's too dangerous
for you to be this involved.
Mr. Pemberton, Starman,
his sister was k*lled
because she did.
If you're doing this to protect us,
who's going to be protecting you?
My friends. My team.
We're on your team, Beth.
There's a k*ller out there, Dad.
I'm asking you, please.
Don't make me push you away
any more than I already have.
♪ ♪
Come on, sweetie.
- [LEAVES RUSTLING]
- [GASPS]
[SIGHS]
Hey, you okay?
- Uh, yeah.
- Okay.
Oh, everything's downloaded.
It's gonna take a while
for me to decrypt it.
I'll get this back to Cindy's
before she realizes it's gone.
Great job.
Thanks.
Sure you're okay?
You better get that back.
Right.
Yolanda?
Am I screwing this up?
Would you let your parents
on this side of your life?
Hell no.
But my parents suck.
♪ ♪
[SIGHS]
[KNOCK AT DOOR]
Come in.
Hi.
What are those?
Well, Cameron just dropped them off.
Really?
Mm-hmm.
[LIGHT MUSIC]
♪ ♪
Mom.
♪ ♪
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪ ♪
[COMPUTER BLIPPING]
[SINISTER MUSIC]
[ALARM BEEPING]
♪ ♪
- Hey, there, kitty cat.
- [GASPS]
I knew it was you.
You scratched the window
coming in the first time.
Oh, I'll do more than that right now.
Okay, wait.
Yolanda, I didn't do it.
I did not k*ll The Gambler.
You had The Gambler's laptop,
and you didn't tell us.
I have my reasons. I would've explained.
And I still can.
- Too late.
- [BOTH GRUNTING]
[INTENSE MUSIC]
♪ ♪
[BOTH GRUNTING]
Ah!
♪ ♪
[BOTH GRUNTING]
Court, pick up. Please pick up.
♪ ♪
You've always been a bitch.
Same.
Ah!
[METALLIC CREAKING]
[SHOUTS]
[SHOUTS]
[PANTING]
I knew it.
[SHOUTS]
[ALL GRUNTING]
Come on!
Ah!
What the hell?
You're just like your dad.
Oh, my gosh.
[ALL GRUNTING]
♪ ♪
[ALL SHOUT]
What are you doing?
Me?
Yolanda started this.
She stole The Gambler's laptop, Court.
I didn't k*ll him.
She's just like her father. Look at her.
Look at her arm.
The DNA at the crime scene.
A single skin cell.
It's got the goggles all worked up.
I guess I almost missed it.
It wasn't Dragon King's DNA.
It was yours.
What's happening to you?
Don't act like you care.
I do.
Cindy, please talk to us.
I started changing when we
got back from the Shadowlands.
I don't know if it triggered this
or if it was always going to happen.
I don't know what my
dad did to me, okay?
And I was just trying to find out.
I stole The Gambler's laptop
so I could go through his files,
locate labs, find a cure,
but I did not k*ll anyone.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪ ♪
[TENSE MUSIC]
Stop looking at me
like I'm a monster!
[SQUELCHING]
[GROANS]
[STAFF WHOOSHING]
Cindy, let us help you.
Help me?
Help me?
I am so tired of all of this.
If you were just honest
with us in the first place
- like I asked you to be...
- Honest?
Like you're honest?
Please.
Why don't you tell them
about your little secret
that you've been keeping?
About Cameron.
We already know she's dating Cameron.
Dating him?
Like father, like son.
She's teaching that little psycho
how to conjure up icicles,
just like Daddy.
What?
He has powers like the rest
of his family.
Is that true?
Yeah, it's true.
And when Cameron finds out
what you did to his dad,
which he will,
he'll come for you.
And I hope that he wins.
♪ ♪
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪ ♪
You should've had a plan.
We did have a plan, Court.
You just weren't involved.
Because you haven't been around.
You've been training the new Icicle.
I'm not training anyone.
I'm trying to help him,
just like we should be
trying to help Cindy.
This isn't about Cindy anymore.
- Okay? You lied to us.
- I didn't mean to, but...
You would think, after
everything that happened
with your mom at Pat, you would realize
how damaging this is to us.
It was Cameron's secret.
It wasn't mine to tell.
And Cameron mattered more than us?
No, I... I promised not to tell anyone.
- Courtney, he is a thr*at.
- No, he's not!
Yes, he is, and you made
that decision by yourself
when all of us who are
a team are at risk.
You turned your back on us
for him, Courtney.
♪ ♪
I've been on your side this whole time.
Trusting everyone
because you think we should.
But Rick and Yolanda are right.
You should've told us, Court.
All this talk about trusting each other.
Turns out, the person I'm closest to
is the one that can't be trusted.
I'm sorry.
I really am.
Um...
Look, until we get this sorted out,
maybe Sylvester should lead the JSA.
He already has been.
♪ ♪
[KNOCK AT DOOR]
I don't feel like talking, Pat.
[DOOR CLICKS OPEN]
Oh.
You doing okay?
Beth told me what happened.
I think I kicked myself off the team.
You're not kicked off anything.
They don't want me anymore.
JSA isn't about what they want.
I'm sorry I didn't tell you
about Cameron.
Courtney,
you don't need to apologize to me.
I've been there.
You thought you could handle it,
thought you could fix it all,
straighten out Cameron,
and then present it to everybody
all wrapped up in a neat little bow?
We think alike.
We're a lot alike, huh?
Oh, yeah.
Your mom and Pat keep
telling you to find balance,
but it's not so easy for
people like you and me.
It's 'cause we love it too much.
We live for it.
I mean, the line between
Courtney Whitmore
and Stargirl is blurry at best.
They bleed into each other.
It can make living a normal life
on any level almost impossible.
You gotta give yourself a break.
My sister Mary,
you know about her.
Like you, she always saw
the good in people.
She thought, given a chance,
bad people could change.
Even Brainwave.
Brainwave was different
than The Shade or the Crocks
or Cindy.
He was too far gone.
And no matter what I
told Mary about him,
she was in love.
For some reason.
I blamed his powers.
Thought he had tricked
her into loving him
or planted the idea in her brain, but...
I don't know.
And they married.
Had a son,
Henry.
And for a while...
She kind of proved me wrong.
But in the end...
Icicle,
he convinced Brainwave
to turn on my sister and my nephew.
Henry d*ed protecting us.
He was the only family I had left.
Never met him.
[SIGHS]
I don't know Cameron Mahkent.
But I know you.
And I trust your gut more than anything.
So if you say he's a good kid
who just needs some guidance...
I'm on board.
But a wise man named
Stripesy once said...
Oh, my God.
Don't try to do everything yourself.
[WARM MUSIC]
'Cause you can't.
Thanks, Sylvester.
Really.
And don't worry about the others.
I'll talk to them.
We're gonna get through this, okay?
Together.
♪ ♪
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
♪ ♪
Hi.
Hey.
You're not going to say anything?
Well, I think you've
been piled on enough
by everyone today.
And I can't say anything better
than Sylvester already did, you know?
Yeah, he's... he's pretty great.
Yeah, he sure is.
Sylvester's the best.
I really don't know what
I'd be doing without him.
[KNOCK AT DOOR]
- Hi.
- Beth.
- Beth, hi.
- Hey, Beth.
What's going on? You look worried.
Worried? Me? Nah.
I'm not worried.
Why would you think I'm worried?
Hey, Beth, we know you, okay?
What are you worried about?
Oh, what's with all the worried talk?
I'm not worried. You're not worried.
No one's worried.
Want a juice? I'd love one.
[MACHINE WHIRRING]
Careful of your fingers, Beth. Care...
[WHISPERING] Just act super normal.
[NORMALLY] When I hacked
into The Gambler's files,
I found something I think he found.
That's Cindy's house.
That's not all.
♪ ♪
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪ ♪
[WHISPERING] Beth.
What do we do now?
We don't say another word.
[STATIC BUZZING]
♪ ♪
[GROWLING]
♪ ♪
Greg, move your head.
Mad Ghost.
03x06 - Frenemies: Chapter Six: The Betrayal
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