ZETA: My name is Zeta.
I was built as a weapon to destroy...
but I will not destroy anymore.
RO: Come on, let's go!
ZETA: It's Bennet. Run!
This way!
RO: Quick, Zee. Change.
ZETA: Ro, look out!
[SCREAMS]
RO: We'll get you your freedom, Zee. I know it.
ROBOT: Adam Heat.
The pleasure is mine.
[SCREAMS]
[GRUNTING]
ADAM: And as for the pain?
That's all yours!
Schway.
Yes, Adam Heat.
Starring in Neo-Hong Kong Robot Wars Part 41.
Say yes to order your vid now.
No, thank you.
Our cutting-edge market research of a room full of consumers just like you...
indicates that you will buy Neo-Hong Kong Robot Wars Part 41.
Don't talk to adbots. It only encourages them.
Teenager. Prime demographic.
- You bought something else? - Gift-wrapped for all that stuff.
Bland and boring. Just the way they like it in Hicksburg.
I thought you said the town was called Hillsburg.
It will always be Hicksburg to me.
The Morgans, the folks I lived with? I wasn't exactly their kind of people.
Of course, I was trouble.
Not like their real daughter, Tiffy.
Little Miss Goody-Goody.
Even when I was being good, it wasn't as good as Tiffy.
If it was so bad, why go back?
RO: I'm not saying it'll be fun.
But they're the earliest foster family I remember.
There must have been paperwork when they took me.
Maybe they'll know how to find my real family.
They once told me I'd never amount to anything.
Well, they were wrong. You...
Thanks for the boost.
Anyway, it doesn't matter.
Thanks to that cred card of yours, at least I can look like a success.
Fancy car, new clothes, and a trunk full of gifts to throw around.
Probably still not enough.
ADBOT: Say yes to order your vid now.
Everyone loves Adam Heat.
Put a lid on it, soup can.
Now, if I showed up with a big vid star like Adam Heat...
that would knock their plaid socks off.
Come on, feel the heat.
No, you feel the wet.
[STUTTERING] Everyone loves... Loves A-Adam...
Every... Adam Heat... Adam Heat.
Adam... Loves Adam Heat.
I got sent here when I was 8.
Ran away, got placed in another home, ran away from there.
Where were you running to?
Beats me. I'll let you know when I get there.
The plan is, we do the standard bit, get the info and bail.
And don't take this wrong...
but could you try to act, I don't know, normal?
I do wanna impress these people.
I know just what to do.
[DOORBELL RINGS]
TIFFY: Yes? - Tiffy?
- Rosalie? - Just Ro these days.
Rosalie Rowan?
That little spit who filled my shorts with glue?
Walt Merkin? You pushed me into the lake.
You used to eat tar!
Okay, that's all ancient history. Walt's much more mature now, Ro.
Aren't you gonna introduce us to your friend?
Oh, sure.
Tiff, Walt, this is...
It's him.
What? What him?
TIFFY: Adam Heat.
The pleasure is mine.
[GRUNTS]
Huh?
[TIFFY GASPS]
ZETA: Mm...
[TIFFY GASPS]
Hey!
Don't worry, I've got her. Just show me where to set her down.
[SCOFFS]
WALT: Bring her in here.
Zee, what are you doing?
You wanted to impress them. I think she's impressed.
Brilliant. And the kiss?
From what I saw, all Adam Heat does is kiss or hit.
I thought kissing was better.
[SIGHS]
Fine, whatever. Just switch back before they see you.
Is she okay? I'll go get the smelling salts.
WALT: Wake up, Tiff.
What? Oh.
[GROANS]
It's me.
Adam Heat. What are you doing here?
And with Rosalie?
I'm Adam's personal assistant. We're here on research.
Adam is playing a logger in his next vid.
But this is all ultra hush-hush. He's not even supposed to be here.
You guys can keep a secret, right?
Oh. Uh, too late.
I ran into some people at the drug store.
CROWD [CHANTING]: We want Adam!
We want Adam! We want Adam!
- This is not good. CROWD: We want Adam!
We want Adam!
REPORTER: And roll vid in three, two, one. CROWD: We want Adam!
REPORTER: A big star landed in little Hillsburg today. Adam Heat, action hero...
We got curious when a local feed out of Oregon...
reported that Adam Heat was in their town.
The thing is, ShowBizt Planet was covering Heat at the same time...
at a vid-fest in Macao.
I'm the one that noticed first.
And you were watching ShowBizt Planet why?
Well, uh...
So which one's not Heat?
We enhanced the images and found this.
CROWD [CHANTING]: We want Adam!
We want Adam!
- We want Adam! - I'm real sorry.
CROWD: We want Adam! We want Adam!
This isn't safe. There are cameras out there.
- We should go before the authorities arrive. - Just give me a couple of hours.
How fast could Bennet find...?
[SIREN WAILING]
- That was quick. - Dad becoming sheriff?
Fastest rise through the ranks ever.
Dad?
Mr. Morgan's the sheriff now.
Oops.
Not eating, Mr. Heat?
Can't. Hollywood's a crazy place.
Gain an ounce and you're dead.
- Right. - Pity.
Did you hear that, Tiff? Something to think about.
Wants to be an actress too.
Dad!
Tell me about L.A. What's it like?
Desert climate. Seismically active.
Primary industries are entertainment, litigation and, uh...
- It's great. - I bet you guys travel all over the place.
That we do.
I can't even imagine the things you must have seen.
You got that right.
Could you look for those foster records now?
We're in kind of a rush to get back on the road.
I see it's true. Showbiz types are always in a hurry.
Well, life still moves at a regular pace out here, Rosalie.
And I do eat.
I'll look as soon as we're done.
See what I mean?
This is gonna take some time.
I could go through those very quickly.
Uh...
Adam, gotta watch that manicure.
That's all right. Probably quicker if I do it myself.
Tiffy, haven't you been trying to pin down that director for an audition?
It's just the local theater.
Walt and I have been rehearsing Romeo and Juliet.
Might get his attention if Mr. Heat did the scene with you.
Would you?
I do have the complete works of Shakespeare in my memory.
Oh, he means his repertoire. But I don't think that's a good idea.
Weren't we hoping to keep a low profile?
I'm doing a favor for you. Seems you could help Tiffy in return.
Oh, I'll call the theater.
I wonder if he'll kiss me again.
[MOCKING TONE] And I wonder if I'll throw up.
This is so nice of you, Adam.
Here. That should fit.
I have to do my makeup.
I can't believe it.
I'm doing a scene with Adam Heat.
But, Tiff?
I was supposed to do that scene with you.
Oh, I know, Walt.
But I'm doing a scene with Adam Heat.
Oh, could you work the scenery projector for me?
You'd be such a help.
Vid star. I never even liked his movies.
BENNET: ETA in Hillsburg?
Four-thirty-seven Pacific time.
Local law enforcement?
Two deputies. One air unit.
Sheriff's name is Wendell P. Morgan.
That's fine, agent.
And what did Wendell P. Morgan say when you called him?
I was supposed to call him?
- Agent Lee? - Already on it.
- Find anything? - Mary was the organized one.
Tiff told me about, uh, Mom.
Sorry.
She was nice.
We always wished you'd found your family here with us.
Years after you ran, we worried about you.
Heh. Yeah, worried you'd get called to bail me out of somewhere.
Not just.
[RO GASPS]
MORGAN: Didn't mean for you to see that.
There's some bad things in the world, Rosalie.
But I guess you've already seen some of that.
[CHUCKLES]
Don't worry. Good guys will catch him.
I'm going to the cellar to see if there's any disks down there.
Okay.
[PHONE RINGING]
- Hello? - Sheriff Morgan, please.
Who is this?
Agent James Bennet, National Secur...
- I miss a call? - Wrong number.
Hey, uh, know what? I've changed my mind.
I do wanna see Tiffy do her scene with Adam.
And we should get going.
- Now. - Okay.
TIFFY: How camest thou hither, Romeo, and wherefore?
The orchard walls are high and hard to climb.
And the place death, if any of my kinsmen find thee here.
[WHISPERING] Psst, Zee!
We gotta get out of here.
With love's light wings did I o'er-perch these walls...
for stony limits cannot hold love out.
[GROANS]
ZETA: Therefore thy kinsmen are no stop to me.
If they...
[GASPS]
[GRUNTS]
- Walt? - I'm trying.
Adam Heat. Big deal.
DIRECTOR: Don't worry about the set.
It's all right. Go on!
If they do see thee, they will murder thee.
Walt, you're ruining my scene.
Your scene?
It was supposed to be our scene.
[WALT GRUNTS]
[AUDIENCE GASPS]
[TIFFY GASPS]
[AUDIENCE GASPS]
[ZETA THUDS]
[GASPS]
Adam Heat's a robot?
This act is getting stale.
The terrorist!
Everybody down!
[GUN POWERING UP]
RO: Stop, he's my friend!
Run, I'll hold him off!
[RO GRUNTING]
[ALL SHOUTING]
What are you doing?
You don't understand.
Zee, he's not what they say he is.
He's wanted by the NSA. That's all I need to know.
It's a mistake.
No, Rosalie, this is another of your mistakes.
You always made the wrong choices.
Wait, sheriff. I'm coming with you. Unh!
[SIREN WAILING]
[GRUNTS]
Aah! Unh!
[GASPS]
WALT: Aah! Unh!
[SCREAMS]
[WALT GRUNTS]
The sheriff, he may be hurt.
Still think you're an actor?
Well, you're not that good.
[YELLS]
Please, believe me. I'd never hurt you.
[WALT GRUNTS]
Walt, don't!
[GRUNTS]
The theater. Come on.
- Did you say that thing was your friend? - Yeah.
A fugitive robot?
Well, whatever it is, say it.
That's even cooler than a vid star.
What?
Oh, no, I don't know what your angle is, but I'm not falling for it.
What is your problem?
You haven't cut me an inch of slack since you got here.
Oh, right. This is so you, Tiffy.
You're the nice one. You're the sweet one.
Then I drop my guard and you stab me in the back.
Ro, we were all brats back then. I'm not like that anymore.
You're exactly like that.
[RUMBLING]
[CROWD SHOUTING]
He's steering it.
MAN: It's gonna hit the theater.
[CROWD SHOUTING]
RO: Stay here. It's gonna miss.
You're safer inside.
She's right. Listen to her.
Everybody get back to the stage.
[CROWD SCREAMING]
Zee!
[SIGHS]
[LOGS RUMBLE AND RO GASPS]
[SIREN WAILING]
My girls? Are my girls okay?
[VEHICLE WHIRRING]
It's Bennet.
Sheriff Morgan? James Bennet, NSA.
- I'm looking for... WALT: The robot!
- You're looking for the robot. - He's heading off that way.
Got a girl, in a blue car. They got a minute on you...
but maybe you can catch them. BENNET: You heard the man. Move it!
Thanks, Dad.
Sorry there was nothing useful in your records.
That offer still stands, to find your family here.
I gotta keep looking.
But it's real nice to know.
TIFFY: Hey, Ro?
What we were saying about being brats once?
I know I was. But I always respected you too.
- You what? - You were a rebel.
I learned from that.
Here, when you first showed up, when I hated you...
I took something from you and hid it.
It was still in my closet.
Yeah? Who is it?
You don't know?
Tell me.
They said it was your brother.
My brother?
I have a brother.
[ENGLISH SDH]