TOM SWIFT #106
I'm Tom Swift,
shoe collector extraordinaire.
But none of that was
I thought if I built him
I could earn his love.
But his mission ended
Turns out it was sabotage.
My father survived the attack
with the data I need
But it exploded
Now, I have to find
and reassemble my dad's message.
A global conspiracy called
is standing in my way,
my best friend Zenzi,
my adopted brother Lino,
Together, we're going
and bring him home.
(phone line ringing)
(on message):
Hey. Hey, it's me again.
I'm sure by now
of my, uh, dismissal.
But I'd really like to explain.
♪ Big Latto ♪
♪ Pooh, you a fool for this one,
♪ Oh, Lord,
♪ It's givin' boss,
♪ It's givin' bad,
♪ What old Claire gonna do?
♪ What old girl gonna do?
♪ Mm ♪
♪ I got my own incu, incu... ♪
(startled cries)
You weren't answering
(exhales) That's because being
I found Tom's watch on the
The side mirror
and there was a handprint
You do know he's meticulous
I think Tom's in trouble.
Oh, I can't do nothing
getting in my way!
You know what?
or I swear to God
ISAAC:
ZENZI:
in Martha's Vineyard.
Barclay, where's Tom?
BARCLAY:
Hey, we're gonna find him.
You haven't let
Since when does Barclay
Tom is late for his
with Sir Cody Rigsby.
Tom never misses Cody.
Locate his phone, please.
Locating.
on this handprint
You have been released
Request denied.
Barclay,
Yes, Zenzi.
The handprint belongs to Tom.
Tom would never leave
Wh... When did you
Just after 7:00 p.m.
I was still looking for him
when I left you a voice mail.
7:46 was is I took
Tom wouldn't expose Barclay
Too harsh.
And it would damage
Barclay,
what did you see just
Technically,
Swift Manor security cameras
As Tom was leaving
I heard a car screech
(tires screech)
I then heard Tom grunting
before his pulse accelerated
That's when I was hit
From that moment on, I was in
Barclay,
Engaging.
It's basically when you give
so they can just pop in whenever
Basically, you and I
to access Barclay
while we look for Tom.
Might I add
of capsule piece number four.
Tom was unable
due to the Swift jet
No, we can't save Barton
It'll have to wait.
Yeah.
Tom's phone is located
across the state
The signal's been cloned
Who would have the
Where did The Road Back
This is the last time
Where is he?
The Road Back did not
If they had, I would have
but I didn't.
♪ See you on the run... ♪
Boy, what the hell
Ass-whuppin' clothes.
You want to try them?
How are you so sure
just off being Tom?
There's video.
I'll help you find him.
Tom's my assignment.
I've been instructed
Observe for what?
Who instructed you?
That's no longer an issue
If I've lost him,
than either of you can imagine.
BARCLAY:
Look, we have no reason
Do you really want
Fine.
But if The Road Back
then who the hell did?
(water splashing in distance)
(groans)
What the hell is this
♪ ♪
(beeping)
Hello?
"Invent the power
Or what?
(wrist device beeping)
(electricity crackling)
Oh.
Death.
♪ ♪
BARCLAY: This is where I had
location with Tom.
Retrieving backup memory now
the 12% I lost
Then I can go back
who actually are
Barclay-- and I get that
when you're out of
but you and I are good, right?
No exceptions.
Backup retrieved,
This is where Tom accessed
And where Claire destroyed it.
She what?
If Claire destroyed the
then it was probably taken to
Barclay said that even though
the physical capsule piece,
Tom was able to retrieve
Whoever sent that capsule piece
long enough to know
I mean,
when he was kidnapped.
Or maybe they're the kidnapper?
Either way, I didn't find
on the Swift Enterprises
or in Tom's files.
Finding out who sent
is our only lead.
I'll see if I can
Excuse me.
Can one of you show me
Maybe I can analyze it.
There wasn't a ransom note.
ROWAN: Neither of you
The kidnappers must want
Unless...
Unless their plan
No. We must have
the ransom note
Rowan and I will head back
while you and Barclay
check the incinerator
(electricity crackling)
All right, make a working
out of impossible parts.
(electric crackling continues)
(grunts)
(beeping)
Do you just want money?
(beeping)
Guess not.
(electricity crackling)
Okay.
Maybe I can charge
(electricity crackling)
(Tom cries out)
Okay. That is not the answer.
Focus, Tom.
(exhales sharply)
I don't have access to
(beeping)
...how about access to yours?
You told me to use
That camera is in front of me.
And so are all of its parts.
Ah... ha!
♪ ♪
Right.
Static electricity
should be able to...
Come on, come on,
Ah!
We appreciate your
My name is Garrett.
This is the woman whose life
She's currently trapped
and running
You are free to go
but she will die.
Or you can stay,
and save her life.
The choice is yours.
Why are you doing this?
How do I know she's even real?
Do it.
(electricity crackling)
Please, someone help me!
Fine!
I'm in.
Then I suggest you work fast
because the game has now begun.
GARRETT (over speaker):
through this obstacle course
and obtain the flag
without getting
on your clothing.
In addition, you must not run
outside of the marked perimeter.
Friendly reminder, a woman's
WOMAN (in distance):
Please, help!
GARRETT:
Your time begins... now.
(wrist device beeping)
♪ ♪
(alarm sounds)
He did mention paint.
♪ ♪
ZENZI:
How did someone break in here
ROWAN:
(scoffs) Uh-- This-this is--
What happened?
I don't know.
Barclay, did the security
BARCLAY:
All security cameras
How...
Are you okay?
Stress.
I'll be fine.
Right.
Well, shall we commence
Hey, uh, were you able
before it was incinerated?
Yeah, yeah.
on it now.
Zenzi, any chance Tom's A.I.
The dirt, as well.
Barclay?
BARCLAY:
(scanner humming)
Decomposed specialized granite.
Production of this
halted in the early 1990s.
Narrowing down former
Stand by for an address.
What if the kidnappers
a specific Swift technology?
If we figure out
we might be able to
and who took Tom.
You see anything missing?
(scoffs)
It's hard to tell.
I would say his
he was wearing that,
He was also wearing
You think he still is?
What's a power-down ring?
Tom invented it to power
'cause they never got
But if his kidnappers
he could weaken electronics
If I cheat, they kill us.
Right?
(sighs)
(exhales sharply)
Maybe eighth time's the charm.
Of course.
♪ ♪
♪ Bad man ♪
♪ Stand on the shoulders
♪ Ain't nobody gonna defy us ♪
♪ Ain't nobody gonna
What if I folded them?
If I reduce the volume of
they'll travel farther.
Okay, based on the spray pattern
I should be able to...
(singers vocalizing)
♪ You ain't gonna stop me ♪
♪ Ain't gonna stop me ♪
(small explosion)
Yes! Whoo!
♪ I wake up like this
(small explosion)
♪ Man, I ain't about
♪ So you can't tell me nothin',
(small explosion)
Kobe.
♪ I been dropping
♪ And they been copping
♪ I'm winning, I'm winning ♪
♪ I feel like the Mets
♪ I know they was hoping
♪ This is only
Whoo!
Tell me I can't
Tell me!
(grunting) Ha, ha!
Ooh!
(laughs tauntingly)
Congratulations, Tom.
Damn right I completed it.
♪ Ain't gonna stop me ♪
(singers vocalizing)
♪ Ain't gonna stop me. ♪
Sure you got the right
BARCLAY:
Tom!
Oh, God, Tom!
What is this? What is this?
Could be an antidote
You better not die.
(grunts)
(gasping and groaning)
Are you okay?
I feel like a million bucks.
So I've been better.
How did you know it was safe?
Well, I got a five in AP Chem.
That's the compound
He's had worse things
Sorry I wasn't there.
Well, you're here now.
You come to kill me
You're alive, aren't you?
Well, I'll pucker up later.
Let's move. Come on.
Were they Road Back?
Never said who they were
but I'm pretty sure
Off grounds.
You were just kidnapped
Okay? We need
You need to tell
My mom has enough
As for shaking off
It's like you don't
Whole life forever.
Uh, wait...
ZENZI:
You should head
Get the next capsule piece.
We'll lose Uncle Barton
Dad's got months
This woman, she only has
I can't just let them
How do you know they won't
'Cause I got you now.
And two very passionate Black
Which means we're
Because these digits
for the last three minutes.
I think they're forming
Put this into your GPS.
Yeah, but what's going on
I think it's how much time
15 minutes.
Well, our ETA is
You know what I say
ISAAC:
Barclay, open.
(tires screech)
Ah. This is more like it.
Think I have time
This is literally a matter
You're still stopping
I never said
♪ ♪
I call it my GO-BAGG.
Or, the ground-operated
for gear and garments.
Upgraded my Lambo after I went
and only remembered
Would not recommend speeding
You know what?
I'm pretty sure that's what got
♪ ♪
ZENZI:
Are those the Prying Eyes?
I thought they only offered
for whoever you were ogling.
Okay, these have helped
and hook-ups with
And they should help
Next time I see him,
for the filth that he is.
And as for these,
Took me 20 years to
And right now...
your boy's feeling
Trial or rescue mission?
If it's the former, are we sure
Garrett left a
He's anticipating
Human or... otherwise.
Hey, Barclay.
BARCLAY:
Wait, is that a second watch?
Oh, trust me, this poly
I'm sure I'm not the first
Ooh, good to see you, too.
(birds singing)
This is where we're
Barclay.
BARCLAY (on phone):
Trace evidence
a DNA match to Rowan.
You good?
Barclay, keep those results
Tom, slow down.
She can barely breathe.
(door creaks)
I think it's a...
Oh, mm, straying from your
Mm-kay.
Okay, um...
What if I misunderstood
(electronic chirp)
AUTOMATED VOICE (over P.A.):
with weapons check.
First: Swift, Tom.
Second: Fullington, Zenzi.
I have to get to her
Tom! Tom!
(Isaac and Zenzi groan)
(grunts)
GARRETT (over P.A.):
Since your trials began,
into Room One, which is sealed,
Listen...
whatever you want with me...
Say "Room One," and oxygen
to save that woman.
But nitrogen will fill the other
and kill your friends.
Say "Room Two,"
If you choose neither room,
You have ten seconds.
Which room gets the oxygen?
(exhales, groans)
GARRETT:
Room One.
(woman breathing shakily)
GARRETT:
We appreciate
Ma'am? Are you okay?
Guys, I got eyes on you.
Poison is flowing
I-I think the five minutes
Now,
we are going
I'll cover the vent.
TOM:
Tell me everything you find,
Uh, I see a speculum
A what?
please look up a list of
BARCLAY:
(loud whoosh)
Rowan!
This wall is softer
Some kind of weaker composite.
Okay, well,
Brilliant.
Move a foot to your left and
ram the wall with your shoulder.
Okay, the barrier
If you can create
we can get enough oxygen
We just need a drill.
I'm not seeing a drill.
You're gonna invent one.
(wrist device beeps)
Rowan,
take that stool to the wall
and turn it around,
Uh, and Zenzi and Isaac,
and a T-shaped screw that's
Then I want you to use
to enclose the speculum bill
Now, fasten the speculum to
the underside of the stem,
Then I want you to take
and turn the seat
Hold on. Bring it down,
Yeah, just like that.
Okay.
All right.
TOM:
the balance of nitrogen
Okay. Okay, uh...
...inhale and hold it now.
(air hissing)
(Rowan coughing)
No, that's--
Oh, we're good.
(Zenzi gasping)
(gasping)
For the record,
life or death vagina room.
Girl, it's like you don't even
TOM:
No!
Ma'am.
BARCLAY:
The Utah capsule
We've lost it.
TOM:
(coughs, gasps)
Mom? Mom?!
Lino?
Is everyone...
GARRETT:
BARCLAY:
GARRETT:
Garvey and his pan-Africanists,
the Leaders of
Rustin.
Parks.
From the SCLC to SNCC
to the Panthers, we tried.
And in doing so,
we went through trials
Picked ourselves up,
We weren't as public
but we funded movements.
Mutual aid, bail.
Scholarships.
(protestors chanting)
We learned hard lessons.
But everything we did
led to you.
(glasses blip)
According to these shades,
you're dead, Garrett.
And for your sake,
We're getting your friends help.
But right now...
I need yours.
Mom?
You stole my face filter
and made some adjustments,
I see.
Where are my friends?
They're being given
They'll wake up in their cars
Mm. So now they matter to you?
The company you keep will matter
It's why I pushed
I wanted you to have
for what's coming.
But it seems you already
So you were testing them, too.
They pounced on the soil sample
Raced right into danger
Zenzi, especially,
when others were
You counted on her recalling
Mom, I was 12 the last time
And yet she stepped up,
during the final trial.
And because you were able
you were able to save
Except you staged it all.
Why?
You know the Tubman group
But there's a sub-group
We kept it secret.
Since Tulsa, a select group
including your grandfather,
concentrated
They aimed to form a society
untainted by white supremacy.
Like a safe space.
We've been thinking
A planet of our own.
The idea came to us
Your father was
...and I was
Alexandra came early.
I had a sister?
Your father tried
And when I called 911,
I could barely think.
WOMAN (recorded):
Please, someone help me!
That was you?
I was alone and
And after, I was so afraid
that once I saw a doctor,
His name was
He dismissed my symptoms
that he should have diagnosed;
And because he ignored me,
I never saw your sister
Hypoxia.
(sighs heavily)
Running out of air
She was a stillborn.
Yes.
Due to the diabetes.
And you were all alone.
Not entirely.
They did let me hold her
(voice breaking):
...I am so sorry.
I had no idea.
For a long time,
I didn't know
had similar stories
...or how this system
Which is why your father
for Black people.
We call it
And you want me to join it?
No, Tom.
We want you to build it.
And Swift Enterprises is
You see, I-I was afraid
being CEO,
Okay, then why bring me in now?
You were there
Hey, shh, listen.
Look at this little invention
Wanna put that on?
LORRAINE:
Claire's assistant, Quinn.
Can I promote them to R&D?
They have some very
You owned up to everything.
Maybe I was too harsh
You showed great
But I've been careless
and how they affect others.
LORRAINE:
(phone line ringing)
And frankly, our timetable
Look, we're no CIA, but we know
And after the-the brutal,
to protest in 2020,
that the Mountaintop Station
Okay. Then why didn't you
If I treated you
than any other recruit,
You all had to go through
torture-porn-hell-week
Well, some form of it.
To communicate
and to see which candidates
Your first trial,
it took after our mantra.
"Invent the power
your freedom requires."
And the second was
And you never
(both chuckle)
So you knew what it could do.
Well, we leave cheat items
on the person
As for the third trial,
we needed to know that
even at the risk
The woman you saw on the gurney
and she's okay, don't worry.
But we did monitor
down to the laser intensity.
The nitrogen was diluted.
But Rowan's lungs were
for someone his age.
We would have resuscitated him
So send our apologies.
So I can talk to them
Well, I'd like to have
but he and the others
That is, if you'll join us.
I'm in. I'm in.
Well, I am proud to have you.
But, Tom, the group operates
And I've-I've played my part
I've shielded you...
For more than I ever knew.
You told me that
the dedication
Because I hadn't realized
or reached my potential.
♪ Show me some redemption... ♪
But you're reaching it now.
But there can't be secrets
♪ Oh, yeah ♪
Mom...
...Dad's alive.
What?
♪ Some redemption ♪
And I need your help
Oh, he...
He's alive?
♪ Coming from the past... ♪
Yes.
Yeah.
♪ I been on the road,
♪ Out of my control,
♪ Of the strength I need ♪
TOM:
Meet me at the Manor
and I'll explain it all.
But you deserve
I hope you're already
♪ The dark gives me demons... ♪
(tapping on window)
Sorry. That really gets people.
Everyone's okay.
Then why are you
You sent the capsule piece.
Why didn't you just
Because I'm trying
by The Road Back.
But you just had to
♪ Oh, yeah ♪
Guys. We regrouping or what?
(Zenzi sighs)
♪ Show me some redemption ♪
Isaac? Isaac!
Isaac?
Oh, God. Help! Somebody help!
Please!
Tom! Tom!
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