The Odyssey

Check mate.

So Jay, what's it gonna be?

Watch cartoons or me teach you a new chess opening?

Maybe after dinner, I'm doing something.

Hey Ziegler, comin' to the fort today?

Oh...

I get it.

You two just wanna be alone!

- You're taking them the telescope after all.

Just to show.

- Keith doesn't want you in his tree fort club,

he just wants your dad's telescope.

My telescope.

- Oh brother, just don't expect me to save your butt!

Sorry, dad.

Hi, going over to Donna's?

Ravine.

- Be home by six and watch out for weirdos.

Halt, alien!

State planet, species and objective!

Settin' these on guns for liquefy.

Call off your Cosmonauts, Haldane,

I brought the telescope.

Stay, Bentley.

It was my grandad's, he uses initials in the brass,

then it was my dads and when my dad died, I got it.

Hey, get your fingers off it!

Cut it out, man, lemme see it.

No!

Come on, I'll give it back.

You wanna be in the club, don't you?

Congratulations, you're one of us.

This can be our lookout telescope.

Forget it, if my mom finds out I'm dead.

Red alert!

Alien on the path.

It's Donna Archipenko.

Your first job, stop the intruder.

Suck in!

Now get outta here!

Go play with your gimpy girlfriend!

Oh, and thanks for the telescope.

Haldane, you scussy traitor!

Gimme me back my scope!

Here.

Oh yeah!

Do you mind?

All right.

They took it.

Don't get mad.

Get even.

- She's still coming, we've gotta stop her!

Everyone down.

Where's Jay going?

Home to squeal?

- He said he was picking up your bike, you gave it to him.

He knows if he touches it, it's pounded.

Maybe.

Excuse me.

He's getting in to the fort!

I've got him!

Let's get outta here!

Jay?

Jay, you okay?

Jay?

Jay?

- There is no sign of skull fracture, Mrs. Ziegler,

but there is displacement along the longdoid suture.

What does that mean?

- Well I suspect it's a corporal injury to the brain stem.

Doctor David, cellphone please.

A CAT scan will tell us.

- Brad needs you to open your hearts and pockets

in the spirit of giving.

Shut up kid, get outta here.

Brad says, me and this club are gonna be real busy

in the town of this month.

He's planning a sports day for you guys.

He's starting to put together a traveling circus,

but he needs a little of your best stuff to help him out.

Brad says, me and the other 15 year olds are gonna make

this whole city into the funnest place in the universe.

It's going to be great!

It's going to be non-stop games and fooling around.

But, we've got to add more things,

your things.

Give us some batteries, rechargeable, AA, solar,

Game Boys, cartridges, skateboards, chocolate bars.

That guy is not the real Brad.

- I don't care who he is, he's got my telescope.

He wants to take care of us all.

- Give us your chewing gum, boardgames, itching powder,

puzzles, pet cages, squirt guns, swimming masks,

cassette tapes, nothing useless.

Brad needs you to open your hearts and pockets

in the spirit of giving.

I'm getting my scope back.

Watch out, those guys are his friends.

Ah thanks.

Excuse me that's mine.

Shut up kid, get out of here.

That's not the real Brad, don't give those guys anything.

Get him!

Who's this Brad guy?

- That kid wasn't Brad, he's just faking it to get stuff.

Yeah, but why pretend to be Brad?

Brad's 15.

He knows everything.