No Ordinary Family2010

Helen Burton:
[pointing gun at Daphne] I'm running out of patience, J.J.

J.J. Powell:
I told you everything I know! I swear!

Helen Burton:
And somehow I still don't believe you.

Daphne Powell:
J.J., please!

J.J. Powell:
I'm sorry. I... I just can't think, okay? Stress overstimulates the hippocampus. My glucocorticoid receptors haven't been this saturated since... since the plane crash. Oh, my God. Look, I know why our powers are permanent. Please, just let my family go and I'll tell you everything you wanna know. I promise.

Helen Burton:
J.J., I will. I will let them all go.

J.J. Powell:
Okay, you've been mixing the trilsettum with epinephrine - synthetic adrenaline - but what you needed was real adrenaline. Now, the serum wasn't wrong, the circumstances were. Look, in moments of extreme stress, like life and death, like a plane crash, the receptors in the hippo campus are wide open, and the trilsettum can be absorbed enough for its effects to become permanent. So please...

Helen Burton:
Thank you, J.J. You have been most helpful.

[hands gun over to guard]

Helen Burton:
Give me ten seconds, then put a bullet in each of them.