The Secret World of Alex Mack, Season 1

Alex Mack:
(miserably) Let's go home.

Ray Alvarado:
No can do. Band try-outs.

Alex:
Band try-outs?! You're gonna join the band?

Ray:
I have to try. You know my dad. The Alvarados have a history of playing in the school band. I can't break that tradition. Besides (grins slyly) maybe I'll meet some girls.

Alex:
Well, I'm a girl.Ray: Girl-type girls, Alex.

Alex:
Oh. (looks away) Girl-type girls.

(Annie enters the garage as Alex is trying to clean the chemicals off her skin)

Annie Mack:
Wow. Tough first day?

Alex Mack:
(fretfully) Hey, Annie. I was coming home from school when this plant truck swerved, almost hitting me, and crashed (claps her hands) BAM! Right into a hydrant! Then this barrel of gold stuff spilled all over me.

Annie:
Hmm... You're not clever enough to make this up.

Alex:
And just now, without even doing anything (hesitates) I think I turned on the saw and the electric train set.

Annie:
What?!

Annie Mack:
I get the feeling that this was not some minor accident. Those plant security guys are out there, so this has got to be something big!

Alex Mack:
It wasn't my fault!

Ray Alvarado:
They'll blame you! Adults always do.

Annie:
He's right.

(Alex and Annie are preparing for bed)

Alex Mack:
I'm really worried, Annie. The plant won't stop until they find me.

Annie Mack:
Between my brains and your powers, that won't be too easy. Everything has changed, Alex. You were just this average kid, heading for this life of inconsequence and boredom, and now look at you.

Alex:
(cheering up) I can tell you one thing. My second day of Junior High is going to be a lot different from my first.

(Danielle sits in her limosine as all the lights in Paradise Valley flash out of control due to Alex)

Danielle Atron:
Have a good night's sleep, kid, 'cause you won't have 'em any more. You slipped through my fingers for now, but tomorrow is another day.

Vince Carter:
Miss Atron, this is a minor detail. We will find the child.

Danielle Atron:
I cannot be implicated in the process.

Vince:
It has nothing to do with you. You can't cloud your mind with mundane problems like, some kid who is sprayed with a little bit of a chemical.

Danielle:
A little bit of chemical? That's not what that truck driver said.

Vince:
Well, Dave has a tendency to... exaggerate.

Danielle:
We do not have a problem?

Vince:
We do not have a problem.

Danielle:
I don't want to know about this kid.

Vince:
What kid?

Danielle:
Thank you, Vince.

Vince Carter:
...We're going to Atron Junior High disguised as janitors. Once we infiltrate the premises, we'll go on watch to find the child.

Dave Watt:
To be honest, I don't know the first thing about being a janitor, Vince.

Vince:
(irritated) Well you obviously didn't know anything about being a truck driver but that didn't stop you, did it?

Dave:
That's true. OK, I'll take a shot.

Vince:
(grabs Dave's shirt collar and pulls him in) This isn't a matter of choice, Dave.

Dave:
What does a janitor do?

Vince:
It doesn't matter! Once we get there just keep your eyes open for something unusual. Any display of extraordinary behavior or power. This child that we are looking for could possibly hold the secrets to our future on this planet!

Dave:
Wow… I didn't know being a janitor was such an exciting job!

(alarms are blaring throughout the Plant)

Dave Watt:
(cowering behind a table) It's a meltdown! It's a meltdown!

Vince Carter:
Calm down, Dave! This is a chemical plant, not a nuclear reactor!

(A GC-161 alarm has gone off in the chemical plant)

Danielle Atron:
We've come full circle, Vince. Kid came back to us.

Vince Carter:
Obviously a desperate cry for help, Miss Atron.

Danielle:
Once we've made a positive ID, how do we proceed?

Vince:
Well, it could be traumatic for his family. But there are two ways to approach them in order to ensure their cooperation. One: kindness. Two: money.

Danielle:
I find the latter usually the most effective.

"I'm Alex Mack. I was an average kid until a freak accident changed my life. And from then on, nothing's been the same. My best friend Ray thinks it's cool, my sister Annie thinks I'm a science project. And I can't let anyone else know, not even my parents. I know the lab wants to find me and to turn me into some experiment. But you know what? I guess I'm not so average anymore!"