The Zenith Team.
Five young superheroes who fought to protect the world from evil.
Led by Captain Zoom and his brother Concussion,
the team saved many lives.
Team Zenith.
Oh, and with the help of their sidekick, Dr. Grant.
The government sought to enhance the team's powers
using Gamma-13 radiation.
Zoom got faster and stronger,
but the Gamma turned Concussion to the dark side.
He turned on his own team.
Zoom lost his powers
and his brother.
We're coming up now. Prepare to deactivate cloaking device.
I told you not to call me unless the world was going to end.
I don't know about the world ending,
but we've been tracking a pan-dimensional anomaly
that seems to be moving toward our time-space continuum.
Dr. Grant, I speak Greek, not geek.
Let me put it this way.
Concussion is still alive, and he's coming back.
He was destroyed.
- Nope. - We were there. We both saw it.
Nope.
Twelve days and counting.
The time has come.
I'm reactivating the Zenith Program.
Find me some kids. Misfits, outcasts, weirdos.
Give me that file.
Zoom's the only one who can train them.
Now, get to Long Beach,
find him, evaluate his condition, and bring him back here.
You know he won't cooperate.
You won the Nobel Prize, Doctor. You'll think of something.
Okay, he's looking. Come now.
There's a car coming, lady.
Hey, look out.
Yeah, you're sure you're okay, huh?
- That guy almost killed me. - Watch out for the
grease.
Should have told you about those grease spots.
Come on, get up.
Grant?
- Hello, Zoom. - It's Jack.
Okay, Jack.
It's good to see you.
Wow. You got old.
It's been, what, 30 years?
- What are you doing here, Grant? - We're starting up a new team.
Men's slow-pitch softball?
No, a new Zenith team.
- You can't be serious. - We are serious, Mr. Shepard.
- Why is the green dress talking? - I'm a psychologist.
I'm sorry. This is Miss Holloway. She works with me.
Yes, and despite the theatrics,
which were not my idea, by the way,
you're the only one who can help us.
You're the only superhero left.
Somebody's been giving you the wrong information.
So, if you'll excuse me, I got work to do.
We're here to take you back, not to invite you back.
And we're authorized to use whatever means necessary.
- Grant, Grant, Grant. - You can't shoot him.
- Nice. - Sorry.
Trick or treat.
Here you go, sweetie.
Trick or treat.
- Thank you. - Thanks a lot.
- Give it here, Howdy Doo-Doo. - Bully.
Oh, my gosh.
Thank you.
I'll take that.
She's so weird.
Freak.
That was a good one.
Oh, my gosh.
What just happened?
How does my hair look?
Dylan.
Perhaps you'd like to come up and finish Newton's equation?
I think Newton can finish his own equation.
Now, Dylan.
Yes.
Check it out. Lard-butt's going to snap the board in half.
Wake up, Zoom.
Zoom? Welcome back to Area 52.
Thank you, Grant, for bringing me back to a place
I've been avoiding for the last 30 years.
You have two choices as I understand it.
One is to stay here
and the other is to go directly to prison.
How long in prison?
We are also very happy to pay you $500,000.
You know you could've just said that instead of shooting me with a dart.
Yes.
Mr. Shepard.
Mr. Shepard, I can't tell you how happy I am that you've come aboard.
It's you.
Do you have an inner-ear problem or something?
- Zoom... - Jack.
Right, Jack.
Miss Holloway is our leading researcher in the area of latent superhuman abilities.
She'll be in charge of training the new Zenith team.
She's also quite a fan of yours.
I have every issue of Captain Zoom And His Amazing Team,
most of them still in their original plastic sleeves.
That's creepy. But do you still have that green dress?
I even have the fifth anniversary double issue,
Zoom Vs. The Atomic Melt.
I have it in Japanese, German, Farsi, Hindi and Braille.
How about that green dress? Still have that?
Ladies and gentlemen, may I have your attention, please?
The return of Zoom.
Show of hands, who here does not live with their mom in her basement?
We have assembled a group of 10 special candidates.
The extent of their abilities is still unknown,
like it was when your team arrived.
We wanted your help in choosing the ones with the best potential
for a new Zenith team.
Well, for half a million dollars in cash and prizes
let's take a look at those contestants, shall we?
What, are we forming a spelling bee?
I assure you, they are all quite gifted.
Gifted what? They're a bunch of kids.
And what power do they have? I haven't read or heard about a Gamma event.
Well, there weren't any.
My studies in meta-human psychophysiology
have made Gamma treatments obsolete.
I am quite confident that we can develop their abilities
far beyond what was achieved during the Gamma-13 days.
And we can do it safely
and naturally.
I'm sorry, I must've dozed off there for a minute.
Times have changed, Zoom.
Well, they'd better be able to do some mind-blowing stuff.
What is this? She's blinking fast.
- She was better in the audition. - I am a little cooler.
Oh, dude.
Now you see him, now you don't.
How you doing?
Pass the hand sanitizer, please.
A-B-C-D-E-F-G-H-l-J-K-L-M-N-O-P...
Stop that.
You're singing the alphabet. That's not a power.
And your voice is average, it's not super.
It is, too, super.
Get another table in here, please. Right away.
I see things.
Do you see dead people?
I see that you suffer from a massive inferiority complex.
I try to hide that so well.
I'm Jupiter the Gas Giant.
- Say, "Excuse me." - Yikes.
Is he doing it, or is he just naturally that chubby?
It's so cool.
Miss Holloway,
how would you like to introduce our trainees to their new instructor?
I would love to. You ready?
- Yeah. I can't wait. - Okay.
That is getting so old.
Well, considering you can read my mind, I don't have many options.
I can't read your mind. I just feel stuff.
And you could stop hitting on me entirely.
No, I can't do that.
You and I are destiny.
Children, I would like to formally introduce you to a very great man,
Mr. Jack Shepard.
Sorry. I don't remember eating that.
Great man or washed-up loser?
It's a fine line. What a nice kid.
Is the long hair and the James Dean angst just a package with you?
Mr. Shepard is uniquely qualified to be your new instructor.
And now he'll tell you why.
What?
Oh, yeah, kids,
do you have any idea what you're doing here or why?
Me.
Come on. Come on. Me, me, me.
Me.
- All right, the little one. - We were brought here in super secret
because we were selected out of a huge group of kids
because we're really special
and they needed special kids for a special course.
That's what Miss Holloway said.
I don't think I've ever heard anybody use that many "specials" in a sentence.
She actually worked it in there one more time than Collins did.
But it's all a lie. We're here because we're different.
- We're not different. - Come on. Chill out.
You can pick up a car, and you're six. How different does it get?
- Don't tell her that. - Don't be a jerk, man.
- What? Tucker, I'm not being a jerk. - Children.
- Sorry. - Okay, maybe this'll help.
I spent a lot of time here at Camp Secret
when I was just about your age. And you know what?
It pretty much
- ruined my life. - Mr. Shepard.
Hey, the military would like you to be just like me.
You have to work hard and focus.
But most of all, most important,
you're going to need massive doses of Gamma-13 emissions.
So let's wheel in that big machine and zap the little guys, huh?
- That's not true. Mr. Shepard. Hallway. - Right. Let's go to the hallway.
You guys want to slip into that lead underwear, you wanna protect your privates.
Always the smart aleck.
But he is definitely the target, sir.
The center of the dimensional probing is following Zoom here, from Long Beach.
We've finally found something that Shepard excels at.
Being the bait.
If you can't get those kids combat-ready in time,
I'll have to dose them with enough Gamma-13 to sterilize a trailer park.
And if that should happen, you can rest assured, sir,
that I will do everything in my power to make sure it's not my fault.
I told you. We will not be dosing the children.
Based on what we have in there, I think you might want to dose them just a little.
Come on. Drop them by a nuclear facility and leave them there.
Or drop them off at the dentist and have them x-rayed 200 or 300 times.
I don't think you understand their sensitive condition.
What about my sensitive condition?
I'm being asked to betray children for money.
- Are you done? - I left a little pause there
in case you wanted to slip and fall again.
Grant, what am I doing here?
- Come on. - Let me show you something.
Wow.
I made that suit for you.
Too bad you never got a chance to wear it.
- Welcome back, Zoom. - It's Jack.
It's Zoom.
Wow.
Where'd you put... Is this...
Cool. Zoom comics.
Tucker, wait. Do not touch this.
This is a first edition. Don't even touch the sleeve.
Now, everyone, please put on your pH-balancing, antibacterial gloves.
Or not.
Why are you giving us these?
Well, I'm not giving them to you,
but I'm showing them to you
because yesterday you asked me why Mr. Shepard was a great man.
Well,
this is why he's a great man.
Because he collects comic books?
No. Because he is the comic book.
Mr. Shepard is Captain Zoom.
And these comics are a record
of the incredible things that Zoom and his amazing team did to protect mankind.
He was the leader of the Zenith team
faster than Quicksilver, the Flash and Superman all together.
No way.
Way.
Zoom.
You're Captain Zoom.
- Can you eat fast, too? - Zoom. Do something fast.
Well, I guess the cat's out of the bag, huh?
You don't look like a superhero.
I don't? Are you sure?
You know why?
Because I'm not a superhero.
There's no such thing as superheroes.
No matter what people told you around here, you're not superheroes.
We're superheroes?
Awesome.
Yes.
You're definitely white kids, I'll tell you that.
- Yeah. What? - Do we get names? And costumes?
- I'm sorry, what's your name again? - Cindy Collins, age six.
Cindy Collins, age six. This isn't a parade.
Or a Girl Scout jamboree or some sleepover.
It's a military installation.
You get military stuff. Functional ware.
You see this? I used to be able to move my entire body that fast.
So they put me in a polycarbonate silicone suit.
That way I didn't vibrate out of my clothes.
You've got to stop doing that.
Can my superhero costume be a tutu?
Are you even trying to listen to me?
So what are they going to make us do?
I don't know, dude. Let me think about that for just a minute.
And you're supposed to be training us.
Give me a break. You can barely tie your shoes.
Come on, let's let Mr. Zoom finish his oatmeal.
It's Cream of Wheat, dude.
It's remarkable. 2.5 tons per arm.
Wow, you shaved.
Wow, you noticed.
Would you believe that little girl is holding 5 tons above her head?
- Look at that. - Wait.
Cindy, what are you wearing?
It's my alter eggo.
You mean your "alter ego"?
I'm a princess.
- Cindy, you're not a princess. - But I look pretty.
Yeah, but pretty girls don't have any real friends and they never get any respect.
Take Miss Holloway, for instance.
Hey.
Scatter.
Nice toss, Cindy. Really good.
Why don't you get a juice box and a Rice Krispy treat?
It's unbelievable. It's as if he's not even there.
- Because he's not there. - He's escaped again.
Security, Code Dylan.
I repeat, Code Dylan. Thank you.
- I don't know why he does that. - Because he doesn't like it here, Grant.
Don't know why not. It's good food.
Dr. Grant. Tucker won't come out of the bullpen.
It's okay, Tucker.
I know you don't have any control over this thing yet,
but can you please try to expand?
- I am trying, all right? - You're wasting your time.
- Jack, you are undermining his confidence. - What confidence?
He's a lazy little chubba bubba.
Hey, Marsha. Exactly what part of him is this?
Help.
Hey there. Those kids aren't going to be ready for anything.
Unless, of course, you put Tucker in a vat of paint.
He swells up, you could do a room in a couple of seconds. Other than that...
Well, maybe if you trained them at all...
Look, you know, it just might help if I knew what I was training them for.
I'm sorry. I don't have time right now. I'm late for a meeting.
Look out.
Oh, man... Hey, are you all right?
- Yes. - That was some fall.
You know, you're a nice woman. But this whole program is a mistake.
The last thing the world needs is a bunch of kids running around in costumes
thinking that they're heroes.
Sorry.
What happened to you?
What happened to the Sacred Oath?
Issue number one.
"Faster than fast. Truer than true. In the pursuit of justice
- "there is no speed limit." - There is no speed limit.
Yeah. Are you bipolar?
It's a comic book.
It's government propaganda. They made it up.
- I'm sorry. Who's talking? - To cover up.
It wasn't true. It's not... None of that stuff is true.
It was true to me.
The brain scans do not correlate with the children's test results.
They are subconsciously suppressing their full abilities.
We face an imminent threat. These kids have got to be ready now.
Sir, it might help if I knew what the imminent threat was.
Sorry I'm late. I didn't get the memo.
You know? But I heard the word "imminent threat." What exactly...
Hold it, Shepard. We're holding a meeting for people who matter,
and Miss Holloway.
Well,
I think maybe a big bowl of prunes might turn that frown upside down, General.
Guards, take him where the losers are plotting another failure. He knows the way.
- Go to see your family, huh? - Get him out of here now.
Five days and counting.
Scatter.
Holloway.
You mind telling me what was going on between you and Larraby?
Jack, it's late.
I can't help those kids unless I know what's going on.
You know, when they started talking about bringing you in...
- Yeah? ...I was ecstatic.
Finally I would meet the only real superhero left in the world.
Would you let that superhero stuff go, please?
A hero who would fight for justice at all costs.
I was a really Ionely,
kind of weird child.
Well, at least you know you've grown out of that.
And the only comfort I found was in reading about you.
That's because you're out of your mind.
You gotta stop with this comic book stuff.
You know, the first thing you said to me was that you're not a real superhero.
- Right. - Well, I didn't believe you then.
But congratulations, because you have convinced me.
You are nothing but a bitter man
happily getting paid to take your resentments out on these children.
It's horrible.
All right, then.
We'll do this again.
Hey, that was a good meeting last night, Grant.
Yeah, it was cool. It was just a simple staff meeting.
That's what I thought, simple staff meeting,
based on the way I was shuffled out of there.
So where we going?
We've got combat training tomorrow.
We've got to get you into some protective gear.
I don't want to hold your hand, thanks. I don't want to hold your hand.
Let go of my hand.
That's quite painful.
All right. I'll hold your hand. Careful. And what'd I tell you about costumes?
It's not a costume. It's my perfective gear.
Yeah? How's a ballerina costume going to protect you?
Are you crazy? Who wants to hurt a ballerina?
Other ballerinas, Baryshnikov.
Wait a minute. No way.
Is that you, Mr. Pibb?
You recognize me?
How you doing, buddy? Give me five.
Mr. Pibb?
Yeah, that's the name we gave him.
We didn't have many friends down here, so they built us one.
He'd go get you candy and sodas, that sort of thing.
You were nice to him.
Do you have to touch things to, like, understand them?
- Not always. - What's he thinking about now?
He thinks you've had an increase in mass.
Mr. Pibb.
It's impossible to know what he thinks, Miss Jones.
His program is a rudimentary 15-megabyte system.
He has no thoughts.
I suppose you don't have thoughts of what your life would be like
if you were a figure skater?
Well, then. I guess I'll leave you kids in the capable hands of Jack Shepard.
You do that, Grant. I'll take care of them.
Mr. Pibb, is that old Rambler still down in the hangar?
Got the keys?
All right, come on, guys. Watch your heads.
Come on, this way. Get over here. Go over there.
All right, Pibb. Knock off the security cameras.
Open the door.
Let's go. Go, go, go.
All right, stand right there. Ready?
- Whoa. - Whoa.
It's the flying saucer from Area 51. It exists.
Look at that.
Wow.
We rebuilt it as best we could after it crash-landed in the late '40s.
It's really awesome.
Yeah, it's amazing.
Yeah. It's really cool.
And is this what's going to take us to all of our superhero gigs?
I'm getting goose bumps.
Got to stabilize this thing.
- Can I try? - You want to drive?
Yeah, definitely.
All right, just sit down there.
And you want to get your hands in that green and blue slime.
Right.
- Little gross in there, isn't it? - Nasty, yeah.
Oh, boy.
- Let's make this thing rock. - Yeah, how do you make it go faster?
Faster? Therein lies the problem, guys, of the FE-12.
We never really figured this thing out.
It only goes 20 miles an hour.
Maybe there's less to figure out than there is to understand.
Hey, barbeque, to go.
Tucker, put the cow back.
But I'm hungry.
- Tucker. - All right.
Hey, hey, hey. Watch the...
...light pole.
Hello. Welcome to Wendy's. May I take your order, please?
- Classic Triple, lettuce, tomato. - Get me one.
Classic Triple, lettuce, tomato... I got it.
Classic...
- Can you see? Can you see this? - No, it's all green and blurry.
- Extra fries. - Hold on a second.
I'm going to have a... What kind of toys do you have?
Chicken. Spicy Chicken Sandwich. The other order's Crispy Nuggets.
- Is that it? - Six Frosties.
Six Frosties. Chocolate.
All right. Now, what's everyone else drinking?
We come in peace.
Take me with you.
That's right, Bob. We're outside the Wendy's where apparently
a lot of people have seen some type of flying saucer.
I'm here with David right now, who actually works at Wendy's.
David, can you tell us what you saw?
I saw the flying saucer. I saw it land. I saw it make this noise that it made.
It went...
as it wobbled, and then...
That's it. That's the way they sounded.
- That's the way it was. - And you actually saw the aliens? I mean...
Well, it's not that... The alien in the spaceship ordered from me.
You know, I don't know. Maybe the spaceship runs on ice cream.
That's my theory.
Because he ordered a whole bunch of Frosties.
Oh, no.
Just go back and act like nothing happened.
We had a great day. Let's just leave it at that. All right, you guys?
If I were you, Dylan, I'd disappear. Hey, Marsha.
Mr. Shepard. How dare you?
- Do you even know what you've done? - Yeah. I got you a hot chicken sandwich.
No, thank you.
Are you a vegetarian?
You're supposed to be training these kids for their first simulation.
And instead, you're out gallivanting in a stolen spaceship.
Was I gallivanting?
Looks like the saucer's not the only thing stuck in the '50s.
You're probably 50.
I'm not a vegetarian.
It's a life choice. Nothing wrong with it.
Cindy.
Let go of my face, please.
What are you doing in here?
I had a bad dream.
Well,
I'm sorry you had a bad dream.
That's easy to do here, I guess.
You...
- Let's walk you back to your room. - Can I sleep here?
- Just for tonight? - No, that's not a real good idea.
You don't want to stay here. I snore.
I'm quite gassy.
I'm scared.
Hello? Little help here?
You want to stay on the couch?
Thanks, Mr. Zoom.
Can you let the light in?
Yeah.
I'll leave the door open.
Because why would we want it dark while we're sleeping?
Good night, Cindy.
Mr. Zoom?
Cindy, please.
Am I different?
Yeah.
You know, but in a good way.
I feel too different.
Yeah, I'm sure you do, because you're wearing a rabbit outfit.
You gotta go to sleep, Cindy.
Is that why Mommy and Daddy sent me here?
Listen.
You were right the first day.
You're special.
There's nobody in the world that can do what you do.
Your parents, who love you very much,
they sent you here so you'd learn how to use your difference
to help people.
Good night.
That was bolted to the wall.
Welcome to our fully operational, multi-platform J-1000 mission simulator.
It is imperative that you learn to avoid enemy fire.
A bit more advanced than in your day, eh?
Yeah, in my day we just had that British guy named Ben
who threw sticks at us.
So what are the holes for?
It's funny you should ask that. That's the first question people ask.
Our technician is Dick. Dick?
The holes are for firing the paintballs.
All right. I'm out of here.
Oh, great. Another Code Dylan.
He must like that isolation room.
We'll have to proceed without Mr. West.
The objective is to get the kids to 70% combat capacity.
I'm going to start them off easily, about 10%. What do you think? 10%?
Yeah, yeah. That sounds great.
Dick, 10.
Children, your goal is to stop the simulator by pressing that red button in the center.
How hard can that be?
I don't know.
Are you working on attraction or repulsion?
Watch.
Ready?
That would be attraction.
Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't...
Meanie.
Oh, no.
- Watch out. - Look out.
I'm getting...
I want a name.
Ten more, that's your name.
Get me a name.
Hey. How about nine more? There's your name.
Excuse me, Dr. Grant.
Sorry, Dr. Grant.
Why the rush, kids?
Watch out.
You see, it all works together in a double helix.
So if you can manage to...
I've got a thing. If you could get the double helix going, I'll be right back.
Think double helix.
- That was ridiculous. - That was really bad.
I thought it was fun.
Hey, guys. I shook down our robot buddy, Mr. Pibb,
and I got you some snacks.
I got mine already. Thanks.
You guys look like modern art.
Come on. How'd you guys think the training went?
- Oh, please. Like you care. - Hey. Chill out a little bit.
I'm not the one that dropped you off here at the military base, you know.
No, you didn't drop us off here, but you were supposed to teach us.
Thanks for all the training, Captain.
- You don't care about us. - She's right.
I got hit with so many paintballs, I've got more bruises than skin.
- Mr. Shepard? - What?
You care about us,
right?
I brought cake.
Don't be fooled, Cindy. He only cares about himself.
Come here. Let's go get you cleaned up.
Wait. Hey, look.
Cake.
Smells like old socks in here.
Is he in there?
Sucks being in here, doesn't it?
You know, Larraby actually knitted this.
He and Grant, buck naked by a fire, knit one, purl two.
They knitted this to contain people like us.
I got out of here three times.
And I'll bet Cindy could get out of here whenever she wanted to.
When I was her age, I used to just have one leg work faster than the other.
I did this kind of fast hopping thing.
So you could skip?
Hop. Let's go with hop.
One day, a bunch of my buddies wanted to go down to the creek,
you know, to throw fish at each other, paint our face. Guy stuff, you know.
I wanted to go there so bad that I concentrated
- and I just began to do my little... - Skipping thing.
Hopping.
All of a sudden, man, I was there. Boy, they noticed that.
And then other people noticed.
People like the Zenith Program, they noticed.
So they dragged me and my... They dragged me and my older brother...
- I didn't know you had a brother. - They dragged me here, and Grant,
I think he's had enough. Let him out. Come on, Dylan.
This is Control.
This is Mr. Grant. You can release Dr. West.
I'm sorry. This is Dr. West. Could you release Mr. Grant?
- Okay, you want us to release... - No, don't release Dr. Grant.
- Release Mr. West. - Wait, you want us... You just said...
- Just do what I say. - Yes, sir.
Two days and counting.