ReBoot (1994–2002): Season 1, Episode 2 - Racing the Clock - full transcript

Enzo is doing his own delivery service at his sister's diner. Only he hasn't received any deliveries so far. Things seem hopeless for him until Megabyte's Vid Window comes up on line telling Enzo that he has a package that needs to be delivered to Hexadecimal, a multi-mask wearing virus who lives at the scarce location of Los Angles. Knowing Megabyte to be bad news in all, but Enzo couldn't resist in doing a single delivery order. He didn't tell Dot or Bob on who sent the package, but both Dot and Bob agree that it's too dangerous for a Sprite like Enzo to deliver a package in Los Angles, so Dot insists that Bob delivers it. The package in fact is a mask shape time bomb that will delete whoever is in possession of it. Hexadecimal is aware of this and puts the mask on Bob and sends him flying back to Mainframe. Enzo heard the news, then told Dot, and they now need to warn Bob about the mask he has right now. But a Game Cube is being inputted and Bob heads for the landing site for the Cube. Dot and Enzo followed him and made it inside the game which is a Racing Game. But will they manage to tell Bob to get away from the mask before time runs out?

( ReBoot - 1x02 -
Racing the Clock: EN-SDH )

-BOB, V.O.: I come
from the Net,

through systems,
peoples, and cities,

to this place.

Mainframe.

My format, Guardian.

To mend and defend.

To defend my
new-found friends,

their hopes and dreams.

To defend them from...

their enemies.



( ♪ instrumental )

( thunder )

( electric surging )

BOB: They say the user
lives outside the Net,

and inputs games
for pleasure.

No one knows
for sure...

but I intend
to find out.

ReBoot!



( beeping )

( buzzer )

( phone ringing )

-No way, a call!

Ahem.



Enzo's Overwrite
Delivery Service!

Anyone, Anywhere,
Anytime!

-Hi, it's Jean-Luc!

Is this Dot's
Data-Compression Take-out?

-No, wrong number...

( sighs )

-CECIL: Is this a sign
of things to come?

( slam )

-DOT: Hey Enzo.

How's your new delivery
service coming along?

-Oh, great! Just huge!

Seriously active!

I was written for
this format!

I'm going multi!

Quality! Major, even!

I'm crunching' along at
high-baud, and proud of it!

Call me whenever...

-DOT: Enzo!

-ENZO: Yes?

-We're glad to hear it!

-DOT: Yeah!

We'll be downstairs
if you need us.

Bob's going to
mend a tear

that showed up after
the last Game.

-Okay, coolness!

We're talking
high-density here!

You'll see!

I'm gonna be
as successful

as you sometime, Dot!

( sighs )

As soon as I get
some orders.



( ringing )

ENZO, SLEEPY: Enzo's Overwrite
Delivery Service...

Anyone, Anywhere,
Anytime.

-MEGABYTE: Enzo!

-Mega-breath?!

Uh, I mean... Megabyte?

-I understand...

you have a new
delivery service.

-Well, it's not
EXACTLY new...

If you call 31
nanoseconds new.

But, it was a
way for me

to be just like my
awesome sister, Dot.

And also to get to fly
around on a zip-board,

making dangerous deliveries
to far-off places that...

-Enzo!

-Yes?

-MEGABYTE: What a persuasive
sales-sprite you are...

You've convinced me
to use your service

for ALL my
deliveries...

-Alphanumeric!

You mean it?!

-HACK: Oh my!
-All the deliveries for you
and your whole evil empire?!

-SLASH: Oh my!
-All the deliveries for you
and your whole evil empire?!

All the deliveries for you
and your whole evil empire?!

Whoa, coolness!

That must be a lot!

Wait till Dot
hears about this!

Oops. She'll say no.

She hates your guts.

-Very well.

( sighs )

I suppose I can always
find someone else

to process daring
deliveries

to exotic places.

-No, no, no, no,
no, I can do it!

I'll just... uh...

Tell her later!

Yeah, that's it!

-Perhaps.

But first, I have to see how
you handle a test program.

-ENZO: You can
count on me!

This may be my first
after-school function,

But I'll show Dot that I'm
big enough to handle--

Oof!

-MEGABYTE: Take this
package to Hexadecimal...

But whatever you do...

Don't tell her
who sent it...

-Ohhh, it's a surprise!

-Precisely...

-No problem,
Mister Byte!

( monitor beeps )

( Megabyte laughs )

( purring )

( surging )

-DOT: Any luck?

-BOB: No...

Wait!

Here it comes...

Watch your eyes!

( surging )

Glitch, mend.

( beaming )

( whirring )

-ENZO: Dot! Bob!
I did it!

Ahem...

I mean, I did it.

I received my
very first order!

-BOB: No way!

-It's true!

-DOT: Congratulations!

-Well, gotta zip!

I wouldn't want to be
late to Hexadecimal's

on my first delivery!

-DOT: Okay, be
careful out there!

-Hexadecimal?!
-Hexadecimal?!

( whirring )

-Whoa!

-DOT: Did you say
Hexadecimal?!

-ENZO: Yeah?

-DOT: Who sent
this package?

-Uh... it was, uh...
some guy named uh...

Jean-Luc!
Yeah, that's it!

-BOB: Why would anyone
send a package to Hex?

What's in it? A bomb?

-I don't know.

It's a surprise.

-A bomb.
-A bomb.

-Better access
what's inside,

just to be safe.

Glitch, X-ray.

( whirring )

Looks like a mask...

with a clock in it?

-DOT: I wonder if
there's a market

for something
like that...

-See? It's not a bomb.

Can I go now?

-Enzo, I can't let you go
to Hexadecimal's island.

-Huh?

Oh, sure.

I know what your
problem is,

You don't want
the competition!

You don't want
me to succeed!

Enzo's the
little-brother-format,

and Dot's the big
businesswoman who...

-No, Enzo.

It's too dangerous!

-She's right,
Lost Angles is no place

for a little
sprite like you.

-ENZO: Hey!

You're supposed
to be on my side!

My business is doomed.

End of file.

Log off.

I give up.

I'll never be
as cool as Dot.

-Oh, compile up.

Act your age!

There's a simple solution
to every problem.

Bob, you deliver the
package, just this once.

Enzo, you continue
your business,

and don't quit-file
so easily!

And make it
snappy, Bob!

We've got more fixes
left in here.

-BOB: ( sighs )
How does she do that?

-ENZO: What?

Get everyone else
to do all the work?

-BOB: Yeah!

-ENZO: Don't ask me.

I've been trying to figure
that one out forever!



-HEXADECIMAL:
So many moods...

So little time...

( sighs )

( happily ) Scuzzy...!

( angry ) How DARE
you interrupt me

when I'm putting
on my face!

I shouldn't
have done that,

I was GLAD to
see him...

How good to see
you, Scuzzy...

What have you
got for me...?

-MEGABYTE:
A delete command,

masked as a mask.

She'll never know
what erased her.

Now all I need

is some unsuspecting
fool to deliver it...

Like this poor boy...

-HEX: Delete
ME, will he?!

Time to calculate

a little surprise

-( Scuzzy chitters exitedly )
-for our dear Megabyte.

I'll delete him...

and his delivery
boy too...

( cackles )

-( sighs ) This is the
way it always goes.

I miss all the
cool stuff!

( zap )

( zap )

-AAAHH!

-See?

Well, if I can't
make the delivery,

I can always watch!

-BOB: Why do I always get
lost in Lost Angles?

( swarming squealing )

There's nothing worse

than having to ask a
null for directions.

( whistling )

( thud )

Well, almost nothing!

Go on, shoo!

Find someone else's
energy to eat!

AAH!

Oof!

-HEX, SEDUCTIVELY:
Bob...!

-BOB: Hexadecimal.

-HEX: I didn't
expect it to be...

you...

-Well, I'm sorry, but
I've always been me!

I have a package
for you.

Enzo's Overwrite
Delivery!

-HEX: A package
for me...?

Whatever could
it be...!

( shatters )

A mask!

What a shame...

I already have one...

You'll have to return
it to Megabyte,

with my regrets.

-Megabyte sent this?!

Y'know, returning things isn't
really part of my function.

Have a good one!

-HEX: I said,
take it back!

( muffled yelling )

( ringing tone )

-Whoa!

( Bob screaming )

Uh... Bob?

That must be
Hexadecimal's...

hole in the ground!

-HEX: Bob should get
to Megabyte's tower

just as the clock
reaches zero.

Oh, I'd like to see
Megabyte's face

when his own time-delete
bomb goes off!

( spring )

I don't want
to see it NOW!

How diabolical
of him...

to hide a delete command
in a harmless mask...

I wish I'd
thought of it.

-Dude!

Bob's in major trouble,

and it's all my fault!

Aah!

-Strange.

That looks
just like Bob!



No! Stop!

Oof!

-ENZO: We gotta
warn Bob

that the mask
he's delivering

is really a bomb
of Megabyte's!

And I didn't want to tell
you it was from him,

cause you never let me
input anything exciting!

But I didn't know it was
gonna get Bob in trouble,

and now he's flying
to Megabyte's,

it's gonna blow up any
nanosecond if we don't...!

-DOT: Enzo, Enzo!
Slow down!

Now let me get
this straight.

The package...

from Megabyte?

Is a bomb?

And Bob...

has no idea.

I see what you mean.

We've gotta warn Bob!

While there's still
a Bob to warn.

( muffled yelling )

-Deliver a package
to Megabyte?

From Hexadecimal?

I don't think so.

Glitch! Rotor!

( whirring )

Oof!

-ENZO: There he is!

-DOT: Thank goodness
he's slowed down!

( long steady tone )

Oh no...

Not now!

( surging )

( thunder )

-SYSTEM VOICE:
Warning, incoming game.

Warning, incoming game.

-He's steering
towards the game!

-He would.

-Warning,
incoming game.

Warning, incoming game.

-ENZO: Cursors
and crashes!

We lost him!

-DOT: Maybe not. C'mon!

-Whoooa!

Aaaah!



( surging )

-Dot!

You almost got
us erased!

Deleted!

Offlined!

Can we do it again?

-Maybe later, you nut.

Now, we've gotta
find Bob.

-ENZO: Oh yeah.

-ANNOUNCER 1: Ha ha! Good
to see ya again, Gary!

-ANNOUNCER 2: Good
to see you, Phil.

-ANNOUNCER 1: Certainly
is a balmy 65 degrees.
-ANNOUNCER 2: Wonderful day.

-ANNOUNCER 2: Absolutely, Phil.
-ANNOUNCER 1: Let's shut up and race!

-Looks like Formula One.

Heh heh!

Good thing we know the formula!

ReBoot!

( others ReBooting )

( beeping )

-ANNOUNCER: And the white
car, in the pole position,

Car number 5,
the User car.

Gentlemen, start
your engines!

( ignition starts )

( revving )

( car starts, revving )

( clang )

( revving )

( tires screeching )

-Bob!
-Bob!

-DOT: Bob's racing
against the clock,

and the clock's
gonna win!

You know what
this means, Enzo.

-ENZO: Oh boy, do I.

-ReBoot!
-ReBoot!

-Woo hoo!

( tires screeching )

ENZO: Whoops.

Dot! Wait up!

-BOB: Excuse me.

Pardon me.

Thank you.

Don't mind me,
I'm just taking the lead.

Whoa! Of course,
I could be wrong!

( crash )

BOB: This is
Formula One,

NOT BUMPER CARS!

( tires screeching )

I hate when
that happens.

( clang )

Aah!

That... was close.

Oh no you don't...

( beep )

18th place?!

Man, I'm really
back here!

Of course, that's
what nitros are for!

( whirring )

Woo!

-Major!

-Enzo, how'd
he do that?

-ENZO: Nitros!

Push the button on
your steering wheel!

Whoooooa!

-Whooooa!
-Whooooa!

-BOB: Dot?

-DOT: Your car
is a bomb!

-BOB: You're
tellin' me!

It only comes
with one nitro!

-DOT: No!

The mask was really...!

-Cool!

-BOB: So, she made
it to level 2.

Let's see who
gets to level 3!

-DOT: Oof!

-ENZO: You okay, Dot?

-DOT: Fine, just go!

We're Bob's only hope!

( beep )

-ENZO: There they are!

( thud )

-Minefield!

Slalom!

( explosions )

-ENZO: Braaakes!

-DOT: No time!

We'll take the
high road!

( pop )

-ENZO: No way, Dot!

-DOT: It's all
in the reflexes.

-Whooooa!
-Whooooa!

( beep )

-BOB: Ya haven't
lost me yet!

-Bob!
-Bob!

( beep )

-ENZO: Now what?

There's gotta be a way to
access Bob's attention

before he's deleted!

Oh, it's all
my fault...

If only I'd copy-and-pasted
the truth at the start,

he would never be...

-DOT: Enzo, I think
I have an idea.

( beep )

DOT: THIS should
get his attention!

( horn honking )

( beep )

Now, Enzo!

( gasps )

-Glitch!

( beep )

( explosion )

-Bob!

-ENZO: Dude...

No way...

Bob!

( surging )

-SYSTEM VOICE:
Warning, Game corruption.

-ENZO: Yes! Bob,
you're okay!

-BOB: Not good!

This is not good!

It's an infinite
data ELSE-IF loop.

-DOT: Uh, what's
that mean?

-BOB: It means... RUN LIKE
YOU'VE NEVER RUN BEFOOOORE!

( pulsing )

( crumbling )

( clamouring )

( yelps )

( yells )

( explosion )

( boing )

( explosion )

-Phew...

-ENZO: Bob!

-Oof!

Megabyte hid a delete
command in the mask,

just like you said!

Only you didn't know,

because I should've
copy-and-pasted

the truth from
the start,

But, will you
ever forgive me

for inputting you
in so much...

-DOT: Enzo!

-Dot!

Bob and I are sharing a
camaraderie after the game!

-BOB: You risked
your life

to come into the
game and save me.

-DOT: Well, I couldn't let
anything happen to you.

-BOB: You couldn't?

-No.

Enzo would've blamed
himself for it.

-Oh.

But Dot...

( vid window pops, bonk )

-MEGABYTE: Enzo,

You failed me
completely!

-Why thank you!

-You're fired!

-Oh, you know, I'm
sooo disappointed!

-MEGABYTE: I have
found someone else

to deliver my packages.

-HACK: Hexadecimal said,
-SLASH: Yeah, Hexadecimal,

-HACK: She said,

-SLASH: She said she already has one!
-HACK: She said she already has...

-HACK: She said
she already has one!
-SLASH: Has one? She did.

-HACK: I said that!
-SLASH: I know.

( loud explosion )

-MEGABYTE: Hack...

Slash...!

-HACK: Uh oh!

-SLASH: I think
he means us.

( clang )