Stargirl (2020–…): Season 3, Episode 9 - Frenemies - Chapter Nine: The Monsters - full transcript

He does everything

he can to get your attention.

But you don't see Mike at all.

He feels worthless.

One day, I'm gonna hate you.

What have you been
doing at night, Yolanda?

This is a misunderstanding.

Give me your phone
right this minute

or get out of this house.

Yolanda?

I had nowhere else to go.



We have a preposition for you.

Courtney and the others
are not your biggest fans.

No.

My grandfather and
grandmother want me

to carry on my
dad's legacy and...

Your father...

His death wasn't an accident.

I feel guilty about
what happened.

He doesn't know.

You can't tell him.

- He is a threat.
- No, he's not.

What exactly is your problem?

I am staring right at him.

She's teaching
that little psycho



how to conjure up icicles.

I screwed up by keeping

what was happening
with Cameron to myself,

and now Cindy's gone

along with any credibility

I had as the leader of the JSA.

You turned your back on
us for him, Courtney.

- Cameron?

He want out to the garden.

What for?

To practice. His sculpture.

I said... no more art.

His duty is to his family.

- Hi, baby. Come here.

Oh, you must be so exhausted.

- We got some sleep on the bus.
- Yeah?

- Where's...

- She's in your room.

Pat?
- Yeah.

- Are you okay?
- Yeah.

- You went to that place.

What did you see?

Come here.

- Yolanda.

- Court.

- I'm sorry.
- Me too.

I gotta get down
to the Pit Stop,

suit up, join
Sylvester on his hunt.

- Honey, you need to rest.
- I can't.

I mean, we might have
gotten the cameras down,

but we still don't know
who's been watching us.

I need to go help Sylvester.

- Pat?
- Yeah.

- What you just went through,

it's not normal for anyone.

Please, just talk to me.

I saw my dad.

- What'd he say?

- Just the same twisted stuff
he'd tell me when I was a kid.

Only that's not what got to me.

- What is it, then?

- That place

made me feel like

I'm following in my
father's footsteps.

Making Mike feel like
he's not good enough.

- Pat, no, no, no.

Don't you think
that for one second.

Mike is following in your
footsteps, not your dad's.

That's why he's bright and
he's strong and he's kind.

He knows you love him.

- I've never talked much
about Mike's mom, have I?

- No.

- We weren't together long.

Of course, you know that.

And I didn't even
know about Mike

till after we'd split up.

But when I found out...

I mean, I've never
been so happy.

There was nothing
that was gonna keep me

from being in his life.

- Of course.

- We shared custody
for a couple years.

Then one day, there's
a policeman at the door

with Mike.

He'd been in a
shelter overnight,

alone.

- Oh, my God.

- Maggie had left him there.

And she didn't
even turn up again

till after she'd been
arrested for possession.

I got full custody.

She didn't even put up a fight.

She just walked away from Mike.

And...

you know, he'd ask me
if he could see her.

He'd ask me if he
could talk to her.

I'd tell him, "No."

And after a while...

Well, he just stopped asking.

I mean, I thought I
was protecting Mike

by treating her like
she didn't exist.

But now I don't know.

- Yeah.

When Courtney's father
came to Blue Valley,

I blamed myself for
the hurt it caused her.

But I do think she got
some closure from it.

Made her stronger.

Made us stronger.

And in no small
part thanks to you.

Sometimes letting our
kids face the pain

is the only way to help them
learn how to cope with it.

Maybe Mike needs to
see his mom again.

- I don't know.

- You know.

- I knew your parents
were hard on you,

but I never thought
they'd kick you out.

- They assumed the worst,
and I couldn't defend myself.

I can't tell them what I'm
actually out doing every night.

They wouldn't understand
any of what we do.

- You don't know that.

- I know I can't
trust them, Court.

They'd tell people
about everything

just to try and control
me like they always do.

And this isn't just
about my secret.

It's about yours.

Beth's and Rick's.

- I need to apologize to
Rick and Beth too, but...

There's something
else I wanna ask them.

Before I do,

I need your support on it.

- What are you talking about?

- We should get delivering.

No.we should quit.
Is what we should do.

- I can't quit my paper
route. My dad would kill me.

- We have more important things
to do than deliver papers.

We gotta figure out who
planted those spy cameras

before anyone else does.

We'll win, like, mega
hero points, man.

- Your sister and her
friends will find the killer.

Besides, I'm still
worried about Cindy.

- Cindy? Are you serious?

- Cindy stood up for us, but
we didn't stand up for her.

- I guess.

- And she's out there alone...

turning into a crocodile.

- Ooh, I wonder if
she'll grow a tail.

- Okay, so you wanna skip
out on all the glory,

deliver these dumb papers,

and go help Cindy
with her reptile acne?

- Maybe the Thunderbolt
could cure her.

Helping Cindy's the
right thing to do...

after we deliver these papers.

- All right. All right.
All right. Come on.

Let's do it before
I change my mind.

- I have a tail, and
it's pretty useful.

I can use it to point at things.

I use it to balance.

It is incredibly attractive...

- Hi.

I'm not sure you remember
me. I'm Mr. Deisinger.

Cameron's art teacher?

May I come in?

Thank you so much.

I trust your morning
is going well.

This is a wonderful home.

- Thank you.

- Looks a little
like Cameron's work.

- It's his mother's.

- I see where he
gets his talent.

- Please, sit.

- I wanted to talk
to you about Cameron.

I don't know if he's told
you, but he quit art.

- Yes. He has other things
he's interested in now.

- But why?

He has such passion for it.

I know losing his
father was hard...

- You know nothing.

- Lily, please.

- I'm sorry.

I only came to
express my concern.

Cameron's walking away from
something I know that he loves.

It makes him happy.

I've dreamt about it.

I can't stand by and watch him
throw his artistic life away.

I won't.

I cannot sit here any longer.

But what this man
says, it's important.

I don't need to hear it.

- Lily...

He is only trying to
help our grandson.

Please, my love.

It isn't his business!

It doesn't matter what
that man said now.

He's dead.

- Hey, bud.

- Crock.

- Wanted to check
in, seeing as how

me and the missus were being
spied on just like you.

Gotta catch these peepers.

Be a relief to be cut loose

after being on a
leash for so long.

Hey, where's Pemberton?

- Beth tracked the
feed to a mine in Utah.

Sylvester went to check it out.

- What are you doing?

- Looking for someone.

Hold on. Sylvester?

- Hey, Pat.

- How's the search going?
- Terrible.

Hit another dead end.
Beth thinks the signal...

- What is this?
- Is being masked.

It's bouncing all
over the place.

- I'm sorry.
- Unless she locks

onto another lead,
I'm headed back.

- Copy that. Be careful.

- See you in a few hours.

So who are you looking for?

- Mike's mom.

- Why are you Googling the ex?

- Trying to figure out
if she's in any shape

to talk to him.

It's kind of a long story.

- So let's hear it.

- Hey, Crock, and no offense,

but it's a little more
complicated than cardio.

But I appreciate it.

- Come on, Pat.

You gotta know by
now you can trust me.

So let's talk.

- I'm sorry I never
told you about Cameron.

It was never my intention
to put him before you.

- Thanks, Courtney.
Apology accepted.

- Okay. We're good.

- Cool.

- Go on, Court.

- Is there something else?

- Yes.

- What is it?

- I wanna tell
Cameron everything.

- What? Why?

- Because I can't be with him
if I can't be honest with him

about the JSA,

about his father, about
me being Stargirl.

I'm asking for your support.

- No.

You can't keep
doing this, Court.

Every time you
share our secrets,

it makes all of us less safe.

And for that kid,
because you like him?

Don't tell me that
you knew about this.

- Yeah, I did.
- You've gotta be kidding me.

- Look, I was wrong about Cindy.

Not completely wrong.
Just a little wrong.

Courtney wants to tell Cameron
about who his dad really was

and why we had to stop him.

He can't spend the
rest of his life

never knowing anyway.

- Look, I know it's
going to be hard,

and I know there's
some real risk here,

but once we get through it,

and I have faith we will,

we'll all heal.

I need to tell him the truth.

- Should we vote?
- Don't bother.

You do what you want to do.

I got your back.

I've got everyone's back
here, no matter what.

And you all know that,

because you're my family.

Nothing will ever change that.

But don't say that
I didn't warn you.

- I don't know
about this, Paula.

- I'm gonna start
with the basics.

How to shatter a man's spleen.

- Ah.

Violence was never my thing.

- Let's call it
self-defense, then.

And in this town with
a voyeuristic killer

still on the loose, it's
important you are ready

for any kind of attack.

- Okay.

I appreciate this, but
I'm just not comfortable

learning how to hurt someone.

It's just not me. Sorry.

- All right. I understand.

- It means a lot, though, Paula,

you trying to help me do this.

You're a good friend.

What?

- No one's ever called
me their friend before.

- I'm sure that's not true.

- All right. The
coast is clear.

Okay, if you're gonna
do it, do it already.

- I wish that Cindy Burman's
locker at Blue Valley High

in Blue Valley,
Nebraska, 68434, USA,

would open... very quietly.

- As you wish, my friend.

But I gotta tell you, ethically,

this puts us in a gray area.

See, I know that you're
technically investigating

this girl under the promise
that she might be a bad guy,

but also, it looks like
breaking and entering

of a girl that you
have a crush on,

so this could be
considered stalking.

A hairbrush.

- Who keeps metal
cleaner in their locker?

- Oh, a girl with a
giant knife in her arm.

I don't see anything

that's gonna help us find Cindy.

Why don't you just wish
to know where she is?

- Because I...
- We already wished for that

when we were trying
to recruit her.

Yeah.
- I know I say this a lot.

You can't wish for
the same thing twice.

- Don't I know it.

- It doesn't smell
good in here, does it?

It kind of smells terrible.

- What's that?
- Put me back in your pocket.

- It looks like list of
her father's laboratories.

- The ones that
Sebastian checked out?

- I think she
checked them out too.

They're all crossed off.

Except one, the
Etter Produce Farm.

It's circled for some reason.

- Well, we need to find out why.

- The Etter Farm...
of all places.

- Do you know it?

- Mr. Etter used
to sell moonshine

to the seniors in town
before he was busted

by Officer Hardy.

- Good Lord, this
is a small town.

Well, it has to be
circled for a reason.

And I got a feeling
that this is it.

- This is what?

- Our lead, Detective Williams.

- Yeah, let's go save
the alligator girl!

- Hey.
- Hey.

Can I come in? We need to talk.

- Yeah, sure.

- You know, when
this all started,

I thought it was gonna be easy,

you know, knowing the good guys
from the bad guys, but now?

- It's like Courtney said.

There's good and
bad in everybody.

- Some more than others, though.

- Hey, are you okay?

- Is it the hourglass?

- No, no. It's just a headache.

- I'm not so sure, Rick.

- What is it?

- I've been trying to lock into
the signal from the cameras,

but it's been bouncing
all around the country,

sending Sylvester everywhere.

- And?

- This could just be
another false lead.

- Where is the signal
coming from, Beth?

Beth.

- It's coming from
inside the Mahkent house.

- I've never noticed
these before.

- What do you think?
- Wow.

- My dad collected them.

Every time he went on one
of his business trips,

he'd bring one back for me.

Called them trophies.

- Your dad went on a
lot of business trips.

- Sometimes I wake up,
and when he's not here,

I think he's on one.

Then I remember.

- Cameron,

I wanted to talk to
you about your father.

About what happened to him.

- I told you, I don't know much.

I know he was trying to do
something to help the world,

and he was killed for it.

- That's not exactly
what happened.

- What are you talking about?

- What I'm about to say...
Just let me explain it all

before you say anything.

Please.

- Okay.

- Your father,

he wasn't who you think he was.

- That's enough!
- Lily, no.

- What's going on?

- I warned you!

- You children,

you will finally die
for what you have done.

- Why didn't Rick wait for us?
- He isn't thinking straight.

He messed with the hourglass...
- Explain later.

Just wait here.
- But, Yolanda...

- Fighting's not
your thing, Beth.

- These creepy old ghouls,

they're the ones that
have been watching us.

- Cameron, don't!

- Cameron.

- We need to get outta here.

- No, that's Rick.

- Rick.

- Rick, stop!

- Enough!

- Oh.

- Hey, Beth.
- Dad?

Dad, this is a bad time.
How did you even call me?

- From a different
number. Burner phone.

Leave us be.

- What's that sound?
- Bad guys.

- Beth, listen to me.
- Dad, I have to go.

- Your mom and I
talked to Dr. McNider.

He told us everything your
goggles and suit can do.

Even the untested programs.

- Untested programs?

- Beth, you gotta
activate combat mode.

- Combat mode?
- Combat mode activated.

Beta trial.

Attack imminent.

- What?
- Take cover.

- Get out.

- Duck. Roll.

Select fighting style.

- Whoa. Combat mode.

- Headshot incoming.

Left hook.

- Sorry.

- Activate cape shield.

- Rick, stop!

- Old people. Ugh! Gross.

- Hold on, Chapel.

- Let's go, nerd.

- Rick, let him go!

- Cameron.

They killed your father.

- Cameron, I...

- Do it!

Yes.

- Do it!

Yes.

- Cameron, stop.

This hate

is what killed your father.

His anger. His grief.

Don't let them take
control of you, Cameron.

Don't ignore... love.

- Sofus. Sofus?

Sofus?

- Grandpa.

- He's having a heart attack.

- What do we do?

- We call my mom.

- Beth?
- Mom, what do we do?

- Okay, honey.
His heart stopped.

- Honey, the gloves.
- What?

- The defibrillators, Beth.

They're built into the gloves.

- Your suit will insulate you.
- Get everyone...

Clear.

- Sofus.

Sofus.

Sofus.

- Sofus.

- Court...

I'm sorry.

911, what's your emergency?

- It is creepy out here.

- Uh, I'm an all-powerful
genie in a pen,

and I'm creeped out.

- Yeah. Man up. You
wanna find Cindy?

Let's find Cindy.

- Why would the Dragon King pick

a low-tech farm for
a high-tech lab?

- It's where the main
power lines cross

with the main water lines.

Plus it's remote.

- Doesn't look
like anyone's home.

- Yeah.

Come on. Let's check the back.

- We should have
brought a flashlight.

- Yeah, well, you
got a living one.

- Oh, right. The Thunderbolt.

So cool.

Should we even be doing this?

Like, it's not technically
breaking and entering,

but it is really creepy.

I've seen this as a set piece

for a lot of independent
horror films.

- I don't think Cindy Burman
would ever hole up here.

- I don't know, Cindy could
do a lot with this place.

Open floor plan, rustic
décor. She could open a B&B.

- Yeah, well, maybe there's,
like, a secret laboratory

underneath it or something.

- I don't see anything but junk.

- And a lot of manure. Like,
Biff Tannen level manure.

- Was that you?
- Uh, I don't growl.

That's not my thing.

Uh...

Oh, boy.

- I'll kill every
last one of them.

- Greg, move your head.

- Mad Ghost!