- Accusations of envy divide the superheroes from their sidekicks, but concurrent with these losses, two rivals turn into unexpected allies as a potential threat strikes.
- After George is mistaken as the hero who thwarted a robbery that Jim was responsible for stopping, tempers flare between the two friends. George thinks Jim is jealous of the attention he's receiving, while Jim feels George has lost his perspective in taking full credit for something he didn't do and hogging the limelight. Meanwhile, Stephanie and Katie find themselves at odds over personal matters, JJ discovers a weakness in his powers, and Daphne's suspicions over Katie's boyfriend intensify.—ABC Publicity
- A night of bowling with the family doesn't exactly make George (Romany Malco) happy. Jim (Michael Chiklis) basically destroys the pins, Stephanie (Julie Benz) runs down the lane to knock the pins down without the lane violation light going off, and JJ (Jimmy Bennett) runs all of the math in his head before throwing his ball. Daphne (Kay Panabaker) can't do any of that, but she is suspicious of Will (Josh Stewart), Katie's (Autumn Reeser) new boyfriend. He continues to block her from reading his mind, and he might be onto Daphne's secret. Unfortunately, Will isn't moving fast enough for Dr. King's (Stephen Collins) liking, who tells him to get all of the information he wants, and fast. However, Dr. King has to also deal with Dr. Francis Chiles, the scientist he fired, discovering the serum from the plant and what it could possibly do. Francis threatens to go to the government, but King calls his bluff, saying Francis was part of the team and would be just as guilty.
Jim is not having fun at the police station. Cordero is still treating him like crap, mainly because he doesn't realize Jim pulled him out of that van. And now George is getting the credit for busting up the dry cleaner heist he told Jim to take care of. (By hiding a police scanner in his bowling bag.) But George reminds Jim he's helping him to keep his secret identity a secret. It gets a bit hard when Jim goes back to the woman at the dry cleaners, who wants to know if George is single rather than talk about the four...not three...men who robbed the place of cash and even took someone's dry cleaning. Jim goes to ask George to follow up on the person who got the dry cleaning stolen, but he has to wait in line behind the people who want to interview George and the other ladies wondering if he was single. It got even harder, as another detective handed Cordero a copy of a traffic cam's footage of his accident
JJ is annoyed by the fact his new powers give him little in common with his friends anymore, so he goes to an intellectual think-tank cafe, where he tries his best at playing chess, only to find his powers short-circuiting. Maybe it was the lip gloss, like it was for Jim. More likely, it was his very hot opponent. Which means girls are apparently JJ's kryptonite...or at least his out-of-control hormones are.
Katie and Stephanie talk at GlobalTech, where apparently Will is the greatest guy Katie's known since she met the metrosexual Wookiee at Comic Con '06. Stephanie calls TMI, and both are shocked to see what looked like a bruise on Dr. King's face. He explained his run-in with Dr. Francis Chiles in the parking lot of GlobalTech. He warns them to notify security if they see him. Stephanie doesn't get the chance, as Francis accosts her in the parking lot. He denies hitting Dr. King, but he does give Stephanie the vial of serum and asks her to test it.
FRANCIS: Open your eyes, Dr. Powell. Everything is not as it seems. This evidence will cause you to question everything you know. You might try to convince yourself this is not happening, but it won't matter. Because the facts will speak for themselves.
Daphne asks Katie where she met Will. Of course, the fact Katie knows Daphne can read her mind doesn't stop her from not saying anything. But Daphne gets the Rate-A-Date.com site from her. The same site JJ used to set up her fake date. Now both of them are very suspicious. Daphne can't figure out how Will knew about JJ's fake profile, but she has to tell Stephanie, since she can't read Will's mind, which is a problem in and of itself.
Cordero calls Jim into his office, as he figured out from the video footage it was Jim who saved his life. Suddenly Cordero is super-nice to him. He appreciates the fact that Jim wasn't being a glory hound like George was. Of course, Jim is more worried about Cordero knowing, but at least Cordero gave him the rest of the day off to pursue the man who had his dry cleaning stolen. Without George as a GPS system, Jim has to do it the way the rest of us normal people do: with his cell phone. 62 meters ("that's like yards, right?") later, Jim lands (splashes, actually) at his destination. Jim pretended to be an insurance agent following up on Mr. Parillo's theft claim, but Parillo didn't know what anybody would want with old train conductor uniforms.
Daphne goes to tell Stephanie about Will slipping into JJ's online profile, and Jim talks to George about the uniforms. Stephanie confronts Katie about Will, but she thinks Stephanie is making stuff up and is trying to undermine her dating life. George isn't much better about entertaining any theories from Jim about there being a bigger heist in the works. George doesn't want to follow up, since he has to go receive a civic award.
JIM: So, instead of stopping one crime, you want to go get an award for not stopping another one?
Both George and Katie were tired of being sidekicks to Jim and Stephanie.
JJ returns to the cafe and offers to help the hot girl he played in chess with her homework, only his powers short-circuit again. This time, he asks Jim about it, since the blood seems to be rushing from his brain to his..."GOT IT!" Jim's advice is to tell him to think of something else, like baseball stats. It works like a charm on his return match. And JJ has a rather hot chess partner for a girlfriend.
Jim and Stephanie talk about what happened with George and Katie. Jim figures Batman may not have held on to Robin forever, so he goes in search of someone else's help. Since Cordero still had his lips firmly attached to his rear, he asked Cordero about trains that may have been robbed in Pacific Bay. Cordero tells him about the money train that the Transit Authority uses to transfer the city's cash to the Federal depository. Cordero described the robbers using uniforms and Authority duffel bags to hide their weapons. Meanwhile, Stephanie experiments with the serum Dr. Chiles gave her. The hamster she injected starts going crazy on the wheel, and she calls Dr. Chiles, who tells her to meet him and not tell anybody.
Katie talks to Will about what Stephanie told her. Will covers for himself by saying he saw her at the bar the night she tried to meet her cyber-date, and he wished Katie would look at him the way she kept looking up at the potential suitors that came in. He pretended to be Will. He confessed his real name was Joshua. Which was an amazing coincidence, as a waiter at the restaurant they were at was also named Joshua. Katie forgives him, but he has to run off to do a job for Dr. King. That job is to kill Dr. Chiles.
George sees Jim's disastrous encounter at the train station with the apprehending wrong people. He goes to Jim and confesses he could have helped Jim get the right train station and day. The partnership is restored, since George doesn't need a key to the city. ("What would I do with a key that don't open nothin?") Jim makes it to the train, which is bearing down on him at 50 MPH. He gets hit by the train but manages to pull a Spider-Man 2 (2004) on the locomotive and stops the crooks inside. Jim thanks George for helping him and gives him a lift back to the ceremony.
Will/Joshua/The Watcher pays a visit to the Powell house, where he makes his way into the house. Stephanie is still at Dr. Chile's house, where she found him dead, made to look like a suicide. Dr. King tries to spin a story about Chiles attempting to continue Volson's research but on human test subjects, but he encourages Stephanie to continue the work under his close supervision. Will/The Watcher gives Daphne the same story he gave Katie about her cyber date. Daphne takes him at face value. He goes to leave and shakes her hand. Sure enough, contacting him opens up his mind to her, and she sees him forcing pharmaceutical drugs down Dr. Chiles throat, causing his "suicide." Daphne plays it as cool as she can in order to get him to leave. He is seemingly satisfied and leaves the residence. Daphne darts to the phone to contact Stephanie about what she saw when Will/The Watcher enters the house again and throws the phone from Daphne's hand using his telekinetic powers. Daphne tries to escape but Will moves some furniture into her path. He eventually corners her against a wall.
WILL: There are others out there. But your family seem to be the only ones whose powers are permanent. And I'm just trying to figure out why. So I can be like you.
Will thinks her mother knows about all of it. Daphne, in tears, swears she won't say anything.
WILL: I know you won't.
Jim and Stephanie make it home, and King's story about Dr. Chiles stuck with her. Stephanie thinks the supervillians they encountered were all part of Chiles' experiments. It made sense, until Daphne came downstairs with zero knowledge of what happened to them over the last three months. Her memories had been erased by Will.
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