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ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

BRAD BIRD

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THE INCREDIBLES

Seated in front of a colored backing is a magnificent

masked man in a Superhero suit: early thirties, ruggedly
handsome and powerfully built, he fiddles with a clip-on
microphone.

We're watching a faded DOCUMENTARY, shot in 16mm. A TITLE

FADES IN, identifying the man as MR. INCREDIBLE.
MR. INCREDIBLE
Is this on?
(muttering to himself)
I can break through walls but I can't get
one of these things on...
He finally gets the clip secured and settles in.

INTERVIEWER (O.S.)
So, Mr. Incredible, do you have a secret
identity?
Incredible stops tinkering with the mic and looks toward
CAMERA. He flashes his patented megawatt smile.
MR. INCREDIBLE
Every Superhero has a secret identity. I
don't know a single one who doesn't. Who
wants the pressure of being usuper" all
the time?
TITLE CARD:
WALT DISNEY PICTURES PRESENTS

RESUME DOCUMENTARY: Another striking, masked

Superhero, a woman this time. A TITLE identifies her
as ELASTIGIRL.
ELASTIGIRL
Of course I have a secret identity. Who'd
want to go shopping as ELASTIGIRL, you
know what I mean?
TITLE CARD:
A PIXAR ANIMATION STUDIOS FILM

RESUME DOCUMENTARY: Yet another Superhero, sleek, black,

dressed in an ice-blue suit. SUPER TITLE: FROZONE.
FROZONE
Super ladies always want to tell you
their secret identity; think it'll
strengthen the relationship or something
.
(MORE)
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FROZONE (CONT'D)
I say, "Girl, I don't want to know about
your mild-mannered alter ego or anything
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like that. You tell me you're "Super Mega

Ultra Lightning Babe"••• that's awright
with me. I'm good, I'm good.

MR. INCREDIBLE
No matter how many times you save the
world, it always manages to get back in
jeopardy again. Sometimes I just want it
to STAY SAVED for a little bit. I feel
like the maid: "I just cleaned up this
mess, can we keep it clean for ten
minutes?? Please.

•
(laughs, then sighs)
Sometimes I think I'd just like the
simple life, you know? Relax a little,
raise a family •••

ELASTIGIRL
Settle down? Are you kidding? I'm at the
top of my game, I'm right up there with the
big dogs. I mean ca'mon! Leave saving the
world to the men? I don't think so.
(laughs, pause)
I don't think so•••

FADE TO BLA<

TITLE:
THE INCREDIBLES

MUNICIBERG - STREETS - MOVING - LATE AFTERNOON

SIRENS WAIL. Lights FLASH. We're in the middle of a

classic CAR CHASE: A police car in HOT PURSUIT OF anothe
car driven by armed BANK ROBBERS.

The robber riding shotgun primes his SUBMACHINE GUN and

unloads on the cop car, which SWERVES into oncoming
traffic to avoid the hail of bullets.

INSIDE ANOTHER CAR - NOT FAR AWAY

BOB PARR, a dashing, golden-haired man in his late twenties

listens to his radio. If he looks familiar, it' because he
is the same man we saw earlier: MR. INCREDIBL sans mask and
Supersuit. Suddenly the music is

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RADIO
We interrupt for an important bulletin: a
deadly high-speed pursuit between Police
and armed gunmen is underway, traveling
northbound on San Pablo Boulevard.

Bob presses a button. The RADIO flips: converting to a

screen filled with a moving aerial map of the city
streets. He types in "ISOLATE PURSUIT". 2 RED DOTS
appear, moving quickly over the map.

He makes a hard right turn. Looks at the screen. A tiny

"i" icon (Mr. Incredible's logo) closes in on the 2 red
dots. He checks his WATCH--
BOB
I've got time.

--and presses another button: "AUTODRIVE" and types in

"MERGE PURSUIT".

Bob takes his hands off the wheel and a rapid series of
automated actions begin: the seat back drops FLAT, the
passenger seat folds against the window as the driver's
seat slides to the center.

Bob raises his arms as metal bands lock around his waist,
then SEPARATE, sliding apart toward his head and his
toes, removing his clothes to REVEAL his slick, brightly
colored MR. INCREDIBLE SUPERSUIT underneath •..

He presses another button: the car's exterior CONVERTS

into the coolest retro-futuristic vehicle ever seen: The
INCREDIBILE. MR. INCREDIBLE looks up:
THROUGH THE WINDSHIELD

we see an OLD LADY waving us down.

OLD LADY
Mr. Incredible! Oh-- MR. INCREDIBLE!
RESIDENTIAL STREET

Mr. Incredible pulls up. His window WHOOSHES open.

MR. INCREDIBLE
What is it, Ma'am?

OLD LADY
(pointing to tree)
My cat Squeaker won't come down.
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Incredible glances at his screen: the pursuit is headed

his way. He thinks, making some quick calculations, then--
MR. INCREDIBLE
Certainly, Ma'am. But I suggest you stand
clear, there could be trouble.
OLD LADY
Oh no, he's quite tame--
RESUME PURSUIT - SAME MOMENT

The COP CAR pulls back in behind the robbers' car. The
cops are firing now and closing in.
INCREDIBLE & THE CAT TREE

Nervously checking the pursuit on his video screen,

Incredible rips the tree out of the ground. He tips it,
leaning it across to the lady just as the CAR CHASE
squeals into view at the end of the block. Incredible
sees this and hastily SHAKES the tree, trying to dislodge
the cat•
INTERCUT

The CAR CHASE. The cars swerve into view now, bordering
the park that Incredible is in. Incredible SEES them and
shakes the cat harder. Chase cars close in. Incredible.
Car chase. The cat. Chase. Cat--

One final SHAKE: Squeaker drops into the OLD LADY'S

hands. Incredible raises the tree up and SLAMS it down on
the hood of the crooks' car, squashing it like a bug.
LATER

Incredible TAMPS down the loose dirt at the base of the

freshly replanted tree and smiles at his admirers.
COP #1
Thank you, Mr. Incredibl,
e you've done it
again.
COP #2
Yeah, you're the best.
MR. INCREDIBLE
I'm just here to help.
RADIO
Attention! We have a tour bus robbery in
the vicinity of Paradise and solano--
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Incredible FROWNS and looks at his watch. He makes a

calculation, muttering to himself.
MR. INCREDIBLE
I've still got time.
(giving each admirer a nod)
Officers, Ma'am••• "Squeaker."
He jumps into the INCREDIBILE and is startled to find a
pudgy kid wearing a mask and a homemade Superhero costume
sitting in the passenger seat.
MR. INCREDIBLE (CONT'D)
Who are you supposed to be?

BOY
Well... I'm
INCREDIBOY!
Mr. Incredible stares warily at the awkwardly costumed
kid. He's starting to look familiar...
BOB
No, no. You're that kid from the fan
club. B.•. Bro-phy, Bud.•• BUDDY! Buddy??
BUDDY
(frowning)
My name is INCREDIBOY!
BOB
Look, I've been nice. I've stood for
photos, signed every scrap of paper
you've pushed at me, but this is a bit--
BUDDY
You don't hafta worry about training me,
I know all your moves, your crime
fighting style, favorite catchphrases,
everything! I'm your number one fan!
The passenger door WHOOSHES open and "IncrediBoy" is
ejected from the car. Incredible fires the afterburners
and peels off, leaving Buddy standing alone.
CITY ROOFTOPS - MINUTES LATER

A trail of stolen goods scattered across a rooftop leads

us to a THIEF. He mutters to himself as he roots through
a stolen purse, disregarding some items, stuffing others
into his pockets. A SHADOW looms on the wall behind him.

(CONTINUED
)
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You know--

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The snatcher LOOKS UP. Incredible grins.

MR. INCREDIBLE (CONT'D)

--you can tell a lot about a woman by the
contents of her purse. But maybe that's not
what you had in mind•••

Incredible closes in on him. The snatcher drops the purse,

pulls a gun. An ARM suddenly STRETCHES into frame and
delivers a right cross to the snatcher's jaw- knocking him
OUT COLD.

Incredible looks up and sees a dazzling MASKED WOMAN in an

equally dazzling suit. She SMILES.

MR. INCREDIBLE (CONT'D)

Elastigirl.

ELASTIGIRL
Mr. Incredible.

Elastigirl moves to the snatcher, begins to pick him up-

MR. INCREDIBLE
It's alright. I've got him.

ELASTIGIRL
Sure you've got him. I just took him out
for you.

MR. INCREDIBLE
Sure you took him out. His attention was on
me.

ELASTIGIRL
A fact I exploited in order to do my job.

MR. INCREDIBLE
My job, you mean.

ELASTIGIRL
A simple "thank you" will suffice.

MR. INCREDIBLE
Thanks, but I don't need any help.

Elastigirl assesses him. Slowly moves closer.

ELASTIGIRL
What ever happened to "ladies first"?

MR. INCREDIBLE
What ever happened to "equal tr.eatment"?
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• CONTINUED: ( 2) CROOK
(regaining consciousness)

Hey, look... the lady got me first.

Elastigirl coldcocks the crook with one stretched punch.

BLASTIGIRL
We could share, you know.
MR. INCREDIBLE
I work alone.
Elastigirl smiles, moves very close to Incredible.

ELASTIGIRL
Well. I think you need to be more--
In one fluid motion she LOOPS around his body, suddenly
behind him and before he can turn-- back in front again.
ELASTIGIRL (CONT'D)
--flexible.
MR. INCREDIBLE
(dazzled)
You doing anything later?
ELASTIGIRL
I have a previous engagement.
She makes a little stutter step to the edge of the roof
and jumps, flips, loops and STRETCHES across the rooftops
like a liquid cat, disappearing into the setting sun.
MR. INCREDIBLE lets out a low whistle. That. Is a woman.

MOMENTS LATER

Incredible handcuffs the purse-snatcher to a pipe.

MR. INCREDIBLE
Now you just stay right here. They
usually pick up the garbage in an hour.
FROZONE (O.S.)
Hey, Incredible!

Incredible turns. A HELICOPTER sweeps past, machine guns

blazing back towards its pursuer. FROZONE swoops down,
hot on its tail, surfing a sheet of ice that materializes
in his path.

(CONTINUED
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B.

D: Frozone
!

Frozone LEAPS, grabbing on to one of the chopper's skids.

FROZONE
Shouldn't you be getting ready?!
Incredible frowns, glancing at his watch. He yells at the
retreating copter.
MR. INCREDIBLE
Hey, I've still got time!
Offscreen a woman screams--

WOMAN (O.S.)
HE'S GOING TO JUMP!!
Incredible runs to the edge of the building and looks
down. A large crowd is gathered on the streets below.
Incredible follows their upwards gaze to the roof of a
skyscraper, where a man stands poised to jump--
--then DOES. Incredible quickly gages distances, and then
dives off the edge, making a spectacular LEAP--
HIGH ABOVE THE STREET

--and TACKLES the jumper in mid-air. They crash through

an enormous window on the far side--
INSIDE BANK BUILDING - LOBBY AREA
--and tumble to the floor in a shower of glass. Safe.

JUMPER
My collarbone-- I think you broke it•••
MR. INCREDIBLE
With counseling, I think you'll come to
forgive me.
(senses
something) Wait a
minute.••

Mr. Incredible slides the jumper over to a desk and props

him up against it. His acute senses turn his attention to
the hallway, toward the elevators. As he follows his ears
we become aware of a sound: a tiny series of regular
BEEPS. INCREDIBLE locates a spot on the wall and presses
one ear against it. The BEEPS ACCELERATE. Bob starts to
push away and-- (CONTINUED
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--BOOOOOOOM!

The hallway is filled with smoke and debris. A SILHOUETTE

emerges from the newly blown hole in the wall; a tall,
rangy man in a mime costume carrying two stuffed duffle
bags. He surveys the scene with a wicked smile.

A VAULT DOOR is embedded into the wall directly opposite

the hole. It moves aside, revealing Incredible behind it,
dazed but unharmed. He sees the mime and GROWLS.
MR. INCREDIBLE (CONT'D)
Bomb Voyage!
BOMB VOYAGE
(in French, subtitled)
Mr. Incredible!
VOIC
E And--
INCREDIBOY!
Both Mr. Incredible and Voyage turn and stare in
disbelief at the kid, who awkwardly flies over to them.
BOMB VOYAGE
"IncrediBoy" ...?

BUDDY
Aren't you curious about how I get around
so fast? See, I have these rocket boots,
they're made from--
BOB
Go home, Buddy. Now.
BOMB VOYAGE
(in French, subtitled)
Little oaf!
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BUDDY
Can we talk?

(he takes Bob aside)

You always ALWAYS tell people, "Be true
to yourself," but you never say which
part of yourself to be true to! Well,
I've finally figured out who I am and I'm
your ward. IncrediBoy!
BOB
And now you've officially carried it too
far, Buddy.
There is an ugly flash in Buddy's eyes.

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BUDDY

It's because I don't have powers, isn't

it? Not every hero has powers, you know!
You can be Super without them--
(re: his rocket boots)
I invented these. I can fly! Can YOU fly?
MR. INCREDIBLE
Fly HOME, Buddy. I work alone.
BOMB VOYAGE
(in French, subtitled)
Yes! And your outfit is ridiculous!
BUDDY
Just give me one chance. I'll show you,
I'll go get the police--
As Buddy jogs to the shattered window, Incredible sees
that Voyage has clipped a SMALL BOMB onto Buddy's cape.
MR. INCREDIBLE
Buddy-- DON'T--!
BUDDY
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It'll only take a second, really!
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Ji)J (takes off after him)
ill
No-- STOP! THERE'S A BOMB--
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He grabs Buddy's cape just as "INCREDIBOY" TAKES OFF,

taking Incredible with him.
ABOVE MUNICIBERG - MOVING - NIGHT

INCREDIBLE & THE BOY rocket wildly out of control,

spraying sparks in every direction, Mr. I grabbing at the
cape desperately for the bomb.
BUDDY
Let go! You're wrecking my flight
pattern! Let go of my cape! You're gonna
rip it!!

INCREDIBLE finally grabs hold of the bomb and flings it

free. Both he and the BOMB fall onto the elevated train
tracks below. The bomb EXPLODES, blowing away a large
section of track. Incredible groggily LOOKS UP:

• A TRAIN is coming. And heading straight for the section

of track that is NO LONGER THERE.
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Incredible sets his jaw and starts running toward the

oncoming train, leaping the chasm to intercept the train
before it gets there.

He pulls up and plants himself. The expression on his

face says it all: this is going to hurt.

The train HITS-- Mr. Incredible taking the full impact. Rail
ties break behind Incredible's feet, spraying in all
directions as Incredible --miraculously-- wrestles the
train to a stop.

STREETS BELOW TRESTLE - LATER

Police and Paramedics have arrived, cordoning off the accident

scene and treating the injured. Mr. Incredible hands Buddy
over to the police.

MR. INCREDIBLE
Take this one home, and make sure his mom
knows what he's been doing•.•

BUDDY
I could help you! You're making a mistake-

The cops shove Buddy into the backseat of their car.

MR. INCREDIBLE
The injured jumper-- you sent paramedics?

COP
They've already picked him up.

MR. INCREDIBLE
The blast in that building was caused by
Bomb Voyage who I caught in the act of
robbing the vault. we might be able to nab
him if we set up a perimeter--

COP
You mean he got away??
• MR. INCREDIBLE
Well, yeah. Skippy here
made sure of that.
IncrediBoy!
BUDDY
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MR. INCREDIBLE

(to Buddy)
You're not affiliated with me!

A tiny ALARM sounds. Incredible checks his wristwatch.

{CONTINUED)
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• CONTINUE:
MR. INCREDIBLE (CONT'D}
D Holy smokes•.. I'm late. Listen, I've
gotta be somewhere
--
• He signals the Incredibile with a remote. It roars into 13
view, squeals to a stop next to him.
COP
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But•••• what about Bomb Voyage--?

MR. INCREDIBLE
(climbing into the car)
Any other night I'd go after him myself
but I've really gotta go. Don't worry-
we'll get him-- EVENTUALLY!!

He fires the afterburner.s The cops watch in dismay as

the Incredibile roars off.
A DOWNTOWN CATHEDRAL

The INCREDIBILE pulls up in front, CONVERTING back into a

sedan•
INSIDE CATHEDRAL LOBBY

Mr. Incredible ENTERS , dressed smartly in a tux, fumbling

with his tie.
LUCIUS BEST/FROZONE
You're very late.
BOB/MR. INCREDIBLE
Is the night still young? How do I look?
His best man LUCIUS (aka FROZONE) stops him before he•.•

LUCIUS/FROZONE
The mask! You've still got the mask--

Best reaches up and pulls off his Mr. Incredible mask.

Bob takes a deep breath and pushes open the chapel doors--
BOB/MR. INCREDIBLE
Showtime--!

CHAPEL

Bob the Groom stands at the altar with his Bride, HELEN,
who we quickly realize is also ELASTIGIRL.

(CONTINUED)
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• REVEREND
Robert Golden, do you take Helen Truax to
be your lawful wedded wife... (etc.)
HELEN/ELASTIGIRL
(low, to Bob)
Cutting it kind of close, don'cha think?

CO BOB/MR. INCREDIBLE
You need to be more••. "flexible."
HELEN/ELASTIGIRL
I love you, but if we're going to make
this work, you've gotta be more than Mr.
Incredible. You know that, don't you?
NT
REVEREND
(concluding vows)
--as long as you both shall live?
BOB/MR. INCREDIBLE

IN

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(CONTINUED)
• I do.

They kiss. A crowd of SUPERHEROES cheer from the pews.

HELEN
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As long as we both shall live. No matter

what happens.
BOB
We're Superheroes. What could happen?
VIDEO FOOTAGE: an ANCHORWOMAN reports from a news desk. A
CHYRON displays the visage of MR. INCREDIBLE.
NEWSWOMAN
In a stunning turn of events, a Superhero
is being sued for saving someone who,
apparently, didn't want to be saved. The
Plaintiff, Oliver Sansweet, who was
foiled in his attempted suicide by Mr.
Incredible, has filed suit against the
famed Superhero in superior court.
FILM FOOTAGE: OUTSIDE THE COURTHOUSE

Sansweet's LAWYER stands next to him on the crowded front

steps, and speaks to a cluster of REPORTERS.
LAWYER
Mr. Sansweet didn't ask to be saved, Mr.
Sansweet didn't want to be saved.
(MORE)
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•
LAWYER (CONT 'D)
And the injury received from Mr.
Incredible's actions causes him daily
CONTINUE:
D pain.

The crowd STIRS as a business-suited MR. INCREDIBLE

appears and points a threatening finger at Sansweet .

MR. INCREDIBLE SANSWEET

I saved your life! You ruined my death!
MR. INCREDIBLE INCREDIBLE'S ATTORNEY
Listen you little piece of-- (cuts him off)
My client has no further
cormnent at this time!

FILM FOOTAGE: SHOTS of the train accident scene.

NARRATOR
Five days later, another suit was filed
by the victims of the el-train accident.

FILM FOOTAGE: SHOTS of a courtroom filled with neck

braced train-wreck victims. A lawyer goes through his
paces, often gesturing toward a glowering MR. INCREDIBLE.
NARRATOR (CONT'D)
Incredible's court losses cost the
government millions, and opened the
floodgates for dozens of similar lawsuits
against Superheroes the world over.
A SERIES OF SPINNING NEWSPAPER HEADLINES

describing the succession of lawsuits brought against

Superheroes: "DynaGuy sued!", "'SUPER' DAMAGES!", "X-RAY
VISION PEEPING TOM?"

Irate Taxpayers demonstrate, waving placards that read:

"NO MORE SUPER BAILOUTS!", "$UPER EXPEN$IVE!", etc.

FILM FOOTAGE: A CONGRESSMAN addresses his colleagues from

the floor of the House of Representatives.
CONGRESSMAN
It is time for their secret identities to
become their only identity. Time for them
to join us, or go away.
NARRATOR (V. 0.)
Under tremendous public pressure and the
crushing financial burden of an ever
mounting series of lawsuits, the
government quietly initiated the
(CONTINUED)
Superhero Relocation Program.
(CONTINUE)D
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CONTINUED:

FILM FOOTAGE: SUPERHEROES EXITING the public stage-- as

they wave goodbye (ala Nixon), duck into cars in a shower
of popping flashbulbs, cheered by supporters, jeered by
opponents, etc.

NARRATOR (V.O.) (CONT'D)

The Supers would no longer be held
accountable for past actions in exchange
for a promise to never again resume hero
work. Where are they now?

FILM FOOTAGE: A throng of people mill about the city

streets in diverse anonymity.
NARRATOR (CONT'D)
They are living among us, living as we
do, average citizens, average heroes,
quietly and anonymously continuing to
make the world a better place••.
The MUSIC crescendoes as camera LIFTS UP to the horizon
and the sun streaming through the clouds.
CUT TO:
EXTREME CLOSEUP: AN INSURANCE FORM

A STAMP slams down, leaving the word "DENIED" in red ink.

INT. INSURICARE INSURANCE COMPANY - BOB'S CUBICLE - DAY

A small, frail woman in her mid seventies named MURIEL

HOGENSON-- blinks in shock.
HOGENSON
"Denied"? You're denying my claim?

Her claims adjuster BOB PARR looks up. He looks familiar.

FADE IN TITLE:
FIFTEEN YEARS LATER

It's none other than MR. INCREDIBLE himself, now balding,

sixty-four pounds heavier and dressed in a too-tight
white collar shirt. Hogenson sits across from him,
bewildered and upset.

HOGENSON (CONT'D)
I don't understand. I have full coverage.
BOB
I'm sorry, Mrs. Hogenson, but our
liability is spelled out in paragraph 17--
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HOGENSON
I can't pay for this•••

BOB
(phone rings, he answers)
Excuse me. Claims, Bob Parr.

INTERCUT: HELEN INSIDE PARR HOME - KITCHEN - SAME TIME

HELEN PARR chats amiably as she bathes her happy toddler

:1 JACK-JACK in the sink of their airy, ranch-style kitchen.
"j:

iii Her hairstyle has changed, her hips have widened a

little, but Motherhood has agreed with her, and little
else has changed from her Elastigirl days. A stack of
empty MOVING BOXES are stacked haphazardly near the door.
HELEN

•
I'm calling to celebrate a momentous
occasion. We are now officially moved in.
INTERCUT WITH BOB

BOB
That's great, honey. And the last three
years don't count because•••
HELEN
Because I finally unpacked the last box.
Now it's official. Why do we have so much
junk?
BOB
Listen, honey, I've got a client here--
HELEN
Say no more, go save the world one policy
at a time, honey. I gotta go pick up the
kids from school. See you tonight.
BOB
Bye, honey.
(hangs up, turns to Hogenson)
Excuse me, where were we?
HOGENSON
(beginning to weep)
I'm on a fixed income. If you can't help
me, I don't know what I'll do!

Bob stares at her, empathizing completely.(CONTINUED

He stands up
and leans out of his cubicle, looks down the hallway in
both directions, makes sure the coast is clear.
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• CONTINUE:
BOB
D Alright. Listen closely. I'd like to help
you, but I can't.

(CONTINUED
)
• He hands her a pen and a pad of paper. He leans closer,
his voice low... !18

• BOB (CONT'D)
I'd like to tell you to take a copy of
your policy to Norma Wilcox on the--

He stops and looks up. She's staring at him blankly,

completely puzzled. Bob reaches over and taps her pad.
Suddenly understanding, she begins to scribble.•.
BOB (CONT'D)
--Norma Wilcox, W-I-L-C-O-X on the third
floor. But I can't. I would advise
against asking her for a WS-2475 form,
which you should not fill out and file
with a man named Oliver Jenkins in our
legal department on the seventh floor. I
wouldn't expect someone to get back to
you quickly to resolve the matter. I'd
like to help.
(he gives her a little smile)
But there's nothing I can do.
WOMAN
Oh... thank y--
BOB
(interrupting loudly)
I'm sorry, Ma'am. I know you're upset.
(low whisper)
Pretend you're upset.
Understanding, she smiles, stands up, and EXITS weeping.
Bob grins; he's beaten the system.

The old lady is gone for a total of six seconds when

Bob's supervisor GILBERT HUPH enters. Huph, an anal,
micromanaging little troll with a loud voice, throws a
folder on Bob's desk.

HUPH
Parr! You authorized payment on the
Walker policy??
BOB
Someone broke into their house, Mr. Huph.
Their policy clearly covers them against-
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• CONTINUED: (2) HUPH

(interrupting)

I don't want to know about their

coverage, Bob! Don't tell me about their
coverage! Tell me how you're keeping
Insuricare in the black! Tell me how
that's possible with you writing checks
to every Harry Hardluck and Sally
Sobstory that gives you a phone call!!
Huph leaves. Bob stands there impotently, then sits.
Knocking his pencil holder over.
PRINCIPAL'S OFFICE - ADAMS SCHOOL - DAY

Helen ENTERS, and sees her son DASH (age 10, blonde hair)
sitting hunched in a chair. Before him are two men,
Dash's teacher BERNIE KROPP-- balding, tense, and looking
older than his 36 years, and the school's PRINCIPAL.
PRINCIPAL
I appreciate you coming down here so
quickly, Mrs. Parr•
Helen enters and takes a seat. Dash stares at the floor.
HELEN
What's this about? Has Dash done
something wrong?
KROPP
He's a disruptive influence. And he
openly mocks me in front of the class.
DASH
He says.
KROPP
I know it's you!!
(to Helen)
He puts thumbtacks on my stool!
HELEN
You saw him do this??
KROPP
Well•.• not r-- no, actually not.
HELEN
Then how do you know it was him?
KROPP
I hid a camera. This time I've got him!
(CONTINUEP)
(CONTINUED)
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Kropp slips a DISC out of his jacket and into a machine

hooked up to a TV monitor. Dash REACTS; he didn't expect
this. Helen sees this, shoots Dash a sharp LOOK.

IN THE VIDEO: Kropp approaches his stool and sits.

Suddenly he JUMPS UP in pain. The students LAUGH. Kropp
whirls to the adults in the room expectantl.y
KROPP (CONT'D)
See??
(gets no response)
What, you don't see it?

He is met with BLANK STARES. With an exasperated sound,

Kropp REPLAYS the video, PAUSING IT, and pointing to a
still-seated Dash.
KROPP (CONT'D)
He moves!! Right THERE! Right as I'm
sitting down! I don't know how he does it-
Kropp forwards and rewinds; back and forth. Though Dash's
image does "pop" a bit, he remains clearly in his seat.
KROPP (CONT'D)
--but there's no tack on my stool before
he moves and after he moves there's a
tack! Coincidence? I think NOT!!

Helen jerks her head toward Kropp, gives the Principal a

"you see he's crazy, don't you?" look. He turns to Kropp--
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PRINCIPA KROPP
L Don't "Bernie" me! This
Bernie•• little rat is guilty!!
.
PRINCIPAL

(to Helen)
You and your son can go now, Mrs. Parr.
I'm sorry for the trouble...

Helen gives the Principal a thin smile and hustles Dash

from the room, leaving Kropp apoplectic.
KROPP
You're letting him go AGAIN? He's GUILTY!
You can see it on his smug little face!!!
Guilty guilty GUILTY!! NOOOOO!
INSIDE HELEN'S CAR - MOVING

Dash stares out the window in angry silence, watching the

trees go by. Helen looks at him and softens.

• (CONTINUED)
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CONTINUED:

HELEN
Dash. This is the third time this year
you've been sent to the office. You need
to find a better outlet. A more
constructive outlet.
DASH
Maybe I could. If you'd let me go out for
sports.
HELEN
Honey. You know why we can't do that.

DASH
But I promise I'll slow up! I'll only be
the best by a little bit•..
HELEN
Dashiell Robert Parr, you are an
incredibly competitive boy. And a bit of
a show-off. The last thing you need is
temptation.
DASH
You always say, "Do your best," but you
don't really mean it. Why can't I do the
best that I can do?
HELEN
Right now, honey, the world just wants us
to fit in. And to fit in we must be like
everyone else.
DASH
But Dad always said our powers were
nothing to be ashamed of, our powers made
us special.

HELEN
(wearily)
Everyone's special, Dash•.•
DASH
Which is another way of saying no one is.
EXT. WESTERN VIEW JUNIOR HIGH - DAY

Shy, insecure VIOLET PARR (14) waits nervously behind a

hedge near the front entrance. The bell SOUNDS, signalin
the end of the school day. Violet turns toward the door-

(CONTINUEP)
 Ohhh, great.

•
He decides to let it go, pushes the door closed. It won't
go. He tries again, a little harder this time. No go. He
SLAMS the door closed, shattering the window . !221.
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CONTINUED:

--as it swings open, and out steps TONY RYDINGER,

handsome, confident and crush-worthy. He pauses and is
immediately surrounded by friends.
As Tony descends the steps with his pals, tossing cool
nods at flirty girls, he passes by Violet, who peers at
him over the top of some bushes. He stops, aware of being
watched, and looks back-- SHE'S NOT THERE.
ANOTHER ANGLE

from the other side of the bush REVEALS: Violet's clothes

hang in mid-air --WITH NO HEAD.
Tony looks directly at the empty space where Violet's
head should be and, seeing nothing, gives up and walks
away. Violet's head REAPPEARS.•. blushing. She touches
her burning cheeks.
VIOLET
He looked at me.••!
A car horn HONKS o££screen. Violet hustles across the
expansive lawn, through the sea of boys and girls
together, to her mother's waiting station wagon.
EXT. MALANGO FREEWAY - LATE AFTERNOON

Cars stretch off into infinity, idling and immobile. It's

the traffic jam from hell, and right in the middle of it,
squeezed into a scruffy car many sizes too small, sits
Bob, trying not to be angry.
EXT. PARR HOME - LATER

A pleasant, unexceptional home in a neighborhood full of

pleasant, unexceptional homes. Bob's car pulls into the
driveway, the engine sputtering a long time before
finally expiring with a tired gasp.

Bob steps out and SLIPS on a skateboard left in the

driveway. He falls backward, grabbing the roof of the car
to steady himself. He pushes the skateboard away,
muttering darkly, and notices that he's inadvertently
crumpled the roof with his Super-grip.
BOB

•
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CONTINUED
:

Bob LOSES IT. He seizes the car, lifting it overhead as

if readying to fling it over the far horizon and STOPS-
--a five-year-old neighbor kid on a Big Wheel tricycle,
RUSTY MCALLISTER, stares on in SHOCK and AWE. Frozen with
the car overhead, Bob stares back... then sets his car
down on the driveway and eases into his house as if
nothing had happened.
INT. PARR DINING ROOM - NIGHT

Helen spoons baby food into the mouth of JACK-JACK (with

all the facial "English" known to parents), most of which
Jack-Jack squeezes back out onto his chin• .. where it
is adeptly caught on Helen's spoon and reintroduced into
the baby's mouth.
DASH
Mom, you're making weird faces again.
HELEN
(spoons, makes a weird face)
No, I'm not••.
BOB
You make weird faces, honey.
HELEN
(notices Bob's newspaper)
Do you have to read at the table?
BOB
Uh huh. Yeah.

Helen SIGHS. She turns her attention to Dash, who is

wrestling with an uncut slab of steak.
HELEN
Smaller bites, Dash! Bob, could you help
the carnivore cut his meat?
Bob SIGHS, puts down the paper, grabs a knife and fork,
reaches over to Dash's plate, and begins to cut his meat.
HELEN (CONT'D)
Dash? You have something you want to tell
your father about school?
DASH
Uh..• well, we dissected a frog• .• ?
HELEN
Dash got sent to the office again.
(CONTINUED)
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23.
CONTINUED:

BOB
(cutting, not listening)
Good... good.•.

HELEN
No Bob, that's bad.

BOB
What?
HELEN

Dash got sent to the office again.

BOB

What for? DASH

Nothing. HELEN

He put a tack on the teacher's chair.

During class.
DASH
Nobody saw me. You could barely see it on
the tape.

BOB
They caught you on tape and you still got a
ay with it? Whoa.•. you must've been
booking! How fast do you think you were--

HELEN
Bob, we are not encouraging this--

BOB
I'm not encouraging, I'm just asking how
fast he was--

HELEN
Honey!!

A loud CRACK is heard. Bob stops cutting; realizing that

he's sawed right through the table with his dinner knife.

BOB
Oh, great. First the car and now I gotta
pay to fix the table--

HELEN
The car? What happened to the car?
 (CONTINUED)

(CONTINUED
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CONTINUED: (2)

Bob rises, gives Dash his plate of food and EXITS into the
kitchen.

BOB
I'm getting a new plate.

HELEN
(to Vi, forced cheerful) What
about you, Vi? How was school?

VIOLET
(shrugs)
Nothing to report.

HELEN
You've hardly touched your food.

VIOLET
I'm not hungry for meatloaf.

HELEN
Well, it is leftover night. We have steak,
pasta-- what are you hungry for?

DASH
Tony Rydinger•••

VIOLET

(CONTINUED)
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Shut up!

DASH VIOLET
Well, you are! I said SHUT UP, you little insect!

DASH

Well, she is!

HELEN
Do NOT shout at the table!
(to Bob)
Honey--?

BOB (O.S., DISINTERESTED)

Kids, listen to your mother.

Dash and Violet swap GLARES. All resume eating. Then-

DASH
She'd eat if we were having Tonyloaf.

VIOLET
THAT'S IT--!!

(CONTINUED)
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CONTINUED: (3)

Violet LUNGES across the table, VANISHING (save for her

clothes). They wrestle. Dash escapes, racing around the
table in a BLUR, SLAPPING at the back of Vi's head before
crashing into a FORCE FIELD she throws in his path.

DASH VIOLET
OW!! No force fields!! You started it!!

HELEN

Stop it! Dash! Violet!

Helen's arms STRETCH across the table as she struggles to

keep the KIDS apart. Jack-Jack LAUGHS, loving the chaos.

INSIDE THE KITCHEN

Oblivious to the melee, Bob gets a new plate from the

cupboard, still perusing the newspaper. The headline
reads: "PALADINO MISSING". With it is a photo of a lean,
striking man, early forties, sporting wraparound
sunglasses and a full head of blonde hair.

BOB
(V.O., READING)
Simon J. Paladino, long an outspoken
advocate of Superhero rights, is missing.
(mutters to himself)
Gazerbeam.•.?

HELEN (0•S•)
Bob?? It's time to engage!! Do something! Bob

snaps out of it, turns toward the dining room. RESUME

DINING ROOM

Bob ENTERS-- startled to see the CHAOS.

HELEN
Don't just stand there! I need you to
intervene!

BOB
Okay-- I'm intervening, I'm INTERVENING!

Bob hoists the dinner table and everyone with it over his
head. Dash and Vi dangle from Helen's tangled arms and
continue to scrap. Jack-Jack shrieks happily.

The DOORBELL rings. Everyone FREEZES, then quickly resume

their original "quiet dining" positions. Dash answers the
(CONTINUED)
door.
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CONTINUED
:

LUCIUS BEST (aka FROZONE) stands in the doorway, looking

sharp in a leather jacket. Like Helen, he too has
weathered the post-Superhero years well.
DASH
Hey, Lucius!

FROZONE
Hey, Speedo... hey, Helen--

BOB
Ice of you to drop by!

FROZONE
(sarcastic)
Hah. Never heard that one before--

DASH
(mouth full of water)
Hey, Lucius!

Lucius turns to see Dash spurt a mouthful of water into

the air. Best's hand flashes out; the air CRACKS with a
sudden chill and the water FREEZES SOLID. Lucius LEAPS,
catches the ice before it hits the ground. Dash sinks
back, disappointed.

DASH (CONT'D)
Aww. I like it when it shatters.

BOB
(grabs his coat, bowling bag)
I'll be back later.

HELEN
Where are you two going?

BOB
It's Wednesday.

HELEN
(remembering)
Bowling night.
(resigned)
Say hello to Honey for me, Lucius.

FROZONE
Will do. Goodnight
, Helen. Night, kids!

Bob and Lucius EXIT, closing the front door behind them.
Helen turns to Dash.

(CONTINUED)
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• CONTINUED: (2)
HELEN

Don't think that you've avoided talking

about your trip to the Principal's
office, young man. Your father and I are
still going to discuss it.
DASH
I'm not the only kid who's been sent to
the office, y'know.
HELEN
Other kids don't have Superpowers. Now
it's perfectly normal for you to feel--
VIOLET
Normal? What do you know about normal?
What does anyone in our family know about
normal? The only normal one is Jack-Jack.
HELEN
Now, wait a minute, young lady--
VIOLET
We ACT normal! I want to BE normal! The
only normal one is Jack-Jack, and he's
not even toilet-trainedl
Buoyed by hearing his name, Jack-Jack gleefully spits a
mouthful of baby food onto his bib and cracks up.
DASH
Lucky.
(off Vi's and Helen's looks)
Uh, I meant about being normal.

INSIDE LUCIUS'S CAR - CITY STREETS - MINUTES LATER

Bob and Lucius sit in Lucius's large, comfortable sedan,

which is parked in a run-down city neighborhoo.d A
portable POLICE SCANNER sits on the dashboard, volume
low, occasionally interrupting his story.
FROZONE
.•.so now I'm in deep trouble, I mean one
more jolt of this death ray and I'm an
epitaph. Somehow I manage to find cover
and what does Doctor Toxic do?
BOB
(laughing)
He starts monologuing--

(CONTINUED)
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CONTINUED:

FROZONE
He STARTS MONOLOGUING! He starts, like,
this prepared speech about how feeble I
am compared to him, how inevitable my
defeat is, how the world will soon be his
yadda yadda yadda--

BOB
--yammerin'--

FROZONE
YAMMERIN'!! I mean, the guy has me on a
platter and he won't shut up!

SCANNER
Six one sam, eight Municiberg •••
(police response)
Go ahead.
(dispatch)
.•.possible 2356 in progress at 115
Weatherford Way--

Bob turns up the volume, suddenly intense.

BOB
2356. What is that-- robbery?

FROZONE
This is just sad.

BOB
Yeah, robbery. Wanna catch a robber?

FROZONE
Tell the truth, I'd rather go bowling.
What if we actually did what our wives
think we're doing, for a change?

EXT. LUCIUS'S CAR

WIDEN to REVEAL: the silhouette of a WOMAN watching Bob and

Lucius from the driver's seat of a black sports car,
discreetly parked in a dark alley. She lowers her
binoculars and speaks into a headset.

MIRAGE
He's not alone. The fat guy's still with him.
They're just talking••.

RESUME FROZONE & BOB

FROZONE
What're we doin' here, Bob?
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• CONTINUED: We're
BOB
protecting people.

FROZONE
Nobody asked us.

BOB
You need an invitation?

FROZONE
I'd like one, yes. We keep sneaking out
to do this and--
(stops, thinks)
--remember Gazerbeam? He had trouble
adjusting to civilian life, too.

BOB
Yeah, there was something about him in the
paper. When was the last time you saw him?
• FROZONE
I don't see anyone from the old days, Bob.
Just you. We're pushing our luck as it is.
It was fun the first time, but we keep
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doin' this and--

The scanner SQUAWKS suddenly-

SCANNER
We have a report of a fire at Fourth and
Elias.

BOB
A fire! We're close! Yeah, baby!!

Bob pulls a ski mask over his face. Shaking his head at
his own complicity, Lucius does likewise.

FROZONE
--we're gonna get caught.

He starts the car and U-turns toward the fire.

CITY STREETS - NIGHT - CONTINUOUS

Bob's enthusiastic SHOUTS echo off the darkened buildings as

the sedan peels off... followed, a beat later, by the
MYSTERIOUS BLONDE in the black sports car.
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INT. APARTMENT BUILDING - MINUTES LATER

A raging inferno. Bob descends the burning steps, stops in

the hallway. Both he and Frozone carry several passed out
apartment dwellers on their shoulders.

LUCIUS
Is that everybody?

BOB
Yeah, that's everyone!

The building is beginning to COLLAPSE. They're trapped

with no way out. Frozone tries to ice the burning walls,
but his ray is weak and ineffective.

BOB (CONT'D)
Can't you put this out?

LUCIUS
I can't lay down a layer thick enough!!
It's evaporating too fast!!

BOB
What? What's that mean?

LUCIUS
Means it's hot and I'm dehydrated, Bob!

BOB
You're out of ICE??! You can't run out of
ice! I thought you could use the water in
the air!

LUCIUS
There IS NO water in this air! What's
your excuse?? Run out of muscles?
BOB
I can't just go smashing through walls!
The building's getting weaker by the
second! It'll come down on top of us!!

LUCIUS
I wanted to go bowling!!!

A large chunk of ceiling smashes to the floor in a

burning heap. Bob looks around nervously, then fixes his
gaze toward the door. He shifts his stack of unconscious
victims to one shoulder and looks at Lucius.

(CONTINUED}
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CONTINUED :

BOB
Alright. Stay right on my tail, this is
going to get hot!

Bob begins a shout that gets louder as he runs into the

burning hallway, Lucius a half-step behind him.

TRAVELING WITH BOB & LUCIUS

as they race through the flames with their unconscious

loads. Suddenly a BRICK WALL APPEARS. Bob picks up speed
and lowers his free shoulder into it.

The heroes and their rescued smash through the wall just
as the building behind them collapses. Bob, Frozone and
the pile of near-victims are saved. An ALARM sounds. Bob
& Frozone realize they're--

INSIDE A JEWELRY STORE

A ROOKIE COP spies the MASKED MEN and draws his pistol.
Frozone spies a WATER COOLER. He grabs a PAPER CUP.

ROOKIE COP
FREEZE!

LUCIUS
I'm thirsty.

Lucius moves the cup under the tap. The jittery ROOKIE cocks
his pistol's hammer.

ROOKIE COP
I said FREEZE!

LUCIUS
I'm just getting a drink•.•

His eyes fixed on the cop, Lucius slooowwwly brings the cup
to his lips and drinks. His face becomes serene.

ROOKIE COP
Alright! You've had your drink! Now I
want you to--

LUCIUS
I know, I know..•

Lucius drops the cup, raising his hands in front of him.

LUCIUS (CONT'D)
•.•"freeze."

(CONTINUED)
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CONTINUED:

A frigid blast splits the air.

ON THE STREET OUTSIDE

2.fire trucks and a police car screech, having arrived in

front. Hearing the alarm, two VETERAN COPS bust into the--

INSIDE JEWELRY STORE - CONTINUOUS

Drawing their guns, the COPS are stopped by a bewildering

sight:

--a recovering heap of rescued fire victims at the base of

an enormous hole in the wall. Standing watch over them is
the ROOKIE, stunned and blinking under a layer of ice.

A BACK ALLEYWAY - SAME TIME

Bob and Lucius jump into Lucius's car, pulling off their ski
masks.

FROZONE
That was way too close. we are not doing that
again.

They drive out of frame, REVEALING: a BLACK SPORTS CAR

hidden in another alley behind. At the wheel is a
beautiful, mysterious WOMAN with platinum blonde hair. She
watches them drive off.

RADIO
Verify you want to switch targets? Over.

WOMAN
Trust me. This is the one he's been
looking for...

LIVING ROOM - NIGHT

Bob enters quietly through the kitchen, pausing in the

kitchen long enough to nab the remaining hunk of chocolate
cake. Humming pleasantly as he chews, he moves into the
living room when a voice comes out of the dark--

HELEN'S VOICE
You said you'd be back by eleven.

Bob FREEZES. A light snaps ON. A chair swivels around-

it's Helen, wearing her robe and a peeved expression.

BOB
I said I'd be back later .
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• HELEN
CONTINUED: I assumed you'd be back later. If you came
back at all, you'd be "back later."

BOB
Well.•. I'm back. Okay?

Bob moves to go, but Helen's left arm STRETCHES and stops
him, plucking a small, dusty fragment of concrete off his
coat. She crosses to him, catching up with her hand.

HELEN
Is this.•. rubble?

BOB
(defensive)
It was just a little workout, just to
stay loose--

HELEN
You know how I feel about that, Bob! Darn
you!! We just got settled! We can't blow
cover again!!

BOB
--the building was coming down anyway--

HELEN
Wha--? You KNOCKED DOWN A BUILDING??

BOB
It was on fire! Structurally unsound! It was
coming down anyway!

HELEN
Tell me it's not the police scanner again-

BOB
I performed a public service. You act
like that's a bad thing!

HELEN
It is a bad thing, Bob!! Uprooting our
family, again, because you had to relive the
glory days is a very bad thing!!

BOB
Hey, reliving the glory days is better
than acting like they didn't happen!!

HELEN
(CONTINUED)
Yes! They happened. But this, our family,
is what's happening now, Bob!
(MORE) (CONTINUED)
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CONTINUE:
D (2)
HELEN (CONT'D)
And you are missing this! I can't believe
you don't want to go to your own son's
graduation!

BOB
It's not a graduation! He's moving from
the fourth grade to the fifth grade!
HELEN
It's a ceremony•••
BOB
It's psychotic! They keep creating new
ways to celebrate mediocrity, but if
someone is genuinely exceptional, they
shut him down because they don't want
everybody else to feel bad!
HELEN
This is not about you, Bob!! This is
about Dash!!
BOB
You wanna help Dash? Let him actually
compete! Let him go out for sports!
HELEN
I will not be made the enemy here!! You
know why we can't do that!!!
BOB
BECAUSE HE'D BE GREAT!!

HELEN
THIS IS NOT ABOUT YOU!!!

An abrupt BREEZE ripples the air, ruffling some loose

papers on the coffee table.
BOB
Alright, Dash. I know you're listenin.
g
Come on out.
HELEN
You too, young lady.

Dash moves out from behind a door. Violet's head

REMATERIALIZES from behind the couch, she stands up,
embarrassed. Bob moves next to Helen, becoming parental.
BOB
It's okay, kids. We're just having a
discussion.

(CONTINUED)
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• CONTINUED: (3)
VIOLET

Pretty loud discussion.

BOB
But that's okay. What's important is that
Mommy and I are always a team, always
united•.• against•.• uh•..
(unsure where he's going)
••.the forces of--
HELEN
Pigheadedness.••?
BOB
I was going to say evil or something
.
HELEN
(to kids)
We're sorry we woke you. Everything's
okay. Go back to bed, it's late. In fact-
(pointedly to Bob)
--we should all be in bed.

Bob frowns and turns away, following the kids back toward
the bedrooms.
INSURICARE - BOB'S CUBICLE - FOLLOWING MORNING

Bob sits at his tiny desk. One look at his bleary face
says it all: he hasn't slept all night. His intercom
BEEPS. Bob glares at it a beat, then hits ANSWER.
INTERCOM
Mr. Huph wants you in his office.
BOB

Now?
INTERCOM
Now.

Bob releases the intercom button, SIGHS. Mirage

looks around Bob's cramped cubicle, her gaze falling
to the open briefcase on Bob's desk.
INSIDE HUPH'S OFFICE

Marginally bigger than Bob's office, with a coveted

window to the outside world. Painfully clean and joyless.
Every pencil sharpened , every paper perfectly stacked
and aligned to run parallel to the edge of the (CONTINUED)
desktop.
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CONTINUED:

HUPH
Sit down, Bob.
(Bob sits)
I'm not happy, Bob. Not. Happy. Ask me
why.

Huph rises from his desk and crosses to Bob.

BOB
Okay. Why.

HUPH
Why what? Be specific, Bob.

Bob's eyes are drawn to the window: Outside, across the

street, a stocky man lingers suspiciously in an alleyway.

BOB
(still watching man)
Why are you unhappy.

HUPH
Your customers make me unhappy.

BOB
(turns back to Huph)
You've gotten complaints?

HUPH
Complaints I can handle. What I can't handle
is your customers' inexplicable knowledge of
Insuricare's inner workings. They're
experts! Experts, Bob! Exploiting every
loophole, dodging every obstacle--
(aghast)
--they're penetrating the bureaucracy!

BOB
Did I do something illegal?
HUPH
(irked)
No • . •

BOB
Are you saying we shouldn't help our
customers?

HUPH
The law requires that I answer no.

BOB
We're supposed to help people.
(CONTINUED)
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CONTINUED: (2)

HUPH
We're supposed to help OUR people!
Starting with our stockholders, Bob.
Who's helping them out, huh?

Huph draws a calming breath, affects a statesmanlike air.

HUPH (CONT'D)
You know, Bob•.. a company is--

BOB
Like an enormous clock.

HUPH
--like an enormous cl-- Yes! Precisely. It
only works if all the little cogs mesh
together.

Bob's attention returns to the window: the stocky man is

accosting a smaller one. Like an ATTACK DOG, Bob is suddenly
ALERT; every muscle tensed and ready--

HUPH (O.S.) (CONT'D)

Now, a clock needs to be clean, well
lubricated, wound tight. The best clocks
have jewel movements, cogs that fit, that
cooperate by design. I'm being
metaphorical, Bob. You know what I mean by
cooperative cogs? Bob? Bob...?

Huph follows Bob's gaze to the window. On the street, the

larger man clubs the smaller man with a mace. He ,crumple s
to the sidewalk. Huph jerks Bob's face back toward his--

HUPH (CONT'D)
Look at me when I'm talking to you, Parr!

BOB
(pointing)
That man out there-- he needs help!

HUPH
Do NOT change the subject, Bob! We're
discussing your attitude!

BOB
But he's getting mugged!

HUPH
Well, let's hope we don't cover him!
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CONTINUED: (3)

BOB
(heading for the door)
I'll be right back.

HUPH
Stop RIGHT NOW OR YOU'RE FIRED!

Bob HESITATES, his hand on the knob of the opened door,

fighting back the very core of his being. Huph narrows
his eyes, speaking softly...

HUPH (CONT'D)
Close the door••.

Neck cords STRAINING, Bob slowly shuts the door. He

releases the knob, which he's crumpled in rage.

HUPH (CONT'D)
Get over here•.. now.

Bob resumes his position in front of Huph, but his gaze

inevitably returns to the scene outside the window.

BOB'S P.O.V.

The MUGGER pockets his plunder and runs off, leaving his
victim dazed and helpless on the sidewalk.

BOB
(seething)
He got away.•.

HUPH
Good thing, too. You were this close to losing
your j--

Huph SQUEAKS as Bob's enormous right hand flashes out and

clamps around his neck--

OUTER HALLWAY

Huph's body BURSTS THROUGH A WALL and into another

adjacent, tumbling face down onto a copy machine. It
begins to spit out multiple copies of his pressed face.

Huph has in fact gone through several walls, four in total

and three adjoining offices, before skidding across the
floor of the newly visible hallway beyond.

The occupants of adjacent offices lean into view, gawking in

astonishment through their shattered walls; first at Huph's
sprawled form, then one by one back at Bob.
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CONTINUED: BOB
Uh oh••.

HOSPITAL - HALLWAY - HOURS LATER

Through the window in the door we can glimpse Huph in a

full body cast. Bob, seated on a bench outside, looks up
as RICK DICKER, a haggard-faced man in a black suit and
tie quietly exits Huph's room. He stops, looks at Bob,
then turns away, heading to the elevator. Bob follows
after him.

BOB
How is he?
DICKE
He'll live.
R

BOB

I'm fired, aren't I?

DICKER
You think?
BOB
What can I say, Rick?

DICKER
Nothing you haven't said before.
BOB
Someone was in trouble•..

DICKER
Someone's always in trouble.
BOB
I had to do something...
DICKER
Yeah. Every time you say those words, it
means a month and a half of trouble for
me, Bob. Minimum. It means hundreds of
thousands of taxpayer dollars..•
BOB
I know.

DICKER
We gotta pay to keep the company quiet.
We gotta pay damages, erase memories,
relocate your family. Every time it gets
harder. Money(MORE)
money money.
(CONTINUED
)
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CONTINUED:
DICKER (CONT 'D )
we can't keep doing this , Bob. We
appreciate what you did in the old days,
but those days are over. From now on,
you're on your own.

The elevator doors OPEN, Dicker steps inside. Bob stares at

the floor, beaten. Dicker looks at him with pity. Then-

DICKER (CONT'D)
Listen, Bob... maybe I could relocate
you, for old times' sake...

BOB
No. I can't do that to my family again.
We just got settled. It'll be alright.
I'll make it work. Thanks.

Dicker stares at Bob a long moment. A bittersweet smile-

DICKER
Take care of yourself.

The elevator doors CLOSE. Bob stares at them, numb. EXT.

BOB'S DRIVEWAY - DUSK

Bob climbs out of his car and is surprised to find

someone watching him--

--the KID on the Big Wheel, waiting in exactly the same

spot as the night before.

BOB
What're you waiting for?

KID
I dunno. Something amazing, I guess.

A rueful smile blooms and dies on Bob's face.

BOB
Me too, kid. Me too.

INT. BOB'S DEN

A cramped, windowless museum of MR. INCREDIBLE arcana. Walls

and shelves cluttered with mementos of his storied past:
framed photos, newspaper front pages, magazines, and,
displayed on the wall under Plexiglas, his MR. INCREDIBLE
SUIT.

Bob enters and closes the door. He opens his briefcase,

pulls out an INSURICARE EMPLOYEE'S MANUAL. Bob growls and
rips it in half, tossing it in the trashcan.

(CONTINUED)
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On a roll now, he begins to dump the entire contents of his

briefcase into the trash when-- CLUNK!

Bob DOUBLE-TAKES-- startled by the HEAVY sound. He peers over

the edge of the desk, into the trash, and SEES--

A LARGE MANILA ENVELOPE. He picks it up, and is surprised

it's heavy. He opens it and pulls out a FLAT PANEL about a
half-inch thick. On it is printed "THIS END UP".

He turns the panel as instructed. In the center is a small

circle with writing beneath it. Bob SQUINTS, unable to read
the tiny letters. He brings it closer--

HIS P.O.V.:

As the letters•.. slowly••• come.•. into•.• focus:

BOB
(reading)
HOLD STILL.

Suddenly, the panel projects a red GRID over Bob's face. We

hear a robotic female VOICE--

VOICE
Match: Mr. Incredible.

Bob DROPS the panel in surprise. It clatters to the desk,

still functioning. A small foot-long rod with a metal ball
at the top pops out from the panel. The ball at the tip
makes a quick, single revolution, scanning the surrounding
room with a vertical beam.

VOICE (CONT'D)
Room is secure. Commence message.

The panel FLICKERS. It's a VIDEO SCREEN. An IMAGE

appears; the beautiful platinum blonde woman who visited
Bob's office earlier that day.

WOMAN
Hello, Mr. Incredible. My name is Mirage.
Yes, we know who you are. Rest assured your
secret is safe with us. Actually, we have
something in common. According to the
Government, neither of us exist.
Please pay attention as this message is CLASSIFIED
and will not be repeated••.

Bob moves closer, mesmerized ••.

(CONTINUED)
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CONTINUED: (2)
CONTINUED:

MIRAGE
I represent a top-secret division of the
Government, designing and testing
experimental technology and-- we have
need of your unique abilities.

HELEN'S VOICE
Honey??

Bob startles, then strains to listen to the message.

MIRAGE (CONT'D) BOB

Something has happened at What??
our remote testing
facility.

MIRAGE (CONT'D) HELEN'S VOICE

A highly experimental Dinner's ready!

prototype robot has escaped
our control--

MIRAGE (CONT'D) BOB

Although it is contained OKAY, okay!
within an isolated area--

Bob grabs a pen and a scrap of paper and starts to

scribble furiously, only to find the pen dry. Cursing, he
rummages for a working pen, finds one and begins to take
notes.

MIRAGE
--it threatens to cause incalculable damage
to itself and to our facilities,
jeopardizing hundreds of millions of
dollars' worth of equipment and research.
Only someone with--

HELEN'S VOICE MIRAGE (CONT'D)

Is someone in there? --your unique abilities can
contain the robot without
completely destroying it.

BOB MIRAGE (CONT'D)

The T.V.! I'm trying to Because of its highly
watch--! sensitive nature--

HELEN'S VOICE MIRAGE (CONT'D)

Well, stop trying, it's --this mission does not,
time for dinner! nor will it ever, exist.

(CONTINUED)
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CONTINUE:
D ( 3)

BO MIRAGE (CONT'D)
ONE MINUTE! B If you accept, your payment
will be equivalent to your
current annual salary.

Bob's jaw goes slack. He scribbles "BIG$".

MIRAGE (CONT'D)
Call the number on the screen. Voice
matching will be used to insure security.
The Supers aren't gone, Mr. Incredible.
You're still here. You can still do great
things. or... you can listen to Police
Scanners. Your choice. You have 24 hours
to respond. Think about it.
Bob finishes scribblin.g His mind is reeling. HEROIC
MUSIC begins to stir. A new light comes into Bob's eyes
as they turn to the--
PICTURES ON THE WALL

of Mr. Incredible's gallant past. The robotic voice

relays a last message--
VOICE
This message will self-destruct.
Bob's eyes fall to the panel. Uh oh.
HALLWAY OUTSIDE BOB'S DEN

We hear a muffled BOOM from inside. After a long beat the

ceiling sprinklers come on, followed by the family's
SHOUTS from the dining room.

The den door opens and Bob emerges in a cloud of smoke,

so preoccupied that he's slow to notice the downpour.
INSIDE - LATER
Bob and Helen finish drying the inside of the house.

HELEN
You're one distracted guy.
BOB
Hrnn. ••• ? Am I? Don't mean to be.
Helen looks at Bob, puts a tender arm around him.

(CONTIN
UED)
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CONTINUED :

HELEN
I know you miss being a hero••. and your
job is frustrating and... and I just want
you to know how much it means to me that
you stay at it anyway.

BOB
Honey... about the job...

HELEN
What?

BOB
I-I... uh..• something's happened--

Helen glares at him, clearly expecting the worst.

HELEN
Whaaat?

BOB
The company's sending me to a conference
out of town. I'll be gone for a few days.

HELEN
A conference? They've never sent you to a
conference before.

Helen gives Bob a questioning look. Bob tenses. Pause.

HELEN (CONT'D)
This is good, isn't it?

BOB
Yes.

HELEN
You see? They're finally recognizing your
talents. You're moving up•..!
(she hugs him, then, softly)
It's wonderful.

BOB
Yes. Yes, it is.•.

BOB'S DEN - LATER

Bob is on the phone, glancing at the MR. INCREDIBLE SUIT in

his display case. After a ring, a female voice answers-

BOB (CONT'D)
This is Mr. Incredible. I'm in.
ABOVE THE CLOUDS - DAY

A sleek-looking MANTA JET slices the sky.

INSIDE THE JET

Bob, clad in his old (and now too-tight) Mr. Incredible suit.
MIRAGE IS ON BOARD. SHE DEBRIEFS HIM.

MIRAGE
The OMNIDROID 9000 is a top-secret,
prototype battle robot. Its artificial
intelligence enables it to solve any
problem it's confronted with. And...
unfortunately--

MR. INCREDIBLE
Let me guess. It got smart enough to
wonder why it had to take orders.

MIRAGE
(nodding)
--we lost control. And now it's loose in the
jungle, threatening our facility.
We've had to evacuate all personnel from
the island for their own safety. They're
waiting offshore for the all clear.

MR. INCREDIBLE
How am I going in?

MIRAGE
The Omnidroid's defenses have necessitated
an air drop from 5000 feet. Its cloaking
device makes it difficult to track•. .
although we're pretty sure it's on the
southern half of the island. One more
thing; obviously it represents a
significant investment--

MR. INCREDIBLE
You want me to shut it down without
completely destroying it.

MIRAGE
(smiles)
You are Mr. Incredible.

DROP POD BAY

After a few unsuccessful tries , Mr. Incredible manages to

squeeze his girth into the pod. Mirage enters the pod bay ,
presses the pod's speaker switch.
(CONTINUED )
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CONTINUED:

MIRAGE
(through speaker)
Remember: it's a learning robot. Every
moment you spend fighting it only
increases its knowledge of how to beat
you.
BOB
(through speaker)
Shut it down. Do it quickly. Don't
destroy it.
MIRAGE
(through
speaker) And don't
die.
Bob shoots Mirage a wan smile.
BOB
Great. Thanks.

The POD is blasted from the jet and disappears into

clouds above the island.
SLOW DISSOLVE TO'.
EXT. NOMANISAN JUNGLE - MINUTES LATER

Bob groans as he tries to disengage his generous belly

from the tiny pod. Finally, with a frustrated yell, he
RIPS the pod in half; FREE. He stretches, does a few toe
touches and twists to shake out the kinks. He's ready.
BOB
Showtime
.
He jogs off into the jungle to track the robot.

A SERIES OF DISSOLVES

As an out-of-shape Bob jogs deeper and deeper into the

jungle, growing more winded with each passing mile. His
sides ache, and he PAUSES now and then to catch his
breath, but he shakes it off and resumes his pursuit.
DISSOLVE TO;
LATER

The forest is still now, and Bob's footfalls and heavy

breathing are the only sounds we hear. Bob still scans
the jungle, but he's tiring and he pauses to lean
(CONTINUED)
agains
t a banyan tree to catch his breath•••
...and notices LARGE SLASH MARKS in the side of the tree.
He runs his hand over them; they're fresh. In the dirt
near his feet is a giant X-SHAPED FOOTPRINT.
BOB
Hnm •••

With a loud CRACK the trees behind him split apart and
the OMNIDROID is upon him. It SLASHES at him and he
dodges, but not quickly enough and the bot's claw catches
him in the shoulder, drawing blood.

Fire comes into Bob's eyes and when the bot slashes again
he's ready-- leaping over the bot and landing on his feet
on the opposite side. The bot is caught by surprise and
in the split second it takes for the bot to find Bob--

--BAMMMM!!! Bob has thrown a mammoth punch that sends the

machine flying into the nearest tree.

Bob lets out a happy snarl that says, nYou just got
schooled by MR. INCREDIBLE, baby." Deep within its metal
shell, servos WHINE and the bot rights itself, its EYE
LENS fixing on Bob.

(CONTINUED)
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CONTINUED BOB (CONT'D)
Uh oh.

The bot CHARGES. Once again Bob tries his patented

leap- TIME SLOWS as we cut to INSIDE THE BOT'S BRAIN.
A
VIEWSCREEN shows the arc of Bob's leap being calculated
by the bot.
RESUME WIDE SHOT

The bot swings-- SWATTING Bob mid-jump. Bob sails into a

banyan tree so hard that it splits the trunk. Bob is
STUNNED: the bot has quickly learned and countered. The
bot CHARGES again.
WITH BOB

--as he runs for his life, the Omnidroid hot on his tail.
Bob races through the jungle with surprising speed, but
his added weight is slowing him down. He CUTS ha:e:d to his
right and DIVES--
OFF A CLIFF

Bob tumbles and slides down the :e:ocky, near-vertical

face, followed by the relentless machine. It ROLLS
past him and lands in his path.

(CONTINUED)
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CONTINUED:

Bob flings boulders at the machine, but the bot is a fast

learner, immediately incorporating Bob's moves into its own
attack.

The Omnidroid leaps high in the air and nearly lands on top
of Bob, who leaps clear and tumbles to the bottom of the
cliffs.

LAVA FIELDS

Bob REELS, and before he knows what's happening, the

Omnidroid is there, driving him toward the bubbling-hot
pools of LAVA.

Bob resists the bot with all his might, but his feet
can't hold the rocky surface, and as he is pushed ever
closer to the white-hot lava, fear begins to grip his
mind.

Bob and the Omnidroid grip each other like wildly mismatched
wrestlers, with Bob at lava's edge now, losing ground. Bob is
STRAINING, desperate... then something in him SNAPS. He fills
with rage, and with a ROAR he--

--jerks to one side and FLIPS the OMNIDROID into the lava.
The machine hits the lava with a hissy SPLAT, sinks into the
hot glow and disappears. Bob is wild. He laughs, pointing at
the bat's grave with a gesture of defiance and--

SNAP!-- throws his back out. Suddenly he can't breathe.

BOB
Agh. My back--!

The ground EXPLODES beneath him, splitting the rock. Claws

rise from the lava, grip the rock, and the dreaded
Omnidroid draws itself out of the lava, dripping magma, its
metal body glowing red as if it came from hell itself.

Bob looks down. The ground is splitting into chunks beneath

his feet. In pain, barely able to move, Bob makes a
desperate leap to a chunk of rock as it breaks free... and
lands pathetically on top.

The bot snatches him off and slams him into the ground. Then
it lifts Bob up, grabbing his feet with another claw and
begins to pull Bob apart. Bob strains, then-- POP!

--his back realigns! Bob is a new man! With a laugh he

1
jackknifes-- ripping off one of the Omnidroid s claws .
He drops underneath the bot, causing the bot to open a
second eye in its underbelly to find him.
(CONTINUED)
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CONTINUED:

Bob ROARS, seizing the second eye, ripping it off the

bot's body and flinging it in the lava pool. Before the
bot can react, Bob has climbed inside the hole in the
belly. The bot knows Bob is inside and begins to STAB
itself wildly to get at him... puncturing itself again
and again and tearing itself apart.

Until... sparking and sputtering, it staggers and shuts

down. Bob punches a hole in the top, whistling and
slapping its side. The bot drunkenly ROUSES and makes a
final grab for Bob deep within its belly, and rips out
its own metallic guts•.•

...and KEELS OVER, a lifeless scrap pile. Bob hops out,

smiling. Mr. Incredible's work is done.
IN A NEARBY TREE

An exotic BIRD, which looks strangely out of place, cocks

its head to one side. CAMERA PUSHES IN to one of its eyes
as a metal IRIS appears. It's a CAMERA LENS.
A SHADOWED FIGURE

stands with Mirage, watching this all on a bank of VIDEO

SCREENS.
SHADOWED FIGURE
Surprising. We must bring him back. Sound
the all clear.
(he exits, stops, turns back)
And... invite him to dinner.
INT. DINING HALL - OUTER CORRIDOR - EARLY EVENING
A TRANSPOD arrives and Bob steps out, dressed in a tux.

INT. DINING HALL

Bob opens the door, peeks inside. The hall is massive,

with an open terrace that overlooks the tropical forest.
In the center of the room is an enormous dining table,
placed parallel to a fall of hot LAVA.

Bob checks his watch; realizes he's early. A sudd€n

RUMBLE makes him look up. The LAVA FALL PARTS, revealing
a SECRET PASSAGEWA.
Y MIRAGE emerges.

Bob instinctively pulls back, leaving the door opened

just enough to watch. A SILHOUETTED FIGURE follows after
Mirage, gesturing animatedl.y They pause at the entrance
to the passageway, their talk too distant to be heard.

(CONTINUED)
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CONTINUED :

A sound causes MIRAGE to look in Bob's direction.

INT. DINING HALL - OUTER CORRIDOR - MOMENTS LATER

Mirage, suspicious, pushes open the dining hall DOORS.

Climbing out of the transpod, Bob notices her and smiles.

BOB
Am I overdressed?

MIRAGE
Actually , you look rather dashing.

INT. DINING HALL

Bob and Mirage are seated at an enormous table that runs

parallel to an equally large LAVA FALL.

BOB
I take it our host is--

MIRAGE
I'm sorry. He's not able to dine with us
tonight. He hopes you'll understand.

BOB
Of course. I usually make it a point to know
who I'm working for.

MIRAGE
He prefers a certain amount of anonymity.
Surely you of all people understand that.

BOB
I was just wondering... of all the places to
settle down, why live--

MIRAGE
--with a volcano? He's attracted to power.
So am I. It's a weakness we share.

BOB
Seems a bit unstable.

MIRAGE
I prefer to think of it as misunderstood.

BOB
Aren't we all?

(C ONTINUED )
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CONTINUED:

MIRAGE
Volcanic soil is among the most fertile
on earth. Everything at the table was
grown right here. How does it comparB?

BOB
Everything's delicious.

Bob raises his glass. Mirage smiles and does likewise.

MONTAGE: INCREDIBLE AGAIN

His self-esteem back, Bob returns home with renewed

vigor. He bonds with his kids, gets frisky with Helen, and
takes new pride in his appearance. He buys a new snazzy
SPORTS CAR for himself, and a new car for Helen.

After he says goodbye to Helen several mornings, clearly

pretending to go off to the job he no longer holds at
Insuricare, we see how he's actually spending his days;
dropping weight and getting in shape.

The Superheroic workouts do their job; Bob is in the best

shape he's been in many years.

INT. BOB'S BEDROOM - MORNING - MONTHS LATER

Bob, dressed in a more expensive and tailored version of his

Insuricare suit, pauses to examine the torn spot on his MR.
INCREDIBLE SUPERSUIT.

HELEN (O.S.)
Hurry, honey, or you'll be late for work!

Bob quickly stuffs his SUPERSUIT into his briefcase and

snaps it shut.

PARR HOUSE - FRONT DOORSTEP - MORNING

Bob pauses at the doorstep. Helen enters and HUGS him.

HELEN
Have a great day, honey! Help customers,
climb ladders--

BOB
--bring bacon--

HELEN
--all that jazz!

Helen plants a proud kiss on his lips. Bob exits.

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EXT. E'S HOUSE - DAY

Bob's new car pulls up to an imposing gate, a futuristic

web of parallel laser beams. He turns toward a video
screen and presses a button beneath it. The VIDEO SCREEN
lights up, revealing a BURLY GUARD.

GUARD
Do you have an appointment?

BOB
I'm an old friend, I just wanted--

GUARD
All visitors are required to make arr--

The GUARD suddenly flinches from something below camera,

and is shooed offscreen by a strident , husky female voice-

VOICE
Get back, Rolf! Go check the electric
fence or something.

A pair of huge glasses fronting the top half of a head

rises into the bottom half of the screen, out of focus.
This is EDNA MODE, known by her friends simply as "E."
E
What is it? What do you want??

Bob removes his sunglasses and grins at the camera.

E (CONT'D)
My God, you've gotten fat. Come in! Come!

The gate opens and Bob drives up the long driveway that
winds up the hill to E's tastefully arty house.

INT. E'S HOUSE

E leads Bob through the tasteful, minimalistic entrance way

into her massive living room. E is in her early sixties,
half German, half Japanese, and like both of those small
countries, not to be underestimated.

E
Yes, things are going quite well. My God,
no complaints. But, you know, it is not
the same. Not the same at all.

BOB
Weren't you just in the news? Some show
in Prague?

(CONTINUED)
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CONTINUED:

E
Milan, darling, Milan. "Supermodels"- HAH!
Nothing super about them. Spoiled, stupid
little stick figures with poofy lips who
think only about themselves- FEH! I used to
design for Gods! But perhaps you come with
a challenge, eh? I was surprised to get
your call.

BOB
E, I just need a patch job.

Bob hands E his damaged suit. She examines it, frowning.

E
This is megamesh, outmoded but very sturdy,
and you've torn right through it. What have
you been doing, Robert? Moon lighting hero
work?

BOB
Must've happened a long time ago.

E
(knowingly)
I see.
(re: his suit)

This is a hobo suit, you can't be seen in

this. I won't allow it. Fifteen years ago,
maybe. But now•••

E drops the suit into a trashcan. Bob retrieves it.

BOB
What do you mean? You designed it.

E
I never look back, darling. It distracts
from the now. You need a new suit. That
much is certain.

BOB
A new suit? Where the hell would I get--
E
You can't! It's impossible, I'm far too busy
so ask me now, before I again become sane.

BOB
(confused )
You.•. want to make me a suit?

(CONTINUED )
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CONTINUED: (2)

E
You push too hard, darling-- but I
accept. It will be bold. Dramatic!
Heroic!

BOB
Yeah. Something classic, like Dynaguy. He
had a great look. The cape, the boots--

(CONTINUED )
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CONTINUED: E
No capes.
BOB

Isn't that my decision?

Unaccustomed to being questioned, E visibly STIFFENS.

E
Do you remember..• Thunderhead?

FLASHBACK: MAELSTROM IN HIS PRIME

--beefy and B-movie handsome, decked out in a splendid

outfit with elegant floor-length CAPE.

E (V.O.)
Tall, storm powers, nice man. Good with
kids...

RESUME SCENE

Bob knows where this is headed and moves to speak, but is

instantly cut off by E.

E
September 15th of fifty-eight--

RESUME FLASHBACK

A MADMAN aims a MISSILE LAUNCHER at a city across a bay.

Maelstrom leaps into frame, dispatches him with a single
punch and turns the missile towards the open sea. His duty
done, he turns and smiles at a young lady standing nearby,
failing to notice that his cape has caught on the missile--

E (V.O.)
-- all was well, another day saved, when--

The rocket BLASTS into the distance, taking Maelstrom

with it--
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E (V.0.) (CONT'D)
-- his cape snagged on a missile fin. His
scorched remains were found several hundred
miles away--

INTERCUT: comically brief FLASHBACKS (as E describes them)

of each Super being doomed by his or her cape--

BOB
Maelstrom wasn't the brightest bulb in th-

E
(cuts him off)
--SLIPSTREAM: April 19th, fifty-seven.
Cape caught in a jet turbine--

BOB
E, you can't generalize about these th--

E (V.O.)
(rapid-fire FLASHBACKS)
--MULTIMAN: express elevator, DYNAGUY:
snag on takeoff, SPLASHDOWN: sucked into a
vortex--

END FLASHBACKS. E glares at Bob, declaring with unassailable

finality:

E (CONT'D)
--NO CAPES!
(turns, exiting dismissively) Well,
go on. Your new suit will be finished
before your next assignment.

BOB
You know I'm retired from hero work.

E
As am I, Robert. Yet here we are.

BOB
I only need a patch job, E. For
sentimental reasons.

E
(heavy sigh, takes suit) Fine.
I will also fix the hobo suit.

BOB
E, you're the best of the best.

E
Yes, I know, darling. I know.
(CONTINUED )
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CONTINUED

INT. PARR HOME - MASTER BEDROOM - EVENING

Helen plucks one of Bob's enormous shirts from a stack of

freshly cleaned laundry and hangs it up in their closet,
when something catches her eye:

A long, PLATINUM-BLONDE HAIR (Mirage's) on Bob's suit

jacket. Helen plucks it off, examining it. The phone RINGS.
She goes to answer it, hesitating when she hears--

BOB (O.S.)
I got it! Don't answer it, honey, I got
it!

Helen frowns. There's something suspicious about Bob's

eagerness.

INT. BOB'S DEN

Bob picks up the phone-

BOB
Hello?

INT. CONTROL ROOM - NOMANISAN

MIRAGE
We have a new assignment for you.

INT. MASTER BEDROOM - WITH HELEN

She carefully picks up the phone, places a hand over the

mouthpiece, and listens in••.

MIRAGE'S VOICE (PHONE)

How soon can you get here?

BOB'S VOICE (PHONE)

I'll leave tomorrow morning.

Helen REACTS.

INT. BOB'S DEN

BOB
I understand. Goodbye.

Bob hangs up the phone and moves to the door, opening it.
Helen is there, blocking the doorway. She forces a smile.

HELEN
Who was that, honey? The office?
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BOB
Another conference. Short notice, but-
(srniles, shrugs)
--duty calls.

Bob squeezes past her and exits. Helen stares into his
den, feeling suspicious and impotent.
INT. PARR GARAGE - MORNING

Bob is seated in his new sports car, its engine purring.

He belts himself in. Helen enters, still in her robe.
HELEN
Bob--
BOB
Hmn? What is it, honey?

A storm of conflicting emotions play across Helen's face.

But she puts on a happy face and leans down through his
open window.
HELEN
Have a nice trip.
BOB
Thanks, honey. Call you when I land.
HELEN
I love you... so much.

Something in her voice makes Bob hesitate. He looks back

at her, curious.
BOB
I love you too.

He gives her a kiss, then backs out of the driveway, and,

with a wave, drives off.
EXT. ABOVE THE CLOUDS - DAY

The sleek-looking MANTA JET slices the sky.

INT. MANTA JET

Bob, leaner and meaner in his new SUPERSUIT, dips a fresh

prawn into some cocktail sauce and gazes around the
luxurious cabin. He's happy as a clam.

(CONTINUED)
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AUTOPILOT
This is your automated Captain speaking. Would
you care for more Mimosa?

BOB
Don't mind if I do. Thanks.

His glass disappears into his armrest, instantly replaced by

a full glass of mimosa.

AUTOPILOT
You're welcome. Currently 78 degrees in
Nomanisan. Please fasten your seat
belts. We're beginning our descent.

OVER THE ISLAND

As the jet begins its descent toward the island, we begin to

see its spectacular aspects: active volcano, towering snow-
capped peak, tumbling waterfalls, futuristic monorail,
etc.... a paradise on earth.

Suddenly the engines cut off and the jet PLUNGES, nose
down, into the sea, converting into a SUBMERSIBLE.

BENEATH THE WATER'S SURFACE

The jetsub cruises through a fantastic seascape of exotic

otherworldly rock formations, toward the base of the island
through vast curtains of bubbles created from a field of
cooling lava.

A massive door OPENS, revealing a huge underwater docking bay.

The ship enters, the entrance closing behind th€m.

INSIDE THE DOCKING BAY

The water DRAINS. The JETSUB settles to a landing. A giant

DOCKING TUBE extends from a side wall and connects to the
side of the jetsub.

INT. JETSUB

Bob turns as a door opens, REVEALING a small side chamber

and a pair of shapely LEGS . MIRAGE leans into view.

MIRAGE
Welcome back, Mr. Incredible. Nice suit.
You've lost weight.

BOB
But not my appetite. It's good to be
back. Mirage.
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Bob enters the monopod. The doors shut and it takes 0££. EXT.

NOMANISAN JUNGLE - TRAVELING WITH THE POD

The MONOPOD zooms along a track which rises from a tunnel

beneath the lagoon and sweeps through the jungle.
Although this is his second time here, Bob is seeing the
island with new eyes. It is a WONDER.

The monopod track disappears straight into a rushing

WATERFALL. Suddenly the waterfall PARTS, the water separating
like an enormously long chiffon curtain, revealing the
intricately designed architecture hidden underneath.

WITH THE POD

as it enters a VERTICAL TUBE, and ZOOMS upward into the dark.

INT. GUEST QUARTERS - MOMENTS LATER

Elevator doors slide open crisply. Bob enters and takes in

the room. It is small, open and tasteful, with a balcony
overlooking a breathtaking view of the jungle and the ocean
beyond.

MIRAGE
You will be briefed about your next
assignment in conference room at two. Room
A113.

BOB
Two o'clock. Thanks.

MIRAGE
See you there.

Mirage leaves. Bob enters, throwing his case on the bed. He

grabs a pear from a bowl of fresh fruit and takes a bite.
He steps out on his balcony and leans against the railing.
He could get used to paradise.

INT. PARR HOME - BASEMENT HALLWAY - DAY

Helen vacuums. She notices some debris outside Bob's den,

and vacuums it. The vacuum bumps the door and it swings
open. Helen stares at the floor, pushes the vacuum forward
in a probe of Bob's den carpet. The sound of filthy debris
rattles up the vacuum tube. Helen SIGHS: she's got to vacuum
the entire room.

(CONTINUED)
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INT. BOB'S DEN - CONTINUOUS

As she begins to vacuum the den floor, she notices that the
door of his Mr. Incredible suit display case is AJAR. She
pushes it closed and suddenly STOPS, looking closer at Bob's
old SUPERSUIT--

--and sees a new rip, expertly and recognizably mended.

HELEN
Edna.

INT. PARR HOUSE - KITCHEN - DAY

HELEN
Hello? I'd like to speak to Edna.

E
This is Edna.

HELEN
E? This is Helen.

E
Helen who?
HELEN

Helen Parr-- er, uh..• you know.•.

Elastigirl.

E
DARLING! How ARE you?? How divine to hear
from you!

HELEN
Yes, it has been a while. Listen, there's
only one person Bob would trust to patch
his Supersuit, and that's YOU, E.

E
Yes yes yes. Marvelous, isn't it? Much
better than those horrible pajamas he used
to wear. They are all finished, when are
you coming to see? Don't make me beg,
darling, I won't do it, you know!

HELEN
Beg••. uh--? No, I'm calling abeg about-
suit-- about suit••• Bob sssuit--
(frustrated with herself)
--I'm calling about Bob's suit!

(CONTINUED)
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E
You come in one hour, darling. I insist.
Okay? Okay, bye.

INT. NOMANISAN BASE - CONFERENCE ROOM A113

Bob opens the door. No one is there. He checks the wall

clock: two o'clock. He decides to enter and takes a seat at
the meeting table. There are some strange, low sounds.

Then the far wall SLIDES OPEN, revealing the outdoors and

--a bigger, badder OMNIDROID.

Bob turns to run, but the OMNIDROID is fast. It grabs him and
flings him into the outside air.

EXT. BASE - JUNGLE CLEARING - CONTINUOUS

Bob SAILS to the edge of the jungle, landing with a thud.

Before he can react, the robot has him again, and slams
him into the ground. A VOICE comes over a loudspeaker.

VOICE
It's BIGGER! It's BADDER!

The robot seizes Bob in one giant claw, turning two others
into WHIRLING BLADES. They close in on Bob's neck--

--when a young, chunky, wild-haired man in a bright

Supersuit descends from the sky on jet-boots, landing on
top of the enormous robot.

WILD -HAIRED MAN

It's too much for Mr. Incredible! It's
finally ready!

The wild-haired man pokes a few buttons on one of his

wristbands. The robot's BLADES stop, the bot stands down.

WILD-HAIRED MAN (CONT'D)

I went through quite a few Supers to get it
worthy to fight you, but, man... it wasn't
good enough! After you trashed the last one
I had to make some major modifications.
Sure it was difficult, but you are worth
it. After all... I'm your biggest fan.

A dark realization falls over Bob's face••.

BOB
Buddy.•.?
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BUDDY
My name's not BUDDY!

He presses a button on one of the thick platinum BANDS

around his wrists: the OMNIDROID FLINGS Bob again.
BUDDY (CONT'D)
And it's not "IncrediBoy" either. That
ship has sailed. All I wanted was to help
you. I only wanted to help! And what did
you say to me??
FLASHBACK: MR. INCREDIBLE & BUDDY 15 YEARS EARLIER

A shot from the prologue, softened by memory. A young Mr.

Incredible turns away from Buddy/IncrediBo .y
MR. INCREDIBLE
Go home, Buddy. I work alone.
FLASHBACK: BUDDY IN HIS BEDROOM

Still in his IncrediBoy costume, but without the mask,

Buddy glowers up at his bedroom wall, a shrine to Mr.
Incredible. He tears a poster off the wall.
BUDDY ( V.0.)
It tore me apart. But you taught me an
important lesson: you can't count on
anyone•..
RESUME THE PRESENT - BOB & BUDDY
BUDDY
•.•especially your heroes.
MR. INCREDIBLE
I was wrong to treat you that way. I'm
sorry.
BUDDY
See? Now you respect me. Because I'm a
threat. That's the way it works. Turns
out, there are a lot of people, whole
countries who want respect. And they will
pay through the nose to get it. How do
you think I got rich? I invented weapons.
Now I have a weapon that only I can
defeat, and when I unleash it I'll get--
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Bob suddenly FLINGS the LOG at Buddy. He DUCKS it, and

presses a button on one of his WRISTBANDS: a BEAM erupts
from his index finger and HITS Bob in his chest, FREEZING
him mid-action. Buddy CHUCKLES with admiration.
BUDDY {CONT'D)
You sly dog! You got me monologuing!

Buddy jerks his beam-arm to his right, effortlessly

hurling Bob into a tree with tremendous force.
BUDDY {CONT'D)
Cool, huh?? Zero-point energy. I save the
best inventions for myself!!

Buddy immediately catches Bob in the IMMOBI-RAY again,

freezing him in space.

BUDDY (CONT'D)
Look at THAT! Am I good enough now?
(slams Bob into ground)
WHO'S SUPER NOW???
(slams Bob again)
I'm SYNDROME! Your nemesis! And--

Syndrome realizes he's lost Bob, inadvertently flinging

him over the trees.

(CONTINUED
)
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SYNDROME
CONTINUED
Brilliant.
JUNGLE CLIFFS

Bob's body arcs over the treetops, dropping into a d ep

river that flows into a waterfall. He pulls himself onto
a rock. Syndrome becomes visible over the distant trees.
He spies Bob and rockets toward him.
Bob takes a running leap off the rock, over the falls,
and disappears into the mists below.

UNDERWATER - AT THE BASE OF THE FALLS

Bob hits the water in an explosion of bubbles.

AT THE TOP OF THE FALLS

Syndrome lands on the rock. Pulls a tiny electronic

DEVICE from his wristband
. He hits the primer. The device
begins to BEEP.
SYNDROME
Try one of these on for size, big boy.

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He drops the device over the falls.

UNDERWATER - THE BASE OF THE FALLS

Bob's eyes widen when he sees the device entering the

water. He turns and swims as fast as he can for the
nearest protection: a hole in the rocks. The device
EXPLODES--
UNDERWATER TUNNEL

--blowing BOB through the hole so fast that-

INT. CAVE

He is BLOWN into the inside of a cave. Bob COUGHS up some

water, tries to catch his breath. He looks up to see--

--a skeletal FACE. He jumps back in surprise. It is the

remains of a MAN, his only clothes the ragged remnants of
shoulder pads, boots, and an odd-looking HELMET.

Bob crawls over to rub some dirt from the emblem over the
eyes: the emblem reads "GB".
BOB
Gazerbearn...

The skeleton is still sitting up, and Bob is compelled to

follow its gaze to the adjacent cave wall. There•..
presumably in his dying moments, Gazerbearn had burned a
word into the rock: "KRONOS".
BOB (CONT'D)
Kronos...?

Just then Bob hears a sound near the blowhole of the

cave. A tiny, flying PROBE rises from the hole. A scanner
detects a body in the cave, and the probe flies toward
it. It pauses in front of the skeleton, scans it, then
retreats, exiting.

Bob slowly rises from behind the skeletal remains and

watches it go.
JUNGLE - TOP OF THE FALLS

Syndrome's PROBE emerges from the mist of the falls and

returns to Syndrome. It BEEPS as it DOCKS with his
wristband.

(CONTINUED
)
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PROBE
Life readings negative. Mr. Incredible terminated.

Syndrome BOWS his head in respect to his former idol. INSIDE

E'S HOUSE - DAY

E leads Helen downstairs toward her hidden lab.

E
This project has completely confiscated
my life, darling•.. consumed me as only
hero work can. My best work, I must
admit. Simple. Elegant, yet bold. You
will die. I did Robert's suit and it
turned out so beautiful I just had to
continue!
HELEN
E, it's great to see you, but-- I have no
idea what you're talking about, I just--

E
Yes, words are useless. Gobble gobble
gobble-- there's too much of it, darling,
too much! That is why I show you my work.
That is why you are here!

She turns to the wall and rapidly executes an elaborate

series of security measures:

punches a fifteen-digit code with her left hand, while-

pressing her right hand against a panel. It FLASHES, as- she
exposes her eyes to a RETINAL SCAN which--
causes a MICROPHONE to extend from the wall to her lips--

E (CONT'D)
(into microphone)
Edna•.• Mode.

IN A FLASH: a CEILING PANEL OPENS, and out pops an ENORMOUS

GUN, which trains its sights on Helen. E sees this , turns
back to the microphone, adding hastily--

E (CONT 'D)
And "guest."

The gun retreats into the ceiling. The wall in front of them
OPENS dramatically, REVEALING:
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E'S TESTING LAB

A large, ultra-sophisticated work area, dedicated to the design,

fabrication, and testing of SUPERHERO SUITS.

E crosses to a large, raised PLATFORM mounted to a track

running parallel to a glassed-in chamber, and sits in one
of the two chairs facing it. Between the chairs is a
small table with a fresh pot of coffee and assorted
cookies . E motions Helen to join her--

E
Come, sit. Cream and sugar?

Helen shakes her head, feeling a little bewildered, and

sits as E pours and hands her a cup of coffee.

E (CONT'D)
I started with the baby•..

HELEN
"Started"?

E
Shh, darling, shh--!

Inside the chamber, a panel opens. A small, featureless

BABY MANNEQUIN in a tiny red SUIT (sporting the same "i"
insignia as Bob's) mounted to a post emerges, tracking
slowly from one end of the chamber to the other.

E (CONT'D)
...I cut it a little roomy for the free
movement, the fabric is comfortable for
sensitive skin--

The inside of the chamber ERUPTS in FLAMES. Helen jwnps

back as E continues talking--

E (CONT'D )
--and can also withstand a temperature of
over one thousand degrees--

The flames are suddenly replaced by a barrage of MACHINE GUN

FIRE, as the suit is blasted by hundreds of bullets--

E (CONT'D)
--completely bulletproof--

The GUNFIRE stops.

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E (CONT'D)
--and machine-washable , darling, that's a
new feature.

HELEN
What in heaven's name do you think the baby
will be doing???

E
Well, I'm sure I don't know, darling. Luck
favors the prepared. I didn't know the
baby's powers so I covered the basics-

HELEN
Jack-Jack doesn't have any powers.

E
No? Well, he'll look fabulous anyway.

As the Baby suit exits one end, the panel REOPENS on the
other side. Another MANNEQUIN Dash's size swings into the
smoky chamber; its arms and legs slowly churning in a
"running" motion which gradually accelerates into a BLUR.

E (CONT'D)
Your boy's suit I designed to withstand
enormous friction without heating up or
wearing out, a useful feature•..

The Dash suit departs into the wall as a new suit enters.

E (CONT'D)
Your daughter's suit was tricky, but I
finally created a sturdy material that
will disappear completely as she does.

Helen's suit moves into view. ROBOT ARMS enter from above
and below, CLAMP to the sleeves of arms and pants, and
begin to PULL them wide apart in various contorti-0ns- -

E (CONT'D)
Your sui can stretch as far as you can
without injuring yourself and still
retain its shape.

Two small BOMBS appear on either side of the suit and

EXPLODE, bending the

E (CONT'D)
Virtually indestructible , yet it breathes
like Egyptian cotton .
( MORE )

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E (CONT'D)

As an extra feature, each suit contains a

Homing Device, giving you the precise
global location of the wearer at the
touch of a button.

The chamber goes dark, the lights return to their less

dramatic setting. E swivels to face Helen, a cocky smile
playing at the corners of her mouth.
E (CONT'D)
Well, darling? What do you think?
HELEN
What do I think?? Bob is retired! I'm
retired! Our family is undergroun!d You
helped my husband resume secret hero work
behind my back??
E
I assumed you knew, darling! Why would he
keep secrets from you?
HELEN
(defensive)
He wouldn't! He didn't-- doesn't!
There is a heavy PAUSE. E considers her.
E
Men at Robert's age are often unstable.
Prone to weakness.
HELEN
• ?
What are you saying.•..
E . ?
Do you know where he

HELEN
Of course
.
E

Do you KNOW where he is?

SEA CLIFFS - NOMANISAN - DUSK

Bob hiding in brush at the top of a cliff. Along the

waterline far below, a monopod streaks toward him along a
track which curves around the coastline . Bob
crouches..• and DIVES--
(CONTINUED}
--we fall with him, whistling through the air until we
hit a PALM TREE.
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The palm BENDS, slowing Bob's drop before he expertly

releases it and drops into another palm directly below it.

Bob leaps onto the roof of the pod, quickly dispatching the
guards inside, tossing them into the ocean. Bob seats
himself at the controls, as the pod races toward Syndrome's
base and a security checkpoint.

CHECKPOINT

Two GUARDS look up as they hear the monopod approach. A

sparking WHEEL CARRIAGE arrives at the gate, its cab
completely torn off and missing.

suddenly alert, the GUARDS cock their guns and aim into the
dark. We hear a distant GRUNT. A moment later the CAB falls
from the sky, crashing on top of the GUARDS.

Bob runs through the wrecked gate, toward the base.

EXT. BASE

Bob pulls up behind some trees. There are several GUARDS;

two at the vehicle entrance, another at the balcony above.
Bob thinks a bit, looks down and finds a COCONUT.

With expert precision, he throws it at the balcony guard,

BEANING HIM. He falls off the balcony and hits the ground.

The other guards rush to help him, leaving their post. Bob
runs up to the vehicle entrance-- it's locked tight. Bob
sees shadows of guards approaching, he's out in the open
and about to be caught when--

--the door suddenly sweeps up and open, taking Bob with it.
An AMBULANCE moves out of the open bay, and as the door
moves closed behind it we see Bob drop into the garage.

Elevator. Bob emerges in the DINING HALL and stares at the

LAVA FALL. He knows there is a secret passage behind it.
Picks up large stone sculpture. Readies to run into lava.
One... two... thr--

Bob is startled by a flash of light behind the fall; the

passage is opening. He loses his balance, struggling to set
the massive sculpture back into place before Mirage enters.
Bob rushes into the closing passage. Jumps clear just as
passage CLOSES.

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A series of parallel floor lights click on. Bob follows

them to an ELABORATE CHAIR in the center of the dark, lit
from above. Bob sits down in the chair. A GIANT, CURVED
SCREEN lights up in front of him, with a blinking cursor in
its center.

Bob types in "KRONOS". The computer screen refreshes: Bob is

IN.

RESUME E'S LAB

Helen on phone. E listens intently in the b.g.

HELEN
Hello, this is Helen Parr, Bob Parr is my
husband. I was wondering if you could give
me the number of the hotel he's staying
at. The number I have is no good.

SECRETARY
Mr. Parr no longer works at Insuricare.

HELEN
What do you mean? He-- he's on a business
trip, a company retreat--

SECRETARY
My records say he was terminated almost
two months ago.

Helen HANGS UP in a daze.

E
So. You don't know where he is•.•

Helen shakes her head. E HOLDS UP the HOMING DEVICE.

E (CONT'D)
Would you like to find out?
INTERCUT:

Bob enters the computer record of the development of the

OMNIDROID. It squares off Superheroes on one half of the
screen with progressively more advanced versions of the
Omnidroid. A "TERMINATED" band blots out the loser of
each encounter.

Bob's eyes fill with horror: Syndrome has been using

Superheroes to beta-test his Omnidroid killing machines,
starting with the weaker Superheroes and working his way up
as the robots became more deadly.

(CONTINUED )
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Face after face of deceased Superheroes flash by:

GAZERBEAM ... GAMMA JACK..• EVERSEER •.•

Bob turns away, staggered.

He types in the name: ELASTIGIRL. Under "whereabouts" the

computer answers "UNKNOWN". Bob heaves a sigh of relief.

INT. E'S LAB - SAME MOMENT

Helen reluctantly takes the homing locator from E and stares

at it, not sure she wants to know what it may tell her.

SYNDROME'S MASTER COMPUTER ROOM - WITH BOB

Bob is now looking at Syndrome's master plan, which seems

to indicate unleashing the Omnidroid on a major city. A
countdown has already started: it's happening within 24
hours. Bob rises from the console and starts for the EXIT.

INT. E'S LAB - SAME MOMENT

Helen presses the locator button on the homing tracker. On

the viewscreen, the locator isolates a remote island.

WITH BOB

As the dot over the "in on his chest-logo LIGHTS UP.•.

beeping. Bob looks down in surprise. An alarm sounds as the
room is awash in bright light. Unwittingly Helen has
exposed him.

Bob races for the exit, but is hit by sticky balls of goo
fired from guns lining the walls, which INFLATE,. quickly
making it impossible to run.

Bob falls to the floor, swallowed up by the expanding goo.

BOB'S P.0.V.:

The expanding goo-balls fill up the P.O.V..•. but not before

Bob makes out the recognizable figure approaching him:
MIRAGE.

E'S KITCHEN - SEVERAL MINUTES LATER

Coffee has been made and partially consumed. The morning

paper, still rolled, rests on the table. Helen, eyes reddened
from crying, blows her nose into a wadded length of toilet
paper handed her by a mildly disgusted E.

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HELEN
I'm such an idiot. I let this happen you
know. The new sports car, the getting in
shape, the blonde hair, the lies!
E
Yes. He attempts to relive the past.

HELEN
And now I'm losing him!
(sobbing)
What'll I do? What'll I do??
E
What are you talking about..•?

E suddenly leaps onto the table. She WHACKS Helen with

the rolled-up newspaper.

E (CONT'D)
YOU ARE ELASTIGIRL! My God, pull yourself
together!! What will you do? Is this a
question? You will show him you remember
that he is Mr. Incredible, and you will
remind him who YOU are. Well, you know
where he is. Go. Confront the problem!
FIGHT! WIN!
(pleasantly)
And call me when you get back, darling. I
enjoy our visits.
INSIDE PARR HOUSE - HALLWAY - LATER

Readying to leave, Helen talks to Violet as they walk

toward Helen's bedroom.

HELEN
There's lots of leftovers you can reheat.
Make sure Dash does his homework and both
of you get to bed on time. I should be
back tonight, late. You can be in charge
that long, can't you?
VIOLET
Yeah••• but why am I in charge again?
HELEN
Nothing. Just a little trouble with
Daddy.
VIOLET
You mean Dad's in trouble? Or..• Dad is
the trouble?
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Helen pauses outside her bedroom door.

HELEN
I mean either he's in trouble•••
(darkly)
.••or he's going to be.

INSIDE MASTER BEDROOM

Mom enters, looks at her open travel bag, then the SUITS E
made. She SIGHS, decides to pack her SUPERSUIT. Then sees
Dash staring at the matching bright red outfits.

DASH
Hey what's THAT? Where'd you get that, Mom?

Mom STRETCHES to slam the door closed. IMMEDIATELY Dash is

outside the sliding window, looking in.

DASH (CONT'D)
You made a cool outfit? Hey, are those
for us?? We all get cool outfits?

Mom stretches to pull the blinds, briefly taking her hand

off the doorknob. Dash ZOOMS back through the door, nabs his
outfit and is gone. Helen calls after him.

HELEN
Wait a-- DASH! You come back THIS MOMENT!

The phone RINGS. Helen, expecting it, quickly picks up.

HELEN (CONT'D)
Hey Snug! Thanks for getting back.
Listen, I know this is short notice--

Violet has entered. She stares at the suits on the bed.

VIOLET
What are these?

Dash ZIPS back in, fully dressed in his suit.

DASH
Look! I'm •The Dash."
(zips to mirror)
The Dash likes.

Helen tries to zip up her bag and return Violet's suit to the
closet. Violet is back though, and SEES this.

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HELEN
(into phone)
Just a moment--
(irritated, to Dash)
Take that off, before somebody sees you.

VIOLET HELEN
But you're packing one just Please, honey, I'm on the
like it. Are you hiding phone-- DASH!
something? Mom?

Dash whisks the suit from Helen, offers it to Violet.

DASH VIOLET
This is yours! It's (to Helen)
specially made. What's going on--?

Helen pushes BOTH children out into the hall and SLAMS her
door. Violet looks at the suit, then at Dash.

VIOLET
What makes you think it's special?

DASH
I'unno. Why'd Mom try to hide it?

Dash runs off. Violet looks at the suit, wondering.

Making her hand invisible, she touches the suit--

--it VANISHES. She draws back, taking her finger off the
suit: it REAPPEARS. Violet stares at the suit with wide
eyes: WHOA.

INSIDE MASTER BEDROOM

HELEN
(into phone)
Snug, I'm calling in a solid you-owe-me.

SNUG'S OFFICE - AIRPORT

Cluttered and comfortable. A blown-in-the-bottle museum of

flying arcana. SNUG PORTER, lean, leathery and laugh
lined, twirls a pencil as he takes the call.

SNUG
About time. What's it been? 15 years? I was
starting to get comfortable. Whaddya need?

HELEN (CONTINUED )
A jet. What can you get that's fast?
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Snug turns to his office window, which looks out onto the
tarmac, and lifts a few venetian blinds, REVEALING an
amazingly sleek and powerful-looking jet.

SNUG
Let me think.•.

ABOVE THE CLOUDS - DAY

The JET soars through the golden late-afternoon sky. INSIDE THE

JET'S COCKPIT - SAME TIME

Helen pilots the jet as she speaks into her headset.

HELEN
Island approach, India Golf Niner niner
checking in, VFR on top-- over.

No response. Helen checks the instruments, confirms her course.

She tries again.

HELEN (CONT'D)
Island Tower. This is India Golf Niner niner
requesting vectors vectors to the initial••.
over.
(static)
Huh.

An old sensation begins to creep into Helen's thoughts:

danger. She grabs her duffle bag and zips it open, exposing
the SUPERSUIT E made for her. She stares at it.

HELEN (CONT'D)
Easy, Helen. You're overreacting.
Everything's fine. They're just-
(tries an explanation)
--all getting coffee at the same time•..

Helen mulls the explanation. And decides it's ridiculous. She

flips a switch-- putting the jet on AUTOPILOT, grabs her suit
and goes into the lavatory.

NOMANISAN - JAIL CELL - SAME TIME

Bob awakens..• and finds himself bound by huge metal

restraints, facing a nasty looking DEVICE that looks
something like an electrified bed of nails. Syndrome
approaches Bob.

SYNDROME
You, Sir, truly are "Mr. Incredible"... You
know, I was right to idolize you.
(MORE)
(CONTINUE D)
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SYNDROME (CONT'D)
I always knew you were tough. But tricking
the probe by hiding under the bones of
another Super? Ohhhh, MAN!! I'm still
geeking out about it.••
(his expression SOURS)
Then you had to go and just-- ruin the
ride. I mean, Mr. Incredible calling for
help? "Help me!" Lame lame lame lame LAME!
Alright, who did you contact?

Bob stares at Syndrome.

BOB
Contact? What are you talking about?

Syndrome nods at a flunky, who presses a button. The

TORTURE DEVICE jumps to life, emitting sparks as Bob
winces in pain.

SYNDROME
I'm referring to last night at 23:07
hours, while you were snooping around,
you sent out a homing signal--

BOB
(in pain)
I didn't know..• about the homing device--

Syndrome ZAPS Bob again. He spasms, grimacing.

SYNDROME
--and now a government plane is
requesting permission to land here! WHO
DID YOU CONTACT?

BOB
.••I didn't send for.•• a plane--

SYNDROME
(to Mirage)
Play the transmission.

HELEN'S VOICE
Island approach, India Golf Niner niner
checking in, VFR on top--

Bob's head snaps to attention. Syndrome sees it.

BOB
Helen.•.!

SYNDROME
So you do know these people. Well, then,
I'll send them a little greeting.••
(CONTINUED/
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2)

With flourish and a malicious grin, Syndrome presses the

red LAUNCH button on a control console.
MAIN CABIN

Helen emerges from the lavatory dressed in her SGPERSUIT.

She throws her duffle bag ROUGHLY at a passenger seat.
VIOLET'S VOICE

Ow! BELEN

Violet VIOLET

(as she MATERIALIZES)

It's not my fault! Dash ran away and I
knew I'd get blamed for it and--

Dash pops p from behind the seats at the back of the

cabin, immediately engaging at the top of his lungs.

DASH VIOLET
THAT'S NOT TRUE! YOU said, --1 thought he'd try to
"Sornething's up with Mom" sneak on he plane so I
and "We hafta find out came here and you closed
what," and it was YOUR the doors before I could
IDEA, YOUR IDEA, 100% Al.L find him and then you took
YOURS-ALL-'rHE.-TIME I off and iL'S NOT MY FAULT!
DEA!
HELEN

Wait a min.1te. You left Jack--Jack ALONE ? '?

1

VIOLET
Yes, Mom! I'm completely DASH
stupid. Of course we got a No, we got someone, Mom!
sitter! Oo you think I'm Someone great! We wouldn'
totally irresponsible? do that! 1 love my baoy
Thanks a lot! brother!

HELEN (CO 'I'D)

Well, who'd you get???
INT. PARR HOME - DAY

SporLing a por.yta:.l, :Oaggy baseball s:i.irt and a maulht 1.,1

of orthodontia, KARI HCKEON--tnirteen, stands in ttw
middle o±: the Parr living room, chatting into thu phUfl•
as Jack-,Jack plays happily in the background.
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CONTINUED:

KARI
You don't have to worry about one single
thing, Mrs. Parr, I've got this babysitting
thing wired. I've taken courses and learned
CPR, and I got excellent marks and
certificates I can produce on demand.

INTERCUT: Helen on the jet.

HELEN
Kari..•

KARI
I also brought Mozart to play while he
sleeps because leading experts say
"Mozart makes babies smarter"--

HELEN
Kari..•

KARI
--and the beauty part is, the babies don't
even have to listen 'cause they're asleep!
I wish my parents played Mozart when I
slept, because half the time I don't know
what the heck anyone's talking about!

HELEN
Kari, I really don't feel comfortable with
this. I'll pay you for your trouble but
I'd really rather call a service--

KARI
There's really no need, Mrs. Parr. I can
handle anything this baby can dish out.
(cooing to Jack-Jack)
Can't I, little boobily boy?

RESUME JET - MAIN CABIN - SAME TIME

HELEN
Kari, I appreciate your qualifications
and your.•• your enthusiasm, but--

A warning signal SOUNDS from the cockpit. Helen turns,

recognizing it instantly.

COCKPIT

Helen ENTERS. Through the windshield, a rocket's flare is suddenly

visible above the clouds. Helen's eyes WIDEN.
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MAIN CABIN

The "fasten seat belts" sign above Dash and Vi LIGHTS UP.
They exchange glances, reach for their seat belts. The
jet suddenly DIVES, throwing them into the ceiling.
HELEN
--Friendlies at two zero miles south
southwest of your position, angels 10.
Track east, disengage, over!! Disengage!!
ROARING THROUGH THE CLOUDS

as the jet BANKS suddenly, barely avoiding a missile that

smokes past its metallic belly.
RESUME SYNDROME'S BASE - PRISON CELL - SAME MOMENT

HELEN'S VOICE
India Golf Niner niner transmitting in
the blind guard--
BOB
No--!
RESUME HELEN'S JET - SAME MOMENT

Through the windshield we see the clouds suddenly part,

revealing: THE OCEAN looming toward us like an endless
brick wall. Helen plants her feet and YANKS BACK on the
controls--
MOVING ABOVE THE WATER'S SURFACE

The jet's belly spanks the crests of the waves as it

struggles to pull out of its dive.
RESUME COCKPIT

as the jet is buffeted by the peaks of the ocean waves,

its engines screaming as it finally reascends. The jet
goes vertical, throwing the kids backwards down the
aisle.

Helen stabilizes the jet, then DOUBLE-TAKES as the

missiles reappear on her screen. She whirls to Violet--
HELEN
Vi! I need you to throw a force field
around the plane!
VIOLET
But you said never to--
(CONTINUED
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HELEN
I know what I said!! Listen to what I'm saying
now!!

VIOLET
--I've never done one that big before!

RESUME SYNDROME'S BASE - PRISON CELL - SAME MOMENT

VIOLET (CONT'D, OVER

RADIO)
It's not like I've been practicing!!

HELEN (OVER RADIO)

VIOLET!!! DO IT NOW!!

BOB
NO! Call off the missiles!! I'll do
anything!!

SYNDROME
Too late. Fifteen years too late.

RESUME JET

Violet FRETS, not sure where to start. She uncertainly

starts to form a force field, but it's small and weak.

QUICK CUTS:
HELEN whirls toward the cockpit--
The jet's RADAR display shows the missiles CONVERGING- The
MISSILES CLOSE IN on the jet--
HELEN shouts into her headset, EYES WIDENING in horror as The
MISSILES CLOSE in on the jet's belly and--
Helen throws off her headset, leaps out of her seat and--

--STRETCHES: enveloping her kids an instant before--

--the jet EXPLODES, becoming a roiling fireball as the

missile cuts it in half.

RESUME SYNDROME'S BASE - PRISON CELL - SAME MOMENT

BOB REACTS in HORROR as the RADAR indicates a HIT!

RESUME JET EXPLOSION: FALLING THROUGH THE SKY

An orange-red ball emerges from the blast and slowly

unfurls: it's HELEN (who's OUT COLD) and the KIDS, who are
WIDE AWAKE and screaming as they free-fall toward the ocean.

(CONTINUED)
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Helen COMES TO and SEES her children plummeting to their

deaths. She STRETCHES her arms, pulling the kids in as she
FORMS into a PARACHUTE to arrest their descent.

HELEN
Brace yourselves!

THE OCEAN

SPLASHDOWN. The Kids break the water's surface in shock,

sputtering and splashing.

VIOLET & DASH

Mom! What're we gonna do? What're we
gonna do??? (etc.)

HELEN
I'll tell you what we're not going to do.
We're not going to panic, and we're not
goi-- LOOK OUT!!

Helen shoves the kids clear, diving-

UNDERWATER

as a chunk of FUSELAGE hits with a thunderous SPLASH. Helen

watches it quickly disappear into the depths--

RESUME BOB'S CELL

RADIO
We have a confirmed hit. Target was
destroyed.

SYNDROME
Ah, you'll get over it. I seem to recall you
prefer to.•• "work alone."

With sudden RAGE Bob bursts free of his leg cuffs, driving
his legs forward with tremendous force, and LUNGES for
Syndrome. Mirage sees him and shoves Syndrome clear, gets
snagged in Bob's arms.

Bob is yanked back into the grid, his arm cuffs pulled in
opposite directions, Mirage now caught in the middle.

BOB
Release me. Now!!

SYNDROME
Or what?

(CONTINUED)
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BOB
I'll crush her.

SYNDROME
Sounds a little dark for you. Go ahead.

MIRAGE
No--

BOB
It'll be easy. Like breaking a toothpick.

SYNDROME
Show me.

A contest of wills as the two stare each other down. But

Bob doesn't have it in him. He lets her go. Mirage drops to
the floor. Syndrome looks at Bob and sneers.

SYNDROME (CONT'D)
I knew you couldn't do it. Even when you
have nothing to lose. You're weak. I've
outgrown you.

Syndrome EXITS, followed by the technician and, finally,

Mirage. The room is empty and silent, save for the soft
sound of the suspension arcs holding Bob. Softly, Mr.
Incredible begins to WEEP.

RESUME OCEAN

Dash and Violet tread water, anxiously look at Mom.

VIOLET DASH
Omigod... omigod... The We're dead! We're dead! We
plane! It blew up! survived but we're dead!

HELEN
STOP IT!!!!

Helen SPLASHES their faces, startling them SILENT.

HELEN (CONT'D)
We are NOT going to die! Now both of you
will GET A GRIP or so help me I'll ground
you for a month! Understand???

The kids NOD. Helen looks up at the missile trails.

HELEN (CONT'D)
Those were short-range missiles. Land
based.
(MORE)
(CONTINUED]
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CONTINUED:
HELEN (CONT'D)
(pointing to missiles'
origin)
That way is our best bet.

DASH
You want to go toward the people that tried
to kill us??

HELEN
If it means land..• yes.

VIOLET
You expect us to swim there?

HELEN
I expect you•.. to trust me.

AERIAL SHOT - MOVING OVER THE OCEAN

A BOAT gains into the frame, skimming over the water at a

great speed. Violet appears to be the only passenger.

CLOSER

We see that the boat is actually HELEN, who has contorted

herself into a reasonable facsimile of an inflatable raft,
and Dash-- facing backwards, his legs pounding the water
furiously-- is the outboard motor.

Violet sits impassively, her long hair streaming in the

wind, and tries to find something interesting to look at.

The Incredi-boat speeds away from us, heading toward the

missile trails' origins, and the horizon.

NOMANISAN BEACH - EARLY EVENING

It is just after sunset when Helen, Dash and Violet

stagger onto the beach, hungry and exhausted.

Helen collapses in an ungainly, slightly stretched out

heap, spent... Her body slowly reverting into her usual
shape. She looks at Dash with a tired smile.

HELEN
What a trooper. I'm so proud of you.

Panting, Dash smiles and gives her a weak wave.

DASH
Thanks, Mom.
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INSIDE A CAVE - A LITTLE LATER

Helen and the kids huddle around a fire, silent and

somber. Helen finally breaks the silence.

HELEN
I think your father is in trouble.

VIOLET
If you haven't noticed , Mom, we're not
doing so hot either.

HELEN
I'm going to look for him. That means
you're in charge until I get back,
Violet.
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What???
VIOLET

(to Dash)
You heard her.

Helen reaches into the battered duffle and removes three

MASKS. She puts one on, hands the other two to her kids .

HELEN
Put these on. Your identity is your most
valuable possession. Protect it. If
anything goes wrong, use your powers.

VIOLET
But you said we should never--

HELEN
I KNOW WHAT I SAID!

Helen regrets her outburst at once. She takes a deep

breath, composes herself, looks at her kids.

HELEN (CONT'D)
Remember the bad guys on those shows you used
to watch on Saturday morning?
(the kids NOD eagerly)
Well, these guys are not like those guys. (the
kids deflate)
They won't exercise restraint because
you're children. They will kill you if
they get the chance. Do NOT give them
that chance. Vi, I'm counting on you...

(CONTINUED)
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VIOLET
Mom, I--
HELEN

(cuts her off, firm)

I'm counting on you. Be strong.
(beat, turns to Dash)
Dash, if anything goes wrong, I want you
to run as fast as you can•••

DASH
(excited by this)
As fast as I can??

HELEN
As fast as you can. Stay hidden. Keep each
other safe. I'll be back by morning.

Helen gives them a long hug, then turns to exit the cave.
Violet, looking tortured, runs after her, stops her at the
entrance. Tears well up in Violet's eyes.

VIOLET
(excruciating for her)
Mom•.• what happened on the plane, when you
asked met-- I, I wanted to-- I'm sorry•.•

Helen places a finger over Vi's lips. Meets her gaze and
speaks in a warm, sure tone.

HELEN
Shh. It isn't your fault. It wasn't fair for
me to suddenly ask so much of you.
But things are different now. And doubt is
a luxury we can't afford anymore, sweetie.
You have more power than you realize. Don't
think. And don't worry. If the time comes,
you'll know what to do.
It's in your blood.

Helen gives Violet a firm nod•.. and disappears into the

night. Violet watches her mother get swallowed by the
darkness. She looks down at the mask in her hands.•.

.•.and carefully puts it on.

LAUNCH OBSERVATION CENTER - SYNDROME'S BASE - NIGHT

Lost in thought, Syndrome stares down at the massive rocket

in the center of the volcano, poised to launch.

(CONTINUED)
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MIRAGE
He's not weak, you know.

Mirage is seated at one of the many consoles, taking

notes, her back to him. Syndrome snaps out of his dream
and turns to Mirage, the only other person in the room.
SYNDROME
What?

MIRAGE
Valuing life is not weakness.

Syndrome crosses to her, casually dismissive.

SYNDROME
Hey, if you're talking about what
happened in the containment unit, I had
everything under control--
MIRAGE
And disregarding it.•. is not strength.

Syndrome sidles up behind her, lifts her chin with a

gentle hand and draws her face toward his.
SYNDROME
I called his bluff, sweetheart, that's
all. I knew he wouldn't have it in him to
actually--
Mirage shoves his hand aside, and rises to confront him.

MIRAGE
Next time you gamble, bet your own life.
She EXITS, leaving Syndrome befuddled and alone.

EXT. JUNGLE - NIGHT

Helen enters a clearing and looks up. A monorail track

soars high above the jungle floor. A monopod is coming.
Helen throws her hands high, stretching them up to the
pod passing overhead. It yanks her offscreen.

MOVING THROUGH THE TREES

Helen hangs suspended beneath the pod on long arms,

alternating hands to swing around the support columns.
Gaining momentum with each swing, she throws her body
above the roof of the car, landing expertly on top.
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ON TOP OF THE POD

Helen squints into the rushing wind, sees the track

slicing through the dense jungle canopy and leading
directly into the base of the towering volcano.

A familiar HUM causes her to hide, and she slips down one
side of the pod, out of view, as TWO HOVERJETS buzz by.
Helen watches the jets descend to a landing strip inside
the Volcano just as the pod plunges into a tunnel and--

INSIDE THE TUNNEL - MOVING WITH HELEN ON THE POD

Darkness. Suddenly an opening in the tunnel rushes by, and

Helen catches a glimpse of the ROCKET... and WHOOSH- the pod
is back into a tunnel.

Helen stretches her torso out like a sail. It catches wind

and she releases from the pod, reforms and drops to the
tracks with catlike grace.

INSIDE THE BASE - TUNNEL ENTRANCE

Helen peeks out of the tunnel, looks out at the heavily

guarded launch pad.
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HELEN
A rocket?

Visible inside the open tip of the rocket sits a huge

metallic wing with an enormous circular hole EMPTY in its
center, waiting to be filled with... what?

ANOTHER CORRIDOR - LATER

Two armed GUARDS march past CAMERA. Unseen above them, Helen
is stretched thin and hiding between a cluster of pipes
which run down the center of the corridor. She watches as
the guards exit through a sliding door.

She drops like a liquid cat to the floor, and begins to move
down the corridor.

As Helen passes a metal door, she catches sight of her

reflection in its shiny surface. She stops, FROWNS. It's
been a while since her last Supersuit; her butt is a bit
bigger than she remembered. She wonders if she should lose
a few--

--when the WHOOSH of a door surprises her...

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A GUARD

comes through the door at the far end of the hall. As he

enters another junction, we see that Helen has contorted
herself, arching perfectly around the door frame.

The GUARD doesn't see her. He slides a CARD KEY through a

reader to enter a restricted corridor. The doors WHOOSH
open. Directly behind him, Helen silently REFORMS and begins
to back through the doorway when the doors behind her SLIDE
SHUT--

--trapping HELEN'S LEG. She winces, tries in vain to pull it

free. It's stuck. Leaving one hope--

--the CARD KEY on GUARD #l'S belt.

STRETCHING across the corridor, Helen clambers after the

guard on the palms of her hands, following him into the--

INNER CHAMBER

The guard stops at the ELEVATOR and presses the call button,
his back to Helen. Just behind him, stretched far and held
upright on one hand, Helen reaches with the other for the
card key. She almost has it--

AT THE CORRIDOR

The DOOR suddenly closes on her stretched torso. Her upper

third snaps back, her middle third TRAPPED and now
stretched across--

HALLWAY - CENTRAL CORE

TWO MORE GUARDS (#2 & #3) are traveling in a transport.

They are suddenly CLOTHESLINED by HELEN'S STRETCHED
TORSO.

INNER CHAMBER

--knocking the wind out of HELEN. Directly in front of her

at the far end of the hall, the ELEVATOR opens for GUARD
#1; revealing GUARD #4 inside. He SEES HELEN.

GUARD #4
Hey!

Helen's arm stretches forward--

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INNER CHAMBER - INSIDE ELEVATOR

IN A BLINK: her fist CLOCKS GUARD #4, disarms GUARD #1

hitting him with the butt of his gun. AS guard #4 drops
to the floor, #1 hits the "CLOSE" button on the panel.

The DOORS CLOSE on Helen's ARM. Guard #1 GRINS. Helen's

HAND FEELS AROUND, finds GUARD # 1, his chest••. chin.•.
face and--

~-PUNCHES his lights out. He DROPS.

RESUME MIDDLE CORRIDOR

The TORSO GUARDS (#2 & #3) get to their feet , and see HELEN,
her ARM still stretched, through the glass door. They level
their guns at her. At the same moment--

BLUE CORRIDOR

ANOTHER GUARD (#5) comes upon Helen's LEG in the closed

doors. The sight is so odd, he can only stare. He decides to
poke the leg with the barrel of his machine gun.

WITH HELEN

--as she REACTS to the poke. She SCOWLS-

RESUME BLUE CORRIDOR

--her LEG cocks back and FISHTAIL-KICKS GUARD #5. He

flies backwards, his weapon discharging into the card
scanner. The DOOR OPENS-- freeing Helen's LEGS, which
sail across the corridor and--

SMASH the TORSO GUARDS (#2 & #3) against the middle door.
They slide down into a heap•.. out cold.

INSIDE ELEVATOR

Helen's arm finds one of the guards' CARD KEY, slides it

into the door scanner. The doors OPEN, releasing her torso .

ACCESS CORRIDOR

Helen drags the last of the UNCONSCIOUS GUARDS over to an

open wall panel and stuffs him inside with the others.
She throws her weight against the panel, finally getting it
shut.
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CLOSE ON: A FORCE FIELD

--glowing purple and fluttering around a campfire, it

struggles to take form and finally does, trapping the
fire's smoke inside.

INSIDE THE CAVE - NIGHT

Dash watches as Violet practices intently. She releases the

force field sphere; the dark smoke ball rises upwards. Vi
throws another force field, recapturing the smoke at the roof
of the cave.

Dash gets to his feet, grabs a burning branch from the fire
to use as a torch.

DASH
Welp, not that this isn't fun••. but I'm gonna
go look around.

VIOLET
What do you think is going on here? You
think we're on vacation or something? Mom and
Dad's lives could be in jeopardy. Or worse•••
their marriage.

DASH
Their marriage?
(Vi NODS sharply, PAUSE)
So••. the bad guys are trying to wreck Mom's
and Dad's marriage??

VIOLET
Forget it. You're so immature.

DASH
(exiting)
Okay, I'm gonna go look around.

VIOLET
Mom said to stay hidden.

DASH
I'm not gonna leave the cave. Sheesh!

ROCKET CONTROL ROOM - SAME MOMENT

Ground control technicians watch from the observation window

as a GIANT METAL SPHERE, a massive version of the dreaded
OMNIDROID •.. is carefully guided into place inside the top
stage of the rocket.

(CONTINUED)
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CONTINUED:

The rocket's NOSE CONE is lowered over the OMNIDROID and

secured into place. The cylindrical BLAST SHIELD closes
around the rocket.

INSIDE THE CAVE

Lighting his way with a burning branch, Dash explores the

depths of the cave. Suddenly the floor becomes smooth.
Dash looks down, then holds his torch up. He's inside an
enormous man-made TUNNEL.

DASH
Cool...

His voice ECHOES a bit. Dash brightens. He calls again,

louder this time.

DASH (CONT'D)
COOL!

His voice ECHOES: ncool! Cool! Cool!" CONTROL

ROOM - SAME MOMENT

Syndrome shoves a PASS KEY into the control board, gives the
key a twist•.. then presses the LAUNCH button.

LAUNCH TUBE

The rocket's engines FIRE. The sound is deafening as the

rocket's massive weight slowly lifts into the air•••

INSIDE THE CAVE - TUNNEL ENTRANCE

A low RUMBLE and a subtle push of warm wind emanate from

the depths of the tunnel, which begins to GLOW. Dash's
smile drops as he realizes it's an enormous FIREBALL
rocketing towards him. He turns and RUNS.

WITH VIOLET

Vi is still practicing force fields when the depths of the

cave begin to rumble and glow. She looks up.

DASH'S VOICE
Vi!!! Vi Vi Vi Vi Vi!!!

VIOLET
(Vi sees cave brightening)
What did you DO?!
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OUTSIDE THE CAVE

Dash and Violet race out of the cave, getting clear just
as an enormous wall of FLAMES erupts after them. They
look down with a shudder at how close they came. A roar
behind them causes them to turn-- a ROCKET emerges from
the center of the volcano, and soars into the night sky.

CONTROL ROOM - DETENTION BLOCK

Helen looks down from some vents in the ceiling. Silently

she stretches her neck until her head dangles down behind
the guards.
HER P.0.V.:

Helen scans the detention grid.•. and notices a

tremendous spike of power to restrain the prisoner in
cell 13.

(CONTINUED )
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Bob...

Helen quickly pulls her head back up through the vent in

the ceiling and EXITS.
GUARD #1
Huh? What...?
GUARD #2
I didn't say anything.
ABOVE THE EARTH

The final stage of the Omnidroid's capsule separates. The

Omni ship begins to descend below the cloud layer, toward
the city.
EXT. NOMANISAN JUNGLE - THE NEXT MORNING

Dash awakens, discovering to his horror that he's curled

up with Violet. Repulsed, he JUMPS UP and shudders.

O.S. VOICE
Identification?

Startled , Dash turns toward the sound. A brightly colored

BIRD perches in a nearby tree.
BIRD
Identification , please...?
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DASH
(laughs, NUDGES Vi)
Hey, Violet! Look! It talks!

VIOLET
(half asleep)
Hrnn? What...

DASH
(pointing)
There... that one.

Violet walks up and stares , also beguiled by the bird.

BIRD
Voice key incorrect.

Dash chortles. Violet's smile starts to FADE--

VIOLET
"Voice key".•.? Wait a second..•

The bird's head slowly SWIVELS toward the kids with a

soft COMPUTING SOUND. Its eyes LIGHT UP RED as its beak
drops open, and it lets out a shrill electronic ALARM.

RESUME JUNGLE - DASH & VIOLET

Violet backs away from the shrieking bird, Dash following

after her, panicking.

DASH
What do we do??

VIOLET
RUN!

DASH
Where are we going??

VIOLET
Away from here! !

They turn and RUN. The SHRIEKING BIRD takes wing, following
after them.

INT. SYNDROME'S BASE - MONITORING STATION

Alarms sound. A section of the island grid LIGHTS UP,

locating the KIDS. A guard hits the SCRAMBLE button.

(CONTINUED )
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CONTINUED:

INSIDE SYNDROME'S BASE - SAME MOMENT

Helen hears the alarm, watches as the guards scramble.

EXT. BASE - MOMENTS LATER

Guards on VELOCIPODS zoom out into jungle.

INT. CONTAINMENT UNIT

Bob hangs, defeated, in the suspension beams. The cell door

slides OPEN. A FIGURE is silhouetted there-- MIRAGE.

She switches off the suspension ray. Bob drops to the

floor. Bob just sits there on his knees, his eyes cast
downward. Mirage crosses to him, kneels down••.

MIRAGE
There isn't much time--

Bob's hand flashes out and CLAMPS around her throat. He

RISES, holding her dangling body aloft with one hand.

BOB
No, there isn't. In fact, there's no time at
all.

MIRAGE
(gasping)
•••pl--ease•.•

BOB
Why are you here? How can you possibly
bring me lower? What more can you take
away from me??

MIRAGE
(struggling to speak)
F--amily•.• survived the crash••• they're
here-- on the island.••

BOB
•••they're-- alive??

Bob releases his grip, Mirage drops to the floor, gasping

raggedly. Bob lifts her up and EMBRACES her. Mirage drinks
it in, then REACTS at the sight of a figure in the doorway.
Bob LOOKS UP.

BOB (CONT'D)
Helen--?

Mirage and Bob push apart, Mirage composing herself.

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MIRAGE
Hello! You must be Mrs. Iner--

Helen's fist flies across the room and CRACKS across Mirage's
jaw. Mirage spins and crashes to the ground. Bob seizes
Helen's stretched wrist--

BOB
She was helping me to escape--

HELEN
No, that's what I was doing!

Bob pulls her to him. She resists, pushing him away with her
stretchy limbs like a cat being forced into a bath as-

HELEN (CONT'D)
Let go of me-- LET GO-- you lousy, lying,
unfaithful, creep, I--

--Bob smothers her protests with a big kiss.

BOB
How could I betray the perfect woman?

HELEN
(still irked)
Oh, you're referring to me now...

BOB
Where are the kids?

Mirage sits up, holding her jaw.

MIRAGE
They might've triggered the alert.
Security's been sent into the jungle.
You'd better get going.

HELEN
What?? Now our kids are in danger??

Bob and Helen turn to exit, bickering as they do.

BOB
If you suspected danger, why'd you bring
them?

HELEN
I didn't bring them, they stowed away and I
don't think you're striking the proper tone
here--

(CONTINUED)
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CONTINUED:

JUNGLE - WITH DASH AND VI - SAME MOMENT

Running blindly. The kids are suddenly confronted by

GUARDS on three manned VELOCIPODS. Glancing at the
GUARDS, Violet speaks quietly to Dash.

VIOLET
Dash. Remember what Mom said.

DASH
What...?

LEAD GUARD
Stop talking!

Abruptly Vi VANISHES. Dash looks around in surprise.

VIOLET'S VOICE
Dash!! RUN!!

Suddenly understanding-- Dash BOLTS, jumping from the

transport and vanishing into the jungle. It happens FAST:

The GUARD'S head snaps toward the sound of Vi's VOICE. He

swings his rifle-- we hear a heavy THUD as Violet's
(invisible) body is knocked from the transport: a cloud of
dust surrounds an impression in the dirt.

GUARD #2
They're SUPERS!

LEAD GUARD
GET THE BOY!

3.GUARDS take off after Dash on VELOCIPODS.

LEAD GUARD (CONT'D)

Show yourself!

RACING THROUGH THE JUNGLE

Dash BLASTS through the foliage on foot, unbelievably

FAST, a manned VELOCIPOD hot on his tail. But the terrain
is dense, uneven and difficult, and Dash is forced to
adhere to the thin TRAIL winding through the growth.

UP AHEAD

a SWARM of flies fusses in the air. Suddenly Dash bursts

into view; rocketing RIGHT THROUGH the SWARM! BUGS
splatter Dash's face like an interstate windshield--

(CONTINUED)
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DASH
AGGCCHH!!!

Dash STUMBLES, careens end over end through the

undergrowth like an Indy 500 car crash, and finally
tumbles to a stop. Unharmed, but thoroughly REPULSED,
Dash wipes his bug-spattered face and teeth.

DASH (CONT'D)
Achpppt!! PtTHWAAAGH! PTHPT!

A Velocipod bursts out of the brush after him and he

TAKES OFF, tearing through the jungle.

Running fast, Dash grabs a LONG VINE-- which sends him out in
a wide arc that surprises the trailing GUARD. HE SHOOTS PAST
Dash and roars off into the undergrowth. Dash releases the
vine, tumbling roughly to his feet, and RUNS.

A Velocipod bursts out of the brush and is on top of him.

Impossibly, Dash ACCELERATES, staying just ahead of it.
He sees ANOTHER VINE, grabs it and is PROPELLED UPWARDS--

ABOVE THE TREES

Dash explodes out of the canopy , flailing, out of

control. He looks down and sees--

--the treetops suddenly DROP AWAY. Dash is FALLING OFF A

CLIFF, SCREAMING his ten-year-old lungs out as he--

--LANDS ON A VELOCIPOD!! Fleetingly astonished by his good

luck, DASH LOOKS UP as the startled GUARD whirls around to
face him. The guard SWINGS. Dash DUCKS and reluctantly throws
a PUNCH at the guard's face. It lands!

Thrilled that his raw speed renders the guard powerless to

dodge or return his punches, Dash LAUGHS and, growing more
confident with each punch, socks the GUARD again and again ,
blissfully unaware that NO ONE IS DRIVING.

Dash LOOKS UP. His jaw drops: a ROCK WALL looms ahead!

Dash POINTS at it. The GUARD sees an opening and SOCKS Dash
in the face, knocking him off just as--

--the velocipod slams into the cliff face, vaporizing in a

FIREBALL!

(CONTINUED)
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CONTINUED
CONTINUED: :

Dash FALLS: making desperate, flailing GRABS as he HITS

limb after limb of an enormous tree, finally getting hold
of a branch and arresting his descent. He pants, heart
racing, and looks down to see--

--his feet dangling about a yard off the jungle floor.

Elated about his survival, Dash drops to the ground and
lets out a loud WHOOP, immediately alerting--

TWO GUARDS ON VELOCIPODS

nearby to his presence. They turn their V-pods after him.

WITH DASH

as he BOLTS again, accelerating to breakneck speed. He

smashes through an endless succession of FOLIAGE-- nearly
colliding with tree trunks and rocks and SUDDENLY--

A LAGOON lies in front of him. Dash REACTS: the V-PODS

are on his tail, he has nowhere to go, so he takes a deep
breath and STEPS ON IT--

--and has enough velocity to RUN ACROSS THE WATER! Amazed

and exhilarated, Dash blasts across the water's surface,
weaving like a speedboat around the large volcanic ROCKS
jutting out of the water.

Velocipods OPEN FIRE... strafing the water as Dash is

pursued into a CAVE.

VELOCIPOD #2 pulls up short at the cave entrance, and

chooses to go around.
INSIDE THE CAVE

Dash runs, Velocipod on his heels. Weaves around rocks,

manages to put some distance between himself and
Velocipod when he sees--

V. POD #2 corning straight at him! Dash wheels around, his

legs churning the water like an eggbeater . He SEES V-POD
#1 closing fast. HE HAS NOWHERE TO GO and, like a deer in
headlights, Dash STOPS--

--suddenly dropping beneath the water's surface as the

Velocipods COLLIDE-- BOOOM!
SOMEWHERE IN THE JUNGLE - MOVING - SAME MOMENT

Bob and Helen run, not tired but breathing hard--

(CONTINUED)
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BOB
I should've told you I was fired, I admit
it, but I didn't want you to worry--

HELEN
You didn't want me to worry?? And now
we're running for our lives through some
godforsaken jungle!

BOB
You keep trying to pick a fight, but I'm
still just happy you're alive--

ANOTHER PART OF THE JUNGLE - VIOLET & THE GUARD

The remaining GUARD waits, his machine gun at the ready.

Suddenly the dirt MOVES. The guard FIRES, strafing the
ground just behind a SUCCESSION OF FOOTPRINTS that streak
toward the river moments before a SPLASH appears.

THE RIVER - UNDER THE WATER'S SURFACE

We see a Violet-shaped DISTORTION as BULLET TRAILS

furiously slice the surrounding water.

WITH THE GUARD

--still firing. He STOPS, unnerved and adrenalized.

Tensed and ready, he nervously scans the river.

GUARD #1
I know you're there, little Miss
Disappear. You can't hide from me•..

Training his gun where he last saw Violet, the GUARD

grabs a handful of dirt from the riverbank and throws it
into the water. He shoulders his RIFLE, watching the dirt
turn into a brown CLOUD as it travels downstream•..

...making visible a VIOLET-SHAPED POCKET.

GUARD #1 (CONT'D)
• ..there you are...

The guard TAKES AIM and- DASH

BLURS PAST--

DASH
HEY!

(CONTINUED)
 !100

--KNOCKING the guard's gun barrel skyward as it FIRES. The

guard swings around-- strafing the ground at DASH'S heels
as he plunges back into the jungle.

A SPLASH explodes from the river as INVISIBLE VIOLET makes

a break for it. THE GUARD sees this and swings the gun
toward her as--

DASH blasts out of the jungle and knocks the Guard's legs
out from under him. They TUMBLE and scrap, Dash redeeming his
lack of size with lightning-fast punches and feints.

DASH (CONT'D)
Stay away from my sister!!

Disoriented, the guard swings and--

--CONNECTS-- knocking Dash off his feet. He tumbles

backward, dazed. The guard shoulders his rifle, leveling it
at Dash. Dash looks up; sees he's screwed. The guard GRINS
wickedly.•. and pulls the trigger--

Violet suddenly APPEARS in mid-air, diving in front of

Dash as she THROWS A FORCE FIELD around them! A hail of
bullets ricochet off the force field.

INSIDE THE FORCE FIELD

Dash looks up, sees Violet SUSPENDED IN MID-AIR in the

center of the ELECTRIC SPHERE.

DASH
How are you doing that???

VIOLET
I don't know!

DASH
Well, whatever you do-- DON'T STOP!

WIDER

as Dash starts to walk within the force field like a

gerbil on a wheel. Violet spins ever faster in the
sphere's hub as Dash accelerates into a run.

The GUARDS empty their clips at the ROLLING SPHERE with no

effect. It rumbles past them and straight into the jungle.
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CONTINUED:

MOVING WITH THE ROLLING FORCE FIELD

as it carries Dash and Vi down a steep hillside into the

path of two speeding VELOCIPODS, who FIRE at the sphere.
It's clipped by one Velocipod-- which then spirals into a
rock and EXPLODES.

A JUNGLE CLEARING, NOT FAR AWAY - SAME MOMENT

Bob and Helen hear the EXPLOSION'S echo, and STOP,

worried. That's when they hear the RUMBLE. Before they
can get clear, the ROLLING FORCE FIELD bursts out of the
brush--

INSIDE THE SPHERE

The children REACT as their surprised PARENTS flatten

against the force field like dough against a rolling pin,
revolving in and out of view.

VIOLET & DASH

Mom!! DAD!!

RESUME WIDE VIEW

Violet VANISHES the force field and the entire family

tumbles to the jungle floor.

BOB & HELEN

KIDS!!

There is a frantic, joyful exchange of hugs and kisses,

unfortunately cut short when--

VELOCIPODS explode out of the foliage! The INCREDIBLES

instantly jump to their feet:

Helen throws a STRETCHED SCISSORS KICK which catches a

guard in the chest, knocking him out of his V-pod. Bob
CHOPS a second passing velocipod-- it PLOWS straight into
the soft jungle floor. Before its PILOT can react--

--Helen's arm is coiled around him. She YANKS him from

the vehicle, whiplashing him into another guard, knocking
them both out cold. Bob grabs the crashed V-pod and
Frisbees it into a V-pod emerging from the trees-
BOO OOM!

And it's OVER. Bob and Helen had forgotten how good they
were. They exchange lustful glances.
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BOB & HELEN (CONT'D)

(to each other) '
I love you..•

Suddenly the jungle is filled with GUARDS and VELOCIPODS.

And just as quickly the INCREDIBLES turn as one against
them, a hurricane blur of SUPERPOWERS, suddenly brought to a
CRASHING HALT--

--AS IMMOBI-RAYS strike the Incredibles, SUSPENDING them all,

motionless, in MID-AIR.

SYNDROME
Whoa whoa WHOA-- TIME OUT!!

Syndrome keeps his wrists crossed; one BEAM trained on the

SUSPENDED COUPLE, the other on the SUSPENDED KIDS.

SYNDROME (CONT'D)
What have we here? Matching uniforms??

He glances between the four faces. His eyes narrow as he

zeroes in on Helen. An astonished smile splits his face.

SYNDROME (CONT'D)
Oh•.•.•• NO-- Elastigirl?? (laughing,
turns to Bob)
You••. married Elastigirl?
(he stops, sees the kids)
And got BIZ-ZAY! It's a whole FAMILY of
Supers! Looks like I've hit the jackpot! Oh,
this is just TOO GOOD!!

ON A GIANT SCREEN: NETWORK NEWS FOOTAGE

of a crowd gathered around a smoldering hulk resting at the

base of a large building. The TV channel CHANGES. Another
reporter is covering the same story. Camera WIDENS: SYNDROME
is delightedly channel surfing with a remote control of his
own invention. We are in the--

PRISON CHAMBER - SYNDROME'S BASE - DAY

The Incredibles-- Bob, Helen, Violet and Dash-- are all

imprisoned side by side in SUSPENSION BEAMS.

SYNDROME
(turns to Incredibles)
Huh? HUH?? Oh, come on, you've gotta admit
this is cool! Just like a movie!
(MORE)

(CONTINUED)
(CONTINUED)
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CONTINUED:
CONTINUED :
SYNDROME (CONT'D)
The robot will emerge dramatically, do
some damage, throngs of screaming people,
and just when all hope is lost, Syndrome
will save the day. I'll be a bigger hero
than you ever were!

BOB
You mean you killed off real heroes so that
you could pretend to be one???!!

SYNDROME
Oh I'M REAL! Real enough to defeat YOU! And
I did it without your precious gifts, your
oh-so-special powers! I'll give them
heroics, I'll give 'em the most spectacular
heroics anyone's ever seen!
And when I'm old and I've had my fun,
I'll sell my inventions, so everyone can
be Superheroes, everyone can be Super!
And when everyone's Super--
(he turns)
--no one will be.
Syndrome EXITS, cackling. !104

RESUME CONTAINMENT UNIT

The Incredibles hang in mid-air, defeated••• as a live

NEWSCAST covers the terrifying Omnidroid attack.

BOB
I'm sorry.

The others look up in dull surprise at Bob's confession.

BOB (CONT'D)
This is my fault. I've been a lousy father.
Blind.•. to what I have.

Behind Bob, Violet begins to rock back and forth,

revealing that she's suspended not in Syndrome's Ray, but
in the center of her own force field!

BOB (CONT'D)
So obsessed with being undervalued that I
undervalued all of you.

DASH
Dad--

HELEN
Sh! Don't interrupt.

(CONTINUED)
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CONTINUED :

BOB
So caught up in the past that I, I- (Bob
hesitates, sincere)
--you are my greatest adventure. And I
almost missed it.

Violet has gathered enough momentum to ROLL her sphere out

of the suspension beam and over to the control panel.

BOB (CONT'D)
I swear I'm gonna get us out of this if--

VIOLET
(interrupting)
Well. I think Dad has made some excellent
progress today . But it's time to wind down
now--

Violet throws a switch, releasing the Incredibles from the

BEAM. They DROP to the floor.

LAUNCHING BAY - NOMANISAN - DAY

The Incredibles race through an empty corridor.

BOB
We need to get back to the mainland.

HELEN
I saw an aircraft hangar on my way in. Straight
ahead , I think--

Bob's hands pry open the heavy metal doors, crunching

them like foil. The INCREDIBLES enter the huge HANGAR
unmolest ed.

BOB
Where are all the guards?
(to family)
Go... go!

Laughter drifts out of a large Winnebago crowned with

transmission arrays parked near the launchpad.

INSIDE THE WINNEBAGO

The GUARDS watch live coverage of the OMNIDROID attack on a

video monitor. Champagne is popped: the cork is unexpectedly
CAUGHT by someone standing in the doorway--

--MR. INCREDIBLE. The guards fall SILENT.•.

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OUTSIDE THE MOBILE UNIT

The vehicle ROCKS as Bob quickly punches out the guards

within. In moments Bob emerges, whistles to his family that
the coast is clear.

HELEN
This is the hangar, but I don't see any
jets.

BOB
A jet's not fast enough.

HELEN
What's faster than a jet?

DASH
How about a rocket?

The other Incredibles follow Dash's finger to an enormous

shield-shaped ROCKET, identical to the one launched
earlier-- save for a perfect circular hole in the center.

HELEN
Great. I can't fly a rocket.

VIOLET
You don't have to. Use the coordinates from
the last launch.

Bob & Helen BEAM at their daughter's cleverness. Then Bob's

smile FADES.

BOB
Wait. I'll bet Syndrome's changed the
password by now. How do I get into the
computer?

A VOICE comes over the loudspeaker.

VOICE
Say please.

The Incredibles turn and look up. MIRAGE stands in the

monitoring station above the launchpad, smiling.

INT. HIGH RISE APARTMENT - MUNICIBERG - SAME MOMENT

The stereo plays soft jazz as LUCIUS BEST (aka FROZONE)

dresses for dinner. He slaps some aftershave on his face,
checking his look in the mirror. A low series of BOOMS
grows louder, causing him to look up to see--

(CONTINUED)
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CONTINUED:

--the OMNIDROID lumbering past the soaring windows of his

fifth floor apartment, a MILITARY CHOPPER strafing it with
machine-gun fire. Immediately goes through his dresser
drawers.

FROZONE HONEY'S VOICE

Honey? What?
FROZONE HONEY'S VOICE

Where's my supersuit? What?

FROZONE HONEY'S VOICE

WHERE. IS. MY. SUPER. I put it away!

SUIT?!

The MILITARY CHOPPER, now on fire, spirals past the picture

window and EXPLODES, lighting up the room.

FROZONE HONEY'S VOICE

WHERE?! Why do you need to know?

FROZONE
I NEED it!

Frozone is running now, down the hallway, going in and out of

view, frantically searching rooms and closets.

HONEY'S VOICE
Huh-uh! You better not be thinking about
doing no derring-do! We've been planning
this dinner for two months!

FROZONE
The public is in danger!

HONEY'S VOICE
My evening's in danger!

FROZONE
Tell me where my suit is, woman! We're
talking about the greater good!

HONEY'S VOICE
"Greater good"?! I am your wife! I am the
greatest good you are ever going to get!

EXT. CITY STREETS - MOMENTS LATER

The driver of a gasoline TANKER TRUCK screeches to a halt,

his eyes bugging out at the rampaging ROBOT.
 TRUCKER
! 107 .
RUN!
(CONTINUED)

(CONTINUED)
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CONTINUED:
CONTINUED:

He jumps from the truck just as the robot seizes the tanker
in a giant claw, and flings it down the street. A YOUNG
MOTHER sees it arcing toward her baby carriage.

YOUNG MOTHER
My baby!

The CROWD is immediately electrified by the sight of the

red-haired Superhero. "The Supers have returned!" "Is that
Fi-Ronic?" "No, Fi-Ronic has a different outfit!"

SYNDROME
No, no.•. I'm a new Superhero! I'm
SYNDROME!!

Syndrome carelessly flings the tanker truck behind him with

a flourish. It EXPLODES, frightening the crowd.

SYNDROME (CONT'D)
Alright, stand back!

The Ornnidroid reaches a massive claw toward Syndrome, who

presses a series of buttons on his power cuff. The robot
FREEZES suddenly, IDLING. Syndrome smiles, pressing another
series of buttons on his remote.

SYNDROME (CONT'D)
Someone needs to teach this hunk of metal a
few manners!!

Putting on a good show, Syndrome FLIES around the idling

bot, and delivers a punch to one of its leg sockets.

OMNIDROID'S P.O.V.:

TECHNICAL READOUTS spray across its viewscreen as it confirms

Syndromes instructions:

RESTRAIN BATTLE MODE. DETACH ARM AT SIGNAL.

RESUME EXT. OMNIDROID

On cue, one of the OMNIDROID'S limbs suddenly FALLS out of

its socket, thudding uselessly to the ground. As Syndrome
revels in the CHEERS of the crowd, we PUSH IN on the
OMNIDROID. It's watching SYNDROME. And THINKING••.

OMNIDROID'S P.O.V.:

TECHNICAL READOUTS spray across its viewscreen as it

analyzes:

CONTROL STOLEN BY EXTERNAL SIGNAL

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LOCATE SOURCE: EXTERNAL SIGNAL

Columns of NUMBERS are crunched. The OMNIDROID'S lens-eye

ZOOMS IN on the CONTROL BANDS around Syndrome's wrist--

SIGNAL SOURCE: REMOTE CONTROL

--and comes to a logical conclusion:

OVERRIDE EXTERNAL CONTROL

DESTROY REMOTE CONTROL

RESUME EXT. OMNIDROID

The OMNIDROID FIRES a precise laser shot, blasting the

REMOTE right off Syndrome's wrist. It clatters to the
street. Syndrome whirls around in horror as the BOT goes
after him.

OMNIDROID TROUNCES SYNDROME

knocking him out cold. Robot then resumes its havoc.

FROZONE

appears on the scene.

HIGH ABOVE THE EARTH

another ROCKET, identical to the first one, descends from

the clouds. Again, it SEPARATES into quarters which fall
away, revealing the landing craft inside--

--and only then do we notice what's different about it: in

the center of the large, perfectly round hole designed to
house the OMNIDROID is--

--A WINNEBAGO.•. precariously held in place by a very

stretched, very stressed HELEN.

INSIDE THE VAN

Bob is at the wheel, Vi and Dash are seated at a small

table in the back.

DASH
Are we there yet?

BOB
We get there when we get there!

Bob opens his window. Wind RUSHES in, scattering loose

debris everywhere.

(CONTINUED)
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EXT. VAN

Bob leans out the window, shouts to Helen up on the roof.

BOB
HOW YOU DOING, HONEY???

HELEN
DO I HAVE TO ANSWER???

The GIANT WING is descending, gliding closer to the

water, as the CITY looms closer directly ahead.

INT. VAN

BOB
KIDS? STRAP YOURSELVES DOWN LIKE I TOLD
YOU!

The kids move to the seats at the monitor panels, belting

themselves in. Bob opens his window, yells up to Helen--

BOB (CONT'D)
HERE WE GO, HONEY!
(back inside)
Ready, Violet?

Violet holds a hand over a giant, jerry-rigged release

switch.

BOB (CONT'D) READY.•.

NOW!!!

Vi slams the switch.

EXT. VAN

The explosive bolts FIRE, separating the wing. Helen LETS GO

with a pained shout, swings inside through the window.

INT. VAN

Bob steps on the gas. The van wheels SPIN. Bob tenses as he
watches the speedometer move past 110•.• 120.•• 130•.•

BOB
THIS IS GOING TO BE ROUGH!

EXT. CITY STREETS - MOVING WITH THEM

The VAN SAILS over an overpass, clipping a light pole, and

crashes to the pavement in a shower of sparks. FLIES down
the street at 200 MPH. Fighting to keep control, Bob
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! 110 .
hits the BRAKES. SMOKE erupts from the wheel wells. I/EVAN

- MOVING WITH THEM

BOB
The robots in the financial district.
Which exit do I take?

HELEN
Traction Avenue.

BOB
That'll take me downtown! I take Seventh, don't
I?

Bob cranks the wheel and cuts across several lanes toward
the Seventh Street exit.

HELEN
DON'T TAKE SEVENTH!!!
Bob aborts the exit, swerving hard to avoid collision.

BOB
(furious)
Great! We missed it!!

HELEN BOB
You asked me how to get That'll take me downtown!
there and I told you: exit
at Traction!

HELEN BOB
It's coming up! Get in the (changing lanes)
right lane! SIGNAL! We don't exit at Traction!
HELEN BOB
YOU'RE GONNA MISS IT!! EEEYAAAAHHHH!

EXT. FREEWAY - MOVING WITH THE VAN

The VAN takes a violent SWERVE across six lanes, barely

making the offramp! Sparks spray as the van slams into the
metal railing. The VAN careens off the railing and into
traffic, narrowly missing a SEMI. HORNS BLARE.

INT. VAN

Bob's teeth clench as he fights to slow the car down. He

STOMPS BOTH FEET on the BRAKES.

(CONTINUED)
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111.

Its tires smoking, the Van pulls sideways and loses it,
TUMBLING down the center of the street, spraying metal
pieces in its wake. It rolls into an open parking space,
and lands-- miraculously upright, stripped like an ear of
eaten corn.

INT. VAN

Bob and Helen sit up woozily. Bob turns to the kids.

BOB
Is everybody okay back there•.•?

Violet and Dash pull themselves upright. They look as if

they've emerged from an industrial tumble dryer.

VIOLET
Super-duper, Dad.•.!

DASH
Let's do that again!

The OMNIDROID comes into view through the cracked

windshield. Bob releases his seat belt, turns to Helen.

BOB
Wait here and stay hidden. I'm going in.

EXT. VAN

Bob grimly starts after the Omnidroid. Helen stretches an

arm out and grabs his shoulder, spinning him around.

HELEN
While what? I watch helplessly from the
sidelines? I don't think so.

BOB
I'm asking you to wait with the kids.

HELEN
And I'm telling you "not a chance."
You're my husband. I'm with you. For
better or worse.

BOB
I have to do this alone.

HELEN BOB
What is this to you? No.
Playtime?

(CONTINUED)
•• 112.

• CONTINUED:
HELEN

So you can be Mr.

Incredible again??
Nol!
BOB

HELEN BOB

Then WHAT? What is it??? I'm..• I'm not--

HELEN BOB
Not what?? --not strong enough!

HELEN BOB
"Strong enough"?? And this Yes-- NO!!
will make you stronger??

HELEN

That's what this is? Some sort of

workout?!!

BOB
(grabbing her suddenly)
I CAN'1' LOSE YOU AGAIN!!!

Helen is stunned. She stares at Bob, whose head is bowed like

a child•

BOB (CONT'D)
I can't. Not again••.
(a whisper)
.•.I'm not strong enough.

Helen searches Bob's eyes, deeply touched. She throws her

arms around him, kissing him.

HELEN
If we work together you won't have to be.

Bot looks into her eyes, equally tender.

BOB
I don't know what'll happen.

HELEN
Hey, we're Superheroes. What could
happen?

Violet SCREAMS. She and Dash jump clear just as the van is
CRUSHED by the Omnidroid's metal foot. The INCREDIBLES run.
Another Omnidroid foot SMASHES into the street, blocking the
kids way. Bob and Helen stop, whirling--

HELEN (CONT'D) (CONTINUED)

Vi, Dash-- NO!!
• CONTINUED: (2)
113.

The OMNIDROID is now fully focused on the kids, pounding

Violet's force field relentlessly with its giant claws.
The shield HOLDS. The BOT draws itself up, and DROPS-
the entirety of its massive bulk SLAMS into the force
field--

--knocking Vi UNCONSCIOUS. Her force field FLICKERS OUT.

DASH
Violet...?

Again the BOT draws itself up to deliver the crushing blow.

Dash cringes and the bot DROPS--

--and HITS an obstacle halfway down. Dash looks up-

DASH (CONT'D)
Dad!

Bob is underneath the bot, on his back, his arms and legs
straining under the weight of it.

BOB
Go ... go--!

Vi comes to, and is instantly YANKED out from under the

machine and into Helen's arms. Dash follows them around
the corner.

Straining, Bob lifts the BOT enough to get his feet

underneath him. The bot snatches Bob out from underneath and
flings him at a building across the street.

INT. BUILDING - EIGHTH FLOOR OFFICES

The windows SHATTER as Bob's body tumbles across the

floor, scattering desks and chairs.

EXT. CITY STREETS

Helen rounds a corner out of the omnidroid's view and

carefully sets Violet down. She looks at Dash and Vi.

HELEN
(firm)
Stay here. Okay?

Helen turns away, charging back toward the robot. Vi and

Dash watch their fearless mother in amazement.
•
WITH BOB AND THE OMNIDROID

as the bot pulls itself up the building to look for Bob. Bob
charges the bot, hitting it with enough force to dislodge it
from the building. It FALLS, crashing into the street with an
earth-shattering BOOM.

Bob falls with it but rolls and lands on his feet. The
familiar sound of cracking ice causes Bob to look up--

BOB
Frozone! YEAH!!

A narrow sheet of ice streaks across the pavement and

FROZONE skates past, joining the fight.

FOLLOWING FROZONE

He moves to the Omnidroid, expertly icing its joints as it

tries to get up. The machine WHINES as its motors strain
against the ice.
• FURTHER DOWN THE STREET

Helen rushes up to Bob.

! 115 •

HELEN
Bob--

Just then Frozone sails into frame and crashes into the roof
of a parked car. Bob turns angrily toward the robot--

BOB
HEY--!!

--and is immediately SMACKED by the robot. Bob flies into the

side of a building and tumbles to the street.

Frozone and Helen distract the robot, heckling it and

spreading out. It goes after them like an enraged beast.

Dazed, Bob looks up and sees a strange device on the ground in

front of him. He examines it, his eyes widening when he realizes
what it is. He holds it up, yelling excitedly to the others--

BOB (CONT'D)
SYNDROME'S REMOTE!!

WHAM! The bot comes down on Bob like a ton of bricks, lifting
him high above the ground. Miraculously, Bob has held on to the
remote, and he quickly stabs at the buttons, hoping to get
lucky.

(CONTINUED)
• CONTINUED
il S .

With a BOOM one of the bot's limbs RELEASES, sending it-

and Bob-- crashing to the ground.
AROUND THE CORNER

Violet sees this. She turns to Dash.

VIOLET
The remote controls the robot!
WITH BOB AND THE OMNIDROID

The Omnidroid knows this too, and it fires laser blasts

at Bob to try to stop Bob from using the remote. Bob
jumps clear, then hears his son from down the street.
DASH
Hey, Dad! Throw it! Throw it!!
BOB
GO LONG!!

Bob gives the remote a MONSTER THROW, flinging it high

into the air and across the river. Dash pivots and takes
off after it. The Omni sees Dash and starts firing after
him.
WITH DASH

as he hits the water, jetting across the water's surface

as the Omni fires away. The water EXPLODES around Dash,
but he concentrates on the remote, following it into his
hands like an NFL receiver.
DASH
I GOT IT!!

Dash crosses the river and hits the streets on the other
side, seemingly home free. But the Omni is still FIRING,
and it hits some cars in Dash's path, igniting their gas
tanks. Suddenly Dash is surrounded by a wall of FLAMES!
WITH BOB

He runs toward Helen, who is closer to the Omnidroid.

BOB
HONEY! TAKE OUT ITS GUNS!!
••
• ! 116 •

HELEN

hears him. She grabs a heavy MANHOLE COVER, winding her

elastic arm around a light pole to fling it-- like an
arrow-- at the OMNIDROID'S gun. Bull's-eye.

ACROSS THE RIVER

What follows amounts to a game of hot potato between the

Supers and the robot over the remote:

Frozone saves Dash from the circle of burning cars. The Robot
sees this and goes after them. With Dash on his back,
Frozone races across the river, freezing it in front of him
as he goes.

The robot JUMPS-- almost on top of them, creating a MASSIVE

WAVE and throwing Dash and Frozone high into the air. Thinking
fast, Frozone turns the wave into a wall of SNOW. It crashes
over the streets, cushioning their fall.

IN THE STREET - NEARBY

The remote clatters to the ground. Bob sees it and runs for
it. The bot sees Bob and fires a claw-- catching Bob just as
he was reaching for the remote. The CLAW-- with Bob inside--
tumbles end over end down the street. With Bob out of the way,
the bot heads for the remote.

Frozone ices the robot's path, causing the bat's metal feet to
slip and slide. Helen runs ahead of the bot, stretching
herself into a tripwire across the stumbling robot's path. It
CRASHES to the street.

The bot LOOKS UP. The remote lies on the street just in front
of it, easily within its grasp. The bot reaches out with a claw
to destroy the remote. The remote magically JUMPS CLEAR. The
bot tries again, and again the remote darts away. Riled now,
the bot rears up and STABS wildly at the remote with all of
its arms. We hear VIOLET shriek, as the remote repeatedly
eludes the robot's grasp: finally tangling its legs so badly
that it topples over.

Vi REAPPEARS, running back to rejoin the group in the middle

of the street.

VIOLET
Mom, I got it! I got the remote!

FROZONE
A remote? A remote that controls what?

(CONTINUED)
•• ! .
117
CONTINUED
:

Violet begins to fiddle with the remote's CLICK-WHEEL,

poking its buttons to no effect. The robot has gotten to
its feet and lunges toward them.

Violet shrieks and presses the button a last time.

ROCKETS FIRE underneath the robot's clawed feet, lifting
the enormous machine into the air.
FROZONE (CONT'D)
The ROBOT???

Everyone ducks as the robot rockets overhead, crashing

into a building at the end of the street. Like a
woozy prizefighter, the Omnidroid gets back on its
feet.
DASH
It's coming back!

Dash snatches the remote from Violet, aims it at the

robot, spins the click-wheel and presses a button. Behind
Dash (and unseen by all) the claws on the robot's
detached arm SPRING OPEN-- flinging Bob into the air.
DASH (CONT'D)
That wasn't right.
VIOLET
(snatching remote back)
Give me that!
DOWN THE STREET - WITH BOB

He climbs to his feet, muttering to himself.

BOB
We can't stop it...! The only thing hard
enough to penetrate it is•..
A thought hits him. He turns, staring at the metal claw.

BOB (CONT'D)
•..itself
.

WITH FROZONE, HELEN & THE KIDS

Helen has the remote now and is trying to figure it out.

The Omnidroid has them all in its sights and is lumbering
toward them. The kids are starting to panic•
HELEN
No, this'll work! This'll work!
(to Frozone)
Lucius, try to buy us some time!
(CONTINUED)
! 118 •

(CONTINUED)
• CONTINUED:
! 118 .

•
CONTINUED:

FROZONE
(re: button, exiting)
Try the one next to it!

Lucius takes off, throwing ice and skating down the street
toward the approaching robot. He JUMPS off an ice ramp, his
skates CONVERTING into a circular ski-disc in mid-air. He
lands, throwing a massive ICE WALL in front of the robot.

WITH BOB

As he closes the claw into a massive arrowhead and starts

charging down the street.

WITH HELEN & THE KIDS

Helen dials the click-wheel on the remote, pokes a

button.

RESUME BOB

The back of the claw suddenly FIRES a rocket engine. Bob veers
crazily, trying to control it•

RESUME HELEN & THE KIDS

She pokes the button again. Now close to the group, Bob's claw
rocket SWITCHES OFF. Bob gets an idea.

BOB
Wait a minute--!
(yells to Helen)
Press that button again!

Helen presses a button. The claw blades start to spin.

BOB (CONT'D)
No-- the other one! The FIRST ONE!

HELEN
First button-- got it!

The Ornnidroid has broken through the first ice wall, and pounding
away at a second one. Though Frozone's giving it all he's got,
the robot's starting to get through.

FROZONE
HELEN???

Helen looks at the remote, gestures at her kids.

• ! 119 .

HELEN
Get outta here, kids! Find a safe spot!

VIOLET
We're not going anywhere!

BOB (FROM DOWN THE STREET)

PRESS THE BUTTON!

HELEN
NOT YET!

The Omnidroid is pounding through the second wall. Bob shouts

from behind them.

BOB
WHAT'RE YOU WAITING FOR??!

HELEN
A CLOSER TARGET! YOU GOT ONE SHOT!

The Ornnidroid SHATTERS the last wall-- it's almost on top of

them. Helen presses the button. The claw-rocket FIRES. Bob
aims it directly at the Omnidroid's metal underbelly--

BOB
EVERYBODY DUCK!!

--and RELEASES IT. The giant metal arrow roars overhead and
drills clean through the robot's body, corning out the other
side. For a long moment nothing happens. Then the gargantuan
machine KEELS OVER and EXPLODES. It's over.

The family looks at each other, stunned. Frozone starts to

chuckle. Bob smiles as he looks at his Super family. It
feels like his best memories••• only better.

The seemingly empty city begins to come to life, as people

emerge from their hiding places, converging in the street.
People begin to spontaneously CHEER the heroes, welcoming
the Supers' return. Two ELDERLY GENTLEMEN stand together in
the crowd. One nudges the other.

FRANK
See that? That's the way you do it. That's
Old School.

OLLIE
Yup. No school like the Old School•

(CONTINUED)
 •
•• 121.

ON A NEARBY ROOFTOP

SYNDROME comes to. Looks over the edge to the streets

below to find the battle over and the masses cheering-
not for him, but for the group of Supers. He DARKENS.
SYNDROME
No--!
WITH FROZONE AND THE INCREDIBLES

They drink in the cheers as the adoring crowd gathers

around them.
FROZONE
Just like old times.
BOB
Just like old times••.

Bob slaps Frozone on the back, a little too hard. Frozone

shakes it off.
FROZONE
Yeah. Hurt then, too.
EXT. CITY STREETS - MOVING - DUSK
A long, black LIMO cruises down the street.

INSIDE THE LIMO - CONTINUOUS

Bob sits proudly with his family as Rick Dicker debriefs

them. Everyone is enjoying the moment, save for Helen,
who has already clicked back into "mother-mode" and is
using the car phone to get messages.
DICKER
We've frozen all his assets. If Syndrome
even sneezes we'll be there with a hanky
and a pair of handcuffs. The people of
this country are indebted to you. We'll
make good on it.
BOB
Does this mean we can come out of hiding?
DICKER
Let the politicians figure that one out.
But I've been asked to assure you that
we'll take care of everything else. You
did good, Bob.
 ! 121 .
CONTINUED:

Dash plays with the electric windows as Helen retrieves

messages from the car phone. Window up, window down•••

KARI'S VOICE
(beep)
Hello, Mrs. Parr. Everything's fine, but
there's something-- unusual about Jack
Jack. Can you call me, okay?
.•.window up, up, down, up. Finally Helen snaps.

HELEN
(to Dash)
Come on! We're in a limo!
Bob is looking appreciatively at Violet.

BOB
You're wearing your hair back.
VIOLET
Huh? Oh, yeah. I just••. yeah.
BOB
It looks good.
VIOLET
(blushing)
Thanks, Dad.
DASH
(to Bob)
That was so cool when you threw that car.

BOB
Not as cool as you running on water.
DASH
And Mom when she-- hey, Mom! That was
sweet when you snagged that bad guy with
your arm and kinda like whiplashed him
into the other guy--
HELEN
I'm trying to listen to messages,
honey••.
DASH
And we totally aced those guys that tried
to kill us! That was the best vacation
ever! I love our family.

(CONTINUED)
(CONTINUED)
• CONTINUED: (2)
! 122 .

KARI'S VOICE
(beep)
It's me! Jack-Jack's still fine but I'm
really getting weirded out!! WHEN ARE YOU
COMING BACK??

HELEN
(nudges Bob, shares phone)
Bob, listen to this--

Helen is listening to the last message as the limo slows to

a stop in front of their home--

DICKER
Here we are•••

KARI'S VOICE
(through phone, calmer)
Hi, this is Kari. Sorry for freaking out.
But your baby has special needs. Anyway,
thanks for sending a replacement sitter--

HELEN
(looks at Bob, alarmed)
"Replacement" •••? I didn't call for a
replacement!

Bob's eyes widen. He and Helen jump from the car,

followed by the kids. They cross the lawn and burst
through the front door to REVEAL--

SYNDROME

who SPINS, hitting the family with his ZERO-POINT RAY.

Cradling a sleeping Jack-Jack in his arms, he grins.

SYNDROME
Shh. The baby's sleeping.

He CACKLES. The Incredibles are frozen and helpless in the

grasp of the ZERO-POINT. Only their eyes betray their
desperation.

SYNDROME (CONT'D)
You took away my future. I'm simply
returning the favor. Don't worry. I'll be a
good mentor; supportive, encouraging.
Everything you weren't. And in time, who
knows? He might make a good sidekick•••
•• CONTINUED:
! 123 .

Syndrome FLINGS the family into the bookcase. He points

his power band toward the roof and blows a huge hole in
it, revealing his MANTA JET hovering high above. Syndrome
fires his jet-boots and TAKES OFF toward the jet.
HELEN
He's getting away, Bob! We have to do
something! We have to do something now!

ASCENDING WITH SYNDROME & JACK-JACK - DUSK

JACK-JACK awakens to the sight of his family and home

receding beneath him. He CRIES, reaching out for them.

Syndrome nears the MANTA JET. JACK-JACK'S crying turns

angry and suddenly he BURSTS INTO FLAMES. Syndrome
shrieks. Jack-Jack's fire goes out, revealing that the
baby has turned to METAL.

Syndrome DROPS with the sudden weight. His jet-boots

compensate, but Syndrome is struggling to stay aloft. The
baby's flesh reverts to normal, but the baby begins to
VIBRATE fiercely. Syndrome can barely keep hold of him•
ON THE GROUND

Helen turns to Bob, panicked.

HELEN
Something's happening! What's happening??
RESUME SYNDROME & JACK-JACK

The vibrating baby begins to REDDEN, TRANSFORMING

abruptly into mini-MONSTER. The Jack-Jack monster throws
a headlock around Syndrome, laughing maniacally and
starts to RIP APART Syndrome's Jet-boots!
ON THE GROUND

Bob and Helen watch helplessly.

HELEN
We have to stop him! Throw something!

BOB
I can't! I might hit Jack-Jack!

HELEN
(realization, softly)
Throw me••.

(CONTINUED)
•
• WITH SYNDROME AND JACK-JACK
! 124 .

Jack-Jack RIPS a valve from Syndrome's jet-boots, which

PROPELS him upward, slamming his head into the jet's
wing. He loses hold of Jack-Jack, who FALLS--

ON THE GROUND

Helen SEES THIS, turns to Bob-

HELEN
Bob-- THROW ME!!

Helen leaps into Bob's arms, forming into a SPEAR shape.

BOB takes aim and FLINGS HER toward the falling baby.

IN THE SKY

HELEN SOARS-- and GRABS JACK-JACK! She quickly BLOOMS

into a parachute.

INT./EXT. MANTA JET

SYNDROME regains control. He successfully docks with the

hovering Manta Jet. He stands at the docking doors, his
cape blowing dramatically upwards•••

SYNDROME
THIS ISN'T THE END OF IT!!

ON THE GROUND

Bob looks around wildly for a way to get at Syndrome, and

spies his sports car. Regret flashes across his face--

EXT. MANTA JET

SYNDROME
I WILL GET YOUR SON!! I'LL-- oh no•••

Syndrome's eyes go wide. BOB'S CAR is soaring toward him,

tumbling end over end towards the MANTA JET. Syndrome
jumps back as the crafts COLLIDE, blowing him off his feet
and up over the wing, toward the turbines.

Clawing madly to find purchase, he LOOKS over his shoulder

in time to see the end of his CAPE sucked into the intake.
Syndrome SCREAMS as he's YANKED OUT OF FRAME--

ON THE GROUND

BOB, DASH & VI react as the MANTA JET EXPLODES.

•
• ! 125 .

DESCENDING WITH HELEN AND JACK-JACK

Helen cradles Jack-Jack facing upwards, his back toward the

ground. He looks at her, giggling and cooing.

HELEN
Look at Mommy, honey. Don't look down,
Mommy's got you. Everything's alright•••

But Jack-Jack sees burning wreckage coming toward them

and starts to SHRIEK, pointing upwards. Helen turns to
see it as--

WRECKAGE CRASHES ON TOP OF THEM, DESTROYING THE PARR

HOME. HELEN & JJ ARE SAVED. VI AND HELEN EXCHANGE A
MEANINGFUL LOOK:

HELEN (CONT'D)
That's my girl.

DASH
Does this mean we have to move again?

Everyone chuckles at this. The smoke begins to clear,

REVEALING a lone witness to this cataclysmic event--

--the Big Wheel KID, whose eyes are as big as dinner plates.

KID
Ooohh, man, THAT WAS TOTALLY WICKED!
FADE TO BLACK.

EXT. PARKER STADIUM - DAY - THREE MONTHS LATER

The stadium parking lot is about half full on a beautiful

cloudless day. The marquee announces JUNIOR HIGH TRACK
FINALS.

INSIDE THE STADIUM

Young runners loosen up at the starting line of the

hundred-yard dash. Dash is among them. He waves to the
stands.

IN THE STANDS

Bob, Helen and Jack-Jack wave back. Coming down the steps is
none other than Violet's crush, TONY RYDINGER. He waves
cooly at some friends and heads toward the concession
stand•.• PAUSING when he sees Violet and a friend talking
nearby. He approaches them.
(CONTINUED)
CONTINUED:
! 126 .
 ! 127 .
TONY
(to Violet)
Hey.
VIOLET
Hey.
TONY

You're••• Violet, right?

With a smile, Vi's friend exits.

VIOLET
That's me.

TONY
You look••• different.

VIOLET
I feel different. Is different okay•••?

TONY
Different is great. Would you.•• uh•.•

VIOLET TONY
Yeah•••? Do you••• want•••
VIOLET TONY
Yeah••• Maybe••• we, uh••• could--

Violet silences Tony with a single finger on his lips. Tony

stares at her in shock and wonder.

VIOLET
I like movies. I'll buy the popcorn.
(then, gently)
Okay••• ?

TONY
Yeah. Good. A movie. Okay. Friday?

VIOLET
(big smile)
Friday.

ON THE FIELD

The starter pistol FIRES and the runners take off. Dash
jogs well behind the pack in a confident, easy trot.

In the stands Bob, Helen, and Violet cheer Dash on.

(CONTINUED)
 ! 127 .

• BOB, HELEN & VIOLET

CONTINUED Go!! Go, Dash, GO!! Run. Run! RUN!!
(etc.)

:
• Dash hears them and looks toward the stands.

BOB & HELEN

GO, DASH, GOl POUR IT ON, SON! HIT THE
GASJ (etc.)
!128

Dash, his eyes still on his family, accelerates a little

and quickly moves toward the front of the pack•..
BOB & HELEN (CONT'D)
--BUT NOT TOO MUCHJ! PULL IT BACK! PULL
IT BACK!! EASE UP! Slow down a little!!

Dash, clearly confused now, furrows his brows as he again

drops back. The family shouts LOUDER--
BOB & HELEN (CONT'D)
But don't give up!! Make it close-
SECOND!! GO FOR SECOND! A CLOSE SECOND!!

Understanding, Dash accelerates just enough to scare the

leader, crossing the finish line inches behind him.
IN THE STANDS

the Incredibles are ecstatic. They cheer and laugh and

jostle each other as if Dash had won Olympic gold. Dash
stands in the cluster of panting, red-faced boys, not
even winded, and beams at his proud family.
BOB ( O. S.)
That's my boy I !

STADIUM PARKING LOT - MINUTES LATER

The family crosses the parking lot, Dash sitting atop

Bob's shoulders, clutching his second-placetrophy.
Everyone is happy and together.
HELEN
You were g r e a t o u t. t hn n , honey. We ' re so
proud of you.
DASH
I saw you i n t h e 6 t4nda. I didn't k no w
what the h c; c k y o u want0d mtl t c:> d( J • • •

( CON1.'1 NUED)
•
•
! 129 .
128.

CONTINUED:

The ground begins to QUAKE. The INCREDIBLES stop as the

low RUMBLE grows louder. On the far side of the lot, cars
begin to be thrown into the air, tossed about like toys.
A GARGANTUAN DRILL spirals out of the ground, throwing
dirt and chunks of asphalt in all directions. People run
screaming as the enormous metallic vehicle crests and
crashes to earth. A door opens on top and a hulking
figure in dirty overalls emerges atop a rising platform.
His ragged voice amplified through a loudspeaker, the
UNDERMINER speaks--
UNDERMINER
BEHOLD THE UNDERMINER! I'M ALWAYS BENEATH
YOU, BUT NOTHING IS BENEATH ME! I HEREBY
DECLARE WAR ON PEACE AND HAPPINESS! ALL
WILL TREMBLE BEFORE ME! (etc.)

CAMERA pans off Bob as he glances at his family. They've

already donned their masks, ready as they'll ever be.
CAMERA returns to Bob, revealing that he too has put on
his mask•
He turns toward their new nemesis and SMILES, RIPS his
shirt OPEN TO REVEAL the "i" insignia on the chest of his
Supersuit underneath, the logo of--
--THE INCREDIBLES.

THE END