The Invisible Hand of Fate - Recap

The episode starts off inside of Billy Quizboy’s and Pete White’s trailer in the desert. Billy is using the toilet while he shouts at Pete, who is playing videogames, complaining to him about there not being any more toilet paper. Belly tells Pete he should have refilled the roll when he empted it. Pete, disinterested, answers Billy with a “huh?” Billy gets up from the toilet, climbs up the hand-wash sink and attempts to reach for the toilet paper, which is located high on top of a shelf. As Billy reaches for it, he slips and falls on a wet spot on the sink. Billy’s mechanical prosthetic hand starts twitching. When Billy realizes this, he looks at it and starts to see visions of his past. When he stops his short flashback, he immediately calls for Pete. Pete, who is still playing video game, is disinterested and thinks that Billy wants to show him the size of Billy’s poop. Billy comes out of the bathroom and tells Pete that he just remembered something. Pete asks Billy what he just remembered; to which Billy replies he remembers ”everything." Billy continues to explain to Pete what happened to him, he tells him that everything from his past just came back to him after he fell from the sink counter, and that he saw his mechanical hand doing strange movements. Billy then tells Pete that he remembers Pete in particular was in his past. Pete hits Billy on the head with his game console. Pete then grabs his cell phone from his coat and calls a man or woman by the codename “Goldilocks.” Pete continues to speak in code and tells that person that “Little Nemo has fallen out of bed.”

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In a flashback scene, we see Pete White introducing himself to an audience. Pete is wearing a lot of make-up covering his albino face and wearing a wig. The name of the game show he is working for is called “Quizboys,” and Pete is the host. After he introduces himself, he continues to introduce the contestants. Pete first introduces the reigning champ, Master Billy Whalen, who has won over twenty thousand dollars. A lady presenting the items that Pete can get is shown showing a few prizes which include a moped scooter, a raft + tent, and a jukebox. We then see a much younger Billy who has both his arms and eyes intact. Billy waves to the audience, and says hello to Pete. Pete asks Billy what he’s going to do with all the money he earned in the game. Billy responds by saying that he hopes to save it for college tuition. Pete then asks a follow up question and asks him where he wants to go study. Billy, with enthusiasm, tells Pee that he wants to go to MIT, and that he wants to be a super scientist when he grows up like his hero “Rusty Venture.”

Inside a bar, we see Dr. Rusty Venture watching the game as it airs and sees Billy saying this about him. Dr. Venture lifts up his drink and cheers the screen. Then Dr. Venture asks the bartender for another drink, he calls a “suffering bastard.” Dr. Venture then falls down on the floor. Dr. Venture's communicator watch starts beeping, and he answers it. The person on the other line is Myra Brandish, who is worried about Dr. Venture and asks him where he went. Myra starts becoming angry with him, and Dr. Venture tells her to calm down and that she’s isn’t his mother but his bodyguard. Dr. Venture tells the bartender to hurry up on his drink. The bartender tells him that he’s still working on it. Dr. Venture sarcastically laughs at the bartender.

Back at the game show we then see Billy answering a question that the host, Pete White, asks him. [Billy wrote down Louis XIV]. Pete asks a question, which was “Who was the last king of the Plantagenet dynasty?” Pete asks the first contestant, Todd, to answer. Todd answers with “Richard III” and gets it correct. Now it’s Billy’s turn to answer. Pete tells him that if he answers correctly that he’ll be the week's champion and return for the next week. Pete asks him what his answer was. Billy’s answer is then shown to be “Richard 3rd," which was changed somehow from his previous answer of “Louis XIV.” Pete then tells Billy that his answer is correct and that he wins the competition. The other contestant, Todd, notices the change and accuses Billy of cheating, telling the crowd and the Pete that “that wasn’t what he wrote.” Pete signs to the cameraman to cut to a break.

Inside Pete’s green room, we see Pete taking off his makeup. He complains that the cheater in question isn’t Billy but Todd because he saw what Billy had written down to answer. Billy, who is also in the room with Pete, tells him that what just happened to him had ruined his life forever. Pete tells Billy that he has to forget ever going to a good college like MIT over what just happened to him. Billy complains that he never wanted to be handed the answers or to cheat in the first place, and that it is all Pete’s fault. Pete tells Billy that he shouldn’t place all the blame to him, and that freaks should stick together. Billy resents being calling a freak, stating that Pete isn’t an actual freak because he looks normal, and that after these events Pete might as well get a talk show deal out of it. Pete takes off his wig and turns around, showing Billy that he's an albino and therefore a freak like him. Billy looks at Pete. Pete looks back at Billy and smiles. Billy tells Pete that since Pete can easily put on a wig and makeup, it’s not as difficult as making his head look smaller (Since Billy’s head is abnormally large). Pete then changes the subject a bit and asks Billy if what he had told him earlier about Rusty Venture (Dr. Venture) being Billy’s hero is true. Billy tells him that it is. Pete tells him that since he is close friends with Rusty, and that Rusty told him that he’s going to start a huge new science project, he’s going to need a new head scientist and lab assistant for that project. Billy gets excited over Pete knowing Rusty Venture, but is then a bit preoccupied over not being able to take the offer because he said he needs to finish his school education first. Pete tells Billy that ”experience is the best teacher,” and that this offer is even better than going to “ten MITs.” Pete then tells Billy that the “Invisible hand of fate” has led them to Dr. Rusty Venture for employment. Billy questions Pete, asking him if he really thinks Rusty Venture would really have them as work partners. Pete tells Billy that the only thing he needs to do is to get to Rusty Venture’s lab, and to let him, Pete, handle the rest. Pete then asks Billy if he still has all money he won from being a game show contestant. Billy tells him that the IRS had frozen all of his winnings over the controversy surrounding him. Pete tells him that he had wasted his money on “blow,” but has a brand new “ride” they can use. Pete also tells Billy that he thought up a way to earn money for gas while they get to Dr. Rusty Venture’s house. Pete is then shown stealing the moped-scooter from the game show and driving off with Billy.

We are then shown a huge battle scene montage where many OSI operatives battle enemies on the sky and ground, the same type shown on the opening credit sequences on old GI Joe cartoons to which this scene is parody to. When the montage finishes, a group of OSI operatives who are dressed like members from the musical group the Village People walk into a OSI building and pretentiously greet Brock Sampson and Colonel Hunter Gathers who appear to be about to enter a room inside the complex. Shore Leave, the leader of the other group, is dressed like the sailor to Village People and tells Brock and Colonel Gathers that they didn’t notice them during the big battle. Brock tells them that it was because they weren’t there and that they were doing real spy jobs. Shore Leave sarcastically tells them that he agrees and that he knows that Brock and Colonel Gathers are too busy chasing a shadow costumed terrorist organization to help them fight the real enemies of freedom, “the SPHINX” (the villainous group shown at the earlier battle montage). After Shore Leave tells them this, the other members of his group rejoice. Brock tells them that he and Colonel Gathers will prove that the Guild is still active, and that they will stop that organization alone. Shore Leave tells Brock that he won’t be counting on it, and proceeds to tell the other members of his group to “hit the showers.” They leave while chanting ”OSI." But before Shore Leave departs he taunts Colonel Gathers by telling him that “Wayland Flowers wants his Madame back." Colonel Gathers quickly responds with “Well, the Village people called and they want you to fucking kill yourselves you prancy bastards." After the Colonel responds, he complains that the OSI has gone downhill ever since the “1986 address code." Race Bannon then comes out of a room wearing an apron smeared with blood, he asks Colonel Gathers if the other OSI agents were bothering them, and if he wants him to tell them something to stop harassing them. Colonel Gathers thanks Race but tells him that he has everything under control. Race tells them goodbye and walks back inside his room, and Brock and Colonel Gathers walk away. Brock comments on how the OSI is going to ban smoking inside OSI facilities soon. Suddenly a young OSI agent comes running towards Brock and Colonel Gathers, telling them that a message came in for them. The young OSI agent gives them the urgent message that was written down on a piece of paper. Colonel Gathers grabs it and starts reading it. After the Colonel reads it he happily says “We got them.”

Back to Billy and Pete on their journey to Dr. Rusty Venture’s lab, we see that they had arrived at an underground quizzing tournament. Billy is amazed and thought these kinds of places weren’t true. Pete tells Billy that these tournaments are real and that there are no lightning rounds, no bonus questions, and no mercy in them. While Billy is getting to his contestant booth, one of his two opponents taunts him and tells him that he’s “going down," he also tells Billy to not even think about cheating. The other contestant explains to Billy that if he’s caught cheating they’ll take one of his hands off. Billy is startled and tells Pete that he cannot participate on the games. Pete reassures Billy and tells him that he is the best “Quizboy” he’s ever seen. He tells Billy that this is his sole purpose in life, which is to “Quiz." Pete then tells him that it was his fault that in the past he robbed Billy of his purpose. Pete offers Billy a chance to make it up to him by allowing Billy to participate on these underground challenges. An announcer’s voice is heard, telling people to clear the arena area. Pete smiles back at Billy, and gives him thumbs up in approval. Pete then starts walking away. The announcer greets the audience and explains the rules to the contestants. The announcer explains that “Jeopardy rules” apply on this game and that they must submit answers in the form of a question. The announcer continues to explain the rules, telling them that they have five seconds to answer the questions, and that the final winner takes all. The announcer now starts asking the contestants the first question, he asks “In Twelve fifteen..” but is interrupted by Billy’s buzzer. Billy answers saying “What is the Magna Carter." Billy gets that answer correct and the crowd starts cheering. Billy looks at Pete. Pete nods back to Billy in approval. Then a short montage of Billy’s games is shown, where he is winning lots of money and ridding to different locations with Pete.

We are then shown Brock and Colonel Gathers inside a car, both Brock and the Colonel are wearing civilian clothing. They seem to be playing a game of “Eye-spy” where the object of the game is to spot as many “blanks” in one side of the road then the other. In this case they are using “Cows." Brock tells the Colonel that he had just spotted his sixth herd of cows, and that he’s winning six to two. The Colonel becomes a bit upset, calls Brock a monster and threatens him by saying that he’ll catch up to him soon. The Colonel, who is driving, starts to poke his head out the side window and shouts outside the road, demanding that the cows show themselves. Brock then tells the Colonel that he had just spotted more cows on his side. The Colonel, in a bit of rage, calls Brock a bastard. Bock then suddenly notices a cemetery on the Colonel's side of the road, and points it out. Brock then tells Colonel Gathers that he just lost all his spotted cows count because of that cemetery they just passed. The Colonel then pushes hard on the brakes and gets out of the car, telling himself that that side of the car is cursed. The Colonel then tells Brock that it’s his turn to drive.

Billy and Pete finally arrive at Dr. Rusty Venture’s compound. Pete tells Billy that they just arrived and that their “new life” is calling. Billy then asks Pete, in a grateful way, how he can ever repay him. Just then, we see and Myra Brandish whining and complaining as a few OSI agents attempt to take her away. Myra then breaks loose and hits a few of the OSI agents that were escorting her. We see Rusty Venture outside his house, wearing a blanket, being questioned by an OSI agent. As Myra escapes, she runs toward Rusty but is then shocked by a taser gun from the OSI agent that was questioning Rusty. H.E.L.P.e.R. then walks out holding babies Dean and Hank. Dr. Rusty Venture tells H.E.L.P.e.R. that it’s alright and that Myra is gone now. Pete and Billy walk to Dr. Rusty Venture, and Rusty asks them why they’re doing there.

We then see Pete and Billy back riding Pete’s moped on a road, Pete complains about what Dr. Rusty Venture told them, which was to call them in a few months because he’s “all staffed up," and that they were never much good with science anyway. Billy becomes saddened over this, he tells Pete that he has nothing in life anymore, his boyhood hero, Dr. Rusty Venture, even turned out to be a “dick." But Pete tells Billy to cheer up, and that he knows of another underground quiz show. They then arrive at the new underground quiz arena, Billy tells Pete that this arena doesn’t look like the normal ones they’re used to. Pete tells Billy that it might be because they are closer to the border, but the quiz game is still the same. Pete sends Billy to the arena. The announcer, in Spanish, tells them to start the fight. When the announcer moves off to the side, we see behind him a man holding a leash to a pitbull. He lets go of the leash, and the dog jumps up to Billy. Billy is then thrown to the floor and we see blood splattering to the walls.

We then see Billy and Pete outside on a desert road on Pete’s moped scooter. Pete tells Billy that he didn’t know that the underground dogfights were actually that. We see Billy’s left hand and part of his left side of his head wrapped with some clothes. Billy demands Pete give him his fifty percent of the earnings and to let him go off by himself. Pete explains to Billy that he doesn’t have any more money, and that he bet it on the last game, but since Billy lost, all the money is now gone. Billy tells Pete that he was disqualified because Pete jumped in the arena. Pete tells Billy that he jumped in to help him get his hand back from the dog. Billy demands Pete stop the moped, and that he wants to get off it now. Pete tells him that there are coyotes out there and warns him that he might lose his other hand to them. Billy tells Pete, in an angry way, that it would be safer to be left in the desert then being with him. Billy continues to tell Pete that he has found nothing but trouble since the day he met him. He continues to tell Pete that he never wants to see him again. Pete then rides off. Billy yells at Pete as he rides off he tells him that he had talked with the other Quizzboys and that their managers always only receive 15% of the earning.

As Pete rides off and Billy yells at him, we see a car coming out from the back of a nearby billboard, approaching Billy. Billy sees this and turns around. The car pulls up next to Billy, and an occupant roles down the window. We see Colonel Gathers. Gathers tells Billy that he looks like he “could use a hand”

Back in the present day, we see Pete going back the Venture estate. He arrives to the gate and we hear Dr. Venture’s voice coming out of the intercom greeting the visitor. Pete tells Dr. Venture that it’s him and asks Dr. Venture to let him in. Dr. Venture continues to talk, and ask who’s at the gate. Pete then presses a button he thinks enables him to talk back to Dr. Venture, and then tells him that it is him again. But again Dr. Venture seemingly doesn’t know who’s at the gate. Pete finally tells Dr. Venture not to be a “dick” and to let him in. Dr. Venture finally opens the gate via remote access. Pete then proceeds to go inside the estate.

Back in the flashback, we then see Billy inside a chamber where he is shown to be laying comfortably in a reclined chair. The walls of this chamber are very clear, almost white. Billy’s left eye is shown to be red, and his left hand, the one he lost, is now shown to have a mechanical prosthesis. A voice wakes him up. The voice tells him not to be alarmed, and that they are about to engage something called the “Nozzle." A tube-like-mechanical machine that has an eye like sensor on the tip, the Nozzle, starts coming off from the wall and approaches Billy. As it does, Billy becomes agitated and scared, he moves around looking for a way out. The voice tells Billy not to move while the Nozzle is engaging, and that moving will disrupt calibration of it. The voice then tells Billy to wait patiently because the Nozzle is being calibrated. Billy looks away from it after the voice tells him that it’s being calibrated. The Voice then tells Billy to not look away from it. The voice now tells Billy that it is currently calibrating, and it continues to tell him for some time, until it finally tells Billy it has completed its calibration.

When the voice says that it’s finished calibrating, the Nozzle goes back into the wall, and Colonel Gathers and Brock come in from a door. The Colonel says hello. Billy asks him what that Nozzle thing was. The Colonel responds by saying that he doesn’t really know and that he thinks it is “some sort of standard something." Colonel Gathers then asks Billy how he likes his new mechanical hand. Billy tells him that it’s great, but is confused why they would help him. Brock answers Billy by telling him that he fits the “profile." Colonel Gathers explains what the profile is, he tells Billy that he is “deformed, disgraced, an extra intelligent super freak shunned by an unforgiving world." Billy tells them that that profile sounds like something a person who is about to commit suicide would look like. Brock tells him that it also sounds like a profile for an international super villain. As Brock tells this to Billy, he hands him a folder profile of the man he was describing. Brock and the Colonel then tell him that they have been investigating a university professor that they believe is secretly a recruiter for an underground organization known as the “Guild of Calamitous Intent." Billy doubtfully asks them if this is the same Guild as shown from the old Rusty Venture TV Show. Colonel tells Brock that he knew that Billy wouldn’t’ believe them. Brock explain to Billy that that the Guild shown on that old show was a dramatization, and that they think that the real Guild is still out there working in secrecy. Brock continues explaining to Billy that they believe that the professor they are looking for may have answers about the Guild. Billy takes out a photo from the folder Brock had handed him, Brock tells him to look at the cufflinks on the man on the photo. The cufflinks have a specific Guild insignia on them. Billy, confused, asks Brock if they want him to kill him. Brock tells him no, and that they want him to “ace his class." Colonel Gathers then congratulates Billy by telling him that he is now a fully matriculated student at the “State University." Billy tells them that he sort of wanted to go to MIT. Colonel then dramatically tells him that he wanted to be born with big breasts. Gathers tells him to get the best out of the situation. Brock and Colonel Gather both leave. And as they do, Billy holds up another photo, we see that the man in the photo is a much younger Phantom Limb.

Inside a university classroom, where many people are at attendance, the “Professor” (the Phantom Limb) is giving a class. As Billy walks in the classroom, the Professor greats and tells Billy to have a seat quickly, that he is giving a class for the more punctual students. Billy tells him that he’s sorry and that he had trouble finding the building. As he tells “Professor Fantomas” this, he proceeds to look for an empty seat. Professor Fantomas tells Billy that it must be a big new world for him. Professor Fantomas continues to tell Billy that he is aware that he recently became exonerated from his prior controversies during his Quizboy shows, but tells him that he does not allow cheating of any kind inside his classroom. He continues to warn him about the punishments from cheating, which he tells him are very severe. As the professor starts righting stuff down on the board, a young man opens a door and tells Professor Fantomas that he is needed in the office. Professor Fantomas excuses himself from the class and tells them that the young man who told him about the office needing him, Stevie, will be taking over the lecture for him. Professor Fantomas tells his students that they will be reading off from “Kesler, chapter 4." Before the leaves he tells his students that he expects a paper report by the end of the next class on this subject. When the Professor leaves, it is revealed that Stevie is horribly disfigured in one side of his face. Billy notices this and is amazed and shocked by it. He turns to others students and sees that none of them are shocked like he is, but discovers that most of the other students are as horribly disfigured as Billy himself is. Billy breaks into song in his head singing a tune that goes along the lines “suddenly I’m not so different after all, and suddenly not so alone." Some other students with problems include a girl with no eyes, and a boy in a wheelchair with his limbs in different locations on his body. After Billy sees all the other students, he opens a book and sees it full of terms and numbers he isn’t even aware of, and then he immediately stops singing in his head.

Billy opens the door to his new dorm room but drops his keys. We see the dorm room all messed up with clothes all around the floor. Billy finds a note located on the computer. It reads “I can no longer take the PRESURE -Stevie." Billy wonders if it’s the same Stevie from his classroom. Billy opens the closet and we see the same Stevie from in the classroom hanging from the closet. Billy’s mechanical hand starts shaking. Outside the school, we see Brock and Colonel Gather’s car. We then see them inside the car wearing different get-ups. Brock wearing a football uniform and Colonel Gathers a cheerleader get-up. Colonel Gathers tells Billy, who is also with them in the car, to stop hyperventilating since that they are in a small car it takes up too much oxygen. Brock tells Billy to calm down and that they are getting plenty of “intel” out of Billy’s findings. Billy asks Brock what “intel” are they getting, because he says he’s only been in campus for only one day, and that he hasn’t even done any spying yet. Colonel Gathers tells him that he has been spying, and explains to him that his new mechanical hand actually stores holographic data in it as well as performing a regular hand’s duties. Billy becomes a bit outraged over them wiring him without his consent. Colonel Gathers tells Billy to get back inside the university and to continue his work. He further tells Billy that there are no “free hands” in the business of spying.

Back inside the university, we see a janitor removing Prof R. Impossible from Professor Fantomas office window, as Billy is about to open the room to Professor Fantomas’ office. Inside the office, there is a young girl sitting very close to the professor on his desk. The professor, discreetly, tells the young girl, Sheila, that he’s sorry and that he cannot extend the deadline for her because then he’ll have to extend the deadline for other students as well. Sheila (a much younger Dr. Girlfriend) tells the professor thanks anyways. As Sheila walks out of the professor’s office, the professor thanks Billy for coming. Billy gets right to the point and asks the professor if he called him into the office because of his term paper, Billy continues to say that he’s sorry for it. The professor tells him that he’ll get to that later, but first he wants to know how Billy is holding up after Stevie’s untimely death. Billy tells the professor that he’s the one that should be sorry and he understands that Stevie was the professor’s lab assistant for some time now. The professor tells him that he was one of his lab assistants, and that that his untimely death was regrettable. The Professor continues to say that since Billy brought up the lab assistant conversation, he tells Billy the other reason he called him in to the office. We see the professor taking off his cuffs the ones we previously seen on the OSI photo that have a Guild logo on them, and puts them on the table as he gets off from his chair. Professor Fantomas tells Billy that he’ll need a new lab assistant and that he would like Billy to be it. Billy is surprised at the news, and tells the professor that he doesn’t think he’s ready for that. Professor Fantomas tells Billy that that is nonsense, and that he read his paper and thought it was a brilliant piece of work. Professor Fantomas continues to say that he thinks Billy’s intelligence is beneath all of his other student, and continue to compliment him by telling him what he thinks that his artificial hand. Professor Fantomas notices that Billy's artificial mechanical hand is of a “Mike Sorayama” design, and that this Mike Sorayama was also a student of his. Professor Fantomas proceeds to take off his gloves revealing that he too has prosthetic limbs. While Professor Fantomas is taking his gloves off, he tells Billy that he was also born different. Professor Fantomas now takes off one of his prosthetic arms to show Billy his real arm. His real arm is a small shriveled up weak looking arm that is proportionally half its size. Professor Fantomas then tells Billy that his family had rejected him because of his physical deformities. He continues to say that his family was a long line of costume adventurers. Professor Fantomas points to a painting of a man wearing 18th century attire and also wearing a mask. Professor Fantomas then tells Billy that he clearly couldn’t take up his family’s job because of his physical defects, and instead he turned to science. Professor Fantomas turns away from Billy and walks toward another desk, and under the desk is a briefcase with a radiation warning sign on it. Professor Fantomas picks this briefcase up, while he tells Billy that “where nature has failed him, science had the power to rectify his physical disfigurements." The Professor tells Billy that what’s inside the briefcase will help him overcome his defect and that it was all because of a generous grant he had just received. He tells Billy that the grant came from an organization called the “Guild of Collegiate Investors." As the professor mentions the word “Guild," Billy starts looking panicked, but is then surprised the professor didn’t mention “Guild of Calamitous intent." Billy tells the Professor that he’d love to work with him but isn’t sure he can handle the extra work. Professor Fantomas tells him that that is nonsense and that the rules of the university state that if one student’s roommate commits suicide, the other gets a 4.0 on every subject no matter what. Professor Fantomas tells him that he has a free ride in college now, and that he has Billy all for himself because of it. He further says to him that “the invisible hand of fate” has led them together, and that freaks must work together.

Back outside, inside Brock and Colonel Gathers’ car, Brock is extracting information from Billy’s hand. Billy tells them that he doesn’t think Professor Fantomas is the guy they are looking for. Colonel Gathers tells Billy that of course he is because of all the “intel” pointing to him being so. Billy questions the Intel by telling Gathers that he, Colonel Gathers, had seen what the Professor had told him about his organization, and that that organization the professor is a member of looks like a business club of some kind. Colonel Gathers tells Billy that that is exactly what “they” had said of another organization, known as the Build-A-Bear Group. The Colonel tells Billy that he Build-A-Bear Group caused the Berlin Wall to fall down. Billy tells the Colonel that the Berlin Wall hasn’t been torn down yet. Colonel Gather’s tells Billy that it will be soon, because it was decided at the last meeting. Brock changes the subject, tells Billy that he must become Professor Fantomas' lab assistant, and that he’s there last hope now. Billy asks why he said “now." Brock tells Billy that he didn’t want to tell him that Stevie was their “other man” in the operation. Colonel interrupts Brock by telling them that Stevie’s codename was “PussyFace." He asks Brock if it was because of this codename that Stevie killed himself. Brock tells Billy to try to understand the situation, and that they think Professor Fantomas had killed Stevie because the Professor became aware of his true identity. Billy then asks them if they want him to take Stevie's place because of this. Both Colonel Gathers and Brock look at Billy, smile back at him and nod “yes." Billy tries to get out of the car but is grabbed by Brock. Brock tells him to relax and that the Professor won’t kill him. Billy asks them how they can be so sure about that. Colonel Gathers tells him that the professor loved Billy’s report paper. Billy tells the Colonel that he never even made the report, because he spent the night explaining to the authorities about finding Stevie’s dead body inside his closet. Colonel Gathers tells him that that is the exact reason they wrote the paper for him. But Brock corrects the Colonel by telling Billy that it was in fact Stephen Hawking who wrote the paper, and that Stephen Hawking had owed them a favor. Billy whines and complains that what they had done for them was cheating. Colonel Gathers tells him, in a menacing way, that cheating is what spying is all about, and that he should worry more about his spying business. The Colonel also tells him that he isn’t there for actual studying purposes, but to spy on the professor. The Colonel, closing his argument, calls Billy a freak. Billy becomes anger over what Colonel Gathers just told him and hits Brock in his testicles and the Colonel in his face, both using his mechanical hand. He then jumps out of the car window and starts running away. Colonel Gathers orders Brock to get him.

Billy, now back inside Professor Fantomas’ classroom, runs toward the professor’s podium. Professor Fantomas sees Billy and tells him that he needs him quickly, that the reactor is all ready for him to use, and tells Billy that he needs him to monitor it. Billy tells the professor that he doesn’t believe he is qualified to do what the professor asked him to do, and admits to him that he had cheated. Professor Fantomas tells him that he already knew that. Billy is surprised that he already knew about him cheating, and asks him if he really does. Professor Fantomas tells Belly that he had already known he cheated because Billy had done what anyone else would do in his position. Professor Fantomas tells him that it’s nothing as bad, but only figures Billy cheated on the TV show. As the professor tells Billy this, he positions himself inside a machine where he connects all of his arms and legs inside of it. Professor Fantomas tells Billy to press a specific button; Billy does this, but then asks the professor what he intends do with his experiment. Professor Fantomas tells him that he is about to be born again and that his prosthetic limbs on the machine aren’t actual prosthesis, but muscle growth accelerators. Billy asks the professor if he’s going to grow new arms and legs with this machine. Professor Fantomas tells him that that is exactly what he intends to do. The professor explains to Billy that he always intended to do this, but was short on money. He needed a great power source to run his invention, but didn’t have the sufficient funds to do so, until the “Guild” helped out. After the professor explains this to Billy, and after the machine raises him to the roof of his lab, he asks Billy to start the machine up. Billy, looking for the correct button, turns the machine on by pressing a lever. We then see the machine working on the professor’s limbs. Professor Fantomas remains in a state of excitement as the machine does its work. The professor tells Billy that he feels like he can now take the over the world with all that power rushing through him. The professor then asks Billy to crank up the power. Billy pushes the lever up. We then see the machine taking in even more energy. Again, the professor tells Billy to give the machine more power. As Billy pushes the lever again with his mechanical hand, we see the mechanical hand react to him pushing the lever. A spark of electricity mildly electrocutes Billy, causing the machine to malfunction. Professor Fantomas asks Billy to check out a specific feature of the machine. Billy tells him that he doesn’t know what that thing he’s talking about is. The Professor tells Billy that he does know, and that he had written a paper on it. Billy tells the professor again that he didn’t write the paper. After Billy tells this to the professor, the professor realizes the predicament he is in and starts to feel the pain the machines is causing him. As the machine breaks down even more, it sucks all the air towards it, causing Billy to get pushed in towards the machine. Billy then starts to back off to grab a hold of something. When he does, his artificial eye is sucked into the machine. We are then taken outside to a view of the professor’s lab and see the building explode.

Back inside the lab after the explosion, we see Billy approaching the machine where Professor Fantomas was. Billy, in a sad way, then tells himself that the professor had died for his sins. Colonel Gathers and Brock then call out to Billy from the hallway telling him not to worry and they are coming. As Brock and the Colonel arrive they see what happened. Gathers, at that moment, realizes the predicament they will be in with the OSI.

We then see Billy sitting outside of an OSI office, where Sgt. Haines is in the next room yelling at Brock over his bad work and failed mission. We then see inside the room where Haines is yelling at him. He tells Brock to look at him while he’s talking to him. Brock tells Haines that he should wait until Colonel Gathers joins him. Haines tells Brock that Colonel Gathers has been transferred to another assignment in Guam effective immediately, and that Brock’s days as a full OSI agent are over. He tells Brock that he has been reassigned to another line of duty. Haines hands Brock an envelope containing his new assignment. Brock opens it, reads a line of it, and immediately complains to Haines by telling him that it’s a “rookie job." Haines then tells him that he is dismissed and points him the door. Brock asks him before he leaves what will happen to Billy. Haines tells Brock that he shouldn’t be worrying about him, and that Billy will still work for the OSI on their lab’s “memory erase” program. When Brock finally leaves the office he notices that Billy is gone. Brock then turns around and runs away looking for him.

In a montage like scene, we are then taken outside in a desert area, where we see Brock in riding his car, going towards Pete White’s trailer in the desert. Pete is outside of his trailer wearing only his underpants and a “Quizboy” jacket. Pete then notices Brock coming of his car. Brock grabs a duffel bag from his passenger seat and takes it to Pete.

Haines is seen putting on a ring that has the “Guild” insignia, indicating that he is part of the Guild of Calamitous Intent.

Back at the university Billy briefly attended, we see Professor Fantomas’ lab in the background, followed by Professor Fantomas lying on top of a small hill near his lab. He now appears to have no limbs. A young man notices him lying on the ground and reaches down to help him. Professor Fantomas wakes up and grabs the young man using his invisible hands. A strange light coming out of his invisible hands is shown, killing the boy where he stood. Professor Fantomas smirks after realizing his newfound powers.

Back to Brock and Pete White, Brock is seen telling something to Pete, Brock then leaves Pete and the duffle bag he was carrying, and heads to his car and drives off. Pete is still shaken up over all the past events. Pete then kneels down to open the duffle bag Brock left. Inside the bag is a sleeping Billy. Pete grabs him and hugs him.

Inside Brock’s car he is looking at a photograph of his next assignment. We then see him driving towards the Venture compound.

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Back in the present time, Billy is lying down inside Dr. Venture’s lab. Pete tries to wake Billy up. Billy is disorientated and stunned to see that he’s been moved, and that Brock and Dr. Venture are there with him. Pete explains to Billy that he only fell down and bumped his head. Billy then tells them that he had a weird dream, and remembers something about Brock. Billy then jumps at Brock and bites him on the neck. Pete grabs something and then knocks Billy on the head again.


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