- George Mack: Do you know what's going on here Alex, what does Danielle want with you?
- Alex Mack: I guess I'd better tell you guys something. You know that truck driver, Dave, and he told that a couple years ago there was a GC-161 accident and some kid got doused with the chemical.
- George Mack: Yeah.
- Alex Mack: Well that's true but he didn't tell you that, that kid was me.
- George Mack: What do you mean it was you?
- Alex Mack: It happened on my first day of 7th grade, Annie made sure I was OK healthwise, I just have these side effects.
- Barbara Mack: What kind of side effects?
- Alex Mack: Like this.
- [uses zappers]
- Alex Mack: And this.
- [morphs]
- George Mack: Well why didn't you tell us?
- Alex Mack: Because we thought if you found out, that you'd lose your job and you'd tell Danielle and they'd come after me and cut me up, I don't know we just thought it was best.
- Barbara Mack: You thought it was best to not tell us? You thought it was better to take care of this all by yourself, what were you girls thinking about?
- Alex Mack: I'm really fine Mom, I just have these powers.
- Barbara Mack: We must be the most oblivious parents on the face of the Earth.
- Alex Mack: No, it was nothing you did, I was just really careful with them you know.
- George Mack: Didn't we bring you up with the understanding that you could tell us anything, anytime? I just don't understand, Alex we could have helped you, we could have been there for you. And I could have stopped Danielle a long time ago.
- Alex Mack: I'm sorry Dad, but it really wasn't that bad. You probably can't understand this but it was actually kind of fun.
- George Mack: Maybe it was Alex, but look at where we are now.
- Danielle Atron: Well you've had quite a childhood thanks to me now haven't you. Let's see what you can do.
- [Danielle sees Alex's powers]
- Danielle Atron: You are magnificent, you really are. But I've gotta tell you, your timing is so bad, one more day and I wouldn't have given you another thought.
- Alex Mack: I want you to know I hate you.
- Danielle Atron: Aww, no you don't. You just think you do.
- Alex Mack: Why are you such a selfish and greedy, horrible person? Don't you care about anybody but yourself?
- Danielle Atron: Don't you read the newspapers young lady? America is thrilled to have GC-161 entering their lives, and is America selfish? No, and besides even if I did tell them that the product had a couple of side effects, they wouldn't care.
- Alex Mack: There's a lot of people who know about me, my friends, my sister, and if anything happens to me they're gonna know it's you.
- Danielle Atron: Yeah but you didn't tell anybody about the accident now did you, because if you had, I'm sure I would have been stopped a long time ago, but you didn't. I guess you and your sister had your own selfish reasons for keeping it to yourself.
- Alex Mack: I wish I had told them.
- Lars Frederickson: Things are moving along very swiftly, we should have all the GC-161 out the door within the hour.
- Danielle Atron: Come here Lars, I want to show you something I'm sure you've never seen before. In about 5 minutes I'll have a billion dollars to my name, and I'm getting out of the country as soon as I can. Set the explosives I don't want a shred of evidence left behind.
- Lars Frederickson: What about the Macks?
- Danielle Atron: They're evidence.
- Gino: [Elias is hooked up to a lie detector test] State your name.
- Elias Griffin: Elias Griffin.
- Gino: Were you recently involved in the approval of a chemical known as GC-161?
- Elias Griffin: Yes.
- Gino: Did you accept money from Danielle Atron in exchange for your support of this product?
- Elias Griffin: No.
- [needles shake]
- Gino: Are you aware of any false results Miss Atron may have presented to the committee?
- Elias Griffin: No.
- [needles shake more]
- Gino: Were you and Miss Atron involved in a scheme to drug Sydney Johns in an attempt to embarrass him and have other members vote against him?
- Elias Griffin: Absolutely not.
- [needles shake]
- Gino: You know you're not doing too well on the test.
- Agent: Inspector, there's a guy here by the name of David Watt. He says he knows you think he's a nutjob but he's got some pictures you've got to see right away.
- Gino: Good, send him in.
- Alex Mack: So are you still going to hang out with me even without the powers?
- Ray Alvarado: Yeah I think you're stuck with me.