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The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades

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The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades
Air Date January 21, 2008
Written by Unknown
Director Unknown
Episode number 215
Next episode Great Expectations

Jessi puts her and Kyle's secret on the line as she struggles with what the future may hold for her.

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Kyle is walking along his front yard when the sprinklers suddenly turn on. He thinks about the freedom he now has since the Tragers now know of his origins and abilities as he walking into the field. He remembers what Adam taught him and begins to levitate by manipulating the polarity field between himself an the magnets.

Across the lawn, Carol Bloom is shocked and Kyle returns to Earth after she calls his name. Kyle pretends it didn't happen as Carol remains shocked. Kyle returns inside.

Kyle tells the Tragers at breakfast what Carol saw and Stephen warns him to be careful. Nicole agrees. Lori then point out that Jessi start back at school.

The conversation reveals that Jessi has moved in with Brian Taylor, who is proclaiming to be her father. The paternity tests proved it, but Kyle insisted the were faked like the Petersons. Stephen says it's none of their business and they need to move on as a family.

The kids return to school, just in time for career day, a day Josh considers second-best to summer vacation. Lori agrees with her brother. Kyle is disturbed by the Madacorp booth, but Lori assures him that they have one every year.

Lori approaches Hillary, on camera signing off and proclaiming her fabulousness. Lori mentions that the reality show already rejected her, but Hillary is on to big things: Queen of fabulous, citing Paris as her example. Lori considers it disillusioned, but plausible. The bells rings and the girls leave.

Kyle decided that since know he knows what he is, it would be a good time to figure out who he could become. Josh approaches Andy with a lame pick-up joke, complimenting her new blond/pink hair. Andy is testing wigs before she loses all of it from chemo. Josh suggests skipping the job fair, but Andy reuses, saying she's interested in what the future holds, and asks Josh if he thinks she can survive chemo.

Josh decides to leave Andy to her own thing and prepares to leave until Principal Hooper stops him. Hooper isn't surprised that Josh is uninterested in the career fair.

At Madacorp, Stephen is leaving with the last of his things when he is stopped by Emily Hollander. Emily assures Stephen that Madacorp never sanctioned Ballantine's operations and that since he's gone, Madacorp is no longer his enemy. Emily begs for him to stay on board, but Stephen declines, even after an offer of a pay raise and more creative freedom and larger staff working under him.

Back at the fair, Kyle is eying a miniature skyscraper. The man at the booth is corrected by Kyle who says the building would never support and explains why. The man at the booth is dumbfounded.

Kyle spots Jessi and asks how she's doing with Taylor Jessi assures him that while he did work with Ballantine, he is still taking good care of Jessi. Despite what Adam Baylin told Kyle, Brian told Jessi that he cloned her from Sara after Sara died. Jessi suggests that Kyle ask him himself.

Jessi in put at odds with Kyle when says his interested in the fair when Jessi clearly isn't. Kyle is entices by Jessi to leave the fair and they head to the roof. Jessi points out that school can't teach them how to use their abilities, something she deems more important that social networking.

Kyle shares that he elevated that morning after being asks if he ever want to just break loose and do something amazing. Jessi is immediately interesting in how he did it. Jessi is disappointed that Kyle won't show her without going through tedious steps and is even more upset that Kyle wants to return to the career fair. Jessi decides to jump off the building and go through the front door, not realizing that Hillary and her camera boy were recording across the street.

Later, Kyle comes out his front door to see Carol Bloom has invited friend over to watch Kyle do something else amazing. Kyle leaves. At The Rack, Hillary comments that her video on the school website has over 500 hits and that she'll be on YouTube by dinner. She sits down to see her video and sees why her video is so popular. Jessi was in clear view of the camera when she jumped off the building, infuriating Hillary. Lori accusing glances at Jessi.

Josh is outside the school carrying supplies as punishment for skipping the career fair. Andy in unimpressed by Josh's lack of enthusiasm about the future. Josh suggests following in Hillary's footsteps and Andy points out the mystery jumper, which she believes is just computer generated.

Josh confronts Kyle at home and says that Jessi is compromising their secret. Kyle assures Josh that the figure couldn't be identified as Jessi, but agrees to speak with her about it.

At The Rack, Jessi is thrilled to see that she has become an internet celebrity. She closes the laptop as Kyle arrives. Jessi is already planning her next trick, but Kyle tries to persuade her to keep a low profile because if the world found out, he would never be able to relax. Jessi says it's worth it to be noticed. Kyle says life shouldn't be about being noticed, but Jessi begins to list all they ways humans go out of their way to be noticed everyday. Jessi reluctantly agrees.

Just as Kyle leaves, Jessi watches a video of Hillary calling the jumper a fake and that she'll be forgotten and Hillary will remain. Jessi is visually infuriated. Back at home, Kyle tells the Trager parents about Jessi's jump. Kyle opens the laptop to show them the original, only to see a new one was uploaded on an hour before. Kyle plays the tape to see Jessi running over water during another of Hillary's newscasts, this time staying long enough to be easily identified.

The next day at school, Jessi is the most popular kid in school. Kids are asking questions left and right and Jessi simply answers that it's all real. Elsewhere, Hillary is pretending to give away sexual favors in exchange for information on how Jessi did her "magic tricks". Kyle doesn't understand why people are so interested in fame.

Outside the Taylor residence, Nicole approaches Brian as he exists his car. Nicole tells him that she's worried about how he's treating Jessi and informs him about the videos on the website. Nicole orders Brian to start acting like a father to Jessi and teacher how to behave.

Back at the school career fair, the architect from the previous day thanks Kyle for spotting the error that saved his firm 10 million dollars and offers him an interview with his boss. Josh intervenes and tells Kyle to enter medicine so he could come up with a cure for caner for Andy. Kyle is interested in medicine, but also other things, suggesting Josh should enter medicine if he cares so much.

Kyle eaves towards the Madacorp booth where Emily Hollander is passing out flyers. Kyle refuses to have any part in Madacorp, but Jessi arrives and immediately seems interested in Emily's speech about how Madacorp could help her utilize her powers for her own glory.

Kyle objects and pulls Jessi away. Kyle tells her to be careful, but Jessi asserts her independence, which Kyle accepts as long as she accepts his terms and beliefs. Back at home, Kyle tells Nicole that all the occupations interest him. He asks if he's wrong is questioning Jessi's actions and Nicole replies that it depends on the reason. Kyle recants having watched a nature documentary with Josh about experimenting on animals and how he doesn't want to end up like one. Kyle explains how a rat was kept in a cage, watched and experimented on, but that the rat allowed the scientists to get closer to answers and that it had no choice but to be a part of the experiment. Kyle finishes by asking how his life is anymore important than the rat's, Nicole answers that its because he's the sort of person who asks that question.

At The Rack, Lori is angered over Jessi's new posse, but Josh is indifference, Jessi walks over and accidentally points out that she was invited to Preston's party and the Tragers weren't.

Brian Taylor comes over to the Tragers house and admits he doesn't know how to be a father to Jessi. He gives Kyle back Adam Latnok ring to prove he comes in good faith. Brian confirms that he, Adam, and Ballantine's father were all members of the Latnok Society. He says that just as Kyle is similar to Adam, Jessi is similar to Sara.

The teens are having a little party on the rooftop, here Declan McDonough comes climb up, sporting crutches from the injuries he sustained from infiltrating Madacorp. Lori day is ruined when Jessi decides to joined the party. Hillary and her camera boy start taunting Jessi to prove her worth.

Hillary reveals to the crowd that Jessi was the one who attacked Lori at the altrerni-dance. Jessi insists she's not like that anymore and that she really did jump. Hillary doesn't believe her. Infuriated, Jessi goes to the edge to prove that she really did it by doing it again.

Just as Jessi prepares to jump, Kyle arrives, saying he'll jump with her to prove that it's easy. Lori and Josh joined in. Jessi is angered that Kyle is ruining it. He steps back, but just as Jessi is about to jump, she falls back, physically unable to do it and runs off.

Josh asks Kyle how he did it and Kyle tells him the human body is over half water, but doesn't tell that that he can pull apart of push together opposing bodies of water like a magnetic field.

Kyle and Jessi have a heart-to-heart talking in which Kyle apologizes for making her look stupid and Jessi apologizes for acting so uptight. Kyle tells her that she was never invisible to him,. not because she has special powers, but because she's smart and stubborn.

Back at the career fair, Hillary is ecstatic that the anchorwoman of the local news station saw her blog and says that she "pops" on camera and was offered an internship.

On the other side of the school, Josh walks up to Andy and notes that her hair is back to normal. He then tells her that he has chosen his career, a doctor, and tell her that he wants to save her. Andy reminds him about how long it'll take, but he replies with that she's just going to have to stick around for a while.

Kyle manages to trick Carol that she only imagined him levitating by standing on the sprinkler.

Jessi is in bed at home when Brian comes into her room, surprise that she's in bed so early. He asks how school was and she says he learned that she should just be herself. Brian leaves with a smile on his face and Jessi suddenly jumps out of bed and sneaks out the window.

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