Logan's Version

Logan's Version (scene 19) - A Sight For Fright Eyes

The scene opens with Jesse watching the TV in the Hilsons living room, with Tracy beside him, moving her gaze from the TV to Jesse, then to the TV, and back to Jesse again. Jesse turns to meet her gaze, which he finds weird [laugh track]
Tracy: (briefly widens her eyes) So? I'm waiting.
Jesse: It doesn't work that way. Also, you're doing that very weird thing with your eyes again. Liam always says it is very uncomfortable.
Tracy: That's because I'm waiting for YOURS to glow green, and then you can tell me if I'm winning that bet against Owen or not [laugh track].
Jesse: (pretends to stare at the TV, responds with heavy sarcasm) Oh, look. I see nothing. [laugh track].
Tracy: I dunno where you got that attitude from, but it's giving, I love it [laugh track]. (Logan & Michael enter the living room from the kitchen)
Logan: Hey, big guy! (Hi-fives Jesse) And Tracy.
Tracy: (smirks) Looking good, Johnny. But you still need those glasses to better the effects [laugh track].
Michael: (to Logan) I thought I'M the big guy.
Logan: No, you're the smart, sassy kid who never agrees with me.
Michael: But I agreed with you about the fact that Earth is the 3rd planet in the solar system.
Logan: That's what I'm saying [laugh track]. Sometimes, I wonder if you're Tracy's kid. (to Tracy) No offence.
Tracy: (shrugs) Nah, it's the same with me and Alfred. But just so we're clear, I don't want another brother. I already got 5 problems and he won't be another. (turns to Michael) No offence, Michael.
Michael: (holds his cheeks) Enough with the offences! [laugh track] (Zoey and Mikey walk in, seemingly excited about something).
Mikey: Guess who got a high-class paying job with a popular super star?
Logan: The kid down the street?
Tracy: It better not be Julia.
Zoey: You both have very sad lives [laugh track]
Mikey: I'm moving to LA. Got a job to be part of the soundtrack crew for Chris Evans' upcoming movie, which he's starring in.
Logan: That's great, man. I'm happy for you
Mikey: I also get to be his getaway driver in some scenes. (The entire room goes silent, as everyone exchanges glances with one another. Mikey frowns) No, I know that silence.
Tracy: Mikey, we're happy for you. But it's not what it looks like.
Michael: It IS what it is, Uncle Mikey (everyone glares at Mikey). I'm a child, I gotta be honest [laugh track].
Logan: (rolls his eyes, turns towards in Jesse's direction. The worried look from Mikey's "bad" part of the news changes to one of surprise) Jesse, what's with your right eye? (Jesse's right pupil is glowing green) It's like Green Lantern.
Zoey: (moves closer to Jesse and notices the same thing) Woah, are u OK. Is that normal?
Jesse: (sharply faces Tracy and whispers) I'm about to have a vision.
Tracy: (whispers back) Why did u make it glow now?
Jesse: I told you that's not how it works! [Laugh track]
Logan: What?!
Jesse: (slowly stares straight ahead. The camera does a close-up of his green-colored right pupil, followed by the speeding green light. When it opens, he sees Neil in what looks like a hospital talking to Logan and Zoey)
[Neil: (sneering at Logan and Zoey) You know what? I'll try to remove them, but you should be grateful your kid can see things better now, which you clearly can't! (turns to walk away)]
(The vision closes, followed by the green wave and Jesse's eye. Jesse is back in the living room with a horrified look).
Jesse: (stands up as he yells) NO!!!
Zoey: (concerned) Are you OK?
Logan: Jesse, what's wrong?
Jesse: (turns to Tracy, looking frightened) It was awful! They're going to take it away!
Logan: (confused) Take what away?
Tracy: What? Why? Who?!
Jesse: (points at Logan and Zoey) Them!
Tracy: Jesse, calm down.
Zoey: (annoyed) Jesse, behave.
Michael: (smirks) Oooh! Jesse's gon' be in big trouble.
Tracy: (glares at Michael) Shut it, Angelo! [Laugh track] (turns back to Jesse) You know what? We'll tell them together. OK?
Logan: (staring in dad mode) Spill.
Tracy: (exhales) Jesse can see things before they happen.
Jesse: Since the spook fest thing. And there was this green thing.
Tracy: He said it sprayed when u fell on it or something.
Jesse: But they're really cool. And I don't want them to go.
Tracy: U gotta see what them bad boys can do. His eye glows at least a minute before he has these visions. It ain't ordinary [laugh track].
Logan: (realizes what Jesse is talking about, turns to Zoey, who is also stunned to hear what they just said) The Spook Fest, Zoey. But it was just some large eye drop spray.
Zoey: What's that thing even made of?
Logan: (confused) But both of us were covered in it. And everyone closed their eyes. So, how are you the only one with "it"?
Tracy: Maybe, cuz u old? [laugh track]
Zoey: That's true sometimes.
Mikey: I mean, it all just kinda happened.
Zoey: Not now, Henry [laugh track].
Jesse: My eyes were open for a while.
Logan: There's only one explanation for this. (turns to Jesse) Does your eye hurt when you see things? And what did you see when u froze?
Jesse: The man u fought with at the Spook Fest before it sprayed.
Logan: (fumes) He's going to take them away?! That -
Zoey: (taps Logan) Logan, we're with kids [laugh track].
Logan: (stands up in anger) You know what? We're going to track Neil down and get to the bottom of this.
Tracy: Woah, slow down, Logan Channing. I've never seen you this mad before [laugh track].
Mikey: Yeah, you have to calm down. There has to be a reason.
Logan: Yeah, a reason for him to give Jesse nightmares.
Zoey: That's not what he said.
Tracy: What if we just ask him calmly when we get to the hospital he works at?
Mikey: I'll drive.
Tracy: (to Mikey) When we're making suggestions, never suggest that [laugh track].
Zoey: Mikey, please, you have to be with Michael. In case, his mom returns to take him home.
Mikey: Yeah, it's cool.
Logan: (announces) Everyone, we're going to bring down the enemy.
Tracy: (wonders) Haven't I said that before?
Jesse: (to Tracy) Trust me, I did not see that coming [laugh track].
Zoey: Let's just go. We have to be as cool as possible...

At the hospital, in one of the wards...
Logan is glaring at Neil, while Zoey watches the two guys with a worried look.
Zoey: I don't get why you are always fighting. You need to chill out. You're not 5. (turns to Jesse) Sorry [laugh track].
Logan: What did you do to my little boy with your despicable bug spray? [laugh track]
Neil: (turns to look at a worried Jesse, who's sitting on the patient's seat, supposedly waiting to be examined. Tracy is by his side, eating chips) I hate you, but not your son - which I finally got u to admit. And the spray is made of everything an eye drop IS supposed to be made of. You'd know that if you weren't so dumb.
Zoey: How about we not make matters worse?
Neil: (rolls eyes) Fine. (sneering at Logan and Zoey) You know what? I'll try to remove them, but you should be grateful your kid can see things better, now, which you clearly can't!
Jesse: (to Tracy) That's what he said.
Tracy: (tries to clarify) We don't need them removed. We just want to know why the failure of an eye drop would make his vision way too clear for his sight (Logan, Zoey, and Neil stare at Tracy over her choice of word play) [laugh track]
Neil: Well - (he pauses as a young man, about Zoey's age enters the ward. Neil grins weirdly) If it isn't my assistant in making the eye drop. Dr. Walter Lang.
Walter: (looks around and realizes there is a problem somewhere) Neil, what did you do?
Neil: It should be what you didn't do. (pauses) Or what u did that you shouldn't have didn't do [laugh track]
Jesse: (whispers to Tracy) Should we -
Tracy: No, we need Logan to savour this moment of idiocy that Neil is displaying with his grammar [laugh track] (hands a French fry to Jesse) Fries?
Jesse: Yes (eats the fry)
Neil: Walter, the eye drop we made, which I'm so relieved, was destroyed, has given the patient newfound abilities. Is there something you added in the final experiment?
Walter: (scans the concerned faces of everyone in the room) Neil, I might have had a family seance at home with the eye drops at home.
Everyone: WHAT?! [Laugh track]
Walter: Mr. Neil, I told you I had an issue with our haunted neighbourhood.
Zoey: So you just had to keep the eye drops in the exact same room as the ghosts?!
Logan: (scoffs) Great, now my kid is a product of a science experiment [laugh track].
Walter: It must have been a psychic ghost filling the room with its presence.
Neil: And the eye drops. That's the point, Walter! [laugh track]
Walter: (snaps) The point IS that there are no side effects. And you're all making a big deal out of it. The little kid is more scared of y'all acting like little bitches, more than the ability to see visions. I mean, look at him. (Logan, Zoey, Neil, and Walter turn to face Jesse, whose left pupil is glowing green)
Tracy: It's true. The ghost is right [laugh track] (Walter frowns at Tracy's comment). We should see it as a good thing, and it could help out in so many ways.
Jesse: (perplexed) I wouldn't count pranking Julia as "so many ways"?
Tracy: Get the point, Jesse.
Zoey: We shouldn't have come here, Logan. What do we tell his parents?
Logan: We can't say anything to them yet.
Zoey: (whisper shouts) But they'll find out sooner or later. If his eyes glow at the dinner table, or he suddenly freezes for no reason, or he sees a bad vision and he suddenly gets scared like he did today. Logan, for once in your life, THINK ABOUT YOUR ACTIONS!
Neil: I always tell you that, Logan. But u don't have the proper facility to actually think [laugh track]
Logan: (twitches his right eye as he slowly turns toward Neil) There is always room for one F bomb, so don't make me lose it! (makes a fist)
Zoey: (notices his mood change) Honestly, please DON'T do the Logan thing here; we can't afford to give Jesse another ability that will ruin his life for good.
Logan: (cools down) Fine. (to Zoey) What's the best way to tell a couple that their child can see the future without making it sound as creepy as fuck? (looks at camera) Yes, I dropped the F bomb (winks) [laugh track]
Walter: (to Tracy) Who's he talking to?
Tracy: (eats another French fry) The less u know him better, the better u still have yourself intact [laugh track]
Zoey: We'll think of something. (to Neil) Thanks, Neil. And we apologize for any Logan thing he has done.
Neil: It's fine. But I might need the Logan thing to teach my friend here a lesson (they all turn to face Walter, who realizes he is in big trouble).
Walter: (grins awkwardly, then puts on a sneer) Your loss, boo. (snatches Tracy's last French fry and dashes for the door)
Tracy: (yells) Hey! That's mine, you dork! (chases after Walter. Jesse stands up and walks up to Logan and Zoey)
Logan: (smiles at Jesse) So, little Baxter. What do you see in our future?
Jesse: I see French fries, I'm hungry (Logan and Zoey glare at him before giving Neil a suspecting look).
Neil: (tries to be defensive) Let's pretend sarcasm IS the side effect [laugh track] (The siblings nod their head in agreement. The four leave the ward to catch up with Tracy and Walter. The scene ends with Neil closing the door behind him).