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S02E76 The Tennis Match, Part 4: The Robot Vs. The Dreamer

Guy Hasson
Age: 6, Told by Grampa Walt

Master Mind is a killer. He’s far faster and far stronger than any human. He is able to reach any ball in time and to send balls faster than Madelyn could hope to answer.

He serves again. She misses again.

She looks at Justin. Then rolls to position. “Please wait a minute,” she calls to Master Mind.

“I can destroy you now or I can destroy you later,” he says. “It is the same to me.”

She sinks into deep thought. Then, suddenly, small jets appear on all sides of the wheelchair.

Justin laughs. Joy nods. I smile with expectation. There’s going to be a fair fight!

The wheelchair rises into the air.

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S02E75 The Tennis Match, Part 3: Master Mind Vs. Madelyn

Guy Hasson
Age: 6, Told by Grampa Walt

“Can’t beat Master Mind,” Justin agrees. “I wonder why he wanted to play.”

“Are you ready to play, Madelyn?” As I hear him say her name, I am sure I hear him separating the first syllable of her name. As if he called her Mad Delyn. Does he think her first name is ‘Mad’?

“I am ready, robot,” she answers with confidence in her French accent.

“I will annihilate you. I will destroy the ground you roll on. I will make you wish you were never born,” Master Mind says.

Justin buries his face in his palm. “Oh, no,” he whispers.

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S02E74 The Tennis Match, Part 2: Justin Vs. Madelyn

Guy Hasson
Age: 6, Told by Grampa Walt

“Dad’s going to win,” Joy says with the confidence of a girl who believes her father is all-powerful. In this case, I agree with her.

Madelyn rolls to position. “I am ready. Let’s begin.” She takes her racket.

“I’ll take it easy on you,” he says.

Madelyn laughs. “As you wish.”

Justin serves. Madelyn hits the ball back with such force that it hits the ground and moves past Justin faster than he reacts.

“Love fifteen,” she says. “You play your best game with me or you don’t play.”

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S02E73 The Tennis Match, Part 1

Guy Hasson
Age: 6.5, Told by Grampa Walt

And here we are again, entering Madelyn’s dream.

As the glass elevator descends, we see that we are above a tennis court.

“What’s tennis?” Joy asks.

I look at Justin, almost horrified. “Justin, have you never shown Joy what tennis is?” Justin looks away from me and shakes his head. “But it’s such a big part of your life! Even now!”

He shakes his head again.

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S02E26 The End of a Long Day, Part 1: Justin’s Room

Guy Hasson
Age: 6, Told by The Red Dragon

“You look tired,” I tell her.

She nods. “I’m not ready to go to sleep yet.”

“Dearie,” Suzy tells her. “You know, we have a room in our house. It was your father’s room when he was a kid like you. It has a bed. You know, you don’t have to sleep on the ship. Do you want to sleep in his old bed?”

Joy jumps up in excitement. “Can you show it to me?”

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#352: The Strange Adventure, Part 5: Justin’s Story

Guy Hasson
Age: 3.5, Told by The Red Dragon

Dragon Father sat on the floor of the largest bank in the galaxy, nursing his legs stretched out before him as if they hurt and couldn’t move.

When he told Dragon Little of the accident, just a few minutes ago, I believed that perhaps in his waking world, perhaps he cannot even walk. Perhaps he ist a human with no logs or legs that do not function. I have seen a few of those. In their dreams, some of them could walk and run and jump.

Ist that why he constantly dreams of adventure, doing flips in the air, jumping from rooftop to rooftop, and swinging from ropes?

With great pain, Dragon Father continued to speak.

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#351: The Strange Adventure, Part 4: Justin’s Past

Guy Hasson
Age: 3.5, Told by The Red Dragon

The figure looked at Dragon Father, still on the ground, still holding his legs in pain.

Dragon Little looked at Dragon Father, horrified at the last thing he had said.

“Tell them,” said the figure. “Tell them who I am.”

Dragon Father looked down at the ground for quite a while.

Then, in a soft almost tear-filled voice, said, “Joy.. this happened before you were born.”

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