THE FANTASTIC TWO

James Patrick finally gets to his seat, whining at his assistant as if it's his fault he lost his ID card. He finally smiles when the lead singer of a girl group seems to toss him a wink, and we see that the mystery girl is also in the audience but paying little attention to the show.

As TheMobs is announced, the mystery girl slowly reaches into her jacket. The group takes the stage led by Williams, and she yanks a sign out of her clothes and shrieks, "Hala Williams!!" Meanwhile, Patrick's expression goes sour to see that annoying guy from the hotel again.

Williams seems to be on autopilot, and in the middle of their song, his ears begin to ring again. He pulls himself together and finishes the performance, though the momentary blip leaves a few people concerned. As the group strikes their final pose, the stage lights above Williams start to spark alarmingly. Suddenly the entire bank of lights falls directly toward where Williams is standing, but he doesn't move, unable to hear everyone screaming at him.

The mystery girl rushes the stage, and it's her frantic approach that makes Williams finally look up. He sees the lights falling straight for him and puts up his hands defensively — and a familiar-looking cluster of energy reaches up and stops the lights' fall, holding them in midair. But it only lasts a moment, long enough for the mystery girl to see it clearly, then starts to fall again. She grabs Williams and took him to safety, just as the lights crash down.

He's shocked, so she speaks quickly: "Are you okay? Can you not hear well? Does it hurt? Come to our medical College, Our professor can probably fix them for you" She was eventually dragged off the stage by security, but she calls the name of the school to him… Kingston medical college, telling him not to forget.

Williams tells the CEO that he just couldn't hear people telling him to move because he was focused on the song, refusing a trip to the nearest hospital. But he does ask for a break, and not just for a day — he wants to take a year off. The CEO wants to argue but says they'll talk about it tomorrow or later.

Once he's alone, Williams shrugs off his bravado and sinks with exhaustion. He's already seen a doctor, who warned him that he could lose his hearing permanently. All the doctor knows is that the hearing loss isn't physical, it's psychological, and he suggested taking a break. From Williams's sad, weary eyes, everyone can believe it.

But it's not as secret as Williams would like, and his manager tells the CEO that Williams's recent meeting wasn't with the rival company's CEO at all, but with a doctor. Strangely, the CEO just laughs, even when the manager reminds him that their company won't make it without Williams with them and remember him of getting bankrupt.

The CEO swore that the heavens have helped them, because he can't afford to pay Williams anymore, and has been wondering how to get rid of him. He suggests they make use of a recent rumor about a female model that Williams dated and broke up with.

James shows up to retrieve his jacket and ID card, but Williams isn't answering his hotel phone. James wonders if Williams went to the hospital, but he's out thinking by the river. Williams hears his phone ringing, but there's no message, and he wonders if he's hearing things now. It's honestly James Patrick's phone, which is still in the jacket in Williams's car. Williams sees that the message is from "Mom."

Patrick's father talks to someone named Mr. Hardwick on the phone, assuring them that James will be "at that place" in the morning. He advises the person not to rush, that all will happen in due time. But once he hangs up, his assistant asks what will happen if James quits like he's quit all the other colleges he has been to. "There is always a solution. He thinks the world of his mother.

Helen in a beautiful chicken helmet delivers takeout to a hotel, but when she calls the customer to come out to get it as the hotel doesn't allow outside food, she's told they don't want it anymore. But she's smart and resourceful and sells it to a couple walking out of the hotel.

A girl stops Williams's car by standing in his path and jumps in despite his protests. She's frantic with worry over him, and he assures her angrily that he's just fine. says….. thank you very much, and orders her out of the car. Instead, she hugs him with a shaky, "Williams!"

But this is all a setup, and we see that she was instructed to do this by the CEO and that she's not at all happy about it. She's Stefany, the girl-group rookie who was supposedly dumped by Williams recently, and she's eager to get back at him for the cold way he treated her.

Williams has to physically throw Stefany off himself and walks around to open the car door for her and angrily invites her out. She warns him that if he refuses her, she won't be able to save him. This makes no sense to him but he assumes she's being irrational, and pulls her out of the car. They're immediately approached by some big threatening guys on the street, and Stefany says that she tried to warn Williams. The men loom over Williams, while his manager cringes around a corner

Helen happens to drive by on her little motorcycle right at that moment and sees what's happening, and wisely advises herself to stay out of it. But when the men start to physically threaten Williams, one of them gets a chicken helmet upside the head. Tiny little Helen stands there smiling like an angel and sweetly asks the men not to fight.

She says she's already called the police, and right about then Williams sees someone in a nearby car taking pictures. He whirls to Stefany and tells her to leave, and that he'll take care of whoever was snapping photos. He follows them in his car, while his manager texts the CEO that "it has begun."

The shulux arrive before Helen can respond to Stefany's question of whether she's also working for the CEO, and Stefany bursts into crocodile tears for the press's benefit. She tells a story for the news which makes Williams look as though he abandoned her to the thugs, and paints Helen as her bewildered savior.

Williams defends himself to the CEO, saying that the thugs were after him and Stefany was never in danger, so he went after the person snapping pictures. But of course, by then the truth is no longer relevant, so Williams wants to find "that chicken girl" and do a press conference with her to tell the real story. He's suspicious that Stefany set this whole thing up, what with thugs and reporters just happening to be right there. But Williams's bad reputation among reporters (he gives cranky interviews) doesn't make them inclined to report in his favor.

Williams's manager makes a slip that the reporters hate him so much, one from a scandal rag was there without even having to be asked. That doesn't get past Williams, and he wants to know what it means, though we don't hear the answer.

Later James finally catches up with Williams and demands his belongings back. But Williams had about enough of people demanding things from him today, and just gets in his car and drives away, which does little for Patrick's regard of him. But James rarely has time to complain before two men grab him from behind and wrestle him into a car.

We see that Williams had figured out that the CEO was behind Stefany's approach and the thug's attack, and asked if it was because he'd asked for a break. The CEO had non-answered that Williams should just take some time until his ear heals, and he'll contact him.

Helen ignores a lecture from her father about fighting with street gangs, he's blind and yells in the wrong direction unlike before since he seems all bluster and no bite. Her aunt Tracy has the exact opposite philosophy, that his daughter should fight when she witnesses injustice. Aunt starts to mention Kingston medical college and gets her mouth plugged with a rice cake by Helen. She runs off to go fishing for dinner before Dad can ask any more questions.