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ACT ONE: I WISH THAT I NEVER JOINED INTERNATIONAL RESCUE

(Scene opens outside the Tracy villa as we hear Scott's voice)

SCOTT'S VOICE: God, please save Brains before it's too late.

GORDON'S VOICE: Please help Brains, God. I need him to help me with a WASP related article.

TIN TIN'S VOICE: Please save Brains, God before he does something he won't forget for the rest of his life.

VIRGIL'S VOICE: Please save Brains for making the biggest mistake of his life, God.

ALAN'S VOICE: I don't care what you do, God, please help Brains or my dad'll have a severe heart attack.

JEFF'S VOICE: Who are you talking to, Alan?

ALAN'S VOICE: No one, Dad.

(The camera rises up to the sky as the scene changes to what looks like outer space but is really Heaven)

GOD: Not again.

ANGEL: What is it, boss?

GOD: It's another call about that Homer Horton III man again.

ANGEL: Do you want me to send one of our best angel agents to scoop this out, boss?

GOD: Send Clarence on this job.

ANGEL: Clarence retired when he helped that George Bailey guy.

GOD: Who else is available?

ANGEL: There's that rookie I've been telling you about.

GOD: Is this rookie ready for the big time?

ANGEL: She's good and ready, boss.

GOD: Send her in.

(Another star/angel enters)

ANGEL 2: You sent for me, sir?

GOD: Claire, I'm sending to Earth on a mission.

CLAIRE: I hope it isn't one of those save people from killing themselves jobs.

GOD: You are to help a young male scientist from making the biggest mistake of his life.

CLAIRE: What's his name?

GOD: Homer Horton III also known as Brains. You got a job to do, Claire.

CLAIRE: I need more info on what my job is first.

GOD: Homer Horton III isn't like the other young men his own age...

CLAIRE: I know who he is; I just want to find out what his biggest mistake is.

GOD: He wishes never to have joined International Rescue.

CLAIRE: When did it all start?

GOD: It all started at least a week ago on Tracy Island. Homer, or 'Brains' as he's known, was in the laboratory...

(Scene ripple dissolves to the laboratory on Tracy Island where Brains is working on a new invention as Scott and Jeff watch)

JEFF: I can't wait until that summer carnival in LA!

SCOTT: That's not til a week away, Dad.

BRAINS: Speaking of, uh, Summer, if it's alright w-with you, Mr Tracy, I'd l-like to t-take that week off please.

SCOTT: I'll have to think about that when that invention of yours is complete, Brains.

(Virgil enters with Gordon in tow)

VIRGIL: Don't forget, I'm performing at the summer carnival with the Thunderbirds.

JEFF: I wouldn't miss it for the world, son.

SCOTT: Dad thought that having the Skyliners backing Virgil would suck turnips. Gordon, did you suggest that concert there?

GORDON: Yeah while I was helping WASP captain Troy Tempest save the world from aquaphibians again.

VIRGIL: You where doing what with that jerk?

SCOTT: That really happened, Virgil!

JEFF: I'm going to find Tin Tin and Alan.

SCOTT, VIRGIL, GORDON & BRAINS: (altogether) Okay.

(Jeff leaves)

SCOTT: (to Gordon) There's something wrong with Brains, Gordon.

GORDON: I know, he makes the Grinch sound like Commander Shore.

(Scene changes to the balcony where Brains, Tin Tin and Alan are)

BRAINS: Dod you kn-know Virgil's being, uh, backed up b-by the Thunderbids?

TIN TIN: Of course we do, Brains, it was all Mr Tracy's idea.

BRAINS: Mr Tracy?

ALAN: Are you coming to that summer carnival, Brains?

BRAINS: N-no, Alan, sorry. I'm, uh, going to let fate be m-my guide for my revenge.

ALAN: You're a madman, Brains.

(Scene changes to the music room where Jeff, Virgil and Virgil's back up band, the Thunderbirds, are practicing for the summer carnival as Brains enters)

JEFF: (looking at Brains) I see you've come to watch the boys perform, Brains.

BRAINS: Forget it.

VIRGIL: Father, he didn't even stammer. (winks at his lead guitarist Lance Simpson)

JEFF: Who's he?

VIRGIL: Brains.

LANCE: If you ain't watching, Geek, then leave.

BRAINS: B-break a leg, Lance, uh, you f-fatload.

LANCE: Don't have a cow, Brainiac.

JEFF: SHUT THE HELL UP.

BRAINS: I don't, uh, like Virgil's st-stupid band anyway. (leaves)

VIRGIL: (to the Thunderbirds) He gets this way sometimes.

(Cut to the kitchen where Scott and Brains are drinking cocoa)

SCOTT: Brains, what the hell's wrong with you today? You make the Grinch look like Commander Shore.

BRAINS: It's just that I, uh, thought of the idea for h-having a week off to s-see my adopted father and your father m-messed it up for me in the process. I wish I never met you guys.

(Suddenly, we hear a huge crash coming from the music room)

VIRGIL: (OS) OH MY GOD! LANCE!

(Everyone in the villa runs into the music room. Cut to the music room. We see Virgil carrying Lance on his back and taking him to sickbay)

LANCE: I'll get you for this, Four Eyes!

BRAINS: What did I do?

(Scene changes to Brains in the kitchen with Scott and Virgil all drinking tropical juice)

BRAINS: What did I, uh, do to Lance that m-made him so cross?

SCOTT: You told him to break a leg, remember?

BRAINS: It m-means good luck.

VIRGIL: Brains, I'm really cross with you. Where am I going to get another lead guitarist before that carnival next week?

SCOTT: But you did get your revenge, right, Brains?

BRAINS: That's not how I, uh, wanted to be. I w-want it be like we d-do every week at this time.

SCOTT: It looks like you lost your touch there, Brains.

BRAINS: If one m-more thing, uh, happens to me, I'm going to q-quit International Rescue.

SCOTT: You'll have to speak to my father first.

(Scene changes to the dining room where everyone in the Tracy villa is eating dinner)

GORDON: Did you find a replacement rhythm guiratist, Virgil?

VIRGIL: Thanks to Brains, Lance has to use a walking stick for two weeks and I haven't found one yet!

BRAINS: Don't blame me for this, Virgil.

(Suddenly, the wallphone rings)

JEFF: I'll get it. (leaves to answer the phone)

TIN TIN: Where's your spirit, Brains?

BRAINS: I-it left when I, uh, joined International R-rescue.

ALAN: Virgil, how about asking Tommy Blake to replace Lance for a bit.

VIRGIL: Great idea, Alan.

(Jeff returns with an angry look in his face)

JEFF: The nerve of that man!

SCOTT Who was on the phone, Dad?

JEFF: My lawyer Howard Simpson wants me to pay for Lance's hospital bill!

SCOTT: Why don't you sue the pants off that jerk.

JEFF: If I sue him, I can be sent to jail for fraud!

BRAINS: Mr Tracy i-in jail, this is a first.

JEFF: (sighing) I might as well pawn Brains's new invention for the money.

ALAN: What is it?

JEFF: It's a device used to control any Thunderbird craft if it gets out of control.

BRAINS: I hate my l-life right, uh, now. I'm going upstairs f-for a while.

SCOTT: Okay.

(Brains leaves)

(Scene changes to Brains walking upstairs)

BRAINS: damn Lance, damn Mr Tracy and damn Mr Simpson for m-making my, uh, life a l-living Hell.

(Just then, Brains packs a few things into a duffle bag and decides to look out the window)

BRAINS: I w-wish I, uh, never j-joined International Rescue.

(Suddenly, the room begins to fall apart as Brains looks around him. He almost makes it to the window but falls into a black hole in his bedroom floor)

END OF ACT ONE

ACT TWO: NO BRAINS'S WORLD

(Scene opens with Brains waking up to an all white background)

BRAINS: Am I dead?

VOICE: You're not dead, just in another universe.

BRAINS: Wh-what are you, uh, talking about? Wh-who's there?

(A young woman with shoulder length red hair and blue eyes wearing a tight pink V-neck sweater and blue jeans enters)

GIRL: I'm Claire and I'm you guardian angel.

BRAINS: G-guardian angel? Is this, uh, one of your s-silly jokes, Alan?

CLAIRE: No, this is what the world looks like with you not in International Rescue.

BRAINS: What?

CLAIRE: You wished that you never joined International Rescue so here it is. Do you want to see what the gang are like without you?

BRAINS: Okay.

CLAIRE: Who do you want to see first?

BRAINS: I might s-see what Mr Tracy, uh, thinks of life w-without me.

CLAIRE: Okey dokey.

(Claire claps her hands and the white background changes to the outside of the Tracy villa)

CLAIRE: Let's go inside a meet the family.

(Claire opens the door and both she and Brains enter the Tracy villa)

BRAINS: (looking around to see no one around) Where is everbody?

CLAIRE: Here they come now.

(We see Jeff enters with his wife...Dr Debbie Director)

BRAINS: Dr Director's m-married to Mr Tracy?

CLAIRE: Dr Director was married to his friend Larry Thompson but their marriage of 20 years was pretty stormy so she divorced him and married Mr Tracy.

BRAINS: I know that.

CLAIRE: Okay, let's see what unfolds with Jeff and Dr Director.

(Cut to Jeff and Dr Director eating breakfast)

JEFF: These are some of the best pancakes you ever made, sweetheart.

DR DIRECTOR: Thanks, dear.

JEFF: Where are Alan, Gordon and Tin Tin? They're going to be late for college.

DR DIRECTOR: Here they come now.

(We see Alan, Tin Tin and Gordon, who is using a walking stick, coming down the stairs. Tin Tin and Alan are yelling at each other)

(Cut to Brains and Claire)

BRAINS: Gordon's using a w-walking stick and Alan and, uh, Tin Tin are arguing?

CLAIRE: Without you, Gordon had to use a walking stick due to his limp when he got out of WASP and Alan and Tin Tin's relationship was so stormy, they decided to break up.

BRAINS: Good point.

(Cut back to the Tracy family)

GORDON: Dr, I mean, Mom, I got a date with Atlanta on Friday night if that's okay with you.

DR DIRECTOR: I know, her father told me, Gordon.

ALAN: Oh great, Gordon gets a date and me and Tin Tin are still arguing non stop.

DR DIRECTOR: You know that you acted like a complete jerk like my ex-husband did, Alan.

BRAINS'S VOICE: This is a f-first.

TIN TIN: Told you, Alan.

DR DIRECTOR: You sound like me when I told Larry he was being a jerk, Tin Tin.

TIN TIN: Dammit!

JEFF: The boys stepmother and I don't like that kind of language spoken in this house, young lady.

DR DIRECTOR: You kids better get ready for college.

(Gordon, Tin Tin and Alan leave)

DR DIRECTOR: Jeff, I want you to be more gentle to your boys.

JEFF: Did you look at Gordon, Tin Tin and Alan's grades? Tin Tin and Gordon got A+ and B- on their report cards but Alan got C+ and D- on his. If he just studies twice as hard, he could graduate by next year.

DR DIRECTOR: Give them a chance, Jeff.

JEFF: I'll do it for you, Debbie.

DR DIRECTOR: Thanks, Jeff.

(Cut to Brains and Claire)

BRAINS: Wh-what happens now?

CLAIRE: We go to find John, Scott and Virgil to see what they will be like without you.

(Claire claps her hands as the scene changes to the Hollywood Bowl)

BRAINS: The H-hollywood Bowl still looks the same to me.

BRAINS: Here comes Virgil and his band now, Homer.

(We see Virgil and the Thunderbirds walking pass Brains and Claire but he looks different; Virgil is wearing a navy blue jacket, his usual light green shirt, blue jeans and brown ankle boots and his hair is now a moptop)

BRAINS: Wh-what happened to Virgil?

CLAIRE: He decided to give himself a bit of a fashionable makeover.

BRAINS: Virgil looks like a m-moptop?

CLAIRE: Sure he does, Silly.

BRAINS: Where are th-the Thunderbirds?

CLAIRE: They coming this way and we better get to the local elementary school where Scott teaches 4th Grade History.

BRAINS: I b-bet that Scott'll, uh, still be his s-sarcastic old self.

CLAIRE: Think again.

(Scene changes to a classroom with a bunch of 9 and 10 year olds at their desks)

SCOTT: Okay Class, can anyone tell me what year Christopher Columbus discovered America? (turns to a blonde girl wearing a white polo shirt, a black mini skirt and black knee high boots) Laura?

LAURA: That would be in 1492, Mr Tracy.

SCOTT: That's right, Laura.

(Cut to Brains and Claire who are standing behind a boy with redhair and freckles in a red roll neck sweater)

BRAINS: Scott as a History teacher? Now I've s-seen everything.

CLAIRE: After he left the Air Force, Scott decided to become a History teacher at Springfield Elementary School.

BRAINS: Scott sure kn-knows history.

CLAIRE: I know and when you were around, he read about American History which he taught Kyrano but without you around, Scott's become a 4th Grade History teacher.

(Lady Penelope enters with her hair in it's usual length but she is wearing a pink blouse, a knee length brown skirt and brown high heels and is wearing a pink sapphire necklace, matching bracelets and earrings and a matching ring on the third finger on her left hand)

BRAINS: I s-see Lady Penelope's, uh, had a ch-change of style and jewelry.

CLAIRE: You ain't seen nothing yet.

(Cut to Scott and Lady Penelope)

LADY PENELOPE: Oh, Scott dear, you've forgot your lunch again.

SCOTT: Sorry, honey.

LADY PENELOPE: That's alright!

(Lady Penelope kisses Scott on the cheek and leaves, the class stares at their teacher)

SCOTT: Sorry about that, Class. My wife does that a lot.

(Cut back to Brains and Claire)

BRAINS: Scott and Lady Penelope are m-married?

CLAIRE: They fell in love with each other when they first met 6 years ago and they got married 4 years ago.

BRAINS: haven't s-seen John anywhere, uh, so far. Wh-where is he?

CLAIRE: That's where we're going now.

(Claire claps her hands as the scene changes to the Tracy lounge at 4:45pm in the afternoon)

BRAINS: Now what?

(Virgil and John enter)

BRAINS: I-is that John?

CLAIRE: Sure it is. Don't you know why there wearing black all of a sudden?

BRAINS: I know that John's n-not going into the, uh, Beatnik style of l-life.

(Jeff and Dr Director enter also wearing black)

JOHN: Aren't Gordon, Tin Tin and Alan coming yet, Dad?

JEFF: They should be here in a few minutes. Virgil, can see what's keeping Parker and Kyrano?

VIRGIL: Sure thing, Dad. (goes upstairs)

(Cut to Brains and Claire)

BRAINS: What's g-going on here?

CLAIRE: The gang are going to a funeral.

BRAINS: Who, uh, died?

CLAIRE: You don't want to know.

BRAINS: Tell me.

CLAIRE: It's Colonel Tim Casey.

BRAINS: What?

CLAIRE: He was shot while trying save an old friend of Mr Tracy's from being shot by the Hood.

BRAINS: (beginning to cry) Oh, God, no! Not Colonel Casey!

CLAIRE: I'm sorry, Homer. I'm so sorry.

END OF ACT TWO

ACT THREE- BACK WITH INTERNATIONAL RESCUE

(Scene open inside a church as we see a lot of people attending the funeral of Colonel Tim Casey: The people are Jeff, Dr Director, Gordon, Virgil and the Thunderbirds, Scott, Lady Penelope, John, Parker, Alan and Tin Tin, Kyrano, Kim, Monique, a hoverchair bound Ron, Rufus, Rick Henshaw and his family, Larry Thompson, Larry and Dr Director's daughter Deena Lee and the Casey family)

PASTOR: We are all gathered here today to say goodbye to a man who saved a life but used his own life to save another one. We'll all remember Colonel Tim Casey not only a hero but also a loving husband to Amanada Kent Casey and devoted friend to Jeff and Debbie Director Tracy. Does anyone have respects for Colonel Casey?

(Cut to Brains and Claire who are sitting all the way in the back)

CLAIRE: We oughta go now.

BRAINS: B-but I wanna hear what, uh, my friends have to s-say about Colonel Casey.

CLAIRE: Colonel Casey's gone, Homer but there's a way you can speak to them.

BRAINS: How?

CLAIRE: We gotta go forward in time to about an hour after the funeral back at the Tracy villa.

BRAINS: Let's d-do it.

(Claire claps her hands as the scene changes a to an hour later at the Tracy villa as everyone is talking about Colonel Casey)

DEBBIE: Tim was a really nice man before the incident with the shooting. We're going to miss him, Amanda.

AMANDA: Thanks for helping, Debbie but it's going to take awhile for us to regain ourselves after what happened to Tim, even Jeff says the boys are pretty upset and so's our daughter Jenny.

(Brains walks up to Dr Director and Amanda)

BRAINS: A-are Mr Tracy or his, uh, sosn a-around?

AMANDA: Who are you?

BRAINS: My f-father was a friend of, uh, Colonel Casey and I feel so sorry about wh-what happened to him.

AMANDA: Jenny needs all the friends she needs with her father dead and all.

BRAINS: Thanks.

DR DIRECTOR: Jenny's up in John's room, maybe you can cheer her up.

(Brains goes upstairs)

(Scene changes to John's room where John is hugging Jenny who is rather upset about her father's death. Suddenly, we hear a knock on the door)

JOHN: Who is it?

BRAINS: (OS) My father was, uh, one of C-colonel Casey's friends.

JOHN: Door's open.

(Brains enters)

JENNY: I haven't you here before.

BRAINS: I'm one of h-his out-of-town friends from Highland. When did your, uh, father witness Mr Tracy m-marry Dr Director?

JENNY: When Mr Thompson and Dr Director's divorce became final 5 years ago, Colonel Casey knew Mr Tracy felt so sorry for her so he fell in love with her and they got married.

BRAINS: Wh-what happened to, uh, Harry Henshaw?

JOHN: The last time I saw him, he was working at Tracy Industries with my father and his girlfriend Deena Lee Thompson.

BRAINS: Jenny, you r-really, uh, miss your f-father, don't you?

JENNY: (starting to cry) I sure miss my daddy.

(John and Brains both hug Jenny)

BRAINS: Let's go downstairs.

JOHN AND JENNY: (together) Okay.

BRAINS: A-are you, uh, going to b-be okay?

JENNY: Sure.

BRAINS: Listen to me, John, wh-who was the, uh, person Colonel Casey s-saved before he got shot?

JOHN: My father's old friend General Andrew Thomas.

(Scene changes to Brains sitting on the balcony of the Tracy villa)

BRAINS: Colonel Casey s-saved General Thomas but, uh, took his own life to do it. Why did you d-do it, Colonel Casey? Why?

(Claire enters)

CLAIRE: I've been looking all over for you.

BRAINS: I w-wanna go back.

CLAIRE: What?

BRAINS: I w-wanna go back. I, uh, wanna join I-international Rescue.

CLAIRE: Do you really mean it?

BRAINS: Yes.

(Claire smiles)

(Scene changes to Brains's bedroom where he is lying down on his bed. As Brains wakes up, he sees Scott and Jeff sitting on chairs)

SCOTT: Guess who's awake.

BRAINS: Scott, Mr Tracy, wh-what are you two doing in my room?

JEFF: You passed out so me and Scott put you to bed.

BRAINS: L-let me tell you what, uh, happened....

(A few minutes later)

JEFF: Let me get this straight, Alan and Tin Tin aren't in a relationship anymore, Gordon's got a limp due to his hydrofoil crash, Virgil's got a moptop, Scott and Penny are married to each other, I'm married to the former wife of one of my best friends and Colonel Casey died while saving your General Thomas's life?

BRAINS: Yeah.

JEFF: Brains, I don't believe you.

(Jeff leaves)

SCOTT: Did you really think Colonel Casey would die for someone, Brains?

BRAINS: W-would you, uh, save my life if someone were about t-to kill me, Scott?

SCOTT: Sure.

BRAINS: Thanks.

(Jeff, Virgil, Gordon, Tin Tin and Alan enter)

VIRGIL: Brains, how are you doing?

BRAINS: Fine, Virgil.

GORDON: Brains, I've got some good news.

BRAINS:They f-finally cancelled The Aquanaut Family Robinson?

GORDON: No, Mr Simpson's dropped the charges and Lance said I could play lead guitar for Virgil at the summer carnival as a stand in.

BRAINS: Alan, me s-seeing you and, uh, Tin Tin's b-better than her d-dating other guys.

ALAN: What?

BRAINS: (smirking) Nothing.

(Suddenly, the doorbell rings)

JEFF: I get it. (leaves)

BRAINS: When a b-bell rings, a, uh, angel gets their w-wings.

TIN TIN: What was that all about?

BRAINS: It's s-something my, uh, grandfather t-told me.

(Jeff returns with a girl that looks like Claire)

JEFF: I want you all to meet Claire. She moved to the island next to us just a few days ago.

CLAIRE: Hi.

BRAINS: (to Claire) H-have we met before?

CLAIRE: (grinning at Brains) Let's just say that I met you from out of the blue.

JEFF: Maybe we should leave you two to talk for a while.

(Jeff, Scott, Virgil, Gordon, Tin Tin and Alan leave)

BRAINS:It's you, isn't it?

CLAIRE: Why do you say that?

BRAINS: You sh-showed me what the, uh, Tracys would be like if I n-never joined International Rescue. Was that a v-vision of things of what would happen or is it like a sci-fi books?

CLAIRE:That's for the man upstairs to decide.

BRAINS: Did you g-get your wings, Claire?

CLAIRE: I sure did and I'd like to thank you for getting them for me.

BRAINS: You're welcome, Claire.

CLAIRE: Thanks, Homer, I mean, Brains.

(The scene closes with the outside of the Tracy villa as the sun is shining. The music in the background is Diamonds by Jet Harris and Tony Meehan as it plays throughout the credits)

THE END