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to do that.

Your father did.

Well, you can stop.

I absolve you of all

further responsibility

in the raising of young Nod.

Don't walk away from me.

(STAMMERS) I'm

your commanding officer!

Not anymore!

I quit! Hyah!

Whoa! Thatta girl.

Easy, easy!

What are you looking at?

Nothing. I have

no opinion on this.

Everyone, mount up!

(CROWD CHEERING)

(ALL CHEERING)

Parade! Fun! Smiling!

MK:
Dad!

Dad!

Is this a good time

to talk?

Ow. Hold on,

I'll be right down!

Ow! (GRUNTING)

(BOMBA YELPS)

(GLASS SHATTERS)

BOMBA:
Ozzy!

Ozzy, stop! (LAUGHS)

Fetch the camera!

(PANTING)

(GROANING)

Why do you have

security cameras, anyway?

Do people around here

steal old newspapers?

Oh, no, no. They're not

security cameras. (GRUNTS)

No, I have an extensive

network all through

the forest, yeah.

(STAMMERS) I don't know

how much your mother

told you about my work.

Um... nothing.

Just that you have

a delusional belief...

in an advanced society

of tiny people

living in the woods...

and it ruined

your career...

not to mention

your marriage.

Or something?

(LAUGHS) Well...

your mother

had a wonderful

sense of humor.

But I'm not delusional.

I know they're out there.

It's intuition,

like scientists

intuited the atom.

These little guys

are a big part of

the ecosystem...

the engine, if you will,

and I will prove it. Here.

(BATS SCREECHING ON RECORDING)

You have bat sounds

on your iPod? Why?

To study them.

They don't really

fly in your hair.

That's a myth.

But I was

trying to identify...

the frequencies that

draw bats to gather

with their own kind.

So I slowed

the sounds down...

and I put them through

some proprietary filters...

and guess what I heard.

(SIGHS) Voices?

Yes!

(INDISTINCT CHATTERING)

(GROWLING)

Isn't that cool?

Okay...

if tiny men are flying

around in the forest...

how come I've

never seen them?

No, that's easy.

(LAUGHS)

It's the same reason

we can't hear them.

They just move too fast,

like insects.

(FLY BUZZING)

Didn't you ever wonder

why it was so

hard to swat a fly?

My theory is they're

actually living faster.

Like in

a different dimension.

So, no matter how fast

we think we are...

to them we're just

big and dumb and...

(SLOWLY)

slow.

(FLY CONTINUES BUZZING)

Have you ever seen one?

Well, you know, uh...

You know what?

Just because you haven't

seen something...

doesn't mean

it's not there.

I, you know, that's...

Come on.

(GROWLS)

Okay, we need to talk.

I know it's a lot

to take in.

I mean about us.

Oh, no! No,

we'll do it together!

Yeah, both of us.

Here, I made this

for you.

Dad, look...

I am almost old enough

to be on my own anyway...

so I think it would

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