Alex Mack quotes from The Secret World of Alex Mack

Alex Mack

I guess I could have a couple of secrets.

Alex Mack

Sometimes it's good to be not so popular.

Alex Mack

(narrating the show's premise) Would you wanna grow up here? I have to. I'm Alex Mack. I was just another average kid until my first day of junior high. One minute I'm walking home, the next was a crash and I'm drenched in some weird chemical. And since then... nothing's been the same. My best friend Ray thinks it's cool, and my sister Annie thinks I'm a science project. I can't let anyone else find out, not even my parents. I know the chemical plant wants to find me and turn me into some experiment. But you know something? I guess I'm not so average any more.

Alex Mack

(miserably) Let's go home.

Ray Alvarado

No can do. Band try-outs.

Alex

Band try-outs?! You're gonna join the band?

Ray

I have to try. You know my dad. The Alvarados have a history of playing in the school band. I can't break that tradition. Besides (grins slyly) maybe I'll meet some girls.

Alex

Well, I'm a girl.

Alex

Oh. (looks away) Girl-type girls.

Annie Mack

Wow. Tough first day?

Alex Mack

(fretfully) Hey, Annie. I was coming home from school when this plant truck swerved, almost hitting me, and crashed (claps her hands) BAM! Right into a hydrant! Then this barrel of gold stuff spilled all over me.

Annie

Hmm... You're not clever enough to make this up.

Alex

And just now, without even doing anything (hesitates) I think I turned on the saw and the electric train set.

Annie

What?!

Annie Mack

I get the feeling that this was not some minor accident. Those plant security guys are out there, so this has got to be something big!

Alex Mack

It wasn't my fault!

Ray Alvarado

They'll blame you! Adults always do.

Annie

He's right.

Alex Mack

I'm really worried, Annie. The plant won't stop until they find me.

Annie Mack

Between my brains and your powers, that won't be too easy. Everything has changed, Alex. You were just this average kid, heading for this life of inconsequence and boredom, and now look at you.

Alex

(cheering up) I can tell you one thing. My second day of Junior High is going to be a lot different from my first.

Alex

(narrating) Welcome to "Black and White World" with Robyn Russo and Abigail Hoffman, two people who see the world in slightly different ways.

Hello. We're here on a gorgeous day in Danielle Atron Park. It's a beautiful green park, a place to play, a place to make friends... a place to relax. Lovely, isn't it?

Lovely? I see killer bees. I see pollen. And ragweed. I see the hot, toxic lethal sun, boring through the hole in the ozone, slowly killing us. Roasting, like a pig on a spit. And these people are supposedly having fun?

What a strange, yet intriguing young girl you are.

Annie

(about to leave) Don't destroy the house, okay?

Alex

Come on, Annie. I'm just having a friend over to watch some videos. Can't you ever trust me? Besides, when have I ever destroyed the house?

Annie

There's a first time for everything.

Alex

I mean, I'm fourteen, Annie. It's time for me to live my life. I want my own comic book.

Annie

Would you stay completely still, please?

Alex

Sorry. I'm sick of being your guinea pig, Annie.

Annie

Uh-huh. Look, just stay quiet and do what you're told, okay? Lab animals are so much easier: talking, questioning.

Alex

You never even listen, do you, when I talk to you?

Annie

Huh, what'd you say?

Danielle Atron

Well, you've had quite a childhood thanks to me, now haven't you. Let's see what you can do. (Alex tries to use her powers to escape, but is unable to) You are magnificent, you really are. But I've gotta tell you, your timing is so bad. One more day and I wouldn't have given you another thought.

Alex Mack

(angrily) I want you to know I hate you.

Danielle

Aww, no you don't. You just think you do.

Alex

Why are you such a selfish, greedy, horrible person? Don't you care about anybody but yourself?

Danielle

Don't you read the newspapers, young lady? America is thrilled to have GC-161 entering their lives, and is America selfish? No! And besides, even if I did tell them that the product had a couple of side effects, they wouldn't care.

Alex

There's a lot of people who know about me! My friends, my sister! And if anything happens to me, they're gonna know it's you.

Danielle

Yeah... But you didn't tell anybody about the accident, now did you? Because if you had, I'm sure I would have been stopped a long time ago, but you didn't. I guess you and your sister had your own selfish reasons for keeping it to yourself.

Alex

I wish I had told them.

Do you know what's going on here, Alex? What does Danielle want with you?

Alex Mack

I guess I'd better tell you guys something. You know that truck driver, Dave, and he told that a couple years ago there was a GC-161 accident and some kid got doused with the chemical?

Yeah.

What do you mean "it was you"?

Alex

It happened on my first day of 7th grade. Annie made sure I was OK, healthwise. I just have these side effects.

What kind of side effects?

Alex

Like this. (fires some electricity) And this. (floats pen in mid air, then morphs herself, then reforms, much to her parents' shock)

Well, why didn't you tell us?

Alex

Because we thought if you found out, that you'd lose your job and you'd tell Danielle and they'd come after me and cut me up, I don't know. We just thought it was best.

You thought it was best to not tell us? You thought it was better to take care of this all by yourself? What were you girls thinking about?

Alex

I'm really fine, Mom! I just have these powers!

(remorseful) We must be the most oblivious parents on the face of the Earth.

Alex

No, it was nothing you did, I was just really careful with them, you know.

Didn't we bring you up with the understanding that you could tell us anything, anytime? I just don't understand, Alex we could have helped you, we could have been there for you. And I could have stopped Danielle a long time ago.

Alex

I'm sorry Dad, but it really wasn't that bad. You probably can't understand this, but it was actually kind of fun.

Maybe it was Alex, but look at where we are now.

Alex Mack

You knew, didn't you? You knew this whole time that it was me, but you didn't say anything because you knew I didn't want you to.

Dave Watt

Yeah.

Alex

Thanks.

Dave

You're welcome. (Alex gives Dave a hug in gratitude)

Alex Mack

So, are you still going to hang out with me even without the powers?

Ray Alvarado

Yeah. I think you're stuck with me.