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Transcript

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• Kik: So what do we do, maker? Do we go to yer peoples?
• Ahmis: Spirits, no. They would kill me as soon as I landed.
• Ahmis: Sadly, Kik, there are some problems in this universe that can't be fixed.
• Kik: That ain't true. That ain't true at t'all.
• Kik: When I was young, my pa would awlays say...
• Kik: "Kik, if there's trouble -- like a field-fire or a swarm o' fang weevils -- you gotta look for the helpers."
• Ahmis: The what?
• Kik: [off-screen] The helpers. There's always gon' be helpers. People that run toward the trouble 'stead of 'away from it.
• [ship goes VOO VOO VOO]
• Ahmis: [off-screen] I don't understand what you're getting at.
• Kik: [off-screen] WE THE HELPERS, AHMIS.
  AND WE GOTTA GO LOOK FOR MORE.

Trivia

• This page is called "The Helpers"
• Kik's speech about looking for the helpers was inspired by a similar quote from American children's television icon Fred Rogers.