We start in domestic bliss if your idea of bliss is a hot day with a father, Harlan (Joe Carafello), who acts like he’s one bad day away from an explosion. The family dynamic is basically a pressure cooker until they hit the $10 million lottery. Naturally, the dad keeps being a jerk, the mom (Catherine Battistone) is a social climber, and the kid (Jason Horst) is just looking for a way out.

Then the plot takes a sharp turn into sci-fi absurdity. In walks Tinker (Mark Blankenfield, Jekyll and Hyde… Together Again), a guy who tried to cuckold Harlan on his wedding night and is now back with a get-rich-quick scheme that would make a mad scientist blush. He’s peddling a drug that grants total recall—the ability to remember everything, ever—but with a catch: it gives you a killer headache and makes you act like a total weirdo.

Harlan wants no part of it, but little Jonathan? He’s all in. While his parents are busy trying to figure out how to blow their new fortune and ditch their kid with a sitter, Jonathan gobbles up Tinker’s pills. Because his young brain is still plastic, he doesn’t get the debilitating headaches or the twitchy mania that turned Tinker into a broken shell. Instead, he gets absolute, terrifying genius.

Now, the child ends up outmaneuvering his parents, having them declared incompetent and putting himself in charge as their legal guardian. He finishes the film like a pint-sized corporate overlord, denying them cable and—in a final, hilarious jab—tossing his own autobiography, The Bitterest Pill, at them, the same way his dad once threw books at him,

Based on a story by Frederik Pohl, this episode was directed by Bryan Michael Stoller and written by Michael Kube-McDowell and Jule Selbo.