9.11 & 9.12 Absolute Justice

Chloe Sullivan: “I haven’t heard from you in days.”
Clark Kent: “Yeah, we’ve been playing phone tag.”
Chloe Sullivan: “Uh no, phone tag implies two people. I’ve been playing phone solitaire. Not nearly as much fun.”

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Oliver Queen: “Where are the other superfriends?”
Chloe Sullivan: “Still waiting for them to ping me back. See this is why I keep asking everybody to come up with some sort of standardized trouble alert. The team needs structure.
Oliver Queen: “Is that what we’re lacking? You’re really on a kick lately Chloe. Personal phone conversations. Bank records. Amazon wish list.
Chloe Sullivan: “Big sister’s watching.”
Oliver Queen: “Is that my email? Chloe, I’ll have you know that these messages between me and Canary were purely platonic.”
Chloe Sullivan: “Can we skip your virtual love life and focus on the job here?”
Oliver Queen: “Gladly.”
Chloe Sullivan: “Great.”

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Clark Kent: “Talking about those arrest reports. Each one of them tried to take the fall for the other. And they tried to protect one another.”
Chloe Sullivan: “I guess during the golden age of robbery and racketeering, there was honor among thieves.”
Clark Kent: “This goes beyond honor. There were missing witnesses, circumstantial evidence, accusations of jury tampering. They stood by one anther, and in the end none of the convictions held up.”
Chloe Sullivan: “It almost sounds like you admire them.”
Clark Kent: “I admire their loyalty.”

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Kent Nelson: “Please Nabu. Don’t whisper too loudly. Don’t show me what could be, or not be. Fate is a fatal thing.”
(indistinct whispering from helmet, Kent screams, and is transformed into Dr. Fate)
Dr. Fate: “Greetings Hawkman.”
Courtney: “Dr. Fate?”
Carter Hall: (Opens door, and Hawkman’s uniform is revealed. Carter picks up mace) “It’s been a long while since I made someone bleed. Time to go hunting.”

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Chloe Sullivan: “Dead end. The Icicle has been in a vegetative state for the last decade.”
Clark Kent: “If that’s true, then there’s no way he can be our killer.”
(A bright light glows on other side of door. Clark opens the door and sees Dr. Fate standing over Icicle senior emitting a bright light over him.)
Clark Kent: (approaches Dr. Fate and grabs his arm) “What are you doing to him?”
Dr. Fate: (in a flash he sees Clark’s destiny – a red cape flying through the air) “You’re fate is utterly binding. You are of value Clark Kent.”
(Clark quickly releases his hold on Dr. Fate’s arm and steps back)
Dr. Fate: (looks at Chloe) “But you…you walk the same path I do Chloe Sullivan.”
Clark Kent: “Who are you?”
Dr. Fate: “Let me show you my friend.”
(Lifts hand directly at Clark, a flash of bright yellow light fills the room and Clark disappears with Dr. Fate.)

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Hawkman: “Obvious by how you’ve skipped your homework, you don’t even know who we are.”
Clark Kent: “You don’t know who we are either. But none of us here are the bad guys.”
Green Arrow: (arrow strikes JSA portrait directly on Hawkman’s image) “You sure about that Clark? The winged warrior here threw me through a window.”
Hawkman: “I hope I didn’t make you cry.”
Green Arrow: “Drop the mace, Conan.”
Hawkman: “I will…on your head.”
Green Arrow: “Bring it, big bird. Just for the record, you started it.”
Hawkman: “I’ll finish it. (slams Green Arrow on the JSA table)
Stargirl: “Hawkman, No!”
(Hawkman holds mace over Green Arrow, as Green Arrow quickly points his weapon at Hawkman. Green Arrow laughs)
Martian Manhunter: (enters room) “I hope it’s not too late to say we’ve come in peace.”

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Tess Mercer: “Mud wrestling again Lois?”
Lois Lane: “Tess Mercer. What brings the big boss all the way downtown to the little newspaper that could? I thought the Daily Planet was slipping off your priority list.”
Tess Mercer: “Print is dead.”
Lois Lane: “So is privacy.”

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Hawkman: “This is a temporary alliance.”
Clark Kent: “Do you have any idea where we can find Icicle?”
Chloe Sullivan: (enters room) “I got one or two. Unless this is costumes only.”
Hawkman: “Who’s this, you’re secretary?”
Martian Manhunter: “Our eyes and ears.”

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Chloe Sullivan: “So you’re not actually related to any of them?”
Stargirl: “Well, family is not just about blood. And…watching people doesn’t make them a part of your life. I don’t know, I mean…maybe your team would operate better if you didn’t get together only when there was trouble…and if you made it a little more home sweet home and a little less nuclear war room.”

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Green Arrow: “God, I hate waiting.”
Hawkman: “But you love talking. Shut up.”
Green Arrow: “Why did they have to team us up together?”
Hawkman: “I asked them to…so I could keep you in line.”
Green Arrow: “What are you, my chaperone?”
Hawkman: “Think of me as your parole officer, but with a mace.”
Green Arrow: “Well, I don’t know what that means. But this whole thing is bad news. You want to know why? Because no one’s been able to answer why.”
Hawkman: “Why what, green punching bag?”
Green Arrow: “Frosty’s kid’s going after you for putting dear old in traction, right? But why now? It’s been decades.”
Hawkman: “Because revenge is a dish best served cold.”
Green Arrow: “We’re telling jokes now? Right.

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Clark Kent: “When you saw my fate, what did you see?”
Dr. Fate: “You will lead this generation, as Hawkman once lead ours.”
Clark Kent: “You sound like a group I met from the future. They hinted at my destiny, but they were as vague as you are.”
Dr. Fate: “Then let me be specific. Although Lex Luthor is your ultimate opponent, you will triumph over him.”
Clark Kent: “Lex? Lex is dead.”
Dr. Fate: “And when you show yourself to the world, it will be a different age then ours Clark. A silver age of heroism that will start when they look up at the sky at you with hope for tomorrow. You will help everyone to embrace it.
(knock on door – Lois Lane’s voice: “Hello? Hello?”)
Clark Kent: “Lois? What’s she doing here? She shouldn’t be in the middle of this.”
Dr. Fate: “She is the key.”

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Dr. Fate: “I see your fate Lois Lane. You are the one he will need. He is the one you will need.”
Lois Lane: “What?”
Dr. Fate: “The savior…the one who will heal us all…the sentient power.”
(shuts the door on Lois)
Lois Lane: (talks to self) “I wonder if he does horoscopes.”

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Lois Lane: “Why me?”
Amanda Waller: “I’ve read your work. You pull more skeletons out of closets then the organization I work for have hidden. You embrace the truth.”
Lois Lane: “And the truth will set you free. Your point is?”
Amanda Waller: (hands Lois a Checkmate cell phone) “I’ll be in touch.”

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Green Arrow: “You know, you really got to work on your landings.”
Hawkman: “It would have gone a lot smoother if you hadn’t thrown up.”
Green Arrow: (sarcastic) “Send me your dry cleaning bill.”
Hawkman: (sarcastic) “Send me your dinner bill.”

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Icicle: “I killed you.”
Martian Manhunter: “I’m Mars’ sole survivor. There’s a reason for that.”

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Hawkman: “Your team is better than I thought too. Even I have to admit…Green Arrow has pretty good aim.”
(Both Clark and Hawkman look up at JSA Portrait with Green Arrow’s arrow right on Hawkman’s image)
Clark Kent: (chuckles) We’re not a team. Not like yours.
Hawkman: “Why? Because of you?”
Clark Kent: “They’re best friends that I have Carter. But I don’t know if we’ll ever be what the JSA was.”
Hawkman: “You have to trust them.”
Clark Kent: “I do.”
Hawkman: “You have to remember, they’re people too. They’ll make mistakes. We all do. We all have to keep trying. Isn’t that what you said?”
Clark Kent: “Yeah.”

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Hawkman: “You have the capacity to break the chains that’s holding you down Clark. And when you do, what Dr. Fate envisioned will come to pass. You will soar higher than anyone of us.”

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Chloe Sullivan: “What happens to the helmet now?”
Martian Manhunter: “According to Hawkman, someone worthy will be drawn to it. They’ll become the next Dr. Fate.”

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Oliver Queen: “I’d thought I’d stop by and see if anyone was hungry.”
Martian Manhunter: “I could use some dinner. Chloe?”
Chloe Sullivan: “Uh…sure. You’re buying Mr. Queen.”
Martian Manhunter: “Don’t look at me, I’m living off a policeman’s salary.
Oliver Queen: “Ah fine, desserts on you.”
Martian Manhunter: “On Mars, we never had dessert, but I have grown especially fond of cookies.”

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Lois Lane: “It’s not everyday that you get an exclusive with a helmet head that can tell you your fate.”
Clark Kent: “So…he told you your fate?”
Lois Lane: “Huh? Yeah…he was just babbling about how I’d be there for him, and he’d be there for me. It just…sounded like a Valentine’s day card.”
Clark Kent: “Who’s the him?”
Lois Lane: “It’s ridiculous. I-I quote Savior/Sentient Power.”
Clark Kent: “Do you believe in fate Lois?”
Lois Lane: “Only the kind you make happen.” (Clark chuckles)

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Amanda Waller: “You don’t have the talent to take a team like that out. There’s a army of heroes growing. This generation and the last are coming together. And I’m going to need them if we’re going to survive the Apocalypse that’s coming this way.”
Icicle: “Apocalypse? This is not what I signed up for.”
Amanda Waller: “Oh, but it is. (points a gun to Icicle’s head) Welcome to the Suicide Squad.”
Icicle: “C’mon.”
(gunshot)

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Amanda Waller: “Agent Mercer. It’s been a long time. We have a lot to catch up on.”