- Fire: [approaches Flash] You haven't said a word the entire flight.
- [staring at her, Flash stammers nervously]
- Fire: I was hoping this mission would give us a chance to get to know each other a little better.
- [Flash keeps stammering]
- Fire: I understand; you're very deep in thought, mentally preparing for the batle. No time for women; I understand.
- [she starts to head back to her seat. Hawkgirl, exasperated, rolls the plane sharply to one side, dumping Fire into Flash's lap]
- Hawkgirl: Oops. Sorry.
- Gorilla Grodd: The Spear of Longinus. Hitler believed that whoever holds it is invincible.
- Lex Luthor: What are you going to do with it? Sell it to the highest bidder? Keep it yourself and try to conquer the world?
- Gorilla Grodd: I was thinking it would look good on the wall in my office.
- Lex Luthor: You mean you recruited me, sent me to an island full of death traps, and up against the Justice League. You made me risk my life, and all for nothing?
- Gorilla Grodd: Essentially, yes.
- Lex Luthor: [laughs] Monkey, I like your style.
- The Key: Here we are, Mr. Luthor. Your benefactor is looking forward to meeting you.
- Lex Luthor: Does the mystery man have a name?
- Gorilla Grodd: No reason to be insulting, Lex. I'm far superior to any man.
- Lex Luthor: Grodd. I appreciate the help, but gratitude only goes so far. I'm not interested in working with you or anyone else.
- Gorilla Grodd: I think you'll change your mind once you've seen what I have to offer.
- Lex Luthor: What is this?
- Gorilla Grodd: A home away from home for members of my... organization. I'll admit we're putting on something of a show for your benefit. We rarely have so many members here at once.
- Lex Luthor: Yes, it would take a huge scam to pay for all these people.
- Gorilla Grodd: Actually, it's the other way around. They pay me. The world's most powerful supervillains banded together with one common goal.
- Lex Luthor: They protect each other from the Justice League.
- Gorilla Grodd: It's the only way to survive in the modern world. There are so many heroes now. And under the Martian, they're too organized for freethinkers like ourselves to make an honest buck.
- Lex Luthor: You're running a protection racket.
- Gorilla Grodd: A co-op. Everyone's free to go about their own business, but if, say, Batman, Wonder Woman, and the Flash show up to foil your bank robbery, you no longer have to face them alone.
- Lex Luthor: [laughing] Right, he does it out of the goodness of his heart.
- Gorilla Grodd: Plus 25% of the gross. So far, it's working perfectly. The League doesn't even know that we exist.
- Lex Luthor: Have to hand it to you, this is an impressive operation. But we're still not interested.
- Gorilla Grodd: [stopping him from leaving] See, now, that's a problem. You're much too powerful a player to be out there freelance.
- Lex Luthor: Don't worry about the competition. I'm out of the business.
- Gorilla Grodd: Really? Then why bother to escape from prison? Mmm. You've still got the spark, Luthor. I see it in your eyes. The spark of a man who can't be bound by society's petty restrictions. Besides, nobody who plays the game at our level ever quits.
- Lex Luthor: [talking to someone who's not there] Oh, you got that right. Completely missing the point.
- Gorilla Grodd: [confused] Luthor?
- [regarding Flash's crush on Fire]
- Hawkgirl: Why don't you just go talk to her?
- The Flash: Who, me? Talk to her? Heh, no way...
- Hawkgirl: Yeah, you'd probably be wasting your time. I hear she's, you know...
- [Flash looks over at Fire, who is talking with Ice, another super-heroine. His eyes widen, guessing what Hawkgirl's about to say]
- Hawkgirl: ...Brazilian.
- The Flash: [unamused] Ha, ha.
- [Fire is holding Flash in the air while Hawkgirl is fighting a flying robot]
- The Flash: That thing's gonna blow! You need both hands to help Shayera, drop me!
- [she looks at him, uncertain. He winks at her. She smiles and lets go, then flies after Hawkgirl]
- The Flash: Sure hope I think of something before I hit the ground...
- Hawkgirl: He told you to drop him?
- Fire: [miserable] He's a senior member of the team...
- Hawkgirl: You know he can't fly, right?
- [Flash appears, whirling his hands so fast they're propelling him up in the air]
- The Flash: Hey, ladies! Check me out! I'm just like a helicopter!
- [he loses control and falls face-first onto the ground]
- The Flash: I'm sort of like a helicopter...
- [last lines]
- Fire: All I know is, Superman's gonna be pretty ticked that we let Luthor get away just to keep some musty old museum from being destroyed.
- [Flash looks and sees Chuck and Hawkgirl standing at attention before the Blackhawk memorial - Chuck saluting, Hawkgirl with head bowed]
- The Flash: It was worth it.
- [Lex is holding Chuck hostage]
- Chuck Cuidera: [to the Leaguers] I'm sorry. If I were twenty years younger...
- Lex Luthor: You'd still be ancient. Keep quiet!
- Chuck Cuidera: I know everything there is to know about this island. You're going to need my help.
- The Flash: We've got it covered. And, no offense, but you're a little old for this kind of work.
- Chuck Cuidera: Something's activated the island's defense grid. You wanna make it out of here alive, I'm coming with you.
- Agent King Faraday: I'm the new liaison between the Attorney General's office and the Justice League.
- Aztek: Uh, good to meet you. I'm...
- Agent King Faraday: Aztek. I've been well briefed on all of you. Security on Luthor's transfer was lax because it didn't seem necessary. We haven't had a peep outta him since he was arrested for that Brainiac business last summer.
- Agent: He's a broken man. Just sits in his cell talking to himself.
- Hawkgirl: When he's not stealing police vans, you mean?
- Agent: That came out of nowhere. We had no reason to think he was an active threat.
- Agent King Faraday: Do what you can. Put out an APB, stake out airports, train and bus stations.
- Agent: Already done, for what it's worth.
- Agent King Faraday: If he's sighted, don't approach him. Call in the League.
- Agent: My people can handle this.
- Agent King Faraday: No, they can't. Your people are good. Luthor's better. And if you get a lead on him, I expect to be kept in the loop.
- Superman: Of course.
- Chuck Cuidera: Whoever's on the island will be headed for master control. That's in a bunker under the Blackhawk Victory Museum.
- Hawkgirl: Where you stored the weapons you captured?
- Chuck Cuidera: Yeah, there's some serious ordnance there. Even got a couple of old war wheels.
- Fire: Wasn't all that stuff destroyed in the war?
- Chuck Cuidera: Don't believe everything you see on the Documentary Channel, sweetheart.
- The Flash: War wheels, robot condors. You got a pretty goofy security system here.
- Chuck Cuidera: Yeah, good times.
- The Flash: [knocking out the Key] Now, why is it you always find the keys in the last place you look?
- Hawkgirl: [after Lex escapes from custody] Why would you even try to move a prisoner that dangerous without calling us?
- Agent: Maybe because we thought we could do our jobs without help from the mighty Justice League.
- Hawkgirl: And yet here we are.
- Superman: Okay, Shayera, what's done is done. Let's see if we can pick up his trail. Aztek?
- Aztek: [scanning a brick wall] The wall's submolecular integrity has been compromised.
- Hawkgirl: Leptons showing residual weak-force interactions?
- Aztek: Yeah. How did you know?
- Superman: It's a common energy signature of matter-phasing technology. I assume it doesn't leave a trail?
- Hawkgirl: No such luck. Maybe Aztek could...
- Agent King Faraday: You guys want some coffee? Apparently, I got nothing better to do here.
- Superman: Sorry, we got caught up in the work.
- The Flash: [Shayera tries to deactivate a self-destruct] Forget it. There's still time for me to run us out to the water.
- Hawkgirl: No. I'm not going to let all this history be lost. I can't crack the code, but maybe if I...
- Chuck Cuidera: [stopping her as she raises her mace] You better let me do that.
- Blackhawk Computer: Self-destruct sequence canceled.
- Chuck Cuidera: Can't fix everything by hitting it.
- Chuck Cuidera: Whoever you guys are, you got no business being in here.
- Dr. Polaris: Sorta goes with the territory. We're thieves.
- Hawkgirl: We going to do this the hard way, Lex? Please say yes.
- Dr. Polaris: You're threatening us with a metal weapon? I'm a ferrokinetic. Or hadn't you heard?
- [using his powers to control her mace, he throws her aside]
- Lex Luthor: You think you understand me? That you actually have anything to offer? For a brief moment, I attained absolute knowledge, godhood. Now it's all gone.
- Gorilla Grodd: You melded with the computer-being Brainiac. And at your moment of triumph, the Justice League destroyed him. Tragic. Now there isn't a single piece of him left anywhere on Earth.
- [holding such a piece out]
- Gorilla Grodd: Except, of course, for this one.
- Lex Luthor: [grabbing for it] Give it to me.
- Gorilla Grodd: Salvation comes at a price, Lex. First, you do something for me, then you get your precious rock.
- Brainiac: [appearing only to Lex] Do whatever he asks. My entire program resides in even the smallest part of me.
- Lex Luthor: I could reconstitute you, bring you back to life.
- Brainiac: Yes. We could be together again.
- Lex Luthor: All right, Grodd, I'm in.
- Gorilla Grodd: Today was just a test. Your next mission is for real.
- Brainiac: [appearing to Lex] He still has something we need. We have to put up with him for the moment.
- Lex Luthor: I should kill you.
- Gorilla Grodd: But you won't.
- Lex Luthor: No. Not today.
- Agent King Faraday: Tell Hawkgirl your story, Mr. Sirianni.
- Chuck Cuidera: We met a while back, ma'am. Longer for me than for you. When you traveled in time to World War II, you fought alongside my squadron.
- Hawkgirl: You're one of the Blackhawks.
- Chuck Cuidera: Only one still kicking, I'm sorry to say.
- The Flash: What's the problem?
- Chuck Cuidera: During the war and for decades after, we captured a lot of weapons. Real sci-fi stuff. We hid the worst of it on Blackhawk Island. We decommissioned the place over 30 years ago. But this morning, the old security alarm went off. Might be nothing.
- Hawkgirl: Or it might be someone raiding your armory. We'll take a look. Shayera out.
- [ending the call]
- Hawkgirl: Pick a third for the team.
- The Flash: Um...
- Hawkgirl: [seeing him nervously glance at Fire] Oh, yob shiggurath. Hey, Fire.
- Fire: Yes?
- Hawkgirl: We've got a mission. Let's go.