- Hawkman: [to Clark] Dr. Fate says you're a big deal. I don't see it.
- Dr. Fate: Clark Kent is not like the others. His path is righteous.
- Stargirl: If Dr. Fate says he's okay, that means he's okay, right?
- Clark Kent: Why have you been watching us?
- Stargirl: Sylvester wanted to bring together a new Justice Society - One with the surviving members and us new kids.
- Hawkman: It wouldn't have worked, Courtney. People never learn. This generation will make the same mistakes the last one did like the one before that. Obvious by how you've skipped your homework, you don't even know who we are.
- Clark Kent: You don't who we are either. But none of us here are the bad guys.
- [an arrow is shot into the JSA's framed picture, Oliver enters the Brownstone]
- Oliver Queen: You sure about that, Clark? The winged warrior here threw me through a window.
- Hawkman: I hope I didn't make you cry.
- Oliver Queen: Drop the mace, Conan.
- Hawkman: I will... on your head.
- Oliver Queen: Bring it, Big Bird. Just for the record, you started it.
- Hawkman: I'll finish it.
- [They fight]
- Stargirl: Hawkman, no!
- John Jones: [Enters] I hope it's not too late to say, "we come in peace."
- Oliver Queen: God, I hate waiting.
- Hawkman: But you love talking. Shut up.
- Oliver Queen: Why did they have to team us up together?
- Hawkman: I asked them to so I can keep you in line.
- Oliver Queen: What are you? My chaperon?
- Hawkman: Think of me as your parole officer but with a mace.
- Carter Hall: You're not like the others, are you, Clark? Kids who are in it for the thrills or because they have a chip on their shoulder. You don't do this for glory or vengeance.
- Clark Kent: I guess not.
- Carter Hall: Your team is better than I thought, too. Even I have to admit, Green Arrow has pretty good aim.
- Clark Kent: We're not a team. Not like yours.
- Carter Hall: Why? Because of you?
- Clark Kent: They're the best friends that I have, Carter, but I don't know if we'll ever be what the J.S.A. was.
- Carter Hall: You have to trust them.
- Clark Kent: I do.
- Carter Hall: 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?
- Carter Hall: All we want is justice.
- Oliver Queen: Justice? Well, everything we've heard about you guys is a little blurry when it comes to justice.
- Courtney Whitmore: You mean what you've *read*.
- Oliver Queen: Do you know who you're working with here? These old men have criminal records longer than that staff of yours.
- Courtney Whitmore: They made those up.
- Carter Hall: It's none of their business.
- John Jones: With all due respect, we're making it our business. Even when I had the power to leave Earth, I chose not to. For one reason - Hope. Hope for the future. Humanity's capacity for violence is great, but their capacity for hope is greater than any other I've ever encountered.
- Oliver Queen: You know, you really got to work on your landings.
- Hawkman: It would have been a lot smoother if you hadn't thrown up.
- Oliver Queen: Send me your dry-cleaning bill.
- Hawkman: Send me your dinner bill.
- Oliver Queen: I, uh, I thought I'd stop and see if anyone's hungry.
- John Jones: I could use some dinner. Chloe?
- Chloe Sullivan: Uh, sure. You're buying Mr. Queen.
- John Jones: Don't look at me. I'm living off a policeman's salary.
- Oliver Queen: Ah, fine. Dessert's on you.
- John Jones: On Mars, we never had dessert, but I have grown especially fond of cookies.
- Oliver Queen: 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* e-mail? Chloe, I'll have you know that those messages between me and Canary were purely platonic.
- Chloe Sullivan: Can we skip your virtual love life and actually focus on the job here?
- Oliver Queen: Gladly.
- Chloe Sullivan: The real question is, are you okay? 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.
- Carter Hall: You have the capacity to break the chains that are holding you down, Clark. And when you do, what Doctor Fate envisioned will come to pass. You will soar higher than any one of us.
- John Jones: I appreciate the assist.
- Dr. Fate: I'm interested in you. You are not a human, but you are forced to be.
- John Jones: I used to have special abilities like Clark.
- Dr. Fate: But you sacrificed them to save Clark Kent. You see what I see in Clark Kent but without the aid of the helmet of Nabu. Its magic reveals the fates of people around me. I look into the window of the future and witness might be. But, eventually, it became too much. I saw too much. Before your people were destroyed, did you have a wife, John?
- John Jones: And a daughter.
- Dr. Fate: You miss your family as do I.
- Lois Lane: I was looking for Carter Hall.
- Dr. Fate: He's not here.
- Lois Lane: Apparently, he was part of a group of masked mystery men that were railroaded out of business. I'm guessing you were one of them.
- 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.
- Lois Lane: [he shuts the door in her face] I wonder if he does horoscopes.
- Courtney Whitmore: Carter, please. There's over a dozen members of the Justice Society still out there. Jay, Ted, Alan. If we didn't team up and stop the Icicle, he'll go after them next.
- Clark Kent: It's obvious you still care about this team. If you didn't, you wouldn't have kept watch over all of this.
- Carter Hall: This is a temporary alliance.
- Clark Kent: Do you have any idea where we can find Icicle?
- Chloe Sullivan: [enters the Brownstone] I've got one or two. Unless this is costumes only.
- Carter Hall: Who's this, your secretary?
- John Jones: Our eyes and ears.
- Lois Lane: It's not every day 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. Uh, I quote, uh, "savior" slash "sentient power".
- Clark Kent: Do you believe in fate, Lois?
- Lois Lane: Only the kind you make happen.
- Clark Kent: [finding a 16mm film in the Daily Planet archives] They were systematically caught and taken down.
- Chloe Sullivan: For what?
- Clark Kent: The crimes don't match who they are.
- Chloe Sullivan: They were called con men for a reason, Clark.
- [spotting Sylvester]
- Chloe Sullivan: That's Sylvester Pemberton.
- Clark Kent: He was accused of embezzling from his own company.
- [spotting Wesley]
- Clark Kent: That's Wesley Dodds, international business. He had no prior criminal record, until he was arrested at a student demonstration that turned violent. A young woman was killed.
- Chloe Sullivan: Who's that?
- Clark Kent: [matching a name to the face] Al Pratt. Physics professor at Calvin College. Arrested for assaulting police officers when they went after Dodds.
- Chloe Sullivan: [watching Ted Grant's arrest] Wait a minute, I know that guy. That's Ted Grant. He's a heavyweight champion, but... how is he involved with these guys?
- Clark Kent: Jay Garrick, a research scientist. He's charged with fraud and resisting arrest.
- Chloe Sullivan: Alan Scott. The CEO of a broadcasting company?
- Clark Kent: Arrested for aiding and abetting. Chloe, they have no connections besides their arrests. They don't even sound like criminals.
- Chloe Sullivan: And I got to say that Abigail Hunkel doesn't exactly strike fear in this hero's heart.
- Clark Kent: Talking about these 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 another, and in the end, none of the convictions held up.
- Chloe Sullivan: Almost sounds like you admire them.
- Clark Kent: I admire their loyalty.
- Chloe Sullivan: Well, I'll stay here and finish downloading the 411 on the mystery men the old-fasioned way. You need to go and warn Carter Hall. He's the next name on Pemberton's call list. He called him over a dozen times in the last two days.
- [the film ends]
- Chloe Sullivan: What kind of a team was this?
- Oliver Queen: Ten to one says pigeon man's got Clark locked up in a birdcage somewhere. I don't know who the hell these people are, but they sure don't like us. Ow.
- Chloe Sullivan: I thought you said it didn't hurt.
- Oliver Queen: I lied.
- Chloe Sullivan: You know, you're lucky he didn't drop you from ten stories up.
- Oliver Queen: I don't feel lucky. As much as I hate to admit it, these people know what they're doing.
- Carter Hall: It's been a long while since I've made someone bleed.
- [picks up his mace]
- Carter Hall: Time to go hunting.
- Dr. Fate: Your fate is utterly binding. You are of value, Clark Kent. But you, you walk the same path I do, Chloe Sullivan.
- Clark Kent: Who are you?
- Dr. Fate: Let me show you, my friend.
- Oliver Queen: Frosty's kid 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.
- Oliver Queen: We're telling jokes now?
- Dr. Fate: The hope for tomorrow that your alien friend spoke of - you are that hope. I have seen it.
- Clark Kent: Because you see the future?
- Dr. Fate: I see everyone's fate but my own. Sometimes that scares me. But when I see the future of someone such as yourself, I believe in tomorrow again.
- 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 than ours, Clark. A silver age of heroism that will start when they look up into the sky at you with hope for tomorrow. You will have everyone to embrace it.
- Lois Lane: Careful, Lois. This is the part where the doomed girl runs into the guy with the hockey mask.
- Sylvester Pemperton: You're the one they call Watchtower.
- Chloe Sullivan: Watchtower?
- Sylvester Pemperton: Technology today makes hiding a whole lot harder, Miss Sullivan. When someone like you reaches out and plugs into so many outlets, someone else is bound to pull out one of those cords and follow it back to the source. You're lucky a friend did it first.
- Chloe Sullivan: Friends? Friends don't sneak up on each other in a dark alley.
- Green Arrow: Red, white, and blue. Loud and proud to be an American. Nice.
- Stargirl: Well, at least I'm proud of something other than myself.
- Green Arrow: What's that supposed to mean?
- Stargirl: I know what kind of hero you are, Green Arrow.
- Green Arrow: Is the masked cheerleader really talking down to me?
- John Jones: We're too late. He's already been here.
- Dr. Fate: It is not your fate to die this day, Martian.
- [he restores John's abilities]
- Chloe Sullivan: If it isn't my favorite Martian. Looks like you're enjoying the return of your powers.
- John Jones: At a cost. Dr. Fate's final act was to restore my Martian abilities instead of saving his own life.
- Chloe Sullivan: What happens with the helmet now?
- John Jones: According to Hawkman, someone worthy will be drawn to it. They'll become the next Dr. Fate.
- Chloe Sullivan: What's next for you?
- John Jones: My time as a detective has allowed me to protect humans on a very personal and individual level. I've enjoyed that. So I will be able to protect and serve, using every tool I've got.
- Chloe Sullivan: Me too.
- John Jones: Dr. Fate was inundated with a constant flow of visions and information, but there is a limit to how much knowledge someone can have. It drove him to the edge of sanity, and he fell off. I don't need my telepathy to know you run that risk yourself.
- Chloe Sullivan: The golden helmet possessed by ancient spirits and the Watchtower are two entirely different things. I can handle it.
- John Jones: [holds Chloe's hand] I only say because I care. You and Clark, Oliver. You're my family here.
- Kent Nelson: Please, Nabu, don't whisper too loudly. Don't show me what can be or not be. Fate is a fickle thing.
- Icicle: Let me go back out there after the Justice Society, Agent Waller. I can finish what I started... what - what Checkmate started. I can still take down the JSA single-handedly.
- Amanda Waller: You knocked on their door. You got them back into the game, back into the public eye. That's mission accomplished, Icicle. That's all I needed you to do.
- Icicle: What?
- Amanda Waller: You don't have the talent to take a team like that out. There's an army of heroes growing. This generation and the last are coming together, and I'm gonna 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.
- [Pulls out gun]
- Amanda Waller: Welcome to the Suicide Squad.
- [Shoots him]
- Clark Kent: This is Clark. Please leave a message, and I'll get back to you as soon as I can.
- Chloe Sullivan: Clark, this is Chloe with message number one-too-many.
- Clark Kent: Chloe, are you okay?
- Chloe Sullivan: Yeah. Just some moderate frostbite and a little sleep deprivation. Nothing a cup of hot cocoa and a nap won't fix.
- Chloe Sullivan: You got my message.
- Oliver Queen: I got all ten of 'em, Chloe. 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: [sarcastic] Is that what we're lacking?
- 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.
- Clark Kent: [seeing Tess snooping in Lois' desk] Should I even bother asking? You can either hand those to me or I can take them from you.
- Tess Mercer: Well, it sounds like fun. But given our last few encounters, I should probably stay out of the sandbox.
- [Clark takes the file and opens it]
- Tess Mercer: Suspicious much? Maybe you two really are perfect for each other.
- Clark Kent: You were smarter when you were leaving.
- Tess Mercer: I always thought it would be hard for you, you know, being boyfriend/girlfriend with someone so nosy. Maybe you're not the only one with a secret.
- Clark Kent: What do you know about this?
- Tess Mercer: Not much. Just that your girlfriend is in way over her head.
- Lois Lane: Clark Kent. And to think I was actually looking forward to breakfast with the Daily Planet's mild-mannered no-show.
- Lois Lane: Front page, Clark.
- Clark Kent: Hey, congratulations.
- Lois Lane: It's hard to believe that a group of underdogs can be swept under the rug like that.
- Clark Kent: Well, at least thanks to you, the world now knows who these heroes are. Hopefully, we'll be seeing more of them.
- Lois Lane: You know, the byline could have read "Lois Lane and Clark Kent."
- Clark Kent: Next time.
- Oliver Queen: You know, it's not what happened to you that destroyed this team, is it? It's what happened to her. Right? Hawkgirl? Who was she? Your partner?
- Carter Hall: My wife.
- Oliver Queen: You were married?
- Carter Hall: Hard to believe? What would someone like me know about love? Well, I only know it ends. And it always ends. In every one of my lives, past and present.
- Oliver Queen: Past lives?
- Carter Hall: Shiera and I were born over a thousand years ago. We were cursed by one of our enemies. Destined to fall in love, only to watch each other die, lifetime after lifetime. Well, the sooner this life is over... the sooner I see my wife again.
- Oliver Queen: I've never had a connection like that. At least not one that lasted.
- Carter Hall: Because you hide it.
- Oliver Queen: Hide what?
- Carter Hall: You don't want anyone to know how important they are to you, so you act like a jackass.
- Oliver Queen: I do know what it's like to feel like the only thing left to do with your life is throw it away. But you didn't, did you? You stuck around for Doctor Fate.
- Carter Hall: He needed my help.
- Oliver Queen: He did. He needed your help, and now there's a young girl out there and she's counting on you. The rest of your team is out there. So why don't you take the death wish... and shelf it?
- [offering Carter his mace]
- Oliver Queen: Thing's heavier than it looks.
- Carter Hall: You get used to it.
- Amanda Waller: Those are classified.
- Lois Lane: I was wondering how they got here.
- Amanda Waller: They were left for you, Ms. Lane.
- Lois Lane: Who are you?
- Amanda Waller: If I'm going to give you a front-page story, does it matter?
- Lois Lane: Okay, then. Why me?
- Amanda Waller: I've read your work. You pull more skeletons out of closets than 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: [offering a cell phone, which Lois tentatively takes] I'll be in touch.
- Courtney Whitmore: Part of me wishes Hawkman would find Icicle first. He'd do what I wouldn't. I know it's wrong.
- Clark Kent: It is wrong, Courtney.
- Courtney Whitmore: Sylvester said that. The JSA has always done the right thing. And... in the end, when everything got turned upside down... Hawkman began crossing the line so many times that the line disappeared altogether.
- Clark Kent: Then it's up to you to make it right. You're the next generation.
- Courtney Whitmore: Sylvester said that, too. You're a lot like him.
- Clark Kent: When this is over... don't let the torch that he kept burning, the one that he literally passed on to you, go out. Keep his legacy alive, and you keep him alive.
- Clark Kent: Late night? I heard you were working on some kind of murder case.
- Lois Lane: Cases. Plural. And I've got my hands on a case full of classified intel. Like, double super-classified.
- Clark Kent: Mind if I take a look?
- Lois Lane: Usually, we're a great team, but you already decided to go it solo today, so I just followed suit.
- Clark Kent: I'm sorry that I was out, Lois, but maybe I can assist you. We could be like Woodward and Bernstein. Clark and Lois.
- Lois Lane: Lois and Clark.
- Clark Kent: If it's so double super-classified, how did you get on the case, Lois?
- Lois Lane: I was handpicked by an anonymous source.
- Lois Lane: The two people that were murdered had criminal records. But it's all fabricated. Clark, they were vigilantes like the Blur. Part of an underground group of honest to goodness spandex-sporting superheroes. I met one of them; he was wearing a gold-plated helmet and a cape. Which actually looked pretty good.
- Clark Kent: And that's all you know?
- Lois Lane: No. Their leader, a man named Carter Hall, almost killed one of their enemies. Someone named the Icicle. He had a son. And here's the weird thing. He was plucked from juvie by someone very high up. Sealed records. Now, I'm not supposed to know this... but there were other bad guys that these underground heroes fought, and every single one of them was released from prison secretly. They and their records, MIA.
- Clark Kent: Someone's collecting them.
- Chloe Sullivan: How did you get involved with the Justice Society?
- Courtney Whitmore: Well... my, um, stepfather Pat was Sylvester Pemperton's sidekick years ago. The Star-Spangled Kid and Stripesy.
- Chloe Sullivan: Stripesy?
- Courtney Whitmore: [snickering] It was, like, the worst code name ever. I found Sylvester's old equipment, and... well, at first I put it on, you know, just to annoy Pat. But... I don't know. The first time I ever saved someone...
- Chloe Sullivan: You were hooked.
- Courtney Whitmore: Yeah. Line and sinker.
- Chloe Sullivan: Yeah. So you're not actually related to any of them?
- Courtney Whitmore: 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?
- Carter Hall: The Justice Society of America was cleaning up the streets before you were in diapers. We tried our best to stay out of the public eye, but... a government task force got wind of our... extracurricular activities. They wanted us to work for them. They wanted us to unmask.
- John Jones: And you said no.
- Carter Hall: We refused to play ball, so they went after us hard. One by one, they uncovered our identities. They had us arrested... and institutionalized. They forced us out of the skies and off the streets.
- Dr. Fate: We were ripped away from our families while trying to protect them.
- Oliver Queen: Then why didn't you fight back?
- Dr. Fate: We did.
- Carter Hall: For as long as we could. As I could. I wasn't the leader they thought I was. I made too many mistakes.
- Clark Kent: I've made mistakes, but I haven't quit.
- Carter Hall: Haven't quit? You haven't started. Not as a team, anyway.
- Clark Kent: You're making this too personal.
- Carter Hall: That is our strength. Not our weakness.
- Chloe Sullivan: [witnessing Clark's interaction with Courtney] What was that drama about?
- Clark Kent: She obviously has a problem with reporters. She's friends with Sylvester Pemberton.
- Chloe Sullivan: Pemberton knew about Watchtower. He wore some kind of weird uniform, he had a weapon that could control light. He was killed by ice. From someone or something. I'm getting some serious Wall of Weird flashbacks here, Clark. Look, I know that you have a lot of things pressing right now, but this is a job for Clark Kent.
- [handing him her phone, with which she cloned Pemberton's]
- Chloe Sullivan: His final phone call lasted thirty minutes. It was with a guy named Wesley Dodds. You need to go check it out.
- Clark Kent: I've been meaning to call.
- Chloe Sullivan: Clark, it's okay. No apology is needed. Protecting the streets of Metropolis and chasing down Lois Lane is more than enough to juggle. Add to that you're now leading the secret city of Kandor.
- Clark Kent: I'm only helping them find their place here. They're trying to make Earth their home. Like John Jones did when he got a job in the police department and became a detective.
- Chloe Sullivan: So, what, you're expecting the Kandorians to just become firemen and short-order cooks?
- Clark Kent: They need to make their own lives, and then move on from there.
- Chloe Sullivan: Is it just me or did it get really cold really fast?
- [he picks her up and throws her into a nearby dumpster]
- Chloe Sullivan: Ugh. Hey!
- Sylvester Pemperton: [shutting the lid] Stay down, Ms. Sullivan.
- Chloe Sullivan: Our victim's name is Sylvester Pemberton, and he had a long criminal record. Fraud, embezzlement, and assault. He didn't have any family, but he did have a friend show up at the hospital.
- [playing the hospital surveillance feed and running facial recognition]
- Chloe Sullivan: Courtney Whitmore. She's a sophomore at Blue Valley High, and, uh, she gets a big old D+ for her attendance. She hasn't been to school in the last three weeks.
- Oliver Queen: You don't think blondie's our killer, do you?
- Chloe Sullivan: No, but I do think she knows something. I want to take a closer look at this glowing staff the police have in evidence. We need to get it.
- Oliver Queen: "We" meaning "me", right?
- Icicle: You dreamt about me, didn't you, Mr. Dodds? But that's what you do. You dream about killers. It's time for the Sandman to finally have a good night's sleep.
- Clark Kent: Are you all right?
- Courtney Whitmore: My friend was murdered.
- Clark Kent: I'm sorry.
- Courtney Whitmore: [crying] I don't know what to do. I don't know what I'm supposed to do.
- Clark Kent: Do you wanna sit down?
- Courtney Whitmore: [noticing his Daily Planet ID badge] What is wrong with you people?
- Clark Kent: Us people?
- Courtney Whitmore: The press. Haven't you vultures done enough to Sylvester?
- Clark Kent: I wasn't looking for a quote. I...
- Courtney Whitmore: Just stay the hell away from me.
- Clark Kent: Didn't think we'd have to dig this deep.
- Chloe Sullivan: Well, I couldn't find anything online beyond Sylvester Pemberton's rap sheet.
- Clark Kent: [opening a file] Maybe they didn't want anyone else finding it.
- Chloe Sullivan: They? They who?
- Clark Kent: Sylvester Pemberton worked with twelve other known criminals, including Wesley Dodds.
- Chloe Sullivan: He mentioned bringing a team back together.
- Clark Kent: Back together? That means at some point they broke apart.