- Superman: Come on, Bruce, I know a burger place in Metropolis that has the best fries on the east coast. And the milkshakes are so thick...
- [Deadman takes control of Superman's body]
- Superman: I need your help!
- Wonder Woman: That's pretty thick!
- Superman: Is everything okay?
- Wonder Woman: Well, I'm sort of missing Flash's obligatory joke about how Grodd made a monkey out of us.
- Superman: Just couldn't let it go unsaid.
- Wonder Woman: Obligatory!
- Batman: [from the Watchtower] Solivar, this is Batman.
- Solivar: What a coincidence. I was just about to call you.
- [Solivar is shown crouching behind rubble, holding a gun. Sounds of battle]
- Batman: We wanted to give you a heads-up. We have reason to believe Grodd may be coming your way.
- Solivar: You don't say! That would explain the armies of supervillains attacking the city!
- Lex Luthor: Bizarro. Superman is your *best* friend! Do you understand?
- Bizarro: Bizarro understand. Superman am friend! Bizarro must KILL him!
- Lex Luthor: I wasn't going to do this for another few weeks, but seriously...
- [rises from table]
- Lex Luthor: Turning all of humanity into apes?
- [aims a weapon at Grodd]
- Lex Luthor: *THAT* was your master plan?
- [shoots Grodd]
- Lex Luthor: Listen up! From now on, I'm in charge of this operation. Anybody got a problem with that?
- [Deadman takes control of Atomic Skull to shut down Gorilla City's force field]
- Atomic Skull: You'd think the thing would be a big red button or at least have a sign on it or something... the heck with it!
- [smashes the controls]
- Superman: [possessed by Deadman] Gorilla City?
- Wonder Woman: A hidden city of talking, hyper-intelligent gorillas, with technology far beyond anything humans have developed.
- Superman: Come on!
- Wonder Woman: You're a ghost from the Himalayas, having trouble believing this?
- Superman: Point.
- Superman: [Batman flings the gun he held into the wall] Bruce. Deadman took over your body. It wasn't your fault.
- [Batman stalks out]
- Tala: [kneeling before Grodd] I have done as you ask, Lord Grodd.
- Lex Luthor: Get off your knees, woman.
- Tala: Not until my master says so.
- Gorilla Grodd: Excellent work, my dear. You may rise.
- Lex Luthor: [she gets to her feet] You're pathetic. Debasing yourself like that.
- Tala: I owe Grodd everything. I would still be trapped in that mirror if he hadn't freed me.
- Devil Ray: When Giganta gets out of prison, she ain't gonna appreciate you hangin' onto her boyfriend like that.
- Tala: That's her problem. Giganta's not nearly enough woman for Grodd.
- Gorilla Grodd: True.
- Lex Luthor: If you're quite finished demonstrating what an alpha male you are, maybe you'd care to explain what you intend to do with that thing.
- Gorilla Grodd: Already told you, but you won't accept it. You don't believe in magic.
- Lex Luthor: It's not a matter of belief. I'm just unaccustomed to working with something I don't fully understand.
- Gorilla Grodd: As long as the amplifier you built for me works...
- Lex Luthor: It does.
- Gorilla Grodd: Then consider this an exotic power source. You don't need to understand anything more.
- Temple Guard: Humble apologies, but to enter this holy place, the right must be earned.
- [Devil Ray shoots him]
- Devil Ray: Keep the change.
- Wonder Woman: [possessed by Deadman] You killed my teacher. My friend.
- Devil Ray: You'll have to be more specific, lady. I've killed a lot of people.
- Lex Luthor: You can't produce a carrier wave of the amplitude you're talking about with this building's cloaking field generator.
- Gorilla Grodd: So you've convinced me. I don't intend to use our field generator.
- Lex Luthor: You're planning to build one?
- Gorilla Grodd: Luthor, Luthor, Luthor. Why build when we can take what we want?
- Batman: First sign of Luthor since Shayera saw him on Blackhawk Island. What's he up to?
- Wonder Woman: This seems like it might be bigger than Luthor. Agent Faraday told me Devil Ray escaped from prison. And Bizarro showing up again... and all the odd teams of previously unaffiliated villains...
- Batman: Whose brains have conveniently been shorting out when we question them.
- Mr. Terrific: Do you guys remember the one bit of information J'onn was able to pull out of Giganta's mind before it shut down?
- Wonder Woman: Grodd. Think he's put together a new Secret Society?
- Batman: Except this time, he's doing a better job of keeping the secret.
- Wonder Woman: So how do we find them?
- Superman: [possesed by Deadman] I wish I could help. I can feel the psychic screams of the souls they stole. But I can't pinpoint a location. All I get are images of Africa. I know. A continent doesn't much narrow things down, but it's all I can...
- Wonder Woman: Gorilla City. He's gone back home.
- Lex Luthor: Bizarro, you despise me, right?
- Bizarro: Uh-huh. Bizarro hate Luthor. Me do anything for him.
- Lex Luthor: Good. I mean, bad. Anyway, take care of those monks.
- Bizarro: [obediently] Okay.
- Lex Luthor: Since there's only one monkey left around here, I'm assuming that the Justice League found a way to stop the carrier wave.
- Gorilla Grodd: There's more than one way to peel a banana.
- Deadman: Rama Kushna. Just like you to show up too late to help.
- Rama Kushna: Your impertinence is refreshing as always. But have a care. The gods are capricious.
- Deadman: What do you want from me? The master is dead. They're all dead.
- Rama Kushna: Do not presume to lecture me on the nature of reality. The monks have not yet passed from this plane.
- Deadman: They're in some kind of coma?
- Rama Kushna: That is as close to the truth as you are capable of comprehending. You must retrieve the heart of Nanda Parbat, or they will remain in their current state for all time. I have spoken.
- Deadman: [she vanishes] How the heck am I supposed to do that?
- Lex Luthor: Rampage, what's wrong with you?
- Tala: [using her powers] She has been possessed.
- [conjuring two circular bands]
- Tala: Out, undead spirit!
- Rampage: [regaining her bearings as Deadman is forced out of her] What just happened?
- Child Monk: This humble one begs your forgiveness... but no outsider is permitted in the temple of Nanda Parbat.
- Atomic Skull: That's cute, kid. Get out of the way or I'll spank you.
- Child Monk: [catching a thrown punch] This would also not be permitted.
- [dodging another punch, he kicks Atomic Skull into the air and knocks him backward with a hard shoulder thrust]
- Devil Ray: [chuckling] Little Bruce Lee's got your number. Lucky thing you've got us for backup.
- Child Monk: This humble one would not presume to fight you alone.
- [three more children land behind him, ready for action]
- Monk: I know you are here, Boston Brand.
- Deadman: [appearing] What's the point of being a flipping ghost if you can't even sneak up on people? For that matter, what's the point of me being a ghost, period? It's been over a year since I caught the man who murdered me.
- Monk: So, your work here is done. You are ready to pass on to the next level?
- Deadman: I don't know what "ready" means, but I feel like I done my time.
- Monk: And yet, here you are.
- Deadman: "Here you are"? What kind of lousy wisdom is "here you are"?
- Monk: If you seek knowledge, you have but to ask.
- Deadman: I've avenged my own death. Why am I still here?
- Monk: Your destiny is not to avenge your own death. Your destiny is to avenge mine.
- Superman: [possessed by Deadman] I need your help on a mission of vengeance. Now, don't be alarmed, but I'm not Superman. I'm...
- Batman: A ghost, inhabiting his body. Is that you, Boston?
- Superman: Hiya, Bats.
- [to Diana]
- Superman: When I'm working, people call me Deadman.
- Wonder Woman: You know this... ghost?
- Superman: Yeah, Batman helped me solve my own murder a while back. Now I need your help again.
- Wonder Woman: If you hurt Superman, I'll...
- Superman: Relax. He doesn't even know I'm in here.
- Batman: We can't see or hear him otherwise. Once he leaves, Superman will be fine.
- Superman: It's like he says.
- Batman: Why are you still around? I thought once your murder was solved, your exile was ended.
- Superman: You and me both. You know how they say "no good deed goes unpunished"? I guess I shot my mouth off to the wrong deity.
- Superman: [possessed by Deadman] A bunch of supervillains busted into Nanda Parbat and stole a mystic totem filled with the souls of hundreds of monks. And they killed the master.
- Wonder Woman: [Bruce leans over and supports himself on a table] Batman?
- Superman: He knew the master even before I did.
- Batman: He was one of my martial arts teachers.
- Superman: [flexing his biceps] With all the power in this body, it'd be easy to punish the men responsible. If I could find them.
- Batman: That's not the master's way. Or yours. We'll find them, and we'll see that justice is done. Not vengeance.
- Superman: Yeah. Fun to think about, though.
- Gorilla Grodd: Tala, we're ready for the heart.
- Lex Luthor: [as it's installed] Good. Then all I have to do is install this mind-control module, and you'll be able to project your will over the entire world. Present company excepted, of course.
- Gorilla Grodd: Actually, that's just what I wanted you to think. My true plans are far more grand. Tala?
- Lex Luthor: [she conjures another piece] Some sort of genetic reconfiguration matrix?
- Gorilla Grodd: You show impressive intellect for a Homo sapiens. Using the massive carrier wave that, thanks to you, Gorilla City's shield generator can now produce... I'm about to send a signal that will rewrite human DNA. A devolution ray that will turn every man, woman, and child on Earth into an ape!
- Rama Kushna: Boston Brand, your actions have led to the death of another.
- Deadman: I'm sorry. I... I didn't mean to...
- Rama Kushna: Intentions are immaterial. You were gifted with power to be used to balance the scales of karma. Because of your actions, the scale now is unbalanced.
- Deadman: Unbalanced? Thanks to Devil Ray and his team, the master and all the other monks are dead.
- Rama Kushna: Incorrect. When the heart was shattered, the essences of the monks were set free. Even now, their souls return to their rightful places.
- Monk: [Deadman watches as he wakes with the other monks] No one dies in Nanda Parbat. But the scales are unbalanced. Your work in this world is not yet done.