02x10 - Summer School: Chapter Ten

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- [SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]

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[SOMBER STRING MUSIC]

♪ ♪

[DOOR AIR LOCKS WHOOSH OPEN]

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I was wrong to bring you with us.

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Bringing you,

I thought there would be a chance...

That somehow, we could find
a way to save Bruce Gordon...

'Cause we always find a way.

And that's what we do, right?

Instead, I brought you to a m*rder.

♪ ♪

Family isn't born. It's chosen.

You taught me that.

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My th birthday,

got into a fight at school.

Do you remember Hop Harrigan?

Yeah.

He and his buddies b*at me up,

stole my watch.

That was my birthday gift.

It was an engraved watch.

Parents left it on my dresser
for me that morning.

I owned that watch a whole four hours...

and it was gone.

♪ ♪

I was so scared to tell my mom and dad

that I had lost their present...

But I did.

I told 'em.

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You know what?

They had no idea
what I was talking about.

[SOFT UPBEAT MUSIC]

They never gave me a watch.

They even forgot it was my birthday.

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You snuck that gift into my room

'cause you knew they'd forget.

They always did.

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I caught up with Harrigan the next day.

And I got it back...

[BRIGHTENING MUSIC]

'cause it meant the world to me.

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Still does.

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You taught me how to drive, Pat.

You taught me how
to stand up for myself.

You taught me how to think for myself.

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You're more than a friend.

You're my brother.

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And I know, most of the time,
I... don't treat you that way.

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I gotta say,

I have a little too much
of my mom and dad in me still.

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I'm sorry.

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It's okay.

Pat...

when Eclipso was threatening
everyone's families...

Rex's wife, Ted's son...

he threatened my family too.

He threatened you.

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I don't know what's gonna
happen with the JSA...

But I do know that I don't want
this to destroy our family.

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To chosen families.

[SOFT DRAMATIC ORCHESTRAL MUSIC]

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Courtney, we're sorry, okay? I'm sorry.

Pat, you had so many chances
to tell me the truth,

but you kept lying!

- Please, just let me ex...
- A really terrible lie.

It's not that simple.

The JSA k*lled an innocent man.

Tell me which word of that
sentence I'm getting wrong.

It was more complicated
than that, is what I'm saying.

Did you think we'd k*ll Cindy Burman

because she had the diamond?

Like the JSA k*lled Bruce Gordon?

Look, they regretted it instantly.

You mean you did.

This is Eclipso, okay?
He wants to divide us.

No. For once, it's not on Eclipso.

It's on you.

[TENSE MUSIC]

[ELECTRICITY CRACKLES, SHADOW SURGES]

[ALL SHOUT]

[COUGHING]

Oh, God.

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I'll admit... [SIGHS]

It's not my best entrance.

[DRAMATIC ORCHESTRAL MUSIC]

Would you mind very much
if I... if I took a seat?

What's wrong with him? Is he dying?

I thought the Shade was immortal.

- You can't die, right?
- Oh, my dear girl.

I'm afraid there's an exception
to every rule.

Why are you here, Mr. Swift?

[SOFT TENSE MUSIC]

To humbly offer my assistance

in stopping the monster
that has tortured your friends.

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And me.

So I'll tell you how to defeat Eclipso.

Eclipso's not in a host anymore.

He's free.

Yes. I was there.

But he's only free

as long as the black diamond
remains shattered.

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Fuse the diamond back together,

and you will drag that beast
back to his prison.

We put the diamond back together

and we stop Eclipso?

As long as you have no direct
contact with that bloody gem.

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Oh, come on.

This is typical Shade double-talk.

You can't trust this guy, Court.

Hey, Pat, he just saved me
from Icicle...

- or, Eclipso.
- No.

"Humbly offering my services", my ass.

This guy's trying to manipulate us,

just the way he did Starman, right?

Stripesy, we have known each
other for a very long time.

If my advice to your former partner

led to the JSA crossing some noble line,

I only told the truth then...

[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]

As I do now.

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Okay, so,

if Benedict Cumberbatch here is correct,

how the heck are we supposed to
put the diamond back together?

With the power of light, you silly boy.

[HOPEFUL MUSIC]

With the Staff.

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The Staff still isn't strong enough.

What now?

[INTRIGUING MUSIC]

I got an idea.

[BIRDS SINGING]

[QUIRKY UPBEAT MUSIC]

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You're staring at me.

We're concerned, Beth.

I'm fine.

Could you take those off, please?

Oh, I need to keep them on.

They help me see what's real.

[SCOFFS SLIGHTLY]

They... help you see what's real?

What are you talking about, Beth?

What's not real?

It's hard to explain.

Try, honey.

No.

You guys didn't feel like
talking about the divorce.

Well, I'm not ready to talk about this.

Besides, it's much safer
if you don't know.

So that's what this is about?
The divorce?

Doesn't make me feel great.

It sucks, to be honest.

But that's not what this is.

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Oh, my gosh.

Okay. Got it.

Maybe I should take you down
to the hospital.

Yeah. I'll come along. Yeah.

Why don't you guys figure out

what you're doing with your lives?

Divorce, no divorce, whatever it is.

And let me know when you do.

- Beth?
- Where are you going?

[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]

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You both have told me
to make friends for years

because you're so busy with work,

because you don't have time
for me anymore.

So I did.

And right now, they need me.

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If anything besides the Staff

can fuse the diamond back together,

it'll be Jennie's ring.

Thanks.

But she didn't leave us
any way to find her.

Oh, I got a lead,
and it'll be a quick trip.

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I don't know if Courtney or
Mike will ever trust us again.

Well, I mean, we'll just have
to earn their trust back.

How?

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Don't feel bad. You tried your best.

Listen, Court.

The diamond, it does weird things,

even without Eclipso in it.

Turned into leeches.

We'll make sure Jennie doesn't touch it.

Yeah. Where is she, anyway?

- Pat won't tell me.
- Why not?

Because he knows
I'd go find her without him.

[SIGHS]

Eclipso is taking his revenge
on the JSA out on us.

Yeah, Court, but what
if he comes back here?

And you and dad leave us alone
with the Shade.

[DOORBELL CHIMES]

Not alone.

Hi. I'm here to protect you.

[QUIRKY MUSIC]

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And in other news today,

the Cakes by Aaron bakery
issued an apology

after it mistakenly delivered
a wedding cake...

[LAUGHING] To a funeral!

The bakery hoped the funeral
party would forgive the error,

as well as the bride and groom
who, as part of the mix-up...

♪ I'm sorry ♪

[OLDIES MUSIC PLAYING ON RADIO]

♪ So sorry ♪

♪ That I was ♪

♪ Such a... ♪

[RADIO BUTTON CLICKS]

- Court, I'm sorry. I...
- Why did you lie to me?

Thought you were better off
not knowing what happened.

How could you think m*rder was okay?

I didn't, and I don't. There was a vote.

- So they voted to do it?
- Some of 'em did, yeah.

Dr. McNider had lost his daughter.

Eclipso had threatened
everyone's family.

They were scared

and they thought that
they were out of options.

They thought that people
that they loved were gonna die.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

What did you do?

It's what I didn't do.
I didn't stop 'em.

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I mean... do you understand
how much damage you've done

by keeping the truth from us?

Yolanda would have known that she wasn't

the first member of the JSA
to take a life and regret it.

She might have quit anyway.
You all could have.

Maybe, but we were flying blind.

We didn't have the full story.

You're right, and I'm sorry.

I just didn't want the way
you saw the JSA to change.

[TENSE MUSIC]

I didn't want the way
you saw me to change.

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Well, it has.

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- [INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER]
- _

[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]

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[SOFT THUD ECHOES]

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[APPLES THUMPING]

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[HOPEFUL MUSIC]

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[CHUCKLES SOFTLY]

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[CHUCKLES SOFTLY]

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The Shade, here?

Eclipso, free?

The JSA...

[WHISPERING] k*lling someone?

[EXHALES]

I'm sorry, Beth.

Did Dr. Mid-Nite help do it?

I made a vow never to take a life.

Dr. McNider?

Hello?

Hello?

[SOFT DOWNBEAT MUSIC]

♪ ♪

[QUIRKY MUSIC]

♪ ♪

Hey, keep an eye
on the bad guy on the couch.

I'll be back... with reinforcements.

Don't do anything stupid.

[GROWLING SOFTLY]

When are you going to tell me
where we're going?

When we get there.

Okay, holding out on me doesn't help.

Don't make things worse
than they already are.

Don't shut me out.

[SOMBER MUSIC]

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[CLEARS THROAT]

Check that out.

- [TENSE MUSIC]
- _

- It had to be an accident.
- Yeah, maybe.

There was another fire
earlier this week...

a green one.

b*rned down an abandoned orphanage.

Why would Jennie do that?

I don't know.

But she's in Civic City.

Pat, it's a big city.

Yeah.

There's only one place I'd go.

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[EXCITING MUSIC]

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_

[KEYBOARD KEYS TAPPING]

[INTRIGUING MUSIC]

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- Hello?
- Dr. McNider? Is that you?

[WIND HOWLING]

The connection just got much stronger.

Where are you?

[WHISPERING] At my friend's house.

- The Shade is here.
- The Shade?

- He said he's here to help,
- _

but I know he tried to k*ll you
the night the JSA d*ed.

k*ll me?

No, Beth. He saved me.

- The Shade was a member of the ISA.
- _

He helped k*ll the Justice Society.

The Shade may have toyed

with playing the role of supervillain

for his amusement,

but I don't think he ever
wanted any part in k*lling us.

I suspect he may have been
trying to pull me to safety.

But I was lost in his shadows,

dragged into the Shadowlands.

How did the Shade get his powers?

- In the s,
- _

the Shade was nothing more
than a con man and a thief.

He was hired to procure
a black diamond...

but instead, had a forgery made.

It was for a cabal
called the Men of Tears.

They had heard a story

about a lost island, a black diamond,

and a ritual

to summon a powerful god

from a shadow world beyond.

[GROUP CHANTING]

They wanted to trap that god

so that they might use it
to destroy their enemies.

This dark ritual called for a sacrifice,

so instead of paying the Shade
what he was due,

the cabal kidnapped him

and decided he was to be that sacrifice.

[TERRIFYING MUSICAL STING]

[SCREAMING]

But the diamond
he provided them was a fake,

and Eclipso was already
trapped in the real one.

The ritual was botched,

but it opened a doorway

to the dark power of the Shadowlands,

a power the fake couldn't contain.

The dark energy needed a vessel.

The Shade became the vessel.

[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]

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I have some questions.

[WEAKLY] Hello, Emily.

It's Barbara.

Who's Emily?

My dear sister, I'm so sorry.

♪ ♪

I didn't help you when father fell ill.

Instead, I left you all alone...

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To watch him die...

While I lied...

And cheated my way into oblivion.

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I had unspeakable power.

And while you were by my side,
my dear sissy...

I tried not to abuse it.

But then...

time took you from me...

And I lost my way.

I'll help you however I can from here.

We have to bring you back.

I'm not sure that's possible.

If the Shade put you in the Shadowlands,

maybe there's a way
he can help get you home.

Can you open the files on Eclipso?

There might be something there
that could help.

Of course.

_

Whoa.

That's a lot of reading.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

♪ ♪

[MECHANICAL CLANKING]

♪ ♪

[ELECTRICITY THUMPS AND WHIRS]

♪ ♪

I haven't been here in ten years.

This was a workspace for me and Starman.

Each of the members had one.

This was ours.

[WARM MUSIC]

♪ ♪

[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]

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Let's go. Meeting room's upstairs.

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- Pat.
- Yeah?

Look.

I think you were right.
Jennie's been staying here.

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The Helix Institute
for Youth Rehabilitation?

Somebody named Todd Rice was sent there.

His name's on all of these.

I think that's Jennie's brother.

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- [TOOLS WHIRRING AND CLANKING]
- _

[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]

♪ ♪

- [ELECTRICITY ZAPS]
- Hey.

- [POWER DYING]
- Damn it.

I thought robots would
be a lot more like LEGOs.

I guess not.

♪ ♪

[INTRIGUING MUSIC]

[MECHANICAL WHIRRING]

[POWER HUMMING, ENGINE REVVING]

[STATIC CRACKLING ON RADIO]

♪ ♪

Are you seeing what's going
on in the sky right now?

Wherever you are,
whatever you are doing,

stop right now.

Look out your window at the craziness

that is happening in the sky right now.

There is a cloudless thunderstorm

arcing pink lightning
across the sky right now!

- No way.
- Yes, you heard that right.

[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]

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- What is this place?
- I don't know.

You sure?

I never know what you're not telling me.

According to Jennie's notes,

it's called the Helix Institute
for Youth Rehabilitation.

Rehabilitation from what?

[OMINOUS MUSIC]

[PLAYING FLOWING PIANO MUSIC]

♪ ♪

And what is your relationship
with Mr. Rice?

Oh, well, we're friends...

of his sister's.

You know, her name's actually right here

on your sign-in sheet.

Jennie-Lynn Hayden.

- Yes. Well, she is here.
- Oh.

But I'm afraid her brother is not.

Huh.

Right this way, please,
if you'll follow me.

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_

Jennie?

Courtney? Pat?

I'll give you some time to
collect your brother's things.

Thank you.

What are you doing here?

We need your help.

We read about the fires.

Are you okay?

So what happened?

Todd's adoption files were sealed, so...

I broke into the federal building,

trying to find them.

When I couldn't, I got frustrated,

angry...

sad.

You know what my power does
when that happens.

[SOFT TENSE MUSIC]

It either doesn't work, or...

[WHISPERING] It works too well.

I forgot everything you taught me.

[ENERGY RUMBLING SOFTLY]

I'm sorry.

[TENSE MUSIC]

I don't know what to do.

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Okay.

♪ ♪

Jennie, hey.

It's okay, all right?
Just try and be calm.

You're not alone in this.

[MUSIC BRIGHTENING]

♪ ♪

[SIGHS]

♪ ♪

[MUSIC FADES]

Now, what's happened to your brother?

[SOMBER MUSIC]

He was arrested for shoplifting

a few months ago,

but ended up here.

Then he vanished last week.

He's out there somewhere,
and I know he needs my help.

I can feel it.

He has this picture.

The same one I do.

Maybe he's looking for me too.

Maybe that's why he got into trouble.

I'm sorry about the fires.

I really am, but...

he's my family.

You'd do anything
to protect your family.

You just do.

♪ ♪

[TENSE MUSIC]

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- [PHONE LINE TRILLING]
- _

- Hello?
- Mr. Bones?

- Speaking.
- This is Nurse Love.

Did you know that Todd Rice
has a sister?

No, I didn't.

I thought you might find
that interesting.

No. I don't think they'll be back.

[UNINTELLIGIBLE RESPONSE]

I told them Todd wasn't here.

♪ ♪

Yes.

Yes, of course.

♪ ♪

Come on! You gotta check this out!

[INTRIGUING MUSIC]

♪ ♪

[PEOPLE CHATTERING INDISTINCTLY]

What is that?

I think it's a gumdrop.

♪ ♪

Spit that out, please.

Did they put this outside for Christmas?

[INDISTINCT CHATTER CONTINUES]

[QUIRKY MUSIC]

♪ ♪

Thunderbolt.

[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]

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A monster in a diamond?

How is any of this even possible?

Eclipso doesn't follow
the rules of our world.

What else is out there?

What else did the JSA fight?

Are there ghosts?

There is, in fact. A gentleman ghost.

Hey, we need to focus
on the diamond right now.

Will this help Yolanda and Rick?

♪ ♪

Imprisoning Eclipso will
at least be a start.

I'm sorry I left.

Hey, you're here now.

Yeah.

And you can stop this.

♪ ♪

[SOFT OMINOUS MUSIC]

♪ ♪

[GOGGLES CHIMING]

♪ ♪

Okay. Give it a sh*t, Jennie.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

♪ ♪

[ENERGY THRUMMING]

[EXCITING MUSIC]

♪ ♪

[INDISTINCT VOICE SHOUTING]

[TENSE MUSIC]

♪ ♪

[GASPS] Oh, no.

♪ ♪

Ms. Whitmore? Ms. Whitmore.

- We have to get them to stop.
- What do you mean?

♪ ♪

You did it!

[ENERGY HUMMING LOUDLY]

The Shade lied.

Restoring the diamond
reconnects our world

to the Shadowlands.

Indeed, it does.

Allowing me to access my powers again...

and to heal.

Splendid.

[SOFT TENSE MUSIC]

Oh, Barbara.

I'm so, so sorry...

to deceive you.

♪ ♪

Putting the diamond back together...

it won't trap Eclipso.

It will summon him.

[LIGHT SWITCHES BANGING]

[OMINOUS WHIRRING]

[TENSE MUSIC]

♪ ♪

[GROWLS SOFTLY]

♪ ♪

[METAL SCRAPES]

[GRUNTS]

Pat!

♪ ♪

[SNARLS]

To the shadows with you.

[ENERGY RINGING]

Pat!

[ENERGY CONTINUES RINGING]

Courtney!

[INTENSE MUSIC]

- Court!
- No!

[SCREAM ECHOING]

[PANTING]

Court. Courtney.

No.

No.

[PANTING]