04x02 - Mother Mayhem

[bunniefuu]

["SOMEBODY'S WATCHING ME" PLAYING]

[TOYS WHIRRING]

[VIDEO GAME CHIMING]

[MAN IN GAME EXCLAIMING]

Second star!

♪ I'm just an average man ♪

♪ With an average life ♪

♪ I work from nine to five ♪

[WOMAN] Everybody, I'm home!

♪ All I want is to be left alone... ♪

[WOMAN] Oh, hey. Don't forget we're
going out with your folks tonight.

Oh, sh*t. [SIGHS]

Where are we going?

Well, it's your mom's birthday.

- Damn it.
- So I assume

she's expecting Magnolia.

- [SCOFFS] Magnolia?
- Mm-hm.

It's Friday. We'll never
get in there now.

[WOMAN SIGHS]

[VIDEO GAME BEEPING]

- [INDISTINCT DISTORTED VOICE]
- [GLITCHING]

- [GRUNTING]
- [DEVICE CONTINUES GLITCHING]

[ELECTRICITY CRACKLES]

[SQUELCHING]

[SIGHS] You do realize
you're a terrible son.

I know I'm the worst. [LAUGHING]

[SQUELCHING]

What's going on?

What the hell?

[SQUELCHING CONTINUES]

[DEEP GROWLING]

Anthony...

[SNARLING]

[WOMAN SCREAMS]

[GROWLS]

[WOMAN SCREAMING]

Mom?

[WOMAN GROANING]

[STAIRS CREAKING SOFTLY]

[OBJECTS CLINKING AND CLANGING]

[SNARLS AND GROWLS]

[GIRL PANTING]

- [HEAVY BREATHING]
- [LOCK CLICKS]

[FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING]

[DOORKNOB RATTLING]

[LOW GROWL]

- [SCREAMING]
- [ROARING]

[THEME MUSIC PLAYING]

[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

[OFFICER] You have
the right to remain silent.

Anything you say can and will be
used against you in a court of law.

You have the right to an attorney.

If you cannot afford an attorney,
one will be appointed for you.

[OFFICER ] There he is. Move it.

- [g*ns COCKING]
- Hands behind your head.

Get down on your knees.

[REPORTER] The sudden
death of Alexander Luthor

continues to shock the world

as Superboy is detained in
connection with Luthor's death.

[OFFICER ] Let's go.

[REPORTER] An official statement
from LexCorp does indeed confirm

that Superboy is and I quote,

"a genetic aberration",

a weaponized combination of Superman

and the late Lex Luthor's
genetic material.

[DEVICE BEEPS]

- [GROANS]
- [ENERGY PULSATING]

[REPORTER] Developed as a w*apon,

and with great regret, it seems
he has become just that.

In this journalist's opinion,
I see a rush to judgement

against a young man that
wears a symbol of justice.

Let me hope that in Metropolis,

once the facts are known,
he can still receive it.

Oh, sh*t.

Uh, d*ck?

[MAN] You know what,
I'm glad he k*lled Lex Luthor.

Did the world a favor.

[WOMAN] I heard he's some
sort of medical experiment...

[MULTIPLE VOICES OVERLAPPING]

I can hear them.

People outside, what
they're saying about me.

[CHAINS RATTLING]

I didn't k*ll him, d*ck.

It happened the way I said it did.

I know.

We're gonna get you out of here, Conner.

And find the people who did this.

[INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER]

I've never seen anything like that.

I didn't know that
kind of power existed.

He was terrified.

No one should die like that.

Not even Lex Luthor.

How are they treating you in here?

[CONNER CHUCKLES]
Besides the Kryptonite?

Like I'm a m*rder*r.

Like I'm the w*apon I was created to be.

[SCOFFS]

Lex was right.

All it takes is one mistake,

and you're the villain.

[KORY] You didn't make a mistake.

You didn't do anything wrong.

And PD is just holding you here
until they figure out what happened.

This isn't over.

d*ck...

- I...
- [INTERCOM BUZZES]

[WOMAN OVER PA]
Mr. Grayson, Miss Anders,

time is up.

We need to question it.

His name is Conner.

[SIGHS] This is bullshit.

You don't have to answer anything.

[CHUCKLES] Yeah...

I do.

It's okay.

I was born in a tube.

I'm used to being kept in a cage.

- [SIGHS]
- [INTERCOM BUZZES]

[WOMAN] Mr. Grayson, we need...

Yeah, I heard you the first time!

[KORY] Okay. All right.

Let's go.

[d*ck] You know, part of me
wants to tell Conner

to just break out of this f*cking place.

[KORY] Hey, cool off.

Conner's doing what he
needs to. Now it's our turn.

We need to find the person
that k*lled Lex Luthor.

And I'm gonna stay on Conner,
make sure he knows he's not alone.

- [PHONE BEEPS]
- I gotta show you something.

[KORY] What?

You sneaking pics of me, Grayson?

I wish.

Lex Luthor.

When Conner got arrested,

I did a brute-force hack
on his personal computer.

I found some of these and an address.

Why was he watching me?

I don't know. Wanna find out?

I'm bringing Rachel to Lex's penthouse.

See what she can find.

- Good magic versus bad magic?
- [d*ck SCOFFS]

Bruce never thought
there was any difference.

Based on what Conner saw,
I'm starting to understand why.

[SIGHS]

- [PHONE BEEPS]
- Address sent.

Okay.

Kory, be careful.

- It could...
- Be a trap. What's new?

[TIM] Hear the one sound
in the noise, they say.

All right.

[SIGHS]

Okay. [EXHALES]

Just... just hear the one
sound in the noise, Tim.

[TWIGS SNAPPING]

Oh, Jesus!

[HEAVY BREATHING]

[SOFTLY] Come on.

[LOW GROWLING]

- [GAR ROARS]
- Oh! Jesus!

- [CACKLING]
- [GASPING] I thought...

You were behind me, man.

- I know.
- Oh, my...

Should've seen your face.

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

When you're tracking someone,
don't lock into what you heard.

- [EXHALES]
- Keep your senses open.

Everything in the environment
has a message.

[GAR LAUGHS]

I would appreciate
if you didn't tell d*ck

I almost pissed myself.

- Done. [CHUCKLES]
- [EXHALES]

- Oh, Jesus.
- [VOICES ECHOING]

[GAR] Did you hear that?

What?

[FEMALE VOICE] Gar...

- Wait here.
- Gar?

Gar? Hey, wait!

[FEMALE VOICE] Give up.

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

[VOICES ECHOING]

Gar!

Gar!

[VOICES ECHOING]

[LOW GROWL]

[VOICES ECHOING]

[LOW GROWLING]

[ROARING]

[CRACKLING]

[AUTOMATED VOICE] Access denied.

[MAN] Come on.

Incorrect password. Access denied.

[GROANS]

[MAN] Come on. Come on, come on!

- [KORY] For an evil lair...
- [GASPS]

that's a pretty weak lock.

I bet you're wondering why I'm here.

And what I know.

I know this is one
of Lex's little tree houses.

I know...

[GRUNTS]

... that my friend Conner has
been accused of murdering him.

And that's bullshit.

- And I know Luthor has been researching me.
- [CHOKING]

Since you're here, I'm going
to assume you know why.

My name is Nelson Blake.

[GROANS]

I didn't ask you that.

And I'm done asking any questions.

Speak.

It wasn't just Luthor.

[SHAKILY] The whole LexCorp
inner circle d*ed last night,

choking on their own blood.

I'm the only one who's still alive.

[GRUNTS] I came here
looking for answers.

I don't know why Luthor
was researching you.

Maybe... maybe he thought
you could help him.

Help him with what?

Nelson...

[CHOKING]

There is absolutely nothing
LexCorp can do to you later

that I won't do to you right now.

[GRUNTING]

Help him with what?

Okay. [GASPS] Luthor's
illness changed him.

He withdrew.

None of us had any personal
contact with him for over a year.

[HEAVY BREATHING] It was rumored
he got caught up in the occult.

Surrounded himself
with a bunch of advisers.

He stopped fighting the disease
and started fighting death itself.

[SIGHS]

What kind of advisers?

Doctors. Healers.

Some archaeologist woman.

[MUFFLED SCREAMING]

[PEOPLE CHANTING INDISTINCTLY]

- Nelson?
- Do you hear that?

Hear what?

It... it sounds like chanting.

[GAGS]

[NELSON CHOKING]

Nelson?

[GROANS]

Help me. Please!

[GROANING]

[CHOKING]

[HISSING]

Gross.

All right, let's go.
We've gotta be quick.

They cleaned the crime scene.

Whatever happened here,
they wanna hide it.

They can't hide it from me.

Yeah, Conner was right.

Someone used magic.

How do you know?

Because all magic leaves a trace.

In the physical world, things pass.

But beyond the veil, things remain...

like echoes.

So, I should be able to get
a sense of whoever did this.

This is where Alexander d*ed.

[PULSATING]

[FAINT SCREAMING]

[d*ck, MUFFLED] Rachel...

- Rachel!
- [GASPS]

What did you see?

I don't know who did it, but
I've seen where they've been.

Come on.

Gar.

- Gar?
- [GASPS] I heard voices in my head.

[BIRDS CAWING]

Did you see anything?

No...

You ran off, and then I found you here.

[GAR BREATHING SHAKILY]

What did the voices say?

I...

Not sure.

[CELL PHONE VIBRATING]

d*ck wants us to meet him and Rachel.

Gar?

Yeah.

[SEBASTIAN] Mom, what're you doing?

Come on. You're supposed
to stay off that leg

- a couple more weeks they told.
- Okay. Sebastian. Okay!

- [SIGHING] Oh.
- Okay.

[EXHALES DEEPLY]

Oh. So, how is Julie?

You never bring her by. I like her.

- Mom...
- She's good for you.

Julie's busy, Mom.

She sends her love though.

Well, a good man deserves
a good woman by his side.

- Yeah?
- [TV PLAYING]

I want to be a great man, Mom.

[COUGHING]

Oh. [SNIFFS]

[COUGHS, SNIFFLES]

[WOMAN ON TV] I find that its
crumbly texture really holds up in...

Yes, I said that Miss Miller
is in the audience

looking very pretty in a red hat.

- MAN : I see it.
- MAN : Oh, there she is, yeah.

I didn't tell you, Mom. I've
got a big meeting coming up.

- Oh?
- About my interactive experience.

I'm close to finding the funding.

I think they really understand
what I'm trying to do.

Anyway, if it works out...

There's nothing my Sabby can't do
when he puts his mind to it. Hm?

- [LAUGHS]
- [CHUCKLES] Mom...

Oh. Already seen this one.

Yeah, but it's a good one.

[MAN ON TV] ... you got
my number, Miss Miller.

Thanks, Mom.

- This is what I saw.
- In your vision?

That address, this house.

Stay close. We don't know
what we're gonna find.

[TIM] She has visions?

She didn't tell me she had visions.

["MR. SANDMAN" PLAYING]

♪ I'm so alone... ♪

[DOOR OPENS]

♪ Don't have nobody to call my own ♪

♪ Please turn on your magic beam ♪

♪ Mr. Sandman bring me a dream ♪

[DOOR CLOSES]

♪ Mr. Sandman bring me a dream ♪

♪ Make him the cutest
that I've ever seen ♪

♪ Give him the word
that I'm not a rover ♪

♪ Then tell him that his
lonesome nights are over... ♪

[CHANDELIER CLINKING SOFTLY]

♪ I'm so alone ♪

♪ Don't have nobody to call my own ♪

♪ Please turn on your magic beam ♪

[d*ck] Rachel.

What do you sense?

[FAINT ECHOES OF SCREAMING]

Loss.

- ♪ Mr. Sandman ♪
- ♪ Yes? ♪

♪ Bring us a dream ♪

♪ Give him a pair of eyes ♪

♪ With a come-hither gleam give him... ♪

[MUSIC STOPS]

d*ck.

Oh.

Oh, Jesus! [BREATHES SHAKILY]

Go watch the front door.

- Hey. You heard him, buddy.
- Mm-hm.

They got it from here. Come on.

[SOFT RATTLING]

[RACHEL] You heard that?

[THUDDING]

[GIRL SHRIEKS]

[DOOR CREAKING]

Rachel!

I think she's in shock.
She might be seizing.

[WHIMPERING]

Hey.

No, she's in a nightmare.
He left her this way.

[GASPING]

I'm calling the paramedics.

[WHIMPERING]

No! No, no, no, wait. I can help her.

Trust me.

All right.

[INDISTINCT CHANTING]

[GIRL WHIMPERING]

[GIRL SCREAMS]

[WIND BLOWING]

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

It's okay. It's okay.

My name is Raven. What's yours?

Aria.

Hi, Aria.

Mommy and Dad?

I know. Hey, everything
is gonna be all right.

I'm gonna get you out of here.

[OBJECTS CLATTERING]

It's him.

[METAL BUCKET CLANGS]

[GULPING]

Bone-faced man.

[SHUSHING SOFTLY]

Okay. I won't let him hurt you.

- Okay?
- [METAL CLINKING]

[MAN MUMBLING]

[DISTORTED VOICE]

Just... stand up.

[SHUSHING]

[WHISPERING] You're okay.

Shh.

[ARIA SCREAMS]

[SCREAMING]

Who are you?

[ROARING]

[CONTINUES SCREAMING]

d*ck, what's happening?

[SCREAMING]

[PANTING]

Show me you face. [STRAINING]

[ROARING]

[CHOKING]

Rachel!

[RACHEL GRUNTS]

[SCREAMING]

- [GASPING]
- Raven! [PANTING]

Wrap your hands around me!

[GASPS]

Hey, hey, hey.

Hey.

Hey. You're okay?

I saw him in the nightmare.

The man that k*lled Luthor.

I didn't see his face.

He's not far, but I don't know
where he's hiding.

That sound, I never heard
anything like that.

I have. It's the sound of dying animals.

You're safe. You're safe.

[WHISPERING] You're safe.

[CONNER] Luthor had files on you?

[KORY] Yeah.

I preferred a world where
Lex Luthor and I weren't a thing.

Something violating about
knowing he was watching me.

If you wanted a window into his mind,

I could give you one.

He mentioned me?

No, but part of me knows how he thinks.

He is my father.

Lay it on me.

Lex was dying.

Dying men are careful with their time.

Sounds like he invested
a lot of time into you, Kory.

Lex Luthor would never invest anything

without expecting a return.

That doesn't make me feel any better.

I didn't want it to. Whatever this is...

whatever he was doing, he believed
that you were connected to it.

If I were you, I'd spend a lot
of time thinking about how.

You can take the Luthor hat off now.

You're not him.

You have two fathers. Never forget that.

Two fathers...

one creator... made in his image.

I can hear everything that
people here say about me.

They will never let me forget what I am.

d*ck and Rachel are going to find
out who is responsible for this.

[SCOFFS]

Look me in the eye and tell me that will

make a difference to the people outside.

You don't owe them a f*cking thing.

[INTERCOM BUZZES]

[WOMAN ON PA] Miss Anders.

- Visitation time is up.
- [SIGHS]

[KORY] I'll stay if you want me to.

They'll have to drag me out of here,
and we both know what'll happen.

No, it's okay.

Better play by the rules.

See where that gets you.

Kory.

Maybe you didn't find Lex's secret.

Maybe you found him searching for yours.

[SEBASTIAN] I think you'll
find the retention rate

will exceed expectation.

And as the game continues, it
gets progressively more difficult.

Think Tetris, but on a
infinitely larger scale.

With your fiscal support, of course.

[SIGHS]

[CHUCKLES SOFTLY]

Hm.

Uh... [EXHALES]

The world is... is a brutal place.

It's... [CHUCKLES]

It's cruel. Yeah.

People all... all smashed up...

against each other,
millions of miles apart.

We don't share anything.

We're all so alone.

Mr. Sanger, forgive me, but...

It looks like you're just moving
shapes around the screen.

I think I speak for my
colleagues when I say,

I'm not certain where
this is competitive.

Well, it's not. I mean
not directly competitive.

[SIGHS]

The goal is...

The goal is not to foster
competition amongst gamers,

it's to build community.

Mr. Sanger, your presentation
was well told.

And we love how passionate
you are about your idea.

Yeah. Mm-hm.

But I'm going to change the world.

I just need your help.

I'm certain you are. It's just...
not a great fit for us at this time.

We're in a competitive
market, Mr. Sanger.

You have passion but
we need more than that.

Mr. Sanger.

Okay.

Maybe he went to change the world.

[ALL LAUGHING]

Sushi for lunch?

[DOOR SLAMS]

[METAL RINGS]

Slaughterhouse.

Dying animals.

He's here, somewhere... close.

Did the knives and the
blood bowl give it away?

Starfire and I run point.
Rachel, keep sharp.

[CHAINS CLINKING]

Collecting their blood.

[RACHEL] Come out, come out,
wherever you are.

Where are you?

[GROWLS]

It's Aria's father.

[COUGHS]

He's alive.

- Help me get him down.
- [STARFIRE] Oh, gosh.

[GRUNTS]

- This guy's alive too. Tim, give me a hand.
- Got it.

Can you hear me? Hey.

We got you, buddy.

I know you're here.

Come out.

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

[DISTORTED VOICE]

- [RACHEL PANTING]
- [SNARLING]

[SCREAMS]

Get f*cked.

Rachel.

Who are you?

[GRUNTS]

[MAN SCREAMING]

Rachel?

- Rachel.
- [GASPS]

- It's okay. It's okay, it's me.
- He did that to himself.

I didn't do that to him.
He did it to himself.

It's done now. That's all that matters.

No more nightmares.

[VOICES ECHOING]

What's wrong?

[VOICES CONTINUE ECHOING]

[ECHOING STOPS]

Um...

For a second, I felt...

something or someone.

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

It's gone now.

When the cops are done with this place,

they should burn it
to the f*cking ground.

[SIZZLING]

[MAN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY ON TV]

Mom?

Mom. I didn't...

- [MAN ON TV] And you have one child, right?
- [WOMAN] One child.

- [MAN] And you live in San Diego?
- [WOMAN] Right.

[TV PLAYING INDISTINCTLY]

[WOMAN] You are the son, yes?

[SIGHS] We tried to reach you.
She passed this morning.

I'm so sorry.

Take all the time you need here.

Again, I'm so sorry, Mr. Sanger.

[SIGHS]

[SEBASTIAN SCREAMING]

[SCREAMING]

[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

[KNOCKS AT DOOR]

Hey.

Doctors say your father will be okay.

Just needs a little bit more time.

My mom...

Nobody will tell me
what happened to her.

But I saw her.

I know what happened.

I lost both my parents
when I was about your age.

What I remember
is how cold everything felt.

No matter what I did to get warm...

I couldn't.

And then a very strong man
wrapped his jacket around me.

This jacket.

He told me... that time
would make things better.

And it did. Here.

[SNIFFLES]

[EXHALES]

The girl that found me... Rachel.

She used magic like the nightmare man?

No, Aria, nothing like him.

You see there's good magic
and bad magic.

The good magic always wins.

And keep the jacket.

[SIGHS]

[REPORTER] Conner Kent,
also known as Superboy,

has been exonerated
from any responsibility

in the death of Alexander Luthor Jr.

While Mr. Kent was in custody
for a crime he did not commit,

LexCorp has evaded all inquiry

into the circumstances
around Luthor's death.

A death that was an apparent homicide

still without official definition.

[d*ck] We know who k*lled Lex Luthor.

Everyone knows you're innocent now.

Arthur Homewood, Lex Luthor's
personal physician.

He promised him a lot more
than just a cure.

He trusted a madman.

Whatever power Luthor was buying,

looks like Dr. Homewood
wanted to keep it for himself.

I knew what people said about Lex.

What he did to me.

I just...

I never thought he was capable of this.

[SCOFFS]

You're not him, Conner.

No matter how much he wanted you to be.

[SIGHS]

I never want to come back
to Metropolis again.

[UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING]

[RACHEL] No, he's got two.

It's your turn.

- [GAR] Okay. Can I use this now?
- [RACHEL] Yes.

- Let's go.
- What do you think is the better play here?

[GRUNTS]

- It's just a seven.
- [LAUGHS]

- [RACHEL] Choose color.
- [GAR] Yellow.

[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

You okay?

Deathstroke and evil
Jason were one thing,

but what was in that slaughterhouse...

No more stops until
we get to San Francisco.

We leave all that behind us.

And when all that sh*t
stops getting to you,

that's when you know you got a problem.

Is that when one starts
dressing like a bat?

[TIM LAUGHS] Come on.

I'll quit then.

We're not alone.

[TIRES SCREECHING]

Why is it never easy to leave this town?

[ELECTRICITY CRACKLING]

[CARS ALARM BLARING]

This is just a hunch, but I'm
gonna assume she's a bad guy.

- She k*lled Lex.
- Are you certain?

It's not over till we stop her.

- Then let's finish this.
- Suit up.

Conner, wait!

[YELLS]

[GROANING]

[GRUNTS]

- Check on Rachel.
- I got it.

Rachel?

[WEAPONS CLANGING]

[GRUNTS]

[GROWLS]

[GRUNTS]

[GROANS]

[YELLS]

[GRUNTS]

[PANTING]

[GROANING]

[GROANS SOFTLY]

[TIM] Beast Boy!

[KORY GROANS]

Breathe.

- Just breathe.
- [GASPS]

What happened?

You saved our ass.

Saved us from whom?

- Rachel.
- Nightwing!

- Rachel.
- What did she do to her?

No.

[SIRENS WAILING]

[THUMPS]

Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos!

[ALL CHANTING]

Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos!

Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos.

Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos!

Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos.

Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos!
Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos!

Azarath, Metrion...

["LONELY FRIDAY NIGHT" PLAYING]

♪ I have nobody ♪

♪ To kiss and hold me tight ♪

♪ I need somebody ♪

♪ Then things should be all right... ♪

[SONG FADING]

[PEOPLE CHANTING]

Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos!

[THEME MUSIC PLAYING]