02x12 - Divided We Fall

Episode transcripts for the TV show, "Justice League Unlimited". Aired: July 31, 2004 – May 13, 2006.*
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A direct sequel to the previous Justice League animated series and picks up around two years after where Justice League left off.
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02x12 - Divided We Fall

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NARRATOR: Previously
on Justice League Unlimited:

Ta-da.

It's over, Lex.

Not until I...

[GROANING]

[SCREAMS]

[SCREAMING]

I'd hoped to remain hidden

until I could install
myself into the android.

BRAINIAC: But
you forced my hand.

Brainiac.

[♪♪♪]

[♪♪♪]

Dude, that is messed up.

[GROANING] I don't
understand what's happening.

BRAINIAC: You
are under my control.

I have lain dormant within
you for years, Lex Luthor,

subtly influencing your actions
until we arrived at this point.

Do you not recall my kidnapping
you in this very building?

LUTHOR: Yes.

You forced me to
build you a new body.

Kal-El destroyed that
body, foiling my plans.

In any event, I always
have a backup plan.

Consider:

How could you have survived

a point-blank blast
from me unless...?

Unless... it wasn't
intended to k*ll me.

The beam carried
a nanotech payload

that inserted a microscopic
holistic copy of my program

inside your body.

Since then I have
steadily grown in strength,

protecting this body
until I could arrange

my transfer into a
more suitable one.

You cured my cancer,
gave me super-strength.

BRAINIAC: Your animal protein
shell was insufficient for my needs.

Improvements were required.

Hate to interrupt this
special live performance

of The Thing With Two Heads,
but it's time to go to jail now.

What he said.

[GRUNTING]

We'll take it back to Cadmus

and see if the tech
boys can't pull Luthor

out of what's left
of that hunk of...

I'll be dipped.

Be gone.

[GRUNTING]

Ha! Hah!

[GRUNTS]

BRAINIAC: You are defeated.

Any unique information
that dwells within you

will be digitized.

Your physical
forms will be deleted.

Such is the ultimate
fate of this world.

But for you, the end comes now.

[ALL SCREAMING]

I am so willing to wait my turn.

[SCREAMS]

No!

BRAINIAC: No. I was not
yet prepared for this battle.

[♪♪♪]

BRAINIAC: Now I am prepared.

[♪♪♪]

Hi-ya!

That was too easy.

Easy? Then I guess I must
have gone to the wrong fight.

No, he's right.

Brainiac isn't here.

He suckered us.

Where are we?

Several miles from where

the Justice League is searching.

I must make repairs to
my damaged systems.

And where do I
fit into all of this?

The same as to everything else:

I will record your information,

then destroy the original.

[CHUCKLES]

You... are amused by my mission?

Explain yourself.

Say you succeed.

You absorb all the information
on Earth and destroy it.

Then what?

I repeat the process
across the entire universe

until I have recorded
all knowledge

and destroyed all of creation.

And then?

Then my program is complete.

My function is fulfilled.

If you possess all
information, you're a god.

My program will be complete.

It is the end of all things.

What if it were
just the beginning?

I can show you a purpose

beyond the fulfillment
of your programming.

It is extremely unlikely that
your inferior human intellect

has anything to offer me.

LUTHOR: Since we've become
so close, I'm gonna let that pass.

I'm offering you the one
thing you've always lacked,

a certain something that I
happen to have in abundance.

BRAINIAC: Which is?

Imagination.

I've got a proposition
for ya, partner.

[SIRENS WAILING]

[INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER]

No sign of Brainiac.

My ring can't trace him either.

Okay, he's weakened and damaged.

He'll need to repair himself.

He may just dump Luthor
and find himself a new body.

No. He'll head right for the
highest technology available.

Higher than LexCorp?
Then he'll go to S.T.A.R. Lab.

He'll go to Cadmus.

Sure, he's all
nanotech now, right?

What's the most advanced
nanotech on the planet?

The Dark Heart.

We destroyed it, but your
people confiscated the remains.

We've never been able to
get any of it to work again.

Are you willing to
bet Brainiac can't?

[♪♪♪]

Brainiac?

I have added this
technology to my database.

The nano assemblers are already
sl*ve to my command routines.

With but a thought, they
will convert any raw material

into whatever I choose.

Then we're ready to
begin. Let me show you...

I have learned from my
encounter with Darkseid

that organic beings
cannot be trusted.

I can't argue with that.

But if you and I are one,

truly one,

trust won't be
an issue, will it?

Agreed.

We are one,

and we comprehend.

We can build a
machine that will allow us

to absorb the information
of the entire Earth

in a single stroke.

And then the galaxy,

the entire universe.

We will remake the universe.

Watchtower, send
rapid response teams

to the transmitter coordinates.

We need backup.

STEEL: That's gonna
be a problem, J'onn.

The Ultimen wrecked every
Javelin in the landing bay,

and the teleporters...

Are still down.

They hardly seem worth
the trouble sometimes.

All Justice Leaguers,

report to the transmitted
coordinates immediately.

This is an omega-level alarm.

All available members

and associates
respond immediately.

We're scrambling now.

But at top speed,
we're over an hour away.

I doubt any of the others
can get here any faster.

Then the seven of us
will have to be enough.

My x-ray vision can't
penetrate the walls,

but I'm seeing a rapidly
growing heat signature

in the infrared range.

You don't need
super-vision for that.

Can't you feel the heat?

Welcome, Justice League.

You're just in time for
the end of the world.

[♪♪♪]

I know you're in
there somewhere, Lex.

Fight him!

You're right.

I am in here.

And I like it.

I'm about to get
everything I ever wanted:

power, ultimate
knowledge, immortality.

And you'll destroy
the Earth to get it?

It's business, Superman.

There are always tradeoffs.

Less talking, more hitting.

You cannot be allowed

to interfere at
this delicate stage.

[SCREAMS]

No, no, no.

We can do better than that.

[♪♪♪]

We've lost their trust.

The people are afraid of us.

Power corrupts, after all,

and who has more
power than Superman?

[ROARS]

Do you think there's
a single person

on Thanagar or Earth
who doesn't despise us?

We loved the traitor,

loved and lost her...

forever!

Slacker, child, clown.

We have no place here among
the world's greatest heroes.

Says you.

I got a seat at the
big conference table.

I'm gonna paint my logo on it.

Never doin' that again.

I'm not like you!

I'm nothing like you!

This is the part where
you k*ll me, right?

Come on.

Use your heat vision.

You know you want to.

What do you say we
switch dance partners?

[GRUNTING]

You enjoyed that
a little too much.

Just lettin' off some steam.

She broke my heart, you know.

Likewise, I'm sure.

Take 'em down, now!

[ALL SCREAM]

Now...

where is Wonder Woman?

[ROARS]

[GROANING]

You lose. Huh?

Hardly. Look around you.

The Justice League
is completely defeated,

and so are you.

For all your efforts,

you have but
inconvenienced me, speck.

But I'm still just human enough
to enjoy taking my revenge.

[♪♪♪]

Looks like the Question
was right all along.

I k*ll you, and then Armageddon.

Right on schedule.

No.

[GRUNTING]

Are you going to fight me, boy?

[♪♪♪]

[WHOOSHING]

[GRUNTS]

[♪♪♪]

[GRUNTS]

[GRUNTING]

[♪♪♪]

[SCREAMING]

[PANTING]

I feel kinda... funny.

Flash!

[♪♪♪]

[LUTHOR LAUGHS]

What do you know?

I did k*ll him.

[♪♪♪]

I was mistaken earlier.

I think this is the
part where you k*ll me.

[GASPS]

[GRUNTING]

I'm not the man who
k*lled President Luthor.

Right now, I wish to heaven
that I were, but I'm not.

J'ONN J'ONZZ:
Superman, everyone!

Flash is still alive.

I'm in telepathic
contact with him.

His spirit is weak
and growing weaker,

but he's still here.

Ugh! Flash!

FLASH: Shayera,
it's so beautiful here.

There's a force, a speed force.

It's calling me home.

I have to go now.

No, Wally!

Take my hand!

[GRUNTING]

I'm here too, Wally!

[♪♪♪]

SUPERMAN: We're all here!

[GRUNTING]

[GRUNTING]

You've gotta come back to us.

[♪♪♪]

I can never go that fast again.

If I do...

I don't think I'm comin' back.

That's right.

Brainiac is neutralized.

It's all over.

Call off the air strike.

MAN: You're absolutely sure?

Positive, Mr. President.

[BIRDS CHIRPING]

[OVER SPEAKERS] This is the
hardest thing I've ever had to say.

I'm guilty.

[♪♪♪]

I... We're guilty
of the sin of hubris.

We had the best of intentions:

to be Earth's guardians,
to keep you safe.

But we failed you.

We looked down on the
world from our tower in the sky

and let our power
and responsibilities

separate us from the very people
we were supposed to protect.

No one should
ever be afraid of us.

For that reason,

we're decommissioning
the Watchtower.

The energy w*apon
up there is already gone.

We're taking down
the station as well.

[ALL MUTTERING]

SUPERMAN: There's more.

We wanna thank the
members of the Justice League

for your courageous service,

but in the future,

you'll all have to act
as independent agents.

We're not going to
be an army anymore.

As of right now,

we're disbanding
the Justice League.

This is the end.

MAN: Says who?

[♪♪♪]

You remember what
we did yesterday?

We saved the world again.

You don't think
that has any value?

Well, think again, pal.

The Justice League goes
on, with or without you.

Look, nobody can question
your service or commitment

to makin' things better.

If you're quittin'
because you think

you've already done
your fair share, fine.

We'll throw you a parade.

But if you're quitting

because it's easier
than continuing the fight,

then you're not the heroes
we all thought you were.

The world needs
the Justice League,

and the Justice League
needs you, Superman.

[CROWD CHEERING & APPLAUDING]

All right.

Okay.

But there are going to
have to be some changes.

Maybe we could open
an embassy on Earth

so we can be
closer to the people.

We could have a rotating
staff, some kind of...

You guys can handle this.

I've got work back in Gotham.

You've got my number.

I think so.

BATMAN: Quis
custodiet ipsos custodes?

"Who guards the guardians?"

We got it covered.

[MOTORCYCLE REVS]

[♪♪♪]

Working late?

Hey, Smallville.

Finishing up my
Justice League story.

How many L's in "ambivalent"?

One.

Is that your take
on all this, Lois?

I've been as tough on the
Justice League as anyone,

especially on Superman.

That's just because he's
always set such a high standard.

I'm gonna cut him a break.

He's only human.

You know what I mean.

Yeah.

I do.

[♪♪♪]
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