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[yells]

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[Lynn] You have to stop.

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I can't keep letting you
put yourself or me
through this.

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I promise, no more.

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[Jefferson] It has been
nine years since I've even come
close to using my powers.

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[Gambi] Do you remember
why you became
Black Lightning?

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You wanted to give
the people hope.

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[Anissa] Look, somebody
has to do something,
because all of this policing

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and marching and praying,
it hasn't changed anything.

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[grunting]

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[Jefferson]
It is time that people know
that Black Lightning...

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is back.

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[narrator] Previously
on Black Lightning...

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[Jefferson] Lynn and!
are making room

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for a possibility
of a reconciliation.

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All you guys want me to do
is go to school, run track,

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and "set a good example
for the other girls."

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When did that become
a bad thing?

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Don't think just 'cause
I'm a little stoned

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that means
you're gonna get some.

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[Lala] I think
your girl should start
putting in some work

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over at the Seahorse Motel.

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-l'm not afraid
of The One Hundred.
-Bitch, you should be!

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Jeff, where are you going?

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To get our girls.

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Bring them home.

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[Will screaming]

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There's no doubt
that Black Lightning
is back.

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-But the question
is why? Why now?
-[Jefferson groaning]

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If Brother Lightning is back
because he's committed
to helping the people,

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-then I'm all for it.
-[continues groaning]

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But if he's back
just for some
personal vendetta,

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I can't condone that.

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Giving the people of Freeland
false hope

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-is selfish, and it's cruel.
-[groaning]

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-The people of Freeland
have been victimized.
-[electricity crackling]

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I believe he is the answer
to our prayers...

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[continues indistinctly]

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[electricity
continues crackling]

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[continues groaning]

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[panting]

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-[electricity crackling]
-[groaning]

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flhud]

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[Jefferson continues groaning]

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Oh, Jeff.

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[breathing heavily]

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I got you. Okay?

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-[grunting]
-I got you.

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[breathing heavily]

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Black Lightning is getting
too old for these streets.

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[both chuckle]

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You're not lying about that.

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You remember
when we were young...

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when I first saw
your superpowers,
I thought you were so cool.

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[both laughing]

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That my man was a superhero.

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[sighs and chuckles]

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Not many girls could say that.

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Then the reality hit.

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And what I thought was cool...
almost destroyed us.

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[sighs]

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When I see you like this, I...

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I feel really selfish.

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[stammers] Hold on.

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I did this.

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[stammers] No, I know.
I feel like a hypocrite.

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I told you to go get the girls.
I put you back out there...

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Lynn, Black Lightning
is not back.

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The girls are safe. I'm done.

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I love you, Lynn.

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I miss you.

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I miss you, too.

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I, um...

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-I should go.
-Uh, wait. Wait.

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[Jefferson groans]

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I think it's important for you
to be here for the girls.

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So I will sleep on the couch,
you take the bed.

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Okay.

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Good night.

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Good night.

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Now they running up in schools,
taking girls?

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What they gonna do next?
Start taking girls
out of church?

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If there '5 a war
for the streets,
a war for the city,

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The One Hundred is winning.

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[Jefferson]
You know, I heard someone say

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that if there's a war
for the streets of Freeland,

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The One Hundred are winning.

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But here at Garfield,
we are not fighting
for the streets.

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No, we are fighting
for the minds, the hopes
and the dreams of our children.

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Them some real pretty words,
Mr. Pierce.

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But pretty words
ain't gonna stop
The One Hundred.

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[crowd agreeing]

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Dr. King said, "The arc
of the moral universe is long,

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-but it bends toward justice."
And I believe--
-[crowd agreeing]

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And they shot Dr. King
in the head, Mr. Pierce!

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[crowd agreeing]

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Well, The One Hundred
got my little girl.

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And the police say
they can't do anything

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because supposedly,
there ain't no evidence

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she's bein' held
against her will.

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-[woman] That's messed up, man.
-LaWanda. LaWanda White?

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Yeah, it's me, Mr. Pierce.

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It's good to see you, LaWanda.

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First, I'm sorry to hear
about your daughter.
I really am.

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Well, maybe now
since the Seahorse Motel
is shut down,

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you can take that time
to reconnect.

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The Seahorse ain't shut down.

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They opened back up
for business the day after
all this mess went down.

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And they gonna stay open
as long as they got
those girls in there.

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-[crowd agreeing]
-ls that true?

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I'm sorry, I didn't know.

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Clearly. But, Mr. Pierce,
what I wanna know is,

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why Black Lightning
rescued your girls
and nobody else's?

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[crowd agreeing]

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I don't know, LaWanda.

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When I was a student here,
you used to like to use quotes
to teach us.

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Well, I got one.

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"Unless all of us are free,
none of us will be free."

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[crowd agreeing]

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Somebody knows
who this bootleg
Black Lightning is.

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I want you to raise
the protection amount 50%
on every church and business,

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every crap game,
massage parlor.

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Even rib shack.
Squeeze these darkies
till they crack.

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Damn, boss.
You really do hate
black people.

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No, I love black people.

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I hate incompetent,
thick-Iipped,

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scratch-where-it-don't-itch
Negroes like you.

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[groaning]

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Y'all keep us acting
like newly-freed slaves.

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[Lala] Boss,
I got a plan for that.

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[grunts]

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Perception and fear, Lala.

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If the people of Freeland
start to perceive

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we are no longer in control,
then they won't fear us.

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Maybe they'll start to think
that this fool

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pretending to be
Black Lightning
will actually protect them.

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And I surely can't have that.

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[Jefferson] Hmm.

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Yeah, I remember I'd have
to tell you to let go
of each other and get to class.

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You were always
holding hands.

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Darnell was
the love of my life.

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When he was killed,
all they did was give us
a folded flag,

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thanked us for his service,
and shot some guns
over his casket.

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He deserved more.

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Yeah, he did.

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After that,
our lives just fell apart.

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Shaquandalyn loved her daddy
more than anything
in this world.

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I did everything I could
to try to keep her safe,

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but she just got caught up
in looking for her daddy
in all the wrong men.

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[sniffling]

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What can I do to help?

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You can go in there
and get her.

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Take her out of there.

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-[stutters]
I can't do that.
-Yes, you can.

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You just won't.

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Man, everybody knows
Mr. Pierce can do
whatever he wants in Freeland.

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We used to call you
Black Jesus, thought you could
walk on water.

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-Yeah, look, LaWanda--
-No.

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No, it's okay, Mr. Pierce.

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Everybody say they praying
for me, but ain't nobody
willing to fight for me.

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You got your own girls
to worry about, to fight for.

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Well, I got to find a way
to fight for mine.

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[Jefferson]
But in less than 48 hours,
Henderson?

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Aw, come on, man.
You guys have to do
better than that.

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It's a crime scene, Jefferson.

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Once we're through
cleaning it up,
there's nothing else we can do.

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No, no, no.
My girls were kidnapped.
Kidnapped!

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Lala's responsible,
you know this.
They gave you the statement.

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Your girls say he was there.
He says he wasn't.

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And he has 15 people
who will swear
he was at a party

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when all of this
was taking place.

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Okay, well, you can at least
bring him in for pimping
these girls out.

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I mean, he at
the Seahorse right now,
being forced to turn tricks.

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-Don't you think
we tried that, Jefferson?
-[sighs]

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You arrest these guys,
the girls say they weren't
forced to do anything.

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You arrest the girls,
they get out and run
right back to these guys.

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It's not only their bodies
that are slaves to these fools,
it's their minds.

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Okay, what about that kid
who came into school?

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Can you get him
to flip on Lala?

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Yeah, maybe,
if we can find him.

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Wait, what?

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-What do you mean
"if you can find him"?
-[sighs]

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Now you telling me he just
got up and walked away
from a two-story fall?

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How did you hear about that?

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[stutters]
My girls. My girls told me.

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While they were transporting
him to the hospital,
he jumped out the ambulance,

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all hyped up on painkillers
and adrenaline.

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He ran like a jackrabbit.
My boys couldn't catch him.

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You're telling me
the two men responsible
for kidnapping my girls

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-are still out there somewhere?
-Not for long.

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No, my girls
are witnesses, Henderson.

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Now, you know
what that means
on the streets.

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I do. I got a patrol car
sitting outside your house.

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The key is, we find Will,
then we get Lala.

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I promise.

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[clicks tongue] Okay.

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Okay.

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-[Khalil] We're all worried
about you. You good?
-[chuckles] Yeah, I'm good.

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Look, it's like Fort Knox
atschooL

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There's security everywhere.

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[sighs] When you coming back?

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I don't really know.

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-Hey, there.
-Hey.

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Look, I really
want to see you.
Can I come by after?

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Uh, maybe tomorrow.

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[chuckles] It's a little bit
crazy right now.

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All right.

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[footsteps approaching]

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Y'all want to buy some candy?

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Yo, I gotta go.

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Yo, what you got, little man?

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Lala says hi!

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[screaming and gasping]
Oh, my...

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[officer speaking indistinctly]

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Are you okay?

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Are you hurt?

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-[engine revving]
-[kids cheering]

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[hip-hop song playing]

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Mr. Pierce, you came
to watch the ghetto
Cirque du Soleil, huh?

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I hired the 12 O 'Clock Boys
to get the kids
a little entertainment.

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Man, you better stay away
from my family.

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-Or what?
-"Or what?"

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You lucky it was just
a water gun.

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All right, look here,
we had a deal.

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You stay away from the school
and my girls.

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Things changed.

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Your daughters been
running their mouths
to the police.

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Look, Mr. Pierce,
I'm trying to be nice

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'cause you was cool with me
when I went to your school,

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but they better keep my name
out of their mouths.

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Matter of fact, if I was you,

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I'd send your daughters
on a long vacation
before I do.

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[grunting]

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-[chuckles]
-[guns cocking]

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[electricity crackling]

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[grunts]

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[sighs]

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[continues grunting]

240
00:13:23,678 --> 00:13:26,294
Don't mistake my patience
for weakness, boy.

241
00:13:28,391 --> 00:13:29,130
llBoyll?

242
00:13:29,350 --> 00:13:30,886
[cackles]

243
00:13:31,269 --> 00:13:33,476
Hey, man,
it's been a long minute
since I've been a boy, man.

244
00:13:33,688 --> 00:13:36,054
Hey, man, fire the bikes
back up, man.
You know what it is.

245
00:13:36,441 --> 00:13:38,227
[bikes starting]

246
00:13:48,369 --> 00:13:50,030
They went to my house!

247
00:13:50,246 --> 00:13:52,453
I get it, I understand.

248
00:13:53,541 --> 00:13:55,031
But if they had killed you,

249
00:13:55,960 --> 00:13:57,700
then where is the hope
for this city?

250
00:13:57,920 --> 00:14:02,789
Gambi, I'm not trying to save
the city. I'm trying
to protect my family.

251
00:14:03,009 --> 00:14:07,423
Okay, so get back in the suit,
and let's take these guys down.

252
00:14:07,638 --> 00:14:10,630
Jeff, I can access
any database,
including Freeland PD.

253
00:14:10,850 --> 00:14:13,057
Let's just see
what information they have.

254
00:14:13,311 --> 00:14:16,428
If we help them find Will,
he'll tell them all he knows
about Lala.

255
00:14:16,647 --> 00:14:19,389
Then Lala is arrested,
and he'll flip on whoever
his boss is,

256
00:14:19,609 --> 00:14:22,021
and we can get closer
to the source of all of this.

257
00:14:24,238 --> 00:14:25,273
"The source"?

258
00:14:28,576 --> 00:14:29,816
Gambi, you're not hearing me.

259
00:14:30,078 --> 00:14:33,616
After I take down Lala,
I'm done.

260
00:14:36,209 --> 00:14:37,369
[kissing]

261
00:14:37,585 --> 00:14:38,995
[Anissa] Damn, I needed that.

262
00:14:39,962 --> 00:14:41,168
Mmm.

263
00:14:43,758 --> 00:14:44,622
[moans]

264
00:14:44,926 --> 00:14:46,291
[chuckles]

265
00:14:46,803 --> 00:14:47,918
[sighs]

266
00:14:50,681 --> 00:14:54,139
Hey, what's up? You okay?

267
00:14:54,977 --> 00:14:55,807
I'm fine.

268
00:14:56,771 --> 00:14:57,806
Oh, believe me, I know.

269
00:14:58,022 --> 00:15:01,059
You so fine,
you bring sight
to the blind, girl.

270
00:15:01,275 --> 00:15:03,231
[both chuckling]

271
00:15:03,444 --> 00:15:05,685
-That was so corny.
-Whatever.

272
00:15:05,905 --> 00:15:07,611
You sound like an old man
at the club.

273
00:15:07,824 --> 00:15:09,940
"Hey, girl, you so fine,

274
00:15:10,159 --> 00:15:13,572
-you bring sight
to the blind, girl."
-I did not sound like that.

275
00:15:13,788 --> 00:15:15,278
[both laughing]

276
00:15:15,498 --> 00:15:18,205
-Yes, you did.
-[sighs]

277
00:15:20,336 --> 00:15:21,746
You sure you okay?

278
00:15:22,088 --> 00:15:25,580
I should be asking you that.
All that you've been through.

279
00:15:27,927 --> 00:15:29,212
Now is not a good time.

280
00:15:30,930 --> 00:15:33,091
It's never a good time.

281
00:15:33,558 --> 00:15:34,638
Tell me.

282
00:15:35,726 --> 00:15:36,556
[sighs]

283
00:15:37,645 --> 00:15:40,387
-Our sex is mind-blowing,
you know that.
-Mmm.

284
00:15:40,731 --> 00:15:42,392
But I need more, Anissa.

285
00:15:44,026 --> 00:15:45,857
I feel like
I'm just a distraction
for you.

286
00:15:46,070 --> 00:15:48,561
We've been dating a year
and you haven't met my parents,

287
00:15:48,823 --> 00:15:49,983
you don't know
any of my friends.

288
00:15:50,199 --> 00:15:52,781
I mean, babe,
you know I'm busy,

289
00:15:53,453 --> 00:15:57,412
between school and teaching,
and trying to help organize
the community--

290
00:15:57,623 --> 00:15:59,830
I'm not asking you
to give up any of that.

291
00:16:00,042 --> 00:16:01,623
Well, that's what
it sounds like.

292
00:16:02,211 --> 00:16:03,200
Look, I'm sorry.

293
00:16:03,880 --> 00:16:06,872
Like I said,
now's not a good time,

294
00:16:07,300 --> 00:16:10,667
and you've been through
a lot. So, sorry.

295
00:16:11,804 --> 00:16:12,839
It's okay.

296
00:16:14,891 --> 00:16:16,722
[both sigh]

297
00:16:18,352 --> 00:16:20,013
How are you coping
with all this?

298
00:16:24,484 --> 00:16:27,442
I don't know.
It just feels weird.

299
00:16:28,571 --> 00:16:31,859
It all feels like a dream
or a nightmare.

300
00:16:32,074 --> 00:16:34,656
I don't know,
I just want everything
to be back to normal,

301
00:16:35,495 --> 00:16:37,986
but all this strange stuff
keeps happening.

302
00:16:39,624 --> 00:16:42,206
Babe, you know
I broke the sink
in my bathroom?

303
00:16:42,793 --> 00:16:43,953
You what?

304
00:16:45,129 --> 00:16:46,790
Yeah. The other night.

305
00:16:48,508 --> 00:16:50,373
So I get up to pee,

306
00:16:50,593 --> 00:16:53,960
and I have some kind of...
panic attack.

307
00:16:54,889 --> 00:16:58,131
So, I grabbed the sink
to brace myself,
and it just...

308
00:16:59,143 --> 00:17:01,976
I don't know,
it just crumbled in my hands,
like it was nothing.

309
00:17:04,023 --> 00:17:05,888
We'll get you
a good therapist.

310
00:17:06,234 --> 00:17:08,646
You know my mother.
She's seen them all.

311
00:17:09,612 --> 00:17:11,728
[chuckles]
No, babe, but the sink...
I'm just trying to--

312
00:17:11,948 --> 00:17:15,861
Probably just some
old-ass porcelain sink
that was gonna break anyway.

313
00:17:16,202 --> 00:17:17,612
Look, the important thing is,

314
00:17:17,828 --> 00:17:20,911
we find you someone
that is gonna help you
get through this.

315
00:17:23,918 --> 00:17:26,580
It'll be okay. Hey.

316
00:17:39,433 --> 00:17:41,298
-Evening, neighbor.
-[chuckles]

317
00:17:41,602 --> 00:17:42,682
You're working late.

318
00:17:43,521 --> 00:17:44,681
And it don't stop.

319
00:17:44,897 --> 00:17:47,434
[chuckling]
Yeah, said every hype man
ever stood on a stage.

320
00:17:47,650 --> 00:17:50,232
Exactly. Besides,
I was walking Monk,

321
00:17:50,861 --> 00:17:53,898
and he suggested we check in
to make sure you guys are okay.

322
00:17:54,115 --> 00:17:57,824
Yeah, well, Anissa's, uh,
with her girlfriend, uh...

323
00:17:58,035 --> 00:17:59,275
Jennifer's upstairs, asleep.

324
00:18:00,955 --> 00:18:02,536
They're more resilient
than I thought.

325
00:18:03,165 --> 00:18:04,746
People usually are.

326
00:18:06,252 --> 00:18:07,332
Oh, thanks.

327
00:18:08,254 --> 00:18:09,414
[Inspector Henderson]
Oh, you're welcome.

328
00:18:10,590 --> 00:18:11,670
Hey, uh...

329
00:18:13,009 --> 00:18:13,839
Lynn still here?

330
00:18:14,051 --> 00:18:16,258
[both chuckle]

331
00:18:17,138 --> 00:18:19,049
Yes, Henderson,
she is still here.

332
00:18:19,265 --> 00:18:21,347
She's upstairs,
asleep with Jennifer.

333
00:18:21,559 --> 00:18:24,471
Negro, don't act
all stoic on me.

334
00:18:24,687 --> 00:18:25,642
-[laughs]
-I know you.

335
00:18:25,855 --> 00:18:28,813
You probably
in there tap-dancing,
you so happy she's back.

336
00:18:29,025 --> 00:18:31,437
Yeah, well, well,
she's not back completely...

337
00:18:33,154 --> 00:18:34,360
but I think
we're getting close.

338
00:18:34,572 --> 00:18:37,188
Yeah, I'm happy
to hear that, man.
You all deserve some happiness.

339
00:18:37,408 --> 00:18:39,774
And we gonna get
these guys, Jefferson.

340
00:18:40,036 --> 00:18:42,027
Will, Lala, we'll get 'em.

341
00:18:43,706 --> 00:18:44,536
Yeah, I know.

342
00:18:45,207 --> 00:18:48,540
Oh, by the way,
you might wanna talk
to your girl LaWanda.

343
00:18:48,753 --> 00:18:51,711
She posted herself up
outside the Seahorse
with a camera,

344
00:18:51,922 --> 00:18:54,083
recording johns

345
00:18:54,300 --> 00:18:56,086
-and taking down
license plate numbers.
-[sighs]

346
00:18:56,761 --> 00:18:58,922
I tried to talk to her,
but she just called me
an Uncle Tom

347
00:18:59,138 --> 00:19:01,254
and walked away.
She gonna get herself killed.

348
00:19:01,641 --> 00:19:02,801
What are you
gonna do about it?

349
00:19:03,851 --> 00:19:05,933
There's nothing I can do.
She got rights.

350
00:19:06,937 --> 00:19:07,847
Come on, boy.

351
00:19:14,945 --> 00:19:16,731
[music playing on speakers]

352
00:19:20,076 --> 00:19:23,739
[singing]
J‘J‘ Sit yourself down, girl
And talk to me J‘J‘

353
00:19:26,749 --> 00:19:30,458
J‘J‘ Tell me what's on your mind J‘J‘

354
00:19:31,921 --> 00:19:35,789
J‘J‘ Don't keep on telling me
Everything '3 okay... J‘J‘

355
00:19:42,139 --> 00:19:44,095
[music continues playing]

356
00:19:53,567 --> 00:19:55,103
[muffled whimpering]

357
00:20:08,457 --> 00:20:10,413
This is why
I don't like hiring family.

358
00:20:10,751 --> 00:20:13,083
They never appreciate nothing
you try and do for 'em.

359
00:20:15,131 --> 00:20:17,668
You got me in a world
of confusion, cuzo.

360
00:20:19,760 --> 00:20:22,422
-But at the end of the day...
-[gun cocks]

361
00:20:23,514 --> 00:20:25,505
[muffled grunting]

362
00:20:25,766 --> 00:20:26,721
...l'll straighten it out.

363
00:20:37,278 --> 00:20:38,814
[Lala humming]

364
00:20:39,780 --> 00:20:42,522
[continues singing along]

365
00:20:46,787 --> 00:20:48,903
J‘J‘ And you covered
Your head... J‘J‘

366
00:20:58,299 --> 00:20:59,379
Thanks for getting
the word out.

367
00:21:00,217 --> 00:21:01,957
-Sure. Okay, you're welcome.
-[Jefferson] LaWanda.

368
00:21:02,178 --> 00:21:04,920
-[sighs]
LaWanda, you gotta stop this.
-No, I don't.

369
00:21:05,139 --> 00:21:06,754
[sighs] This is suicide.

370
00:21:07,224 --> 00:21:10,182
Now, as soon as
all these reporters leave,
when this story gets old,

371
00:21:10,895 --> 00:21:12,681
The One Hundred will kill you.

372
00:21:13,522 --> 00:21:15,513
Would you die
for your daughters,
Mr. Pierce?

373
00:21:16,066 --> 00:21:18,773
Would you just walk away
if Black Lightning
hadn't saved 'em?

374
00:21:19,737 --> 00:21:20,442
Huh?

375
00:21:22,573 --> 00:21:23,483
That's what I thought.

376
00:21:26,744 --> 00:21:29,702
[stammers] LaWanda, no,
don't do this. Okay?
Forty-eight hours.

377
00:21:30,080 --> 00:21:32,947
-[sighs]
-Just give me 48 hours.

378
00:21:33,209 --> 00:21:35,074
I promise you,
I will get your daughter back.

379
00:21:35,461 --> 00:21:36,746
I have connections
at the police department.

380
00:21:36,962 --> 00:21:38,827
No. Didn't you hear me?
They ain't trying to listen!

381
00:21:39,048 --> 00:21:42,040
No, they will listen to me,
I promise.

382
00:21:42,510 --> 00:21:44,125
We will find a way.

383
00:21:44,595 --> 00:21:45,880
But none of that
is gonna matter

384
00:21:46,096 --> 00:21:49,429
if your daughter
comes home safe
and her mother's dead.

385
00:21:53,395 --> 00:21:55,101
I love my daughter,
Mr. Pierce.

386
00:21:57,733 --> 00:21:58,939
She's all I got.

387
00:21:59,902 --> 00:22:00,891
I know how you feel.

388
00:22:01,946 --> 00:22:02,981
Believe me.

389
00:22:04,240 --> 00:22:05,821
So, let me help you.

390
00:22:08,536 --> 00:22:11,198
Okay. I'll stop.

391
00:22:11,580 --> 00:22:12,194
[sighs]

392
00:22:12,414 --> 00:22:15,372
But I ain't leaving.
I'll just sit in my car.

393
00:22:16,126 --> 00:22:17,491
I ain't taking my eyes
off this place,

394
00:22:17,711 --> 00:22:20,202
just in case they try
to take her somewhere
I can't find her.

395
00:22:20,923 --> 00:22:23,084
Okay, fair enough.
Thank you.

396
00:22:23,300 --> 00:22:25,916
And I promise you,
I won't let you down.

397
00:22:27,221 --> 00:22:28,085
[sighs]

398
00:22:28,973 --> 00:22:30,088
Thank you.

399
00:22:32,810 --> 00:22:34,266
[sobbing]

400
00:22:41,652 --> 00:22:43,893
Ooh. I'm sorry.

401
00:22:47,074 --> 00:22:48,530
Damn. [grunts]

402
00:22:48,742 --> 00:22:50,778
-We|l, it is good
to see you, girl.
-[chuckles]

403
00:22:50,995 --> 00:22:52,576
-It's good to see you, too.
-[chuckles]

404
00:22:52,788 --> 00:22:53,777
Thanks for coming.

405
00:22:55,541 --> 00:22:58,078
Aight, so...
so Black Lightning, huh?

406
00:22:58,294 --> 00:23:00,376
I mean,
you saw Black Lightning?

407
00:23:00,588 --> 00:23:02,795
Girl, that...
Yo, that is pretty cool.

408
00:23:04,300 --> 00:23:05,085
Yeah.

409
00:23:06,802 --> 00:23:07,666
I was kind of scared

410
00:23:07,887 --> 00:23:10,845
because when you try and look
at his face, it hurts.

411
00:23:11,056 --> 00:23:13,468
I don't know,
it's like looking
into a spotlight.

412
00:23:13,684 --> 00:23:16,141
There's something
that's out of focus.

413
00:23:19,023 --> 00:23:19,682
J...

414
00:23:21,942 --> 00:23:24,399
Look, when all this went down,
I realized something.

415
00:23:24,862 --> 00:23:25,692
What's that?

416
00:23:26,989 --> 00:23:31,358
[stutters] I mean, you know
that we've been friends
for a long time.

417
00:23:31,994 --> 00:23:33,154
And, uh...

418
00:23:35,623 --> 00:23:36,487
[clicks tongue]

419
00:23:37,166 --> 00:23:38,281
[stammers]
Thought I'd maybe--

420
00:23:38,500 --> 00:23:41,833
I've been wanting to ask you
to be my girl.

421
00:23:42,630 --> 00:23:45,747
And, you know,
I realized... [sighs]

422
00:23:45,966 --> 00:23:49,333
That if they had killed you,
I mean, I never would've
had the chance and...

423
00:23:53,140 --> 00:23:54,346
Well, now I'm doing it.

424
00:23:56,060 --> 00:23:57,300
[stutters]
Do you, maybe, wanna...

425
00:23:58,354 --> 00:23:59,719
You want to be my girlfriend?

426
00:24:02,107 --> 00:24:03,597
[chuckles]

427
00:24:04,401 --> 00:24:05,937
-Yeah.
-Yeah?

428
00:24:07,029 --> 00:24:08,894
Yeah. Cool. I'd like that.

429
00:24:09,114 --> 00:24:10,650
All right. Cool. Thanks.

430
00:24:10,866 --> 00:24:14,108
Uh... Well, look, I kinda
got you something.

431
00:24:14,328 --> 00:24:17,365
It's not fancy, but I saw it
and thought about you, so...

432
00:24:18,248 --> 00:24:19,454
[grunts]

433
00:24:22,586 --> 00:24:23,621
That looks good on you.

434
00:24:25,714 --> 00:24:26,419
Thank you.

435
00:24:33,847 --> 00:24:35,587
[both chuckle]

436
00:24:51,490 --> 00:24:55,403
Oh. Hey.
I didn't hear you come in.

437
00:24:55,619 --> 00:24:57,951
-Huh.
-You want me to make
you something to eat?

438
00:24:58,163 --> 00:25:00,074
No, no, I'm fine. Thank you.

439
00:25:01,750 --> 00:25:03,411
So, uh, how are the girls?

440
00:25:03,627 --> 00:25:06,994
Good. Jennifer is on the roof
in her favorite place
with Khalil.

441
00:25:07,214 --> 00:25:09,000
-So, she's happy.
-Mmm.

442
00:25:09,216 --> 00:25:11,798
And Anissa's still
at her girlfriend's house.

443
00:25:12,011 --> 00:25:14,218
And I can never remember
that girl's name.

444
00:25:16,098 --> 00:25:18,054
-Cheena, I think.
-[both laughing]

445
00:25:18,267 --> 00:25:21,225
What? Nothing like that. No.

446
00:25:24,857 --> 00:25:26,813
Well, it feels good
to have you here.

447
00:25:27,568 --> 00:25:28,808
It feels good to be here.

448
00:25:29,570 --> 00:25:30,275
Yeah.

449
00:25:35,409 --> 00:25:36,865
[both] Mmm.

450
00:25:50,174 --> 00:25:51,630
That feels good.

451
00:25:51,925 --> 00:25:55,793
Well, there's one, uh, fact
that I lean on.

452
00:25:56,597 --> 00:25:57,507
Yeah?

453
00:25:58,599 --> 00:26:02,683
That I love you and those girls
more than anything
in the world.

454
00:26:06,148 --> 00:26:08,059
I need to take
things slow, Jeff.

455
00:26:09,109 --> 00:26:13,193
As a neuroscientist, I know
everything there is to know
about the brain,

456
00:26:13,739 --> 00:26:16,355
but not so much
about the heart.

457
00:26:20,245 --> 00:26:23,282
Oh, that's a smooth line,
lady. Yeah.

458
00:26:23,582 --> 00:26:24,446
[both laughing]

459
00:26:47,773 --> 00:26:48,979
Sorry, Mr. Pierce.

460
00:26:51,360 --> 00:26:52,315
Lala.

461
00:26:54,988 --> 00:26:56,853
You better take that camera
out of my face.

462
00:26:57,074 --> 00:26:59,531
LaWanda, take your ass
home now. I'm not playing
no games with you.

463
00:26:59,743 --> 00:27:01,358
-I want my daughter.
-Hey!

464
00:27:01,578 --> 00:27:04,536
I want my daughter.
No, get your hands off me!

465
00:27:05,124 --> 00:27:06,159
[gunshots]

466
00:27:08,502 --> 00:27:12,040
Man! Come on, babe.
I ain't got time for this, man.

467
00:27:27,771 --> 00:27:29,807
[indistinct radio chatter]

468
00:27:36,738 --> 00:27:38,148
[phone ringing]

469
00:27:42,161 --> 00:27:42,900
Hey, man, what's up?

470
00:27:43,120 --> 00:27:44,360
[Inspector Henderson]
Jeff, um... [clears throat]

471
00:27:44,955 --> 00:27:46,911
I didn't want you
to hear it on the news.

472
00:27:47,124 --> 00:27:48,159
LaWanda's dead.

473
00:27:48,625 --> 00:27:50,581
ljust got the call
a few minutes ago.

474
00:27:52,504 --> 00:27:53,619
Sorry, man.

475
00:27:54,256 --> 00:27:55,496
[indistinct radio chatter]

476
00:28:04,892 --> 00:28:07,599
[electricity crackling]

477
00:28:10,022 --> 00:28:11,387
[male reporter]
A local woman was found dead...

478
00:28:11,773 --> 00:28:13,058
[Jefferson]
What good did it do, Lynn?

479
00:28:15,694 --> 00:28:17,150
She was my student.

480
00:28:20,032 --> 00:28:25,243
[scoffs] I had a fantasy
that when they leave me,
their lives are better.

481
00:28:25,537 --> 00:28:27,448
[stutters]
That they could transcend

482
00:28:27,664 --> 00:28:31,873
this neighborhood,
this city, world.

483
00:28:32,169 --> 00:28:36,162
Yeah, I saved more lives
as the principal
of Garfield High

484
00:28:36,381 --> 00:28:37,666
than I ever did
as Black Lightning.

485
00:28:37,883 --> 00:28:39,293
-It's true.
-It's a lie!

486
00:28:39,509 --> 00:28:41,249
-LaWanda is dead.
-She is.

487
00:28:41,470 --> 00:28:42,710
I know. I know.

488
00:28:42,930 --> 00:28:45,512
And it hurts,
and I understand.
I feel it, too--

489
00:28:45,724 --> 00:28:47,089
But I could have saved her.

490
00:28:49,061 --> 00:28:51,222
I could save so many.

491
00:28:54,524 --> 00:28:55,855
I've been living a lie.

492
00:28:56,485 --> 00:28:59,318
[stuttering]
Living in the hopes that you
and me and the girls

493
00:28:59,529 --> 00:29:01,861
could somehow live
behind a white picket fence,

494
00:29:02,157 --> 00:29:03,146
a normal life!

495
00:29:03,492 --> 00:29:07,360
I'm not normal.
Never have been.
Never will be.

496
00:29:07,579 --> 00:29:10,412
Jeff, listen to me.
This is the addiction talking--

497
00:29:10,624 --> 00:29:12,660
[stutters] What? There is
no damn addiction!

498
00:29:12,876 --> 00:29:14,491
[breathing heavily]

499
00:29:16,713 --> 00:29:18,578
[stutters]
Do you remember what you said

500
00:29:19,424 --> 00:29:20,880
when we discovered my powers?

501
00:29:21,885 --> 00:29:24,718
You said it was a gift.

502
00:29:25,639 --> 00:29:27,550
A blessing from God.

503
00:29:29,268 --> 00:29:30,849
It's still a gift.

504
00:29:33,855 --> 00:29:35,766
It's still a blessing from God.

505
00:29:39,403 --> 00:29:40,939
And I intend to use it.

506
00:29:43,198 --> 00:29:44,608
Not just for the girls,

507
00:29:44,866 --> 00:29:47,403
but for all
the other people out there
who need me.

508
00:29:50,038 --> 00:29:52,950
to putting
the pieces of our lives
back together.

509
00:29:54,418 --> 00:29:55,658
[Lynn sighs]

510
00:29:55,877 --> 00:29:56,992
Yeah, we are.

511
00:29:59,840 --> 00:30:00,750
Maybe.

512
00:30:01,383 --> 00:30:03,294
No more maybes for me, Lynn.

513
00:30:04,428 --> 00:30:09,138
It is time that people know
that Black Lightning is back.

514
00:30:19,943 --> 00:30:21,183
[indistinct chatter]

515
00:30:21,403 --> 00:30:22,142
-[school bell rings]
-Morning.

516
00:30:22,362 --> 00:30:25,775
Welcome back. I mean,
let's be honest, you never
kept your eyes off this place,

517
00:30:25,991 --> 00:30:27,197
but just making it official.

518
00:30:27,409 --> 00:30:30,151
[sighs] Thank you.

519
00:30:30,620 --> 00:30:33,532
-[sighs] How are
the girls holding up?
-As best they can.

520
00:30:33,749 --> 00:30:36,491
Yeah, I think getting back
into the school routine
will help.

521
00:30:36,710 --> 00:30:38,871
Mmm. How are you holding up?

522
00:30:39,921 --> 00:30:40,751
I'm good.

523
00:30:41,381 --> 00:30:43,713
Look, I see you
keeping everything
and everyone together.

524
00:30:43,925 --> 00:30:46,632
I just hope someone
is doing the same for you.

525
00:30:47,095 --> 00:30:51,384
I mean, if you need to talk
or whatever, I'm here.

526
00:30:53,143 --> 00:30:55,259
-Thank you, Kara.
I appreciate it.
-[cell phone buzzing]

527
00:30:56,355 --> 00:30:57,219
Yeah.

528
00:31:05,405 --> 00:31:06,645
-Hey.
-[Gambi] Good news.

529
00:31:07,074 --> 00:31:08,314
lfound Will.

530
00:31:08,742 --> 00:31:11,074
Bad news, he's dead.

531
00:31:11,370 --> 00:31:14,783
I got here before the police,
and whoever killed him
didn't take his cell phone.

532
00:31:15,207 --> 00:31:17,914
Mobile phones are
the enemy of bad guys.
When are they gonna learn?

533
00:31:18,210 --> 00:31:19,746
Lala's still out there
on the loose,

534
00:31:20,003 --> 00:31:22,164
and he's getting
desperate, Gambi.
He killed LaWanda.

535
00:31:23,215 --> 00:31:26,048
He's gonna come
after my girls next
if we don't get to him first.

536
00:31:26,259 --> 00:31:27,214
We will.

537
00:31:35,602 --> 00:31:38,560
[Jennifer and Kiesha laughing]

538
00:31:38,814 --> 00:31:40,805
-Give me some more.
Give me some more.
-Okay, okay, okay.

539
00:31:41,024 --> 00:31:42,264
Hey, YOLO.

540
00:31:43,026 --> 00:31:44,891
It's the truth,
you only live once.

541
00:31:45,278 --> 00:31:48,611
Yeah, 'cause one minute
your ass can be here,
everything's cool,

542
00:31:48,990 --> 00:31:50,696
and then the next minute,
your ass is kidnapped.

543
00:31:50,909 --> 00:31:53,901
Yeah, but they should have
different terms for it.
I'm not a kid anymore.

544
00:31:54,162 --> 00:31:56,403
They should
call it teen-napped.

545
00:31:56,623 --> 00:31:58,909
-And Anissa
would be adult-napped.
-[stutters]

546
00:31:59,167 --> 00:32:00,953
Okay, did they hit you
hard in the head
or something,

547
00:32:01,169 --> 00:32:03,160
-because you tripping
a little bit.
-[both laughing]

548
00:32:03,380 --> 00:32:04,620
You trippin'.

549
00:32:04,840 --> 00:32:06,421
-Really?
-Yeah, you need
some more of that.

550
00:32:06,633 --> 00:32:07,998
No. Right.

551
00:32:08,218 --> 00:32:09,549
[exclaiming]

552
00:32:09,761 --> 00:32:12,343
-It's strong, it's good.
-[chuckles]

553
00:32:12,556 --> 00:32:14,421
[Khalil panting]

554
00:32:26,611 --> 00:32:27,270
Hi.

555
00:32:28,655 --> 00:32:30,065
Oh, what you doing here?

556
00:32:30,699 --> 00:32:31,734
YOLO.

557
00:32:32,325 --> 00:32:33,110
What?

558
00:32:33,618 --> 00:32:34,858
You only live once.

559
00:32:36,246 --> 00:32:37,326
[panting]

560
00:32:39,875 --> 00:32:41,035
What, so you drinking now?

561
00:32:41,585 --> 00:32:42,324
At school?

562
00:32:43,837 --> 00:32:44,792
It's not cool, J.

563
00:32:45,005 --> 00:32:47,712
Khalil, calm down.
I just wanted
to ask you something.

564
00:32:47,924 --> 00:32:49,289
Look, I'm not gonna calm down.

565
00:32:49,718 --> 00:32:53,006
[sighs] Look, you saw
and went through
some craziness. I get it.

566
00:32:53,221 --> 00:32:54,882
But that is not the way
to deal with it.

567
00:32:55,932 --> 00:32:57,012
[panting]

568
00:32:58,477 --> 00:32:59,887
I've seen it all, J.

569
00:33:01,730 --> 00:33:02,845
My brother shot and killed,

570
00:33:03,398 --> 00:33:07,061
father in jail,
Mama working her damn ass off
just to provide.

571
00:33:08,195 --> 00:33:09,901
Yeah, I live the life
that rappers talk about,

572
00:33:10,405 --> 00:33:12,691
and ain't none of it cute.
None of it.

573
00:33:12,991 --> 00:33:15,903
But you know what?
God gave me a gift.

574
00:33:16,995 --> 00:33:17,905
I can run fast.

575
00:33:18,121 --> 00:33:19,827
So I'm gonna run my black ass
straight up out of here,

576
00:33:20,040 --> 00:33:21,450
and I ain't looking back.

577
00:33:24,753 --> 00:33:28,792
But I want you
to come with me,
but not like this.

578
00:33:29,549 --> 00:33:32,291
No, that is going backwards
and I can't do that.

579
00:33:34,387 --> 00:33:36,503
I just see the world
completely different now.

580
00:33:37,557 --> 00:33:38,842
Oh, I got you.

581
00:33:39,976 --> 00:33:41,807
-[sighs]
-Really, I do.

582
00:33:42,729 --> 00:33:44,094
It's just growing up.

583
00:33:44,731 --> 00:33:45,720
Come here, J.

584
00:33:47,275 --> 00:33:48,355
[Khalil sighs]

585
00:33:53,240 --> 00:33:55,947
I forgot how warm
and beautiful
this place is.

586
00:33:58,203 --> 00:33:59,943
You know how this ends, right?

587
00:34:00,372 --> 00:34:02,738
The same way it always ends
for everyone, Lynn.

588
00:34:02,958 --> 00:34:04,073
None of us get out
of here alive.

589
00:34:04,334 --> 00:34:06,450
-He was happy.
-But what kind of happy?

590
00:34:06,670 --> 00:34:08,661
Happy like a lion in a cage?

591
00:34:09,214 --> 00:34:10,920
King of the zoo,
not of the jungle?

592
00:34:11,132 --> 00:34:14,340
Happy like a man
who was at peace
just being Jefferson Pierce.

593
00:34:14,553 --> 00:34:17,716
But he isn't
just Jefferson Pierce,
he is so much more than that.

594
00:34:17,931 --> 00:34:19,091
And you know that
better than anyone.

595
00:34:19,307 --> 00:34:22,219
I do, and that's why
I want you to stop him
before he gets addicted again.

596
00:34:22,435 --> 00:34:24,175
We have a difference
of opinion on that.

597
00:34:24,604 --> 00:34:27,311
I don't believe Jefferson
was ever addicted
to his powers.

598
00:34:27,566 --> 00:34:29,682
He was in a war
to save this city
and its people,

599
00:34:29,901 --> 00:34:30,856
and he was winning.

600
00:34:31,069 --> 00:34:34,027
Then he suddenly stopped
because he was addicted to you.

601
00:34:34,239 --> 00:34:37,652
And now look at the condition
of this city and its people.
It's... it's complete chaos.

602
00:34:37,867 --> 00:34:40,233
-Sounds like you're
blaming me for the chaos.
-A little.

603
00:34:40,495 --> 00:34:42,781
Just like you blame me,
then and now.

604
00:34:42,998 --> 00:34:46,490
But ultimately,
it is Jefferson's choice
what he does with his powers.

605
00:34:47,836 --> 00:34:48,916
[sighs]

606
00:35:00,974 --> 00:35:01,759
[door chimes]

607
00:35:02,892 --> 00:35:04,428
[cell phone buzzing]

608
00:35:06,938 --> 00:35:07,552
Hey.

609
00:35:07,772 --> 00:35:11,356
[Gambi] Will's phone
had Lala's address on it.
I've got him on my GPS.

610
00:35:19,409 --> 00:35:21,491
[crowd cheering]

611
00:35:25,123 --> 00:35:26,954
[woman] Ooh, he is fine.

612
00:35:31,630 --> 00:35:33,291
Black Lightning, my man.

613
00:35:33,506 --> 00:35:35,292
-Lala, what floor?
-Penthouse.

614
00:35:35,634 --> 00:35:36,589
Thanks, bro.

615
00:35:38,678 --> 00:35:41,590
-[electricity crackling]
-[men groaning]

616
00:35:43,767 --> 00:35:44,506
I got you.

617
00:35:44,726 --> 00:35:46,591
No. I'm gonna take the stairs.

618
00:35:46,895 --> 00:35:47,554
[groans]

619
00:35:48,855 --> 00:35:50,265
I'm just getting
back into this.

620
00:35:50,982 --> 00:35:52,973
A brother needs
all the exercise
he can get.

621
00:35:58,615 --> 00:35:59,775
[gunshots]

622
00:36:10,543 --> 00:36:14,161
[men grunting]

623
00:36:23,264 --> 00:36:24,174
[man grunting]

624
00:36:33,316 --> 00:36:34,977
[Black Lightning grunting]

625
00:36:47,247 --> 00:36:50,284
Stop! Put your hands
high above your head!

626
00:36:51,042 --> 00:36:54,034
[dispatcher on radio] Uh,
there '3 some kinda disturbance,
we need additional back-up...

627
00:36:54,254 --> 00:36:55,619
It's been a while, Inspector.

628
00:37:11,479 --> 00:37:14,016
[inhales deeply]
I don't want to spend
a lot of time on this,

629
00:37:14,232 --> 00:37:15,847
so I'll make it plain.

630
00:37:17,777 --> 00:37:23,238
LaWanda is telling her story
from the dead, buddy.

631
00:37:25,034 --> 00:37:28,242
Her cell phone was recording,
so we got you on tape
shooting her.

632
00:37:31,916 --> 00:37:33,452
Your boy is flipping on you.

633
00:37:33,960 --> 00:37:35,291
How you think we found you?

634
00:37:37,881 --> 00:37:38,916
Mmm-hmm.

635
00:37:41,885 --> 00:37:44,672
Your world
is falling apart, Lala.

636
00:38:03,323 --> 00:38:04,153
[Jefferson sighs]

637
00:38:04,866 --> 00:38:07,482
It's over.
The girls are safe.

638
00:38:08,036 --> 00:38:09,822
And the Seahorse
has been shut down.

639
00:38:10,205 --> 00:38:11,240
And Black Lightning?

640
00:38:13,750 --> 00:38:16,537
[sighs] Look,
things are different now.

641
00:38:17,086 --> 00:38:18,292
The girls are older.

642
00:38:19,172 --> 00:38:20,912
Maybe we can find a way
to live with it.

643
00:38:52,580 --> 00:38:53,615
[sighs]

644
00:39:17,063 --> 00:39:18,178
[cash register dings]

645
00:39:18,439 --> 00:39:20,725
[muffled] On the counter!
Hurry! Come on!
Come on, hurry up!

646
00:39:20,984 --> 00:39:22,269
Put it on the counter!
Come on, hurry!

647
00:39:23,027 --> 00:39:25,109
Hurry up!
On the ground, bitch!

648
00:39:25,572 --> 00:39:26,812
You stay! You keep doing
what you were doing.

649
00:39:27,031 --> 00:39:29,397
I said on the ground.
Are you deaf, bitch?

650
00:39:29,617 --> 00:39:31,949
-Okay. [gasping]
-I will shoot you!

651
00:39:33,413 --> 00:39:34,994
[grunting] Get down!

652
00:39:35,206 --> 00:39:36,491
[gasping]

653
00:39:36,708 --> 00:39:38,289
[man grunts]

654
00:39:42,046 --> 00:39:44,037
[both panting]

655
00:40:10,825 --> 00:40:12,611
[Jefferson]
Yeah, we were close, Lynn.

656
00:40:33,514 --> 00:40:34,549
What's up?

657
00:40:55,995 --> 00:40:57,075
Have fun.

658
00:41:11,594 --> 00:41:12,549
Lala.

659
00:41:15,348 --> 00:41:17,088
You shot somebody's mama?

660
00:41:19,686 --> 00:41:21,597
Any man that'd do that
has no morals.

661
00:41:23,022 --> 00:41:24,603
-No principles to live by.
-[groaning]

662
00:41:25,024 --> 00:41:27,561
Which means there's nothing
you are not capable of,

663
00:41:28,277 --> 00:41:29,642
including becoming a rat.

664
00:41:29,862 --> 00:41:31,853
[choking]