[soft dramatic music]
♪
[somber string music]
♪
[door air locks whoosh open]
♪
- I was wrong to bring you with us.
♪
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 murder.
♪
Family isn't born. It's chosen.
You taught me that.
♪
My 16th birthday,
got into a fight at school.
Do you remember Hop Harrigan?
- Yeah.
- He and his buddies beat 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.
♪
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.
♪
You snuck that gift into my room
'cause you knew they'd forget.
They always did.
♪
I caught up with Harrigan the next day.
And I got it back...
[brightening music]
'cause it meant the world to me.
♪
Still does.
♪
You taught me how to drive, Pat.
You taught me how to stand up for myself.
You taught me how to think for myself.
♪
You're more than a friend.
You're my brother.
♪
And I know, most of the time, I... don't treat you that way.
♪
I gotta say,
I have a little too much of my mom and dad in me still.
♪
I'm sorry.
♪
- 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.
♪
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.
♪
- To chosen families.
[soft dramatic orchestral music]
♪
- 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 killed 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 kill Cindy Burman
because she had the diamond?
Like the JSA killed 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.
♪
- 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.
♪
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.
♪
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.
♪
- 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.
♪
- 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.
♪
- The staff still isn't strong enough.
What now?
[intriguing music]
- I got an idea.
[birds singing]
[quirky upbeat music]
♪
- 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.
♪
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]
♪
- 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.
♪
- 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.
♪
- 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?
♪
- 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]
♪
- 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 murder 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.
♪
- 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 blindly.
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.
♪
- Well, it has.
♪
[indistinct radio chatter]
[soft dramatic music]
♪
[soft thud echoes]
♪
[apples thumping]
♪
[hopeful music]
♪
- [chuckles softly]
♪
[chuckles softly]
♪
- The Shade, here?
Eclipso, free?
The JSA...
[whispering] Killing 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?
[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]
♪
- [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.
Burned 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.
♪
[exciting music]
♪
[keyboard keys tapping]
[intriguing music]
♪
- 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 kill you the night the JSA died.
- Kill me?
No, Beth. He saved me.
- The Shade was a member of the ISA.
He helped kill 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 killing 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 1800s,
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]
♪
- 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...
♪
To watch him die...
While I lied...
And cheated my way into oblivion.
♪
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]
♪
Let's go. Meeting room's upstairs.
♪
- Pat. - Yeah?
- Look.
I think you were right. Jennie's been staying here.
♪
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.
♪
[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]
♪
- 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.
♪
- 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.
♪
- 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]
♪
[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]
♪
- 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 shot, 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.
[panting]
- Greg, move your head.