[dramatic music]
- Who is Eclipso?
- He's the devil in the shadows.
- [growls] - [sighs]
- They murdered men...
- [screams]
- Women... - [screams]
- Children.
- Eclipso's getting stronger.
I really don't know if these kids are ready for this.
- Are you sure?
- [shouts]
♪
[both shout]
- I'm offering up a truce until Eclipso is nothing more
than a stain on the ground.
When it comes to Eclipso,
you have to fight fire with fire.
- Eclipso feeds off negativity and darkness.
- You have to be bad to defeat evil.
- Turn away from the darkness or you will be consumed.
♪
- [screams]
- It only works if you're all here.
- What works?
- Finding the darkness within.
- The darkness within what?
- Courtney Whitmore.
[wind whooshing]
[intriguing music]
♪
Are you afraid?
You should be very afraid.
I know you can see me for what I really am.
- Our friends are coming.
- I told you, that's what I want.
I have the power of darkness.
And it's been growing thanks to all of you.
But I still need...
the power of light.
- To do what?
- First things first, Dr. McNider.
You should be more worried
about what I've done to the people in here.
- Where's my dad?
- Your father was working late to avoid going home.
Like always.
But your mother was so concerned about you, Beth,
she came here
so they could talk about
her sick, sad daughter.
They're worried--
so worried
that it's gonna kill them both.
[dramatic music]
- I [inaudible], Dad.
It's all your fault, Dad. You ruined it.
You ruined our family.
Mom! Dad!
You thought I was gonna still love you?
I hate you!
I will always hate you!
♪
- [whimpers]
♪
No! [panting]
- Jennie, are you okay?
- I had some kind of vision.
I don't know why, but you have to stop Courtney
from going to Eclipso.
It's what he wants. It's what he needs.
- They've already gone.
♪
- We lost contact with Beth and Dr. McNider.
- Yeah, our phones are out too.
- Beth said Eclipso wasn't there.
- What about your big robot? - He's under repair.
Thanks to you.
- Oh, right. My bad.
- Pat, we don't have S.T.R.I.P.E. or Rick.
Jennie's sick and the Thunderbolt's missing.
- You got me. - We don't want you.
- Stop it, you two.
[energy rumbles]
- What is that?
[portal crackling]
♪
[sparks fizzle]
- Come on! [groans]
[objects crashing] - He sounds mad.
- Yeah, Rick should really learn how to meditate.
- [growls] - Your dad built that?
- S.T.R.I.P.E? Yeah.
Anyway, so my dad said once the Thunderbolt's back
and the robot's fixed up,
we can go meet the JSA at The American Dream.
- So we could find a demon?
- Technically, he's more of a monster really.
- Mike, I stop monsters in video games,
but you get a lot of extra lives in video games,
and I use them-- all of them.
- Yes! [crash]
Dang it! That was fun.
[sighs]
Afraid I've got some bad news, fellas.
Unless I get my hands on a Pratt & Whitney R-4360
to scavenge some engine parts from--
let me tell you, they're hard to come by these days--
this oversized tinker toy is grounded--
for whatever it is you boys are doing.
What exactly are y'all doing?
[soft dramatic music]
♪
- Beth? - Dr. McNider?
- Hi.
Your friends are busy watching Beth's parents die.
- Gosh, you're such a creep.
♪
- [growls]
- Go find Beth. - You sure?
- Yeah.
- Beth? Dr. McNider?
[unhinged music]
♪
[all shouting]
- Whoa.
You're not being very nice, Yolanda.
- Hey. - [screams]
- [giggles] - Hi.
- This is my friend Cindy. - Hi.
- [laughs] - Where'd he go?
[dramatic music]
♪
- You ain't up for this, sweetheart.
- Mr. Dugan, in here!
- Beth! Dr. McNider?
- Oh, Pat Dugan. [chuckles]
- So what do you want?
- Oh, I want a piece of you, Pat.
- Yeah? Well, here I am.
- All right.
♪
[chuckles]
- So it's gonna be like that, huh?
- Uh-huh. That's how it's gonna be.
- You kill one person, Brainwave, of all people,
and you get weepy?
- [screams, coughs]
- You ain't got what it takes to get the job done.
- Please.
Don't hurt me like you did Mommy.
- I don't care what you look like or what you say.
I'm not afraid.
- Oh, yes, you are.
- [shouts]
- [giggles]
- [grunting]
[shouts]
- You're no Wildcat.
♪
- Hey, Courtney.
[giggles]
You missed.
- You're trying to bring the Shadowlands here.
- Yes, tonight, I will merge the Shadowlands and the Earth.
Then I will be able to consume all of humanity at once.
I will finally end my suffering.
I will become a god.
- [grunts]
- [laughing, giggling]
- Look at you, huh.
Dragging these kids into this mess?
For what? For your own ego?
There you go.
Trying to prove you're something more than you are?
You're a grease monkey and a sidekick, right?
It's like what dad always said.
"You're never gonna do anything but disappoint yourself."
- You're forgetting the second part of what dad said.
"Never gonna do anything but disappoint yourself
if you don't be yourself."
- Come on, Dugan. You can't protect your family.
They're all gonna die tonight. The whole world is.
- Pat! It's not real!
None of it is real, Pat.
- Courtney! Behind you!
♪
- [screams]
♪
- [screams]
- [shouts]
[both scream]
[soft dramatic music]
♪
- [sighs]
[energy crackling]
Damn. [sighs]
- Rick, you get the hourglass working?
- No.
- Okay, well, where are you going?
- To fight. - Rick!
Rick, come back!
- [sighs] Sorry, boys.
Did the best I could. Called all around the state.
Every salvage yard's closed at this hour.
That robot ain't going anywhere till tomorrow.
- My dad knew it wouldn't be fixed tonight.
- What do you mean? - I mean, he said,
"Come by as soon as S.T.R.I.P.E. was working,"
but I-- - He's trying to protect you.
- Jakeem, he's going in without backup.
♪
- I'm back.
You wanted Chinese, I got Chinese.
- Zeek, now listen to me-- - No, no, no.
Don't try to explain.
Don't say a word.
Just let me take this in.
- Jakeem, Mike, other guy, I got egg rolls,
pork fried rice, Peking duck-- whatever you guys want.
Well, you know, they didn't have...
- Ain't life full of surprises?
[chuckling] Oh, baby.
[portal booming, crackling]
[dramatic music]
♪
- Go. We'll help here.
- It's my time.
Mine!
I am on the edge of victory!
["La Cucaracha" car horn plays]
[dramatic music]
[grunts]
♪
[groans]
- What up, bitch? [chuckles]
Yeah, kiss my giant metal ass!
- Yo, this is so dope!
- Tell you what, kid, wishing for that engine part
was a great trick.
[engine revving]
♪
- Mike? - See that yellow button?
Press that sucker and get this done.
Cut that joker in half. [laughs]
♪
[chainsaw revving]
- [screams]
- Oh, yeah! [laughs]
[indistinct]
- Sorry I was late.
I got lost on the way back from Shanghai.
Have you ever been to Addis Ababa?
It is so beautiful. I mean, it's weird.
There's some debate about... - Forget all that.
I wish you would electrocute Eclipso.
- Oh, oh, okay.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you-- you got it, buddy.
[electricity crackles]
- [screams]
- Uh-oh.
[ominous music]
Whoa.
[robot fizzles]
- Mike!
- [panting]
[bones crackle]
[roars]
[pen fizzles]
- Hey, Eclipso!
[soft dramatic music]
Leave him alone.
- Have you come to simply die?
You have no super strength against me.
- I still have super strength.
And it lasts more than an hour.
- [grunting]
[roars]
- What the heck is that? - [roaring]
- A friend.
[dramatic music]
♪
- [shouts]
- No!
Grundy! [shouts]
- Rick! Rick.
[somber music]
- That weird energy in the sky is growing.
Something is going on.
- That's why I can't sit this out anymore.
[doorbell rings]
[soft dramatic music]
♪
- Oh, my God. It's you.
♪
[robot fizzling]
- Mike, can you hear me? - Yeah.
Dad, the controls are locked up.
- You're gonna need to reboot the system, okay?
And quick. [screams]
- Dad, you okay? Dad!
- [groaning]
- Let him go!
- [screaming]
- No!
- Courtney, go! Get help!
- I'm gonna twist his arm right off.
- [yelps]
- And then I'm gonna do the other.
After all I've done to your friends and family,
tell me, how do you feel?
[bones crunch] - [grunts, whimpers]
- Tell me or he dies.
- [screaming]
- Say it! Say it!
Say it!
Now!
- I hate you!
- Ah.
Yes.
[wind whooshing]
[tense music]
Everything that I've done, hurting you and your family,
throwing you into the Shadowlands,
the assault tonight.
All of the darkness within you grow,
one thread of hatred is all I needed.
I've got my hopes in you now,
because you have chosen to embrace the darkness.
- [screams]
[ominous music]
♪
- [voice distorted] I wield the power of darkness
and the power of light.
[laughs maniacally]
With control over both,
I now merge our world into one...
so that I may feed.
♪
[laughs maniacally]
[portals booming, crackling]
- Mom! Dad!
They're going to die.
How do we get them out of there?
What do we do?
[dramatic music]
What's happening?
[indistinct shouting]
[both panting]
Mom! Dad! - Beth!
- What is going on? - Shade?
- Charles.
Oh, yes, bringing the Shadowlands to the world
was just the nettle brandy I needed.
Tip top. Oh.
Saving your parents was, you know, it was a bonus.
- What was the whole death scene in the theater about?
- Oh, Charles.
You know I've always had a flair for the dramatic.
♪
Come now, I'll see you outside.
[whooshing]
- Beth, just wait a second.
- Beth, we don't understand what's happening.
- What are you wearing? And who is this man?
- He's a superhero. Me too.
It's a long story.
I'll explain later, okay?
Just stay here. It's safer.
- You both should be very proud.
- Come on!
- Cindy?
[bones crunch] - [groans]
- Eww.
- Whatever.
- Oh, my God. Courtney.
- We have to kill her. - No!
- We have to kill the host, Yolanda.
That's how it works.
- Hey, the old JSA might have done that, but we're not.
- Don't be an idiot. - You're not hurting Courtney.
We get the Staff and stop whatever's going on.
That's the key, you got it?
Got it?
[both shout]
Fight him!
- You have no idea what I possess.
The Staff is a conduit of spiritual enlightenment.
The power of creation itself.
And only one can control it.
- [screams, groans]
Only one!
Only one.
- Well... - [grunting]
- Maybe two.
- Starman? - Pat!
[dramatic music]
♪
[Staff crackling]
- [grunting]
Listen, kid, I'm still catching up,
but if the Staff works for you, then you are chosen.
For a reason. Fight this monster.
- No.
You are unwanted by your father.
You are unworthy.
You are unloved!
[sentimental music]
♪
- Courtney, you can break free.
Be yourself. That's all.
♪
- [screams]
[groans]
[grunting]
- Hey there, bud. What did we miss?
- Our daughter broke us out.
- Burman called. - I did.
- I am forever.
I am not finished.
- Yes, you are. - He is weakened.
Those who command the light-- I'd act quickly.
- I wish this guy was toast.
- As you wish. [electricity crackles]
- [screams]
[gentle music]
- Courtney. [laughs]
- Sylvester.
♪
- Wow. That guy really is toast, huh?
[laughs]
- Well, at least we didn't kill him.
- What do we do with it?
- Put it someplace safe.
- Oh, you know, it's a little burnt.
It's a little burnt, yeah.
- Finally feels like summer.
- Finally feels like things are gonna be okay.
- They will. As long as we're all together.
[gentle music]
♪
- You're back for good, right?
♪
- I'm back.
♪
- I've gotta run soon.
Have some things to take care of.
- I should get going too.
- I've got to say goodbye to Chuck.
- What about you, Court?
What's the deal with Starman?
- I thought Starman was dead.
- Yeah, we thought Dr. McNider was dead too.
- But you saw his body, Pat.
- I did.
Sylvester said he'd explain it later.
- When he touched the Staff, I could sense it somehow.
The Staff could too.
It belonged to him before.
Do you think he came here to take it back?
- Hey, can we, like, take a break for a minute
before we start worrying about something new?
Listen, Eclipso's been destroyed.
The world is safe, and we're going to figure it out.
Okay? I promise.
- Thanks, Pat. - You're welcome.
[soft dramatic music]
We beat Eclipso because of you.
♪
- Well, we had some help.
From Cindy Burman.
Solomon Grundy. The Shade.
Even the Crocks showed up.
- Yeah, but it was because of you.
♪
- Eclipso was right about there being darkness
in everyone, you know?
Sometimes we feel anger
or jealousy or hatred,
even if we don't want to.
- I suppose that's true.
- But the thing Eclipso did not understand
is that there's good in everyone too.
Every single one of us.
In the end, all Eclipso did was
make me believe in people even more.
- That's why the Staff picked you.
I'm not here to take it back, Courtney.
But maybe I can show you what it can really do.
- Yeah? Uh, that would be amazing.
- Yeah, no, very amazing.
But after summer school, all right, okay?
- School? - Yeah.
- Superheroes don't need school.
[exciting music]
♪
- Are you sure you want to leave so soon?
We have plenty of room.
- I think you have another impending houseguest
to worry about with Sylvester.
I need to go find my wife.
- Um, I already did.
Your wife is in Melody Hills, Indiana.
[soft dramatic music]
- Is she?
- Did you know she was pregnant when everyone thought you died?
- What?
- Chuck, you have a 10-year-old son.
- [shaky inhale]
- What happens if the world needs Doctor Mid-Nite again?
♪
- They have one.
♪
- [laughs softly]
- I can only pilot S.T.R.I.P.E. with my father's supervision,
like a driver's permit.
But by the end of summer, I figure I can be rocking
and rolling that baby on my own.
- It all feels like a dream--
The Thunderbolt, Eclipso.
- Yeah, and look.
My sister's got her own JSA thing going on.
But maybe you, me, The Thunderbolt,
could start our own thing.
- Like, form a team.
- It's a great idea.
What do you say we tell The Thunderbolt
to deliver our papers,
and we can go talk about this over donuts like adults?
- What could go wrong?
[quirky music]
♪
- What was that? - I'm sorry.
This is all new, you know? There's a big robot.
And then, this space alien God.
- I got it under control.
- [stammering] Just, like--
- So just do me a favor and stop panicking.
You're always panicking.
And he's a monster, not an alien.
Let's get out of here.
- Yeah, it's wonderful.
- It's perfect, Cameron.
- It is. And it's time.
- Time for what?
- Time to tell you the truth about your family.
[dramatic music]
♪
[bell tolling]
- Thought you left town.
- No, I like it here.
- You do? - [chuckles]
No.
Look.
Maybe I was wrong about having to embrace your dark side
to stop Eclipso.
It's the opposite, actually.
Which makes you kinda think.
- Okay, what are you talking about?
- I know Courtney won't agree with it
unless you're onboard.
But you made mistakes too.
And you got a pass.
Means I should get a pass.
- I'm not following you.
- I want to join the JSA.
[soft dramatic music]
- [grunting]
♪
- Ironic, isn't it?
The beast that killed your parents,
you now mourn.
- [grunts] What do you want?
- To tell you to stop brooding.
Grundy has a habit of coming back.
You just have to bury him in the right place
at the right time.
- I take it you'll tell me what that means
before you leave town.
- Leave, my dear boy?
Well, yes, your tea is rather ghastly.
But your young people so very intriguing.
No, I'm not going anywhere.
I've taken rather a liking to Blue Valley.
♪
- This is absolutely epic. They're superheroes.
- So exciting.
- The Justice Society-- it's all so incredible.
- I can't believe we have another doctor in the family.
[laughter]
- Wow, you seem to be taking it better than I thought.
What about the divorce? both: Oh.
- That? [laughter]
I mean, with all the danger and excitements...
- [giggling] Oh, gosh.
It kind of rekindled things enough for us to start again.
Here on out, the focus will be on each other.
- And you, Beth. - Yes.
We are going to be
the best parents a superhero has ever had.
- We are not gonna let you out of our sight.
And we have so many ideas.
- Oh, honey, the costume!
- Yeah, that too. Nanotechnology.
- Yellow and black. - Ha!
- Great.
- I think she--she likes it. She likes it.
Yes! - [laughs]
♪
- Mm. - Oh, boy.
- Jennie called.
She made it to Milwaukee safely.
- Oh, good. Sylvester's getting the basement all set up.
Gonna be great.
- Yeah, and I am going to be
going to the movies soon with Jakeem.
- Okay. - Good morning.
- Last day of summer school for me.
- Isn't this nice? We're all back to normal.
- Well, our normal.
Oh, I heard the house next door sold.
- [groans] [doorbell rings]
- I got it. - Okay.
♪
- Howdy, neighbor.
- Good morning, Mr. Dugan.
- We brought muffins. Blueberry.
[quirky music]
♪
- What the--
[heroic music]
♪
[foreboding music]
♪
- Green Lantern's daughter is back in Milwaukee,
searching for her brother.
But she found friends.
Friends like her.
- Where are those friends?
- They're in a small town in Nebraska
that appears to be populated with heroes and villains.
- Heroes and villains living side by side.
What an interesting experiment.
Perhaps we should take a trip to Nebraska.
- Greg, move your head.