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There was a time above, a time before.

There were perfect things, diamond absolutes.

Things fall, things on earth.

And what falls is fallen.

In the dream, they took me to the light.

A beautiful lie.

Bruce. Jack, listen to me. I want you to get everyone out of the building right

now.

Understood? We're done.

Let's go. Come on. Start moving now, people. Let's go.

The bump was just out of the building, so let's make it happen. Jack.

Jack!

I'm sorry.

I'll pick up that busy now.

We have to find our calm to go away.

Heaven and God, creator of heaven and earth, have mercy on my soul.

No!

Good job.

Come on, guys.

Hold on tight.

Come on, guys.

Go. Mr. Wayne.

Mr. Wayne.

I can't put my legs.

I can't put my legs.

We need help over here.

Help me. I can't put my legs. You're going to be okay. You hear me?

Wallace, what do they call you, Wally?

Huh?

You're the boss, boss.

It's okay.

You're gonna be okay.

You're okay. All right?

Huh?

You know what? We're gonna find your mom.

Where is she?

Thank you.

A red wind is bad luck.

Blood in the sky.

Oh, there she is.

Miss Lane.

Miss Lane.

Jimmy Olsen, photographer.

Obviously. Where's Huron?

Uh, trouble at the border.

So, uh, how'd you land it? This is like Pioneer stuff.

Amajog's never given an interview.

You know what Heron always says when we're on assignment together?

Not a goddamn thing.

I like Heron.

Let's go.

Your picture says it's a general approved photo.

Are you a terrorist, General?

They did not tell me the interview was with a lady.

I'm not a lady. I'm a journalist.

What I am is a man with nothing except a love of my people.

Who's paying for these security contractors, General?

Who pays for the drones that pass over our heads at night?

One question begs another.

Yes?

Say what you're saying, General.

It's just a camera.

The United States has declared its neutrality in your country's civil war,

in policy and in principle.

I don't know, but... You just exposed... These biased American

fictions, spoken like truth.

Okay, that's my film.

Men with power obey neither policy nor principle, Miss Lane.

No one is different.

No one is neutral.

CIA.

They're hacking us.

You! Come on, no, no!

You're CIA.

What? No.

No, I'm... You brought him here.

No, he's a photographer.

No!

Talon's down, sir.

Python, we have lost our asset on the ground. Repeat, we have lost our asset

the ground.

There's still a civilian in the compound.

We'll extract her. Negative. RPA to engage. Stand down and get black.

Well, they'll be friendlies in the blast zone, so... Call up the goddamn drone.

Stand down as an order.

Python, let's move.

Ignore them.

Quickly! It's coming!

Inbound two mics.

Passing Python... now.

Target locked.

You are clear to engage.

Arm taut and in range.

Three.

Two.

One.

Thing's been hit.

By what?

Take one step.

You will see the inside of her head.

The women in the village had a noise like the sky cracked

open.

He came down.

Then came fire.

Even worse came after.

The government attacked.

No mercy in the villages.

My parents tried to run.

The world has been so caught up with what Superman can do that no one has

what he should do.

Let the record show that this committee holds him responsible.

He'll never answer to you.

He answers to no one.

Not even, I think, to God.

58 to nothing.

Metropolis again blowing out Gotham City.

And really only the diehards are left in the stands. Charlie 27 reports the

screams coming from a vacant home at 1939 Harbor Way. Tom, it's been great

working with you. I want to thank our producer and director.

Now, wait a second. I don't even want to suggest.

Charlie 27 responds.

They're lining up as if Clarkson's going to throw it deep here.

Don't tell me, Dave. Going to the end zone. This is unnecessary.

Zeke Baker is open.

Baker with a touchdown catch.

I can't believe I just watched that. Charlie 27, do you copy?

10 -4, run.

And now a fight breaks out.

Gotham City, you know how they are about their football team.

Things could get ugly in the city tonight.

It's okay.

It's okay.

We're gonna help. We're gonna help.

We're gonna get you out of here.

I saw him.

I never saw him before. I didn't know. You almost took my face off.

How about you don't shoot the good guys, huh?

Oh, Jesus Christ.

I was going to cook.

Surprise you.

They held hearings about what happened.

They're saying that... I don't care. I don't care what they're saying.

The woman I love could have been blown up or shot.

Think of what could have happened. Well, think about what did happen.

I didn't kill those men, if that's what they think. If that's what you're

saying. Well, I'm saying I want to understand what happened.

I'm saying thank you for saving my life. I'm saying there's a cost.

I just don't know if it's possible.

Don't know if what's possible?

the imprisonment.

Still working?

You're getting slow in your old age, Alfred.

Comes to us all, Master Wayne.

Even you've got too old to die young.

And not for lack of trying.

There's nothing wrong with the microphone.

There's this new layer of armor.

I'll just have to rewire.

So, last night was productive?

Nope. Too low level. He knew nothing.

This is the man who knows things.

Anatoly Knyazev. He's Russian.

Contracts all over the globe, but he's based out of the Port of Gotham.

Weapons and human trafficking.

So the white Portuguese is a Russian. That's the theory.

No.

The theory is that the Russian will lead me to the man himself.

If he is indeed a him.

You don't even know if he exists. It could be a phantasm.

One that wants to bring a dirty bomb into Gotham?

Ah, high stakes, right?

New rules.

We're criminals, Alfred.

We've always been criminals. Nothing's changed.

Oh, yes it has, sir.

Everything's changed.

Men fall from the sky.

The gods hurl thunderbolts.

Innocents die.

That's how it starts, the fever, the rage, the feeling of

powerlessness that turns good men.

True.

Ahoy, ahoy! I did not know you were here.

Man on the marquee. Don't believe it. My father named the company after himself.

He was the lex in front of the corp. How you doing?

Oh, really great.

Really great? Good.

Good. Follow me.

So, that started...

Saying that he named the company after his kid had investor pitches. Rich old

ladies. They thought it was very cute, you know. Write checks for Lex.

You know, Dad was born in East Germany.

He grew up eating stale crackers.

And every other Saturday, he had to march in a parade and wave flowers at

tyrants. So, I think it was providence that his son, me, would end up with

One of my rebuild metropolis crews found it. A little souvenir from the

Kryptonian world engine.

What does a rock have to do with homeland security?

Homeland security?

No, no, no, ma 'am.

Planetary security.

The fragment is of a radioactive xenomineral. We suspected it might have

biointeractions, so we took the sample to Amrid, where they keep the remains of

the Kryptonian decedent.

And when we exposed General Zod to the mineral, this happened.

Profound biodegradation.

Decaying Kryptonian cells.

We concluded the mineral could be weaponized if a large enough sample was

And then, among the fishes, a whale!

Ah!

Lying at the bottom of the Indian Ocean.

Emerald City.

Beautiful.

Now, Rocky is radioactive, but what he needs from you is an import license.

And why would we want to weaponize this material?

As a deterrent. A silver bullet to keep in reserve to use against the

Kryptonians so the day does not come, madame, when your children are waving

daisies at a reviewing stand.

Last I looked, the only one of those flying around up here was Superman.

Yes, Superman.

But there are more of them.

The metahuman thesis.

Yes, the metahuman thesis.

More likely than not, these exceptional beings live among us. The basis of our

myth. Gods among men upon our little blue planet here.

You don't have to use a silver bullet.

But if you forge one, well then, we don't have to depend upon the kindness

monsters.

There are ways we can help each other

What's

your wish list To

the wreck of the crashed Kryptonian ship done

The complete remains of the dead alien for testing.

He went inside his body.

Okay.

Which lives count and which ones do not.

Get down.

Sir, I said get down.

Now!

Should we get some backup here?

Hey, hey, don't do it! Hey!

Lois, crime lab on three.

This is Lane. Ken, your sports today. I want you to go over to Gotham, follow up

on the football.

Underdog dreams dashed. Ten yards between Gotham and Glory.

Oh, um, watch yourself over there in Gotham. I'll let him take you to lunch

me.

Hey, are you guys watching this?

Emergency responders quickly created a precautionary perimeter around Heroes

Park while they brought the man down from this beloved monument.

The suspect has been identified as Wallace Vernon Keith. I work for Bruce

I work for Bruce White! He'll be arraigned on charges of vandalism.

Resisting arrest and the felony charge of making terrorist threats. That

up to 40 years in prison. Poor son of a bitch.

Jenny?

Headline. End of love affair with man in the sky?

Question mark.

Okay.

Is she in?

She's been gone.

What'd she do, officer?

I'm not a cop.

I'm a reporter.

The young lady living here?

She hasn't been back.

In fact, if she's smart and she got out of this city, you need to get out of

here before dark. Unless you want to run into her. Don't listen to that

nonsense.

Only people scared of him.

People who got reason to be.

Scared of who?

Well, there's a new kind of mean in him.

He is angry.

like an insult good luck for one is always his brother's misfortune three

nights with a Bolshoi ballerina that line was all she taught me not all

I'm sure good evening

like a one -man raid of

terror this Bat Vigilante has been consistently targeting the port and the

adjacent projects and tenements, and as far as I can tell, the cops are actually

helping him. Crime wave in Gotham.

Other breaking news.

Water wet.

Did you file the football yet? Why aren't we covering this?

Poor people don't buy papers?

People don't buy papers, period, Kent. Perry, when you assign a story, you're

making a choice about who matters and who's worth it. Good morning,

The American conscience died.

With Robert, Martin, and John.

Mark. Sorry.

No match.

My guys in the crime lab never seen one before.

It's called a bullet.

You shoot people with them. Recovered from the scene of the firefight in the

desert. Not sold anywhere commercially in the world, even black market.

So? So who gave... Prototype military rounds to target fighters in the Sahara.

You're the reporter. Tell me. I think that the U .S. government is arming the

rebels while claiming to support the elected government.

The ask, Lois.

Flight to D .C. tonight. Couple of days there.

Go.

Coach, no extra leg room.

Economy pump.

Coach!

So, why didn't you tell me?

You're digging up snakes, Lo.

It's kind of dangerous.

That is why I didn't tell you.

Lane, don't you have a plane to catch?

Yes, sir.

Benefit for the library of Metropolis.

Someone on the committee requested that Clark Kent cover it.

Probably some old charity crew who's got a thing for nerds.

Little bourbon before lunch?

My driver's outside.

I can't stay. No bourbon.

Kentucky here, like yourself.

My dad always said that Kentucky mash was the secret to health.

This was his room.

I kept it just the same.

Maybe one day dad will come back if I just keep everything the same.

That is silly.

The magical thinking of orphan boys.

I'm blocking the import license for your mineral.

The red capes are coming.

The red capes are coming.

You and your hearings.

Galloping through the streets to warn us.

One if by land, two if by air.

Do you know the oldest lie in America,

Senator?

Can I call you Jew? You can call me whatever you like.

Take a bucket of piss and call it Granny's peach tea.

Take a weapon of assassination and call it deterrence.

You won't fall a fly on me.

I'm not gonna drink it.

Hey, you don't think Dad would mind, do you?

If I changed just... just one thing in this room?

That should be upside down.

We know better now, don't we?

The devils don't come from hell beneath us. No.

No, they come from the sky.

I hope the next generation of Waynes won't inherit an empty wine cellar.

It's not the best likely to be a next generation.

Thank you, sir.

This is every call made from the Russians' phone.

Two mentions of business with the white Portuguese. And it's continually

transmitting blacked -out data to the pertinal residents of Alexander Luther.

So you think that's Luther?

Here's the white Portuguese.

I can't see that he needs the income from imported arms. Regardless, I'll

to put a leech in his house, and I'm going to need the suit.

The Bat interrogated six people and came away with nothing.

It was Bruce Wayne that got the information.

Well, Bruce Wayne can't break into Lex Luthor's house. Bruce Wayne won't have

to.

He's been invited.

Who's that?

He must be new to the Let Them Eat Cake beat.

That is Bruce Wayne.

Philanthropist, bibliophile, true friend of the Library of Metropolis, Mr. Lex

Luthor. Hey, stop!

Hey, Pete.

You're embarrassing me.

Pete, Pete, blah, blah, blah.

Open bar.

The end.

The word philanthropist comes from the Greek, meaning a lover of humanity.

It was coined about 2 ,500 years ago.

All right, where am I going, Alfred?

We'll pass the elevator.

Do left.

That's right, it must be.

This is a service corridor in the basement. Go down the stairs.

Between gods and men, Prometheus went with us.

And he ruined Zeus' plan to destroy mankind. And for that, he was given a

thunderbolt. Joe!

Hey, that seems unfair.

On a serious note, the library of Metropolis... There are the stairs. You

them on your way in downstairs.

But at one time, Dad could not buy them. No, my father could not afford books

growing up. He had to root through the garbage for yesterday's newspaper.

Right,

you've got the kitchens on your right.

To the left.

Right in front of you. That's where you want to be.

May I help you, Mr. Wayne?

Oh, I just... I thought the bathroom was down here. I must have... That last

martini was too, too many, I think.

There's rooms upstairs.

Great. I'm okay.

I like those shoes.

I can't stay down here, Alfred.

Go upstairs and socialize. Some young lady from Metropolis will make you

In your dreams, Alfred.

Books are knowledge.

And knowledge is power.

And I am... No.

No, what am I? What was I saying?

No.

The bittersweet pain among men is having knowledge with no power.

Because... Because that is paradoxical.

And... Thank you for coming.

Please drink.

It's the way.

It's the way.

Clark Kent, Daily Planet.

My foundation has already issued a statement in support of books, sir.

Wow. Pretty girl. Bad habit. Don't quote me, all right?

What's your position in the Bat Vigilante in Gotham?

Daily Planet.

Do I own this one?

Or is that the other guy?

Civil liberties are being trampled on in your city.

Good people living in fear.

Don't believe everything you hear, son.

I've seen it, Mr. Wayne.

He thinks he's above the law.

The Daily Planet criticizing those who think they're above the law is a little

hypocritical, wouldn't you say?

Considering every time your hero saves a cat out of a tree, you write a puff

-piece editorial.

About an alien who, if he wanted to, could burn the whole place down.

It wouldn't be a damn thing we could do to stop it.

Most of the world doesn't share your opinion, Mr. Wayne.

Maybe it's the Gotham City in me. We just have a bad history with freaks

like clowns.

Boys!

Bruce Wayne meets Clark Kent.

I love it. I love bringing people together. How are we? Thanks.

Hello. Good.

Hi. Hello. Lex, it is a pleasure. Ow!

Wow, that is a good grip. You should not pick a fight with this person.

So, after all these years, we finally got you over to Metropolis.

I thought I'd come drinking dry.

Well, you're welcome. You should opt to harbor more often, though. I'd love to

show you my labs. Maybe we could partner on something.

My R &D is up to all sorts of no good.

That's seven minutes.

Looks like the transfer's complete.

Mr. Lacerda. Yes. The governor.

Governor. Excuse me. See you next time.

Governor. Bye.

Good to see you.

Use me.

Use

me.

We, as a population on this planet, have been looking for a savior. 90 % of

people believe in a higher power, and every religion believes in some sort of

messianic figure. And when this savior character actually comes to Earth, we

want to make him abide by our rules. We have to understand that this is a

paradigm shift. We have to start thinking beyond politics.

Are there any moral constraints on this person? We have international law. On

this Earth, every act... is a political act. Is it really surprising that the

most powerful man in the world should be a figure of controversy?

To have an individual engaging in the state -level intervention could give us

all thoughts.

Human beings have a horrible track record of following people with great

down paths that led to huge human atrocities. We have always created icons

our own image. What we've done is we project ourselves onto him.

The fact is, maybe he's not some sort of devil or Jesus character.

Maybe he's just a guy trying to do the right thing. We're talking about a being

whose very existence challenges our own sense of priority in the universe.

And you go back to Copernicus, where he restored the sun in the center of the

known universe, displacing Earth.

And you get to Darwinian evolution, and you find out we're not special on this

Earth. We're just one among other life forms.

And now we learn.

that we're not even special in the entire universe because there is

There he is, an alien among us.

We're not alone.

Are you, as a United States senator, personally comfortable saying to a

parent, Superman could have saved your child, but on principle,

we did not want him to act?

I'm not saying he shouldn't act.

I'm saying he shouldn't act unilaterally. What are we talking about

Must there be a Superman?

There is.

How come Dad never left Kansas?

He just... You know how he was.

What do I need to travel for?

I'm already there.

I just wish it was more simple.

My baby boy.

Nothing was ever simple.

I've never seen a medal like this.

Could be DARPA black box.

Who could find out?

Nobody who'd want to.

Maybe they gave them out to the rebels to test in theater.

Using live soldiers as guinea pigs?

And this is what makes you such a good reporter.

Stuff like this still shocks you.

You can't put me to judgment, man. They're going to kill me. Hey, you can't

bring me to judgment. You should be thanking the taxpayers in Metropolis for

taking in your brand today.

Sign in, please. Mark, man, you know what they do to people with dishonor?

you doing?

Let's go.

Let's go.

Let's go.

Let's go.

Keith, you made a bill.

Open to it.

Who paid?

Who the hell are you?

Just a man.

Yeah? What the fuck do you want?

To help you stand for something.

It's three o 'clock, Theo.

He made me half a man.

My wife walked out on me.

I can't even piss standing up.

Let me face it.

You'll take care of it.

Good.

Secretary Swanwick, you haven't been returning my phone calls.

Miss Lane, if you'd like an interview, Major Ferris is just outside that door.

You're treating me like a stranger?

I'm treating you like a reporter.

All right.

It's the U .S. providing experimental military arms to rebels in Africa.

You know what balls like yours.

You belong in here.

What's your source on this?

A tinfoil hat?

No, not tin.

But it's metal.

Fired in the Superman incident.

Experts at the Pentagon can't ID it.

We haven't been told the truth.

Here's the truth.

A reporter got greedy for a scoop and went where she shouldn't have.

Superman acted like some rogue combatant to rescue her and people died.

Don't invent a conspiracy theory to put back his halo.

Or yours.

Major. So,

I logged into your dropbox to find copy.

Is copy all right?

Nothing about football.

Nothing about the friends of the Metropolis Library. Just the goddamn

Gotham Bat thing I told you not to pursue. If the police won't help, the

has to do the right thing. You don't get to decide what the right thing is. When

the planet was founded, it stood for something, Perry. And so could you if it

was 1938, but it's not 1938.

WPA ain't hiring no more. Apples don't cost a nickel.

Not in here. Not out there. You drop this thing.

Nobody cares about Clark Kent taking on the Batman.

So apparently Superman doesn't want us to think of him as American anymore. And

really, why would we? I mean, aside from the red and blue costume and the, I

don't know, fact that he has one -third of the USA's initials on his chest.

I assume the only reason he's not wearing the Declaration of Independence

cape is...

He thinks it's too on the nose. What is going on back here? Guys, come on, let's

go. Get yourselves together and get out there.

We've got thirsty people out there. I wonder,

would you excuse us? There's something I'd like to share.

Now, some scholars insist that it never happened, but I believe it's the action.

perfectly in keeping with a king who was also a psychopathic killer.

For me, it's the culmination of 40 years curating, and I can't believe it, but I

finally got it here.

It's the sword of Alexander.

It's the blade that cut the Gordian knot.

It's a triumph.

Yes. Enjoy.

Thank you.

It's a fake.

The real one was sold in 98 on the black market.

Now it hangs... Over the bed of the Sultan of Hajar.

Excuse me.

Excuse me, Amos.

The other night you took something that doesn't belong to you.

Stealing's not polite.

Is it stealing if you steal from another thief?

Who are you?

Someone interested in the same man you are.

Is that right?

I believe Mr. Luther is a photograph that belongs to me.

Did you get it?

As it happens, no, I didn't.

The data you copied has military -grade encryption.

You know, I bet with that dress, nine out of ten men would let you get away

anything.

But you're the tenth.

Well, I'm guessing I'm the first to see through that babe -in -the -woods act.

You don't know me, but I've known a few women like you.

Oh, I don't think you've ever known a woman like me.

You know, it's true what they say about little boys.

Born with no natural inclination to share.

I didn't steal your drive.

I borrowed it.

You'll find it in the glove compartment of your car.

Mr. Wayne?

Did you get it?

The rock?

Yeah, we got it.

The white Portuguese is not a man.

It's a ship.

Master Wayne, since the age of seven, you have been to the art of deception as

Mozart to the heart bequeathed. But you've never been too hot at lying to

The white Portuguese isn't carrying a dirty bomb. What is it carrying?

It's a weapon.

It's a rock.

A mineral capable of weakening Kryptonian cells.

The first sample big enough to mean something turned up in the Indian Ocean

three months ago. It is now aboard the white Portuguese being delivered to Lex

Luthor.

Who I am going to steal it from. To keep it out of Luther's hands?

To destroy it?

No.

You're going to go to war.

That son of a bitch brought the war.

Jesus, Alfred, count the dead.

Thousands of people.

What's next?

Millions.

He has the power to wipe out the entire human race, and if we believe there's

even a 1 % chance that he is our enemy, we have to take it as an absolute

certainty.

And we have to destroy him. But he is not our enemy.

Not today.

20 years in Gotham, Alfred.

We've seen what promises are worth.

How many good guys are left?

How many stayed that way?

14 hours.

My name is Clark Kent. I'm from the Daily Planet.

I'm trying to find out what happened to an inmate. I can't give out that

information.

Santos, may I ask you a few questions?

He wasn't my husband, but I know what he did.

But he was a father.

He was that, too.

They took him out of Gotham Central. They moved him to Metropolis.

Inside they know.

They know the mark all over. Guards don't care.

That's the judge.

One man decides who lives.

How is that helping?

Talk to me.

Help me change it. With what?

Your pen?

A man like that, words don't stop him.

You know what stops him?

A fist.

Kent, I want to talk to you.

Kent!

Where did he go?

Where did he go, Jenny? I don't, I don't know.

Clicks his heels three times, goes back to Kansas, I suppose.

Son of a...

Go, go, go!

Next time they shine your light in the sky, don't go to it.

The bat is dead.

Bury it.

Consider this mercy.

Tell me.

Do you bleed?

I don't have a halo over me, Mr. Secretary.

I went into the desert. People died. It keeps me awake. It should.

If you think that Superman is a murderer, then throw it away.

But I don't believe you think that.

How do we determine what's good?

In a democracy, good is a conversation, not a unilateral decision.

So I urge Superman to come to this hill of the people tomorrow to see those who

have suffered.

The world needs to know what happened in that desert and to know what he stands

for.

How far will he take his power?

And does he act by our will or by his own?

what they don't understand.

But they see what you do and they know who you are.

You're not a killer.

A threat.

I never wanted this world to have you.

Be their hero, Clark.

Be their monument. Be their angel.

Be anything they need you to be.

Or be none of it.

You don't owe this world a thing.

You never did.

I didn't tell you the truth.

The eye thinks the desert was a setup.

Somebody wanted to remember to look guilty.

Metal was developed by a private company.

What company?

LexCorp.

Lex Luthor.

He also had private security contractors at the Desert Compound.

Go on record.

Not a chance.

It's classified.

I happen to like my job.

It doesn't make sense. He said that the ambush was arranged to frame Superman,

but how could they know that he'd show up in the...

The Senate hearing is expected to get underway in any minute now. And, of

course, the big unknown in all of this is, will Superman show up? That is what

they're really waiting to see. Mr. Keefe, Mr. Keefe, Soledad O 'Brien, in

moment. Quick question for you. You're heading in to meet with the senators.

What will you tell them?

I've come here to tell them to wake up.

This is flesh and blood.

He has delivered a war here.

And this...

This is what war looks like.

I have nothing.

There are plenty of people, sir, who would say he's their hero. He is not a

hero. Grace, can you get Greg up here, please, right now?

An anonymous source can verify everything I told you about what

Nairomi. An anonymous source.

Run it.

Luther engineered the desert.

It's an ambush for Superman.

Trust your reporter. Think Watergate. Yeah, and you need to think litigate. If

you're wrong, Luther will shoot the paper out of existence.

You need proof.

No, it needs to run now.

Before the hearing, Superman knows it might change what he said. I am not

to risk the paper so that you can pass notes in class to the man that rescued

you. He paid her?

No, not only paid her.

Threatened her.

Gave her a script to learn.

Her parents are alive back home.

But the girl's got a conscience.

He's been using the committee as his puppet theater.

Senator!

Hi, you.

Don't go anywhere. I want to talk to you. You know what, Mercy? You go in and

make sure no one takes my seat.

So what have you been up to?

I'm just here to tell my story. That I was willing to finance a Kryptonian

deterrent, but a certain junior senator from Kentucky decided to block it.

Yes, the chair of the committee on Superman is soft on security.

Greg, why hasn't he been getting our checks? He is, Mr. Wayne. He gets a

from the Victim's Fund every month.

And he returns them.

I'm sorry.

I'll get to the bottom of it.

And there he is. Superman is here. He is actually at the United States Capitol.

This is really an historic moment that we expect that Superman will give some

kind of a statement to the Senate, to the American people, and of course to

world.

He's here. He came.

He's above the Capitol.

You are going to be on the hot seat in there, Junebug. I grew up on a farm.

I know how to wrestle a pig.

Do you know the oldest lie in America, Senator?

That power can be innocent.

Good luck.

Another one came this morning, Mr. Wayne.

Let me say at the outset that I'm grateful to our witness for coming

today.

This is how a democracy works.

We talk to each other.

We act by the consent of the governed, sir.

I have sat here before to say that shadow interventions will not be

this committee.

Neither will I.

Because today...

is a day for truth.

Because only by speaking...

Only

by working together can we...

Can we...

Can we create a free and a...

Excuse me.

Excuse me, officer.

Member of the press, can you let me in, please?

Slowly and deeply.

You're going to be fine.

Thank you. I'm going to need a little room to work.

Bam. It appears you suffered a head injury.

I need you to follow my light.

Master Wayne?

Mr. Wayne?

First

responders

are at the scene. They are still bringing victims out. Now initially,

was helping bring victims out after the blast.

but he seems to have disappeared, raising questions.

Carrie Birmingham reporting live from the nation's capital.

i got one more time you enhance that very good

Capitol Police are confirming to CNN that the suspected bomber is Wallace

Keith. Clark, it's me again. I

didn't

see it, Laura.

It's standing right there, and I didn't see it.

Clark, there are people behind this. I'm afraid I didn't see it because I wasn't

looking.

All the time.

I've been living my life the way my father saw it.

Minding wrongs for a ghost.

Thinking I'm here to do good.

Superman was never real.

Just the dream of the farmer from Kansas.

That farmer's dream is all some people have.

It's all that gives them hope.

Welcome.

Analysis reveals ship operating at 37 % efficiency.

Would you like to assume command?

Yes, I would.

Yes, I would.

Very well.

Let's begin.

The Kryptonian Archive contains knowledge from a hundred thousand

worlds. Good.

Eat me.

Alexander Luther, your security override has been accepted.

Genesis chamber ready to analyze genetic sample.

Acknowledging presence of genetic material.

Analyzing.

I've identified the host as General Zod of Kandor.

Acknowledging presence of foreign genetic material.

Analyzing.

You flew too close to the sun.

Now look at you.

Advising. Action forbidden.

It has been decreed by the Council of Krypton that none will ever again give

life to a deformity so hateful to sight and memory.

The desecration without name.

And where is the Council of Krypton?

Destroy it, sir.

Then proceed.

Very well.

Repairing crystals and cementing metamorphosis.

And so we are left to wonder, if Superman was aware of the threat and did

nothing, was he then complicit in the capital tragedy?

Still no count. His disappearance raises questions.

No.

unanswered questions, chief among them whether Superman was involved in the

planning of this attack. I mean, here's an individual who has unlimited power,

yet he had nothing to stop a bomber just a few feet away from him.

Now, one FBI official familiar with this case told me they found, quote, a

jackpot of bomb -making materials inside Keefe's apartment.

What they need to determine now is whether he had any help in the planning

execution of the bombing, and they haven't ruled out the idea that Superman

a co -conspirator.

Now, my sources are telling me they're getting a barrage of anonymous and

credible tips with all roads in this investigation leading to the Kryptonian

visitor.

All right, Lois, you got to go.

He didn't know he was going to die.

He just got groceries.

The wheelchair and the bullet from the desert were made from the same metal.

The desert, the hearings, everywhere Superman goes, Luther wants death.

But Luther goes through all of that trouble, creates a bomb out of a

and then alters it to reduce the blast.

What do you mean?

The inside of the chair is lined with lead.

You couldn't stop it.

You couldn't see it.

Something, isn't it?

We men of Kansas live on a pancake, so we come to the mountains.

All downhill from here.

Down to the floodplain.

Farm at the bottom of the world.

I remember one season when water came bad.

I couldn't have been 12.

Dad had out the shovels and we went at it all night.

We worked till I think I fainted, but we managed to stop the water.

We saved the farm.

Your grandma baked me cake.

Said I was a hero.

Later that day, we found out we blocked the water all right. We sent it

upstream.

The whole Lang farm washed away.

While I ate my hero cake, their horses were drowning.

I used to hear them wailing in my sleep.

Did the nightmares ever stop?

Yeah.

When I met your mother, she gave me faith that there's good in this world.

She was my world.

You know you can't win this.

It's suicide.

I'm older now than my father ever was.

This may be the only thing I do that matters.

Twenty years of fighting criminals amounts to nothing.

Criminals are like weeds, Alfred.

Pull one up, another grows in its place.

Not the future of the world.

It's my legacy.

You know, my father sat me down right here. Told me what Wayne Manor was built

on. Railroads, real estates.

I know him. First generation.

Made their fortune trading with the French.

Pelts and skins.

the hearts of Wayne.

We've got to wait for more evidence, but the question still remains.

Where is he?

If Superman was not involved, if he's got nothing to hide, then why hasn't he

been seen since the day of this tragedy? You can't point a finger. I'm not

pointing anything, Warren. Look, ten fingers, see? If there is going to be a

criminal...

The night is here.

Don't I know?

Lane low in the morning.

Low line, black.

Lowest lane.

Come see the view.

Now the secret to the height is the building material.

It's light metals, which sway a bit in the wind.

And you know something about Lexaport metals, don't you, Miss Lane?

I've proven what you've done.

Oh, you're feisty.

Unfortunately, that will blow away like sand in the desert.

You're psychotic.

That is a three -syllable word for any thought too big for little minds.

Next category, circles.

Round and round and round they go to find Superman.

Wrong category, boy. No, no, triangles.

Yes, you put a triangle in equality. The shortest distance between any two

points is a straight path.

And I believe the straightest path to Superman is a pretty little road.

Problems up here.

The problem of evil in the world.

The problem of absolute virtue.

I'll take you in without breaking you.

Which is more than you deserve.

The problem of you on top of everything else.

You above all.

Because that's what God is.

Horace. Apollo.

Jehovah. Kal -El.

Clark. Joseph.

See, what we call God depends upon our tribe, Clark Joe.

Because God is tribal. God takes sides.

No man in the sky intervened when I was a boy to deliver me from daddy's fists

and abominations.

I figured out way back.

If God is all -powerful, he cannot be all -good.

And if he is all -good, then he cannot be all -powerful.

And neither can you be.

They need to see the fraud you are.

With their eyes.

The blood on your hands.

What have you done?

And tonight, they will.

Yes. Because you, my friend, have a date.

Across the bay.

Great fruit, his hate.

Two years growing, but it did not take much to push him over, actually. Little

red notes. Big bang. You let your family die!

And now, you will fly to him.

And you will battle him.

To the death.

Black and blue.

Fight night.

The greatest gladiator match in the history of the world.

God versus man.

Day versus night.

Son of Krypton versus Bat of Gotham.

You think I'll fight him for you?

Yes, I do.

I think you will fight, fight, fight for that special lady in your life.

She's safe on the ground.

How about you?

Close, but I am not talking about Lois.

No. Every boy's special lady is his mother.

Martha,

Martha, Martha.

The mother of a flying demon must be a witch.

The punishment for witches, what is that?

That's right. Death by fire.

I don't know. I would not let them tell me. Now, if you kill me, Martha dies.

And if you fly away, Martha also dies. But if you kill the bat, Martha lives.

There we go.

There we go.

And now God bends to my will.

Now the cameras are waiting at your ship for the world to see the holes in the

holy. Yes, the Almighty comes clean about how dirty he is when it counts. To

save Martha, bring me the head of the bat.

Ah!

Mother of God!

Would you look at the time!

When you came here, you had an hour!

CNN's own Brooke Baldwin is on the scene. Brooke, you're live on the air.

are you seeing?

There's something happening at the ship, sending massive power surges.

They created a barricade around this containment center, and we're trying to

a little bit closer here to find out what's going on. It is absolute chaos.

can see that lightning, those surges of electricity, and it seems to be getting

stronger by the minute.

Daily Planet.

Lois?

I have to go to Gotham to convince him to help me.

Or he had to die.

Clark.

No one stays good in this world.

2400 hours and two minutes.

Subject declining rapidly.

All procedural interventions have failed.

Outcome?

We'll be dead.

Dr.

Silestone suspending all clinical protocol.

U .S. Gov. Object 61982 is...

Successfully activated.

I need

a chopper to Gotham.

Call the heliport. Chopper?

We can barely afford a bicycle. You want to change the story?

Go to the ship.

Superman's probably there already. Perry, it's not her story.

Jenny, get her a chopper to Gotham. And forget the heliport. Put it on the

goddamn roof.

On the roof, Lois!

Where are we headed?

I was wrong.

You have to listen to me.

Lex wants to talk.

You

don't

understand.

There's no time.

I understand.

If I wanted it, you'd be dead already.

Yeah.

I bet your parents taught you that you mean something.

That you're here for a reason.

My parents taught me a different lesson.

Dying in the gutter for no reason at all.

They told me the world only makes sense if you force it to.

What does that mean?

Why did you say that name?

Fine!

Martha!

Why did you say that name?

Stop!

Please, stop!

Why did you say that name?

It's his mother's name.

It's his mother's name.

We're not getting any answers. We're still right outside the containment

A dangerous situation. Military and police personnel surrounding the area.

Luther.

He wanted your life for hers.

She's losing time.

The scout ship seems to be drawing power from the city.

It's got to be luck.

They need you, that ship.

I'll find her.

My mother needs me.

Wait.

I'll make you a promise.

Martha won't die tonight.

Master Wayne.

Alfred. Look, I'm sorry for listening in, but I've tracked the Russians' phone

to a warehouse near the port. You're locked onto it.

I don't deserve you, Alfred.

No, sir, you don't.

I'm afraid this is goodbye.

That's a ticket offer.

Ah, right.

Commencing drone mode.

Thermal imaging is showing me two dozen hostiles on the third floor.

Why don't I drop you off on the second?

I'm a friend of your son's.

I figured.

The cape?

Late, late, says the white rabbit. Forty seconds to animation.

Right, rabbit.

Out of tricks.

Out of time.

And one bat head short.

Thirty seconds to animation.

That'll be the cook.

Excuse me.

Gotham roast.

Well done.

Hello. Break the bad news.

I'd rather do the breaking in person.

Twenty seconds to animation. You've lost.

I don't know how to lose.

You'll learn.

I'll learn.

I don't hate the sinner.

I hate the sin.

And yours, my friend, is existing.

I cannot let you win. I gave the bat a fighting chance to do it, but he was not

strong enough. So, if man won't kill God... The devil will

do it.

Getting reports there are total blackouts in the north and to the

the city Federal authorities trying to determine if this is part of a larger

terrorist attack Ancient

Kryptonian deformity blood of my blood

Born

to destroy you

Your doomsday.

Now God is good.

POTUS joining.

Mr. President. What the hell is it, Calvin? These are live images from the

of the Lexcorp Tower in downtown Metropolis. Military aircraft are on the

Are you hurt, ma 'am?

I'm okay. Good. You're going to be all right, okay?

Kryptonian crash site just moments ago.

Thankfully, the work day is over and the downtown core, it's nearly empty.

Now, military aircraft, those are Apache helicopters, they have now just

arrived. The image...

How best to describe it?

Excuse me? Excuse me?

Miss Prince.

Sir, look, they've cleared the city. Looks like they're taking it into space.

We can go straight to Key Red, Mr. President. Not yet.

Are you crazy? They're high enough that we can nuke them with no casualties,

sir. One casualty, Mr. President.

Superman.

God have mercy on us all.

He is hot.

He is hot.

Redbird, our arm to deploy, sir.

Fire at will.

Three, two...

Projectile 1, impact.

Stryker's Island, east of Metropolis.

That's uninhabited.

Projectile 2.

No apparent re -entry.

Projectile 2.

Superman, Mr. President.

Projectile 2 is... Superman.

Sir.

It's moving.

Shock waves are getting stronger.

Every time we hit it, we make it more powerful.

We can't attack.

What are you saying, Calvin?

I'm saying it's unkillable.

Master Wayne, are you receiving me?

Alfred, it's Kryptonian.

Only a clip to my weapon can kill it.

It might, if you had any left.

I got one round left.

The spear.

Alfred, the spear.

It's pure Kryptite.

It's back in Gotham.

If I can penetrate the skin, the spear will kill it.

It would in theory.

I gotta get it to chase me.

Back to the city.

Back to the Kryptite.

What did you bring him back to the city? The port is abandoned.

There's a weapon here that can kill it.

Did you find this beer?

I've been a little busy.

This thing, this creature, seems to feed on energy.

This thing is from another world.

My world. I've killed things from other worlds before.

She with you?

I thought she was with you.

No, Clark, you can't.

This is my world.

No, Clark, don't.

You are my world.

Clark had this sent here so he could surprise you.

The dead shall live.

My slain shall rise again.

Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust.

For thy dew is like the dew of the morning.

And the earth shall give birth to her dead.

I need a ride back to the house. I forgot my checkbook to pay the funeral

director. He said it's all taken care of.

By whom?

Anonymous donor.

All those circuses back east carrying empty boxes.

They don't know how to honor him.

Except for the soldier.

I failed him.

In life.

I won't fail him in death.

Help me find the others like you.

Perhaps they don't want to be found.

They will.

And they'll fight.

We have to stand together.

A hundred years ago, I walked away from mankind.

From a century of horrors.

Men made a world where standing together is impossible.

Men are still good.

We fight.

We kill.

We betray one another.

But we can rebuild.

We can do better.

We will.

The others like me.

Why did you say they'll have to fight?

Just a feeling.

Prisoner AC -23 -1940, the warden wants to speak to you, so stand to your feet.

I'm going to say this one more time.

The warden wants to speak to you, so stand to your feet.

Turn around and face the wall.

Place your forehead against the wall.

Put your hands behind your back so that I can come in and restrain you.

Whatever you do, whatever you go, I'm watching you.

Look at us.

This is how it all caves in.

Civilization on the wane.

Manners out the window.

But who would believe me?

I'm insane.

I'm not even fit to stand trial.

That's right.

We have hospitals to treat them mentally ill.

With compassion.

But that's not where you're going.

I arranged for you to get transferred to Arkham Asylum in Gotham.

I still have some friends there.

They're expecting you.

But... The bell's already been rung.

And they've heard it.

Out in the dark, among the stars.

Ding dong.

The god is dead.

No!

The bell has not been rung!

He's hungry.

And he's coming!