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- I thought this pen was my ticket into the JSA,

but now I kind of just wish it was in better hands.

Thunderbolt?

- Where did you come from?

- Hello.

- I think Doctor Mid-Nite is alive.

- Could be Eclipso, Beth.

- He made us see things.

- Things that weren't really there.

That's not Grundy!

- I'm never putting on that costume again.

- The devil is real, and he's in Blue Valley.

- Don't let me go, Courtney! Please!

- No!

- No!

Doctor Mid-Nite?

- Turn away from the darkness, or you will be consumed.

- I found a way out of here.

- So... who wants to kill Eclipso?

- I guess someone's feeling better.

- Whoa.

- Yeah, we had a big fight in here last week.

- I still have a lot to catch up on.

- There's no sign of The Shade.

Your ring located dark energy

the theater in town and the school.

- Most of the time,

I don't know what the ring's doing.

- Maybe we can check the classrooms again?

Whoa. Oh!

This is right where Cindy disappeared.

- What is that stuff?

- It looks like some kind of residue.

That must be what your ring was picking up.

- Are--are you okay?

- I--I think so.

- Looks like you fried it. That's probably a good thing.

Right?

- Beth? Are you there? - Courtney?

She's home.

She's home!

- It fits. - Yeah.

But I got something a lot more comfortable than an old suit.

- I'm comfortable in a suit.

Here we go.

- Dr. McNider, I'm sorry that you were trapped in that place.

And I know that I-- - It goes without saying, Pat.

Now...

let's focus on stopping Eclipso

before he executes whatever plan he's been concocting.

- I mean, what plan would that be beyond revenge?

- Eclipso wants power, first and foremost.

Whatever he's doing, no matter how personal it may appear,

is always in service to that one goal.

- And he isn't in a host this time.

- Good.

Because as powerful as Eclipso might be, he's also vulnerable.

- How so?

- He doesn't have a host acting as a shield anymore.

Nor the diamond.

He's a being of darkness.

What do you suppose injures darkness?

- Light.

- Especially when it's wielded by those

who carry the light within themselves,

that channel hope, like your stepdaughter.

You said the staff hurt Eclipso.

- Yeah, and Eclipso also hurt the staff.

But I think that it's making a full recovery.

- And Green Lantern's daughter?

- Well, Jennie's still learning how to use the ring.

I really don't know if these kids are ready for this.

- Are you sure?

Because what I know of Beth Chapel, she is.

- Mm. I really thought I lost you.

Good talk, Mom.

You try anything, Cindy--

- Mm, don't worry.

The quicker we get rid of Eclipso,

the quicker I ghost this armpit of a town.

- You mean the Eclipso you unleased on Blue Valley?

- Mm, technically, it was your staff that did that.

- While you were trying to kill us.

- All right, all right. I admit it.

Taking the black diamond was a big oops on my part.

- It was more than an oops.

- It was really, really, really...

bad.

Kay?

No more trouble, Cindy.

- Okay, Ms. Whitmore. - Courtney?

Court!

- Beth! Hi!

- What, no hug for me?

- What is she doing here?

- She wants to help us fight Eclipso.

- But she--

- Let him out in the first place?

- And-- - I don't trust her, either.

- She's evil, Court.

- Okay, look, Doctor Mid-Nite Junior,

or whatever you're gonna call yourself now,

I'm offering up a truce

until Eclipso is nothing more than a stain on the ground.

right now, evil is relative.

- Jennie, are you okay?

- Uh, yeah. Just tired.

- After everything we've been through, how could you not be?

Hi, Beth. So nice to finally meet you.

- Same.

- Now that you're back, Doctor Mid-Nite,

if you'd like me to return the goggles--

- With Eclipso running about, it's safer you keep them on.

Besides, I have my own.

- And they're connected to my incognito glasses.

- Wow. That's so smart.

- Show me what you found at school.

- Some kind of black residue. It looked like it was alive.

Organic, even.

- Afterbirth. - Mm.

- From the pit to the Shadowlands Eclipso opened.

- The goggles are already crunching

what little data I did get.

It says a full analysis to triangulate Eclipso's location

will take about eight hours.

- Hmm.

Or we could cut that time in half...

if we team up.

- Accept.

Ee!

I have so many questions to ask you, Doctor Mid-Nite.

- You can call me Chuck.

- Okay!

Chuck!

- I hate to admit it, but Cindy's right.

In Eclipso's case, evil is relative.

We need her.

We need everyone if Beth and Doctor Mid-Nite

are close to finding Eclipso.

- This is--this is so delicious, Ms. Whitmore.

- I'm gonna try and convince Yolanda to help us.

- Yeah. I'm gonna see what I can do

about getting Rick released from jail,

see if he can fix the hourglass.

- What about Mike? Where is he?

- He's chasing the lighting.

- DJ Breezy B on the dial

bringing you another wild update

on the Blue Valley summer of insanity.

On top of cotton candy-pink lightning,

flying bikes, and candy canes the size of cars,

massive food items are being reported all over town

from colossal cake pops to freeway-blocking french fries.

But my personal favorite is a report of a beer brat

larger than a school bus floating out in a lake

looking like a speckled sea monster.

- Thunderbolt, where are you?

Come on.

- Wow! - This is so cool, Mom!

- Dang.

- I don't know how it got here.

- It looks so good! A little taste! Come on, Mom!

- No, no! - What is it made of?

- Jakeem.

- Hey. You should be in bed.

- They need my help.

- You can't help unless you get some rest.

Pat said the ring takes a lot out of you.

Save up your energy.

- Okay.

- Hi.

- My mom's picking me up any second.

- Yolanda, please talk to me.

It's important.

You're not the only JSA member who's killed someone.

The Justice Society stopped Eclipso last time by...

killing Bruce Gordon.

- How do you know that?

- Pat was there.

We can all talk about it together,

but I had to tell you.

The first Wildcat, Ted Grant, he made the same mistake.

- And?

- He had to live with that guilt with the rest of them.

Pat can explain why he-- - Why are you telling me this?

- To let you know that you're not alone.

You're my best friend

and the JSA isn't the same without you.

I'm not.

In less than four hours,

Beth will lock on to Eclipso's hiding place, and we need you.

Like, bad.

- You thought telling me this

would magically make me feel better?

All it does is make everything worse.

Ted Grant was a killer, too.

- No, that's not what I meant-- - No.

Courtney, I will never put that costume on again, okay?

Ever.

Because it's a costume of a murderer.

Twice now.

- Hi. Sorry.

Not sure if you remember me. Met you out at your farm.

Pat Dugan. I own the garage in town.

And I'm also one of Rick's friends.

You know, your nephew, he's a good kid,

and I think that deep down, you know that, too.

Rick made a big mistake.

But he knows that.

And he's truly sorry. He is.

So I'm asking you...

to please drop the charges.

Something like this--

well, I mean, it could ruin his life

before he even gets started, you know?

This might not make a lot of sense, but...

everyone in this town could suffer...

if Rick doesn't get your forgiveness.

Rick's parents asked you to look out for him.

But you did the opposite. Didn't you?

You actually got a talent.

You know that?

You really do.

It's for finding people that are weaker than you are...

and taking advantage of them.

Whether it's a kid, some waitress...

Or your own nephew.

You're a bad guy.

And whenever I've run into somebody like you,

when I was growing up, back in the Army...

Or today...

makes me remember something about myself.

I got some bad in me, too.

- Delicious update.

A gigantic cheeseburger has appeared

in the Blue Hill Estates.

I don't know about you guys,

but all this super-sized food is making me hungry!

- Hey. Hey, hey, hey, Jakeem!

Jakeem! - Mike?

- Where's The Thunderbolt?

- How did you know about that? - What?

Okay, what are you doing? - I was hungry, right?

So I wished for this big cheeseburger.

- Yeah, I saw. - It was big. Scary big.

I freaked out, dropped my papers.

I wanted to get out of there quick,

so I wished my bike could fly, and then it took off.

It's passed by a couple of times.

- Okay. Where is The Thunderbolt?

- I was still hungry.

I wished for Chinese food and he flew away.

- You idiot!

You probably sent him to China! How long has he been gone?

- Three or four hours. - Okay.

Well, we need him to get back here now.

- Why? - Listen.

You ever heard of the Justice Society of America?

- Is that like the Boy Scouts?

Because I'm really bad at tying knots.

Barbara.

Oh, hey.

- Yolanda's not coming back. It was all too much.

- Oh, I'm sorry.

- Mom,

I don't want there to be anything between us.

- Look, why Pat and I

didn't tell you the truth, we felt like--

- No, Mom. We're past that. No.

When I was in The Shadowlands, I saw you.

- You did?

- And, um...

You said some things that, uh...

I can't really un--unhear.

- Whatever that was, it wasn't me.

You know, it was-- - Eclipso. I know.

But--

was it hard, raising me by yourself?

I can handle the truth. I promise.

- I mean, sure, yeah, it was hard at times,

being a single mom.

But there's nothing I wouldn't have done for you.

- But you could have had a career.

- I have one.

- You could have done more.

- Yeah, there's a lot of things I could have done.

None of them compare to what you have brought into my life.

And that's why it scares me so badly seeing you in harm's way.

But I know something has to be done about Eclipso.

And I know you're the only one to do it.

- I can't do it alone, Mom.

I miss my best friend.

- I know you do.

- I thought you were dead.

- Blame Courtney.

- Don't come near me.

Don't flatter yourself.

- Then why are you here?

- To tell you not to come back.

We don't need any weak links.

- We?

- Long story short, I want Eclipso so bad

I'm even willing to work with Courtney Whitmore.

We're allies now.

- You liar. - No, it's true.

You know, ever since the first grade, I always admired you.

Envied you, really.

I never dreamed the straight-A poster girl for progress

would fall this far.

- If you and Courtney are working together,

I can't believe how far she's fallen.

- You kept Henry's photo?

Even after he sent yours to everyone?

- Hey, shut up.

- You remember that one day,

you gave your acceptance speech for class president,

and all your photos got texted to everyone's phones?

- I said shut up. - Yeah, that wasn't Henry.

That was me.

- Hmm.

That's the fighter I used to see.

- Get out!

- Oh, I'm finished.

- Yolanda? What's going on up there?

- Nothing, Mom.

Hey--

- So you see why I need the pen back.

Besides, I did have it before you.

- And someone else had The Thunderbolt before you.

The fact is he's had like a billion different people--

- Look, I didn't mean to give it up.

- Then why did you?

- I just said I kind of wished he was in better hands.

- Wait. What?

You thought I was better hands?

- I don't know.

The Thunderbolt must have read my mind or something,

but he messed up and picked you.

How exactly am I better hands?

- I don't know.

I mean, you're more organized than me,

and you do finish your route early,

which some people tend to like.

But don't get too confident, all right?

The bar is very low.

- The Thunderbolt's not just about the wishes.

I haven't had fun hanging out with somebody in forever.

- Okay, but listen.

If you want to keep the pen, fine.

I get it.

But then you've got the responsibility

that comes with it.

You gotta help us save the world.

- Jakeem.

It's your turn to do the dishes.

- I'm busy right now!

I have to save the world.

- Dad! Jakeem won't do the dishes!

- Okay, okay, okay, okay. I'll be right down.

- Losers.

- Before we go save the world, can you help me do the dishes?

Stay out of trouble, okay?

- Thought you might need a ride.

- They said my uncle dropped the charges?

Why?

- No idea. Jump in.

- We got this.

Hey, you okay?

- Courtney, you have a visitor.

- Thanks, Ms. Whitmore. - Yeah. You're welcome.

- Yolanda. - Are you out of your mind?

- Maybe?

- You asked Cindy Burman to help you stop Eclipso?

- Okay, that's not exactly accurate.

But we all need to work together.

- She'll stab you in the back the first chance she gets.

You know that, right?

She might still be working with Eclipso.

- That's definitely not happening.

After what he did to her.

Hey, remember when we first met?

"The enemy of my enemy is my friend"?

- The only reason I'm back

is to protect everyone from that psycho.

Once she's gone, so am I.

- Yeah. Okay. - Okay.

- Got it.

- Where's my suit?

- I see you.

Can you see me?

- What do you want, new girl?

- You knew exactly what you were doing

going to see Yolanda.

- Yeah. Played her like a fiddle.

- Why? - Does it matter?

She's back, isn't she?

- She's gonna last longer than you.

She's already embraced her dark side.

Yolanda unleashes it when she fights.

She gives into it, and you better do the same.

Get dirty.

Just like the old JSA did.

- How did you know that? - I do my research.

When it comes to Eclipso,

you have to fight fire with fire.

You have to be bad to defeat evil.

- You finally decided to pick up, hmm?

Yes, it's me.

You all need to come back to Blue Valley.

- The goggles are still freezing up.

We need a bigger computer system to help find Eclipso.

- The ISA mainframe is in here?

- There's a lot to fill you in on, but yeah.

My dad's always the last one at work.

He can help us get in.

- Hi.

- I've been waiting for you.

- I hope you're not still mad at me...

for what I did to your little girl.

- You can drop the act. We see you for what you are.

- And I see you for what you are.

- I just sent a trouble alert. Everyone's coming.

- That's what I was hoping for. Because I need you all here.

It only works if you're all here.

- What works?

- Finding the darkness within.

- The darkness within what?

- Courtney Whitmore.

- Soon, I will feed...

on your entire world.

And I will become your god.

No!

- Greg, move your head.