Green Lantern: The Animated Series (2011–2013): Season 1, Episode 24 - Scarred - full transcript
The Green Lanterns pick up a Guardian of the Universe, who has been disfigured and is acting very strangely.
Captioning made possible by
warner bros. Animation
- Previously on
"green lantern"...
- I now understand that
the best thing I can do
for the universe
Is to eliminate all life.
- She's vaporizing
star systems now.
If we can't get her
to listen to sense,
We might not have
a choice but to--
- Do what? Kill her?
- This thing has now become
more dangerous
Than the manhunter
and anti-monitor
threats combined.
Congratulations, 2814,
you're outdone yourself.
- Please. Blame is
irrelevant and unproductive.
We need to find a way
to stop the threat at hand.
- Wait a minute.
Didn't the guardians
create aya?
If anyone knows how to
turn her off, it'd be you.
- Turn her off?
- In order to fix her.
- We are well aware
of that fact, 2814.
The guardian who constructed
aya was our science director.
I believe you stood
idly by
While the anti-monitor
killed her.
- What about her records?
Did she leave anything behind
That would allow us
to reboot aya?
- It appears the science
director kept no records
whatsoever
About aya or anything else.
- Are you sure
you looked everywhere,
Uncovered every stone?
We can help with
the investigation.
- That will not
be necessary.
The council no longer requires
your assistance in this matter.
You got us into
this petal, 2814,
But it will be the guardians
who get us out.
- Appa, don't do this.
You're making a huge mistake.
- You are dismissed.
- Then it's hopeless.
- Not necessarily.
This isn't the first time
the guardians have kicked
me off an assignment.
Right, kilowog?
- Oh, boy.
How do I let you talk me
into these things, jordan?
- Because I'm the best
and brightest recruit
you've ever had.
- And evidently
the most delusional.
- Act casual.
- [whistles]
- There it is,
the science director's quarters.
- That hole in the wall?
I always thought
that was a bathroom.
- I can usually pop a lock
with a credit card.
Usually.
- Here, let me try mine.
[grunts]
- The guardians couldn't
locate her records.
What makes you think
we'll find them strewn
around her chamber?
- One, I hid my lantern battery
in a smelly locker for years
Before my boss
every found out.
Two, I'm out of ideas.
Look for anything
that could help--
Journals, notebooks.
Very cool.
- It looks like
an exact model
of the system.
- Not quite.
These planets are
out of alignment.
- Thank you, kilowog's ocd.
[alarm sounds]
- Warning. Guardian quarters
have been breached.
- Jordan.
- What kind of a weirdo
builds a secret
underground layer
Filled with advanced
tech like this?
- Someone who wants
to hide something.
- What do you think
that is?
- Weird.
Our rings are supposed to
translate anything,
But it can't seem
to decipher this.
- That's because it's written
in ancient malthusian,
Our sacred language.
- This isn't exactly
what it looks like.
- It looks like you've
broken into a guardian's
personal living space
And discovered a hidden
inner sanctum.
- Then I guess it's exactly
what it looks like.
- You have done well,
hal jordan.
I believe you have
discovered the science
director's journal.
Nothing. There is no
information about aya
at all here.
- Wait. My malthusian stinks,
but I can read a map.
These looks like coordinates.
- Very astute, hal jordan.
That is correct.
- But why write it
in a language almost
nobody understands?
What was she hiding?
- Do not try to escape.
I know you're down there.
Green lanterns
caught trespassing
Into guardian's
living quarters
Will be court-martialed
and placed in a science cell.
Prepare to be locked away
for a very, very long time.
Sayd?
- We should be
looking for aya,
Not rushing to some
random location.
We don't even know
what we'll find there.
- I know a clue
when I see one.
- Dropping out of
ultrawarp now.
Welcome to
the planetoid vorga.
Would you like me
to conduct a tour of
the planetoid vorga?
There are thousands of
sedimentary rock layers
indigenous to--
- Lanos, would you do me
a favor and shut up?
- Happy to be of service.
- [growls]
[growls]
[all growling]
- Wait a minute.
Is it me or are those
asteroids moving at us?
- It's a tight squeeze,
yeah,
But don't worry,
I'm a trained professional.
- Lanos, you're supposed to
warn us about hostiles.
- Previously you asked me
to shut up.
I successfully executed
your orders.
- We need more speed.
- Warning. Hostiles
now devouring my tail.
This is contrary to
normal operating parameters.
- Got to shake them off.
- Or better yet,
take them with me.
- How could you know
that they would burn off
in the atmosphere?
- Instinct, razer.
Pure instinct.
- Which means he had
no clue at all.
- None whatsoever.
- Honing in on coordinates.
There.
- Stay alert.
There's no telling
what other surprises
could be out there.
You in the shadows.
No reason to be afraid.
We're green lanterns
sent here on an urgent mission.
- I know who you are.
- You?
We thought you were dead.
- Not dead...
Merely scarred.
- I've been expecting you.
- But we saw the anti-monitor
blast you into space dust.
- Eons ago, the guardians
possessed tremendous power--
Telepathy, teleportation.
We dared think ourselves
as gods.
But after the great folly
that brought forth
the anti-monitor,
The council thought it best
to permanently block our powers.
- But you never did.
- And you should be grateful.
Had I not confronted
the anti-monitor,
We'd have all been vaporized.
When I knew I was outmatched,
I teleported to
this safe haven,
Almost unscathed.
- Well, once we get back to oa,
I'm sure they can--
- No. The guardians would not
welcome my return.
Besides, I can do more
to stop the anti-monitor
Unencumbered by the council.
- About that,
The good news is
the anti-monitor had
its head blown off.
- Excellent.
- Yeah.
The bad news is it was
aya who did it,
Right after switching
off her emotions
And going bat guano nuts.
- And right before
using the anti-monitor's body
To start vaporizing
star systems herself.
- Do you now finally understand
why you should never
Have prevented me
from deactivating her?
- I...
We didn't know what
she was capable of.
- Of course not.
How could a mind
such as yours
Anticipate that which
I myself failed to see?
The guardians tasked me
to create an artificial
intelligence
That could understand
and empathize with
emotional beings
Rather than destroy them
like the manhunters.
The challenge was
nearly impossible,
even for me.
I devised the most
sophisticated computer
ever created.
And yet it was still
only a machine.
It required something more.
I developed a theory.
All that was missing
was the spark of life.
Unbeknownst to anyone,
I extracted a portion
of the entity
Dwelling inside
the central battery.
- Hold on.
There's something living
in the central battery?
- Few know of its existence.
A creature that embodies
the very essence of willpower
And fuels the entire
green lantern corps.
I required but a sliver
of that being
To complete my experiment.
I was right, of course.
And alas, what you call
aya was born.
- Query.
Is anyone there?
- I'm here.
Welcome to existence.
She was an impressive
creation.
But there was a problem.
[rapid beeping]
What are you doing?
I forbade you to upload data
without my permission.
You will stop immediately.
- I require information
to understand the universe
and myself.
- I am your creator.
And I order you to stop.
- I have even accessed
your files, creator.
According to the records,
the guardians blocked
their innate powers eons ago,
Yet you never did.
Why?
- The same spark of life
which allowed her
to comprehend emotion
Had also developed
curiosity and freewill.
Something had to be done.
Aah!
- Negative.
I will not allow you
to deactivate me.
- Uhh!
Ahh!
I was forced
to wipe her memory,
Then blocked her emotions
from her logic processing unit,
Rendering her emotional
capabilities inert.
- You firewalled her feelings.
- And then installed her
in the "interceptor"
as the navcom.
- The vessel required
a sophisticated system.
I could not have foreseen
that exposure to your crew
Would render my fail-safes
inoperative.
- This is good news.
You're telling us that
aya is actually alive.
If her essence came
from a living being,
Then aya is a living being.
We can reactivate her emotions,
appeal to her.
- It might be possible.
But we would need something
to enable us to get close enough
Without being killed.
- Hey, wait a minute,
that's it.
What's the one thing
that depowers a
green lantern's ring?
- Orrum.
- Exactly.
Back on the spider guild prism,
She could hardly stand up
around the stuff.
- Perhaps together we could
construct a warhead.
- A bomb? We're not
going to kill her.
She's alive.
- Of course not.
We'll use a missile
to disperse enough orrum
To paralyze her upon impact.
- Think of it as
a giant tranquilizer dart.
I like it.
- Unfortunately, orrum is
one of the rarest elements
in this universe.
It would require an enormous
quantity to confront the a.I.
- Lady, this is
your lucky day.
- I feel for the kid.
Can't be using building
a bomb to use against
the love of your life.
- Tranquilizer dart.
Remember?
- This is the last batch.
It seems like a lot.
Are you sure this won't
destroy her?
- I did not become
the science director of oa
By making miscalculations.
Do you want your aya back,
or do you not?
The reconion shell
will block the orrum's effect
On both the ship
and yourselves.
- There's just
one last problem.
How do we find her?
- That will not be as difficult
as you may believe.
- Oh.
- It appears the a.I.
Hasn't detected us.
She's focusing solely
on converting that matter
to energy.
- Let's get this done.
Razer?
- Keep her distracted
until we can move into position.
- Poor kid.
- Aya.
You need to stop, aya.
You're tearing
this system apart.
- I am making the universe
a more stable environment.
It is necessary.
- Move close enough
to ensure accuracy.
We can't afford to miss.
- How can you say this
wanton destruction
And loss of life
is acceptable?
- You are operating
under a false assumption
While making an emotional
appeal to a nature
I do not possess.
- But you do, aya.
You did care once.
And I know you can again.
- I will not reverse
my development.
Emotions produce pain.
Pain is undesirable.
Therefore all pain and emotions
should not exist.
- Pain lets us know
we are alive.
- Your statement proves
that life is an error
Which must be corrected.
- Aya, you need
to know something,
Something I learned
about your existence.
- Hurry, before she suspects.
- Just a few more seconds.
Razer isn't out of
blast radius yet.
- How unfortunate.
- What are you doing?
Razer, get out of there!
You never meant
to stop her.
That missile had enough
explosive to rip a planet
in half.
- I knew you didn't have
the strength to do
what was needed.
- Why, you little lyin'--
- Spare me your
emotional sanctimony.
Aya is too powerful to exist.
You know this but
would have done nothing.
I have saved countless lives.
- And razer?
- Inconsequential.
A necessary sacrifice.
- [grunts]
- You dare!
- Are you crazy?
[groaning]
- You delude yourself.
I am a guardian.
I am the heir to power,
The likes of which
you cannot fathom.
You are a brief candle
upon this plane,
A wee mortal.
You know nothing.
- [groans]
- You tried to kill me.
- Aya, that was never
the plan.
We only hoped to--aah!
- [groaning]
- Last words?
- Brace yourself.
- Uhh!
Aah!
- [grunts]
We have to get out of here.
- On the contrary.
I have to get out of here.
- [grunts]
I'm sorry, aya.
- Initiating ultrawarp
protocols.
- Soon all organic life
will be less than a memory,
As will you.
- You should get to
a safe distance.
I can take it from here.
- Good-bye, lanos.
- No!
- [groans]
What happened?
- You killed her! Aah!
[both grunting]
- No. No, I didn't.
If that missile
didn't kill her,
The ultrawarp won't either.
All I did was buy us
some time.
- Does it matter?
We've lost her.
- Chin up, kid.
All we lost was the battle,
Not the war.
Be glad we're alive
to fight another day.
- Another day.
If we don't figure out
how to stop aya soon,
There won't be many
of those left.
Captioning made possible by
warner bros. Animation
warner bros. Animation
- Previously on
"green lantern"...
- I now understand that
the best thing I can do
for the universe
Is to eliminate all life.
- She's vaporizing
star systems now.
If we can't get her
to listen to sense,
We might not have
a choice but to--
- Do what? Kill her?
- This thing has now become
more dangerous
Than the manhunter
and anti-monitor
threats combined.
Congratulations, 2814,
you're outdone yourself.
- Please. Blame is
irrelevant and unproductive.
We need to find a way
to stop the threat at hand.
- Wait a minute.
Didn't the guardians
create aya?
If anyone knows how to
turn her off, it'd be you.
- Turn her off?
- In order to fix her.
- We are well aware
of that fact, 2814.
The guardian who constructed
aya was our science director.
I believe you stood
idly by
While the anti-monitor
killed her.
- What about her records?
Did she leave anything behind
That would allow us
to reboot aya?
- It appears the science
director kept no records
whatsoever
About aya or anything else.
- Are you sure
you looked everywhere,
Uncovered every stone?
We can help with
the investigation.
- That will not
be necessary.
The council no longer requires
your assistance in this matter.
You got us into
this petal, 2814,
But it will be the guardians
who get us out.
- Appa, don't do this.
You're making a huge mistake.
- You are dismissed.
- Then it's hopeless.
- Not necessarily.
This isn't the first time
the guardians have kicked
me off an assignment.
Right, kilowog?
- Oh, boy.
How do I let you talk me
into these things, jordan?
- Because I'm the best
and brightest recruit
you've ever had.
- And evidently
the most delusional.
- Act casual.
- [whistles]
- There it is,
the science director's quarters.
- That hole in the wall?
I always thought
that was a bathroom.
- I can usually pop a lock
with a credit card.
Usually.
- Here, let me try mine.
[grunts]
- The guardians couldn't
locate her records.
What makes you think
we'll find them strewn
around her chamber?
- One, I hid my lantern battery
in a smelly locker for years
Before my boss
every found out.
Two, I'm out of ideas.
Look for anything
that could help--
Journals, notebooks.
Very cool.
- It looks like
an exact model
of the system.
- Not quite.
These planets are
out of alignment.
- Thank you, kilowog's ocd.
[alarm sounds]
- Warning. Guardian quarters
have been breached.
- Jordan.
- What kind of a weirdo
builds a secret
underground layer
Filled with advanced
tech like this?
- Someone who wants
to hide something.
- What do you think
that is?
- Weird.
Our rings are supposed to
translate anything,
But it can't seem
to decipher this.
- That's because it's written
in ancient malthusian,
Our sacred language.
- This isn't exactly
what it looks like.
- It looks like you've
broken into a guardian's
personal living space
And discovered a hidden
inner sanctum.
- Then I guess it's exactly
what it looks like.
- You have done well,
hal jordan.
I believe you have
discovered the science
director's journal.
Nothing. There is no
information about aya
at all here.
- Wait. My malthusian stinks,
but I can read a map.
These looks like coordinates.
- Very astute, hal jordan.
That is correct.
- But why write it
in a language almost
nobody understands?
What was she hiding?
- Do not try to escape.
I know you're down there.
Green lanterns
caught trespassing
Into guardian's
living quarters
Will be court-martialed
and placed in a science cell.
Prepare to be locked away
for a very, very long time.
Sayd?
- We should be
looking for aya,
Not rushing to some
random location.
We don't even know
what we'll find there.
- I know a clue
when I see one.
- Dropping out of
ultrawarp now.
Welcome to
the planetoid vorga.
Would you like me
to conduct a tour of
the planetoid vorga?
There are thousands of
sedimentary rock layers
indigenous to--
- Lanos, would you do me
a favor and shut up?
- Happy to be of service.
- [growls]
[growls]
[all growling]
- Wait a minute.
Is it me or are those
asteroids moving at us?
- It's a tight squeeze,
yeah,
But don't worry,
I'm a trained professional.
- Lanos, you're supposed to
warn us about hostiles.
- Previously you asked me
to shut up.
I successfully executed
your orders.
- We need more speed.
- Warning. Hostiles
now devouring my tail.
This is contrary to
normal operating parameters.
- Got to shake them off.
- Or better yet,
take them with me.
- How could you know
that they would burn off
in the atmosphere?
- Instinct, razer.
Pure instinct.
- Which means he had
no clue at all.
- None whatsoever.
- Honing in on coordinates.
There.
- Stay alert.
There's no telling
what other surprises
could be out there.
You in the shadows.
No reason to be afraid.
We're green lanterns
sent here on an urgent mission.
- I know who you are.
- You?
We thought you were dead.
- Not dead...
Merely scarred.
- I've been expecting you.
- But we saw the anti-monitor
blast you into space dust.
- Eons ago, the guardians
possessed tremendous power--
Telepathy, teleportation.
We dared think ourselves
as gods.
But after the great folly
that brought forth
the anti-monitor,
The council thought it best
to permanently block our powers.
- But you never did.
- And you should be grateful.
Had I not confronted
the anti-monitor,
We'd have all been vaporized.
When I knew I was outmatched,
I teleported to
this safe haven,
Almost unscathed.
- Well, once we get back to oa,
I'm sure they can--
- No. The guardians would not
welcome my return.
Besides, I can do more
to stop the anti-monitor
Unencumbered by the council.
- About that,
The good news is
the anti-monitor had
its head blown off.
- Excellent.
- Yeah.
The bad news is it was
aya who did it,
Right after switching
off her emotions
And going bat guano nuts.
- And right before
using the anti-monitor's body
To start vaporizing
star systems herself.
- Do you now finally understand
why you should never
Have prevented me
from deactivating her?
- I...
We didn't know what
she was capable of.
- Of course not.
How could a mind
such as yours
Anticipate that which
I myself failed to see?
The guardians tasked me
to create an artificial
intelligence
That could understand
and empathize with
emotional beings
Rather than destroy them
like the manhunters.
The challenge was
nearly impossible,
even for me.
I devised the most
sophisticated computer
ever created.
And yet it was still
only a machine.
It required something more.
I developed a theory.
All that was missing
was the spark of life.
Unbeknownst to anyone,
I extracted a portion
of the entity
Dwelling inside
the central battery.
- Hold on.
There's something living
in the central battery?
- Few know of its existence.
A creature that embodies
the very essence of willpower
And fuels the entire
green lantern corps.
I required but a sliver
of that being
To complete my experiment.
I was right, of course.
And alas, what you call
aya was born.
- Query.
Is anyone there?
- I'm here.
Welcome to existence.
She was an impressive
creation.
But there was a problem.
[rapid beeping]
What are you doing?
I forbade you to upload data
without my permission.
You will stop immediately.
- I require information
to understand the universe
and myself.
- I am your creator.
And I order you to stop.
- I have even accessed
your files, creator.
According to the records,
the guardians blocked
their innate powers eons ago,
Yet you never did.
Why?
- The same spark of life
which allowed her
to comprehend emotion
Had also developed
curiosity and freewill.
Something had to be done.
Aah!
- Negative.
I will not allow you
to deactivate me.
- Uhh!
Ahh!
I was forced
to wipe her memory,
Then blocked her emotions
from her logic processing unit,
Rendering her emotional
capabilities inert.
- You firewalled her feelings.
- And then installed her
in the "interceptor"
as the navcom.
- The vessel required
a sophisticated system.
I could not have foreseen
that exposure to your crew
Would render my fail-safes
inoperative.
- This is good news.
You're telling us that
aya is actually alive.
If her essence came
from a living being,
Then aya is a living being.
We can reactivate her emotions,
appeal to her.
- It might be possible.
But we would need something
to enable us to get close enough
Without being killed.
- Hey, wait a minute,
that's it.
What's the one thing
that depowers a
green lantern's ring?
- Orrum.
- Exactly.
Back on the spider guild prism,
She could hardly stand up
around the stuff.
- Perhaps together we could
construct a warhead.
- A bomb? We're not
going to kill her.
She's alive.
- Of course not.
We'll use a missile
to disperse enough orrum
To paralyze her upon impact.
- Think of it as
a giant tranquilizer dart.
I like it.
- Unfortunately, orrum is
one of the rarest elements
in this universe.
It would require an enormous
quantity to confront the a.I.
- Lady, this is
your lucky day.
- I feel for the kid.
Can't be using building
a bomb to use against
the love of your life.
- Tranquilizer dart.
Remember?
- This is the last batch.
It seems like a lot.
Are you sure this won't
destroy her?
- I did not become
the science director of oa
By making miscalculations.
Do you want your aya back,
or do you not?
The reconion shell
will block the orrum's effect
On both the ship
and yourselves.
- There's just
one last problem.
How do we find her?
- That will not be as difficult
as you may believe.
- Oh.
- It appears the a.I.
Hasn't detected us.
She's focusing solely
on converting that matter
to energy.
- Let's get this done.
Razer?
- Keep her distracted
until we can move into position.
- Poor kid.
- Aya.
You need to stop, aya.
You're tearing
this system apart.
- I am making the universe
a more stable environment.
It is necessary.
- Move close enough
to ensure accuracy.
We can't afford to miss.
- How can you say this
wanton destruction
And loss of life
is acceptable?
- You are operating
under a false assumption
While making an emotional
appeal to a nature
I do not possess.
- But you do, aya.
You did care once.
And I know you can again.
- I will not reverse
my development.
Emotions produce pain.
Pain is undesirable.
Therefore all pain and emotions
should not exist.
- Pain lets us know
we are alive.
- Your statement proves
that life is an error
Which must be corrected.
- Aya, you need
to know something,
Something I learned
about your existence.
- Hurry, before she suspects.
- Just a few more seconds.
Razer isn't out of
blast radius yet.
- How unfortunate.
- What are you doing?
Razer, get out of there!
You never meant
to stop her.
That missile had enough
explosive to rip a planet
in half.
- I knew you didn't have
the strength to do
what was needed.
- Why, you little lyin'--
- Spare me your
emotional sanctimony.
Aya is too powerful to exist.
You know this but
would have done nothing.
I have saved countless lives.
- And razer?
- Inconsequential.
A necessary sacrifice.
- [grunts]
- You dare!
- Are you crazy?
[groaning]
- You delude yourself.
I am a guardian.
I am the heir to power,
The likes of which
you cannot fathom.
You are a brief candle
upon this plane,
A wee mortal.
You know nothing.
- [groans]
- You tried to kill me.
- Aya, that was never
the plan.
We only hoped to--aah!
- [groaning]
- Last words?
- Brace yourself.
- Uhh!
Aah!
- [grunts]
We have to get out of here.
- On the contrary.
I have to get out of here.
- [grunts]
I'm sorry, aya.
- Initiating ultrawarp
protocols.
- Soon all organic life
will be less than a memory,
As will you.
- You should get to
a safe distance.
I can take it from here.
- Good-bye, lanos.
- No!
- [groans]
What happened?
- You killed her! Aah!
[both grunting]
- No. No, I didn't.
If that missile
didn't kill her,
The ultrawarp won't either.
All I did was buy us
some time.
- Does it matter?
We've lost her.
- Chin up, kid.
All we lost was the battle,
Not the war.
Be glad we're alive
to fight another day.
- Another day.
If we don't figure out
how to stop aya soon,
There won't be many
of those left.
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