Stargirl (2020–…): Season 3, Episode 11 - Frenemies - Chapter Eleven: The Haunting - full transcript
Rick: [grunting]
Courtney: Let him go!
[all grunting]
James: You even hit Courtney.
Rick: It was an accident!
Beth: But you haven't been
acting like yourself, Rick.
It's that hourglass.
You've been wearing
it for too long.
Mike: Come with
us. Cindy: I can't.
I think that thing
is one of my dad's
crazy science experiments.
[creature growling]
[dramatic music]
Jakeem: It was a
giant mutant gorilla.
Mike: Yeah, a white one.
Courtney: If the Ultra-Humanite
is as powerful as you say,
it'll take everyone to stop him,
including the Mahkents.
♪ ♪
Larry: What the hell?
Paula: What is this?
Larry: [gasps]
♪ ♪
Jason: At least
you'll die together.
♪ ♪
Courtney: He killed people
to get what he wanted,
and he was about to
kill so many more.
Cameron: Who killed my father?
Courtney: I did it.
[somber music]
♪ ♪
[people grunting]
[staff crackling, warbling]
[dramatic music]
- Court!
♪ ♪
- I won't let you stop me.
- Courtney!
- You can never save America.
You're filled with
too much hate.
- [screaming]
♪ ♪
- Ah! Gotcha.
[both panting]
- [gasping]
- You saved my life.
- Just returning the favor.
[triumphant music]
♪ ♪
[dramatic music]
- [shouts]
[tires screeching]
- Does this mean I
get to be in JSA?
[dog barks]
[triumphant music]
♪ ♪
[bell ringing]
[ice crackling]
[ominous music]
♪ ♪
[water trickling]
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
[birds chirping]
[unsettling music]
♪ ♪
[indistinct chatter]
- What the hell?
- What's going on, man?
- What?
- Man, it's leg day.
♪ ♪
[mysterious music]
♪ ♪
- [bellows]
♪ ♪
[panting]
- The Ultra-Humanite
killed The Gambler.
He tore into his
trailer and stabbed him
in the heart with a claw.
- Didn't see any claws.
More likely his teeth.
- They were big and sharp.
- However he was killed,
this is exactly why I've been
asking us to work together.
Whether you belong to
the JSA or the ISA,
our town needs us again.
Now, I know putting
the past behind us
has been challenging
for everybody.
- Yeah. Me especially.
- But you're working
at it, Sylvester,
and well, that's what matters.
- And we've made progress.
The Crocks are with us,
and I think we can get
Cindy back on board.
- Why are we bothering
with Cindy again?
- Because she's
already on the hunt
for the Ultra-Humanite.
So she might know
what he's up to.
- Cindy seemed pretty
firm about working solo.
- Whatever grand plan the
Ultra-Humanite might have,
if history's taught us anything,
it's that it'll involve
hurting a lot of people,
including us.
'Cause, guys...[chuckles]
This ain't no Donkey Kong.
- Yeah. If we don't stop him,
it'll be game over.
[imitates video game music]
1981, guys.
[laughter]
- You know, you don't
have to do a joke
on top of every joke that I do.
- It's called banter, Pat.
All superheroes use it
during stressful situations
to defuse tension.
- I know. It just seems
like you feel like you
always gotta get the last word
in on me... just, you know...
- I don't know what
you're talking about.
- See? Right there.
You're doing it.
- Oh, is this what
you want? No banter?
Just an overly
serious conversation
that scares the hell
out of everyone?
- Guys, stop.
- Sorry, Barb.
- Sorry, Barb.
- Okay, banter aside, we
need the Mahkents too.
And we need Cameron.
- You mean you do.
- He's as powerful
as his father was.
- Yeah, but if we all team up
and then the Mahkents
put me on ice
because they figured out
that I ran their son over...
- They won't.
- How do you know that?
- Because they think
I killed Jordan.
- What?
- Why do they think that?
- It's not important.
[pounding on door]
[tense music]
♪ ♪
- Careful.
♪ ♪
- Have you seen my parents?
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- [grunting softly]
[breathes deeply]
[mysterious music]
♪ ♪
[doorbell rings]
- Mother.
- Jordan?
[speaking Norwegian]
Oh! Oh!
[stirring music]
- [speaking Norwegian]
♪ ♪
- [speaking Norwegian]
- Papa!
♪ ♪
- Dad?
[tense music]
♪ ♪
- Cameron.
I'm home.
♪ ♪
- [sighs]
[somber music]
I brought one of these back
from every business
trip I ever took...
like a trophy.
♪ ♪
Your mother used to love how
simple, and yet beautiful,
the worlds inside of them are.
Collecting these
after she died...
[sighs]
Was my way of honoring her.
One is missing.
- Where have you been, Dad?
- When I was hit, I lost
not only my form,
but all self-awareness.
I had no consciousness.
Just... dreams.
Dreams of you, of your
mother, of our family.
It took everything
I had to reform.
- Why didn't you heal here?
Why let us think you were dead?
- Son...
I was trying to protect you.
- Protect me from what?
♪ ♪
- Your grandparents,
they explained
everything to you, right?
Our family was hunted
for generations.
To bring you into that history
would've put you in danger,
because once you
knew... [grunts softly]
[tense music]
[clears throat]
[panting]
I know how hard it
is to keep our secret
from those you hold close.
♪ ♪
You told Courtney.
Then this happened.
- Courtney told me she was
the one who killed you.
- But she failed.
- No, Mother.
It wasn't Courtney who did it.
It was her brother.
- Mike?
Then why would she tell me that?
- To protect him.
But that's all in the past now.
And I've forgiven him.
♪ ♪
I've forgiven all of
them, because they believe
what they were doing was right.
And after what happened,
my powers are somehow
even stronger.
♪ ♪
- Courtney says you've
killed people, Dad.
- My goal was only
ever to help people.
You know that.
You know me.
- I thought I did.
♪ ♪
- Son...
[sighs]
My son,
almost losing my life,
almost losing you,
and listening to
Courtney Whitmore,
it made me look at my past
actions in a different light.
Courtney's group and I,
we... we want the same thing.
We could just never agree on
how we should achieve that.
But I think maybe now we can.
- Yes, Father.
I want peace.
- Guys, I've picked up a signal
from Sportsmaster's mask.
It's coming from
under Blue Valley,
and I think I've
found an access point.
♪ ♪
[scraping]
[clank]
♪ ♪
- Hold up, Artemis.
- Where's Rick?
- He didn't return my calls.
- Well, we can't wait for him.
- Do you think the Mahkents
did anything to the Crocks
or maybe that animal did?
- If that white ape
hurt my parents,
I'm gonna skin it alive.
- The signal's getting stronger.
We're on the right path.
There it is, behind that door.
- Maybe we should suit up.
- Where's the staff?
- Sylvester has it.
He's trying to get on the
Ultra-Humanite's trail.
Artemis, wait!
- Mom? Dad?
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- This is command central
for our peeping Tom.
- But who was it?
- Ultra-Humanite?
- This room's too small
for a giant mutant gorilla.
- Look.
- What is that?
- Oh, my God.
- What, Beth?
- Courtney...
these are human remains.
- [gasps]
[somber music]
♪ ♪
- [sobbing]
- Artemis. Hey.
- [screams]
♪ ♪
[screaming]
♪ ♪
[hissing]
[clanking, whirring]
[phone buzzing]
- Hey, Court.
- [speaking indistinctly]
[tense music]
♪ ♪
- Wh-what is it?
[somber music]
♪ ♪
- Barbara, you're
never gonna believe it.
- [softly] What?
- He's back!
He's back.
♪ ♪
- Hello, Barbara.
[uneasy music]
[applause]
♪ ♪
[ominous music]
♪ ♪
- It's good to see you, Barbara.
- [whispers] I saw you die.
- I know.
- How?
- I wasn't sure myself at first,
but it seems my abilities extend
beyond just creating ice.
I can somehow become it.
- What do you want?
- I want my life back.
My death can be explained
away easily enough
as misinformation after
a tragic accident.
- No one will believe it.
- They already have.
They want to believe it,
because the people of
Blue Valley love me.
I've lost a year of
my life, Barbara.
A year away from my son,
my parents, my work.
I know I can't get
that time back,
but I can put the
past behind me,
start over, rebuild.
Trust me, Barbara.
I'm a changed man.
- I've seen who you are, Jordan.
[tense music]
You're pure evil.
You'll never change.
- But I have.
And who do we have to thank?
It's ironic, maybe, or fitting.
Your daughter, Courtney,
showed me it was possible.
She believes in people in
a way that I never did.
- Yeah. In a way
that you never will.
- But I want to.
I wanna wipe the slate clean.
And to show I mean business,
I am willing to help the JSA
take down the Ultra-Humanite.
- How do you know about that?
- I've been watching Blue
Valley for some time.
That creature followed
Sylvester Pemberton here.
The Ultra-Humanite hated the ISA
just as much as the JSA,
because we refused to accept
him into our organization.
- He didn't freeze
Crusher and Paula.
It was you.
- I didn't want to, Barbara.
I didn't set out to.
They came in, and
it happened so fast.
It was terrible,
but it can end there.
All of it.
When you're ready
to accept my help
against the Ultra-Humanite,
let me know.
♪ ♪
It really is good
to see you, Barbara.
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
[staff warbling]
[tense music]
♪ ♪
- Come out, come out,
wherever you are,
you damn dirty ape.
[staff warbling]
[earpiece chirping]
- Sylvester?
- Yeah.
- I've been trying to call you.
- Reception's
spotty. What's up?
- We found the Crocks.
What's left of them.
- What? The Ultra-Humanite?
- No.
Icicle's back.
♪ ♪
- I thought Icicle was dead.
- He's already gone public.
Showed up at the American Dream.
We need to regroup.
[staff warbling]
Sylvester?
- [shouts]
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
[loud thumping, clanging]
- Hey, calm down, all
right? Just take it easy.
- I'm taking Icicle out
the first chance I get.
- Executing him is not
the way to handle it...
- That creep killed me!
- I know. I was there.
- Jordan Mahkent put
me in the ground.
- And I buried you,
and I don't want to do it again.
- And all this talk about
unity and second chances?
We gotta draw the
line somewhere,
and Icicle is it!
- But we have to act
together as a team.
- Why bother?
You tried that before,
and Icicle is... surprise...
Not dead!
- But we all thought
that he was dead.
- Well, you should
have made sure.
You gotta check your work, Pat.
If you had, none of
this would be happening.
- I'm just saying we
have to have a plan.
There's a way to take
care of Jordan Mahkent
and handle the Ultra-Humanite.
They're sworn enemies.
We can use that
to our advantage.
- You're not suggesting
we lean into this nonsense
Icicle's been spouting
off about teaming up
and letting things go?
Bygones, my ass!
- Hey, that's not
what I'm saying.
- The plan is this!
I'm taking out Icicle myself
whether anyone
approves of it or not.
[tense music]
♪ ♪
[knocking softly]
- What are you doing here?
- I know you heard.
My dad's back.
It's a miracle.
- It is...
surprising, yeah.
- I mean, it's... it's unreal.
It... it means
everything has changed.
- Nothing has changed.
Cameron, he's been
back for one day,
and Artemis's parents are dead.
- I know.
And that is... is awful, okay?
And he feels horrible about it,
but it was self-defense, okay?
He thought they
were attacking him.
- Why would they do that?
- He was wearing a mask,
a suit that was
helping him heal.
And they didn't know who he was,
so they probably just
jumped to conclusions...
- Your father hasn't
taken responsibility
for any of his actions.
He's accountable...
- Courtney, where was
the accountability
for the Crocks or Cindy?
How can you say they
deserve a second chance,
but my dad doesn't?
He wants us to live in peace,
as a family.
Isn't that what you want too?
- Did he send you here?
- No.
Courtney, no.
[soft music]
♪ ♪
Whatever happened before...
Between us, with my dad...
Things can be different now.
We can work together
like you always wanted.
He told me that.
Even my grandmother's agreed.
Let's just start over.
Please.
♪ ♪
Think about it.
♪ ♪
Okay.
[suspenseful music]
♪ ♪
- Okay. I got a good one.
- Okay. What is it?
- I'm gonna wish that Icicle
didn't have his powers.
- Yeah.
Yeah, that is a great idea.
'Cause then he can't
turn me into a popsicle,
and the team will
have no problem
dragging his ass to jail.
♪ ♪
- I wish that Jordan Mahkent,
the man also known more commonly
by the Justice Society
of America as Icicle,
and currently residing
in Blue Valley, Nebraska,
did not have the ability
to freeze me or my friends,
because he was just
a normal human being
without powers of any kind.
Amen.
- I'm sorry, Jakeem.
I can't do that.
- What? Why not?
- Because if I took
his powers away,
I'd kill him, and you
know I can't kill anyone.
- His powers are
keeping him alive?
What did you do to him?
- Well, I hit him with a truck.
Turned him into slush.
I saved everyone!
[grumbles]
Listen, you dumb pen!
You take his powers
away, and you kill him,
but if you don't
take his powers away,
you're killing way more people,
probably including me!
- I'm sorry.
I can't do what you're asking.
- All right. Well, we
need to keep thinking.
- You're gonna need
help with that.
- Cindy!
- By the way, the
doors were unlocked.
I could have been
Jordan Mahkent.
Where would you be then?
- Probably frozen.
- Burman, what are
you doing here?
- Well, with
everything going on,
I decided it's a lot
for anyone to do alone,
especially for you two.
So let's team up.
- [gasps]
♪ ♪
- Really?
- Yeah, sure. Why not?
- Welcome to the
Young All-Stars!
- Uh, yeah, we're gonna
have to work on that name.
- Okay.
[quirky music]
She's sitting on my bed.
- Smooth.
♪ ♪
[soft music]
♪ ♪
- He's a talented boy, my son.
Takes after his mother.
Hello, Courtney.
- Whatever you're doing,
whatever you're planning,
we're going to stop you.
♪ ♪
- I know you and Cameron
have been seeing each other.
- Of course you do.
You've been spying on us.
- My son is all
that matters to me.
And if you're important to him,
you're important to me.
I don't want to be
enemies, Courtney.
I want us to be allies.
I really do think we could
be a great team, you and I.
♪ ♪
I'll be honest.
Revenge was the first
thing that overtook me
when I first regained sentience.
But I see now that
vengeance has no purpose.
It's misguided.
Primitive, even.
And you helped me see that,
because the more I
watched you, Courtney,
the more I saw
who you truly are.
You've changed countless
hearts and minds.
The Shade, Cindy
Burman, the Crocks.
- Right before you killed them.
- Yes, that was
regrettable, but...
- You murdered
the Zarick family.
You tried to brainwash
half the country
and didn't care that
it would kill millions.
You murdered the JSA.
No one can just ignore that.
- I'm not asking you to forget.
I'm just hoping you'll forgive.
We can work together, all of us.
And then you and
Cameron can start again.
♪ ♪
Thanks for hearing me out.
♪ ♪
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
[soft music]
♪ ♪
- [sighs]
♪ ♪
[shouts]
[clattering, glass shattering]
[screaming]
[crying]
- Artemis?
[somber music]
♪ ♪
Come back over.
You can't be alone here.
[Fleurie's "Hurricane"]
- ♪ I can feel your heart ♪
♪ Hanging in the air ♪
♪ ♪
♪ I'm counting every step
as you climb the stairs ♪
♪ ♪
♪ It's buried in your bones ♪
♪ I see it in
your closed eyes ♪
♪ Turning in ♪
♪ This is harder
than we know ♪
♪ We hold it in the most
when we're wearing thin ♪
[line ringing]
♪ Coming like a hurricane ♪
- Yolanda?
- ♪ I take it in real slow ♪
- [speaking Spanish]
Hello?
- ♪ The world is spinning
like a weathervane ♪
♪ Fragile and composed ♪
- Yolanda?
Are you there?
- ♪ Though I am
breaking down ♪
- [speaking Spanish]
I only lied to protect you.
- ♪ Again ♪
What are you talking about?
- [crying]
- ♪ I am aching
now to let you in ♪
♪ ♪
- Yolanda?
- ♪ Seven times again ♪
I love you very much,mama.
♪ When you are not awake ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Seven times the flame,
too much to take ♪
♪ ♪
♪ I don't know how
it can change ♪
♪ ♪
♪ It's all we
know, all we know ♪
♪ The hurricane ♪
- Courtney should
be here any minute.
- She has to agree to this, Pat.
She has to.
- She doesn't have
to do anything.
- What am I supposed to do?
- Well, we're just...
We're just talking.
- I want to go after Icicle.
- Jordan says he wants
to work together.
- We all know that's a lie.
- What if it isn't?
- Oh, come on, Courtney.
After everything you've been
through since you've picked up
that staff, how can
you be that naive?
- Hey, Sylvester.
- I'm just saying,
he is just playing us
like he always has.
And if he's sworn enemies
with the Ultra-Humanite,
then Jordan Mahkent is using us
to save him from that monster.
I mean, hell, for all we know,
it came back to Blue Valley
looking for the ISA, not us.
After all the support
I've given you,
I'm asking you.
Let me take the staff
and face the man who
killed me and my friends.
[soft tense music]
♪ ♪
- Dad?
[mysterious music]
♪ ♪
[crashing, rumbling]
[owl hooting]
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- [growling]
♪ ♪
[growling continues]
♪ ♪
- It's time.
- [roars]
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- Greg, move your head.
Courtney: Let him go!
[all grunting]
James: You even hit Courtney.
Rick: It was an accident!
Beth: But you haven't been
acting like yourself, Rick.
It's that hourglass.
You've been wearing
it for too long.
Mike: Come with
us. Cindy: I can't.
I think that thing
is one of my dad's
crazy science experiments.
[creature growling]
[dramatic music]
Jakeem: It was a
giant mutant gorilla.
Mike: Yeah, a white one.
Courtney: If the Ultra-Humanite
is as powerful as you say,
it'll take everyone to stop him,
including the Mahkents.
♪ ♪
Larry: What the hell?
Paula: What is this?
Larry: [gasps]
♪ ♪
Jason: At least
you'll die together.
♪ ♪
Courtney: He killed people
to get what he wanted,
and he was about to
kill so many more.
Cameron: Who killed my father?
Courtney: I did it.
[somber music]
♪ ♪
[people grunting]
[staff crackling, warbling]
[dramatic music]
- Court!
♪ ♪
- I won't let you stop me.
- Courtney!
- You can never save America.
You're filled with
too much hate.
- [screaming]
♪ ♪
- Ah! Gotcha.
[both panting]
- [gasping]
- You saved my life.
- Just returning the favor.
[triumphant music]
♪ ♪
[dramatic music]
- [shouts]
[tires screeching]
- Does this mean I
get to be in JSA?
[dog barks]
[triumphant music]
♪ ♪
[bell ringing]
[ice crackling]
[ominous music]
♪ ♪
[water trickling]
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
[birds chirping]
[unsettling music]
♪ ♪
[indistinct chatter]
- What the hell?
- What's going on, man?
- What?
- Man, it's leg day.
♪ ♪
[mysterious music]
♪ ♪
- [bellows]
♪ ♪
[panting]
- The Ultra-Humanite
killed The Gambler.
He tore into his
trailer and stabbed him
in the heart with a claw.
- Didn't see any claws.
More likely his teeth.
- They were big and sharp.
- However he was killed,
this is exactly why I've been
asking us to work together.
Whether you belong to
the JSA or the ISA,
our town needs us again.
Now, I know putting
the past behind us
has been challenging
for everybody.
- Yeah. Me especially.
- But you're working
at it, Sylvester,
and well, that's what matters.
- And we've made progress.
The Crocks are with us,
and I think we can get
Cindy back on board.
- Why are we bothering
with Cindy again?
- Because she's
already on the hunt
for the Ultra-Humanite.
So she might know
what he's up to.
- Cindy seemed pretty
firm about working solo.
- Whatever grand plan the
Ultra-Humanite might have,
if history's taught us anything,
it's that it'll involve
hurting a lot of people,
including us.
'Cause, guys...[chuckles]
This ain't no Donkey Kong.
- Yeah. If we don't stop him,
it'll be game over.
[imitates video game music]
1981, guys.
[laughter]
- You know, you don't
have to do a joke
on top of every joke that I do.
- It's called banter, Pat.
All superheroes use it
during stressful situations
to defuse tension.
- I know. It just seems
like you feel like you
always gotta get the last word
in on me... just, you know...
- I don't know what
you're talking about.
- See? Right there.
You're doing it.
- Oh, is this what
you want? No banter?
Just an overly
serious conversation
that scares the hell
out of everyone?
- Guys, stop.
- Sorry, Barb.
- Sorry, Barb.
- Okay, banter aside, we
need the Mahkents too.
And we need Cameron.
- You mean you do.
- He's as powerful
as his father was.
- Yeah, but if we all team up
and then the Mahkents
put me on ice
because they figured out
that I ran their son over...
- They won't.
- How do you know that?
- Because they think
I killed Jordan.
- What?
- Why do they think that?
- It's not important.
[pounding on door]
[tense music]
♪ ♪
- Careful.
♪ ♪
- Have you seen my parents?
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- [grunting softly]
[breathes deeply]
[mysterious music]
♪ ♪
[doorbell rings]
- Mother.
- Jordan?
[speaking Norwegian]
Oh! Oh!
[stirring music]
- [speaking Norwegian]
♪ ♪
- [speaking Norwegian]
- Papa!
♪ ♪
- Dad?
[tense music]
♪ ♪
- Cameron.
I'm home.
♪ ♪
- [sighs]
[somber music]
I brought one of these back
from every business
trip I ever took...
like a trophy.
♪ ♪
Your mother used to love how
simple, and yet beautiful,
the worlds inside of them are.
Collecting these
after she died...
[sighs]
Was my way of honoring her.
One is missing.
- Where have you been, Dad?
- When I was hit, I lost
not only my form,
but all self-awareness.
I had no consciousness.
Just... dreams.
Dreams of you, of your
mother, of our family.
It took everything
I had to reform.
- Why didn't you heal here?
Why let us think you were dead?
- Son...
I was trying to protect you.
- Protect me from what?
♪ ♪
- Your grandparents,
they explained
everything to you, right?
Our family was hunted
for generations.
To bring you into that history
would've put you in danger,
because once you
knew... [grunts softly]
[tense music]
[clears throat]
[panting]
I know how hard it
is to keep our secret
from those you hold close.
♪ ♪
You told Courtney.
Then this happened.
- Courtney told me she was
the one who killed you.
- But she failed.
- No, Mother.
It wasn't Courtney who did it.
It was her brother.
- Mike?
Then why would she tell me that?
- To protect him.
But that's all in the past now.
And I've forgiven him.
♪ ♪
I've forgiven all of
them, because they believe
what they were doing was right.
And after what happened,
my powers are somehow
even stronger.
♪ ♪
- Courtney says you've
killed people, Dad.
- My goal was only
ever to help people.
You know that.
You know me.
- I thought I did.
♪ ♪
- Son...
[sighs]
My son,
almost losing my life,
almost losing you,
and listening to
Courtney Whitmore,
it made me look at my past
actions in a different light.
Courtney's group and I,
we... we want the same thing.
We could just never agree on
how we should achieve that.
But I think maybe now we can.
- Yes, Father.
I want peace.
- Guys, I've picked up a signal
from Sportsmaster's mask.
It's coming from
under Blue Valley,
and I think I've
found an access point.
♪ ♪
[scraping]
[clank]
♪ ♪
- Hold up, Artemis.
- Where's Rick?
- He didn't return my calls.
- Well, we can't wait for him.
- Do you think the Mahkents
did anything to the Crocks
or maybe that animal did?
- If that white ape
hurt my parents,
I'm gonna skin it alive.
- The signal's getting stronger.
We're on the right path.
There it is, behind that door.
- Maybe we should suit up.
- Where's the staff?
- Sylvester has it.
He's trying to get on the
Ultra-Humanite's trail.
Artemis, wait!
- Mom? Dad?
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- This is command central
for our peeping Tom.
- But who was it?
- Ultra-Humanite?
- This room's too small
for a giant mutant gorilla.
- Look.
- What is that?
- Oh, my God.
- What, Beth?
- Courtney...
these are human remains.
- [gasps]
[somber music]
♪ ♪
- [sobbing]
- Artemis. Hey.
- [screams]
♪ ♪
[screaming]
♪ ♪
[hissing]
[clanking, whirring]
[phone buzzing]
- Hey, Court.
- [speaking indistinctly]
[tense music]
♪ ♪
- Wh-what is it?
[somber music]
♪ ♪
- Barbara, you're
never gonna believe it.
- [softly] What?
- He's back!
He's back.
♪ ♪
- Hello, Barbara.
[uneasy music]
[applause]
♪ ♪
[ominous music]
♪ ♪
- It's good to see you, Barbara.
- [whispers] I saw you die.
- I know.
- How?
- I wasn't sure myself at first,
but it seems my abilities extend
beyond just creating ice.
I can somehow become it.
- What do you want?
- I want my life back.
My death can be explained
away easily enough
as misinformation after
a tragic accident.
- No one will believe it.
- They already have.
They want to believe it,
because the people of
Blue Valley love me.
I've lost a year of
my life, Barbara.
A year away from my son,
my parents, my work.
I know I can't get
that time back,
but I can put the
past behind me,
start over, rebuild.
Trust me, Barbara.
I'm a changed man.
- I've seen who you are, Jordan.
[tense music]
You're pure evil.
You'll never change.
- But I have.
And who do we have to thank?
It's ironic, maybe, or fitting.
Your daughter, Courtney,
showed me it was possible.
She believes in people in
a way that I never did.
- Yeah. In a way
that you never will.
- But I want to.
I wanna wipe the slate clean.
And to show I mean business,
I am willing to help the JSA
take down the Ultra-Humanite.
- How do you know about that?
- I've been watching Blue
Valley for some time.
That creature followed
Sylvester Pemberton here.
The Ultra-Humanite hated the ISA
just as much as the JSA,
because we refused to accept
him into our organization.
- He didn't freeze
Crusher and Paula.
It was you.
- I didn't want to, Barbara.
I didn't set out to.
They came in, and
it happened so fast.
It was terrible,
but it can end there.
All of it.
When you're ready
to accept my help
against the Ultra-Humanite,
let me know.
♪ ♪
It really is good
to see you, Barbara.
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
[staff warbling]
[tense music]
♪ ♪
- Come out, come out,
wherever you are,
you damn dirty ape.
[staff warbling]
[earpiece chirping]
- Sylvester?
- Yeah.
- I've been trying to call you.
- Reception's
spotty. What's up?
- We found the Crocks.
What's left of them.
- What? The Ultra-Humanite?
- No.
Icicle's back.
♪ ♪
- I thought Icicle was dead.
- He's already gone public.
Showed up at the American Dream.
We need to regroup.
[staff warbling]
Sylvester?
- [shouts]
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
[loud thumping, clanging]
- Hey, calm down, all
right? Just take it easy.
- I'm taking Icicle out
the first chance I get.
- Executing him is not
the way to handle it...
- That creep killed me!
- I know. I was there.
- Jordan Mahkent put
me in the ground.
- And I buried you,
and I don't want to do it again.
- And all this talk about
unity and second chances?
We gotta draw the
line somewhere,
and Icicle is it!
- But we have to act
together as a team.
- Why bother?
You tried that before,
and Icicle is... surprise...
Not dead!
- But we all thought
that he was dead.
- Well, you should
have made sure.
You gotta check your work, Pat.
If you had, none of
this would be happening.
- I'm just saying we
have to have a plan.
There's a way to take
care of Jordan Mahkent
and handle the Ultra-Humanite.
They're sworn enemies.
We can use that
to our advantage.
- You're not suggesting
we lean into this nonsense
Icicle's been spouting
off about teaming up
and letting things go?
Bygones, my ass!
- Hey, that's not
what I'm saying.
- The plan is this!
I'm taking out Icicle myself
whether anyone
approves of it or not.
[tense music]
♪ ♪
[knocking softly]
- What are you doing here?
- I know you heard.
My dad's back.
It's a miracle.
- It is...
surprising, yeah.
- I mean, it's... it's unreal.
It... it means
everything has changed.
- Nothing has changed.
Cameron, he's been
back for one day,
and Artemis's parents are dead.
- I know.
And that is... is awful, okay?
And he feels horrible about it,
but it was self-defense, okay?
He thought they
were attacking him.
- Why would they do that?
- He was wearing a mask,
a suit that was
helping him heal.
And they didn't know who he was,
so they probably just
jumped to conclusions...
- Your father hasn't
taken responsibility
for any of his actions.
He's accountable...
- Courtney, where was
the accountability
for the Crocks or Cindy?
How can you say they
deserve a second chance,
but my dad doesn't?
He wants us to live in peace,
as a family.
Isn't that what you want too?
- Did he send you here?
- No.
Courtney, no.
[soft music]
♪ ♪
Whatever happened before...
Between us, with my dad...
Things can be different now.
We can work together
like you always wanted.
He told me that.
Even my grandmother's agreed.
Let's just start over.
Please.
♪ ♪
Think about it.
♪ ♪
Okay.
[suspenseful music]
♪ ♪
- Okay. I got a good one.
- Okay. What is it?
- I'm gonna wish that Icicle
didn't have his powers.
- Yeah.
Yeah, that is a great idea.
'Cause then he can't
turn me into a popsicle,
and the team will
have no problem
dragging his ass to jail.
♪ ♪
- I wish that Jordan Mahkent,
the man also known more commonly
by the Justice Society
of America as Icicle,
and currently residing
in Blue Valley, Nebraska,
did not have the ability
to freeze me or my friends,
because he was just
a normal human being
without powers of any kind.
Amen.
- I'm sorry, Jakeem.
I can't do that.
- What? Why not?
- Because if I took
his powers away,
I'd kill him, and you
know I can't kill anyone.
- His powers are
keeping him alive?
What did you do to him?
- Well, I hit him with a truck.
Turned him into slush.
I saved everyone!
[grumbles]
Listen, you dumb pen!
You take his powers
away, and you kill him,
but if you don't
take his powers away,
you're killing way more people,
probably including me!
- I'm sorry.
I can't do what you're asking.
- All right. Well, we
need to keep thinking.
- You're gonna need
help with that.
- Cindy!
- By the way, the
doors were unlocked.
I could have been
Jordan Mahkent.
Where would you be then?
- Probably frozen.
- Burman, what are
you doing here?
- Well, with
everything going on,
I decided it's a lot
for anyone to do alone,
especially for you two.
So let's team up.
- [gasps]
♪ ♪
- Really?
- Yeah, sure. Why not?
- Welcome to the
Young All-Stars!
- Uh, yeah, we're gonna
have to work on that name.
- Okay.
[quirky music]
She's sitting on my bed.
- Smooth.
♪ ♪
[soft music]
♪ ♪
- He's a talented boy, my son.
Takes after his mother.
Hello, Courtney.
- Whatever you're doing,
whatever you're planning,
we're going to stop you.
♪ ♪
- I know you and Cameron
have been seeing each other.
- Of course you do.
You've been spying on us.
- My son is all
that matters to me.
And if you're important to him,
you're important to me.
I don't want to be
enemies, Courtney.
I want us to be allies.
I really do think we could
be a great team, you and I.
♪ ♪
I'll be honest.
Revenge was the first
thing that overtook me
when I first regained sentience.
But I see now that
vengeance has no purpose.
It's misguided.
Primitive, even.
And you helped me see that,
because the more I
watched you, Courtney,
the more I saw
who you truly are.
You've changed countless
hearts and minds.
The Shade, Cindy
Burman, the Crocks.
- Right before you killed them.
- Yes, that was
regrettable, but...
- You murdered
the Zarick family.
You tried to brainwash
half the country
and didn't care that
it would kill millions.
You murdered the JSA.
No one can just ignore that.
- I'm not asking you to forget.
I'm just hoping you'll forgive.
We can work together, all of us.
And then you and
Cameron can start again.
♪ ♪
Thanks for hearing me out.
♪ ♪
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
[soft music]
♪ ♪
- [sighs]
♪ ♪
[shouts]
[clattering, glass shattering]
[screaming]
[crying]
- Artemis?
[somber music]
♪ ♪
Come back over.
You can't be alone here.
[Fleurie's "Hurricane"]
- ♪ I can feel your heart ♪
♪ Hanging in the air ♪
♪ ♪
♪ I'm counting every step
as you climb the stairs ♪
♪ ♪
♪ It's buried in your bones ♪
♪ I see it in
your closed eyes ♪
♪ Turning in ♪
♪ This is harder
than we know ♪
♪ We hold it in the most
when we're wearing thin ♪
[line ringing]
♪ Coming like a hurricane ♪
- Yolanda?
- ♪ I take it in real slow ♪
- [speaking Spanish]
Hello?
- ♪ The world is spinning
like a weathervane ♪
♪ Fragile and composed ♪
- Yolanda?
Are you there?
- ♪ Though I am
breaking down ♪
- [speaking Spanish]
I only lied to protect you.
- ♪ Again ♪
What are you talking about?
- [crying]
- ♪ I am aching
now to let you in ♪
♪ ♪
- Yolanda?
- ♪ Seven times again ♪
I love you very much,mama.
♪ When you are not awake ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Seven times the flame,
too much to take ♪
♪ ♪
♪ I don't know how
it can change ♪
♪ ♪
♪ It's all we
know, all we know ♪
♪ The hurricane ♪
- Courtney should
be here any minute.
- She has to agree to this, Pat.
She has to.
- She doesn't have
to do anything.
- What am I supposed to do?
- Well, we're just...
We're just talking.
- I want to go after Icicle.
- Jordan says he wants
to work together.
- We all know that's a lie.
- What if it isn't?
- Oh, come on, Courtney.
After everything you've been
through since you've picked up
that staff, how can
you be that naive?
- Hey, Sylvester.
- I'm just saying,
he is just playing us
like he always has.
And if he's sworn enemies
with the Ultra-Humanite,
then Jordan Mahkent is using us
to save him from that monster.
I mean, hell, for all we know,
it came back to Blue Valley
looking for the ISA, not us.
After all the support
I've given you,
I'm asking you.
Let me take the staff
and face the man who
killed me and my friends.
[soft tense music]
♪ ♪
- Dad?
[mysterious music]
♪ ♪
[crashing, rumbling]
[owl hooting]
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- [growling]
♪ ♪
[growling continues]
♪ ♪
- It's time.
- [roars]
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- Greg, move your head.