Lanterns (2026) s01e07 Episode Script

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(SUSPENSEFUL MUSICAL STING) ♪
(SCHOOL BELL RINGING)
(DISTANT CHATTER)
I thought you were
a team player.
Are you a team player, son?
(DOORKNOB RATTLING)
Sorry I'm late. (PANTING)
Martin Jordan.
Yeah, thanks
for coming in, Mr. Jordan.
- Hal.
- Dad.
Hey, what you got there?
Is that the game ball?
Did you guys beat Central?
COACH: No, we forfeited
because he wouldn't
give up the ball.
MARTIN JORDAN: Is that true?
I was pitching
an almost no-hitter,
and he brought
in Danny Bochner.
Danny Bochner, Dad.
So he just comes in
and puts his hand out.
Like, come on.
I'm really going to hand
the ball to Danny Bochner?
- MARTIN: Danny Bochner hit you?
- HAL JORDAN: Yeah.
- Then Kyle Alvarez.
- The shortstop?
Uh-huh. Evan Grunstein,
Paul Bennett, Jim Griffith.
Joe Cox, too.
And both Rafferty twins.
- I think.
- You fought your whole team?
We were up two
with one out and no men on.
I had it!
COACH: I told Hal
he can still fix this.
Just gotta apologize
to the other boys,
ride the bench a couple games.
And, of course,
give up the ball, son.
No men on?
What?
Kid's two outs away
from a complete game
and you pull him?
How good is
Danny Bochner's stuff?
It doesn't matter how
good his fucking stuff is.
Brother
(QUIETLY)
It's all that fucking matters.
("FATHER TO SON"
BY QUEEN PLAYING) ♪
- (GRUNTING)
- (FISTS THUDDING)
- MARTIN: Ah! (GROANS)
- (COACH GRUNTING)
(FIGHTER JETS ROARING)
A word in your ear ♪
If you put the Popsicle
on your nose, it won't swell up.
Who taught you that?
Just makes sense.
(SONG CONTINUES
PLAYING OVER RADIO) ♪
I fought with you ♪
Fought on your side ♪
Long before you were born ♪
Joyful the sound ♪
The word goes around ♪
From father to son
To son ♪
(MARTIN SNIFFS)
Go ahead, put it on.
What is it?
You scared?
No.
- It's okay if you are.
- I'm not.
Then put it on.
You know, when I was
a little younger than you,
my dad was headed out
to go fly in the war.
He was rock solid.
No fear.
Excited, even.
But he told me
no matter how good he was,
shit happens.
And that there were
only two outcomes.
He would either succeed
or he would fail.
And in the event of failure,
he said it is a man's responsibility
to make preparations.
And his were locked up in a safe
in the back of his closet.
And he handed me a key.
A key to his fail safe.
Literal guy, your grandpa.
He didn't come back.
No, he sure didn't.
What was inside the safe?
MARTIN: Money. Keepsakes.
Other things that stay
between me and him.
And just like what's in my safe,
it'll stay between you and me.
(EXHALES SHARPLY)
It's under my toolbox.
Shouldn't Mom have this?
It's not something
she can carry.
But you can, Hal.
It's in your blood,
just like it was in Grandpa's,
and mine.
The Jordan boy's legacy.
Fortunately, I'm gonna be around
for a long time flying Boeings
from Coast City to Japan.
Until they make me retire
at 100.
You can throw it away.
HAL: Huh?
Can't hold on to it forever.
(SIGHS) Why not?
'Cause it's fucking exhausting.
Let her rip.
As far as you can.
Go on.
("DON’T THINK TWICE, IT’S ALRIGHT"
BY MELANIE PLAYING) ♪
(MARTIN WHISTLES APPRECIATIVELY)
That's a great arm, kid.
(CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
(SONG CONTINUES PLAYING) ♪
Ain't no use to sit
And wonder why, babe ♪
It don't matter any how ♪
Ain't no use to sit
And wonder why, babe ♪
If you don't know by now ♪
When the rooster crows ♪
At the break of dawn ♪
Look out your window ♪
And I'll be gone ♪
Well, you're the reason
I'm travelin' on ♪
Don't think twice ♪
- (SOFTLY) Goddammit.
- (SONG CONCLUDES) ♪
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSICAL STING) ♪
JOHN STEWART JUNIOR:
They found the body.
Your body, at the stadium.
I'm sorry.
Who the hell are you?
You-- He got shot,
and I'm just trying to figure out
who did it. I'm John Stewart.
Wait, you're the trainee,
the one I gave the message to.
How long ago was that?
Ten years ago.
- That's my ring.
- Yeah.
I trained you. And now,
you're Earth's Green Lantern?
- Well, shit.
- (BREATHES DEEPLY)
Shit, shit, shit!
(HESITATES)
I mean, uh, congratulations.
So, you feel things?
- Yes, I feel things.
- Okay, I know you're a backup
of his consciousness,
but that's about it.
What do you mean you don't know?
How do you not know?
Okay, we don't
have time for this.
The ring is running out
of charge.
- It's got about two percent.
- Then recharge the ring.
I can't recharge it.
It's not fucking mine.
I'm not the Green Lantern.
Well, what the hell are you?
I'm trying to solve your murder.
- You dug me up!
- I had good reason.
- Well, I'd like to hear that.
- Look, there's a lockbox,
and whatever's inside, I think,
will tell us why he got killed.
It needs one
of your voices to open.
I found the ring.
I used a trick you taught me.
I knocked it on here, gave it some juice,
and I fired you up.
Hey, how'd the funeral go over?
The funeral was great.
What do you mean, "great"?
I mean, it was great,
just just how sad it was.
Well, everyone showed up,
you know, the Guardians
and the Lantern Corps.
Yeah, uh (HESITATES)
Gave you the full works.
The sky was
was lit up. Hal the hero.
- The entire Corps?
- Everybody.
- That squirrel show up?
- Of course he did.
- How about Mogo?
- You kidding me?
Me and Mogo,
we stood right here.
Mogo and I.
Mogo's a goddamn planet.
Why are you lying to me,
and what the fuck is going on?
- I--
- (RING WARBLES)
(EXHALES SHARPLY)
(TENSE EERIE
MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
- (LOW TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
- (DIAL TONE RINGING)
AARON STEWART:
I'm not talking to you.
JOHN: Aaron,
will you do me a favor?
AARON: I said
I'm not talking to you.
I need 315,000 dollars in cash.
If you get to the bank
when it opens,
you can have it to me
by the end of the day tomorrow.
AARON: (SCOFFS) Marcus,
I'll conference you in
with John.
- He needs 300,000 dollars.
- MARCUS STEWART: He what?
Hey, what's up, Marcus?
How you doing, man?
MARCUS: So how about you tell us what the fuck
you need 300,000 dollars for?
Listen, Hal Jordan's dead, okay?
And I was the last one with him.
The night he got killed,
he and I got into it,
and some waitress saw that,
and now she wants
some money to stay quiet.
MARCUS: Jesus, John,
did you kill him?
Motherfucker, please,
you think I would do that?
MARCUS: I don't know
what you would do, Chosen.
You gonna help me or not?
AARON: I don't know, man.
I'll think about it.
- What you mean you think about it?
- (DIAL TONE BEEPS)
(INTENSE
BROODING MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
Aaron!
Aaron!
Fuck!
(LOW TENSE MUSIC PLAYING ) ♪
AUTOMATED VOICE:
Greetings, Hal Jordan.
To access the vault,
please confirm identity.
Come on, you know
how this thing works.
You gotta speak
for it to open up.
Look, this is the key
that we found
on your dead body.
Birds are like my thing.
Hal knew that.
(SPIRITED GUITAR RIFF
OVERLAPPING) ♪
He wanted me to find this
to open up the box,
so just talk.
Wa--
Is that what you want to do?
You want to do charades?
Let's go.
Two words. Yeah. First word.
- You're this close.
- (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪
- Who's Marcus?
- What?
The guy in the truck
with the phone.
What's he,
your brother or something?
How'd you even hear that?
I thought I turned you off.
Apparently not.
You know, I don't need
to explain myself to you.
Oh, no, you don't want to explain
why you're being blackmailed,
but I think I have
a right to know.
You don't have any rights.
You're dead.
And your only purpose
is to help me break into that box.
Oh, and so you can find out
who killed me.
Who killed Hal.
Maybe you're the one
that killed me.
No, I just wish I killed you.
Mm-hmm.
I'd like to talk
to the authorities.
- The what?
- It's a small town.
There must be a small-town sheriff
around here. I wanna talk to him.
Her, and absolutely not.
What do you mean
"absolutely not"?
I mean absolutely not.
I think it's a bad fucking idea.
Shocking take from the guy
who probably murdered me.
You know what?
Listen, you ignorant copy
of an ignorant asshole.
After you fucked everything up,
you ended up in jail.
And while you were in jail,
you did this thing
with the sheriff
and somehow she fell
in love with you.
That's why you're here.
For her, and now she's dealing
with your death.
So pulling up
to wherever she's at
with your fucking ghost
is not gonna be helpful.
I was in jail?
Yeah.
I was in love?
Yes.
- What was her name?
- Kerry.
(SOFTLY) Kerry.
Kerry.
Box doesn't open til you take me
to Sheriff Kerry.
(SIGHS DEEPLY)
You know, this ring
is running out of juice,
and when it does,
you're gone forever.
Well, I calculate that we've got
a little less than an hour
of talk time left,
so we can either
burn it arguing,
or you can take me
to see the sheriff.
You know, you're even
fucking worse dead.
(CHUCKLES)
Motherfucker.
- He wears his heart out ♪
- (RADIO CRACKLES)
- I love you, baby ♪
- (RADIO CRACKLES)
- PASTOR: John 16:13
- (RADIO CRACKLES)
("SHAKE YOUR BOOTY" BY KC
AND THE SUNSHINE BAND PLAYING) ♪
Shake, shake ♪
- (SIGHS)
- (PHONE BEEPING)
Shake, shake, shake
Shake your booty ♪
Bernadette, that's your wife?
- (SONG VOLUME GROWS LOUDER) ♪
- The fuck?
Oh, that's my jam there.
- Ha!
- What are you doing here? I didn't summon you.
The ring manifests
wherever the wearer's thinking,
ergo, you're thinking of me.
What do you mean "summon"?
I'm not your genie.
I'm not thinking about you.
And all evidence
to the contrary.
Go away!
That feels kind of personal.
Yeah.
How about that?
- How are you doing that?
- Doing what?
HALOGRAM: I'm still here.
You're not wearing the ring.
That's not possible.
JOHN: Yeah, well, I guess it is.
Not many Lanterns
that can do that.
Hell, I can't even do that.
Bravo!
(CHUCKLES)
Well fucking done, trainee.
That's amazing.
You serious?
What do you mean am I serious?
It's goddamn incredible.
(SCOFFS)
What?
It's
It's kind of funny.
(STAMMERS) Hal never
complimented me before,
so it's
(CHUCKLES) It's just weird.
It's fucking incredible.
(SONG CONTINUES
PLAYING OVER RADIO) ♪
- (SONG CONCLUDES) ♪
- (TRUCK ENGINE TURNS OFF)
(CHURCH BELLS
TOILING IN DISTANCE)
What's that?
(LOW BROODING MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
These names, they all died?
JOHN: Yeah.
When Hal was training me,
he brought me down here
to find a Manhunter,
and a lot went wrong.
- Manhunters are extinct.
- JOHN: There was one left.
Her name was Zoe.
I'm guessing
I'm not the only one
to fall for a Rushville girl?
Shut the fuck up, man.
HALOGRAM: Manhunters
are very deceptive,
very manipulative.
Maybe she got it in your head?
Hal killed her, didn't he?
That's why you hate him.
You know, you don't know
what the fuck you talking about.
Listen, I don't know
what happened
after Jordan last updated me,
but I don't kill.
Not even a Manhunter.
Whatever he did,
these people that died, I
Whatever I am
I'm not him.
In the fucking car.
("SPOTTIEOTTIEDOPALISCIOUS"
BY OUTKAST PLAYING) ♪
The light signal with the big,
green joystick on it.
- What's that all about?
- It's Guy's.
How's that?
Guy Gardner, former gym teacher,
current Green Lantern of Earth.
He's got a gold tooth.
A gym teacher with a gold tooth?
You gotta be shitting me.
Nope, and I don't really want
to talk about it.
I want to talk about it.
Why would
a gold-toothed gym teacher
get the ring over you?
(SINGING) Dickie shorts
Lincoln clean ♪
Huh?
Leanin', checking out
The scene ♪
What are you doing?
Gangsta boys bligga's lit ♪
Oh, I see.
That's very clever, trainee.
- Riding 'round talking shit ♪
- HALOGRAM: Yeah, you gotta
get me off your mind.
Well, I'll tell you.
You know what?
It's not gonna work.
Nigga where you wanna go?
You know ♪
The club
Don't close til four ♪
(MARCHING BAND
PLAYING PATRIOTIC ARRANGEMENT) ♪
Hey, Maggie.
You going to the hat ceremony?
Biggest thing to happen in this town
since you and your pal destroyed it.
JOHN: Oh, he's not my pal.
Whatever. Do you have the money?
It's on the way.
You know the sheriff's inside
that building right now
about to watch her kid
announce his future.
You really gonna make me ruin
that for her?
I just need
a little bit more time.
Oh. Yeah, no, okay, that's fine.
Oh, wait,
but what would I measure
that time with?
JOHN: Hmm.
Here you go.
You're on the clock.
(MARCHING BAND
PLAYING UPBEAT ARRANGEMENT) ♪
(CROWD CHEERING, APPLAUDING)
COACH:
(OVER MICROPHONE) What a day.
- (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪
- Thanks, y'all.
It's the measure of the man
that he refused to even
do a hat ceremony
- without his offensive linemen.
- (CROWD CHEERING, APPLAUDING)
COACH: So before we get
to the business at hand,
I present to you
Stu Staley, Jack Kavinsky,
Colby Hall, Josh Preston,
and Jim Manley.
And now,
the quarterback
whose butt they protect,
- Noah Macon!
- (CROWD CHEERING, APPLAUDING)
Thank you, guys! Thank you!
Thank you guys so much
for coming out.
Hope you'll all
be at the game tonight.
(CROWD CHEERING, APPLAUDING)
I've thought a lot
about this, obviously.
And what I've realized
is the reason we're all here
isn't because of me.
But it's because this town
is overdue for something
to celebrate.
- RESIDENT: Yeah!
- (OVERLAPPING MURMURS)
And that can't truly happen
until we beat Chadron
in the championship.
- (CROWD CHEERING)
- (SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
So if it's okay with you all,
I'm gonna concentrate on that.
I'm not making a decision today.
This here can wait, game can't.
See you all tonight.
Pioneers forever!
- Yeah? Yeah!
- (CROWD CHEERING, APPLAUDING)
(MARCHING BAND
PLAYING LIVELY ARRANGEMENT) ♪
What the fuck
are you doing here?
You show up at my son's school?
Listen, I don't want
any trouble, man.
BILLY MACON:
Well, I don't give a shit what you want.
- Hey! He's with me.
- Okay?
What's that mean?
He's he's with you?
Are you serious?
I had to arrest him for kicking
the shit out of you.
Wanna go again in front of Noah?
Fine.
I'll see you at our place.
I made my dip.
It's my place now, Billy.
But I truly appreciate the dip.
- What are you doing here?
- Can we talk somewhere?
Can it wait?
I'm hosting a hundred people
at my house to celebrate
a decision my kid
just didn't make.
It's about Hal.
Science lab down the hall.
Gimme a minute.
I'll meet you there.
(CELL PHONE BUZZING)
JACINDA: Hello,
this is Jacinda calling
from First National Bank
Client Services.
Am I speaking
to John Stewart Junior?
Yes, you are.
JACINDA: Sir, your brother has provided
your account information and PIN.
We just need a verbal assent
from you to proceed
with a cash withdrawal.
- Yep, you have my verbal assent.
- JACINDA: Thank you.
And if you can just confirm
the withdrawal amount.
Uh, 315,000 dollars.
JACINDA: Sorry, sir.
Could you repeat that?
Three hundred fifteen
thousand dollars.
JACINDA: Thank you, Mr. Stewart.
The transaction is approved.
Is there anything else
I can help you with?
No, that's great.
We're good. Thank you.
Okay.
(DOOR CREAKING SHUT)
Before any of this happens,
I wanna tell you
that this was not my idea.
And I'm sorry.
Okay, if there was any other way
to do this
- John.
- JOHN: Yes?
What the fuck
are you talking about?
JOHN: I'm gonna show you.
I just need you to know
that this man
isn't who you knew.
I mean, it's him,
but it's an earlier version
of him
- (RING WARBLES)
- like a recording.
Jesus,
you're overexplaining it.
Hello?
(DELICATE INSTRUMENTAL
MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(GASPS, BREATHES SHAKILY)
You you're real.
JOHN: No.
He's a construct
from the ring. This--
(IN TANDEM) Shut up, John.
HALOGRAM: Trainee's right.
I'm I'm not your him.
I'm not your Hal.
I mean, I
I would have been.
But I'm
(STAMMERS) I guess, uh
well, I'm what he used to be.
I just wanted to
meet you, that's all.
We were, uh
We were close?
Very.
(TENDER GUITAR MUSIC
OVERLAPPING) ♪
And I was open--
I was
I was open with you?
We told each other everything.
(SNIFFLES)
We talk about my father?
(MUSIC TURNS MOURNFUL) ♪
How he died?
So who killed me?
Well, it could have been anyone.
The whole town hated you.
- What about him? John?
- John?
HALOGRAM:
What did I say about him?
You talked about John
like a football team
who's always giving you hope
and then letting you down.
He's the TV you yell
at every Sunday,
but you never
miss a game 'cause,
you know
big fan.
JOHN: We should go.
Ring's running out of charge,
and once
that's out of juice, so is he.
Where did you get his ring?
HALOGRAM: Oh, he dug me up.
(MUSIC FADING) ♪
This is about his voice.
So you could get into the box
in the storage unit.
What was inside?
I don't know,
because he wouldn't show me
until he met you.
Pretty romantic, huh?
Romantics don't brag
about being romantic, Tex.
Oh, I see what I saw in you.
Okay, can we go, please?
Oh! Noah's party.
It's at my house. I'm hosting.
Follow me home.
Do not come inside, or Billy'll
throw his fucking dip at you.
I just need to make
an appearance
and then we can all head
to the storage unit together.
Okay. Yeah, good.
It's nice to see you again.
(DOOR OPENS)
(DOOR CREAKING SHUT)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
(SIGHS)
(EXHALES SLOWLY)
- (RING WARBLES)
- HALOGRAM: Fuckin' A.
- She killed me.
- Sorry, what?
The way she touched my face,
the way she was looking--
I know guilt when I see it.
JOHN: Do you know
love when you see it?
Uh, okay, fine. She loved me
and she killed me.
Seems very on brand.
An hour ago, you said that
I killed you. So what is it?
Well,
that's because I'm evolving.
I'm not gonna sit around here
and wait for her either.
You and I got a head start.
We need to open that vault now.
I think you're being paranoid.
Well, I think
being murdered allows
for a little paranoia.
(LIGHTS FLICKERING)
AUTOMATED VOICE:
Greetings, Hal Jordan.
To access the vault,
please confirm identity.
Listen, you play charades,
I'll break
your imaginary fingers.
What if I wasn't trying
to keep people out?
I was trying
to keep something in.
Shit!
(SUSPENSEFUL
SYNTH MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
HALOGRAM: What's in the bag?
Uh, canteen, poncho
- (PAPER BAG RUSTLING)
- uh, some protein bars.
You must've been going
on a hike.
(SOFTLY) Shit.
(TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
- (ECHOING THUD)
- (GUN CLICKING)
(BURBLING RUMBLE)
Hey, you, uh
You hear that sound?
I ever teach you about
Einstein-Rosen bridges, trainee?
You taught me two things.
Jack and shit.
HALOGRAM: Well, there's always
time to learn.
Einstein's great,
but this is more like a tunnel.
(HESITATES) Connects two points
in the universe by whoever sets it up.
This bad boy right here,
this is Point A,
and it leads
to another dark matter manhole,
which is Point B,
which could go anywhere.
A planet, another galaxy.
When you say whoever set it up,
you're talking
about yourself, right?
Presumably.
(CHITTERING WARBLE)
(CHITTERING WARBLE)
The fuck?
Hey!
Oh, yeah.
It's another planet, all right.
- Air seems breathable, trainee.
- (MUSIC FADING) ♪
Of course, technically,
I'm not sure if I am breathing.
Sorry, let me get this straight.
You got a planet in a box
in a storage unit
in the middle
of fucking Nebraska?
And a poncho and a gun.
You know what? Let's go.
Wait, wait, wait.
We should move this first.
That hot but possibly evil sheriff's
gonna be back after her brunch.
We don't want her playing
shenanigans at Point A.
You got a fucked-up brain, man.
And there's a bullet in it.
(CHITTERING WARBLE)
(ENGINE REVVING)
(SUSPENSEFUL
SYNTH MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(MUSIC FADING) ♪
(THUDS)
(BURBLING RUMBLE)
- (RUMBLING CONTINUES)
- (CHITTERING TINKLE)
- (GUN COCKS)
- Ask me if I'm afraid.
What?
I said ask me if I'm afraid.
You afraid?
Fuck, no.
(CHITTERING WARBLE)
(WIND HOWLING)
(EERIE
DISCORDANT MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
- Been here before?
- (VOICE ECHOING)
- I don't know.
- (VOICE ECHOING)
All these planets,
they kind of blend together
after a while.
(WIND WHISTLING)
You know, it's weird.
I feel like I have.
If you didn't make Lantern,
how would you get off-planet?
JOHN: I didn't.
That's why it's weird.
(WIND WHISTLING)
Hey, there's an island
in the middle of that lake.
Yeah.
That's not all there is.
JOHN: What the fuck is that?
(OMINOUS MUSICAL CHORD) ♪
Why don't you fly up there,
go take a look?
Because I didn't teach you
how to fly yet,
and the only thing
I taught you was--
Jack and shit.
You project me up there,
and I'll take a look.
Just need to
Just focus on the structure.
- Right.
- And use your imagination.
Thanks for the lesson.
(LOW DRONING
SYNTH MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(GROUND CRUNCHING)
(JOHN EXHALES SOFTLY)
(INTENSE DRUMMING
REVERBERATING) ♪
(DRONING SYNTH MUSIC SWELLS) ♪
- (RING WARBLING)
- The whole city's abandoned.
(MUSIC DROPS) ♪
HALOGRAM: Not a single
living soul up there.
That's because they're all
down here.
(BROODING SYNTH
MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
JOHN: We aren't the only ones
looking for a Manhunter.
I got grabbed
by this guy, Antaan.
He told me that
he was the last of his kind,
and I didn't believe him, so
he injected me with
his people's experience and
man, I felt it.
Like it happened to me.
I was in this city,
and there was this gas,
and when they breathed the gas,
they got so fucking scared,
they were terrified.
They started killing
each other
and themselves.
I just didn't know
the city was in the sky.
I didn't understand
what they were jumping off.
Now, I do.
(MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪
What the fuck
was Hal doing here?
Well, I'm guessing that's
his boat over there.
Let's find out.
(DISTANT THUNDER ROLLING)
(BONES CRUNCHING)
(OMINOUS
SYNTH MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(WATER RIPPLING)
(OMINOUS
SYNTH MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪
JOHN: You gonna help out
or you just gonna keep staring at me?
HALOGRAM:
No, no. Rowing takes energy.
I wouldn't want to burn
through our talking time.
- You know, I'd be okay with that.
- I'm sure you would be.
(MUSIC FADING) ♪
JOHN: You got something
on your mind?
I do.
You told your brother you were the last one
to see me alive.
You don't live in Nebraska.
You don't like Nebraska.
You don't like me.
So why did you come back?
- I didn't kill you, man.
- I don't believe you did,
but that doesn't
answer my question.
Maybe I don't want to answer it.
(LOW TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
HALOGRAM: Well, I'm not
gonna exist after sunrise,
so why don't you
just indulge a ghost, huh?
- (THUNDER RUMBLING)
- (SIGHS)
I came back
because my mother told me
that you wanted to apologize.
- Your mother?
- Mm-hmm.
She said you told her.
- Apparently, y'all were friends.
- How'd that come about?
I don't know,
and I don't fucking care.
Did I?
- Did I Did I apologize?
- No, you didn't, actually.
You told me
that I owed you an apology,
and you proceeded
to give me a lecture.
- That must be why you sucker-punched me.
- Yeah, one of the reasons, sure.
One of the reasons? What, you got a list of 'em?
Let's hear it.
JOHN: I got a bunch.
You got me kicked out of the Marines.
You drove a car off
of a cliff with me inside.
You lied to me.
You crashed my car
into a pole with me inside.
You disrespected me,
and you disrespected
the institution.
How could I drive you off a cliff
and then crash you into a pole?
Separate incidents,
motherfucker!
All right, take it easy.
Sorry.
I don't want your fucking sorry.
- What do you want?
- His sorry.
Well, he's dead.
And if you took the time to see
that he was in trouble
instead of trying
to attack him every chance
you got, maybe you'd
Dickie shorts
Lincoln's clean ♪
Oh, we're gonna do
that again, are we?
Leanin', checking out
The scene ♪
Gangsta boys bligga's lit ♪
It's not gonna work.
You know why it's not gonna work?
- Ridin' round talking shit ♪
- Because you don't want me gone.
(THUNDER RUMBLING)
(RAIN PELTING)
(WIND HOWLING)
(THUNDER CRASHING)
(EERIE
INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(WATER SPLASHING)
(THUNDER ROARING)
DISEMBODIED VOICE:
(ECHOING) Hey, Junior!
Hey, Junior!
Hey, Junior!
Dad!
(EERIE
DISCORDANT MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(THUNDER ROARING)
What are you waiting for?
(THUNDER RUMBLING)
Are you afraid, soldier?
- No, sir!
- I can't hear you, motherfucker!
- I said no, sir!
- Then take the goddamn shot!
(THUNDER CRASHING)
You are scared!
Scared that they know you never
wanted to be a Lantern!
- That's not true!
- You just wanted
- to draw your little pictures
- You know that's not true!
- because you're scared! Then shoot!
- Shut up!
Shoot, motherfucker! Come on!
- Shoot me, you goddamn coward!
- Shut the fuck up!
- Shoot me! Shoot me!
- Shut the fuck up!
(MUSIC DROPS) ♪
(HEART THUMPING)
- (AIR BUBBLING RAPIDLY)
- (DISCORDANT MUSIC PLAYING)♪
(MUSIC STOPS) ♪
You tried to drown me.
The fuck are you talking about?
I just saved you, you idiot.
(LOW TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
You went nuts.
You were seeing things
that weren't there,
you were screaming
about being a coward
and then you pulled
that gun out
and you stuck it to your head and you were
gonna do it til I tackled your ass.
It's the gas.
What made everybody
kill each other
and themselves is still here
in the clouds,
in the water, in the rain.
I told you
that poncho was important.
(THUNDER CRASHING)
(WATER RIPPLING)
(BROODING
SYNTH MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(MUSIC FADING) ♪
My father killed himself.
He was a test pilot,
so nobody had any reason
to believe it was anything
other than an accident.
A couple months before he
he told me
there was a safe
underneath his workbench.
Anything happened to him,
he wanted me to be
the first one to open it.
Then something happened,
all right.
I did. I opened it.
Cash and coins.
Old photographs.
And a note.
My old man, he was convinced
we'd be better off without him.
He said he had
that pain his whole life.
Said it was getting worse.
He couldn't hide it.
He couldn't bear
to let us see it.
Couldn't bear to let us see him.
He told me all this
because my grandfather left it
in a note to him.
Had the same pain.
Passed down generation
to generation,
father to son.
(DISTANT THUNDER CRASHING)
They called it
the Jordan boy's legacy.
Man, I'm not fearless
'cause I'm brave.
I'm fearless 'cause I'm broken.
You told me about that key
with the little bird on it.
It opened the safe
I left behind.
I wondered if there
was anything in there
that would lead me
to my own note.
You think, um
You think you killed yourself?
I remember you said you thought
Kerry killed you.
Maybe she just
found my dead body
and tossed the gun away.
Covered it up to protect me.
Like you protected your dad?
Yeah, like I protected my dad.
Hal, um I'm so sorry, man.
That's the first time
you ever called me Hal.
- (CHUCKLES)
- HALOGRAM: Yeah.
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
JOHN: Shit.
I lost the gun.
Well, it's a good thing
you got the greatest weapon
in the universe on your finger.
How much charge is left on it?
Maybe you shouldn't have
lost the gun.
(FIRE HISSING)
- (BURBLING RUMBLE)
- (LOW TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(DISTANT CLANGING)
- (GAS HISSING)
- (FIRE WHOOSHING)
(DRAMATIC MUSICAL STING) ♪
CAVE DWELLER: Lay down on the ground
or I'll slice his throat open.
Who the fuck are you?
CAVE DWELLER: I'm the one taking your boat
and you're the one telling me
where to find your portal
off this godforsaken dead world.
- Yeah, that's not gonna happen.
- CAVE DWELLER: I will kill him.
Go ahead.
I don't really like the guy.
That's true.
He really doesn't like me.
- See?
- CAVE DWELLER: This is not a bluff.
Trainee.
- They're playing our song.
- CAVE DWELLER: Quiet!
(OMINOUS MUSICAL CHORD) ♪
(PANTING)
You must be John Stewart.
Great arm, kid.
("FATHER TO SON"
BY QUEEN PLAYING) ♪
A word in your ear ♪
From father to son ♪
Hear the word that I say ♪
I fought with you
Fought on your side ♪
Long before you were born ♪
Joyful the sound
The word goes around ♪
From father to son, to son ♪
And the voice is so clear
Time after time ♪
It keeps calling you
Calling you on ♪
Don't destroy what you see
Your country to be ♪
Just keep building
On the ground that's been won ♪
Kings will be crowned
And the word goes around ♪
From father to son, to son ♪
Won't you hear us sing ♪
(POLYPHONIC HARMONIES) ♪
Our family song? ♪
- (POLYPHONIC HARMONIES) ♪
- (PLAYFUL VOCALIZATIONS) ♪
Oh, yeah ♪
- (POLYPHONIC HARMONIES) ♪
- (PLAYFUL VOCALIZATIONS) ♪
Now we hand it on ♪
(OPERATIC HARMONIES) ♪
But I've heard it all before ♪
Take this letter
That I give you ♪
Take it, sonny, hold it high ♪
You won't understand
A word that's in it ♪
But you'll write it all again
Before you die, yeah, yeah ♪
(SONG CONCLUDES) ♪