Lanterns (2026) s01e08 Episode Script

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(SUSPENSEFUL MUSICAL STING) ♪
- (BOMBS DETONATING)
- (LOW TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
- (JOISTS GROANING, CREAKING)
- (SHRILL METAL WHINING)
(ECHOING THUD)
- (DISTANT SIREN WAILING)
- (ELECTRICITY HUMMING)
(MUSIC BUILDING) ♪
KERRY KANE: Stand down!
It's over.
Let him through.
Where's Hal?
He's at the motel.
(MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪
(KERRY GASPS)
Do you need a doctor?
No.
You all right?
(MUSIC FADING) ♪
HAL JORDAN: How many dead?
I don't know yet.
It's bad.
(MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪
Was it worth it?
(SCOFFS SOFTLY)
KERRY: What?
It's the same thing
I asked John.
What will the Guardians say?
I failed to notify 'em,
and I put a lot
of people's lives
in danger for
selfish reasons.
And that there
won't be any pushback
in any court that convicts me
of reckless endangerment.
Kind of a nice, clean solution
to their problem
of me.
(SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
I'm sorry.
HAL: You told me.
I didn't leave town,
whatever happened next
was on me.
KERRY: I know.
It is.
But I can still feel bad
about being right.
(MELLOW GUITAR RIFF PLAYING) ♪
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSICAL STING) ♪
(GATES BUZZING)
(LIGHT SYNTH MUSIC PLAYS) ♪
(GATE BUZZING)
(GUITAR RIFF CONTINUES) ♪
(GATE RATTLING)
(DREAMY
INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
You're here.
I am.
You brought Schlitz.
(MUSIC FADES) ♪
("RIGHT BACK TO IT"
BY WAXAHATCHEE PLAYING) ♪
Photograph of us
In the spotlight ♪
On a hot night
I was drifting in and out ♪
Reticent on the off chance
I'm blunter than a bullseye ♪
- Begging for peace of mind ♪
- (SONG CONTINUES PLAYING OVER SPEAKERS) ♪
(HUSHED WHISPERS)
(DISHES CLINKING)
(CITIZENS CONTINUE WHISPERING)
(QUIETLY)
Maybe this was a bad idea.
I'm a grown woman
and the law in this town.
As fun as it is, I'm not
gonna spend another month
sneaking around with you.
You realize they wrote,
"Leave, asshole"
on my front lawn?
- Wanna file a report?
- HAL: In manure. Their own.
That takes time.
And they didn't need to leave
the "asshole" to make the point.
Unless the asshole
was the point.
Listen.
I know it took you years to earn
these people's respect
I don't want you to lose it
because of me, that's all.
(KNIFE CLINKING ON GLASS)
KERRY: Listen up, people.
(WHISPERING STOPS)
KERRY: I know you don't
like this man
but I like him.
I like him a lot.
He did his time,
and he came back here
knowing you'd stare at him,
and slash his tires
and write things
in shit on his lawn.
He could have gone anywhere.
He's still a hero most places,
but he chose to come back here
where he's hated.
And every day he goes out
and tries to fix something
he broke.
I lost as much as any
of you ten years ago,
and I forgive him.
So I want you all to know,
before God
and the best garlic bread
in western Nebraska,
that Hal Jordan
may have fucked up,
and maybe he doesn't
deserve your grace,
but he deserves peace.
We all do.
And anyone who wants to threaten
that peace should know
he's with me.
- (PATRONS RESUME CHATTING)
- (CUTLERY CLINKING)
What?
Stop staring.
- It's weird.
- I'm willing you to stay.
Try asking instead of willing.
Stay.
I can't.
I'm not ready to let Noah
wake up alone yet.
Pretty sure Noah knows about us.
There is a difference
between knowing
and accepting.
Want to go
to Noah's game Friday?
You mean together?
Yeah.
(DREAMY MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(SOFTLY) Yes.
I would like that very,
very, very much.
Good.
("CRUEL TO BE KIND"
BY NICK LOWE PLAYING) ♪
- Oh, I can't take Another heartache ♪
- (EARL GRUMBLING)
Though you say
You're my friend ♪
I'm at my wits' end ♪
You say your love
Is bona fide ♪
But that don't coincide
With the things that you do ♪
- And when I ask you to be nice ♪
- (CAR ENGINE RUMBLING)
You say
You gotta be cruel ♪
(SONG ENDS) ♪
- Fuck!
- (FIRE ALARM BEEPING)
(GLASS SHATTERS)
- Fuck!
- (TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(TIRES SCREECHING)
- (EARL SHRIEKING)
- (FIRE ALARM BEEPING)
(EARL WAILING)
- (HAL PANTING)
- (EARL WAILS)
- (HAL GRUNTS)
- (EARL SHRIEKS)
(MUSIC BUILDING) ♪
- (HAL GRUNTS)
- (EARL BELLOWS)
(EARL SHRIEKS)
- (WOOD SPLINTERING)
- (LOUD THUD)
(FIRE ALARM BEEPING)
(MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪
- (LIGHTS HUMMING)
- (HAL BREATHING HEAVILY)
(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)
(OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
What's happening?
It's better if you keep still.
(HAL CONTINUES
BREATHING HEAVILY)
Your skin's new.
(GROANS)
NOAH MACON: I wish
there was a way to save you
without letting you know
what I am.
You can't tell my mom
I healed you.
She doesn't realize I know.
(DARK SYNTH MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(WEAKLY) What are you?
(MUSIC BUILDING) ♪
(MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪
- (DISTANT THUNDER CRASHING)
- (METAL CHAINS CLINKING)
A Manhunter.
(FURNACE RUMBLING QUIETLY)
A gold star
for a failed trainee.
JOHN STEWART JUNIOR:
And Hal told you all of this?
He was standing right
where you're standing now.
So, it was Noah
who broke you out?
That boy has become a man.
And he's powerful.
- How powerful?
- Look where I'm sitting.
I'm ready to speak to Hal now.
JOHN: Sorry, he's not available.
Then avail him.
Why here?
Hmm? Why make a portal
to a dead planet
with poisoned water
that makes you want
- to kill yourself?
- The other Manhunter.
The one the boy inherited
the tech from that set me free.
The grandmother.
She built it so she could visit
the place she destroyed.
JOHN: Why would she do that?
Same reason Jordan
came back to Rushville.
Weakness and guilt.
What does Noah want with you?
THAAL SINESTRO:
I'm done talking to an intern.
- I need to speak with Hal.
- I don't know.
It doesn't make any sense.
You sit there
and you tell me that
Noah saved Hal's life just
to turn around and kill him.
SINESTRO: He's a Manhunter.
Life and death
are transactional to him.
Hal must have
stopped being of use.
- (WIND WHISTLING)
- (FURNACE CONTINUES BURNING)
So, what was his transaction
with you?
I'm done talking to you.
(INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
- SINESTRO: You don't have to do this!
- (METAL SCREECHING)
No! Stop!
- Don't do it!
- What were you doing here?
- Tell me the truth!
- I am telling the truth!
- (SINESTRO GROANS)
- (CHAINS RATTLE)
(MUFFLED SHOUTS)
- (GASPS)
- (CHAINS RATTLE)
Tell me!
What do you see?
(CHAINS RATTLE)
- (PANTING)
- (MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪
- Huh? What are you afraid of?
- Don't use it on me.
Don't use it on me!
- (CHAINS RATTLE)
- (SCREAMS)
(PANTING) Stop. All right, stop.
Stop! Stop!
(BROODING
SYNTH MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
I forged him a lantern.
(MUSIC INTENSIFYING) ♪
(MUSIC FADING) ♪
(FURNACE RUMBLING)
(BREATHING HEAVILY)
(CHAINS CLINKING)
(LOW TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
Does it work?
Of course it works.
Now let me speak to Jordan.
(SIGHS)
- What are these streaks?
- Well, you tell me.
JOHN: You forged it here.
And whatever's in the streaks
is from the water and the air.
Their fear.
The Lantern Corps
thinks that fear makes you weak.
They couldn't be more wrong.
If harnessed correctly,
fear can be the most powerful
force in the universe.
Fear is just
evolutionary intelligence.
Show me
a species that's fearless,
and I'll show you something
on the extinction list.
- And it can charge my ring?
- Yes, it can.
(MUSIC BUILDING) ♪
(CHITTERING WARBLE)
- HALOGRAM: Don't.
- (MUSIC FALLS) ♪
- (CHAINS RATTLING)
- There you are.
HALOGRAM: You don't know
what that lantern might do.
SINESTRO:
You should have listened to me.
Told you
if you went back out there,
you'd get yourself killed.
JOHN: Tell me why
Noah wanted a lantern.
I have an idea.
Maybe you don't have
to have died in vain.
What was I doing here?
SINESTRO:
After the boy healed you,
he made you promise
to keep his secret.
But you followed him.
(TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(DOOR OPENS)
SINESTRO: You found his portal.
When he went out, you came in.
(CHITTERING RUMBLE)
SINESTRO:
You got it into your head.
You wanted to lock away
the portal and hide it.
I told you that locking away
the portal would only
anger the boy.
You wanted me to kill him.
You were going soft.
- He's a Manhunter.
- What the fuck did Noah want a lantern for?
We can still do it.
He can't get you
out of his head.
You'll stay whole.
That ring is barely charged.
We can overpower him.
But I know a way.
If we have your ring,
I could bring you back
to life, for real.
(MUSIC BUILDS) ♪
You talk too much.
You always have.
It's annoying.
Don't listen to him
about the ring.
He doesn't want you
to charge it.
Because the moment you do
(IMITATES CONSTRUCT FIZZLING)
His entire existence is erased.
Rather selfish, don't you think?
Considering that
means your protégé
will have to face
a Manhunter unarmed.
You're the only one
who's ever killed a Guardian.
That's why Noah broke you out.
That's why he asked you
to forge this lantern.
He wants revenge.
HALOGRAM: Why hasn't he used it?
SINESTRO:
Well, first you need a ring.
Yeah, well,
he could call Gardner.
Use that dumb
signal light in town.
Ambush him. Gardner
would never see it coming.
Take the ring.
He has a conscience, doesn't he?
He has a conscience
and it pisses you off.
SINESTRO: The boy's just
struggling between his nature
and his pedestrian
human nurture.
Nature always wins.
It just takes time.
If you don't want the boy
to kill you,
I suggest you charge that ring.
(LOW
BROODING MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(CHAINS RATTLING)
Hal.
You can't just leave me here.
- The lake isn't swimmable.
- (MUSIC BUILDING) ♪
SINESTRO: It just brings
madness and death.
Hal!
I'd be like some castaway.
Hal!
- (MUSIC FALLS) ♪
- (WATER RIPPLING)
Look, I take it back.
You should charge the ring.
There's only about
seven minutes of power left.
You know what? I don't really
feel like talking right now.
Well then charge the ring.
I'll be out
of your life forever.
Listen, I'm trying
to protect you here.
So now,
you're trying to protect me?
Once you're dead?
What were the last words
I said to you?
What are you talking about?
You told me
about that conversation
that we had. In the cafe.
Yeah, what about it?
We talked,
you sucker-punched me,
and then what
were the last words
I said to you?
You told me not to tell
anyone I was in Rushville.
And why would I do that?
Because Noah would assume
that you told me about him.
You was trying to protect me.
There you go.
Happy?
So why
won't you charge the ring?
My gut tells
me Noah won't hurt me.
Well, your gut's wrong.
Oh, so your gut's always right,
but my gut's wrong.
My gut's dead.
I don't know why you give
a fuck about this anyway.
Because I'm trying
to protect you.
Charge the ring
or you're gonna die, John.
(LOW DRONING
SYNTH MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(VOICE ECHOING)
What's the plan?
(ECHOING) I'll come out
the portal at the water tower.
Noah's got a football game.
That'll give me time to think.
Use it.
Or he'll kill you.
No, he won't.
(INTENSE DRUMMING
REVERBERATING) ♪
(CHITTERING WARBLE)
- (MUSIC FADES) ♪
- (GROANS)
(LIGHTS BUZZING)
- (GRUNTING)
- (UNSETTLING MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(GROANS)
- (GRUNTS)
- (OMINOUS MUSICAL CHORD) ♪
You okay to drive?
(LOW TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
Just watch the road.
(JOHN CLEARS THROAT)
- Why did you kill my grandma?
- JOHN: She was a Manhunter.
So am I.
Yeah, I know.
You think that's a good enough
reason to murder someone?
You know, I cared
about your grandma.
I feel like
we understood each other.
You probably don't
know this part,
but I almost burned alive
in my car.
She pulled me out and
she took me to that machine
that you now have
in the slaughterhouse.
And she saved my life.
So she's the only reason
that you're alive?
JOHN: She is.
But she also could have
pulled me out the car
before it exploded.
She wanted me
at the very edge of death
'cause she knew
that she needed me
to kill Hal Jordan.
(SOFTLY)
She wanted me to kill her.
She knew
she couldn't stop herself,
so she wanted me to stop her.
Why?
Because if she was gone,
then nobody
would come here to look for you.
So, this is my fault?
No.
She'd been around for so long.
She lived so many lives.
I think maybe
she was just tired.
I don't believe that.
(MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪
Which way you wanna go, Noah?
(SUSPENSEFUL SYNTH
MUSIC OVERLAPPING) ♪
JOHN: What's it gonna be?
(TENSE MUSIC RESUMES) ♪
(INDISTINCT CHEERING)
(RUSHVILLE FAN CHANTING
OVER MEGAPHONE)
(TRUCK ENGINE CUTS OFF)
I didn't burn down Hal's house.
I saw the smoke
and I went in to help him.
(MUSIC STOPS) ♪
Well, that's the opposite
of your programming
so you're not a prisoner to it.
You know I trusted him
with what I was.
All he had to do was let it be.
- What are you saying?
- NOAH: He followed me.
He found the portal
and what was inside.
I couldn't risk him telling
my mom what I was doing.
JOHN: So, what?
Tell me.
Say it.
Why can't you say it?
(VOICE TREMBLING) I killed Hal.
You're still tryna figure out
if I'm gonna kill you?
I am. Yeah.
You don't think
I can overcome my programming?
You know
for a long time
I couldn't tell
where I started and where
my programming ended.
The whole "what is me" thing,
you know,
how much of it is just training
and repetition
and am I just doing it
to please my parents?
But then, you know,
I decided that actually
that's all
just a big fucking cop-out.
Because if I can ask
myself the question,
then I can answer it for myself.
(MARCHING BAND PLAYING
"WHEN THE SAINTS GO MARCHING IN") ♪
It's tough to field
a good marching band
- in a small town.
- (CHUCKLES)
Yeah, I imagine tryouts
for third trombone
get a little dark.
(CHUCKLES)
JOHN: Hmm.
You know,
there's a part of me that wants
to live a normal life.
JOHN: Mm.
I can go to Nebraska,
I'll play football.
I like it. I'm good at it.
You know, meet someone,
get married, start a family.
Just live.
And what's
the other part of you say?
I get these ideas.
It's like they're in me.
Like I don't even think 'em.
- They just exist.
- JOHN: What kind of ideas?
- About power.
- JOHN: What about it?
(MUSIC STOPS) ♪
How I could go to Annapolis,
could end up in the Pentagon,
use football to get famous,
go into politics.
It'd be so easy.
I'd have access
to all the levers of power,
people, the weapons.
And if anyone tried to stop me,
I'd have a ring and a lantern
that are even capable
of killing a Guardian.
If you could see
the inside of my head,
you'd never stop screaming.
I need to ask you a favor.
Okay.
I want you to kill me.
(SOFT PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
- I don't understand.
- Yes, you do.
You're not trying
to talk me out of it.
I I'm just listening.
You killed my grandma
out of mercy.
I'm asking you
to do the same for me.
Just let me play this last game
for my teammates.
One more favor.
Just please don't
let me see it coming.
(TRUCK DOOR OPENING)
(TRUCK DOOR CLOSING)
(LOW BROODING MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
Hal, are you there?
Come on, man, I know you
I know you
was listening to that.
Hal?
(RIVETING
MUSICAL CHORD PLAYING) ♪
Hal, I need you, man.
(SOFTER) Need you, man.
(MUSIC SWELLS, FADES) ♪
- (CROWD CHEERING)
- (NOAH CALLING PLAY)
- Ready?
- (PLAYERS AGREEING)
(CHEERING CONTINUES)
- NOAH: Set! Hike!
- (PLAYERS CLAMORING)
(LOW TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(COMMENTATOR
SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)
(CROWD CHEERING)
(MUSIC FADING) ♪
Too nervous to sit
with the other parents
to watch the game?
- I'm a mental patient.
- Hmm.
I get it.
NOAH: Watch 50. Set! Hike!
JOHN: How's he playing?
KERRY: He's five-for-five,
playing within himself.
I don't know why I get so crazy.
Every time he steps out there,
everything just
slows down for him.
Nebraska sent their whole staff.
There's assistants
from Florida State.
Michigan sent their OC.
You know, the main reason
he delayed his commitment
so long is those scouts
would keep showing up
and hopefully see some
of his teammates.
It's tough for small-town kids
to get a look,
especially
if they can't afford to go
to the satellite camps.
Yeah.
No, he's a good kid.
Are we gonna pretend
to chat about football,
or are we gonna talk
about the fact you dumped me
and went to the storage unit
on your own?
JOHN: I didn't know
if I could trust you.
And now?
JOHN: You know,
when I was a kid,
my mom would do
the most insane things to try
and make me fearless.
She would drop me off
in the worst neighborhoods
and tell me
to find my way home
and just take off.
Jesus.
What did you do?
I found my way home.
What else could I do?
But that's not the point.
The point is that the whole time
I didn't realize,
while she was trying
to make me fearless,
she was completely terrified.
And if I hadn't come home,
her world would have been over.
So every time I walked
through that door,
it was as if she'd
been holding her breath
the entire time I was gone.
My mother held her breath
for my entire childhood.
Why are you telling me this?
'Cause I think you know
exactly how my mother felt.
You must have been so scared
for Noah every single day.
(POIGNANT MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
JOHN: I don't know what I would
have done if I was you
and I was scared somebody
might discover what he was,
but I do know that fear and love
makes people scared,
and scared people
can do anything.
(MUSIC RISES) ♪
I wasn't scared.
I was terrified.
JOHN: Were you already here?
Did Hal come to you?
(CHEERS ECHOING)
Hi!
(MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪
- What happened to your face?
- HAL: Nothing.
It's not nothing.
- Don't worry about it.
- Did someone hit you?
- It doesn't matter.
- Was it Billy?
- Did Billy hit you?
- No, it wasn't Billy.
- Tell me who did it and I'll--
- Look, just stop.
Okay. What's going on?
I know about Noah.
(SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
You know what about Noah?
I know what he is.
- I don't know what you mean.
- Don't do that. Don't.
I know.
I need you to be honest with me.
Are there more?
Manhunters, Kerry,
are there more like Noah?
No.
He's the only one.
All right.
Zoe saved my life, you know?
There were people
looking for me.
It's a long story,
but I lost a finger,
and she said
she could grow it back, but
something must have
happened in the process,
'cause next thing,
I'm pregnant,
and I hadn't been
with anyone for months.
I didn't want a kid.
I didn't want to pass
on my shitty genes, but
he was just so perfect.
I figured if I raised him right,
if I loved him enough
Please don't tell him.
Promise me.
What are you talking about?
He doesn't know.
I haven't told him what he is.
Kerry, he knows
and he's planning something
very dangerous.
(MUSIC GROWS TENSE) ♪
- What?
- HAL: That doesn't matter.
- Of course it matters.
- Listen, we can keep him safe
and we can protect the others
around here, but we need to leave.
- We need to go.
- We can't just go. Go where?
I got a trusted friend
in Guadalajara.
(SCOFFS)
I'm not going
to fucking Guadalajara.
HAL: Just until we can
figure out what to do next.
Then there are other planets
that are more isolated.
No. No.
Noah has
a championship game on Friday.
He's deciding where
he's gonna go to college.
HAL: You can't just
ignore all this.
Kerry, this life, it's over.
- You need to stop talking.
- HAL: Do you understand?
That's over.
You should never have come here.
- HAL: You don't mean that.
- (TEARFULLY) Yes, I do.
You should never
have come back here!
This isn't just about you.
Listen to me.
People are in danger
- You need to stop talking!
- Noah's in danger.
Goddamn it, I love you.
- (GUN SHOT ECHOES)
- (HAL'S VOICE ECHOES)
It happened so fast,
and I couldn't undo it.
(MARCHING BAND
PLAYING IN DISTANCE) ♪
(FAINT CHEERING)
JOHN: Why did you call me
to tell me about Hal?
I thought you should know.
You asked me to come here.
The one person who might be able
to look into what Hal knew.
The one person
who might be able
to discover what you did.
So, I'm asking,
why did you call me?
I ran away to Rushville
to escape a monster.
I needed to know
if I was raising one.
(SOFT PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
Yeah.
- (CROWD CHEERING)
- NOAH: Break!
JOHN: He wants to be good.
KERRY: How can you be sure?
He had a ring and a lantern
that is more powerful than you
and I can even imagine.
And he just gave it to me.
He also confessed
to killing Hal to save you.
And that?
That is not programming.
That is love.
(CROWD CHEERING, APPLAUDING)
You raised him well.
There's something
you should know.
(MUSIC TURNS TENSE) ♪
Noah asked me
to kill him tonight.
What?
JOHN: He's scared of what
he might become.
What are you gonna do?
I'm not gonna kill him,
if that's what you're asking me.
But after this, I don't know.
He's scared of what he might do.
But that bodes well because,
with the right guidance,
you know, he could be the boy
that you raised him to be.
And if he gives in
to his worst instincts
Well then the world's gonna need
somebody who can stop him.
(PENSIVE
GUITAR MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(JOHN SIGHS)
Do you mind
if I just finish watching?
I'll turn myself in after.
I promise.
Somehow, I just don't think
that's what Hal would've wanted.
(MELANCHOLY MUSIC OVERLAPS) ♪
(MUSIC FADING) ♪
(GASPS)
(BREATHING SHAKILY)
(SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
COMMENTATOR: (OVER MIC) This drive
is critical for the Pioneers.
(CROWD CHEERING)
- NOAH: Hike!
- (PLAYERS GRUNTING)
COMMENTATOR: The clock
continues to run. Third down.
NOAH: Ten on ten. Go!
(MUSIC TURNS HOPEFUL) ♪
- (CROWD GROAN IN UNISON)
- (WHISTLE BLOWS)
COMMENTATOR:
Eight seconds remaining.
(WHISTLE BLOWS)
COMMENTATOR: Chadron down
here at Rushville.
Rushville facing one final play.
PLAYER: And go!
- (MUSIC BUILDING) ♪
- (INDISTINCT SHOUTS)
COMMENTATOR:
Touchdown Pioneers!
(EXUBERANT MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
COMMENTATOR:
Rushville wins! Rushville wins!
(CROWD CHEERING, APPLAUDING)
(HORN BLOWING)
(CHEERING CONTINUES)
(HOPEFUL MUSIC RESUMES) ♪
COACH: Now, I think
you might have just forgotten
to put this on today.
- Want to see how it fits?
- Yes, sir.
How's it look?
(RIVETING MELODY PLAYING) ♪
(BEACON WHIRRING)
(MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪
(SONIC BOOM)
(AIR WHOOSHING)
Jesus, you again?
Yeah, me again.
That light is for emergencies,
homes.
Son of a
Look, I got important shit
to do, okay? I can't be
Is that Jordan's ring?
No, it's mine.
(GUY GARDNER SCOFFS)
You fucking tricked me
so you could take
a ring off a corpse?
No. I tricked you so I could find out
what happened to him
because you didn't seem
to give a shit.
So did you find out
what happened?
- Yeah.
- And?
He died a hero.
And that's all
you need to know, homes.
Wow.
You know, you got a lot
of attitude for a man
wearing a dead ring
on your finger and nothing
to charge it with.
The fuck is that?
Yeah, that's mine.
Well, that looks to me
like an unsanctioned lantern.
Well, maybe you should
take it from me.
Why'd you call me, Stewart?
To get a message
to the Guardians.
Well, I'm not your errand boy.
Nah, but you're theirs.
- Am not.
- JOHN: Guy, you are.
That's why they chose you.
And there's nothing
wrong with that.
You should be proud.
You're the Green Lantern
of Sector 2814,
chosen and ringed.
But I'ma take Earth.
- The fuck does that mean?
- (SIGHS)
Think of me
as an independent contractor.
No Guardians, no Corps.
You take the stars. Have fun.
I'll take the dirt.
I'm completely confident we won't get
in each other's way.
Yeah? Well, I'm not confident.
No, Earth is part of my beat.
You can't just take it.
That's not how this works.
- There's a chain of command.
- Well, I guess I'm breaking it.
You do realize
when I take this
bullshit back up to Oa,
they're gonna send
an army to put you down.
Please tell them, and use
these exact words, okay?
That if they search
their hearts,
I know they'll find it
within themselves to let me be.
You got it?
Their hearts?
What is that, a code?
Yeah. Guy, it's code.
Well, you can--
Anything else?
Yeah. Lose the gold tooth.
You look like a fucking idiot.
(LAUGHS)
- This ain't over, hotshot.
- Oh, I hope not.
(SONIC BOOM)
- (CHITTERING WARBLE)
- HALOGRAM: What a douchebag.
Gold tooth.
Jesus Christ almighty.
And where the hell
have you been?
- Oh, around.
- No, you haven't been, actually.
Well, I'm here when you need me.
You haven't needed me.
- I called for you.
- It's your subconscious.
You been listening?
- You heard everything?
- Everything.
You're taking a very big risk.
Yeah, I know.
You need to really
think about it.
- Kid could be president one day.
- JOHN: Yeah.
He could have his finger
on the button.
Jesus! I I get it, okay?
(SIGHS) Hal, what would you do?
Oh, now you want my wisdom?
JOHN: Are you really
gonna do that right now?
Very interesting development,
isn't it?
I think it's the least you could do,
given that you ghosted me before.
No?
My gut tells me
you're gonna be better
at this job
than I ever was.
You're ready.
HALOGRAM:
Ring's running out of charge.
- Hey, you know that thing looks good on you.
- Yeah.
Most guys,
they can't handle jewelry.
You're lucky. You got slim
fingers like a girl.
- Man, shut the fuck up.
- HALOGRAM: Hmm.
(CHUCKLES)
Charge the ring.
Yeah, don't tell me what to do.
Don't be afraid to be afraid.
Now what's the matter?
It's the oath.
- The oath?
- Yeah, it's not quite me.
- What you mean, it's not quite--
- It's not it's not quite me.
Well, you're in uncharted
waters. Fuckin' A.
- Write your own fucking oath.
- (CHUCKLES)
Yeah, you're right.
Hey.
Hey, wait a second. Uh
(HESITATES) I kind of
fritzed out when
you were talking to Kerry.
What were the last words
that I said?
I mean, exactly.
For posterity's sake.
"I love you."
And I love you too, Junior.
("HERO"
BY MICHAEL KIWANUKA PLAYING) ♪
(LANTERN RUMBLING)
Am I a hero? ♪
Am I a hero now? ♪
Am I a hero? ♪
Am I a hero now? ♪
Yeah ♪
Please don't shoot me down ♪
I loved you like a brother ♪
It's on the news again ♪
I guess they killed another ♪
Am I a hero? ♪
Am I a hero now? ♪
To die a hero ♪
Is all that we know now ♪
Oh, we all get told to go ♪
Along ♪
Oh, we know
It's all for show ♪
We know, we know ♪
Am I a hero? ♪
Am I a hero now? ♪
To die a hero ♪
Is all that we know now ♪
JOHN: In brightest day,
in darkest night,
I'll embrace my fear
(LANTERN RUMBLING)
I'll do what's right.
I choose this ring,
I choose this fight
In service to
this lantern's light.
Am I a hero? ♪
A fallen hero now? ♪
Hear my sin, Lord ♪
Speak no evil now ♪
My amigo ♪
(RING WARBLING)
No gun to reload now ♪
A broken people ♪
There go a negro now ♪
- (ECHOING RUMBLE)
- Hear my sin, Lord ♪
(SONIC BOOM)
Speak no evil now ♪
My amigo ♪
No gun to reload now ♪
Oh, a broken people ♪
There go a negro now ♪
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SYNTH MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
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SYNTH MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
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(SWEEPING ORCHESTRAL
MUSIC OVERLAPPING) ♪
(RIVETING INSTRUMENTAL
MELODY PLAYING) ♪
(MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪