[Barry] Cross this one off the bucket list.
Exhume Superman from the grave. Check.
You know we could do this in a nanosecond, right?
We could.
He was my hero.
All right.
An Amazon working with an Atlantean.
Half-Atlantean.
How many thousands of years since our people spoke?
I don't know. I'm not exactly close to mine.
I hate Atlanteans as much as you Amazons do.
Hate is useless.
Yep.
No, thank you.
You know, my father told me there's a saying in Atlantis...
"None are taken back from the darkness.
- "Not without.. - "Not without giving one up in return."
We say the same thing.
How about that?
Wonder Woman.
What do you think, man?
You think she'd ever go for a younger guy?
She's 5,000 years old, Barry.
Every guy's a younger guy.
[Alfred] Jesus.
[steam hissing]
Oh, Christ.
- [blasting] - Oh, bloody...
Any luck?
If by "luck" you mean
"chance in hell we'll get it flying today,"
then, no. No luck.
[Bruce] It's okay.
It doesn't matter. We're just gonna take the body
to the Kryptonian ship.
It's basically an organic computer.
It can talk directly to the Mother Box.
What? The way it talked to Lex Luthor?
[Bruce] Something like that.
[Alfred] Huh. What could possibly go wrong?
[Alfred sighing]
Master Wayne...
you did it!
You put the team together to fight this war.
You've fulfilled your promise.
But to try to do that... I mean...
your guilt's overcome your reason.
Not all the king's horses nor all the king's men...
Alfred, for once, I'm operating strictly on faith,
not on reason.
But if you start playing with this little box of tricks,
I mean, it could be the end of everything.
How do you know your team's strong enough?
If you can't bring down the charging bull,
then don't wave the red cape at it.
You do when it's this red cape.
This red cape charges back.
Okay.
You were right, Dr. Stone. The tests came back negative.
Everyone's clear, including you.
Just to be on the safe side, we swept the entire facility.
Well, thank you, Thomas. That means I'm free to go?
Absolutely.
- Thanks. - Listen up, everyone.
You're all clear. So, gather your things.
If you need more medical attention...
Arthur, yes, your opinion. Less preposterous. Option "A"?
- Definitely not. - Okay.
- Or-. - "Bu?"
Let me see "A" again?
Right. We should get dressed.
I'm always dressed.
[dramatic music playing]
[soldier] ID?
ID.
AYE. Aye.
[softly] "Aye, aye"?
[system buzzes]
[electrical whirring]
[soldier] Okay.
"Okay"? Oh, gee, okay!
Doc!
They let you out of quarantine.
Yeah, I finally got them to listen to reason.
Now, let's take a look and see what progress we've made
with the electron-laser.
We've made some real progress. Let me show you.
[Batman grunts softly]
Victor, clear this place out.
Done.
[electrical whirring]
[alarm blaring]
[PA announcer] Code Red. Contamination breach.
All personnel evacuate immediately.
- [people murmuring] - [Ryan] Bio red five.
The sensor's picking up a microbe of alien origin.
A microbe of alien origin? That doesn't make any sense.
It's gotta be a false alarm.
All right, people, shut it down. Let's go.
- Ryan, we just had it swept. - We have to go, Doc.
Think about it. It's gotta be a false alarm.
- Let's go, Doc. - Think about it.
[woman] Full base evacuation! Everyone out!
Look, wait! Wait! Shit!
[PA announcer] Remain calm and proceed to the nearest exit.
[scientists clamoring]
Attention, all personnel.
Go! Go! Everybody out! Come on! Move!
Move! Come on! Go, go!
Everybody out! Go!
- [system beeps] - Yes! Gotcha!
Post Commander, this is Dr. Silas Stone, do you read?
- [man] Go ahead, Dr. Stone. - This is a false alarm.
Someone has hacked into the system. We must alert...
[door opens]
Victor.
[man] Dr. Stone, you there? I don't copy.
I was mistaken.
The alarm's legit.
Everybody out. And nobody, I repeat,
nobody comes back inside without my say-so.
[man] Roger that, sir.
[officer 1] Get the civilians out!
[officer 2] Let's go! Let's go!
- Everybody got out okay? - I think so.
- Everybody? - Yes.
[electrical hum]
[clears throat]
This way.
It knows he's here.
[exhales heavily] Ooh, that's intense.
This is amazing.
This is crazy.
Oh, what? Now it's crazy?
You two lunatics better know what you're doing.
[soft orchestral music playing]
[grunts softly]
[sighs]
[breathes deeply]
[switch clicks]
[soft orchestral music continues]
[ship Al] Systems coming online.
[glitches] Welcome, Victor.
Would you like to assume command?
I'm in.
The ship says the Mother Box is hostile.
I can override the security protocols,
but there's no time to repair all the electrical damage
that Luthor's power surges caused to the primary capacitors.
Enghsh.
There's not enough charge to wake the box.
[inhales sharply] I might be able to do it.
I mean, I might be able to jump-start it.
I don't like to break this rule,
but when I approach the speed of light, I...
Look, crazy things happen to time,
but if I do it, I create massive electrical power.
I could backtrack, if I can get enough distance,
I can conduct a significant electrical current.
I might be able to wake the box, if that's...
still what we want?
It is. Do it.
[inhales sharply]
[officer] Hey, Miss Lane.
Morning.
I didn't think you were coming.
[sighs] One last time.
[somber orchestral music playing]
I see engines, so this must be the end of the line. So I'm...
[over radio] I'm in position.
[electrical hum]
[ship Al] Ready to initiate drop sequence.
The Mother Box is ready.
[somber orchestral music continues]
The ship's begging me not to wake the box.
[ship Al] This action is irreversible.
[Cyborg] It's afraid. It knows Steppenwolf will come for it.
We know that already. Continue.
[ship Al] I strongly advise against activation.
Barry, I'm initiating the countdown.
[ship Al] This action is irreversible.
- Five... - [ship Al] Five...
- Five... - [ship Al] Apokoliptian technology
- is hostile. - This is a bad idea.
No, it isn't. Keep going.
Four... -[ship Al] Four... - Four...
[ship Al] I strongly advise against activation.
- We need to abort, now. - Just do it.
- [Cyborg] Three... - [ship Al] Three...
Three... -Two... - [ship Al] Two...
- Two... - This course is irreversible.
- One. - [ship Al] One.
- One. - [ship Al] This action is irreversible.
[electrical whirring]
[explosions]
[dramatic orchestral music playing]
[electrical trilling]
[breathes shakily]
[panting]
[dramatic orchestral music continues]
[gasps]
- [The Flash, on radio] Victor? - No.
Go?
[grunting]
[orchestral music playing]
[yelling]
[water bubbling]
[booms]
[grunts]
[Mother Box powering down]
[ship Al] The future has taken root in the present.
- [Mother Box powering up] - Get down!
[all grunt]
[all gasp]
[people murmuring]
[Mother Box pulsing]
[electricity crackling]
[somber orchestral music playing]
[warbling]
[somber orchestral music continues]
[breathing heavily]
He's back.
[static crackles, indistinct radio chatter]
- [siren wailing] - [rapid heartbeat]
[Cyborg] Something's wrong. He's scanning us.
What?
[grunting]
Victor?
[continues grunting]
- Shit. - What are you doing?
It's my auto-defense system.
It senses danger.
Victor, no! Victor!
- I can't control it. - [The Flash] Don't!
[panting]
[breathes heavily]
Kal-El, no!
[Cyborg grunting]
[grunts]
He's confused. He doesn't know who he is.
[grunts]
Arthur, we need to restrain him.
[all grunting]
[grunts]
[straining]
Kal-El, the last Son of Krypton...
remember who you are.
Tell me who you...
- [grunts] - [Wonder Woman yelps]
[all grunting]
[slowed electrical warbling]
[The Flash grunting]
[The Flash yelps]
[gasping]
[gunfire]
[grunts]
Let's go! [Screams]
[Cyborg grunts]
You should probably move.
[officers shouting indistinctly]
- You all right? - Yeah.
Get up. Take cover back there. Go.
[tense music playing]
[grunts]
[both straining]
[metallic thud]
[dramatic music playing]
[bOth grunt]
Please don't make me do this.
[grunts]
[groans]
- [Wonder Woman grunts] - [breathes heavily]
"[9Funts] {groans}."
Clark.
Clark, no.
[grunts]
[groaning]
Clark.
No.
This world needs you.
[Lois] Clark.
Clark.
Whoa! Hold your fire! Hold your fire!
[Lois panting]
[Lois] Clark.
[soft music playing]
Please.
[exhales deeply]
[panting]
Please.
[Lois breathing shakily]
Please.
Just go.
Yeah.
Let's go.
[Clark inhales deeply]
[distant thud]
[The Flash groaning]
[breathes heavily]
I'm so sorry.
[whooshing]
[indistinct shouting]
[man] Take cover!
- He's coming. - The Mother Box.
Where is it?
Come on.
- [Steppenwolf grunts] - [people screaming]
[Steppenwolf breathing heavily]
[roars angrily]
[grunts]
[keyboard clacking]
- [electricity crackling] - [grunts]
[automated voice] Attention, security breach detected.
Sector Four, Level Three.
Implement lockdown procedures immediately.
[Steppenwolf roars]
[panting]
[Steppenwolf growling]
Give me the Mother Box.
[Cyborg grunts]
No, no, no.
Dad, wait! Don't!
- [Steppenwolf grunts] - [Cyborg groans]
[grunts, breathes heavily]
[electricity crackling]
So begins the end.
[portal booming]
[The Flash] Victor?
Vic... Whoa, Victor. Are you okay, man? Come on.
Victor?
He's dead.
What?
My father.
I didn't save him. I couldn't.
[The Flash] Oh, my God.
[breathes heavily]
His father's dead 'cause of us.
I told you waking that box was a bad idea.
It wasn't a bad idea.
We needed Superman. We still do.
[Aquaman] Well, whatever returned, it isn't Superman.
His body and powers, maybe. But it ain't him.
[Batman] it is him.
He recognized Lois Lane.
- Who? - The woman he loves.
- He remembers her. - [Aquaman] Nah.
He went to her 'cause she wasn't afraid of him.
It's called instinct, Diana.
[Aquaman sighs]
[The Flash] Wait, where did Steppenwolf go?
[Wonder Woman] He's gone back to his base
to assemble the three boxes.
[Aquaman] And we don't know where his base is.
- Or how long until... - [Batman] Hours.
The boxes synchronize, Unity forms,
we don't get there in time to stop it, the planet dies.
[whispers] This is not your...
[gasps]
He knew.
He knew, he knew, he knew.
He wasn't trying to destroy the box...
he was trying to superheat it.
He made the core the hottest thing
on Earth outside of a nuclear reactor.
Now, anything that hot would have to...
[Batman] Blink off the charts
on a thermal imaging system.
Your father sacrificed himself to mark that box.
We have to get back to my lab and use the satellite
to scan the Earth for thermal anomalies.
I'm already on it.
I'm sorry. [hesitates] You have a satellite?
I have six.
Right.
Let's go find the son of a bitch.
[birds chirping]
[soft music playing]
You brought us here.
You remembered.
This is home.
You spoke.
Did I not before?
Your mother got behind on the payments.
She never told anyone.
I don't understand.
She's a proud woman, Clark.
Here.
She loved it here.
[birds chirping]
So did I.
[Clark sighs]
[The Flash] Wow!
This is awesome.
[Bruce] Brought some friends.
0h, gosh, yes! Yes!
Everyone, this is Alfred. I work for him.
- Alfred. - Good day, ma'am.
[Alfred] on...
[Alfred clears throat]
It's badass, Alfred.
Well, I'll put on the tea.
Great.
I don't know where we're gonna find the cups.
[Bruce] There's the Mother Box, right there.
[Wonder Woman] Go to visible spectrum.
[sighs] Pozharnov.
Ghost city not far from Moscow.
It's been abandoned since
the nuclear accident there 30 years ago.
Not even the army goes in.
[Barry] Right, it's probably so radioactive
that you grow an extra foot outta your neck.
Not anymore.
He's harvested the radiation to build his base.
Zoom.
[keyboard clacking]
What the hell is he building?
[Cyborg] The Unity's in there.
We'll attack from above.
Explosives won't separate the boxes,
only strengthen their bond.
[Barry] What? So we can't blow it up?
[Cyborg] Not from the outside.
I want to plug into The Unity, one-on-one.
Fuse with it.
Weaken its bond from the inside
so we can break it back into three.
No, you don't know what you'd be up against.
You'd have to stream into The Unity by yourself.
These boxes together are world destroyers.
A billion years old.
They'll get inside you and find your weaknesses
and your fears, and use them to destroy you.
Just get me in and get me time.
You could die, Victor.
If I don't, we all die. Period.
I got nothing left.
You wanted me to use these gifts, right?
That's what I'm gonna do.
[Barry] Okay. So...
if Victor wants to try to save the world
by fusing with the doom boxes,
I say we put him in the doom boxes.
But getting him in means attacking that base.
Fighting the devil and his army in hell.
[Barry] I mean, this guy's probably fought
hundreds of thousands of other superbeings
on the other planets he's destroyed, right?
And we have to assume he's won.
I don't care how many demons he's fought in how many hells...
he's never fought us. Not us united.
[hopeful music plays]
[soft music playing]
Take that as a "yes."
[Lois] What?
The ring.
You're really back.
I have a second chance, Lo.
And I am not gonna waste it.
[gasps softly]
- [Martha laughing] - [chuckles]
Are you really you?
I'm really me, Ma.
[Martha laughs]
Listen, Ma.
They wanted me back for a reason.
I need to find out why.
[Martha sighs]
How's Victor doing?
You know, wanted to be by himself.
We're asking a kid who just lost his father
to go up against the most powerful machines
in the universe.
It's not fair.
I thought you didn't care?
I never said that.
What is it?
Uh...
I had a dream, like, I don't know,
almost like a premonition.
It was the end of the world
and Barry Allen was right here
and he said to me, "Lois Lane is the key."
She is... to Superman.
Every heart has one.
I think it's something more.
Something darker.
Master Wayne.
Master Wayne!
You need to see this.
[triumphant music playing]
You fixed it.
It wanted to fly.
Flight is its nature.
Yours, too.
He'll be here, Alfred, I know it.
What makes you so sure?
Faith, Alfred. Faith.
At last.
Prepare for his arrival.
My redemption is nigh.
Unite.
Synchronize.
[distant explosion]
[ancient lamentation music playing]
[distant explosion]
[Alfred humming]
[distant explosion]
[Mother Boxes pinging]
[Bruce] The satellites revealed he's created a defensive dome.
It's a design flaw.
Take out the tower, the dome will fall.
The enemy never anticipated a frontal assault.
[The Flash] Right, probably 'cause he didn't think
anyone would be that nuts.
Bruce is right.
We've got to destroy the defensive dome
so we can reach The Unity before it synchronizes.
What if the dome's not destroyed?
It'll be destroyed.
[Wonder Woman] Once Victor is linked with The Unity
with Barry's help,
he'll break through The Unity's defenses.
[Aquaman] Remind me, how's that again?
Uh, with the power of love.
- Barry. - With a catastrophic energy surge.
Good.
You'll have to run faster than you've ever attempted
to generate a charge of that size.
And then you make physical contact with Victor.
That force should propel him inside The Unity.
And, Victor, it's all up to you.
Take it apart from the inside before it synchronizes.
[The Flash] Whew. We actually finally have a plan.
[Bruce] We have a plan.
[soft music plays]
Nor-E“ The symbol of the house of El means hope.
Embodied within that hope is the fundamental belief
in the potential of every person to be a force for good.
[Jonathan] Clark...
Nor-E“ That's what you can bring them.
[Jonathan] you were sent here for a reason.
Nor-E“ You will give the people of Earth
an ideal to strive towards.
[Jonathan] And even if it takes you the rest of your life,
you owe it to yourself to find out what that reason is.
Nor-E“ They will stumble, they will fall.
[Jonathan] You're gonna have to make a choice.
Nor-E“ They will join you in the sun, Kal.
[Jonathan] A choice of whether to stand proud
in front of the human race or not.
Nor-E“ You will help them accomplish wonders.
All the hopes and dreams of Krypton live in you now.
[Jonathan] I'm so proud of you, son.
Nor-E“ Your mother and I loved you.
[Jonathan] Your mother and I knew
you would change the world.
Nor-E“ Your heart was tested.
[Jonathan] I know it's been hard, Clark.
Nor-E“ But you gave hope to their world.
[Jonathan] You need to show them who you are.
Nor-E“ Love them, Kal.
The way we loved you.
[Jonathan] Fly, son.
It's time.
[upbeat music playing]
[exhales]
[exhales deeply]
I'm gonna take out that tower
and knock down that shield dome.
Whatever you see,
stick to the plan.
It's why I brought you together.
[clicks button]
[rapid electronic beeping]
Bruce, pull back. You're not gonna make it.
[grunts] Just have to knock a little louder.
[grunting]
[explosion]
Kill him!
Get to the carriage. Defend The Unity.
Oh, shit.
[grunts]
[grunting]
[Parademons screeching]
The tower's down.
Do you read me?
Uh, yeah, loud and clear.
[over radio] Are you okay?
Bruce? Bruce?
Get to the reactor.
I'll lure as many of these monsters
- away from you as I can. - What does that mean?
Don't worry about me. Get to The Unity.
- [door clanging] - [Parademons snarling]
They're here.
[The Flash over radio] Bruce?
Comm went dead.
Let's go.
[metal creaking]
[Parademons snarling]
[engine revving]
[machine gun firing]
[tires screeching]
[Parademons screeching]
Come on, follow me, you damn insects.
[engine revving]
[missile whooshes]
[tires screeching]
[Parademons snarling]
- [engine revving] - [tires screeching]
[Automated voice] Critical damage.
[Parademon snarls]
[Batman grunts]
[ancient lamentation music playing]
[grunts]
You really are outta your mind.
[Aquaman grunting]
You're welcome.
My man.
[Aquaman whooping]
[grunts]
[Aquaman chuckles]
[grunts]
[Batman grunting]
[Parademon screeches]
[Aquaman grunts]
[grunts]
[Aquaman growls]
Yeah, we got this.
You go do your thing.
[The Flash grunting]
[Wonder Woman grunting]
[beeping rapidW]
[Batman grunts]
- [loud thudding] - [drink splashes]
I'm assuming you're Alfred.
Master Kent.
He said you'd come.
Now, let's hope you're not too late.
[Aquaman grunts]
- Hey! - [trident clanging]
[growling]
Remember me?
Round two?
Hell yeah.
[yells]
[grunts]
[growls]
[ancient lamentation music playing]
Shall we?
Tell me, Amazon,
why did you abandon your own sisters
only to cast your lot with these creatures
clinging to their puny lives?
You weren't there to protect them from me.
And, sadly, you could have.
[yells]
[Wonder Woman grunting]
[{growls} {Aquaman grunting]
[ancient lamentation music playing]
[Wonder Woman grunts]
Barry, I'm in position.
[grunts]
[echoes] Okay. I built the charge.
[over radio] You call it.
[grunts]
Barry, on one.
Three, two...
[Cyborg yelps, grunts]
Get the hell off me!
Victor!
[grunts and yells]
- [Steppenwolf roars] - [grunts]
[axe clangs]
- [Wonder Woman yells] - [Aquaman grunting]
[growls]
Victor!
[growls]
I watched your island burn,
your sisters begging for their lives.
As did your mother.
Liar.
[Steppenwolf grunts]
[grunts]
[groans]
[both grunting]
I can't maintain this!
Victor!
[grunting, yells]
[grunting]
Victor, I can't hold this!
[Cyborg shuddering]
For Darkseid.
[axe clangs]
Not impressed.
[KNOWS]
[triumphant music playing]
[growling]
All right.
Kal-El.
[yells]
[Aquaman grunts]
[Steppenwolf groaning]
[groaning]
[groans]
[roars]
[Superman grunts]
Barry, I'm connected to The Unity.
I need the charge to get inside.
[The Flash screams]
[wheezing]
Barry?
Barry, are you okay?
[gasping]
[Batman over radio] Barry!
I got the wind knocked out of me.
Need a few seconds, that's all!
[gasps and groans]
[Superman grunting]
[thuds]
[rumbling]
[gasps]
[straining]
Barry, where are you? It's almost synchronized!
Okay, Okay-
[inhales sharply] Oh, my God. Gotta heal, Barry.
Heal. Heal.
[grunts]
[portal warbling]
[shouts] Barry!
[Cyborg grunting]
It's too late.
Oh, no.
He's here!
[charging up]
[Wonder Woman grunts]
[explosion]
[groans in pain]
[gasps and winces]
Okay.
Just gotta go faster than the speed of light.
Far beyond the speed of light.
You gotta break the rule, Barry,
and you gotta do it now. [inhales sharply]
[echoes] Dad...
whatever happens, I want you to know
your kid was one of them, Dad.
One of the best of the best.
[triumphant music playing]
Make your own future.
Make your own past.
It's all right now.
[breathing heavily]
We've been waiting for you, Victor.
My broken boy.
You don't have to be alone anymore.
We'll be together again.
[Mother Box as Victor] We can put it back, Vic.
Make you whole again.
I'm not broken.
- [grunts] - [distorted voices]
And I'm not alone.
[distorted warbling]
[Cyborg straining]
Superman!
[Superman straining]
[groaning]
[roars]
- [Aquaman straining] - [Steppenwolf roars]
[ancient lamentation music playing]
[Wonder Woman yelling]
[Wonder Woman growls]
[electricity crackling]
[growls]
I told you.
Steppenwolfwould fail.
Yes. Yes, you did.
My master,
now that the Mother Boxes have been destroyed,
how will you retrieve your great prize?
Anti-Life is found, DeSaad.
And we will stop at nothing to possess it.
Ready the armada.
We will use the old ways.
[triumphant music playing]
[rattling]
[tape recorder clicks]
[Silas, on tape] Your father twice over.
[tape rewinding]
Now, let me speak to you from my heart,
not as a scientist, as a father.
[chuckles] Your father twice over.
I brought you into the world and back to it.
You can't imagine how proud I am of who you are.
Have always been.
[chuckles softly]
So many years with you I wasted.
So many wrongs I've left un-righted.
Everything breaks, Victor.
Everything changes.
I gotta go see my father.
[engine starts]
[Silas] The world is hurt.
Broken.
Unexchangeable.
[man] Ship's all yours now, kid.
You're the boss.
"Ryan Choi, Director of Nanotechnology."
That's your thing.
Uh, yep. [Sighs]
That's my thing.
[Silas] But the world's not fixed in the past,
only the future.
The not yet. The now.
[Bruce] Wow. Must be 100, 150 feet.
[Alfred] Must be.
Big round table.
Six chairs, right there.
But room for more.
God help us.
[pigeons cooing]
[Silas] The now is you.
[$|8m$]
What?
It's actually the worst job you can get in a crime lab.
But, uh, my foot's in the door.
This is like a "job" job?
"Job" job.
[laughs] Your foot's in the door.
Isn't that a thing people say?
Your foot's in the door.
Yeah, that's something people say, man.
- His foot's in the door! - [prisoners cheering]
- That's my boy, right there! - Oh, gosh. Oh, gosh.
Taught him nothing he knows.
- [Henry] Yes! [Laughs] - Dad, you're gonna get maced again.
No stopping you now.
[Barry chuckles softly]
Thanks, Dad.
[Silas] Now.
Now's your time, Victor, to rise.
"Thank you" is not enough for what you did.
I just undid a mistake, that's all.
[Clark chuckles]
How did you get the house back from the bank?
I bought the bank.
Congratulations, by the way.
[Silas] Do this. Be this.
The man I never was. The hero you are.
Take your place among the brave ones.
The ones that were, that are, that are yet to be.
[engine revving]
[clangs]
It's time you stand,
fight,
discover,
heal, love,
win.
The time
is now.
[doors buzzing]
[Prism guard] Ready?
Come on, Stevens.
[prisoner chattering indistinctly]
[prisoner 2 hyperventilating]
[prison guard] All right, let's keep it moving.
Keep going.
[prison guard 2] Come on, Luthor. Let's go.
Luthor.
Open up two, Carl, please.
Luthor.
All right, stop jerking around, Luthor,
or I'm gonna have to come in there.
[laughs maniacally, growls]
- [continues laughing] - [prison guard gasps]
[alarm wailing]
[prison guards shouting indistinctly]
Ah, there he is.
Welcome aboard.
Care for a glass of Goflt de Diamante?
I was just celebrating God's return.
Out of the ground and back up into the sky.
[Deathstroke] I heard you were
a few clowns short of a circus.
[chuckles] I was, thank you,
until the good doctors at Arkham helped me
find some much needed clarity.
Now, you volunteered to destroy the bat
free of charge.
Why the pro bono work?
[sighs] It's personal.
Ah, let me guess, an eye for an eye?
You said you had something I'd want?
You'd better not be wasting my time.
Ooh. And endure your wrath, Mr. Wilson?
No, I wouldn't think Of it.
Uh, I have too much to live for.
And more important things to do.
But if you want the Batman,
here is something that can help you.
His name is Bruce Wayne.
Hmm. On second thought,
we do have something to celebrate.
Good boy.
[Parademon chitters]
Clear.
How much further?
We're almost there.
Well, we need to hurry.
We can't be out in the open much longer.
He'll come for us.
[Mera] Let him come.
Let the bastard come.
I'll stab this through his heart
for what he did to Arthur.
I want to make him pay.
I understand how you feel, Mera.
You have no idea how I feel.
But we have to stick to the plan
to have any chance to make this right.
[Mera scoffs]
Who have you ever loved?
[man cackling]
[man] Au contraire, my little fish stick.
He knows exactly what it's like
to lose someone he loves.
You know, like, uh,
a father,
like a mother.
Be very careful with the next thing you say.
Like an adopted son.
Isn't that right,
Batman?
Maybe, in a way,
that smelly old flounder is right.
Because how many can die in your arms
before you grow numb to death?
That's not very careful.
And how many dead eyes can you look into
before you die inside yourself?
I've been dead inside a long time,
but even I have a limit.
And if you cross that line, I swear to God, I will...
Before what, Bruce? Kill me?
You won't kill me.
I'm your best friend.
Besides, who's gonna give you a reach-around? [Chuckles]
Anyway,
you need me.
You
need me to help you undo this world
you created by letting her die.
Poor Lois.
How she suffered so!
[sighs]
I often wonder
how many alternate timelines
do you destroy the world because...
frankly, you don't have the cojones to die yourself.
Hmm?
So, as usual, I'll be the bigger man.
[blows air]
A truce,
Bruce.
[cackling]
As long as you have this card, a truce.
But all you have to do is tear it in half
and I'm happy to discuss with you
in any way you like, why you sent a Boy Wonder...
to do a man's job.
You know, it's funny
that you would talk about people
who died in my arms
because when I held Harley Quinn
and she was bleeding and dying,
she begged me with her last breath
that when I killed you,
and make no mistake, I will fucking kill you...
that I'd do it slow.
I'm gonna honor that promise.
Oh. You're good.
You almost had me.
[cackling]
[Joker continues cackling]
Where are we holing up?
Somewhere he'll never suspect.
Still think it was a good idea bringing him along?
- [Joker blows raspberry] - What do you think?
[armor beeps]
[distant explosion]
He's found us.
[cackling]
[gasps]
[breathing heavily]
[distant explosions]
Can I help you?
I'm sure you know Darkseid is not finished with Earth.
The Anti-Life Equation is here somewhere.
We have to find it before he does.
There's a war coming.
And I'm here to help.
I'm sorry, who are you again?
I've gone by many names
and taken many forms. And like you,
I've realized I have a stake in this world
and it's time I started fighting for it.
Oh.
Well, we could definitely use the help.
So, glad you're here.
You know, I never thought
I'd see the defenders of Earth
united and fighting as one.
It wouldn't have happened without you, Bruce.
Your mother and father would be proud.
I hope so.
Well, I'll be in touch.
Oh, and some have called me
the Martian Manhunter.
I guess I'll see you around.
["Hallelujah" by Leonard Cohen plays]
[female singer singing] I've heard there was a secret chord.
That David played And it pleased the Lord.
But you don't really care For music, do ya?
It goes like this The fourth, the fifth.
The minor fall, the major lift.
The baffled king composing "Hallelujah".
Hallelujah Hallelujah.
Your faith was strong But you needed proof.
You saw her bathing on the roof.
Her beauty and the moonlight Overthrew ya.
She tied you to a kitchen chair.
She broke your throne And she cut your hair.
And from your lips She drew the Hallelujah.
Hallelujah Hallelujah.
Well, baby, I've been here before.
I've seen this room And I've walked this floor
I used to live alone before I knew you.
And I've seen your flag On the marble arch.
And love is not a victory march.
It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah.
Hallelujah Hallelujah.
Well, there was a time When you would let me know.
What's really going on below.
But now you never Show that to me, do you?
And remember when I moved in you.
The holy dove was moving, too.
And every breath we drew was Hallelujah.
Hallelujah Hallelujah.
Well, maybe there's a God above.
But all I've ever learned from love.
Was how to shoot at somebody.
Who outdrew you.
And it's not a cry That you hear at night.
It's not somebody who's seen the light.
It's a cold And it's a broken Hallelujah.
Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah.
Hallelujah.
Hallelujah