Smallville (TV Series)

Absolute Justice (2010)

Phil Morris: John Jones, Martian Manhunter

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Quotes 

• Hawkman : [to Clark]  Dr. Fate says you're a big deal. I don't see it.

  Dr. Fate : Clark Kent is not like the others. His path is righteous.

  Stargirl : If Dr. Fate says he's okay, that means he's okay, right?

  Clark Kent : Why have you been watching us?

  Stargirl : Sylvester wanted to bring together a new Justice Society - One with the surviving members and us new kids.

  Hawkman : It wouldn't have worked, Courtney. People never learn. This generation will make the same mistakes the last one did like the one before that. Obvious by how you've skipped your homework, you don't even know who we are.

  Clark Kent : You don't who we are either. But none of us here are the bad guys.

  [an arrow is shot into the JSA's framed picture, Oliver enters the Brownstone] 

  Oliver Queen : You sure about that, Clark? The winged warrior here threw me through a window.

  Hawkman : I hope I didn't make you cry.

  Oliver Queen : Drop the mace, Conan.

  Hawkman : I will... on your head.

  Oliver Queen : Bring it, Big Bird. Just for the record, you started it.

  Hawkman : I'll finish it.

  [They fight] 

  Stargirl : Hawkman, no!

  John Jones : [Enters]  I hope it's not too late to say, "we come in peace."

• Carter Hall : All we want is justice.

  Oliver Queen : Justice? Well, everything we've heard about you guys is a little blurry when it comes to justice.

  Courtney Whitmore : You mean what you've *read*.

  Oliver Queen : Do you know who you're working with here? These old men have criminal records longer than that staff of yours.

  Courtney Whitmore : They made those up.

  Carter Hall : It's none of their business.

  John Jones : With all due respect, we're making it our business. Even when I had the power to leave Earth, I chose not to. For one reason - Hope. Hope for the future. Humanity's capacity for violence is great, but their capacity for hope is greater than any other I've ever encountered.

• Oliver Queen : I, uh, I thought I'd stop and see if anyone's hungry.

  John Jones : I could use some dinner. Chloe?

  Chloe Sullivan : Uh, sure. You're buying Mr. Queen.

  John Jones : Don't look at me. I'm living off a policeman's salary.

  Oliver Queen : Ah, fine. Dessert's on you.

  John Jones : On Mars, we never had dessert, but I have grown especially fond of cookies.

• Icicle : I killed you.

  John Jones : I'm Mars' sole survivor. There's a reason for that.

• John Jones : I appreciate the assist.

  Dr. Fate : I'm interested in you. You are not a human, but you are forced to be.

  John Jones : I used to have special abilities like Clark.

  Dr. Fate : But you sacrificed them to save Clark Kent. You see what I see in Clark Kent but without the aid of the helmet of Nabu. Its magic reveals the fates of people around me. I look into the window of the future and witness might be. But, eventually, it became too much. I saw too much. Before your people were destroyed, did you have a wife, John?

  John Jones : And a daughter.

  Dr. Fate : You miss your family as do I.

• Courtney Whitmore : Carter, please. There's over a dozen members of the Justice Society still out there. Jay, Ted, Alan. If we didn't team up and stop the Icicle, he'll go after them next.

  Clark Kent : It's obvious you still care about this team. If you didn't, you wouldn't have kept watch over all of this.

  Carter Hall : This is a temporary alliance.

  Clark Kent : Do you have any idea where we can find Icicle?

  Chloe Sullivan : [enters the Brownstone]  I've got one or two. Unless this is costumes only.

  Carter Hall : Who's this, your secretary?

  John Jones : Our eyes and ears.

• John Jones : We're too late. He's already been here.

  Dr. Fate : It is not your fate to die this day, Martian.

  [he restores John's abilities] 

• Chloe Sullivan : If it isn't my favorite Martian. Looks like you're enjoying the return of your powers.

  John Jones : At a cost. Dr. Fate's final act was to restore my Martian abilities instead of saving his own life.

  Chloe Sullivan : What happens with the helmet now?

  John Jones : According to Hawkman, someone worthy will be drawn to it. They'll become the next Dr. Fate.

  Chloe Sullivan : What's next for you?

  John Jones : My time as a detective has allowed me to protect humans on a very personal and individual level. I've enjoyed that. So I will be able to protect and serve, using every tool I've got.

  Chloe Sullivan : Me too.

  John Jones : Dr. Fate was inundated with a constant flow of visions and information, but there is a limit to how much knowledge someone can have. It drove him to the edge of sanity, and he fell off. I don't need my telepathy to know you run that risk yourself.

  Chloe Sullivan : The golden helmet possessed by ancient spirits and the Watchtower are two entirely different things. I can handle it.

  John Jones : [holds Chloe's hand]  I only say because I care. You and Clark, Oliver. You're my family here.

• Carter Hall : The Justice Society of America was cleaning up the streets before you were in diapers. We tried our best to stay out of the public eye, but... a government task force got wind of our... extracurricular activities. They wanted us to work for them. They wanted us to unmask.

  John Jones : And you said no.

  Carter Hall : We refused to play ball, so they went after us hard. One by one, they uncovered our identities. They had us arrested... and institutionalized. They forced us out of the skies and off the streets.

  Dr. Fate : We were ripped away from our families while trying to protect them.

  Oliver Queen : Then why didn't you fight back?

  Dr. Fate : We did.

  Carter Hall : For as long as we could. As I could. I wasn't the leader they thought I was. I made too many mistakes.

  Clark Kent : I've made mistakes, but I haven't quit.

  Carter Hall : Haven't quit? You haven't started. Not as a team, anyway.

  Clark Kent : You're making this too personal.

  Carter Hall : That is our strength. Not our weakness.