Justice League Unlimited (TV Series)

Epilogue (2005)

CCH Pounder: Amanda Waller

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• Amanda Waller : As you know, I was in charge of Project Cadmus. Over the years I came to respect Batman, even trust him.

  Terry McGinnis : 'Guess the law of averages means somebody'd have to.

  Amanda Waller : Did you know I was the government liaison with the Justice League for a while? I met some extraordinary people in that job, but none of them were the equal of Batman.

  Terry McGinnis : [sarcastically]  Right, who could be?

  Amanda Waller : Not my point! I saw him save the day dozens of times with nothing but his wits, body and will. But I saw something else as the years passed. He was getting older, slower. Soon he would have to retire or, more likely, someone would finally manage to kill him. The thought of a world without Batman was unacceptable. So I decided to make a new one. I used my old Cadmus connections to gather the technology necessary for Project Batman Beyond.

• [speaking to Terry McGinnis about his origin] 

  Amanda Waller : Bruce's DNA was easy enough to obtain. He left it all over town.

  [Terry raises eyebrow] 

  Amanda Waller : Not remotely what I meant.

• Amanda Waller : He sat with her until her time came. That's the Bruce Wayne I came to know over the years.

  Terry McGinnis : You think he showed mercy? Maybe. But more likely he'd somehow already deduced that Ace really wasn't going to hurt anyone.

  Amanda Waller : He always was two steps ahead of everybody.

  Terry McGinnis : That's right. Even when it looks like your call, it isn't. Think about it. Bruce wanted a successor, another Batman. He planned it all from the beginning. I never had a chance.

  Amanda Waller : Honey, Bruce didn't overwrite your DNA with his. I did.

  Terry McGinnis : How? Why?

  Amanda Waller : Because the world needs a Batman. Not that I always thought so, mind you.

• Amanda Waller : I've been wondering when you were going to show up. Terry McGinnis or do you prefer being called Batman.

• Terry McGinnis : I've got some questions I need you to answer.

  Amanda Waller : Of course you do, boy. Why else go to all the trouble of breaking into the lair of the great and powerful Amanda Waller? You want some green tea? I do.

• Amanda Waller : I've know Bruce Wayne for over 50 years, and Ive kept an eye on you your whole life. You're not Bruce's clone, you're his son. There are similarities, mind you, but more than a few differences too. You don't quite have his magnificent brain, for instance. You do have his heart, though. And for all that fierce exterior, I've never met anyone who cared as deeply about his fellow man as Bruce Wayne, except maybe you. You want to have a little better life than the old man's? Take care of the people who love you. Or don't. It's your choice.

• Amanda Waller : It's been many a year since I had a handsome gentleman caller. Why is it that superheroes are always... so good-looking?

• Terry McGinnis : Don't pretend you're some dotty old lady who can't remember anything. I've got questions, and you're the only one left with the answers.

  Amanda Waller : Besides Bruce, you mean.

  Terry McGinnis : Bruce can't be trusted. I should have realized what he was capable of. Once he settles on a course of action, he won't stop at anything.

  Amanda Waller : If you think that, you don't know him at all.

• Amanda Waller : I found a young neo-Gotham couple with psychological profiles nearly identical to those of Bruce's parents. Your father thought he was getting a flu shot. Actually, it was a nanotech solution programmed to rewrite his reproductive material to an exact copy of Bruce Wayne's. A little over a year later, your mother gave birth to you, a child sharing half her genetic material and half Bruce's. But when you're making a Batman, genetics is only part of the story. The rest is tragedy. Stop me if you've heard it before. You're eight years old. Your parents have just taken you to a rousing adventure film. A grand time is had by all. But unknown to you, a mysterious figure hides in the shadows.

  [in flashback, Terry and his parents are followed by the Phantasm] 

  Amanda Waller : My plan was simple. The killer would leap out at you and kill your family. The trauma would put you on the path to becoming Batman. One problem: my assassin wouldn't pull the trigger. I argued with her, but deep down, I knew she was right. People say Batman's obsessive, that he'd do anything to achieve his goals, but he'd never resort to murder. So if I was to honor all he stood for, neither could I.

  Terry McGinnis : And yet my dad wound up murdered anyway. Don't you get it? No matter what you did or didn't do, I was gonna end up being Bruce's carbon copy. It was fate.

  Amanda Waller : You know, the Lord's been a great comfort to me all these years. Try not to look so surprised. Yeah, I've got a lot to answer for when I meet Him, but I'd like to believe that for all the harm I've caused, I've also done some good. Maybe the angels need a sharp sword, too. Like the good book says, He moves in mysterious ways. His plan is a mystery, but here's what isn't: He gave us free will. We choose our own fate, for good or ill.

• Batman : Waller. Should have recognized your hand in this.

  Amanda Waller : No time for the usual pleasantries. Before you go after Ace, you need to know what you're getting into.

  Batman : I've met her before. She has the power to give anyone she's in contact with hallucinations, as you can see.

  Amanda Waller : It's worse than you think. Ace's powers have evolved. She doesn't create hallucinations anymore. She telekinetically warps reality.

  Dr. Light : Please. You trying to tell me all this is real?

  Amanda Waller : Real, growing, and permanent if we don't put a stop to it all. Cadmus psytechs predict that Ace is days, maybe only hours, from a massive aneurysm.

  Dr. Light : Problem solved.

  Amanda Waller : Not that simple. When she goes, the psychic backlash could kill everyone in range of her powers. That's a distance measured in miles.

  [revealing a device in a briefcase] 

  Amanda Waller : Take her down before she takes everyone with her.

  Batman : [Shayera moves to take it, but he stops her]  I'll do it, Shayera. I'm the only one of us Ace knows. She might let me get close enough to use it.

  Amanda Waller : Do you understand what you're agreeing to? The only way to stop Ace for certain is to kill her.