Smallville (TV Series)

Absolute Justice (2010)

Michael Shanks: Carter Hall, Hawkman

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• 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."

• Oliver Queen : God, I hate waiting.

  Hawkman : But you love talking. Shut up.

  Oliver Queen : Why did they have to team us up together?

  Hawkman : I asked them to so I can keep you in line.

  Oliver Queen : What are you? My chaperon?

  Hawkman : Think of me as your parole officer but with a mace.

• Carter Hall : You're not like the others, are you, Clark? Kids who are in it for the thrills or because they have a chip on their shoulder. You don't do this for glory or vengeance.

  Clark Kent : I guess not.

  Carter Hall : Your team is better than I thought, too. Even I have to admit, Green Arrow has pretty good aim.

  Clark Kent : We're not a team. Not like yours.

  Carter Hall : Why? Because of you?

  Clark Kent : They're the best friends that I have, Carter, but I don't know if we'll ever be what the J.S.A. was.

  Carter Hall : You have to trust them.

  Clark Kent : I do.

  Carter Hall : You have to remember they're people, too. They'll make mistakes. We all do. We all have to keep trying. Isn't that what you said?

• 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 : You know, you really got to work on your landings.

  Hawkman : It would have been a lot smoother if you hadn't thrown up.

  Oliver Queen : Send me your dry-cleaning bill.

  Hawkman : Send me your dinner bill.

• Carter Hall : You have the capacity to break the chains that are holding you down, Clark. And when you do, what Doctor Fate envisioned will come to pass. You will soar higher than any one of us.

• 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.

• Carter Hall : It's been a long while since I've made someone bleed.

  [picks up his mace] 

  Carter Hall : Time to go hunting.

• Oliver Queen : Frosty's kid going after you for putting dear old in traction, right? But why now? It's been decades.

  Hawkman : Because revenge is a dish best served cold.

  Oliver Queen : We're telling jokes now?

• Oliver Queen : You know, it's not what happened to you that destroyed this team, is it? It's what happened to her. Right? Hawkgirl? Who was she? Your partner?

  Carter Hall : My wife.

  Oliver Queen : You were married?

  Carter Hall : Hard to believe? What would someone like me know about love? Well, I only know it ends. And it always ends. In every one of my lives, past and present.

  Oliver Queen : Past lives?

  Carter Hall : Shiera and I were born over a thousand years ago. We were cursed by one of our enemies. Destined to fall in love, only to watch each other die, lifetime after lifetime. Well, the sooner this life is over... the sooner I see my wife again.

  Oliver Queen : I've never had a connection like that. At least not one that lasted.

  Carter Hall : Because you hide it.

  Oliver Queen : Hide what?

  Carter Hall : You don't want anyone to know how important they are to you, so you act like a jackass.

• Oliver Queen : I do know what it's like to feel like the only thing left to do with your life is throw it away. But you didn't, did you? You stuck around for Doctor Fate.

  Carter Hall : He needed my help.

  Oliver Queen : He did. He needed your help, and now there's a young girl out there and she's counting on you. The rest of your team is out there. So why don't you take the death wish... and shelf it?

  [offering Carter his mace] 

  Oliver Queen : Thing's heavier than it looks.

  Carter Hall : You get used to it.

• 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.

• Clark Kent : Mr. Hall, I'm Clark Kent from the Daily Planet.

  Carter Hall : [ignoring his handshake offer]  What do you want?

  Clark Kent : I came by to talk to you about a few of your friends. Sylvester Pemberton, Wesley Dodds. They were both murdered.

  Kent Nelson : [nearby, muttering to himself]  Red, white, and blue. Two betrayed. Stars and stripesy, stars and stripe. Sandman doesn't dream anymore. Is Mr. Terrific still terrific? I don't think so.

  Clark Kent : Who's that?

  Kent Nelson : [still muttering]  Who is that? Who is that? Kent Nelson. Dr. Kent Nelson. But the doctor is out. He's gone bowling.

  Carter Hall : My friend is very sick. No, I haven't spoken to Pemberton or Dodds in years.

  Clark Kent : Sylvester Pemberton called your phone several times over the last few days.

  Carter Hall : I didn't answer.

  Clark Kent : Mr. Hall, I understand that you'd be reluctant to talk to the police, given your past, but I...

  Carter Hall : You don't know anything about my past, kid.

  Kent Nelson : [muttering]  No, he doesn't. Tick tock. The Hourman's run out. The Atom is split. No, he doesn't. He doesn't, Nabu, so s-stop whispering.

  [using his x-ray vision, Clark sees a helmet inside Nelson's bag, which turns to look at him of its own accord] 

  Carter Hall : We have nothing else to say.

• Carter Hall : The museum is closed. Permanently.

  Clark Kent : The door was open.

  Carter Hall : Wasn't supposed to be.

• Carter Hall : We're gonna need him, Nelson.

  Kent Nelson : No. No. No, no. No. I'm not good enough.

  Carter Hall : My morality might have wavered. Yours never did.

  Kent Nelson : You don't realize... how badly I wish I could remember, Carter. I wish I could remember what my life was like before Dr. Fate. I think I had a wife. Her name was Inza. And I had a family. But I don't know where they are anymore. I scared them away.

  Carter Hall : Not all of them, my friend.

• Courtney Whitmore : I read Sylvester's coroner report. There was frostbite around the bullet wounds, but no bullets. It's him, isn't it?

  Kent Nelson : [muttering]  Jack Frost nipping at our toes.

  Courtney Whitmore : Oliver Queen said that there are two dead.

  Carter Hall : Wesley Dodds, the Sandman.

  Courtney Whitmore : We have to do something.

  Kent Nelson : [muttering]  Wesley Dodds, we have to do something. Have to do something. What do we do? We have to do something.

  Carter Hall : Look at Kent Nelson, Courtney. He spends most of his days wandering the streets, searching for the secrets to the universe at the bottom of trash cans.

  Courtney Whitmore : So, Dr. Fate is incapacitated. The Sandman and the Star-Spangled Kid are both dead. You were their leader. What's your excuse?

  Kent Nelson : [muttering]  Excuse, excuse.

  Courtney Whitmore : Please don't make me ask another team for help.

  Carter Hall : Oh, the kids out there playing hero are hardly a team. They don't know how to lace up their own boots.

  Courtney Whitmore : Well, maybe if you had laced up your boots when Sylvester had asked you to, he might still be alive!

  Carter Hall : Don't waste your breath. I have enough guilt to last twenty lifetimes.

  Courtney Whitmore : What would Shayera have done?

• Carter Hall : You shouldn't have dragged Sylvester's sidekick into this, Nelson.

  Courtney Whitmore : I'm not his sidekick. I'm his protege.

  Carter Hall : You're a little girl. Your stepfather must be worried sick. Go home.

• Chloe Sullivan : [after Oliver is thrown through a window at Watchtower]  Oliver! Are you okay?

  Hawkman : He'll live. Now stay the hell out of our business.

  [threateningly pointing his mace at them] 

  Hawkman : Nice time, I won't ask so nicely.

• Kent Nelson : The helmet has something to say. He whispers. He whispers. He could help.

  Carter Hall : We only help ourselves, Nelson. Like we've always had to.