- Clark Kent (Earth-167): Hmm. You're not Lex.
- Lex Luthor: Maybe not the Lex you know. The multiverse has a way of aligning fates.
- Clark Kent (Earth-167): What'd you do to those people?
- Lex Luthor: Sent them back to their flying tin can in the sky. Let's hope they learn from this teachable moment. Now I'm here for you, not them.
- Clark Kent (Earth-167): Whoever you are, I'm just a guy working on this farm.
- Lex Luthor: You will always be my greatest enemy on any Earth. It's written in the stars and in this book or I wouldn't know that on this Earth Clark Kent is Superman. Where I come from, that would be ridiculous. He can't see past his glasses.
- Clark Kent (Earth-167): Hmm. So what do you want?
- Lex Luthor: Why, to kill you of course and every version of you across the multiverse so that if the, uh, super friends somehow find a way save existence there won't be a single Superman stand in my way.
- [Lex brings out Kryptonite on Clark and he's unfazed, Clark takes it and throws it away]
- Lex Luthor: That's Kryptonite.
- Clark Kent (Earth-167): Which has no effect on me ever since I gave up my powers.
- Lex Luthor: You gave up your powers?
- Clark Kent (Earth-167): Can't say I miss these chats.
- Lex Luthor: You were basically a God. You could fly. You could see through walls. You had super strength.
- [steps on a toy tractor]
- Lex Luthor: You're kidding me.
- Clark Kent (Earth-167): That is worth more than any superpower.
- Lois Lane: Hey, Clark. The girls want to show you what they've made.
- Clark Kent (Earth-167): [looking away] I think it's time for you...
- [stops Lex's punch and punches him]
- Clark Kent (Earth-167): Ah. Still stronger.
- Lex Luthor: You took all the fun out of it. Enjoy your slice of mediocrity while you can, Clark. You're all doomed anyway.
- Lois Lane: Hey. Was somebody here or were you talking to the cows again?
- Clark Kent (Earth-167): That was Lex Luthor from another Earth. Apparently, the multiverse is ending.
- Lois Lane: Ha ha! Smallville, you made a funny. It's taken you about a decade, but you're getting the hang of it.
- Clark Kent (Earth-167): Hmm. What'd the girls make?
- Lois Lane: A mess. They can't wait for you to see it.
- Clark Kent (Earth-167): Oh. That sounds like a job for... us.
- Harbinger: Is anyone here?
- Leonard A.I.: Welcome aboard. My name is Leonard, an interactive, artificial intelligence programmed to operate this vessel's critical systems.
- Harbinger: I know who you are.
- Leonard A.I.: Always please to meet a fan, but you are trespassing. Any preference on you'd like to die?
- Mick Rory: What he's saying is, flame or frost?
- Iris West-Allen: [arriving at the Kent Farm on Earth-167, they see Clark] Is that him?
- Lois Lane: It's either him or the buff guy on the paper towel rolls.
- Clark Kent: [sees Clark chopping wood] I can do that with one bare hand.
- Clark Kent (Earth-167): Hello.
- Iris West-Allen, Lois Lane: Hi.
- Clark Kent: You are Clark Kent, right?
- Clark Kent (Earth-167): Can I help you?
- Iris West-Allen: Uh, yeah, hopefully. Um, so, uh, this universe and an infinite number of others is in the process of blinking out of existence, and there are 7 people in all of space and time who can supposedly...
- Lois Lane: Lex Luthor is gonna try and kill you.
- Iris West-Allen: Lois.
- Lois Lane: He is.
- Clark Kent (Earth-167): Lex?
- Iris West-Allen: Yeah.
- Clark Kent (Earth-167): I didn't know the President was in town.
- Ray Palmer: You can't just hijack the Waverider. Our crew is still on there.
- Mar Novu: If there is any chance at surviving the Crisis, we need its technology.
- Sara Lance: Hoo. Yeah. I kind of promised our crew they'd never have to do another crossover.
- Iris West-Allen: [finding Earth-96's Clark] Uh, he looks just like Ray Palmer.
- Clark Kent: Who?
- [glancing at Earth-38 Clark]
- Clark Kent: Hey. Nice glasses.
- Ray Palmer: [seeing Clark is his doppelganger] Oh. So, uh, do you have a gluten sensitivity, too?
- Clark Kent: No. Not that I know of.
- Lex Luthor: Congratulations. You're a ringer for a filthy Kryptonian. Your mom must be so proud.
- Kara Danvers: You did this? You brought that... poisonous snake back?
- Mar Novu: His destiny was unfulfilled. Lex Luthor still has an important role to play.
- Kara Danvers: So you can revive him, but you can't bring back Oliver?
- Mar Novu: I restored Luthor long before the Crisis caused my power to wane.
- Kara Danvers: And what about those innocent lives on Earth-38? Did they not have destinies to fulfill? I'm sorry, but I can't trust a man who thinks Lex Luthor is an ally.
- Kate Kane: All I got from that is that if you die again, that dude can't bring you back.
- Lex Luthor: And you are?
- Kate Kane: New. And unfriendly.
- Mar Novu: The Paragon of Courage is known only as the bat of the future.
- Kate Kane: Seriously, where do you get these names and pseudo names, anyway?
- Mar Novu: I enlisted the assistance of Felicity Smoak, who earned the wisdom of a second book.
- Clark Kent: That's a lot of books.
- Mar Novu: The Tome of the Guardians. It revealed the names of Ms. Zor-El and Ms. Lance, as well as the other two.
- Lois Lane: Bummed-out Kryptonian and Future Bat, which technically means...
- Mar Novu: Earth-99 exists in a future time where Bruce Wayne has dedicated himself, body and soul, to fighting crime.
- Ray Palmer: I'm sorry. Go back. Bruce Wayne is the Dark Knight?
- Kate Kane: If we could all keep that to ourselves, that'd be great.
- Mar Novu: The path to find him will lead you to the Paragon of Courage.
- Kate Kane: Okay. Who wants to meet Batman?
- Mar Novu: You have all lost a great hero.
- Barry Allen: The wrong hero.
- Mar Novu: I do not disagree. You have suffered a horrible loss, but you have every reason not to lose hope. Seven, in fact. Across space and time...
- [Jonathan begins crying; Lois give him to Clark]
- Mar Novu: Across space and time exist seven heroes, beings of the purest will who can ultimately...
- [Jonathan continues crying]
- Clark Kent: [passing him to Kara] Sorry. You wanna try?
- Kara Danvers: What?
- Mar Novu: Beings of the purest will who can ultimately...
- Kara Danvers: It's not working.
- Kate Kane: [Kara tries to pass him over] Nope.
- [Kara gives him to Mick, and he stops crying]
- Mar Novu: Beings of the purest will who can ultimately defeat the Anti-Monitor...
- Lois Lane: [quietely urging Mick to leave] Go, go, go.
- Mar Novu: ...and help save the multiverse. They are known as Paragons.
- Barry Allen: Paragons? And you're just dropping this on us now?
- Mar Novu: I only recently learned of their existence by consulting the Book of Destiny.
- Barry Allen: How? We destroyed it last year.
- Mar Novu: [as he conjures a hologram of the book, Lyla winces in pain] After Oliver's early demise, I went back into the time stream and retrieved it intact. It is now safely stored in this ship's library.
- Barry Allen: [sarcastic] So, it's what, plan B? That's comforting.
- Sara Lance: We can't screw this up, okay? When we bring Oliver back, I need you to promise me you can bring back his soul.
- John Constantine: Yeah. One thing at a time, right, love?
- Sara Lance: I need to hear you say it.
- John Constantine: I'll do it.
- Sara Lance: Thank you.
- John Constantine: To the best of my abilities.
- Kara Danvers: [meeting Earth-99's Luke Fox] Earth-1 villain?
- Kate Kane: Only friend, actually.
- Kara Danvers: Oh. Well, at least he's cute.
- Iris West-Allen: We need you to come back with us. I know this sounds insane, but... you might be the key to saving the Multiverse.
- Clark Kent: That's actually one of the least insane thing's I've ever heard.
- [changes into Superman]
- Superman: First, we stay and face Luthor.
- Superman: And you won't do it alone.
- Lois Lane: We won't let him kill you.
- Lex Luthor: Oh, I've moved on from that. Never thought I'd say this, but I'm tired of killing Supermen. So much more making Superman kill Superman.
- John Constantine: You sure you want to do this? A Lazarus Pit's nasty business.
- Mia Smoak: We're sure.
- [Constantine lights two cigarettes]
- Barry Allen: We don't have a lot time, so could you please take your smoke break later, maybe just do the spell?
- John Constantine: Simmer down, speedy. This is the spell.
- Bruce Wayne: A paragon of courage?
- [laughs]
- Bruce Wayne: Yeah. Right. I hate to break this to you, but... you're a few years too late. Here. Read this.
- [hands Kate a newspaper article]
- Kate Kane: [looks at the article and becomes confused] Don't get me wrong, but... a reign of terror?
- Bruce Wayne: It's like a wise man once said: "Battle not with monsters, unless you become a monster". I've lost track of how many people I've killed over the years.
- Kate Kane: The Bruce I knew had a code.
- Bruce Wayne: You start with a code. You hang on to it with every self-righteous breath. But then you take one life. Then another, and another, and another. You'll see. My Kate... my Kate put on the cape. Thought she'd succeed where I failed! But all she did was get herself killed!
- Kate Kane: Well, I'm not her. And I never will be her.
- Bruce Wayne: And I'm not an old man held together with wire and metal!
- Kate Kane: Fine. Be that way. I don't care. You're nothing but a broken ticked off old hermit, waiting to die in this 11-bedroom, 7-bath coffin, but apparently, you're needed. I'm giving you the chance to be a hero again and save not just Gotham, but... the whole damn universe!
- Kate Kane: Where is Luke taking Kara?
- Bruce Wayne: The library. Just thought we'd get to know each other again.
- Kate Kane: You know, the Bruce I knew wore a different kind of suit.
- Bruce Wayne: A lifetime of injuries. But you've aged well... for a dead girl.
- Kate Kane: I died? When?
- Bruce Wayne: Five years ago.
- Kate Kane: Oh. But I've never been a ghost before.
- Bruce Wayne: Hmm. Plenty of ghosts in this place... but you're not one of them. Clayface is a puddle of mud. And last time I checked, Jane Doe was locked in Arkham. So who the hell are you?
- Kate Kane: Can you, uh, can you sit in that thing? Cause we're gonna need you for this.
- Sara Lance: So I miss one group chat, and now there's Paragons, and I'm supposed to be one of them.
- Mia Smoak: Yep. And Barry and I are gonna use a Lazarus Pit to bring my dad back.
- Sara Lance: Mia, it's not that simple. The Lazarus Pit isn't some magical mud bath where you get your soul and a cup of cucumber water at the end. You lose your humanity.
- Mia Smoak: Nyssa told me everything I need to know about Lazarus Pits. And she told me everything I need to know about you.
- Sara Lance: Well, why don't you share your opinion when it's about your life?
- Mia Smoak: Why don't you share your opinion when it's about your dad?
- Barry Allen: I'm glad you're here.
- Iris West-Allen: Me, too. From what you told me, the Monitor was wrong about Oliver, so I don't know, Barry. Maybe he's wrong about you, too. Maybe... you're not supposed to die.
- Barry Allen: Listen, Oliver told me about how he brought Sara and his sister back to life using something called a Lazarus Pit.
- Iris West-Allen: I don't know. That sounds too good to be true.
- Barry Allen: Well, it... I mean, it is. It turns out Thea destroyed all the Pits on this Earth, but there are more Earths to choose from.
- Iris West-Allen: I know that you want Oliver back more than anything, but this is...
- Barry Allen: He can't be dead. Not him.
- Iris West-Allen: Okay. Funny enough, the Monitor gave me a mission of my own. To find our hopeless Kryptonian Paragon. Heh.
- Barry Allen: Did you ever think this would be our life?
- Iris West-Allen: I will take whatever life with you I can get.
- Lois Lane: [seeing a collection of plaques on Clark's wall] What is this? Perry White, Jimmy Olsen, Lois Lane? Why are all these names on your wall?
- Clark Kent: A... reject from Gotham felt that we didn't cover him enough, so he played what he called a practical joke and gassed the building.
- Iris West-Allen: All these people died?
- Clark Kent: [nodding] My friends, my wife. I lost everyone in one fell swoop.
- Lois Lane: Almost as if you've been through more loss than any mortal man could endure.
- Iris West-Allen: I think we just found our Paragon.
- Sara Lance: Are you sure that you wanna do this?
- Mia Smoak: More than anything.
- Sara Lance: Yeah. Your father wouldn't take no for an answer, either. When I think of all the stupid stuff we got into when we were your age, it's amazing we didn't get arrested more.
- Mia Smoak: Arrested more?
- Sara Lance: But you're way smarter than him. You get that from your mom.
- Mar Novu: Well done. You have succeeded in finding the Paragon of Truth. Lex Luthor played his role. He led you to him.
- Kara Danvers: [entering with Kate] Yeah? How many more people did he hurt to do that? You think you're a good guy, but you're not.
- Lex Luthor: I think he's kind of neat.
- Kara Danvers: Okay. Well, we still only have three. Bruce Wayne wasn't the paragon of anything, so...
- [seeing Earth-96 Clark]
- Kara Danvers: Whoa, Ray. You are looking jacked.
- Clark Kent: No, no, no, no. This is your cousin, sort of.
- Kara Danvers: [turning to look at Ray and back, her jaw dropping] Huh.
- Lex Luthor: [arriving on the Kent Farm] Hello, old friend.
- Clark Kent (Earth-167): Who are you?
- Lex Luthor: Don't you know me, Clark? I'm Lex Luthor.
- Kate Kane: Lex Luthor; kind of a dick, huh?
- Kara Danvers: When I think of all those people on my Earth that we wanted to save but couldn't, it just feels unfair.
- Kate Kane: Look. A day ago, I didn't think my life could get any worse. My sister murdered my stepmom a-and framed my dad for it.
- Kara Danvers: That's dark, even for Gotham.
- Kate Kane: I'm fighting for a chance to make it right, and this fourth Paragon, my cousin Bruce on... another Earth, finding him might help me get that chance.
- Kara Danvers: Only if you believe the Monitor.
- Kate Kane: What kind of talk is that from the Paragon of Hope?
- [taking an extrapolator out of her jacket pocket]
- Kate Kane: Come with me. Let's go save the universe.
- Kara Danvers: We managed to get billions of people to safety. There has to be a way we can undo this. Oliver, my mom, Argo, Earth - ugh - all those Earths, all those people who vanished. There has to be a way we can get them back.
- Sara Lance: Or we focus on stopping it from happening to every other universe.
- [Lyla appears in a flash of light]
- Sara Lance: Oh, hey. Welcome to the joy zone. Where's Dig?
- Harbinger: At home with JJ. He still doesn't know about Oliver.
- Sara Lance: Lyla, you...
- Harbinger: I know. I just... I need to figure out how to tell him.
- Harbinger: [finding Lex with the Book of Destiny] You're not supposed to have that.
- Lex Luthor: And man was never meant to fly, but here we are.
- [opening the book]
- Lex Luthor: Goodbye, Superman. All of you.
- [closing the book, he opens a breach with an extrapolator and escapes]
- Mar Novu: [entering] Lex Luthor has the Book of Destiny.
- Harbinger: He's going to use it to kill Supermen. If he kills the Paragon, we're all doomed.
- [seeing that he appears unconcerned]
- Harbinger: What have you done?
- Mar Novu: As I said, everyone has a part to play.
- Lois Lane: We have a new problem. It turns out Lex Luthor is alive.
- Clark Kent: What?
- Lois Lane: According to Iris, Lex is jumping from universe to universe, killing off Supermen.
- Clark Kent: If one of them's the Kryptonian Paragon...
- Lois Lane: It's game over. We need to find this Earth's Superman before Lex jumps here and offs him.
- Clark Kent: [seeing a television screen on the side of a building with breaking news of Superman's death] I think it's a little late for that.
- Lois Lane: Disappeared into thin air. Lex killed him and breached out.
- Clark Kent: He won't stop until we're all dead.
- Mick Rory: [reading to Jonathan] "Once he awoke her desire, he was hers to explore willingly."
- Ray Palmer: Is that your...
- Mick Rory: "Caged Passion", my romance novel.
- Leonard A.I.: Your only novel, self-published.
- Mick Rory: Still counts.
- Ray Palmer: Uh, Mick, your book doesn't sound too kid-friendly.
- Mick Rory: It's very friendly. Kid loves it. Look at him.
- Kate Kane: Wow. That's a really impressive six-pack.
- Luke Fox: Sorry, do I know you?
- Kara Danvers: [prompting her] No.
- Kate Kane: No. But I know you. Well, a-a different... like, a less this version of you. I-I'm Kate Kane. I'm... I'm Bruce's cousin.
- Luke Fox: [shutting the door in her face] Yeah, no.
- Bruce Wayne: The Kate I knew didn't trust anyone, let alone a Kryptonian.
- Kate Kane: I don't know what happened to you, Bruce, but it ends now.
- Bruce Wayne: Yes. Let it end. Let it all end. This world's not worth saving in any universe.
- Kate Kane: If you really think that, you're gonna have to kill one more person. Me.
- Bruce Wayne: Don't be a fool!
- [tries to hit Kate, but Kate overpowers him by kicking him toward an electric panel, and Bruce gets electrocuted. Kate rushes to help him, but Kara stops her]
- Supergirl: Don't! He'll kill you!
- Bruce Wayne: [with his last breath] Kate... listen to me. There is no hope.
- [dies]
- Mia Smoak: [after Oliver emerges from the Lazarus Pit] What, you tranqed him?
- Sara Lance: I tranqed his body. We still have to get his soul back. That isn't Oliver yet.
- Bruce Wayne: [leading Kate into the Batcave] See for yourself. I can barely walk, let alone wear that again.
- Kate Kane: Do you understand how many people, how many worlds, are going to die?
- Bruce Wayne: Well, if they're anything like this world, maybe that's for the best.
- Kate Kane: How can you even say that?
- Bruce Wayne: There was no hope for this world.
- Supergirl: [entering] That's because you killed Superman. This guy's not a paragon of anything. I was right.
- [shows Kate Clark's broken glasses]
- Supergirl: We can't trust the Monitor.
- Kate Kane: What did you do?
- Bruce Wayne: Clearly what you couldn't!
- Mick Rory: Kid was a piece of cake.
- [giving Jonathan to Lois]
- Mick Rory: Here.
- Lois Lane: There's someone I want you to meet.
- Clark Kent: Hi there, handsome guy. Wow. He looks just like my son Jason.
- Lex Luthor: An entire universe wiped from existence distilled down to a computer graphic. Gotta say, missing that "wow" factor.
- Kara Danvers: Lena killed you.
- Lex Luthor: Yeah. Only for a little while.
- [clicking his tongue]
- Lex Luthor: Tck.
- Mar Novu: [she prepares to fire her heat vision] Everyone has a part to play, even Lex Luthor.
- Kara Danvers: If the book can rewrite destiny, can it bring back Earth-38, or any of the other Earths?
- Mar Novu: Trying to recreate an entire word would surely drive one to madness.
- Mia Smoak: What about my dad? Could it bring him back?
- Mar Novu: I wish it could. While Oliver Queen was to die in this Crisis, this is not how I saw events unfold. But as the Anti-Monitor gets stronger, I grow weaker.
- Luke Fox: You need to leave, now.
- Bruce Wayne: Don't be so rude, Luke.
- [coming down the stairs in a metal exoskeleton]
- Bruce Wayne: You'll have to forgive him. We're not used to having guests.
- [seeing and recognizing her]
- Bruce Wayne: Kate.
- Kate Kane: Bruce?
- Barry Allen: What is it? Some kind of star map?
- John Constantine: Parallel Earths spread out by vibrational frequency. We are well and truly bolloxed. So many Earths already gone, and more vanishing as we speak.
- [chanting in a foreign language]
- John Constantine: I give you the needle in the celestial haystack; an Earth with a functioning Lazarus Pit.
- Mia Smoak: Okay. Well, now what?
- John Constantine: [vanishing the map into nothing] Ah. Perhaps a thank you and a little well-earned awe for a magical job well done, eh?
- Mia Smoak: How about I thank you when you bring my dad back?
- Anti-Monitor: Lyla Michaels, Harbinger, I need you.
- Harbinger: Who are you?
- Anti-Monitor: Universe after universe has fallen before my power. World after world consumed. With every death, I steal my mirror's strength, and mine grows every stronger. Who am I? I am the Anti-Monitor. Come, Harbinger, there is work to be done.
- Sara Lance: The mine is ours.
- Jonah Hex: The hell it is.
- Sara Lance: Guess you were gonna get this scar eventually, Hex.
- Jonah Hex: [she cuts his cheek with his knife] Ease up, cowgirl. The mine's yours. The mine's yours.
- Sara Lance: [as she lets him go, Mia knocks him out] Oh. Thanks.
- Mia Smoak: So, did you change your mind about us using the Pit, then?
- Sara Lance: I miss Ollie, too.
- Barry Allen: [breaching in with Constantine and Oliver's body, then seeing Hex on the ground] Did we miss something?
- Sara Lance: Just put him in the water.
- Kara Danvers: Hope, help, and compassion for all. That's what I'm gonna do for Earth-38.
- Kate Kane: But Earth-38 is gone.
- Kara Danvers: I know. But maybe I can use the Book of Destiny to bring it back.
- Kate Kane: The Monitor said that would be really dangerous, Kara.
- Kara Danvers: I know what he said. But what good is being the Paragon of Hope if I don't have any?
- Kate Kane: Time travelers, aliens. I've barely even started this whole vigilante thing. How am I a Paragon?
- Kara Danvers: I've seen you in action. You saved me, and last year, you saved Oliver and Barry's asses, thank you very much.
- Kate Kane: Accurate.
- Kara Danvers: Hmm. How much you care, how hard you try, those are the things that make you a hero, not powers or time travel, and you may not feel like you have the experience now, but you have the heart. You're one of the bravest people I know.
- Kate Kane: That Bruce was brave once, too, and he had heart. What if I end up like him?
- Kara Danvers: You won't. You'll make your own destiny.
- [giving her a picture]
- Kara Danvers: I found this in his library.
- Kate Kane: That's Beth and me. From Earth-99. I wish I knew her like this.
- Kara Danvers: Maybe you still can.
- Kate Kane: Sounds like the Paragon of Hope just got her hope back.
- John Constantine: Yep. This is the place.
- [dipping his fingers into the Pit, then licking them off]
- John Constantine: Yep. That's clean enough.
- Kara Danvers: What are those?
- Luke Fox: Mementos from Batman's greatest victories.
- Kara Danvers: You mean trophies. Um...
- [sees broken glasses tainted with blood]
- Luke Fox: Yeah. Those belonged to Superman, his alter ego at least.
- Kara Danvers: Bruce killed this Earth's Superman?
- Luke Fox: Who do you think put him in that exoskeleton? Yeah. Big mistake.
- Harbinger: I thought the Legends of Earth-74 all retired.
- Mick Rory: We did. Well, some. One died. No one was using the ship, so I took it. It's my ship.
- Harbinger: Why are you here?
- Mick Rory: I like the quiet.
- Leonard A.I.: He's trying to be a writer.
- Mick Rory: Shut up.
- Leonard A.I.: Of romance novels. Well, you can see how that's going.
- Mick Rory: It's going fine, you piece of...
- Leonard A.I.: You're basically living out of your car.
- Mar Novu: We must find all seven Paragons.
- Lois Lane: How about, like, a hint?
- Mar Novu: I have four. Kara Zor-El, despite all you have endured, you are the Paragon of Hope.
- Kara Danvers: Well, you might want to double-check your omnipotence, 'cause I'm not feeling that hopeful right now.
- Mar Novu: Sara Lance is the Paragon of Destiny.
- Ray Palmer: Oh. Well, that makes sense. Captain of time travel and all that.
- Mar Novu: I have only descriptions for the other two Paragons. One is of a second Kryptonian, who is said to have suffered a greater loss than most mortal men could endure. Today, he stands as the Paragon of Truth.
- Sara Lance: Never thought we'd be pouring one out for Oliver.
- Kara Danvers: We're not gonna wait for Barry?
- Kate Kane: I don't think he's ready to say goodbye.
- Sara Lance: So, anybody wanna... say some words for Oliver?
- Kara Danvers: He sacrificed himself for me and Barry. Shouldn't have done that.
- Sara Lance: His sacrifice saved a billion more people. Let's not call that a mistake. Look, Oliver died the way he lived. A hero.
- Clark Kent: Do you have a second?
- Clark Kent: Sure. For a citizen of Metropolis, always.
- [giving him a business card]
- Clark Kent: If you wouldn't mind contacting my assistant.
- Clark Kent: It's about Lex Luthor.