- Prosecutor: [of Kiliwog] He was nowhere near the crime, what kind of witness can he be?
- The Flash: [grinning] A big scary one.
- Superman: See anything wrong with this picture?
- J'onn J'onzz: Where do I start? The loss of life, the echoes of our own pasts?
- Superman: No, not out there. Down here.
- J'onn J'onzz: [pause] No, it can't be.
- Superman: But it is. This moon is still orbiting a planet which doesn't exist.
- J'onn J'onzz: It should have flown off into space the moment the planet was destroyed.
- Superman: But it didn't. Did it?
- Green Lantern: You believed in me, even when I didn't believe in myself.
- The Flash: Hey, what are friends for?
- Guardian of Oa: All is lost.
- John Stewart: Not while I'm standing.
- [Manhunter continues to absorb energy. Green Lantern holds up his ring]
- John Stewart: In brightest day, In blackest night, No evil shall escape my sight. Let those who worship evil's might, beware my power GREEN LANTERN'S LIGHT!
- Lead Manhunter: NOOOOO!
- [after learning that he will also be executed if he defends Green Lantern and loses]
- The Flash: That's crazy!
- Prosecutor: No. That's how we solved our lawyer problem.
- Prosecutor: And then you and the other Green Lanterns enforce these decisions with those incredibly deadly rings?
- Kilowog: I guess you could put it that way.
- Prosecutor: Who said you could do this? Who gave you the right?
- Guardian of Oa: We did.
- The Flash: [about to start defending John Stewart in court] But before I begin, I'd like to talk a little about... uh... habeus corpus. Yeah, habeus corpus! And ipso... facto! Yeah, and Phi Beta Kappa!
- Hawkgirl: Why aren't you at the trial?
- Galius Zed: Huh. We couldn't stand it anymore.
- Arkkis Chummuck: John Stewart's made us all look bad.
- Hawkgirl: So much for the vaunted loyalty of the Lantern Corps.
- Galius Zed: Oh, don't get so high and mighty, lady. If you're smart, you'll stay away from him, too.
- Arkkis Chummuck: Otherwise, you'll end up reeking of his stench yourself.
- Hawkgirl: [smashing a tray on their table with her mace] Cowards!
- Kilowog: [defeating the Manhunters] John, good work.
- Galius Zed: I guess we were wrong about you, John. We should have known better.
- John Stewart: Yeah, you should have.
- Superman: Any idea what this thing does?
- J'onn J'onzz: When I was a child on Mars, we had small toys called illusitrons. They could project crude images over objects and even empty space.
- Superman: And you think this is a larger version.
- J'onn J'onzz: The engineering principles appear to be the same.
- Superman: So, it's an illusion.
- J'onn J'onzz: It would explain why this moon's orbit has remained intact.
- Superman: But who...
- Kanjar-Ro: [firing at them from a spaceship] The secret will stay buried with them.
- J'onn J'onzz: [emerging from the rubble] This moon is filled with surprises.
- Superman: John's innocent! That's your cue, Hawkgirl. Hope you can hear me.
- Hawkgirl: Loud and clear.
- [throwing her mace, she smashes the illusitron, and the asteroid illusion ends]
- Superman: Adjouris 4 was never destroyed. It's right where it always was. It was all an illusion; a frame-up, as they say on my planet.
- John Stewart: You!
- [tackling Kanjar-Ro]
- John Stewart: Why'd you do this to me? Why?
- Kanjar-Ro: For... for money.
- John Stewart: Whose money?
- Kanjar-Ro: The Manhunters'.
- John Stewart: Where are the Manhunters?
- Guardian of Oa: Headed back to Oa.
- John Stewart: Back to Oa? They've been there before?
- Guardian of Oa: Yes. We created them there.
- The Flash: Say what?
- Guardian of Oa: It was before the Lantern Corps. We thought robots would make good peacekeepers, but they were flawed. They couldn't understand the subtle gradations between good and evil.
- Superman: Why didn't you decommission them?
- Guardian of Oa: We reprogrammed them for lesser duties; tracking, hunting, guarding. They didn't seem to object.
- John Stewart: Not out loud, anyway.