Supergirl (TV Series)

What's So Funny About Truth, Justice, and the American Way? (2019)

David Ajala: Manchester Black

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• Manchester Black : You could have just used the door.

  Supergirl : And you could stop killing people.

  Manchester Black : [gesturing for her to sit]  Please, but no tricks. If anything happens to me, the Morae will start killing.

  Supergirl : So, what, we're just gonna sit here and do the diner scene from "Heat"?

  Manchester Black : Ah, no, no. Ah, Pacino, De Niro, they came alone.

  [Hat and Menagerie appear in a puff of smoke] 

  Manchester Black : They're just for my protection.

  [Menagerie takes out the jewels they stole, and a ring rolls across the floor, stopping at Kara's feet] 

  Supergirl : It's a little gaudy for me.

• Manchester Black : How did you know we were coming?

  Supergirl : Fish and chips and tracking devices.

  [flashback to their meeting in England] 

  Supergirl : This ends now.

  Menagerie : You're still outnumbered.

  J'onn J'onzz : [Brainy and Dreamer enter]  Count again.

  Hat : Who's this, then?

  Supergirl : You have the Elite. I have super friends.

• J'onn J'onzz : It's been weeks. And now you agree to see me? Why now?

  Manchester Black : Well, let's just say prison has changed me. So, be honest.

  [referring to his dyed-purple new look:] 

  Manchester Black : Whatcha think of the hair?

• Hat : So, what's important enough for you to jeopardize our thrilling escape?

  [cut to them outside] 

  Hat : A bloody jacket? Why?

  Manchester Black : It's dashing.

• Supergirl : Long time, no see. Who's Clockwork Orange?

  Manchester Black : What's the line? "No man is a failure..."

  Hat : "... who has friends."

  Supergirl : [thrown aside by an invisible force]  I thought we captured you.

  Hat : [a Morae appears]  She says that was a different Morae. They all look alike to you.

• Manchester Black : There you are. Nice to finally meet you.

  Supergirl : Menagerie?

  Menagerie : [her serpentine symbiote rears its head]  Thought you could cut the head off the snake. We're tougher than that.

• Querl Dox : [J'onn and Kara land in the Fortress]  What is it? What's wrong?

  J'onn J'onzz : Pull up the footage.

  Supergirl : This is live. Rio.

  Manchester Black : We want to send a message.

  Menagerie : Low angle? Are you insane?

• Manchester Black : Every action has an opposite and equal, yeah? This "Earth first" Liberty crowd, they hurt aliens. And what, they don't think we'll hurt them in kind?

  J'onn J'onzz : That's London.

  Querl Dox : And it looks like they stole the Crown Jewels to make a bigger statement.

  Manchester Black : Why? 'Cause Supergirl says that's not the way? Supergirl's like a folk tale. In theory, comforting, noble. In reality, oof, ill-equipped and clinging to ideals of a time long past. When they go low, she goes high. We put them six feet lower. We're through giving these devils the benefit of the law. Supergirl's done. This is the era of the Elite.

• Manchester Black : Now, I flatter myself, but my guess is the Girl of Yesterday is watching somewhere, hands on her hips in the name of justice, or she can come meet me face to face. Dawn. Come alone. I hope you can make it. That's what you're all about, right? Hope? Now, for a commercial break.

• J'onn J'onzz : Look, you lost someone. I know how that feels. Let me help you.

  Manchester Black : You think I'm good deep down, eh? Well, it's a bad time to be a good man. Take you, for instance. If it weren't for your bloody promise, I believe you could solve all the world's problems. You just need... motivation.

  [behind J'onn, Hat shoots him with an energy weapon] 

  Manchester Black : This is Hat. We go way back.

  Hat : 'Ello.

  J'onn J'onzz : Why are you doing this?

  Manchester Black : I wanted to thank you in person. I was thinking small. Hell-bent on getting Lockwood. Petty revenge. But I've got bigger fish to murder. And you can't stop me, old man.

  J'onn J'onzz : Don't do this.

  Manchester Black : Thanks for the chat, mate. Cheered me right up.

• Hat : Shall I teleport us out, then?

  Manchester Black : Ah, not yet. Gotta make another stop.

  Hat : I can't take us anywhere I haven't been before. We'll have to do it the hard way.

  Manchester Black : When's that ever stopped us?

  [as a group of prison guards approach, Hat pulls a sword from his bowler] 

  Manchester Black : All out of guns?

  Hat : Thought you'd like something dashing.

• Manchester Black : You know all those alien-hating racists been comin' out of their hidey holes? We're gonna make 'em dead. Right, then.

  J'onn J'onzz : Manchester!

  [as Supergirl advances on them, the Elite vanish in a puff of smoke] 

  J'onn J'onzz : I'm gonna find them.

  Supergirl : Not without me.

• Menagerie : We are live from a secret army base where mercenaries torture aliens when they get bored. They killed four of ours, so we killed one, two... thirteen of theirs.

  Manchester Black : From now on, we terminate prejudice with extreme prejudice.

  Menagerie : Like and subscribe!

• Supergirl : I thought you were all about your vendetta. Ben Lockwood, Fiona.

  Manchester Black : Why do you think I came here? Brought her things to her family. Lockwood's time will come. But this is about me and you. You won't join us, and I can't beat you, so let's make a deal.

  Supergirl : I accept your surrender.

  Manchester Black : Never, but I can stay out of your soup. Cat in a tree, idiot in tights, bank robbers, all yours. But the racists, the fascists, the Children of Liberty, that's our department.

• Supergirl : I won't let you keep killing people.

  Manchester Black : Oh, like your government intends to kill people? You really don't know, do you? Next week, your beloved government is launching a satellite that will shoot down any alien spacecraft trying to enter our atmosphere.

  Supergirl : That's impossible.

  Hat : I have it on good authority.

  Manchester Black : Hat kidnaps secret agent types, learns what they're up to. That's why we formed this band of merry men.

  [Menagerie clears her throat] 

  Manchester Black : Sorry, merry people.

  Supergirl : Why should I believe you?

  Manchester Black : Talk to your mate, Baker. You know, the bloke who just pardoned the grand bloody wizard of the Children of Liberty. Ask him about Operation Claymore. And then ask yourself, what if it were your ship they were blowing up? You came here in a rocket. Child in a basket, you know? Real Moses stuff. Here's your chance to tell the bosses to let your people go. Or us plagues'll do it for ya.

  [they disappear in a puff of smoke; cut to President Baker entering the Oval Office] 

  Supergirl : Mr. President. We need to talk.

• Hat : I'm just saying maybe a prison dye job wasn't the best move.

  Manchester Black : Nor is base dealing, mate.

  Hat : [seeing Menagerie's look, he puts a card down]  Needed a third king.

  Manchester Black : Gin.

  Hat : Thought you'd never ask.

  [he pulls a bottle of gin from his bowler] 

• Supergirl : Brainy, they started the launch. The controls are destroyed. I can't do anything.

  Manchester Black : [entering with Alex at gunpoint]  Well, that was the plan, wasn't it?

  Supergirl : What did you do?

  Manchester Black : Picked my own target. 1600 Penn. The White House. Your government, on fire, hoisted by its own petard. As soon as it reaches orbit, it will fire. There's a reason it's called "playing God." It's fun.

  Alex Danvers : [disarming him; to Kara]  Fly.

• Manchester Black : [as J'onn beats on him]  Ah... there you, J'onn J'onzz. Nice to finally meet you.

  J'onn J'onzz : I know why you called me now. You have a death wish.