1 00:00:01,126 --> 00:00:02,846 [Jefferson] Previously on Black Lightning... 2 00:00:02,920 --> 00:00:06,083 [Jefferson] The purpose of Black Lightning was to kill Tobias 3 00:00:06,298 --> 00:00:10,166 for literally shoving my father's articles down his throat until he died. 4 00:00:10,385 --> 00:00:12,280 Uncle Gambi discovered the bodies of a bunch of kids 5 00:00:12,304 --> 00:00:13,464 who disappeared 30 years ago. 6 00:00:13,597 --> 00:00:15,158 He thought they were dead, but they're alive, 7 00:00:15,182 --> 00:00:17,102 and they're kept in some kind of suspended state. 8 00:00:17,142 --> 00:00:18,974 [both grunting] 9 00:00:21,730 --> 00:00:22,845 [Khalil yells] 10 00:00:23,065 --> 00:00:24,476 [Jhigh-pitched ringing] '[Qroans] 11 00:00:24,775 --> 00:00:26,311 [flatlining] 12 00:00:28,195 --> 00:00:29,981 [Tobias] He's dead, you idiot! 13 00:00:30,322 --> 00:00:32,188 What about "alive" didn't you understand? 14 00:00:33,992 --> 00:00:35,778 Dad. Dad, wake up. 15 00:00:37,329 --> 00:00:38,945 - [crackles] - [Jennifer gasps] 16 00:00:39,581 --> 00:00:40,742 [gasps] 17 00:00:40,958 --> 00:00:42,352 [Gambi] I'm gonna cloak this place against 18 00:00:42,376 --> 00:00:43,976 all surveillance, satellite, you name it. 19 00:00:44,169 --> 00:00:45,659 You just need to stay inside. 20 00:00:51,009 --> 00:00:52,849 I wish I could come to work with you every day. 21 00:00:52,886 --> 00:00:54,376 [laughs] I bet. 22 00:00:54,596 --> 00:00:57,054 But as soon as these fools stop tearing up the city 23 00:00:57,266 --> 00:01:00,349 and your school reopens, you're going back to class. 24 00:01:01,103 --> 00:01:04,186 "The future belongs to those who prepare for it today." 25 00:01:05,065 --> 00:01:06,305 - Malcolm X. - [chuckles] 26 00:01:08,819 --> 00:01:10,401 Hey, go wait in the car, son. 27 00:01:10,612 --> 00:01:12,148 - I'll be right back. - Okay. 28 00:01:17,160 --> 00:01:18,321 All you were supposed to do 29 00:01:18,537 --> 00:01:21,074 was blow the whistle on human experimentation in Freeland. 30 00:01:21,498 --> 00:01:23,739 Instead, you exposed corruption, Al. You named names. 31 00:01:23,959 --> 00:01:24,744 - [Alvin] Good! - No, no! 32 00:01:24,960 --> 00:01:26,246 Tobias Whale's been indicted. 33 00:01:26,461 --> 00:01:27,941 His corrupt ass needs to get indicted. 34 00:01:28,046 --> 00:01:29,726 [Gambi] You're playing with fire here, man. 35 00:01:29,798 --> 00:01:32,881 The last thing you need to be doing right now is pushing for another story. 36 00:01:33,093 --> 00:01:35,881 But my editor killed it. But you know that already, don't you? 37 00:01:36,096 --> 00:01:39,088 Take my advice and leave this alone. Think about your son. 38 00:01:39,641 --> 00:01:41,177 I am thinking about my son. 39 00:01:41,393 --> 00:01:43,851 I had Jefferson take that damn vaccine, and it was tainted. 40 00:01:44,229 --> 00:01:45,970 Do you have any idea how that makes me feel? 41 00:01:46,189 --> 00:01:48,109 There's no reason to get yourself killed over it. 42 00:01:48,191 --> 00:01:50,307 No! There's no reason for you to get yourself killed. 43 00:01:50,777 --> 00:01:53,644 All the reason I need in the world is sitting in that car over there. 44 00:02:24,978 --> 00:02:26,639 [thunder rumbling] 45 00:02:43,830 --> 00:02:46,322 [newscaster] More violence on day three of the riots 46 00:02:46,541 --> 00:02:50,159 after the shooting of unarmed Andre Carter by Freeland police. 47 00:02:50,379 --> 00:02:52,711 Residents are advised to stay home. 48 00:02:53,215 --> 00:02:55,172 I've owned this store for over 20 years. 49 00:02:55,384 --> 00:02:57,216 Now, I don't condone riots, 50 00:02:57,719 --> 00:03:01,587 but they didn't have to shoot that boy like that. He was running away. 51 00:03:04,601 --> 00:03:06,057 [sirens wailing] 52 00:03:06,269 --> 00:03:07,509 [officers shout indistinctly] 53 00:03:12,984 --> 00:03:13,984 [officer 1] I got one. 54 00:03:14,486 --> 00:03:16,046 [officer 2] Need a little help out here! 55 00:03:16,071 --> 00:03:17,653 [faint electrical buzzing] 56 00:03:18,031 --> 00:03:19,237 Stop resisting! 57 00:03:21,576 --> 00:03:22,691 [officers grunt] 58 00:03:36,633 --> 00:03:38,419 [siren wailing in distance] 59 00:03:38,635 --> 00:03:40,296 [grunting] 60 00:04:14,546 --> 00:04:16,412 Fever of 105 and irregular heartbeat. 61 00:04:16,631 --> 00:04:18,497 Is this normal after defibrillation? 62 00:04:19,801 --> 00:04:21,462 - Or did I... - You saved his life. 63 00:04:21,845 --> 00:04:22,845 That's what you did. 64 00:04:22,929 --> 00:04:23,929 [device beeping] 65 00:04:27,893 --> 00:04:28,928 What's going on? 66 00:04:31,104 --> 00:04:32,582 He's got a short circuit in his powers. 67 00:04:32,606 --> 00:04:34,046 It's compromising his nervous system. 68 00:04:34,191 --> 00:04:35,543 Okay, okay. Well, we need to get him to the hospital. 69 00:04:35,567 --> 00:04:37,399 We can't. The ASA is looking for us. 70 00:04:37,611 --> 00:04:39,672 So is Lady Eve's old cartel, and not to mention The One Hundred. 71 00:04:39,696 --> 00:04:42,404 He'll make it. I know he will. 72 00:04:46,495 --> 00:04:48,611 I.“ Last night I saw a superhero He was black N'. 73 00:04:48,830 --> 00:04:51,868 N He said This is for the street Black Lightning's back N' 74 00:04:55,796 --> 00:04:56,796 [door opens] 75 00:05:10,060 --> 00:05:11,060 Hey. 76 00:05:12,854 --> 00:05:13,889 Are you all right? 77 00:05:14,689 --> 00:05:16,600 [scoffs] Sure. 78 00:05:17,192 --> 00:05:18,808 I'm a freak from a family of freaks, 79 00:05:19,027 --> 00:05:22,315 and my dad's got one foot in the grave. I'm fine. 80 00:05:22,531 --> 00:05:23,862 [chuckles] Well... 81 00:05:24,866 --> 00:05:26,448 when you say it like that. 82 00:05:27,828 --> 00:05:30,240 All right, not funny. Sorry. 83 00:05:32,541 --> 00:05:34,157 Who were those people with Khalil? 84 00:05:34,960 --> 00:05:37,748 Are they like us? Meta-humans? 85 00:05:38,296 --> 00:05:39,502 Not exactly. 86 00:05:40,882 --> 00:05:42,714 Meta-humans have organic powers, 87 00:05:42,926 --> 00:05:44,542 which means they come from within. 88 00:05:44,970 --> 00:05:46,051 Theirs are artificial. 89 00:05:46,555 --> 00:05:48,262 That albino man, he's their leader. 90 00:05:48,473 --> 00:05:50,214 His name is Tobias Whale. 91 00:05:50,600 --> 00:05:54,184 He takes a kind of a serum which is like a super steroid. 92 00:05:54,396 --> 00:05:57,855 It makes him age slower and get stronger over time. 93 00:05:58,483 --> 00:06:00,520 At this point, he's got the strength of three men. 94 00:06:00,819 --> 00:06:01,934 '[8ighs] 'My guess 95 00:06:02,153 --> 00:06:03,913 is he's the one who turned your ex-boyfriend. 96 00:06:04,364 --> 00:06:05,364 Why? 97 00:06:05,866 --> 00:06:07,197 It's what he does. 98 00:06:08,159 --> 00:06:12,153 That man has a gift for seeing the worst in people and bringing it out. 99 00:06:12,998 --> 00:06:16,411 That spooky-looking woman with him, she's called Syonide. 100 00:06:16,626 --> 00:06:18,626 She was found in a dumpster when she was an infant, 101 00:06:18,753 --> 00:06:20,633 with her umbilical cord wrapped around her neck. 102 00:06:21,298 --> 00:06:22,083 Oh, my God! 103 00:06:22,299 --> 00:06:24,861 Tobias pulled her out of an orphanage when she was eight years old. 104 00:06:24,885 --> 00:06:26,842 She was malnourished and abused. 105 00:06:27,596 --> 00:06:29,303 He clothed her and he fed her. 106 00:06:30,473 --> 00:06:32,339 And he trained her to become an assassin. 107 00:06:32,893 --> 00:06:33,678 When she was fully grown, 108 00:06:33,894 --> 00:06:36,977 he had carbon-fiber body armor implanted under her skin. 109 00:06:37,564 --> 00:06:41,853 And if she wasn't crazy before that procedure, the pain did the rest. 110 00:06:44,070 --> 00:06:45,936 What did they do to Khalil? 111 00:06:46,406 --> 00:06:47,988 I'm not altogether sure. 112 00:06:48,491 --> 00:06:50,482 But it looks like he's gotten an implant 113 00:06:51,036 --> 00:06:52,777 with a synthetic liquid metal. 114 00:06:53,163 --> 00:06:54,699 It's bracing his spine, 115 00:06:55,165 --> 00:06:56,621 but it's also causing Khalil's body 116 00:06:56,833 --> 00:06:59,074 to produce a neurotoxin like a snake's venom. 117 00:06:59,753 --> 00:07:01,585 It causes instant paralysis, 118 00:07:02,088 --> 00:07:05,422 so they weaponized him by giving him darts as a delivery method. 119 00:07:05,634 --> 00:07:07,716 They made him into a weapon, but... 120 00:07:09,554 --> 00:07:10,760 he's not like that. 121 00:07:12,933 --> 00:07:14,014 Yes, he is. 122 00:07:14,809 --> 00:07:17,016 That young man had a choice, and he made it. 123 00:07:17,228 --> 00:07:20,596 He is with Tobias Whale, the worst of the worst. 124 00:07:21,399 --> 00:07:23,356 Sweetheart, whatever you may remember, 125 00:07:25,362 --> 00:07:27,273 he is not your Khalil anymore. 126 00:07:29,991 --> 00:07:34,280 If you wanna stay out here for a while, okay. I'm going back in. 127 00:07:47,342 --> 00:07:49,333 [Khalil] Mr. Tobias, I'm sorry. 128 00:07:49,886 --> 00:07:52,378 I know you said not to kill Black Lightning. I... 129 00:07:53,765 --> 00:07:55,255 I... I... I couldn't help it. 130 00:07:55,850 --> 00:07:58,638 So this is what, an apology? 131 00:08:00,230 --> 00:08:01,230 Yes, sir. 132 00:08:01,648 --> 00:08:03,605 [wry chuckle] Sy, what do you think? 133 00:08:04,025 --> 00:08:06,141 Should we accept Painkiller's apology? 134 00:08:07,904 --> 00:08:10,612 Good question. I have one too. 135 00:08:11,658 --> 00:08:14,275 Can you put a dart in me before I shoot you full of holes? 136 00:08:14,494 --> 00:08:15,494 [tutting] 137 00:08:15,578 --> 00:08:16,909 I know the answer to that one. 138 00:08:17,455 --> 00:08:19,492 [both chuckle] 139 00:08:20,750 --> 00:08:22,115 Have a seat. 140 00:08:26,715 --> 00:08:28,581 "I am unlike other men. 141 00:08:28,967 --> 00:08:32,210 The laws of convention and morality do not apply to me." 142 00:08:33,304 --> 00:08:36,968 That's Napoleon. And he was a weak-ass Frenchman. 143 00:08:38,393 --> 00:08:39,679 You're Painkiller. 144 00:08:40,854 --> 00:08:42,561 Never apologize. 145 00:08:43,857 --> 00:08:46,975 So you killed Black Lightning when Proctor wanted him alive? 146 00:08:47,193 --> 00:08:48,854 I'm not mad. 147 00:08:49,404 --> 00:08:50,894 Martin Proctor was down with Lady Eve. 148 00:08:51,114 --> 00:08:53,947 I always knew sooner or later he had to go. 149 00:08:55,201 --> 00:08:57,693 Just gonna have to be sooner, that's all. 150 00:08:58,580 --> 00:08:59,866 Real soon. 151 00:09:03,251 --> 00:09:04,707 Okay. Who's got 'em? 152 00:09:05,837 --> 00:09:07,373 We don't have them, sir. 153 00:09:11,551 --> 00:09:14,196 The only lead we could find to Tobias is a street thug who works for him. 154 00:09:14,220 --> 00:09:15,426 Goes by the name of Lala. 155 00:09:16,431 --> 00:09:18,718 [Proctor] Really? That's it? 156 00:09:18,933 --> 00:09:21,470 A black drug dealer with a rap sheet? 157 00:09:22,103 --> 00:09:25,346 That's a rare find. This the best you all could do? 158 00:09:25,565 --> 00:09:26,851 At the moment, sir. 159 00:09:27,484 --> 00:09:28,940 And the warehouse called. 160 00:09:29,986 --> 00:09:31,706 Putting the pods there taxed the power grid. 161 00:09:31,738 --> 00:09:32,899 There's been a brownout. 162 00:09:33,114 --> 00:09:35,071 The backup generator kicked in after 60 seconds, 163 00:09:35,283 --> 00:09:37,570 but the pods from stage-one are failing. 164 00:09:38,328 --> 00:09:40,865 Actually, the pods are okay, but the subjects inside are... 165 00:09:41,081 --> 00:09:42,412 HOW long? 166 00:09:44,084 --> 00:09:45,165 Ten hours. 167 00:09:46,086 --> 00:09:47,966 Unless we can get a DNA sample from a meta-human 168 00:09:48,171 --> 00:09:50,458 with stable DNA to rewrite the bad DNA from. 169 00:09:51,007 --> 00:09:53,089 In ten hours, I could be back to square one? 170 00:09:53,301 --> 00:09:56,589 We'll still have the four stage-two subjects, sir. As of now, they're stable. 171 00:09:56,805 --> 00:09:59,172 Four? Four subjects? 172 00:09:59,390 --> 00:10:01,430 Forget an army, that's not enough for a study group. 173 00:10:02,560 --> 00:10:03,675 [sighs] 174 00:10:04,854 --> 00:10:05,935 [sucks teeth] 175 00:10:07,023 --> 00:10:09,230 Everybody, stop working! 176 00:10:19,327 --> 00:10:20,442 [sighs] 177 00:10:22,080 --> 00:10:23,662 I know you all think I'm a hard-ass. 178 00:10:27,168 --> 00:10:31,457 I'm a hard-ass because this is a hard world. 179 00:10:32,882 --> 00:10:36,716 And now, we've got people running around with superhuman powers. 180 00:10:37,220 --> 00:10:41,384 They are bioweapons, and we have to have more of 'em than anyone else. 181 00:10:42,892 --> 00:10:45,475 It is up to us to make damn sure 182 00:10:46,896 --> 00:10:48,536 that if the American flag gets any redder, 183 00:10:48,731 --> 00:10:51,189 it's with the blood of our enemies, and not ours. 184 00:10:51,442 --> 00:10:54,480 Find Black Lightning's body and this meta-human girl. 185 00:10:54,863 --> 00:10:57,150 We're confiscating the DNA we need. 186 00:10:58,449 --> 00:11:01,282 And let's find this Lala, see if he knows anything. 187 00:11:04,372 --> 00:11:06,409 Let's make America great again. 188 00:11:08,543 --> 00:11:12,081 Failure is not an option. 189 00:11:16,968 --> 00:11:19,551 [Jennifer] So you've known Dad the whole time he's had powers? 190 00:11:19,762 --> 00:11:21,562 [Gambi] I knew about his powers before he did. 191 00:11:22,432 --> 00:11:24,673 You see, kids from the first experiment who got powers 192 00:11:24,893 --> 00:11:28,511 usually had a flare before their powers actually manifested. 193 00:11:29,272 --> 00:11:30,478 [Anissa] What was Dad's? 194 00:11:31,065 --> 00:11:32,647 Oh, he... he had two. 195 00:11:33,193 --> 00:11:37,187 [chuckles] First, he instinctively shocked a couple of riot cops 196 00:11:37,405 --> 00:11:39,066 who were trying to wale on him. 197 00:11:39,365 --> 00:11:40,485 Then he got up and ran away, 198 00:11:40,533 --> 00:11:43,116 straight into an electrical fence that should've killed him, 199 00:11:43,494 --> 00:11:45,952 but he absorbed the energy without even meaning to. 200 00:11:46,956 --> 00:11:48,822 So why didn't you tell him what he was? 201 00:11:49,125 --> 00:11:51,965 Well, it wouldn't have done him any good to know until it was a reality. 202 00:11:52,295 --> 00:11:55,128 It actually took him 15 years to fully manifest. 203 00:11:55,673 --> 00:11:57,753 And that's when he decided to become Black Lightning? 204 00:11:58,593 --> 00:11:59,593 No. 205 00:12:00,261 --> 00:12:03,219 He made that choice when he saw that Freeland was losing hope, 206 00:12:03,556 --> 00:12:04,658 and he knew he could provide it. 207 00:12:04,682 --> 00:12:08,516 Okay, we are literally walking down memory lane, and this isn't helping us. 208 00:12:08,728 --> 00:12:11,686 I need to go out there and find Martin Proctor before he finds us. 209 00:12:11,898 --> 00:12:13,013 Anissa, we are safe here. 210 00:12:13,233 --> 00:12:15,816 This whole property is shielded against surveillance. 211 00:12:16,027 --> 00:12:17,987 And right now there are satellites looking for us, 212 00:12:18,154 --> 00:12:20,354 listening stations trying to pick up our communications, 213 00:12:20,698 --> 00:12:22,439 maybe even drones we can't see. 214 00:12:22,784 --> 00:12:25,508 Sweetheart, you are the strongest among us. 215 00:12:25,520 --> 00:12:26,493 [Anissa sighs] 216 00:12:26,704 --> 00:12:29,446 The best place for you is right here with us. 217 00:12:33,294 --> 00:12:34,375 Come on. 218 00:12:35,838 --> 00:12:37,044 [Anissa sighs] 219 00:12:46,099 --> 00:12:49,137 Yesterday, I felt this coldness in my stomach, 220 00:12:50,436 --> 00:12:52,473 and I'd never felt it before. 221 00:12:54,983 --> 00:12:58,442 And somehow I knew it was death. 222 00:13:01,197 --> 00:13:06,442 And now I realize it was the exact moment that you flatlined. 223 00:13:10,832 --> 00:13:12,118 [crying] 224 00:13:13,835 --> 00:13:15,417 We have a connection. 225 00:13:17,672 --> 00:13:20,084 I need you to find that connection 226 00:13:21,718 --> 00:13:23,800 and follow it back to me. 227 00:13:26,347 --> 00:13:27,462 Please. 228 00:13:31,019 --> 00:13:32,384 [continues crying] 229 00:13:34,522 --> 00:13:35,683 Please. 230 00:13:38,651 --> 00:13:41,143 [breathing heavily] 231 00:13:41,362 --> 00:13:42,773 [Tobias] Lala. 232 00:13:43,364 --> 00:13:44,364 I know you're thinking, 233 00:13:44,574 --> 00:13:47,737 "Why is this funny-looking Negro always messing with me?" 234 00:13:47,952 --> 00:13:48,952 [laughs] 235 00:13:49,746 --> 00:13:50,746 I love it though. 236 00:13:50,913 --> 00:13:53,075 Something about your velour tracksuit-wearing ass 237 00:13:53,291 --> 00:13:55,077 I just like dragging. 238 00:13:55,585 --> 00:13:57,121 "-Anyway" {grunting} 239 00:13:57,754 --> 00:13:58,835 [Tobias grunts] 240 00:14:01,466 --> 00:14:03,048 [Tobias laughs] 241 00:14:03,259 --> 00:14:05,500 Now, that's what they mean when they say "levelin' up." 242 00:14:05,720 --> 00:14:07,461 [Lala groaning] 243 00:14:09,557 --> 00:14:11,173 [Lala breathing heavily] 244 00:14:14,562 --> 00:14:16,144 [Tobias smacks lips] Ah! 245 00:14:16,356 --> 00:14:18,848 - You hit like a bitch. - Mmm. 246 00:14:19,901 --> 00:14:22,438 - [grunts] - The Devil deals the cards. 247 00:14:23,613 --> 00:14:24,613 [Lala shudders] 248 00:14:27,533 --> 00:14:28,944 That's a corny-ass line too. 249 00:14:29,160 --> 00:14:30,525 But it's effective. 250 00:14:32,538 --> 00:14:35,997 I took your life in order to make my purpose your purpose. 251 00:14:36,209 --> 00:14:38,371 I spent a cool mil on your reanimation program. 252 00:14:38,586 --> 00:14:40,327 [whimpering] 253 00:14:40,630 --> 00:14:42,587 It's time for you to pay that back. 254 00:14:42,799 --> 00:14:44,836 [pained grunting] 255 00:14:45,051 --> 00:14:49,295 Is LaWanda... and Will alive too? 256 00:14:49,514 --> 00:14:50,514 [Tobias] No. 257 00:14:50,640 --> 00:14:52,506 Just side effects of the reanimation. 258 00:14:52,725 --> 00:14:53,725 [shudders] 259 00:14:53,893 --> 00:14:57,431 Eventually everyone you killed is gonna come back to haunt your black ass. 260 00:14:57,814 --> 00:15:01,273 Tattooin' themselves on your body until there's no skin left. 261 00:15:01,484 --> 00:15:03,316 "[whimpers] - [Tobias laughing]" 262 00:15:03,736 --> 00:15:04,976 "Tattoo-man." 263 00:15:06,864 --> 00:15:09,026 It's time to get back to work. 264 00:15:21,838 --> 00:15:23,454 Suspended, Jefferson? 265 00:15:24,257 --> 00:15:27,795 Haven't I told you that education is the power they can't take away from you? 266 00:15:28,010 --> 00:15:29,045 He started it. 267 00:15:29,554 --> 00:15:31,044 Oh, but you finished it, right? 268 00:15:31,639 --> 00:15:32,639 Except you didn't. 269 00:15:32,765 --> 00:15:33,880 Sit down. 270 00:15:34,517 --> 00:15:37,197 Because you got suspended, and he didn't, 'cause you broke his nose. 271 00:15:37,687 --> 00:15:40,127 You think that's the end of it from him or one of his friends? 272 00:15:41,107 --> 00:15:42,107 I'm not scared of them. 273 00:15:42,316 --> 00:15:45,650 An eye-for-an-eye mentality doesn't solve anything, son. 274 00:15:45,862 --> 00:15:47,444 Just makes the whole world blind. 275 00:15:47,822 --> 00:15:49,654 So, what I'm supposed to do? 276 00:15:49,866 --> 00:15:51,857 Just let him hit me and not do nothing? 277 00:15:52,702 --> 00:15:53,988 [sighs] 278 00:15:55,746 --> 00:15:57,282 Listen, whose life is this? 279 00:15:57,665 --> 00:15:58,370 Mine's. 280 00:15:58,583 --> 00:16:00,073 And what're you gonna do with it? 281 00:16:00,293 --> 00:16:02,330 - Live it by any means necessary. - Mmm-mmm. 282 00:16:02,545 --> 00:16:04,305 Speak up, son. What are you gonna do with it? 283 00:16:04,630 --> 00:16:06,871 Live it by any means necessary. 284 00:16:07,383 --> 00:16:08,544 Exactly. 285 00:16:10,344 --> 00:16:11,675 I love you, son. 286 00:16:12,763 --> 00:16:13,844 Love you too, Dad. 287 00:16:14,974 --> 00:16:16,715 I gotta get back to work. 288 00:16:16,934 --> 00:16:18,845 - Read the Constitution. - The whole thing? 289 00:16:19,061 --> 00:16:20,096 Mmm-hmm. 290 00:16:20,438 --> 00:16:22,719 Oh, you're not gonna sit around here all day and watch TV. 291 00:16:23,399 --> 00:16:24,514 I'll quiz you at dinner. 292 00:16:26,402 --> 00:16:27,483 [exhales] 293 00:16:30,948 --> 00:16:32,188 [grunting loudly] 294 00:16:33,409 --> 00:16:34,409 Jeff? 295 00:16:35,369 --> 00:16:36,575 - Jeff. - What happened? 296 00:16:36,954 --> 00:16:38,945 [stammers] His nervous system is shutting down. 297 00:16:39,248 --> 00:16:41,160 Mom... Is he gonna be okay? 298 00:16:49,300 --> 00:16:51,007 I told them not to bring me here. 299 00:16:53,346 --> 00:16:54,507 I'm sure you did. 300 00:16:56,057 --> 00:16:57,547 Where's Tobias Whale? 301 00:16:59,685 --> 00:17:01,676 I wanna tell you, but... [pained grunting] 302 00:17:05,233 --> 00:17:06,233 But I can't. 303 00:17:07,860 --> 00:17:11,319 Then why ask to speak to me? You're wasting my time, boy. 304 00:17:12,031 --> 00:17:14,443 Cuffs hurt. They too tight. 305 00:17:14,992 --> 00:17:17,279 Don't try to tell me you people aren't used to those. 306 00:17:17,703 --> 00:17:19,239 Where's Tobias Whale? 307 00:17:21,457 --> 00:17:22,618 [Qagging] 308 00:17:24,460 --> 00:17:25,575 [coughing] 309 00:17:33,719 --> 00:17:35,710 This idiot's got det cord in his mouth! 310 00:17:35,930 --> 00:17:37,261 [continues coughing] 311 00:17:39,016 --> 00:17:40,016 A bomb mule. 312 00:17:40,393 --> 00:17:41,883 Albino son of a bitch is smart. 313 00:17:42,395 --> 00:17:44,915 He knew we could find Lala but not him, so he booby-trapped him. 314 00:17:44,939 --> 00:17:47,021 Focus on Gambi and the meta-humans. 315 00:17:47,233 --> 00:17:48,314 That has the clock on it. 316 00:17:48,526 --> 00:17:50,267 We'll kill Tobias Whale when we're done. 317 00:17:56,117 --> 00:17:57,357 - Oh, my God. - How bad is it? 318 00:17:57,577 --> 00:17:59,805 His vitals are dropping through the floor. We're losing him. 319 00:17:59,829 --> 00:18:00,829 Daddy. 320 00:18:01,539 --> 00:18:02,539 [LYNN] Jeff? 321 00:18:02,957 --> 00:18:03,957 Jeff. 322 00:18:06,877 --> 00:18:09,744 [slow RandB music playing] 323 00:18:10,047 --> 00:18:11,208 Jefferson! 324 00:18:26,147 --> 00:18:27,147 Dad? 325 00:18:29,317 --> 00:18:30,317 Come on, sit down. 326 00:18:47,543 --> 00:18:49,079 When Tobias came... 327 00:18:53,215 --> 00:18:55,206 I should've... I should've helped you. 328 00:18:56,385 --> 00:18:59,844 You did help me, by doing what you were told. 329 00:19:02,600 --> 00:19:04,511 Oh, but I always wanted to tell you... 330 00:19:07,980 --> 00:19:09,562 I'm so sorry. 331 00:19:10,232 --> 00:19:12,815 There's nothing to be sorry for, son. 332 00:19:13,027 --> 00:19:14,438 Black Lightning? 333 00:19:16,238 --> 00:19:18,980 All the violence? [sniffles] 334 00:19:19,992 --> 00:19:22,029 Peace ain't always peaceful, son. 335 00:19:23,746 --> 00:19:26,579 All the blood, broken bones, pain you suffered... 336 00:19:28,084 --> 00:19:30,416 only you'll ever know if it was worth it. 337 00:19:34,006 --> 00:19:35,588 Was it worth it for you? 338 00:19:37,385 --> 00:19:38,500 Your death? 339 00:19:43,099 --> 00:19:44,260 I don't know. 340 00:19:47,937 --> 00:19:51,396 What I do know... is that I'm proud of you, son. 341 00:19:54,151 --> 00:19:56,563 And I apologize for leaving you. 342 00:20:03,911 --> 00:20:05,322 I love you, Dad. 343 00:20:06,122 --> 00:20:07,122 [sniffling] 344 00:20:08,874 --> 00:20:10,239 I love you too, son. 345 00:20:12,962 --> 00:20:14,578 But you can't stay here. 346 00:20:17,383 --> 00:20:18,873 Go handle your business. 347 00:20:56,464 --> 00:20:57,875 [Lynn gasping] 348 00:21:07,433 --> 00:21:08,639 [both chuckle] 349 00:21:10,311 --> 00:21:11,927 Everybody, he's awake! 350 00:21:12,146 --> 00:21:13,511 [footsteps running] 351 00:21:15,608 --> 00:21:17,144 [Jennifer chuckling] Daddy! 352 00:21:18,402 --> 00:21:19,517 It's about time. 353 00:21:19,737 --> 00:21:20,818 Dad, how do you feel? 354 00:21:25,576 --> 00:21:27,317 - [sighs] - [Jefferson groaning] 355 00:21:27,536 --> 00:21:29,152 [Jefferson mumbles] 356 00:21:29,371 --> 00:21:31,328 Take it easy, Jeff. Take it easy. 357 00:21:32,833 --> 00:21:33,868 [Jennifer sighs] 358 00:21:41,050 --> 00:21:42,381 [Jefferson] My powers... 359 00:21:44,637 --> 00:21:45,752 I can't feel them. 360 00:21:47,056 --> 00:21:49,388 [grunts] My powers are gone. 361 00:21:59,735 --> 00:22:01,476 [indistinct radio chatter] 362 00:22:02,112 --> 00:22:03,632 We did a search of power company files, 363 00:22:03,697 --> 00:22:06,940 looking for a surge in energy output right after the attack on Garfield. 364 00:22:07,159 --> 00:22:08,615 Got a hit. It was Freeland. 365 00:22:08,828 --> 00:22:09,863 Let me see it. 366 00:22:14,250 --> 00:22:16,742 [Klovic] I can't. It, uh... it won't come up. 367 00:22:17,294 --> 00:22:20,055 That's because it's cloaked from satellite imaging. That has to be it. 368 00:22:20,172 --> 00:22:21,913 We are a go! Full tactical! 369 00:22:22,299 --> 00:22:23,299 [man] Yes, sir! 370 00:22:24,260 --> 00:22:26,297 I've got your ass now, Peter. 371 00:22:26,929 --> 00:22:28,920 [indistinct radio chatter] 372 00:22:52,663 --> 00:22:54,119 [moaning] 373 00:23:02,882 --> 00:23:04,418 [groaning softly] 374 00:23:11,015 --> 00:23:12,676 [groans loudly] 375 00:23:12,933 --> 00:23:15,345 So, Lala never came out of the ASA headquarters. 376 00:23:15,561 --> 00:23:17,723 We can't tell if he exploded, either. 377 00:23:18,230 --> 00:23:20,517 But some heavy tactical is rolling out of there. 378 00:23:23,569 --> 00:23:25,401 Find out where they're going. 379 00:23:40,711 --> 00:23:42,952 [sighs] Your vital signs are back to normal. 380 00:23:44,381 --> 00:23:45,917 [Jefferson] Will I get my powers back? 381 00:23:46,300 --> 00:23:47,335 I don't know. 382 00:23:47,927 --> 00:23:50,043 What happens when you drain a car battery? 383 00:23:51,096 --> 00:23:53,804 Well, it gets to a point where it no longer holds a charge. 384 00:23:54,016 --> 00:23:55,222 Hurried iootstepq. 385 00:23:55,434 --> 00:23:56,874 My perimeter sensors are lighting up. 386 00:23:57,311 --> 00:23:58,597 They've found us. 387 00:24:01,398 --> 00:24:02,433 Damn. 388 00:24:03,817 --> 00:24:06,149 Anissa and Gambi can't do this by themselves. 389 00:24:16,538 --> 00:24:17,538 [agent whistles] 390 00:24:28,717 --> 00:24:29,377 [agent] Go, go, go! 391 00:24:29,593 --> 00:24:32,051 [Gambi] We're looking at 20 crack operatives, combat spread. 392 00:24:32,262 --> 00:24:34,616 They're gonna breach attack from the front and back simultaneously. 393 00:24:34,640 --> 00:24:36,051 Okay, so how do we stop 'em? 394 00:24:36,266 --> 00:24:37,006 We can't. 395 00:24:37,226 --> 00:24:40,066 These guys are every bit as good as Delta Force and SEALs, maybe better. 396 00:24:40,229 --> 00:24:43,069 And they're gonna be equipped with special weapons to deal with Thunder. 397 00:24:43,273 --> 00:24:44,809 Our best option is to retreat. 398 00:24:45,025 --> 00:24:47,107 Oh, Uncle Gambi, I'm not running away. 399 00:24:47,736 --> 00:24:49,727 Then your mom, dad, and sister will die. 400 00:24:49,947 --> 00:24:51,667 [chuckles nervously] Okay, this is too much. 401 00:24:51,699 --> 00:24:53,343 - Jen. Jen. - I'm telling you, this is too much. 402 00:24:53,367 --> 00:24:53,905 Jen, we're good. 403 00:24:53,917 --> 00:24:55,261 [Jennifer] Did you hear what he just said? 404 00:24:55,285 --> 00:24:56,471 - [Gambi] All right. Listen to me! - I don't wanna die! 405 00:24:56,495 --> 00:24:57,610 Jen, listen! Listen! 406 00:24:57,830 --> 00:24:58,615 [agent on comms] Bravo team leader... 407 00:24:58,831 --> 00:25:01,664 I'm gonna go out the front and I'll engage them before they hit us. 408 00:25:02,126 --> 00:25:04,493 At the same time, Anissa, 409 00:25:04,712 --> 00:25:06,578 [panting] you make a hole in that wall. 410 00:25:07,840 --> 00:25:10,923 I'll lay down suppressive fire. You thunderclap left and right. 411 00:25:11,135 --> 00:25:14,155 That'll shock them enough to give your mom, sis, and clad time to make for the woods. 412 00:25:14,179 --> 00:25:15,419 - Got it. - [Gambi] Okay. 413 00:25:16,265 --> 00:25:18,632 I'm in their comms, so we're gonna know what they're up to. 414 00:25:18,851 --> 00:25:20,203 - [comms beeps] - [agent] Bravo team set. 415 00:25:20,227 --> 00:25:21,387 We are go. Wait for command... 416 00:25:21,478 --> 00:25:22,539 - [Gambi] Okay. - Jen, Jen... 417 00:25:22,563 --> 00:25:24,499 [Gambi] Listen, listen. There's an emergency tunnel 418 00:25:24,523 --> 00:25:27,106 under a forked tree ten yards into the brush. All right? 419 00:25:27,526 --> 00:25:28,526 There's a palm reader 420 00:25:28,694 --> 00:25:31,186 on the manhole that'll open for any of you, but not for them. 421 00:25:31,405 --> 00:25:34,488 At the end of the tunnel, there's a road where the van will be waiting. 422 00:25:34,783 --> 00:25:36,615 Okay? Is everybody ready? 423 00:25:36,994 --> 00:25:37,994 We're ready. 424 00:25:38,162 --> 00:25:39,197 All right. 425 00:25:41,081 --> 00:25:43,081 Can you light this thing up without me powering it? 426 00:25:44,001 --> 00:25:45,001 Sure. 427 00:25:45,210 --> 00:25:46,245 Okay, new plan. 428 00:25:46,462 --> 00:25:48,248 I go out the front and draw their fire. 429 00:25:48,464 --> 00:25:51,422 Anissa takes them out, you lead my family to the tunnel. 430 00:25:52,092 --> 00:25:55,210 Wait. But without your powers, how can you do that and make it back? 431 00:25:55,429 --> 00:25:56,544 The suit's bulletproof. 432 00:25:56,972 --> 00:25:58,337 But your head's not. 433 00:26:01,643 --> 00:26:02,763 [softly] It's gonna be okay. 434 00:26:03,729 --> 00:26:04,764 [Lynn softly] Jeff... 435 00:26:06,857 --> 00:26:08,018 [Jennifer sobs] 436 00:26:12,029 --> 00:26:12,814 Be careful. 437 00:26:13,030 --> 00:26:14,065 Take care of them. 438 00:26:14,531 --> 00:26:17,064 [Anissa] I got you, [crying] 439 00:26:24,083 --> 00:26:25,494 This is suicide, Jeff. 440 00:26:26,960 --> 00:26:28,291 Light me up, old man. 441 00:26:41,266 --> 00:26:44,217 [LS/fin] Jen... [gasping] 442 00:26:44,770 --> 00:26:46,690 - Jen. Jennifer! - [Anissa] Mom, don't get close. 443 00:26:46,897 --> 00:26:48,208 - [Lynn] Jen! - [electricity crackling] 444 00:26:48,232 --> 00:26:49,688 - [Anissa gasps] - Jennifer? 445 00:26:51,610 --> 00:26:52,975 [continues crackling] 446 00:26:54,321 --> 00:26:55,321 [LYNN] Jen! 447 00:26:59,159 --> 00:27:00,159 [Jennifer] Dad! 448 00:27:01,036 --> 00:27:02,902 [grunts] 449 00:27:03,122 --> 00:27:04,988 No, Jennifer, that's enough! You're trembling! 450 00:27:05,207 --> 00:27:06,823 - No! - More. 451 00:27:08,877 --> 00:27:10,163 [screams] 452 00:27:12,172 --> 00:27:13,172 [Lynn] Jennifer! 453 00:27:14,550 --> 00:27:15,550 [Anissa] Jen, you good? 454 00:27:15,926 --> 00:27:17,070 - [Jennifer] Yeah, I'm fine. - [Anissa] What? 455 00:27:17,094 --> 00:27:18,655 I'm fine. I'm okay. I just need to sit down. 456 00:27:18,679 --> 00:27:20,573 [Anissa] Whoa, whoa, whoa. Be careful. Take your time. 457 00:27:20,597 --> 00:27:22,200 [Jennifer] I'm okay. I just need to sit down. 458 00:27:22,224 --> 00:27:24,202 - [Anissa] Be careful. Careful, careful. - [Lynn] Okay. 459 00:27:24,226 --> 00:27:25,226 Are you okay? 460 00:27:25,394 --> 00:27:26,805 [sighs] Yeah, I'm fine. 461 00:27:27,354 --> 00:27:29,274 - [Lynn softly] She's okay. - [Jennifer chuckles] 462 00:27:32,568 --> 00:27:33,568 Jennifer} I'm okay, Mom. 463 00:27:33,735 --> 00:27:34,896 [gasps] 464 00:27:41,410 --> 00:27:44,994 Now, you are making a habit of saving my life, young lady. 465 00:27:45,539 --> 00:27:47,200 [Jennifer chuckles] 466 00:27:47,916 --> 00:27:51,250 Well, this is... this is what we do. 467 00:27:52,087 --> 00:27:53,202 [Gambi] Jeff. 468 00:27:57,426 --> 00:28:00,259 Even if you win, the ASA isn't gonna disappear. 469 00:28:00,470 --> 00:28:02,711 If they think there's some kind of meta-human arms race, 470 00:28:02,931 --> 00:28:04,842 they are gonna keep coming after you. 471 00:28:05,058 --> 00:28:07,345 Your best option would be to take off, 472 00:28:07,561 --> 00:28:09,347 make a life somewhere with your family. 473 00:28:09,563 --> 00:28:11,520 Whoa, and turn our back on the people? 474 00:28:11,732 --> 00:28:12,813 On Freehand'? 475 00:28:13,025 --> 00:28:14,891 Let them make us leave? 476 00:28:15,110 --> 00:28:16,521 Nuh-uh, they don't know us. 477 00:28:20,282 --> 00:28:21,943 I'll help in any way I can. 478 00:28:25,329 --> 00:28:26,785 [Jefferson] So that's it, then. 479 00:28:28,123 --> 00:28:29,363 High-low tactics. 480 00:28:30,876 --> 00:28:32,082 Let's do this. 481 00:28:37,966 --> 00:28:40,754 [team leader] This is team leader Alpha. All fire teams in position. 482 00:28:41,136 --> 00:28:43,127 You are go, team leader. 483 00:28:45,515 --> 00:28:47,195 [team leader] Visual's dark, I'm moving up. 484 00:28:47,893 --> 00:28:48,893 [agent] Advancing. 485 00:28:50,145 --> 00:28:51,351 Got eyes on location. 486 00:28:58,111 --> 00:28:59,192 [guns firing] 487 00:29:02,074 --> 00:29:03,690 [inhales deeply] 488 00:29:03,909 --> 00:29:05,274 [agents yelling] 489 00:29:06,078 --> 00:29:07,694 [guns firing] 490 00:29:09,623 --> 00:29:11,103 - [inhales deeply] - [agents grunting] 491 00:29:14,878 --> 00:29:16,164 [guns firing] 492 00:29:17,798 --> 00:29:19,163 [agents grunting] 493 00:29:22,594 --> 00:29:23,655 [team leader] Team leader Alpha. 494 00:29:23,679 --> 00:29:26,359 We are not prepped for Black Lightning. Request permission to abort. 495 00:29:26,556 --> 00:29:27,556 Denied! 496 00:29:27,641 --> 00:29:30,241 They came out of the house to protect whatever or whoever's in it. 497 00:29:30,602 --> 00:29:32,559 Take out Thunder and get in there. 498 00:29:32,854 --> 00:29:34,814 - Buy me some leverage. - [team leader] Copy that. 499 00:29:34,898 --> 00:29:36,013 What are you doing? 500 00:29:36,566 --> 00:29:38,206 - They're coming after us. - [rifle cocks] 501 00:29:39,152 --> 00:29:41,268 [sighs] Give me one of those. 502 00:29:41,613 --> 00:29:43,024 - [sighs] - Give it to me. 503 00:29:45,784 --> 00:29:47,946 [breathing shakily] What? 504 00:29:48,328 --> 00:29:49,989 I grew up hunting with my dad. 505 00:29:50,205 --> 00:29:52,867 Now let's end this, 'cause I want my damn life back! 506 00:29:54,876 --> 00:29:56,207 Talk to me. 507 00:29:57,045 --> 00:29:58,911 [Khalil] Major firefight in North Freeland. 508 00:29:59,131 --> 00:30:00,587 - A military team... - [Tobias] Mmm. 509 00:30:00,799 --> 00:30:03,040 Up against Black Lightning and Thunder. 510 00:30:03,302 --> 00:30:06,044 That black son of a bitch keeps rising from the dead. 511 00:30:06,263 --> 00:30:07,879 But this time, it's good for me. 512 00:30:08,140 --> 00:30:09,926 Proctor's best are all committed. 513 00:30:10,142 --> 00:30:12,383 Our best are right here. Let's bring the party to him. 514 00:30:16,606 --> 00:30:19,314 Sir, multiple shots fired, multiple perps. 515 00:30:19,526 --> 00:30:21,483 We got a war going down in North Freeland. 516 00:30:22,529 --> 00:30:25,897 Scramble SWAT. I want everybody with a badge in the car. 517 00:30:31,455 --> 00:30:32,570 [inhales deeply] 518 00:30:32,789 --> 00:30:34,029 [agents grunting] 519 00:30:48,472 --> 00:30:49,712 [agent] Fall back! Fall back! 520 00:30:51,266 --> 00:30:52,347 [weapon beeps] 521 00:30:55,187 --> 00:30:57,269 [Thunder grunting] 522 00:31:07,532 --> 00:31:09,802 [team leader] Meta-human known as Thunder has been packaged. 523 00:31:09,826 --> 00:31:10,941 [Proctor] Reel her in. 524 00:31:22,297 --> 00:31:23,697 [agent] Bravo team ready for breach. 525 00:31:31,681 --> 00:31:32,681 [grunting] 526 00:31:44,986 --> 00:31:46,021 MQfn! 527 00:31:57,249 --> 00:31:58,489 [grunting] 528 00:32:00,419 --> 00:32:02,205 [gasping] 529 00:32:11,388 --> 00:32:12,388 [weapon beeps] 530 00:32:17,436 --> 00:32:19,097 [agent groans] 531 00:32:19,312 --> 00:32:21,519 [Thunder grunting] 532 00:32:21,731 --> 00:32:23,722 [yelling and grunting] 533 00:32:25,527 --> 00:32:26,767 Damn it! 534 00:32:28,947 --> 00:32:31,905 Uh, sir, Freeland PD is on an intercept with our firefight. 535 00:32:32,117 --> 00:32:33,232 Three minutes out. 536 00:32:34,453 --> 00:32:36,615 You're not helping, Klovic! 537 00:32:37,080 --> 00:32:38,115 Damn it! 538 00:32:38,331 --> 00:32:40,288 Abort! Abort assault! 539 00:32:40,500 --> 00:32:42,867 Secure the stage-two pods for relocation. 540 00:32:43,420 --> 00:32:45,273 Send the operatives' coordinates to the warehouse 541 00:32:45,297 --> 00:32:48,540 where they will secure the stage-two pods and provide escort for relocation. 542 00:32:48,758 --> 00:32:49,793 Where, sir? 543 00:32:50,010 --> 00:32:51,842 Above your clearance, Klovic! 544 00:32:52,053 --> 00:32:53,384 I'll advise on site. 545 00:32:55,807 --> 00:32:57,593 [alarm blaring] 546 00:32:59,186 --> 00:33:01,473 Breach mode, everybody! Breach mode! 547 00:33:09,112 --> 00:33:10,112 [Khalil grunting] 548 00:33:10,238 --> 00:33:11,319 [guard grunts] 549 00:33:36,765 --> 00:33:38,130 Sir! I'm hailing all of our agents, 550 00:33:38,350 --> 00:33:39,535 but getting nothing but dead air. 551 00:33:39,559 --> 00:33:40,559 Burn the hard drives. 552 00:33:40,810 --> 00:33:41,810 With me. 553 00:33:47,817 --> 00:33:48,817 [grunts] 554 00:33:52,697 --> 00:33:53,697 Gm so, so, 90, 90! 555 00:33:57,786 --> 00:33:58,901 [door pounding] 556 00:34:01,957 --> 00:34:02,992 [beeps] 557 00:34:07,796 --> 00:34:08,796 Sir... 558 00:34:10,090 --> 00:34:12,832 Proctor. Proctor! Proctor! 559 00:34:18,598 --> 00:34:20,134 [grunts] 560 00:34:32,070 --> 00:34:33,811 [sirens wailing] 561 00:35:00,849 --> 00:35:01,849 [gun clicks] 562 00:35:24,873 --> 00:35:26,079 Where's tactical? 563 00:35:27,292 --> 00:35:28,292 Um... 564 00:35:29,878 --> 00:35:30,913 They couldn't make it. 565 00:35:35,216 --> 00:35:36,547 Whoa, whoa, whoa. 566 00:35:36,760 --> 00:35:38,501 You're not going anywhere. 567 00:35:41,723 --> 00:35:42,723 [Proctor] So... 568 00:35:44,893 --> 00:35:46,429 Family affair? 569 00:35:50,482 --> 00:35:51,517 I knew it was you. 570 00:35:51,733 --> 00:35:54,976 Yeah, and that's gonna be a problem. 571 00:35:55,528 --> 00:35:56,609 I am a federal agent. 572 00:35:56,821 --> 00:36:00,439 You will bring the weight of the United States government down on your heads. 573 00:36:01,785 --> 00:36:02,866 That's bull. 574 00:36:03,870 --> 00:36:05,830 I suspected when you didn't call in reinforcements 575 00:36:05,872 --> 00:36:07,432 after your Green Light lab was destroyed 576 00:36:07,540 --> 00:36:10,749 that this was a... rogue operation, 577 00:36:10,960 --> 00:36:13,122 which means we're not up against the ASA. 578 00:36:14,339 --> 00:36:15,704 We're just up against you. 579 00:36:17,258 --> 00:36:20,125 Thank political correctness. It's ruining the country. 580 00:36:20,345 --> 00:36:23,212 The first Freeland experiment killed a lot of kids! 581 00:36:23,765 --> 00:36:25,725 And you thought it was a good idea to do a sequel? 582 00:36:25,892 --> 00:36:28,475 They would've wound up on welfare or in prison, anyway. 583 00:36:28,687 --> 00:36:29,802 [scoffs] Wow. 584 00:36:30,730 --> 00:36:31,730 [grunting] 585 00:36:31,898 --> 00:36:33,354 [Proctor grunting] 586 00:36:36,277 --> 00:36:37,517 - Jennifer! - [Proctor grunting] 587 00:36:40,573 --> 00:36:42,280 [groaning] 588 00:36:44,160 --> 00:36:47,824 Oh, man! That was beautiful, little girl. 589 00:36:48,039 --> 00:36:49,919 - Is that right? You want some more? - Jennifer. 590 00:36:50,041 --> 00:36:53,409 Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Listen to me for one second. 591 00:36:53,795 --> 00:36:55,957 Most of them are dying. 592 00:36:57,048 --> 00:36:58,254 I can fix 'em. 593 00:36:59,426 --> 00:37:01,633 You wanna save your people? Let's make a deal. 594 00:37:01,845 --> 00:37:06,055 All I need is a sample of stable meta-human genetics. 595 00:37:06,599 --> 00:37:07,339 Yours. 596 00:37:07,559 --> 00:37:10,221 You want to save Freeland. I want to make America great again. 597 00:37:10,437 --> 00:37:11,848 The ASA will back me up, 598 00:37:12,063 --> 00:37:16,603 especially when I give 'em the 411 on the Pierces. [Chuckles] 599 00:37:17,068 --> 00:37:19,981 I'll get a blank check and a get-out-of-jail-free card. 600 00:37:20,196 --> 00:37:24,531 So, either we deal or I come back and kill each and every one of you. 601 00:37:24,743 --> 00:37:26,074 You're a monster. 602 00:37:26,286 --> 00:37:28,197 That's funny coming from you, Peter. 603 00:37:28,413 --> 00:37:29,494 You're right. 604 00:37:35,754 --> 00:37:36,994 I am a monster. 605 00:37:37,630 --> 00:37:39,746 And he is not gonna hurt any more kids. 606 00:37:40,967 --> 00:37:44,210 You all take care of the pods, I'll take care of the trash. 607 00:37:50,852 --> 00:37:52,013 None of them are stable. 608 00:37:52,228 --> 00:37:53,708 Okay, how do we get them out the pods? 609 00:37:54,147 --> 00:37:56,333 If you open the pods, they will die. They're too unstable from all the... 610 00:37:56,357 --> 00:37:57,973 How do we get them out? 611 00:37:58,526 --> 00:38:00,688 I... [stammers] The briefcase. 612 00:38:00,904 --> 00:38:02,144 I need the briefcase. 613 00:38:05,742 --> 00:38:06,857 Never mind. 614 00:38:07,452 --> 00:38:09,159 I know someone that can help them. 615 00:38:09,954 --> 00:38:12,286 People are always calling black folk paranoid. 616 00:38:12,499 --> 00:38:14,490 We always paranoid until the truth comes out. 617 00:38:14,709 --> 00:38:18,122 They had them children for 30 years, and that wasn't enough? 618 00:38:18,338 --> 00:38:21,922 They came back to get more? [scoffs] Damn. Bye, Felicia. 619 00:38:22,425 --> 00:38:26,635 This all ended with Black Lightning and Thunder, not the police. 620 00:38:26,846 --> 00:38:28,806 That should tell you something right there, right? 621 00:38:29,057 --> 00:38:30,968 The government put crack in the ghettos, 622 00:38:31,184 --> 00:38:34,051 they gave heroin to the white folks in the rural areas, 623 00:38:34,270 --> 00:38:37,012 then they came back and put Green Light in Freeland. 624 00:38:37,315 --> 00:38:40,433 And I know 'cause my son got caught up in taking that Green Light. 625 00:38:41,194 --> 00:38:44,152 They gonna put something else somewhere else. 626 00:38:44,489 --> 00:38:46,901 This is their MO. Ain't nothing new. 627 00:38:47,116 --> 00:38:49,699 The people of Freeland have a right to a full explanation 628 00:38:49,911 --> 00:38:51,401 of what happened in this city. 629 00:38:51,621 --> 00:38:54,613 Hard questions are being asked of the US government. 630 00:38:54,833 --> 00:38:56,415 And, in the meantime, 631 00:38:56,793 --> 00:39:00,536 although we do not condone acts of vigilantism, 632 00:39:01,464 --> 00:39:05,879 the people of Freeland and this department owe a great debt of thanks 633 00:39:06,094 --> 00:39:10,759 to so-called Black Lightning and Thunder. 634 00:39:12,100 --> 00:39:13,511 [panting] 635 00:39:18,356 --> 00:39:20,313 [music playing] 636 00:39:25,363 --> 00:39:27,479 [all laughing] 637 00:39:39,627 --> 00:39:42,745 [Jennifer] They call us heroes, but the real heroes are you, 638 00:39:43,006 --> 00:39:46,215 the people who, despite the everyday struggles of life, 639 00:39:46,426 --> 00:39:49,168 continue to find hope, meaning, and purpose 640 00:39:49,387 --> 00:39:51,048 in what can be a challenging world. 641 00:39:53,308 --> 00:39:54,673 [whooping] 642 00:39:56,561 --> 00:39:58,222 [indistinct chatter] 643 00:40:04,986 --> 00:40:06,192 [laughter] 644 00:40:11,284 --> 00:40:14,276 [Jennifer] We've been given a gift, a blessing from God, 645 00:40:14,495 --> 00:40:18,284 and we intend to use it to protect this city and its people. 646 00:40:22,378 --> 00:40:24,585 [Syonide] From our man in the coroner's office... 647 00:40:24,964 --> 00:40:25,964 [Tobias] Hmm. 648 00:40:26,132 --> 00:40:27,247 Proctor's thumbs. 649 00:40:37,644 --> 00:40:39,055 [alarm beeps] 650 00:40:45,693 --> 00:40:47,275 - You... - [whimpers] 651 00:40:49,572 --> 00:40:51,233 -Shut up! '[9l'0aning] 652 00:40:52,408 --> 00:40:53,898 You better hope this works. 653 00:41:04,629 --> 00:41:05,869 [beeps, unlocks] 654 00:41:16,391 --> 00:41:17,722 Mmm. 655 00:41:20,311 --> 00:41:21,597 Well, damn! 656 00:41:21,813 --> 00:41:23,144 [Tobias chuckles] 657 00:41:24,357 --> 00:41:25,847 Thank the man. 658 00:41:26,067 --> 00:41:27,067 [man panting] NO! 659 00:41:27,151 --> 00:41:28,151 [grunts] 660 00:41:32,323 --> 00:41:33,688 [Tobias] sy. Baby, 661 00:41:34,492 --> 00:41:36,574 you're looking at the king of Freeland. 662 00:41:37,161 --> 00:41:38,617 Long live the king. 663 00:41:39,038 --> 00:41:40,620 [Tobias] First order of business, 664 00:41:40,832 --> 00:41:43,620 ripping the damn light out of Black Lightning.