All language subtitles for The Batman s04e12e13 The Joining.eng

[RIVETS PUNCHING]

[METAL SCRAPPING]

Hey, Chris, you get a haircut?

Yeah. I figured it's the only thing
he'll see from up there.

MAN:
Oh, yeah, the big boss is visiting today.

You have a great view
from your office, Mr. Fox.

Call me Lucius. And I agree.

I never get tired of watching the process.

Everyone working together like that,
all those people.

It's like a giant machine.

More like an efficient team.
One Bruce hardly needs to worry about.

It's what makes the other part
of his life possible.

You mean the other part of his life...

...in which he appears
at museum dedications and fashion shows.

I mean fighting crime.

You mean fighting crimes of fashion?

Dick. He knows I'm the Batman.

[LAUGHING]

I was a close friend of Bruce's father.

After the tragedy, I was happy to offer
what little help I could.

It was more than a little.
Lucius helped construct the Batcave.

And on the rare occasions he lets me...

...I get to lend a hand
with some of the Bat gadgets.

I do love tinkering
with the Bat's Shadow Tech.

Oh. Well, then. Yay.

So we're just throwing around words
that start with bat, now.

That's fine.

Lucius, you clearly have the factory
running as smoothly as ever.

I don't know why
I even bother with these visits.

Maybe you just come by
to see an old friend.

Hmm, doesn't sound like me.

[BOTH LAUGHING]

[ALARM BELL RINGING]

[PEOPLE SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]

ROBIN: So, who else knows?
Is there a list or something?

Is it on the Internet?
BruceWayneisBatman.org?

Lucius Fox is the only one
you didn't already know about.

And he'll be the last.

I try not to make a habit
of having to rely on other people...

...especially to keep my secrets.

[DOOR CLICKS]

What? Who are you?

Wait!

[GRUNTING]

Can't ID them from here.

ID them? I can do that.

Bad guys. And pretty ordinary ones too.

We can handle this.

Ah, didn't we just get
in trouble last week for freelancing?

The boss was very clear.

He said to wait
while he scoped out the situation.

Okay.

We waited.

Hey--!

[GRUNTS]

Well, I'm already bored.
Any way to make this more interesting?

ROBIN: We could take them down
while reciting the alphabet backwards--

Ah! Ugh!

BATGIRL:
Ugh!

Gotcha, bird-brains!

Ah!

[GRUNTS]

[RUMBLING]

Guess they weren't so ordinary after all.

Maybe they were
those super-strong zombie thugs.

We would have had them if you waited.

I know being a costumed crime-fighter
means never having to say, " I'm sorry."

But, yeah. We're sorry.

No. It's my fault.

Maybe I've been relying
on you two more than I should.

This never happened
when I worked alone.

[CAMERA CLICKS]

[MAN ON RADIO
SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]

Detective John Jones.
I'm new to the force.

I've heard about you
and your mission to protect Gotham.

Admirable.

Did you see
what these guys were stealing?

The shipment belonged to your company.

My company?

Wayne Industries has had
an unusually high volume of shipments...

...going in and out of the city this week.

It's no surprise that someone
with sticky fingers finally took notice.

Mind if I inspect this property
back at my headquarters?

Fine by me, but you'll need
Bruce Wayne's permission.

I can secure it.

I'll bet you can.

LUCIUS:
It's a new project.

WayneTech research
really paid off this time.

We've developed whole new metals.

Hybrids, it's pretty exciting,
if you're into metallurgy.

That's the reason for the extra shipping.

I thought that project
was still at the development stage.

It is.

But the development
is requiring some supplies.

Really, there's nothing you need
to worry about.

LUCIUS: You should have those crates
sent back here unopened.

Send them back unopened.

I see. Well, thank you.

Keep working.

[WOOD CREAKING]

Commissioner Gordon vouched
for Detective Jones.

And his records from Denver check out.

[METAL CLINGING]

BOTH:
Whoa!

But there's nothing before Denver.
Like he didn't exist.

ROBIN:
Hey! Ah--!

Okay. It is so my turn.

This is so cool.

I didn't know Wayne Industries
made anything like this.

We don't.
And if Detective Jones is right...

...my company has been shipping things
like this all over the world.

Clearly, this is part of some alien conspiracy
to mass produce these babies.

Ship them all over the world...

...where they await their signal
to take over the human race!

Whoa! Uh! Ah!

Ah! Uh! Ugh!

BATMAN:
New project, huh?

ROBIN:
What's it for?

We'll keep an eye on Lucius.

But I wanna find out if Jones
knows more than he's letting on...

...about whatever's going on
at Wayne Industries.

Then let's pay the detective a visit.

I'll pay him a visit. Alone.

[TRAIN CHUGGING]

[GRUNTING]

[JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING]

-Uh, Batman.
-Don't bother.

I know you're not human.

-I suppose this changes things.
BATMAN: Not really.

[CLICKS]

You're coming with me.
I have some questions for you, detective.

[GRUNTING]

Humans.

You act like you've never seen
a shape-shifter before.

[GRUNTS]

Tell that to Clayface.

[GRUNTING AND CLANGING]

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

He flies too. Great.

Huh? Let's see if you can keep up.

[GASPS]

[MAN SCREAMS]

Ugh!

[CRASHES]

I can dance all night.

DETECTIVE:
So can I.

So it would seem.

But why waste time?
Who are you?

My name is J'onn J'onzz.
I'm a detective.

Just like you, Bruce.

I'm one of the good guys.

[SIREN WAILING]

Thanks.

So, alien.

All my life.

Telekinesis. Neat party trick.

How heavy can the object be?

I could lift you and your best friend.
That is, if you have one.

[SIZZLING]

You miss being back home on Mars?

I never said I was Martian.

Never had to. Martians hate fire.

How do you know
anything about Martians?

I've dedicated my life to studying
all fields of knowledge...

...no matter how obscure,
including thousands of years...

...of recorded human encounters
with extraterrestrials.

The Mayans, ancient Egyptians,
crop circles.

I could teach
a college course on Martians.

Except I always filed them away
under urban legends.

Like alligators in the sewers.

I've fought them too. Why'd you run?

You might have exposed me,
turned me over to the authorities.

I can't allow that. Not now.

Guess we both guard
our secrets fiercely.

-Coffee?
BRUCE: We're fine, thanks.

So how'd you figure out Batman
was Bruce Wayne?

Read your mind.

-Hmm....
-Something wrong?

No, it's just-- That's cheating.

-Read my mind now.
-What?

You heard me.

You're thinking of a dog
you owned as a boy.

Location of the Batcave.

I distinctly saw--

A mental image I conjured up
to block my real thoughts.

Trick I picked up
from some Tibetan monks.

Anyone ever tell you
you're a little paranoid?

My partners. All the time.

I'm stunned. You have partners?

I do.

Though sometimes I wonder
if things might be easier without them.

You may need all the help you can get
with what's coming.

And I've done my homework, Bruce.
It is coming.

Make no mistake.

-What is?
-Something big.

Maybe too big for the Batman
to handle alone.

Why don't you tell me what you know and
let me decide what the Batman can handle?

I'm not the only thing
from outer space that's come to Gotham.

But right now I'm the only thing
that can stop it.

Stop what?

Invasion. Alien lnvasion.

[THUNDER RUMBLING]

DETECTIVE:
The end of your world.

WAITRESS:
Can I get you anything else?

[THUNDER RUMBLING]

Hmm....

[THUNDER RUMBLING]

J'ONN:
They're called The Joining.

A synthetic alien race
that's ravaged over half the galaxy...

...Iike some plague of locusts
devouring and incorporating...

...the technologies of every world
they encounter.

And they leave nothing
in their wake but empty husks of planets.

Synthetic race. The Joining are robots.

Mm-hm. Built by a long-forgotten race
who became their first victims.

BATMAN:
And they feed off technology.

Anything industrial, mechanical,
they simply take it and use it.

It becomes a part of them.
It's how they evolve.

That's why they were targeting
Wayne Industries.

You're responsible for developing...

...some of the most advanced
technologies on this world.

By the way, nice car.

[DOOR BELL RINGS]

Rang it with my mind.

Batman. What--?

Is something wrong?

I need to ask you some questions
about those shipments.

-Who's this?
-This is Detective Jones.

-He's here to--
-Ha!

J'ONN: I knew it was a replicant,
because I didn't get a reading off him.

-No emotions.
BATMAN: So you kicked his head off.

Yes.

Perhaps I should've mentioned
I was going to do that.

Perhaps?

This is part of the standard m.o.
of The Joining.

-Seems pretty complicated.
-Not for them.

They're a linked system. A network.

Parts of one big machine, really.
Like one huge robot as big as a city.

You know, Batman, most humans
would be pretty thrown by this.

I'm not most humans.

BATMAN: If there's any chance that Lucius
is still alive, we have to find him.

Then let's ask someone who knows.

Great danger.

-I can't believe this.
-Really?

Because robot heads--

Oh, that's totally
what I'm expecting on a Wednesday.

And this guy, just some guy,
waltzing into the Batcave.

Didn't have a blindfold on or anything.

Robin, I think we should be focused
on the robot head.

Lucius is still alive. You're certain?

If you're trying to nod, you need a neck.

He's alive.

The real Lucius is being held
at the Wayne Industries factory.

We are using him for information,
but soon he will no longer be helpful.

Ready?

Find Lucius,
stop alien invasion, save world.

Sounds easy enough.

BATMAN:
Lucius.

BOTH:
Follow me.

How about first one to Lucius wins?

Fine time for him
to leave us out of things.

Robots. This is like the biggest case
we've ever faced.

Good robots too.
That thing looks just like a real person.

I know.
Anyone we know could be a robot.

Oh, it wouldn't fool us
if we knew the person, would it?

Maybe not.
They'd probably be a little robot-y.

Detached, unemotional, mechanical.

-Kick his head off.
-You kick his head off.

Attempt to do any such thing,
and I assure you.

There will be no hot-buttered raisin scones
for either of you for a year.

Only Alfred sounds that much like Alfred.

Yup.

[CLICKING]

[MACHINES BEEPING]

It knows we're here.

[GUNSHOTS]

[CRASHING]

[GROANS AND CRASHING]

[GASPS]

[GROANING AND GRUNTING]

[CRASHING]

Let's call it a tie.

BATMAN:
Lucius.

I knew you'd come. What?

He's with me, Lucius.
We're getting you out of here.

No, forget me. I'm not important.

You don't have much time, they--

[ROBOT ZOOMING]

We're too late.

Told you I could float you
and your best friend.

Faster. We don't know how much longer
these things are just gonna sit here.

It's begun.

[RUMBLING]

-Where are they going?
-Anywhere.

J'ONN:
Everywhere that's vulnerable.

Everywhere on Earth.

-What do we do?
-We fight.

Unfortunately, Batman, this is not a fight
anyone, any planet, has ever survived.

Don't they look angry.

J'ONN:
Not they. It.

The Joining has many bodies
but only one mind.

A mind focused on harvesting
your planet's technology...

...and destroying what's left.

Now might be a good time
for you to float us out of here.

Not with them up there.

Well, if you can't go up, you go down.

[EXPLODING]

Oh, my.

There's an emergency exit tunnel
right behind this wall.

Well, I'd say this qualifies
as an emergency.

[CRASHING]

J'ONN:
Go. I'll deal with them.

[GROANING]

[BEEPING]

[EXPLODING]

BATGIRL: It's not that Batman
doesn't want our help.

It's just that he doesn't need our help.
Big difference.

Great. So, you're saying that,
to the big guy, we're basically useless.

I wouldn't go that far.
We proved Alfred's not a robot.

And I'm so relieved.

Lucius, you're hurt.

You know what to do, Alfred.

What's going on?

Alien invasion.

Alien invasion, huh? Excuse me.

-Alien invasion?
ROBIN: Aliens?

What happened to robots?

Ah! Alien!

Got an alien here!

Different kind of alien.

Hi. J'onn J'onzz.

[LAUGHS]

How are you so calm, Alfred? Aliens.

I'd think that would warrant at least
one of your signature cocked eyebrows.

I keep house for a man who dresses
like a bat and works in a cave.

At this point in my life,
there's little that fazes me.

Ah, what's that?

Robot head. So five minutes ago.

[BEEPING]

No, it can't be.

[LASER PULSING
AND SIRENS WAILING]

More than your city
is in danger now, Batman.

This is about Earth.

It's the end of the world.

It can't be.
It just looks a whole lot like it.

We can stop it, right?

If I may, sir, how?

Shut it off. Please.

I'm sorry, Batman.
I had hoped to prevent this.

I'm not ready give up just yet.
The saucer.

It's our one physical link to The Joining.

Earlier analysis revealed it was made up
of a bonded metallic hybrid.

Different metals, bonded together
to form a single alloy.

Like The Joining itself.
Many elements, one purpose.

They created a metal stronger
than almost any compound on Earth...

...but they used Wayne Industries
technology to do it.

-Ah, then that would mean....
-Exactly.

The Joining's just made
their first mistake.

We do not make mistakes.
We are The Joining.

-Unplug it.
-It is unplugged.

I am drawing power from The Joining.
We have taken your technology.

We have improved it.
We use it now to destroy your world.

We are unstoppable.

For such a good looking guy,
he talks too much.

We have work to do now.
Gotham is depending on us.

Gotham City has literally
been overrun by--

-Ah!
-Oh, come on!

[PEOPLE SCREAMING]

MAN:
Hurry! Hurry!

[HORSES NEIGHING]

On my command. Fire!

[ALL CHEERING]

[MEN GASP AND HORSES NEIGHS]

[GUNSHOTS]

Commissioner? What else can we do?

I've already done
the best thing I can think of.

Time to test it. Robin, go for a ride.

BATMAN:
Take it up, but not too high.

Why not?

[SCREAMS THEN GRUNTS]

Molecular instability. Impressive.

And funny.

Bruce made sure I built
a fail-safe into all our tech.

Just in case it ever fell
into the wrong hands.

I get it. Like a shutoff switch.

And, by the way, ow.

And since The Joining
used our technology to build their fleet.

We can use it to take their fleet apart.

Looks like they came halfway across
a galaxy just to get their butts kicked.

We still have one problem.

A signal strong enough to affect
all the ships would have to be sent...

...from a satellite relay.

Which means, we need to send
the signal from inside Wayne Industries.

This wouldn't be the same Wayne Industries
that's guarded by giant robots, would it?

We're going with you.

I know the Wayne Industries layout
better than anyone.

A group is only gonna slow me down.

J'ONN: You have to learn
to trust your partners, Batman.

And, no, this isn't
your conscience speaking.

Haven't you been watching The Joining?
They're linked, coordinated, strong.

If we want to beat them,
we have to be like them.

No way I can shake you?

None on earth.

Then do me one favor.

Fasten the belt.

Planning repairs, are we?

No point. End of the world, remember?

Besides, you heard Batman,
we'd only get in the way.

There are times when, I, too, disagree
with Master Bruce's decisions.

And, when that happens...

...there's something I do that never fails
to lift my spirits.

I disobey him.

I think I saw
a welding torch around here.

-You ready?
-Not even Martians live forever.

You go around the south side.
I'll take the north entrance.

Strangely beautiful, isn't it?

I found a phonograph record
that seems fitting.

Good choice.
Wagner would have been too....

And I found this.

I'd forgotten this.
We took him to the air show.

Long time ago.

I think that was the first day
where he forgot, just a little.

I just counseled two young people
to disobey orders.

To help if they could.

Perhaps we should take
the same advice?

I don't think I'm up for any fisticuffs.

There are other skills.

It's probably useless, you know.

Oh, absolutely.

[SIREN WAILING]

[EXPLODING]

Forgive my inhospitality,
but terrorizing Gotham is my job!

[JOKER LAUGHING]

[SIREN WAILING]

Commish, it's Freeze.
What do we do with him?

We back him up.

[EXPLODING AND GUNSHOTS]

This town's gone mad!

[LAUGHING MANIACALLY]

[CRASHING]

BOTH:
Yes!

BATGIRL: No time to celebrate.
We need to get to Wayne Industries.

[GRUNTING]

[EXPLODING]

[RUMBLING]

MAN [ON COMPUTER] :
Broadcast ready. Activate now.

[BEEPING]

Signal block? No!

[RUMBLING]

We can tap into the Wayne Industries
security camera system.

Be another set of eyes for Bruce.

Humans.
Defiant even in the face of certain defeat.

Certain defeat? We shall see about that.

If you're referring to the fail-safe signal,
you hope to transmit...

...then know your friend
was unsuccessful.

The Joining has blocked it.
Like everything else on this planet...

...The Joining now control
the satellite feeds.

ALFRED: Sir?
-The signal is being blocked, Alfred.

ALFRED: Lucius believes
he can hack into the system...

...and override The Joining's control.

But you will need to manually
override it from your end, as well.

That's going to take time.

I'm not sure I can override the system
and keep these guys at bay.

ROBIN: Then it sounds
like someone needs backup.

I told you two not to come here.

That's why we had to quit
as your partners.

Yeah, that's right. We quit.

You can't order us around anymore.

We're freelancers
and can be wherever we wanna be.

I hear there's work in Metropolis.

You picked us, Batman,
because you knew we were strong.

ROBIN: And sometimes that's about
being strong enough to help you.

BATGIRL:
Even when you think you don't need us.

It's never been about not needing you,
it's about not losing you.

[RUMBLING]

[GRUNTS]

It was a long way around
from the south entrance.

Am I interrupting something?

No, I was just consulting with my team.

[RUMBLING]

If I don't get this done,
this will be a very dangerous place.

We'll secure the room, Batman.
You just get that signal ready.

[RUMBLING]

They seem to be rising above the center
of each major city...

...and forming into giant rings.

The Joining has what it came for.
Now it is time for the end.

Within minutes,
your world will be destroyed.

ALFRED:
Sir, we have a new problem.

The Alien ships
are forming into super-weapons.

And I fear we haven 't much time
before they activate.

Just keep working, Alfred.

[GRUNTING AND CRASHING]

Ah! Ugh.

[BOTH SCREAMING]

[BOTH GRUNT]

ALFRED:
We're ready on our end, sir.

Let's do it.

LUCIUS: Bruce's signal is spreading
across the planet. It's looking good.

This has never happened before.

[EXPLODING]

[CHEERING]

-It worked.
-Yes!

We did it!

How unusual.

Humans....

[GROANING]

What? Martians don't knock?

How are things, Bruce?

Good. Gotham's rebuilding.

Not just Gotham.

The entire world rebuilds
towards a new tomorrow.

A tomorrow
that would never have come...

...if not for one man
who wanted to make a difference.

J'ONN:
You saved your planet, Bruce.

I didn't. We did.

In the end, you did work well
with partners.

Perhaps, you would be open
to expanding your circle.

Sorry, J'onn, I already have two partners.
Don't need a third.

Actually, we were hoping
you would join us.

Let me show you.

I've found others. Like me. Like you.

J'ONN: The world's changing, Batman.
You can go it alone if you want.

Or step into the larger world
and be a part of a greater good.

I've been monitoring
your construction here for months.

Hacking your systems
since they came online.

I wondered, J'onn, when you were gonna
tell me about your space station.

You've put together quite a league.

Let's get to work.

[ENGLISH SDH]

Repair and Synchronization by
Easy Subtitles Synchronizer 1.0.0.0