Life In Smallville & Metropolis {9}

Chapter 11: Absolute Justice, Society, and Legends

Later, Oliver and Liana walk into Watchtower and Chloe says, "Oliver, Liana. You got my message." Liana says, "Of course. It sounded pretty urgent." Oliver says, "I got all ten of them, Chloe. Where are the other super friends?" Chloe says, "Still waiting for them to ping me back. See, this why I keep asking everybody to come up with some sort of standardized trouble alert. The teams need structure." Oliver says, "Is that what we're lacking? You're really on a kick lately, Chloe. Personal phone conversations... Bank records... Amazon wish list. " Chloe says, "Big sister's watching." Oliver looks at the screen closely and says, "Is that my e-mail? Chloe, I'll have you know that those messages between me and Canary were purely platonic." Chloe says, "Can we skip your virtual love life and actually focus on the job here?" Oliver says, "Gladly." Chloe says, "Great. Our victim's name is Sylvester Pemberton, and he had a long criminal record. Fraud, embezzlement, and assault. He didn't have any family, but he did have a friend show up at the hospital." Chloe shows Oliver and Liana the security feed and Chloe pulls up the young blonde's identity. Chloe says, "Courtney Whitmore. She's a sophomore at Blue Valley High and, uh, she gets a big old D-plus for her attendance. She hasn't been to school in the last three weeks." Oliver says, "You don' think blondie's our killer, do you?" Chloe says, "No, but I do think she knows something. I want to take a closer look at this glowing staff the police have in evidence. We need to get it." Oliver nods and says, "'We' meaning me, right?" Chloe smiles. Later, Chloe and Liana go to the hospital and go into the morgue to speak with Emil about Wesley Dodds. Emil lifts the sheet over the body and says, "No bullets. Just residual ice again." Chloe says, "So, minus the patriotic hoodie plus one gas mask and Dodds was killed the same way as Pemberton? With what? Some kind of ice weapon?" Emil says, "Evidence would suggest that weapon is more of a who than a what. The ice samples we pulled from the first victim's wounds had human DNA." Liana says, "So, the killer was some kind of meta-human with an icy touch. Kind of like me." Chloe says, "Well, that explains my arctic ride in the dumpster of doom." Emil says, "Well, he certainly has interesting taste in victims. But Clark said that the assailant left the letters J-S-A. You have any idea, what that means?" Chloe says, "Maybe it's a calling card. Our cold-blooded cryo-killer definitely seems to have a score to settle." Emil says, "Well, what was Clark able to dig up?" Chloe says, "Nothing yet. When he checked in, he was still knee-deep in excavation at the "Daily Planet" archives." As Chloe and Liana leave the room, Emil says, "Right. Uh, let run a few more tests on this." Chloe says, "And we'll see if we can help Clark unearth some answers about the elusive J-S-A." Chloe and Liana walk out the room. Later, Chloe and Liana are in the archives with Clark at the Daily Planet, and he grabs a box and says, "I didn't think we'd have to dig this deep?" Chloe says, "Well, I couldn't find anything online beyond Sylvester Pemberton's rap sheet." Clark looks through a file and says, "Maybe they didn't want anyone else finding it." Liana says, "'They'? They who?" Clark says, "Sylvester Pemberton worked with 12 other known criminals including Wesley Dodds." Chloe says, "He mentioned bringing a team back together." Clark says, "Back together? That means, at some point, they broke apart." Chloe finds an old movie film and she puts it an old projector. Clark says, "They were systematically caught and taken down." Liana says, "For what?" Clark says, "The crimes don't match who they are." Chloe says, "They were called "con-men" for a reason, Clark." As their watching the film, Chloe says, "That's Sylvester Pemberton." Clark looks down at the file and says, "He was accused of embezzling from his own company." Another familiar face pops up on the screen and Clark says, "That's Wesley Dodds, international business. He had no prior criminal record... until he was arrested at a student demonstration that turned violent, a young woman was killed." They watch the cops unmask a man and Liana says, "Who's that?" Clark says, "Al Pratt. Physics professor at Calvin College. Arrested for assaulting police officers when they went after Dodds." The video shows the police arresting a man in a gym and Liana says, "Wait a minute. I know that guy. That's Ted Grant. He's a heavyweight champion, but... how is he involved with these guys?" They then see another man get arrested and Clark says, "Jay Garrick, a research scientist. He's charged with fraud and resisting arrest." They see another man get put behind bars and Liana says, "Alan, Scott, the CEO of a broadcasting company?" Clark says, "Arrested for aiding and abetting. Guys, they have no connections besides their arrests. They don't even sound like criminals." They watch the police take an old woman from her kitchen and Chloe says, "And I got to say that Abigail Hunkel doesn't exactly strike fear in this hero's heart." Clark says, "Talking about these arrest reports. Each one of them tried to take the fall for the other. And they tried to protect one another." Chloe says, "I guess during the golden age of robbery and racketeering there was honor among thieves." Clark says, "This goes beyond honor. There were missing witnesses, circumstantial evidence accusations of jury tampering. They stood by one another, and in the end none of the convictions held up." Chloe says, "Almost sounds like you admire them." Clark says, "I admire their loyalty." Chloe says, "Well, me and Liana will stay here and finish downloading the 411 on the mystery men the old-fashioned way. You need to go and warn Carter Hall. He's the next name on Pemberton's call list. He called him over a dozen times in the last two days." They then see Carter Hall fight his way through the police and Liana says, "What kind of team was this?" Later, Oliver's on the phone with Chloe and he says, "Chloe, I got a peek inside lockup. Pemberton's glow stick is MIA." Chloe says, "Oliver, we have to track it down." Oliver says, "Call you back." Later, Chloe and Liana meet Oliver on the street, and he says, "If someone's killing criminals from the past why kidnap Courtney?" Chloe says, "Maybe she knew what Sylvester Pemberton had hidden up his star-covered sleeve. His car received a handful of parking tickets so it should be easy to spot." Oliver says, "You could say that." They look to see an old fashion car and Oliver says, "Alright. Just give me a sec to get this door open." Liana opens the door and says, "Or you could just try the handle." Liana gets inside the car to see it a mess and she continues to say, "Clark's at the "Daily Planet" trying to track down Pemberton's home address right now, but it looks like he may have been living here." Oliver says, "Well, if he knew someone was after him maybe he was the one on the run." Chloe says, "Well, his choice of transport doesn't exactly blend in." Oliver looks in the glove compartment and closes it reads off, "'The Star Rocket Racer.' What do you suppose this was, their getaway car?" Oliver opens a journal to find Clark, Chloe, Liana, him, and his team. Oliver says, "He knew about us. He knew our identities." Chloe says, "That means Courtney probably does, too." Later, Chloe's in her car with Liana and Clark gets in and he says, "Oliver's searching all over the city for any sign of Courtney. How did they know our identities?" Chloe says, "I think they've been tracking us a long time, Clark. Let's just hope the prime murder suspect hasn't." Clark says, "Did you find one?" Chloe says, "Temperature dropped 40 degrees right before Pemberton was attacked." Clark says, "You said that the skin around Pemberton's wounds was covered with ice, just like Wesley Dodds'." Chloe hands Clark a file and says, "This is what led me to Joar MahKent. Back in Pemberton's day, he was a cryo-kinetic hit man that was called The Icicle." Clark says, "Where's The Icicle now?" Liana says, "He's still recovering from some serious injuries he sustained several years ago. He's in the psych ward at Metropolis General." Clark says, "Or at least he's supposed to be." Later, they go to the hospital and check to if Icicle is there. Clark says, "Can't help but wonder what happened to these people, they were so close." Chloe says, "They were criminals, and they were caught. That's what happened." Clark says, "Carter Hall's definitely hiding something else in that museum." Chloe says, "Reporter's intuition?" Clark says, "Clark Kent's." Chloe grabs a file and Clark says, "What is it, Chloe?" Chloe says, "Dead end. The Icicle's been in a vegetative state for the last decade." Liana says, "If that's true, there's no way that he can be our killer." Then there's a glowing light underneath the door and they open it to see someone with a gold helmet standing over Icicle. Clark grabs the man and says, "What are you doing to him?" The man says, "Your fate is utterly binding. You are of value, Clark Kent." The man looks at Chloe and he says, "But you... you walk the same path I do, Chloe Sullivan. And Liana Lane, your fate is that you will be the one he will need." Liana says, "What?" The man says, "The savior. The one who will heal us all. The sentient power. You will also bring great power to help the world." Liana's still confused and Clark says, "Who are you?" The man says, "Let me show you, my friend." Then the man and Clark disappear, and Chloe says, "Clark?" Later, Chloe and Liana arrive at Watchtower and Liana calls Oliver and puts him speaker and worriedly says, "Oliver?" Oliver says, "What's wrong?" Liana says, "Clark's gone." Oliver says, "What do you mean, he's gone?" Chloe says, "Like one of Pemberton's old gang somehow teleported him away. He said he had to show him something. Called him his friend." Oliver says, "Where would they take him?" Chloe says, "I think the same place they took Courtney." Oliver says, "Another twist to the mystery, guys. Satellites caught the glow of the staff over the Metropolis sky ten minutes ago. I followed it. Wherever Goldilocks went she got a change of clothes. It's getting stranger." Liana says, "Stranger how?" Oliver says, "Well... it's in the middle of the night in Suicide Slum she's standing under a streetlight. She's all dolled up with no place to go. Looks like she's making herself... a target." Then the girls hear something near Watchtower and crashes through, Chloe and Liana duck down and looks up to see it was Oliver and Liana says, "Oliver! Are you okay?" Liana goes to Oliver and then a voice says, "He'll live. Now, stay the hell out of our business. Next time, I won't ask so nicely." The birdman flies away. Chloe then helps clean up Oliver's wounds and he says, "Ten to one says pigeon man's got Clark locked up in a birdcage somewhere. I don't know who the hell these people are, but they sure don't like us. Ow." Chloe says, "I thought that didn't hurt." Oliver says, "I lied." Liana says, "You know, you're lucky he didn't drop you from ten stories up." Oliver says, "I don't feel lucky. As much as I hate to admit it, these people they really know what they're doing. Ow!" Chloe says, "Don't you think it's sad that a secret society of retired supervillains can actually come out of the mothballs and tear us apart like this?" Oliver says, "They know everything about us, guys." Chloe says, "Yeah, and we don't know anything about them. You know, maybe it's time I gave up on bringing the band back together. Maybe this has all been a lost cause." Oliver says, "Whoa! Don't give up on us yet. We may be a bit dysfunctional hard to wrangle at times, but when the chips are down, we're always there, guys." Chloe says, "They took Clark out from under our noses." Oliver says, "And I took this off the winged wonder when he yanked me into the sky." Oliver is holding a throwing star and Liana grabs it and says, "Looks like an antique... from a museum." Oliver says, "I say we get some reinforcements... get Clark to throw them through some windows."