Failsafe

1 00:00:20,879 --> 00:00:22,714 Deploying camera-sensor units.

2 00:00:30,472 --> 00:00:33,642 Attention. You have entered the boundaries of Earth space.

3 00:00:33,725 --> 00:00:37,938 Disengage all weapons and engines. This is your final warning.

4 00:00:46,405 --> 00:00:49,074 Code red. Full offensive deploy.

5 00:01:21,356 --> 00:01:23,108 Tornado, did you...?

6 00:01:23,150 --> 00:01:25,485 Yes, Zatara. We saw.

7 00:01:25,569 --> 00:01:27,362 Celestial defenses have failed.

8 00:01:27,404 --> 00:01:32,034 - Initiate all terrestrial measures. - ''Affirmative. See you in the field.''

9 00:01:32,993 --> 00:01:37,080 I must join the League. We will protect the planet at all costs.

10 00:01:37,164 --> 00:01:41,418 But should we fail, the responsibility falls to you.

11 00:01:43,670 --> 00:01:45,380 We stand ready.

12 00:02:11,698 --> 00:02:14,284 This is Iris West-Allen, reporting live.

13 00:02:14,368 --> 00:02:18,830 ''The extra-terrestrials have brought their relentless global attack to Central City.''

14 00:02:32,052 --> 00:02:34,304 ''You should both be safe here, at least for now.''

15 00:02:34,388 --> 00:02:38,100 Thank you, Flash and Zatara.

16 00:02:41,770 --> 00:02:43,021 Denny, you okay?

17 00:02:43,563 --> 00:02:48,485 ''As you can see, the Justice League is attempting to hold the line.''

18 00:02:49,861 --> 00:02:52,656 - No. - Iris. Iris, get out of there!

19 00:02:53,615 --> 00:02:58,287 I'm sorry, we're experiencing technical difficulties from our Central City feed.

20 00:02:58,370 --> 00:03:01,456 We take you now to a devastated Taipei.

21 00:03:01,540 --> 00:03:05,252 ''Another League contingent is having more luck.''

22 00:03:14,678 --> 00:03:19,558 Ladies and gentlemen, we've lost Black Canary, Green Arrow and the Hawks.

23 00:03:19,766 --> 00:03:26,148 Other heroes reported dead or missing include Batman, Icon, Atom and Aquaman.

24 00:03:30,569 --> 00:03:32,321 Wonder Woman, above you.

25 00:03:41,204 --> 00:03:42,914 Red Tornado to Cave.

26 00:03:43,373 --> 00:03:45,667 I fear I am all that remains of the League.

27 00:03:45,751 --> 00:03:46,918 RT?

28 00:03:52,424 --> 00:03:54,217 We are Earth's heroes now.

29 00:03:54,593 --> 00:03:56,720 So, what are we waiting for? A theme song?

30 00:03:56,803 --> 00:03:59,514 A strategy. Earth's weapons are ineffective...

31 00:03:59,639 --> 00:04:03,310 and it has been made tragically clear a direct attack will not succeed.

32 00:04:03,393 --> 00:04:04,936 Checking satellite imagery.

33 00:04:06,605 --> 00:04:08,440 Here's where the aliens are now.

34 00:04:09,066 --> 00:04:10,442 This one get lost?

35 00:04:13,695 --> 00:04:15,697 It's Superman's Fortress of Solitude.

36 00:04:15,781 --> 00:04:17,949 Superman has a Fortress of Solitude?

37 00:04:18,033 --> 00:04:21,536 Its power source must have attracted the aliens' attention, at least enough...

38 00:04:21,661 --> 00:04:24,873 to send a scout ship to investigate. Must be some fortress.

39 00:04:24,956 --> 00:04:26,583 - Conner. - No, it's okay.

40 00:04:26,666 --> 00:04:28,794 I guess there's a lot about Superman I'll never know.

41 00:04:29,127 --> 00:04:32,297 - Uh, you know, now. - We will target this lone ship.

42 00:04:32,381 --> 00:04:37,886 Yeah. Break it down. Build more. Hit those ugly aliens with their own mojo. Ow!

43 00:04:37,969 --> 00:04:40,222 Martian and Kryptonian in the house.

44 00:04:41,890 --> 00:04:45,310 Uh, heh, not that all aliens are automatically ugly.

45 00:05:01,576 --> 00:05:03,245 Communications disabled.

46 00:05:04,579 --> 00:05:05,956 Propulsion disabled.

47 00:05:12,879 --> 00:05:15,173 And ETs are sealed inside.

48 00:05:27,394 --> 00:05:29,312 Identifying weapon's structural stress points...

49 00:05:29,438 --> 00:05:32,524 ''and links to the ship. Here, here and here.''

50 00:05:48,874 --> 00:05:49,958 Wolf.

51 00:05:51,001 --> 00:05:54,296 ''There was no indication of feedback. I'm sorry.''

52 00:05:54,880 --> 00:05:56,756 Can't do anything for him now.

53 00:05:58,633 --> 00:05:59,926 Let's go.

54 00:06:13,899 --> 00:06:17,027 ''Rerouting systems to integrate weapon into ship's bio-matrix.''

55 00:06:17,235 --> 00:06:19,279 ''I'll need to de-camouflage for a few minutes.''

56 00:06:19,488 --> 00:06:21,114 We may not have a few minutes.

57 00:06:23,408 --> 00:06:24,868 Miss Martian, open fire.

58 00:06:24,951 --> 00:06:28,205 ''Can't. Weapon systems are off-line to incorporate the new cannon.''

59 00:06:28,330 --> 00:06:31,458 - And that's not fully integrated yet either. - Got you covered.

60 00:06:31,583 --> 00:06:33,668 ''Get inside! I'm almost there.''

61 00:06:42,093 --> 00:06:43,970 ''Artemis. Behind you!''

62 00:06:48,141 --> 00:06:49,726 Artemis!

63 00:06:56,149 --> 00:06:59,528 - Artemis! - Get inside. All of you.

64 00:07:04,699 --> 00:07:06,076 Ha!

65 00:07:11,456 --> 00:07:14,042 They're dead. Every single alien.

66 00:07:14,125 --> 00:07:16,211 If it's the last thing I do.

67 00:07:28,932 --> 00:07:32,310 There will be time to mourn later. Now we have a job to do.

68 00:07:32,394 --> 00:07:36,356 Defend the Earth and ensure Artemis' sacrifice was not in vain.

69 00:07:36,439 --> 00:07:39,401 - Back to the Cave? - The Hall of Justice.

70 00:07:39,484 --> 00:07:42,862 The human race must know that there are still heroes defending them.

71 00:07:43,738 --> 00:07:45,407 There is still hope.

72 00:07:50,620 --> 00:07:52,622 Now. Open fire.

73 00:08:30,118 --> 00:08:32,621 See? It is Superman.

74 00:08:32,704 --> 00:08:34,748 I told you he wouldn't leave us out here alone.

75 00:08:34,873 --> 00:08:36,791 I don't know. He looks kind of young.

76 00:08:36,875 --> 00:08:39,252 - Where's the cape? - I'm not Superman.

77 00:08:39,336 --> 00:08:43,298 I don't know who you are, son. And right now, I don't care.

78 00:08:43,340 --> 00:08:45,967 You wear the S, and you got the job done.

79 00:08:46,509 --> 00:08:49,429 - I'm not Superman. - Tell that to the enemy.

80 00:08:49,512 --> 00:08:51,598 General Wade Eiling, U.S. Air Force.

81 00:08:51,681 --> 00:08:53,767 Aqualad, Justice League.

82 00:08:53,892 --> 00:08:57,187 We'll help you salvage as many of the aliens' cannons as possible.

83 00:08:57,270 --> 00:09:00,065 Then we start taking back what is ours.

84 00:09:12,077 --> 00:09:13,787 They're really gone.

85 00:09:28,843 --> 00:09:30,303 Uncle J'onn.

86 00:09:34,265 --> 00:09:38,061 ''M'gann, check his mind. Make sure he is whom he appears to be.''

87 00:09:38,436 --> 00:09:41,564 ''It's him. He's real. And he's alive.''

88 00:09:41,648 --> 00:09:46,194 But we saw you get disintegrated. You and Superman and everyone.

89 00:09:46,319 --> 00:09:48,321 Yes, I remember.

90 00:09:48,488 --> 00:09:51,991 But I cannot remember how I survived...

91 00:09:52,242 --> 00:09:56,121 or how I arrived here. Maybe you were densityshifting...

92 00:09:56,204 --> 00:09:59,749 and the beam passed right through you. Scrambling your brains along the way.

93 00:09:59,833 --> 00:10:02,377 My mind is clouded.

94 00:10:02,585 --> 00:10:06,131 I feel certain I had something important to tell you.

95 00:10:06,464 --> 00:10:08,633 ''Hello, Wally. Come on.''

96 00:10:10,719 --> 00:10:13,805 ''I knew it. Look. It's giving off Zeta-Beams.''

97 00:10:13,888 --> 00:10:16,182 ''The same stuff that powers our Zeta-Tubes.''

98 00:10:16,266 --> 00:10:19,352 ''This thing doesn't disintegrate, it teleports.''

99 00:10:19,477 --> 00:10:20,812 Artemis is alive.

100 00:10:20,937 --> 00:10:23,314 - Maybe, but... - ''No maybes. They're all alive.''

101 00:10:23,440 --> 00:10:25,525 That must have been what you wanted to tell us.

102 00:10:34,325 --> 00:10:37,328 - We're on our way. - ''Negative. We can't win this.''

103 00:10:37,412 --> 00:10:39,748 Miss Martian, camo the Bio Ship and...

104 00:10:41,166 --> 00:10:42,459 M'gann.

105 00:10:45,754 --> 00:10:49,007 - That didn't feel like... - We're falling back.

106 00:10:52,260 --> 00:10:53,344 We're trapped.

107 00:10:54,721 --> 00:10:56,014 Maybe not.

108 00:10:59,726 --> 00:11:01,269 We can all Zeta to the Cave.

109 00:11:01,352 --> 00:11:04,230 If you can grant us computer clearance to access the tubes.

110 00:11:04,314 --> 00:11:07,066 I can only authorize one at a time.

111 00:11:07,150 --> 00:11:08,568 Send the soldiers first.

112 00:11:08,651 --> 00:11:11,738 Belay that. You six are assets we cannot afford to lose.

113 00:11:17,118 --> 00:11:21,873 - Override: Martian Manhunter, zero-seven. - Recognized.

114 00:11:21,956 --> 00:11:23,750 Access granted.

115 00:11:26,169 --> 00:11:29,672 Miss Martian, B-zero-five.

116 00:11:30,089 --> 00:11:32,967 Robin, B-zero-one.

117 00:11:33,218 --> 00:11:36,471 Kid Flash, B-zero-three.

118 00:11:39,933 --> 00:11:41,392 Aah!

119 00:11:54,197 --> 00:11:56,366 - He goes next. - Fine. Then you.

120 00:11:56,491 --> 00:12:00,829 - Private Jason Bard, U.S.M.C. - Can you make it?

121 00:12:00,912 --> 00:12:03,498 - Sure, Superman. - I'm not...

122 00:12:03,581 --> 00:12:06,668 Superboy, B-zero-four.

123 00:12:15,343 --> 00:12:17,053 They need you more than me.

124 00:12:17,679 --> 00:12:18,930 Go!

125 00:12:28,481 --> 00:12:30,984 Our mission is clear. If we believe the aliens...

126 00:12:31,067 --> 00:12:33,194 - have been teleporting victims... - We do.

127 00:12:33,278 --> 00:12:35,947 Then the only reasonable detention facility is here.

128 00:12:36,573 --> 00:12:39,450 Their mothership. Atop what used to be Smallville.

129 00:12:39,742 --> 00:12:43,371 - Ring any bells? - No. I'm sorry.

130 00:12:43,454 --> 00:12:48,209 - Superboy, you'll create a distraction. - No. He's offering you as a sacrifice.

131 00:12:48,334 --> 00:12:51,129 - Aqualad would never do that. - You're right.

132 00:12:51,462 --> 00:12:56,801 Aqualad would sacrifice himself, a mistake that just cost us our leader.

133 00:12:57,051 --> 00:13:01,681 Superboy is the most likely to be perceived as a threat, motivating the aliens to deploy.

134 00:13:01,764 --> 00:13:05,852 Worst case, he's teleported inside, and we set him free along with Artemis...

135 00:13:05,977 --> 00:13:08,021 and, uh, Aqualad and everyone.

136 00:13:08,771 --> 00:13:12,233 ''It's okay, M'gann. It's what Superman would do.''

137 00:13:22,744 --> 00:13:24,829 And though we know all seems lost...

138 00:13:24,913 --> 00:13:28,041 ''the one thing the aliens cannot destroy is hope.''

139 00:13:28,124 --> 00:13:31,044 ''Hope survives, because the battle is not over.''

140 00:13:31,127 --> 00:13:34,088 Not as long as even one of us is willing to fight.

141 00:13:34,172 --> 00:13:35,924 It doesn't matter how many fall...

142 00:13:36,007 --> 00:13:38,718 ''for new heroes will always rise to carry on...''

143 00:13:38,801 --> 00:13:44,015 ''bringing all their resources, their skills, their talents to bear to defeat the enemy.''

144 00:13:44,724 --> 00:13:47,602 The people of Earth will survive this.

145 00:13:47,727 --> 00:13:50,229 We will rebuild, and we will thrive.

146 00:13:50,313 --> 00:13:55,026 ''Never doubt and never forget. The Earth will never surrender.''

147 00:13:56,527 --> 00:13:57,904 Huzzah!

148 00:13:59,072 --> 00:14:00,573 Huzzah!

149 00:14:06,371 --> 00:14:09,123 Stay close to J'onn. He's still...

150 00:14:11,584 --> 00:14:13,336 First team, deploy.

151 00:14:30,311 --> 00:14:31,854 Ready and in position.

152 00:14:33,815 --> 00:14:37,235 ''Be careful, Conner. I love you.''

153 00:14:50,999 --> 00:14:53,209 ''Careful. Don't disconnect the power source.''

154 00:14:53,835 --> 00:14:59,007 All right, you glorified trespassers! You wanna see how a real alien fights?

155 00:15:11,686 --> 00:15:13,062 Now or never.

156 00:15:23,990 --> 00:15:25,742 ''Way is clear. Go!''

157 00:15:54,979 --> 00:15:57,899 No. He's gone.

158 00:15:59,859 --> 00:16:03,154 ''It's all right. We'll find him with Artemis. I know it.''

159 00:16:03,279 --> 00:16:06,074 No. My mind is clearer now.

160 00:16:06,157 --> 00:16:08,659 The disintegration beam is exactly that.

161 00:16:08,785 --> 00:16:12,580 ''There is no detention facility, no prisoners to rescue.''

162 00:16:12,789 --> 00:16:16,459 - Our mission holds no purpose. - No! You're wrong.

163 00:16:16,584 --> 00:16:19,378 ''The Zeta radiation proves she's alive. She's...''

164 00:16:19,462 --> 00:16:20,630 Stop it, KF.

165 00:16:20,713 --> 00:16:23,925 ''I've been scanning for League and Team signals since we got inside.''

166 00:16:24,015 --> 00:16:27,727 ''They're not here. Artemis is gone.''

167 00:16:29,514 --> 00:16:33,851 ''But our mission still holds purpose. To destroy this mothership.''

168 00:16:45,613 --> 00:16:46,823 Aah!

169 00:16:55,540 --> 00:16:58,960 ''This is the power core. Blow this and the whole mothership blows.''

170 00:17:37,331 --> 00:17:40,918 ''You knew. You knew from the beginning why we were really here.''

171 00:17:41,043 --> 00:17:42,795 ''Four minutes. Let's go.''

172 00:17:49,260 --> 00:17:50,511 Perfect.

173 00:17:58,102 --> 00:18:01,397 ''Sixteen seconds and counting. Manhunter, take Miss Martian and go.''

174 00:18:01,480 --> 00:18:03,566 - No. We won't leave you. - That's an order.

175 00:18:03,733 --> 00:18:05,735 ''We'll follow as soon as we blow those doors.''

176 00:18:30,760 --> 00:18:31,969 Don't...

177 00:18:32,053 --> 00:18:34,222 ''Don't tell me the mission was a success.''

178 00:18:34,305 --> 00:18:36,307 The price was too high.

179 00:18:45,608 --> 00:18:48,444 No, no, no.

180 00:18:48,653 --> 00:18:53,366 - We have to get out of here now. - No. We have to end this now.

181 00:19:05,920 --> 00:19:09,006 - You're all alive. - What happened in there?

182 00:19:09,215 --> 00:19:12,760 The exercise, it all went wrong.

183 00:19:12,843 --> 00:19:16,347 - Exercise? - Try to remember.

184 00:19:17,098 --> 00:19:20,726 ''What you experienced was a training exercise.''

185 00:19:20,977 --> 00:19:24,814 ''Manhunter psychically linked the six of you within an artificial reality.''

186 00:19:24,897 --> 00:19:26,774 You all knew this going in.

187 00:19:26,857 --> 00:19:30,403 ''What you didn't know was that it was a train-for-failure exercise.''

188 00:19:30,611 --> 00:19:34,782 ''No matter what the Team accomplished, the scenario was designed to grow worse.''

189 00:19:34,865 --> 00:19:37,618 Still you were aware nothing was real...

190 00:19:37,702 --> 00:19:40,788 ''including the deaths of the entire Justice League.''

191 00:19:40,955 --> 00:19:43,040 That is why you hardly grieved.

192 00:19:43,124 --> 00:19:46,460 Even when Wolf was disintegrated before your eyes.

193 00:19:46,669 --> 00:19:50,631 But all that changed when Artemis died.

194 00:19:52,591 --> 00:19:55,761 ''Though consciously Miss Martian knew it was not real...''

195 00:19:55,845 --> 00:19:58,931 ''her subconscious mind could not make that distinction.''

196 00:19:59,056 --> 00:20:01,934 - She forgot it was only an exercise. - Artemis!

197 00:20:02,518 --> 00:20:07,898 And her subconscious took control, making all of you forget too.

198 00:20:09,317 --> 00:20:10,401 Uh, I'm...

199 00:20:10,568 --> 00:20:11,944 I'm so sorry.

200 00:20:12,111 --> 00:20:15,197 This isn't her fault. Why didn't you stop the exercise?

201 00:20:15,323 --> 00:20:20,536 We tried. But M'gann had a death grip on the scenario.

202 00:20:20,870 --> 00:20:23,539 ''Even Artemis, who should have awakened upon her death...''

203 00:20:23,664 --> 00:20:27,835 ''was so convinced she had passed, she slipped into a coma.''

204 00:20:28,044 --> 00:20:31,464 ''I realized I would have to wrest control from Miss Martian's subconscious...''

205 00:20:31,547 --> 00:20:32,715 from within.

206 00:20:33,049 --> 00:20:35,176 But upon entering the reality...

207 00:20:35,343 --> 00:20:38,387 ''I was overwhelmed by your collective emotion.''

208 00:20:38,721 --> 00:20:43,142 ''There was too much noise to think clearly...''

209 00:20:43,434 --> 00:20:45,895 to remember why I was there.

210 00:20:46,771 --> 00:20:49,940 ''The deaths of Aqualad and Superboy helped.''

211 00:20:51,108 --> 00:20:55,696 ''But only when the mothership exploded, and Robin and Kid Flash were silenced...''

212 00:20:55,780 --> 00:20:59,450 ''did my mind clear enough to remember my true purpose.''

213 00:20:59,742 --> 00:21:05,122 ''To shock M'gann out of the exercise before your comas became permanent.''

214 00:21:05,331 --> 00:21:11,504 My apologies. I had no idea a training exercise could be so dangerous.

215 00:21:11,962 --> 00:21:13,839 So damaging.

216 00:21:18,886 --> 00:21:22,014 - As bad as all that? - Perhaps worse.

217 00:21:22,098 --> 00:21:24,308 Yet this is not what troubles you.

218 00:21:24,392 --> 00:21:26,060 Make no mistake.

219 00:21:26,227 --> 00:21:29,980 My niece is untrained and cannot be held responsible for this...

220 00:21:30,272 --> 00:21:33,484 - For our debacle. - No one blames her.

221 00:21:33,609 --> 00:21:36,070 But clearly we underestimated her abilities.

222 00:21:36,112 --> 00:21:37,905 You understate it.

223 00:21:38,531 --> 00:21:43,160 In terms of raw power, she has the strongest telepathic mind...

224 00:21:43,202 --> 00:21:45,329 I have ever encountered.

225 00:21:45,830 --> 00:21:49,667 Stronger by far than mine.