Criminal Minds · Season 1, Episode 15
“Unfinished Business” · Season 1, Episode 15
In this episode: Dean Winchester (940), Damon Salvatore (715), Sam Winchester (665), Olivia Benson (637), Stephen Fry (608), Narrator (554), Clark Kent (523), Nate (486)
We're taking this someplace else. Haven't you ever heard of innocent bystanders?
You ever hear of acceptable losses? You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs. This country is halfway down the toilet because of you super-powered types.
For the record, I don't have powers, pottymouth. It's the staff!
[slamming Stargirl into the ground] In that case, miss, then you're just another egg.
You hit 'im high, I'll hit 'im low!
Whatever!
You wanted Superman? Now you've got-[Speedy and Crimson Avenger teleport in]- The Crimson Avenger and my ex-sidekick.
Ex-partner.
Speedy, we gotta do this now?
Oooh, now I'm scared.
You spoiled, rich little twerp!
I think he means me.
Oh. For a second, I was all mad.
You still got your quantum arrow?
Yeah, but you said...
This is an emergency!
Superman, you coward! All your men are down, and you won't even show your face!
He cannot hear even your bellowing, monster. As we speak, Superman rescues an entire star system a universe away. Do your worst - I'll not let you harm another.
I do what I do in service to my country.
Once, at the word of my lord King Arthur, I was ordered to lay waste to an entire village. I knew my king's heart could not be so unjust, so I spared them all.
Then you're a lousy soldier.
[Eiling punches the Shining Knight in the jaw]
There it is...the creeping moral decay of the past thousand years.
[Shining Knight swings his sword at General Eiling, who dodges easily]
Arthur thanked me, oaf! Had I been wrong, I would have handed over my sword and left the court in shame!
[Eiling slams Shining Knight into the ground]
Save yourself a hospital stay and stand down. That magic armor won't help you.
Have at thee!
[Shining Knight tries to punch Eiling, but is slammed into the ground again]
You're a relic. In this world, power is the only thing that matters. You and those other no-name heroes, you're just people. In the great scheme of things, nothing you do has the least bit of significance. [Shining Knight rises again, but Eiling punches him again] I'll waste you and a billion like you before you before I allow any power to rival America's. It's my duty.
You don't know what the word means!
You can't win.
I'll die as befits a knight, defending the weak. [falls to his knees]
Why don't you give up?
Why don't you?
[General Eiling kicks Shining Knight, then lifts a car]
Superman and your Justice League are a threat to a safe and stable world.
[He turns to crush Shining Knight, only to find several civilians standing protectively around him]
Drop the act! You think killing Superman would make the world safe? Or killing this boy? Or us? Tell me - how many of us do you have to kill to keep us safe?
They're the ones I'm after, not you. I'm not the menace, metahumans are. Superpowered beings.
You're the only one around here with superpowers.
[After a tense silence, Eiling drops the car]
All right, I've become what I hate, I'll give you that. But in the long run, you'll see I was right. You'll see you need the likes of me to protect you from them! [bounds away across the city's buildings]
Don't you worry, Sir Justin. Them 21st-century docs are gonna have you back on your feet by movie night.
Hold. [To old woman] I have yet to thank you.
No need to thank me, son. You just get better. World still needs protectin', you know.
Brainiac. You’re in there-- I can almost feel you. [to rock] Abasing myself before Grodd, then running this unwieldy super-gang—it’s all been worth it if I can just free the only piece of you that remains.
[gently] Lex... Don’t talk to the rock.
Stay out of this, witch. It makes no sense. The smallest scrap of Brainiac should be sufficient to reconstitute him.
Don’t worry, darling. I’m sure it...
Unless Grodd is somehow preventing it.
What do you want, Luthor?
How do I unlock the Brainiac code?
You’re a genius; figure it out.
Tell me, you leering, manipulative knuckle-dragger, or I'll...
Lex, Lex... you can’t expect me to give up my only bargaining chip. What’s in it for me?
[enraged] When this is over, I’m going to sell your body for dogmeat!
It must pain you to see me like this, after what we’ve been to one another.
My taste in boyfriends has evolved. Wait, Lex! You’re the leader now. You don’t need to lock horns with him.
Don’t bore me with politics. The only thing that matters now is a speck of information locked somewhere deep inside Grodd’s thick skull.
Yes, okay. So we break his head open and take it. Hey, watch it!
Luthor.
I don’t have time to chat, Dr. Polaris.
Well, make time. We don’t think you’ve got what it takes to run the show. You’ve been acting unbalanced, holed up in that lab, talking to yourself...
After Grodd tried to turn the world into apes, you can imagine how seriously we’d take something like that. What are you going to do, make everybody bald?
Maybe you’re not up to the job. Maybe it’s time for younger, smarter, more aggressive leadership.
Really.
Yeah. Why should any of us follow you?
Because I’ll show you how to make more money in one day than you’ve made in your entire lives.
[looks in a mirror] Aaah, that is just wrong!
[The Flash (in Lex Luthor's body) walks out of a bathroom stall.]
Ahem.
What?
Are you gonna wash your hands?
No! 'Cause I'm evil!
[Lex-as-Flash hides in a bathroom in the Watchtower to escape the pursuing League members]
[Panting] Lex, you're having a difficult day. [Lex looks in the mirror] Hmm... If nothing else, I can at least learn the Flash's secret identity. [Unmasks and looks in the mirror, then frowns] I have no idea who this is.
Just rest in here.
[pulls "Lex" into a closet]
Hey - that's not restful.
Me, the Flash? You've, like, totally lost it, Grodd. I'm Lex Luthor!
And I'm Charlton Heston.
Ah, Tala, my old groupie. I so miss bending you to my will.
Go eat a banana. Lex is my man now. [Leaves with Lex]
If you say so.
You, evil-head guy! What's your part in this plan?
I'm not in the plan.
[pause] Exactly! Pop quiz! Everyone tell me his or her part in the plan.
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