- Batman: You want me to *what*?
- Wonder Woman: Turn yourself over to US authority, along with the rest of us.
- Flash: Okay, that makes sense.
- Superman: Meet us at the coordinates I'm sending you. We should all go over together.
- Batman: This is the single dumbest plan I've ever heard! If you're feeling guilty, clear your own name! Don't stand on the sidelines waiting for someone else to do it!
- Wonder Woman: We've already voted. Five in favor.
- Flash: Six.
- Wonder Woman: You have to come with us, Bruce.
- Batman: I don't 'have' to do anything! I'm a part-timer, remember!
- [Batman ends transmission]
- Wonder Woman: ...Actually, he took it a lot better than I'd expected.
- Batman: We've got business, Waller. You told me once that you were a patriot. Well it's time to step up. You have to know that the Justice League would never have fired that weapon at you.
- Amanda Waller: Sure you would. It was retaliation for kidnapping your man, the Question.
- Batman: And yet, you weren't home. We've had you under surveillance for months. You don't think we saw you evacuate your offices?
- Amanda Waller: A warning shot then.
- Batman: Don't be dense. Someone took over our fusion cannon by remote control. There are maybe three people on Earth smart enough to pull that off. Two of them were already on the Watchtower. And that leaves...
- Amanda Waller: Luthor. That's where you're trying to lead me, right?
- Batman: You're too smart to trust him.
- Amanda Waller: Who says I do? He provides off-the-books funding for Cadmus. As far as I'm concerned, that's all he's good for.
- Batman: Then you must know he's got his own agenda.
- Amanda Waller: He wants to be President. That's agenda enough for anybody.
- Batman: *Almost* anybody. If I were you, I'd start looking at him, hard.
- Supergirl: I'm worried about them, Steel. I'm worried about my cousin.
- Steel: Don't be. Everybody in the League is good at their job. But those seven, they're the best ever. Not because they're the most powerful, they aren't. Not all of them. And it's not just because they were the first. It's because they're special. They've proven it time and again. They make the hard choices, they set the example, they do what's right, not what's easiest, and they always come out on top. They're gonna be okay, Kara. We all are.
- Lex Luthor: Now you're perfect! A perfect, super-powerful, immortal body. A suitable place for me to spend the rest of eternity. Ironic, years of plotting, hundreds of millions spent on Cadmus R&D projects, and none of it bore fruit. No, it's a lonely employee of LexCorp, Doctor Ivo, creator of Amazo, who we have to thank for my impending godhood.
- Batman: That was the last piece I needed.
- Lex Luthor: Got it all figured out, have you?
- Batman: When you and Atom worked together to stop the first Amazo, he showed you the blueprints. And I suspect you have a photographic memory.
- Lex Luthor: I'm too modest to boast.
- Batman: The real purpose of Cadmus was to give *you* superpowers.
- Lex Luthor: And to ruin Superman's reputation. Imagine how sweet it will be when *I* save the world from the menace of the Justice League! Now, when I kill Superman, they'll build statues in my honor.
- Batman: Maybe next time.
- [attacks]
- Lex Luthor: Did you really think you could take me down all by yourself?
- Amanda Waller: Actually, yeah. But on the off chance I might have been wrong...
- [Luthor turns and sees the Leaguers standing there]
- Flash: Ta-da.
- Superman: It's over, Lex.
- Lex Luthor: Not until I...
- [Luthor suddenly screams in pain, as pistons extend from his back and his hands turn into tentacles]
- Lex Luthor: I had hoped to remain hidden until I could install myself into the android...
- [a familiar face appears within Luthor's stomach]
- Brainiac: ...But you forced my hand.
- Superman: Brainiac!
- Professor Emil Hamilton: Hold still, Galatea. You're invulnerable, this can't possibly be hurting you.
- Galatea: Boredom is my Kryptonite... okay, actually Kryptonite is my Kryptonite, but you know what I mean.
- Superman: Until it's been proven that we aren't responsible for the tragedy in New Mexico, the founding members are turning ourselves into U.S. custody.
- [other JLA members protest]
- Superman: [holding up his hand to ask for quiet] Cooperate fully with the investigation. Give them whatever they ask for.
- Supergirl: But, Clar... Superman.
- Superman: Hold the fort, Kara. We're counting on you. All of you.
- Amanda Waller: The mission is scrubbed. Do you hear me? Stand down and await further instructions.
- Galatea: I'm not reading you. Can you repeat?
- Amanda Waller: Don't do this, Galatea. The mission's over. Call off the Ultimen. Do you hear me? Call...
- Galatea: [taking out her earbud and crushing it] Wrong number.
- Superman: What have we done?
- J'onn J'onzz: We haven't done anything. An outside force took control of the binary fusion generator. Whoever's behind that is responsible for the destruction of Cadmus, not us.
- Superman: Tell that to all those people in New Mexico. They're terrified of us, so is the government.
- Green Lantern: We can't let that stop us from doing our job. We aren't here to be liked. We're here to make the world a safer place.
- Superman: How are we doing so far today?
- Green Lantern: Come on, man.
- Wonder Woman: I don't see the two goals as mutually exclusive. We should make a gesture of cooperation.
- Superman: That's not a bad idea.
- Wonder Woman: We could dismantle the binary fusion generator, at least until our innocence has been proven.
- Green Lantern: I've seen it on a hundred worlds. Space-based weapons always destabilize planetary politics.
- Wonder Woman: Okay, getting rid of that thing is a start, but it's not going to be enough. We have to regain their trust.
- Superman: Then there's only one thing to do.
- Patrick Dugan: You guys see that? Something coming up from planet-side. Uh, Javelins, maybe?
- Supergirl: Not Javelins. They almost look like... missiles.
- Amanda Waller: He played me. I knew he was a snake, and I still let him bite me. He's recently had copies of a lot of our new technology shipped to LexCorp. That's what he's stolen, Professor. Could he have taken control of the Watchtower weapons system with that stuff?
- Professor Emil Hamilton: Theoretically, yes, but that's the least of it. Good Lord, I think I know what he's planning to do.