- Superman: [entering the Watchtower control room with Supergirl] Give me one good reason not to go down there and take them out.
- J'onn J'onzz: If you didn't know the answer, you wouldn't have bothered to ask.
- Superman: Don't handle me, J'onn! I'm serious!
- J'onn J'onzz: We don't have hard evidence that they've committed any crimes.
- Superman: Oh, come on! You know they're dirty!
- Oliver Queen: Then maybe we should put more effort into proving it and less into acting like a bunch of hyperthyroid stormtroopers.
- Superman: I don't remember asking you for your opinion!
- Oliver Queen: No? How about when you guys hijacked me up here against my will and made me join this team? Batman said I was supposed to keep you guys honest.
- Superman: [menacingly] Do I look like Batman to you?
- The Flash: Actually, you kinda do. Especially when you're all scowly like that.
- Superman: We can't let Cadmus get away with it.
- J'onn J'onzz: No one's saying we should, but we have to keep a cool head.
- Supergirl: Do you know what they did to me?
- Oliver Queen: Look, kid, Hamilton's a piece of garbage, and Luthor's worse. But this isn't the way to stop them.
- J'onn J'onzz: We must also consider the possibility that Cadmus is right to be afraid of us...
- Supergirl: [outraged] What?
- J'onn J'onzz: ...*and* there's strong evidence of Cadmus having legitimate connections to the government.
- Superman: Maybe, to some rogue black-ops group. The real government wouldn't get involved in anything like this.
- Oliver Queen: Hey, I'm the only guy in the room who doesn't have superpowers, and let me tell you, you guys scare me. What if you do decide to go marching down there, taking care of whoever you think is guilty? Who could stop you? Me?
- Supergirl: So you *want* the government to have a bunch of superhuman weapons just to keep us in check?
- Oliver Queen: No - I don't know - Yeah!
- [regains composure]
- Oliver Queen: Look, I'm an old lefty. The government must do for people what people can't do for themselves. The people sure can't protect themselves from the likes of us.
- Superman: We're not talking about the government. We're talking about a shadow cabinet that's taken it upon themselves to eliminate us! They came after us, we have to hit them back hard!
- The Flash: Grammy Flash always used to say the trouble with "an eye for an eye" is that everybody ends up blind.
- Father: [to his crying daughter] We can't go back, honey. It's not safe.
- Little Girl: But he'll be scared all by himself.
- Father: There's plenty of food until they let us back into the house.
- Flash: [walking up to father and girl] You guys came out of the blue duplex?
- Father: Yeah, my daughter's worred about...
- [Flash runs off, then immediately returns with an orange cat]
- Father: ...her cat.
- Little Girl: Beebop!
- Superman: What happened, Question? How did Cadmus get a hold of you?
- The Question: I went to kill Luthor so that you wouldn't be able to.
- Superman: That's not how we do things.
- The Question: How do we do things, Superman? Your counterpart killed Luthor, this Luthor is scheming to enrage you...
- Superman: Doing a pretty good job of it.
- The Question: Ruining your reputation, turning your friends and comrades against you, creating a superpowered arms race, but you cannot succumb!
- Superman: I can shut down Cadmus without killing Luthor.
- The Question: Carry on, then. If you're wrong, it's not like it's the end of the world, right?
- Superman: I've had enough energy blasts.
- [restrains Captain Atom's hands with a pipe. Captain Atom blasts Superman again]
- The Question: [Huntress has just gotten his mask off] You were right. I am the ugliest guy of all time.
- The Huntress: Not in my eyes.
- The Huntress: This is Huntress. Two for emergency pickup.
- J'onn J'onzz: You are no longer a member of the Justice League. Clear this channel and...
- The Huntress: Save it. Q is down, and we're under fire. Get us out of here, then scan the area. Superman won't be far behind us.
- Supergirl: [Captain Atom recovers in the infirmary] What happened?
- Superman: Cadmus turned him against us.
- Supergirl: No way. He'd never do that.
- Superman: But he did, and so did Professor Hamilton. Hamilton's working for Cadmus. He's probably the one who...
- Supergirl: Cloned me. Why?
- Superman: He was afraid of us. I'm sorry, Kara.
- Supergirl: Don't be. Just tell me when we're gonna go and shut them down.
- Superman: One stop first. Wait here.
- Amanda Waller: Superman broke into Cadmus. When he left, he took Question and Captain Atom with him.
- Lex Luthor: That was fast. Still, opportunity knocks.
- Amanda Waller: What?
- Lex Luthor: Sorry. I'm working on something here. Go on.
- Amanda Waller: The continual security breaches are bad enough, but now the Question's back with the League, and we still don't know what he's learned.
- Lex Luthor: What's the worst-case scenario?
- Amanda Waller: If they've got enough to tie you to this, they'll head right for your doorstep.
- Lex Luthor: Let them come. I've got a full pardon from the president.
- Amanda Waller: Not for any new crimes, Lex. If you get arrested, we'll disavow any knowledge of your actions.
- Lex Luthor: Well, that would be inconvenient. But I wouldn't worry about the Justice League quite yet. They have problems of their own.
- Amanda Waller: I take it you're fit for duty again?
- Galatea: Never been fitter.
- Amanda Waller: Good. Come with me.
- [leading her to another room]
- Amanda Waller: Your mission is to take down the Justice League. You're going to need help.
- [revealing numerous clones of the UItimen]
- Amanda Waller: Get it done.
- The Flash: [trying to return a little girl's cat] Quite a grip she has there. Claws and all. Starting to really hurt.
- Superman: This is ridiculous. If you're not gonna help us, get out of our way.
- Captain Atom: Not an option, Superman. I've got my orders, legal and proper.
- The Huntress: Dude, Superman just told you to step aside.
- Captain Atom: I heard him, ma'am. Not gonna happen.
- [as Superman approaches him, he knocks him backward with a hard punch]
- Captain Atom: I control radiation, Superman. That includes red sun radiation.
- Superman: Get Question out of here. Don't wait for me.
- The Huntress: What made you think I was gonna?
- Father: [the Flash returns his daughter's cat] Thank you.
- The Flash: Trim her claws and we'll call it even.
- Father: Seriously, thank you for everything. I see you guys on the news all the time, and I guess we just take you for granted.
- The Flash: [shaking hands] It's a rotten situation. I'm glad we could lend a hand.
- Man: If you care so much, why did you shoot at us in the first place?
- The Flash: We did... I...
- Woman: What do you mean?
- Man: First they shoot at us, then they come help us.
- Green Arrow: It's not that simple, buddy.
- Woman: I heard it was an industrial accident. Are you saying you did shoot at us?
- Man: Well, I saw it! A big laser beam from the sky just like the one you guys used to shoot those alien spiders in Nevada a few months ago.
- Green Arrow: It was an accident.
- Man: [sarcastic] Well, that makes me feel a lot better.
- The Flash: All right, let's calm down. We'd never do anything to hurt you. You have to trust us.
- Green Arrow: [the mother turns to leave] Those ships will move you to a temporary shelter. It's safer.
- Woman: I'll take my chances.
- Green Arrow: I'm not sure what I'm doing here anymore.
- The Flash: People need us. We help them.
- J'onn J'onzz: [after the Watchtower remotely fires on Earth] Mr. President, I know this looks bad.
- The President: Is that supposed to be some kind of Martian humor?
- J'onn J'onzz: No, sir.
- The President: I need some answers, J'onn. Why exactly did the Justice League destroy a high-security R&D facility?
- J'onn J'onzz: All appearances to the contrary, the Justice League did not fire the binary fusion weapon.
- The President: Sure looked that way from down here.
- J'onn J'onzz: It was activated remotely by person or persons unknown.
- The President: I'd like to believe you, J'onn.
- J'onn J'onzz: We've never given you any reason to doubt our word, sir.
- The President: Even so, I've repeatedly expressed my strongest disapproval of you guys having that space cannon floating over everybody's head.
- J'onn J'onzz: If we'd had it during the Thanagarian invasion, we might have avoided a great deal of suffering. We don't intend to be caught unprepared a second time.
- The President: I don't wanna have this argument again. You're not holding a strong hand right now anyway. My people are investigating this incident. You guys have saved the world more times than I've shot under par, so we give you a lot of slack, but if it turns out you are responsible, the full weight of the United States government is coming down on you. Got it?
- The President: I'm surprised to hear from you, Amanda. My boys at NSA are reporting that you're dead.
- Amanda Waller: We had a security breach at Cadmus. I had the facility scrubbed and moved per standard protocol. The Justice League fired on an abandoned facility.
- The President: So there were no casualties?
- Amanda Waller: Not for lack of trying.
- The President: We don't know that for sure yet.
- Amanda Waller: This was retaliation, sir. Pure and simple. We captured the Question, they bust him out, and an hour later, it's death from above.
- The President: If you're right, it's our worst fears realized.
- Amanda Waller: Yes, sir. What are you gonna do about it?
- The President: I'm weighing my options.
- Amanda Waller: Mr. President, if we're where I think we are, Cadmus is your only option.
- The President: I'll let you know, Amanda. Stay on high alert.