Justice

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Justice

Series	6x11
Episode	121
Writer	Steven S. DeKnight
Director	Steven S. DeKnight
Broadcast Date	January 18, 2007
Production Code	2T7711
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[edit] Summary

Clark is reunited with four super powered heroes when Oliver Queen, organizes the first version of the future Justice League. With Bart Allen, Arthur Curry and Victor Stone, the team works to discover what Lex Luthor is up to with Project 33.1.

[edit] Recap

Bart Allen returns.

Chloe Sullivan is on the phone with Clark, who is in South America hunting down Zoners. She tells him that there's a situation in Kansas that needs his attention too. Just as they hang up, Chloe meets Dr. Caselli, who works in the high-security wing at Belle Reve. She questions why several patients with special abilities have been transferred out and if LuthorCorp is involved. When she mentions Level 33.1, Dr. Caselli pulls a gun on her, but before he shoots, someone super speeds towards him and knocks him out. Clark appears but he says Dr. Caselli was down when he arrived. He realizes someone else is around that can move as fast as him and chases him down. He can't catch him, though, until the figure stops. Bart Allen jokes that Clark is still too slow.

Lois and Oliver return from their date.

Clark and Chloe are in his loft discussing what Caselli told her when Bart interrupts them. He flirts with Chloe and she remembers meeting him two years ago. When Chloe leaves, Clark wonders why Bart is in town, but Bart says that since meeting Clark, he's cleaned up and doesn't steal any more. Clark is skeptical, but Bart says he's a courier now and only came to Smallville to see his old friends. Clark suggests they go to Mexico for lunch and catch up.

Lois and Oliver are in his loft making out when his phone rings. He tells the caller he'll be there in five minutes and Lois gets upset. She confronts him for always running off and interrupting them, and Oliver surprises her by offering to take her to Monte Carlo for a romantic getaway.

Chloe helps Lois pack for her vacation with Oliver.

Lionel meets Lex and tells him that another LuthorCorp facility has been hit. He says six facilities have been attacked, all having to do with 33.1. Lex isn't worried and shows Lionel a security camera photograph of a red blur. Lex says that whoever is responsible can move very fast and he intends to catch them and make them a test subject. As they leave, Bart speeds into the library and uploads data from Lex's laptop. He calls his contact and arranges a meeting to drop the data off. He meets the contact, the Green Arrow. Clark meets Lionel in Metropolis and accuses him of helping Dr. Caselli get out of jail. Lionel denies involvement but shows Clark the photograph and tells him that if he's still breaking into LuthorCorp buildings he should be more careful. Clark tells him that the photograph isn't him, but doesn't tell Lionel who it is.

Clark meets Oliver's team.

Clark goes home, where Bart is eating anything Martha puts in front of him. He confronts Bart about stealing, but Bart doesn't explain anything, only saying it's complicated, and superspeeds away.

Chloe is helping Lois pack for her trip when they are interrupted by Clark. Lois exits and Chloe reveals that she knows Oliver is the Green Arrow; Clark admits that Bart can super speed. He says Bart is in some kind of trouble and asks her if they can track his cell phone. They look up his records and realize that Bart is working for Oliver Queen. Bart is at his next assignment, breaking into a facility when he is shocked unconscious. Lex arrives with guards to collect him. Bart wakes up in a small circular chamber and Lex questions him. Bart won't tell Lex who he's working for, so Lex activates the chamber. He explains that if Bart stops moving at all, the floor will electrocute him. Bart is forced into super speed.

Chloe goes to Queen Tower.

Clark goes to ask Oliver about Bart. Clark thinks Oliver is using Bart to fuel his vendetta against Lex. They argue because Oliver says that while Clark is waiting for trouble to show up at his doorstep, Oliver is working to stop Lex from using 33.1 to build an army of super-powered meteor freaks and starting a war. Clark concedes and asks for more information. Oliver knows Lex has Bart and his team is already on it. Clark is introduced to the rest of the team: Victor Stone and AC Curry. Oliver starts to track Bart and Clark asks Victor how long he's been working with Oliver. Victor explains that his girlfriend tried to make it work, but eventually left him, and Oliver found him living on the streets and gave him a reason to go on.

Green Arrow, Boy Scout, and Impulse.

AC says he was caught trying to sink a whaler, but Oliver got him out of trouble. Bart has been working for Oliver for some time. Oliver caught him stealing and offered him a job. They start trying to locate Bart and narrow it down to 100 different facilities. Clark enlists Chloe's help to narrow down the search. Chloe reveals that $20 million worth of equipment used to measure high-velocity particles was transferred to one in particular, the Ridge Facility. Clark tells her to take the info to Oliver and goes to the facility to rescue Bart alone, saying he can get there faster. He breaks in and encounters a restricted-access door. However, it leads to a laboratory full of refined meteor rocks and Clark is incapacitated. Chloe goes to Queen Tower and gives Oliver the lead on Bart. Oliver pulls up a schematic of the building and Chloe notices several room lined with lead. She realizes they must be working with meteor rocks and that Clark is in trouble. The team gears up and gets ready to rescue Bart and Clark.

"Let's go save the world."

With Chloe as "Watchtower" looking out and directing them, Green Arrow, "Cyborg", and "Aquaman" infiltrate the facility using a combination of teamwork, gadgets, fighting moves and super-powers. Green Arrow rescues Clark, naming him "Boy Scout", and tells Watchtower to direct Boy Scout to find "Impulse". He bursts through the chamber at super speed and grabs Impulse out to safety. Green Arrow locates Lex and tells him he has ten minutes to clear out the employees before he blows the building up. Boy Scout and Impulse meet up with Green Arrow again, and Watchtower confirms that the employees are gone. Cyborg and Aquaman rendezvous, and the five blow the facility up.

The JLA's first mission

Lois arrives at Queen Tower ready to go, but Oliver has to cancel their trip because he has a business meeting. She tells him to postpone it, and when he can't, she says not to expect her to wait for him.

Oliver and Lois break up.

Oliver admits that he's been jumping from city to city his whole life but never regretted leaving anyone. He tells Lois she's going to be the one he regrets, because he's leaving Metropolis. Lois kisses him goodbye and leaves in tears.

Lionel berates Lex for the loss of the facility. Lex claims he's fighting for freedom and democracy from the Green Arrow and his "terrorist" friends by also recruiting people with abilities. Lionel doesn't buy it and Lex also points out that several guards reported that one of Green Arrow's cohorts looked a lot like Clark Kent. Lionel lies that Clark couldn't have been involved because they were having dinner together at the Kents' home at the time of the explosion.

The team meets with Clark and Chloe in his barn one last time. Oliver reports that Lex is setting up laboratories all over the globe and asks Clark to join the team. Clark says he wants to, but he has to clean up his own mess first, meaning he has to capture all the Zoners. Oliver shakes Clark's hand and he and his young justice team leave for their next mission, proudly saying, "Come on boys, let's go save the world".

[edit] Recurring Role

Oliver Queen / Green Arrow - Justin Hartley
Arthur "AC" Curry / Aquaman - Alan Ritchson
Bart Allen / Impulse - Kyle Gallner
Victor Stone / Cyborg - Lee Thompson Young

[edit] Guest Cast

Dr. Caselli - Michael Puttoman

[edit] Featured Music

"High and Low" by Greg Laswell

[edit] Episode Title

The title, "Justice" refers to Oliver saying that Lex will be getting a giant dose of justice once the Green Arrow and his team start to go global.
"Justice" is also a reference to the Justice League of DC Comics. Green Arrow's team is Smallville's version of the Justice League.
Oliver suggests that their team's name have the word "Justice" in it.

[edit] Notes

This episode is significant to fans of the comics because it is Smallville's version of the Justice League of America, a DC Comics superhero group that works together to fight crime. Green Arrow, Aquaman, The Flash and Superman are members in the comics. Impulse and Cyborg are members of the Teen Titans.
Although Bart is Smallville's version of comics character The Flash, he is known here as "Impulse", another version of the Flash character, either due to legal difficulties with the name "Flash," or because Bart was originally known as Impulse in the comics.
Despite using the codename "Impulse", Bart's costume is more of a real world version of the "Flash" costume than the costume Bart wore as Impulse. Aquaman, Cyborg and Green Arrow's costume are modern day, real world version of the comic book characters.
Chloe's code name, "Watchtower," is the name of the JLA headquarters. Additionally, Chloe's basing in a clock tower and role as a computer-using coordinator for the team greatly resembles the comic book character Oracle. Clark's codename is "Boy Scout", a play on the comic tradition of referring to Superman as "The Big Blue Boy Scout".
One of the satellite companies owned by Queen Industries was called JL International, which for brief periods is what the Justice League of America was known as.
Lana Lang does not appear in this episode.
This is the last appearance of Justin Hartley as Oliver Queen for this season.
Oliver says that the team's next mission is on the island of Corto Maltese. Corto Maltese is named after a comic book character, created by Italian comic book creator Hugo Pratt; the island has been occasionally referenced in DC Comics since The Dark Knight Returns in 1986.
After being rescued by a superspeeding Impulse, Chloe remarks to Clark, "I thought you were the fastest man alive," traditionally used to describe the Flash.

[edit] Continuity

Clark met Bart in the fourth season episode Run, and he met AC and Victor in the fifth season episodes Aqua and Cyborg, respectively.
Lex and Oliver shot each other in the episode Rage.
This is the first mention of Aunt Nell since Hypnotic.
Clark mentions twice to Oliver that he needs to take care of a problem he caused, referring to the release of several Phantom Zone prisoners. Some of them were portrayed in the episodes Zod, Wither, Fallout, and Static.
This is the last appearance of Oliver Queen until the season seven episode Siren. It also has been the last appearance for Victor so far.

[edit] Quotes

AC: I swim faster when I'm naked.

Victor: I bet you do.

AC: Hey, you're lucky I still have my pants on!

AC:So how's Lois doing man?

Clark Kent:I don't know. Maybe you should ask you boss.(Oliver Queen)

Oliver: You'd make one hell of a can opener.

Victor: And you'd look good on a bag of green beans.

Bart: I want a lawyer.

Lex: And I want a ponytail! Disappointment abounds.

Clark: Impulse, Aquaman, Cyborg, Green Arrow, what do you guys call your team?

Bart: I dunno, I've been thinkin', you know? We need something cool, we need something like, uh... like--

Oliver: I was thinking about something with the word "justice" in it. After all, that's what Lex is going a get a big dose of.

Chloe: You know you have some pretty amazing friends, Clark Kent.

Clark: Yes, I do.

Oliver: Green Arrow to Watchtower, Boy Scout's out of the woods.

Clark: "Boy Scout"?

Oliver: Maybe if you hadn't run off all half-cocked you could have picked your own code name.

Oliver: Ever since my parents died... I've jumped around from city to city, from continent to continent. And... in all those years... not once have I regretted leaving anyone. But then I met you.

Lois: Then stay.

Lois: God, Smallville, learn how to knock. What if I'd been naked?

Lex: (sees Green Arrow) You.

Oliver: You remember. I'm touched.

Lex: Well, it's a little hard to forget. Last time we met, you put an arrow in my chest.

Oliver: You put a bullet in mine. Bygones.

Lex: Go to hell.

Oliver: You first.

Oliver: This isn't the end of the story, Clark. It's just the beginning. Come on, boys. Let's go save the world.

[edit] External Links

Justice League on Film.com interview with writer/director Steven S. DeKnight about the making of this episode.
TV.com

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