The Guardians of Justice (2022) s01e06 Episode Script
Chapter 6: Shame Is a Lower Vibration than Anger
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All weekend, we're replaying
Van Dawson's greatest interviews.
Next up, Mind Master.
I look at you and I see an angry person.
Is that how you see yourself? Angry? Am am I angry? If I walk down the street with the person I love, holding hands, I am spat at.
When I was 16, I told my family I was gay.
My father My my father beat my ass while my mother just poured another glass of wine.
And I and I could have stopped him.
At any at any moment, just just a quick I could have made him tell me he loved me.
But I let him break my jaw in three places, because making him love me would have been a lie.
Of course I'm angry.
And now, a word from our sponsors.
See these purple rocks? That's Mellow Devil, bro.
You think it's the hottest party drug of the '80s, used by all the sexiest actors and supermodels.
But Mellow Devil will make you lose control of your mind.
Or, worse, it could kill you, bro.
If you're gonna die for something, this sure as hell ain't it.
Mellow Devil epidemic that is plaguing The use of street drug Mellow Devil That's the only thing you see.
I need to figure out where Mellow Devil's being manufactured.
My informant, The Meow, introduced me to one of her contacts and he gave me a list of four warehouses to check out.
I finally located the plant where the four-day-old sample of Mellow Devil was made, but the facility was recently abandoned.
Next step, figure out who was working here.
Atticus, I warn you, you cannot use me again without serious risk of dying.
I don't have a choice.
I have to compare these samples of Mellow Devil.
Danger! Danger! Danger! Danger! Danger! Danger! Cortex, run a DNA test on this new sample.
The sample matches the previous one, Atticus.
It's Mind Master.
Mind Master? No.
That's impossible.
Two years ago, Mind Master put Marvelous Man under his control.
Anyone who could weaponize Cal's immense power had to die.
If Mind Master made that fresh sample, then he's alive.
If he's alive, Marvelous Man lied about killing him.
Cortex, go through all the archived Hawk Drone surveillance footage near the lab where I found the sample and see if you can find anything new.
Wait.
Cortex, go back.
What was that blur? Slow the footage down.
Slow the footage to frame-by-frame and enhance.
Closer.
Fucking closer! No! Cal, what the fuck are you doing there? Danger! Danger! Your mind is rejecting the link, Atticus! You're experiencing a neural fissure.
Mental reboot of Atticus Payne initiated.
Fuck me! Holy shit! What the fuck did you do to me? I've uncovered a file that was hidden in my database.
It appears to be a deleted memory.
Whose memory? It's yours, Atticus.
I know this beautiful sight It's mutual, feel the same Let's get together And celebrate the love we have tonight Oh yeah Let's get together The love is I know it's not too late Without limits I'll love you forever Without limits I'll love you forever So take the pain away No! No! That can't be true.
This is a lie.
I am incapable of lying.
Stop the bullshit! Enough! Mind Master.
Not every part of him was steel.
We had nothing in common.
Laura wanted me.
She wanted a real man.
Spending every single waking moment hiding who you are.
When bullets bounce off you, you never think about the damage words can do.
- She wanted a real man.
- It's Mind Master.
Mind Master.
Warning! Permanent brain damage detected.
Warning! Permanent Oh, fuck.
You would be shocked how many powerful people live their lives in shame.
Like who? I-I can't.
I wouldn't You know, I-I wouldn't name names.
In this bulletproof skin, I'm a prisoner.
Holy fuck.
It's over now.
Knight Hawk racked his gnarled head.
He couldn't accept the truth.
Computer play file play file 377.
Magnify quadrant seven.
Closer.
Closer.
Closer.
Mind Master.
He's alive.
He sympathized with Mind Master, knowing they had both reached the same breaking point.
If society finds out about us, they will use our love against us.
They will use it against you.
Computer pause recording.
Anger, fear.
Scrambled together by a Cortex broken brain, Knight Hawk channeled it all into a single familiar, comforting emotion.
Hate.
We can't let anyone find out.
You need to pretend to kill me.
But that means you lied to me, Cal.
The greatest man I ever knew.
You lied to me.
You lied to everyone.
Extract a confession from Mind Master.
Use it to stop nuclear war.
Knight Hawk to Awsome Man.
Locate and bring me Mind Master.
The motherfucker's alive.
Tolmet! The Guardians of Justice will save you.
Yeah! Good work, Awsome Man.
Computer, pause recording.
You lied to me, Cal.
You lied to me.
You lied to everyone.
What did Marvelous Man lie to you about, Knight Hawk? I have him.
Now alls I have to do is get him to confess.
Give me a few hours.
A few hours is all you have.
I'm going to tell you something only about 100 other people in the world know, Knight Hawk.
The use of nuclear weapons has been sanctioned.
Because of the questions surrounding Marvelous Man's death, every country is pointing the finger at one another.
I've been wanting to press this button for such a long time.
I'm gonna bomb the shit out of you! Are you fucking kidding me? No one will survive that! No.
No one will.
Unless you can find another way.
Marvelous Man would be able to save the world.
Can you? Find me somewhere to bomb! This American news is terrifying.
Da.
America and the rest of world is prepared for all-out war.
Are you sure this is the right thing to do? Of course this is the right thing to do, Sasha! - Dasha.
- Dasha.
No! Yesterday, it was Dasha.
You're confusing me! I need a drink! Step away! Even if we personally do not survive this, Mother Russia will.
One, two, three.
I put Mind Master in my power-dampening interrogation chamber.
No.
I haven't seen nothing.
Did you use your mind-control powers to make Marvelous Man fall in love with you? No.
- No.
- You stole the bullet from Logan's lab.
You put Motion Blur under your control.
- I - And you were there the night he died.
You forced Marvelous Man to kill himself.
Why? Did he want to stop you from making Mellow Devil? I did take the bullet, but he asked me to.
He said he needed a sample.
Why wouldn't he just go steal it himself? You know that place.
Logan built it specifically so he could not get in.
Everything there is to detect and stop him.
But not you.
Take it from the top.
What I can't handle is someone selling me an ideology, because that's fucking dangerous.
Dangerous.
Dangerous.
Fucking dangerous.
I mean, did you like my intensity and shit? I was trying to, like, play it more mellow this time.
Boo! Stealth mode! Real subtle, Logan.
Welcome, Speed.
Please scan your palm for identity confirmation.
Welcome, Speed.
Your message will begin momentarily.
You can't hurt me, Knight Hawk.
Not anymore.
No one can.
He meant that much to you, didn't he? They will use our love against us.
It's okay.
I know.
You have reached the residence of Laura Louis.
Please leave a message at the tone.
We had nothing in common.
Nothing.
If we did have sex, it was over in a few minutes.
I am a king.
I am a real man.
Calling all units.
We have an 11-35, pursuit of multiple suspects.
It's that purple stuff again.
Mellow Devil? Shit, I thought we contained that.
- It looks like it's back.
- 10-4, en route.
Fuck.
What's wrong with you? Oh, what the fuck you gonna do? Huh? Huh? Oh, you wanna walk up punk? Huh? What are you doing? Huh? I'm just sharing my gift with the world.
Isn't that what you do? You promised me you'd stop.
You promised me you would leave Laura.
I've lived with this cancer of guilt.
I love you.
I love you.
The world needs to know about us.
If you can't protect our people, who who can? Please.
I need you.
I can't do what you're asking.
I'm sorry.
Cal No.
Don't leave me! I need you! Come back! He was my world.
I I would do anything for him.
Including helping him commit suicide? No! No! What in the unholy fucking fuck did you do to me, Logan? You're fine.
But if you're inside my simulation, that means I'm dead.
Likely killed because I was this close to exposing the truth.
Truth? Is that what you call your bullshit rants about the Guardians? Let me guess.
Oh, Knight Hawk told you to stay out of the Citadel.
It's a crime scene.
No, no.
It's not a crime scene.
It's a fascist academy.
He's been recruiting the desperate, the lost, the people left hopeless after Marvelous Man decided to And he's brainwashing them on the Citadel, using the fabled Cortex.
He's building an army.
An army to seize control of the planet, Speed.
So you need to act now, because you and I both know that Knight Hawk's superpower has always been manipulating those susceptible to propaganda.
The broken souls.
Little Wing, Red Talon, Mr.
Smiles.
Mr.
Smiles? He works for Knight Hawk.
You're inventing a sinister plot out of thin air, Logan.
"You're inventing a sinister plot out of thin air.
" "I can't connect the dots, even though I can run really fast.
" I don't agree with his methods, but the idea that he's turned into a super-villain is absurd.
All right.
Just look at my evidence.
I swear to God, Logan, if you don't let me out of this obnoxiously weird place right this We're fucked, people! With him gone, I don't want to be here! Then why were you there? I wanted to stop him.
The way he said goodbye, I knew something was wrong.
His will to die was way too fucking strong.
He was my world.
I wanted to stop him.
Marvelous Man would be able to save the world.
Fuck you, Walker.
Speed didn't believe it yet, but everything the Lockwood simulation told her was true.
High above her, in the hallowed halls of the Citadel of Justice, Knight Hawk was building an army.
Following in the footsteps of fellow 20th century despots, he found disillusioned and desperate people, and gave them a purpose.
Entry detected in a known Lockwood safe house.
- What should we do? - Send a strike force.
Breaking news.
You stole the bullet that killed Marvelous Man.
I did.
I did.
I did.
One, two - Three - Stop right there, comrade.
Watch the TV.
Not now! I'm busy.
I'm doing something! I know what you are doing, comrade.
Watch the television now.
Wait.
Okay.
Before taking his own life, villainous homosexual Mind Master confessed not only to killing Marvelous Man, but to doing so under the orders of the rogue terrorist nation Anubis.
Their objective? Lead the world to nuclear war.
But thanks to Knight Hawk, we have avoided Armageddon.
He saved the world.
Thank you, Knight Hawk.
I did.
I did.
I did.
Now, thanks to the ingenuity of Knight Hawk, we will work together.
I've been very critical of him in the past, but today I say, "Job well done.
" You are a hero to us all.
Come on, Hawky! Finish him! Brutality.
Speed, this is your only warning.
Surrender the tape or we will open fire.
Sorry, boys.
Finders keepers.
- Fire! - Fire See ya, boys.
Freeze! Can I tell you a secret? So Knight Hawk has an army now? You tell him I'm coming for him.
Anytime I see you Lying there in your disguise And I figured you would stay As you try to hide it Vanquishing it all in lies And anything you had to say In the night I try to find Another place to close my eyes With nothing here to satisfy my days All the ways you told me lies There's nothing left for us to hide I don't feel the night Will turn to day Any minute the sky will fade away Any minute the sun will fade to gray In the morning sacrifice A million ways to end my life And I can see the end of everything But living life is not unfair And I will find the strength somewhere And I won't let you burn my days away
Next up, Mind Master.
I look at you and I see an angry person.
Is that how you see yourself? Angry? Am am I angry? If I walk down the street with the person I love, holding hands, I am spat at.
When I was 16, I told my family I was gay.
My father My my father beat my ass while my mother just poured another glass of wine.
And I and I could have stopped him.
At any at any moment, just just a quick I could have made him tell me he loved me.
But I let him break my jaw in three places, because making him love me would have been a lie.
Of course I'm angry.
And now, a word from our sponsors.
See these purple rocks? That's Mellow Devil, bro.
You think it's the hottest party drug of the '80s, used by all the sexiest actors and supermodels.
But Mellow Devil will make you lose control of your mind.
Or, worse, it could kill you, bro.
If you're gonna die for something, this sure as hell ain't it.
Mellow Devil epidemic that is plaguing The use of street drug Mellow Devil That's the only thing you see.
I need to figure out where Mellow Devil's being manufactured.
My informant, The Meow, introduced me to one of her contacts and he gave me a list of four warehouses to check out.
I finally located the plant where the four-day-old sample of Mellow Devil was made, but the facility was recently abandoned.
Next step, figure out who was working here.
Atticus, I warn you, you cannot use me again without serious risk of dying.
I don't have a choice.
I have to compare these samples of Mellow Devil.
Danger! Danger! Danger! Danger! Danger! Danger! Cortex, run a DNA test on this new sample.
The sample matches the previous one, Atticus.
It's Mind Master.
Mind Master? No.
That's impossible.
Two years ago, Mind Master put Marvelous Man under his control.
Anyone who could weaponize Cal's immense power had to die.
If Mind Master made that fresh sample, then he's alive.
If he's alive, Marvelous Man lied about killing him.
Cortex, go through all the archived Hawk Drone surveillance footage near the lab where I found the sample and see if you can find anything new.
Wait.
Cortex, go back.
What was that blur? Slow the footage down.
Slow the footage to frame-by-frame and enhance.
Closer.
Fucking closer! No! Cal, what the fuck are you doing there? Danger! Danger! Your mind is rejecting the link, Atticus! You're experiencing a neural fissure.
Mental reboot of Atticus Payne initiated.
Fuck me! Holy shit! What the fuck did you do to me? I've uncovered a file that was hidden in my database.
It appears to be a deleted memory.
Whose memory? It's yours, Atticus.
I know this beautiful sight It's mutual, feel the same Let's get together And celebrate the love we have tonight Oh yeah Let's get together The love is I know it's not too late Without limits I'll love you forever Without limits I'll love you forever So take the pain away No! No! That can't be true.
This is a lie.
I am incapable of lying.
Stop the bullshit! Enough! Mind Master.
Not every part of him was steel.
We had nothing in common.
Laura wanted me.
She wanted a real man.
Spending every single waking moment hiding who you are.
When bullets bounce off you, you never think about the damage words can do.
- She wanted a real man.
- It's Mind Master.
Mind Master.
Warning! Permanent brain damage detected.
Warning! Permanent Oh, fuck.
You would be shocked how many powerful people live their lives in shame.
Like who? I-I can't.
I wouldn't You know, I-I wouldn't name names.
In this bulletproof skin, I'm a prisoner.
Holy fuck.
It's over now.
Knight Hawk racked his gnarled head.
He couldn't accept the truth.
Computer play file play file 377.
Magnify quadrant seven.
Closer.
Closer.
Closer.
Mind Master.
He's alive.
He sympathized with Mind Master, knowing they had both reached the same breaking point.
If society finds out about us, they will use our love against us.
They will use it against you.
Computer pause recording.
Anger, fear.
Scrambled together by a Cortex broken brain, Knight Hawk channeled it all into a single familiar, comforting emotion.
Hate.
We can't let anyone find out.
You need to pretend to kill me.
But that means you lied to me, Cal.
The greatest man I ever knew.
You lied to me.
You lied to everyone.
Extract a confession from Mind Master.
Use it to stop nuclear war.
Knight Hawk to Awsome Man.
Locate and bring me Mind Master.
The motherfucker's alive.
Tolmet! The Guardians of Justice will save you.
Yeah! Good work, Awsome Man.
Computer, pause recording.
You lied to me, Cal.
You lied to me.
You lied to everyone.
What did Marvelous Man lie to you about, Knight Hawk? I have him.
Now alls I have to do is get him to confess.
Give me a few hours.
A few hours is all you have.
I'm going to tell you something only about 100 other people in the world know, Knight Hawk.
The use of nuclear weapons has been sanctioned.
Because of the questions surrounding Marvelous Man's death, every country is pointing the finger at one another.
I've been wanting to press this button for such a long time.
I'm gonna bomb the shit out of you! Are you fucking kidding me? No one will survive that! No.
No one will.
Unless you can find another way.
Marvelous Man would be able to save the world.
Can you? Find me somewhere to bomb! This American news is terrifying.
Da.
America and the rest of world is prepared for all-out war.
Are you sure this is the right thing to do? Of course this is the right thing to do, Sasha! - Dasha.
- Dasha.
No! Yesterday, it was Dasha.
You're confusing me! I need a drink! Step away! Even if we personally do not survive this, Mother Russia will.
One, two, three.
I put Mind Master in my power-dampening interrogation chamber.
No.
I haven't seen nothing.
Did you use your mind-control powers to make Marvelous Man fall in love with you? No.
- No.
- You stole the bullet from Logan's lab.
You put Motion Blur under your control.
- I - And you were there the night he died.
You forced Marvelous Man to kill himself.
Why? Did he want to stop you from making Mellow Devil? I did take the bullet, but he asked me to.
He said he needed a sample.
Why wouldn't he just go steal it himself? You know that place.
Logan built it specifically so he could not get in.
Everything there is to detect and stop him.
But not you.
Take it from the top.
What I can't handle is someone selling me an ideology, because that's fucking dangerous.
Dangerous.
Dangerous.
Fucking dangerous.
I mean, did you like my intensity and shit? I was trying to, like, play it more mellow this time.
Boo! Stealth mode! Real subtle, Logan.
Welcome, Speed.
Please scan your palm for identity confirmation.
Welcome, Speed.
Your message will begin momentarily.
You can't hurt me, Knight Hawk.
Not anymore.
No one can.
He meant that much to you, didn't he? They will use our love against us.
It's okay.
I know.
You have reached the residence of Laura Louis.
Please leave a message at the tone.
We had nothing in common.
Nothing.
If we did have sex, it was over in a few minutes.
I am a king.
I am a real man.
Calling all units.
We have an 11-35, pursuit of multiple suspects.
It's that purple stuff again.
Mellow Devil? Shit, I thought we contained that.
- It looks like it's back.
- 10-4, en route.
Fuck.
What's wrong with you? Oh, what the fuck you gonna do? Huh? Huh? Oh, you wanna walk up punk? Huh? What are you doing? Huh? I'm just sharing my gift with the world.
Isn't that what you do? You promised me you'd stop.
You promised me you would leave Laura.
I've lived with this cancer of guilt.
I love you.
I love you.
The world needs to know about us.
If you can't protect our people, who who can? Please.
I need you.
I can't do what you're asking.
I'm sorry.
Cal No.
Don't leave me! I need you! Come back! He was my world.
I I would do anything for him.
Including helping him commit suicide? No! No! What in the unholy fucking fuck did you do to me, Logan? You're fine.
But if you're inside my simulation, that means I'm dead.
Likely killed because I was this close to exposing the truth.
Truth? Is that what you call your bullshit rants about the Guardians? Let me guess.
Oh, Knight Hawk told you to stay out of the Citadel.
It's a crime scene.
No, no.
It's not a crime scene.
It's a fascist academy.
He's been recruiting the desperate, the lost, the people left hopeless after Marvelous Man decided to And he's brainwashing them on the Citadel, using the fabled Cortex.
He's building an army.
An army to seize control of the planet, Speed.
So you need to act now, because you and I both know that Knight Hawk's superpower has always been manipulating those susceptible to propaganda.
The broken souls.
Little Wing, Red Talon, Mr.
Smiles.
Mr.
Smiles? He works for Knight Hawk.
You're inventing a sinister plot out of thin air, Logan.
"You're inventing a sinister plot out of thin air.
" "I can't connect the dots, even though I can run really fast.
" I don't agree with his methods, but the idea that he's turned into a super-villain is absurd.
All right.
Just look at my evidence.
I swear to God, Logan, if you don't let me out of this obnoxiously weird place right this We're fucked, people! With him gone, I don't want to be here! Then why were you there? I wanted to stop him.
The way he said goodbye, I knew something was wrong.
His will to die was way too fucking strong.
He was my world.
I wanted to stop him.
Marvelous Man would be able to save the world.
Fuck you, Walker.
Speed didn't believe it yet, but everything the Lockwood simulation told her was true.
High above her, in the hallowed halls of the Citadel of Justice, Knight Hawk was building an army.
Following in the footsteps of fellow 20th century despots, he found disillusioned and desperate people, and gave them a purpose.
Entry detected in a known Lockwood safe house.
- What should we do? - Send a strike force.
Breaking news.
You stole the bullet that killed Marvelous Man.
I did.
I did.
I did.
One, two - Three - Stop right there, comrade.
Watch the TV.
Not now! I'm busy.
I'm doing something! I know what you are doing, comrade.
Watch the television now.
Wait.
Okay.
Before taking his own life, villainous homosexual Mind Master confessed not only to killing Marvelous Man, but to doing so under the orders of the rogue terrorist nation Anubis.
Their objective? Lead the world to nuclear war.
But thanks to Knight Hawk, we have avoided Armageddon.
He saved the world.
Thank you, Knight Hawk.
I did.
I did.
I did.
Now, thanks to the ingenuity of Knight Hawk, we will work together.
I've been very critical of him in the past, but today I say, "Job well done.
" You are a hero to us all.
Come on, Hawky! Finish him! Brutality.
Speed, this is your only warning.
Surrender the tape or we will open fire.
Sorry, boys.
Finders keepers.
- Fire! - Fire See ya, boys.
Freeze! Can I tell you a secret? So Knight Hawk has an army now? You tell him I'm coming for him.
Anytime I see you Lying there in your disguise And I figured you would stay As you try to hide it Vanquishing it all in lies And anything you had to say In the night I try to find Another place to close my eyes With nothing here to satisfy my days All the ways you told me lies There's nothing left for us to hide I don't feel the night Will turn to day Any minute the sky will fade away Any minute the sun will fade to gray In the morning sacrifice A million ways to end my life And I can see the end of everything But living life is not unfair And I will find the strength somewhere And I won't let you burn my days away