Justice League (TV Series)

The Terror Beyond: Part II (2003)

Scott Rummell: Aquaman, Arthur Curry

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Quotes 

• [last lines] 

  Hawkgirl : He was happy at the end. I still don't understand why.

  Aquaman : It's faith, Hawkgirl. You're not supposed to understand it. You just have it.

• Mera : An attack from the surface world?

  Aquaman : Not this time. But our enemies must be very near indeed.

  Mera : You've heard reports from our centuries?

  Aquaman : No. It's the creatures of the sea. Mera, I can't hear their thoughts. They're gone.

• Aquaman : I think I can seal the breach with the trident, but I need something to plug the hole.

  Superman : But what's big enough to...

  [seeing a large asteroid-like rock nearby] 

  Superman : That could work.

• Dr. Fate : How could you possibly know that incantation?

  Hawkgirl : Where I come from, it's the closest thing we have to a prayer.

  Aquaman : Is it over?

  Dr. Fate : No. Only a beginning. It will rest, then attack again. We must complete the original spell.

  Inza Nelson : You don't have the strength.

  Dr. Fate : Nor do I have a choice.

• Solomon Grundy : Worm Face tries to attack Grundy's friends. Grundy crush!

  Aquaman : Stay back, all of you. Everything's in the hands of fate now.

• Superman : What is going on here? What was that thing?

  Aquaman : There's no time.

  Wonder Woman : Make time. Or are you scared because there's no water in here?

  Hawkgirl : We're not going to fight again, are we?

  Dr. Fate : No, we aren't. I'll show you what you wish to know.

  Solomon Grundy : [shown an image of an ancient city]  Pretty.

  Superman : Where is that?

  Aquaman : It's Atlantis, thousands of years before it sank beneath the waves. In those days, Atlantis was ruled by sorcerer kings.

  Dr. Fate : And fortunately so, for Atlantis, along with most of the ancient world, found itself under attack by extradimensional beings called the Old Ones. The Old Ones nearly destroyed humanity as they prepared the way for the most powerful of their number: Great Icthulhu.

  Aquaman : But King Poseidon gambled that they could be stopped.

  Dr. Fate : He gathered nearly all of the ambient mystical energy on Earth, then forged it into a single weapon. The power of the trident served to banish the Old Ones from our realm.

  Aquaman : But the price was high. Poseidon knew that the same mystic energy he used to defeat the Old Ones also powered the spells that prevented Atlantis from sinking beneath the ocean. He saved the world, but doomed Atlantis to rest forever at the bottom of the sea.

  Dr. Fate : Now the Old Ones seek to return to our world. Already, fissures have appeared, allowing creatures from their world to gain entrance into ours.

  Aquaman : When you interrupted, we were helping Fate cast a spell to bar their way.

  Dr. Fate : And now we must complete the ceremony.

• Wonder Woman : I won't let you torture Grundy again.

  Hawkgirl : It's not exactly torture, Diana. More like... sacrifice.

  Superman : How do you know so much about this?

  Hawkgirl : My people once worshipped Icthulhu.

  Superman : On Thanagar?

  Dr. Fate : The Old Ones are an evil not bound by your understanding of geography.

  Hawkgirl : In return for his favors, my ancestors made offerings to him.

  Aquaman : I can't believe anyone would cooperate with that... thing.

  Hawkgirl : It was thousands of years ago. We were still a primitive culture.

• Superman : We're not sacrificing Grundy or anybody else.

  Aquaman : Grundy volunteered.

  Superman : I'm not sure he's competent to volunteer. Does he even understand what you're asking of him?

  Solomon Grundy : Grundy understands. Grundy helps magician, then magician will help Grundy.

  Wonder Woman : I agree with Superman. There has to be another way.

  Hawkgirl : There is. We go to Ichthulhu's world and kick his slimy...

  Solomon Grundy : Bird Nose is right. Fight, not hide.

  Aquaman : No. We should stick to our original plan.

  Dr. Fate : This may be better. It's more likely to work than simply recasting a broken spell.

  Aquaman : It's a fool's errand. I joined with you to protect Atlantis.

  Dr. Fate : And the rest of the world be hanged? We need your power.

  Aquaman : So do my people. My place is with them.

  Dr. Fate : Aquaman...

  Aquaman : I have spoken.