Stargirl

- I thought this pen was my ticket into the JSA,

but now I kind of just wish it was in better hands.

Thunderbolt?

Where did you come from?

Hello.

- I think Doctor Mid-Nite is alive.

Could be Eclipso, Beth.

He made us see things.

- Things that weren't really there.

- - That's not Grundy!

- I'm never putting on that costume again.

- The devil is real, and he's in Blue Valley.

- Don't let me go, Courtney! Please!

No!

No!

Doctor Mid-Nite?

- Turn away from the darkness, or you will be consumed.

I found a way out of here.

- So... who wants to kill Eclipso?

[Right Said Fred's "I'm Too Sexy"]

- I guess someone's feeling better.

Whoa.

- Yeah, we had a big fight in here last week.

- I still have a lot to catch up on.

- There's no sign of The Shade.

Your ring located dark energy at two places in Blue Valley:

the theater in town and the school.

Most of the time,

I don't know what the ring's doing.

- Maybe we can check the classrooms again?

Whoa. Oh!

This is right where Cindy disappeared.

What is that stuff?

- It looks like some kind of residue.

That must be what your ring was picking up.

Are--are you okay?

I--I think so.

- Looks like you fried it. That's probably a good thing.

Right?

- Beth? Are you there? - Courtney?

She's home.

She's home!

- It fits. - Yeah.

But I got something a lot more comfortable than an old suit.

I'm comfortable in a suit.

Here we go.

- Dr. McNider, I'm sorry that you were trapped in that place.

And I know that I-- - It goes without saying, Pat.

Now...

let's focus on stopping Eclipso

before he executes whatever plan he's been concocting.

- I mean, what plan would that be beyond revenge?

- Eclipso wants power, first and foremost.

Whatever he's doing, no matter how personal it may appear,

is always in service to that one goal.

- And he isn't in a host this time.

Good.

Because as powerful as Eclipso might be, he's also vulnerable.

How so?

- He doesn't have a host acting as a shield anymore.

Nor the diamond.

He's a being of darkness.

What do you suppose injures darkness?

Light.

- Especially when it's wielded by those

who carry the light within themselves,

that channel hope, like your stepdaughter.

You said the staff hurt Eclipso.

- Yeah, and Eclipso also hurt the staff.

But I think that it's making a full recovery.

And Green Lantern's daughter?

- Well, Jennie's still learning how to use the ring.

I really don't know if these kids are ready for this.

Are you sure?

Because what I know of Beth Chapel, she is.

- Mm. I really thought I lost you.

Good talk, Mom.

You try anything, Cindy--

Mm, don't worry.

The quicker we get rid of Eclipso,

the quicker I ghost this armpit of a town.

- You mean the Eclipso you unleased on Blue Valley?

- Mm, technically, it was your staff that did that.

- While you were trying to kill us.

- All right, all right. I admit it.

Taking the black diamond was a big oops on my part.

It was more than an oops.

- It was really, really, really...

bad.

Kay?

No more trouble, Cindy.

- Okay, Ms. Whitmore. - Courtney?

Court!

- Beth! Hi!

What, no hug for me?

What is she doing here?

- She wants to help us fight Eclipso.

But she--

- Let him out in the first place?

- And-- - I don't trust her, either.

She's evil, Court.

- Okay, look, Doctor Mid-Nite Junior,

or whatever you're gonna call yourself now,

I'm offering up a truce

until Eclipso is nothing more than a stain on the ground.

Let's face facts: right now, evil is relative.

Jennie, are you okay?

- Uh, yeah. Just tired.

- After everything we've been through, how could you not be?

Hi, Beth. So nice to finally meet you.

Same.

- Now that you're back, Doctor Mid-Nite,

if you'd like me to return the goggles--

- With Eclipso running about, it's safer you keep them on.

Besides, I have my own.

- And they're connected to my incognito glasses.

[glasses chime and electronics hum]

- Wow. That's so smart.

- Show me what you found at school.

- Some kind of black residue. It looked like it was alive.

Organic, even.

- Afterbirth. - Mm.

- From the pit to the Shadowlands Eclipso opened.

- The goggles are already crunching

what little data I did get.

It says a full analysis to triangulate Eclipso's location

will take about eight hours.

Hmm.

Or we could cut that time in half...

if we team up.