Black Lightning

Previously on Black Lightning...

I left the formula for the meta-boost serum in Markovia.

What happens if Gravedigger can have any meta power he wants?

He'd be unstoppable.

War is coming to Freeland.

Take this peace offering.

Use it to burn down the ASA for what they did to my city.

Gravedigger is en route with a battalion of troops.

The powers that be have decided that

they would rather nuke Freeland than let Gravedigger win.

The government is gonna bomb Freeland

if we don't beat Gravedigger?

The DNA sample I took from Gravedigger matches your DNA.

Gravedigger's your great-uncle.

Gravedigger's at the perimeter.

Where's Jennifer?

Jen?

We got a bogie at 9 o'clock. What is that?

That's Jen.

Gambi, she's alive!

Good for her.

_

Hold it. What has gotten into you?

You're coming on hard.

Hold up.

Electrical powers...

Young enough to be your daughter.

That's baby Lightning.

Mmm, that's why you mad, huh?

Come on.

Can't believe you got up.

What you can't do, you'll do for blood, right?

- You and I are blood. - That's funny.

Black Lightning continues to fight for the city of Freeland,

which is suffering from a full-scale invasion

from Markovian forces.

Police

and fire stations have been blown up.

Citizens are being shot down in the street.

And the ASA's nowhere to be found.

Is Black Lightning the only line of defense?

Has the government abandoned Freeland?

I'm Jamillah Olsen, reporting live from Mark...

- - Now.

There she is.

Come on. They got out. They got out.

Let's stop the madness.

We're family. We can work it out.

Man, stop. We ain't related.

No?

Why am I a stable meta like you?

I know you were born out of wedlock.

Your father's name was Cassius.

You got that from the ASA.

I know you only met your half-brother twice.

Once when you were young,

and once right before you both went off to war.

His name was Ben.

My grandfather.

Look here, kinfolk.

You ain't gonna talk your way out of this one.

I'm on a mission.

And I'm gonna complete it.

So you can surrender now.

You'll be treated nicely.

Just like your baby girl.

Where is she?

Ah!

She's a prisoner of war.

- Where is she? - I'm giving you one last chance

to surrender, boy.

Yeah, you feel that?

- - Those are microwaves.

Cooking you from the inside.

That's it.

Nothing to be ashamed about.

You fought well.

Now stay down.

Rangers.

Prepare for glory.

Grayle, Gambi.

We have to move the meta kids to the Pit

to keep them away from Gravedigger.

It's the most secure place in all of Freeland.

Thunder's on her way to help you escort them.

Have them ready to travel.

Copy you.

Grayle, what's up?

We have to prep to move.

Okay, let's do it.

Katie, are you still jamming all transmissions?

Yes, this video will go unseen.

Sir, without our perimeter barrier,

Markovian forces will overrun the city.

First will come a shock-and-awe strike to disrupt everything.

Then they'll secure an exfiltration route.

While the elite Markovian Rangers

recon the city to locate Freeland's metas.

No longer our problem. We're pulling out of Freeland.

Commander, leave nothing classified behind.

I want total closure.

Yes, sir.

Major, find the briefcase and bring it to me, or...

destroy it.

Yes, sir.

Did I stutter?

Gambi, I need you.

I'm here.

The Markovians took Jen.

I need you to find out where they took her.

I'm on it.

Odell isn't at the Pit.

He must be at a safehouse somewhere.

Okay. Okay, well, uh,

I'll start talking to the cameras around the city.

- I'll find him. - Thanks.

I need to concentrate on using the ASA's system

to search for Lightning's energy signature.

- Copy you. - Come on.

It's not gonna work.

My name is Tyson Sykes.

I'm in command here.

And the first thing you need to understand is,

I'm not your enemy.

You could've fooled me with the whole kidnapping and invasion thing.

Actions made necessary by the continuing treachery

of the US government.

I have been empowered by the nation of Markovia

to establish an independent meta-human state

inside their borders.

A place where meta-humans can be free.

- Live normal lives. - Mmm-mmm.

You need to sell that trash somewhere else.

Trash?

Little girl,

you don't know a damn thing about this country.

This country was built by and for rich white men.

That's never gonna change.

There's been plenty of change.

Not enough, sure, but it's disrespectful

to the sacrifices of our ancestors

- to say there's been none. - Change.

Oh, you mean Obama?

And Martin Luther King?

Well, seems to me

that Obama was bought and paid for

by rich liberals and multinational corporations,

and Martin Luther King, well, he was a coward

who lacked the courage to fight for his own freedom.

Are you insane?

MLK was one of the most courageous people

to walk the face of this Earth.

Not by fighting,

but by purposefully putting himself in harm's way.

The moral authority of his cause couldn't be debated.

Yeah, they debated that plenty.

But he was on the right side of history.

"Metas are with you, or else."

That's not independence or peace.

Who are you to judge me, huh?

You've been on this planet for the blink of an eye.

I'm 100 years old.

Maybe that's why you're so negative and grouchy.

I ought to kill you where you stand.

Why don't you let me out of here?

Try it.

Maybe later.

Is this moment in black history over?

What assurance do I have that the ASA will honor

its side of the deal?

Above my paygrade.

You have something for me or not?

Suppose I'll have to trust you.

Or I could wash my hands in your blood

if you double cross me.

The briefcase is at Gambi's tailor shop.

The tailor who came back from the dead?

- Mmm. - Who does he work for?

No one.

Piece of cake. We'll be in touch.

Prepare for relocation to Gotham City.

You'll receive your seat on the Shadow Board there.

Gotham? Wait a minute.

You're gonna nuke Freeland

if the Markovians take it.

And I just became a loose end.