Black Adam (2022)

Quintessa Swindell: Cyclone, Maxine Hunkel

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• Maxine Hunkel : So what's the op?

  Carter Hall : We're headed to Kahndaq to apprehend and contain a Class-A metahuman.

  Al Rothstein : I didn't bring a passport.

  Kent Nelson : We don't need passports. We're the Justice Society.

• Adrianna Tomaz : Ishmael said, "Death is the only path to life." But that's not what the inscription says.

  Maxine Hunkel : Right. "Life is the only path to death." Maybe he got it backwards, like he read it in a mirror or something.

  Adrianna Tomaz : [something in her mind clicks]  That's it. In Kahndaqi mythology, the souls of the damned are sent to the Rock of Finality. The underworld is a mirror to our own. Here, turn the crown around.

  [turning it upside down] 

  Adrianna Tomaz : Now mirror the letters. See? That's what I missed. "Death is the only path to life." He kidnapped Amon on purpose, because he knew that Teth-Adam would kill him. And he believed the Champion's magic would send him to the Rock of Finality.

• Al Rothstein : Hey, why is this Adam dude so pissed off?

  Carter Hall : He's not some dude. He's a weapon of mass destruction. You don't have to raise your hand.

  Maxine Hunkel : Question. If he's so powerful, how are we supposed to stop him?

  Kent Nelson : If we can get him to say the word "Shazam", Teth-Adam will lose his power. And we're hoping since he's had a few thousand years to sleep it off, we can peacefully negotiate the terms of his existence.

  Maxine Hunkel : From the footage you showed us, he doesn't really seem like a "peacefully negotiate" kind of guy.

• Kent Nelson : Excuse me, you if I look in your bag?

  Adrianna Tomaz : Yes, I do mind.

  Carter Hall : Where are you going with this, Kent?

  Kent Nelson : She's got the Crown of Sabbac.

  Carter Hall : One catastrophe at a time. We can't give him a chance to regroup.

  Maxine Hunkel : He's been spotted entering the palace. It's safe to say he's not going there to surrender.

  Adrianna Tomaz : Why do you want Teth-Adam to surrender? He's the Champion of Khandaq. Who are you? The Justice Society? We have been living under military occupation for 27 years, and never seen you before. You didn't come when Intergang invaded our country, when they stole our resources and killed my husband. But now, we finally have our own hero and you decide to fly down here and save us? Thank you, but... we're covered. Go and protect international stability someplace else. Oh, and second, I don't have the crown.

  Carter Hall : Let me spell it out for you. Teth-Adam can't be Khandaq's champion, because he is not a hero.

  Adrianna Tomaz : [pointing around the square]  Tell that... to all the people he just liberated.