Black Lightning (TV Series)

Shadow of Death: The Book of War (2018)

China Anne McClain: Jennifer Pierce

Quotes 

• [Jennifer is alone on the front porch. Gambi comes out] 

  Peter Gambi : Hey. Are you alright?

  Jennifer Pierce : Sure. I'm a freak from a family of freaks and my Dad's got one foot in the grave. I'm fine.

  Peter Gambi : Oh. When you say it like that. All right, not funny. I'm sorry.

  Jennifer Pierce : Who were those people with Khalil? Are they like us? Metahumans?

  Peter Gambi : Not exactly. Metahumans have organic powers, which means they come from within. Theirs are artificial. That albino man? He's their leader. His name is Tobias Whale. He takes a kind of a serum which is like a super-steroid. It makes him age slower and get stronger over time. At this point, he's got the strength of three men. My guess is he's the one who turned your ex-boyfriend.

  Jennifer Pierce : Why?

  Peter Gambi : That's what he does. That man has a gift for seeing the worst in people and bringing it out. That spooky looking woman with him? She's called Syonide. She was found in a dumpster as an infant with her umbilical cord wrapped around her neck.

  Jennifer Pierce : Oh, my God.

  Peter Gambi : Tobias pulled her out of an orphanage when she was eight years old. She was malnourished and abused. He clothed her, he fed her and he trained her to become an assassin. When she was fully grown, he had carbon fiber body armor implanted under her skin and, if she wasn't crazy before the procedure, the pain did the rest.

  Jennifer Pierce : What did they do to Khalil?

  Peter Gambi : I'm not altogether sure, but it looks like he's gotten an implant with a synthetic liquid metal. It's bracing his spine, but it's also causing Khalil's body to produce a neurotoxin like a snake's venom. Causes instant paralysis, so they weaponized him by giving him darts as a delivery method.

  Jennifer Pierce : They made him into a weapon, but he's not like that.

  Peter Gambi : Yes, he is. That young man had a choice and he made it. He is with Tobias Whale, the worst of the worst. Sweetheart, whatever you may remember, he is not your Khalil, anymore. If you want to stay out here for a while, okay. I'm going back in.

• Martin Proctor : So, family affair? I knew it was you.

  Black Lightning : Yeah, and that's gonna be a problem.

  Martin Proctor : I am a federal agent. You will bring the weight of the United States government down on your heads.

  Peter Gambi : That's bull. I suspected when you didn't call in reinforcements after your Green Light lab was destroyed that this was a rogue operation, which means we're not up against the ASA. We're just up against you.

  Martin Proctor : Thank political correctness. It's ruining the country.

  Peter Gambi : The first Freeland experiment killed a lot of kids! And you thought it was a good idea to do a sequel?

  Martin Proctor : They would've wound up on welfare or in prison, anyway.

  Jennifer Pierce : Wow.

  [Jennifer uses her powers to lift Proctor up into the air and then slam him into the floor] 

  Black Lightning : Jennifer!

  [Jennifer nonchalantly flips her hair and rolls her eyes]