- [a battered and bloody Joey Toledo limps into Tobias' office]
- Tobias Whale: What the hell happened to you?
- Joey Toledo: I just fought Black Lightning. I mean, one more minute and I would have killed him, I swear. I mean, something's wrong with his head. He looked half-dead.
- Tobias Whale: So, why didn't you finish him?
- [Tobias grabs Joey by the throat and lifts him up in the air]
- Joey Toledo: I tried, but I was all on my own. He-he trashed my gun and I couldn't take him. I tipped our guy in the department.
- [Tobias drops him]
- Tobias Whale: There was a time you could depend on white folks to be professional. Nowadays, white boys just as lazy and shiftless as the brothers.
- Syonide: Tori's protection team checked in on schedule.
- Tobias Whale: Hmm...
- Syonide: All is well.
- Joey Toledo: Tori's under protection?
- Tobias Whale: Lady Eve sent me powder from ground albino bones, trying to mess with my head.
- Joey Toledo: Or issue a warning.
- Tobias Whale: Hmm. Yeah, and you're bleeding on my floor.
- Joey Toledo: Sorry, boss.
- Tobias Whale: Make sure we got a crew in lockup on standby and let me know as soon as the cops get him. Black Lightning doesn't live out the night.
- Jefferson Pierce: Look, I know I should have waited, but Joey Toledo tried to kill me over and over again and he was Tobias' right-hand man. I couldn't miss the chance to go after him. I didn't get him, though.
- [Lynn examines an MRI of Jefferson's brain]
- Jefferson Pierce: What's that?
- Lynn Pierce: Brought a portable. Took a brain scan while you were out.
- Jefferson Pierce: And?
- Lynn Pierce: Anomalous but normal for you. If you did have a brain bleed, it's gone by now. Your powers turbocharged your recovery system. May not heal as fast as you used to, but it's still twice as fast as normal.
- [checks his heartbeat]
- Jefferson Pierce: It doesn't feel twice as fast.
- [gently touches her hands]
- Jefferson Pierce: It's good to be in your hands.
- Lynn Pierce: [pulls away] Stop it, Jefferson! You're pulling me back into this mess and I don't like it! I hate this! I hate having to stitch you back together! Living in fear of turning on the news and somebody finding your body dead in the gutter!
- Jefferson Pierce: I watched Tobias murder my father. He's here in Freeland, so what do you expect me to do?
- Lynn Pierce: I don't give a damn, Jefferson! Your father is dead and nothing you can do is gonna bring him back!
- Jefferson Pierce: Wow.
- Lynn Pierce: You have no idea what this does to me every time I see you like this. It's too much. It's just too much.
- [She walks out]
- Deputy Chief Cayman: I don't get it. We roll in the cavalry and he's gone. Disappears.
- Bill Henderson: Eyewitness saw him get into a van
- Deputy Chief Cayman: You get a plate? A description of the van?
- Bill Henderson: They were fans, sir. It was willful amnesia.
- Deputy Chief Cayman: How does a criminal and a freak have fans?
- Bill Henderson: Where'd you say you got that tip, sir?
- Deputy Chief Cayman: I didn't.
- [gets call from Joey Toledo]