Stargirl

Hi, Dad.

How you doing, Arti?

- I can't stay in that foster home anymore.

Macaroni and cheese, bunk beds, basic cable,

no football Sunday pass.

- Animals. - Tryouts are Wednesday.

Coach Morrison's coming in from Lincoln.

The Big Ten.

Sweetie, you are gonna crush it.

You're gonna be great.

I don't know.

Hey, look at me.

You're the best in the state.

I miss you.

Oh, sweetie...

I miss you, too.

Mom says she loves you.

- You tell your mother I love her.

All right, visit's over.

You said I had 15 minutes.

- Yeah, well, time flies in prison, huh?

Ah, don't worry-- there's always next week

and the week after that and the week after that.

Chuck?

Hello? Can you hear me?

Chuck, come in.

Please, Chuck.

Why are we in danger?

Who is Eclipso?

- Searching. Searching. Searching.

- Darn signal.

Oh, hey, honey.

Oh.

Mom. Hey, hi.

I didn't hear you come in.

You just missed Dad.

Did you lose something?

I could have sworn I--

Ah. Found them.

Mom, hey.

You know what I was thinking about the other day?

Blue Valley Putt-Putt--

the one you and Dad used to go to all the time

when you were first dating.

Didn't they close down?

Well, they were going to.

They came really close to calling it quits.

- They always had a good crowd. I wonder what happened.

Yeah.

I've been wondering the same thing myself.

The point is, they're back in business.

Isn't that great?

You and Dad should go, like old times.

It could be like a date.

- Well, honey, your dad's very busy this week, and so am I.

But maybe you and your friends can go.

- Yeah. - It'll be fun.

See ya, hon.

Bye, Mom.

Confidential?

Since when is anything in the JSA database confidential?

I was up most of the night.

I'm sorry, I just--

you know, I thought you should know everything.

- It's scary, the black diamond.

Yeah.

- I mean, what happened with Doctor Mid-Nite,

and do we tell Courtney

about the JSA and--

- Eclipso? - Yeah.

What was that about Eclipso?

- How do you know about Eclipso?

- How do youknow about Eclipso?

You first.

Well, I don't know about him.

Doctor Mid-Nite's goggles warned Beth that

Eclipso is here in Blue Valley.

- The goggles said that? - How do they know?

The trouble alerts, I guess.

But all the files on Eclipso are confidential,

and I couldn't find any in the basement.

Why, Pat? Who is Eclipso?

- He's the devil in the shadows.

Evil, Court, real evil,

imprisoned inside the black diamond.

- The one The Shade's looking for.

- And whoever has the diamond has Eclipso's power.

- What... what are Eclipso's powers?

He can get inside your head,

make you see things that aren't there.

Starman said the diamond

drove people to do, uh...

bad things...

to themselves and to others.

But the JSA stopped Eclipso?

- Yeah, somehow they managed to, but...

the longer Eclipso's active,

the more powerful he becomes.

- So The Shade, who kicked our collective butts

without lifting a single finger,

is looking for the black diamond

to team up with pure evil.

To do what?

- I don't know.

Mom, don't worry. We got this.

- Court. - No, Mom, I'll be smart.

There's nothing online about Eclipso, so we'll do recon

the old-fashioned way-- hitting the books.

Beth's already on her way to the library.

We won't rush in.

I won't rush in, Mom. I promise.

- Promise. - Yes.

Love you.

I didn't want her dead.

I'm still upset by that. You hear me?

I do, but this isn't really

about your stepmother, is it, Cynthia?

Cindy?

Sweetheart, is that you?

Mom?

- You're not gonna hurt me again, are you?

Baby, I'm so sorry I let your father find you.

- No, no, no, I'm sorry. I'm sorr--

Make her go away.

- Please, don't hurt me. - Now!

- You wallow in pain over your birth mother.

I simply wanted to show you

that you must put the past behind you.

You ever do that again,

and I'll throw this diamond into a volcano.

I am only here to help.

I only desire what you desire.

Let's get back to work.

Look, you and I both know

that fostering kids ain't cheap, okay?

And now I've got another one with parents in prison.

I don't know who told you I said that,

but it just ain't true, okay?

No, I got five now, not four.

- What is this? I can't eat this.

- Listen, as much as I'd like to,

I just can't foster these kids for free.

- How hard is it to buy whey protein?

- They didn't have wheat protein.

Not wheat. It's whey.

- Hey, are you gonna get out or what?

- Can I at least have some money

so I can buy a decent lunch?

You got a decent lunch.

- You didn't even pack me a protein bar.

- Listen, you need to turn it down a notch, missy, okay?

Or else I'm not gonna be accepting

any more of those collect calls from the penitentiary.

You got it?

My tryouts are today.

What am I supposed to do for fuel?

- I don't know. That's your business.

Now get to steppin'.

I got a nail appointment to get to.

- "Married Felons Break Out of Prison."

I'll take one of those.

Hiya, sport.

Hey, yourself.

I-I'd love to stay and catch up,

but I still got papers to deliver,

And today is collection day. - Oh.

- I'm livin' off tips, you know, what can I say?

Here's a tip.

Don't try and run from us 'cause you can't.

That's a good tip.

- How can you not have acai or wheatgrass?

- Because this is a high-school cafeteria,

not a farmers market.

What about fresh berries?

- Sorry, honey, but if you wanted the fancy stuff,

you should have brought it from home.

What is that?

- The only piece of fresh fruit in this place.

Consider it a peace offering for the misunderstanding