Stargirl (TV Series)

Summer School: Chapter Four (2021)

Brec Bassinger: Courtney Whitmore, Stargirl

Quotes 

• Courtney Whitmore : Doctor Mid-Nite's goggles warned Beth that Eclipso is here in Blue Valley.

  Pat Dugan : The goggles said that?

  Barbara Whitmore : How do they know?

  Courtney Whitmore : 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?

  Pat Dugan : He's the Devil in the shadows. Evil, Court, real evil, imprisoned inside the black diamond.

  Barbara Whitmore : The one the Shade's looking for.

  Pat Dugan : And whoever has the diamond has Eclipso's power.

• Barbara Whitmore : I was up most of the night.

  Pat Dugan : I'm sorry, I just... you know, I thought you should know everything.

  Barbara Whitmore : It's scary, the black diamond.

  Pat Dugan : Yeah.

  Barbara Whitmore : I mean, what happened with Doctor Mid-Nite, and do we tell Courtney about the JSA and...

  Pat Dugan : Eclipso?

  Barbara Whitmore : Yeah.

  Courtney Whitmore : [coming in]  What was that about Eclipso?

  Pat Dugan : How do you know about Eclipso?

  Courtney Whitmore : How do *you* know about Eclipso?

  Barbara Whitmore : You first.

• Artemis Crock : [in the cafeteria, Courtney offers her an apple]  What is that?

  Courtney Whitmore : The only piece of fresh fruit in this place? Consider it a peace offering for the misunderstanding with the hockey stick.

  Artemis Crock : What are you staring at, Montez?

  Yolanda Montez : Nothing. I just can't believe they don't have wheatgrass, either.

  Artemis Crock : [taking the apple]  Thanks.

  Courtney Whitmore : Yeah. No problem. Um, I-I just wanted to say, I'm really sorry for the situation that you're in. I can't imagine how tough that must be.

  Artemis Crock : What situation?

  Courtney Whitmore : Oh. Um... you know, that situation that you... or, um, your parents... um, them being... in prison.

  Artemis Crock : My parents are innocent. They shouldn't even be there. Everyone's mocking us now. But we Crocks don't forgive.

  [crushing the apple] 

  Artemis Crock : And we don't forget.

  Courtney Whitmore : [Artemis nudges her hard in the shoulder as she leaves]  Ow!

  Yolanda Montez : Boy... she's got anger issues.

  Courtney Whitmore : Tell that to the apple.

• Courtney Whitmore : What are Eclipso's powers?

  Pat Dugan : 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.

  Courtney Whitmore : But the JSA stopped Eclipso?

  Pat Dugan : Yeah. Somehow, they managed to, but... the longer Eclipso's active, the more powerful he becomes.

  Courtney Whitmore : 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?

  Pat Dugan : I don't know.

  Courtney Whitmore : [seeing Barbara is worried]  Mom, don't worry. We got this.

  Barbara Whitmore : Court.

  Courtney Whitmore : 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.

• Eclipso : Artemis Crock will be yours to use.

  [on the field, Artemis's eyes glow as she's put under his influence] 

  Courtney Whitmore : [approaching the stands looking for Pat]  Are you kidding me? The Crocks?

  Artemis Crock : [seeing a SWAT tactical team surrounding her parents]  No!

  Lawrence 'Crusher' Crock : [she runs toward them]  Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. What are you doing, honey?

  Artemis Crock : [tackling one]  Stay away from them! They did nothing wrong! They did nothing wrong, you hear me?

  [as her teammates pull her off, she realizes it's just Courtney] 

  Artemis Crock : [looking around]  What? Where'd they go?

  Lawrence 'Crusher' Crock : Well, that really got away from her, didn't it?

• Courtney Whitmore : [watching Artemis say goodbye to her parents]  Why do I feel bad for them? Why didn't you tell me they were in town?

  Pat Dugan : I didn't have the chance.

  Courtney Whitmore : You could have called. Did you think I was just gonna rush in and fight? I would have listened. I'm not the same Stargirl I was last year.

• Stargirl : [preparing to sneak out, the Cosmic Staff points at her schoolbooks]  No studying tonight. We've got more important things to do.

  [the Staff points at her clock] 

  Stargirl : I know it's past curfew, but if Pat's not going to tell us anything else, maybe the Shade will.

• The Shade : Ah, hello, Ms. Whitmore. I know who you are.

  Courtney Whitmore : And I know what you're planning, Shade. You want the black diamond so you can team up with Eclipso to do... something bad. We're going to stop you.

  The Shade : A supervillain team-up. Really? That's the vast scope of your imagination?

  Courtney Whitmore : It happens. Icicle and Brainwave.

  The Shade : I'll ignore the insult of comparing me to those two incompetents. But by far, the greater slight is assuming I seek to conspire with Eclipso.

  Courtney Whitmore : Why wouldn't you? You're just as bad as he is. You killed Doctor Mid-Nite.

  The Shade : Oh, my. And said with such conviction. You were there, I assume.

  Courtney Whitmore : Pat was.

  The Shade : Oh, yes, of course. Dear old Stripesy. You know, it's interesting the things he chooses to tell you and those he doesn't, you poor, deluded... child.

• The Shade : I've been called wicked more than once. A law broken here, rule bent there, the odd life taken. But nobody that didn't deserve it. Eclipso, on the other hand... he killed McNider's daughter. She was ten years old.

  Courtney Whitmore : Wait. What? Eclipso killed Dr. McNider's daughter?

  The Shade : Mm. Now look. A moment ago, you were so sure of everything. When I find the black diamond, I intend to throw it in the deepest, darkest part of the ocean so that Eclipso may never hurt anyone ever again.

  Courtney Whitmore : Why would you do that?

  The Shade : Oh, well um... living as long as I have... I'm bored. But really... leave this... all... to me.

• Courtney Whitmore : Did you know that Eclipso killed Dr. McNider's daughter?

  Pat Dugan : How do you know that?

  Courtney Whitmore : So it's true. Why didn't you tell me, Pat?

  Pat Dugan : It's not an easy thing to talk about. Rebecca was ten years old. I didn't wanna scare you.

  Courtney Whitmore : I'm not scared. Is there anything else about Eclipso and the JSA? Or Bruce Gordon, what happened to him? Anything?

  Pat Dugan : No.

  [as the Crocks leave] 

  Pat Dugan : Come on, I want to follow these guys back to the penitentiary.

• Courtney Whitmore : So, the black diamond is from this place called Diablo Island.

  Yolanda Montez : Devil Island? That's not ominous at all.

  Courtney Whitmore : It's somewhere around here.

  Rick Tyler : Why isn't it on the map?

  Beth Chapel : Because they took it off. Look, it's all over maps back in the 1800s. But then around 1832, Diablo Island stopped appearing, like they didn't want anyone to go there.

  Yolanda Montez : Why?

  Beth Chapel : Because no one ever came back.

  Courtney Whitmore : The legend goes, there were two warring tribes living on different sides of the island. One of the tribes summoned an evil entity of vengeance, trapping it in what... sounds like the black diamond.

  Rick Tyler : How did the black diamond end up here?

  Beth Chapel : An explorer named Bruce Gordon rediscovered Diablo Island, but when he got there, everyone on it had been dead for decades. It's the same Bruce Gordon that wrote some of these books. He was a famous explorer in his day.

  Yolanda Montez : So this Gordon guy found the diamond there?

  Courtney Whitmore : It doesn't say, but he was the only person who ever returned.

  Rick Tyler : Then what?

  Beth Chapel : I don't know. There's nothing online or off about Bruce Gordon after he came back from the island. Or Eclipso.

  Rick Tyler : So what do we do next?

  Maria Carmen Saravia : Yolanda, your order's up.

  Yolanda Montez : Okay. Thanks.

  Courtney Whitmore : Go get back to work. We've exhausted the library, so I'm gonna go to the used-book store to see if I can find anything else.

  Beth Chapel : I'll keep trying to get Chuck back online. Maybe he can help us open the files on Eclipso.