
Billy gives him the only currency he has - a subway token. Billy responds by telling him he always try to do the right thing. The homeless man thanks Billy for his intervention, and calls him "The Captain". After attempting to defend the homeless man, Billy himself earns a black eye for his trouble.

On his way to rendezvous with Clark Kent in a nearby diner, he sees three bullies robbing a homeless man. He goes to his kitchen to find food, but only finds potato chips, which he ends up feeding to the rats. He rises from his bed wearing a fan t-shirt bearing the Superman crest. The film then cuts to young Billy Batson living in a seemingly rundown slum with very little food and rats for pets. It's revealed that that meteor is in fact Black Adam returning to Earth from his long exile. It smashes into the couple's car, with them still in it, on a hillside beside the lookout over Fawcett City.

The film opens with a young couple overlooking the city from a hillside as an apparent meteor streaks across the sky, and into the Earth.
