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Episode 5: Damage

The episode opens with Ruby being dropped off at school by her mother, Samanatha. All of a sudden, one of Ruby’s friends falls down and is unresponsive. This is not an isolated incident, as kids all over National City have fallen ill with what appears to belead poisoning. Morgan Edge wastes no time in appearing live on television in the Luthor funded hospital and blaming Lena Luthor, claiming these kids are falling ill from the anti-Daxamite lead bomb she created at the end of last season. In private, Edge tells Lena that she wanted to be a hero so badly that she didn’t care who she hurt. As to avoid the appearance of bias, cover-up, or financial gain in the investagation into whether or not her bomb is causing the kids to be sick, Lena makes plans to step down from CatCo and L-Corp, which divides her inner circle: Kara, Samantha, and Jimmy. Kara argues that stepping down makes Lena look guilty, while Jimmy agrees that Lena stepping down is the best call until things are settled. As if on cue to reinforce this sentiment, a distraught father storms the newsroom, which begs the question of just how inept is the security detail at CatCo. Jimmy suggests that Lena holds a press conference, to announce that she is stepping down from her business interests for the time being as a means of getting in front of the story. As Lena speaks to a mob shouting “Lock Her Up,” Kara, who is in the crowd, hears a gun cocking, but she is unable to locate the shooter until it’s too late. The shooter turns out to be a woman with a sick child who has opened fire on the platform. James pushes Lena to the ground and in the process takes a bullet in the shoulder. Kara asks Winn to runn a test see if the bomb really could be the culprit. Winn recreates the test that previously showed that 99.96 percent of the lead molecules from the bomb bonded to Daxamite genes, leaving a miniscule .04 percent margin of error. When he does the the test this time, only 89.79 percent bonded, meaning there is a 10 percent chance that the bomb is the cause. Samantha invites Lena to stay with her even though Lena is concerned that she would be endangering her and Ruby. Kara stops over to share the test results, only to find a drunk Lena full of self-loathing. She says she’s all she ever wanted was to be good because of her wealth and her brother she has been a pariah all her life . The lead bomb that prevented the Daxamites from conquring Earth was the one good thing she could lay claim to, and now she’s possibly a monster who poisoned children. Kara, ever the optimist, tries to argue that there’s still a chance it wasn’t her fault. Lena tells Kara that she loves her because she can find the good in people, but to stop believing

her because she is not worth it.” (She also tells Kara that she’s terrible at hiding things from her, obviously an inside joke for the audience). Lena finally passes out, but Kara and Samantha continue their research to prove Lena’s innocence. They get to know more about each other such as, they’re both adopted, they’re both plagued with bad dreams, all of which neither find strange and surely merely a wild coincidence, and won’t be revisited and have major implications as the season progresses. They continue to investigate, looking for a pattern or commonalities that might provide a clue into how the kids became ill. Samantha, showing some Felicity level computer skills, somehow accesses the families’ bank records (not sure that is on the up and up, but will check with Legal on that). What they turn up is that several of the families attended the same Oktoberfest event, and when they arrive at the venue, with the public pool becoming ground zero for the cause of the illnesses. After scanning the water with her x-ray vision, Kara collects a water sample that she sends to Winn for analysis,he tells her it is a synthetic compound that, when combined with water, acts like lead, poisonings and all. Kara and Samantha find the chemical as been introduced to the pool through the chlorine checmicals after finding The supply closet full of buckets that contain the chemical. Kara calls Lena with the good news that it was the pool and not the bomb, asking her if the name Acre Lee Chemical is familiar. Lena tells Kara that she has never heard of that particular company. It’s a lie, of course, Lena knows that Morgan Edge used to own the chemical company and confronts him in his office about his ownership of Acre Lee. Of course Edge mocks her idea and claims that if she goes public it would turn into a “he said, she said” fight in the media. Lena, saying she’s thinking like a Luthor, pulls a gun and says she agrees with the woman who shot at her that morning: The person who made those children sick deserves to die, without the benefit of a trial or jury. Edge tells her she isn’t thinking clearly, distracting her and allowing one of his henchmen to knock her out. When she comes to, she finds herself in a pilot-less cargo plane which is full of Acre Lee chemical barrels. The plane is being controled remotely by Edge and one of his henchman who are directing it to a reservoir to contaminate all the water. Lena attempts to send a distress signal, which is incepted by the DEO. While it is only a short clip, Kara recognizes it is Lena and zooms to the rescue. As Edge and his henchman open the cargo doors, hoping to dump the payload of chemicals in the resovoir, Lena is able to keep the barrels from tumbling out, but she won’t be able to fight gravity for long. Thankfully, Supergirl arrives in the nick of time to close the hatch. On the ground, Edge decides to go with Plan B, crash the plane into the reservoir. Lena straps in as Supergirl pushes upward on the plane to put strain on the engines so they’ll blow, which causes the plane to go Titnaic and split in half, leaving Lena on one side and the chemicals in the other. Supergirl tells Lena she can’t hold both pieces, and Lena screams at her telling her to drop the portion she’s in. Supergirl tells Lena to climb toward her, which she does, grabbing Supergirl’s hand just as her grip slips. On the ground, Edge knows his plan has failed and orders his henchman to shoot the computer console, thereby leaving gunshot residue on the man’s hands. Edge shoots him, so that he can hide his involvement behind the lone-wolf/suicide story. Edge, back in his office, receives a late-night visit from Supergirl. See, he sold Acre Lee Chemical two years ago, meaning all the blame falls on the “crazed lone wolf” who had a bone to pick with the Luthors and then killed himself when the plans failed. Edge taunts Supergirl, saying if he had her powers he would crush his enemies without mercy and laughs at her for not killing him right there, saying that You capes, you don’t have what it takes, do you?” Supergirl leaves without harming him. L-Corp manufactures a lead antidote, Samantha and Kara drink to being a dynamic duo investigative team, and Lena tries to apologize to them both, but Kara and Samantha tell her that they’re like sisters, and sisterhood comes with unconditional love. Lena’s overwhelmed, never having had that in her life before. Lena realizes that Jimmy is both good at his job and a genuine hero after he takes a bullet for her and keeps things professional at work. While celebrating clearing Lena’s name, she gets a call from Alex, who has had an awful few days as the B Story. Once again alex and Maggie have been discussing the kid issue for days, and although neither of them wants to say it, Alex finally admits that the kid thing is a deal breaker and they can’t be together. Maggie begins to pack her things when she starts drinking the booze Alex got her for Valentine’s Day, which leads to more drinking, dancing, and kissing. As the two bask in the afterglow, they reaffirm their fatal flaw in their relationship, Alex has always wanted to be a mom, even those times when she was dealing with her sexuality. As Maggie walks out the door for the last time, Alex thanks her for helping her accept herself and be happy. In turn, Maggie thanks Alex for making her stronger by facing her past.

They cry and hug some more and as Maggie tells Alex that she is gonna be a great mom. At the begining of the season Kara predicted that if Alex lost Maggie, she’d be broken and drinking alone at a bar every night. Kara doesn’t have super-clarvoyance but that’s exactly where and what Alex is doing. Kara calls J’onn to tell him to take care of the DEO for a few days, the Danvers sisters are hitting the road and heading home. As Samantha is tucking Ruby into bed, Ruby notices a strange round hole in her mom’s shirt. Samantha goes and examines the jacket she was wearing at the press conference that morning. As she lifts the jacket, a spent bullet tumbles out and she flashes to a memory of being struck by one of the shooter’s bullets. She nest examines her abdomen, finding that there’s no wound…and the plot thickens

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Thoughts on the Episode

Overall, it was a fast-paced exciting episode. There were not a lot of Easter Eggs or references that I saw, but that is okay.

It might be a stretch or something that will come into play later but one way they could bring Mon-EL back would be to synthesize the lead antidote for him like has been done in the DCU by Saturn Girl, who is rumored to be appearing on the show soon.

I feel like the writers conveniently limited Kara’s powers for plot purposes when it came to the two halves of the cargo plane. One would think that Kara would be able to support both parts of the plane.

This episode was exposition heavy, getting us more familiar with the new characters, mainly Samantha while exploring new dynamics between old favorites such as Lena and Jimmy and Alex and Maggie

Speaking of Alex and Maggie, will Maggie Sawyer ever catch a break with her love life?In the Superman comics, Maggie has as much luck in love as her television counterpart and a thing for redheads.

In the comics, Maggie is from Star City and formerly married fellow police officer James Sawyer. Although at the time she was uncertain about her own sexual identity, they had a daughter named Jamie. When Maggie later came out as a lesbian, James divorced her and won sole custody of Jamie, refusing to let Maggie have any contact with their daughter. Maggie ultimately moved to Metropolis when the SCU position where she was in a long-term relationship with Toby Raines, a reporter for the Metropolis Star. Maggie would later move to Gotham City (mid-2000s Gotham Central) comics, joining Gotham City’s police force as the head of the Major Crimes Unit The move placed some strain on her relationship since Toby did not follow her to Gotham. Maggie appeared at a charity ball attended by Katherine “Kate” Kane aka Batwoman (Detective Comics #856). While the two are dancing, Maggie mentions that she and Toby are no longer together and asks Kate for her phone number. Sawyer is a supporting character in the new Batwoman series (2011) and has begun dating Kate Kane, whose secret activities as Batwoman complicate their relationship. They had first met when Maggie, as a Metropolis police officer, arrived in Gotham as backup support for an arriving hurricane. They share a brief glance at precinct headquarters. Kane reveals her identity as Batwoman by proposing to her in costume in Batwoman #17.

Kate would later break off the relationship after their relationship became an issue during Maggie’s custody battle for her daughter. Maggie returned to Metropolis and the SCU at the beginning of the Rebirth Era.

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Next Episode: Midvale

Kara and Alex head home to Midvale for a little R&R. While there, Kara recalls a painful memory of a childhood friend’s death and how that traumatic experience brought the Danver sisters closer together.

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Episode 5: Girls Night Out

Felicity drops by, does something similar. While The Flash couldn’t sideline the men completely like Batman: The Animated Series, it does put

them in an equally fun side plot while Felicity, Iris, Cecile, and Caitlin save the day from the meta-of-the-week: Underground metahuman trafficker Amunet Black (Katee Sackhoff). Iris and Barry are, to borrow Harry’s words, about to “get inebriated with the same gender to celebrate an archaic institution.” In other words, it’s bachelor and bachelorette party time. Felicity is in town from Star City and Caitlin, is in flight mode after the threatening message she received last week, opts to sit this one out and ispreparing to hop on a plane to escape Amunet Black. She is convinced to join the girls by a crowned Iris and balloon-carrying Felicity convince her to join them and Cecile to join in the fun. While the girls are at dinner, things go south when Amunet’s glass-eyed goon Norvok shows up at the restaurant, interrupting the champagne toast. Felicity assumes he’s just a stripper who is bad at his job, but she quickly rethinks her position. Norvok says he is there to ‘pick Caitlin up’ and return her to her job.” Caitlin refuses, his eye falls out (instead of his pants falling down, much to Felicity’s dismay) and a weird tentacle emerges from his eye socket and starts attacking them. But these women fight back. The brawl awakens Killer Frost, who sends the goon flying through the restaurant’s window. Iris repeatedly trys to call the guys for help with the situation, but they can’t pick up because the bouncer at the strip club Ralph has taken them to has their phones. Killer Frost takes pleasure in pointing out to the women that Caitlin was keeping secrets from them and was planning to flee. Cecile is concerned about working with Killer Frost, Iris, on the other hand, opts to stand by their teammate, and follow Killer Frost as she goes to meet with Amunet Black. Killer Frost finds Amunet Black chilling in a nightclub. Killer Frost demands her freedom, but Amunet refuses, saying she wants Killer Frost to help protect her latest acquisition: The Weeper, a metahuman who cries dark matter tears which is also an addictive love drug. Amunet wants to sell the drug and shows that she has the ability to control a specific type of metal that also forces Killer Frost to revert back to Caitlin. Before the two can begin really fighting, Iris, who is hiding in the room, interrupts the chat and pulls Killer Frost away. Back at S.T.A.R. Labs, Killer Frost explains that Caitlin got tangled up with Amunet Black when she went looking for something that would help her keep her cold-hearted alter-ego in check.

In return, Amunet made Caitlin become her muscle. Caitlin goes to meet someone who will breacher her to another Earth, only to run into and be wounded by Amunet before being rescued by the women. Caitlin, rightfully so, points out that not like they have become besties over the past year and how she and Iris are really just work friends, which is why she never told her that she was still dealling with turning into Killer Frost or Amunet. Iris decides they have a responsibility to stop Amunet and save The Weeper, and she believing that they’re more than capable of handling this on their own without the guys who still haven’t returned her call. And yes they actually say #Feminism many times throughout the episode. Felicity and the Team Flash women are able to track down Amunet, by locating the specific magnetic field that Amunet’s metal give off. As an aside, is there nothing that a satellitte in this universe can’t do? They locate and show up at one of Central City’s many warehouses, where Amunet is meeting with someone interested in buying The Weeper. Iris and Felicity, who shows up with Captain Cold’s freeze gun, think they’ll be able to take Amunet and her men on by themselves, Caitlin, decides to hang back because she was afraid she’d lose control. Caitlin shows up and uses her Killer Frost powers to protect Iris and Felicity, while Cecile uses a magnet to separate Amunet from her bucket o’ special metal she must carry around with her. Killer Frost is given the opportunity to kill Amunet but doesn’t when Iris stops her, showing that Caitlin still has some control over Killer Frost. Amunet escapes, vowing to ruin something for Frost one day. They free The Weeper, who runs off and is captured by The Thinker, who doing his best impression of the New God Metron. Barry, Joe, Harry, and Cisco, who planned a chill night of cigars, brandy, and home videos at home end up at the strip club after Ralph, using his detective skills, learns about and crashes Barry’s bachelor party. The strip club that Ralph takes them to is the one where he is the number one customer according to the fact that his picture is prominantly displayed in the club. Barry is bummed that he won’t be ablr to get drunk at his bacholar party. But thanks to Cisco,who has whipped up a concentrated alcohol does the job and gets Barry hammered. Central City is lucky Barry is not a mean drunk. Barry goes around the bar yelling “I’m the Flash!,” and cries over the ending of Titanic and his love chicken wings. Joe, on the other hand is not having as much fun, he’s to busy freaking out about becoming a father again and it turns out Cecile’s daughter Joanie is a stripper at said

establishment. Joe confronts Joanie, who says she’s writing a book about the female experience and wants to show that a powerful woman be anything she wants. Joe suggests she think about the reason she hasn’t told her mother about her new gig. When Ralph is caught stealing a $20 from a stripper, a bar fightensues which lands them all behind bars. Joe opens up to Barry, who is hungover and barfing in the cell’s toilet, about his fears about becoming a father again. Barry tells Joe that he raised two children as a single father and that he and Iris, along with everyone else will be there to help him out, This calms Joe a bit and Harry springs them from jail. WHen they all return to S.T.A.R. Labs, they find Killer Frost waiting in the Cortex. This is obviously the last thing both Barry and Cisco want to deal with, meanwhile Ralph makes the comment that there are a lot of hot women on Team Flash, apparently, the Killer Frost look does it for him. Caitlin says her is not there to fight but to come clean to them about everything that has been happening to her. Iris asks Caitlin to be her bride’s maid of honor.

Who’s Who: New Characters introduced this episode

Amunet Black / Blacksmith

First Appearance: The Flash: Iron Heights (Jan. 2001)

Created by Geoff Johns and Ethan Van Sciver

Powers: Mechanokinesis which allows her body to be the perfect fusion between organic and inorganic, giving her the ability to fuse organic and inorganic matter.

Amunet Black ran and operated”the Network,” an underground black market in Central and Keystone City, the twin cities, which allowed super-villains to buy, sell, or move contraband. She also organized a new group of rogues. Blacksmith and her rogues launched their takeover of the twin cities and began by attacking the Flash. They attacked hard and fast, which left Flash tired and badly injured, but just as they were about to finish him off, they were stopped by the Thinker, who wanted to use the Flash’s brain to upload information. Blacksmith and Rogues defeated the Thinker and resumed their plan. Blacksmith used her power to transform her body into ebony metal, while villains in the Network began to loot and pillage the two cities. After her rogues were defeated, she tried a desperate attack by collapsing the bridge that connects Keystone City and Central City. The Flash quickly managed to rebuild the bridge and finally defeat Blacksmith by stranding her on a barge in the middle of the river. With her Network discontinued, she was sent to Iron Heights.

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Mortimer Gloom / The Weeper

First Appearance: Master Comics #23 (Feb. 1942)

In the DC comics, The Weeper is a legacy name of two supervillains. The original is Weeper Mortimer Gloom, a villain of Bulletman. After his death, Mortimer’s unnamed son succeeded him as a villain of Marvel Family. The Weeper is capable of the most brutal of murders, but sheds tears for his victims; he hates to see people happy but feels bad after he hurts them.

Mortimer Gloom version of Weeper appeared in the Batman: The Brave and the Bold episode “Joker: The Vile and the Villainous!” Joker encounters The Weeper was the first villain to use a signature motif in all his crimes and was Joker’s inspiration for becoming a supervillain.

In the Arrowverse, The Weeper, unnamed in the episode, was riding a bus on October 10, 2017, the man was exposed to dark matter particles resulting from Barry Allen’s return from the Speed Force. The dark matter in his body causes his tears to secrete a substance that acts like a psycho-active drug when ingested.

Hunk Norvok

First Appearance:

Norvok is a crime mob boss who gets entangled in a criminal case against then-District Attorney Cliff DeVoe. When DeVoe is forced to drop the case, it leads him down a much darker path as DeVoe forges a partnership with Norvok. DeVoe would eventually become suspicious of his counterpart, and a situation involving evidence tampering makes Norvok so paranoid that he attempts to kill DeVoe in order to prevent him from taking over his criminal organization. DeVoe tricks Norvok with a reflective steel plate and winds up shooting himself. DeVoe would later go on to become The Thinker.

Norvok is a crafty, ambitious man, a greedy gangster who compensates with determination and authority what he lacks in intelligence. Thirsty for money and power, he’s cruel enough to try any means at disposal to obtain them, but coward enough never to get his own hands dirty.

Flash Facts:

The title of the episode is the same as the Batman: The Animated Series episode “Girl’s Night Out,” about Batgirl and Supergirl teaming up to take on Livewire, Harley Quinn, and Poison

Ivy.

Ivy. Caitlin was booking a flight with Ferris Air, the company Hal Jordan works for in Coast City

There is another “this house is bitchin’” line tonight, which is a call back to the season premiere and what Cisco translated from Barry’s symbols upon his return from the Speed Force

The Ralph Dibny / Elongated Man character came off more Plastic Man / Eel O’Brian and we see Ralph stretch him arm really long to steal the $20.

Felicity’s makes a cross-company reference when comparing Caitlin/Killer Frost to Marvel’s The Incredible Hulk when Caitlin tells the women that Caitlin takes a backseat in the brain whenever Killer Frost emerges.

I have no doubt we will see Amunet and Norvok again this season.

Next Episode: When Harry met Harry

When collectors of Native American artifacts are attacked by a meta named Mina Chayton who can bring inanimate objects to life, Barry turns to a surprising ally for help.

Determined to crack the identity of The Thinker, Harry enlists Cisco’s help to summon the ultimate think tank: “The Council of Wells’,” a roundtable of the brightest Harrison Wells’ from various Earths.

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Episode 5: Return of the Mack

The episode start with Rip is doing his best Sherlock Holmes impression on the streets of London, 1895. He finds and is investigating a dead body drained of its blood with two puncture marks in its neck. Meanwhile back on the Waverider, Jax and Ray begin figuring out a way to separate Firestorm, an incredibly risky move; Amaya tries to connect with Zari over the fact they both have Totems, and it is somehow it connected to hers. Nate is all hopped up on a coffee induced high and has been reworking the map of the anachronisms to figure out where they should head next. He finds that there are two outliers that are not connected anchronisms, one being 2043 (where they picked up Zari) and “vampire killings in London 1895”. The team decides to travel to 1895 and check out the second outlier. Mick in particular can’t wait to fullfil a life long goal: kill a vampire. The team tracks down the pathologist performing an autopsy on the latest victim of the suspected vampiric attacks. While there, they realize that the man’s

somehow gotten his hands on a future watch produced by Ray’s company when the alarm goes off playing 1996 hit “The Return of the Mack” by British urban R&B singer Mark Morrison. The pathologist tells them that he snatched it off of a corpse that “fell from the sky,” before it was buried in an unmarked grave. Legends head to graveyard only to discover that the grave’s is empty, except for Rip Hunter, who climbs out of the hole and says he’s desperate for the Legends’ help. Ray and Jax study the watch on the ship and call Curtis / Mr. Terrific in 2017 to help identify the fingerprints on the watch. Rip tells Sara and Mick that he has turned his back on his own organization and has abandoned the Time Bureau, venturing out on his own to chase an evil named “Mallus.” He says the

Time Bureau has refused to help him track down a theoretical evil being, and so Rip’s been working on the case alone. He promises that he’ll get the Time Bureau off their tail as long as they help him catch the vampire, which in turn will lead them to Mallus. The team goes Vampire hunting, using Nate as bait, because as Mick put it, “he’s “pretty.” The plan works quickly and spectacularly when Nate gets kidnapped within five minutes of strolling around in the Victorian dark. He’s drugged and taken to a creepy operating room, where’s he’s greeted by Professor Stein’s great-great-grandfather, an eccentric actor, who is hosting an occult ritual involving the blood moon phenomenon and raising a man from the dead. Nate calls Sara relaying his current situation and what he has learned from his captors. This helps Rip connect the dots between what Nate sees and what he has learned about Mallus. They realize that Nate must have been taken to the headquarters of a group obsessed with the mystical. This is the second thing, the first being using Nate a bait, that they do correct this episode. Sara, Rip, Mick, Amaya, and Zari sneak into the ceremony. Sara and Rip go after Nate, easily dispatching the guards and the man about to inject Nate with poison and drain his blood to transfer into who or whatever is in the coffin also in the room. While they are freeing Nate, Zari, Amaya, and Mick are in the main hall where the ceremony is about to take palce. Zari, despite her doubts about the supernatural, gets sucked into a presentation by a mysterious woman who claims she can communicate with the dead. When the woman starts speaking to Zari as if she’s her brother and reveals that Zari ran away, leaving her brother to die at the hands of A.R.G.U.S. Zari can no longer keep it together and blows their cover. Par for the course, the team causes a ruckus before Sara and the rest are finally ready to leave. Back in the room where Nate was being held, Rip and Sara open the coffin to see the corpse in which Nate’s blood was supposed to have been pumped into. The body is none other than that of Damien Dahrk. At the same moment Jax and Ray have also finally figured it out; after examining the fingerprints left on the watch, they found that one of them belongs to Oliver Queen and cue the second ARROW cameo of the night, Curtis Holt/Mister Teriffic collect calls the Waverider with the reesults of the finger prints they couldn’t identify as belonging to Damian Dahrk. Once they return to the Waverider, Sara and Rip argue about what to do with Dahrk. She tries to convince him that they need to kill Darhk now no matter what; Rip would rather keep Darhk alive so they can get to Mallus. Rip concieds and tells Sara she’s right, only to leave the ship, but not before enacting a protocol that forces Gideon to lock the entire team inside, with no hope of escape. Zari is also off the ship having gone in search of the woman who supposedly channeled her brother. Zari wants to apologize to her brother and explain herself, especially now that

she’s been told by the team that they can’t ever change the past, no matter how much they want to. When meets with the woman again, the woman insists that she needs a memento in order to connect with Zari’s brother, which means Zari just casually hands over her totem, even after Amaya had just revealed to her that her totem matters, and that the connection she has to it is a special one. With the totem now in her possesion, the woman begins the ritual, first praising Mallus, but before she can continue, Rip jumps out with his gun and demands to speak to Mallus. Naturally, this backfires as the blood moon activates midway through their argument, Dahrk’s body glows as he is and resurrected, just in time for him to notice he’s lost his watch. Rip calls in the Time Bureau agents and Darhk enjoys his resurrection, killing any and all Time Bureau agents he can get his hands on while singing “Return of the Mack.” Rip pauses time but Dahrk is able to grab him and begins to choke the life out of him. Lucky for Rip, the Legends arrive to save their former captain after Sara manages to fly the ship despite the lockdown, and self-inflicts damage on the Waverider in order to open a door for them to fight with Rip against Mallus and his minions. Darhk easily dispatches the Legends and gathers the woman up in his arms, and by using some magic she was carrying, leaves 1895 London. Stein, who has learned of Jax’s plan to seperate Stein from the matrix and stabilize the entire thing in Jax and Stein come to an understanding about Jax’s need to separate them. Though Stein had been angry at first about Jax working with Ray behind his back. At the beginning of the epsiode, Jax and Ray were working on a to break up their psyche link, which leaves Jax suffering some short-term memory loss in the process. In the end, Stein concedes that his grandchild’s birth has greatly affected him emotionally and decides to pursue the idea of separation with Jax, right after Jax finishes patching up their poor cargo bay. Amaya and Zari also manage to find a connection. Though Zari didn’t take much of what Amaya said seriously in the beginning, she later trusts her enough to explain what happened to her brother and agrees to bonding with Amaya as they continue on their journey. Amaya’s tells Zari that she is the reason still with the team, is to help her. Damien Darhk’s is once again running around through time, but the Legends, at least, are secure in who they are. Sara calls up the Time Bureau to pick him up and keep him down, because she’s realized that Rip is simply incapable of ever being loyal to anyone. She says Rip has disgraced himself first as a Time Master, then by abandoning the

Time Bureau — the very organization he created — only to come crawling back to the Legends, once again betraying them so he could pursue his selfish goal. Sara’s had enough, and in exchange for Rip, the Time Bureau allows the Waverider to fly free. Too bad they won’t be able to keep that up for long. Rip, in his last moments aboard the Waverider, warns Sara that there’s a war coming, and that history needs her and the Legends to be ready.

Time Bubbles

Cult of the Blood Moon In the DCU the Cult of the Blood Red Moon is an ancient gathering of Vampires, often organized to eliminate and defeat protectors of mankind. It was formed by Mary Seward, the lover of Andrew Bennett, a celebrated English nobleman in Queen Elizabeth’s court. Mary was the Queen’s handmaiden, who begged Andrew to transform her too so they could be together for eternity. Mary lost her humanity and became a merciless killer. After proclaiming herself the Queen of Blood, Mary starts the Cult of the Blood Red Moon, a secret international organization of vampires. It is a sneaky reference and why I mentioned last week I was hoping for a nod to Andrew Bennett or Mary Seward… but it might play out later with Mallus turning out to be Mary Seward or Andrew Bennett.

In the DCU the Cult of the Blood Red Moon is an ancient gathering of Vampires, often organized to eliminate and defeat protectors of mankind. It was formed by Mary Seward, the lover of Andrew Bennett, a celebrated English nobleman in Queen Elizabeth’s court. Mary was the Queen’s handmaiden, who begged Andrew to transform her too so they could be together for eternity. Mary lost her humanity and became a merciless killer. After proclaiming herself the Queen of Blood, Mary starts the Cult of the Blood Red Moon, a secret international organization of vampires. At the end of the Episode, Zari is playing Mortal Kombat and using Liu Kane

Rip Hunter should not become a consult for structuring an organization.

Trust factors aside, if you create a group of to police the timestream, and you are a former Time Master who was right about Vandal Savage, why didn’t he make himself as the sole person in charge. Not Rip, instead, he has two people who are his equals in the Time Bureau hierarchy. Now let’s say you did what to have more than one person in charge just so things are on the up and up.if you were going to do something like that, why wouldn’t you make each head in charge of a specific portion of the agency, which would mean the final decision is left to him on the goals of the Time Bureau.

This makes me think that Mallus is somehow controlling Agent Sharpe or one of the other Time Bureau big wigs… maybe after this season Rip will create a smaller group similar to The Linear Men, something a little smaller and less bureaucratic.

Next Episode: “Helen Hunt”

The Legends track down an anachronism in 1930s Hollywood, they discover it’s none other than a time-displaced Helen of Troy and she’s just started a war between two film studios. As the Legends try to fix history and return Helen to the Bronze Age, things get complicated when they are blindsided by the appearance of a former enemy. Sara contemplates an offer she is made, which would make the Legends leave the anachronisms be. Meanwhile, Stein and Jax find themselves in an unusual predicament.

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Episode 5: Deathstroke Returns

This weeks episode sees the return of Slade Wilson aka Deathstroke asking for Oliver to help him locate his son. At the end of last season when Oliver asked Slade for help against Prometheus in exchange for information about the location of his son Joe Wilson, Slade told Oliver the Mirakuru’s effects had worn off and he was finally back in his right mind. As the cliffhanger from last week showed, Slade was asking for Oliver’s help after he located the whereabouts of his son, who had followed in Slade’s footsteps. Joe joined the Australian secret intelligence and his most recent mission landed him in trouble in a prison in Kasnia. Oliver doesn’t completely trust Slade, keeping his distance as Slade shares what he’s learned about Joe. Oliver is reluctant to helping Slade, especially since it was Slade who said he couldn’t operate in two worlds anymore. Slade assures him that his plan is one of diplomacy and that he requires Oliver Queen, not the Green Arrow. Oliver must also deal with the fact that he promised William he was finished being a vigilante, but Felicity says that he just needs to tell William a version of the truth, that he’s helping a friend find his son, which Oliver does. Oliver and Slade arrive in Kasnia, their contact is one of Slade’s old buddies, Nylander, who gives them intel on where to find his son along with making a comment about Slade and the Mirakuru. Slade’s plan to get his son involves Oliver going into the prison under the pretense of a humanitarian mission to free Joe, who now goes by the name Kane. Once Oliver has Joe and then are to go the airport and hop on a flight to London. The kicker here is that Slide insists that Oliver cannot reveal that he was involved. Oliver arrives at the prison to meet with the warden, who informs him that Joe died trying to break up a prison fight. When Oliver returns with this news Slade worries his son died not knowing he loved him. They return to the prison so Slade can say his goodbye only to find that the warden lied to Oliver Joe was investigating, the Jackals, who kidnapped him from the prison, casuing Slade to suit up as Deathstroke to go after the Jackels. To prevent Oliver from following him he drugs him and leaves him at the hotel. Slade storms the Jackals’ hideout, killing the Jackel’s left and right, his rampage eventually ends with him being surrounded by gunmen and Nylander, his source from earlier, appears and reveals he’s part of the Jackals. He asks what Slade hoped to accomplish to which Slade says he will join the Jackels if they release his son. Oliver wakes up, calls William who asks him if he is coming home soon, and that he hopes he has helped his friend find his son. Oliver makes his way to the hideout, arriving just in time for the big reveal. Turns out Joe is the leader of the Jackals, making his grand entrance and catching Slade by surprise…something that is not easy to do. The flashbacks return this week, but this time as a vehicle to add backstory to the Slade/Joe relationship. The flashbacks show Slade and Joe going camping together. Joe has doubts they’ll make it the entire weekend because Slade usually gets called off to work. He tells Joe he works for an airline which Joe totally doesn’t buy since he has a friend who father also works for an airline and they get free trips all the time and Slade doesn’t. Slade assures him, that is because h e works for a smaller airline. Slade knows that they will be there the whole weekend because this camping trip is a cover for a mission, Slade trying to get information on Yao Fei’s whereabouts from a Chinese foreign official who just happens to be camping nearby with his family. It is implied that Joe sees his father in his Deathstroke costume interrogating the official .The flashbacks do a good job of conveying the guilt he feels over the terrible job he’s done as a father and why he is so motivated to rescue Joe. Meanwhile back in Star City…

Vigilante makes his return targeting the councilwoman behind the anti-vigilante bill. After the second failed attempt on the councilwoman, Dinah is able to corner him and hit him with her sonic scream which cracks his visor. After he removes his mask it is revealed that Vigilante is Vincent Sobel, Dinah former partner, and lover, who she last saw getting shot in the head the night of the particle accelerator explosion in Central City. It turns out he didn’t die and instead became a vigilante…also. Dinah decides she has no other option but to take him down, realizing how far gone Vincent is. Diggle reminds her there is the possibility that the man she loved is still in there somewhere. Vigilante tries to kill the councilwoman a third time, and Dinah who is there as a police officer confronts him as Black Canary but when she comes face to face with him once again, Vincent reveals that the particle accelerator gave him healing powers, by taking a bullet to the head from a policeman. This reveals how and why he didn’t die that night. After he tells Dinah that after surviving that night, he realized they accomplished nothing as cops and Vigilante was born, as he decided to take matters into his own hands. As the cops approach the scene Dinah reluctantly lets Vincent flee the scene and tells the team he simply got away. After she is approached by Agent Watson, who questions her whereabouts during the evening’s events, implying that she knows Dinah is Black Canary. As Dinah turns to leave, she finds a cute matchbox waiting for her in her car that the Vincent she loves is still somewhere underneath the Vigilante persona. Speaking of Agent Watson, she continues her investigation in earnest, pressing Diggle, who foolishly believes his answers to her questioning has shut down the investigation. Wrong! Next, Agent Watson turns and puts pressure on Felicity, who has no patience for Felicity’s humor. By the end of the episode, Agent Watson has also issued a court order to question Rene, leaving Curtis feeling left out.

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Arrows in the Quiver

“Deathstroke Returns,” was a great episode and with Slade learning that his son Joe is not only alive but also the leader of the Jackals, will be a bigger story that will be continued in next week’s episode.

It feels to me like they are making Slade’s son a combination of Grant (his oldest son) and Joseph (Jericho) for this Arrowverse version of the character

Grant Wilson grew up idolizing Deathstroke (Slade Wilson), although he was unaware that the mercenary was his father because his parents had been separated. Grant attended military school and later moved to NYC, at which point he began falling in with members of H.I.V.E. who experimented on him giving him powers like his father. He adopted the alias Ravenger and died after he tried to kill the Teen Titans.

Joseph later known as the Teen Titan Jericho, was the son of Slade Wilson, a.k.a. Deathstroke the Terminator. When he was a child, he was held hostage by The Jackal, a terrorist who was after his father. Deathstroke refused to give Jackal the information he wanted because it went against his professional code of ethics. Deathstroke managed to rescue his son, but not before one of Jackal’s men had started to cut his throat. As a result, he was rendered mute.

It will be interesting to see which direction they go with the Joe Wilson character on the show

The part of the flashbacks with Slade and Joe camping is similar to the Deathstroke Rebirth origin written by Christopher Priest

The big reveal of Vigilante was “meh.” Besides doing very little build up to tease it, I am sure most people were like me trying to remember who Vincent was since he was introduced the middle of the season, so when he takes off his mask during his first confrontation with Dinah along with her reaction both fall flat.

It also felt off, especially since they used the Adrian Chase name for Prometheus last season. Last season when Adrian and the Vigilante both appeared around the same time on the show, I like many probably thought he was Vigilante since, in the DCU, the origin of this character (not the original Golden Age, Seven Soldiers of Victory cowboy hat and bandana-wearing Vigilante) was a lawyer turned deadly anti-hero when he began taking the law into his own hands.

They could have played on the DC Continuity that there has been a legacy of ruthless executioners to take up the costume following the death of Adrian Chase. I am also not sure how I feel about him having a Wolverine-esqe healing ability.

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Next Episode: Promises Kept

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As Slade continues to uncover clues about his son’s last few years, Oliver makes a big decision. Meanwhile, Green Arrow leads the team into battle against “The Dragon”, a villain who is stealing valuable tech in Star City

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