Episode 3: Welcome to Happy Harbor
Takes place on July 17 - 18
The Cold Open has the team (sans Superboy and Miss Martian) teaming up with Speedy against a superstrong criminal. They win, and the kids ask Speedy to join the team, but he rejects them. They return to "the secret mountain base thing" (Mount Justice, the League's old headquarters, where they are now based). Superboy angsts, and Miss Martian tries to commiserate with him telepathically; however this just makes him mad. Robin explains that people on Earth don't like having their minds read, and that it probably reminds Superboy of the mind control he was under. Their team mentor, Red Tornado, then arrives. Miss Martian tries to read his mind but cannot, because he's a robot. Later the team goes on a joy ride in Miss Martian's alien spaceship. Red Tornado contacts them to tell them about an attack on Happy Harbor, the town near their base.
The villain, Mister Twister, defeats the team easily. Due to being unable to read his mind, Miss Martian incorrectly deduces that he must be Red Tornado testing them. Superboy gets angry at Miss Martian for 'tricking' them into thinking Mister Twister was Red Tornado. Twister attacks somewhere else, seeking to fight Red Tornado. Miss Martian comes up with a plan and tells the team via telepathy.
Red Tornado shows up and takes on Twister by himself; he seems to be defeated. Mister Twister tries to reprogram Red Tornado. Surprise! It's actually Miss Martian in disguise (she can change form at will). Mister Twister is defeated by the kids using real teamwork. His chest opens up to reveal a scrawny guy inside, meaning Twister was really a robotic suit. Miss Martian smashes the pilot with a giant rock. The team is suitably outraged until she reveals that he was actually a robot (which makes it totally okay to destroy it) which she could tell since she couldn't read his mind either.
They take the broken remains of the scrawny robot back to Mount Justice. Red Tornado suspects it may have been after him. The scene cuts to a guy (who is revealed to have been piloting Mister Twister remotely) and his boss. At the end of the episode, Superboy finally apologizes to Miss Martian, leaving them on a good note.
Notes:
- In the original comics, the Justice League abandoned their original headquarters for the Justice League Satellite after its secret was compromised (as said this episode); the person who betrayed them was their own teenage team mascot, Snapper Carr. Note also that there was no interim Hall of Justice headquarters (The Hall was invented for the Superfriends animated television show; it was added in the comics later).
- Mister Twister is based on an obscure Teen Titans villain—in fact, the very first one. Robin, Kid Flash and Aqualad formed the Teen Titans after defeating Twister.
- The scientist in the end seems to be T.O. Morrow, the villain who created Red Tornado.
- The unnamed Scary Black Man in the Cold Open is Brick
, a minor enemy of Green Arrow.
