Episode 9: Bereft
Takes place on September 4 - 5
Miss Martian stumbles through a desert at night, at first not even realizing she's on Earth. Superboy crashes next to her and acts feral, neither recognizing each other. Robin wakes up and learns they're in Bialya, having no idea how he got there and realizing there is a six-month gap in his memory. Finally, Kid Flash and Artemis wake up in a shack, also having fractured memories. Eventually, Miss Martian is able to repair their memories using her telepathy, getting Robin, Artemis, Kid Flash and herself back to normal as well as finding Aqualad, who is badly dehydrated. Superboy, however, has been captured by Psimon and Bialyan troops who are testing some new technology on him. Miss Martian goes for the rescue and ends up in a psionic duel with Psimon, who made them lose their memories in the first place. Superboy, after some help from the extraterrestrial sphere that the team was sent to the country to examine, gets his memories back and helps Miss Martian take Psimon down. The team escapes with the sphere in tow, Aqualad finally coming to.
Psimon reports to the Light, who show footage of the sphere's arrival via boom-tube (the preferred mode of transportation for people like Darkseid and the New Gods) and remark that more will be coming.
Notes:
- As reminder of the timeframe, the first episode of the show started just three months before this one did, so the six-month memory gap has removed everyone's memories of the Team.
- Artemis suggests, after seeing the bow and not having her memory back, that she's there with Kid Flash to kill him as a part of one of her dad's tests. Later after their memories are restored, Artemis denies it being reality, claiming she was just confused by a TV show she saw. This suggests that she is possibly Sportsmaster's daughter as hinted last episode.
- One of the voices of the Light was Marina Sirtis, who will supposedly be voicing Queen Bee.
- The alien sphere appears to be some variant of a Mother Box, which is technology from New Genesis.
- One of the images Miss Martian flashes through when restoring Superboy's memory is actually from the Show Within a Show "Hello Megan".
- Before that, in a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment at the very start of the memory restoration, she briefly flashes an image of herself in her true form: as a White Martian.
