Episode 13: The Fix
Takes place on April 9
The team questions Green Beetle. Miss Martian establishes a psychic link with Green Beetle but feels uncomfortable probing his mind, so he gives his thoughts to her. He tells the team that the Reach's additives will over generations make humanity docile and unable to resist (which they knew) and that they included stuff that will allow them to track potential meta humans (which they didn't know). They decide to go to the League but are doubtful the public will believe them.
Meanwhile Psimon is about to read Aqualad's mind. Artemis/Tigress hits him with a dart that will knock him out for weeks, though he reads her mind and attacks her before he passes out. Hoping Miss Martian can help Aqualad, she convinces Black Manta that Miss Martian put a "psychic virus" in Aqualad's mind and that the only way to undo it is to kidnap her and get her to fix his mind.
At the Chicago Zeta tube, which is in a junk yard, Miss Martian and Lagoon Boy have some brief drama when Artemis/Tigress and Deathstroke attack. Lagoon Boy's leg is broken and Miss Martian, mind linked with Artemis, goes along with it. She wakes up with a collar restraining all her powers but her telepathy, and is told by Black Manta if she helps Aqualad she'll live. Miss Martian is afraid that Aqualad will attack her if she goes in his mind, so Artemis comes with her. Aqualad's mind is a ruined version of Atlantis, and a version of Tula attacks them. Her attacks don't harm Artemis since she realizes it's not real, but hurt Megan since she feels guilty about what she did. Artemis finds what's left of Kaldur and brings him to Miss Martian. As they talk to him Tula disappears, and Miss Martian helps Aqualad rebuild Atlantis, though it will take many days. Later in private, Black Manta tells Artemis/Tigress that after Aqualad is healed he will kill Miss Martian anyway.
Notes:
- Nightwing reveals Aqualad's fake defection and Artemis's fake death to Superboy and Lagoon Boy. (It's implied Superboy already knew from Megan.) He defends Nightwing in front of Lagoon Boy but in private reveals what Miss Martian did to Aqualad and chews him out for keeping secrets.
- Green Beetle helps Blue Beetle gain complete control of his Scarab. Blue Beetle is thrilled but for some reason Impulse is less than thrilled.
- Black Manta assumes, incorrectly, that his son and Tigress are involved in an amorous relationship.
Tropes in this episode:
- Psychic Block Defense: Played With, after sedating Psimon so he can't discover Kaldur's true alligence through reconstructing his memory Tigress asking a leading question to make it seem that Kaldur's mind has been infected with a telepathic virus to prevent someone healing it.
