Episode 4: Salvage
Takes place on February 12 - 14
Nightwing, Wally West (Kid Flash), Green Arrow, Black Canary, and Jim Harper (The Guardian) give Red Arrow, who is a wreck over his repeated failed attempts to find the real Speedy, a midnight rooftop intervention. Meanwhile Superboy and Blue Beetle track Intergang members who reanimate the Appellaxian Golems with Apokoliptian technology. They lose control of the combined creature, and it attempts to destroy a nuclear power plant in order to stop feeling pain. The Sportsmaster and an unseen ally (the same one working with Black Manta in the last episode) then destroy the Golem and mindwipe the two Intergang members.
Notes:
- According to Superboy, the Justice League first fought the Appellaxians twelve years ago (six and a half years before the start of the series).
- Cheshire quit being a villain and married Roy, but returned to her former life when his obsession with finding the real Speedy took over everything else in his life. She just revealed to him that they have a daughter together, Lian Harper.
- Several components of Blue Beetle's history are presented in this episode. Jaime Reyes claims the Blue Beetle Scarab contains an AI that was invented by Ted Kord, the first Blue Beetle. It is implied Kord died before ever meeting Reyes, but that Superboy was familiar with his work. At several points in the episode, it is shown the technology of the Scarab and Apokoliptian technology are "not compatible".
- Wally and Artemis have retired from the superhero business and are attending the same college and still dating, as well as living together.
