Fridays are just better when you've got Young Justice in your corner! Next Friday is going to be an even bigger one! Four episodes are scheduled to make their debut but alas, they will be the last four for at least a few months! The show is scheduled to return in June and in the mean time, DC Universe will be debuting their other live action series, Doom Patrol! So, we really need to make sure we save up on all the goodness that Young Justice as to offer next week! Speaking of next week, we have the one-liner synopses for the next four episodes (we will update when we have more)! Check them out below:

Exceptional Human Beings:

The search for Tara Markov continues.

Another Freak:

It's the first day of school for Violet & Forager.

Nightmare Monkeys:

Gar Logan tests out a pair of VR goggles.

True Heroes:

Grayson's team attempt to stop a meta slave-auction.

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With the summation of this episode, the sudden realization starts to set in that there are only four left in the season. I feel as if I’ve just barely started loving this show, and now it’s nearly time to say goodbye again. Fortunately, ‘Home Fires’ has enough sweetness in it to cheer me up. Hopefully it did the same for you! The Outsiders continue their training and are surprised to receive not one, but two surprise attacks. The first one doesn’t count, as it comes from Nightwing, but the second one is by alien bounty hunter Lobo. Remember him? He’s set on exterminating Forager. To ease you off your worry, the subplot focuses on one of the cutest moments Young Justice has to date: the Super Parent meetup group. That’s right, we get to see all of the children from members of the league and their spouses play around while their parents talk. In case you missed something, let’s dig in:

1. An Urgent Situation: This episode opens up with a shadowy meeting of the Light, in which Queen Bee mentions two urgent situations. One will be handled by the ‘new hire’, which we can only assume is the new leader of the League of Shadows, and the second will be handled by Vandal Savage’s acquaintance. The scene then cuts to bounty hunter Lobo on the planet Rimbor. He receives an offer, likely to exterminate an alien on Earth, and then accepts it.
2. The Tornado Twins: In Central City, Iris watches the news with her twins Don and Dawn playing beside her. Cat Grant covers the opening of a new Metahuman Youth Center. It is run by Eduardo Dorado Sr., and we get a glimpse of both Livewire and Mist being welcomed there by Ed Jr. and the former Neutron (aka, Nathaniel). The doorbell rings and the twins zap to it, but not before Bart can scoop them up. It’s really endearing, and also a little strange, to see Bart helping raise his future Aunt and Father. Iris definitely feels it too, as she has to remind him not to call Don ‘Dad’. Iris opens the door and greets Mera and her son, Artur. Before things get too cushy, a threatening presence spies on them from the house across the street, ominously mentioning that there’s twelve more people yet to arrive.
3. Granny Goodness: Conner, Forager and Brion all watch G. Gordon’s show in their home, so seemingly they’re all getting along very nicely. Remember when I mentioned that the Goode VR Goggles were cause for alarm? Their creator appears on G. Gordon’s show, and while she attempts to appear a sweet old lady, I’m not buying it for a minute. Especially with her implications from previous DC Comics. Stay on alert, readers, this can’t mean anything good. Conner turns off the TV when M’Gann enters the room because he knows she dislikes it, and we get a little tease onto what M’Gann is up to now. Seems she’s working at Happy Harbor High with Snapper Carr. Still unclear of whether Snapper is living with them or just pops up at their house every so often, but it’s hilarious nonetheless. Brion sulks and continues to follow Markovian news, where his brother announces that they will not be deporting Quraci refugees.
4. Parent Playdates: Back in Central City, more parents and children have arrived. Will Harper chats with Lynn Stewart about Jefferson’s reinvolvement with Dick’s Outsiders team. Lynn seems happy for him, and then brings up the idea of Will and Artemis gets together. He shuts it down, but I’m not all too convinced. More visitors arrive, and we finally get our first look at a very pregnant Karen when Raquel and her son Amistad open the door to greet her. Before I can wallow in the cuteness of it all, that ominous voice comes again, noting that more people have arrived and still more are yet to come.
5. Attack of the Nightwing: The Outsiders team gets together at a training site with Jefferson and Dr. Jace. Neither Halo or Brion are too thrilled to see her, and honestly I don’t blame them. Before they can get past usual greetings, the teenagers are attacked from an unknown mercenary. Halo and Forager are quick to realize they are being tested and go on the defense, while Brion is rather lost. Needless to say, Halo and Forager excel in this exercise, and Brion fails.
6. It’s Lonely Being a Dad: Red Tornado enters the parent meetup in his human android form, bringing along his daughter. Will expresses gratitude that he’s not the only dad there, earning him quite a disparaging scold from the fellow mothers and shutting him up entirely. If this entire subplot wasn’t sweet enough for you, the kids beg ‘Uncle John’ to ‘do the twisty’ for them, and we get an adorable shot of little tornados encircling the kids while they all cheer and jump for joy.
7. A Nightmare called Lobo: While Brion may have failed the first surprise attack, he is soon tested again when Lobo arrives, intent on killing Forager. Everyone is quickly set to attack and protect the bug, but just as in Season Two, Lobo proves a difficult match. Halo is killed yet again, and I have to wonder if there’s a limit to her resurrection powers. No need to fear, for this episode does not express that limit and she quickly heals herself to continue the fight.
8. The Time has Come: Lois Lane arrives at the parent meetup with her and Superman’s son, Jonathan. With the final two visitors having arrived, the mysterious man in the house across the street sheds off his cloak and reveals he is Oceanmaster. He put together this plan to get rid of all the children in one place. Before you have a heart attack, Lady Shiva makes her presence known and warns him that the Light does not approve of his plan. He is insistent on carrying out his revenge, so she silences him with a beheading. I don’t know about you, but I’m just glad nothing came to fruition because I would raise hands if anyone tried to harm any of those children.
9. And So The Deed is Done: Lobo is relentless in his attack to exterminate Forager, and doesn’t cease until he is destroyed. Forager rolls out in his shell and before anyone can stop him, Lobo crushes him to bits and leaves. Don’t worry though, you won’t even need a chance to mourn because a very pink and naked Forager exits from behind a rock and reveals that he shed his exoshell to trick Lobo. Everyone cheers, but not all is well. We return to the Light’s meeting, where Queen Bee reveals that sending Lobo to exterminate Forager was only a ruse to see and confirm Count Vertigo’s testimony about Nightwing having assembled a new covert team. Granny Goode steps out of the shadows and into the light, revealing that she has a plan to correct these children in time.

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So far, every season of Young Justice has had its episode(s) where the true meaning of the actions doesn’t come until closer to the end. Examples of this include ‘Depths’, where Artemis was ‘killed’ and then revealed to in on a ploy with Dick, Kaldur and Wally. In season one, Usual Suspects uses this strategy to reveal the true intentions of Artemis, M’Gann and Superboy who allegedly join the bad guys in Santa Prisca. Triptych is this season’s model, in which three different teams handle three different missions that all result in one endgame. Were you confused? Let’s go over the details to make sure you’re all caught up.

1. Vanishing Act: Right off the bat we’re introduced to three new metahumans: Mist, Livewire, and Shade. Only they’re not stuck in a human trafficking ring, they’re working for the League of Shadows under Cheshire. They infiltrate Star Labs in Detroit with the intent of stealing a device left behind by the Reach during last season’s invasion. Just as Shade has swallowed the device with his shadow powers, security is called. Cheshire takes down security, only to get shot in the aftermath. Dick and his Outsiders team use this opportunity to get intel about the shadows from the injured Cheshire. Halo discovers a new power, and Artemis gets some one-on-one time with Cheshire. We find out that Cheshire has indeed left behind Will and Lian, though she seems to regret leaving the latter. She divulges that the Shadows are being run out of Santa Prisca, and makes her escape with Shade.
2. Team BatArrow Go: In one of the most anticipated team-ups of the season, Tim, Orphan, Spoiler and Arrowette follow the Mad Hatter who is supposed to be on parole. After a quick dice from Orphan’s sword, we discover that Clayface has secretly been posing as the Mad Hatter so the real Hatter can continue his dirty work. The team converges in Hatter’s secret location in which he’s testing out a submissive nano-injection on a young metahuman male. The most entertaining parts of this scene is not the fight between the team, Clayface and Hatter, but rather the interesting quips and interactions between the team. This is our first real look at Orphan, Spoiler and Arrowette, and it does not disappoint. Hopefully we get a deeper look at all of them in a future episode. Hatter escapes with the metahuman male and blows up the warehouse, but not before Tim finds a control device.
3. The Worst Luck: Billy Batson is all grown up, and he’s now working with Barry Allen on a transport of two prisoners to Belle Reve. One of these prisoners you’ll recognize, as it’s Brick from ‘Private Security’. The other, a young male we haven’t yet seen, remains a mystery. Sportsmaster interrupts the transport with Abra Kadabra, fully intent on breaking out the prisoners. I’m not sure what’s more surprising, the fact that Sportsmaster is still kicking or the fact that he still has all his hair despite being over 60. Aquaman and Rocket come to assist Flash and Captain Marvel; it’s nice to finally see a different combination of Leaguers working together. However, despite the four on two attack, Sportsmaster still manages to escape with the mystery man, and they disappear without a trace.
4. It’s all Coming up Gotham: All team members from the previous scenarios converge in Gotham, along with Miss Martian, Batman and Wonder Woman. In a juicy twist, we discover that Aquaman and Wonder Woman knew about Batman’s ‘coup’, as it was a way for certain leaguers to work out of sight. It is finally revealed how the three missions are all tied together: the mystery man Sportsmaster escaped with was the same metahuman that Hatter injected. This man becomes Shade, who was under Cheshire’s control. We learn that this was the work of another metahuman trafficking syndicate, the Branchwater chain. Branchwater is controlled by Simon Stagg, whose methods differ from Bedlam in that he doesn’t create new metahumans, but rather recruits metahuman criminals and controls them via a nano-injection. Thanks to the efforts of the three teams and Oracle, all metahumans are freed from control and Stagg is arrested for his crimes. However, one metahuman did escape: Shade. Dick mentions that he is still under Cheshire’s control, but we see her give him the control device and he ominously appears in Stagg’s prison cell, possibly looking for retribution. Wonder Woman is not happy about lying to the other leaguers and the public about Batman and co.’s true intentions, and we’re left to wonder if it will eventually work out, or if this development will blow up in their faces. If we know anything about Young Justice, explosions are very much of the norm, so I’d expect the latter.

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Welcome back to week three of Young Justice Outsiders! Are you still in shock that we’re even getting new episodes of this show? Because I definitely am. Hard to believe that next week is the last batch of episodes we’ll be getting until June. No time for tears, though, we have an episode to recap. ‘Evolution’ primarily focuses on the origins of Vandal Savage and how the organization of the Light was initially founded. While that covers the serious side of things, the subplot revolves around a beach training day with our favorite Outsider team. What went down? Let’s find out:

1. The Savior Called Vandal Savage: If you were ever curious on how Earth-16’s Vandal Savage came to be, then this is the episode for you. Vandal’s daughter, Cassandra, is given a storybook by his other daughter, Olympia, and is instructed to read all about her father’s rise to power. His journey begins after an attack from a bear who gives him his signature facial scars. We follow along as he becomes the first metahuman and sets up an alliance with Darkseid, finally giving us the essential backstory we needed to understand how it came to be.
2. Attack of the Unknown: In tandem with learning about Vandal’s past, we see his present, in which an alien force is set to attack Earth. Funnily enough, because of the Light’s meddling with the Justice League, nobody is able to assist save for Vandal himself. Despite his warnings, they attack the Warworld anyway. He takes matters into his own hands and prepares the Warworld for attack, requesting help from Darkseid to aid in his battle. When the aliens don’t relent to this attack, he discovers that they are a species of star creatures he has battled in the past, in Babylon. Realizing that the bond between father and daughter was what helped to defeat them originally, he gives command of the Warworld to Cassandra and then takes it upon himself to defeat the main star creature himself. Together, they both conquer the fleet and Earth will never know of the attack.
3. Dinner and a Nightcap: In one of the oddest pairings this show has given us yet, Jefferson and Dr. Helga Jace go out to dinner. If you felt odd watching this, I am right there with you. She laughs about how she’s having difficulty getting a position in research, but honestly, I’d question the person who would hire her after being involved in a metahuman trafficking syndicate. After dinner, they get a little drunk and go back to Dr. Jace’s room for some more one-on-one bonding.
4. Beach Bodies: Nothing’s ever as simple as just a fun day on the beach; at least, not in the YJ verse. It’s finally time to train the Outsiders on how to work as a team. New super-suits, new names, and new powers galore! Well, new powers for Halo, that is. Seems like there’s just an untapped well of potential inside her that only leaves the viewer ever more curious. Forager grows ever more endearing, and it’s nice to see the Outsiders finally learning to use their powers effectively and working together as an efficient team. It’s certainly an improvement over how they worked in ‘Rescue Op’, that’s for sure.
5. Death in the Family: Throughout the episode, the growing-senile Olympia continues to worry both Vandal and Cassandra. Olympia has been the one recording all of Vandal’s stories, much to his displeasure. He takes mercy on her and kills her quickly, stating that he couldn’t risk his stories getting out. Not when he has millenia worth of plans to follow through on.

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