We are so excited today! Just as we are getting close to the three episode finale, we are gushing over additional Young Justice content! Our very own Ariel Horn sat down with the incredible folks over at Whelmed: The Young Justice Files and recorded an episode of their podcast! If you are still sitting on the edge of your seat from yesterday's episode and just want more Young Justice in your life, you have to listen to this podcast! Hear the crazy way Ariel found herself joining YJ.TV, the unorthodox viewing order she started the show with and her unabashed love for the Young Justice series!

We want to also give a special thank you shout out to Whelmed: The Young Justice Files for featuring Ariel. Their podcast is of the upmost quality and if you are fan like we are, this podcast is the most perfect addition to your life! Be sure to catch all of their episodes on their site!

We’ve nearly reached the end, my friends! Terminus marks the second to last week before the final three episodes, and I can guarantee that there’s no slowing down. This episode was a real heavy-hitter on the nostalgia front, which probably either rendered you to absolute joy or utter tears. Not sure if there’s much of an inbetween. 

With Halo kidnapped by Granny, everyone is trying to scramble and find out where she is. They get her coordinates from an unexpected person: Vandal Savage. The original team, plus Tara, Brion and Forager, travel to Granny’s Orphanage to rescue Halo. Despite one very nostalgic fever-dream and a whole lot of effort, the group ends up enslaved under the Anti-Life Equation. Confused? Don’t be, I got you covered below!

1. Attempt at Rescue: The Justice Leaguers stationed in space attempt to rescue the captured meta teens from Granny’s orphanage. However, before they can get very far, Granny’s torture device is enabled. Combined with Halo’s polarized healing powers, the leaguers present fall under the Anti-Life Equation, thus putting them under Granny’s control. 
2. Lost in Thought: Jefferson and Virgil sit on the beach together. Virgil attempts to cheer up his mentor with some genetically modified American meat, I mean, hot dogs, but it only reminds Jefferson of Helga. The two sit in silence, likely wondering how things got to be so wrong. 
3. Gone Missing: At the Premiere building, many of our beloved heroes are desolate as Halo cannot be found. Per Granny’s TV interview, they’ve raided all of the Goode World industries, but have found nothing. As neither Sphere, Motherbox nor Victor could sense Halo, the group believes she must be off world. Dick is hopeful that they’ll find her, and it’s quite a relief to see him up and walking again. Kaldur has promised Barbara that he’ll keep an eye on him, much to Dick’s displeasure. 
4. Trouble in Paradise: As we all probably expected, Conner and M’gann are going through quite the rough patch after M’gann’s role in the Anti-Light was revealed. M’gann tries to explain her reasoning to Conner, but he isn’t having it. Honestly, I have to side with him just a bit in this argument.
5. An Unexpected Visitor: Conner and M’gann’s conversation is cut short by the arrival of someone unexpected: Vandal Savage. He provides them with coordinates for Halo’s location, allowing the group to find her. They ask what he wants in return, but he only wants one thing. When the time comes, he wants them to tell Granny exactly who sent them. Seems like the Darkseid/Vandal power struggle is only escalating. 
6. Traught, Whelmed and Feeling the Aster: M’gann calls in the team to recover Halo, but as Thirteen is training with Zatanna and cannot be reached, Nightwing volunteers to sub in. Kaldur is tagging in too, in order to keep his promise to Barbara and watch over Dick. Despite Brion’s status as an Outsider, he insists on coming along as well. With instructions to be ready for anything, everyone boom tubes to Vandal’s coordinates. 
7. Team on a Mission: As soon as the group arrives, they are attacked by Parademons. They’re no match for our team, and are taken out quickly. Once Motherbox has a lock on Violet’s location, the team splits up into Alpha and Beta. Alpha (Aquaman, Tigress, Miss Martian, Nightwing and Superboy) is responsible for keeping the Parademons distracted and occupied, and Beta going to track down Halo. Once Beta is gone, Kaldur notices the Javelin not too far from them. He surmises that they are on Granny’s asteroid base, as the League was staging a raid to rescue the missing meta teens. Superboy doesn’t hear any signs of a fight, and Miss Martian is unable to psychically connect with her uncle, raising some concerns. Nightwing informs them that because of Granny’s influence, Violet can now influence anyone without a fight. As an attack is imminent, Alpha prepares for a fight, keeping the attention away from Beta squad. 
8. Silent Recollection: Jefferson takes Static back home to Dakota, and continues to reflect on the events leading him to this moment, including Batman leaving the League and Dick recruiting him. He’s obviously still very bothered by it all. Clearly not feeling the aster.
9. A Fight to Remember: Beta Squad continues to track down Halo, discovering that Mantis has aligned to help Darkseid. Poor Forager. While Alpha fights Parademons and the Furies, Nightwing is knocked to the side and has a fever dream. He imagines the team back in their early prime, with an extra member: Wally. Bring on the feelings, y’all. Together, the team takes down the Parademons and the Furies, and Nightwing hacks the Javelin for some additional support. When he recovers from the dream, he discovers that because of the mind link, the rest of the team was also able to see what he was seeing. He’s comforted by Artemis before they go to take Granny down for good. 
10. Playtime: Jefferson visits his family in Metropolis. We get a very cute scene (and possible foreshadow?) of Anissa and Jennifer pretending to have powers and being heroes. He finally allows himself to relax and play with them, starting to finally recover from his funk. 
11. A Trap: Forager, Tara and Geoforce finally find Halo, but Granny is with her. Granny taunts Brion, goading him for all the betrayals he’s gone through. Geoforce is on the verge of blowing up, but it’s just a trick. He’s pretending to act this way so Granny will be off guard when they stage a calculated attack. However, Martian Manhunter (under the influence of the Anti-Life Equation) intercepts and shuts down the mind-link between the three. The controlled Leaguers attack and subdue the three without much fanfare. Alpha squad senses that something isn’t right. As Miss Martian senses nothing on the Leaguers, she surmises that they’re all under Granny’s control. Aquaman insists that Miss Martian mind-blast everyone in the room to free them of control, but Superboy is vehemently against this idea, given how well that worked last season. Miss Martian insists that it’s the only thing to do, and she’s willing to accept the consequences for the sake of the universe. 

The Anti-Life Equation: While Alpha rushes to the rescue, Granny explains her plan to Tara, Geoforce and Forager. Under Darkseid’s will, she plans to enslave the entire world to the Anti-Life Equation. Non-Metas will suffer and likely not survive the process. Geoforce tries to rouse Halo from her control, but to no avail. Miss Martian blasts everyone, but there isn’t enough time. Granny engages the torture device, and Halo unwillingly activates her polarized healing power, enslaving everyone in the room. For the first time, the team seems to be truly defeated. Dun dun dun. Looks like the Outsiders are going to have to come save them, huh?

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We are really starting to get close to the end of season three now! Thank goodness (no not Granny Goodness) that we have a season four to look forward to! Next Tuesday will be the last new episode released as a single episode. Its going to be a BIG episode so get ready! To help you start to imagine what is coming, we have five brand new images for the episode below. Additionally, we have the one line synopsis for you as well as a refresher! Check them out below:

The hunt for Halo is on. Pray the team doesn't find her.

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Today’s the day, readers! This is the episode we’ve finally been waiting for, where Dr. Jace is finally (finally) confirmed as a nut-job, and everything goes to hell. I feel so satisfied. Really. Every time I watch Jace’s monologue, I get a sigh of deep relief. Now I’m just waiting for her to finally get what’s coming to her. 

So what exactly went down this week? Well, as Dick shakes with fever and the Batfam tends to him, Jefferson finally realize that something suspicious is going on. He puts the puzzle pieces together about the Anti-Light and then explodes in rage. Meanwhile, Tara and Deathstroke have a nice little heart-to heart, and Dr. Jace kidnaps Violet and delivers her to Granny. Fun times! Let’s dig into those in a little more detail, shall we?

1. An Afternoon Meeting: Over in Mongolia, the Light listens as Granny explains how the team of heroes came to rescue Dick and Jefferson from her house. She is intrigued by Victor and Violet, but Ultra Humanite insists that he has plans for Violet, as he had first rights to her. Vandal, however, is not satisfied by this arrangement. 
2. Touching Reunion: Tara takes a casual 2AM stroll around Hollywood, but is quickly interrupted when Deathstroke corners her. He calls her out on lying to him and withholding information, something that Tara cannot refute (even though she tries). In a truly engaging interaction, he uses his position to convince her that the heroes are no good, and that they don’t care for her. In my opinion, their interaction was one of the strongest parts of the episode; it rings similar to what an interaction between Sportsmaster and Artemis would have been like while she was growing up.
3. Death’s Door: Dick is still gravely ill, suffering from the effects of Granny’s ghost dimension. Many members of the Bat Family have come to tend to him, including Alfred, Barbara, Bruce, and Tim (in civvies for the first time!).
4. Breakfast for Dinner: Vic, Forager, Brion, Violet and Gar sit together for dinner. Brion watches a video of a new group of heroic meta-teens that call themselves Infinity Inc. Garfield isn’t concerned by it; he sees it more that the Outsiders have inspired them to take action, and that’s a good thing in his book. Violet, being the precious child that she is, is disappointed that her powers are unable to help heal Dick. Gar wants to take down Granny, convinced that she has something brewing. He’s not wrong, especially given the after-credits scene we saw last week. 
5. Solving the Puzzle: While Dick rests with a mountain of ice atop of him (to bring down his fever), Bruce requests a word with Kaldur and M’gann. As they go off to the side, Jeff senses something suspicious. He finally starts to put the pieces together about the Anti-Light, and immediately blows up on everyone. Jefferson is unable to be calmed, or reasoned with, as his anger escalates to a point where he calls everyone out on what they’ve done. Tara observes it until Dr. Jace places a control chip on her, and leads her away.
6. A Hasty Exit: Meanwhile, Vandal is requested for a meeting with Darkseid. As that goes down, Dr. Jace escorts Violet to her car, where Brion and Tara are already waiting. Dr. Jace insists that her mentor finally found a cure to heal Violet and that she told Tara and Brion about her condition so Violet wouldn’t have to. Yeah, super not suspicious at all. 
7. Facing the Music: Vic and Forager watch as everything goes to hell, all while munching on some popcorn; they clearly know what’s up. Conner and M’gann have a telepathic argument, and Jefferson is still going off on Kaldur and Bruce. Garfield talks to Tim and Barbara, asking if they hadn’t had enough of the secrets last season, with Artemis’ death. Boy, same. We all been knew. He finds out about M’gann’s involvement in the deal, where she posed as the little match girl in Dublin, and is subsequently quite angry with her. Barbara is able to talk a little bit of sense into him, but the same cannot be said for Jefferson. His anger is enough to rouse Dick from his sick-bed to attempt and make amends. 
8. Secret Arrangement: Dr. Jace brings Brion, Tara and Violet to her laboratory and instructs Violet to lie down on a scary-looking chair. As Dr. Jace prepares to inject her, Violet suddenly gets a memory. Before she can say anything. Ultra Humanite and Granny enter. Granny bids Overlord to put a cerebral-leash on Violet so she’s under her control. Dr. Jace wants to leave with Brion and Tara, but according to Granny, there’s been a change in plans. Seems that Darkseid wasn’t happy with Ultra Humanite’s claim on Violet. Granny asks Dr. Jace if she would like to see what they have planned for Violet, and Dr. Jace agrees. She lowers them all into the X-Pit before shoving Violet out. Instinctually, Violet begins to heal herself. With Violet’s healing aura activated, the ghost dimension repolarized Violet’s power, meaning that she is the key to solving the Anti-Life Equation. 
9. Batman Incorporated: Barbara confronts Bruce outside, feeling remorse after having seen everybody’s reactions. Bruce is unapologetic, insisting that the mission was what truly mattered and that they sheltered those on the outside for their own protection. Barbara, logically, raises concern with this mindset, wondering if it was the mission that was truly important, or Bruce’s own personal mission. 
10. True Colors: Finally, what this episode will probably be most remembered for. Granny shoves Dr. Jace outside of the cube. When Violet senses Dr. Jace’s suffering, she instinctively recites the healing incantation of the old gods, ‘healing’ Jace, while really subjecting her to the Anti-Life Equation. Under Granny’s control, Dr. Jace starts to spill all her secrets. Dr. Jace’s motivations lay in protecting ‘her children’, Tara and Brion. When she activated their metagenes, she considered them her ‘children’, and wanted to protect them. She was the one behind Gabrielle’s death, as once she tested negative for the metagene, Dr. Jace overdosed her with morphine. When Gabrielle woke up as the motherbox, Dr. Jace thought it was a delayed metagene activation caused by the morphine and took her in as her ‘child’ too. However, when the truth about Violet was revealed, she no longer wanted anything to do with her, especially because she was with her ‘true child’, Brion. She lied to Violet and told her that she was dying in order to drive a wedge between her and Brion. Given that this was a temporary solution and she wanted to have more children, she contacted Ultra Humanite and agreed to give him Violet in exchange for a safe exit with her children and a set up somewhere she could continue her work. Oh, and by the way, she also seduced Jefferson only so she could get closer to her ‘children’. Who could have seen that coming? Anyone? Anyone at all? 
11. No Longer Under Control: As Granny removes everyone from the X-Pit, she celebrates over Dr. Jace’s reveal and how she remains controlled by the Anti-Life Equation. However, not everything goes according to plan. Turns out, Deathstroke gave Tara a device to remove control chips, should she need it. She removes it from herself and Brion, and the two attempt to save Violet. However, it’s of no use. Granny boom tubes away with Violet, and Ultra Humanite does the same with Dr. Jace. Tara and Brion are left to deal with Dr. Jace’s truth and return home empty-handed.
12. A Final Departure: Back at Outsiders Tower, Jefferson is about to make his exit but asks where Helga is. Gar informs him that she left with Tara, Brion and Violet a while ago. Moments after, Brion and Tara return to the tower, bringing with them the news of what occured. The Light conducts another meeting, in which Ultra Humanite reveals that he was never planning to go along with Dr. Jace’s arrangement. I mean, duh. That lady is crazy. Additionally, Ultra Humanite is angry that Violet was given over to Darkseid and Granny, especially now that she is the key to the anti-life equation. Vandal snaps his tablet in half once he hears it, so clearly this was not something that he was expecting anytime soon. Seems like he’s going to have to fix things, and fast. Jefferson is shocked at the news about Dr. Jace, and honestly, I feel little sympathy for any of them. That lady was shady from the start, and they should have looked into her far more than they had. But, that’s just me. Brion wants to rescue Violet, but they have no idea where she even is. On the Orphanage, Granny delivers Violet to… Other Granny? What? Yeah, I don’t have enough information to unpack this one. Guess we’ll find out soon enough!

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