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"Satisfaction" is the eighth episode of the second season of Young Justice, and the 34th of the overall series. It aired on September 29, 2012.

Logline[]

Roy Harper seeks vengeance against the man who ruined his life.[1]

Synopsis[]

 
Star City
March 21, 14:22 PDT

Oliver Queen and clone Roy Harper bring the convalescing Roy Harper up to speed with Roy's being replaced, the formation of the Team, and the alien invasion of Earth. Roy Harper demands to know the details of what happened to him; all he could remember was his investigation of a LexCorp shell company that was suspected of supplying weapons to North Rhelasia. He was captured by LexCorp goons, and the last thing he remembered before waking up in Tibet was feeling embarrassed of his capture.

Hospital explanation

Ollie and both Roys.

Both Arrows explain that the abduction happened eight years ago, courtesy of Lex Luthor and the Light. They were also responsible for amputating his right arm, presumably to get sufficient DNA material to perfect their human cloning process. The culmination of the process was Red Arrow, who was force-grown to Roy's biological age, and fed with all his memories, skill, and more.

Ollie recounts how he found Red Arrow after three months of intense detective work, belatedly realizing that he had been spoon-fed by the Light into discovering the other Roy Harper. In his exultation, he didn't realize that the boy wasn't the original Roy Harper. The startled original then realizes Red Arrow had been living his life for eight years, though Green Arrow reassures him that Red Arrow had spent five of those years searching tirelessly for the original. Roy notes Ollie gave up on the search as Red Arrow tries to excuse himself and states he'd understand if the original didn't want to see him again.

In the chapel

Ollie and Roy in the chapel.

Roy Harper excuses Red Arrow from any wrongdoing, since he did nothing wrong and was the one who found him but he is incensed at his mentor giving up on him. Calling Ollie useless, Roy orders him out of the room. He then requests that Red Arrow leave as well, as he needs time to process this information. Both men leave, leaving Roy alone.

In the chapel, Red Arrow finds a despondent Green Arrow despairing in a pew. Green Arrow feels that being mentored by Green Arrow was a curse, judging by what happened to Speedy, Red Arrow, and Artemis. Red Arrow comforts his mentor, saying that wasn't true, and that the real Roy Harper needs him despite the hateful words he said. Oliver and Red Arrow walk back into Roy's room to apologize, but find an empty hospital bed with the window opened.

 
Mount Justice
March 21, 17:33 EDT

Mal Duncan explains to Nightwing and Superboy that Aquaman has set all of Atlantis to look for Lagoon Boy, however he expresses doubt over the fact that there is a lot of water on the planet for them to search.

Angry Mal

Mal's frustration with the current state of things.

Mal states that he hopes they find Aqualad, and that he wants him dead because of his perceived murder of Artemis. Nightwing vanishes and Superboy asks where everyone is. Mal explains that the girls are "hitting the shower", and everyone else is in the grotto.

In the grotto, Tim, Garfield, Jaime, and Bart pay a quiet homage to Artemis at her holographic statue. Bart begins eating a bag of freeze-dried Chicken Whizees. Jaime drags him aside and confronts him, as Bart stole the snack from his locker. He defends himself by stating that in his time it would be considered scavenger rights, then asks about the four holographic statues in the grotto, one each for Ted Kord, Tula, Artemis, and Jason Todd, thinking that they should have large and prevalent statues, since they had all died as heroes in the line of duty. Jaime explains that Captain Atom told him that the League did not want a shrine to its fallen, but Jaime suspects that they simply do not want to advertise their own mortality. He also says that many people assume he is Ted Kord himself, and do not know of Ted's death. Bart reassures him, but Jaime is upset that he does not have his own hero mentor. Bart invites him to hang out, and to replace the bag of snack food he took, to which Jaime agrees.

Cemetery mourning

The Crock family mourns.

 
Gotham City
March 21, 17:38 EDT

Wally West and Paula Crock visit Artemis's tombstone at Gotham Cemetery. The still-mourning Paula laments that this was the hardest thing she ever faced, and would have died of grief if it weren't for Wally's support. Wally can only guiltily look away. Unnoticed by the two, Jade Nguyen (with Lian in tow) and Crusher Crock have also come to pay their last respects. Although they had their differences, Jade genuinely loved Artemis and regretted not protecting her from their father. She vows to take revenge on Aqualad.

Crusher has come to an entirely different opinion—he felt slighted that the son of Black Manta killed the daughter of Sportsmaster without asking for permission first. He worries that Artemis's death would permanently tarnish his professional reputation, and vows a reckoning with Black Manta, one of his employers.

Roy, still in his hospital gown, makes his way to one of Green Arrow's equipment caches in Star City. The security system recognizes him as Red Arrow, which makes him comment wryly that the new Roy chose a very original name. The cache is bristling with weapons and ordnance of all kinds. Espying a spare Speedy costume, Roy begins to change his clothes—with great difficulty.

Speedy's goodbye gift

Roy ensures he can't be followed.

Ollie and Roy track Speedy to the location, with Green Arrow reasoning that this was the only place he maintained since eight years ago. When Red Arrow's retina is scanned by the system however, it threatens with a lockdown since Roy was already inside. Green Arrow overrides, and they find original Roy in his Speedy costume about to use the Zeta-Tube.

Speedy apologizes and teleports away, but leaves a grenade and his feather cap behind. After his departure, the grenade blows up the Zeta-Beam, preventing the others from following. However, Red Arrow successfully traces where Speedy has gone. The sidekick has gone to Metropolis, and Green Arrow realizes it was to take his vengeance on Lex Luthor.

 
Metropolis
March 21, 19:11 EDT
Lining up the shot

Roy lines up the shot.

In his office, Lex Luthor is hard at work doing paperwork, which he claims is to enable an alien invasion. One last paper informs him Speedy has left his hospital bed. Speedy, meanwhile, is standing on an adjacent rooftop with an RPG launcher, which he fires into Luthor's office. It explodes, creating a fireball out of his office.

 
Ivy Town
March 21, 19:15 EDT

Wendy sits down with Conner to wish him happy birthday, and asks for his age. Conner says his true age—6—before correcting it to his legal age, 22. Wendy comments that his appearance never changes, both biologically and with the S-Shield T-shirts he still wears. Mal stopped that when he turned eighteen. She reminds him of Megan's surprise parties for him, and he tells her he never liked them. She disagrees, surmising he only pretended not to like them, he knew how much it made Megan happy throwing them so he secretly loved them. Conner admits she knows him pretty well, but realizing they're sharing a somewhat intimate moment, they back off. Wendy asks him if he is going to have a party, but he answers no, revealing she is the only one who remembered.

 
Dakota City
March 21, 18:17 CDT
Bridal shower

The girls celebrate Raquel's bridal shower.

Megan and Zatanna discuss Conner's birthday, with Megan expressing regret that she is not throwing a party until Zatanna reminds her she and Conner aren't together anymore. They arrive at Raquel's bridal shower, also attended by Dinah, Cassie, Karen and Barbara. Megan gives Raquel a gift, which she and Artemis had shopped for together. Raquel worries that they are having a celebration too soon after Artemis's death, but Megan and Zatanna reassure her that it's what she would have wanted. They have a toast for Artemis, and another for the bride to be.

Captain Cold is sitting on a building opposite a bank and beside Raquel's bridal shower, planning a heist.

Lex Luthor enters a safe behind his desk, having survived the RPG explosion. He takes out an unmarked briefcase. Otis radios him and checks that he is all right, and Luthor sends him to kill Speedy, but his team finds only the launcher and a pair of binoculars. Luthor enters a car park, only for Speedy to blow up his car. Mercy attacks Speedy.

Ladies of the League

The ladies of the League and the Team.

An armored truck parks in front of the bank opposite Captain Cold, which he then encases in ice, as well as Raquel's bridal shower, the bank, and the road. He is about to break into the truck and steal the money, when he hears Zatanna utter a backwards spell that changes the heroes into their costumes. Rocket then frees them from the ice with a force bubble. They attack Cold, and he screams.

Roy versus Mercy

Roy and Mercy locked in combat.

A large battle ensues between Speedy and Mercy, which finishes when he blows off her arm with a length of detonation cord, and is preparing to do the same to Luthor. Luthor points out he is surrounded by armed guards, and asks him if his revenge is worth his life. Instead, Luthor offers him the unmarked case he had earlier retrieved from the safe. Speedy expresses concern that it might be booby trapped, but opens it anyway.

Speedy died eight years ago

Roy is Speedy no more.

On the street in front of LexCorp, Green Arrow and Red Arrow think they're too late, but Speedy comes out of the smoking entrance of the car park. He reassures them that he did not kill Luthor. Red Arrow asks what is in the case he is carrying, and he reveals that it contains a cybernetic arm, which he claims is better than the version Mercy was equipped with. He rebuffs Green Arrow's offer of help, and rejects the name Speedy. He will take a new name: Arsenal.

Title[]

The theme of "satisfaction" was explored primarily in three individuals seeking vengeance during the episode. Cheshire wanted to satisfy her desire to avenge Artemis by taking down Aqualad. Sportsmaster wanted to satisfy his desire to maintain his reputation by confronting Black Manta. And Speedy thought he wanted revenge, but, goaded by Lex Luthor, was actually more satisfied with gaining enough power to prevent himself from being vulnerable again.

Cast and characters[]

Voice actor Character
Lacey Chabert Zatanna Zatara
Nick Chinlund Crusher Crock
Crispin Freeman Speedy  
Red Arrow
Kelly Hu Paula Crock
Jade Nguyen
Kittie Raquel Ervin
Eric Lopez Jaime Reyes
Jason Marsden Bart Allen
Danica McKellar Megan Morse
Masasa Moyo Karen Beecher
Wendy Harris
Nolan North Conner Kent
Kevin Michael Richardson Mal Duncan
Otis  
Mark Rolston Lex Luthor
Alan Tudyk Oliver Queen
Captain Cold  
Uncredited
Mercy  
Alan Tudyk The Vault Computer  
Non-speaking roles
Aqualad (picture)
Aquaman (picture)
Artemis (hologram)
Barbara Gordon
Cassie Sandsmark
Dinah Lance
Garfield Logan
Jason Todd (hologram)  
Lagoon Boy (picture)
Lian Nguyen-Harper
Nightwing
Ted Kord (hologram)  
Tim Drake
Tula (hologram)
Wally West
Full credits
3 Character debut
3 Speaking debut
1 Episode debut


Continuity[]

Ratings[]

"Satisfaction" garnered an average of 1,769 million viewers.[2]

Trivia[]

  • A gravestone in front of Artemis's reads "Nollan Obena, 1929-1993". Nollan Obena is a background designer on Young Justice.
  • Speedy scoffs at the lack of originality of Red Arrow's alias. The pointing out of incoherent superheroes' aliases has been a running gag since the first episode, "Independence Day", where Speedy's alias, no less, was called out by a bystander for making no sense for a sidekick of Green Arrow's.
  • When Rocket blasted away Captain Cold's ice, the seven heroines were positioned similarly to the heroes in the introduction of the Justice League animated series.
  • Lex Luthor says "Vengeance is a sucker's game", very similar to a line uttered by David Xanatos ("Revenge, as they say, is a sucker's game") in the episode "Leader of the Pack" of Gargoyles, also produced by Greg Weisman.
  • Two new characters, Troia and Mary Bromfield,[3] were originally intended to be introduced in this episode as guests at Raquel's bridal shower. They had to be cut due to production schedule constraints.[4]

Backwards spells[]

Speaker Spell Translation
Zatanna Brag su rof elttab![5] Garb us for battle!

Goofs[]

  • When Megan and Zatanna arrive at Raquel's bridal shower they do not have drinks, but moments later each has a drink in front of them.
  • After Speedy detonates the wire around Mercy's cybernetic arm, she is shown hurtling backward at an oblique angle into the side of a parked sedan. But in the next shot, she impacts the center of the car's windshield.
  • In the end credits, Jade Nguyen's last name is misspelled as "Ngyuen".

Cultural references[]

  • A bridal shower is a gift-giving party held for a bride-to-be in anticipation of her wedding. The tradition is most common in the North America, and Australia via cultural osmosis.
  • The book Conner is reading outside Ivy Town is The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe. It was also used in "Homefront".

Questions[]

Questions
For complete answers to the questions in this section, click here.

Partially answered questions[]

Unanswered questions[]

Quotes[]

  • Impulse: Hey, hey, hey, where I come from, it's not stealing, it's scavenger rights.
  • Jade Nguyen: We had our differences, but Artemis was my sister. And I loved her. I should have taken better care of her. Protected her from you, for starters.
  • Crusher Crock: Yeah, well, too late for that now, little girl.
  • Jade Nguyen: But it's not too late to get vengeance on her killer. Aqualad is mine.
  • Crusher Crock: The son of Black Manta cannot kill Sportsmaster's daughter. Not without running it by me first. I can't let this stand, or everyone will think I'm a punk! You can have Aqualad. I want a reckoning with Manta.
  • Lex Luthor: Who knew enabling an alien invasion would entail so much paper work.
  • Speedy: Gotta love modern weapons tech. Easier for a one armed man to fire a missile launcher than pull on his pants.
  • Lex Luthor: And that, my dear, is why I spent top dollar for a customized desk.

Home video releases[]

References[]

  1. Harvey, James (2012-09-20). Confirmed Logline For Upcoming New Episode Of "Young Justice: Invasion". World's Finest. Retrieved 2012-09-20.
  2. Bryan (2012-10-07). CN Ratings Thread: Part 14. Toonzone. Retrieved 2012-10-12.
  3. Weisman, Greg (2013-03-12). Question #17974. Ask Greg. Retrieved 2013-04-19.
  4. Weisman, Greg (2012-11-27). Question #17126. Ask Greg. Retrieved 2013-01-31.
  5. Weisman, Greg (2012-11-29). Question #17292. Ask Greg. Retrieved 2012-11-29.

External links[]

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