Episode 24: Performance
Takes place on December 22 - 24.
According to Robin, Batman has sent him, M'gann, Artemis and Superboy to investigate a series of robberies coinciding with the movements of a circus tour. Red Arrow, who is still suspicious of there being a mole, joins. The group joins the circus as the Daring Danger family, a group of acrobats, but finds their attempts at tracking down both the culprit and blending in hindered by a flu going around.
It turns out that the villain is The Parasite, an enemy of Superman who saps the powers and abilities of others on touch, making them his own. His danger increases much more from the talents he'd been collecting from the circus performers to those of Superboy and Miss Martian.
Notes:
- The Hadron Supercollider figured in the villain's plan.
- Red Arrow concludes in the end that there is no mole in the team. Which is rather ironic, given the reveal in the next episode.
- Superboy continues to use the power-boosting patches Luthor gave him.
- The circus they investigated was the one Dick Grayson (Robin) grew up in before his parents' deaths (they were a family of acrobats). In the end, the ringmaster recognizes him.
- A poster with the circus displays a performing elephant named Titano, the name of the gigantic, mutated primate Superman went up against.
