While Jefferson, Conner, and Artemis find homes for their Markovian strays, Dick assembles a new squad and hits the road – but may not survive the trip.
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- Answer Cut:Roy: Why are we even here? No one's taking this stuff in broad daylight.(cut to a car parked in a nearby alley)Brick: We're taking this stuff in broad daylight!
- Awesomeness by Analysis: Will wrecked Brick's entire operation by being smart enough and competent enough to keep the official registration papers on him so he knew who was supposed to be driving the trucks and from past experience when he recognized one of Brick's goons from a past encounter.
- Benevolent Boss: Will expresses no annoyance over needing to replace his usual employees after they got food poisoning the previous evening at a post-softball game victory party.
- Big Beautiful Man: This episode highlights Will has gained a few pounds since retiring alongside regaining the muscles he lost in Season 2. His belly's more noticeable in a couple of scenes and when he's in his Red Arrow costume. Refreshingly it does nothing to detract from his good looks or his fighting capabilities when he easily holds his own alongside Dick while they fight Brick. In contrast to how thin he got in Season 2 because his health was atrocious, this is one of the rare times where a character gaining some fat on their build is treated as an improvement instead of a detriment.
- Boring, but Practical: Brick's plan to steal the Goode Goggles is simply to have his goons replace the drivers and take the trucks. Had he been dealing with a less competent security company, it probably would have worked.
- Breather Episode: A nice change of pace primarily focusing on Dick and the Harpers protecting a shipment of video games just after the end of the Markovia mission. They also break into a metahuman trafficking ring and free the captives, but there's just a single scene of the already victorious gang posing.
- Butt-Monkey: Brick has had two appearances and suffered his expensive suit being ruined in both.
- Casual Danger Dialogue: Dick and Will bicker while fighting Brick.
- Call-Back: Brick's goons are the same ones from "Welcome to Happy Harbor" back in season 1, where Will, back when he was still Speedy, shut their operation down. This allows Will to recognize the goons and realize the trucks are being stolen.
- Conveniently Empty Roads: the coastal roads are clear throughout Dick and the Bowhunter Security trio's lengthy chase against the three trucks hijacked by Brick's crew.
- Freudian Slip: Dick calls Will "Wall." Will takes it as evidence that he's looking for a Wally substitute.
- Hidden Depths: Jim Harper is into gardening and Roy knows a lot about current trends in video gaming.
- Mugging the Monster: Brick has the misfortune of choosing to heist a shipment from a company contracting a former hero who is himself forcing several other heroes to help him that day.
- Mundane Made Awesome: Will convinces Dick to join him at work for the day in return for joining his superhero gig later that night. Since he runs a private security firm now, they (and Roy and Jim) end up doing a Team Power Walk with triumphant music... to deliver some goods.
- Mythology Gag:
- Dick's insistence on treating the team like coworkers, rather than family, after Wally's death and repeated claim that he works alone now draws from him doing the same thing in the comics after Donna's death.
- Will's concerns about his car insurance are somewhat reminiscent of Roy's concerns about medical insurance in the first Arsenal miniseries.
- No Hero to His Valet: Will realizes that Dick actually wants someone who is willing to point out his flaws, thus why he looked for him despite already having Roy and Jim.
- Oh, Crap!:
- Dick and the Harpers scream their heads off when they realize they're about to crash into a school bus, as do the kids and the driver in said bus. Thankfully they swerve out of the way.
- Brick when he realizes Dick and Will are gonna throw him off the truck.
- Real Men Wear Pink: Guardian has a hobby of tending geraniums in his spare time.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Roy uses the grapple line in his arm to get out of the car when Brick gets on the roof.
- Serious Business: Will really cares about his clipboard, and even carries it with him out of the car before it goes through the railing into the water. He even uses it to fight Brick.Will: The clipboard doesn't lie.
- Skewed Priorities:
- When Brick rips the steering wheel out of the car, Will's more worried about the insurance premiums going up than the fact the car doesn't have a wheel anymore.
- Dick and Will get pissed at Brick for interrupting their discussion about Wally's death while in the middle of stopping Brick's heist on the goggles.
- Take That!:
- Fans have been interpreting the repeated use of characters in the opening asking "Where's Dick?" as a pointed jab towards DC's controversial and poorly received move of giving the comic version of Dick amnesia in order to overhaul his character and call him "Ric Grayson."
- Arsenal complaining about the security uniform, which includes a trucker/baseball cap, is also considered a jab at how the comic version of Roy Harper's been sporting similar caps in his current costume. Tellingly, Roy, Jim, and Will all lose their hats while fighting Brick's gang, yet somehow Dick manages to keep his.
- Tempting Fate: Arsenal complains about the security job since no one is going to take shipments of VR goggles in broad daylight. Cut to Brick announcing that they're going to take the goggles in broad daylight. Will calls him on this.
- Too Dumb to Live: The last of Brick's mooks has to be reminded to keep his hands on the wheel of the truck when he surrenders.
- Took a Level in Kindness:
- This one really shows how much Will has calmed down. Instead of how angry and scowling he was in the previous seasons, Will is much calmer, willing to make jokes and happier throughout the entire episode.
- Arsenal seems to have gone through one as well. While he's still hot blooded he's more willing to listen to orders and seems to be on better terms with Nightwing.
- Too Much Information: Roy doesn't appreciate Will explaining he needed the extra manpower because his usual staff all got food poisoning resulting in, in his words, "Explosive diarrhea."
- Troll: Will has a lot of fun messing with Dick and Roy via the bad pun about Bowhunter Security and pretending to look through his schedule to see if he has time to help with Dick's mission.
- Unhand Them, Villain!: Role-reversed when it's the villain Brick making this demand of the two heroes who have currently managed to hoist him over their heads. He immediately regrets his choice of words when they hint that they're going to toss him in front of the truck.
- Wants a Prize for Basic Decency: Nabu considers the fact that he's releasing Zatara for one hour a year to be immensely charitable on his part.
- Who Would Be Stupid Enough?: Roy asks who would actually be willing to steal a shipment of expensive gaming equipment in broad daylight. As it turns out, Brick. Had he been dealing with a mundane security company not staffed with former heroes, his ruse might actually have worked.
- You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!: Brick is increasingly exasperated by what he perceives to be bizarrely well-equipped and persistent private security.Brick: You rent-a-cops cannot be making enough scratch for this gig!
