Episode 6: Exfiltrator
Takes place on August 9-10
Short version
The Team protects Dr Serling Roquette from the assassins of the League of Shadows (including Jade Nguyen, Artemis' sister), while Dr Roquette develops a countermeasure for a destructive nanobot cloud.
Longer version
Artemis joins the Team, despite the misgivings of Robin and Kid Flash, who are upset that Red Arrow refused. Paul, without the same history with Red Arrow, is less bothered, and eases past the initial reveal of her identity, which he is likewise unconcerned about. He then partners with her during their first mission: protecting Doctor Serling Roquette while she devises a countermeasure to some nanotechnology stolen by the League of Shadows.
Unlike canon, where the three ninjas were a serious threat to the Team, Paul is able to shrug off everything that they're carrying and capture all three of them. However, when Cheshire/Jade Nguyen learns that he was responsible for (her father) Sportsmaster's arrest, she offers to kiss him in gratitude — and temporarily incapacitates him with her drugged lipstick. Miss Martian helps him to gather just enough coherence to purge himself with the ring, after which he promptly recaptures Jade, who is sent to Belle Reve Penitentiary.
The next day, Paul gifts the Metropolis SCU with some plasma pistols made from the remains of Professor Ivo's MONQI robots, and meets with Batman regarding his knowledge of League members' secret identities. Batman is concerned, but decides that Paul has acted responsibly with the information thus far. He also arranges for Paul to be tutored by Green Lantern Guy Gardner.
In the Renegade timeline, Jade is allowed to escape, but the Renegade follows her to a safehouse and tells her that he intends to use her as an informant to help him destroy the Shadows. She doesn't agree to cooperate, but he's unfazed.
In the aftermath, OL begins training with Lantern Gardner, which later develops into a firm friendship.
Equivalent canon episode: "Infiltrator". "Exfiltrator" is likely a reference to the nanomachines' ability to extract information.
- Actually Pretty Funny: Despite just saying that having Miss Martian tell Cheshire that the assassin has a nice ass is mean, Artemis laughs after Cheshire responds by pressing her ass against the fence she's pinned to, and admits that it was indeed funny.
- Combat Tentacles: OL uses these to restrain Cheshire after he purges himself of the poison she used on him.
- Complaining About Rescues They Don't Like: Dr. Roquette keeps complaining about how the Team protects her.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: OL easily handles all the assassins by himself.
- Distracted by the Sexy: Jade offers to kiss Paul for putting her father in prison. She does this so that her Drugged Lipstick can incapacitate him. Paul decides to do it because it will distract her and let M'gann get the info they need from her head.
- Do Not Call Me "Paul": Jade doesn't like it when Paul calls her by her father's last name, "Crock", due to her animosity towards him.
- Drugged Lipstick: Jade uses poisoned lipstick to incapacitate OL.
- Exact Words: Paul's ring told him that no poison was detected inside Jade's mouth. Which was true, since the drug was in her lipstick.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: Black Spider and Hook are incapacitated by the former's own glue guns.
- Mythology Gag: Paul references Green Arrow's love for chili.
- Nanomachines: The Fog that the Shadows compelled Doctor Roquette to create, designed to eat computer systems and store their data.
- Oh, Crap!: Paul, when he realizes that his new teacher, Guy Gardner, is going to be rough on him, mostly for insulting his mentor and friend Kilowog.
- Power Perversion Potential: The Renegade reveals he's been doing this by going to Japan to take part in an ogre sex cult with construct tentacles.
- Psychic Static: Cheshire attempts to stop Miss Martian reading her mind by thinking of an annoying song, then counting pi. But it doesn't work when she gets distracted.
- Troll:
- OL messes with Artemis, whom he knows is not really related to Green Arrow, by trying to get her to judge his chili, as he knows her mentor is something of a chili enthusiast.
- The Renegade first gets Miss Martian to tell Cheshire that she has a nice ass. Then he tells Artemis about the fact that he's in an ogre sex cult and uses construct tentacles.
