Young Justice 1.22

Agendas

Superboy gets a summons from Lex Luthor. He secretly goes to meet him in Washington, DC. Luthor tells Conner that Project Cadmus has built another clone of Superman, a better clone. Conner goes to investigate and finds that it is true. He fights Match, the other clone, who seems very much like Conner was early on. He is full of rage. Conner tries to reason with him but Match just wants to destroy him. Conner eventually comes around to the idea that they need to keep him locked up.

Conner is contacted by Lex Luthor again, while her is nosing around at Project Cadmus. Luthor explains that Conner is part human. Match is not. Luthor gives Conner patches that he can apply to his skin. The patches suppress his human DNA, make him stronger, give him the ability to fly, and heat vision. Without the patches he probably would not have been able to beat Match.

Luthor meets with Conner one final time toward the end of the episode. Luthor reveals that he is the source of Conner's human DNA. Conner isn't happy with the news. He tries to deny it and return the patches. When he starts to get angry Luthor says, "Red Sun". Conner freezes only to wake up hours later hours. Luthor is gone. Conner still has the patches.

Interspersed with Conner's meeting with Luthor and exploration of Project Cadmus are scenes that take place on the Watchtower. The Justice League is meeting to choose a new member. There is a lot of debate back and forth through out the episode as to who is the most appropriate superhero to join the team. There is even some talk of kicking Captain Marvel out because he didn't tell them his alter ego is a 10-year-old boy. They vote at the end of the episode but the results are not announced.

This is a decent episode. I like the seduction of Superboy by Lex Luthor. I was amazed at how dumb Superboy still is. What made him think that secretly meeting with Luthor or releasing Match was a good idea. The first time I can excuse as a poor judgment but he did it two more times. Match burns a backward S on his chest which make me think of Bizarro. The other members of the team only make token appearances.