Episodes 01

“Frenemies – Chapter One: The Murder”

After the Whitmore-Dugans return from a camping trip, Sylvester theorizes that he was reawakened by Courtney’s bond with the staff. Despite promising not to return to action as Starman, he is caught with the staff, though he and Courtney later agree to share it. Steven Sharpe returns to Blue Valley hoping to make amends, but Shade tells him to leave and Crusher warns Pat that he cannot be trusted. Yolanda and Rick are displeased by Courtney’s insistence to trust the villains living in Blue Valley and with Cindy’s inclusion in the JSA. They locate the No Limit Gang, previous associates of Sharpe’s, but they watch in astonishment as the gang is defeated by Artemis, who appeared out of nowhere and is looking to join the JSA. While Sharpe writes a letter for his daughter Rebecca, he discovers surveillance cameras placed throughout Blue Valley and is killed by an unknown assailant. The JSA find him dead and see Cindy standing over him with a gun, professing her innocence.

Episodes 02

“Frenemies – Chapter Two: The Suspects”

Twelve hours prior, Sharpe moves back into his trailer, with Shade following him soon after. In the present, Cindy claims she was checking to see if Sharpe was working with the No Limit Gang again. Beth discovers Sharpe was stabbed in the heart; not shot. Courtney and Pat theorize that the killer stole Sharpe’s laptop and resolve to deliver his letter to Rebecca. The following day, Paula tells Barbara that the Crocks are innocent. Sylvester aggressively questions Shade, who admits that he met Sharpe a second time to make amends. After training, Courtney has Sylvester apologize to Shade, but this leads to another fight. Mike and Jakeem attempt to use Thunderbolt to learn the killer’s name, only to learn the killer has many names. Cameron struggles to continue painting with his powers hurting his hand. That night, Rick works on the amulet, Shade leaves Blue Valley to attend to other matters, Cindy attempts to open Sharpe’s laptop in the former ISA meeting room, and Crusher and Paula note that a secret of theirs’ will soon be found out.

Episodes 03

“Frenemies – Chapter Three: The Blackmail”

Cindy secretly sends Beth evidence of Sharpe blackmailing the Crocks and informs Sylvester, hoping to gain his approval. Sylvester rebukes her and fights them alone at a supermarket. Pat stops him, and Crusher admits to nearly attacking Sharpe and that the Crocks were paid back. At school, Cameron ignores Courtney and after arguing with Rick, uses his powers to give him a flat tire. Meanwhile, Sylvester tries to find a job, Paula joins a rotary club, and Barbara struggles to win the approval of her manager Tim T. Tattle. That night, Pat sews a costume, Paula confronts Tim in his office over his treatment of Barbara and Cindy tries to get into Sharpe’s files on Dragon King. Cameron apologizes to Courtney and walks with her, but leaves abruptly. As someone continues surveilling Blue Valley, Sylvester returns to the crime scene and is knocked out by a roaring assailant.

Episodes 04

“Frenemies – Chapter Four: The Evidence”

Sylvester is rushed to the hospital. Pat brings in McNider, who explains that Sylvester is still alive because the Staff altered his physiology and that he survived several years in suspended animation before waking up in the present. At the crime scene, Beth finds a skin cell that seemingly belongs to Dragon King. The next day, Courtney tries to talk to Cameron, but this angers him and he accidentally unleashes his powers. He reveals that he knows Jordan’s death was not an accident and wants to continue his legacy of helping people. Courtney convinces him to use his powers to make art and they share a kiss. Meanwhile, Pat gives Sylvester a new Starman suit. He then goes searching for Dragon King in the tunnels beneath Blue Valley with Yolanda and Rick. As Cindy’s skin begins developing scales, she realizes that the skin cell belonged to her.

Episodes 05

“Frenemies – Chapter Five: The Thief”

After Cameron walks her home, Courtney steals Icicle’s JSA file. Cindy hacks into Sharpe’s laptop and learns about her father’s other labs, but escapes just as Sylvester, Yolanda, and Rick enter. The next day, Cindy declines an invitation to join Mike and Jakeem’s team and later discusses an old secret with Cameron. Sylvester searches one of Dragon King’s former labs, but finds nothing. The JSA disapproves of Courtney’s relationship with Cameron, though Sylvester advises them to not let it affect the team. That night, Rick removes the hourglass’s limiter to gain longer periods of strength, Beth convinces her parents to stay out of her life as Doctor Mid-Nite in order to keep them from meeting the same fate as Sylvester’s sister, and Courtney sneaks out to Cameron’s house to help with his powers. As Cindy investigates one of her father’s labs, Yolanda breaks into her house and finds Sharpe’s laptop.

Episodes 06

“Frenemies – Chapter Six: The Betrayal”

Courtney continues coaching Cameron as he conjures an ice sculpture of his father. They return to his house and walk in on Pat and Barbara talking with his grandparents about how they have been spending time together. Lily is hostile, though Sofus wants what is best for Cameron. That night, Beth downloads everything on Sharpe’s laptop and Yolanda tries to return it to Cindy’s house to avoid suspicion, but is caught. Rick joins Yolanda in fighting her and they notice her scales. Beth discovers the camera feed surveilling Blue Valley and sees the fight, so she calls in Courtney to stop them. Cindy angrily reveals that Courtney has been coaching Cameron and threatens to tell him about her role in Icicle’s death. Yolanda and Rick lash out at Courtney. Sylvester later consoles her. Later, Beth tells Pat and Courtney that they are being watched while the person surveilling them continues working on a puzzle of a skull.

Episodes 07

“Frenemies – Chapter Seven: Infinity Inc. Part One”

Six months prior, Jennie puts on her father’s ring for the first time. At that moment, her brother Todd Rice is overtaken by a dark force and found by police. They take him to the Helix Institute, where he is introduced to Love and Bones. In the present, Beth and Sylvester shut down Blue Valley’s power grid while the JSA works to find and destroy the cameras. Yolanda is caught by Maria and is kicked out after refusing to turn over her phone, so she goes to Barbara and Mike. Meanwhile, Shade returns and brings Courtney and Pat to Jennie under the Helix Institute. Shade and Jennie have been drawing on each other’s powers ever since Jennie was infected by dark matter residue, and Courtney theorizes that rescuing Todd will allow them to sever the link. They find him being kept under a light suppressing his powers and he claims that he will destroy the world if removed. Jennie tries to free him, but he inadvertently unleashes a wave of shadowy energy that sends Pat and Shade to the Shadowlands.

Episodes 08

“Frenemies – Chapter Eight: Infinity Inc. Part Two”

Unable to leave, Pat and Shade encounter illusions of their family and Sharpe. Shade is taunted over his decision to ignore his dying sister Emily while Pat faces his strained relationships with his father and Mike. Meanwhile, Courtney awakens locked in Love’s office. Bones and Love explain that Helix’s patients willingly keep themselves isolated due to their dangerous powers, but Courtney believes that Jennie’s light can help Todd. They reluctantly allow Jennie to reunite with Todd, calming his powers and allowing Pat and Shade to return. As the group leaves, Bones considers forming his own team. Pat and Courtney openly accuse Helix of having planted the surveillance cameras all over Blue Valley, but Love denies any knowledge, as well as any involvement of anyone at Helix, of this scheme. Pat convinces Shade to mentor Todd, and he leaves with him and Jennie for New York in search of Sandy Hawkins, who has prophetic nightmares and helped Jennie find Todd. Courtney and Pat take a bus home, and she resolves to make amends with her team. In Blue Valley’s sewers, a caped figure punches one of the camera monitors.

Episodes 09

“Frenemies – Chapter Nine: The Monsters”

Courtney reconciles with the JSA and gets their support in telling Cameron the truth. Rick is reluctant, but agrees to help them. Mr. Deisinger tries to convince Sofus and Lily into letting Cameron rejoin art class, but is killed by Lily. While Pat searches for Mike’s mother online, Paula tries to teach Barbara self-defense. As Courtney meets with Cameron, Beth finds that the camera signal is coming from his house. Lily attacks Courtney and the rest of the JSA break in. Beth’s father has her activate her suit’s combat mode, and she fights Sofus alongside Artemis while Rick and Yolanda fight Cameron and Lily. After Cameron defeats Rick, Lily tells him to kill Rick, but Sofus stops them and suffers a heart attack, though Beth is able to use her gloves as defibrillators to save him. Meanwhile, Mike, Jakeem, and Thunderbolt search for Cindy in a farmhouse but are chased away by a giant albino gorilla that vows to kill them.

Episodes 10

“Frenemies – Chapter Ten: The Killer”

Sylvester theorizes that the signal coming from the Mahkent house was a distraction. Sofus returns home from the hospital and is interrogated by Pat and Sylvester about Mike and Jakeem’s whereabouts. Beth and her parents treat Rick’s injuries and notice his rising aggression and addiction to the hourglass. Paula defends Barbara from Lily and later tries to teach her how to use a crossbow. Courtney tells Cameron she killed his father and he states that he does not want to see her again. In the forest, Mike and Jakeem find Cindy, who has been hunting the gorilla. After they return home using Thunderbolt, Pat and Sylvester identify the gorilla as the Ultra-Humanite, an old JSA enemy who had Dragon King implant their brain into the body of actress Dolores Winters. Crusher and Paula convince Sofus and Lily to forgive everyone for Cameron’s sake. That night, after Artemis calls them about her getting into college, Crusher and Paula find the monitor room in the sewers and are frozen to death by the caped figure who is revealed to be Jordan Mahkent.

Episodes 11

“Frenemies – Chapter Eleven: The Haunting”

Jordan’s shattered pieces melted and retreated into the sewers where he spent the following year reconstituting himself. In the present, Artemis and the JSA track Crusher’s mask to the sewers, where they find his and Paula’s remains. Jordan returns home and tells his family that Mike killed him, but he does not desire revenge. He returns to the American Dream where he tells Barbara that he is willing to help the JSA defeat the Ultra-Humanite and claims that killing Crusher and Paula was an accident. Mike and Jakeem are unable to depower Jordan with Thunderbolt since doing so would kill him and Thunderbolt is not allowed to kill. Cindy also agrees to their alliance. That night, Cameron tries to rekindle his relationship with Courtney. After she briefly encounters Jordan, Sylvester asks her if he can take the Staff to kill Jordan. Barbara has Artemis stay with the Whitmore-Dugans. Yolanda briefly calls her mother to tell her that she only lied to protect her. In the forest, Jordan tells the Ultra-Humanite that “it’s time.”

Episodes 12

“Frenemies – Chapter Twelve: The Last Will and Testament of Sylvester Pemberton”

In flashbacks, Winters plots with Dragon King to capture an albino gorilla to use as a new body. In the present, Sylvester promises Artemis that he will kill Jordan in her stead and tells Beth and Yolanda to find successors for the other fallen JSA members. Jordan tells Cameron that the Ultra-Humanite may have attacked Deisinger and offers to go after him. As Sylvester leaves to fight Jordan, he berates Pat, destroys S.T.R.I.P.E. and steals the Staff from Courtney. Pat realizes Sylvester was lying to protect him and follows him, only to be knocked out by Sylvester, who is revealed to be in league with Jordan. Meanwhile, with help from Thunderbolt, Jakeem, Mike, and Cindy find one of Dragon King’s labs, but are ambushed by the Ultra-Humanite, who they realize has Dragon King’s brain. Rick tells the JSA that Sylvester had him remove the Hourglass’ limiter, and Beth notes that Rex became addicted without the limiter and that Sylvester knew this would happen. Pat awakens and is buried alive by Sylvester, who has had the Ultra-Humanite’s brain all along.

Episodes 13

“Frenemies – Chapter Thirteen: The Reckoning”

Pat escapes and reveals the truth about Sylvester before joining Barbara, Mike’s group, and the JSA in fighting Sylvester and the Mahkents at the junkyard. Lily is crushed to death by a falling car, Courtney takes back the staff, Jakeem has Thunderbolt turn Dragon King into a stuffed animal, Pat irreversibly damages the Ultra-Humanite’s brain, and Cameron shatters Jordan before leaving with Sofus. Afterwards, Rick apologizes to Beth’s family and Beth lets her parents become her sidekicks. Pat keeps Sylvester’s body on life support, Mike meets his mother, Courtney delivers Sharpe’s letter to Rebecca and later reunites with Cameron, Grundy reawakens, and Yolanda tells her mother the truth. Three months later, Artemis burns a reconstituted Jordan alive in Copenhagen. Over the following ten years, Sylvester’s brain is found and he is revived, the JSA rescues the other Seven Soldiers of Victory from Nebula Man, and Rick and Beth get engaged. While working as a tour guide for a JSA museum, Shade is interrupted by Jay Garrick, who tells him that the JSA is needed and that their adventures are not over.