I ain't familiar with the modes of legal analysis pioneered by any person on Earth or otherwise. I was just trying to help by clearing up some stuff the episode said. Sorry it didn't help.

What does the super scary Skull-man want to do with the chained villain at the end? And why?Why is Gary chaining people up in the bathroom? He doesn't want to kill, so he's hiding in there (and feeding them three times a day apparently) so that he can make Monarch think he's killed them.

I think it was Maestro-Wave.

Hey, I'm dead inside and I've been having a good time.

I'd buy that, but I'd settle for a buddy book in which Jimmy Olsen and Ron Troupe team up, with Jimmy's bad luck antics constantly interrupting Ron's attempts at serious journalism.

Yeah! I've actually always liked Reeve as Kent more than as Superman, actually. Never quite put my finger on why, but when an episode has him change from reporter to superhero, I always feel a little less invested.

Not to mention how Action Man would wake him up by putting an empty gun to his head and pulling the trigger. "Not today, Rusty."

The library, one assumes.

"Like a resplendent blue tomato. Were there such a thing, of course…"

That reminds me of something I wish would happen again: Billy witnessing the horrific death of a child. It happened in the E-Den, and it happened when he was kidnapped by Zero alongside all the sidekicks. One more time and it'd be a running joke, I think.

When they mentioned the offscreen "skit" in which they helped get Pete get a cat down from a tree, I pictured Billy having to play the cat. And I think that knowing they had an actual cat a few episodes back.

Gary seemed less bothered when he accidentally killed Short Division. (Though it is probably Monarch's goading him to kill more that's the real issue.)

True enough. (I like to hope the real successful villains have better lives outside arching, but aside from maybe Wale, that doesn't seem to be the case.)

It just feels to me like a cliche thing a Guild villain might be into. Clearly we'll never know, though, now that Think Tank has been thunk tunked.

In one of the early episodes of this season, the Guild had a meeting with all those villains (where they found out the Sovereign was dead) and I'm 70% sure there was a line about how there were no villains there above a level four or five or so. But Phage was at that meeting and he's on the Council now. Beats me.

It was the scene when Gary was showing the Morpho's Pyramid of Power or whatever. At the very least, the three below Wale were said to be tens. The guys under them probably aren't, but I think Monarch cut him off.

I bet that, had things gone his way with his arching, Think Tank was hoping to try to turn Dean to the bad side.

It didn't even occur to me that "that other city" could be anything but Metropolis until I came here. It just felt to me like yet another (probably unnecessary) acknowledgement of Superman's career over there. After all, Reactron, who I think is the only previous masked villain we've had on this show, was a Metropolis…

I like that Dean assumed the pain was caused by the candiru. He's probably been living in fear of them since the first season.

I liked "That' a real gun, idiot."