Max’s own present day plans are advancing. He has recruited Magog under the pretense that he is still leading Checkmate and has given him the task of killing Captain Atom. During their last encounter Max had tried to fry Skeets, Booster Gold’s flying robot. Skeets reveals that Max had been trying to hide four Checkmate sleeper cells which he had placed inside robotics laboratories. Skeet discovered them whilst decrypting the intel he hijacked during their near-disastrous incursion into Checkmate. Fire and Ice talk about her wish to leave the JLI for a safe house in Portugal. Ice reveals that she is not going as she could not bear it if anything happening to Fire and she was not around to help her. Meanwhile in the Bat Bunker, Batman is reviewing monitors showing records of Maxwell Lord. Ho