Olsen's Eleven is the seventh episode of Season 2 of My Adventures with Superman, and the seventeenth episode overall. It premiered on June 30th, 2024.
Synopsis[]
Lois and Jimmy recruit mercenaries and mad scientists to help them steal a spaceship out from under the nose of Task Force X!
Plot[]
On a TV set, Amanda Waller has declared Superman to be an enemy of humanity. To protect Metropolis, she has announced the formation of the Human Defense Corps and that Metropolis will be placed under martial law. When Superman and his kind return, humanity will be ready. Later, at an interview, Waller gets questioned by the host for her decision to brand Superman as an enemy of humanity when he was defending Metropolis from a hostile invader, but Waller says that this attack would have never happened if it wasn't for Superman. Even when the host provides footage that depicts Superman protecting bystanders, Waller ends the interview and orders the host to be put into custody.
At Clark and Jimmy's apartment, Lois and Jimmy try to come up with a plan to save Clark. To do that, they will infiltrate S.T.A.R. Labs and steal a spaceship to travel into outer space. When Jimmy asks how are they gonna steal a ship, Lois suggests hiring Livewire, to which Jimmy immediately refuses because of all the times she has tried to kill them for their association with Superman. Lois replies that they have no other choice and Jimmy reluctantly agrees.
They go to Livewire's apartment, which is located in a luxurious building in the middle of the city. When they ask for Livewire's help, she and her girlfriend Heatwave refuse to help them until Jimmy exhausts his savings in hiring them. When they discuss the plan to infiltrate S.T.A.R. Labs, Heatwave refuses to help because she believes the job is too dangerous and that Livewire is letting her greed cloud her better judgment. Livewire says that they would have enough to retire peacefully, Heatwave doesn't believe her and leaves.
Livewire still decides to take the job but says they will need a crew to operate the spaceship. Fortunately, Jimmy happens to know two people who can help them on that regard: Mallah and the Brain. They explain that after the incident with the wormhole, they explored the multiverse and met alternate versions of themselves, but they invariably came into conflict and went back home. Livewire tells the team that, once they're inside S.T.A.R. Labs, they must be ready to defend themselves, especially because Superman is not here to help them, and Lois has brought a piece of Kryptonite with her, in case they encounter Kara in outer space. Jimmy is shocked that Lois would use Kryptonite against Superman's own cousin, until Lois replies that Kara kidnapped Superman in the first place and Jimmy says that with that attitude, she starting to sound like her father.
The plan begins and the team infiltrates S.T.A.R. Labs by faking a security guard's fingerprints, just as Task Force X is conducting a surprise inspection of Lex's latest project. Slade teases Lex about not making any real progress on his project, but Lex argues that he needs time to reverse-engineer alien technology.
Once the team has broken into the lab, Mallah and the Brain are interested in finding a new component for their latest invention: a new portal machine. Suddenly, they are attacked by armed guards and forced to separate. Lois and Jimmy escape into the ventilation shafts while still arguing about what should they do once they find Kara. Jimmy still believes they should give Kara a chance because Lois gave a Clark a chance. They find the spaceship but it's not properly assembled. Lois begins to cry and berates herself for trying to push Clark away when he was nothing to but nice to her. Fortunately, Mallah and the Brain complete construction of the ship. Once they board it, they are attacked by the Metallos, rebuilt by Lex, and when the ship takes off, the Metallos grab it and prevent it from flying out of the lab.
Luckily, help arrives in the form of Livewire and her crew, including Heatwave. As they're fighting the Metallos, Livewire's crew was busy stealing everything valuable from S.T.A.R. Labs and Livewire was actually planning to abandon Lois and Jimmy, until she heard Lois cry about her desire to make things right with Clark. She tells Lois that love is not for cowards and if she genuinely loves someone, she should prove it. The ship blasts off into space, while Livewire's crew escapes on a van. Livewire and Heatwave celebrate their success with a kiss.
The Metallos have been destroyed and Slade is about to tease Lex for this apparent failure, but Waller treats this deployment as a success. For that, she will grant Lex whatever resources he needs to complete his project and Lex can't help but tease Slade about his success, especially when Waller orders Slade to perform cleanup.
With Lois and her friends now in space, they begin their search for Clark until they come across Kara.
Cast[]
- Alice Lee as Lois Lane
- Ishmel Sahid as Jimmy Olsen
- Zehra Fazal as Leslie Willis/Livewire
- Laila Berzins as Rory/Heat Wave
- André Sogliuzzo as Monsieur Mallah, Atrium Guard
- Jesse Inocalla as Brain
- Max Mittelman as Alex "Lex" Luthor
- Chris Parnell as Slade Wilson/Deathstroke
- Debra Wilson as Amanda Waller
Events[]
- The Break In of S.T.A.R Labs.
Trivia[]
- The episode title is a play on the movie Ocean's Eleven, which thematically matches as both the movie and this episode are about heists.
- This episode and The Machine Who Would Be Empire takes place at the same time.
- The Metallos are now fully powered by Kryptonite, just like the original John Corben version of Metallo.
- This is the first episode not to feature any scenes of Clark or of Superman, with his role being reduced to nothing but archival video from Most Eligible Superman instead.
- Livewire and Heatwave are revealed to be lovers and living together.
- The alternate dimension of Mallah and the Brain are designed similar to Mallah from the comics, and a Dalek from the Doctor Who franchise.
- The Parasite suit has been stolen by Heat Wave’s crew from STAR Labs among other various items, meaning that Dr. Ivo is no longer wearing it.
- After paying Livewire a $2,000,000 check for her services, Jimmy is officially broke as of this episode.
- The nursing home in the episode is called the Silver Age, a reference to an era of comics which lasted from 1956 to 1970, which was notable for an emphasis on more sanitized stories due to The Comics Code being enforced and focused on sci-fi heroes. The era ended when a new generation of writers rebelled against the Code to make more mature stories with serious topics as well as the return of horror and supernatural comics.