Cat Grant here, it is with Heavy Heart we most report of the death of a Great Man … err Goat. Dr Tripod was killed today by an assassin at his penthouse home. I have no words to express our feelings of lose and despair. Gateway has lost a great man today. The Country has lost a bright new leader. And I have lost a dear friend. Rest now dear Tripod. Know that we will carry on your great work.
The city reacts to the death of Dr. Tripod. Rachel issues a standard statement of condolences. His lawyer shows up and gives us all an invitation to the reading of the will because we’ve all been named as beneficiaries. Rachel suspends some of her campaigning to match Thorne, who is as well. Orichalcum finds nothing electronically suspect about the election.
Achilles asks Commissioner Hall for info on Tripod’s murder, which he sends over. Multiple stabs, no heart removal, seems to be crime of passion, castrated, strange metallic substance in the wounds. Orichalcum identifies the chemical composition of stygian iron from the report, which Quantum confirms.
Next day at the reading, Cat Grant is there but Achilles resists killing her despite her goading. Charles Simpson, the lawyer, gives Orichalcum a lead-lined box, which she refuses, so it goes to someone else. Quantum gets a box as well, that she doesn’t open since it is said to have art from Tripod’s childhood. Akasha as “and other” gets a box with personal belonging from his time as “leader of Myrmidons.” He likewise doesn’t open it. Rachael gets a long box that she opens with Amazonian art and artifacts, i.e., the last of the items he stole from the embassy. Cat Grant is named head of the Dr. Tripod Memorial Committee for Gateway Park and is given the designs for the monument and plans for a new chair in mythological studies at Gateway University. Achilles in his secret identity is meant to be the chair. Achilles gets a box with a quill. Profits from the poem he stole from me are to go to help the homeless.
We return to the embassy. Rachael returns the artifacts to the vault. Quantum’s box contains statues of shepherd boys in erotic poses, which are also put in the vault. Akasha’s box has an unpublished memoir, “My Memories as Leader of the Myrmidons,” a fake communicator and membership card, and a key to open all doors in the embassy.
Orichalcum analyzes the quill as well as its mate, which Achilles broke previously. Orichalcum and Rachael think they can repair it and rebind it to the other. Achilles hopes they can prove his authorship of the poem. They might also be able to identify the creator.
Orichalcum gets a text from her brother, who probably got the inheritance meant for her.
Cat Grant is searching for Patrick Peliades through an ad in the paper, so Donna calls Achilles to ask about it. She opines that Patrokles has some sort of magical teleportation to enable him to cross the country.
Akasha takes a mental impression of everyone so he has a baseline to determine later if someone is replaced by a clone.
Orichalcum and Quantum try to use Achilles’ own stygian properties to connect with the fragments of the stygian dagger we have. The fragments embed themselves in Achilles, nevertheless he feels a pull toward something. They fit Achilles with Themysciran armor to protect him from the dagger.
The team gets in the jet and uses the pull, which directs them to the southern part of town and a specific warehouse. They break in. Patrokles speaks to Achilles from the shadows. He attacks Quantum and has Old Bruce hanging from a noose from the ceiling. Flamebird is also immobilized in the basement with kryptonite rays. Both are rescused, and Patrokles tells Achilles to meet him on the Gateway Bridge to finish this.
At the bridge, he has Cat Grant and says Ferdinand is elsewhere with a minute to live. Rachael, Quantum, and Akasha go to save him, while Orichalcum stays with Achilles at the bridge. They rescue Ferdinand from his underwater captivity. Achilles fake kills Cat while Orichalcum blasts Patrokles’ dagger out of his hand. Orichalcum rescues Cat as she falls while Achilles then stabs Patrokles’ and tries to stab himself but breaks his sword on his invulnerable skin. Patrokles is angry that Achilles betrayed him again. A Red Lantern ring speaks to Patrokles.
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