"Barehanded" is the forty-eighth episode of Justice League Action.
Summary[]
When Green Lantern loses his ring in a washroom on an asteroid, he has to employ Space Cabbie to help him go in pursuit of the suspects most likely to have taken it.
Featuring[]
| CHARACTERS | VOICED BY |
|---|---|
| Heroes | |
| Green Lantern (Hal Jordan) | Josh Keaton |
| Batman | Kevin Conroy |
| Villains | |
| Lobo | John DiMaggio |
| Kanjar Ro (cameo) | - |
| A two-headed Babajorian | - |
| Others | |
| Space Cabbie | Patton Oswalt |
| Navigational System | Grey Griffin |
Story[]
Following a battle in space with weird alien Kanjar Ro, Green Lantern floats amongst asteroids, completely exhausted. Batman, who is in a spacecraft somewhere nearby and has the villain and his accomplices in captivity, radios Green Lantern to check on him. He replies that he is raring to go but privately knows that he needs some rest.
Travelling to a refuelling station on a nearby asteroid, he goes into the washroom where there is a dragon-like creature with its baby and a burly, deathly-pale biker. Green Lantern takes off his power ring, splashes water on his face and immediately feels revived. Going outside, he suddenly changes to the appearance of his alias, Hal Jordan, because he has left his ring behind. He commands it to return to him, but nothing happens. Rushing back into the washroom, he panics when he sees that the ring has gone from where he had left it. Thinking back as to who might have taken it, he realises that the biker was Lobo and goes in pursuit.
Outside, Hal sees Lobo leaving on his 'space hog' and jumps into a waiting cab, instructing the driver to follow. The taxi is Space Cabbie's and recognising Hal he goes off at top speed, suggesting that they could contact Batman for help, but Hal cannot face the ignominy. Cabbie then says he has a new system that can plot intercept courses and he obtains one for Lobo. The cab enters a hyperspace tunnel and exits near the still-travelling biker. Hal, wearing a life support belt, is able to jump onto the back of Lobo's cycle and a fight follows in which Hal does not do that well. However, he steps on the accelerator and loops-the-loop causing Lobo to pass out. When Hal is unable to locate the ring on his body, he arranges for Lobo to be handed over to Batman and instructs Cabbie to return him to the refueling station.
Back at the asteroid, Hal sees the dragon-like creature walking around and notices that the 'baby' is swallowing something. He sticks his hand down its throat but this angers the creature and it chases Hal around the station, breathing fire. Cabbie's system identifies it as a "Two-Headed Babajorian" and that the baby is just its lower head. Cabbie's system speaks to it in its own language, flattering it with its ability to beat Green Lantern, and when Hal bows down it opens its mouth to reveal a fur ball. Hal now tries again to recall what he did with the ring and realises that it must have fallen down the sink hole. Running into the washroom, he sees a green glow from the sink as a hair-blockage creature rises from the hole and, powered by the ring, grows into a tentacled monster that fills the washroom. Using his knowledge of aliens, Hal talks to it as he reaches inside to retrieve his ring. With it finally on his finger, he changes back to Green Lantern, and the small-again hairball bounces back into its hole.
Later, outside, as Green Lantern flies away, Cabbie gets into his cab. Strangely, the system begins to talk to him, saying it needs to search for something that relates to Green Lantern and, floating out of the cab, it disappears into space, leaving Space Cabbie - and us - confused. Elsewhere, Batman tells 'GL' by radio that there is a rumour he had lost his ring, but GL cuts short the conversation, muttering that he will never live it down.
Notes[]
- The mysterious A.I. of Space Cabbie's navigation is voiced by Grey DeLisle and is implied to be Aya from the Green Lantern animated series, even mentioning at the end of the episode that there was something familiar about Hal Jordan. Hearing this, the Space Cabbie driver shows doubt and says that was a strange thing for a navigational app to say so. She replies that she was no navigational app, rather she was a AI with no memory of her origin. Then again when the Cabbie Driver proposes to stick together and make a team, she refuses and says that she felt compelled to search for something or someone (possibly her lover Razer). She leaves the Cabbie taking the exact same circular form which she had when she was uploaded at the Interceptor of GL:TAS and finally says that the Green Lantern did not give up hope, so neither should she, which resembles the event where a Blue Lantern of Hope follows Razer in the finale of the GL:TAS when he departs in search for Aya. The writer of this episode, James Krieg, was a producer on GL:TAS.
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