final fate of Aqualad, the team… and the entire planet Earth!
After grousing about the need to maintain his rep in the past (and continuing to do so this week), Sportsmaster finally made his move against Black Manta, with Cheshire tagging along to get her revenge on Kaldur. This is something that has been floating around the season for a bit, so it was nice to finally pay off this particular thread as we head into the homestretch of the series.
Given all the various cogs in the subterfuge aboard Manta’s submarine, there was a lot of, “We need to disable this thing before we can do that thing so that we can finally do this one other thing, and we need to do all of it while maintaining our covers.” As a result, "Complications" was pretty busy trying to handle all of those necessary elements, and to its credit, managed to integrate its action sequences around achieving those ends, from M’gann shooting the camera that Deathstroke was using to observe Kaldur’s cabin to Artemis locating the power inhibitor’s deactivation switch.
Of course, once the power inhibitor was removed, things became easier as M’gann was able to explain the whole plot to Sportsmaster and Cheshire, thus eliminating their grievances against Black Manta and Kaldur. Except for the fact that Sportsmaster knowing the plan shouldn't've made that much of a difference, since Sportsmaster is all about maintaining his rep, and his rep is a very public thing, so letting Black Manta off the hook will still make him look like something of a chump. Instead, he’s going to wait for Artemis and Kaldur to take down Manta, and the Light, from the inside? Right.