Kimon has made almost all the plans and has had most of the ambition so far, and in many ways this has given him the control to see through his schemes. Men who'd otherwise coast and rely on others to succeed have had to rely on Kimon. It can continue just so far.

The trap at Luna Island has been placed and set, but now the jaws have to be closed around Mercury. Every super hero and every villain must have his weakness.

It's time to close the snare on Phil and do the Luna Island job, but for this to work, absolutely everything has to go the right way. Everyone is equal on Luna Island, and even the Great Kimon becomes as mortal as anyone else.

Securty on board the Unstoppable Fortress is not, as it turns out, totally fortress-like. Call it a consequence of turning something like that into a messy corporate operation. Kimon has a good reason to take a lot of interest in what's on Lawry's computer.

Kimon's schemes are at last approaching their dreaded culmination. The constant planning helps make sure the foreseeable faults can't materialize, but even the most meticulous plans can fail to account for the unforeseeable. There's no choice but to leap ahead and into the fire!

When you've invested all you have into a single career path or dream, it's hard to just cut your losses and walk away. The prospect becomes even worse when it feels like the whole setup was rigged in the first place, and the only answers were ones somebody else chose for you.

You can't simply introduce something like a flying, amphibious fortress to a city and not upset some people. You have consult with so many experts! There's city planners, zoning laws, and let's not forget about whoever owns the original rights to the plans.

Following a disaster like a failed mission, a certain amount of introspection is required. Yes, it all went wrong, but it went wrong in far, far too many ways. Everyone knows it, and everyone has to face it in their own ways. Even Lightshow has some good reasons to speak up.

Being a super hero is an unusual craft. Now, technically, you can hang a guy from a lightpost with a note saying "this dude done crimes" duct-taped to his forehead, and if that guy were someone like the Joker, who the police already had incontrovertible, video evidence of as a criminal, then they can still take the Joker in. There are those criminals, however, which require a little due process and so on, for whom the ol' lightpost trick is not sufficient.

Investigation takes time, but business works on a schedule of quarterly reports. Lawry understands this better than anyone, and though the team itself might have liked to do some genuine police work for once, good business always supercedes good quality.