Story: "Chapter Three: Serial Killer" (30 Pages)

Credits: Brad Meltzer (plot, script); Rags Morales (pencils); Michael Bair (inks); Kenny Lopez (letters); Alex Sinclair (colors); Valerie D'Orazio (assistant edits); Mike Carlin (edits)

Feature Characters: Atom II, Black Canary II, Flash III, Green Arrow I, Hawkman I, Zatanna (all also appear in flashbacks; all next in Flash Vol. 2 #214); Elongated Man

Guest Stars: Superman (also appears in flashback); Batman (appears only in flashbacks, including one which places him at the scene of the flashback from #2); Green Lantern (Hal Jordan), Flash II (both appear in flashback only); Robin III (last in flashback in Teen Titans Vol. 3 #20), Green Lantern (Kyle Rayner; next in Flash Vol. 2 #214)

Supporting Characters: Owen Mercer (first appearance), Jack Drake, Perry White, Jimmy Olsen, Jean Loring

Villains: Doctor Light III, Deathstroke, Calculator, Captain Boomerang, Merlyn; Blockbuster I, Felix Faust, Floronic Man, Reverse Flash, Star Sapphire II, Wizard (latter six in flashback only)

Comment: Continued directly from the previous issue and continues directly in the next issue. A few hours elapse between pages 22 and 23.

Comment: In flashback we see the 'clear-up' after various hero/villain confrontations, including a case where the Secret Society of Super-Villans swapped bodies with the League

Synopsis:

A group of Justice Leaguers find themselves up against Deathstroke, who has been hired for protection by Doctor Light. With ruthless efficiency, Deathstroke takes them out one by one, having studied their individual weaknesses in order to exploit them to the full. Green Arrow attacks the mercenary by jabbing him in his bad eye with an arrow and Deathstroke is finally brought down by all eight past and present Leaguers piling on him simultaneously. Unfortunately, this action triggers Doctor Light's memory, and he remembers what the Leaguers did to him, only his recollection of events includes Batman as well as the other heroes. A violent burst of light disorients the heroes and both villains disappear. When the heroes come to, Superman arrives, telling them that Doctor Light has been ruled out as a suspect due to findings in Sue Dibny's autopsy. Later, Green Arrow tells Flash about the many times the League had to wipe knowledge of their civilian identities from villains' minds, Robin returns from the search for Plasmus and Warp to spend time with his father, Captain Boomerang encounters his son for the first time, Jimmy Olsen and Perry White speculate about the killing, and Jean Loring is hung in her apartment. Could there be a serial killer at work?