Lex Luthor controls and manipulates a powerful android named Amazo with the ability to copy and collect any superpower, posing as a father figure to it. Meanwhile, J'onn questions the nature of humans and struggles with the burden of hearing thousands of their minds in his head at the same time after performing a psychic sweep of the city of Metropolis in a failed attempt to locate Luthor.

Small-time crook John Dee volunteers for an experimental treatment while in prison. While the authorities are distracted by a mass prison break--led by Volcana, Firefly, Solomon Grundy, Copperhead, and Luminus--John Dee overdoses to become the dream-controlling Doctor Destiny.