The essential episodes of Powerless
Watch these 12 in order and you've got Powerless — each pick states its reason.
- 01
Emily Locke is hired as the Director of R&D at Wayne Security in Charm City. Her job is to come up with ways to protect civilians from superfights. However, she soon discovers that she wasn't the first choice--or the fourth--for the job, and that their company is being shut down unless she comes up with an idea.
- 02
Emily tries to motivate her team, but they're too busy with Super Hero Fantasy League so she goes to HR. Meanwhile, Jackie deals with Van after he realizes that he's not in the Wayne Dream Team picture.
- 03
Van manages to lose the company their biggest client, and Van Sr. is none too thrilled. To get his father's respect back, Van has Emily set up a Sinking Day party for new prospective Atlantean customers.
- 04
After Emily's boyfriend dumps her, she tries to get back into the dating scene... and ends up with a henchman. Meanwhile, Ron, Teddy, and Van try to arrange a meeting with Batman.
- 05
When the Wayne X people call Emily a nobody, she signs Teddy up for an inter-company invention contest without his knowledge. Meanwhile, Van pressures Ron into building things for his girlfriend's child.
- 06
Emily tries to bond with Jackie, but Jackie doesn't want to bond. Meanwhile, Van suspects that Teddy, Ron, or Wendy used his private bathroom and will stop at nothing to get the guilty party to confess.
- 07
Van refuses to give Emily her own office, so she challenges him to a game of Green Arrow darts to get it. However, the rest of the team warn her that Van doesn't handle failure very well. Meanwhile, Teddy falls in love with a superheroine that rescues him.
- 08
After saving Green Fury's life, Emily tries to convince her to star in a commercial that she's creating for Wayne Securities. Unfortunately, the marketing division has a few changes that they plan to make. Meanwhile, Wendy befriends Jackie's daughter Ruby, and Teddy tries to improve his image with women through market testing.
- 09
The team is preparing to go on a corporate retreat, but a poison gas attack seals them in the building. Emily ends up improvising a retreat but things don't go so well.
- 10
After Lois Lane dies, everyone realizes that Superman will rewind time so they decide that it's No Consequence Day. However, when Superman doesn't rewind time, people realize that things have become real... literally.
- 11
After Emily tries to honor a retiring co-worker that Van has ignored, things backfire and Van gets all of the credit. Meanwhile, Teddy tries to convince Ron to pitch Ron's new thought-controlled selfie-drone.
- 12
Emily unfortunately endangers the entire division when she's forced to fire one department head. Meanwhile, Ron and Teddy try to give Van superspeed, and aliens from the future invade Charm City.
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