Aging petty super villain Jimmy the Stone (the last metahuman jailed by Al Pratt before his retirement as the Atom) returns to his old home town, Calvin City, after years in Belle Reve. All he wants is to make one big score before retiring, but Juliana Sazia has no interest in hiring him, and warns him against going renegade in “her city”.
Meanwhile Rush is studying the methods of Al Pratt, the Golden Age Atom, trying to figure out how a simple boxer was able to keep the underworld at bay, “atom punch” notwithstanding. He begins to mirror some of Al’s techniques, busting small timers but letting them go in order to get the dope on bigger fish.
Meanwhile Jimmy finds out about a weapons deal going down, and vows to show Sazia he’s still got what it takes. Rush arrives to break up the deal, but Jimmy gets the drop on him and they fight. Not knowing what is happening, the gun runners attack them both. This infuriates Jimmy, who barrels into the gunmen (“You punks got no respect!”) while Rush collects the fleeing money men.
Unfortunately, Rush returns to find Jimmy mortally wounded by the new high-tech weapons, but the old crook keeps true to his code: he won’t rat on “his Boss”.
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