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Meltdown

  Powers revives and then betrays Freeze.
  Original Airdate: February 13, 1999
  Episode # 7
  Rating: * * * *

Credits	Cast
Story by Hilary J. Bader Written by Hilary J. Bader & Alan Burnett Directed by Butch Lukic Music by Lolita Ritmanis Animation by Koko/Dong Yang	Will Friedle as Terry McGinnis Kevin Conroy as Bruce Wayne Lauren Tom as Dana Tan Michael Ansara as Mr. Freeze Sherman Howard as Derek Powers Corey Burton as Barge Driver	Stuart Pankin as Negotiator Linda Hamilton as Stephanie Lake John Rubinow as Doctor #1 Tress MacNeille as Miss Winston Joe Spano as Sniper

Our favorite villain reclaims his humanity and reclaims our sympathy. And the tragic saga of Victor Fries comes full circle:

In the beginning ("Heart of Ice") he was the victim of an unscrupulous industrialist tycoon and returned to wreak vengeance on a man who presented one face to the public and quite another to his victims. Then ("Deep Freeze") he was the tool of a tycoon who for health reasons needed Freeze's help.

(Then there was much silliness in SubZero and "Cold Comfort" and we should all avert our eyes.)

Now the great cycle reverses. He is rescued by Derek Powers, a tycoon who for health reasons needs Freeze's help. But when the hoped-for cure fails to materialize, Powers (who presents one face to the public and quite another to his victums) turns on Freeze and tries to destroy him. And again the freeze guns come out.

Is it karma or Calvin, this inability to escape the slow, grinding glacier of fate?


Related Episodes * Heart of Ice * Deep Freeze * Cold Comfort * Rebirth	What Others Are Saying ... "This was excellent use of Mr. Freeze because it fit into the idea that he was immortal." –Robin III for World's Finest

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