So You Need a Crew?

Season 1
Episode 3

## All Season 1 Episodes

"**So You Need a Crew?**" is the third episode of the first season of *Harley Quinn*. It is the third episode of the series overall. It was released on December 13, 2019 on DC Universe.

## Synopsis

Realizing she needs a crew to pull off heists that will attract the Legion of Doom's attention, Harley attempts to recruit Dr. Psycho and Clayface.

## Plot

Harley Quinn attempts to steal a nuke from a train, but is superseded by the Joker due to his goons helping him. In response, Harley decides to seek out a crew. Poison Ivy deems that unnecessary, citing Doctor Psycho singlehandedly battling Wonder Woman on live TV. However, when smacked hard in the head, Psycho angrily calls Wonder Woman the c-word. The shocks the world, landing Psycho in a massive scandal. Harley interprets the event as: if he had a crew, "they'd have told him to use the B-word instead!"

Harley tries to recruit goons from Underworld Talent, Inc., a supervillain talent and PR agency. However, upon learning she is not working with (but against) the Joker, the agency denies Harley access to recruits. She then attempts to recruit in a bar, but everyone declines — one even jumps into a "hell portal" instead of working with her. Doctor Psycho, also at the bar, says he won't work for her either. Harley does meet Clayface, a shapeshifter who seems open to the job, but he quickly gets into a fight with Psycho. Kite Man then arrives and immediately gets the entire bar to join him for a slapdash heist.

Out of options, Harley goes to a seminar by supervillain motivational speaker Maxie Zeus who recommends getting a crew. When she goes to meet him one-on-one, he is disinterested in helping her and makes sexual advances; when rejected, he adds that no villain would ever work for a woman.

After Harley returns to the apartment after the incident, Ivy herself tells Harley there is a "glass ceiling" in supervillainy. She then tells her the story of the last female villain to attain power; Queen of Fables, who was confronted by various superheroes and magically imprisoned in a tax book. Ivy even directs Harley to speak to Fables herself; Fables recounts that in lieu of a crew, her subordinates were simpletons from fairytales.

*❝ What Queen of Fables made me realize, is if I want a crew, I shouldn't be looking for scumbags who believe in me, I should be looking for scumbags no one else believes in. ❞*
— Harley Quinn

After returning from her meeting with Fables, Harley is still unwilling to give up and proclaims her decision that she needs her own crew of nobodies to accept her leadership. She and Ivy watch Psycho appear on television for PR clean-up; things fall apart once his wife leaves him on-air and he calls her a slur. Soon, the Legion of Doom banishes him from their ranks, saying Psycho "does not represent our brand of evil," so Psycho decides to join Harley, as does Clayface.

Their first scheme is to rob Maxie Zeus. As a decoy, Clayface pretends to be mailman — but spins this into being Maxie' long-lost son — while Harley and Psycho sneak inside his manor. Maxie eventually sees through Clayface's disguise and starts to attack him. Harley, having already stolen her prize (Maxie Zeus' gold medals), reveals herself. In the ensuing fight, she beats Maxie up with her bat and orders him to tell the world that it was her doing. Seeing the aftermath of the fight, the media speculate that Harley Quinn might become the Joker's competitor, much to his anger.

Later on, Harley trades Maxie's gold for a nuclear warhead, then uses that to blackmail Gotham into renaming a highway after her. Ivy is highly impressed with her friend's results.

## Cast and Characters

### Main Cast

* Kaley Cuoco as Harley Quinn
* Lake Bell as Poison Ivy
* Tony Hale as Dr. Psycho, Felix Faust
* Matt Oberg as Kite Man, KGBeast
* JB Smoove as Frank the Plant
* Alan Tudyk as The Joker, Clayface/Hot southern bartender

### Guest Cast

* Giancarlo Esposito as Lex Luthor
* Vanessa Marshall as Wonder Woman, Giganta
* Tisha Campbell-Martin as Tawny Young
* Will Sasso as Maxie Zeus
* Wanda Sykes as Queen of Fables

### Cameos

* Cronk (pictured)
* The Professor (pictured)
* Blaze (pictured)
* Riddler (pictured)
* Two-Face (pictured)
* Black Manta (flashback and on TV screen)
* Sinestro (flashback and on TV screen)
* Brainic (on TV screen)
* Gorilla Grodd (flashback and on TV screen)
* Brimstone (flashback)
* Mister Mxyzptlk (flashback)
* Parasite (flashback)
* Man-Bat (flashback)

* Mr. Freeze (flashback)
* Darkseid (flashback)
* Firefly (flashback)
* Bane (flashback and on TV screen)
* Big Bad Wolf (flashback)
* Mark *(uncredited)*
* Batman (flashback)
* Superman (flashback)
* Zatanna Zatara (flashback)
* Herman Cizko
* Scarecrow (on TV screen)
* Cheetah (on TV screen)

## Trivia

* Two Joker goons, the two UTI consultants, Felix Faust's henchman, four patrons at Noonan's, Mark and a woman's in Tawny Young's audience are all uncredited despite lines of dialogue.
* The bottom scroll during the news broadcasting of Doctor Psycho and Wonder Woman's fight reads: "Lex Luthor launches Twitter tirade against Superman" and "Court of Owls: secret society or underground sex club?". The latter would be paid off in the season 3 episode "A Thief, a Mole, an Orgy."
* The scene where Maxie Zeus shows Harley Quinn his genitals is a reference to the 1992 movie *Basic Instinct*.
* Queen of Fables' backstory is adapted from *JLA: The Queen of Fables*, where the character was first introduced to the DC Universe. In the comics, Zatanna is not involved; instead, Queen of Fables retreats in what she believes is her book of tales after being confronted to reality, but Flash has switched it with the U.S. Tax Code Manual, rendering her powerless.
* While disguised as the alleged mailman son of Maxie Zeus, Clayface derives his backstory from that the titular character from the movie *Forrest Gump*, a fact acknowledged by Zeus in the episode.
* The plan of blackmailing the city into naming a highway after her which Harley executes at the end of this episode was actually first brought up in "Til Death Do Us Part".
* One of the UTI agents mentions an incident of Mister Freeze exposing himself. Humorously, this is an impossibility, since the character — including the incarnation we later meet in this series — has to remain in his cryosuit or else he will die.
	+ May have been a suicide attempt after having a breakdown after years of failure trying to find a cure for his wife Nora.

## Gallery

*See also: All images from "So You Need a Crew?"*

"I need a fucking crew""Your independence is quite inspiring" - Frank the PlantDoctor Psycho fights Wonder WomanWonder WomanProminent villains during the 1980sThe Justice League vs Queen of FablesDoctor Psycho with his family on Tawny's showClayface as a hunchbacked mailmanHarley's crew faces off against Maxie ZeusHarley and her crew makes the news
### Video

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