“Devil’s Snare” is episode twelve of season one of Harley Quinn.
At the end of the previous episode, “Harley Quinn Highway”, Gotham’s park was being overrun by rampaging killer trees, transformed by a chemical Scarecrow had derived from Ivy. This episode opens with Gotham and Ivy fighting; Harley says that if Gotham is destroyed, they’ll have to move and she’s not moving to Metropolis. So, Ivy needs to do her plant control thing. Except that doesn’t work. Harley tries heavy scolding. That doesn’t work either. They run.
King Shark sees them approaching and says Ivy has procured them a tree army. Clayface applauds. Psycho realises that the trees aren’t on their side. After a hail of needles and a death scene – staged – from Clayface, they end up surrounded.
Jim Gordon is watching and is complaining because the Jazz Fair had been cancelled and everyone in the park should know that. They will blow it to kingdom come. Batman says they can’t bomb the park. Of course they can; they have the tanks the taxpayers paid for. Not what Batman was aiming at. According to Batman, Scarecrow is driving people to the park. He will deal with Scarecrow and the Justice League is inbound. Jim needs to get people out of the park. Jim knows a good way of doing that. No; he can’t use the tanks.
The Justice League – Superman, Wonder Woman, the Flash and Green Lantern – make short work of the trees surrounding Harley and the others. Then Harley gets tied up and they are told they will be banished to the Phantom Zone for doing this. They are tree monsters; Ivy controls trees. Ergo, they did it. Ivy manages to grab Wonder Woman’s lasso of truth before they are banished and tells the truth. And a bit more; including a couple of less-environmentally things.
If they didn’t do it, who did? Then a book of fairy tales lands on the grounds, followed by the Queen of Fables. The Justice League is sucked inside. Harley thanks Fables, who asks if any of them can fly. Nope. And Fables throws a beanstalk seed on the ground, whisking them up into the clouds. Psycho wants Ivy to do something. She can’t control fairy tale plants as he well knows. Well, actually, he didn’t. Clayface thinks they are safer in the clouds than on the ground. Then the giant appears. Ivy has an idea; she needs a phone. To call Kite Man.
With Kite Man inbound, Harley wants to know why Ivy has his number memorised. Ivy changes the subject; the giant is coming. She avoids the answer again. Then admits she’s dating Kite Man. Why? Well… maybe she does love him. How come Harley didn’t know Ivy was dating Kite Man? Because she never asked. Ivy wasn’t even trying that hard to keep it a secret and everyone else knew. Kite Man manages to get them all down to the ground safely.
Jim Gordon really wants to use his tanks. Harley has had it with the Legion of Doom. Ivy spends a lot of times apologising to trees she kills.