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The body Hal drags out from the morgue has a wound on its forehead, exactly where "Hal's" wound is at the end of episode 1. And the skull John picks up also has what looks to be a healed wound in a similar area. Lends me to suspect Hal's still alive, and these are all aliens being murdered.

Aside from being a great tool to showcase character progression, since even John comments that version of him is a lot nicer, it's also really creative in my opinion and comic accurate.

It's a nice addition to the ring's functionalities that it can literally store a consciousness. So it doesn't only function as a weapon but also as a hard drive.

And I saw some people commenting that they thought the ring could only conjure up green things, and I immediately remembered Emerald Dawn II, a Hal Jordan origin story where Sinestro does exactly that: makes a non-green clone of Hal and he stays there while they leave the planet.

So since the ring doesn't even need to be close to the construct, it's acceptable that Halogram was in Rushville watching it this whole time, far away from the ring itself. I just don't know if the comics ever made a sentient construct like Halogram, but if they didn't, to me that's a positive creative liberty the show took.

It makes even more sense why Lex hates him so much if that was just the common opinion about aliens. It also means they're gonna lose their shit when Brainiac shows up.

1st image: Tim Drake as Robin/Red Robin and Stephanie Brown as Spoiler

2nd image: Conner Kent as Superboy and Cassie Sandsmark as Wonder Girl

3rd image: Kyle Rayner as Green Lantern

4th image: Bart Allen as Impulse

He's 9 be nice.