Six months ago, the criminal known as Heatwave made what he though would be a play for his ultimate score - a shot at the power of Firestorm. In the process, he murdered a man and then accidentally set himself on fire. He was caught by the hero known as the Cyborg. Today, suffering from nerve damage, Heatwave has been sent to Queen's Row Penitentiary, a South Carolina prison owned and operated by Green Arrow Industries on behalf of the justice system. His fellow inmates think he will make a easy mark, but he swiftly disproves this theory by setting one challenger on fire. Promptly caught, he is put in solitary confinement. He is set to be executed for murder within the day. At the same time, a pair of new inmates are coming in. We see that human criminals are stripped of their technology u