User blog comment:Rassilon of Old/Ep. 124 "Performance" discussion/@comment-167456-20120408135104/@comment-47881-20120411171745

A couple of things regarding the "mole":

The Light and its subsidiaries have never claimed to have a mole on the Team. In "Infiltrator" L-2 said they had "an operative on the inside". But on the inside of what? The language here is deliberately misleading. And mole and an operative on the inside are two slightly different things (emphasis on "different"). The viewer is lead to believe he's referring to inside the Team, so it's one of the Team members. RA was not a member of the Team at the time. Did he mean the operative was inside the Cave? That would expand the candidates to everyone who has access to the Cave, including the JL. But if it was meant to refer to someone on the inside of the heroes faction, and by extension, close to the Team, then RA could be a candidate. But was he ever really close to the Team? He's only been close to Aqualad as of "Targets".

Then, Sportsmaster says he has an inside source... very inside. Again, ambiguous language. Was RA very inside, or at all? He had to ask Aqualad to use the computer and confirm Cheshire's height. How could he be on the inside then?

Then, if RA is the mole and Sportsmaster's "inside source", then what was with the fight between them in "Targets"? Was it an act, and if so, who were they putting it on for?

The truth is, the only person who's been saying there's a mole was RA. Again, is the choice of word supposed to perpetuate the deliberate misleading of audiences to look in the wrong place?

Also, there's a two week time gap between "Insecurity" and "Performance". Didn't the Team have any mission in-between? Was the circus gig the second time they've worked together? If yes, then RA's sudden realization may be out of left field. If not, then maybe his suspicions started to wane during their as-of-yet undocumented missions.