User blog comment:JuniperAlien/Artemis...do you trust her?/@comment-60.50.87.94-20111209040926/@comment-3465526-20111211162531

We have too much information from Artemis' perspective -- internal monologs, talking to herself when nobody can hear her-- for her to be the mole -- in none of those does she go "Oh, its so terrible that I am the mole betraying my friends", or "Oh, Ha ha ha, the fools, how I hate them"-- so she doesn't BELIEVE she is a mole on the team and we KNOW this -- the writers have sent us this information in giant glowing neon letters -- they have spent much of two comic books and several minutes of tv show telling us this.

Remember that TV shows have to tell their story in very limited amounts of time. You don't waste it. So we know there is a mole (and there IS a mole) because the writers are spending significant show time discussing it. Batman actually has NO OBJECTIVE REASON to believe that there is a mole on the team that we have been shown, but because the WRITERS know there is a mole, he has a discussion about the possibility.

In this same way, also know that Apokolips is going to be very significant in the future because they have spent valuable story time explaining what Apokolips is.

So there is a mole, and it isn't Artemis (but viewers are supposed to suspect it is Artemis, partially so they won't figure out who the mole is) I think it is Aqualad because otherwise the revelation from Sportsmaster in the middle of Targets makes no sense either from the villains' perspective or dramatically -- it only makes sense if Sportsmaster is pretending to tell Aqualad for Red Arrow's benefit.