<P> During her tenure with Team 7, Dinah works as a covert ops agent in charge of infiltration . She is given the codename Operative Canary . It is during this time that Dinah secretly marries her longtime partner, Kurt Lance . Her powers are subsequently awakened after being tested metagene - positive . Toward the end of the Team 7 run, during a mission to retrieve Pandora's Box, Dinah's sonic scream surfaces and are amplified by Kurt's, the after - effect of which ultimately destroyed the island of Gamorra . In the aftermath, Kurt is presumed dead, and Team 7 is mothballed, leaving Dinah a fugitive on the run from authorities and an outlaw codenaming herself Black Canary . </P> <P> After Team 7, Black Canary continues freelance covert operations, hunting the terrorist network known as Basilisk, and later attempts to form a team recruiting Starling, Katana, Poison Ivy, and later Batgirl . The team is ambushed by treachery from Poison Ivy and eventually Starling, pressuring Dinah to question her leadership . As the team roster progresses and evolves following the departure of Katana to include Strix and Condor, Dinah's questioning reaches its peak to erupt trust issues and notably with Batgirl when she discovers her powers are being manipulated by an apparently alive Kurt Lance . </P> <P> Throughout her missions with the Birds, Dinah encounters and protects an elderly woman, Miss Ettie, later revealed to be known as Mother Eve, a centuries - old woman hunted by Ra's al Ghul for her immortality which takes place in the form of her metamorphosis into her youth after every life . She claims that in nearly every life, she was a mother and outlived her children, some of whom have developed unique abilities genetically, and believes that Dinah might have gained her abilities through a genetic link to her . </P> <P> When Dinah's husband Kurt is found to have no memory of his past life with her, and she realizes Amanda Waller is involved, she summons Waller to find answers during a mission against the Suicide Squad . Confronting Waller, she is informed that Kurt was revived by a Samsara Serum, and the resurrection process damaged his memory . With the truth of Dinah's past and her setting up of this meeting with Waller shared with the Birds, Batgirl confronts Dinah on her leadership and angrily disapproves of Dinah's actions in keeping it from the team . As a result, the Birds of Prey part ways . </P>

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