Ooh, Martin Stein, you no-good scamp. For those of us who found his sudden remembering of Ray Palmer as one of his pupils to be a little too convenient, our minds were put to rest here. Yes, we cynical sorts were right, and Professor Stein was in fact completely fabricating the whole story. As was believed initially, Stein has absolutely no recollection of Ray as one of his students. So, mark this one down for the cynics. Stein saw that Ray was in need of a timely boost in order to get back in his Atom suit and take a swim through Kendras body once more, and so Martin merely told Palmer what he wanted to here.