Cluemaster Certainly Lost Me

We're almost two months on from the end of the Steph Brown Batgirl series, and I still don't really understand the Reapers' plan.

I understand the Cluemaster, Stephanie's father, was the mastermind behind them, and that he was ultimately just using them in some Professor Zoom like attempt to make his daughter a better hero by putting her through hell. But I don't entirely follow what kind of plan he presented to the Reapers. I doubt "fight my daughter the superhero so she gets better at her job, which increases the chances you'll go to jail" would be a successful selling point.

Looking at it, they had Slipstream try and steal all those discontinued bills*, which would either be a simple desire for more money, or it's necessary capital for their overall plan. Slipstream winds up captured, without getting the money, yet Steph was convinced that prison was exactly ehere the Reapers wanted Slipstream to be.

Then Harmony tried to take those cells from the corpse of the nun with alleged healing powers. Stephanie captured and defeated her, too, but the Grey Ghost palmed the container and handed it over to the remaining Reapers as part of his plan to protect Batgirl/get the goods on the Reapers. This is getting somewhere. Assuming the rumors that nun had the ability to 'remove maladies from the accursed' are true, it may be a meta-gene trait, that with the right equipment, could be reproduced and marketed to interested parties. If it's regeneration, the list of people who'd want that either for themselves or for their soldiers/minions would stretch around the block. Even if it's simply healing abilities, that's still highly useful, if someone's interested in prolonging their life or are trying to scrimp on medical insurance pay outs. But the equipment necessary to find the proper gene sequence andreproduce it wouldn't be cheap. Which might explain the robbery attempt.

It's significant that Clancy overheard Harmony say she would succeed in her mission without ending up like Slipstream. While she was wrong about that, it suggests ending up in prison wasn't part of the plan, contrary to Batgirl's belief. Or else it was a part of the plan the Reapers weren't privvy to.

After that, Clancy gets himself killed, and the remaining Reapers suit up, get Harmony and Slipstream's suit back, and tear into the prison, going on a rampage as they look for their mysterious boss. Though this did bring Batgirl into contact with her father, as he wanted, I doubt he told the Reapers they were to break in and start trying to find and kill him. It's more likely he set them up so by this point they'd be angry enough to do exactly that.

The slacker that became Slipstream was apparently enticed with offers of money after all his other sources cut him off, so maybe it was as simple as promising them loads of cash. Not to mention power, with the super-suits and all. Give them enough treats, and perhaps Arthur could lead them around by the nose, without ever explaining what the point was. I wonder if Arthur even had a plan for the money or the DNA if Steph failed to stop him, or if these were simply weird crimes he dreamed up to test her.

* I still don't get why having him coat them with a marker they could track so he could steal it all at once was better than simply having him steal everything from each bank as he hit them. Surely the banks were trying to increase security in light of the break-ins, even though he wasn't taking anything?