My Review of Titans S1 Ep. 4 "DOOM PATROL"
4My Review of Titans S1 Ep. 4 "DOOM PATROL"
Two years ago, in Congo, we see a young Garfield Logan (Ryan Potter), sans his green hair, dying in a makeshift hospital bed. Doctors in hazmat suits have given up trying to save the patients and leave. A frightened Gar pleads with them to stay, but no one listens. Shortly after, a mysterious figure enters the tent. When he hears Gar call out, he tells the crying boy he can save him before injecting Gar with a green liquid. Thus begins the fourth episode of Titans.
At the end of episode three, Rachel (Teagan Croft) had blown up the convent she was hiding in. While on the run, she comes across Gar in his tiger form in the woods nearby. Relieved to see a friendly face, Rachel follows Gar to where he lives. On the way, they stumble upon a couple of hunters who have maimed a deer. Outraged, Rachel intervenes but the hunters are unphased. Tiger-Gar (or Ti-Gar?) appears and frightens them away. Rachel’s soul-self calms the dying beast but isn’t able to save it. Or so she thinks. As Gar and Rachel leave, the deer’s wound appears to heal.
Meanwhile, Dick Grayson (Brenton Thwaites) and Starfire (Anna Diop) find the convent in ruins. The elderly nun who had locked Rachel away to ‘protect’ her in the previous Titans episode is of no help, feebly repeating, ‘there’s no stopping it now’.