[groans softly]
[yawning]
What the fuck?
Well, you look like shit.
[both laugh]
Everybody! Fucknut lives.
[Larry] Finally. You've been asleep for three days.
[chuckles]
What is going on?
[Vic] We was hoping that you could tell us.
Everything was a hell of a lot less George of the Jungle
around here until you rolled up.
Oh, Gar, meet Vic.
There's a 50/50 chance you'll kill each other.
[metal whirring]
Nice guns.
[Cliff] So you gonna tell us why we've been mowing Mother Nature's bush
for the past 72 hours?
[Larry] First of all, so wrong.
Second, it's not just that the house is blooming.
It's also not our house.
[Larry] And just to make the madness complete...
there's apparently no way out.
So?
Any answers, Broccoli Top?
I... I'm not sure where we are.
[siren wailing]
I'm taking over LexCorp.
Good for you.
That could be good for us.
Wouldn't you like a morning
where May Bennett's marionette strings aren't pulling you out of bed?
Walking you to where she wants you to go?
You don't know anything about me.
Well, I know you haven't blown that Horn
and brought Trigon into the world.
And I know that you're May Bennett's suicide bomber,
and once she straps you with her hatred,
kicks you into a shopping mall, she watches the explosion.
And nothing of you remains.
That's programming code.
[breathes heavily]
You know what we call the things we keep in a little private book
that we don't want others to see?
We call those dreams.
What's your dream, Sebastian?
I wanted to create something
that would bring the whole world together.
I wanted to make games.
Sounds ridiculous now, doesn't it?
No, it doesn't.
Join me at LexCorp.
Whatever is in that book,
I can make it a reality.
I don't dream anymore.
[laughs] Sebastian...
I'm here.
I'm asking you what you want.
When's the last time someone did that for you?
Has May Bennett ever done that for you?
[sighs]
Consider my offer.
Call the number on that card if you want to believe in dreams again.
You're late.
Uh, I... I thought if we were gonna change the world,
I might have time to at least grab a cup of coffee.
You're now at the end of the journey.
Tonight we trumpet the Horn,
let your father arrive,
in the center of their gleaming city.
I would love to see Metropolis be the first brought to its knees.
You never asked me what I wanted.
What?
How come you never ask me what I want?
We don't need to summon Trigon.
I have power.
Mother, I have power.
[laughing]
Ah, you have power?
- Yeah. - [both chuckle]
Oh.
You're nothing.
Without Trigon's power, you will always be nothing.
[breathing heavily]
Nothing?
I gave you destiny.
And now you want to shame me?
Pathetic child.
Don't, Mother.
[Mother Mayhem] Don't call me that.
My son would not be a coward.
My son would embrace this power.
I am trying.
I'm trying. What do you want from me?
[sighs]
You are so...
desperately,
disgustingly weak.
Oh.
Are you gonna cry, Sebastian?
- Are you crying, Sebastian? - [sniffles]
[Mother Mayhem gasps]
Piss yourself and cry all you want,
but tonight you're gonna use that Horn and you're gonna bring him back to us.
[screaming] No!
[screaming]
[theme music playing]
[Conner] And that is why I am formally taking over
all LexCorp operations as the new CEO.
Now, I know there were rumors
that I was his enemy,
his creation.
Consider me his son.
Consider this an inheritance of his legacy.
And a new direction.
Expect to see LexCorp's influence grow across the globe.
Technical innovation that brings the world closer,
instead of tearing it apart.
Clean energy,
ending starvation,
disease,
poverty.
Capitalism and conscience don't have to be enemies in a zero-sum game.
Thank you, everyone.
- I'll take questions now. - [reporters clamoring]
[woman on TV speaking indistinctly]
So, Conner's playing Lex and teaming up with Sebastian.
He's too smart for that.
He's working an angle.
[Bernard] You gotta give it to him.
He does the whole bald-headed, charming psychopath thing very well. [chuckles]
What if he is working with Sebastian?
We up against him now, too?
[Dick] May Bennett offered Sebastian Armageddon.
What did Conner offer him to get him standing on that stage?
Well, now I'm wondering what's worse than Armageddon.
[Rachel] So let's go to LexCorp.
Conner will have to decide which side he's on,
and then, either way, this thing's finished.
What?
You're shutting me out?
[Dick] We're protecting you.
He cut you with a knife and he bled the same way.
Whatever happens to him could happen to you.
Yeah, in that town.
We're not in that town anymore.
We're your family.
We're deciding not to take the risk.
Sebastian is my family, too.
We have the same father, the same blood.
All of this happened because of me.
Because of what I am.
If I have to die to stop it, then better me than Kory.
No one has to die.
Agreed. Maybe there's a way to sever the connection between you two.
[Tim] We broke a town free from a magical curse.
There has to be a way.
Exactly. Look, magic is just science we don't understand yet.
Except when it's not.
The connection is genetic.
You can't just recode DNA with a spell.
Please, don't make me do this. Don't make me wait on the sidelines.
Let me help.
I gotta make a call.
Long distance.
What the fuck is long distance?
I don't know anything you don't.
Look, I'm gonna go prep us on Baby Luthor and Mr. End of the World.
Keep an eye on LexCorp, hm?
Hm.
[sighs]
[Larry] The door.
- [Cliff] No! - No!
[Cliff laughing] Oh!
[door closes]
[groans]
Fuck. [breathes deeply and groans]
Do I know you?
[Gar] Kory?
- Gar? - [both laugh]
[Kory] Oh, my gosh.
Are you okay?
Yeah. Have you guys been okay?
Yeah. Rachel heard your voice. You saved us.
So, we just gonna ignore the sucker punch or...
Uh, Kory. You remember Cliff and Larry?
Yeah, I thought I recognized you.
And, uh, I believe your fist already met Vic's face. [chuckles]
[exhales]
Sorry about that.
[Cliff] Ah, he's fine.
Happens all the time.
Forget about it.
[Kory exhales]
[whispers] Gar, where are we?
Oh.
We're in my house,
but we're not.
But we are.
Okay, I'm gonna need you to just make, like,
100% more sense.
[Larry] May as well join the party.
Not making sense is kind of how we roll around here.
[sarcastically] Yeah, thank you.
But we can't stay.
Sure, you can.
Sorry, Kory.
We're trapped here.
[chuckles]
[exhales]
[Conner] I call this programmers' playhouse,
courtesy of the new LexCorp.
All for you.
The worker bees have already implemented your code.
Assets built.
Once you review, we instantly distribute to anything running LexOS.
From there, word of mouth takes over.
If your game is viable...
[chuckles] I don't see a limit in consumer adoption.
If the game is viable.
We can lead consumers to a game, but we can't make them play it.
Even corporate America has its limits.
And if it fails, what then?
Be a laughingstock all over the world?
[breathing heavily] I... I can't--
- Hey. - [breathing heavily]
Failure is what happens when we stop making attempts.
If it doesn't succeed, we iterate and try again.
Can I have a moment alone?
It's all a bit...
overwhelming, you know?
Of course.
Take as long as you need.
The, uh, green button on the intercom goes direct to the coffee bar.
Try the cortado.
[Dick] Hey, Rach.
You got a second?
I'm not that little kid at the police station anymore.
You don't need to give me a jacket
and tell me, "Everything's going to be okay."
Didn't bring a jacket.
But I did bring this.
What is it?
The Clavis Noctem.
In English, "The Key of Night."
This is black magic.
I spoke to my friend in London.
He thinks this ritual might help.
It finds inner evil, gives it a physical form.
A form that can be destroyed.
So, you wanna use this to break my tie with Sebastian.
I wanted to give you the choice.
Black magic is not like me. It's something different.
It's something... darker.
It's the kind of thing that requires a price.
Like I said, it's your choice.
This is, um... This is just you and me, okay?
It's just the other Titans can't know.
It's just a side of me that, um, I don't really want them to see.
They won't know. I promise.
[Sebastian] I have power.
Mother, I have power.
[Mother Mayhem] You're nothing without me.
Without Trigon's power, you will always be nothing.
You are so...
desperately,
disgustingly weak!
[screaming]
Azarath,
Metrion,
Zinthos.
[grunts]
[panting]
[breathes deeply]
[groans and pants]
[Sebastian] Sebastian Sanger, god of games.
Has a nice ring to it.
Sorry to invade your office.
It turns out this is the only room where people don't bother me.
[softly] Ah.
So, feeling better?
Fantastic.
We're really doing this?
Just say the word.
Yes.
[both laughing]
Excellent.
Soon,
Sebastian Sanger will make himself known to the world.
Now,
I should get out of your office.
Oh, Conner?
You don't have to worry about my mother anymore.
I'm not.
And if she's out of your way,
then you're better off.
No one has ever let me choose my own path.
Till now.
Thank you.
To the future.
I'll prepare us for the launch.
[exhales and laughs]
[Kory] I'm sorry about hitting you.
- I thought you were attacking me. - Oh, totally understandable.
You got one hell of a right hook.
[chuckles] Yeah.
We wind up punching people a lot.
It's kind of a reflex. [laughs]
Here, put these on there. It might help.
- Just, um, little... Ooh. - [Vic] Oh.
[both] Sorry.
- [Kory] Sorry. - [Vic] Okay.
Thanks.
Yeah.
So, this is The Red?
It's a dimension of pure life.
Kind of like the living soul of the universe.
[Kory] Okay.
And it stuck us in Doom Patrol's house?
Gar?
Why are we here?
The Red has a will of its own.
It doesn't tell you directly what it wants.
You have to figure it out.
[Kory] Great. Okay, that's great.
[sighs] What's up with the spooky arcades?
Hm.
- Yeah. I... I don't know. I've never seen them before. - [machine beeps]
[Kory] Gar, Sebastian is worse.
Everything is a lot worse.
Every minute we stay here is another minute closer to--
[whispering] Hey, just, uh...
The Red showed me things.
Things I needed to see.
About Niles Caulder.
The doctor that saved your life?
He didn't save my life.
He created the virus that killed my parents.
- [sighs softly] - The Red wanted me to accept it,
find balance. [sighs]
Hasn't been easy, but I'm making peace with it.
Gar, I'm so proud of you. I'm so happy to hear that, really.
But is that why you brought me here?
To tell me that?
No, I... I didn't.
I'm assuming The Red did. I...
Maybe there's something you need to balance.
I don't have time to find balance right now.
I didn't kill Sebastian when I should have.
And now he's winning.
So I just need you to get us out of here.
I can't.
[Cliff] Look what I found.
Tennis, anyone?
[breathing heavily]
[Rachel] Can we trust her?
To do this?
This is who I was told to find.
[Rachel] By your friend.
You don't need to worry.
I'm not gonna let anything happen to you.
[speaking in Italian]
[in English] We begin.
- So, so what do we do? - [Helena] Silence, child.
Tell me what you know.
The stronger the faith of the user, the stronger the magic.
This bond between the child and the Brother of Blood,
you will give it form.
When it comes,
you kill.
There's no blade.
Your faith will make the blade.
Your weapon is your love for this child.
This darkness will travel fast.
It will take her life force until you kill it.
Or she is dead.
We have to start this now.
[breathing heavily]
Hit that command key,
and your vision
is all over the globe.
[computer whirring]
[upbeat music playing]
Looks like LexCorp just released a video game.
It's become a global phenomenon in eight hours.
♪ I've got the brains And you've got the looks ♪
I know it doesn't look, like, much guys,
but you have to try this out.
♪ You've got the brawn ♪
Weird enough to look into, yeah?
Thank you.
It's like brain crack or something.
Like...
Fuck.
♪ Ask yourself this question Do you want to be rich? ♪
Whoo!
[podcaster 1] Game-Game Podcast,
here to talk to you about the best game ever, Abraxus.
[podcaster 2 chuckling] Abraxus. Yes.
LexCorp and Sebastian Sanger
are about to dominate the world.
[laughs]
Whoo!
[Helena] Close your eyes and...
Empty your mind.
When you're ready,
it begins.
And how do we know she's ready?
[sighs] When the child rises,
it will take time.
You have known death.
But you are not dead.
Death remembers you.
[speaks Italian]
[Tim] Hey, B.
Still haven't heard from Dick and Rachel.
Kory ghosting isn't like...
Bernard! [breathes heavily] Hey. Hey.
Help!
Sebastian?
Sebastian.
Don't be afraid.
Tears of joy.
Ah.
[laughs]
[sniffles] Mm.
I may have added a little something to our game.
Now people don't so much play it,
as become a part of it.
And through it,
they become a part of me.
You know, something in them
flows,
into me.
Perhaps their lives.
Or maybe it's their souls.
I don't know.
But we're all connected now.
All of them.
All over the world.
All...
connected,
to me.
[sighs]
I wonder if this is what God feels like.
You're feeding on the players.
What...
What happens to them,
Sebastian?
They're martyrs
for our cause.
Their deaths will mean something now
and they will live forever in me.
Isn't that beautiful?
Take a seat.
This is something we should share.
To the future.
[speaking Italian]
[in English] Into the light, I command thee.
More.
Into the light, I command thee.
[Helena] More.
Into the light, I command thee!
[grunts]
[retches]
[vomits]
[spits]
[growls]
[shrieks]
[snarls]
[grunts]
[screeching]
[grunting]
[snarls]
[grunts]
[groans]
[Rachel] Go.
It's connected to me. It's feeding on me.
Rachel.
Go, I don't have much time.
[Cliff] Best part of being trapped
in a totally pointless altered reality,
Cliffosaurus opens a can of Johnny Mac on your asses. Let's go!
Game to eleven, I got next.
- That's not how it-- - [Cliff] Serve!
[grunts]
[laughs]
[sighs and chuckles]
That's yours, Larry.
I don't backhand.
Time! Time!
Okay, gut check.
I know you both went through horrible accidents.
And I know we've never completely answered the question
as to whether either of you have a functional penis.
[whispering] What do you think they're talkin' about?
[inhales slowly]
I don't know but whatever it is, it won't help 'em.
[laughs]
But, and asking for a friend,
could you try not to suck so hard?
Not a criticism.
Remind me the last time that you won Wimbledon?
Or anything?
[Gar] Are we playing?
Yeah, okay, good. Good talk.
All good! Good to go! Yeah!
[Vic chuckles] Okay. Just, just so I'm straight,
you somehow trap us in our own house,
take a three-day nap,
but your tennis game can't wait?
I didn't do this. [chuckles]
[grunts]
Come on, man!
- [sighs] - [Larry] Really?
- [laughs] - [Larry] Okay, is it me,
or am I the only one who actually wants
to find a way out of this hellscape?
God!
Ugh.
Fuck yeah!
Boom!
Prepare to eat shit, animal-vegetable-racquet-boy
and mesmerizing alien woman with the hammer punch.
Let's go, parsley dip.
Show me what you got.
Oh, coming at you, T-Mobile!
[grunts]
[laughs]
Have you, uh, ever heard of the theory of "in and out?"
[Vic] I have, actually.
I learned it last night when I was with your mom.
Whoa! As your friend and colleague,
I need to advise you
a solid, but inappropriate, mom joke here
cuts way against the Cyborg brand.
Are you fucking kidding me?
Uh, I think you guys should see this.
You found a way out?
Maybe.
[Kory chuckles softly]
You okay?
Yeah, um...
I think if me finding some balance gets us out of here,
we're about to leave. [chuckles]
Really?
[sputtering] What'd you find?
Yeah, I just, um...
Come on, you know you can tell me anything. [chuckles]
I don't wanna go back to another psychopath
with a silly name and too much power.
But I know you.
You're going to.
[sighs]
Ever since I didn't kill Sebastian, I've been...
thinking about how I could've stopped all of this.
Hating him.
Judging myself.
Something just clicked for me while I was here.
I don't need to hate him to stop him.
Goofing around with you guys made me think about
all the times I've had so much fun with you,
and Dick, and Rachel,
and Krypto, and Conner. And... [chuckles]
And maybe that's what I need to hold on to.
I'm not going back because I hate Sebastian.
I'm going back because I love what he's trying to destroy.
[sighs]
What's happening to him?
[Dr. Fabian] Well, he's in a coma.
We don't know the cause.
And it's not just him.
Whatever it is, it's happening to people all over the world.
Another crisis to add to the pile.
Until we can understand the cause,
this is everything we can do.
[Dick] Do you sense anything?
Left.
Go left.
[Kory scoffs]
[Gar sniffs]
- Wow, it smells like-- - Death.
Whatever Sebastian's doing, I think it's creeping in here.
[Larry] Check this out.
Never saw that before.
Yeah, me either.
Well, let's not look a gift-back-door in the asshole.
Maybe The Red left me a message in one of these books.
[Vic] Oh, I read that already.
It says that we're trapped because of you.
Hm.
[slams]
[rumbling]
[Kory] What's that?
[Larry] If I'm lucky, the end of everything.
[grunts]
Guys? Little help?
[Cliff] Also, fuck you, powers-that-be
that brought Gar back into our lives!
Shit!
Negative Spirit, release!
I have an idea!
Vic, I'm going to need your help.
Oh, so, now we're besties?
Did you ever see Killers Trilogy?
What, you talkin' about movies now?
- Come on, man! - Okay. Which one?
A Killer's Response.
Oh, that's the best one of the three.
Agreed. At, at the end of the movie,
Sonny's in his cell. He uses smuggled C-4 to--
To blow off the roof.
Exactly. Do you still have the...
[grunts] ...arm gun?
Cannon.
Larry's negative spirit is lighting a spatial rift at the top of the ceiling.
If you hit it, I think we're out.
I... I don't see it.
Aim at me. I'll be your guidance system.
You'll what?
[grunts]
[screeches]
Oh, shit.
[yells] Popping rivets over here!
What if I hit him?
Just don't!
[Cliff grunts]
[Cliff] Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait!
If we die, somebody needs to know.
Joan Jett once told me
I danced in the sheets like a jungle cat.
Hand to God.
Good to know.
Clear, Gar!
[grunts]
Booyah!
- [gags] - [breathing heavily]
Okay.
So we're back?
I hope so.
[sighs in relief]
- Thanks, Kory. - Yeah. [chuckles]
[Tim] Kory.
Hey. Look who I brought with me.
Welcome back.
Where were you?
You wouldn't believe me if I told you.
Tim, what's wrong?
[sighs] I know what Sebastian and Conner are doing.
Every game has pathing.
The ghosts in Pac-Man moving along a set course,
a long block in Tetris.
But this game's player icon always makes this pattern.
That symbol was at the Temple of Azarath.
So Sebastian created a game that's also a spell.
[Tim] I'm thinking ritual.
The players don't know it.
Bernard didn't know it.
But I think it's killing people.
[metal scrapes]
Hey, behind you! Behind you!
[pants]
I noticed you only pushed the game out
to players over 18.
We can't leave anyone out, Conner. This is too important.
That's a database of children
with purchase access to LexOS.
Yeah, LexCorp has excellent collection data on all its customers.
Naughty or nice,
they will all take part.
Listen,
I was always left out as a child.
And I am not gonna let that happen to anyone else.
Apple?
"Suffer little children to come unto me,
and forbid them not."
S.T.A.R. Labs can brute force hack into LexCorp
and corrupt their servers.
And delete the game on any device connected to the Internet.
If we can make it through LexCorp's mainframe security.
Sounds like a big "if."
What?
I think he is waiting for you to give him permission to do it.
Technically, we'd be committing
cyber-warfare against a private corporation, and that's a felony.
Well, Sebastian is killing the world
with evil Donkey Kong.
Break the law, Tim.
Got it.
[computer beeps]
That's an external attack on the server.
By who?
[Conner] It's triangulated.
Location trace hasn't isolated the source.
Doesn't matter.
I'm gonna give your cyber-security a little boost.
[breathes deeply]
[Kory] Wild guess, it's not working.
LexCorp's security is blocking the brute force.
Or Conner and Sebastian
are catching on and they're stopping it.
Are we positive I can't stop this by just blowing something up?
[sighs]
Okay.
You know, if only there was some sort of... [sighs] Forget it.
No. Wh... What were you going to say?
[Tim] You know, if somehow there was some sort of,
back door through LexCorp's security.
[chuckles] Back door.
[Tim] Forget it.
They'd never be that sloppy.
Give it a try.
Trust her.
[grunts softly]
[growling]
[snarls]
[beeping]
[apple crunches]
You chew very loudly.
[chuckles]
[automated voice] Invasion successful.
Oh, yeah. Yes.
[Gar chuckles]
Would you look at that? There's a back door after all.
Holy shit.
We're in.
[automated voice] Target deletion in progress.
[snarls]
- [growls] - [Rachel chokes]
[Dick] Hey, ugly.
Get away from my friend.
[snarls]
[shrieking]
[grunts]
[screams]
[snarls]
[growls]
[screams]
It's all gone.
My game.
My powers.
[Dick] Are you okay?
So when do I get to meet your friend?
He's not the kind of friend you wanna have.
[Sebastian shuddering] Rachel.
[grunts]
Rachel?
- [Sebastian gasps] - What about Rachel?
I can't feel her anymore.
[shuddering] I can't feel...
[Conner] I'm sorry, Sebastian.
They still don't know if he'll recover.
Millions of people would be hurt
if you hadn't destroyed Sebastian's game.
Tim, you stopped him.
Then why do I feel so powerless?
[sniffles]
[shudders]
Gar?
Buddy.
- [chuckles] - [Dick] You good?
I'm good.
Good to have you back.
Ah, it's good to be back.
So Conner's still right next to Sebastian.
And we don't know what he's planning.
I had a look at the event protocol for Tim's hack.
We didn't break their security. Someone over there let us in.
Conner?
[sighs] I think the new CEO of LexCorp is on our side.
[rattling]
[whispers] Sebastian.
[gasps]
[anchor 1] It's just a total self-own.
[anchor 2] Right? Watch it in real time.
The destruction of LexCorp's Abraxus.
[anchor 1] The hottest game ever!
[anchor 2] Has to go down as one of the biggest failures in app history.
[Mother Mayhem] Without Trigon's power, you will always be nothing.
[theme music playing]