Bedside Vigil - Doom Patrol
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Dorothy is caged by The Candlemaker in his realm. She manifests a bow and arrow but stops the arrow from striking, shifting them instead to a wintery landscape. She states that she won't fight him but they'll stay in this place until they are friends again.

At the carnival, the lights come back on and the Doom Patrol members break out of their wax coatings, except for Jane who remains unconscious, and Niles who is dead.

Dorothy and the Candlemaker make an entrance, now reconciled. Dorothy mourns her father's death.

One Week Later: Niles is still resting in state while Dorothy waits for Jane to wake up so she can say goodbye.

Vic tries to get Cliff's body working. They commiserate on what Niles did to them and for them. Vic does a diagnostic scan and it seems to indicate that Cliff's malfunctioning hand is psychological.

Rita and Larry talk about Niles too. Rita prepares for the "Our Town" play. She tells Larry to talk to Dorothy.

Larry finds Dorothy standing vigil over Niles who is being kept cool with bags of frozen veggies. She tells him about her childhood visits with Niles when she lived on Danny the Street. Larry shares his ways of coping with loss and encourages her to keep looking forward, not back.

Rita finds a note and box from Niles, bestowing a responsibility of protecting the world from something on her.

In The Underground, Jane climbs out of the well with Kay's lamb doll. She finds Kay in a cage, working on a jigsaw puzzle. She can't seem to connect with Kay and promises to fix it.

Rita's at rehearsal and can't get past her trauma. She addresses the cast and production team with her dilemma and then loses control of her physicality. She is identified as the real Blob Lady and runs off.

Silas comes to find Vic after seeing Niles' body on the table. They discuss Vic's attempts to help Roni.

In The Underground, Jane finds the other personas absorbed in jigsaws. She can't get Driver 8 to drive the train. She despairs and not-Miranda arrives and reveals that she is Kay's fear and doubt and pain. She forces Jane to her knees, promising to take control once Jane is gone.

Niles's ghost visits Cliff, freaking him out. Niles asks him to incinerate his body to free his spirit. Cliff tells him no. Niles let him know that he was the one who sent Clara the videotape.

Someone crank calls Rita.

Larry's Negative Energy being plays recordings of Larry's memories to convince him to let go of life on Earth and go with him to space but Larry won't go because he wants to stay to support Rita.

Roni makes her move on Quorum HQ but Vic foils her.

Kay comes to Jane in The Underground and thanks her for her lamb doll, Harry, giving him to her to bring her out of her despair. Kay tells Jane she knows another way out.

Cliff calls Clara but she's in the middle of having her baby.

Dorothy tells the unconscious Jane that she's going to take Niles north to bury him next to her mother's resting place. She apologizes to Jane and Baby Doll.

Kay shows Jane a plane that she used to use before The Underground was built. Miranda arrives to stop her, claiming to be the true primary where Jane is a single coping mechanism, alone and afraid. Kay states she's not alone and the other personas arrive to support Jane. Miranda threatens to kill them all by taking control of the body and committing suicide.

Dorothy is there when Miranda awakens and raises the alarm that something's wrong with Jane.

In Kay's mind, Miranda manifests as Daddy made out of jigsaw pieces. The personas unite to help Jane achieve lift-off.

In the real world, Miranda has a noose around their neck and is about to step off her platform but Cliff catches her just as Jane returns.

Briefly, Jane hugs Cliff but freaks out when everyone moves in for a group hug.

All the jigsaw pieces are gathered in a pile in The Underground. Jane suggests they eat the pieces. The personas chow down with glee.

Rita tells Larry he can go, that she'll be fine alone. The Negative Energy being wastes no time and propels Larry into space.

Vic monitors communications about Roni.

Cliff holds his grandson, remembering how it felt to hold Clara as a baby.

Jane zips a bag around Niles and Danny, in the form of an ambulance, takes Dorothy and Niles to the north.

One Week Later: Rita hears a ringing and tracks it to the library. She unlocks a hidden box with the key Niles left her and discovers a phone sounding the alarm, "Arrival imminent."

It stops ringing before she can answer it.

The play opens to great audience approval. The show ends with a big song about possibilities. Isabel leaves the theatre feeling great but witnesses a  giant drill emerging from the ground and a woman comes out and relieves her bladder in the street, using Isabel's program as toilet paper.

The woman asks where she can find Niles but Isabel isn't able to help her. The woman's face changes to look like Isabel's, scaring Isabel into falling into a hole in the ground. The woman's face reverts back and she calls out to Niles that she's coming, following a personal homing signal.

In the afterlife, Niles's ghost is about to join the sex ghosts when his spirit is yanked away. In the Northern Yukon Territory, Kipling is digging up Niles' head which he stores in a bowling ball bag.

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Doom Patrol Season 3 Episode 1 Quotes

Dorothy: This isn't fair!
Candlemaker: No, dear girl. Not fair, but fate.

The girl is alone. The girl is small. The girl shivers and quakes. Here we are, dear girl, fated to collide where the very seeds of our destiny were sown. Where I began as a whisper, I am now a roar. And it is you who may briefly visit my world.

Candlemaker