New Kids on the Block Part 1

**New Kids on the Block Part 1** is the first part of the two part pilot for Titans (Season One).

## Plot

The episode begins five years ago. Outside Wayne Manor as Dick Grayson is packing things into his car, ready to move to Jump City. Alfred Pennyworth comes out of the manor, holding a metal briefcase. He tells Dick that its been an honor working with him. The two share a hug and Alfred asks if he’s ready for this kind of commitment. Dick assures him that he is ready before asking if Bruce is going to come down. Alfred tells him that Bruce has to deal with Killer Croc in Gotham.

Dick sarcastically replies that *they’ll* probably all miss him and Alfred chuckles. He then shows him the briefcase and Dick can see that it has the Robin insignia on it. Alfred explains that Jump City has its own crime to be dealt with and asks “Who better to defend it then Robin?”

Dick puts the briefcase into his car and Dick says that Bruce has a place ready for him in the new city. He and Alfred share one last smile before Dick drives away from Wayne Manor. Dick gets to Jump City and finds his new house is a huge tower on a small island in the city. It’s shaped like a perfect T.

Dick goes inside and gets acquainted with the place.

Transition to Fawcett City, three years later. Teenager Rachel Roth is currently getting ready for school. After getting her clothes on, she goes downstairs and prepares herself some cereal. Her mother, Angela Roth, comes down and gets herself a cup of coffee. She tells Rachel that she’ll have to walk today and Rachel is fine with it. Before Angela leaves, she tells Rachel “Try and have a good day at school, okay? Try not to…” she hesitates before Rachel finishes her sentence “Lose control?”

Angela nods before quickly leaving for her news reporter job. Rachel finishes her breakfast and grabs her bag as she heads out. She starts walking down the sidewalk, *Life on Mars* by David Bowie blaring in her headphones, and doesn’t notice as a mysterious man starts to follow her.

Soon she senses his presence and turns around. She asks him who he is and the mysterious man calls her “Raven.” He tells her that he and her mother go back and he steps closer to her. Rachel drops her bag and takes a defensive stance, warning him not to come near her. The man smiles deviously and pulls out a small black knife and reveals himself as Juris, a magistrate from the realm of Azarath.

His eyes suddenly glow red and the knife in his hand transfigures into a longer, bigger blade. Rachel’s eyes glow a more bright shade of red and she, with her telekinesis, throws him against a fence. She quickly runs away and hides before getting a painful vision. She gets a vision of Robin in Jump City and decides to go there to meet him. Using her shadow walking ability, she travels to Jump City.

At the T Tower, we get a montage of Dick in the training room where he's going at it against a punching bag, lifting weights, practicing with his sticks, etc. He takes a break for a moment and grabs a water bottle as he walks into the Tower's computer room where he monitors crime throughout the city with hidden cameras. He focuses on a camera displaying the city's shipping yard and sees a suspicious looking gang entering an old warehouse. Thinking it'd be good to investigate, he quickly dons his Robin costume and gadgets and rides out to the city on his motorcycle.

In Jump City, gang leader Mark Desmond is in the warehouse in the city’s shipping yard. He and his men are waiting for his brother, Roland, to get there. Roland is a brilliant scientist and has created something for Mark to take a look at. Roland arrives at the warehouse and the two brothers share a hug before Roland gets his case. He opens it and inside the case is a formula along with an injector gun. Roland puts the formula tube onto the injector gun and explains that the formula will enhance Mark’s strength, durability, and vitality. Mark wants him to try it out on him but before Roland can respond, a smoke grenade drops down into the room.

Roland wonders what’s happening and Mark says “It’s the damn bird boy!” Robin then drops into the room and the two brothers quickly escape with the formula. Robin fights Mark’s gang and gets them all knocked down. The police arrive and he gets back up to the roof.

He laments the fact that he lost Mark and Roland and ponders what could happen with that formula on the streets. He looks up at the sky and notices something plummeting toward the Earth. Eventually the thing crashes into the city, causing a mini explosion. Robin gets onto his motorcycle and rides to the crash site, it being the city’s local park.

A crowd of people have already surrounded the crash site and Robin gets through them to investigate. The smoke clears and Robin sees that it’s an alien spaceship that’s left behind a small crater. He descends into the crater and touches the silver spaceship. The side opens up and out comes a stunningly beautiful alien woman with vibrant orange skin and red hair.

He asks her if she’s okay and she suddenly plants a kiss on his lips, surprising him. She disconnects and says, “Greetings. My name is Koriand'r but you may call me Kori."

End of Part 1.