Finger Patrol

"**Finger Patrol**" is the fifth episode of the second season of *Doom Patrol*. It premiered on DC Universe and HBO Max on July 9, 2020.

## Synopsis

* DC Universe
* HBO Max
Dorothy finds a friend in Baby Doll, while Vic looks to win Roni back. With Rita's help, Larry finally tries to break the ice with his family.

Dorothy finally finds a friend in Baby Doll, until playtime goes awry. Cliff discovers that Niles plans to give him human-like upgrades. Vic devises a plan to win Roni back. After Rita has a lousy audition, Larry brings her along to meet his family and learns more about the life he left behind.

## Plot

At first, it seems as if things between Vic and Roni are going well until she suddenly is revealed to have a blaster on her arm like his. Vic shortly thereafter realizes that this was just a nightmare and he's really back at Doom Manor.

Cliff meanwhile is busy looking for the missing video tape of The Chief's confession. As he looks, the sex ghosts appear.

Elsewhere, Chief is meeting with Jane and she admits that the Underground is mad at her because of her drug use. The Chief suggests that they draw a new map of the Underground which prompts Baby Doll to emerge. She tells Niles that she is very upset with him, and to get her mind of him, Niles instead introduces Baby Doll to Dorothy and the two of them become fast friends and proceed to amicably play together for a while. This prompts Dorothy to introduce Baby Doll to one of her imaginary friends who she calls Manny. Though she instructed Baby Doll to be polite, Baby Doll instead squeezed his snout and this angers Dorothy.

Rita decides to attempt to audition for the local community theater and ends up doing so at a local nursery. However, in the middle of her monologue, she has flashbacks to her mental block and botches the audition.

Back at the Manor, Cliff discovers Chief's plans for Robotman 2.0 which Chief explains would include a sense of touch, but they will take time to work out.

As for Larry, he makes plans with his living son, Paul, to clean out the home of his recently deceased son, Gary. Rita tells him about her bad audition, and he invites her to come with him to his deceased son's home.

Cliff eventually tells Vic about the Chief's plans to give him a sense of touch and they go to Detroit to talk to Vic's dad.

Whereas in Indiana, Larry and Rita meet Larry's family, including his grandson and great grandson and much to Larry's surprise, Paul embraces him.

Back in the Underground, Hammerhead and Jane debate on Baby Doll being up top with Hammerhead concerned about what happens when Chief has to choose between Baby Doll and Dorothy. Simultenously, Dorothy is now hiding from Baby Doll.

In Indiana, Paul reveals to Larry that his late wife is the one who got Gary into conspiracy theories about him while in Detroit, Vic talks to Cliff about how he can't stop thinking about Roni and he has a plan to win her back with food. Cliff comes up with a different plan to simply apologize and it actually works. The two of them getting along has Cliff imagining him and Vic working as superhero duo and stopping crime. Eventually, he snaps out of it, when he witnesses an actual crime in progress, but his arm freezes as he tries to stop it and he accidentally severs the bad guy's finger which Cliff then keeps.

Jane goes to make sandwiches and Dorothy shows up which prompts Baby Doll to return. While visiting Larry's family, Rita unexpectedly gets a callback for the play after several of the cast come down with mono.

While Paul is packing up his recently deceased brother’s belongings, Larry decides clean about him being gay and in love with John. He explains that his wife Sheryl knew about it, but he never gave her an out.

Paul eventually tells Larry about how Cheryl was a wreck after Larry was presumed dead. She eventually moved on, but one of the men in her life told her about how Larry was likely alive and just part of a government cover-up. Cheryl became obsessed with conspiracy theories and even got Gary into it. Paul instead got out and tried to be a hero.

Unfortunately, it soon becomes apparent that Paul doesn’t believe Larry belongs in society and calls the the Bureau of Normalcy to come get his father. As soon as Larry is surrounded, he sends the Negative Spirit to attack. This leads the trigger-happy SWAT team to fire. Rita is able to protect Toby, but Paul’s son is hit. Decrying Larry for bringing nothing but trouble to his family, Paul pretty much disowns his father as Rita and Larry attempt to escape.

In Detroit, Roni reveals that after an IED attack, she ended up working for the government agency called Quorum who gave her enhancements but took them away when she made some mistakes.

Back at Doom Manor, Dorothy rejects Baby Doll who tells her that Chief is evil. Dorothy then engages Baby Doll in a game of hide and seek, but when Dorothy hides in the furnace and jumps out to scare her and be mean, Baby Doll sends her back into the furnace and turns on the fire. Dorothy lets loose her wendigo, Baby Doll freaks out and kills the wendigo which prompts Candlemaker to get Dorothy to make a wish.

Candlemaker is then set loose in the Underground where he kills Baby Doll and Flaming Katy and all Jane can do is watch in horror as her mind becomes a warzone.

## Cast

### Starring

* Diane Guerrero as Crazy Jane, Baby Doll, Flaming Katy and Driver 8 (inhabiting Kay Challis’ body)
* April Bowlby as Rita Farr
* Joivan Wade as Vic Stone/Cyborg
* Matt Bomer as Larry Trainor (voice only)
* Brendan Fraser as Cliff Steele (voice only)

### Special appearance by

* Timothy Dalton as Dr. Niles Caulder/The Chief

### Also starring

* Riley Shanahan as Cliff Steele (physically only)
* Matthew Zuk as Larry Trainor (physically only)

### Guest starring

* Abigail Shapiro as Dorothy Spinner
* John Getz as Paul Trainor
* Karen Obilom as Roni Evers
* Phil Morris as Dr. Silas Stone
* Stephanie Czajkowski as Hammerhead
* Irene Ziegler as Micki Harris

### Co-starring

* David Shae as Dex Trainor
* Jonathan Bergman as Toby Trainor
* Lex Lang as Voice of Candlemaker
* Jackie Goldston as The Secretary
* Sarah Borne as Baby Doll
* Hannah Alline as Pretty Polly
* Shay Mack as Driller Bill
* Tara Lee as Lucy Fugue

## Gallery

### Videos

Doom Patrol Season 2 Episode 205 Teaser DC Universe
## References

1. ↑ "Watch Doom Patrol Season 2 on DC Universe" - DC Universe