Dada Patrol

"**Dada Patrol**" is the fifth episode of the third season of *Doom Patrol*. It premired on HBO Max on October 7, 2021.

## Synopsis

Laura De Mille enlists the Doom Patrol's help after learning about her unsettling past. While the rest of the team works to infiltrate the target, Rita stays behind and finds a surprising connection with their mysterious friend.

## Plot

Outside the Doom Manor, the Niles-shaped doll ends up being burned. Jane goes to The Underground, interrupting therapy between Kay and Doctor Harrison about getting shoes above ground, but Harrison denied it because it would be dangerous and Jane confronted her about her behavior with Kay. Cliff is helped by Vic to put food and pills into his brain to heal within 3 months while Vic denied him access to internet pages until he left when his technology came back, but without Vic's sight, Cliff put more pills. Vic calls Silas, discovering that he could now use his technology without S.T.A.R. Labs's supervision. Labs and Silas apologized to Vic for turning him into a Cyborg, but Vic was grateful for their help, ending their call, left with doubts about having synthetic skin. Rita was investigating Larry's bulge, terrifying them both by seeing it move all over her body until Laura shows up, calling the team for a meeting.

The group gathered in the living room, where Laura reminded them of the breakout in the Ant Farm, which was caused by them and Laura acknowledged that the group released the dangerous Sisterhood of Dada. Rita thought that they should recapture them, but Laura confirmed that they should kill the Sisterhood, something that everyone denied, since Larry mentioned that he was a prisoner, considering that they would not be bad people and Rita explained to Vic the meaning of Dada. Even though they believed the Sisterhood was not a threat, Laura showed photos of the Sisterhood all over the world, talking about an Eternal Flagellation, thinking that was their goal to travel back in time to stop them. Laura handed over Darren Jones's book with the Sisterhood's location, asking her roommates for help to stop the Sisterhood, pretending to "join up" and Cliff, Jane, Larry and Vic agreed because then Laura would leave.

Everyone leaves except Rita, since Laura showed her the film with the Sisterhood, showing that Rita was there, asking what she was doing there, making Rita happy because she was a time traveler, making Laura depressed for not remembering well. During the trip to the woods, Vic and Jane discover that Cliff was high on the pills, causing him to notice Larry's parasite and try to explode, starting a fight, causing the bus to crash. Already in the forest in a mist, Cliff ran off to fight while Vic and Jane followed him, leaving Larry to watch due to not having the negative spirit. Rita supported Laura with some drinks, discovering that her depression was due to finding the sheets that talked about her as someone terrible that Niles's head showed her, something Rita did not believe and tried to support her when Laura complained about not remembering nothing about his time travel. Laura got fed up because she couldn't fix her time machine and Rita revealed to have it, impressing Laura. Cliff wandered through the woods, finding a talking water bike and a talking mustache, walking up to an ice cream truck driven by Holly McKenzie and heading back for ice cream, though he entered through a portal.

For her part, Jane entered a candy store, meeting Shelley Byron, aka The Fog, who knew about her other personalities, confessing that Jane and her friends were inside her head. Shelley told Jane that none of the personas could hear her, showing that she was with Kay and Shelley tried to flirt with Jane a bit. Jane lied about joining the Sisterhood and Shelley asked her: Who is it? Vic continued looking for Cliff until he ran into Lloyd Jefferson, who was making a statue, receiving Lloyd's question about why he joined. Cliff entered a pocket dimension, running into Sachiko, who asked him who he was. Jane argued with Shelley about her question and Shelley used examples of candy as examples of the Eternal Flagellation, showing that she knew who she was, unlike Jane and mentioned that Kay did know who she really was. Vic responded to Lloyd's question, since he was there to serve and protect, making Lloyd laugh because he made up that speech, offering to take a seat to tell him about the Eternal Flagellation.

Sachiko made Cliff speak in Japanese and then in his normal language so that he could respond. Cliff talked about their deaths and his fear of finally dying from Parkinson's, fearing that he might not see Rory again and Sachiko understood his pain, sharing an emotional moment with Cliff, so he tried to hug Sachiko to through his mirror cell. While repairing the bus, Larry noticed Bureau of Normalcy agents including Paul Trainor and began following his son. In the manor, Rita and Laura danced during the repair of the time machine and Rita comforted her new friend so that she could solve her doubts about whether she came from 1917 or 1949 when the group returns, although Rita wondered if she was a famous time traveler. Jane heard of Shelley's past as a servant of the bureau, being forced to kill innocents, acknowledging that they must destroy worlds to create something better, and Jane was given a massage by Shelley, before seeing Hammerhead through the window. Excited to see his son, Larry tried to talk to Paul, who drew his gun while spouting incoherence and a lobster came out of the gun, startling Larry, who picked Paul up after seeing him pass out.

Vic tried to get information out of Lloyd, who kept demanding his answer to the question and Lloyd confessed that it was because he had suffered getting better, angering Vic for berating him, assuming that Lloyd shouldn't tell him who he really was, claiming that he wouldn't be free if he didn't. out for him Lloyd recognized Vic with the sound of an oppressor, revealing that he sought to better the world with the Eternal Flagellation for being locked up for a century. Jane asked Kay to leave before the other personalities arrived and Shelley tried to convince her to make her own decisions no matter what the other personas want. Cliff expressed his annoyance at only having a normal life as a grandfather and mentioned Laura's name, alerting the Sisterhood, discovering that they were his allies. Holly woke up, playing the song *Copacabana*. Vic acted in defense against Lloyd's rear bikes and Vic was humiliated by not knowing who he is. Cliff was promptly beaten by Holly before destroying Sachiko's mirror. When the personalities entered the store, Kay refused to leave with either Jane or the others and Shelley who would be on the other side, asking to say hello to Laura for her, sending everyone back to reality. Surprised and humiliated, the group returned to the bus with questions and left immediately when they saw that Paul was unsettled on Larry's shoulders.

Back at the manor, Cliff and Larry took Paul while Vic argued with Rita, refusing to face the Sisterhood after their defeat. Vic went to his room, destroying the face Lloyd made of him. Cliff kept using his pills, writing to his family and as a result of the pills, Cliff entered pirated pages. Jane tried to talk to Kay, but Harrison, Hammerhead, and Pretty Polly refused because they would handle it. Waking up, Jane ate a piece of candy left by Shelley. Larry gave Paul first aid and inadvertently, the parasitic lump began to glow like the negative spirit. Rita talked to Laura and they were both exhausted from their work while Rita presumed to become a time traveler, making Laura laugh, who confessed that knowing her for only two days, she knew that Rita was not really the one from the film. With low self-esteem, Rita went to the garage with the time machine and determined to prove that she was capable of time travel, Rita activated the machine to travel to the past.

## Cast

### Starring

* Diane Guerrero as Kay Challis/Crazy Jane
* April Bowlby as Rita Farr
* Joivan Wade as Vic Stone/Cyborg
* Skye Roberts as Kay Challis
* Riley Shanahan as Cliff Steele (physical)
* Matthew Zuk as Larry Trainor (physical)
* Matt Bomer as Larry Trainor (voice)
* Brendan Fraser as Cliff Steele (voice)

### Guest starring

* Phil Morris as Dr. Silas Stone
* John Getz as Paul Trainor
* Stephanie Czajkowski as Hammerhead
* Wynn Everett as Shelley Byron/The Fog
* Anita Kalathara as Holly McKenzie/Sleepwalk
* Miles Mussenden as Lloyd Jefferson/Frenzy
* Gina Hiraizumi as Sachiko/The Quiz
* Catherine Carlen as Doctor Harrison

### Co-starring

* Hannah Alline as Pretty Polly
* Eric James Morris as B.O.N. Agent

## Trivia

* Jane calls Laura "Doctor Who", both a reference to her previous time traveling and likely an intentional callback to her time on the show from 2014 to 2018, where Michelle Gomez played the first female version of The Master nicknamed Missy (a shortened version of Mistress)
* This episode opens with My Chemical Romance's song "The Kids From Yesterday". My Chemical Romance's Gerard Way headed up DC Comic's Young Animal imprint which included Way's own run on Doom Patrol.
* Bird Patrol would reveal that the Doom Patrol missed the last member of the Sisterhood; presumably the one who got to Larry's son.