Dinner for Five

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***Dinner for Five*** is the 36th episode of the first season of the TV series *DC Super Hero Girls*. The episode introduces Rose Wilson and her father Mr Wilson who is a mercenary who goes by the alias Deathstroke.

## Production and release

The episode is numbered 45 in a Cartoon Network press release from March 4, 2020. The episode was released on the Cartoon Network website on March 6, 2020.

## Plot summary

Babs wakes up at night to the sound of noises in her house. She heads downstairs to investigate, dressed as Batgirl, and she's attacked by a sword-wielding masked intruder. They fight, the intruder's arm is injured, and eventually the intruder retreats. The next morning she meets Rose in music class. Rose tells Babs she moved to Metropolis to spend more time with her father. Rose invites Babs to dinner with her father at the weekend.

The next scene, Mr Wilson greets Babs at the door, and she comments about his "awesome" eyepatch. Babs brings with her a box of donuts, and Mr Wilson sarcastically remarks that they'll "pair well with the chestnut souffles" he's been preparing all day. When Babs says she's up to eat anything except something like bouillabaisse, Mr Wilson grumbles, and Rose tells Babs not to worry, takes the box of donuts, and says her dad can prepare something else if she doesn't like it, to which Mr Wilson sarcastically suggests preparing chicken nuggets.

Rose brings Babs to her room and tells her that her father has been absent from her life until recently. Mr Wilson calls them down for dinner, and continues being sarcastic and derisive towards Babs through dinner. He realizes Babs is Barbara Gordon, daughter of former Gotham City police commissioner Jim Gordon. He grins at her and she excuses herself to the bathroom. She finds a trophy case with medals and concludes Mr Wilson is a "military guy", and passes by a door with a conspicuous lock. When she returns to the dinner table, she asks about Mr Wilson's arm injury, and gasps after he says he was "attacked by a bat." She excuses herself to the bathroom again and asks herself why Mr Wilson would want to attack her.

Babs sneaks around the house and picks the conspicuous lock that leads to Mr Wilson's bedroom. She finds the mask that the intruder was wearing, then touches different mounted Oni mask on a mantle, which opens a passage to a secret room. Going through a computer in the secret room, she finds out Mr Wilson is Deathstroke, a notorious assassin, and that her father is one of his targets. Mr Wilson finds her snooping around, and Rose interrupts them and asks them back to the dinner table for desert.

Rose suggests ice-cream to go with the souffles and goes downstairs to get some. Mr Wilson changes into his Deathstroke costume and Babs into her Batgirl costume, and they fight. Rose interrupts them again, and Deathstroke is very apologetic to her. He tells Rose she means more than anything to him, and that if she doesn't want him to do this job, he won't do it. Deathstroke tells Babs he won't pursue her or her father.

Mr Gordon comes to pick up Babs, and Mr Wilson invites him in for donuts. Later, Rose comes by Babs's house and tells her she's leaving to live with her mother again. Mr Wilson tells Babs he's taking time off to try to be a better dad. He gives Babs homemade donuts and derides the donuts she brought the other night. Babs looks at the donuts which are arranged in the shape of a skull, and throws them in the trash bin.