Space Patrol

"**Space Patrol**" is the sixth episode of the second season of *Doom Patrol*. It premiered on DC Universe and HBO Max on July 16, 2020.

## Synopsis

* DC Universe
* HBO Max
As Niles and Cliff set out to find a missing Dorothy, Larry is tasked with handling Niles' old research team when the ageless aeronauts return from space.

Larry is tasked with handling Niles' old research team when the ageless aeronauts return from space. As Niles and Cliff set out to find a missing Dorothy, a funeral in The Underground occupies Jane's mind. Meanwhile, Vic discovers a curious connection between Roni and S.T.A.R. Labs, and Rita finds that her role in an upcoming community theater production hits too close to home.

## Plot

In the basement of Doom Manor, Dorothy sits crying and terrified with Jane who lies on the floor, her face covered in wax. Chief goes looking for Dorothy when Cliff shows up with the severed finger and he has to find her.

In the Underground, Jane and the other personas are horrified to realize that both Flaming Katy and Baby Doll are dead due to the Candlemaker.

Elsewhere, Larry and Rita get off a bus in Cloverton after his disastrous visit with was left of his family and Rita tells him about her role in the community theater play.

In Detroit, Roni agrees to let Vic scan her to better understand her injuries if he tells her about his PTSD.

Back at the Manor, Cliff goes into the basement and finds Jane, but not Baby Doll. He alerts the Chief and he realizes that Dorothy is responsible for Jane's situation. Larry comes in and alerts them that there's a spaceship outside. To which Chief says to tell the visitors that he's not there because they're his old research team from his days at the Bureau of Normalcy. He had sent them into space in the 50's but presumed were dead after so much time passed with no contact. He wants Larry to keep them there while he hunts for Dorothy. Larry meets with them and they call themselves The Pioneers of the Uncharted.

In the Underground, Kay Challis's personalities deal with their dead. They eventually decide on wanting to have a funeral procession, but Jane questions if death is actually real in the Underground. Unfortunately, the Secretary is one of the personalities that refuses to listen to her. In the house, Chief discovers a note from Dorothy admitting that the Candlemaker hurt Jane and that she's running away. Dorothy eventually is able to run away when she the spaceship belonging to The Pioneers of the Uncharted. As a result, Chief takes Cliff to the garage where he has a second spaceship and the two of them head into space in this ship which as it turns out is part science and part magic.

Meanwhile, Larry continues to chat with the space visitors and Valentina Vostok introduces herself properly and they discover that they both have Negative Spirits.

At the play rehearsal, Rita discovers to her horror that they aren't doing the famous play *Our Town* but are instead doing a play about the ncident some time back in which the town was destroyed by Mr. Nobody.

Chatting with Valentina, Larry learns that she also was horribly irradiated with her experience with the Negative Spirit but learned to live harmoniously with her Spirit and thus contain the radiation. And it only took her five years.

In Detroit with Roni, Vic discovers that both S.T.A.R. Labs and Caulder Robotics were part of the modifications made to Roni, which surprised them both. Eventually, Vic opens up to Roni, and in return gets a look at the damage the removed tech had on her body. He further learns that the damage slowly killing her. As a result, Vic reaches out to his dad who is more excited about him having a girlfriend than helping him find out about the tech.

Cliff and Chief arrive at where Dorothy is currently located and Chief admits that everything is his fault, revealing that because he isolated her she created her imaginary friends. With the Candlemaker in part, being powerful enough that if she wished it so, could cleave the earth in two. He subsequently tasks Cliff with getting Dorothy back. Cliff finds Dorothy making a grave and he sits with her.

At rehearsal, Rita as "Gertrude" tries to give some advice to the actor playing "her" but as it turns out that the actor has some very solid insights on who "Blob Lady" really is.

As the other two Pioneers named Zip and Specs continue to run around and act like children, Valentina actually reveals to Larry that they aren't actually still alive. They were invaded by a benign spore from distant planet and are now just husks. Her Spirit thinks that Earth's atmosphere will kill the spore and so them returning is essentially her way of burying them and moving on.

Dorothy reveals that she's making a grave for Manny, her wendigo. Her mother gave him to her, and he was the last thing she had left of her mother. Cliff tells her about his daughter and tells her that she's not alone in her pain. They bond and head back to the spaceship together.

In the Underground, Jane tries to stop them from throwing Flaming Katy and Baby Doll into the well under the assumption that going into the Well is the end. However, Miranda suddenly arises from the Well and reveals that it doesnt' work that way. Instead, she argues that the Well will allow them to mend in time just as she did. Miranda then asks Jane to step aside as the primary personality of Kay Challis. Now in the real world, Miranda wakes up.

Still in space, Cliff tells Chief that he's down to be there for Dorothy as family and that they're ready to go home. Chief says that they aren't going home and jettisons Cliff back to earth.

## Cast

### Starring

* Diane Guerrero as Crazy Jane and "Miranda" (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
* Samantha Marie Ware as "Miranda"
* Karen Obilom as Roni Evers
* Phil Morris as Dr. Silas Stone
* Mariana Klaveno as Valentina "Moscow" Vostok
* Stephanie Czajkowski as Hammerhead
* Irene Ziegler as Mickey Harris
* Charity Cervantes as Isabel Feathers

### Co-starring

* Derek Evans as Zip
* Jason Burkey as Specs
* 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
* Ana Aguilar as The Balladeer
* Skye Roberts as Kay Challis

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## Behind the Scenes

* This is Valentina's second live action appearance. She previously appeared on Earth-1 of the Arrowverse (with *Doom Patrol* being Earth 21), in season one of *DC's Legends of Tommorow;* where she became a failed Soviet Firestorm instead.