Dumb Patrol

"**Dumb Patrol**" is the seventh episode of the second season of *Doom Patrol*. It premiered on DC Universe and HBO Max on July 23, 2020.

## Synopsis

* DC Universe
* HBO Max
While Niles heads north to find Dorothy's mother, the Doom Patrol embraces their inner morons after receiving a mysterious package.

Miranda helps protect the Doom Patrol from some truly terrible ideas after a mysterious package arrives at Doom Manor. Rita's visit to the Cloverton beekeeper leads her to confront her lingering mommy issues. While on his way back to the manor, Cliff ends up stuck on the side of the road – literally. Niles heads north to find Dorothy's mother.

## Plot

In the Underground, Miranda returns from seeming destruction in the well and replaces Jane as the primary personality of Kay Challis, while Cliff was jettisoned back to Earth alone because of The Chief.

In Switzerland, a phone rings but a machine picks up instead. A museum is unexpectedly closed due to an infestation.

Elsewhere, Cliff returns to Earth and crashes with through a billboard.

At Doom Manor, Rita goes over her lines and is unexpectedly visited by the play's director who asks her to take over the role of the Blob Lady and Rita agrees only for her mother to also appear and belittle her. Turns out, Rita is having a nightmare. Vic brings Roni to the house and introduces her to Larry, who tells them that Niles is in space and Larry's not sure when Niles will return. Roni is further introduced to Rita, as well as Jane's latest personality, Miranda. As it seems, Miranda appears to be a great cook and is also a big Rita Farr fan.

Later, Rita decides she is going to go shadow the Cloverton beekeeper. Larry later informs the others that Dorothy is also in space. The doorbell rings and a mysterious crate shows up and a pink fume escapes it. Miranda, Larry, Vic, and Roni breathe it in. Despite being labelled "do not open" everyone but Miranda wants to open it, so they do. Inside is the painting that Mr. Nobody and the Beard Hunter were trapped in, but they're not currently there for some reason.

Elsewhere, Nigel has landed in Yukon Territory and sets off into the wild while Dorothy sleeps. Cliff decides to walk home to Doom Manor, while being very angry at Niles for the latest thing he did to him. Rita goes to meet with the beekeeper, who is kind of rough around the edges. She also has a daughter that she's hard on and has her take a jar of honey to help her get better grades at school. This upsets Rita as it reminds her of the difficult relationship she had with her own mother.

Later, Larry decides to try to go visit his grandson in the hospital and asks Miranda if Flit to help him. They go to the hospital and the nurse alerts security who shows up to arrest him. Luckily, Flit gets them out of there.

Back at the Manor, Roni and Vic decide to perform surgery to fix Roni. Miranda tries to intervene as it's a very bad idea, but they don't seem to think so. Willoughby Kipling shows up just then and states how it was a bad idea to open the aforementioned box. As it turns out, they are all now infected by Scants. A helpful film reveals scants are pink humanoid pests that place bad ideas in people's heads and this causes a pink substance only Scants can see called "idiot" to come out of the infected's ears. Scants use that to create uma jelly which gives the queen powers. The only way to fix things is to kill the queen. From the whole group, Miranda appears to be the only one not infected while the rest decide they want to help kill the queen by going into the painting.

Cliff continues his trek home, but his legs suddenly malfunction, and he ends up stuck in a parking lot. A guy shows up and has him do a shoutout for his friends before letting Cliff make a call;a call no one answers. Cliff's second call is to leave a message on his daughter Clara's machine. Eventually, Cliff falls over and gets unstuck.

Elsewhere, Rita opens up to the beekeeper about her mother, who suggests that she needs to see things through her mother's eyes and since she can't talk to her, she needs to find a surrogate to scream at . The surrogate being the bees in this way, but it doesn't work for Rita the way she hoped it would. On her way home, though, she encounters a mugging in progress and as the Beekeeper ends up saving the day.

Inside the painting, the group finds Beard Hunter who has painted himself white to blend into the painting. He's trying to hide from the Scants. While they talk, Scants show up and Larry reveals himself. The Scants then take them.

While in the Yukon, Niles tries to speak to Dorothy's mother, but ends up being confronted by the Candlemaker instead who says Dorothy belongs with him now and says that her ancestors created him in the first place.

The Scants start to harvest the uma jelly and Willoughby shows up, as does the queen who describes the uma jelly as pure evolutionary potential and also reveals to each of them their bad ideas. Miranda is weirdly immune and with the help of the other personalities, electrocutes the queen.

Back home and now back to normal, Roni decides to go back to Detroit. But unbeknownst to the others, Roni left the Manor with a vial of the uma jelly. Larry goes to the hospital on his own and finds out his grandson has been discharged. Cliff makes it home and finds Clara there waiting for him and mentions that she got Niles' confession tape in the mail.

In the Underground everyone celebrates Miranda's victory, but Pretty Polly reveals to Jane that Scarlet Harlot has gone missing. Suspicious, Jane goes to investigate and discovers Scarlet's station is now closed.

Niles summons Willoughby and asks him to deal with Dorothy, but admits that he wants one more day with his daughter before whatever it is he will do happens.

## Cast

### Starring

* Diane Guerrero as "Miranda", Flit, Silver Tongue, Lucy Fugue and Crazy Jane (inhabiting Kay Challis's 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/Chief

### Also starring

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

### Guest starring

* Mark Sheppard as Willoughby Kipling
* Karen Obilom as Roni Evers
* Tommy Snider as Ernest Franklin
* Bethany Anne Lind as Clara Steele
* Irene Ziegler as Micki Harris
* Avis-Marie Barnes as the Cloverton beekeeper

### Co-starring

* Jhemma Ziegler as Scant Queen
* Lex Lang as Voice of Candlemaker
* Greyson Chadwick as Rita's Mom
* Kellen Boyle as Douche Guy
* Casey Nelson as Bureau Agent
* Jackie Goldston as The Secretary
* Hannah Alline as Pretty Polly
* Shay Mack as Driller Bill
* Chelsea Rivera as Silver Tongue
* Kayli Joy Cooper as Rhiannon
* Christopher A'mannuel as College Student
* Bria Brimmer as Nurse
* Lauren Halperin as Attending Nurse
* Josh Inocalla as Scant Servant #1
* Ravon Miles as Scant Servant #2
* Jeremy Barthelemy as Scant Servant #3
* Jenin Gonzalez as Scant Servant #4

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## References

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