Paw Patrol

"See it there, the Eye of God weeping angrily over the land of Sodom and Gomorrah. He will reap this land, he will pull the weed and start again. This broken earth will become the new holy promised land. Finally, we will be free of the two -legged blights, just as Cain was free of Abel. What he created for us will be ours again!"

- Ezekiel to the unsuspecting people of Cloverton

"Paw Patrol" is the fifth episode of the first season of Doom Patrol. It premiered on DC Universe on March 15, 2019.

Synopsis
With the Apocalypse in full swing, the Doom Patrol must work with an unlikely ally – and a very special pug – to stop the end of the world.

Plot
New Jersey, 1977

At a punk club, skinheads and clubbers are dancing on the floor. Jane is among them, and gets knocked to the floor. Two skinheads call her a spic, and she beats them as payback. A fight breaks out and Jane takes on a half-dozen men. Once they're down, she screams in triumph and the club joins her. Unfortunately policeman comes from behind, knocks her out and they take her to a mental hospital. They toss her cursing into a room and one of the orderlies, Frank, tells her that no matter how many times she tries to get away, she's going to end up back there. He kicks her and starts to go, but Jane tauntingly says that he's scum just like her. Chaz goes back and continues beating her.

Now

The people of Cloverton watch the Decreator's eye in the sky while Ezekiel the Cockroach promises that they'll be free of the blight of humanity. The news reporter stares at the eye in shock, realizes that it's looking at her, and fades out of existence. Objects and people cease to exists, and Ezekiel boasts of the flourishing of other creatures that will surely take place in humanity's absence and talks to a rat about making cheese.

At Doom Manor, Vic grabs Willoughby and demands to know how to stop the Decreator. He says that they can't stop the Decreator once it's been summons. Rita goes to find Elliott and admits to Larry that she has to know if the boy is okay. Once she leaves, Willoughby tells Larry that they could have saved humanity if they had killed Elliott like he said. The mage says that he doesn't know how long they have until the world is decreated, and his drink decreates.

In Nurnheim, Mother Archon tells a young Kay Challis  that she has nothing to be afraid of because they are in a chosen place to watch as the world disappears bit by bit. Nurnheim will be the last place to be decreated. Young Kay picks up Cliff's brain and says that she doesn't want to be Kay anymore. Mother Archon says that she doesn't remember if she had a child like Kay once.

Once Cliff is changed back, he walks out with Penny Farthing. He throws a snowball in frustration and it hits a class wall. Going to the wall, Cliff realizes that they're in a snow globe in Doom Manor.

Morden is watching the entire thing through a telescope and refuses to accept that it's the end. Niles is twirling around him and says that they can stop it, and Morden stops him and asks what he knows about the Decreator. Niles says that he's amused that Morden has realized the limits of his omniscience, and explains that the Decreator is a creation of decades of unwavering belief. In order to defeat it, they need to dtart by building a new religion with someone charismatic and powerful enough to protect the believers. He figures that they need to find a specific version of Jane and then someone else working in the past and present. Morden agrees to team up with Niles and snaps his fingers.

1977

Jane dances in the club.

1976

Jane is strapped down in a gurney and is given an injection. Her body glows with power.

1978

Jane arrives at Doom Manor, and Rita greets her.

1977

Jane is strapped to a gurney and Dr. Bertrand tells her to repeat the therapy and say that she'll behave. She insists that she didn't do anything, and Bertrand grabs her by the throat and insists that he's trying to help her. If she doesn't then he'll have the very bad piece of her cut out. Jane curses him and Bertrand asks her about Kate Challis. She goes silent and Bertrand says that her real papers came in. He asks how Kay became Jane, and figures that a "monster" was responsible. He asks what the monster's name was, and Kay sobs. After a moment, her hair and eyes change color as she becomes Doctor Harrison, and she asks if his mother had a name. Jane diagnoses him, asking if he feels insecure and then asks what his mother called ho, when he went crying into her arms. Harrison wonders how he lives with his self-loathing as Bertrand breaks into tears, and describes his impulse to jab his pen into his eye over and over again. Bertrand raises the hand with the pen, and Harrison tells him that he's finally free to act as he likes. Harrison says that her world was big and filled with monsters, but now the world is small and she's the monster. Time freezes and Morden says that Harrison's performance is a bravura one. He frees Harrison and says that he's God, and they have a world to save.

Now

Cliff pounds on the glass but nothing happens. Penny figures that it won't work, and Cliff complains that it's not his life. She tells him to shut up, saying that she doesn't want to be stuck in a snow globe with a brute. Penny says that Jane isn't the only one with hopes and dreams and emotions, and Cliff says that he just wants to spend his last moments with Jane. Hammerhead takes over, tells Cliff that he doesn't get to make orders like they're some kind of menu, and walks off.

Rita finds Elliot sitting out on the lawn, staring up at the Decreator's eye. He tells Rita that he imagined that it would look different, and blames himself for everyone dying. Elliot tells Rita that she should have let him die, and Rita insists that she wasn't going to let someone else die for everything. She says that the world and people in it are garbage, but she figured that they both deserve a break. Rita suggests that they do something special and asks what he's always wanted to do. As Elliot considers her questions, he decreates and Rita cries, struggling to hold her form. She looks up and sees Niles walking into Doom Manor.

Once the team gathers together, they watch Niles go through the drawers in his study. Niles mentions up when Vic mentions Mr. Nobody, and tells them that he and Nobody have a plan in motion. He admits that he had no choice, and Willoughby assures him that he doesn't have to apologize and asks what needs to be done.

1977

Harrison walks through a hospital, and Nobody tells her that she needs to form a cult around Elliott. When he turns 18, they need to chant the words on his body and that will create the Recreator to fight the Decreator. Harrison isn't impressed, and Nobody says that she can use it to challenge her powers of influence. He asks if she's up for the challenge.

Now

Hammerhead goes through the streets of Nurnheim trying to find a door that opens. All of the doorknobs break off, and Cliff asks who the girl was so he can thank her. Hammerhead says that he's never going to talk to Young Kay again, and tells him that he doesn't know her.

Willoughby talks to Niles privately and they drink, and Niles points out that the last time they met Willoughby abandoned him in a cave in Istanbul. Niles insists that they have to prepare the Rewritten Book and summon the Recreator. Rita overhears them and complains that they're going to use Elliot, and Willoughby summons Baphomet. Niles flirts with the horse's head and asks if she can see the Rewritten Book. She initially can't, and Niles asks her to try again.

1977

The other orderly, Ferdinand, goes to Jane's room and yells at her that he's coming in. A minute later Harrison walks him out and uses her superpowered charm to convince him that the Recreator cares about him. She goes through the hospital convincing the staff and patients alike to join the Cult Of The Recreator, and tells them to spread the word of the Recreator. Even Frank joins in chanting with the other cult members.

Now

Vic is in the library treating his injuries, and Niles comes in and helps him. He asks what Silas thinks of it, and says that Vic shouldn't be there. Vic says that he came there because of Niles and wouldn't have worked with Willoughby if he had known Niles was allying himself with the dark side. The young adult insists that he knows the difference between good and evil, and figures that Niles isn't himself. Larry comes in and says that Willoughby sent Cliff and Jane to Nurnheim. As the others arrive, Niles picks up the snow globe and checks it. Willoughby tells him that Baphomet found the Rewritten Book and it isn't far from there.

The team drives the school bus to a suburban home and Niles waits on the bus with Larry while Willoughby, Rita, and Vic go inside. Larry decides to confide in Niles that the Negative Spirit put Elliot in harm's way and says that he saw the tape of the Spirit admitting that it sustains itself on torture. Niles admits that he didn't tell Larry because he didn't think he was ready, and explains that the Spirit feels tortured because Larry tortures himself. Larry wonders if Larry Trainor died years ago and he's in an afterlife, dragging everyone into his personal shitstorm. Every time the Spirit leaves him, he sees everyone burning because of him. Niles suggests that he talk to the Spirit.

Meanwhile, Vic beats up and gags the supposed Rewritten Book, and Willoughby realizes that tattoos on him aren't the words they are searching.

1977

Harrison tells the cult members that when the Decreator appears, the Rewritten Book must be read. One patient, Cheesesteak, suggests that they use a dog rather than a book.

Now

Willoughby finds a pug in the next room.

1977

The patients agree that the words should be invisible to hide it from the bad guys. Another patient, Marilyn, suggests that when they ring a bell, the writing appears. Harrison says that she's brilliant and hugs her, and tells Marilyn that she'll be the chosen one to find her and remind her of what must be done. She tells the other members to dance like there's a giant eye in the sky watching them.

Now

The cult members arrive in Cloverton outside the house and dance. Larry wonders if it's part of the plan.

Cliff and Jane hear the music, and a door opens.

The ground shakes and the cult members decreate. Larry tells Niles that they have to go.

Marilyn comes out of the door and addresses Jane as Harrison, introducing herself. She explains that she traveled to Barcelona, cut open a priest, and entered a snow globe. Harrison's instructions gave her purpose, and now the world needs Jane to ring the bell in the nearby bell tower. Harrison manifests and hugs Marilyn, and Mother Archon and the Hoodmen arrive. Marilyn says that she'll deal with it, and Harrison and Cliff slip away while Marilyn keeps Mother Archon and the others distracted.

Willoughby and the others come out with the pug, and behind them the bus decreates.

Marilyn shoves her oxygen tank at Mother Archon and shoots it, and it explodes.

Cliff and Harrison go to the bell tower and see the explosion. Harrison rings the bell and the snow globe explodes. The words emanate from the pug and Willoughby reads them. The Recreator's Eye forms in the sky, and pretty much everything that was decreated comes back, recreated. The two eyes stare at each other.

Later at Doom Manor, Willoughby pours drinks and tells Niles that if he helped Niles with Nobody then he'd have to admit that he likes him. He creates a portal and leaves, and Rita asks Niles if Elliott is back. Niles, smiling, tells her to go. Once she leaves, Niles tells Vic and Larry that a deal is a deal. Cliff and Harrison come in and Jane comes back. She runs to Niles but he gestures her back and Nobody tells Niles that it's time to come back to him. Time slows down and Nobody promises that he won't hurt the group and then teleports Niles away. Unfortunately, Vic's sonic cannon is still charging and explodes when time goes back to normal. He warns the others that his cybernetic body will send an SOS to Silas, and Cliff activates it despite Vic's pleas not to.

In Cloverton, the Eyes disappears and everyone cheers. Rita sits out on the manor, staring off into space awaiting for Elliot to come back. Cliff looks at a photo of his old self.Vic watches his body self-repair. Silas calls and Vic refuses to take it. Larry wakes up and finds Sheryl in his bed. She wonders what he's done and reveals that the right side of her face is burned. Larry wakes up from his nightmare and holds himself in a fetal position.

1977

Bertrand and Frank take Harrison to an OR to prepare her for a lobotomy. The doctor reveals that he's using ear plugs, making Harrison unable to use her powers on him. Frank handcuffs Jane to a bar in the back of a van and leaves with Bertrand. Niles is in the driver's seat and asks who he's meeting. He directs her to the keys and she uses them to free herself. Niles tells her that she'll have to join him in the cab because he can't move very well, and says that he's taking her to a safe place to heal. Jane steps forward and Niles cuts the hospital wrist band off, and assures her that she'll never have to wear one again. Nobody speaks in Harrison's mind, saying that he needs her to look for something once the Apocalypse has been neutralized.

Now

Jane is painting and a name appears in her mind. She wonders what the "Doom Patrol" is.

Starring

 * Diane Guerrero as Crazy Jane, Penny Farthing, Hammerhead and Doctor Harrison (inhabiting Kay Challis’s body)
 * April Bowlby as Rita Farr
 * Joivan Wade as Vic Stone/Cyborg
 * Alan Tudyk as Eric Morden/Mr. Nobody
 * Matt Bomer as Larry Trainor
 * Brendan Fraser as Cliff Steele

Special appearance by

 * Timothy Dalton as Dr. Niles Caulder/Chief

Also starring

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

Guest starring

 * Mark Sheppard as Willoughby Kipling
 * Julie McNiven as Sheryl Trainor
 * Lilli Birdsell as Martha Patterson/Mother Archon
 * Ted Sutherland as Elliot Patterson/Book
 * Jeanette O'Connor as Older Marilyn
 * Ezra Buzzington as Dr. Bertrand
 * Curtis Armstrong as Ezekiel the Cockroach

Co-starring

 * Skye Roberts as Kay Challis
 * Orelon Sidney as News Reporter
 * Michael Scialabba as Father Archon
 * Swift Rice as Ferdinand
 * Tyler Buckingham as Frank
 * Cate Jones as Young Marilyn
 * Thiree Pinnock as Cheesesteak
 * Guilherme Apollonio as Billy
 * Drew Ater as Chaz
 * Lauren Richards as Nina
 * Chantelle Barry as Baphomet
 * Casey Hendershot as Skinhead #1
 * Josh Diogo as Skinhead #2

Uncredited

 * Tod Lautenberg as Vinnie

Trivia

 * Jane’s mysterious backstory was explored further this week, starting with a glimpse of when she got her powers, and the time she spent institutionalized. It appears that the television version of Jane obtained her super powers through some sort of injection, which differs from her comic counterpart.
 * In the comics, Jane’s personalities manifested their abilities after an alien race known as the Dominators dropped the Gene Bomb. The Gene Bomb was meant to negate the metagene of everyone on Earth, but it wound up enhancing it; in addition to giving ordinary civilians super powers. In Jane’s case, it gave each of her different personalities their own unique ability.
 * Both the comic Jane and the TV version Jane spent time in a mental institution. In fact, that’s where Cliff met her for the first time in 1989's Doom Patrol #19, where the sanitarium doctors were a bit friendlier in the comics.
 * "Paw Patrol" also revealed another one of Jane’s 64 personalities, and she seems to have quite the persuasive tongue. The Doom Patrol first met Dr. Harrison in 2017's Doom Patrol #6 (written by Gerard Way, penciled by Brandon Bird and Nick Derington),when they found Jane leading a cult.
 * Apparently, starting cults is Dr. Harrison’s talent in both comics and TV. Harrison wanted to be Jane’s only personality, so her plan was to modify the Gene Bomb and use it to transfer the other 63 personalities into the cult members…before killing them! Luckily, in the comics, the Doom Patrol were able to stop Dr. Harrison, and Jane’s more friendly personalities were saved!
 * Victor Stone found himself pretty banged-up this week, and reluctant to use his nanotech abilities to regenerate. This aforementioned ability  was seen for the first time in 2008's DC Special: Cyborg #4 (written by Mark Stable and penciled by Carlos Magno). Victor is no dummy when it comes to machines, and he was able to add this regenerating feature himself. Later versions of Cyborg’s origin would tie him to Apokoliptian technology, giving him natural nanotech regeneration.
 * The circumstances behind the destruction of Nurnheim were a bit different in the comics as shown in Doom Patrol #33, but this episode used very similar visuals. For example, it started with someone ringing a bell... Followed by the snow globe shattering...
 * In the comics, Cliff rings the bell to signal his teammate Joshua Clay, while in the show Jane did it to summon the Recreator.Either way, both bells resulted in one shattered snow globe, and left Nurnheim destroyed.
 * In addition, Grant Morrison and Richard Case’s 3-part saga “The Cult of the Unwritten Book”, which ran throughout Doom Patrol #31-#33.