Plot

Dorothy and the Candlemaker finally face-off, while the Doom Patrol - now freed from their wax encasings - face troubling side effects. Rita holds the key, but is she ready to answer the call?

Dorothy deals with the Candlemaker, and then the team return to the manor with the comatose Jane. Jane is in the Underground and finds out what Miranda actually is, and must go up with Kay's help. Larry comes to an understanding with the Spirit and goes on a trip, while Cliff becomes a grandfather.—Gislef

Dorothy wakes up in a cage, at the stone circle. The Candlemaker walks up, saying that now he is a roar when once he was a whisper in her mind. She finds a bow and arrow in the hay at the bottom of the wagon, and shoots an arrow at the Candlemaker.

The Candlemaker and Dorothy find themselves on the moon, in Dorothy's mind, and Dorothy catches the arrow before it can hit the Candlemaker. She says that she's powerful and it lived in her head. When she says that she doesn't fight it, the Candlemaker says that it's the way. Dorothy suggests that they should change the way, and drops her weapons. She says that the Candlemaker protected her and was once her friend, and says that she's going to keep them away from everyone and everything, until they are friends again. Dorothy asks the Candlemaker what it's going to be.

The carnival's lights come up, and the wax shrouding everyone and everything there breaks. Vic breaks free first and checks on the others, and Larry and Rita go to Chief's body, and Vic joins them. The ground cracks and the carnival shakes, and a gigantic Candlemaker emerges from beneath. Dorothy is on its head, smiling. The Candlemaker lowers her to the ground, and she goes to the trio as the Candlemaker returns beneath.

Dorothy goes to her father's body and tries to shake him awake. She screams in grief when she realizes that Chief is dead.

One Week Later

Vic tries to reassemble Cliff's hand, but can't get the right hand to work properly. Cliff isn't happy with Chief leaving him faulty parts. When he does a medical scan, Vic confirms that there's nothing mechanically wrong with the right-hand parts that are giving Cliff trouble. He suggests that there's something wrong with Cliff's brain.

In the kitchen, Larry and Rita make a bag lunch. Larry admits that he's fantasized about Chief's death, but now that Chief is dead, he doesn't feel like he thought he would. Rita says that their relationships with Chief were complex, and so are their reactions to his death. She says she's more focused on her dress rehearsals for the Cloverton play 'Our Town', and has dealt with her grief so it doesn't mar her performance.

Dorothy comes in to get frozen food, and tells Larry and Rita that she isn't going to bury Chief until Jane wakes up and has a chance to say goodbye. The girl leaves and Rita tell Larry that the body is starting to smell and someone needs to talk to Dorothy about burying the body. She figures Larry has nothing to lose so he should do it.

Dorothy puts the frozen food on Chief's body to preserve it. Larry comes into the dining room, and Dorothy talks about how her father always visited her when she was living on Danny, and always had a smile for her. Larry talks about how he got in his memories when Chief brought him there, and tells Dorothy that she has so much life left ahead of her, and she shouldn't waste it like he did. Dorothy wonders how Larry let go of the past, and Larry admits that he hasn't figured that part out yet. He suggests that they help each other find a good place to start, and Dorothy agrees and hugs Larry.

As Rita goes to her room, she sees a package and a note on her dresser. The note is from Chief, saying he leaves her his mission of keeping an eye on mysterious things to her. In the package is a key, and the note says Rita is the only one Chief trusts her with the burden.

Jane lies unconscious on her bed. In the Underground in her mind, Jane first tosses the stuffed lamb out of the well and then climbs out herself. She runs to Kay, who is on a caged bed in a middle of a field. Kay apparently doesn't hear Jane, and Jane says that Miranda lied to them and she's not who she says she is. Jane puts the lamb inside the cage, but Kay works on her jigsaw puzzle and ignores it. After Jen promises Kay that she'll fix it, she runs off.

At the town auditorium, the actors rehearse their play of the Doom Patrol saving Cloverton. As the Beekeeper, Rita recites her one line and then doesn't get off the stage. She wonders what Chief wants her to do, and gives a monologue saying she hates Chief for asking her to do something she has no idea how to do, and she hates herself for hating Chief when she loved him and never told him. Rita's face starts to melt, and the other actors panic as they realize who Rita is.

Silas talks to Vic and is shocked that Chief is dead, and Vic admits that he's handling it but just made things worse. His father tells him that he's learned it's futile to change the ones they love, and tells Vic not to hide away in his room.

In the Underground, Jane finds her other selves sitting on the floor, calmly studying jigsaw puzzles. She finds Driver-8 in the subway train, also working on a jigsaw. Jane tells Driver-8 to take her to the top, but Driver-8 doesn't respond and the controls are wrecked. She yells at her other selves, wondering how she's supposed to fix Kay alone. Miranda arrives and tells Jane that she can't, and Jane says that she found the real Miranda dead at the bottom of the well. The woman says that she's not Daddy or Miranda, and her eyes turn black as she says that she's not a persona at all. She tells Jane that she's every hurt that has been festering inside of Kay, and the everyday pain has made her stronger. The Pain says that she's taking control, and telekinetically forces Jane to her knees. After Jan is gone, the Pain says that she'll be the only thing that's left.

As Cliff does an Internet search on brain problems, the ghost of Chief appears to him and says that he came to ask for a favor. He figures his spirit is trapped in the manor because his body hasn't been put to rest, and his remains have to be incinerated for his spirit to move on. Chief figured that Cliff would enjoy burning his body, so he came to Cliff. Cliff says that he's not going to help Chief, and Chief asks him how he wants his child to remember him when he's gone. Cliff tells Chief that he wants his child to remember him warts and all, and reminds the spirit that he took everything from him and now Chief is gone as well when Cliff hated him.

Chief asks Cliff about his daughter Clara, and Cliff responds that he doesn't deserve to be a part of Clara's life. The spirit tells him that one thing he's learned is that people can always recover from something, and Cliff shouldn't give up. He sent the tape to Clara hoping it would answer her unanswered questions, and hoped it would mend things between him and Cliff. Cliff tells Chief that there's nothing that could fix things between them, but thanks Chief anyway.

Rita is laying on her bed and her phone rings. When she doesn't answer it, Larry knocks on the door and says there's a phone call for her, from the play director, Micki. Rita finally takes the call, and tells Micki that there won't be a repeat occurrence of what happened in rehearsal. "Micki" calls Rita a freak and tells her not to come back. Rita hangs up and goes back to lie on her bed.

Larry lies on his bed in his room, without his wrappings. His tape recorder comes in, repeating his earlier conversations about letting go of the past. Larry realizes that the spirit if in the recorder, and it shorts it out and flies out of it. It confronts Larry, who angrily say that he'll let go of the past and there won't be any "Trainer family drama". The Spirit reenters his body, and Larry figures the Spirit is indicating that it's time for them to go now that Chief is dead. He tells the Spirit that Rita needs him, and he can't go. Rita looks in through the lead-lined door window, then walks away.

At Quorum HQ, Roni enters disguised as a security guard starts to unload explosives from the duffel bag she brought with her. The elevator stops, and Vic accessed the television in the elevator's control panel and tells Roni that he has to live by his code and stop her from blowing a building full of people. Roni points out that she'll go to prison while the people who corrupted her body and sent her on their mission go free. She tells Vic that it isn't right, and he tells her that he's giving her a two-minute head start before he calls the police. Roni says that Vic doesn't want to become a name on her list, and Vic tells her goodbye.

Jane sits in the train car and mutters that she's sorry. Kay comes in and thanks Jane for bringing her the stuffed animal, and that it helped her and can help Jane. The girl puts the lamb in Jane's hands, and when Jane says that everything's broke and she can't fix it, Kay tells Jane that she knows there's another way up.

Cliff calls Clara and she says that she can't deal with him at the moment because she's having a baby.

Dorothy sits on Jane's bed and tells the unconscious woman that she's going to take Chief up north to rest next to Dorothy's mother. The girl tells the unconscious Jane that Chief cared about her, and hopes Jane will be well soon. Crying, Dorothy tells Jane that she wishes she could take it all back.

Kay takes Jane to a World War I biplane and says that she used it to get to the surface before she built the Underground. Jane gets in the cockpit and starts the engine, and the Pain appears ahead of her and says that it won't work, and she's the true Primary and Jane is just a coping mechanism. When the Pain says Jane is alone, Kay insists that Jane isn't alone.

The other personas arrive and the Pain says that she controls Kay's body as well as her mind, and Kay can't win. Jane taxis the biplane forward and the personas move with her. The Pain summons winds that blow them and the plane back.

The Pain takes over Jane's physical body and Dorothy realizes that it isn't Jane. The Candlemaker speaks, saying Jane is in trouble, and tells Dorothy to let it out. The Pain wonders if the Candlemaker wants to come out and fights, and Dorothy tells the pain that they're not fighting it and hurting Jane. The Pain grabs Dorothy and throws her out into the hallway, then dances down the hallway.

Dorothy runs to the others' rooms and calls them to come, yelling that Jane is in trouble. Cliff finds the Pain first, and she punches him down the hallway.

The personas grab the biplane and push it forward against the wind. The Pain tells Jane that no one is coming to save her, and then breaks into jigsaw pieces as the personas keep pushing. The pieces reform into a gigantic Daddy, and Jane tells the personas to keep pushing.

The Pain prepares to hang its body.

Jane flies the biplane forward and up, through Daddy, shattering him to pieces. She flies up and into the light... and takes over her body just as it falls. Cliff arrives and catches her, stopping Jane from hanging. The others arrive, and Jane hugs Cliff who awkwardly hugs her back. After a moment, the others join them in a group hug. Jane pushes them away, refusing to let them all hug her.

Later in the Underground, Kay and Jane join the other personas in the station, and the personas worry that the Pain will come back. Hammerhead figures they'll deal with it, and Jane eats one of the jigsaw pieces that they've piled up. She says that it tastes like whatever they want, and Kay eats a piece and laughs. The other personas laugh, and eat the pieces as well, playfully throwing them at each other.

Larry is sitting outside the manor, and Rita joins him and insists that she's not a millstone around anyone's neck. When Larry figures that there's something the Spirit needs to show him, Rita assures him that she'll always be there for him. She tells Larry that it's time for him and the Spirit to go, and Larry admits that he doesn't know if he'll come back because it isn't up to just him anymore. Rita and Larry hug, and then the Spirit flies away, taking Larry with it.

In his room, Vic monitors the government bandwidths where two agents figure that someone tipped Roni off.

Cliff goes to the hospital to visit Clara, and holds his grandson. He can't feel it, but remembers holding a baby Clara. His right hand twitches, but he tells Clara that it's all good.

Smiling, Larry flies off into space.

Jane says her goodbyes to Chief, closes up the body bag that he's in, and leaves the Danny ambulance that it's in. When Jane leaves, she nods to a waiting Dorothy in thanks. Dorothy gets into the ambulance and Danny teleports away on "quite an adventure".

Rita sits in her room and looks at her face in a mirror, then collapses on her bed.

One Week Late

An alarm goes off in the manor. Rita goes out and finds that the charm on the keychain is flashing. She follows the sound and finds a keyhole behind the books in the study. Rita puts the key in it and a cubbyhole with a phone flashing opens, emitting the alarm. It says that arrival is imminent, much to Rita's displeasure. The warning voice stops and the cubbyhole closes, and Rita puts the books back and figure it was nothing important.

At the Cloverton playhouse, the actors perform the play and sing a song about "Possibilities". Isabel Feathers, playing Rita, comes out and sings a solo. After the show, a triumphant Isabel leaves via the stage door. The street shakes and a giant drilling machine emerges from beneath. Madame Rouge emerges from it, and kneels down to urinate. She asks Isabel for her playbill to use as toilet paper, then asks where and when she is. Isabel answers, and Rogue asks where she can find Chief.

Rogue's face and body twitch uncontrollably, and Isabel backs away from Rogue in horror and falls into the bottomless pit the machine emerges from. The new arrival gets control of her face, yells into the hole that she'll have to find Chief on her own, sends her drilling machine back the way it came, and walks off to find Chief.