Heartwarming / Doom Patrol (2019)

Season 1

Pilot

• Rita and Larry each in their own way trying to help Cliff adjust to his new situation as a human-sized robot.
• Cliff after finally being able to move around in his new robot body has trouble going up stairs. What helps him overcome this? The memory of him helping his daughter walk up the steps.
• Jane takes Cliff to a toy store. When he asks her why she brought him here, she replies that he told her it was his daughter's birthday and that they should get her a gift.

Donkey Patrol

• Jane and Cliff despite getting off to a bad start actually end up becoming rather close and when Cliff decides to stay behind to protect the town from Morden, while Chief flees with the others, Jane is the first to say that while she doesn’t care about the town Cliff should not be left to face the threat alone which the others agree.
• Cliff trying to calm Jane's alters down by making her a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, like he made his daughter, but she rejects it. Finally, he says that he doesn't know what to do, but all he wants is to make sure that nobody hurts her. Then she asks for another sandwich.

Puppet Patrol

• Vic and Rita bonding when Jane leaves them behind.

Paw Patrol

• Rita reaches out to Elliot to help him deal with the considerable turmoil of finding out that his parents were going to use him to bring about the end of the world.

Doom Patrol Patrol

• Early in the episode, we see a videotape of Niles telling Baby Doll that he'll have to go away again, promising her that he'll come back, and then, when she pouts over the prospect of him missing Pancake Day, affectionately teasing her until she cheers up. It's adorable.
  Baby Doll: It won't be the same!
  Niles: You're telling me. For once, I'm going to be able to enjoy my breakfast without a certain little piggy (makes pig noises) snarfing up all the syrup... hmm? (continues making pig noises and pretends to snuffle a plate on the table as Baby Doll erupts into giggles)

Therapy Patrol

• Larry and the Negative Spirit finally start having a dialogue, after decades of making each other miserable.
• As much as she hates the prospect of spilling her guts to the others, and as misguided as Cliff is as a moderator, Rita concedes that his idea to hold a therapy session was a good one, and that he was at least trying to help.

Danny Patrol

• Just the Dannyzens themselves. They are all clearly content and happy, and it's obvious to see how a lot of them would feel like outcasts in the real world. Danny has finally given them a place they feel at home.
• The birth of Maura Lee Karupt, saying that her drag name was a big "fuck you" to the Bureau of Normalcy. She finally realized how horrible the bureau actually was, and how she finally felt accepted here. So Maura Lee tipped off Danny, just in time for them to make a jump and leave Darren behind.
• Despite claiming that Karen is the worst of the other 64 personalities, even if for her own gain, Karen does see Rita as a friend and confidant, even calling her Ri-Ri.
• Larry putting on a magnificent rendition of Kelly Clarkson's "People Like Us" at the cabaret, probably the happiest we've seen him all season, intercut with Cliff bonding with a kid by both dancing the robot. The truly heartwarming part is how it shows both of them finding some acceptance both from others and towards themselves. Larry's part turns out to be an Imagine Spot, but at the end of the episode he was really in the middle of karaoke when Danny teleported away, implying some sense of development.
• While the situation is still nightmarish in on itself, the fact that Karen was able to take over from Hammerhead's control and stop herself from possibly killing Doug. She does love him, and tearfully apologizes, saying she would never hurt him.
• Maura Lee Karupt is so desperate to prevent the Bureau of Normalcy from harming Danny that she is willing to make the sacrifice of returning to her old life as an agent of the Bureau so she can convince the organization that she had been deep undercover before finally destroying Danny. Danny refuses to accept this, feeling that Maura shouldn't give up being true to herself just to protect Danny.

Jane Patrol

• Cliff shows concern for a bloodied Karen, even though she was a major asshole to him last episode.
• Normally, when we see Penny Farthing on the Surface, she's a stuttering wreck. Here, we find out that when she's in the Underground, she has a nice little pond where she can go to de-stress.
• Cliff seeing the memory of when he walked out to Jane and talked to her. He asks Penny why this memory was buried so deep down when it was actually really good compared to others. She responds that it's because he gave Jane hope.
• Jane's conversation to a memory of Kay. She tearfully tells her she doesn't know her purpose, but regards little Kay as perfect.
• The personalities' relationship with Kay in general. They all seem to want to keep a certain order and play out a specific purpose for the sole reason of protecting Kay.
• When Cliff confronts Black Annis and shows himself in robot form (as she allows "no man" to pass), he finally admits he's grown into a better person, even if just a little.
  "I'm not a man. I used to be. I was a different person then. A lesser person."
• The thing that ultimately snaps Jane out of her Heroic BSoD and gives her the courage to stand up to Daddy is her desire to save Cliff.
  "You destroy everything! I will not let you destroy him!"

Hair Patrol

• Chief falling in love with the sapien woman.
• Vic opening up to Rita and admitting that something is wrong with his system, but begs her not to tell the others for fear that Jane's vision will come true. While it's not helping him in the long run, Vic's now considering the Doom Patrol as his friends, and maybe even a surrogate family that he doesn't want to see get hurt because of him.

Frances Patrol

• Clara's speech about Bump, how that Bump pretty much gave up his career in order to raise her, how happy she was when she turned eighteen and Bump adopted her, and how grateful she was for him being there for her. She gave him Cliff's gold watch with the words "To dad, you are my hero" on the back.
  Clara: To all the stupid things, that don't make any sense.
  • Despite how idiotic and ill-conceived Cliff's plan to retrieve the watch is, Rita grudgingly follows him to keep him company. Earlier in the episode, she also tries to talk him through his anxiety.
  • Although he did it out of a bit of selfishness, Cliff does end up giving Clara the watch back, but instead of telling her he was her real dad, he decides that it was better to just leave it behind and not soil her still grieving over Bump.
• Larry and John finally meeting each other again after so many years, and Larry getting to say his goodbyes to John as well as letting him go.
  • After decades of fearing that he ruined John's life by pushing him away, Larry learns that John actually did find other lovers and seems to have had a good life, even if he never stopped loving Larry.
• Jane opening up to Vic and telling him that pretending to be all tough and macho isn't going to help him out in the long run and asks him to talk to her.

Cyborg Patrol

• Prisoner 722 being pretty nice to Vic, even trying to coax him that the Ant Farm wasn't that bad as long as he didn't resist.
• The Team in general coming together to save Vic.
• Rita assuring Cliff that he isn't useless and helping him get back at the Bureau of Normalcy agent who mocked his sub-par intelligence by bringing her back into the room and deactivating the magnet holding Cliff so he'd fall on her and crush her.

Flex Patrol

• After Rita chides Jane for dumping Vic and Silas in the hospital with no one to help Vic work through his guilt, Jane sends her there, too, so that Vic won't have to be alone.
• Cliff reaches out to Jane again, apologizing for going into her head, and says he'll support her. Jane's walls come down in a quiet scene where Cliff is able to put a hand on her shoulder, something only the Hangman's Daughter had allowed up until that point.
• In flashbacks, we see that Flex befriended the Negative Spirit and offered to help it get back to its own dimension. And unlike most people, his first reaction upon meeting the Negative Spirit was one of kindness and genuine curiosity rather than fear, right down to nicknaming it "Sparky."
• Flex and Dolores. They were happy together before Flex was kidnapped, and when they're reunited, Dolores breaks down into tears when she recognizes her husband.
  Dolores: ... Nobody has called me "Dolly" in years.
  • Flex even calls Dolores "light of my life" when she is dusted away.
• After the events at the Ant Farm, the Negative Spirit can now exist separately from Larry. Though he is now slowly dying without the spirit, Larry tells him to go have his freedom. The spirit soars up into the skies... and then stops and returns to Larry.

Penultimate Patrol

• Danny's joy at seeing Larry again, as well as Larry telling the others that they will love Danny.
• Mr. Nobody attempts to get the Doom Patrol to stay in the memories of their past by promising that if they stay, he can make all the bad things that made them they people they were in the present go away. However, after each of their Character Development, they call bullshit and calmly chose to leave, knowing that they had become better people after going through the darkest point of their lives and meeting Niles for the better. In fact, each of the members deserves a nice call out for how they've changed.
  • Cliff accepts that he was a piece of trash and knows what he's doing doesn't feel right. As he leaves, he also calls Mr. Nobody on his bullshit as he choses to walk outside the trailer.
  • Larry understanding that he hadn't been that good of a husband to his wife, or father to his kids, saying they deserved better than he could have ever given them. As Mr. Nobody tries to convince Larry he can finally be with John, Larry knowingly says that John has already moved on from his life, and he should too as he leaves his house.
  • Rita asking her director if she was really a good person, and knows deep down that she was a monster long before she was mutated by her accident. She also realizes the progress she's made with the Chief and the others, and gives Mr. Nobody a Precision F-Strike as she leaves her tent.
  Mr. Nobody: What on Earth are you doing?!
  Rita: (calmly) Oh, fuck you.
  • Then there's Jane. While we're shown shots of the others introspecting on their lives, Jane says nothing. When she's the last one left, Mr. Nobody commends her for listening to her and decides to call her "sensible Jane". However, Hammerhead takes over and throws the TV to the side of the room, leaving Mr. Nobody stunned.
  Mr. Nobody: Hammerhead? What are you doing?
  Hammerhead: Getting us out of here. You think you're helping me and the others? WELL FUCK THAT! This is the greatest day of our life. This is the day we got some bite to our bark!
  Jane: (taking over) No... No.. Stop... stop... It's safer here.
  Hammerhead: Safe? Safer, my ass. The shit we went through?!
  Jane: It's safer for others. We can't be around regular people. We hurt them. Okay?
  Hammerhead: I don't give a FUCK about regular people! We're supposed to protect the girl!
• Mr. Nobody continues to try and narrate the Doom Patrol's tales, but Rita stops him short, deciding that she should narrate her own story from now on, and ignores Mr. Nobody as he tries to stop her. This ends up helping her find her friends while in the White Space.

Ezekiel Patrol

• Cliff bringing food anonymously to Jane for months.
• When Kay starts to wander off in the Underground, Hammerhead gently reassures Jane she'll make sure Kay doesn't get hurt and runs after the little girl. She even refers to Kay as "monkey".
• We find out who Niles was trying to protect for so many years and why he created the Doom Patrol. He wanted to protect his daughter Dorothy.
• The Doom Patrol begrudgingly agree to help Niles save Danny from the painting, but for Danny and Dorothy's sake, not Niles'.
• As angry as Jane is at Niles, she still runs to help him when he's knocked out of his wheelchair.
• Jane gently sings a song that Niles used to sing to Baby Doll in order to coax out Dorothy.

Season 2

Fun Size Patrol

• With his friends all shrunk down to the scale of a model train, Larry has been carefully preparing meals for them (and also the occasional joint for Jane.)
• After Jane accidentally snaps at Dorothy while suffering from withdrawal, she takes the time to apologize, because she doesn't want Dorothy to internalize the notion that it's okay for other people to take out their issues on her.
  Dorothy: I know being a grown-up is hard, and sometimes you have to yell to get all the bad feelings out.
  Jane: Yeah, well... being a grown-up doesn't give you a pass on being an asshole.
• Rita talks Vic through a PTSD flashback, assuring him that she's right there and she isn't going anywhere.
• As much as Cliff resents Dorothy, he still instinctively picks her up and tries to calm her down when she suffers a panic attack. It doesn't work all that well because she's not a small baby, but his heart is in the right place.

Tyme Patrol

• When Rita proposes a caper to steal Dr. Tyme's continuinium in order to prolong Niles' life, Jane of all people volunteers, because while she has no particular love for the Chief, she knows that if he dies, Dorothy will probably end up being locked up again, and after everything that's happened to her, she refuses to be the one who institutionalizes another little girl.
• Despite Larry never having been part of his two sons' lives after his accident, his son Paul, while obviously a bit sore over this revelation, was glad to see his father again. He even offered for him to come to his house if he wanted to.
• At the episode's end, Dorothy manages to get Rita out of her funk by asking her for help with cooking.

Pain Patrol

• Vic is with Roni who starts kissing him and Vic backing up, obviously nervous given all his cybernetic parts. In response, Roni strips off her top to show her own scarred chest and back to let Vic know he's not the only one who has to endure a painful appearance and she doesn't care how he looks.
• Dorothy hugs Danny the Brick like a beloved stuffed animal.

Sex Patrol

• The Dannyzens all come to Doom Manor to help restore Danny, with Maura Lee Karupt giving a rousing speech about how they will throw a party in Danny's honor.
• Larry and Flex share a friendly hug upon seeing each other again. Vic also shares a dance with Maura Lee Karupt.
• Dorothy, accompanied by Niles on piano, sings "Pure Imagination". Soon everyone else joins in, and Danny's cabaret - the heart of their being - is restored.
• With Dorothy on the verge of succumbing to the Candlemaker's goading and destroying Danny in order to avoid being confined again, Danny promises her that they will never imprison her again. Instead, they transform themselves into a bus, and take the Dannyzens away on a tour to spread love throughout the world.

Finger Patrol

• Niles introduces Baby Doll to Dorothy, and the two immediately take to each other. It doesn't last, but while it does, it's adorable.
  Cliff: Those two are just cuter than shit.
  • Vic mentions having a tea party with them.
• Larry finally gets to meet his grandson and great-grandson.

Space Patrol

• After two seasons of screwing up his attempts to be The Heart and mocking Dorothy behind her back, Cliff finally sits down and comforts Dorothy. He manages to offer the advice she desperately needs and let go of his own anger. By the end of the episode, he's decided he's all in on helping support Dorothy and become a real Doom Patrol family.
  Cliff: For what it's worth... the kid? She's alright.
  Niles: She is special, isn't she?
  Cliff: She's alright... but she deserves to be safe, and happy, even after you're gone. And if that means showing up for her and acting like a real family, then what the hell? I'm in.
  • As an example of his new and improved attitude, he notices Dorothy shivering in her sleep and pulls a blanket over her.
• Valentina helps Larry understand the Negative Spirit and come to terms with how horribly his relationship has splintered with his family. While Larry isn't ready to merge identities with the spirit, he is ready to keep trying to mend things with his family.

Dumb Patrol

• At the start of the episode, Miranda is making pancakes, because they're Dorothy's favorite and she wants to make peace after their fight in "Finger Patrol".
• Rita visits the local beekeeper for pointers about playing her, and instead ends up getting some life advice about how to make peace with her mother's memory.
• Despite being told that they are each other's worst idea, Vic and Roni resolve to keep seeing each other.

Dad Patrol

• Cliff and Clara get to spend some time together and two realize how not so different they are as they both tend to curse up a storm in casual conversation.
  • Cliff is overjoyed when Clara offers him an invitation to her wedding.
• Larry accompanies Jane back to her home in Arkansas so that she can retrieve Kay's beloved stuffed lamb Harry from the well, the one thing that she believes that Miranda could never do.
• Dorothy gets her first period and is so confused she runs to the bathroom to try and calm down since she couldn't really talk about this to her father. The lady at the register walks into the bathroom and gently talks to Dorothy through the stall door, assuring her that what's happening is completely normal and it's nothing to be scared of. She gives Dorothy a new pair of underwear and some pads and promises to help with her stained dress, and when Dorothy tries to pay her, she declines and tells her that "us women look out for each other."
• Dorothy wins a giant stuffed bear that she intends to give to Jane.

Wax Patrol

• Cliff reluctantly abandons his plans to attend his daughter's wedding in order to save Dorothy and the Chief.
• Dorothy finally embraces her duties as a young woman of her mother's tribe in order to protect her friends, even though it means having to fight Candlemaker on her own.

Season 3

Possibilities Patrol

• Dorothy refuses to fight the Candlemaker, instead forcing him into a peace deal.
• After getting freed from the wax, Vic's first instinct is to run to find all of his teammates and make sure they're all okay.
• Having learned that Niles is still around in ghost form and is now trying to enlist him to destroy his body so that he can pass on, Cliff tears into him, calling him out for not using his ghostly state to talk to Dorothy so that she can say goodbye to him.
• A week after Niles' death, Dorothy has tried to keep his body preserved long enough so that Jane can come back and say her goodbyes, because she knows that Niles was important to her. She also cuddles up to Jane while she's still comatose and talks to her to keep her company.
• After decades of having all the other personas protecting her, Kay helps Jane save them from Fake!Miranda's control, and together, they destroy Fake!Miranda and return Jane to the Surface in time to stop Fake!Miranda from forcing Jane to commit suicide.
• Cliff finally makes his way back to Florida and meets his newborn grandson. His malfunctioning hand also becomes an asset, as he uses its tremors to rock the baby to sleep.
• Jane helps Dorothy load Niles' body into Danny the Ambulance and sees her off.

Vacay Patrol

• Clara appeals to Cliff to have his brain checked out, because she loves him and wants him to be a part of his new grandson's life.
• Jane agrees to go on vacation not for her own sake, but for Kay's, so that she can experience life on the surface from a safe remove by watching through the viewer.
• Garguax dies trying to warn his would-be nemeses about the return of the Brotherhood of Evil.

Dead Patrol

• In "Possibilities Patrol", Larry talked Dorothy through letting go of her father. In this episode, Dorothy tries to repay the favor, pointing out to Larry that his plan of wrapping his friends in bandages and leaving them seated around the dining room table for the winter is not a healthy coping strategy. When it turns out that there's still a chance to save them, she calls in a favor from Danny and recruits the Dead Boy Detectives for help.
• The Dead Boy Detectives show how close they are with Crystal sarcastically saying how good they were at their jobs because they've been doing it for thirty years.
  Charles: More like forty-years.
  • Crystal also genuinely loves her two ghost friends, since they saved her from David. When they help Larry go to retrieve the Doom Patrol, she admits to Dorothy that although she knows the boys can handle themselves, she's still worried for their safety.
• Victor is reunited with his mother, who is happy about his attempts to save Roni from trouble, because whereas Silas has always wanted Vic to be a superhero, Elinore was more concerned that he grow up to be thoughtful and compassionate.
• Jane discovers the original inspiration for all of Kay's personalities: her grandmother's dolls that they made together, safe from Kay's father. Followed soon after by The Reveal that Kay's grandmother was named Jane. In spite of all the trauma she was built to fight, Jane is genuinely touched to learn that she came from a place of love instead of pain.
• Larry and Edwin have a one on one conversation with each other. Larry then tries to gently ask Edwin if he "likes" Charles in that way since the two of them seemed really close and obviously care for one another. Edwin hesitates as he says that Charles is his "mate" and he doesn't want to ruin their long friendship with his own feelings. Larry then says it's not 1916 anymore, and nowadays, loving someone of the same sex is becoming more normal. Larry then adds that he once thought the same way as Edwin, but became happier accepting himself. While he doesn't force anything on Edwin, Larry still suggests Edwin at least try to be more true to his feelings. Edwin seems grateful for Larry's words, with Charles noting that the two seemed to have gotten close at the end of the episode.
• Charles stepping in front of Edwin as the Night Nurse appears, clearly shielding him from her.
• Dorothy finally finds new companionship with Crystal, and elects to join the Dead Boy Detectives to get some time with new friends.

Undead Patrol

• Niles lets Jane and the others consume his brain, which has a chemical that cures their zombification. He also tells Jane that he loves her, finally giving her some closure.

Dada Patrol

• Shelley offers to give Jane refuge in The Fog, allowing her to escape a life of servitude to the Underground. Kay gives her permission for this.
• Despite the odd circumstances of their meeting, Cliff is able to find some common ground with Sachiko, as they both have wrestled with their fear of their own mortality. He even tries to hug her, despite her being in a glass box.

1917 Patrol

• Jane helps Kay sneak up to the Surface for the first time in decades, allowing her to experience the outside world for herself instead of just living vicariously through the personas.
• Stuck in the past and bereft of all her trauma and self-loathing, Rita finally gains the control over her powers that has eluded her for the past two-and-a-half seasons. She also finds ready acceptance with the Sisterhood of Dada, who accept and love her just the way she is.

Bird Patrol

• Larry tries to leave the larva behind in the woods. He subsequently runs back twice to provide it with a PB&J sandwich and a scarf, to stay warm.
  Larry: (to the larva) Hey look, there's nothing to be afraid of...I don't think.

• Even as it's clear that Laura is slipping away from her and the Sisterhood, Bendy never stops trying to get her back. When Laura finally returns to the salon, intending to hand her friends over to the Bureau of Normalcy, the others do not demand an explanation for why she's suddenly returned, they're just happy to see her.
  Laura: I want you all to know how proud I am of you. No matter how tough things got, you stuck by each other. No matter how... far I drifted away from you, you kept me tethered. I'll never forget that.
  Holly: (cheerfully) Don't apologize, dance!

Subconscious Patrol

• Despite having been turned into a puppet on "Underground Avenue", the normally-violent and surly Hammerhead behaves herself, as she still sees her mission as protecting Kay, and if that means having to sit around and sing the Alphabet Song until her brains dribble out of her ears so that Kay can be happy, that's what she'll do.
• Larry becomes the first to make peace with his subconscious, because he's able to forgive his past self for being afraid.
• General Tony finally offers Vic some good advice after all the years that he's spent trying to live up to Silas' expectations.
  Tony: You became perfect... but you lost something very important.
  Vic: My childhood.
  Tony: That's correct, sir.
  Vic: I'll never get that back.
  Tony: Yeah, but you can make your own choices now. And maybe this time, instead of doing things that made you a good soldier, you could do some wrong things. You can make some strong choices, even if they're wrong.
  Vic: What do you think I was trying to do, before the Eternal Flagellation?
  Tony: I know. I'm not here to criticize. I am here to say keep going. Hmm? Have some fun. Find your happiness. Play. And then you take back what was taken from you.

Evil Patrol

• While the rest of the team is disgusted with Vic for having his cybernetics removed, as he's rendered himself helpless in a fight, Kay is genuinely happy for him, as she understands that he did it in order to become his own person, a desire that she personally understands. She also asks him to give her an interview, the way Niles used to do for her other personalities, so that she can finally have her own thoughts on tape.

Amends Patrol

• Shelley returns, and this time chooses to aid the Doom Patrol instead of attacking them, using her Fog to teleport the team back to Doom Manor and offering refuge to Jane's personas.
• Mama Pentecost reveals to Larry that Keeg isn't attacking him, it's trying to bond with him, but his radiation-proof bandages are getting in the way.
• In order to save Keeg and get Larry over his anxiety about bonding again, Victor agrees to absorb Keeg into himself until they've returned to Doom Manor.
• Jane actually thanks Shelley for helping her an the other personas. When she raises the question of whether Shelley acted solely to help the other personas or whether it was part of a plan to lure Jane back into The Fog, Shelley replies that it's whichever answer gets Jane to come look for her again. Jane does not look entirely displeased with this.
• Driller Bill gets her moment in the spotlight, organizing Jane's personas to clear all the rubble out of the Underground.
  "Finally, it's my time to shine. From here on, we're ants. We're gonna start at the top of this mess, and work our way down."
• Larry willingly bonds with Keeg, and consequently, gains new powers.
• When Lauren re-emerges with no memories of all the things she's done, the team reluctantly allows her to join in order to redeem herself.

Season 4

Doom Patrol

• Vic and his father have apparently reconciled during the eighty-three days since the end of the previous season, with Silas apparently accepting Victor's decision to de-power himself so that he can try and live a more normal life.
• Vic and Silas present Cliff with a new hand that's been outfitted with nanites to simulate a sense of touch. Cliff is so delighted with the prospect that he immediately hugs them. The whole team agrees to take their time machine to Florida so that Cliff can feel his beloved grandson in his arms for the first time.
• Having realized how much Rita still resents her and fearing that this will get in the way of Rita's ability to lead the team, Laura offers to move out of Doom Manor.

Butt Patrol

• Even in the middle of his panic attack over using his new sense of touch on killing Darren, Cliff assures Laura that she made the right call to kill Darren. It doesn't make her guilt over how she's hurt him any better, but compared to how Cliff lashed out at Caulder's scheming, it's a huge step forward for his emotional growth.
• Amidst all the chaos of the butts being loosed at the Bureau of Normalcy, Dr. Yu manages to rescue Nicholas, one of the last un-weaponized butts. In the final scene, she is shown cheerfully sharing dinner with him.

Nostalgia Patrol

• When Laura announces that she's preparing a new team-building mission, the others all groan, until she explains that the mission will be showing up for Rita's film retrospective to support her. Jane, of all people, immediately gets on board with the plan, Cliff follows because he's never not gonna follow Jane, and Larry, despite being in a bad mood, goes along with it because, as they remind him, he's Rita's best friend.
• It turns out that Larry has seen all of Rita's movies several times, because of course he has.
• Rita sacrifices her immortality to Dr. Janus in order to save her friends, because she'd rather die than live without them. Notably, when she makes her big heartfelt speech about how she's always loved her teammates and always will, her form remains completely stable, whereas previously, any show of emotion would make her start to blob out.

Casey Patrol

• While she's not exactly happy at the moment, Dorothy is at least safe, with Danny and Maura Lee Karupt watching over her, and the Dannyzens having accepted her as one of their own.
• Maura Lee Karupt catches what she assumes is a vandal returning to spray demeaning graffiti on the mural, but the young man insists that he's actually trying to undo the damage done by bigots, assuring Maura that not everyone in the area is as hateful as the people who actually did deface the mural.
• The ending is bittersweet, as Dorothy is forced to hand over her father's amulet to Torminox in order to save Danny and the Candlemaker, and even after Danny is restored to their proper size, they're left even weaker and less able to protect their people. But as always, Maura Lee Karupt steps up to help out, rallying those Dannyzens who feel ready to leave and find or create new spaces for themselves, while promising that she and Danny will always protect those who still need them. Meanwhile, Dorothy agrees to accompany Casey on a new quest to find the artist who created her and Torminox and convince him to write a new ending so that she can be reunited with her dad.
  Danny: TIME FOR A NEW ADVENTURE!

Youth Patrol

• In the opening, Larry prepares to leave Doom Manor to find Keeg, but asks Victor to give Rita (who's still unconscious) a hug on his behalf if she comes to before he returns.
• Laura presents Cliff with the old car that they found on the side of the road in "Butt Patrol", figuring that fixing it might help him prove to himself that he's not just a monster who instinctively breaks everything. Cliff is genuinely moved, and admits that this is the most thoughtful gift anyone's ever given him.
• As Victor tells Jane about his trip home and his regrets at how he ghosted his old friends, Jane encourages him to keep trying to reconcile, as it's clear to her that they were important to him.
• Larry is forced to relive his time in the Bureau of Normalcy, where they tried to weaponize the Negative Spirit. As he screams for everyone to stay away from him, afraid that his radiation will kill them, Rama calmly approaches, having used his powers to turn himself into lead, allowing him to gently soothe Larry and ease him out of this painful memory.
• Jane, completely and utterly high, finally manages to summon Kay and, convinced that Kay's been avoiding her because she's angry about how Jane has been treating the body as if it's hers alone, apologizes profusely, saying that she understands that it's Kay's body and she's just borrowing it. Kay reaches out and caresses Jane's cheek, saying that it's their body - she knows that Jane's first instinct will always be to protect her and she trusts her to pull back if any of her experimentation - whether masturbation or sex or even a relationship - becomes dangerous. Considering how Miranda lost all privileges because she had a fling with a guy who turned out to be abusive, and how Jane previously got deposed as primary because the other alters all believed that she was too close to the Doom Patrol, the fact that Kay is giving her explicit permission to make decisions for herself is pretty big.
• As Laura is de-aged into a sad, scared little girl, Rita (now reverted back into Gertrude Cramp) forgets how angry she is with her and just hugs her.

Hope Patrol

• Having been de-aged to a baby at the end of the previous episode, Jane wakes up safe and sound in the back of Cliff's car. It turns out that Cliff found her as a baby and had the presence of mind to take her back to safety and take care of her before the Templars undid the curse.
• Having spent the whole first half of the season avoiding returning to Florida to see his family out of fear of hurting them, Cliff gets a pep talk from... his hand... reminding him that he spared that zombie butt, keeping it refrigerated instead, which doesn't seem like the actions of a mindless killer.
• Vic is being driven back to the manor by Derek, who watched over him when he was de-aged. As Vic is pulled into further adventures, Derek insists on following him, even though he doesn't have any powers, because they're friends, and friends always have each other's backs.
• Convinced that she's dying, Jane goes to see Shelley and tries to kiss her... and completely freezes up. Whereas Shelley was very forward during their previous encounter in "Dada Patrol", here she is much more gentle and understanding, telling Jane that she's willing to wait until she's ready. Unfortunately, Jane interprets this as a rejection.
• As they travel together through Orqwith, Rama admits to Larry that he was fully prepared to betray him and the Doom Patrol to cure his condition, but when Larry suggests that the Doom Patrol could help him, Rama defects, because he'd rather not hurt anybody and realizes that Immortus probably will do something horrible.
• As Jane sulks in her room, afraid that she's broken and that nobody could ever love her and that she doesn't deserve to be loved, Cliff tells her that if people love her, there's generally not anything she can do to stop that. He then gently squeezes her hand in his.

Orqwith Patrol

• Rita and Laura finally air out all of their grievances with each other and make up, resolving to stop letting their shared past stop them from working together to rescue their friends.
• What is it that the Cult of Immortus uses to get Cliff to help them? A vision of a future where he lives long enough to see his grandson become a little pain in the ass who idolizes him. It also appears that Future!Clara is pregnant again.
• When Dorothy suddenly shows up, she makes a beeline for Jane and hugs her. Jane, surprisingly, reciprocates. It's especially sweet after the previous episode where Jane was absolutely convinced that nobody could love her.
  • Also worth noting is that normally, when Jane lets someone hug her, she usually breaks it off roughly, shrugging or shoving them away. This time, however, when the hug breaks, she slides her hands down Dorothy's arms and grips her hands.

Fame Patrol

• Vic and Deric part ways with their friendship restored and stronger than ever, as Vic goes back to Doom Manor to help his friends while Deric goes home to be with his wife and kids.
• Dorothy spends much of the episode trying to get Cliff to admit that he needs help, and shows remarkable patience with him even after he claims that he deliberately withheld knowledge from her about her dad being a ghost just to be an asshole. The only thing that finally gets her to lose her patience with him is Cliff declaring that he's a burden, unfit to receive love or even pity.
  Cliff: Trust me, kid, I don't deserve love. I don't even deserve pity. I've been trying so hard to leave something behind that's worth a damn, but I just keep fucking things up more! It'll be better for everyone when I'm dead and gone!
  Dorothy: (suddenly gets in his face) Don't say that, Cliff. (hits his chest) Don't ever say that. Your death won't hurt you nearly as much as it will hurt the people who have to live with it... People love you, Cliff. And people want to help you. Don't let them down.
  • By claiming that he deliberately chose not to tell Dorothy about her dad's ghost, Cliff effectively stops any further questions about his encounter with the ghost, which means Dorothy doesn't have to find out that her dad deliberately avoided her. Cliff may hate Niles and may want everyone to know what an asshole he was, but he still knows better than to crush Dorothy's image of her dad.

Immortimas Patrol

• As nightmarish as Immortimas is as a concept, it is nice to get a peek of a universe where the team are mostly happy and well-adjusted.
  • In this universe, Dorothy grew up as part of the family rather than on the outside of it, and thus has accepted the death of her father because the others all look after her.
  • Rita and Laura are best friends, with none of the tensions that they have in the real world.
  • Cliff has his body back and has a healthy relationship with his daughter and her family, so that he doesn't have to feel like he's being torn between his duties to his team and his duties to his family.
  • Larry is not only not horribly burned, but he's also got none of the neuroses that crippled him in the real world. Here, his biggest concern is whether or not his family will like his new boyfriend.
  • Jane is a singular entity, and has a best friend in Casey Brinke.

Tomb Patrol

• Victor finally and truly reconciles with Silas and decides that he's ready to be Cyborg again, as long as his father lets it be on his terms.
• With their remaining time limited, Rita, Larry, Cliff, and Jane all gather in the living room to reminisce cheerfully about their adventures together.

Portal Patrol

• Jane holds Larry's hand as they both jump into the timestream.
• Sent to the 1940's to try and take the pendant of Immortus off of Niles Caulder, Cliff tries diplomacy for once, assuring Caulder that Dorothy survived the Candlemaker and has friends now.
• Sent back in time to the 1990's, Larry is reunited with the Negative Spirit, who puppets Past!Larry's body so that he can clear the air with his longtime host. While he is saddened to see that Larry is still scared all the time, he notes that his Larry was not as strong as Present!Larry.
• Jane finally gets a last conversation with Niles, in which she confesses that her powers aren't working anymore and she doesn't know how to fix it. Niles talks her through the problem and helps her realize what she needs to understand in order to restore the Underground: that all of the personalities remember the rape and abuse that Kay suffered and that it's a part of all of them. As Jane finally accepts this, the Underground is destroyed, but it's replaced with something new - the Kaleidoscope, in which all of the alters work together to guide Kay through life instead of just protecting her from it.

Done Patrol

• The Doom Patrol get their longevity back from none other than Immortus herself. Turns out all it took to placate her was a millennium's worth of stardom with the Butts as her helpers. Once she's made peace with them, Immortus takes off happily.
• Rita accepts her death with dignity and grace as she passes on after her funeral. She also gets to be reunited with Malcolm.
• Crazy Jane mentions that all of her personalities are now in sync after coming to terms with her trauma. She's considering adopting a new name to reflect this, with "Kaleidoscope" being at the top of her mind. Cyborg suggests that if it's too much, then she could just go by the initial "K".
• Cyborg joins Deric as his teaching assistant at the tech academy. His opening speech is about how the students don't need to be superheroes to make the world a better place.
• Larry and Keeg decide to fly off into space after retrieving Rama from the ocean and they reignite their relationship. The fact that Larry's skin doesn't heal up when Rama kisses him only demonstrates just how deep their love for each other goes as they become a sun together.
  • What prompted Larry's new lease on life? Memories of John.
• K and Casey decide to travel into space together. When Casey brings a cat on board, K is so excited she kisses Casey without even thinking. The two women are left in shock for just a second before Casey beams at K and they go into a longer kiss.
  • Extra mention to the fact that K - whose childhood trauma initially left her outright terrified of physical intimacy - made the first move.
• The very final scene of the series. Cliff finally gets to move in with Clara and Rory. To his dismay, his Parkinson's hasn't gone away, meaning he's still dying. Cliff spends what little time he has left with his family, when one day he has a vision of Rory growing up, making similar mistakes that Cliff made, coming to terms with Clara's impending death and eventually getting to see his grandson. All of this gives Cliff the peace of mind he'd been looking for and he gently passes on.
  Clara: Dad?
  Cliff: It's okay. It's okay. I made it home. (Eye Lights Out)
  • What's more is that the series started with Cliff and now ended with him.