Orin investigates the strange circumstances surrounding Arion and Orm, while M'gann learns of Gar's mental state.
Tropes:
- Anger Born of Worry: M'gann is more stern and impatient with Garfield's attitude than she has ever been in the series. This highlights how worried she is for him.
- Big Sister Instinct: Cassie sharply reprimands Garfield during his intervention for curtly dismissing Jaime and Virgil, who were attempting to help their friend out of his deep depression.Cassie: You can't talk to my guys that way! Especially because they're our guys!
- Call-Back: In The Stinger, Forager recounts his time on Earth while posing as a human named Fred Bugg (with two G's). Thanks to the series' events up to this point, his acceptance on the planet allows him to liken his experience to his valedictorian speech for accepting people as they are.
- Engineered Heroics: Orin suspects this to be the case with Arion, since it's too big a coincidence for him to show up at the same time a clone of Orm was dispatched to cause trouble for seemingly no gain.
- "Eureka!" Moment: When Orin visits Orm in prison, Orm recalls Orin visiting sixteen times before, to no avail. This is an immediate red flag for Orin; as he reveals at the end of the episode, he visited the prison sixteen times, but never spoke to Orm once. This means someone engineered Orm's memories as best they could with the data they had available.
- Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: During the intervention, Cassie, Robotman and M'gann point out that while Gar's depression is understandable, it doesn't entitle him to be a Jerkass to everyone just because they want to help. Unfortunately, it falls on deaf ears and Gar continues to be rude and dismissive.
- Helpful Hallucination: Conner sees hallucinations of M'gann, Wally, and Clark pushing him to continue and keeping his spirits up. Subverted when it's interrupted by a hallucination of Match killing Clark and then Conner hallucinating himself as Match, blood still on his hands.
- Internal Reveal: M'gann learns about Garfield's deteriorating behavior following Connor's supposed death, leading him to leave his filming career, shirking Outsider duties, and breaking things off with Perdita.
- Jerkass Façade: M'gann calls Garfield on being a jerk to everyone to push them away and avoid dealing with his own problems.
- Locked Out of the Loop: When Orin, Mera, and Blubber discover that the Orm currently in prison is a clone. Mera wonders where the real Orm is, with all three unaware that he was killed last season.
- Needle in a Stack of Needles: Conner has spent his time in the void jumping from asteroid to asteroid in an attempt to find some way to escape, but all he's accomplished is finding that the asteroids are further apart the farther he goes. It's not clear how much time has passed, but he's clearly demoralized and starting to lose his grip on reality.
- Never Say Goodbye: Before he leaves on his mission to the ruins, La'gaan meets with Coral and Rodunn to convince them he'll be alright, and the three note that they never say goodbye for this exact reason.
- Purgatory and Limbo: Conner's vision of Wally posits the idea that since it's neither heaven or hell, Conner's stuck in some kind of purgatory and has to keep going to prove his worthiness and be allowed to leave.
- The Reveal: Orm is a clone, the original still being dead.
- Sole Survivor: Robotman is the only member of the Doom Patrol who survived the mission that killed the team (and actually went on it, unlike Mento).
- Splash of Color: The dimension that Conner filters everything into cool colors and lighting similar to blacklight, making his fully saturated hallucinations of M'gann, Kal, and Match stick out like a sore thumb. Wally, on the other hand, blends in because Conner sees him as a ghost.
- Staging an Intervention: M'gann, Virgil, Cassie, Jaime and Robotman do this for Gar about his downward spiral. Like the previous attempts, Gar angrily dismisses it and tries to leave. He's stopped when M'gann reminds him that a condition of membership in the Outsiders is a yearly mental health check with Black Canary, which he's past due on, and he would have to permanently quit the Outsiders and other League-affiliated organizations to get out of attending.
- Summon Bigger Fish: With Garfield pushing away all his loved ones and the intervention failing, M'gann pulls out her final card: a mandatory meeting with Black Canary, where if he doesn't pass he won't be allowed to be part of the Outsiders anymore.
- Survivor Guilt: Robotman had this from being the only member of the Doom Patrol to survive going on the mission that killed the team. Beast Boy helped him through it, and now he's trying to return the favor.
- This Is a Drill: Kaldur forms a drill to break through the bedrock and into the original Atlantis.
- Time Skip: Dialogue states that Arion has been in the city for a month.
- Tranquil Fury: Gar, when he's given a choice to attend Black Canary's therapy or quit the teams entirely.
- Was It All a Lie?: When Orin confronts Orm in his cell, he asks his brother whether his turn to evil was because Vandal Savage had corrupted him or if he had always resented Orin from the moment their mother introduced them to each other.
- What the Hell, Hero?: In the intervention, Robotman, Cassie, and M'gann all call out Garfield for his Jerkass behavior towards them.
- Workaholic: Wyynde calls Kaldur on this, stating that he promised they'd take some time after Orm has been captured, but Kaldur has just been finding new things to do.
- You Answered Your Own Question: When conversing with his hallucination of Clark, Conner asks if he's gonna give another speech about how he needs to believe in himself and that there are people who love and need him. Clark just grins, and Conner realizes that he's psyched himself up.Conner: Come on, Kal, you don't play fair.
