[Jason] Previously on titans...
[Grunts]
[Woman screams]
Are they taking her back to Themyscira?
[Dick] They have sacred grounds for warriors like Donna.
- I should go. I can help her. - [Dick] We all want to bring her back.
- We can't always change the world. - But we can try.
Donny boy!
- Everybody, it's my little brother! - [All cheering]
[Don] We have to deal with this.
Letting your anger out and doing some good with it.
- [Hawk] I'm hawk. - [Dove] And I'm dove.
His name was Donny. My best friend.
- [Dawn] Is that a bomb? - It's a gift.
From our pal, Jason.
- [Chuckles] Oops! My bad. - [Beeping]
[Dawn] That's not on you.
- It was ourjob to save him. - It was ourjob to try.
Go home, Tim. Before you get hurt.
I'll find red hood and scarecrow and show you how it's done.
[Gunshofl
11:20 last night, Bruce's jet took off. Changed ifr in mid-air.
Nobody knows where he touched down.
[Birds screeching]
[Somber music playing]
Everything seems to be in order.
May I ask, master Wayne,
are you sure about what you're doing?
Yes, Charles. I am.
Very well.
Will you be requiring anything more tonight, sir?
I will not.
Thank you for everything you've done.
Good night, master Wayne.
Goodbye, Charles.
[Dramatic music playing]
[Theme music playing]
[Somber music playing]
And again, head.
What exactly were you trying to do in there? Left.
- I was trying... - Right.
To bring Donna back.
Stubborn and willful. I was just like you at your age. Legs.
[Rachel] You call this place paradise. I don't get it.
I've been here for months and all I do is train.
And you know I can do more.
[Thrilling music playing]
You're here to learn our ways. Certain things are not achieved by force.
The ritual we do in the temple requires Patience and dedication.
But your ritual's not working.
[Myrrah] Top.
It also requires humility.
I apologize for my words, Lydia.
Proceed with your training.
Your timing could use some work too.
I hate this island.
[Sighs]
Okay.
- Again. - Again.
Head.
[Wind blowing]
- [Eerie music playing] - [Breathing heavily]
Timothy Drake?
Yeah.
So you are, uh, Timothy s. Drake?
Can you... can you tell me where we're goin'?
Uh, I'm afraid I can't.
Uh, I'm sorry I...
I know this will sound weird, but I...
I can't quite remember why I'm here.
[Clears throat]
It's totally normal. Nothing to worry about.
It can take a while.
Look, man,
you're gonna have to give me some answers,
'cause I don't know where I am or how I got here, so...
I understand.
Just come with me.
- What? - [Suspenseful music playing]
We're almost at your stop.
Get off.
[Grunts]
[Train whistle blows]
[Dramatic music playing]
[Grunts]
Hey.
- Are you all right? - Where the hell am I?
This is the next place.
You mean I'm dead?
[Donna] We all are.
I know it can be a lot to take in.
My name's Donna.
Tim. [Breathing heavily]
[Conductor] Timothy.
[Sinister music playing]
[Blows whistle]
They're looking for you.
- [Tim] Look, ma'am. - Ma'am?
Maybe you're dead, but not me.
[Breathing heavily]
Are you crazy?
Damn it.
[Enchanting music playing]
Come on, Donna.
Come back to me.
Come on.
[Door opens]
[Thrilling music playing]
Wait!
Okay.
Where are you going?
[Breathing heavily]
Back.
Back where?
Home.
You better pace yourself. You got a ways to go.
So what, do you work for them?
The train people? No.
Then why are you following me?
Because you look scared.
- We should probably head back now. - Not gonna happen.
Look, I was freaked out when iwoke up too, okay?
It can be a lot to wrap your head around.
That's kinda the point of life and death though, right? Move fonnard, not back?
Which is why it's a train?
Yeah, the metaphor is not subtle, but nails the point.
Do you remember anything?
How you died or...
[Sniffles] No.
I just know I gotta go home.
[Donna] How're you gonna do that, huh?
Order a lyft? Let me tell you, the service down here sucks.
Hey! You wanna go back to the train? Go. I didn't ask for your help.
[Growls]
[Sinister music playing]
- Who are these guys? - I got no idea.
Hey, are you guys from the train?
We were just getting some fresh air, so if there's a problem...
[Growling]
[Groans]
Did you feel that?
[Grunting]
Get behind me.
[Both groaning]
[Growling]
Run.
[Car approaching]
["Livin' on a prayer" playing]
[Man] Get in.
Do it.
Oh, my god.
Looks like we got some catching up to do.
[Chuckles]
[Music fades]
[Waves crashing]
In this hour, as in all hours, we seek balance.
We request the blessings ofartemis as we begin our endeavor.
Given, the ritual of ordigi has been disrupted.
Given, the act of blasphemy has caused an imbalance.
Given, the act was committed by Rachel roth.
Implied, the transmigration of Donna Troy's soul has been corrupted.
Any hope for resurrection nowjeopardized.
Wait, you don't know that...
Sorry.
Therefore, determined,
balance must be restored through the appropriate result.
I request that the council hold that Rachel is a visitor to our island
and still largely ignorant of our ways.
Willfully ignorant.
May I submit initial result?
Result, I will oversee an increase in task and training,
as well as initiate a curriculum in the culture and rituals of our island.
Insufficient result.
Secondary result, I propose that Rachel be allowed to...
I wasn't committing blasphemy.
You've no proof that what I did hurt Donna or her soul's transmigration.
Please, Rachel.
It's just that I don't see why I should be punished
because you all are afraid of me and my powers.
I see why Donna left this place.
I don't blame her.
She was a hero.
And you all are cowards.
May I request the council allow me to speak privately with Rachel?
This endeavor has concluded.
I will administer result myself.
["Livin' on a prayer" playing]
I think we lost 'em.
Who's the kid?
I don't really know. His name is Tim.
[Hank] Is he okay?
He's still in the fog, you know?
Oh, yeah.
Took me forever before I felt halfway normal.
Hey, what were you doing back there in the woods?
Um... hejumped off the train,
freaked out or something, so I followed him.
What the fuck were those things back there?
Ghouls.
If you get off the train before your destination,
you end up out here.
It's kind of a no-man's land. Your soul's up for grabs.
Ghouls will steal your soul if they get close enough.
And if they get you they take you down.
All the way down, to Hades.
And you don't come back from that.
[Sighs]
So should we talk about the elephant in the room?
What elephant?
I don't know. You're dead.
Oh. [Laughs]
That elephant. Yeah.
What happened?
Jason fucking Todd.
- What? - I know, right?
I mean, Jason's always been fucked up and had problems,
but why would he kill you?
Uh, you think I know?
He started taking some fucked-out drug.
Started dressing like deathstroke meets the gimp.
Calls himself red hood, whatever that means.
Next thing you know he went batshit nuts.
Strapped a bomb to my chest and...
- Kaboom! [Laughs] - Jesus fucking Christ!
Just making sure you're still kicking.
- Still an asshole. - He's with us.
Good. Take a chill pill.
[Sighs]
[Chuckling] Anyway, classic Gotham bullshit.
- Oh, my god, I'm so sorry, Hank. - Yeah.
Oh, my god, dawn.
She must be devastated.
She better be.
["Livin' on a prayer" fades out]
[Swing music playing]
Malcolm.
You on your own?
Uh, my friends and I had a little run in,
but we left 'em on the road.
Welcome to the twilight owl. My name's Malcolm, pleased to meet you.
You folks look like you could use a little pick-me-up.
This one's gonna need some food.
We need to talk.
[Malcolm] Grab a table.
Come on, let's get you fixed up.
I gotta get home.
Yeah.
Okay, kid. You and me both.
Go with Malcolm, grab a bite.
Hey, we're gonna figure this out, okay?
[Sighs]
[Sighs] What is this place?
I kinda think of this as my home base.
Hmm, classy for a guy who thinks flushing is optional.
Thank you. I can gather my thoughts here. Get the lay of the land.
Pick up intel.
Help people out when I can.
What people?
Ah, you don't think you're the only one whojumped off that train, huh?
Lot of people get cold feet on the way to the next place. Cheers.
- I thought you weren't drinking. - [Hank] Oh, iwasn't.
Then I died, so I figured what the hell. Might as well live a little.
The important thing is we found each other.
That can't be a coincidence.
I'll give you that.
This all does seem pretty strange.
Yeah.
Maybe it's all happening for a reason.
- You said the kid wants to go back, huh? - [Donna] Yeah.
I tried explaining it's not really an option,
but he's not ready to hear it.
Who says it's not an option?
All of human history?
Huh.
[Suspenseful music playing]
I may have found a loophole.
Hank, this is the afterlife. There are no loopholes.
When our tickets got punched, they were one-way and not roundtrip.
Maybe it's just a rumor.
There's supposed to be a bridge.
- A bridge? Back to earth? - It's what I heard.
I was scouting it out when I found you.
- That's totally insane. - And all of this isn't?
Look, your timing couldn't be more perfect.
The titans were having real problems when I died.
And Jason's coming after them too.
They can use my help and they can definitely use yours.
Now we can go back together.
That's why all this is happening, Donna.
[Chuckles]
A second chance.
What's wrong?
I don't wanna go back.
[Rachel] This is it? You're locking me in my room?
That doesn't seem like a punishment.
I thought you'd throw me in a pit or make me fight sharks or something.
Have you ever considered speaking less?
This is pnevma.
It has existed here on the island since before history.
Before memory.
The legend is that it was built by a hero of our tribe,
long forgotten now, to represent the human soul.
Why would you do that?
This is your result, designed by me,
to restore balance where balance has been lost.
Rebuild pnevma in whatever way you can, using every stone.
Is that all?
It is.
Well, it doesn't seem so bad.
It is nothing more than the task of building a soul.
What're you talkin' about? We have to go back.
You don't know if we can. Even if we could...
You're telling me you wouldn't take the chance
to go back and hand Jason his ass?
Is that what this is about? Revenge?
You're goddamn right it's about revenge. That little fucker blew me up.
I think we're supposed to let that go, Hank.
[Laughs]
Donna Troy is lecturing me about letting stuff go?
Did you let stuff go when deathstroke killed garth?
I didn't fucking think so.
- What the hell happened to you? - I died.
And so did you. It sucks, but it is what it is.
- I had a lot of road left. - And so did I.
You think I'm happy about how I went out?
I didn't save the planet from some asteroid.
I died at a carnival, Hank.
A carnival.
Well, when you put it like that.
I spent a lot of time struggling with it.
Agonizing over it. Trying to make some sense of it.
You know what I realized?
It doesn't make sense.
[Hank] You saved someone's life.
You can sure as hell bet it made sense to them.
But I shouldn't have had to die to do it.
We spent our whole lives on a hamster wheel.
Running hard but not making much ground.
[Scoffs] And we saved people, I know that.
But it didn't change anything.
So when I was sitting on that train,
I made a decision.
I wanna move fonnard.
See what's next for Donna Troy.
Who knows, maybe I'll come back as a clown fish.
- [Rumbling] - [Donna] At least that makes sense.
[Ghouls growling]
Fucking hell.
[Groaning]
[Hank] Malcolm, no!
- [Ringing] - [Grunts]
[Groans]
[Growling]
[Gunshots]
[Breathing heavily]
[Dramatic music playing]
[Gunshofl
[Rachel] So why do you guys train so much?
[Lydia] It is our practice and our way.
Yeah, I get that, but what are you training for?
[Clears throat] Like, when I was with the titans, we trained a lot too,
but we trained to fight.
Did you fight often?
No. Not very much actually.
I thought we'd fight a lot more,
you know, as a team, against bad guys.
[Grunts] Almost never worked out that way.
I have found, to fight a battle is to invite another.
And another, and soon...
[Grunts]
[Chuckles]
You remind me of my daughter.
Her temper was even greater than yours.
Your daughter?
She's dead.
I'm so sorry. I didn't even...
She was killed in battle.
We made many attempts to bring her back.
None were successful.
So what are you saying, that we can't really bring Donna back?
[Lydia] Not at all.
A return from death is possible. I've seen it happen.
But I've never been sure how and why the process was successful.
And in the case of my daughter,
I became unsure as to whom I was attempting to do it for.
[Rachel sighs]
When Tim's ready to travel,
I'm gonna take him back to the train, okay?
- No, you're not. - Excuse me?
Who do you think you're kidding?
You can talk about clown fish and hamster wheels
and movin' fonnard all you want.
But none of that changes who you are.
Please don't start Hank-splaining me to me, okay?
When those ghost assholes floated in here, you know what you did?
You ran to 'em. You put yourself between him and hell.
Some guy you met an hour ago. Don't tell me you're done being a hero.
Okay. But this hero's not gonna risk that kid's eternal soul
to go look for some mythical bridge that probably doesn't even exist.
- It's not worth it. - [Tim] Yes, it is, miss Troy.
I mean, you are Donna Troy, aren't you?
And you're Hank hall.
You're hawk.
[Donna] Uh...
I was Donna Troy and he was Hank hall.
Can I ask how you know all of this?
It's all coming back.
I'm from Gotham.
When I was alive, I spent a lot of time thinking about you.
Researching, finding out everything I could.
I know about dick Grayson too. I know he's nightwing.
And I know about starfire and beast boy and superboy.
They're all in Gotham city now trying to stop red hood and scarecrow.
I was trying to help them.
That's how I got shot.
I'm sorry that happened to you.
Believe me, I know how you feel, but...
No, you don't.
I was shot in the back.
All I ever wanted was to be a hero, like you.
But instead I froze.
And then I ran.
I died a coward.
That's why I have to go back.
What happened down there, that can't be my story.
Being a hero doesn't mean never being scared.
And it doesn't mean putting yourself in danger
that you're not ready to handle yet.
Well, maybe you two can give me some pointers once we're back in Gotham.
[Chuckles]
Kid's got balls.
If we end up back on earth, there's no guarantee it'll work out any different.
I mean, you know that, right?
I don't need a guarantee, miss Troy.
I just need a chance.
Sounds like he's ready to move fonnard too.
- Okay, I'll help you. - [Sighs]
[Legendary music playing]
[Donna] We both will.
Thank you.
And stop calling me miss Troy, all right?
- Knew it. - Shut up.
Come on.
[Breath trembling]
[Somber music playing]
She's dead.
She's really dead.
Yes, Rachel.
[Rachel] She's never coming back.
No, she isn't.
Will her soul be okay?
I hope so.
[Smacks lips]
I think it's time I should go.
Was that the result you were hoping for? [Sniffles]
But perhaps balance has been restored.
- No one behind us. - For now.
Do you know where we're going?
Guy said to look for an upside down tree.
- What does that even mean? - How far is it?
I don't know, a mile? Ten thousand miles?
I don't know if they use miles here. Maybe they're on the metric system.
Maybe you better pass out those guns, just in case.
I don't have 'em.
Why not?
I never did.
How do I explain this? [Chuckles]
I don't wanna freak you guys out or anything.
But ever since I died, I've been getting in touch with my spiritual side...
[Snickers]
Okay, you know what? Forget it.
No, I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
- No. - Go on. No, Hank.
- [Sighs] - Keep going.
I was gonna say, things work a little different here.
If you picture something you really want,
really focus your mind on it,
it appears.
- What the hell? - I know. I know.
Back there at the bar, you know, I...
I was a little scared.
And I started thinking to myself,
"it'd be really nice if I had some guns right now."
And next thing you know...
- [Chuckles] - Sounds a little...
Corny, I know. But when you die, you see...
Stop, stop, stop.
The son of a bitch.
It is upside down.
But I don't see any bridge.
[Ominous music playing]
I told ya.
So what's the deal?
We just walk across and end up back on earth?
There's only one way to find out.
[Suspenseful music playing]
- [Tim] Any idea how long this is? - [Hank] Nope.
Maybe this wasn't such a good idea after all.
I'm getting a really bad feeling here.
Just keep walkin'. You'll be fine.
[Rumbling]
[Dramatic music playing]
Oh, shit.
Great.
[Growling]
[Groaning]
[Growling]
Oh, come on.
Let's do this.
Oh, really? Pretty sure I wasn't thinkin' about Grayson.
[Ghouls growling]
What the hell.
Guns, guns, guns.
Okay, this makes no sense.
[Grunts]
- [Grunting] - [Ghouls screeching]
[Sighs] That's more like it.
She gets a sword?
- [Growling] - [Grunting]
[Grunting]
[Hank grunting]
[93595]
Oh, no.
No, no, no.
- [Whimpering] - [Hank] Jump!
Tim, jump!
Tim, come on.
[Hank] You gottajump.
I can't.
Yes, you can.
[Screams]
[Exhilarating music playing]
[Hank grunting]
Hank, come on.
[Ghoul growling]
[Screaming]
Sorry, asshole, not gonna happen. [Grunts]
Get him out of here before more come.
Tell dawn I love her.
Now, go!
- Go. - [Breathing heavily]
[Ghouls growling]
[Ringing]
Now this I can work with.
[Grunting]
[Ghouls screeching]
[Captivating music playing]
- Guess we made it. - [Donna] Yeah.
I guess we did.
Miss Troy...
Would you stop calling me miss Troy?
I mean, how old do you think I am anyway?
Old, like 30?
Thirty is...
Whatever. What is your point?
I just wanna say thank you.
You're welcome.
[Beeping]
Do you hear that?
You all right?
- [Heart beating] - [Groans]
Oh, my god.
[Gasping]
Miss Troy. Donna...
[Donna] It's all right. Here.
You're gonna be all right.
You are a hero, Tim.
- Okay? - [Beeping continues]
[Donna] You made the jump.
[Beeping louder]
{935951 -[Doctor] he's back.
[Nurse] Ninety-three seconds, doctor.
[Suspenseful music playing]
[Sighs]
[Don] Hank?
- [Chuckles] - Donny.
- Been a minute, big brother. - [Both laughing]
[Sighs]
Where you been?
- Been looking for you, man. - [Sighs]
You almost missed me.
[Don] Yeah.
I gotta say, I'm glad you're still here.
[Both laughing]
- What are you doing in this costume? - I, uh...
I don't know, man, I just...
A lot of people around here need help, you know?
[Sighs] Those damn ghouls have been getting away with murder, so I figured
maybe this place could use itself a little dove and hawk.
I think you mean hawk and dove, right? [Chuckles] That's what you mean.
Actually, no. I mean dove and hawk.
- I... we could talk about the name. - Wanna talk about it? Okay.
We got time.
- [Laughs] - Hawk and dove does sound right.
[Rumbling]
[Suspenseful music playing]
[Ominous music playing]
[Matchstick sparks]
[Groaning]
Bruce. Bruce, wake up.
Bruce! Bruce, wake up!
[Breath trembling]
[Wheezing]
Am I dead?
[Bruce] But you are.
Not anymore.