The Titans, “Asylum”, Review!

Dr. Adamson is still handcuffed to the shower.  It has a wallpaper with snowy trees.  Rachel wants to speak to him alone and Dick gives her five minutes.  He seems friendly inviting her in.  Adamson says she thinks she’s evil especially when she looks at a mirror.  We see the wintry background and reflections from the mirror.  He says she was meant to heal.  Adamson breaks a glass thermometer and cuts his throat!  She places her hand to put pressure on the wound, cries out, and the cut seals itself.  Adamson revives, smiles, and says, “You will heal the world.”  Kory and Dick question Dr. Adamson.  Dick presses him against the shower window and asks what is the Organization’s purpose.  Adamson replies to reunite Rachel with her father. Under Dick’s pressure, he admits that Angela can’t keep Rachel away and again admits that Angela is Rachel’s real mother.  Dick and Kory rejoin Garfield and Kory. They explain that her birth mother is Angela Azarath and she is a prisoner at an asylum.  Azarath is the world where Raven was born.  Rachel is ready to get to the asylum, Dick urges caution and makes to recon it, and she finds no other team member seconds her.  She walks off and Garfield tries to talk to her.  He promises to go with her to the asylum.  

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Dick checks the Wayne Foundation computers to check the asylum which is heavily protected and guarded. He finds tunnels that they can use to get to the asylum.  Dick goes to check on Rachel and finds her missing.  Garfield and Rachel have taken an Uber to go to the asylum.  Night, they have reached the asylum grounds as snow drifts down, Garfield cries out, then Rachel is hit with a stun baton. Kory and Dick reach the asylum in a mini-van and then head to the tunnels. They find Garfield in a wheel chair and a doctor , identified as Asylum Doctor (Rachael Crawford), threatens to kill both captives.  Neither her name or the asylum are identified which is weak story wise.  Dick tells Kory not use her powers with gas lines running in the tunnel.  Dick is restrained in a chair when the doctor questions him.  Two assistants jab a needle into Dick’s neck knocking him out.  Kory is in a windy cell with a dirt floor and unleashes her power.  The heat fades from the walls.  The doctor notes that her power has run out and orders gas to be vented into the cell.  Garfield is naked and shocked in a cage.  Rachel wakes up and finds Dr. Adamson pouring tea.  He threatens the lives of all her team mates.  Adamson explains that her mother is there, but wanted to keep Rachel away from her father.  Kory wakes breathing from a tube and restrained on a table!  A laser cuts across her stomach.  

Dick wakens in his Robin outfit.  The doctor is amazed that Dick is resisting the drugs, maybe she doesn’t understand Batman’s training, the doctor orders the drug to be increased 200%.  Dick twitches and the attendants check on him, he batters them around, and threatens to kill one unless the door is opened.  Then, injects the drug before escaping!  He staggers down the hall as the doctor talks to him via the p.a. Robin tries to open a locked door and then sees a person down the hall.  All part of a drugged dream?  The person is in a red hoodie, turns and it is young Dick Grayson, and he strikes Robin down.  He recovers in a mansion, it is Wayne Manor, and turns to see Dick Grayson. He throws Robin out of a window, into the Batcave, Dick hits him again and again with his staff.  In the hospital cell, Dick closes his eyes.  Dr. Adamson wants Rachel to join them and shows her the live feeds of the Titans tortured.  She closes her eyes and then opens them to the demon eyes.  Then, she re-opens his neck wound.  Back to Rachel, she puts on her raven hood, and slips past guards to cell 732.  The doctor enters to find Dr. Adamson dead.  Rachel opens the cell door to find a patient mumbling to herself.  She shows Angela (Rachel Nichols) her Raven tattoo on her shoulder.  Her mother hugs her and Rachel says she has to rescue her friends.  They find Garfield in his cage and Rachel opens it.  A doctor enters, but is tossed around by a green tiger.  They watch as the doctor is torn apart by the tiger in the cage.  Garfield transforms back, bloody, he has never let the beast out.  

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Rachel opens the door to Dick’s cell and finds him in the chair.  Dick gazes senseless.  Rachel pleads for Dick to fight and to help her.  Garfield helps carry him out.  The doctors check on how Kory’s wound has healed.  The doctor orders her left finger to be amputated.  The Titans appear and the alarm is sounded.  Dick knocks down the doctors.  They free Kory and Garfield removes the intubated tube from her.  To be honest, the same thing has happened to Kory with her capture by the Citadel.  Angela leads them out.  They are confronted by guards, but Dick takes a pipe and goes brutal on them.  The guards aren’t getting up anytime soon.  The doctor runs down the hall and somehow drops her chart shocked that the guards are on the floor.  Dick runs off and Kory’s eye flare green.  Angela, Garfield, and Rachel are escaping in the night when the asylum building explodes in flames.  Actually, a gas line explosion would tear apart the building.  Dick sees his Robin armor burning.  Kory calls him away.  A brutal episode, but I hope there is something light coming up to balance the darkness.  I understand that the Titans are pursued by a relentless enemy, but if they are in a constant state of tension and brutality, then I will quickly lose interest in this show.  

Four Wing Dings out of Five! 

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