- With Rachel left powerless, Dick turns to an old friend whose magic could be the key to identifying their mysterious enemy. Meanwhile, Conner and Tim investigate attack victims, and Sebastian finds himself at the center of an eerie plot.
- Nightwing shows true leadership qualities and recruits an ally for the Titans. Sebastian is still a bit unaware of his destiny. The Titans have much work to do as some of them discover of the capabilities.. A close friend is an enemy, who will later be a friend..—Davidaen Initiative
- The team get the comatose Rachel into the RV, and she wakes up gasping. She tells Nightwing that she can't empathically feel him.
At an evidence warehouse, workers Jo and Lamar are transporting barrels. Lamar's barrel leaks a liquid, which turns into a spider and crawls up his leg and stings him. He clutches at his head in pain, and then collapses, convulsing. Jo comes over and the same thing happens to her, and then Gina comes over, takes their keys, and goes to the cult's base. Mayhem is there, and says that she has Rachel's power in her staff. Mayhem releases the magical energy into a crystal and says that it's back where it belongs, then says that they will soon take back what is theirs.
The next day, the Titans park the RV and meet. Rachel says that she feels okay, but empty. Dick tells her to rest, and Rachel says that she's lost her soul-self. Dick assures his teammates that Kory drove off their attacker, and the next time they'll be ready for her. He tells Gar to stay and watch Rachel, while Tim goes to STASR and trains, because he almost got killed in the previous night's battle, and he and Kory are going to meet someone who can help them. Connor tells Dick that he was taken off-guard, and Dick tells him that they'll take her on as a team.
Sebastian is dropping his mother's ashes into the river, when he gets a call. Derek Sands at Bixel says that his team has changed their mind about buying Sebastian's game. Mayhem is at the cult base impersonating Sands' voice, and asks Sebastian to come in to meet with him that afternoon.
Dick and Kory go to a prison, and Dick explains to his teammate that they need someone who knows about the supernatural. He met a villain named Jinx in Gotham, and she's a thief and grifter who also deals in the supernatural. The guards bring Jinx out, and she takes her foot out of her shoe. Dick warns the guards not to let Jinx's foot touch the ground, but he's too late. Jinx summons a cyclone of dust that lifts her up and away.
Later back at their car, Dick tells Kory that he caught Jinx stealing an artifact, and the dealer is transporting his entire inventory to Geneva for an auction.
At the RV, Gar makes pancakes for Rachel. She's enjoying her own sensations without having other people's troubles rushing through her, Gar senses something and goes outside into the nearby forest to investigate,. He stands still and breathes in, and Rachel follows him out. Gar says that he needed a break. He tells her that strange things have been happening to him since they got to Metropolis, and he's been hearing voices and having hallucinations of a world filled with red. The voices have been calling Gar "Skin walker", and saying that Gar should join them. He thinks it's a connection to his animal side, and if he can get them to talk to him again, he hopes they can help the Titans take Mayhem down. With that, Gar walks off into the forest.
At STAR, Tim is in a holographic simulation with Connor. Tim keeps beating Connor with his bo to no effect, and Bernard, who is watching, tells Connor to let Tim tire himself out and then they can get started on his training. Once Tim is ready, Bernard hooks crash pads up to him so he'll fill the hits in virtual reality, and then learns about the deaths at the warehouse. Forty gallons of blood were stolen.
Jinx uses her magic to bypass the laser barrier guarding the inventory and open the vault door. Dick and Kory come in behind her, and he says he'll give her the artifact if she helps them. Jinx refuses and tells him to give him the artifact before it hurts someone, and Kory opens the artifact box and finds a heart inside. It turns her into granite, and Jinx says that it's not her spell so there's nothing she can do. The heart was stolen from a dark elf, Lironne, and Jinx suggests that she might restore Kory when Jinx returns the heart. Dick doesn't trust Jinx and insists on going with her to Lironne. Jinx walks out and Dick has no choice but to follow her.
Sebastian goes to Sands' office at Bixel. Sands has no idea why Sebastian is there, and makes it clear the company isn't interested in his game. Mayhem casts a spell, forcing Sands to drive a pair of scissors into his eyes, killing himself. The police arrive immediately and arrest Sebastian for the apparent murder.
Gar and Rachel walk through the woods, and Gar sees the sky turn red. He takes Rachel's hand and she can see it as well, and Gar says that he has to continue on. Rachel insists on coming with him, and they continue.
Tim continues practicing, while Bernard monitors him and Connor review CCTV footage of the slaughterhouse. It shows a cult symbol, but there's no match for it in the database. Connor expands his search to any symbol, and has Bernard see if the victims have a genetic match.
That night, Connor drives to where Jinx says Lironne is. The two of them talk about the relationship they had in Gotham when Dick was after Jinx. He says that Jinx played him and gave him no choice, and she complains that Dick never trusted her. When Dick describes Mayhem's magic, Jinx doesn't recognize it but warns Dick that the Titans are out of their league.
They enter a parking garage and Jinx warns Dick that the elves are badass. She goes to a garage pay panel and asks for $200 to get into Lironne's club, and Dick hands over the money. Jinx opens the panel revealing the club inside.
While still a statue, Kory has a vision of Elko's Diner. She goes in and finds the placed empty, and rings the bell for service. Zadira of Tamaran shows up and tells Kory that only she can save "them". Kory says that she doesn't care and only wants to do her thing, and Zadira tells Kory that she has all the answers and all she has to do is listen.
Kory enters her Tamaranian birthdate in the jukebox, and a Tamranian song plays that Zadira sang when she trained Kory. Zadira tells Kory that it's time to be warrior she was trained to be, and her destiny has arrived. Kory wants immediate answers and her old trainer tells her that she'll get answers when the time is right.
Bernard confirms that each victim had a genetic mutation that traces its origin back to an ancient Assyrian tribe, the Kurzus. Connor has confirmed that the cult symbol is from the main screen of Sebastian's game. Bernard goes to find out more about Sebastian. They learn where he works, while Bernard find out that Sebastian has the same genetic mutation in his blood as the victims.
At the club, Jinx and Dick go to the bar. Dick says that he needs to talk to Lironne, and the bartender Amar says that he's never heard of her. Dick puts the box with the heart on the bar, and Amar tells them to stay there and walks off. Jinx tells Dick to let her handle it, but he insists that he can take care of himself. Amar comes back and tells Dick to come with him.
Amar takes Dick to a sedan where Lironne is sitting, and Amar tells her that Dick has something that belongs to her. Dick says that he needs a favor before turning the box: getting Kory restored. She dismisses Dick as impudent and naïve and tells Amar to take Dick outside and kill him. When bounces close in on Dick, he takes them out and Lironne draws a knife and says that she'll kill him herself. They fight, and Lironne levitates her dagger, multiples it into four, and throws them all at Dick. He dodges them, picks up one from the floor, and throws it at Lironne. She catches it and they fight again, and he throws her to the floor as everyone stares.
Jinx breaks into Lironne's storeroom, open a larger box, and reaches in. Dick comes in and says that she could lift the spell on Kory, and she only brought Dick there as a distraction to steal what's in the box. Jinx admits that he's right but it's "the game" is played, but Dick figures she has a death marker on her and she wouldn't risk someone else's life unless her own was at risk. She says that she owes five million, and he wires the money into her account, in escrow. Once she frees Kory and helps the Titans, the money is hers in seven days. They shake on the deal.
The two go back to the vault and Jinx undoes the spell. Kory reverts to her flesh body and Dick tells her that Jinx is going to help them. She promises to hurt Jinx if she does that again and walks off. Connor calls Dick and tells him about the genetic marker, and how Sebastian apparently killed Sands and the police were there immediately, as part of the frame. Connor and Dick both figure Mayhem will go after Sebastian at Metropolis PD. Connor figures he can handle Mayhem on his own, but Dick tells him they'll take her on as a team and Connor is only to get Sebastian.
A handcuffed Sebastian sits in an interrogation room at the station. Gina walks in to see her and says that she's there to take care of him, and she's know him from before he was born, knows what's in his hear, and knows that he's innocent. She says that his dedication and passion for his game is wonderful, and she can make all of his troubles go away if he recites the three words of the Cult of Blood. Sebastian recites them after her.
Before Sebastian can recite the last of the three words, Connor bursts in through the wall. grabs Sebastian, and whisks him out, all at superspeed. He takes him to where Dick is waiting with a car, tells Sebastian that they're the Titans, and they drive away. Gina watches them go and smiles in satisfaction.
Gar and Rachel come to the tree from Gar's vision and approach it. Animal bones hang from it, and Gar tells Rachel that they're trophies, collected and slaughtered by a dark force. The voices are trying to tell him something: "When the blood moon is full, the world will fall to evil."
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