With Rachel and her mom reunited, Dick takes some time away from the team. Gar is still weirded out by the whole… eating someone thing. Dick teams up with best friend and former Wonder Woman sidekick Donna Troy and Kory begins to put together just who she is.

And back up the scale we go! Conor Leslie’s Donna is a breath of fresh air for the show, a light and hopeful character who’s still tough but doesn’t solve problems with kidney punches. She’s smart and funny, kind and sensible and lifts the show and Grayson’s mood at about the same speed. Plus this is the first time that Dick’s relentless punching of problems is overtly described as weird. Donna’s had the same upbringing, if not stricter, as him but she’s more well-adjusted. This and later events suggest we’re looking at something very dark in Mr Grayson’s past surfacing before the end of the season.

Elsewhere the episode impresses just as much. Teagan Croft and Rachel Nichols have great chemistry together and Anna Diop clearly enjoys getting to do more with her character than in earlier episodes. Plus the way the two plots converge is masterful, as Kory genuinely wants to discover more about who she is and Donna recognizes what none of the others did. The end result is an almost cosmically dark, horror story as it becomes clear the Titans have the pieces they need to solve the problem, they just have almost no chance of getting to the right place at the right time…

Verdict: This is a show that’s starting to come together. It couldn’t have started from a worse position and I have serious problems with how it’s doing a lot of things. But, if it continues to gradually unpack origins in this way and fix the problems of the early episodes like this, it’s going to be fine. 8/10

Alasdair Stuart