Three months after beating Trigon, Dick trains the new Titans in San Francisco, while Hank and Dawn have retired. But when a mysterious, one-eyed woman explodes onto the scene, and Hank discovers what Dawn has been up to, all roads lead to Titan Tower…

Any episode which features lots of my favorite not-even-a-little-rehabbed violence addicts is always going to score highly for me. Minka Kelly and Alan Ritchson have a sweetness to them that nothing on the show comes close to, precisely because it’s perennially a second away from bruising. Hank and Dawn are heroic, broken people and this week’s episode raises the same question their plot always does: is that a bad thing?

It’s especially interesting that Dawn, not carrying nagging injuries, is the first one off the bench. It also speaks a lot to their relationship that when their charge basically explodes at them, the pair run to San Francisco. It’s a smart way of setting up Doctor Light as a villain, gives him a level of threat and still ensures that the plot stands by itself.

Elsewhere, the Rose plot is top fun and gives the team a good mystery to wrestle with. But what we really want is more of Donna and Kory on stakeout. That plot is genuinely hilarious and those two have such natural comedic timing I hope they got a chance to work together soon.

Verdict: Clever, rounded, funny and incident heavy, this is Good Stuff. 9/10

Alasdair Stuart