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Titans Season 3 Episode 4 Recap “Blackfire”

Don’t miss Celebrity Myxer’s recap of Titans Season 3 Episode 4 – “Blackfire”. Kory and Gar track down the source of her trance-states. Here’s what you missed!

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On Titans Season 3 Episode 3, after unearthing an empty grave, the Titans confirm that an old friend is alive – and behind the city’s latest emerging threat. Then, when a Titan falls for Red Hood’s trap, the team races against the clock to save one of their own.

On Titans Season 3 Episode 4, “Blackfire,” the team is tested by grief and drama as they react to Hank’s death. Nightwing takes on Red Hood and discovers a disturbing alliance with Dr. Crane aka Scarecrow, and Starfire discovers the source of her mysterious visions. 

Conner, aka Superboy, is guilty and angry over Hank’s death and takes it out on himself, and Gar, calling himself a “fucked up half breed” and telling Gar he won’t take advice from “a talking green tiger,” when Dawn interrupts them to insist it wasn’t his fault. She pulled the trigger (not knowing it was the detonator for the bomb), and though yes they wanted to save Hank, their job was to try, which they did.

Soon, she leaves for the airport, and Dick is waiting there to say goodbye. She warns him that getting out of “the game” is the right move and that Hank and Bruce were right to do so. Shockingly, Dawn is still wary of the team taking Jason out, and advises Dick that the way Red Hood is brought down matters, even if he is no longer one of them. Telling him she wants to see what the world is like “without Dove,” she boards the jet for Paris to see her family, and leaves the Titans behind. 

Back at Wayne Manor, Gar has just finished cooking when Kory approaches in another trance. She tries to kill him, shooting fireballs his way and physically attacking him when he fights back. After shaking her out of her vision Gar angrily demands she stay away from him. Kory again has no memory, but this time seeks help – first calling Justin (the flirty therapist from Las Vegas) and when that doesn’t pan out, asking Gar for help – after apologizing for almost killing him (again). He suggests she go into Batman’s sensory deprivation tank, and focus on her visions. Kory, reluctant, tries the tank – and wakes up in her car in the middle of the forest, with Gar locked in her trunk. 

Dr. Jonathan Crane, aka Scarecrow, is locked in Arkham Asylum, trading criminal profiling information to the Gotham police department in exchange for marijuana and other privileges. In the latest episode, he’s attacked by another prisoner claiming to work for Red Hood and injured, prompting Gotham PD to have him transferred to the high-security prison, Blackgate. When Dick hears from Barbara Gordon that Scarecrow is set to be moved, he realizes it’s a ploy to help Red Hood free Scarecrow from prison and intervenes. Dick stakes out Scarecrow’s prison transfer and knocks the guards out and kidnaps Scarecrow, unaware that Red Hood is watching from the distance with a gun.

Once Gar is free he’s able to tell Kory she left the deprivation tank, attacked him again, and drove them both out into the middle of a field they’ve never seen before. Kory says she felt like her sister Blackfire, led her to this location; and after some searching, they find a hatch under the car with a tunnel leading into the earth. Kory and Gar hesitantly enter the hatch and enter the tunnels Kory has seen in her visions until they come upon a massive cell containing Blackfire, seemingly unconscious. A scientist is the only other person in the tunnels, and he claims Blackfire belongs to the U.S. government and is being kept safe by a defense contractor who specializes in extraterrestrial threats. She’s alive, and has been psychically calling to Kory – the only other Tameranean on Earth – but she cannot use her powers while she’s in the cell, and may not get them back.

Kory enters the cell and speaks with Blackfire, who blames her for never sticking up for her as a child and asks Kory to kill her, rather than leaving her there to live in prison. Resentful over her sister’s words and the murder of her parents and friend, Kory wonders aloud if this is the punishment Blackfire deserves for hurting so many people. Blackfire charges her, and they come to blows unable to use their powers in the prison cell.

Starfire emerges victorious and walks away, leaving her sister injured and alone in the enclosure. Deciding that it’s the punishment she deserves. However, her sister’s words affect her more than she thinks. After hearing that the scientists plan to leave Blackfire in the ground indefinitely she tries to leave, but cannot do so in good conscience without her sister. Rescuing her proves easy, as the scientist isn’t stupid enough to go toe to toe with two Titans, but he warns that Blackfire is Kory’s problem now. Acknowledging the good, bad or ugly that may come with her decision, Kory blows up the underground lab and heads for home, Gar and Blackfire in tow. 

Dick takes the Scarecrow to an old cabin in the woods, where he begins to taunt Dick about his ruthless fighting ability, his past with Bruce, and Jason. The Scarecrow accuses Batman of teaching Dick and Jason how to wield their fear like a weapon and claims he only wants Dick to stop trying to prove something and that “Gotham will take care of Gotham.” Dick, in turn, acknowledges that he knows that Red Hood is working with Scarecrow, that he knows Scarecrow is the one who helped him become Red Hood in the first place. Clearly trying to get in Dick’s head – Scarecrow tells him it was only too easy to rebuild Jason, after what the Titans and Bruce did to him. Unafraid of Scarecrow or the consequences of his actions, Dick tells Dr. Crane the story of when Bruce left him in the woods alone to conquer his fear, and how he made it out without him.

As a perimeter warning alerts Dick that Red Hood has found them and is getting close, he tells the Scarecrow that he didn’t fear the wolf in the woods, but that it should fear him. Sneaking up behind him, Nightwing engages Red Hood in a vicious fight, while Dr. Crane struggles to escape his bindings.  

Back at the GCPD, Barbara is trying to handle Dick’s capture of Dr. Crane and put’s an APB out on his car. Watching him, they track the car to the woods, and Barbara orders a helicopter out to the scene. While Red Hood and Nightwing fight, her officers try to get a good shot at Red Hood but hit Nightwing instead, allowing Scarecrow and Red Hood to escape.

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Air Date: August 19, 2021

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3 13 Purple Rain October 21, 2021
3 12 Prodigal October 14, 2021
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3 10 Troubled Water September 30, 2021
3 9 Souls September 23, 2021
3 8 Home September 16, 2021
3 7 51 Percent September 9, 2021
3 6 Lady Vic September 2, 2021
3 5 Lazarus August 26, 2021
3 4 Blackfire August 19, 2021
3 3 Hank & Dove August 12, 2021
3 2 Red Hood August 12, 2021
3 1 Barbara Gordon August 12, 2021
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One comment on “Titans Season 3 Episode 4 Recap “Blackfire”

  1. Jordon says:

    Was that the Muir Woods in San Francisco (Endor) they used to film the forest scene with Nightwing and Red Hood?

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