DC Universe’s Doom Patrol season 1, episode 10 recap: Hair Patrol

In the latest Doom Patrol episode, Rita and Victor face-off against the Beard Hunter, while viewers visit an old memory of Niles Caulder.

Episode 10 of Doom Patrol takes a look at what Rita Farr/ Elasti-Girl and Victor Stone/ Cyborg were up to while Larry Trainor/ Negative Man, Cliff Steele/ Robotman and Crazy Jane were all unconscious in the previous episode of the show.

Victor and Rita vs. The Beard Hunter

Victor shows Rita the comic book that Danny Street had given him. The only oddity Rita finds is a missing model in an ad.

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Elsewhere, Ernest Franklin (Tommy Snider) is ‘activated’ as the Beard Hunter by the Bureau of Normalcy. They are searching for Darren Jones, who confronted and lost to Danny Street and Maura Lee Karupt in episode eight of Doom Patrol. The Bureau believes Niles Caulder had something to do with Jones’ disappearance and want Ernest to locate him. Ernest finds his way to Doom Manor and is soon interrogated by Vic and Rita.

Ernest tells them that he can track Niles’ location, but Victor and Rita don’t believe him. As they continue to argue the best course of action, Ernest finds a stray hair from Victor’s beard and consumes its essence (yes, it’s as gross as it sounds). Ernest’s powers allow him to find out everything about a person, so he immediately confronts Victor about his convoluted life.

Victor’s systems, detecting that he has been compromised, go into overdrive and blast everything in sight. When Cyborg’s systems continue to attack, Rita sends Ernest away with a tracker installed in him.

After much prodding, Victor confides in Rita about his upgrades causing problems in his system. Victor is terrified that he will turn in the ‘psychopath in Jane’s painting’, so he doesn’t want to tell the rest of the team. Their conversation is interrupted by the rest of the team waking up.

Niles Caulder’s Memory

In 1913, Northern Yukon Territory, Niles Caulder was on a mission to prove himself to the Bureau of Oddities, when his partner, Alastair Henderson (Max Martini), was mauled by an unseen creature. In his haste to escape, Niles injured his leg and was captured by Slava (Pisay Pao), an indigenous woman with control over a magical creature. He and Slava bonded after she rescued him from the ice, and Niles decided to remain in the region. It is from Slava that Niles has the ability to keep himself and the Doom Patrol alive for so long.

For three years, Niles enjoyed the simplicity and the comfort of the hunt, till Alastair returned to find Niles alive and well. Alastair told him about the war brewing outside (the First World War) and how this had changed the Bureau’s mission. The Bureau would continue to search for abnormal creatures, but now their mission was to exterminate them. On top of Alastair’s list was Slava.

Realizing he needed to protect her, Niles walked with Alastair over the same ice he had fallen through before. As Alastair drowned, Niles chucked his explorer journal in the hopes of keeping Slava’s existence a secret from humanity. Niles successfully lied to the Bureau but his lost years, but his troubles had only just begun.

In the present, Niles is confronted by Mr. Nobody. Nobody has been spying on Niles’ memories and now wants the location of Slava. Nobody believes Niles’ wish to live forever has been so that he can continue protecting her. Using Slava as bait, Nobody tries to pry the information form Niles, but the Chief doesn’t budge and is even willing to abandon Doom Patrol to keep his secret.

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The episode ends with the Beard Hunter apparently successful in his mission to find Niles, except he is confronted by a puppet instead and then seemingly mauled by the same ferocious creature controlled by Slava.

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