Titans Recap, Episode 3: ‘Origins’

As we saw in “Hawk and Dove,” Dick Grayson is kind of having a rough time. He recently took Rachel Roth under his wing and his attempt to leave her with his old vigilante companions, Hawk and Dove, ended poorly when a cultist-esque family from St. Louis, who I have been informed goes by the Nuclear Family, took a road trip to Detroit to kill Grayson’s partner and then to D.C. to acquire Rachel. They left quite a path of destruction in their wake including throwing Dove off the roof before completing their mission. It was pretty brutal. So, let’s see what’s in store for the Titans this week… As always, spoilers ahead for the latest episode of Titans. Dark Days Ahead We start the episode with a quick recap of last episode’s fight scenes, and see the Nuclear Family take Raven into their car. We then see that Kory has managed to get herself to D.C. to find Rachel and is set on retrieving her. Titans Ep. 103–Photo Credit: Steve Wilkie / ©2017 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved Flashback, Two Days Ago Kory is in Traverse City, Michigan dressed in the exact outfit she had back in Austria and armed with a strong will and a flashlight. She’s at the Roth Home looking for answers. Kory breaks in and begins to look around the crime scene before discovering she is indeed in the (former) home of the pictured girl. Eventually, she stumbles onto a hidden floorboard underneath the carpet and finds a chest with another picture of Rachel’s mother at a convent. At this moment…