WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Titans Season 3, Episode 8, "Home," available now on HBO Max.

In Season 3 of Titans, Scarecrow (Vincent Kartheiser) has cut the most menacing figure in the series. Not only does he have all the Bat-family's secrets, he's warped Jason Todd (Curran Walters) as Red Hood, helped drive Batman out of Gotham and is now producing anti-fear toxin to plunge the city in chaos. However, after the Titans burn his lab down and send Crane fleeing, it leads to his most sadistic murder yet and the foreshadowing of Red Hood's death.

Crane sneaks off to his mom's workplace, where it's revealed she's a psychologist as well. However, she's cold, hating on Crane and deeming him a failure. She chides him for turning to crime, thinking this proves she was right about him -- he's nothing more than a coward.

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Her scathing words impress on Crane deeply, reaffirming he was emotionally abused by her for years, ergo what drove him into the field of mental health and off the rails as Scarecrow. As she confesses he's a failed project she regrets, Crane snaps. He discovers she's betraying him to the feds, breaking her neck and heading off, getting the revenge he's wanted for years.

Brenton Thwaites as Dick Grayson/Nightwing and Vincent Kartheiser as Jonathan Crane/Scarecrow in Titans Season 3, Episode 4, "Blackfire."

However, this doesn't bode well for the petulant Jason. Crane told her he's seeing a dark creature, which implies it's the shadow of the Bat. It seems to be linked to Jason stealing his serum a couple episodes back and Crane punishing him for it. Their latest argument then had Jason beating him bloody for treating him like a kid, so it appears Scarecrow thinks the Dark Knight still exists in Jason's mental space. Most of all, Crane's hurt when he tracks the boy down and hears him trying to broker a truce with Nightwing.

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At first, it seems like Crane's treating Jason like a brother, but it's him trying to be a parent. Now, Crane thinks while he did so much for an ungrateful kid, Jason's stabbing him in the back. It plays into Crane's familial issues, as he vows to teach Red Hood a lesson. He does succeed in poisoning Gotham's water supply, but it remains to be seen if he and the impetuous Jason will ever be on the same page again.

It doesn't seem that way, and the fact Jason couldn't kill Crane as he needs his drugs means Scarecrow has an in to kill the kid. It'll damage the Titans, show Jason who's the boss and push Dick to want Crane dead, which will ultimately be the final nail in the coffin for the Bat-family and cement Scarecrow as the true orchestrator of death and destruction in Gotham.

The first eight episodes of Titans Season 3 are available now on HBO Max. Episode 9 will release Sept. 23.

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