WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Titans Season 3, Episode 11, "The Call Is Coming From Inside the House," available now on HBO Max.
In last week's episode of Titans, "Troubled Water," Jonathan Crane/Scarecrow and Jason Todd/Red Hood struck a major blow against the show's titular team by publicly claiming they were responsible for the city's water getting poisoned. This forced the Titans to go on the run. As the episode drew to a close, Crane and Jason took up residence in Wayne Manor, making clear they'd won this battle for Gotham. However, the war for the city is still far from over.
Here's a spoiler-filled recap of what happened in Titans Season 3, Episode 11, "The Call Is Coming From Inside the House."
Red Hood Challenges Nightwing to a Battle
"The Call Is Coming From Inside the House" opens with Crane at Wayne Manor shaving his beard and dressing in Bruce Wayne's clothes. He then goes into the Batcave and combs through Batman's weapons and trophies, finding his own mask in the process. Eventually, Crane uses the Batcomputer to access his dossier. In it, Batman claims Crane needs to use proxies to do his bidding because he's afraid of doing things himself, adding, "Crane is one of the most pitiable among Gotham's violent criminals. A broken man without a voice, doomed to speak through others."
Crane then bursts into Jason's room, where the former Boy Wonder is sleeping, and starts claiming his protege is afraid. This is, of course, projection. Soon, Crane tells Jason that they need to get to work saving Gotham City by getting rid of Dick Grayson/Nightwing.
Titans then cuts to Nightwing and Superboy listening in on the chaos that Gotham City has become. Soon, Red Hood starts transmitting a video from the Batcave, promising to become the city's new savior by taking out Nightwing. Red Hood challenges his old friend to a battle.
What Happens to Starfire, Raven and Gar
Running through "The Call Is Coming From Inside the House" are two subplots. The first involves Rachel Roth/Raven and Gar Logan, which is quite short. The second focuses on Koriand'r/Starfire discovering the truth behind her visions. In the Gar/Raven plot, the latter expresses remorse for leaving the team, vowing to help save the city. Soon, the subject turns to the Lazarus Pits, and Rachel uses her magic to help them find the one that brought Jason back to life.
Elsewhere, Koriand'r/Starfire ends up at the location of her last vision, where a shop clerk tries price gouging over medicine for a woman's sick baby. Starfire decides to follow the woman after she refuses to pay the impossibly high prices and asks to talk to her, offering medicine in exchange for information. As Starfire observes, she saw the baby in her last vision.
Starfire doesn't get the information she needs, and they're accosted by a man to whom the woman owes money. He reveals he drank the drugged water and then pulls a gun on him, which results in Starfire getting shot. This ends up triggering a vision of her as a newborn on Tamaran. And in it, Starfire has a major revelation about her powers.
Shortly after her birth, Starfire's parents their firstborn doesn't have "that which the throne of Tamaran demands," namely her abilities. This poses a huge problem to her parents, as revolts are brewing across Tamaran. So they opt to lie about Koriand'r's abilities Later, when Komand'r/Blackfire is born with powers, their parents transfer them to Starfire. After the vision ends, a blue glow engulfs Starfire, and she knocks out her attacker with a bolt of energy.
Donna Troy Meets Back Up With Tim Drake
As all of this is going on, Tim Drake discovers Donna Troy/Wonder Girl watching him from afar. The future Boy Wonder reveals the gunshot wound he received from Crane healed quickly -- perhaps too quickly -- and he left the hospital. He opts to help her with her search for Nightwing and the Titans by going to Tim's place in Chinatown.
Arriving at Tim's place in Chinatown, they find his parents, who are holding out against Crane and his troops. Everyone expresses shock that Tim has recovered so quickly, and he notes that he feels "different" since waking up. While they have no information on the Titans, Tim takes Donna and his parents to his hideout, which is full of repurposed electronics that he's been using to track Batman and the Titans.
After getting Nightwing's location, Donna prepares to head out and help him against Jason. However, a group of police officers soon accosts them. She and her compatriots learn there are plans to wipe out any neighborhood holding out against the chaos, with Crane using the police to do his bidding. Tim tells Donna to go and help Nightwing, saying he's going to defend his home, but she opts to teach them how to win against overwhelming odds.
Nightwing Faces Off Against Red Hood
In response to Red Hood's challenge, Nightwing heads to Wayne Enterprises in hopes of finding a way to get into Wayne Manor so he can take out Crane and Red Hood. However, he tells Superboy to stay behind, frustrating the powerful hero. Dick's trip to Wayne Enterprises isn't successful, as Red Hood planned for Nightwing trying to get into the manor. Red Hood then tells Dick exactly where to meet him. Before he leaves, Dick grabs a mysterious green glowing object from inside a safe. Yes, it's exactly what you think it is.
A pizza delivery man soon arrives at Wayne Manor and Crane knocks him out. The villain then brings him to the Batcave, where he plans to prove Batman wrong by showing he can create as much fear as Scarecrow. Crane starts torturing the man, but finds himself unable to actually bring the delivery guy to physical harm. Soon, after talking to a darker version of himself, Crane starts butchering the man, indicating he's completely broken with reality.
Back at their hideout, Nightwing tells Superboy that he's going to meet up with Jason. Superboy insists on helping, but Dick incapacitates him and Krypto with a handful of green kryptonite dust.
At the meetup spot, Nightwing booby traps a car with explosives, knocking Jason to the ground and blowing off his mask. Using Batman's fear-inducing tactics, Dick draws Jason to him and the two face off. Eventually, Nightwing gets the better of Red Hood, but a group of people appear on the scene, screaming at Dick. Nightwing then grabs Red Hood's gun and walks up to the former Boy Wonder.
"Just remember, I did this to you," Jason says. Dick responds, "You did this to yourself." However, Nightwing doesn't pull the trigger, instead opting to leave Jason alive. However, a kid in the crow shoots Nightwing in the back. While Dick's armor deflects the initial shot, he gets distracted by Jason getting back up and ends up hit in the neck. With Dick down, the crowd starts chanting Jason's name and start beating on the gravely injured Nightwing. From afar, Raven senses that something has happened to Dick and starts screaming.
Seeing that Dick is down, Jason fless to the Batcave, where he finds the murdered delivery guy. Crane then steps out of the shadows, his face marked up with self-inflicted slash wounds. "The time for masks is over," Crane says, repeating something his alternate self told him earlier in the episode.
The first 11 episodes of Titans Season 3 are available now on HBO Max. Episode 12 releases Oct. 14.