Has Scarecrow secretly managed to poison Dick Grayson and Barbara Gordon with fear toxin in Titans season 3? Scarecrow's grand return to the criminal underworld has been something of a roller coaster since Jason Todd engineered his escape from Arkham Asylum. Crane's grand plan is to dose Gotham with anti-fear drug, hooking them on the carefree sensation to leverage control over an addicted city. The Titans halted his scheme just before the drug went viral, and Scarecrow hit another snag when he found the local water supply harder to access than anticipated.
Finally, Scarecrow gets his wish in Titans season 3's "Home." One of the more cerebral members of Batman's Rogues Gallery, Scarecrow manipulated Dick Grayson's Titans into opening Gotham's water pipe for him, leaving several drums of toxin nearby to pour freely into the city's plumbing. Where the Titans are playing superhero checkers, Crane has been playing chess (quite literally in some cases), but the villain's plot might run even deeper than suspected. Evidence suggests he's secretly poisoned both Dick and Barbara.
Things started well for Dick this week - a tasty sandwich, a fancy date, and even a breakthrough in the Jason Todd/Red Hood case. Before long, however, Dick is uncharacteristically hallucinating. First, he imagines a bat forming from the letters of a hospital eye chart, then starts having visions of his younger self outside a ruined Wayne Manor, before finally imagining the same kid running through Batman's old tunnels. Clearly, all is not okay with Nightwing, and though the daydreams might be nothing more than a side effect of his bike crash, that's hardly the most "comic book" explanation Titans can offer.
The context of Dick's visions is our biggest clue - a bat, Wayne Manor destroyed, and his troubled younger self. Since Batman left town, responsibility for protecting Gotham has fallen to Nightwing, and Titans season 3 has dropped numerous comparisons between Dick and Bruce, both for better and worse. It's only natural that Grayson feels the weight of responsibility, and is fearful about letting his mentor down; perhaps even failing to match Batman's lofty expectations. Dick suffering vivid hallucinations of his deepest fears in a season where Scarecrow is Titans' main villain immediately suggests Crane might be responsible. The unhinged stoner had a perfect opportunity to poison Dick while the vigilante was lying in hospital completely defenseless.
Dosing Dick Grayson with fear toxin may not be Scarecrow's only ace in Titans season 3. Though Barbara Gordon isn't exhibiting the same strange symptoms as her boyfriend, Titans make a big deal out of a wet patch above her office desk which, by the episode's end, has erupted into an indoor water feature. The leak seems much too convenient to be accidental, and the way Titans focuses on it signposts a deeper significance. Scarecrow might've rigged up a leak to drip slowly right into the Commissioner's face. The biggest clue here comes from the workman. He promises the problem is fixed, only for Barbara to complain, "that's what you said last time." Either this guy needs to brush up on his plumbing knowledge, or he's one of Scarecrow's lackeys, responsible for leaving a slow drip of something sinister directly into Barbara's office.
It's more ominous that Barb isn't showing symptoms. Unlike Dick, the GCPD Commissioner hasn't suffered fear delusions, but neither is she experiencing the anti-fear euphoria Scarecrow's new concoction leaves behind. If Barbara's ceiling patch wasn't an accident, what has Scarecrow been poisoning her with in Titans season 3?
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