The team relaxes after a battle with Slade's robots by eating pizza and hanging out together. It is the calm before the storm. After everyone else has gone to bed Beast Boy knocks on Terra's door. When she opens it he gives her a present and asks her out on a date. She turns him down.
Beast Boy is sad and imagines 5 other ways he could have asked her, all of them silly and melodrmatic. Beast Boy is still wallowing in misery when Terra comes to see him and agrees to go out with him. While everyone else sleeps they fly off to have some fun.
Slade's robots attack while Beast Boy and Terra are gone. Robin, Starfire, Cyborg, and Raven have their hands full. They try contacting Beast Boy and Terra but the absent heroes don't have their communicators with them.
Terra and Beast Boy go to a diner and then to an amusement park. They are on the Ferris Wheel when Slade attacks. He says he is there for Terra. Beast Boy won't let him take her. Slade and Beast Boy fight while Terra watches. Slade reveals that Terra is his apprentice. Beast Boy doesn't believe him but Terra confirms what he doesn't want to hear. The fight ends with Slade departing with Terra.
This is basically the opening chapter of the Judas Contract. It isn't a note for note retelling of the story from the comic books but the basic elements are there. Early in the episode there is a moment that pays homage to the opening chapter of the comic book story: The Eyes of Terra Markov. I thought this episode might end with the Titans captured, which is how the second chapter of the Judas Contract ended but that is not the case here.
This is a dark episode. Slade is just as creepy here as he was in the comic book but not in exactly the same way. The influence he exerts over Terra and her seeming inability to fight back against him make my skin crawl. Equally heartrending is the road that Beast Boy's naivete leads him down. Good episode but on its own not satisfying. I look forward to the conclusion of this story in the two-part season finale.
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