Here we go, this is the kind of synopsis we get when we are much closer to a season finale and there is a need to keep things hidden because just about everything in an episode could be a major spoiler. This is the pay-off. Geoff Johns has said before that he enjoys those slow plays where the audience invests more of their time waiting for a major reveal which is teased throughout the show. This feels like one of those episodes and with it being episode eleven, there are only two episodes remaining. If it's anything like last year, the final two episodes will feel more like a two part finale! There's one major shocking detail in this synopsis, check it out for yourself below:

FACING THE DARKNESS — After a frightening encounter leaves Courtney’s (Brec Bassinger) life hanging in the balance, the team band together to determine their next steps. Luke Wilson, Amy Smart, Yvette Monreal, Cameron Gellman, Anjelika Washington, Trae Romano and Meg DeLacy also star. Sheelin Choksey directed the episode written by Paula Sevenbergen & Robbie Hyne (#211). Original airdate 10/19/2021.

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The original Dr. Midnite is alive in a dark shadow realm, or at least that's what Beth thinks when her pair of goggles linked with his. Rick hit his breaking point, and the answers to taking down Eclipso might lay in the past when the original JSA fought Eclipso. This episode has been teased for a long time with John Wesley Shipp jumping from The CW's The Flash down to Atlanta to play golden age Jay Garrick Flash of Earth 2! We haven't seen the original JSA in action since season 1 episode 1! But bringing in The Flash, along with Starman, Wildcat, Johnny Thunder, and Hourman for a flashback episode, we couldn't be more excited! Check out the trailer below:

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Yolanda is off the team. At least for now. Was it Brainwave that synced his brain with hers that took her out of the game? Was it Eclipso pulling the strings? Could it have just been the stress and crisis of faith that Yolanda is going through? Questions remain unanswered as we go into tonight's all new episode of Stargirl! We left Eclipso last week standing outside of Beth's bedroom. If his plans are to take out the JSA members one by one, Beth looks to be his next target. But in a season where everything is increasingly being asked what is true and what is manipulation, it could be Rick that is the next to fall. His protection and feeding of Solomon Grundy may have been a kindness, but if Grundy did kill under Rick's protection, that could end up crushing him! More questions and answers below, here's what stood out to us:

1. Visitor to the Tyler Home: Rick's teacher drives all the way out to Rick's place. She wanted to apologize again for thinking he cheated and she wanted to offer financial aid programs and college brochures for Rick. His uncle chases the teacher off the property and throws the college applications into the wind. Rick wanders out to the woods to feed Grundy when he breaks and screams into the woods at just how tired he is of constantly giving and never getting anything back. It's then that Grundy finally shows himself to Rick! Courtney wants to speak with Yolanda but before she can, Yolanda drops off the Wildcat costume and disappears. Beth continues to work on the goggles when she speaks with Dr. McNider. The goggles seemed to have synced to each other. As long as it isn't Eclipso, the doctor is in the shadowland. We do see Eclipso flash across the screen though. Rick sits with Grundy, while he eats Rick shares a story about his uncle's dog and when Rick thinks that Grundy doesn't understand, Grundy pats him on the back and offers him an apple.
2. Wildcat Returned: Courtney takes the Wildcat gear down to the basement to keep it safe. She checks on the staff and it's looking very de-powered. Beth's parents finally sit down with her during lunch to discuss the divorce. Her parents claim that they are getting divorced because of Beth. Beth then sees grubs in her sandwich and it looks to be clearly Eclipso's influence. Another "bear" siting has brought the hunter's association to the woods where Grundy is to kill a bear. Rick runs into the woods to assist. When Courtney arrives at the Pit Stop, Pat has made a lot of progress on STRIPE. She want's to help Cosmo (her new name for the staff) but Pat advises caution. Rick calls Pat and asks for help to save Grundy!
3. Pat, Courtney, Rick and Grundy: The Staff only has a few blasts left right now so Courtney needs to be deadly accurate. Pat and Courtney enter the woods to assist Rick. Beth heads to Courtney's house to try and get assistance with her Eclipso episode. No one seems to be in the house until young Bruce Gordon appears on the stairs. Bruce calls Beth a thief and if you remember in season one, she did kind of take the goggles. Bruce runs to hide and dares Beth to find him and take the goggles back. Beth figures out that Bruce is Eclipso and calls him out on it. He baits her with his racism. When he can't get Beth to be the aggressor he forces her into the closet. Rick runs into some hunters who have run into something other than a bear. They tell him it isn't safe but Rick runs off to find Grundy.
4. Beth's Visions: Beth gets out of the closet and meets the original JSA. Bruce is trying to manipulate Beth again noting the original JSA didn't have women or people of color. Beth doesn't give up though and continues the chase to get her goggles back. Out in the woods, Rick finds Grundy and asks if he killed a woman. Grundy runs off and it isn't certain if he killed her or not. Rick believes it's so but Pat and Courtney investigate. It turns out the woman was a girl and it was actually Eclipso's manipulation. Rick jumping to conclusions about Grundy is the same that has been done to him. Grundy has not killed in the forest.
5. Rick vs Grundy 2.0: Rick begins to fight Grundy under the fireworks of the fourth of July. Beth continues to chase Bruce. Eclipso is still trying to manipulate but Beth is standing her ground. When she asks Eclipso what it is he fears, he appears to Beth in his flesh. We cut back to Rick vs Grundy and find out he wasn't fighting Grundy, he was fighting his Uncle. Eclipso has manipulated him to beating his uncle nearly to death. Rick, terrified of what he did smashes the hourglass and it would appear Eclipso has taken out another JSA member. Beth, however looks to be beating Eclipso. Standing up to him and not allowing his manipulations made it so his power couldn't touch her. She wakes with the googles back on and she never left her house. It was all a vision.

In the final wrap up moments of the episode, the police are called to assist Rick's uncle but the evidence is that he did this and he is put in the back of a cop car. The real Grundy watches from the shadows and calls Rick a friend. Beth makes a connection to Dr. McNider and we learn that the goggles can cut through Eclipso's visions. She was able to defeat him. As long as she wears the goggles, Beth can see the truth of the world. Turns out Beth never even talked with her parents that afternoon. When Beth's parents do show up they offer her good advice. When they ask about the goggles she says she's going to join the swim team. Barbara and Mike share their concerns over what's happened to Rick. Mike calls Barbara "mom" and while the pair hug, the window begins to ice over.

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We've been waiting for the episode nine gallery for what feels like forever and if we know The CW like we think we do, there will be more photos after the episode airs! That said, in a surprise additional dump of photos, The CW shared five new images from the episode after the flashback episode! There are some things that stand out to us and some things that are absent that also stand out. The first is that we don't see images of Yolanda or Rick in this gallery. Did Eclipso take them out of The JSA? We do see Beth, which is great and she is wearing her goggles so she must not have left the team or fallen to Eclipso's manipulations. Finally, as we know from the synopsis, Jade is back and with dwindling team numbers, they are going to need her help!

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