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"How to Kill a Ghost!": After Rubber Maid, Megalith, Barrage, and Morass discovered Sapphire's presence, T'oombala revealed that she was the wife of Metamorpho. After his encounter with T'oombala, the Chief was in pain as he attempted to contact the Doom Patrol. He got inside of Nudge's head and

Doom Patrol (Volume 4) #12 is an issue of the series Doom Patrol (Volume 4) with a cover date of July, 2005. It was published on May 25, 2005.

Synopsis for "How to Kill a Ghost!"

After Rubber Maid, Megalith, Barrage, and Morass discovered Sapphire's presence, T'oombala revealed that she was the wife of Metamorpho. After his encounter with T'oombala, the Chief was in pain as he attempted to contact the Doom Patrol. He got inside of Nudge's head and she felt pain and could see his memories as she was attempting to convince Mr. and Mrs. Bucher that Grunt was their son. Excluding Grunt, who chose to stay, the team flew back to Key Mordaz.

There, T'oombala told Rex and Sapphire how he met Niles Caulder twenty years earlier when the bearded man came to his village and brought foreign medicines that were beyond his powers. One night, T'oombala had one of his servants poison one of the Niles Caulder's potions causing a baby to die and allowing the villagers to arrest him. For the next six months, T'oombala shattered and reset every bone in Niles Caulder's body before throwing him into the sea and afterwards, the former was exposed by his servant for poisoning the baby and killed.

Cliff set down their jet off shore and he contacted Negative Man in his containment tube and let out Larry whose body had recovered before entering his body again. As Nudge was still in the jet, she continued to feel pain in her head as she saw the Chief's memories of himself being thrown off of a cliff, being rescued by a fishing boat, being taken to a hospital, learning that he would never use his limbs again, meeting Verdalian and working in robotics with him, and creating a robotic body that would later be used for Cliff's brain.

The team entered the prison and learned that four cells had been opened before they began fighting the escaped prisoners. Rex and Larry both joined the Doom Patrol in fighting the prisoners with the former using his gaseous form to affect the latter group. As Rita attempted to take the Chief to the infirmary, T'oombala caused him to float before being impaled with a bayonet by Elihu Washburn who was joined by Nudge although Cliff, Larry, and Rita were all shocked by the soldier's ghostly presence.

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