#Laura de Mille wants to repair the damage she's done

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You, probably: at least now that we've moved from Chilling Adventures of Sabrina to Doom Patrol, we won't have weird Jewish theology lectures with our Michelle Gomez content.

Me, rolling up my sleeves: Laura de Mille's redemption arc works because it is grounded in the Jewish medieval scholar Maimonides's steps of Teshuvah (repentance). There are variations of how many steps there are when modern scholars talk about them, but the outline is that the person who has done wrong: regrets the action, recognizes it was wrong, confesses to the hurt party and asks forgiveness, does whatever they can/is asked of them to make it right, and makes a different and better choice at the next opportunity. We've seen Laura through most of this process, and her arc will likely culminate with her being given a choice between saving the Doom Patrol and saving her own skin. The final test of her repentance will be if she trusts the Doom Patrol enough to go down with them, making the choice that she couldn't with the Sisterhood of Dada.