| Raiden | |
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| Season 1, Episode 6 | |
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| Air date | May 16, 2011 |
| Written by | Todd Helbing & Aaron Helbing |
| Directed by | Kevin Tancharoen |
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At night, an electrical storm appears to teleport a man into the yard of a psychiatric institution, leaving him electrified in a dirt crater. The next morning, a patient named Blue finds the man, who wakes suddenly and vomits a blue substance. Blue claims ownership of the man as three guards confront them and incapacitate them after a brief struggle.
The man is held within the Valleyview Rehabilitation Center for three months in a solitary room. Security vision captures his growing frustration and impatience. He is periodically treated with sedatives and restrained in a strait jacket. In a session with Doctor Gadsen, it is revealed that the man refers to himself as Lord Raiden, God of Thunder and protector of earth. Raiden is demanding to be set free so that he can participate in the Mortal Kombat tournament and stop Shao Kahn invading. The doctor refuses, administering a lobotomy to curtail his disruptive behavior. Blue also encourages Raiden to stay, but he wants her to escape with him.
After another violent outburst where he demands to be released, Raiden is lobotomized again. Blue enters after the surgery, locking the doctors out. Under Raiden's order, she reluctantly stabs him in the chest with a surgical tool, vaporizing him in a burst of electricity and leaving behind the same blue substance he appears to bleed. In another burst of electricity, Raiden appears, this time in the backstreets of Chinatown. He steals a man's conical hat and walks away.