Miraculous Ladybug Season 2 Episode 8 Dark Owl
At the end of the school day, Mr. Damocles hastily ushers Marinette, Alya, Nino, and Adrien out of the school before closing the door behind them. Mr. Damocles then tiptoes into his office, making sure no one is watching him, and starts his computer program, Albert. He tries to get Albert to use a secret code to open a secret compartment behind his painting; however, after several failed attempts, Damocles is forced to open it by hand to reveal several framed knight comics, a knight figurine, a hook, a boomerang, and a custom-made knight costume. Mr. Damocles dons a (somewhat ill-fitting) suit, assumes the identity of the Owl, and sets out to patrol Paris.
Outside, Mr. Damocles attempts to help a mother and son save their cat from a tree, though all of his attempts fail until Cat Noir and Ladybug arrive to save him and the cat from falling. Ladybug and Cat Noir mention that this is the fifth time they’ve had to save Owl from himself and advise him not to try to be a superhero and put himself in danger. TVi reporters enter the scene and Clara Contard interviews The Owl. Owl states that he will try to do better next time, oblivious to Ladybug and Cat Noir’s true thoughts, before running off, not realizing that the camera was following him the whole time, leaving Ladybug and Cat Noir to deal with the press. Both Ladybug and Cat Noir advise the children of Paris not to act like Owl and try to be superheroes like him because it’s dangerous. At the end of her broadcast, Nadja Chamack questions who The Owl’s true identity is.
That evening, Ladybug and Cat Noir discuss Mr. Damocles’ superhero antics on the roof and decide to make a plan to make him feel like a real hero for at least one day, to fulfill his dream and stop acting like a superhero. Overnight, Marinette creates fake copies of her earrings, Cat Noir’s ring, and a fake supervillain costume made out of cardboard.
The next day, after school ends and Mr. Damocles assumes his owl persona again, Ladybug and Cat Noir go to Aly’s house and tell her about their plan. Alya agrees to pretend to be a villain named “Cardboard Girl” who is holding them hostage. Alya calls Mr. Damocles and “reveals” that she captured Ladybug and Cat Noir and that he is the only one who can save them. At the park, Cardboard Girl takes on the fake Miraculouses Ladybug and Cat Noir. Ladybug and Cat Noir then pretend to be in danger, but act relieved when The Owl arrives. The owl fires its grappling hook at Cardboard Girl, but it ends up getting stuck in a moving garbage truck, which pulls it into a fence. Ladybug apologizes for what happened and slips away by revealing Mr. Damocles the Owl’s identity while people are taking pictures of him. Owl runs off crying and Ladybug, Cat Noir and Alya leave hoping no one heard about what happened.
In his office, Mr. Damocles is on the Internet, where news has revealed his identity to Paris, and Alec Cataldi mocks him. Meanwhile, Hawk Moth senses Mr. Damocles’ sadness and sends an akum after him. Akuma enters Damocles’ computer and Hawk Moth offers Mr. Damocles real powers and weapons in exchange for the Miraculouses Ladybug and Cat Noir. Mr. Damocles accepts Hawk Moth’s offer and is transformed into Dark Owl.
Later that evening, Marinette sews in her room while Tikki watches a Clara Nightingale music video on her computer. Dark Owl then hijacks a television broadcast across Paris, to the disbelief and horror of Marinette and Tikki, as well as Adrien and Plagg. Dark Owl announces that he has kidnapped a large number of zoo animals, locked them in a bus hanging over the Eiffel Tower, and can release them all on the helpless kitten at the push of a button; and if anyone tries to save them, the liquid nitrogen bombs will freeze and shatter the structure of the tower and destroy them anyway. Dark Owl then demands that Ladybug and Cat Noir give him their Miraculouses and also tells them to follow his Owl Signal and find him before the transmission ends. Marinette and Adrien then immediately transform into their respective superhero identities. At the same time, Dark Owl gets Albert to activate the Owl-Signal.
Ladybug and Cat Noir meet on the roof and come up with a plan to have Cat Noir distract Dark Owl while Ladybug sneaks up on him from behind. At the Parc des Princes, Cat Noir distracts Dark Owl by talking as planned while Ladybug examines the villain from behind, believing that the akuma must be in one of his weapons on his belt. Ladybug attacks Dark Owl and manages to knock his detonator onto Cat Noir, only to be flung back at her partner by Dark Owl’s grappling hook. Dark Owl tells the heroes that they have one last chance to give up their Miraculouses, but they still refuse. Dark Owl traps them with a grappling hook and they are forced to roll away as Dark Owl tries to pounce on them. Cat Noir uses her Cataclysm on the ropes to escape and Ladybug uses her luck charm soon after and gets a fountain pen. Ladybug and Cat Noir incapacitate Dark Owl long enough to grab the detonator on the shipping crate, only to find that the countdown won’t stop. Dark Owl then has Albert open the trap door on the crate, dropping the two inside the crate and trapping them there; reveals that the animals, the bus, and the bombs were nothing more than holograms.
