Batwoman (2019) s02e03 Episode Script

1
[announcer over TV] Wanna play this,
get this into play quickly.
There he does, and moves it quickly up the field.
They need to play a far more
[banging on door]
[man] Mr. Capalaci?
[tense music playing]
You order something, sweetie?
Champagne, sir.
We didn't order champagne.
No, your wife back home did.
She sends her love.
- Aah!
- Olé!
[woman gasping]
If he really cared, he'd have sprung
for the soaking tub for two.
[woman] No.
Now, Mrs. Capalaci?
Now, there is a woman
who spares no expense.
I am not cheap.
And there are plenty
of reasonably priced hit persons available
to handle a perfidious husband
and his sudsy paramour.
This is a Brut Millésimé.
I could've just as easily picked up
a bottle of the cheap stuff,
but Mrs. Capalaci insisted
on the finer vintage,
because she wanted you to know
that she was willing to spend more on you
than her husband was.
No.
["My Bonnie" playing"]
My Bonnie lies over the ocean
My Bonnie lies over the sea
My Bonnie lies over the ocean
So bring back my Bonnie to me
As long as I lay
[sighing]
Last night as I lay on my bed
[sighs]
Uh-oh.
Are you kidding me?
I dream that my Bonnie was dead
[laughs]
Look who's getting close to retirement.
My Bonnie lies over the ocean
Ocean
My Bonnie lies over the sea
[sighing]
My Bonnie lies over the ocean
[cell phone buzzing]
Bring back my Bonnie to me
Victor Zsasz at your service.
[tense music playing]
- I'm looking for Snakebite.
- Get lost.
Seen too much of you lately.
Tweakers bring heat.
There's nothing like this out there.
Go easy.
- Seriously?
- Would be a ten if you stuck the landing.
I would've if the boots actually fit.
We don't have
an inexhaustible supply of those.
About a grand apiece.
We're at about four grand now.
- [Devil grunts]
- Ha-ha!
Worth it.
- [gunshot]
- [Batwoman grunts]
The suit's bulletproof, dumbass.
Who are you?
Batwoman.
Nah.
You ain't Batwoman.
Is that so?
Luke, I need a comeback.
Luke?
Uh Sorry, nothing's coming.
[sighs]
Does this clear things
- up?
- [device beeping]
Are you beeping?
What is that? An alarm?
Tag in the GCPD. I gotta go.
Somewhere else you need to be?
- Not late.
- [PO] Nope.
You had a comfortable 12-second cushion
before I'd have to revoke your parole
for missing your appointment.
This means you have a day job now?
[Vesper] Good morning, Gotham.
I'm looking at a very distant,
very fuzzy photo
from the other night's Batwoman rally,
and dumb question:
Did we get a new Batwoman?
Dumber question: Is she Black?
Don't get me wrong,
I'm all about the representation
in G-Town,
but did I miss something?
So, you're due for a CT scan.
See how the cancer is taking to the chemo.
Any new pain?
Not too much, no.
- I'm actually feeling pretty energetic.
- Great.
Hey, hey, hey.
Your phone is about to ring,
and the answer is yes.
Roxanne, will you excuse me?
Hey, Amy, can you help Roxanne to the lab?
Yeah. Thank you.
Come here. What are you doing here?
I'm in the middle of a consult.
- Sorry, I just
- [cell phone buzzing]
Mary Hamilton.
Yes, I am the current owner of The Hold Up.
Ryan Wilder's parole officer.
Okay. Hi.
Did I just hire Ryan
for a bartending position?
Yes.
Yes, I was very impressed
by her fruit slicing abilities.
Yeah, okay. Talk to you soon.
Since when can parolees work at a bar?
She is making an exception
because I can't get a job.
This is perfect
because working at The Hold Up
will detract people from thinking
you're you-know-who,
and it'll explain why we'll be
hanging out together all the time.
All the time?
Hmm.
Luke said I'm only keeping the suit warm
till Kate gets back.
You make it seem like she's not.
Which one is it?
I have to get back to my patients.
I'll tell the bar manager
you're coming in for training.
The False Face Society
is peddling a new injectable.
Snakebite.
It's an addictive psychedelic,
made from mushrooms
and Scarecrow's Fear Toxin.
Figure out
the False Face chain of command.
I am not letting this
get a foothold in my city.
Thanks, got it.
Sir?
- From the crash investigators.
Kate's cell phone.
What is it, sir?
Uh, I need a password for this thing.
Agent Moore might know.
Have you seen her?
[dramatic music playing]
You missed a gorgeous sunrise.
Where are we?
[Alice] Well, I'm exactly
where I'm supposed to be.
I'm surprised
they got you a companion ticket.
I guess they needed someone
to report back I was dead.
You planned on being kidnapped?
I needed a grand gesture
to get an audience with the queen.
And what do you get the girl
who has everything?
Answer: You get her so pissed off,
she sends her most skilled killer
to fetch you.
Sorry. Who did you piss off?
[Tatiana] They're awake, my queen.
[Safiyah] Good.
Keep an eye on the new girl.
Bring me Alice.
Safiyah? How do you know her?
How do you know her?
She's been surveilling
Julia and me for months.
Mm. She always did like to watch.
And why are you here?
To do us both a favor.
It's been a while
since I killed a queen.
For the record, when you fail,
and I end up dead alongside you,
it's no longer considered a favor.
I poisoned my one true friend, Mouse,
so I could enact
the perfect revenge on my family,
and Safiyah ruined everything.
If I die today,
so be it.
Take her to the queen.
[Sophie] Look.
Whatever drama Alice has
with you people, I'm not part of it.
I don't need to be here.
No one cares what you need.
[tense music playing]
[sensor chimes]
[Victor] Great tie.
Italian silk?
- Yeah.
- It goes well with that badge.
Get your hands off me.
[suspenseful music playing]
It really does
bring out the color in your eyes.
[alarm blaring]
- Who are you?
- Oh.
I'm that guy.
But that happy little tune
has really accelerated my timetable,
so I need to be on my way.
Just need a few ones
and zeroes off your PC.
You have a gun in your lab.
What kind of a scientist are you?
Safety's on.
Oh, I'm wrong.
It works just fine.
Two shocking deaths
at a Hamilton Dynamics research facility
early this morning
has the company on high alert.
A spokesperson for Hamilton
assures the public
that no firearms were compromised.
Here's the security footage from the lab.
[suspenseful music playing]
[Luke] Guy just waltzed in there
in broad daylight.
[Ryan]
Know what he took from the computer?
Hamilton's keeping quiet about it.
Aren't you literally Mary Hamilton?
I sold my share of the company
when my mom died.
I'm not exactly close
with the board of stuffy suits.
Wait. You're a multibillionaire.
Why am I only making 12.50 an hour
at The Hold Up?
Uh
Well, okay.
We can talk about it.
When did you start working at The Hold Up?
When my PO wouldn't get off of my ass
about punching a clock.
We need a manager,
and she needs a civilian cover.
Got him.
[Mary]
What's with the mark on his forehead?
- Running facial rec now.
- [Ryan] Don't bother.
It's Victor Zsasz. He's a hit man.
He logs his kills with hash marks.
How are you on a first-name basis
with a prolific hired assassin?
I know people who know him.
What? We kind of run in the same circles.
- Run in the
- Ran in the same circles.
Okay, past tense.
And very large,
- wide circles
- [cell phone buzzing]
which has now just come in handy
because now we know
who we're looking for.
My PO's at The Hold Up looking for me.
I gotta go.
What about Zsasz?
I'll deal with him
when you find his address.
His scars are works of art.
He ships in some high-end
French skin care lotion.
Name translates
to "a baby's butt" or something.
[gasps, then speaks in French]
- Ah.
- What? It's really good stuff.
Yeah. You two go
Track the baby's butt. Got it.
[mouthing] Okay.
[footsteps approaching]
[sensor whirring]
[tense music playing]
One last meal before the slaughter?
I had you drugged, kidnapped,
and shipped to my doorstep.
This is my way of saying no hard feelings.
Come.
Sit with me.
If it's all the same to you,
I prefer my poison in pill form.
You think I'd go to the trouble
of bringing you all the way here
just to poison you?
Yeah, so you could have a front-row seat.
I'm not the one
who started this fight, Alice.
What is the appropriate reaction
to learning my sister's plane
was blown out of the sky?
You stabbed me in the back.
Exposed my island's most precious resource
to every opportunist in Gotham.
Well, a wise woman once taught me,
it's not worth sending a message
unless it's loud.
[sighs]
You always were my best student.
But I'm afraid you've been misinformed.
I didn't blow up your sister's plane.
Someone wants you to think I killed Kate.
Truth is,
I haven't thought about her or you
since you left this island five years ago.
Which means
the two of us have a puzzle to solve.
So, sit, my friend, and join me for a glass.
Like old times.
[Ryan] Sure you found the right address?
Because what kind of stone-cold killer
shops at Storage and Stuff?
An actual psychopath.
Found the drive.
Nice.
You must be the new girl.
Find what you're looking for?
Hey, Batarang?
Somebody used them all.
- They run out?
- Use the bo staff.
- [sighs]
- While we're all waiting,
can I make you a drink?
[Luke] There's a button hidden
on the side.
So, I take it you're the replacement.
What happened to the old one?
She get killed?
Or are you like Sammy Hagar
to her David Lee Roth?
You're looking at me
and wondering which old white guy I am?
[scoffs] Kids today.
No sense of history.
Yeah, not gonna sweat some freak
who uses his skin as a knife sharpener.
[scoffs] Well, at least it's my skin.
Because
and I'm only being honest,
you don't seem very comfortable in yours.
It's like you're trying to pass
for somebody else.
- I didn't design the damn suit.
- [chuckles]
I can tell.
Because I don't see the Batwoman in you.
And maybe that's because
I don't see the you in Batwoman.
You wanna know what I see?
Is it a shoulder-fired
surface-to-air missile?
Oh, hell no.
[suspenseful music playing]
I dove out of a flaming building
just for a list of names?
"Just"? A prolific hit man,
with a long list of names.
Anyone else have a pit in their stomach?
Let's figure out who they are first.
Janet Evans is
a ninth-grade biology teacher.
Paul Akins,
a plumber.
Jamal Walker, stockbroker.
I don't get this.
I'm not seeing a connection.
There's no way
we can protect all these people.
What if we don't have to?
Zsasz doesn't find work. Work finds him.
Meaning someone hired him to get this list.
We figure out who he works for,
and we stop them.
- But how?
- I ask him.
He really opened up to you last time.
Not as Batwoman, as Ryan.
Are you insane?
Why would a hit man rat out his employer?
But he does know who you are,
or at least of you, peripherally.
So, it's worth a shot.
Or you become a tally mark
over his right eyebrow.
Or I find out who hired him.
You're a billionaire?
How much of that is liquid?
[elegant music playing]
Plenty of open seats elsewhere.
[Ryan] You don't remember me?
I dated Angelique Martin.
You're Angelique's ex?
[chuckles] Then by all means, stay.
Do whatever you want.
Just don't do to me what you did to her.
- So, you do know me.
- I know you broke her heart.
Apologies if I'm overstepping.
I'm a sucker for lesbian drama.
[chuckles] She was bad for me.
That's how you know it's love.
Word on the street,
your last job went sideways.
That mean you're available for hire?
You want me to kill your ex?
I want you to take out Alice.
Her Wonderland gang killed my mom.
Sideways doesn't mean my job's over.
- So, whose price do I need to beat?
- Hmm.
I don't kill and tell.
Luke, did I get the sniffer close enough
to his phone?
[Luke] Yup.
Vacuumed up all his data,
along with three layers of encryption.
Stand by while I burrow through
his most recent contacts.
And the mystery client is
Safiyah.
[Safiyah] I know
you want me to be a bad person,
but I'm not.
I didn't kill your sister.
Last thing I'd ever do
is draw attention to my island.
Then why do I have a note,
signed by you, saying otherwise?
Oh, then by all means, you got me, Alice.
My name was on a note.
Then who blew it up?
Clearly someone who thought
you still matter to me.
Last year, I worked with one of your men.
The Rifle.
I traded a weapon
designed to kill Batwoman
in exchange for a vial
of your Desert Rose serum.
Only I reneged on my end.
Handed over a broken piece of technology.
Go on.
I'm dying to know how this ends.
You killed my entire gang in retaliation.
You have a gang?
Had.
Killing lackeys?
Sounds tedious.
Or thorough.
If I was being thorough,
why are you standing here?
[sighs]
So, why is Alice still alive?
Safiyah prides herself
on being a fair and just ruler.
Safiyah took her in,
groomed her to be a soldier,
and promised her an eternity
of protection and health.
But Alice had her heart set
on destroying the Kane family in Gotham.
So, let me guess.
Alice betrayed her?
Alice broke the cardinal rule of the island.
She tried to leave
and take a Desert Rose flower with her.
[Safiyah] I've forgiven you
for what you did all those years ago.
Which is why it's going to be much harder
forgiving you for this.
You exposed the secret
of the Desert Rose to the world.
Coryana is the garden, and I am its keeper.
My family has dedicated lifetimes
to protecting its secret.
History is littered with colonizers
who come with their false ideals
and pillage for their own profit.
The African diamond trade.
Oil in the Middle East.
Coryana is no different.
Our garden will be ravaged,
and our peaceful island will cease to exist.
Maybe you should've thought about that
before you blew up my sister's jet.
I didn't bring down her jet.
And I didn't expose the secret
of the Desert Rose to the world.
I gave it to just one person.
And she did the rest.
And who is this person?
Safiyah? I've never heard of her.
It's one of her many aliases.
The only Safiyah in our database
has half a dozen European passports,
with just as many names.
Nasar, Sohail, Patel
Okay, so how do we find her?
Well, if she's extremely shady,
odds are
Ryan's already in a book club with her.
What's your problem with her?
I don't have a problem with Ryan.
Then what's your problem with me?
[sniffs]
- This is not a permanent gig.
- I know.
- You said that a thousand times.
- Then why get her a job?
Lie to her PO? Throw a pep rally
every time she does something right?
We're her team. She's the Bat.
She's a stand-in who fits in the suit
until Kate comes back.
Except she's not.
Kate is not coming back, Luke.
[sighs]
How can you say that,
after everything we've been through?
[dramatic music playing]
Because there are scientific theories
on multiple worlds,
and there are odds
for surviving a car crash.
Do you know what the odds are
for surviving a plane explosion, midair?
And even if you do survive the explosion,
how do you survive the fall?
You looked me in the eye,
and said, "Miracles happen."
I know.
But so do tragedies.
And the city needs a hero.
It needs a Batwoman.
Someone who's not perfect,
but who can show us all
that there is still hope,
despite everything.
And that's Ryan.
[dramatic music playing]
Good, you're still here.
- Well, you need to see this.
- What's up?
- Roxanne's CT scans came back.
- [groans]
No. Did her cancer progress?
That was the scan from last month.
This was from yesterday.
Where'd her cancer go?
[Mary] Stage-three cancer
doesn't just disappear overnight.
What's the patient's name?
Roxanne Adams.
According to her medical records,
she was treated for the bat bite.
She's on here.
I think this is a list of Hamilton's record
of everyone treated for the bat toxin.
Then it should've treated the toxin,
not an incurable cancer.
Well, the Desert Rose
is a universal cure-all,
so I knew it would treat the symptoms
of the bat bite.
I never dreamed that it would cure
people's preexisting conditions.
Everyone on this list has a miracle drug
running through their veins?
[gasps] Oh, my God.
[ominous music playing]
[Ryan] Mary?
[Mary] Zsasz is here.
I need you.
Hi.
You're Victor Zsasz.
I'm actually here to clean up
a little mess.
It seems you and I have ruffled
some of the same feathers.
Now I have to tie up some loose ends.
Would those feathers belong to Safiyah?
I could tell you,
but then I'd have to kill you.
So I'll just tell you. Yes.
[Mary yells]
Okay, you keep trying her. I'll suit up.
Oh, and don't kill me,
but I made some alterations.
To what? The suit? It's not yours.
I know. It's Kate's.
But if I'm gonna be Batwoman,
I'm doing it my way.
But the suit is perfect.
Have you seen the damn wig?
[suspenseful music playing]
Now, let's not get ahead of ourselves.
First I make you bleed.
Then I make me bleed.
[panting]
- [door creaks]
- [gasps]
[Victor]
Don't you get it? The chase is half the fun.
[cell phone buzzes]
[gasps]
You see me now?
New look.
New Batwoman.
[exciting music playing]
[Sophie] So, let me get this straight.
Alice, the defector thief,
is granted a private audience
with your queen,
while you, the loyal soldier,
gets to babysit me all day.
That's why you hate Alice, isn't it?
If Safiyah lets Alice live today,
I need you to be okay
with her roaming free in Gotham.
Wouldn't it be easier for both of us
if I dumped her ass in a padded cell?
Easy rarely earns victory.
What victory?
Why are we here?
What do you really want with us?
Are you going to grant her freedom or not?
The second I have the chance,
I'm putting Alice away for good.
Then I have no more use for you.
[suspenseful music playing]
Okay, now that was really something.
Real confidence behind it.
I haven't been kicked like that since
- Well, Batman.
- Not trying to pass for him either.
Story for another time.
But
you should ask yourself:
If the person you're inflicting pain on
actually enjoys pain
at what point do you just give up?
[groaning]
Look who's comfortable now.
[dramatic music playing]
[sighs]
Okay.
I so dig the new wig.
[Mary chuckles]
I hated what you did,
but I'd be lying
if I said I hated how you did it.
Poisoning hundreds of people,
only to turn around and save them,
just to spite a single enemy.
You got my attention.
This may come as a shock to you,
but your approval means very little to me.
[chuckles]
Wasn't always the case.
Remember when we met?
You were hiding out
on that yacht we were raiding.
You just escaped captivity.
Your Mouse locked away,
his father out in the world.
You were so
broken.
So angry.
Like a siren thrashing in her net.
- You thanked me for finding you.
- You didn't find me.
No.
No, you found yourself.
Because I taught you
how to turn your rage into power.
But that rage never included killing Kate,
and now it consumes you,
to the point of seeking revenge
against her supposed killer?
Why?
What happened?
Can't a girl change her mind?
Not the girl I knew.
Not the girl
who loved her sister more than anyone.
What happened
between the two of you, Alice?
If you must know
I always thought
Kate and I were one and the same.
Not hero and villain,
just two sisters,
who would do anything for one another.
But I was wrong.
[dramatic music playing]
You took everything from me.
[suspenseful music playing]
Because I gave you everything.
Just like I'll give you your sister.
That's Kate's necklace.
If I blew up Kate's plane with her inside,
how could I possibly have this?
[sighs]
[tense music playing]
[Safiyah] That's enough.
What purpose does she serve?
I said that'll be all.
It's been a long time
since someone got the drop on that one.
Let alone without hands.
You have fire in you.
Now I see
why Miss Pennyworth stuck around.
[beeps]
We're done here.
I am not leaving this island without Kate.
She'll be brought back to the island
as soon as you leave.
I'm not foolish enough
to have you both here at the same time.
I'm supposed to just believe you?
I have every intention
of giving your sister back.
But before I do,
I need you to do something for me.
[Vesper] The Bat is back.
In Black.
Last night Gotham's newest resident
made a dramatic debut,
putting the pizzazz
in taking down Zsasz.
Hey, Batwoman, love the new do.
[exciting music playing]
You see this?
We got a new one.
The very definition of "vigilante"
is "one who acts without recourse
to lawful procedures."
Well, yeah, but she's awesome.
Fine. Let's talk about Ryan Wilder.
I spoke to your employer.
She's happy with your performance.
She better be.
I saved her ass last night.
We were out of gin.
Um I got more.
Right. Well, next step, housing.
It's on my to-do list.
Do you know
what's on Batwoman's to-do list?
Literally saving this city
from falling into a black hole of despair.
You need a home address by next week,
or I'm writing you up.
[upbeat music playing]
Yes, ma'am.
[horn honks]
[dramatic music playing]
Why am I still alive?
Yeah, that's probably not a good thing.
Why is that not a good thing?
Because Safiyah spared you,
which means she has a crush on you,
which is all very well and good,
until it's not.
Why are you still alive?
Safiyah and I need each other.
Toodle-oo.
Hey, you're still one
of Gotham's most wanted criminals.
[chuckles] But if you arrest me,
then I can't complete the job
that your new girlfriend
has tasked me with.
And then she might never tell me
where Kate is.
Kate?
Something could go wrong
You're too good to find
Calm before the storm
"Bat Girl Magic", huh?
Where did they get
a professional photo of you?
You didn't hear?
Yeah. Mary's doing all my PR now.
Of course she is.
Crazy. My PO is obsessed with her.
Meanwhile I'm one late appointment away
from being a repeat offender.
- People underestimate you.
- Yeah.
Still a sick way to hide a secret identity.
Not when it's coming
from the person you're working with.
[dramatic music playing]
Just
- Hmm.
- I got a few more made.
I'll work on my aim.
- That'd be great.
- [chuckles]
And I wanted to say
I'm sorry for being so hard on you.
You kicked some major ass yesterday.
I get it. You miss Kate.
But I need you to give me a chance,
a real chance,
till she's back.
Yeah. Deal.
And
let me make some upgrades
to the Batmobile.
You're being crazy again.
[chuckles]
"May your memory be a blessing."
It's a traditional Jewish honor
for the dead.
I'm not ready to say it yet.
I know I shouldn't have kept
how I feel from you.
But it doesn't change the fact
that it is how I feel.
That doesn't change how I feel.
[melancholy music playing]
[door opens]
[door closes]
What's his mask made of, wood?
Commander says
to go after the head of the snake.
According to my CI,
that guy is at the top
of the False Face Society.
- You got a name?
- Not yet.
Get one.
I'm not giving the boss a photo
of some dude in a black mask.
[dramatic music playing]
[ominous music playing]
[knock on door]
You're here.
NTSB found Kate's phone in the wreckage.
Since you and Mary
wouldn't answer my calls,
I had the tech team on all night
trying to override the password.
That's why I'm here.
Do you have any idea
what in the hell Kate was doing
looking into a painting by Jack Napier?
Maybe we can ask her when we find her, sir.
I think Kate's alive.
[suspenseful music playing]