Batwoman (2019) s02e04 Episode Script

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As if there were a shortage of syringes
in Gotham's gutters,
a new party drug just hit the streets
that apparently makes
an amphetamine high
feel like your Earl Grey
has steeped for too long.
It seems the gang known
as the False Face Society
is showing their entrepreneurial side
by making and distributing Snakebite,
known for its dual-pronged
injector needles,
which are said to give
a double whammy dose
of fantasy and fright,
so more fang for your buck.
This trippy two-for-one is
part psychedelic mushroom oil,
part concentrated Fear Toxin.
It's already sunk its teeth
into the city,
becoming the most sought-after
high on the street.
Users are calling it
the ultimate escapism,
but doctors warn that Snakebite
is as lethal as it is addictive.
Talk to me, Gotham.
Am I the only one who's feeling rattled?
Are you
Are you real?
You're throwing your life away.
That crap will kill you.
Certainly get you close.
That's the point.
Fear, fantasy,
whatever makes your blood pump.
Who sold you this stuff?
Sorry. Can't give a plug.
Aah!
I will ask you this just one more time.
Who is your dealer?
Target acquired.
You're not actually
gonna run him over, right?
And ruin my new paint job?
What the?
You're not Batwoman!
- What was that?
- I don't know.
Steering got a little stiff.
Huh!
You get off on ruining lives?
I don't tell my clients what to do.
Well, I'm gonna tell you what to do.
Stop destroying lives!
Who's your boss?
You tell him I will find
the head of the snake,
and I will cut it off.
I couldn't get the Bat-Light,
so I yanked the door.
You set this off?
My brother left for school,
and he never showed up.
He's been gone for 3 months,
and nobody cares.
Do you care, Batwoman?
I have received intelligence
suggesting that my daughter
Kate Kane is alive.
I believe that she survived the crash
or perhaps wasn't even on
the aircraft to begin with.
I also believe that my daughter
is collateral damage
between two warring parties,
and I am personally offering
a million-dollar cash reward
to anyone who can provide
information into who took her
or how that happened.
What do you tell critics who think
this is a futile attempt to rectify
your failed search for Beth Kane?
Well, I I tell them that I am
a father who needs your help
to find his daughter,
and this search will not fail.
Thank you.
With the largest cash
reward in Gotham history,
Crows Commander Jacob Kane
has galvanized the city
to help find his daughter Kate Kane,
now publicly declared missing.
Are you seeing this?
All this press combined
with a $1 million reward?
We're gonna find Kate.
- What?
- Nothing.
Sophie just told us that Kate is alive
on an island in the Mediterranean.
Yeah, and the person who told Sophie
that Kate's alive is named Alice,
and Alice heard it from some
mystery woman named Safiyah,
who just hired a hitman
to try and kill me,
so we are playing a game of telephone
with a bunch of homicidal women.
Or Alice is telling the truth,
and Kate needs us to find her.
Or she's not,
and we're getting our
hopes up for nothing.
See, Alice can't get my hopes up
because I never lost hope to begin with.
Where are you going?
To work with someone
who wants to find Kate as badly as I do.
Local firemen rushed
to the scene of a
Hey. Team meeting. Where's Luke?
Burrowing down a rabbit hole.
Well, clearly, you're free today.
We've got ourselves a Batmission.
Black, male, foster kid, juvie.
In case you're wondering why
GCPD isn't looking for him,
those 5 words.
They probably just wrote
him off as a runaway.
How long has he been missing?
Couple of months.
Oh, wait. I once lived in
the neighborhood he's from
Wayside Heights, AKA Wasteside.
Is that where you lived with Cora?
No. Wasteside was years
before Mama found me.
This was one of the group homes,
but there was nothing homey about it.
Check it. New girl.
Hi. I'm Ryan. I'm 12.
My favorite animal's the snow leopard.
My favorite color's yellow.
My last foster parents said
I watch too much TV.
Did your last foster mama
tell you that you
talk too damn much?
Ha ha ha!
Yo. Open up.
I know you hear me.
Thanks.
Gonna get your ass busted.
Gonna be boring your whole life.
Am I on your bed or something?
No. I'm just nosy.
"Ghost Kid"? He ain't a superhero.
- Says who?
- All he can do is be invisible.
Maybe people who feel
invisible think he's dope.
Who? Like you?
For the record, I see you.
New rule. You keep opening
that window for me,
and I've got your back
when you need someone.
So do you remember the area?
Ryan?
The police report says he disappeared
between home and school.
Well, worth checking out his route.
Field trip? I'll drive.
- The Batmobile?
- Eh.
I actually love vintage vans.
Well, uh, my carburetor chokes,
fuel leaks, and I don't
have any air bags,
but, yeah, if you want to take a selfie
in my living room for
Insta, be my guest.
Wait. You, like, live here live here.
Like, full-time?
Who else would keep my plant company?
Wait. Hold up.
What are we doing here?
Give me a sec.
Crap.
Garbage.
Yes!
What you doing, sweetie?
I'm not stealing. These are free.
Oh, don't worry. I'm not police.
Around here, I'm known
as the neighborhood Candy Lady.
Jelly bean?
- Nah.
- Heh.
So my son
Just left for boarding school
heh and now, I got a
minivan full of comic books.
I was just about to donate them,
but, uh, maybe you might want
to pick through them first.
Depends. What's he all got?
Too many, and by the
looks of your stash,
I'm guessing your mom has
the same problem I do, huh?
Heh heh.
I'm good. Thanks.
No worries, sweetie. Just an offer.
Well, I'll just get these
inside. Happy hunting!
Wait.
Maybe I'll take a peek.
Why are we here?
Because I think Kevin was grabbed
from here to be brainwashed
and sold to a gang.
And you got all that
from a janky comic book storefront?
I got all that because
the same damn thing
happened to me.
Oh. Let me guess.
You're not a morning person.
What the hell are you doing in my condo?
Sampling the products
in your guest bath.
Of course your theme is lavender.
Alice!
Fine. Allow me to remind you
what happened less than 48 hours ago
when I explained to you I made
a deal with Safiyah for Kate.
She gives me Kate, and in return,
you and I help her find someone.
I don't need to partner
with you to find Kate.
Well, now that I think about it,
you do have double
locks on all your doors,
no fashionable attire
I looked and not a single thing
past its expiration date in your fridge.
Risk terrifies you,
and I'm a risk,
and it's quite obvious
that you're not willing to
risk anything for my sister,
so I'm sure you'll find
Kate the safe, regimented,
by-the-books way.
Seems to have gotten you pretty far.
Cute press conference by the way.
A million-dollar reward
is sure to get the woman
who owns an island to spill the beans.
Stop.
What do we need to do?
You need to power up your computer
and use that "all-access"
Crows pass of yours
to find a guy named Ocean,
and I
need some more milk for my tea
partner.
Whelan, get Art and Antiquities
started on finding the original.
This is the mysterious
Jack Napier piece.
- Yeah.
- It's hideous.
Who's Safiyah?
The woman who has my
daughter apparently.
We can't locate her, but since
this was the last thing on Kate's phone,
we think it will help.
It was stolen apparently
from an active crime scene
and is now rumored to be bouncing
around the black market.
On it, sir.
The clerk remembered
seeing a minivan lurking
around the comic book store.
That means it's possible
she's still stalking that place
all these years later.
You're telling me a woman's
been lurking in the shadows,
plucking kids off the street
- for the last decade and a half?
- That's the point.
She doesn't need shadows.
She's a blue-eyed suburban housewife
who targets kids no one cares about.
She figures out who has
a family, who doesn't,
and then she makes her move.
She sprayed something in my face.
I was so disoriented
by the time I woke up,
I couldn't figure out
where the hell I was.
Does Wayne have cameras in Wayside?
I don't know.
What'd this monster do to you, Ryan?
What did she do?
She preyed on every
foster kid's greatest fear,
that we don't matter
because we're invisible.
Let me go!
You can't keep me here.
Well, when someone comes
to claim you, you can leave,
but until then,
I'm just a good samaritan
who found a lost child
wandering the streets.
There's nothing good about you!
That's not true.
Look. There are 60
jelly beans in this jar,
and every day that you're
here, I'll remove one,
and by the time there are
no more jelly beans left,
you'll realize I am the only
one who's here for you.
Me the sweet neighborhood Candy Lady.
Why are you doing this?
I'm gonna help you find your new family,
one who appreciates you,
one who sees you for
your true potential.
Someone will come for
me and kick your ass!
You're not gonna break me.
Do you really believe that?
Think about it.
In all those comic books
that you love so much,
have you ever read about
one of those heroes
saving a kid like you?
The sad truth is she was right.
Heroes didn't save kids like me.
I'm so sorry.
Honestly, so much crap
has happened since,
I hadn't thought about it much till now,
but the thing I remember is
by the time Kevin gets to the bottom
of this candy jar the Candy
Lady will have him believe
he has no other choice.
Don't stop on my behalf.
It's normal to want to leave.
Strange place, strange people. Ha ha ha!
But soon it won't seem so strange.
I'm here for my jelly bean.
Someone will notice I'm missing.
Wouldn't that be a nice change of pace?
That's when our little game started.
She had 60 days to break me,
and I had 60 days to prove her wrong.
Good morning, sweetie.
Still no inquiries. Tck.
Batman stopped the Joker last night.
It's all over the news!
Unfortunately
You're not.
What are you doing?
What are you doing?
Shh! Don't you make a sound.
Good morning, ma'am. We're wondering
if you can help us with
a missing persons case.
We're volunteers from Gotham U
looking for this girl last
seen a couple weeks ago.
Got a lot of people worried.
I never saw her nervous,
never saw her sweat,
but when I heard those voices
outside the window,
I knew why.
I'm here!
I saw that search party outside,
and I thought I'd done it,
thought I'd won.
I thought I had proved to that bitch
that I was worth something to someone.
Help me! I'm here!
That is so upsetting.
Uh, what does the little girl look like?
She's 13, fair skin, blue eyes.
Fair skin, blue eyes.
She was last seen wearing
a necklace with a red stone.
Oh, my gosh. That is just awful.
I will definitely keep my eyes peeled.
But they weren't looking for me.
They were looking for some white girl
because when white girls go missing,
people get off their asses,
and they do something about it.
Hang on.
A search team was looking
for a 13-year-old white girl
wearing a red stone necklace?
I know how to find the Candy Lady.
- How?
- That girl was Beth Kane.
You mind?
I really thought you'd
be better at this.
We're looking for a man named Ocean.
- Mm-hmm.
- I'm happy to tell you
everything you want to
know about the 7 seas,
but there's only so far I can
get without a last name.
Yeah. Coryana doesn't
really do last names.
Safiyah, Ocean, Tatiana.
It's all very biblical.
Then we need another angle.
In hindsight, I don't know why
I thought you could help me
figure out who this person is
considering you didn't even
know you were swapping spit
with your former flame.
I think it's time for you to go.
And I think you're haunted.
Kate disappeared with
so much left unsaid
between you two, and it's killing you,
which is precisely why
I want to work with you
because you'll stop
at nothing to find her.
Is that what you are? Haunted?
What do you want me to say, Soph,
that I miss my sister
more than anything,
that I regret spending the
last year terrorizing her,
now that she's gone
I realize how much she meant to me?
If it's the truth.
Yo, Sophie. It's Luke Fox.
I can't be seen working with you.
- I totally understand.
- Alice, don't!
What the hell?
I didn't order takeout,
but I'll take you out anyway.
Kate was obsessed with finding Beth.
She collected every
piece of documentation
having to do with the search,
including logs of who searched where.
Now we just have to find them.
Ooh! I do not think I was
supposed to see this.
Oh, my God! Thank you.
This is mine.
Please don't tell me Kate
was borrowing those.
No. I've just kind of started moving in.
Wait. You went from the 56th floor
of a riverside penthouse to a loft
above a loud gay bar?
A gay bar that I now run.
Figured it would save me the commute.
Bingo.
I get it.
You move into her place,
you take over her bar.
If I lost my sister,
I'd want to hang on to
every piece of her, too.
You know, speaking of
shorter commutes to work,
you should totally live here.
- With you?
- I'm serious.
I mean, it's already paid for.
There's an extra bedroom.
The bathroom is huge,
and no offense, your plant was
looking kind of sad in your van.
This has corner sunlight,
and there's a cute
You don't have to sell my ass
on moving out of my van.
Yes, I'd love to live here.
- Okay.
- Good.
Kate collected all of this as a kid?
Yeah. The GCPD stopped looking for Beth.
Search parties stopped looking for Beth.
Eventually, even our dad
stopped looking for her,
but Kate never did.
She reminds me of someone.
Hmm?
My ex.
She never stopped looking for me either.
No. She got you, too?
That's what she thinks.
Told you I got your back.
She allowed herself to get caught
to help break me out.
It was the first time I
remember ever feeling like
I actually mattered to someone.
Hmm.
Well, if Angelique was there,
then maybe she remembers
where the house is.
- You got to call her.
- No, no, no, no, no.
I can't. Things took a turn.
We don't even speak anymore.
Listen. As a person with season tickets
to crazy lesbian drama,
I can appreciate that,
but on behalf of Kevin Johnson,
you got to make an exception.
Mmm.
- See? Took a turn.
-
Must have changed her number.
Wait, wait. Maybe this will help.
Point Rock,
Gotham Hope search group,
Gotham U's youth volunteers.
According to this, on
Saturday, October 1,
they went door to door.
This is a map of their route.
This must be where the Candy Lady lives.
- Yeah.
- I'm coming for you, Kevin.
Wait. Aren't you gonna suit up?
No. She needs to see my face.
Well, how can I help?
You can clear out my bedroom,
which you're currently using
as your walk-in closet.
I need to do this alone.
Go get Kevin back roomie!
Alice, put the gun down.
Sorry, Soph, but threesomes
aren't my thing,
especially when 1/3 worked with Kate
to lock me in at Arkham.
He can help us.
Us?
Are you not being held
hostage right now?
What the hell is happening?
Oh. Soph and I have
been tasked by Safiyah
to find a man, and once
we do and I kill him,
we get Kate back.
Wait. What?
You never said anything
about killing him.
Heh. Didn't I?
Well, this one comes
with special instructions.
Abracadabra. I kill him with this.
Don't even think about it.
There's been 100 tips
since the announcement,
but the one on Wayside
sounds half legit.
I'll swing by, check it out,
let you know what I find.
Never touch my gun again.
So should I stay, or
We can use your help.
Can I help you, sweetie?
I'm here to claim Kevin Johnson.
Who?
15, male, African-American,
last seen with you.
And who might you be?
Someone who cares.
I have seen him,
and he's found a family who loves him.
Get her inside.
How exactly am I supposed to find a guy
with no last name on a laptop?
Do you have anything with
actual calories in here?
There's rat poison under the sink.
Look. I appreciate that the Crows
can get past most encryption fields,
but that doesn't do us any favors here.
This island must have the most
advanced tech in the world
because it's not showing
up on any satellites.
You can see for yourself.
It's a dead end.
Wait. What is
Any chance there's something
at Wayne with more firepower?
100%.
Let me do a deep dive,
and I'll see what I can find.
Behold the only carbs in this hellhole.
Baguette?
I'm good.
Then I guess we wait.
Tell me you recorded "90 Day Fiancé".
I'm gonna find your dad and
see if his lead amounted to anything.
If you want to avoid being
arrested, I'd stay put.
Can you pick me up a
6-pack when you're out?
I can't believe you
let yourself get caught.
I heard about this lady creeping
around Galaxy Hero Comics,
so I went there and
made sure she saw me.
Why didn't anyone come for me?
Everyone thought you ran away,
but I knew you'd never leave your
"Ghost Kid" collection behind.
Ha ha ha!
Ohh! Agh!
No!
This is exactly why nobody wants you.
Ohh!
Come on, Ryan. We got
to go before she wakes.
Ryan!
Ryan, you got to fight this.
Ryan, fight!
Fight like Ghost Kid would fight.
Remember when he lost
his lame-ass invisibility
and everyone kept throwing crap at him
but he kept fighting anyway?
Ryan, get up!
You read "Ghost Kid"?
Unh.
Okay.
Unh. Come on, come on, come on.
Ooh! Okay.
Okay, okay.
Come on.
Oh. Right there.
Mmm. Ahh.
Huh! Ahh!
Aah!
Ugh!
You don't remember me, huh, bitch?
Huh!
I'm the girl you couldn't break!
Unh!
Where is Kevin?
Kevin ran out of jelly beans.
Who did you sell him to?
No one ever really knew his face,
and now that it's
hidden behind a mask
Ha ha ha!
No one ever will. Ha ha ha!
Unh!
- You Rudy?
- Kane, right?
What do you know?
Like I said on the phone,
before the plane took off,
I was working the tarmac as a Marshal,
you know, the guy with
the orange batons
Yeah. I know what what that is.
So right before the plane takes off,
I notice a suspicious SUV
pull up to the aircraft,
and I'm thinking to myself,
"What the hell's going on?"
Because only catering
and emergency vehicles
are allowed that far out.
Agh!
Heh. Damn, Kevin.
You smooth.
Now let's go and earn you your mask.
I'm here. What makes you think Ocean is?
Because while you
and Alice were bickering
over what temp to keep your thermostat,
I was texting the only person
we know who knows Safiyah.
- Julia?
- Yeah.
Turns out Julia had heard Ocean
left the island a few years back,
so she went looking for him herself,
hoping to get more intel on Safiyah.
So where's he?
Well, she was waylaid,
but she did narrow down
his hideout to 4 possible locations.
It looks like two were demolished,
one is now an ice cream parlor, and
I'm sitting in front of the fourth.
- Be careful.
- Copy that.
You break it, you bought it.
Unh! Ohh! Agh!
Do I know you?
Unh!
If you did, you would
have seen that coming.
Let her go.
Where's Ocean?
Who?
Look. I just came here
looking to bag the place,
and clearly, it's not worth it,
so you two can have it.
Tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk.
Just when I thought we were bonding.
Did you really think I'd trust you?
I want to find Kate just like you.
The question is why?
To make things right, to apologize,
to promise you'll change your ways?
I think we both know the
answer to that question.
I'm gonna find my sister,
and I'm gonna kill her.
Yo, Kevin.
Candy Lady says you're ripe.
Prove it. Kill a Crow.
But he didn't do nothing.
He's not on trial. You are.
You want to be in the family, right?
Prove it.
You don't have to do this.
You know, I do have a legit
tip for you, Commander.
Don't come down to False
Face Society's hood solo.
He didn't.
And that's for making me
sweat out my edges.
Kevin, no, no, no. What are you doing?
I want a family, and they want me.
Kid, put the gun down.
Kevin, listen to me.
You do this, and you throw
your entire life away.
You don't know anything about me.
Kevin hey. Wait.
I do, though.
I know you have a brother.
I know that you think
no one cares about you,
and I know that if you pull that trigger
you'll become exactly what
the Candy Lady says you are
invisible.
How do you know so much about me?
Because I set out to find you,
because you matter.
I see you,
and you are meant for
so much more than this.
Protect him.
This is a False Face Society hot spot.
There's bound to be more creeping.
How'd you know he was here?
Easy.
I looked.
Candice Long, AKA the Candy Lady,
was captured tonight
after Batwoman uncovered
a 20-year conspiracy involving
the False Face Society
and child trafficking.
This street-to-gang pipeline
includes Kevin Johnson,
who credits both Batwoman and
Crows commander Jacob Kane
for his rescue earlier tonight,
which begs the obvious question
is there a Bat-Crow partnership
on the horizon?
At least one of us did
something right today.
Half right.
You know, I never thought I'd say this,
but if Batwoman hadn't been there,
I probably wouldn't be here.
What happened?
Alice happened, sir.
She wants to find Kate,
and it's imperative
that we find her first.
I'm totally stealing this jacket FYI.
So you're already raiding my closet.
Duh!
Ha!
She never stopped looking,
even when all the evidence
said that she was crazy.
You know, I can live in her place
and take over her bar
and hold on to all the
little pieces of her,
but none of it will bring me closure
if I don't actually look.
I don't want to believe Alice,
but I I don't want to believe
that Kate's dead either.
Then maybe it's time we
start thinking a little crazy.
Yeah.
- Hey. I got to go.
- Everything okay?
Yeah. I'll let you know.
Look who might have found
the key to the Ocean.
Ocean.
Hi.
Hi.
What the hell was that?
Wrong number? Seriously?
You didn't take my calls for two years.
I had to play hard to get for a minute.
Why am I here, Ryan?
Batwoman caught the Candy Lady.
- Damn.
- Yeah. Damn.
Next question.
Why couldn't you just
tell me that over text?
Because maybe I miss the girl
who always had my back.
Truce?
Greg, move you head!