Batwoman (2019) s02e08 Episode Script

Dear Kate,
today is the day I'm supposed to die.
Truth is I'm not scared of dying.
I'm scared I didn't live.
My mom always told me I was
put on this earth for a reason,
and now I finally know what that is.
Today is the day I kill you, Kate.
I spent 11 years waiting
for you to find me,
but instead, I found you.
Then, I waited for you to save me,
but instead, I saved you,
I turned you into a hero.
You helped me find my inner warrior,
my voice, my power.
While I played the part of your villain,
the girl who reminded you
how right and noble
and courageous you were.
You made me feel brave.
So I told you my greatest fear
was being locked away again,
and on that very day, what did you do?
You helped me break out of the system
that was trapping me.
You lured me into a box,
and you locked the door.
I've come so far
To get my revenge.
To inspire others,
and I've survived much worse.
Cartwright, the Queen of Hearts
Foster care, the Candy Lady.
If I could do that
I can do anything.
I can push off death another day
if it means saving you.
I can even kill my sister.
Whoa, whoa, whoa!
I'm the one who practices
without a medical license around here.
What are you doing?
It is a combination
of adrenaline and cortisone.
It will give me a jolt of energy,
and it will kill some of this pain.
- Yeah.
- What are you doing?
How did you even learn how to do this?
YouTube. What?!
Oh! Did the YouTube medical expert
also explain to you
that this combination
will accelerate the speed
of cell decay by 300%?
Without the shot, you have days,
and with it, you're lucky
to have 24 hours.
24 hours is all I need.
I put the tracker on Alice,
she probably made it to Coryana by now.
I will follow her route.
I will find Kate,
and I will get the Desert Rose
to heal myself.
And if something goes wrong, you die.
Mary, look at me.
I'm dead already.
- Oh, my God.
- Oh, God.
Fine. Team vote.
Where's Luke?
Actually
Mary, where's Luke?
I have an active APB
and 3 field teams looking for Alice,
yet you not only managed to locate her
but tagged her with a
high-powered tracking device?
How?
I'm sure you're familiar
with the concept
don't ask, don't tell.
Then I won't ask. I will state.
You're working with Batwoman.
Mm-hmm. So why doesn't she track Alice?
- Because she's sick.
- What do you mean sick?
She's dying.
Long story short, Tommy Elliot
shot her with a poison bullet,
and there's no antidote,
so we need you to bring back a stem
of the Desert Rose to heal her.
Sorry to interrupt.
Our APB for Alice and all known
associates turned up this.
Her friend Ocean boarded
a flight to Rome last night.
Thanks.
The deal Alice made with Safiyah
was that she had to kill
Ocean to get Kate back.
I doubt she showed up
to Coryana without him.
But she is crazy enough
to show up with a fake him.
It wouldn't be the first
time she slapped a face
on somebody else's body.
God knows she fooled me
with the Bruce Wayne wannabe.
If that's true and Safiyah
believes the imposter,
then she hands Kate over to Alice,
and Alice kills her.
Which means you need to get going now.
The tracker shows that Alice left
the Olsson Airstrip and flew east.
Sophie low-key slipped me the feed.
So we're gonna gloss over you telling
a Crow you're working with Batwoman?
It was preferable to
losing both Batwomen
in one fell swoop.
Sophie said she would get a flower.
And you believe her?
Can we stay positive, please?
We land, find my daughter,
get out.
And I am screwed.
One more thing.
We need to grab a Desert Rose
while we're there.
What are you talking about?
And I rest my case.
I'll explain en route,
but we're not leaving
that island without it.
Rah!
- No!
- Commander!
- Wait. What the hell happened?
- They're Safiyah's men.
That would mean that Safiyah
knew they were coming.
Oh, my God. What just happened?
They're taking them somewhere.
Looks like they're heading
toward Olsson Airstrip.
It's the same airfield
that Alice left from.
So they're going to Coryana?
I have no idea what they're doing.
Ryan, no!
You inject that, you die today!
We literally just watched
our last hope fizzle before our eyes.
Unless anyone else has
any more brilliant ideas.
Start the clock.
I am going to Coryana,
I am saving them, I am saving Kate,
and I'm saving my damn self.
Huh! Huh! Ha!
I feel good. I'm sorry.
I haven't felt this good in months.
Okay. Easy there, tiger.
The faster you work the adrenaline
through your system,
the faster it returns
to self-destruct mode.
- 24 hours was a guess, not a promise.
- Okay.
Alice's transponder died
over this tiny section
of the Mediterranean.
But I don't see an island.
Yeah. That's the point.
It's rigged to avoid
satellite detection,
so if I had the only serum on the planet
that could cure cancer
and wanted to cloak it
so nobody else could have it,
I would use anti-radar
electromagnetic waves.
So the cowl's lenses can detect
the electromagnetic field.
Consider it your bull's-eye.
- Bull's-eye for what?
- These are EMP grenades.
So according to Sophie,
the only electricity
that she saw on the island was used
for electric wrist restraints.
So a few of these will knock
out the power for a few hours
and free anyone wearing them,
presumably Mary's dad, Sophie, and Kate.
Okay. You didn't answer my
question about the bull's-eye.
I got to find you a ride.
Okay. Um, can I address
the elephant in the room?
You are not going to die.
Actually the elephant is if I live.
Say I find Kate and
I bring her back here.
Then what? She's Batwoman, right?
What does that make me?
That's not gonna
Kate would never push you out like that.
So then there's two Batwomen?
Because that's not confusing.
Look. I don't know what happens
when Kate comes back.
All I know is that I
I really, really want her back.
I know.
But
if I do die
you're in charge of my baby.
Oh. No, no, no. Nope.
That's not me.
Yes.
Angelique gave her to me,
and I was gonna give her to my mom
when we moved into our place.
She's all I have left of her.
Well, then it's official.
You definitely have to make it back
because I couldn't even keep
my Tamagotchi alive for 5 minutes,
so
I think I just found you a ride.
Okay. And?
Uh let's just say I couldn't
order you the vegan option.
You couldn't even afford coach?
We're just lucky this mail carrier's
gonna fly within 5 miles
of Coryana's airspace.
- Clock's ticking.
- Yeah. 18 hours to live.
I got it!
No. I mean, you're about
25 minutes from the drop.
The what now?
I can override the door
sensor and buy you
a 30-second window for the halo jump.
What what the hell is a halo jump?
High altitude, low opening.
You asked about the bull's-eye.
You need to hit a tiny
target from 33,000 feet.
Yeah, yeah. This would be a lot easier
if we had a Batplane.
That's what I've been saying.
Okay. I'll get right on
that after I work out
the kinks in the Batsub.
Don't deploy your chute
until your heads-up display
reads 3,500 feet so you avoid detection.
Oh, and use your pressure mask.
Otherwise, you'll die instantly.
Is this a bad time to
say I have n-n-never
been on a plane before?
Tatiana informed me the two
of you had a little chat.
Of course she did.
That she told you how you
and Ocean fell in love,
how he stole a Desert Rose,
and how he convinced you
to leave Coryana with him.
That was the gist of it
less a few juicy details
about how he wasn't
the only islander who loved me.
I want to be clear about something.
I considered Ocean a brother.
I had you both erased from
each other because I
believed you were a
bad influence on him.
Got it.
A ruler doesn't get to play by
the whims of her emotions, Alice.
Nor can she afford to be blind
to what's right in front of her.
You've disappointed me.
I brought you your brother
with your fancy knife through his chest.
Now give me my sister
so I can put one through hers.
You foolish girl.
My men found a tracker on your boot.
You were being followed.
You okay?
I think so.
Where the hell are we?
Exactly where you wanted to be.
Not how you saw this going?
Are you kidding me right now?!
There's nothing down there!
Yes, there is, and you're gonna miss it.
- You need to jump.
- Well, that's easy for you to say.
What if my chute doesn't open?
It will! Ryan, hurry up!
If you miss your window,
you're gonna end up in
the middle of the ocean,
and there's no shark repellant
on the utility belt.
- Well, why not?
- Because that's stupid.
Now go!
Ohh! Okay. Okay. You got this.
You got this! Come on!
Let's go!
- There it is.
- Whoa, whoa. I can't watch.
You're breaking through
the electromagnetic shield.
Okay. I see two unique heat signatures.
They could be restraints.
Deploy your chute and the EMPs.
Why are we here?
You're here because
Alice wants you to have
a front row seat to watch her kill Kate.
She's here at Safiyah's request.
Me? What did I do?
It's not what you did.
It's what Safiyah thinks
you're capable of.
You're skilled, strong,
and most of all, loyal.
She wants you to join her army.
Ha ha ha!
Why the hell would I join
an army of ruthless killers?
Because you're already a part of one.
His. Both groups are organized, armed,
and dangerous,
but we are committed
to protecting our people
while you oppress yours.
Whoa! Ohh!
Touchdown. I made it.
Oh. Oh. Sort of.
See? That wasn't so bad.
Oh, yeah. You owe me a spa day.
Just remember to conserve your energy,
or your vitals will drop again.
Whoa!
You seeing this?
Ohh! That must be the Desert Rose.
I've never seen anything
more beautiful in my life.
- Ryan?
- Crap.
Ryan?
Hello? Can you hear me?
The EMPs must have
knocked out the comms.
Oh.
Hey. I'm Batwoman.
Um
is your queen chick available?
We're really doing this, huh?
Oh, boy. Hyah!
I expected this to feel different.
I'm sure you can ask your gal pal Enigma
to root around your head
and fix it for you.
Now give me Kate.
You don't even know why
you want to kill her.
She betrayed me.
That's what you keep telling yourself,
but maybe deep down in the
dangerous musings of your ID,
there's a compulsion to kill her
because she's more loved than you,
and if you kill her,
as irrational as it sounds,
you think that love
will transfer to you.
But that's not how it works,
so the conscious part
of you uses feelings
like pain and hurt and
betrayal to justify it,
but what happens to
all those messy feelings
when Kate's dead
and everyone still hates you?
You are not changing my mind.
I have fantasized
about killing my sister
since she locked me in Arkham.
I know we've had our differences, Alice,
but I do care about you.
I just need to know this is what
you want more than anything.
More than the air I breathe.
As you wish.
I will take you to her.
If I had a nickel for every bad penny.
Batwoman?
What brings you here?
We believe she was trying
to help our prisoners escape.
They're gone.
Is everything all right?
It will be
Because you're gonna help me,
and in return, I'm gonna
tell you something
you're gonna want to hear.
I see. Unfortunately, I don't barter
with uninvited guests,
so if you'll excuse us,
we were in the middle of something.
You sure that's your boy over there?
You might want to look a little harder.
Enough with all these distractions.
I gave you Ocean, and, um,
now you can give me Kate.
My queen, I had no idea.
That was clearly her intention.
Who is this?
A nobody.
Well, a a body.
Um, just one the morgue wouldn't miss.
You still have feelings
for him, don't you?
Put her with the Bat
and find me Ocean.
What the hell's this?
Batwoman.
Looks like an EMP blocker.
Probably how the cuffs disarmed.
I thought she was sick.
Didn't know you had an
in with Batwoman's doctor.
That Desert Rose
I need to snag, it's for her.
You working with her?
I'm not working with her.
I'm just not working against her.
Who is she?
Honestly, I have no idea.
I don't, Sir, but she's been
trying to help us to find Kate,
who obviously inspired her to risk
her life for total strangers.
I don't see the harm in us teaming up.
Except the Crows and Batwoman abide
by two very different ideologies.
Because we're held accountable
for our actions
and she's not?
If that were actually true,
those agents who plowed down
Wolf Spider on that tarmac
the other night wouldn't
have just been fired.
They'd be in jail.
Now you sound like one
of Safiyah's lackeys.
You know I love my job, Sir,
but I think it's time we stop pretending
we're not above the law.
What's that smell?
Ammonium nitrate.
As in the bomb-making chemical?
That's one use for it.
Also makes a very effective fertilizer.
To grow the Desert Rose.
Come on. Kate's got to be
around her somewhere.
Err!
I was wondering how
this place could suck harder.
Why are you even here?
To stop you from killing Kate.
I don't know what this
obsession is with my sister,
but you're not part of
our family soap, 'kay?
Oh. I see.
You're on your way out.
You've got a few hours left to live,
and you need Kate to tap back in
because God forbid the
Bat ears go unoccupied
for 5 minutes!
So people like you
can roam free and kill
their own siblings?
Not to play Monday morning quarterback,
but if you didn't want me to kill Kate,
you should have stopped me
when you had the chance.
Heh heh.
Then I wouldn't have been able to follow
your dumb ass to this
godforsaken island.
The tracker was you.
Heh heh.
Clever girl.
That's it?
I just royally screwed up a move
you've been planning for months.
You could end me right
now, but you just hit me
with a loud sigh.
You're already on death's door.
Let's let nature run its course.
Or maybe you're terrified.
Of killing a sky rat?
Of killing your sister.
You've been throwing the
same tantrum for months,
poisoning bats, attacking Gotham Square,
killing God knows how many people
because if Kate was gonna die
she was gonna die your way,
and here you are moments away
from getting what you want
except it's not actually
what you want, is it?
You don't want Kate back to kill her.
You just want her back.
Heh. Well, someone has spent
an awful lot of time thinking
about the girl they blame
for their mom's death.
You remember what you
said to me on your way out?
You said
"It's not my fault",
but you weren't talking
about killing my mom.
You were talking about
why you are the way you are
because as dark and
screwed up as you are,
at the end of the day,
you're a victim of somebody, too
and that tiny sliver of humanity
won't let you kill your sister
because then it is your fault.
If you want Kate, she's yours.
You've traveled too far
to leave empty-handed.
When someone does me a favor,
I always react in kind.
What would you like in
return for helping me?
I've been poisoned.
I want enough Desert
Rose to cure myself.
- So be it.
- And I want to take Kate Kane
back to Gotham
alive.
You gave me one thing.
In fairness, I'm offering you the same.
The flower or the girl
choose one.
The flower.
Done.
I suppose that leaves Kate for you.
Enough with the games. Where is she?
I will bring you to her
once you've fulfilled
your end of the deal.
What is this?
It's your second chance.
If you want Kate,
you're going to kill him,
the real him.
Did you do this?
I didn't tell her anything.
She didn't have to.
We confiscated her phone,
found a search for a charming,
little shantytown
in Portofino, and there you were.
Isn't that precious?
She was going to come find you.
I always wanted to see their piazzetta.
Such a sweet, little love story
that ends today.
I gave Batwoman a choice,
and now I'll do the same for you.
You can have one
Ocean or Kate.
You're supposed to be watching
for the feed to come back online.
I am. It's not.
Mary, it's a plant.
It's Ryan's plant,
something she's managed to keep alive
through her mother's death,
through a prison sentence
she doesn't deserve,
through a fake Bruce Wayne
trying to kill her,
and now she's off saving
Kate just so we can do what,
show her the door?
Getting both Kate and Ryan back
would be a great problem to have,
mostly because it would
mean they survived
this hail Mary of a plan.
Then keeping this alive is literally
the least I can do.
Oh, my God!
You're one of Safiyah's Many Arms.
Our queen doesn't like to be followed.
Uhh-aah!
Uhh-aah!
Hey!
Hyah!
Okay. Okay. Oh.
The elevator to the cave is out,
- so we got to take the stairs.
- Wait.
- Wait, wait, wait. Ryan's plant.
- What about it?
I can't leave it.
We can grab it later.
Hey. You want to send her a picture,
ask her if she thinks
we're doing a good job?
Ryan would want us to run away
from a trained assassin.
She asked me for one thing, Luke.
Okay. Okay. Fine, Mary.
Just grab the damn thing.
Fine!
Want to rock, paper, scissors it?
No!
What is this even about?
Some B.S. frame job?
You made her believe I killed off
her little gang and blew
up her sister's plane.
Why would I stir things
up between you two?
Your little brain wipe worked.
I didn't even know Alice
existed until a few weeks ago.
Tell her!
Tell her, Alice. It was someone else.
I didn't frame Safiyah.
Give me the knife.
This was never about
someone setting you up.
This was about Alice caring about me
more than she cared about you
and your inability to live with it.
Kill him, and you can have your sister.
Is it worth it,
killing me just to kill Kate?
If you really want to punish her,
leave her here to rot.
I'm sorry, Ocean
but I don't want to kill her anymore.
Now bring me to Kate
before anyone else on this island dies.
What are you doing?
She's bleeding all over the damn plant.
Hey. Mary!
You lift, I grab.
- Come on.
- Okay.
Okay. Grab it, grab it.
- Run!
- Run!
Oi, oi. What's the rush?
Julia, when did you get back?
Who the bloody hell is that?
Unh!
Oh. Okay.
Where's Safiyah?
She said she would
bring me a Desert Rose.
She will
once she's finished with Alice.
It's finally time for
Alice to be reunited
with her sister.
Someone care to explain
why I had to dagger
one of Safiyah's minions?
The Many Arms found out we
tracked Alice to Coryana.
Courtesy of Batwoman,
who followed her there
to find Kate.
Got it.
Um, that's actually why I'm here.
I have to applaud you
for picking your own
survival over Kate's.
Take it from an island lifer
self-sacrifice is overrated.
Heh.
That's not why I did it.
Alice isn't going to kill her sister.
I'm curious how you know that.
I saw it in her face.
Revenge, hate, anger, th
those are the only emotions she knows,
so she hides behind them.
Well, you're right about one thing.
Alice isn't going to
kill her sister today.
Kate?
Where's Kate?
What is this?
What did you do?
I hired a team to run down some leads
from the tip line.
We found
body parts off the coast of Bludhaven.
Must have got caught
in the currents. Um
What do what do you mean body parts?
They ran the DNA.
No. No!
Where is she?
Where is my sister?
I never had your sister, Alice.
The DNA was hers. It was Kate's.
I'm so sorry.
Kate's dead.
Enn! No! No!
No! No!
Get her out of here.
No! Kate! No! No!
Let me go!
Ohh! You blew up her plane!
You killed her, you stupid, lying bitch!
I had nothing to do with her plane,
but when someone tried to frame
me for killing your sister,
I saw an opportunity
to get what I wanted,
to make you and Ocean
pay for your betrayal.
You are a monster!
And I created you,
so what does that make you?
Get her off my island.
No. No! No! No!
Aah! Aah!
Are you seeing this?
This is gonna get us out of here.
- You know how to fly?
- Used to.
I'll get this running.
I'll keep looking for Kate.
Give me an hour. Just
- If we're not back
- I'll find you. Go.
Well done, my queen.
This should serve as a lesson to anyone
who decides to betray you.
What the hell is happening? He was dead.
When the blade was molded,
its molten was imbued
with the Desert Rose.
Its curative properties sealed
Ocean's arteries upon its entrance.
Welcome back, brother.
That breath in your chest
is only there because of me.
I gave you your life back.
Why would you do this to me?
When push comes to shove,
Alice doesn't actually
have feelings for you.
I wanted you to see that.
You're sick.
I'm not the one who just put
a knife through your heart.
Alice's loyalty will always
lie with her sister
just as yours should lie with me
because loyalty is everything to me.
Isn't that right, Tatiana?
It is, my queen.
Then why test it?
Why after I gave you power
and freedom and health
would you pick a fight
with Alice on my behalf?
Safiyah, I don't know what
You slaughtered Alice's gang.
You sent her a note
saying I killed Kate.
You reeled her back into my life.
Why when you know how hard
I worked to forget her?
But you never forgot her.
That's the problem.
You couldn't.
You were in love.
I was trying to get
rid of that toxic an
Enough!
You always hated Alice and tried
to drive a wedge between us.
- That's how I knew it was you.
- No. No.
You wanted to see her lose,
and now you have.
Congratulations, Tatiana.
I hope you were entertained!
Keep that in her.
I'll pull it out when
I decide to forgive her.
Agh!
Ahh.
Now we both have nothing.
What's happening?
My Roses!
Oh, my God.
It's too late.
You are here. Are you okay?
Did you get a Desert Rose?
I was wondering why
my guard left his post.
Looks like it wasn't meant to be.
We need to find Kate and
get the hell out of here.
Kate's not here.
What do you mean Kate's not here?
I mean Safiyah lied.
Tatiana told me Kate was
never on this island.
Kate died in the plane crash.
This can't be real.
I don't want to believe it either.
The feed's back on.
Is that the Desert Rose?
Bloody hell. It's ashes.
Oh, this isn't happening.
We needed that.
Ryan needed that to live.
Oh. Oh, my God.
The commander thinks he
can hotwire the plane.
We need to go.
I'm not gonna make it.
You don't know that.
I've only got a few hours.
There's nothing there for me.
Will you sit with me?
Please.
I don't want to die alone.
I'm sorry we got off on the wrong foot.
You didn't deserve that.
It's because I wasn't Kate.
Hello?
Sophie, can you hear me?
How is my phone suddenly working?
The EMPs that knocked out
the power must have expired,
but I couldn't flag Batwoman
on the comms.
I'm with her now.
You need to get her back to Gotham.
She doesn't want to leave.
Tell her to get her ass back here now!
I have a cure!
It's our birthstone.
Red is a very symbolic color.
Let's take a picture, Beth.
Make sure our necklaces are in it.
Ready? Cheese!
Greg, move your head!