Batwoman (2019) s01e18 Episode Script

1 All there.
Used, unmarked bills, as promised.
Congratulations.
You're now the new proud owner of seven hearts, fourteen kidneys, seven livers, fourteen lungs and 14 corneas.
[yelling.]
Some disassembly required.
[man.]
Get her, get her! Where'd she go? [all shouting and grunting.]
[man.]
She's over there, she went that way.
Go, go! Get her! [screams.]
I'm just saying, like a braid could help.
I am not wearing a braid.
Congratulations! On behalf of the medical profession, both licensed and unlicensed, I'd like to offer my sincerest "what up" on shutting down that chop shop.
I wasn't sure how you guys celebrated.
Usually by icing my knuckles.
So this is what a victory lap looks like.
Trafficker got away.
Some asshat yanked my wig, almost pulled off my cowl.
Who could've predicted that 30,000 strands of red hair would be like waving a flag in front of a bull? What if you ran an electrical charge through the cowl, so the next person who tried to get grabby would have 10,000 volts of "hands off"? As much as I love the thought of wrapping my head in lightning Right.
Dumb.
Heh.
I've had a few of these.
Withdrawn.
We will celebrate.
As soon as we get this organ-selling creep behind bars.
Okay.
Well, go Bat-team.
Which I am not on.
Taking the champagne.
Backing away.
The cowl shock thing, not the worst idea.
She wants to be part of this, and the answer is no.
She doesn't wanna be part of this as much as she wants to be part of your life.
Then I will take her out for dinner.
We need to focus on your dad's journal.
If that thing really is the cookbook of Wayne Enterprise's best-kept secrets, we need to find where Tommy Elliot hid it.
So where do we start? Whichever aisle has the property seized from Tommy Elliot.
[laughs.]
Of course Tommy collected like every Kitty Delgado comic.
Oh, my God.
Well, there's no way a cat burglar's squeezing into all those tight spaces with those jubblies.
So if I were the smoking gun that links Tommy Elliot to the murder of Lucius Fox, - where would I be? - I don't know, love.
But I hope the Crows pay overtime.
I'll settle for hazard pay.
[rings.]
Tell me you found that journal.
We've gone through the entire place, which is basically a shrine to his twig and berries.
But, alas, no Lucius Fox journal.
The guy owned at least 40 buildings in Gotham alone.
Who knows where he could've stashed it? Well, there is one person who knows.
[chuckles.]
Candy Kane.
Why, your real estate business must really be tanking, if you were willing to let them frisk you for quite a few how-to's.
Believe it or not, Tommy boy, I'm not here for a measuring contest.
That's too bad.
Speaking of being the bigger man have you heard from Bruce? Visiting hours are four days a week, he's total no-show.
Is that any way to treat your best friend? It is.
If you killed his actual best friend, Lucius Fox.
That's an outrageous lie.
Lucius was never Bruce's best friend.
Of course that would be your takeaway.
What did Lucius Fox ever do for Bruce? You mean besides turning Wayne R&D into the world leader in defense technology? Oh, but you already knew that.
That's why you had him killed.
For his journal.
You wanted the keys to the candy store.
Where's the journal now, Tommy? I miss I miss my mommy! Can I talk to her? That's okay, Tommy.
The guy you hired to pull the trigger, he's had a lot to say.
Thanks for stopping by, double K.
And tell your cousin, the bells are on! It's fine, thank you.
Get out of my cell.
But yours is so much roomier than mine.
And there's going to be a vacancy when they strap you to the electric chair for murdering Lucius Fox.
[buzzing.]
Oh, but Alice, haven't you heard? I'm crazy, a hundred percent unfit to stand trial.
Mm.
Not anymore, I'm afraid.
I got a call this morning from a judge asking my opinion in regards to your fitness to stand trial.
As Arkham's chief medical officer, I could hardly lie.
So the Crows will be here soon to collect you.
But we can help you.
Why would you help me? Because you're gonna help us.
I couldn't help but listen in to your little visit with Kate Kane.
Because when my sister wants something, I want it more.
What's so special about the dearly departed Lucius Fox's journal? - Just between us bad guys.
- I'm sorry.
Are you two working together? What's going on here? You can answer the question voluntarily or we will extract it.
Supposedly, it's a fail-safe to kill the Bat if the suit ever got into the wrong hands.
Why is Bruce Wayne's R&D guy telling dear diary about that? Because Bruce Wayne is Batman.
"Curiouser and curiouser.
" And now I want to know all the more.
Where is the book? I'm just debating should I hand it over to Gotham's most prolific killer for nothing in return? Give us the journal and we will let you walk out of here.
Really? Well, just out on to the street where every wanted poster will have my face on it? Not if we get you a new one.
Oh.
This is what it's like bartering with a psychopath.
We can make you into anyone you want to be.
Real, imagined.
Whoever your little heart desires.
So do we have a deal? You called it.
Whatever you said must have rattled Tommy's cage.
Twenty-two minutes since you left Arkham and there's already an outgoing call to - Address says The Lookout.
- [Kate.]
Isn't that Johnny Sabatino's club? Technically, but Tommy owns the building.
Sabatino's been laundering Tommy's money through their club for years.
That is one posh laundromat.
[beeping.]
[Sabatino.]
Tommy, how's the padded palace, buddy? [Tommy.]
Hoping to make it a distant memory.
Listen, remember that item I had you hold onto? What, the one you had me break into your office to get the night you were arrested? [Tommy.]
No idea what you're talking about.
Oh, yeah, it's still here.
Living rent-free.
[Tommy.]
Well, it's time for it to come home.
Understood, I'll be in touch to work out the details.
At least we know where the journal is.
Yeah, at the very high floor of a mob-infested nightclub.
- How would you like to infiltrate that? - By walking through the front door.
Uh-oh.
Wait.
You feel that? Nope.
Feeling nothing.
What is happening? I think you feel it.
I think you feel it.
Mm-hm.
- Okay.
- Come on.
Say it.
We're - going clubbing? - We're going clubbing.
[mimics sizzle.]
Okay, so these are all the finalists, because they deliver on the: [mimics sizzle.]
and Bat-gadget concealment.
Because we wanna hide the goods, but not hide the goods.
You feel me? Okay, the goal is to blend in.
Yeah, but at this place, standing out is blending in.
I mean, The Lookout is the hottest club in Gotham.
No offense to your bar, it's It's more of a lounge.
Mm-hm.
And fortunately, your Bat-boots are both functional and on trend.
What's in that one? Oh, that is mine.
[laughs.]
Check it.
How insane is this? Oh, but if you wanna wear it instead, you can.
You're not going, Mary.
What? Sorry, it's too dangerous.
Dangerous? I've been poisoned, stabbed, and nearly exsanguinated.
And the fact that I lived to use that word as a verb is proof that I can look out for myself.
- That place will be filled with mobsters.
- Which is why you need backup.
[clears throat.]
I already have it.
I thought there weren't any more spots on the Bat-team.
Oh, I'm just an honorary member, love.
The Crows plucked her from the SRR.
She's literally trained for this.
Seriously, it's nothing personal.
And thank you so much for all of this.
Sounds like Soph's on her way to arrest Tommy Elliot.
Huh.
Good for Soph.
Yeah.
With Robles's confession, they're charging Tommy with Lucius Fox's murder.
Luke will be glad to hear that.
Is all official Crow's business conducted using hamburger emojis? It's a cheeseburger.
She wanted to see if I was out celebrating.
You never mentioned she was a burger connoisseur.
Don't bother trying to convince her that kimchi is the best topping.
I've already taken that hill.
It's her new favorite.
When? What do you mean? When did you find time to take on that hill? Don't you two have, like, work or something? All we do is work, love.
Between the late hours and all the stress with her mum, let's just say greasy food's her best mate right now.
Her mom? Yeah, she came out to her mum.
Seriously? Gravely serious, I'm afraid.
Mum's not talking to her.
Soph's a right mess.
[Luke.]
Good evening, party crashers.
Tuxedo One, you have a date with the utility hub one level down.
Red One, there's an employee bathroom on the north end.
Could be a good place for a wardrobe change.
- Copy that.
- 10-4.
[dance music playing indistinctly.]
Kate? Reagan? - Hi.
- What're you doing here? - Don't you have a club of your own now? - I'm checking out the competition.
Promise not to tell your boss? Only if you let me make you a drink on the house.
If you promise not to tell my boss.
- Deal.
- I stopped by The Hold Up a couple of times.
I was hoping I don't know.
Maybe I would run into you.
- I don't really oversee the day-to-day.
- Too busy? Yeah.
I remember.
At the risk of sounding even more stalkery, I've been following your real estate endeavors.
Buying up property around Bennet Park and actually lowering the rents? This city could use a lot more Kate Kane.
Cheers.
Cheers.
This is really good.
It's called an "I sort of thought you'd fight harder to win me back and I've regretted walking away ever since.
" That is very specific.
Any chance you know how to make a "Kate Kane is a total idiot"? Mm-hm.
[Luke.]
Ask her to make a "What the hell are you doing"? - You have a mission to complete.
- Is your ear okay? It's fine.
Can you hear that annoying whining sound? - [Luke.]
Hilarious.
- No, I don't.
I'm gonna get an Advil.
Okay.
[Luke.]
Smooth.
I'm not talking to you.
- [Luke.]
Tuxedo One, you still talking to me? - I'm here.
Found the controls.
[dance music continues.]
Intense.
Johnny really likes keeping tabs on his clientele.
But his office is completely empty.
I'm thinking it's time for lights out.
[music stops.]
[woman.]
Is it a power outage? Hey! Bloody hell.
I'm made.
We got a problem.
Julia's been grabbed.
I think this is a trap.
The building's schematics shows a wall safe.
I'm betting it's in there.
Or it's just sitting on his desk.
Awfully important book to just leave lying around.
[alarm wailing.]
[Luke.]
Kate? Kate, come in! Kate? Mr.
Elliot's cell is 243.
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall All the kings horses and all the king's men Couldn't put Humpty together again But he was an egg.
And never should've been sitting on that wall in the first place, and honestly, what were a bunch of horses gonna do? When do I get my face? As soon as I get that journal.
And it's not just a face, Tommy, it's a whole new you.
Huh.
- What's the deal with the other one? - Mary Poppins says she works for SRR.
A little out of her zip code.
Talk to our guys across the pond, see if she's worth anything.
Take her in the back.
And let's put the word out to the families.
We're auctioning off Batwoman to the highest bidder.
Winner gets to cure Gotham of its bat problem.
Yeah.
You got it, boss.
What do you mean they caught her? What happened to your member of the Special Reconnaissance Regiment? I didn't call you for a Yelp review, Mary.
I need you on the comms.
- What? - I'm going in to save Kate and Julia.
Going in as what? Sabatino's accountant? Look, no offense, this is not gonna get you past the bouncer.
- It has to be me.
- Okay, no offense, but you're insane.
I know Sabatino's cousin.
I pumped her stomach when she OD'd.
She owes me one.
She can get me face time with her cousin.
And then what? Ask him nicely? Offer to tag his club in your Insta? You sound like Kate.
Because she's right, Mary.
It's too dangerous.
Case in point, she was just apprehended.
- What's the Bat-protocol here, Luke? - I don't know.
I don't know.
All I do know is that I really wish my dad were here because he would know what to do.
But he's not.
Because he died protecting that journal, and now Kate and Julia might do the same, and I cannot add you to that list.
Look, I know no one trusts me to pull this off, but I trust you to keep me safe.
Okay.
Uh Okay.
Fine.
Then you're gonna need some Bat-accessories.
- Okay.
- Don't worry.
They go with everything.
Mm.
[phone buzzing.]
Tomcat.
Hey, man, thanks, uh, for giving me the need-to-know on our uninvited guests, but I gotta ask, how'd you know Batwoman would be coming for the journal? Well, I have friends in low places.
Yeah, that I know.
The Bat's been a thorn in my bottom line for too long.
Can't wait to clip her wings.
Oh, well, you enjoy that, buddy.
Where's the journal? Yeah, see, here's the thing.
If that book was so important that the Bat-baby wanted it, I'm thinking that you undersold me on its value.
- So I'm gonna hang on to it.
- Johnny, Johnny, Johnny.
Don't be a dick.
Tommy, your accounts are frozen, you're on ice.
Can you blame me for giving you the cold shoulder? Take care of yourself, buddy.
That son of a bitch was like a brother to me! Clearly, you are an only child.
Otherwise, you'd know that our dearest siblings are the ones most predisposed to betray us.
Why aren't you more upset? Considering you won't be getting the journal you so desperately want.
You should be more careful who you trust.
If you can't trust a money launderer, who can you trust? Mm.
No one.
I only trust in the fact that people can't be trusted.
So you knew that Johnny was gonna betray me? No.
I just didn't trust him not to.
Well, congratulations, Alice, you were right.
But you still don't have the book.
I have a contingency.
You see I released a rare bird from her cage here at Arkham.
Gotham's most notorious feather-clad klepto.
The chick who thinks she's a myna bird? She prefers to be called Magpie.
Dance for me, dance for me, dance for me Oh, oh, oh Vodka.
Venti.
Woman after my own heart.
Sure that's the best idea? Aria! Hi.
Heh.
I'm not placing you.
Oh, picture me upside down, holding a bedpan of your puke.
- Oh, my God.
Mary, hi! - H i! [Luke.]
Okay, I'm impressed.
What are you doing here? Um I was actually looking for your cousin.
Oh, cousin Johnny? He's just in a super intense meeting right now.
Oh, I know, with a bunch of his - [Luke.]
Do not say crime families.
- Mafia bros.
Mafia? - [Luke.]
Yeah.
You're dead.
- Or Or his frat bros or something? I don't know, but he texted me 911 with typos.
Issues with embarrassing nosebleeds from the Oh! Say no more.
Let me see what I can do.
- Sweating through this dress right now.
- You're doing awesome.
Sold to Vasily Kosov.
You are the proud owner of Batwoman's very own grappling gun.
All right, now onto the final item of the night, and let's face it, the reason you're all here.
I give you the Scarlet Knight herself.
We will start the bidding at two million dollars.
Two million, do I have two and a half? How about three million? Come on, do I have four? Ten million dollars.
[grunts.]
So who are you supposed to be? The Bat's sidekick? I'm gonna tell you what I told you nine punches ago.
I'm not with Batwoman.
I'm with the Special Reconnaissance Regiment.
[woman.]
That's interesting.
Because I just got off the phone with our contact at the SRR.
He says you haven't been under their employ for the past six months.
Something about going rogue and betraying the organization's trust.
Now let's start fresh.
Shall we? Who are you really working for? This is a surprise.
Usually when they say I have a visitor, it's followed by the words: "Just kidding.
" And a lot of laughter at my expense.
You're the one who put yourself in here, Alice, not me.
Technically, if we're splitting hairs, Kate shoved me into the cell and you helped lock the door, but whatever lets you sleep at night.
Tommy Elliot just hanged himself.
Or that's what it was made to look like.
Do you know anything about that? Now, what do I know? I know I don't give two hoots about Tommy Elliot! I know I don't have any motivation to help you.
And I know it is impossible for one to heal from the trauma of being locked in a cage when one is still locked in a cage! How many times did you tell me that Beth was never coming back? This is me admitting that you were right.
Do you know what they do to patients in here? They put electrodes on our heads and blast us with so much electricity that we seize.
And I don't know the exact science, but after about 10 jolts let me tell you you start convincing everyone around you that it worked.
I'm sorry that it ended up this way.
If you mean that then get me out of here.
I can't.
I have to protect the daughters that I have left.
The thing they don't tell you about ECT is that once it's over all that's left is clarity.
I see everything now.
How this came to be how it will end.
And I promise you, Daddy, what I have in store for you is so much worse than a cage, or electrodes, or insanity.
I guess you could say it's worse than being me.
But you'll see.
- Who are you? - The heir to Hamilton Dynamics.
And I got money to spend.
Look, I don't care about any personal vendetta against Batwoman.
Whether she blew up a shipment of H or bataranged your dog, I don't give a feel.
Hamilton Dynamics wants the technology in that suit and we're willing to pay for it.
Okay.
Well, I don't know how you heard about our little bake sale, but I do know what 10 million dollars looks like.
- And it won't fit in that briefcase.
- It's 2.
5.
The balance will be wired to whatever account you This is an all-cash business, Miss Hamilton.
But you want the suit? It's yours, as soon as we peel it off of her dead body.
So I got good news and bad news.
Nope.
It's all bad, and it somehow just got worse.
Shiny, shiny.
Two-point-five million for the suit off her dead body.
And with the highest bid for the privilege of killing her sold! To the gentleman with a score to settle with the Bat.
The money I lost is nothing compared to what I'll get for you.
People will pay a premium for a piece of the Bat.
Luke, now! Hold still.
[alarm wailing.]
Go check it out.
[all grunting.]
Please.
Please.
I won't tell anyone about you and SRR! [yells.]
I know.
Okay, so that was awesome.
Also, Magpie's here.
Magpie.
Yeah, I don't know, but she has the journal, and Luke said she's heading to the roof.
I'll get her.
You get her out of here.
Seriously? Early bird gets the worm.
You're a long way from Arkham.
I told you I wasn't a jailbird.
[both grunting.]
You know what they say about a bird in the hand? Yeah.
I do.
No! Okay, so which one do you wanna hear first? Thanks for saving my ass or sorry for always shutting you out? Uh, you pick.
I'm sorry for always keeping you at arm's length.
But it's not because I don't trust you or think that you can't handle yourself, which obviously you can.
It's because I've already lost one sister.
And the thought of losing you too, I I can't, Mary.
But thank you for not listening to me, and risking your life to save mine.
I guess I just have to get used to the fact that you are a total badass.
Badass enough to be one of your real estate assistants? I believe they prefer to be called associates.
[laughs.]
Okay.
All right.
I'll see you in the Batcave.
That is literally the coolest thing anyone has ever said to me.
- Okay.
- Okay.
All right, bye.
We'll always, we'll always be home Crazy night, huh? - You could definitely say that.
- And apparently Batwoman was here.
Which is super weird because the last time I saw Batwoman, I was with you.
Kind of a crazy coincidence.
Actually it's not.
I wasn't really at the club sussing out the competition.
Johnny Sabatino stole something from Wayne Enterprises and I needed it back, and Batwoman helped me.
Think you could, uh, get me her autograph? Probably not.
But I could give you a ride home.
After tonight I was heading to get a drink.
Your place still open? Nope.
I want I wanna show you Forget forget the old news You got the world right in front of you They say patience is a virtue I been looking for the right I been looking for the right I been looking for the right time to show you Get up get up and resist Put up put up your two fists We need we need a new fix Can't keep going on like this I been looking for the right I been looking for the right I been looking for the right time To show you Whoa.
Oh, my God.
Huh.
Holy crap.
What? Oh, God.
Whoa, whoa! No, no, no! - Okay.
- What? This, absolutely no one can know about this place, understand? - Yes.
- Kate's life depends on this, Mary.
I'm serious.
You can trust me, really.
This is the biggest secret you will ever keep in your whole life, okay? Okay, look, when Bruce first showed me this place Bruce Wayne is Batman? - Oh.
That's - [shudders.]
Okay.
[Luke.]
What do you mean it's gone? I woke up and Reagan was gone and And so was the book.
The book filled with secrets my dad died to protect.
I never thought that Reagan would - I'm sorry, Luke.
- Yeah, sorry doesn't undo the fact that your life is very much in danger, again, as in right where we started but worse.
Guys, with everyone in Gotham trying to get their hands on that journal, I think the million dollar question is what would a bloody bartender want with it.
Hope you know you cost me a really hot girlfriend, Magpie again.
That's what you get for falling for a mark, again.
You know how this works.
We steal from the rich because they'll never miss it.
You aren't supposed to miss them.
You got your book.
You can trade it for your freedom but I'm out.
I'm done being advance scout for Magpie.
I thought you'd do anything for your sister.
I'm pretty sure I just did.
Hey.
Hey.
Since we missed dinner, how about we grab a celebratory brekky? With Tommy Elliot not getting his day in court, I'm not sure what there is to celebrate.
I think we can think of something.
[phone buzzing.]
Oh, I gotta get this.
I'll catch you up? Yeah.
I was gonna call you.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I understand.
There's been an unforeseen setback.
I don't have my hands on the journal yet, but I assure you I will.
And then it'll be yours.
Hold still.
One wrong move and my little tracker friend will zap you and you'll be a dead dodo.
There.
- Now you're free to fly the coop.
- Ah.
Good.
I was never meant to be a homing pigeon.
How's my new favorite book? Have you gotten to the chapter yet that tells us how to kill the Bat? No, because it appears Tommy Elliot neglected to share one very crucial detail.
Lucius Fox wrote the entire journal in code! [groans.]