Batwoman (2019) s03e09 Episode Script
Meet Your Maker
1
- Aah!
- Ohh!
Aah!
Help! Aah!
Ohh! Aah!
Ugh!
RENEE: Pam!
Pam?
Ohh! Ohh!
What are you doing?
I thought the water would revive me.
I was wrong.
I need to get my strength back.
Oh! RYAN: How'd you do it, Mama? 3 jobs, volunteering at church, raising me.
You were literally everything to everyone, and you didn't break a sweat.
I just I can't get out of my damn head.
What am I doing wrong? [LUKE GRUNTS.]
Pretty sure in the real world this would be an HR violation of appropriate workplace behavior.
Good thing it's not the real world.
Yeah.
Well, hurry up because you're breathing like Darth Vader and making me feel bad about that bagel I had for breakfast.
Great.
Then you can help.
- You want to talk about it? - Nope.
Does Ryan know? Nope.
Does this have something to do with Marquis Jet? JOHN DIGGLE: Never thought I would see the Jada Jet look so defeated.
When I got your message, it sounded like you'd been put through a wringer or two.
John Diggle it's good to see you, old friend.
So why don't you tell me how an old friend can help? Sunlight's not working.
It's been 10 years, Pam.
Give yourself some time.
Time? I've had nothing but time.
No.
Something's wrong.
My energy's depleting so quickly.
Didn't stop you from attacking two innocent fishermen.
The lake's catch and release.
They were creating an imbalance in an already vulnerable species.
Oh.
10 years, and suddenly, it's like yesterday.
What were you thinking would happen when you freed me? I wasn't.
I got wrapped up in the moment, seeing you, the white tulip, the memories, the guilt.
Ah.
I'm so sorry that you had to feel guilt, Renee, while I rotted for a decade with no water, no sunlight, no soul mate.
Must have been really awful for you.
I am sorry, Pam.
How am I supposed to believe that? I needed you more than anything, and you're the one that put me there.
I know how to get your strength back.
I come bearing sustenance.
Very mature.
I was able to keep Jada off our backs while we hunt Pam Isley.
"Dead fisherman at Loeb Lake"? Found with weeds tangled around his legs.
So this is happening? You're gonna give me the silent treatment for the rest of our lives? Uh, a little busy, Soph.
Uh, your girlfriend Renee is on the loose with an ecoterrorist.
She's not my girlfriend.
Okay.
Uh, so can we assume that the dead fisherman is the O.
G.
Ivy and not Mary considering, he's, you know, dead? There was also an unnatural hornet attack reported at a pesticide factory last night.
Injured 6 employees.
Matches what I found.
A nearby drilling operation got shut down because of a tipped oil rig.
Okay.
All these attacks are environment-based.
That's Pam Isley's M.
O.
I'll triangulate these sites.
Even if we do find her, then what? I've actually been working on that.
So the darts are filled with a paralytic drug and a herbicide.
So it won't kill her.
It'll just slow down her system long enough for us to figure out how to re-create the desiccation serum.
SOPHIE: Good news, bad news.
All of these attacks are within a two-mile radius of a general location.
Supposed to start with the bad news.
Bad news is this is the location.
The National Park? We're gonna be hunting mother nature in the middle of mother nature? I'm down if you are.
Heh.
Ever watch a horror movie? When Black people go into the woods, they usually don't come out.
Black people never write those movies.
What do you say we flip the script? I had no idea things had gotten this bad.
When Marquis wakes up, there's no doubt he'll go after his sister.
That's why I called you.
I want to offer you a job as head of my security detail.
You'd be protecting Ryan, me, the company like old times except Franklin's not in charge.
I am.
Well, then it's exactly like old times.
I know there's a way to fix my boy.
Call it hubris or naiveté or a mother's will, but I will not lock him up in an Arkham cell for something that wasn't his fault.
Jada, I appreciate you thinking of me.
Thank you, but I can't accept.
When you offered to come by in person, I got my hopes up.
Well, I just so happened to be in Gotham on other matters.
You ever thought about helping your son's psychosis by going back to the source? The Joker's Joy Buzzer? That's what I'm trying to do.
Every neurologist I've talked to says that another jolt would reawaken his empathy, but I have spent millions looking for the buzzer, but no one's seen it since the Joker disappeared years ago.
- It's gone.
- Maybe it's not.
Been following your news.
The Mad Hatter, Killer Croc, Mr.
Freeze, all Batman's enemies, and now their weapons just show up out of nowhere? Do you think they're part of some collection? I think they were, yeah, and somehow, they made their way onto the street.
And considering the Joker was Batman's greatest enemy, maybe the buzzer's out there now, too.
I had some folks over at A.
R.
G.
U.
S.
look into this.
A former police officer, a Renee Montoya, now works for the Mayor's off-books rogues unit, looking into all of these events.
Maybe it's worth the two of us popping by to say hello.
I read about this phenomenon where plants communicate through acoustics in the ground.
Wind blows at a certain frequency, fungi send distress signals.
It's called natural networking.
That's kind of hot.
You reading glasses on, head in a book, thinking about fungi.
I figured the cutting Batman saved infected Mary Hamilton for a reason.
Hmm.
My sporeling.
Your what? A piece of me created her to bring me back to health like a battery without a plug.
If I can draw her here, she'll revive me.
Well let's hope this works then.
[WIND BLOWING.]
[THUNDER.]
No, no, no, no, no.
MARY: One triple-shot frappe, extra sweet cream and conveniently free of charge.
Hee! Oh, and I have a gift for you.
How about an all-inclusive vacation to Santorini? Why Santorini? Uh, cute bikinis, nonstop sunshine, far, far away from Gotham.
Need I go on? Tch! Nope.
Ahh.
But I'm in charge of the music.
I refuse to listen to a boy band sing about condiments for two hours.
[MOANS.]
Brain freeze.
Agh.
Not a brain freeze.
What the hell is going on? I have no idea.
SOPHIE: Look.
I admit I royally screwed up with Renee sleeping with her, trusting her, defending her, everything.
Seriously, my bad, all right? Yep.
That's it? "Yep"? I'm trying to be real with you.
I appreciate that, but it doesn't take away from the fact that we are driving into the woods to fight Poison Ivy, who Renee freed and probably told everything to, my identity, our plan, our vulnerabilities.
Whoa! Look out! You have to help me! Please! Oh, my God! LUKE: You're okay.
We got you.
We need to get out of here! - MAN: We're not safe.
- RYAN: Wait.
What do you mean? Who did this to you? Sophie! Crap! [RUSTLING.]
Run! Ugh! I c I can't.
No.
We have to keep moving.
Come on, come on.
Luke, gun! Gun, gun! [CRACK.]
Okay.
Luke, we got to go.
We got to go! Luke, we got to go! SOPHIE: Guys, the cabin.
Let's go! Now what? [HAMMERING.]
Luke.
RYAN: Luke! You want to tell us what's going on? Well, we just saw an innocent man get impaled with a root, so 3 guesses.
That wasn't your fault.
This is all my fault.
How do you not get that? Okay.
What is the common denominator of all of our problems? The Batwing suit breaks half the time because of me.
We couldn't save Mary from Poison Ivy because of me.
A freaking vine snagged the dart gun away because of me.
My dad knew all along.
There was one reason he didn't give me the suit and one reason only.
I am not a hero.
You know how you're on the journey to being a hero? You fail.
I mean, look at Sophie.
Alice and Pam both escaped on her watch, and she worked security for 5 years.
True and Ryan, the supposed team detective, didn't even notice that her roommate was infected with Poison Ivy until it was way too late.
Talk about screwing up big time.
- See? No one's perfect.
- Hmm.
You can't spiral on us.
We need your obnoxiously superior brain to get us out of here.
SOPHIE: All right.
Well, shotgun, handful of shells, vinegar, baking soda, a saw, and a whole bunch of other crap from this cabin.
You think you can figure out another way to take her down? I can try.
I take it you didn't find Mary.
I had other company.
What did you do? How did Batwoman know where I'd be? Pam Answer me right now.
What did you do? They're fine, but now you've got me wondering why you're so concerned.
They're not bad people.
Batman buried me alive.
I told you Ryan is not Batman.
And what do you think she's gonna do to me? - Let me talk to her.
- And tell her what? That you can change.
I'm sorry, Pam, for hurting you.
I will regret what I did for the rest of my life, but you can't keep going down this path.
I want you to be healthy and safe.
I want us to be able to heal and leave this city behind.
Can I alone be worth it? Of course you're worth it.
And one day, we will leave this city behind us But right now, I need to make sure no one's standing in my way.
Stay put.
Don't move a muscle.
I'm going to kill Batwoman, and then we can work on us.
JOHN: Looks like the city doesn't have much hope for the rogues unit.
She's not here.
You got a hairpin in that fancy thing? Thank you.
[RATTLING.]
Give me.
You can take the girl out of the streets, but you can't take the streets out of the girl.
You haven't changed one bit, have you, Jada? Heh.
I got back with my wife.
Lucky her.
JOHN: Looks like we're in the right place.
Like you said, these belonged to Batman, then somehow managed to fall into the river and into the hands of would-be killers.
I think a certain hero has some explaining to do.
Great.
I feel better since we turned.
Okay.
Good.
Yeah.
Santorini, here we come.
[HIGH-PITCHED SQUEAL.]
Ugh! Agh! Okay.
Attack.
Turn back.
Come on.
Do you want to run out of gas? Alice I'm serious.
Stop the car.
No.
- I said stop! - Oh! Ugh! Unh! ALICE: Stop! I am supposed to be the crazy one! You're not the one with a bitch of a migraine that only seems to stop bitching when I go this way! If you go that way, you'll probably die! The O.
G.
's back? She's trying to draw you to her.
- Why? - Uh, do I look like the president of the Poison Ivy fan club? I don't know, but I do know that a world with two of a kind never ends well.
Why don't you ask poor, boring Beth Kane? Oh, that's right.
You can't because she's dead! Okay.
Then that's why I've been feeling this way? Clearly w-w-we have some sort of bond, and she's calling out to me.
Give me the keys.
Were you not listening to anything I said? I'm going, Alice.
This is the woman who unlocked my prowess and the reason why I'm finally happy.
The least I can do is go and see what she wants.
Please.
Fine.
Let's go meet your maker.
Tequila? Is this the part where I say, "Yes", and you pass it to Luke? It's where I thank you for grabbing my Batsuit while your car was being sucked into the abyss.
You're a badass.
Can I ask you something? What's your problem with me? Hey.
I haven't brought up Renee once since we got here.
I'm not talking about Renee, and you can pretend all you want that our problems started when she came into our lives, but it's been like this since the beginning.
Oh, you mean back when you thought I was a common criminal? Is that why you don't like me? I have apologized, I've changed.
Ryan, I literally quit my job in part because of this relationship and what I learned from you.
I'm trying, okay, but I'm not getting anything in return.
What do you want in return? What do you want?! - Ohh.
- Look.
No offense, but, Sophie, I have so much going on in my head right now, I don't know what I want.
You think? Half the time, I don't know if you like me or hate me, and honestly, I think you're just afraid.
- Afraid of what? - Of feeling something real and blowing it.
So what is it? What do you want? [GASPS.]
- Soph! - Aah! Ohh! [GROANING.]
[GRUNTING.]
- LUKE: Move.
- RYAN: What?! Move! [GASPING.]
[WHISPERING.]
Salt and vinegar.
Why are we whispering? Imagine each of the trillion spores in these woods as one of Poison Ivy's sensory glands.
She can sense sound vibrations.
Yeah.
So between the hammering and the arguing We drew her right to us.
Well, game on, bitch.
Load up two more of those.
We're going on a Poison Ivy hunt.
I wish I could, but unfortunately, that was the last of the salt.
Wait.
Actually, that's not true.
I saw a bag of ice melt in the truck in the driveway.
The truck in the driveway outside, out there on the other side of these walls? Or we can just stay cooped up in here and second-guess each other to death, save Pam the effort.
Okay.
Um, we could draw straws to see who goes.
I'll save us the trouble.
I'm Batwoman.
I'll go.
She's close.
I can feel her warm pull.
What are you doing? Well, she named herself Poison Ivy.
Why not Delicate Lilac or Dainty Lily? Maybe because she's a mass murderer! Alice, we are not tire ironing the woman responsible for my awakening.
Look.
Ahem.
I get this whole bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh thing that's happening right now, but, uh, this isn't ending with the two of you winding your little vines together and making a peace wreath.
Are you jealous? What what is happening here? What are you so worried about? You ending up dead! Because the, um, tickets to Santorini are in your name, and if you die, I will miss out on the spa retreat, so [SIGHS.]
Why do we work, Alice? You killed my mom, I replaced you in our family, but here we are on this crazy adventure together.
Hmm? Why? Probably because you made me drive out to "deliverance" country.
It's because despite all of our baggage, we both found the sister we always wanted.
I see the girl who just craves her freedom, and I love that you support me to do what I want And this is what I want.
Okay.
[SIGHS.]
I hate to have to pull this card, sis, but, um tough beans.
I'm older.
Alice stop.
What are you doing? You're staying right here.
I'm going alone.
You're not gonna stop me.
Nighty night.
Finally making yourself useful.
Well, they had no Bordeaux in that mini fridge over there.
Let's see if she has an opener round here.
So how'd she find you? Your daughter.
Daughter? I've never actually heard her described to me that way.
Well, if you don't mind me asking, what's keeping you from treating her that way? Look at me, John.
I just broke into City Hall to find a way to keep my son from becoming another monster on a cork board.
The closer I get to Ryan, the faster she becomes a potential victim.
And yet you smiled just now when I brought up her name.
I actually don't know how she found me, but maybe there's a part of me that's happy that she did.
Well, maybe hear me out here just maybe if you dropped your guard for a minute and opened yourself up to other possibilities, that thing you thought would be your worst nightmare might just be the best thing that ever happened to you, Jada.
Forget that beer, John.
We're gonna need that Bordeaux after all.
We're celebrating.
[BIRDS SQUAWKING.]
Hey.
Where's Pam? I can't let you find her.
[WHISPERING.]
Good luck.
[MAN GRUNTING.]
Here I am trying to teach you an important life skill, and you're more interested in my phone.
Mommy said we have to make mem-oh-wees.
Memories, bud, but your mother is right ahh as always.
Heh.
Hey.
Stay where you are.
Oh.
Hey.
Hey.
Hello? What the hell happened to you, girl? - Get away from me! - Whoa, whoa! Aah! [SCREAMING.]
Dad! LUKE: What is she doing? Her damn arms aren't long enough.
RYAN, ON COMMS: I can hear you.
[HANDLE THUMPS.]
[CA-CHUNK.]
[SQUEAKING.]
I can't watch.
[GRUNTS.]
LUKE: If you could grab both, that'd be even better.
You grab both.
Okay.
One it is.
[FOOTSTEPS.]
What in the actual hell? Batwoman, help! SOPHIE: Oh, my God.
Run! Ohh! [THUMPING, GLASS BREAKING.]
RYAN: Luke, get ready to run.
- Sophie, I need you! - Talk to me.
- Blow up the truck.
- What?! You asked me what I wanted.
Blow up the truck.
The suit will protect me.
We don't know that.
Blow up the damn truck! How the hell am I supposed to Shoot it, hotshot! Hey.
Hey.
You good? You saved me.
Here you go.
Hey.
The park rangers are looking for your dad, and they're gonna find him, okay? Sophie, checking in.
Any sign of her? Ryan.
Ryan! [RYAN COUGHING.]
Luke, I found her.
She's alive.
Ugh.
I'm okay.
Ugh.
I'm fine.
Fine? That's all you have to say? You almost died.
She's too strong for us.
We need to make it home, make a replica of Luke's gun, and and find some more of that serum.
Ryan, look at me.
Never put me in that position again.
It stopped her, didn't it? - You could have died! - Yeah, but I didn't.
But you could have.
Oh, well! What?! Ryan, no.
You don't get to "Oh, well" me and walk away.
What is going on with you? I'm freaking exhausted, Sophie.
You want to know what I want? I want to sleep.
That's what I want.
I have a family I didn't ask for trying to destroy my city, my my best friend is off the grid because I've been so preoccupied I didn't notice she was an entirely different person, and now a Batman supervillain just kicked all of our asses, so, yeah, the thought of blowing up in a fiery explosion honestly sounds like a vacation to me Maybe that'll get you out of your head.
Where are you going? To look for my damn car.
SMYL: Cold bones Okay.
Then.
SMYL: Yeah, that's my love LUKE: A friend of mine told me this worked for her, so I figured what the hell? Look, Dad.
I get why you don't think I'm ready to be Batwing because you and I and a whole lot of O.
R.
doctors know that I'm not even supposed to be here right now.
I'm supposed to be in the ground next to you with a severed vein and 3 ruptured organs, but thanks to some lucky, impossible, freak miracle, I'm not.
I'm still here.
But what if what if it wasn't a freak miracle? What if your death wasn't a tragedy? What if all these horrible things that happened to me happened for a reason? Because that's what I'm starting to think, and as hard as it is to say, I can't keep caring about what you would think because Dad, I'm ready, and I love you, and I miss you, but I can't let you hold me back anymore.
JOHN: Your father would be proud of you.
Hey.
Sorry, man.
I tried, but I can't get it open.
Aw, damn it.
Got that same line from A.
R.
G.
U.
S.
Figured I had a fighting chance with your battech.
To be honest, I don't actually have access to our best resources at the moment, but from what I can tell, the technology used on a transmatter cube probably isn't from around here, is it? Which is why I'd appreciate you keeping this between us.
How'd you get it open last time? That's the problem.
I didn't do anything.
It just opened for me.
So maybe the key to opening that box isn't based on science, human or otherwise.
Maybe it's something else entirely.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Need you to do one more favor for me.
- Okay.
What's that? - Get a message to Batwoman.
Let her know that Jada Jet found a fix.
She's ready to save her son.
[BIRDS CHIRPING.]
Since when is it day? MAN: Hello.
What the hell happened to you, girl? - MARY: Get away from me! - MAN: Whoa, whoa! [MAN SCREAMING.]
BOY: Dad! Oh, little sister what have you done? [BREATHING HEAVILY.]
RENEE: Let's just call this what it is.
A toxic relationship.
How are you here? I I Pheromoned my ass? I know.
I was there.
When I thought there was a chance I'd see you again, I created a toxin, started ingesting a drop a day, hoping I could build up a tolerance to your mind control.
I guess you could say I was afraid you'd do exactly what you ended up doing.
You don't love me.
I do love you, Pam.
I just don't love you the way you want me to love you.
Then that's not love.
It's judgment, and maybe this is a toxic relationship.
I've seen addicts ween themselves off of heroin faster than what we're doing to each other.
What do you think kept me alive for 10 years, Renee? I had no water, no sunlight, no human contact.
I thought I was going to die there, so what single thought do you think I held onto for every waking moment of every brutal day? You.
So if loving you through everything we've been through is toxic, then fine.
We're toxic.
Walk away, but that doesn't mean I'll ever let you go.
WOMAN: Cry wolf Your sporeling is stronger than expected.
Are you gonna let me do this or stand in our way? WOMAN: Be there Eager And willing To take you into care You like to think it's in your head Come to find it's in your blood You found me.
No.
You found me.
WOMAN: So in love, we're so in love And if someday that cry should break Then I want you to realize it's a fake He'll sink his teeth into your flesh And you will wish you never [HOWLING.]
Cried wolf Whoa.
Cried wolf MAN: Greg, move your head!
I was wrong.
I need to get my strength back.
Oh! RYAN: How'd you do it, Mama? 3 jobs, volunteering at church, raising me.
You were literally everything to everyone, and you didn't break a sweat.
I just I can't get out of my damn head.
What am I doing wrong? [LUKE GRUNTS.]
Pretty sure in the real world this would be an HR violation of appropriate workplace behavior.
Good thing it's not the real world.
Yeah.
Well, hurry up because you're breathing like Darth Vader and making me feel bad about that bagel I had for breakfast.
Great.
Then you can help.
- You want to talk about it? - Nope.
Does Ryan know? Nope.
Does this have something to do with Marquis Jet? JOHN DIGGLE: Never thought I would see the Jada Jet look so defeated.
When I got your message, it sounded like you'd been put through a wringer or two.
John Diggle it's good to see you, old friend.
So why don't you tell me how an old friend can help? Sunlight's not working.
It's been 10 years, Pam.
Give yourself some time.
Time? I've had nothing but time.
No.
Something's wrong.
My energy's depleting so quickly.
Didn't stop you from attacking two innocent fishermen.
The lake's catch and release.
They were creating an imbalance in an already vulnerable species.
Oh.
10 years, and suddenly, it's like yesterday.
What were you thinking would happen when you freed me? I wasn't.
I got wrapped up in the moment, seeing you, the white tulip, the memories, the guilt.
Ah.
I'm so sorry that you had to feel guilt, Renee, while I rotted for a decade with no water, no sunlight, no soul mate.
Must have been really awful for you.
I am sorry, Pam.
How am I supposed to believe that? I needed you more than anything, and you're the one that put me there.
I know how to get your strength back.
I come bearing sustenance.
Very mature.
I was able to keep Jada off our backs while we hunt Pam Isley.
"Dead fisherman at Loeb Lake"? Found with weeds tangled around his legs.
So this is happening? You're gonna give me the silent treatment for the rest of our lives? Uh, a little busy, Soph.
Uh, your girlfriend Renee is on the loose with an ecoterrorist.
She's not my girlfriend.
Okay.
Uh, so can we assume that the dead fisherman is the O.
G.
Ivy and not Mary considering, he's, you know, dead? There was also an unnatural hornet attack reported at a pesticide factory last night.
Injured 6 employees.
Matches what I found.
A nearby drilling operation got shut down because of a tipped oil rig.
Okay.
All these attacks are environment-based.
That's Pam Isley's M.
O.
I'll triangulate these sites.
Even if we do find her, then what? I've actually been working on that.
So the darts are filled with a paralytic drug and a herbicide.
So it won't kill her.
It'll just slow down her system long enough for us to figure out how to re-create the desiccation serum.
SOPHIE: Good news, bad news.
All of these attacks are within a two-mile radius of a general location.
Supposed to start with the bad news.
Bad news is this is the location.
The National Park? We're gonna be hunting mother nature in the middle of mother nature? I'm down if you are.
Heh.
Ever watch a horror movie? When Black people go into the woods, they usually don't come out.
Black people never write those movies.
What do you say we flip the script? I had no idea things had gotten this bad.
When Marquis wakes up, there's no doubt he'll go after his sister.
That's why I called you.
I want to offer you a job as head of my security detail.
You'd be protecting Ryan, me, the company like old times except Franklin's not in charge.
I am.
Well, then it's exactly like old times.
I know there's a way to fix my boy.
Call it hubris or naiveté or a mother's will, but I will not lock him up in an Arkham cell for something that wasn't his fault.
Jada, I appreciate you thinking of me.
Thank you, but I can't accept.
When you offered to come by in person, I got my hopes up.
Well, I just so happened to be in Gotham on other matters.
You ever thought about helping your son's psychosis by going back to the source? The Joker's Joy Buzzer? That's what I'm trying to do.
Every neurologist I've talked to says that another jolt would reawaken his empathy, but I have spent millions looking for the buzzer, but no one's seen it since the Joker disappeared years ago.
- It's gone.
- Maybe it's not.
Been following your news.
The Mad Hatter, Killer Croc, Mr.
Freeze, all Batman's enemies, and now their weapons just show up out of nowhere? Do you think they're part of some collection? I think they were, yeah, and somehow, they made their way onto the street.
And considering the Joker was Batman's greatest enemy, maybe the buzzer's out there now, too.
I had some folks over at A.
R.
G.
U.
S.
look into this.
A former police officer, a Renee Montoya, now works for the Mayor's off-books rogues unit, looking into all of these events.
Maybe it's worth the two of us popping by to say hello.
I read about this phenomenon where plants communicate through acoustics in the ground.
Wind blows at a certain frequency, fungi send distress signals.
It's called natural networking.
That's kind of hot.
You reading glasses on, head in a book, thinking about fungi.
I figured the cutting Batman saved infected Mary Hamilton for a reason.
Hmm.
My sporeling.
Your what? A piece of me created her to bring me back to health like a battery without a plug.
If I can draw her here, she'll revive me.
Well let's hope this works then.
[WIND BLOWING.]
[THUNDER.]
No, no, no, no, no.
MARY: One triple-shot frappe, extra sweet cream and conveniently free of charge.
Hee! Oh, and I have a gift for you.
How about an all-inclusive vacation to Santorini? Why Santorini? Uh, cute bikinis, nonstop sunshine, far, far away from Gotham.
Need I go on? Tch! Nope.
Ahh.
But I'm in charge of the music.
I refuse to listen to a boy band sing about condiments for two hours.
[MOANS.]
Brain freeze.
Agh.
Not a brain freeze.
What the hell is going on? I have no idea.
SOPHIE: Look.
I admit I royally screwed up with Renee sleeping with her, trusting her, defending her, everything.
Seriously, my bad, all right? Yep.
That's it? "Yep"? I'm trying to be real with you.
I appreciate that, but it doesn't take away from the fact that we are driving into the woods to fight Poison Ivy, who Renee freed and probably told everything to, my identity, our plan, our vulnerabilities.
Whoa! Look out! You have to help me! Please! Oh, my God! LUKE: You're okay.
We got you.
We need to get out of here! - MAN: We're not safe.
- RYAN: Wait.
What do you mean? Who did this to you? Sophie! Crap! [RUSTLING.]
Run! Ugh! I c I can't.
No.
We have to keep moving.
Come on, come on.
Luke, gun! Gun, gun! [CRACK.]
Okay.
Luke, we got to go.
We got to go! Luke, we got to go! SOPHIE: Guys, the cabin.
Let's go! Now what? [HAMMERING.]
Luke.
RYAN: Luke! You want to tell us what's going on? Well, we just saw an innocent man get impaled with a root, so 3 guesses.
That wasn't your fault.
This is all my fault.
How do you not get that? Okay.
What is the common denominator of all of our problems? The Batwing suit breaks half the time because of me.
We couldn't save Mary from Poison Ivy because of me.
A freaking vine snagged the dart gun away because of me.
My dad knew all along.
There was one reason he didn't give me the suit and one reason only.
I am not a hero.
You know how you're on the journey to being a hero? You fail.
I mean, look at Sophie.
Alice and Pam both escaped on her watch, and she worked security for 5 years.
True and Ryan, the supposed team detective, didn't even notice that her roommate was infected with Poison Ivy until it was way too late.
Talk about screwing up big time.
- See? No one's perfect.
- Hmm.
You can't spiral on us.
We need your obnoxiously superior brain to get us out of here.
SOPHIE: All right.
Well, shotgun, handful of shells, vinegar, baking soda, a saw, and a whole bunch of other crap from this cabin.
You think you can figure out another way to take her down? I can try.
I take it you didn't find Mary.
I had other company.
What did you do? How did Batwoman know where I'd be? Pam Answer me right now.
What did you do? They're fine, but now you've got me wondering why you're so concerned.
They're not bad people.
Batman buried me alive.
I told you Ryan is not Batman.
And what do you think she's gonna do to me? - Let me talk to her.
- And tell her what? That you can change.
I'm sorry, Pam, for hurting you.
I will regret what I did for the rest of my life, but you can't keep going down this path.
I want you to be healthy and safe.
I want us to be able to heal and leave this city behind.
Can I alone be worth it? Of course you're worth it.
And one day, we will leave this city behind us But right now, I need to make sure no one's standing in my way.
Stay put.
Don't move a muscle.
I'm going to kill Batwoman, and then we can work on us.
JOHN: Looks like the city doesn't have much hope for the rogues unit.
She's not here.
You got a hairpin in that fancy thing? Thank you.
[RATTLING.]
Give me.
You can take the girl out of the streets, but you can't take the streets out of the girl.
You haven't changed one bit, have you, Jada? Heh.
I got back with my wife.
Lucky her.
JOHN: Looks like we're in the right place.
Like you said, these belonged to Batman, then somehow managed to fall into the river and into the hands of would-be killers.
I think a certain hero has some explaining to do.
Great.
I feel better since we turned.
Okay.
Good.
Yeah.
Santorini, here we come.
[HIGH-PITCHED SQUEAL.]
Ugh! Agh! Okay.
Attack.
Turn back.
Come on.
Do you want to run out of gas? Alice I'm serious.
Stop the car.
No.
- I said stop! - Oh! Ugh! Unh! ALICE: Stop! I am supposed to be the crazy one! You're not the one with a bitch of a migraine that only seems to stop bitching when I go this way! If you go that way, you'll probably die! The O.
G.
's back? She's trying to draw you to her.
- Why? - Uh, do I look like the president of the Poison Ivy fan club? I don't know, but I do know that a world with two of a kind never ends well.
Why don't you ask poor, boring Beth Kane? Oh, that's right.
You can't because she's dead! Okay.
Then that's why I've been feeling this way? Clearly w-w-we have some sort of bond, and she's calling out to me.
Give me the keys.
Were you not listening to anything I said? I'm going, Alice.
This is the woman who unlocked my prowess and the reason why I'm finally happy.
The least I can do is go and see what she wants.
Please.
Fine.
Let's go meet your maker.
Tequila? Is this the part where I say, "Yes", and you pass it to Luke? It's where I thank you for grabbing my Batsuit while your car was being sucked into the abyss.
You're a badass.
Can I ask you something? What's your problem with me? Hey.
I haven't brought up Renee once since we got here.
I'm not talking about Renee, and you can pretend all you want that our problems started when she came into our lives, but it's been like this since the beginning.
Oh, you mean back when you thought I was a common criminal? Is that why you don't like me? I have apologized, I've changed.
Ryan, I literally quit my job in part because of this relationship and what I learned from you.
I'm trying, okay, but I'm not getting anything in return.
What do you want in return? What do you want?! - Ohh.
- Look.
No offense, but, Sophie, I have so much going on in my head right now, I don't know what I want.
You think? Half the time, I don't know if you like me or hate me, and honestly, I think you're just afraid.
- Afraid of what? - Of feeling something real and blowing it.
So what is it? What do you want? [GASPS.]
- Soph! - Aah! Ohh! [GROANING.]
[GRUNTING.]
- LUKE: Move.
- RYAN: What?! Move! [GASPING.]
[WHISPERING.]
Salt and vinegar.
Why are we whispering? Imagine each of the trillion spores in these woods as one of Poison Ivy's sensory glands.
She can sense sound vibrations.
Yeah.
So between the hammering and the arguing We drew her right to us.
Well, game on, bitch.
Load up two more of those.
We're going on a Poison Ivy hunt.
I wish I could, but unfortunately, that was the last of the salt.
Wait.
Actually, that's not true.
I saw a bag of ice melt in the truck in the driveway.
The truck in the driveway outside, out there on the other side of these walls? Or we can just stay cooped up in here and second-guess each other to death, save Pam the effort.
Okay.
Um, we could draw straws to see who goes.
I'll save us the trouble.
I'm Batwoman.
I'll go.
She's close.
I can feel her warm pull.
What are you doing? Well, she named herself Poison Ivy.
Why not Delicate Lilac or Dainty Lily? Maybe because she's a mass murderer! Alice, we are not tire ironing the woman responsible for my awakening.
Look.
Ahem.
I get this whole bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh thing that's happening right now, but, uh, this isn't ending with the two of you winding your little vines together and making a peace wreath.
Are you jealous? What what is happening here? What are you so worried about? You ending up dead! Because the, um, tickets to Santorini are in your name, and if you die, I will miss out on the spa retreat, so [SIGHS.]
Why do we work, Alice? You killed my mom, I replaced you in our family, but here we are on this crazy adventure together.
Hmm? Why? Probably because you made me drive out to "deliverance" country.
It's because despite all of our baggage, we both found the sister we always wanted.
I see the girl who just craves her freedom, and I love that you support me to do what I want And this is what I want.
Okay.
[SIGHS.]
I hate to have to pull this card, sis, but, um tough beans.
I'm older.
Alice stop.
What are you doing? You're staying right here.
I'm going alone.
You're not gonna stop me.
Nighty night.
Finally making yourself useful.
Well, they had no Bordeaux in that mini fridge over there.
Let's see if she has an opener round here.
So how'd she find you? Your daughter.
Daughter? I've never actually heard her described to me that way.
Well, if you don't mind me asking, what's keeping you from treating her that way? Look at me, John.
I just broke into City Hall to find a way to keep my son from becoming another monster on a cork board.
The closer I get to Ryan, the faster she becomes a potential victim.
And yet you smiled just now when I brought up her name.
I actually don't know how she found me, but maybe there's a part of me that's happy that she did.
Well, maybe hear me out here just maybe if you dropped your guard for a minute and opened yourself up to other possibilities, that thing you thought would be your worst nightmare might just be the best thing that ever happened to you, Jada.
Forget that beer, John.
We're gonna need that Bordeaux after all.
We're celebrating.
[BIRDS SQUAWKING.]
Hey.
Where's Pam? I can't let you find her.
[WHISPERING.]
Good luck.
[MAN GRUNTING.]
Here I am trying to teach you an important life skill, and you're more interested in my phone.
Mommy said we have to make mem-oh-wees.
Memories, bud, but your mother is right ahh as always.
Heh.
Hey.
Stay where you are.
Oh.
Hey.
Hey.
Hello? What the hell happened to you, girl? - Get away from me! - Whoa, whoa! Aah! [SCREAMING.]
Dad! LUKE: What is she doing? Her damn arms aren't long enough.
RYAN, ON COMMS: I can hear you.
[HANDLE THUMPS.]
[CA-CHUNK.]
[SQUEAKING.]
I can't watch.
[GRUNTS.]
LUKE: If you could grab both, that'd be even better.
You grab both.
Okay.
One it is.
[FOOTSTEPS.]
What in the actual hell? Batwoman, help! SOPHIE: Oh, my God.
Run! Ohh! [THUMPING, GLASS BREAKING.]
RYAN: Luke, get ready to run.
- Sophie, I need you! - Talk to me.
- Blow up the truck.
- What?! You asked me what I wanted.
Blow up the truck.
The suit will protect me.
We don't know that.
Blow up the damn truck! How the hell am I supposed to Shoot it, hotshot! Hey.
Hey.
You good? You saved me.
Here you go.
Hey.
The park rangers are looking for your dad, and they're gonna find him, okay? Sophie, checking in.
Any sign of her? Ryan.
Ryan! [RYAN COUGHING.]
Luke, I found her.
She's alive.
Ugh.
I'm okay.
Ugh.
I'm fine.
Fine? That's all you have to say? You almost died.
She's too strong for us.
We need to make it home, make a replica of Luke's gun, and and find some more of that serum.
Ryan, look at me.
Never put me in that position again.
It stopped her, didn't it? - You could have died! - Yeah, but I didn't.
But you could have.
Oh, well! What?! Ryan, no.
You don't get to "Oh, well" me and walk away.
What is going on with you? I'm freaking exhausted, Sophie.
You want to know what I want? I want to sleep.
That's what I want.
I have a family I didn't ask for trying to destroy my city, my my best friend is off the grid because I've been so preoccupied I didn't notice she was an entirely different person, and now a Batman supervillain just kicked all of our asses, so, yeah, the thought of blowing up in a fiery explosion honestly sounds like a vacation to me Maybe that'll get you out of your head.
Where are you going? To look for my damn car.
SMYL: Cold bones Okay.
Then.
SMYL: Yeah, that's my love LUKE: A friend of mine told me this worked for her, so I figured what the hell? Look, Dad.
I get why you don't think I'm ready to be Batwing because you and I and a whole lot of O.
R.
doctors know that I'm not even supposed to be here right now.
I'm supposed to be in the ground next to you with a severed vein and 3 ruptured organs, but thanks to some lucky, impossible, freak miracle, I'm not.
I'm still here.
But what if what if it wasn't a freak miracle? What if your death wasn't a tragedy? What if all these horrible things that happened to me happened for a reason? Because that's what I'm starting to think, and as hard as it is to say, I can't keep caring about what you would think because Dad, I'm ready, and I love you, and I miss you, but I can't let you hold me back anymore.
JOHN: Your father would be proud of you.
Hey.
Sorry, man.
I tried, but I can't get it open.
Aw, damn it.
Got that same line from A.
R.
G.
U.
S.
Figured I had a fighting chance with your battech.
To be honest, I don't actually have access to our best resources at the moment, but from what I can tell, the technology used on a transmatter cube probably isn't from around here, is it? Which is why I'd appreciate you keeping this between us.
How'd you get it open last time? That's the problem.
I didn't do anything.
It just opened for me.
So maybe the key to opening that box isn't based on science, human or otherwise.
Maybe it's something else entirely.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Need you to do one more favor for me.
- Okay.
What's that? - Get a message to Batwoman.
Let her know that Jada Jet found a fix.
She's ready to save her son.
[BIRDS CHIRPING.]
Since when is it day? MAN: Hello.
What the hell happened to you, girl? - MARY: Get away from me! - MAN: Whoa, whoa! [MAN SCREAMING.]
BOY: Dad! Oh, little sister what have you done? [BREATHING HEAVILY.]
RENEE: Let's just call this what it is.
A toxic relationship.
How are you here? I I Pheromoned my ass? I know.
I was there.
When I thought there was a chance I'd see you again, I created a toxin, started ingesting a drop a day, hoping I could build up a tolerance to your mind control.
I guess you could say I was afraid you'd do exactly what you ended up doing.
You don't love me.
I do love you, Pam.
I just don't love you the way you want me to love you.
Then that's not love.
It's judgment, and maybe this is a toxic relationship.
I've seen addicts ween themselves off of heroin faster than what we're doing to each other.
What do you think kept me alive for 10 years, Renee? I had no water, no sunlight, no human contact.
I thought I was going to die there, so what single thought do you think I held onto for every waking moment of every brutal day? You.
So if loving you through everything we've been through is toxic, then fine.
We're toxic.
Walk away, but that doesn't mean I'll ever let you go.
WOMAN: Cry wolf Your sporeling is stronger than expected.
Are you gonna let me do this or stand in our way? WOMAN: Be there Eager And willing To take you into care You like to think it's in your head Come to find it's in your blood You found me.
No.
You found me.
WOMAN: So in love, we're so in love And if someday that cry should break Then I want you to realize it's a fake He'll sink his teeth into your flesh And you will wish you never [HOWLING.]
Cried wolf Whoa.
Cried wolf MAN: Greg, move your head!