Batwoman (2019) s03e10 Episode Script
Toxic
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Previously on "Batwoman"
Ever since the Joker pressed
that buzzer to your head,
you haven't been the same,
and I need to fix you.
What are you doing? - Aah! Aah! - Taking initiative.
How about we kill your two little sidekicks at the same time, hmm? RYAN: Do you think we should hook him up to fluids? LUKE: Not unless you want him to wake up.
JADA: Another jolt would reawaken his empathy.
I have spent millions looking for the buzzer, but no one's seen it.
RENEE: 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 and seeing you.
I thought the water would revive me.
I need to get my strength back.
MAN: Hey.
Hello? - Get away from me! - Aah! Oh, little sister what have you done? Maybe that will get you out of your head.
You found me.
No.
You found me.
[GRUNTING.]
[COUGHS.]
What? What is happening? Ugh.
Unh! This is so not me.
You underestimate yourself, Mary, just like your friends always have.
What the hell's going on? I need you to shh.
Hello.
I'm Dr.
Hamilton.
Do you know who I am? Of course.
Harold Marlowe, CEO of Gotham United Healthcare.
We didn't just kidnap a rando.
This was a focused, specific abduction Get to the point.
Too many words gets a little mustache-twirly.
Here's the thing, Harry.
I've treated tons of patients, single moms, students, the unhoused.
You know what they all have in common? Please.
Please.
[GROANING.]
They all have claims denied by you.
Please.
[GAGGING.]
Perhaps if you spent a little more time in nature, you might have the chance to put yourself in their shoes.
Imagine you're the dad of a kid whose treatment isn't covered so you work two extra jobs.
Your kid gets sicker and sicker.
You get poorer and poorer.
Please, please.
You lose your home, you're living in your car, you're drowning in a lifetime of debt, - Aah! Aah! - And suddenly, just having a sick kid seems like a day off.
[SCREAMING.]
WOMAN: Pretty little fires burn I will make it hurt Damn, that felt good.
[MUFFLED SCREAMS CONTINUE.]
That was epic.
Did you rehearse that? Ohh.
I've been dealing with the horrors of the Gotham healthcare system for a while now, but I think that you just unlocked something.
You found your calling, doc.
I get it now.
Justice, using this gift to level the playing field.
Now the press is gonna label you a villain, they're gonna call you unhinged, use way too many puns, but if you just do what feels right, - they can't stop you.
- Yeah.
Pam Your nose.
It's happening again.
WOMAN: I will make it I didn't even do the heavy lifting.
Here.
I can take it.
Go ahead.
WOMAN: Pretty little fires burn I will make it hurt [MOANING.]
Ahh.
Thank you, Mary.
No problem.
WOMAN: I will make it hurt You okay? I'm fine.
Let's go.
Hurt Pretty little fires burn I will make it hurt Yeah.
Hi.
We have a problem.
WOMAN: Hurt Pamela Isley beckoned Mary all the way from Metropolis? Why didn't you stop her? Believe me, I tried.
Mary mind-roofied me.
And while a deep betrayal at the time, if I'm being honest, I haven't slept that well since I torched Mabel Cartwright.
LUKE: Hold up.
Mary pheromoned you? I thought you two were buds.
And I thought you were working out of Renee's, but I got to say I'm loving this whole commuter coffee shop vibe you've got going on.
Why should we trust anything you say? Mmm.
Because I'm in a gay bar when I'm supposed to be in Santorini, so, uh, you do the math.
Look.
We couldn't stop Mary, we got our asses kicked by the O.
G.
, so how do you suppose that we stop two Poison Ivys at the same time? Easy.
You want to kill a plant, take away its sunshine.
Uh, not easy, seeing as though none of us can actually control the weather.
She means Renee.
We go after Pam's weakness.
You're gonna want to get on that today, ASAP, like, 10 minutes ago.
Your deal with Renee for your freedom was a scam, which means you're a wanted criminal.
You wouldn't risk coming back here unless there was something deeper going on, so what is it? Me? Deep? Heh.
There's no need for insults.
Besides we're running out of time.
PAMELA: Not gonna lie.
What you said to that insurance sleaze really hit home.
Didn't take you for a paying your premiums type.
Heh.
Well, my little brother had really bad asthma growing up, and we didn't have a lot of money, so our mom got super into plants, herbal remedies.
A few years after my brother got sick, we learned that our drinking water had been poisoned by the factory up the hill.
The doctor said it was a miracle we weren't all in the hospital.
My brother didn't make it to his 13th birthday.
Whoa.
I thought Renee said she'd pick us up at the road.
She did.
Ooh! Hey.
I got the tickets.
I'm about 20 minutes away, so pack up.
I'll swing by to grab you.
Where are we packing for? - Miss us? - Apparently not since she's leaving without saying good-bye.
- Tsk, tsk, tsk.
- What is this? Oh.
This is us catching you mid-betrayal and reminding you we have a binding contract, Renee.
Do you know what that is? Gotham Dam.
Toured it on a fourth grade field trip.
Let me guess.
You learned that it supplies power to over half the industry in Gotham and saves the city money.
Did they also tell you that it's responsible for the extinction of an entire species of fish, dried out river beds, eroded farmlands? To be honest, I wasn't really paying attention.
No one is, and then we wake up in 50 years, and our planet is dead because we killed it.
What are we doing here? I wanted to show you my passion project.
This dam feeds into Gotham's industrial district.
The factory that killed your brother.
One of them, but there are dozens more doing the exact same thing, finding loopholes in regulations, no consequences.
Mary I brought you here because I was hoping you would help me, help mother nature drown Gotham's industry in her tears.
Aw.
Are those too tight? I'm not sure what you think this will accomplish.
Well, for one, you're not getting on a plane right now.
You're gonna tell us where your girlfriend took Mary.
Like I said, betraying Pam was the biggest mistake of my life.
Not doing it again.
It wasn't a mistake.
You said it yourself.
You saved hundreds of lives by putting her away, and you know it.
It was the right move.
Keep me here as long as you want.
I'm sure the owners of this place will find it great for business.
SOPHIE: They are the owners of this place.
- Hey.
- Hey.
H-How did you know we were Luke called thinking I could help.
Is that a problem? No.
Okay.
Now that that's sorted, Soph, dear, can you fix this? What is Sophie supposed to do? What, you've never stolen Sophie's cell phone and read her private text messages? Ahem.
[WHISPERING.]
They've been intimate.
Okay.
This is ridiculous.
The only ridiculous part is us thinking we could trust you.
When were you gonna tell everyone that you had the Joy Buzzer this whole time? Oh.
You really think I was gonna let a psycho killer loose in the city I spent my career protecting? Now I'm confused.
Are we talking about Alice or Pamela? ALICE: Let's cut to the chase.
You are gonna tell us what Pam did with Mary, or this psycho killer is gonna show you what she can do with a lemon zester.
Trust me, I've done worse with less.
LUKE: Hey, Batwoman.
Heads up.
Someone just turned on the Bat-Signal.
[WHISPERING.]
Hey.
Go ahead.
Let me talk to Renee.
I know how to think like a cop.
We'll get Mary back.
I got to go.
[GRAPPLING LINE FIRES.]
You're playing a dangerous game taking a son from his mother.
I took him to stop the dangerous game he was playing.
And here I thought the city found you charming.
Where's the buzzer? The Joker pressed this godforsaken thing to my son's head and turned him into a monster.
I've been told that another buzz could cure him.
If there's a way to make it work again, I'll find it.
If you think I'm handing this to you without getting my son back, you're crazier than he is.
You don't get it.
If he wakes up before we figure out how to make that thing work, you're the first one he goes after.
I'm safe.
My son and I have an arrangement.
Really? Well, does that arrangement trickle down to your employees? The last time Marquis was in your custody, it didn't go so well for them.
How do you know anything about that? Your people talk more than you like, and here you thought they all found you charming.
Give me the buzzer.
I'll find a way to make it work.
It's the only choice you have here.
If I give you this, I want my son back in exchange.
Fine.
By midnight or we have a problem.
Terrifying, isn't it? It's a small Ocean.
It's what happens when you redirect entire river systems.
What are we doing up here? I have to unlock the grates over the turbines so we can get started.
But you'll flood more than the industrial district.
You could wipe out half the city.
If I wanted Renee here, I would have invited her.
I'm not trying to be a Renee-sayer, but unleashing this much water on a major metropolitan city could kill a lot of people.
Yes, and by taking out those polluters, we'll save so many more to say nothing of the environment.
I want to help you, Pam.
Seriously, I owe you so much, but I finally figured out what to do with all of this energy, this power, and I don't need to be drawing the kind of heat that comes with being the girl who drowned the city.
I get it.
This isn't your fight.
I'm not gonna make you do something that you don't want to do.
Thank you.
But I still need your help.
Unh! Pam! You're hurting me! Please! Let me go! Thank you, Mary.
I mean that.
I could not have done this without you.
Found her just lying here.
She's alive.
What the hell is she doing up here? I'll call it in.
Go search the place.
See if there's anybody else.
SOPHIE: I don't get it, Renee.
I know you're smart, and I know you know what comes next aiding and abetting, obstruction of justice, stealing evidence.
Need I go on? I'm curious, though If the roles were reversed, would Pamela be sitting here risking everything for you right now? Uh-uh.
You think about that! RENEE AND SOPHIE: Seriously? What? 72 hours of this, and she'll be singing like a canary.
Tell me you're having more luck with the scanner.
Nothing out of the ordinary.
Hey.
What was up with Ryan before? - When? - You know, when she was weirdly surprised that I didn't check in with her before inviting you down here.
- She didn't tell you? - Tell me what? Doesn't matter.
Well, arguably, it matters even more now.
MAN, ON RADIO: 365 en route with a priority one, approximately 25-year-old female, unconscious.
We're on route 99 heading west about 18 miles out.
MAN TWO: Copy, 365.
Ready to receive.
Not sure if you want to notify family, but my partner recognized her as Commander Jacob Kane's daughter.
Over.
LUKE: Not Batcave to Batwoman.
Jada gave me the buzzer, and then in return, she demanded Marquis - back by midnight or else.
- Or else what? Knowing takes all the fun out of it, but the last time she thought I screwed her over, she tanked Wayne, and we lost the company.
Yeah.
As much as I love reminiscing, Mary was just found unconscious.
- Wait.
Is she okay? - That's all I got.
She's en route to Gotham General, G-Med ambulance number 365, traveling west on 99 about 35 minutes away.
If I go after Mary, there's no way I'll make Jada's deadline.
Yeah.
I agree, but it's a lot easier to pluck her from an ambulance than hijack her from a hospital.
I'll take whatever Jada throws at me.
I'm getting Mary back, but I'm gonna need help.
Batwoman, I'm here.
What do you need? Tell Alice to stop drinking.
[BELCHES.]
[TIRES SQUEALING.]
- Ha ha ha! - What the hell was that? What do you expect when you put the gas next to the brake? Oh, my god.
Pull over.
Oh, relax.
I know how to drive.
[TIRES SQUEALING.]
The damn car's an automatic! Obviously.
I'm just reviewing my options, you know, getting my bearings.
[BEEP.]
No! No options! Eyes on the road, hands on 10 and 2.
Can I listen to some music, teacher? If it means we don't have to talk.
Hmm.
SOPHIE, ON STEREO: How do you think this makes me look to my friends? I trusted you.
RENEE: I promise you.
It was nothing personal.
- No.
The music - Shh, shh! Quiet! This is juicy.
SOPHIE: Do you even remember what you told me that night? Ohh! She's talking about the night.
Oh, come on.
Like you're not dying to know.
RENEE: I said a lot of things that night, Sophie.
Kentucky whiskey does that to a girl.
Ohh! What? Don't take that, Sophie.
SOPHIE: Then I'll remind you.
You said you saved a lot of people's lives by locking Pamela away.
I could tell you meant it.
It's not too late to do it again.
Let's not act like we have some deep connection, okay? You couldn't be with your first choice, and I was there.
I wonder who her first choice is.
- Oh, well.
- Don't.
SOPHIE: My first choice? You bitched about Ryan all night.
- Hey.
That's you.
- Shut up.
And all I know is that when I'm not into someone I don't talk about them constantly.
She has a good point.
Whatever.
"Whatever"? That's a big deal.
Sophie likes you back.
"Back"? Who said I liked Sophie? Uh all the girls on the playground.
Come on.
It's obvious.
You're avoiding your feelings for Sophie, which is why you asked me to be your wheel woman and not her.
You and I are the same, Batty.
We pretend like we don't care, but it's only because when we get something good, we know we're gonna screw it up.
You mean like you and Mary? What happened between you two? [SIREN.]
That's her.
- Get closer.
- Gee.
Can't you just get her with a grapple hook or something? You want her to come flying through the rear doors? So particular.
Pull over! Oh, my god! Batwoman? I need the patient! She needs a hospital.
- Speed up.
- Seriously? Get in front of him.
[TIRES SQUEALING.]
Keep straight, and when I land, pull over and wait.
Oh, just make your move, bossy pants! [TIRES SQUEALING.]
[HORN HONKING.]
PARAMEDIC: What the hell is going on up there? Uh, we're being jumped by Batwoman.
Stop the car! Uh, we can't.
The patient needs medical treatment.
Um, Chester, you need to stop right now.
RYAN: Mary, Mary! Mary, it's Ryan.
Can you feel my hand? Whoa.
Poison Pam really did a number on her.
- Maybe it's for the best.
- Huh? We risked our lives trying to get her back.
Well, she's not dead.
She's just in a coma, and if we're lucky, she'll stay that way so we never have to tell her she killed a man.
What? Oh.
Yeah.
Mary killed a man, a hunter.
She gutted him with a tree branch.
It was pretty horrific actually.
Why didn't you tell me she killed someone? Because she doesn't know yet.
She just flung him and didn't wait to see the damage.
Anyway, I'm guessing if Poison Ivy Jr.
ever turns back into Saint Mary, learning what she did will pretty much destroy her.
Wwhuuu! It feels so good to get that off my chest.
Ha! Ahem.
We need water! What happened to her? Have no idea.
She's unresponsive.
Blood in her nose, her ears.
LUKE: I'm barely getting a pulse.
Mary, can you hear me? It's called sporeling transference.
ALICE: I'm sorry.
What now? Think of Mary like a supernatural battery pack.
Being desiccated for 10 years took its toll on Pam.
The vine from Batman's trophy case somehow found Mary, infected her, and turned her into Pam's sporeling.
ALICE: Okay.
Can you stop saying that word? So Mary was created so Pam could leech off her life force? No.
Pam is not a parasite.
She genuinely cares about Mary.
SOPHIE: So if Mary's life force looks like that, can we assume that Pam is firing on all cylinders? On all cylinders? She just went from a minivan to space rocket.
So why now? To finish what she started.
Well, aren't you suddenly a wealth of valuable information? [WHISPERING.]
How'd you get her to talk? - Kentucky whiskey? - Huh? Pam's gonna hit the dam.
That's the only thing outside the city on route 99.
That's what Pam was targeting before Batman stopped her 10 years ago.
That means she's still there.
- I'm going after her.
- Please tell me you're joking.
If Pam is at full strength, you don't stand a chance, none of you do, not even together.
Batman tried to stop her for months until he realized he needed me to set the trap.
So what do you suggest? You want to stop Pam, you need her.
RYAN: Mary? Mary, can you hear us? [SIGHS.]
Why am I here? Workers found you at the dam and called 911.
We think Pam almost killed you.
Pam? No.
She just needed energy.
I'm fine.
She's using you, Mary.
It's not like that.
I'm fine.
Seriously.
Anyway, this has been real, but I need to find her.
She's probably wondering where the hell I am.
She is not your friend, Mary.
She created you because she needs you to survive.
Of course you'd say that.
I finally find somebody who values me, so I must be in a toxic codependent relationship.
It can't possibly be that this is actually who I am and that people like me? ALICE: You're a portable battery, Mary, and you're all out of charge, so listen to a Kelly Clarkson song and move on.
What are you doing here? Who do you think told us about Pam? Wow.
You know Guess you were right.
Guess I am the crazy one.
Says the Arkham inmate still pretending she's stuck in a children's fairy tale and a grown woman dressed like a flying rodent.
LUKE: Okay.
You made your point.
You know what? Don't even get me started on daddy's little robocop or the queen of unemployment.
I didn't say anything.
Yeah, but you're here, aren't you? Part of this friend-tervention or whatever this is? But if you were all actually my friends, then you'd respect my wish when I said to leave me alone! RYAN: You killed someone, Mary! A hunter, an innocent man.
You didn't realize it.
You thought you'd just flung him out of your way, but you didn't.
He's dead.
I think I'd know if I killed someone.
You're wrong.
If you want to stop Poison Ivy from destroying this city, there isn't much time left.
What the actual hell? [RUMBLING.]
Oh, my god.
Hey, lady.
You can't be down here! [CEMENT CRACKING.]
[SCREAMING.]
MARY: You're gonna kill yourself.
You're here.
What happened to him? He wanted to stop me.
I thought you were sitting this out.
I didn't see you on the bridgeway.
I realized that as much as I don't want to take any innocent lives I didn't want to put you in danger of exerting yourself past the point of no return, and after everything you've done for me, I owe you so much.
Want a boost? Desperately.
RENEE: Mary's the only one she trusts, so Mary's the only one who can pull this off.
A few years ago, I developed what I hoped was a pheromone blocker.
Every morning, I put a few drops in my coffee.
Did this for years, partly out of habit, partly because I've always hoped to see Pam again.
ALICE: Aw.
What, I can't be sentimental? RENEE: The other day, I found out firsthand it works.
The chemical agents blocked Pam's ability to mind control me, meaning it must have weakened her substantially.
So what do we do with it? If Mary drinks it and Pam draws her energy, it could weaken her enough for you to get the upper hand.
Mary's a trojan horse.
Pam never sees it coming.
LUKE: If Pam was weakened substantially, doesn't that mean that Mary would be, too? Likely, but between her biological reactions to the blocker and Pam draining whatever Poison Ivy energy she has left, it could be the best shot you all have at everything being pulled out and getting Mary back for good.
RYAN: And when you say drain her energy, how much are we talking? RENEE: If I had to guess, every last drop.
No.
It could kill her.
We're not doing that.
MARY: We need to.
It's the only way to stop her.
And if she drains you to death? I won't let her.
I'll pull away.
You can do that? You can pull out of her grip while she's draining you? Pam's not stronger than me.
[SCREAMING.]
What happened? Mary, what What did you? She stopped herself from becoming you.
WOMAN: Inhibition paper thin Got permission to rescind Must be hunger in the wind [RYAN GRUNTING.]
[VOCALIZING.]
My time has come [BOTH GRUNTING.]
My time has come My time has come My time has come I got to go.
I'll check in when we get there.
- I need to come with you.
- I thought without your AI Batwing was on the sidelines until you found a way to deal with, you know.
My head.
I know, but you can't take down Poison Ivy and also stop a dam from imploding at once.
Luke, you don't have to do this.
Yeah, I need to for me.
[GRUNTING.]
[HEARTBEAT.]
BRUCE: There is a whole mess of people out there willing to believe that you deserved it just because you're Black.
I don't want to live in that world.
I want to be with my dad.
MARQUIS: Don't lie to yourself.
You wouldn't beat me with two good hands.
There's no voice.
There's no voice but my voice.
Unh! Huh! Come on, Luke! Come on Luke.
The city can't be saved, Batwoman.
It's a cesspool of crime, filth, and pollution.
Let it go.
Start fresh! LUKE: Damn! You got to teach me that.
- Did you stop it? - Yeah.
The dam's stable.
It's done.
So is Pamela.
Mary! - RYAN: Is she breathing? - LUKE: Barely.
Let's take her home.
This city is worth saving, at least it is to me.
I'm back.
I can feel it.
I'm me again.
SOPHIE: Welcome back, Mary.
Never thought I'd miss those brown eyes so much.
[SIGHS.]
And we owe you a giant apology.
Mary, we will never let you feel sidelined by this team ever again, okay? We're family.
Guys I really appreciate the warm welcome But, uh I remember everything.
I know what happened.
I killed someone.
Poison Ivy killed someone, and now she's gone.
And Mary's back.
Yeah.
You came back to Gotham because you care about her.
I'm sorry.
Who are we talking about? Mary because even though a part of you loved every second of it, you still feel guilty for changing her to be more like you.
Hmm.
Alice the benevolent, it, um, does have a nice ring to it.
So I suppose this means that you'll step in and make a deal with the mayor for my freedom.
Naw.
You're on your own.
Fine.
I suppose it wouldn't mean much coming from a pumpkin anyway.
What? Well, you missed Mummy's 12:00 deadline, and I for one can't wait to see what Jada has in store for the Batteam this time.
You're okay.
You're on a plane.
You did this? Again? My god.
How stupid am I? Of course you did this to me.
You sold me out! - Where are we even going? - Can I please explain? No.
No more explaining.
We have explained each other to death.
We shouldn't be together.
This doesn't work.
We want two different things.
I'm not having this fight again.
Then don't.
If going back and destroying everything and everyone is more important than me and us WOMAN: Be with you until the end Then go! WOMAN: Ooh, ooh, ooh I will be What the hell am I supposed to do, jump? Why is that crazier than anything you've done before? I'll 100% die.
Then stay! I didn't sell you out, Pam.
I negotiated a deal for your freedom.
No running, no rules, but it means doing things my way for once.
So what's it gonna be? WOMAN: Be your safe place Close the damn door.
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh I will be your safe place Where are we going? Sophie Moore told me about an off-the-grid island where plants are worshipped and industry doesn't exist.
Sounds like a fantasy.
Close.
It's called Coryana.
Ooh, ooh, ooh Ooh, ooh, ooh Ooh, ooh, ooh I don't want to know.
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh Ooh, ooh, ooh Hey.
Any word from Jada? Luke is still working on the buzzer, and she's not picking up her phone.
Okay.
Well, let me know if there's anything I can do.
Hey.
Thank you.
For whatever you said that got Renee to talk.
Well, she's not a bad person.
- She's just - In love? That's putting it sanely.
It didn't work.
What do you mean? Pam's finally out of our lives.
Kissing me.
You said it would get me out of my head, but it just got me in it more.
WOMAN: I will be your safe place I'm sorry you have to go through that.
No, you're not.
LUKE: Hey! We got a problem.
DANA DEWITT: In a Channel 8 news exclusive, could Batwoman be responsible for the throwback blowback? The explosive bombshell provided by the Jeturian CEO Jada Jet asserts it's no coincidence the city's been terrorized by flashback villains from Gotham past.
Ohh.
What is this? I guess Jada's not one to be kept waiting.
You're telling us the Mad Hatter, Killer Croc, Mr.
Freeze, Poison Ivy, they're all a result of a major catastrophe at the hands of Batwoman? Batman kept his enemies' weapons under lock and key.
Batwoman let them out of her sight and into the hands of would-be killers.
She's gonna turn the whole city against me.
DEWITT: Just this morning, it was reported that Batwoman stopped Poison Ivy from rupturing the Gotham Dam.
You're missing my point.
Why was Poison Ivy at the dam in the first place? Didn't Batman put her away a decade ago, and, yes, she stopped it from total collapse But the dam still broke.
There have been reports of flooding all over Gotham.
It's time to face the city, Batwoman.
Admit what you've done.
Turn yourself in before you do any more damage.
[HEART MONITOR BEEPING.]
[BEEPING ACCELERATING.]
MAN: Greg, move your head!
What are you doing? - Aah! Aah! - Taking initiative.
How about we kill your two little sidekicks at the same time, hmm? RYAN: Do you think we should hook him up to fluids? LUKE: Not unless you want him to wake up.
JADA: Another jolt would reawaken his empathy.
I have spent millions looking for the buzzer, but no one's seen it.
RENEE: 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 and seeing you.
I thought the water would revive me.
I need to get my strength back.
MAN: Hey.
Hello? - Get away from me! - Aah! Oh, little sister what have you done? Maybe that will get you out of your head.
You found me.
No.
You found me.
[GRUNTING.]
[COUGHS.]
What? What is happening? Ugh.
Unh! This is so not me.
You underestimate yourself, Mary, just like your friends always have.
What the hell's going on? I need you to shh.
Hello.
I'm Dr.
Hamilton.
Do you know who I am? Of course.
Harold Marlowe, CEO of Gotham United Healthcare.
We didn't just kidnap a rando.
This was a focused, specific abduction Get to the point.
Too many words gets a little mustache-twirly.
Here's the thing, Harry.
I've treated tons of patients, single moms, students, the unhoused.
You know what they all have in common? Please.
Please.
[GROANING.]
They all have claims denied by you.
Please.
[GAGGING.]
Perhaps if you spent a little more time in nature, you might have the chance to put yourself in their shoes.
Imagine you're the dad of a kid whose treatment isn't covered so you work two extra jobs.
Your kid gets sicker and sicker.
You get poorer and poorer.
Please, please.
You lose your home, you're living in your car, you're drowning in a lifetime of debt, - Aah! Aah! - And suddenly, just having a sick kid seems like a day off.
[SCREAMING.]
WOMAN: Pretty little fires burn I will make it hurt Damn, that felt good.
[MUFFLED SCREAMS CONTINUE.]
That was epic.
Did you rehearse that? Ohh.
I've been dealing with the horrors of the Gotham healthcare system for a while now, but I think that you just unlocked something.
You found your calling, doc.
I get it now.
Justice, using this gift to level the playing field.
Now the press is gonna label you a villain, they're gonna call you unhinged, use way too many puns, but if you just do what feels right, - they can't stop you.
- Yeah.
Pam Your nose.
It's happening again.
WOMAN: I will make it I didn't even do the heavy lifting.
Here.
I can take it.
Go ahead.
WOMAN: Pretty little fires burn I will make it hurt [MOANING.]
Ahh.
Thank you, Mary.
No problem.
WOMAN: I will make it hurt You okay? I'm fine.
Let's go.
Hurt Pretty little fires burn I will make it hurt Yeah.
Hi.
We have a problem.
WOMAN: Hurt Pamela Isley beckoned Mary all the way from Metropolis? Why didn't you stop her? Believe me, I tried.
Mary mind-roofied me.
And while a deep betrayal at the time, if I'm being honest, I haven't slept that well since I torched Mabel Cartwright.
LUKE: Hold up.
Mary pheromoned you? I thought you two were buds.
And I thought you were working out of Renee's, but I got to say I'm loving this whole commuter coffee shop vibe you've got going on.
Why should we trust anything you say? Mmm.
Because I'm in a gay bar when I'm supposed to be in Santorini, so, uh, you do the math.
Look.
We couldn't stop Mary, we got our asses kicked by the O.
G.
, so how do you suppose that we stop two Poison Ivys at the same time? Easy.
You want to kill a plant, take away its sunshine.
Uh, not easy, seeing as though none of us can actually control the weather.
She means Renee.
We go after Pam's weakness.
You're gonna want to get on that today, ASAP, like, 10 minutes ago.
Your deal with Renee for your freedom was a scam, which means you're a wanted criminal.
You wouldn't risk coming back here unless there was something deeper going on, so what is it? Me? Deep? Heh.
There's no need for insults.
Besides we're running out of time.
PAMELA: Not gonna lie.
What you said to that insurance sleaze really hit home.
Didn't take you for a paying your premiums type.
Heh.
Well, my little brother had really bad asthma growing up, and we didn't have a lot of money, so our mom got super into plants, herbal remedies.
A few years after my brother got sick, we learned that our drinking water had been poisoned by the factory up the hill.
The doctor said it was a miracle we weren't all in the hospital.
My brother didn't make it to his 13th birthday.
Whoa.
I thought Renee said she'd pick us up at the road.
She did.
Ooh! Hey.
I got the tickets.
I'm about 20 minutes away, so pack up.
I'll swing by to grab you.
Where are we packing for? - Miss us? - Apparently not since she's leaving without saying good-bye.
- Tsk, tsk, tsk.
- What is this? Oh.
This is us catching you mid-betrayal and reminding you we have a binding contract, Renee.
Do you know what that is? Gotham Dam.
Toured it on a fourth grade field trip.
Let me guess.
You learned that it supplies power to over half the industry in Gotham and saves the city money.
Did they also tell you that it's responsible for the extinction of an entire species of fish, dried out river beds, eroded farmlands? To be honest, I wasn't really paying attention.
No one is, and then we wake up in 50 years, and our planet is dead because we killed it.
What are we doing here? I wanted to show you my passion project.
This dam feeds into Gotham's industrial district.
The factory that killed your brother.
One of them, but there are dozens more doing the exact same thing, finding loopholes in regulations, no consequences.
Mary I brought you here because I was hoping you would help me, help mother nature drown Gotham's industry in her tears.
Aw.
Are those too tight? I'm not sure what you think this will accomplish.
Well, for one, you're not getting on a plane right now.
You're gonna tell us where your girlfriend took Mary.
Like I said, betraying Pam was the biggest mistake of my life.
Not doing it again.
It wasn't a mistake.
You said it yourself.
You saved hundreds of lives by putting her away, and you know it.
It was the right move.
Keep me here as long as you want.
I'm sure the owners of this place will find it great for business.
SOPHIE: They are the owners of this place.
- Hey.
- Hey.
H-How did you know we were Luke called thinking I could help.
Is that a problem? No.
Okay.
Now that that's sorted, Soph, dear, can you fix this? What is Sophie supposed to do? What, you've never stolen Sophie's cell phone and read her private text messages? Ahem.
[WHISPERING.]
They've been intimate.
Okay.
This is ridiculous.
The only ridiculous part is us thinking we could trust you.
When were you gonna tell everyone that you had the Joy Buzzer this whole time? Oh.
You really think I was gonna let a psycho killer loose in the city I spent my career protecting? Now I'm confused.
Are we talking about Alice or Pamela? ALICE: Let's cut to the chase.
You are gonna tell us what Pam did with Mary, or this psycho killer is gonna show you what she can do with a lemon zester.
Trust me, I've done worse with less.
LUKE: Hey, Batwoman.
Heads up.
Someone just turned on the Bat-Signal.
[WHISPERING.]
Hey.
Go ahead.
Let me talk to Renee.
I know how to think like a cop.
We'll get Mary back.
I got to go.
[GRAPPLING LINE FIRES.]
You're playing a dangerous game taking a son from his mother.
I took him to stop the dangerous game he was playing.
And here I thought the city found you charming.
Where's the buzzer? The Joker pressed this godforsaken thing to my son's head and turned him into a monster.
I've been told that another buzz could cure him.
If there's a way to make it work again, I'll find it.
If you think I'm handing this to you without getting my son back, you're crazier than he is.
You don't get it.
If he wakes up before we figure out how to make that thing work, you're the first one he goes after.
I'm safe.
My son and I have an arrangement.
Really? Well, does that arrangement trickle down to your employees? The last time Marquis was in your custody, it didn't go so well for them.
How do you know anything about that? Your people talk more than you like, and here you thought they all found you charming.
Give me the buzzer.
I'll find a way to make it work.
It's the only choice you have here.
If I give you this, I want my son back in exchange.
Fine.
By midnight or we have a problem.
Terrifying, isn't it? It's a small Ocean.
It's what happens when you redirect entire river systems.
What are we doing up here? I have to unlock the grates over the turbines so we can get started.
But you'll flood more than the industrial district.
You could wipe out half the city.
If I wanted Renee here, I would have invited her.
I'm not trying to be a Renee-sayer, but unleashing this much water on a major metropolitan city could kill a lot of people.
Yes, and by taking out those polluters, we'll save so many more to say nothing of the environment.
I want to help you, Pam.
Seriously, I owe you so much, but I finally figured out what to do with all of this energy, this power, and I don't need to be drawing the kind of heat that comes with being the girl who drowned the city.
I get it.
This isn't your fight.
I'm not gonna make you do something that you don't want to do.
Thank you.
But I still need your help.
Unh! Pam! You're hurting me! Please! Let me go! Thank you, Mary.
I mean that.
I could not have done this without you.
Found her just lying here.
She's alive.
What the hell is she doing up here? I'll call it in.
Go search the place.
See if there's anybody else.
SOPHIE: I don't get it, Renee.
I know you're smart, and I know you know what comes next aiding and abetting, obstruction of justice, stealing evidence.
Need I go on? I'm curious, though If the roles were reversed, would Pamela be sitting here risking everything for you right now? Uh-uh.
You think about that! RENEE AND SOPHIE: Seriously? What? 72 hours of this, and she'll be singing like a canary.
Tell me you're having more luck with the scanner.
Nothing out of the ordinary.
Hey.
What was up with Ryan before? - When? - You know, when she was weirdly surprised that I didn't check in with her before inviting you down here.
- She didn't tell you? - Tell me what? Doesn't matter.
Well, arguably, it matters even more now.
MAN, ON RADIO: 365 en route with a priority one, approximately 25-year-old female, unconscious.
We're on route 99 heading west about 18 miles out.
MAN TWO: Copy, 365.
Ready to receive.
Not sure if you want to notify family, but my partner recognized her as Commander Jacob Kane's daughter.
Over.
LUKE: Not Batcave to Batwoman.
Jada gave me the buzzer, and then in return, she demanded Marquis - back by midnight or else.
- Or else what? Knowing takes all the fun out of it, but the last time she thought I screwed her over, she tanked Wayne, and we lost the company.
Yeah.
As much as I love reminiscing, Mary was just found unconscious.
- Wait.
Is she okay? - That's all I got.
She's en route to Gotham General, G-Med ambulance number 365, traveling west on 99 about 35 minutes away.
If I go after Mary, there's no way I'll make Jada's deadline.
Yeah.
I agree, but it's a lot easier to pluck her from an ambulance than hijack her from a hospital.
I'll take whatever Jada throws at me.
I'm getting Mary back, but I'm gonna need help.
Batwoman, I'm here.
What do you need? Tell Alice to stop drinking.
[BELCHES.]
[TIRES SQUEALING.]
- Ha ha ha! - What the hell was that? What do you expect when you put the gas next to the brake? Oh, my god.
Pull over.
Oh, relax.
I know how to drive.
[TIRES SQUEALING.]
The damn car's an automatic! Obviously.
I'm just reviewing my options, you know, getting my bearings.
[BEEP.]
No! No options! Eyes on the road, hands on 10 and 2.
Can I listen to some music, teacher? If it means we don't have to talk.
Hmm.
SOPHIE, ON STEREO: How do you think this makes me look to my friends? I trusted you.
RENEE: I promise you.
It was nothing personal.
- No.
The music - Shh, shh! Quiet! This is juicy.
SOPHIE: Do you even remember what you told me that night? Ohh! She's talking about the night.
Oh, come on.
Like you're not dying to know.
RENEE: I said a lot of things that night, Sophie.
Kentucky whiskey does that to a girl.
Ohh! What? Don't take that, Sophie.
SOPHIE: Then I'll remind you.
You said you saved a lot of people's lives by locking Pamela away.
I could tell you meant it.
It's not too late to do it again.
Let's not act like we have some deep connection, okay? You couldn't be with your first choice, and I was there.
I wonder who her first choice is.
- Oh, well.
- Don't.
SOPHIE: My first choice? You bitched about Ryan all night.
- Hey.
That's you.
- Shut up.
And all I know is that when I'm not into someone I don't talk about them constantly.
She has a good point.
Whatever.
"Whatever"? That's a big deal.
Sophie likes you back.
"Back"? Who said I liked Sophie? Uh all the girls on the playground.
Come on.
It's obvious.
You're avoiding your feelings for Sophie, which is why you asked me to be your wheel woman and not her.
You and I are the same, Batty.
We pretend like we don't care, but it's only because when we get something good, we know we're gonna screw it up.
You mean like you and Mary? What happened between you two? [SIREN.]
That's her.
- Get closer.
- Gee.
Can't you just get her with a grapple hook or something? You want her to come flying through the rear doors? So particular.
Pull over! Oh, my god! Batwoman? I need the patient! She needs a hospital.
- Speed up.
- Seriously? Get in front of him.
[TIRES SQUEALING.]
Keep straight, and when I land, pull over and wait.
Oh, just make your move, bossy pants! [TIRES SQUEALING.]
[HORN HONKING.]
PARAMEDIC: What the hell is going on up there? Uh, we're being jumped by Batwoman.
Stop the car! Uh, we can't.
The patient needs medical treatment.
Um, Chester, you need to stop right now.
RYAN: Mary, Mary! Mary, it's Ryan.
Can you feel my hand? Whoa.
Poison Pam really did a number on her.
- Maybe it's for the best.
- Huh? We risked our lives trying to get her back.
Well, she's not dead.
She's just in a coma, and if we're lucky, she'll stay that way so we never have to tell her she killed a man.
What? Oh.
Yeah.
Mary killed a man, a hunter.
She gutted him with a tree branch.
It was pretty horrific actually.
Why didn't you tell me she killed someone? Because she doesn't know yet.
She just flung him and didn't wait to see the damage.
Anyway, I'm guessing if Poison Ivy Jr.
ever turns back into Saint Mary, learning what she did will pretty much destroy her.
Wwhuuu! It feels so good to get that off my chest.
Ha! Ahem.
We need water! What happened to her? Have no idea.
She's unresponsive.
Blood in her nose, her ears.
LUKE: I'm barely getting a pulse.
Mary, can you hear me? It's called sporeling transference.
ALICE: I'm sorry.
What now? Think of Mary like a supernatural battery pack.
Being desiccated for 10 years took its toll on Pam.
The vine from Batman's trophy case somehow found Mary, infected her, and turned her into Pam's sporeling.
ALICE: Okay.
Can you stop saying that word? So Mary was created so Pam could leech off her life force? No.
Pam is not a parasite.
She genuinely cares about Mary.
SOPHIE: So if Mary's life force looks like that, can we assume that Pam is firing on all cylinders? On all cylinders? She just went from a minivan to space rocket.
So why now? To finish what she started.
Well, aren't you suddenly a wealth of valuable information? [WHISPERING.]
How'd you get her to talk? - Kentucky whiskey? - Huh? Pam's gonna hit the dam.
That's the only thing outside the city on route 99.
That's what Pam was targeting before Batman stopped her 10 years ago.
That means she's still there.
- I'm going after her.
- Please tell me you're joking.
If Pam is at full strength, you don't stand a chance, none of you do, not even together.
Batman tried to stop her for months until he realized he needed me to set the trap.
So what do you suggest? You want to stop Pam, you need her.
RYAN: Mary? Mary, can you hear us? [SIGHS.]
Why am I here? Workers found you at the dam and called 911.
We think Pam almost killed you.
Pam? No.
She just needed energy.
I'm fine.
She's using you, Mary.
It's not like that.
I'm fine.
Seriously.
Anyway, this has been real, but I need to find her.
She's probably wondering where the hell I am.
She is not your friend, Mary.
She created you because she needs you to survive.
Of course you'd say that.
I finally find somebody who values me, so I must be in a toxic codependent relationship.
It can't possibly be that this is actually who I am and that people like me? ALICE: You're a portable battery, Mary, and you're all out of charge, so listen to a Kelly Clarkson song and move on.
What are you doing here? Who do you think told us about Pam? Wow.
You know Guess you were right.
Guess I am the crazy one.
Says the Arkham inmate still pretending she's stuck in a children's fairy tale and a grown woman dressed like a flying rodent.
LUKE: Okay.
You made your point.
You know what? Don't even get me started on daddy's little robocop or the queen of unemployment.
I didn't say anything.
Yeah, but you're here, aren't you? Part of this friend-tervention or whatever this is? But if you were all actually my friends, then you'd respect my wish when I said to leave me alone! RYAN: You killed someone, Mary! A hunter, an innocent man.
You didn't realize it.
You thought you'd just flung him out of your way, but you didn't.
He's dead.
I think I'd know if I killed someone.
You're wrong.
If you want to stop Poison Ivy from destroying this city, there isn't much time left.
What the actual hell? [RUMBLING.]
Oh, my god.
Hey, lady.
You can't be down here! [CEMENT CRACKING.]
[SCREAMING.]
MARY: You're gonna kill yourself.
You're here.
What happened to him? He wanted to stop me.
I thought you were sitting this out.
I didn't see you on the bridgeway.
I realized that as much as I don't want to take any innocent lives I didn't want to put you in danger of exerting yourself past the point of no return, and after everything you've done for me, I owe you so much.
Want a boost? Desperately.
RENEE: Mary's the only one she trusts, so Mary's the only one who can pull this off.
A few years ago, I developed what I hoped was a pheromone blocker.
Every morning, I put a few drops in my coffee.
Did this for years, partly out of habit, partly because I've always hoped to see Pam again.
ALICE: Aw.
What, I can't be sentimental? RENEE: The other day, I found out firsthand it works.
The chemical agents blocked Pam's ability to mind control me, meaning it must have weakened her substantially.
So what do we do with it? If Mary drinks it and Pam draws her energy, it could weaken her enough for you to get the upper hand.
Mary's a trojan horse.
Pam never sees it coming.
LUKE: If Pam was weakened substantially, doesn't that mean that Mary would be, too? Likely, but between her biological reactions to the blocker and Pam draining whatever Poison Ivy energy she has left, it could be the best shot you all have at everything being pulled out and getting Mary back for good.
RYAN: And when you say drain her energy, how much are we talking? RENEE: If I had to guess, every last drop.
No.
It could kill her.
We're not doing that.
MARY: We need to.
It's the only way to stop her.
And if she drains you to death? I won't let her.
I'll pull away.
You can do that? You can pull out of her grip while she's draining you? Pam's not stronger than me.
[SCREAMING.]
What happened? Mary, what What did you? She stopped herself from becoming you.
WOMAN: Inhibition paper thin Got permission to rescind Must be hunger in the wind [RYAN GRUNTING.]
[VOCALIZING.]
My time has come [BOTH GRUNTING.]
My time has come My time has come My time has come I got to go.
I'll check in when we get there.
- I need to come with you.
- I thought without your AI Batwing was on the sidelines until you found a way to deal with, you know.
My head.
I know, but you can't take down Poison Ivy and also stop a dam from imploding at once.
Luke, you don't have to do this.
Yeah, I need to for me.
[GRUNTING.]
[HEARTBEAT.]
BRUCE: There is a whole mess of people out there willing to believe that you deserved it just because you're Black.
I don't want to live in that world.
I want to be with my dad.
MARQUIS: Don't lie to yourself.
You wouldn't beat me with two good hands.
There's no voice.
There's no voice but my voice.
Unh! Huh! Come on, Luke! Come on Luke.
The city can't be saved, Batwoman.
It's a cesspool of crime, filth, and pollution.
Let it go.
Start fresh! LUKE: Damn! You got to teach me that.
- Did you stop it? - Yeah.
The dam's stable.
It's done.
So is Pamela.
Mary! - RYAN: Is she breathing? - LUKE: Barely.
Let's take her home.
This city is worth saving, at least it is to me.
I'm back.
I can feel it.
I'm me again.
SOPHIE: Welcome back, Mary.
Never thought I'd miss those brown eyes so much.
[SIGHS.]
And we owe you a giant apology.
Mary, we will never let you feel sidelined by this team ever again, okay? We're family.
Guys I really appreciate the warm welcome But, uh I remember everything.
I know what happened.
I killed someone.
Poison Ivy killed someone, and now she's gone.
And Mary's back.
Yeah.
You came back to Gotham because you care about her.
I'm sorry.
Who are we talking about? Mary because even though a part of you loved every second of it, you still feel guilty for changing her to be more like you.
Hmm.
Alice the benevolent, it, um, does have a nice ring to it.
So I suppose this means that you'll step in and make a deal with the mayor for my freedom.
Naw.
You're on your own.
Fine.
I suppose it wouldn't mean much coming from a pumpkin anyway.
What? Well, you missed Mummy's 12:00 deadline, and I for one can't wait to see what Jada has in store for the Batteam this time.
You're okay.
You're on a plane.
You did this? Again? My god.
How stupid am I? Of course you did this to me.
You sold me out! - Where are we even going? - Can I please explain? No.
No more explaining.
We have explained each other to death.
We shouldn't be together.
This doesn't work.
We want two different things.
I'm not having this fight again.
Then don't.
If going back and destroying everything and everyone is more important than me and us WOMAN: Be with you until the end Then go! WOMAN: Ooh, ooh, ooh I will be What the hell am I supposed to do, jump? Why is that crazier than anything you've done before? I'll 100% die.
Then stay! I didn't sell you out, Pam.
I negotiated a deal for your freedom.
No running, no rules, but it means doing things my way for once.
So what's it gonna be? WOMAN: Be your safe place Close the damn door.
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh I will be your safe place Where are we going? Sophie Moore told me about an off-the-grid island where plants are worshipped and industry doesn't exist.
Sounds like a fantasy.
Close.
It's called Coryana.
Ooh, ooh, ooh Ooh, ooh, ooh Ooh, ooh, ooh I don't want to know.
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh Ooh, ooh, ooh Hey.
Any word from Jada? Luke is still working on the buzzer, and she's not picking up her phone.
Okay.
Well, let me know if there's anything I can do.
Hey.
Thank you.
For whatever you said that got Renee to talk.
Well, she's not a bad person.
- She's just - In love? That's putting it sanely.
It didn't work.
What do you mean? Pam's finally out of our lives.
Kissing me.
You said it would get me out of my head, but it just got me in it more.
WOMAN: I will be your safe place I'm sorry you have to go through that.
No, you're not.
LUKE: Hey! We got a problem.
DANA DEWITT: In a Channel 8 news exclusive, could Batwoman be responsible for the throwback blowback? The explosive bombshell provided by the Jeturian CEO Jada Jet asserts it's no coincidence the city's been terrorized by flashback villains from Gotham past.
Ohh.
What is this? I guess Jada's not one to be kept waiting.
You're telling us the Mad Hatter, Killer Croc, Mr.
Freeze, Poison Ivy, they're all a result of a major catastrophe at the hands of Batwoman? Batman kept his enemies' weapons under lock and key.
Batwoman let them out of her sight and into the hands of would-be killers.
She's gonna turn the whole city against me.
DEWITT: Just this morning, it was reported that Batwoman stopped Poison Ivy from rupturing the Gotham Dam.
You're missing my point.
Why was Poison Ivy at the dam in the first place? Didn't Batman put her away a decade ago, and, yes, she stopped it from total collapse But the dam still broke.
There have been reports of flooding all over Gotham.
It's time to face the city, Batwoman.
Admit what you've done.
Turn yourself in before you do any more damage.
[HEART MONITOR BEEPING.]
[BEEPING ACCELERATING.]
MAN: Greg, move your head!