Batwoman (2019–…): Season 1, Episode 20 - O, Mouse! - full transcript

Previously on "Batwoman"...

Tommy said that this book

holds the key to killing Batwoman,

and I want her very, very dead.

Lucius Fox wrote
the entire journal in code!

You did it! You know what it says?

Why aren't you happier about this?

The book contains
the secret to killing you.

These are Lucius Fox's glasses.

They unlock the code.
Let Luke and Julia go,

and they're yours.



Go bring me Tommy so he can tell me

where to find a little green rock

called Kryptonite.

- I have to do this.
- I have to stop you.

You won't be able to.

You'd be surprised.

Kryptonite. Why do you have that?

It was Bruce Wayne's.

He lost hope. I never will.

Keep it, and I have the courage

that you'll never have to use it.

Batwoman's in cell block D.

No. Please. Don't.

Psychotic escapees
are all over this city



right now thanks to you.

Let this serve as your warning.

If I see you again, it's war.

This is the Burnley line

bound for Central Gotham.

Hey, hey!

- Hurry, hurry.
- Go!

Aah!

Move, move, move! Out of the way!

Back, back, back!
Get away from the train!

Get away from the train!

Drop the knives!

Hyah!

Why? So you can send me back there?

Aah!

These are innocent people!

I don't care!

Aah! Aah! Aah!

Raah!

Err!

Ohh.

I thought I told you to stay in the car.

Who the hell was that?

I have no idea.

Rumor has it, the
machete-wielding maniac

was Arkham escapee and
college football phenom

Tim "The Titan" Teslow.

Since apparently The Crows commander

couldn't take down this
hulking Gotham Goliaths

tight end with a 12-gauge,

let's hope Batwoman has a slingshot

in her Batbelt.

Have you seen this?

The Crows have an app now.

Darling, my light.

It's hard enough to see
out of Lucius Fox's glasses.

You just push the button,

and the ants come marching in.

Anyone with a phone can use it,

client or not, which
means anyone with a phone

can turn us over with
the click of a screen.

We got to get out of Gotham, Alice.

What is that?

Aah! Ohh!

Ooh, the bats!

What is happening? Why are they here?

Because bats eat rats, Alice,

and that's what we are down here.

We are rats living among rats.

You promised me that we would
start a new life together

outside of all this,

but we can't do that
if The Crows find us

and kill us.

How is one supposed to start anew

when all that is old still haunts her?

Is that the Alice you
want to frolic beside

in our Wonderland,

or do you wish your Alice
to be full and complete

and happy, hmm?

You know that's what I want.

Then patience until I can figure out

where to find this rock
that penetrates the Batsuit,

a hiding spot Lucius Fox forgot
to mention in his journal.

Alice!

What the hell is this?

You call this, this a face?!

- Really, this?!
- Ha ha ha!

I don't see the problem.

I got you the journal,

I helped you decode it,

because of me you know how
to kill your sister Batwoman.

That's true.

But I am not about to spend
the rest of my life looking like

the bastard that couldn't get the
rods in the nuclear reactor in time!

Give me a face I can wear!

Ha ha ha! That's good.

Shoot her dead. That'll
get you your face,

you stupid idiot.

It's quite all right, Mouse.

I can take a note.

Wait. What?

No. You can't actually
be listening to him.

I owe him a face, which means

I'll need to go to the university morgue

for better materials...

skin, threads, scalpels,
you know the drill.

Back soon.

Alice!

You are holding the only shard
of Kryptonite on the planet.

Why was this in a puddle in the Batcave?

Safekeeping. Bruce was holding onto it

for a friend.

Let me guess... tights, cape,

big "S" on his chest.

How do you know that?

Lucky guess.

So why fish it out of a
perfectly good hiding space?

Well, Alice knows that this
can penetrate the Batsuit

along with whatever else my dad
wrote about it in his journal.

Hamilton's coil accelerator is defunct,

you melted down Bruce's rail gun,

and once I figure out
how to destroy this,

Batwoman is as good as invincible.

Unless you know something I don't.

Nope. Go to town.

Okay.

Hey. I thought we were bathuddling

over this Titan Teslow psycho.

Bathuddling isn't a thing,

and I'm off to destroy an alien mineral.

Uh... huh.

Just another day on the batteam?

Pretty much.

So Tim "The Titan" Teslow,

obviously you know the basics, right?

Just remind me again.

He was pretty much the Goliaths'
best tight end of all time.

A TD every game, over 100 catches

and 1,000 yards every season.

Let's not assume I know
what any of those words mean

because I'm a lesbian.

Uh. He was really,
really good and brutal,

as in gladiatoresque.

Turns out there's a not-so-secret
secret to all of his success.

- Say it with me... steroids!
- Sexy cheerleaders!

Point being it all came to a head

during a playoff game
against The Cougars.

Titan didn't like a call

and went straight-up
Mortal Kombat finishing move

against the official.

He snapped his neck on the field

in front of a stadium full of people.

Oof.

Since when did you
become a Goliaths fan?

Since Titan's brother Apollo
started dating Selu Corova.

Apollo's the Goliaths' running back.

You seriously need to
get out of that Batcave.

I seriously need to suit
up and talk to this brother.

Might know Titan's whereabouts.

Are we sure that's the best idea?

I do, miss "Batwoman
doesn't get a sick day".

I said that before
Commander Kane promised

if he ever saw Batwoman
again it'd be war.

I feel like Gotham's got enough Greek
tragedy happening at the moment.

You don't know my dad like I do.

I do, though,

because he's my dad, too.

Not what I meant.

Just I know how he gets,

and I know ways of getting around him.

Like when teenage Kate
wanted a Crows SUV,

he said no, you took one anyway,

and he had you arrested,

or when he said no
parties in the penthouse,

and you had one anyway, and he called

the Police Commissioner
to land a helicopter

on the roof to have you arrested?

I can keep going.

If I can stop Titan before
he kills anyone else,

then my dad and the rest of The Crows,

they might start seeing
Batwoman as one of the good guys.

Jacob Kane will never see a
vigilante as one of the good guys.

Jacob Kane has never met a
vigilante who is also his daughter.

If I can start changing the
way that he sees Batwoman,

then maybe one day I can come clean

about who Batwoman really is.

Professor Darby, I presume.

You.

For a man who plays with rocks all day,

this must be very exciting,

but it doesn't have to be.

I am looking for a little green nugget

called Kryptonite.

- Kryptonite?
- Mm-hmm.

You mean Kaolinite.

Do I, or do I mean Kryptonite?

Maybe Kimberlite or Kyanite

or, um, Charoite.

The Head of the Geology
Department, and dumb as...

Professor Darby, your name was written

beside it in a journal.

Glows green, cuts through anything.

A mineral with a natural
green luminescence

and strong covalent bonds

with that kind of cutting power?

Actually, I did analyze something

with those properties once.

It wasn't called Kryptonite.

It was some kind of rare meteor rock.

There you go.

- Hand it over.
- I can't.

It was sent back to
its owner... Lucius Fox.

Hmm. Lucius Fox is dead.

It... it just says, "Lucius Fox,

Wayne Enterprises, Gotham City".

And what do you suppose I do,

just waltz into Wayne
and ask for it nicely?

I don't know, okay? It's not here.

You need to go talk to them.

Well, then I suppose
that's what I'll do.

Until then, it's probably best
nobody knows I was here, hmm,

and with that...

I believe the Geology
Department needs a new Head.

Still hasn't checked in since
you looked 10 seconds ago.

Sorry if the idea of
my dad killing my sister

is somewhat of a concern to me.

The suit is bulletproof.

Besides, Kate knows what she's doing.

No. Kate thinks she
knows what she's doing,

which can be worse than
most people not knowing

what they're doing.

Yeah. Me included apparently.

Look. I've tried acetic,
sulfuric, and hydrochloric...

all nonreactive.

I can see why this thing
can penetrate the Batsuit.

Have you tried crushing it?

With what, a hammer?

- I said I was nervous.
- Right.

I'm exhausted just watching you.

Who's there?

Someone who thinks you're pretty bold

to be running bleachers
with Titan on the prowl.

If this is about season tickets,

I can't help you.

If this is about my brother,

I can't help you.

I guess my question
is are you helping him?

You're the only family he has left.

I don't think he sees it that way,

not after I testified against him

and got him sent away to Arkham.

You did the right thing.

Got a dangerous
psychopath off the streets.

He's not a psychopath.

Tell it to the ref he
murdered on the field.

He wanted to win

so much that he was willing to have

his soul beaten out of him...

every practice, every game,

every hit to the head.

You know, he used to
walk the neighborhood kids

to the bus to make sure they were safe?

10 years later, he ripped a
ref's spine out of his neck.

This game turned him into a monster.

Then help me make sure
he doesn't die one.

Make sure he gets the help he needs.

Tell me where to find him.

Apollo!

You betrayed me!

This is the part where you run.

Aah!

Oh!

Aah!

You abandoned me to a prison.

Now this one will be yours.

Unh!

I'm reporting live here at the scene

of yet another grisly attack

by the fugitive Tim "The Titan" Teslow,

and this time, the victim
was his own brother,

star running back for the
Gotham Goliaths Apollo Teslow.

Commander Kane.

Commander Kane, any comments

on this latest attack,
and what about reports

that not even Batwoman
was able to stop Titan?

Batwoman is the reason
lunatics like Titan

are on the street in the first place.

We got one man dead

and one of Gotham's
most promising athletes

cut down in his prime.

So you don't see Batwoman's efforts

to stop Titan as helpful?

I see Batwoman like I
see every vigilante...

a threat to the good
people of this city.

The Crows and the GCPD
will bring her to justice,

and we will not discriminate

between the Bat and those who aid her,

abet her, or so much as
turn on a damn Bat-light!

That was Crows commander Kane

with some pointed words for
Batwoman and her followers.

I don't remember tensions like these

since Commissioner Loeb and Batman,

which begs the question who if anyone

can keep Gotham city safe?

I'm gonna have to reset your shoulder.

Fair warning, this is gonna hurt a lot.

Unh!

No comment.

That was Julia.

She saw your dad on the news

and thinks you should sit this one out.

You might not have a choice.

I'll need an X-ray to make sure,

but I'm guessing you have
a couple of cracked ribs.

I'll be lucky if it's just a couple.

I've never been up against someone

this strong before, Mary.

It was like I was nothing to him.

All the more reason to avoid a rematch

at last for a few weeks
until you've had time to heal.

I don't have a few weeks.

Titan's on some killing spree,

and we have no way of knowing
who he's gonna strike at next.

Actually, maybe we do.

You're not gonna believe this.

That commuter he beheaded on the subway

wasn't just some random guy.

He had a connection to Titan.

He used to be an administrator
at his university's Neuro Clinic

until he was fired for...

falsifying student
athletes' brain scans.

Apollo said the game turned
his brother into a monster.

Or the people behind the game.

Where's the rock?

Hidden among 45 stories of anywhere

and a million square
feet of possibility.

Our beloved little rock may as well be

a grain of sand upon a beach.

So...

That's it then. It's not happening.

It's over. We can leave now.

Or we can walk right through
the door and ask for it.

Hey!

What are you doing?

Everyone knows eyebrows
don't grow themselves.

You're making him a face.

You promised me we were gonna kill him.

We will, but today, he's
an integral part of my plan.

And tomorrow? What then?

And the next day? What then?

When does this end?

Why are you pressuring me?

Because we're being hunted, Alice.

Is this rabid obsession with your family

really worth it if we both end up dead?

I suppose it is.

Well, not for me, it's not.

It's over, Alice. I'm leaving.

Heh. And where do you imagine going?

Where we've always planned to go.

To the beautiful garden
among the bright flower beds

and the cool fountains.

You out in the world alone?

Ha ha ha!

How would you even survive?

The same way I survived in Arkham

for 5 years without
you visiting me once,

not on my birthday

or a holiday

or even just because.

You really think I can't
survive without you?

Alice, between the two of us,

I'm not the one I'm worried about.

You can't leave me all alone.

Then don't make me.

Forget all this.

Come with me.

I would never let you
leave me, my little Mouse...

But we must leave
Gotham the right way...

- with a party.
- Heh.

Every season, Titan underwent
a mandatory brain scan

to assess his eligibility to play,

and Gotham U claimed this

was his most recent brain scan.

Totally healthy,

but after digging deep into
the Neuro Clinic records

thanks to Mary's med
school connections...

Technically, it's not a HIPAA violation

if you're not a real doctor.

Turns out this...

Was his actual brain scan.

Oh, God. All those years of head trauma.

Dorsal posterior insular is
basically shriveled to nothing.

That sounds really bad.

It's the part of the
brain that governs pain.

No wonder he didn't feel that batarang.

They cover it all up, and they give you

a big, fat championship
ring for your troubles.

Wow. Interesting.

GU's coach Donahue
took an early retirement

right before the scandal broke.

All right. He might
be Titan's next victim.

- Ugh.
- Where are you going?

You can barely stand, much less take on

a literal Goliath who's
hella impervious to pain.

Yeah. Not to mention,
The Crows would love

to put your pointy-eared head on a pike.

And what do you expect me to do, hmm,

stand down,

just let Titan rampage through Gotham?

Well...

There is another idea...

But I don't think you're gonna like it.

Go, go, go!

If you see the Bat, shoot.

Got something behind the light.

Don't shoot!

I'm here on behalf of Batwoman.

Ohh! Ugh!

- Where is she?
- Dad!

I'm fine.

Everything's okay.

What's going on? How
the hell did she get to you?

Can you just please talk to her?

You just made this way too personal.

We need to talk about Titan.

Which part, about how
he doesn't play the rules

or care about collateral damage?

I want to team up.

We can take him on together.

What's the matter? Titan too
much for your army of one?

Honestly, yeah. I could use some muscle,

and you could use me because
I know how to draw him out.

Oh, like you drew me out
by using my own daughter?

What sort of wannabe
hero puts an innocent girl

in front of a firing squad?

Could have blown her damn head off!

- Aah!
- Everyone off the roof now!

You heard him. Go. Go.

How the hell did she find you?

She didn't. I found her.

What are you talking about?

I'm saying this was my idea.

You told me that The Crows
wanted to make over their image.

Why not start by allying yourself

with someone the city
actually roots for?

You did this?

I knew I'm one of the only people

who can get through to you.

I believe in her, Dad.

Mary, I said anyone affiliated with her

will be brought to justice.

Okay. Then arrest me.

Arrest me for believing in
someone who saves lives

and who stops criminals
and who inspires hope

without charging a penny for it!

I'm your daughter,
and if I don't believe

in what you're doing,
then how can you expect

a city of strangers to?

Except the person you believe in

doesn't even have the
guts to show her face.

I can't show you my face,

but I can offer you this, a truce.

We partner up

and protect the city together.

Please.

So how do we get him?

I'm at Gotham City Arena
with Gotham University's

former Head Coach Kurt Donahue.

Kurt, what are your thoughts?

If you're listening, Titan,

I'm sorry for thinking
the sport was bigger

than a human life,

and I hope you'll come
join me on the 50-yard line,

where I can apologize to you in person.

It's called a trauma bond exercise.

We destroy the thing that
anchors us to our pain

so that we can move on.

Look who paid attention
in group therapy.

- Maybe a little.
- Heh.

This book is our chain.

It locks us to the Caterpillar,

the Queen,

that basement cell.

It binds us to every terrible

and twisted thing we
were forced to endure.

Burning it breaks our attachment

and frees us to move on...

Which we always intended to do.

Move on.

What happened to us

should never happen to anyone...

But there's no one in the world

I would have rather gone
through it with than you.

Nor I without you.

And I mean this

with all of my heart.

I still want to join you
in the beautiful garden...

And smell the seasons
in bright flower beds

and make a wish in cool fountains.

I want to meet a man with many hats...

Ha ha ha!

And smile back at the Cheshire Cat

and run...

with you forever...

Through our Wonderland.

Alice.

No.

What did you do?

You made me choose.

You poisoned me?

Why did you do that?

Be... because I couldn't
let you leave me.

Not you, too.

This...

this wasn't even real?

If only pain could turn to ash

with the strike of a match...

But my pain is a part of me

the way my family is a part of me,

and you could never understand

why I need to enact my revenge

because you've never experienced...

True betrayal.

At least not until now.

Good-bye... my sweet Mouse.

My brother,

my everything.

I'll see you again in Wonderland.

Are we missing the
company party or something?

Where's the Commander?

It's all hands on deck at
the arena with Batwoman.

What do you mean with Batwoman?

They teamed up to bring down Titan.

Two hours ago, he said he'd
arrest anyone affiliated with her.

Now he's tagging her into the ring?

Something's up.

We need to get there.

Call her and give her the heads-up.

Saying what exactly?

To watch her 6.

I don't think this guy is gonna show.

Could that have anything
to do with all The Crows

you have lying in wait?

I'm not standing down
the welcoming committee.

Leave tactical to me.

_

Uh, Batcave to Batwoman.
Julia just texted to...

Yeah. I got it, too. I'll be fine.

Julia seems to think otherwise.

Julia didn't look into my dad's eyes

when she shook his hand, okay?

I'll be fine.

Ish.

What just happened?

Someone cut the power.

Why are we in the dark?

Not sure, Commander. Working on it now.

Aah!

All positions, report in.

Section 30 clear.

Box level clear.

End zone one... aah!

- It's him.
- Aah!

Agh!

Go!

- Stop!
- Aah!

- Tim, this isn't you.
- Aah!

Apollo told me who
you are... big brother,

used to walk the neighborhood
kids to the bus stop,

make sure they were safe.

I know that person is still inside you.

I didn't want to be this.

I know.

You didn't have to kill him!

What are you doing?

I promised you war.

This is what it looks like.

We're on the same team.

You can't do this.

We're on he same team.

Unh!

Stop! What are you doing?

Is that why you sidelined me today?

If you want to take me off the field

to launch this app, fine,
but if you're using it

to distract me while
you and everyone else

are trying to take out Batwoman...

And why would I need
to do that, Agent Moore?

Because you would have gone
behind your own team's back

to protect a criminal?

I'm protecting you

from being on the wrong side of this.

What is it about her?

You, now Mary. Tell me what I'm missing.

With all due respect, sir, hope.

If it weren't for her, my wife's killer

would still be in Arkham.

Hope is a luxury I don't have.

Thought you two used to be tight.

We are.

At least we were.

I thought you called
Batwoman to warn her.

I did. She didn't listen.

You don't believe me.

I don't know.

Maybe I'm just looking for flaws

because I'm terrified of being
in a relationship with a woman.

Oh. No. I'm pretty much being shady

by design, luv.

Okay.

So in one of my many
thrilling and sexy adventures,

I met the wrong person and
proceeded to betray her.

So you're hiding? From who?

Her name's Safiyah,

and I'll say no more
because I'll only pull you into it.

A sexy and thrilling adventure?

Maybe I want to be pulled in.

Oh, I wish it were that simple, luv.

I knew I had a target on my back.

I just didn't know its circumference.

These were left at
my hotel this morning.

Do you need this?

Hmm.

My thoughts exactly.

I actually pictured
myself coming out to him

as Batwoman one day.

I looked him in the eyes,
and I believed him.

I'm really, really sorry, Kate.

If it means anything to you,

I believed him, too.

I always thought when I put that suit on

that nothing could hurt me...

But I was wrong.

His betrayal hurt

a million times more
than any of those bullets.

- My dad hates me.
- No.

Batwoman. He hates Batwoman.

You he loves.

He once loved Beth, too.

In his mind, Batwoman is
just as crazy as Alice.

He's wrong.

Thank you for having my back today.

To sisters.

To sisters.

Am I interrupting?

Come in.

May I present to you...

I'll stick with booze, thanks.

What? No. That's not...

that's Kryptonite.

I figured out how to destroy it.

Oh, my God. You used a hammer.

Okay. More like 40,000
tons of compressive force.

Wayne has access to a hydraulic press.

Mm-hmm. So...

Just a really expensive hammer.

Yeah, Mary. This was all thanks

to your brilliant hammer idea.

Mm-hmm.

Point being this is what's left

of the only thing on earth

that can penetrate the Batsuit.

- Okay.
- And that is me taking

the only weapon that
can kill you off the table.

Before we get too cocky...

No more secrets, not between us

and not after today.

- Where did you get that?
- The same way Bruce did.

A friend gave it to me for safekeeping

in case she ever lost her way.

And you're just telling
us about it now because...

I honestly didn't think you'd figure out

- a way to destroy it.
- Well, we did,

so hand it over.

And because I can't.

It's not mine to destroy.

Kate, if that gets into the
wrong hands, it'll kill you.

I promised my friend I would keep it,

and she trusts me,

and until I can talk to her about it,

I need you guys to trust me, too.

- Come.
- Sir.

Thought these might interest you.

Collected them from the arena.

That in particular is a
slug from a Desert Eagle.

A Desert Eagle can
shoot through anything.

Well, almost anything, sir.

Then we're gonna need to
find something stronger.

I must admit, Tommy.

I find you to be one of the most

loathsome men in Gotham.

Vain and uncouth,

humorless and dull.

I pity any woman who confuses the buzz

of her martini with your charms.

And yet here you are.

Hmm. My masterpiece.

What did you do?

I made all your dreams come true.

I look like Bruce Wayne.

You made me Bruce Wayne.

So, my rich, handsome,

beloved Bruce,

I need you to strut through the doors

of Wayne tower and get me
that shard of Kryptonite

from your dear cousin Kate, hmm?