Batwoman (2019–…): Season 1, Episode 8 - A Mad Tea-Party - full transcript

Previously on "Batwoman"...

Bruce never stopped looking

for your sister's body.

Catherine hamllton's
investigators found.

Skull fragments
of a little girl.

It's beth.

You never would have moved on.

If you didn't think
that beth were dead.

I paid the dna analyst
to write the report.

As hard as I have tried
to get over you, I can't.

It's definitely not
fair to tyler.



Maybe it's best if I keep
my distance from now on.

Daddy!

Catherine seems to think so.

We are to host

the most memorable mad tea-party

gotham has ever seen.

Ha ha ha!

KATE, VOICE-OVER: They say
the choices we make define us,

but despite all the darkness,
despite all those who doubt,

and despite my own fear that
I've lost my sister forever,

I choose to hope
that beth is still there.

Don't tell anyone, bruce,
but I think this makes me.

An optimlst.

- Give me your Jacket!
- Wait. What?



Unh! Give me your Jacket.

This is vintage, bitch.

Hyah!

Ok. Take it, take
it, take it take it.

- Vintage.
- Thanks.

Not exactly my style or size.

Ooh. Is that blood?
You really shouldn't have.

Front right pocket.
Rabbit dropped it in there

before he made a run for it.

Think we can use the
phone's gps to track alice?

- I can try.
- Cool.

I see you broke
the staff in two.

Like I wouldn't notice?

Sorry. For the record,
it'd be a whole lot cooler

if it actually came apart.

It doesn't, though, so...

ok. Here is every location
the phone's gone to

the past 7 days.

Where's this?

Ah. Slice of gotham.
Worst breadsticks in the city,

but location two is a
little more promlsing.

It's a warehouse in the bowery.

Then that's where she is.

Don't wait up.

Ohh!
Too sad, too loud, too mundane!

Whaa! Why do I have
nothing to wear?

Ugh. If you're
going to kidnap me again,

do wait until I can dolly up
into something with, um,

a little more flair.

Did you hire the rifle
to kill me?

Says the walking,
talking, living girl.

He shot someone that he
believed to be Batwoman.

With the coil accelerator,

a weapon designed
for only one reason...

to kill me.

The guy who designed
it was found

with a butterfly knife
in his heart.

Yeah. Mm-hmm. Let me
rephrase that.

So an evil man was trying
to kill my twin sister,

and I ensured that
that didn't happen.

- What is this?
- Uh, that is

a multimlllion-dollar
piece of technology.

That allows the coil accelerator
to penetrate your suit.

That's the only one
that exists on the planet.

Anyone who knew
how to make it is,

well, um, exactly that,
past tense,

so... you're welcome.

Turn yourself in, alice.

Let me help you.

I know my sister is in there.

Oh, this again.

You kept this...

from the day
of our bat mltzvahs.

Take it and be gone.

I am quite busy,
and I have nothing to wear.

It's kane. I'll be back
in gotham later tonight.

We'll go over the floor plan
for the gala

first thing tomorrow.

Talk then.

So the way I see it
you can either spend

your friday night
in here inhaling asbestos,

or you could Join me
in wearing this season's.

Sexiest haute couture, hmm?

Seriously, gigi and bella could not
even get their hands on this yet.

You want me to go
to that thing tonight.

That thing is the gotham
humanitarian gala,

i.e. the most important
event of the season.

Honoring your mom,
who told my dad that beth was dead.

Asbestos it is.

I get that we are
bordering on too soon.

Hmm. Pretty sure we're
right in the mlddle of it.

I know that this isn't
important to you,

but it's important to me, ok,

so why can't it be important to
you that it's important to me?

Because you think that if
gotham sees us as a famlly.

That we'll start to believe it,

and that's Just not
how it works,

not after what catherine did.

But you gave alice
a second chance

and a third and a fourth.

How can you Just write
off my mom as satan.

But you don't seem
to have any problem.

Holding out hope for the actual
most evil person in gotham?

Because she's my famlly.

And I'm not? Got it.

I guess I am
the crazy one, you know,

for thinking that you and
I could still be sisters.

Of course you're my famlly.

It's Just...

different? Yeah.
Do yourself a favor. Stop digging.

Listen. Even if I wanted to go,

I could never do that to my dad.

You don't know?
He decided to come tonight...

for me.

Sorry for thinking that
you would do the same.

You're going to
the humanitarian gala?

Yeah. I meant to
talk to you about that.

Unless catherine somehow
didn't fake beth's death,

then I don't know what
there is to talk about.

Hmm.

Are you getting back with her?

Hmm. When you've been with
someone for a decade and a half,

you don't Just walk away.

You're letting her weasel
her way back into your life.

There's no weaseling, kate.

We've been spending
some time together.

When? You've been out of town.

Oh. You know, we had
breakfast when I got back.

You're seriously forgiving her?

I'm not defending what catherine did.
She's not either,

but I'm beginning to
understand why she did it.

As a mother,

as a wife.

She thought she was
helping us move on.

Wake up, father dear.

Hmm. Why,
what a long sleep you've had.

I thought it was
high time you and i.

Finally had
a daddy-daughter chat.

- That's all I want.
- Hmm.

Oh, come on. Not like this.

Let me out of these chains.

Shh.

You're not the commander here...

commander.

Kate will know I'm gone.

Will she? Hmm.

Because I saw her last night,

and there was nary
a mention of you.

Guess she's 0 for 2 in
mlssing famlly members.

What do you want
me to say? I'm sorry?

There is no word to
describe what it feels like

to know that I left you behind.

Then find the words to explain

why you never tested the skull
fragments catherine found.

I had no reason to
think that she was lying.

But your daughter was mlssing,

and this was Just
a handful of bones

found by some woman you'd
known for less than a year.

Maybe believing that
you were dead

was easier than waking
up every morning with hope.

Or going to sleep every
night with a broken heart.

Of course, I should
have looked longer.

I should have hoped harder,
I should have... I should have

had the dna tested myself.

I wish... I wish I could
have been your father

for the past 15 years, but...

I failed.

I failed you.

Thank you for saying that.

And thank you

for making me who I am today.

What are you planning?

Tell me what to do to stop it.

Today is the day
of my mad tea-party.

To which you've been invited.

Hmm. I'm fairly certain
you'll attend.

Catherine will be delighted,

but how can that be
if you're stuck here

and still the guest of honor?

I guess you'll see
as we drink tea

and someone ends up.

A goner.

Catherine manipulated
my dad 15 years ago,

and here she is
Just doing it again.

My dad is the head of the crows.

I mean, how is he
even falling for this?

Alice has been on a killing
spree since you got back,

and this is what's got you
drinking bruce's good stuff?

Alice was brainwashed
against her own will.

This is different.
My dad is choosing.

He is choosing to forgive
a woman who lied.

About the death of his daughter.

Catherine paid
a team of scientists.

To change dna results.

My dad once found
a Joint in my backpack.

And grounded me
for a whole summer.

It doesn't make sense.
This is not hlm.

- This isn't him.
- What am I mlssing?

If you're calling with a
lecture, I don't have time.

The opposite actually.

I know complicated
better than anyone else,

and if you want to work things out
with she who must not be named,

it's not my business.

Well, I appreciate that, kiddo.

And in thinking about it,
I realized

that I never really
gave her a chance. Heh.

Remember the wedding
and the big snowstorm.

And I Just kept wishing that
maybe if we got snowed in.

You wouldn't have to
get married?

If only a snowstorm
were our biggest hurdle.

Anyway, I Just wanted to say
I'm sorry and have fun tonight.

Thanks, kate.

My dad married catherine on
the hottest day of the year.

So if that's not
your dad, then...

it's mouse.

So you know those
vacation days we banked?

What if we took one of
our old-school road trips?

I was thinking down
south, maybe dollywood.

Sounds cool.

What is up with you?

I Just suggested a
road trip to dollywood.

Nothing's up with me.

Nothing, or you're
pretending to be cool

about kate and me and you're
obviously still freaked?

Ty, if this is
going to be a thing,

we should talk about it.

Sorry to keep you waiting.

I wanted to go over
tonight's agenda.

As you know, this is one of
the city's biggest nights,

so I need you two to run point.

Sophie, you take the alpha team.

And cover the interior.

Tyler, you're with bravo
locking up the perimeter.

Teams are already
down in the theater.

Beginning their sweep.

I want this evening
to go off without a hitch.

Good evening, gotham.
Tonight is city's.

Humanitarian gala,
which is rich person.

For "let's dress up
and congratulate each other"

on being rich and dressed up,"

and it's all to honor
hamllton dynamlcs'

matriarch of munitions
catherine hamllton-kane.

Not sure how they're gonna fit a
tomahawk mlssile into a swag bag.

So I'm en route to the
humanitarian gala with the rents.

What uuup?!

Where mom is being honored.

As the gotham giver of
the year... #prouddaughter.

I Just wanted to
take a moment and say.

How thankful I am for famlly.

And for sticking by each
other through thick and thin.

That's what it's all about.

To catherine, a most
extraordinary woman.

Cheers.

Ugh.

Must be time to move. Ha ha!

You are becomlng incessant.

And you are becomlng
predictable.

Whatever you have planned
for the gala,

the crows are already on to it.

Tell me where dad is.

Or what? You'll
have me arrested,

institutionalized, killed?

You hate him. I get it.
I would, too,

but he did not mean to hurt you.

You keep holding on so tightly

to the childish notion
that beth is still in here.

If beth is gone,
then why did you keep this?

You saved this for the
same reason you saved me.

From the rifle.

Because despite the hate,
the resentment, the rage,

there's still good,
there's still beth.

So tell me where dad is.

I left him in the same
place he left me.

Thank you.

Kate.

He's not doing so well.

You mlght want to be
quick about it.

Dad?

Hi.

Good evening.

I assume you have
everything in order.

10-4, commander. All good here.

Got to hand it to you, mouse.

That's impressive.

If you're not Jacob,

then you're...

not a crow. Oh, crap.

To date, the hamllton foundation.

Has donated countless mlllions.

To fund work in the health,

emergency relief, poverty,
and education sectors.

Both globally and in gotham.

All of these
philanthropic efforts

are spearheaded
by catherine herself.

I can think of on one
more deserving.

Of the gotham humanitarian
of the year award.

Than catherine hamllton-kane.

Whoo! Ha ha!

Whoo!

Thank you, dr. Campbell,
for that wonderful intro.

And to mayor akins
and the city of gotham.

For this great honor.

When I took over this company
from my father...

tyler. Tyler!

Wake up!

What happened?

The commander tranqed us.

What?

Help! We're in here!

One-way windows,
soundproof walls.

No one can hear us or see us.

Kate was right.
Alice's new mlnion.

Is impersonating Jacob kane.

I'm still way too
drugged up to process that.

Alice must be planning
something at the gala,

which is why she took us out.

I thought alice was more of a...

slit open our necks and pose
for a tea-party type murderer.

Ketamlne's a little dull, no?

She didn't want to hurt us.

We're talking about
the same alice, right?

She's trying to preserve
some sick relationship.

With kate,
and killing me would...

killing you would mean
kate would never forgive her.

Because kate's still
in love with you.

I have no idea.

And what about you?
Any idea how you feel?

We should probably figure
out how to get out of here.

Today, hamllton is
a household name.

In technology innovation.

She's fine.

"Tonight...

"you honor me
as one of gotham's heroes,

"an honor that I...

bought and paid for"...

"quite literally
with... blood money.

"My company makes mlllions
by putting weapons of war.

In the hands
of gotham's crimlnals"...

"and my husband"...

"rakes in even more
by protecting you from them."

dad.

"Quite the scam
we've been running,

wouldn't you say?"

"what my husband doesn't
want you to know.

"Is that the true villains
of gotham don't go.

"By the name Joker,

riddler, or alice."

"gotham's true enemles are
right in front of you."

Mom!

Mom, mom, mom!

Orpheum theater. We need medics.

You hang in there, sweetheart.
You're ok.

Hello? Something's
happened to my mom.

She's breathing,
but we need medical help immediately.

You keep an eye over
them until I get back.

Oh, my god. Where are you going?

I'm gonna meet the medical
help and bring them here.

- Ok. All right.
- Hang in there, sweetheart.

Ok.

Oh, my god.

I didn't have a choice.

It's ok.

She made me.

Stay with me.
Help is on the way.

Ladies and gentlemen,
as we get medics.

For mrs. Hamllton-kane,
please stay in your seats.

There's no cause for alarm.
Please.

Everything's under control.

Stay in your seats.

There's no need to panic.

The crows are holding us!

Let us out!

Ok. I'm in position.

Batwoman's here. Let's bounce!

Rrrraaahh!

Aah!

A little left.

Trying. Nope.

Other one.

- Got it.
- Nice.

Yeah. I'm really regretting
not getting you.

A bigger one of these
in this moment.

I wouldn't have wanted it.

You sure you still
want this one?

Tyler.

It's a little hard
to ignore the irony

of using the engagement ring
I got you to escape.

Your ex-girlfriend's
lunatic sister,

who didn't kill us
because she knows more.

About your past relationships
than I do.

What do you want to know?

What was it between you two?

And don't say it was Just
some drunk college hookup.

Unless you were actually
drunk for 3 years.

Look.

All my life I followed
the rules,

my famlly's rules,
the army's rules.

This was the first time
I broke one,

and it almost cost me
everything.

That's why I lied.

Didn't answer my question.

Let's go get some help.

Commlssioner,
with all due respect,

I need your men to stand down.

She's infiltrated the crows.

If you breach, we're all dead.

Why isn't Jacob back?

He'll be back soon.

Your husband won't
be Joining you.

Get me the tray.

Catherine, you do not
look so well.

You stay the hell away from us!

I'm not the one
you should worry about,

for "it was all very well to
say, 'drink me, '".

But you should have first looked

to see whether it's
marked poison or not.

Oh! You poisoned her?

Group effort. I used
a catherine hamllton recipe,

proJect 4782.

Ring any bells?

4782?

Catherine, do you want to
tell her?

I think her internal
organs are liquefying.

I'll Just tell you.
It's a deadly neurotoxin.

Designed to kill without mercy.

First, there is the dizzy spells

and then nosebleeds and
then comes muscle paralysis.

And, uh, oh,
respiratory failure,

but lucky for us,
hamllton developed an antidote.

Ok. You Just got to hold on
until we can get that antidote.

Oh, no, my dear,
I'm confusing my stories.

Hamllton never even bothered
to develop an antidote.

If she dies, I'll kill you!

She made a choice.

Maybe if she'd made better
choices in the past,

we wouldn't be here right now.

You're Just gonna let her die.

Aw, mary, my darling,
impetuous stepsister,

I'm not a total monster.

No. I found a solution,

a universal cure-all
all the way from coriana.

Where's coriana?

Hmm. On a map or two.

It's made from a desert rose
that blooms.

Only on the island.

One prick of its thorn
can kill you on then spot,

but harness the flower

and nurture its serum,

and it gives you life.

What do you want?

Hmm. A simple apology...

for all the pain
you've caused me.

I'm sorry... alice.

I Just don't believe you.

Get me eyes on alice and Jacob.

She said she was sorry!

You think I enJoy watching

a daughter lose her mother?

Gah!

I was Just inches
from my own mother's.

Severed head floating
down the gotham river.

After our car plummeted
off the bridge.

Oh, please.

Please Just try.

I can't lose you.
Please Just try.

I'm a mother.

Alice...

when I saw kate grieving,

I saw my own daughter.

I Just wanted to
take away her pain,

but in trying to take
away kate's pain,

I gave you a lifetime of it.

It's all my fault, alice.

All the lost years,
all the agony you endured,

it's all my fault. It's all...

I'm truly sorry.

Thank you, catherine.

I do believe you've earned
a draught of this tea.

Oh!

Oh, dear. Not you, too.

What?!

Uhh. No. What did you do?
How did you...

tell me you didn't both
drink the champagne.

Oh, that's such a shame,

seeing as there's only
enough antidote for one.

Dad drank the champagne, too.

We need to go find hlm.

He'll be fine.
He knows better than

- to poison himself.
- What?

He poisoned you, mary.

Jacob would never hurt us.

Hmm. Getting closer.

You had someone impersonate hlm.

What?

The skin pirate.

There is an escapee from arkham.

That wasn't Jacob in the limo.

There you go.

Now what were we talking about?

Yes. The choices we make.

Do choose wisely.

Ok. Maybe if we split it,

maybe we'll buy enough time.

To get to the emergency room.

No, no. Alice would
have accounted for that.

No. Mom, we have to try, ok?

We have to try.

Mary, listen to me. Drink it.

No. There has to be another way.

Mary, I am your mother.

Ugh! Drink it.

It's ok.

Drink it.

Did you do it?

Jacob's drugged,
and I put him in the suv.

- Good.
- He doesn't know what happened.

I have to go.

You're too late.

Where is my dad?

Our... dad.

You'll find out soon enough.

Whatever you did,
you can undo it.

But I don't want to undo it.

I was locked in a cell

for 11 years.

What do you think put
me to sleep at night,

rainbows, unicorns?

I dreamt of revenge.

What did you do?

What did you do?!

"It was all very well
to say, 'drink me, '

"but the wise little alice

was not going to
do that in a hurry."

oh, come on. It's not like
catherine didn't have it comlng.

You poisoned catherine?

Catherine poisoned catherine

when she slithered
into our famlly.

And brainwashed our father

and replaced us with that vapid

human run-on sentence
of a daughter.

Catherine brought
this on herself,

and I was more than
happy to watch.

Daddy go down
with her. Ha ha ha!

Unh!

Ha ha ha!

That's what I thought.

We need to go.

One way or another, dear sister,

you'll come to see my way.

Hang on, mom.

They'll be here,
they'll pump your stomach,

they'll find an antidote.

You Just got to hang on, ok?

I always wanted to see you work

in your clinic.

How did you know
about the clinic?

I've always known.

How come you never
said anything?

The fastest way for you
to stop doing something.

Was for me to approve of it.

Oh, my god.

Do you know how many wardrobe
changes I did in that elevator.

Thinking that I was fooling you?

Cameras in that elevator.

Ha ha ha!

Mom?

Mom. Shh. Yeah.

- Mary...
- yeah?

You're the one thing
I did right.

Nothing makes me prouder.

Than having raised you.

I love...

I...

love...

mom? No, no, no, no, no, no.

Mom, mom, mom, mom,
stay with me.

Wake up.

Mom! Please!

Mom!

What is this?

Ohh.

- Kate.
- Who is this?

What? It's... it's me, kate.

What did you get me
for my sixth birthday?

- What?
- What was it?

Ohh. It was, um...

it was a bike that
was too big for you.

You wrecked it the same day.

What is going on?

Alice and mouse
were at the gala.

Get out of the car, commander.

- Dad?
- I'll call you right back.

What's going on, commlssioner?

Hands in the air, kane.

Commlssioner.

Jacob kane, you're under arrest.

I don't understand.
What are you talking about?

I've never seen
that before in my life.

What the hell is happening?

Get your hands off of me!

Gotham is in shock tonight.

Over the death
of hamllton dynamlcs ceo.

Catherine hamllton-kane,

allegedly at the hands
of her husband

and head of crows security
Jacob kane.

Her death occurred Just
after some stunning.

And very public admlssions
by hamllton-kane.

While accepting an award
at gotham's humanitarian gala.

Mary?

Mary.

Do you know how many horrible
people that I've saved?

Druggies... thugs
with face tattoos.

Pulled a windshield out of a guy

who stole the car
that he totaled.

Walked out of my clinic
the next day.

Like nothing had happened,

but I...

I couldn't save her.

I am so sorry, mary.

You know how she died?

Exactly the way that
alice planned it.

Slowly...

and in pain...

and the only way for
her to save herself

was for me to die,
and she sure as hell.

Wasn't about to let that happen

because she is not
the horrible person

that you and alice
clalm that she is.

You...

you are literally
the last person

who can bring me
comfort right now.

I'm gonna ask you again, kate.

Is alice worth it?

No.

Finally.

Too bad it's too late.

Agent sophie moore.

Yeah. It's been
a late night for us, too.

Just put me on
with the commlssioner.

He's got the wrong guy.

Because I've got
a dart hole in my neck.

To prove it.

Please have him call me.

This is insane.

How can they think
he actually did this?

People believe what
they're told.

It's human nature.

Then people are idiots.

- I should call mary.
- I want kids.

What?!

And a dog
and... famlly traditions.

That we bitch about
but do anyways.

Ok.

I don't want to move
past this today.

And then have it come
up again in two years.

And realize that
I'm wasting my life.

Fighting for something
I can't actually have.

I don't want that either.

Do you love me?

Yes.

Are you in love with me?

Because if you love me,
you'll be real with me right now.

I don't know.

Let's not make this
any harder than it is.

I think you need to
figure yourself out,

and when you do and if you see

the same future I do,

maybe I'll still be here.

Maybe I won't.

KATE, VOICE-OVER: We all make
choices, bruce.

I chose hope.

KATE, VOICE-OVER: And I chose
to believe beth

was still alive.

I chose to save my sister.

From the monster she's become,

but by making that choice...

I lost my entire famlly
for the second time,

and now the only thing
I'm left with.

Is the awful truth
that alice was right.

Beth is gone.

My lawyer could only
get us 5 mlnutes.

I hate her so much, dad.

When I get out of here,
I'm gonna put her down once and for all.

This time, I won't stop you.

For so many years,

I've traveled across worlds,

across the multiverse
to do one thing...

kill you,

and now here, you save my life.

Submlt and begin your life anew.

Show me.

The knowledge is within you.

Greg, move your head!