Batwoman (2019–…): Season 3, Episode 10 - Toxic - full transcript

Previously on
Batwoman:

Ever since the Joker pressed that buzzer
to your head, you haven't been the same.

I need to fix you.

What are you doing?

Taking initiative.

How about we kill your two little sidekicks
at the same time, hmm?

Should we hook him to fluids?

Not unless you want him to wake up.

Another jolt would reawaken
his empathy, but I have spent millions

looking for the buzzer,
but no one's seen it.

Ten years
and suddenly it's like yesterday.



What were you thinking
would happen when you freed me?

I wasn't. I got wrapped up
in the moment, seeing you.

I thought the water would revive me.
I need to get my strength back.

Hey.

- Hello?
- Get away from me.

Oh, little sister.
What have you done?

Maybe that'll get you out of your head.

- You found me.
- No.

You found me.

What...?

What is happening?

This is so not me.

You underestimate yourself, Mary.
Just like your friends always have.

- What the hell is 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.

They all have claims denied by you.

Please.

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.

And suddenly just having
a sick kid seems like a day off.

Damn, that felt good.

That was epic.
Did you rehearse that?

Oh, I've been dealing with the horrors
of the Gotham health-care system for a while now.

But I think that
you just unlocked something.

You found your calling.

I get it now. Justice.
Using this gift to level the playing field.

Now the press is gonna label you a villain,

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.

I didn't even do the heavy lifting.

Here. I can take it.

Go ahead.

♪ Pretty little fires burn ♪

♪ I will make it hurt... ♪

- Thank you, Mary.
- No problem.

♪ I will make it hurt ♪

You okay?

I'm fine.

Let's go.

♪ Pretty little fires burn ♪

♪ I will make it hurt ♪

Yeah. Hi.
We have a problem.

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.

Hold up, Mary pheromoned you?
I thought you two were buds.

And I thought you were
working out of Renee's,

but I'm loving this whole

commuter-coffee-shop vibe
you got going on.

Why should we trust anything you say?

Uh, because I'm in a gay bar

when I'm supposed to be
in Santorini, so you do the math.

We couldn't stop Mary.
We got our asses kicked by the OG.

So how do you suppose that we stop
two Poison Ivys at the same time?

Easy. You wanna kill a plant,
take away its sunshine.

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 wanna get on that today.
ASAP, like, ten minutes ago.

Your deal with Renee
for your freedom was a scam,

which means you're a wanted criminal.

You wouldn't come back unless there was
something deeper going on. So, what is it?

Me? Deep?

There's no need for insults.

Besides...

we're running out of time.

Not gonna lie, what you said
to that insurance sleaze really hit home.

Didn't take you
for a paying-your-premiums type.

Huh.

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.

Doctors said it was a miracle
we weren't all in the hospital.

My brother didn't make it
to his 13th birthday.

Oh.

I thought Renee said
she'd pick us up at the road.

She did.

Oh.

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 goodbye.

- Tsk, tsk, tsk.
- What is this?

Oh, this is us catching you mid-betrayal

and reminding you
we have a binding contract, Renee.

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 riverbeds?
Eroded farmlands?

To be honest, I wasn't 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.

Oh, are those too tight?

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.

I'm 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.

They are the owners of this place.

- Hey.
- Hey.

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?

You've never stolen Sophie's cell phone
and read her private text messages?

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?

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?

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.

Batwoman, heads up.
Someone just turned on the Bat-Signal.

Hey, go ahead.

Let me talk to Renee.
I know how to think like a cop.

We'll get Mary back.

I gotta go.

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 is 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 work,

you're the first one he goes after.

I'm safe. My son
and I have an arrangement.

Really? 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 that?

Your people talk more than you'd 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 turbine 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. Taking out those polluters
will save so many more,

to say nothing of the environment.

I wanna 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 draw
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.

Pam, you're hurting me.

Please!

Let me go.

Thank you, Mary.
I mean that.

Could not have done this without you.

Found her just lying here.
She's alive.

What is she doing up here?

I'll call it in. Go search the place.
See if there's anybody else.

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?

Mm-mm.
You think about that.

Seriously?

What? Seventy-two 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?

When she was weirdly surprised

that I didn't check 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.

365 en route with a priority one,
approximately 25-year-old female,

unconscious.

We're on Route 99
heading west about 18 miles out.

- Copy, 365. Ready to receive.
- Not sure if you wanna notify family,

but my partner recognized her as
Commander Jacob Kane's daughter. Over.

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.

Last time she thought I screwed her,

she tanked Wayne
and we lost the company.

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,
no way I'll make Jada's deadline.

It's 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.
- I'm here. What do you need?

Tell Alice to stop drinking.

What the hell was that?

What do you expect
when you put the gas next to the brake?

Oh, my God. Pull over.

Relax. I know how to drive.

This damn car's an automatic.

Obviously, I'm just reviewing my options
and I'm getting my bearings.

No. No options.

Eyes on the road.
Hands on ten and two.

Can I listen to some music,
teacher?

- If it means we don't have to talk.
- Hmm.

How do you think this makes
me look to my friends? I trusted you.

I promise you,
it was nothing personal.

- No. The music...
- Shh. Quiet. This is juicy.

Do you even remember
what you told me that night?

She's talking about "the night."

Like you're not dying to know.

I said a lot of things that night.
Kentucky whiskey does that to a girl.

What?
Don't take that!

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.

- My first choice?
- You bitched about Ryan all night.

- Hey, that's you.
- Shut up.

All I know is, 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.

Tsk. Come on, it's obvious.

You're avoiding your feelings,

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 we when
we get something good,

we know we're gonna screw it up.

You mean like you and Mary?

What happened between you two?

That's her.

Get closer.

Can't you just get her with a grapple hook?

You want her to come flying?

So particular.

Pull over!

Oh, my God, Batwoman?

I need the patient.

She needs a hospital.

- Speed up.
- Seriously?

Get in front of him.

Keep straight,
and when I land, pull over and...

Just make your move, bossypants.

What is going on up there?

Uh, we're being jumped by Batwoman.

Stop the car.

I... We can't.
The patient needs medical... treatment.

Um, Chester,
you need to stop right now.

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.
- We risked our lives trying to get her back.

Well, she's not dead.
She's just in a coma.

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.
- Why didn't you tell me?

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.

Whew!

It feels so good to get that off my chest.

We need water.

- What happened?
- No idea. She's unresponsive.

Blood in her nose, her ears.

I'm barely getting a pulse.
Mary, can you hear me?

It's called Sporeling Transference.

I'm sorry, what, now?

Think of Mary
like a supernatural battery pack.

Being desiccated for ten 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.

Okay.
Can you stop saying that?

So Mary was created
so Pam could leech off her life force?

No. Pam is not a parasite.
She genuinely cares about Mary.

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 a space rocket.

So why now?

To finish what she started.

Well, aren't you suddenly
a wealth of valuable information.

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.

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 wanna stop Pam?
You need her.

Mary?

Mary?
Can you hear us?

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.

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 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.

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.

Grown woman dressed like a flying rodent.

Okay, you made your point.

Don't even get me started
on Daddy's Little RoboCop

or the Queen of Unemployment.

- I didn't even say anything.
- Yeah, but you're here, aren't you?

Part of this "friend-tervention"
or whatever this is.

But if you were actually my friends,

then you'd respect my wish
when I said to leave me alone.

You killed someone, Mary.

A hunter. An innocent man.

You didn't realize it.

You thought you 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.

You wanna stop Poison Ivy
from destroying this city,

there isn't much time left.

What the actual hell?

Oh, my God.
Hey, lady, you can't be down here.

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 wanna take innocent lives...

I didn't wanna 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.

Mary is the only one she trusts,

so Mary is 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.

Aw.

What, I can't be sentimental?

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.

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 is the Trojan horse.

Pam never sees it coming.

If Pam was weakened,
doesn't that mean that Mary will be too?

Likely. But between
her biological reactions to the blocker,

Pam draining
whatever Poison Ivy energy she has left,

could be the best shot
you all have at everything being pulled out.

Get Mary back for good.

And when you say "drain
her energy," how much are we talking?

If I had to guess, every last drop.

No! It could kill her.
We're not doing that.

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 is not stronger than me.

What's happening?

Mary, what...?

What did you do?

She stopped herself from becoming you.

♪ Inhibition is a sin ♪

♪ A condition to the skin ♪

♪ My time has come! ♪

♪ My time has come! ♪

♪ My time has come ♪

- I gotta go. I'll check in.
- I need to come with you.

Thought without your AI, Batwing was
on the sidelines until you deal with...

My head? I know.

But you can't take down Poison Ivy
and stop a dam from imploding at once.

- Luke, you don't have to do this.
- Yeah, I need to. For me.

There are people out there willing to believe
you deserved it, just because you're Black.

I don't wanna live in that world.
I wanna be with my dad.

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.

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!

Damn.
You gotta teach me that.

- Did you stop it?
- Yeah. The dam's stable.

- It's done.
- So is Pamela.

Mary.

- Is she breathing?
- Barely.

Let's take her home.

And the city is worth saving.

At least, it is to me.

I'm back.

I can feel it.

I'm me again.

Welcome back, Mary.

Never thought
I'd miss those brown eyes so much.

Yeah.

And we owe you a giant apology.

Mary, we will never let you feel sidelined
by this team ever again, okay?

We're a 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 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?

Nah. You're on your own.

Fine. Suppose it wouldn't mean much
coming from a pumpkin, anyway.

What?

Well, you missed Mommy's 12:00 deadline,
and I, for one, can't wait to see

what Jada has in store
for the Bat Team 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...

♪ I'll be with you right till the end ♪

then go!

♪ Ooh ♪

♪ I will be... ♪

What the hell am I supposed to do?
Jump?

Why is that crazier
than anything you've done?

I'll 100-percent 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?

♪ I will be your safe place... ♪

Close the damn door.

♪ I will be your safe place... ♪

Where are we going?

Sophie Moore told me
about an off-the-grid island

where plants are worshiped
and industry doesn't exist.

Sounds like a fantasy.

Close.
It's called Coryana.

♪ Ooh, ooh ♪

♪ Ooh... ♪

I don't wanna know.

♪ Ooh ♪

♪ Ooh... ♪

Hey. Any word from Jada?

Luke is still working on the buzzer,
and she's not picking up her phone.

Let me know if there's anything I can do.

Hey.

Thank you.

For whatever you said
that got Renee to talk.

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.

♪ I will be your safe place... ♪

- I'm sorry you have to go through that.
- No, you're not.

Hey.

We got a problem.

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 felons from Gotham past.

Whoa, 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.

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.