BATWOMAN 2.7

 

RECAP - BATWOMAN  2.7:  "It's Best You Stop Digging"  

All roads lead to Coriyana...and what happens when these roads all MEET will be interesting in and of itself.  For now, however, we got some BIG revelations this week in Gotham City, as we dive more into Alice's missing past with Ocean, Ryan's continued deterioration of health, and Jacob and Sophie's desperate hunt for the map to the island, so they can rescue Kate.  This isn't even to leave out what Catherine Hamilton had been doing behind closed doors at Hamilton Dynamics.  

This installment saw Jacob and Sophie looking into whatever deadly experiments that Catherine and her company had been doing behind closed doors.  This has been unsettling for Jacob...especially in the wake of finding out that Mary had been running an underground clinic beneath his nose, and he shut it down....and, in the process, shut out his daughter.  He and Sophie investigate a crime at the company, when they find a room with Dr. Rogers...who had been looking into using the Desert Rose for his "miracle cure"...and thus make a boatload of money...and several of his assistants...all dead at a table.  Blood spattered everywhere, and IV's hooked up to all of them.  Whomever killed them was looking for the map.  Jacob also isn't happy that Sophie knew about Mary's underground clinic, and all Sophie could do was tell him that he's not making it easier by taking the ONE THING she loved away from her.  

They later investigate Roger's home to try and find the map....and they find the container the map was in, but it's gone.  Jacob is frustrated at this point, and vents it.  His failure to find Beth and now Kate is causing Jacob some despondent thoughts.  Sophie tries to reassure him that they will find Kate.  

Mary and Luke, however, spend this episode trying to figure out how to get the map so that they can save Ryan, because the Desert Rose is the only thing that can cure the Kryptonite poisoning she's suffering from.  And with it now in her bloodstream, in her brain, and permeating her bone marrow, she's losing time.  Mary and Luke talk about what they need, and in their conversation, Ryan flies the coop.  Batwoman is on the hunt for Ocean, and she tries to hit the street to find him by going to the one source for information she has at her disposal:  Angelique.  However, upon meeting her ex, she notices that her ex didn't take long to hook up with someone else.  It looked like she was going to fess up as to who she really is, but she instead asks for Ocean.  Angelique informs Batwoman of where to find her, and then pushes her off the fire escape of her apartment.  Batwoman, too weak as it is....crashes through the roof of a car below.  

Luke and Mary in disguise, come to Ryan's rescue in a van, and they take both the van AND the Batmobile out of sight before the authorities get closer.  Once in the cave, Mary sends Luke to get some medication and other medical supplies so that she can help Ryan out more.  Ryan and Mary talk, and Ryan figures that if she's going to die, she's going to get justice for her mother by going and killing Alice once and for all.  Despite Mary trying to convince her it is NOT the way, Ryan makes enough of a convincing argument to let Ryan go.  Ryan has had hallucinations all episode long about the death of her mother, and having a dream about Alice and killing her.  She's now dead set on gaining closure for her and her mother...and what she believes is Mary too.

The big part of this week's episode centers on Alice, as she and Tatiyana have a chat about Alice's missing memories that she's now regaining.  Tatiyana talks about how Safiyah and Catherine Hamilton had a deal about some weapons, but at the last minute, Catherine backed out on it, and Safiyah wanted revenge.  Safiyah then sank Catherine's boat that just happened to have Alice stowing aboard it.  It was also during this time that Safiyah had issues with Kate as well.  But she saw something in Alice, and decided to train her.  Turns out, Ocean and Alice didn't see eye to eye at first as he trained her.  Tatiyana also went on about how Safiyah fell in love with Alice, and wanted her to be a part of her army.  That's why she wanted to train her.  Safiyah tells of the legend of the Desert Rose, and how only a woman's touch could make the Desert Rose bloom and grow, and be used to save mankind.  But Safiyah feels that the island and its assets needed to be protected at all costs.  

Alice DOES get Tatiyana to admit that she loves Safiyah, and that her only quest is to get revenge on her sister and father.  Safiyah hoped she would change her mind.  But Alice talks with Ocean, and she convinces him that there is life beyond the island, and he says he wanted to take the Desert Rose out into the world and do some good with it.  She and him planned on leaving, and they got closer, and eventually hooked up.  They were caught, and both Safiyah and Ocean argue about the Desert Rose, and about leaving.  Alice takes heat for betraying Safiyah, and she decides that Alice and Ocean need to be punished.  So, she has their minds wiped of each other, and...as it turns out...Safiyah used hypnotic suggestion to turn Alice into the psycho we all know and love.  After Tatiyana reveals all to Alice, Alice gives her a key to the truck, and they load the body of "Ocean" into it, with Alice needing to make a stop before she meets with Safiyah.  

This brings us full circle to Alice meeting up with Ocean, and telling him what Tatiyana told her.  He's not surprised.  She kind of hopes that he'll ask her to go with him, but he feels he needs to stay off the grid, and she has a face-to-face with Saifyah.  Ocean takes off.  As for Alice, she ends up meeting Batwoman face to face.  Ryan then shows her who she is, but Alice has no clue and honestly doesn't care.  They end up getting into a fight, and Ryan is too weak to keep it up forever.  As Ryan gets Alice in a choke hold, she gets a vision of her mother...asking her what she's doing.  It's not how she raised her.  Ryan lets Alice go, and says she's not worth it.  Alice takes off, but saying her mother's death wasn't her fault, to which Ryan replied that EVERYTHING is her fault.  

Ryan arrives back at the Cave, where Luke is about to lecture her, but she then reveals that during the scuffle with Alice, she put a tracer in her boot.  They follow Alice, they get to Coriyana....and in finding Kate...and saving Ryan.  As for Alice...she meets up with Tatiyana, and she drives off.  

This episode was REALLY good.  We got Ryan to finally confront Alice...and just as she wanted to kill her...it was her delirious visions that saved her from landing the death blow.  Plus....I think it's safe to say that Ryan KNEW she couldn't really kill Alice---that's Kate's sister, and it's not how her mother raised her...and that's not Batwoman.  But credit to Ryan for thinking on her feet...even in her desperate hour.  Ryan was getting some catharsis in this episode, but also showed us that she's getting better at this Batwoman gig.  

Alice's missing past gets filled in for us, and it's no surprise that Safiyah took a shine to her.  But to find out that...because of Alice's betrayal...that Safiyah's hypnotist warped Alice's mind to not only steal her memories, but also turned Alice into the psycho machine we now know her as.  That there was actually an OUT for Alice with Ocean...even with Saifyah had she stayed on the island...it makes for a sad story.  And for Tatiyana to consider Alice a distraction...and try to get snide with her...and mock her...only to have Alice put a knife to her throat without batting an eye.  Tatiyana has VERY little clue as to what kind of monster Safiyah created.  

Jacob is starting to lose his grip a little more.  He's lost Kate (temporarily), and had lost Beth before...and now pushed Mary away...AND learning that Catherine was doing some VERY unethical stuff behind her company is just taxing his emotions to the limit.  Sophie is there steadfast by him...but even SHE has kept a secret or two form him.  Can he pull it together to be able to find Kate before Alice does?  These are all questions that we'd like to see answered.  But the journey is the fun part.  

What did YOU all think of what happened this week, and the revelations that were exposed?  Where do you think this all ends up?  Subscribe and leave a comment below with YOUR theories.

Until next time....the Signal is OFF!