Sunday, November 14, 2021

BATWOMAN 3.5


 



RECAP - BATWOMAN  3.5:  "A Lesson From Professor Pyg"  


Major lessons and revelations permeated throughout this installment of our Scarlet Crusader, as she went and visited dear old Mom for a showdown, and ended up fighting for her life and that of Sophie, Jada, and Marquis in the process.  Meanwhile, just what in the hell is going on with Mary?  She's seemed to have developed a green thumb as well as being able to get her medical license.   And Alice finally gets to the nitty gritty as to just WHY she wanted Alice and Batwoman to work together.  



This episode had Batwoman and Alice on another case, after pulling her away from some bickering with Sophie, who's shacking up there in the interim while she and Batwoman hunt down the Batman villain weapons.  Their investigation leads to a man who was strung up and killed using what seems like Catwoman's whip---which had some fancy nanotech with it.  Her and Alice need to find this person quickly.  

Meanwhile, Ryan herself also has another mission---trying to do as much damage control for Wayne Enterprises as much as possible, since more employees have quit or been fired since Jada pulled her little deal to expose the funds that they use to fund the Bat operation.  Ryan has to meet up with Jada, but Sophie says she's going to, so they get dolled up to get over there.  Mary's trying to reason with Ryan, but she seems to be thirsty....A LOT.  Either way, they're on their way to Jada Jet's home, where they get an icy reception.  And before they left for Jada's, Alice made sure she got some digs in on Sophie about it being a date with Ryan.  Sophie just assures her it's recon.  And...Sophie tells her that Montoya requests her presence at her office pronto. 






So, back at Jada's we meet the chef, who now has to make one more for dinner what with Sophie there as Ryan's date.  But we see that the chef is someone who has an affinity for pigs....Professor Pyg.  So, as dinner is being prepared, Jada and Ryan get right down to it: she wants Ryan to stop associating with her brother or things will get ugly.  Sophie excuses herself to the bathroom, but sneaks upstairs to Jada's office, where she plants a bug that Luke gave her, and then she snoops around a little more, and gets caught by Jada.  The night doesn't get any better, as Marquis shows up with his date, who then psychoanalyzes everyone in the room.  But Ryan tells Jada straight that she's grateful she gave her up, because she's got friends and a family now, and she's the better for it.  

Marquis' date went upstairs to the bathroom, but something's wrong---she can work her fingers, and she can't move her body.  Professor Pyg comes in and kills her.  Everyone else then starts feeling the effects of the spiked wine, and they can't really move.  Professor Pyg then tells Jada he's a chef that she fired from some event some time ago, and because of that---he lost his wife, kids, and everything.  So, now he's out for revenge.  Ryan stabs him, and as he writhes in pain, everyone's making their escape.  They all manage to stumble into Jada's Panic Room.  He says he'll be back.  As Sophie lays a guilt trip on Jada, Marquis starts going into convulsions.  If they don't get him an adrenaline shot soon, he will die.  But it's down in the garage.  Ryan leaves the panic room to go and get it, while Pyg waits the women out.  




While Ryan, Sophie, Jada, and Marquis fight for their lives, Alice talks to Mary, and says that she's been having the hallucinations again, and they're getting worse.  She also hears Mary give her speech about reaping what she sows, and how the seeds of her destruction are bearing bitter fruit.  Alice also notices that Mary's clinic has taken on more of a jungle theme, as their are more plants in the vicinity.  Alice notices a bag with a dead plant in it, and takes it with her.  Anyway, as Alice goes through the files for anyone that's had an opportunity to grab Catwoman's whip.  But there's a file that looks like it's been read a lot.  Alice finally puts it together.  While she says that there's a man running around named Flamingo that was the killer and used a bullwhip, she's more interested in the file on Pamela Isley.  So, Montoya fesses up that her and Pam dated in college, but then she got taken and experimented on...and when that happened,the Pam she remembered died.  Alice then hands her the dead vines, and Montoya says that they don't die unless they infect someone else---and Alice realizes that Mary has been infected, when she earlier noticed Mary needing a lot of water, her constant itching, the plethora of plants in her clinic, and all the plant references she made.  

Back at Jada's mansion, Ryan has made her way to the basement, weak as she is, but the problem is, she can't reach the adrenaline syringes.  They're on top of a shelf, but when she reaches for it, it falls on her.  She can't get to them, and Pyg takes her.  Jada realizes Ryan is going to be killed, so she distracts Pyg long enough for Ryan to inject herself, and then she manages to fight off Pyg long enough for Sophie to inject Marquis and saves his life.  Sophie then tries to help Ryan, but Marquis then goes after Pyg, and kills him by stabbing him to death.  In the aftermath, Sophie knows that Jada is up to something and warns Ryan---but they DO joke about it being an interesting first date.  



Jada reveals that she didn't want Ryan to get to know Marquis, is because of an incident that happened to him when he was younger.  The Joker kidnapped the schoolbus he was on, and zapped him with his joybuzzer.  The effect altered Marquis in strange ways, as we see that Jada had given Ryan tapes of Marquis as a kid....and sees some VERY disturbing things...his fascination with death.  Jada was hoping using Fries' cryogenic chamber and science would put Marquis in suspended animation until they could find a way to cure him.  While Ryan is getting a disturbing revelation about her brother, we see him at home, taking the bloody shirt off, and looking in the mirror....with his bloody hands, and then wipes his lips with it...as if creating a Joker smile.  




They've really turned up the creepy factor on this show---and I love it!  It's really starting to feel like a Batman type show more and more.  With Professor Pyg this week, they did a good job keeping up the psycho factor, honored the character well.  We also learned that there's more to Marquis than meets the eye, and why Jada didn't want Ryan to associate with him---he's unhinged.  And now we understand more as to WHY she wanted to put Marquis in the a deep freeze.  Does this bring Ryan and Jada closer, or does Jada have something else up her sleeve, and Marquis does her dirty work?  Either way, Ryan still hast to be careful.  We're also seeing Sophie's attraction to Ryan getting stronger, and will we see them go on an actual date?  I wouldn't mind---I'm liking them together.  

Alice finally got to the crux as to WHY Montoya had her team up with Batwoman---Poison Ivy.  She's still out there, and now there's a NEW problem:  Alice now knows that the dead vine means that a new person is infected with Ivy's weird plant infection--Mary.  Mary has acted more strange since she's gotten home from Gotham Park.  That little piece of a sticker she pulled out of her arm was the thing that infected her, and now all the plants in her clinic, and the weird speech with all the botany and plant references towards Alice now presents the team with a NEW problem.  Question is:  will they be able to reverse everything happening to Mary before she falls victim of Ivy's plant spell?  Or will Mary start to take on more of Poison Ivy's characteristics?  We know at SOME point, Ivy WILL make her appearance on this show, but we're seeing Mary's decline into madness.  

Another solid show, with some fascinating new developments, and what this does to the dynamic of the team, and the dynamics of the people involved.  This show is picking up steam, and I truly am enjoying where it's going.  It's gotten SO much better since the 1st season, and I think the stability of having Javicia Leslie there as the main character has really helped this show develop and get a better foothold.  I look forward to her first interaction as Batwoman with Flash, and all the other Justice Leaguers (yes, it's the Justice League....let's stop the tease already, CW...just give us what we want).   But more and more...the show has gotten so much better.  

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

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