BATWOMAN 3.8

 

RECAP - BATWOMAN  3.8:  "Trust Destiny"  

It would appear that some people embrace...or BELIEVE they embrace their destiny, such as Marcus or even Mary at this point.  Some, however, still seem to embrace hypocrisy...like the Bat Team AND Renee Montoya.  The ONLY one that is STILL true to themselves...is Alice.  She's still consistently playing all the angles, and NEVER straying from who she truly is.  And this episode, we see yet ANOTHER angle that she exposes to the Bat Team...and it's none other than Renee Montoya herself.  With tensions still raw between Ryan and Sophie, as well as Ryan and Renee...we're reaching critical mass as the Bat Team is desperate to save Mary before she reaches the point of no return.  Meanwhile, Marcus is looking to make a HUGE splash in Gotham with his plans for the city itself.  This draws the attention of Mary, who wants to see if they can team up, and have little fun.  The Bat Team has to team up with Montoya to see HOW they can get Mary back....and that means tapping into Montoya's past with her lady love, Pamela Isley to find the way to cure Mary before it's too late. So, we get to dip into Montoya's past with Pam in order to find out just how her and Batman managed to subdue the supervillain, and put her deep beneath the ground, and wither her away.  

We wind the clock back ten years, when Renee confronts Pam on her idealism and agenda to fight for the side of environmentalism, but choosing the extreme to do it, which involves killing and controlling the human populace to do it.  Pam says that Renee is betraying her by choosing her duty as a cop over their relationship.  They love each other, but Renee makes the hard choice by teaming up with Batman, and using a serum he concocted to put Pam down.  Renee tells the team what they need to do in order to save Mary, and that means that Ryan has to make the hard choice like she did.  And that means--like it or not--she has to find a way to discover WHERE Batman put Poison Ivy, and get the serum from HER in order to save Mary.  So...that means the team has to find her fast.  However, Ryan's brother has decided to throw a monkey wrench in the works by throwing a party at Wayne Enterprises, and he's calling Ryan to mock her, and show he's got plans for the town.  Ryan decides that they're going to crash the party---if only to try and sneak into the Batcave, and find out what Bruce's notes on the serum for Poison Ivy was--which Renee then finally discovers that Bruce Wayne was Batman.  Sophie had gotten some fraud notice earlier on, but she puts it aside for later.  

Meanwhile, Mary and Alice talk about their own plans, and then the hotel manager shows up to kick them out, as Ryan and Luke has frozen all her credit cards, but she uses her Ivy powers to get him off their backs, but they know that Ryan and Luke won't give up on her.  Alice suggests that the only way to get them off their back is to them hate her enough to get them to give up on her.  This gives Mary an idea to show up at Marcus' party in order to get them to hate her.  

Ryan, Luke, and Sophie are on their way to the party with aliases, so that they can find a way into the Batcave, but Montoya  joins them on the plan.  They see Marcus holding something of a demented Job Fair, as he asks questions of a couple of people, and if they don't answer the right questions, they get shocked electrically like he did with the Joker's joy buzzer.  This draws Ryan to him, as she uses a fake French accent in order to get closer to Marcus, and get his fingerprint signature in order to get access to her old office in order to gain access to the Cave.  Sha manages to answer his question correctly, but rebuffs his offer.  She walks off, and they manage to get into the office.  And after disposing of his goons, they get into the Batcave (telling Montoya to turn their head so she can't see HOW they get entry down to it).  Once in the Cave, they try to peruse Batman's notes in order to find out just where he managed to put Ivy.  Luke is running interference upstairs when Mary arrives, and starts to flirt with Marcus.  Ryan manages to figure out that Bruce had stashed Poison Ivy in the Cave itself....so the trio manage to search deep into the cave to find her.  When they do, she looks like a corpse, but they manage to extract some of Pam's blood so that they can get it to Mary.  

Luke manages to get captured by Marcus.  Batwoman is on her way to get Mary, and Sophie's fraud notice pops up again, but realizes it's from Alice.  She goes after Alice as she leaves Montoya in the Cave with Ivy.  Batwoman catches Mary on the roof, and is about to inject her with it, when Mary tells her that she has no idea is that serum will even work, and is she willing to use it on her, knowing that she might die from it it.  Just then, Marcus shows up with Luke, and he is about to kill Luke, saying that while Batman had the Joker, Batwoman has him.  In that critical moment, Batwoman nails Marcus with the serum by deftly throwing it at him.  As Luke is saved, Mary makes her escape.  Alice is in Montoya's office, and informs Sophie that Renee lied to them, and that Renee LET Alice find her files about Ivy.  And that that joy buzzer of Joker's that had been supposedly missing wasn't...Montoya had it the whole time.  Sophie realizes that Renee played them in order to find Pam.  Meanwhile, Batwoman and Luke are in the Cave with Marcus, as Ryan calls her mother, letting Jada know that she has Marcus, and if she wants to save him, she better come up with a cure quickly.  

Mary returns to Alice, and tells her what happened.  She said that in the moment Luke was in danger, and Batwoman made her choice...that she was the LEAST of Ryan's worries.  Alice admits to her that since she's been on this trip with Mary, taking care of her...the hallucinations she's had have subsided.  They hug, as they both realize their sisterly bond has gotten tighter.  As for Sophie...she checks up on Alice's accusations by searching Montoya's office.  She finds the joy buzzer, and calls Ryan.  She let's Ryan know what Alice said, and she says she had left Renee back in the deep part of the cave with Ivy.  And, we see that Renee had been talking to Pam...wondering if she could hear her.  She sees the white flowers and remembers them from when they were together.  She ends up placing a kiss upon the corpse looking Ivy....and Ivy wakes up.  After Sophie tells Ryan what she knows....we go back and see that BOTH of them are gone.  The REAL Poison Ivy is back and loose--thanks to Renee Montoya's help.  

Things just keep getting WORSE for the Bat Team, and Batwoman made a critical choice to save a life in this episode---it just wasn't Mary's.  Marcus was the bigger threat to her, and Luke could die, so she did what she thought was best in a critical moment.  And it continued to show THIS Mary that she STILL wasn't important to Ryan to save.  I can't honestly blame Batwoman for the choice she made, but it still pulls Mary further away from her, and getting LESS of a chance from being saved.  Marcus...who needed to be subdued, is now put in a place where he can't be trouble for anyone, and will allow Jada a chance to save him.  However, NOW the team faces a much BIGGER problem:  Pamela Isley is now revived, and is in no doubt going on a revenge kick.  Question is...is Renee going to join her?  Has she been playing everyone the whole time?  It seems that Alice is the only one who's had ANY foresight the entire time.  Sophie proving what Alice said to be seemingly true is just complicating matters even MORESO.  It will be VERY interesting to see what Renee says and does in this next episode as we wonder what her excuse will be.  

As for Mary and Alice....we're FINALLY seeing these two finally become more like sisters.  Alice, admittedly, as steadfastly stuck by Mary through her metamorphosis.  And it seems it's had a better effect on her as well:  her hallucinations are diminished.  What this means for the both of them in the future remains to be seen, but we know that Mary WILL meet up with the REAL Poison Ivy soon, and not sure what that will mean.  Either way, it's going to set the stage for some VERY interesting storytelling in the next few episodes.  

What did YOU all think of this episode?  I enjoyed it, and the stakes are getting higher as we get further along into the season.  The twists and turns thrown in...with Montoaya being the latest...and makes it even MORE intriguing.  So....lemme know YOUR insights by subscribing and leaving a comment below.  

Until next time...the Signal is OFF.