BATWOMAN 3.13

 

RECAP - BATWOMAN  3.13:  "Are We Having Fun Yet?" 

We have reached the end of Season 3 of our Caped Crusader, and she's had A LOT to deal with this season:  some of Batman's former foes' toys got loose, only to have NEW people start to play with them...which included having her best friend Mary get infected by Poison Ivy, sending HER on a villain like tirade, only to have the REAL Poison Ivy return, and THEN...finding out that a powerful businesswoman named Jada Jet is her actual biological mother who abandoned her years ago.  And finally...her brother Marquis---whom she THOUGHT she was forming a connection with, only to find out that he was zapped by the Joker years ago, and it turned him into a lunatic.  NOW, he's going to expose her secret ID to all of Gotham.     

With Team Batwoman wondering what Marquis' next move is going to be, we have him reliving his experience those many, many years ago when the Joker took his bus hostage, and zapped him upside his head with the joy buzzer, thus scrambling Marquis' brains enough to take away any empathy and compassion he had.  Meanwhile, he's marveling at the precious treasure trove that Alice provided him with the location of the Batcave beneath Wayne Tower.  

Speaking of Alice, she's trying to scramble her own brains in order to get back to her old Beth self, but Mary manages to catch her from electrocuting herself.  Her hallucinations about Ocean and Mouse and everything else have begun to take her toll, and cause her to have a real breakdown.  Mary arrives to stop her from killing herself, and shows her a pamphlet for a clinic in Geneva that could help her.  But Alice breaks down, crying, saying she can't handle any more cells.  

Back at Ryan's, they plan out how they're going to stop Marquis, and that it should be Ryan that delivers the buzzer to Marquis.  This is her mess, and she needs to fix it.  Mary joins them, and tells them that her sister needs that buzzer.  Ryan and Sophie remind her of what Alice did to her mother, and Mary is well aware.  But she's showing compassion, and says that they weren't going to back down from her having an opinion and input on the team, so they hear her out.  At this time, Marquis sends a massive text to everyone in the city, informing them that they all need to head out into the city, because in 5 hours, he's going to announce Batwoman's secret ID all over town.  Jada shows up, and offers up her resources at Jeturian Industries to help Team Batwoman take down her son.  

Ryan goes to see Alice at Arkham, and she wonders WHY Alice feels she deserves the buzzer, and Alice says she's trying to get her head straight.  But Ryan isn't willing to go with the program, so Alice says that she doesn't deserve it.  And that she knows Marquis' REAL play for Gotham City.  It turns out, that revealing Batwoman's secret ID was NEVER the plan....but to take a bomb and drop it on the city, thus killing all the innocents in the streets.  The team realizes that he now has the Bat Blimp at his disposal, and that's how he's going to transport the bomb and drop it on the city.  Ryan says that they need to find a way to get the people to clear the streets, and that NO ONE dies tonight.  She then goes to see her mother, and appeals to Jada to ensure Marquis is ousted from Wayne Enterprises, and that control is given back to Ryan.  It's time to put the city first.  

So, with that in mind, Jada then admits on television what had happened to Marquis, and with that revelation, the Wayne board votes him out, and gives back control of the compay to Ryan.  Marquis gets wind of this, but doesn't care...he's still got HIS final hand to play....meanwhile, Sophie and Mary make their way into the Batcave in order to find a bat villain weapon to somehow influence the citizens of Gotham to clear the streets.  While Mary is trying to set everything up on her end through the Bat computer, Sophie ends up finding the Penguin's umbrella, which they'll use to hypnotize the people to do their bidding.  

Luke manages to hack into the blimp's computer to try and control it, but Marquis shoots the panel, thus giving him control back.  Batwoman zips up to the blimp to try and stop it herself, and see if she can steer it out to the river.  Sophie is concerned, but this is Batwoman's play.  There is no way to disarm the bomb, and both she and Marquis begin to fight aboard the blimp, and Marquis pushes her out, but she uses her grappling hook to pull him out with her, and they both land on a building.  Luke then shows up aboard the blimp as Batwing, and they try to find a way to get the blimp out of the heart of the city.  It turns out that Luke has to use the A.I. of his father from his helmet to get control of the blimp, and steer it out of harm's way.  The blimp then crashes on the outskirts of the city, saving everyone from harm.  

On the building, Batwoman and Marquis fight some more, and they both topple over the building, but Batwoman holds onto her brother.  Alice then shows up, and pulls the both of them up.  Alice then gives the buzzer to Batwoman, who uses it on Marquis, and he's zapped back.  Alice remembers their convo about the buzzer, and says something about doing the hard work.  Ryan says that if anyone can do the hard work to get back to Beth....it's Alice.  

In the aftermath, Mary checks up on Marquis, and it looks like he'll be fine.  Jada and Ryan look on as he wakes up, happy to see his Mom and sister.  As for Mary, she sees a knife on the desk with a note from Alice saying she's in search of herself...and to catch her on the flip side, with the brochure to the clinic in Geneva.  We then see Alice....white hair gone, as Beth tries to re-emerge and walks off...looking to become the person she used to be.  

The team celebrates their victory, and they discuss what the future may hold.  They know that Batwoman doesn't get a day off, but before they make some changes, and prepare for the continuing war, Ryan replaces the autographed baseball in the glass case that they use to open the secret door to the Batcave with the pearl necklace that was Martha Wayne's.  In the wreckage of the blimp, where there's radioactive wreckage spread about, we see the local TV reporter reporting on what happened.  However, she and the camera crew meet their grisly end, as someone or something slays them all and walks off....leaving us to wonder what new threat awaits Gotham City.  

This was a good way to wrap up the season long storyline that saw us dive more into the life of Ryan Wilder, and give us more perspective on her motivations and reasons WHY she's been a loner, and why she's remained Batwoman.  But finding her biological mother in Jada Jet...who actually survived this whole ordeal---as did her brother---which was a bit of a surprise.  I would've thought that Jada's death would've been MORE motivation for her as Batwoman, drive her further, and even make her just a TAD darker, but that didn't happen.  Now with her family a chance to build on something....and her relationship with Sophie now a real thing...how will these changes effect Ryan's ability to be Gotham City's Dark Knight Detective?  With Luke now past HIS PTSD, he's going to be more out in the field as Batwing, which will give her extra muscle on the streets.  Sophie is now a full member of the Bat Team, and her skills will prove invaluable for the future.  

As for Mary and Alice....that relationship went to complete animosity to kinship.  With Kate gone to find Bruce, it's left a bit of a hole in both Alice and Mary's lives.  Also, with Jacob Kane behind bars, they're the only family each other's had to lean on.  And when Mary's makeshift family---Luke, Ryan, and Sophie---were kind of leaving her in the background of the team, Alice saw the opportunity to cause further dissention.  And when Mary got infected by Poison Ivy, it allowed Alice to drive the needle of dissention in more.  When Mary did kill the father camper in the forest, I'd almost thought it would've broken her....but in her own way, Alice protected her sister.  In the end, we saw the cracks in Alice's veneer, and saw bits of Beth begin to creep through.  What this means for our Wonderland Girl remains to be seen.  It could be that as much as we can possibly get Beth Kane back....Alice will never truly be gone.  

What's the new villain that's now going to be creatiing havoc and terror in Gotham?  We shall see provided the show gets greenlit for a 4th season.  That has yet to be determined.  So, with that in mind---what did YOU all think of Season 3?  What was the high points of our Scarlet Crusader, what were the low points?  Subscribe and leave a comment below.

Until (hopefully) next time......The Signal is OFF!