Season 1
- Ruby Rose as Kate "Batwoman" Kane [ 1 ]
- Rachel Skarsten as Beth Kane / "Alice"
- Meagan Tandy as Sophie Moore
- Nicole Kang as Mary Hamilton
- Camrus Johnson as Luke Fox
- Dougray Scott ( Mission Impossible 2 ) as Col. Jacob Kane
- Elizabeth Anweis as Catherine Hamilton-Kane
- Sam Littlefield as "Mouse"
- Christina Wolfe as Julia Pennyworth
Batwoman (2019) [Season 1, Episode 1]
Pilot
Shown 06 Oct 19
Kate Kane ( Ruby Rose ) returns to Gotham City. Her cousin, Bruce Wayne, has not been seen in several years. Likewise the vigilante hero known as "Batman" has not been seen either. Kate blamed Batman for failing to save her mother and her sister, Beth.
Kate's ex-lover, Sophie Moore ( Meagan Tandy ), is now married to a man - her cow-orker Tyler (Greyston Holt - Bitten ). They both work for Kate's father, Col. Jacob Kane (Dougray Scott - Mission Impossible 2 ), who runs a private security company called The Crows. Yes, rather than create a strong government that protects all citizens they have privatised safety so it is only available for the rich.
A supervillain named Alice ( Rachel Skarsten ), and her gang of mask-wearing thugs, has decided to terrorise Gotham. More specifically, they target Kate's father and his company.
Kate discovers a secret bat-cave under Bruce Wayne's skyscraper. Luckily she is a highlty trained Special Forces soldier, so she is able to wear the bat-suit and fight crime.
Batwoman (2019) [Season 1, Episode 2]
The Rabbit Hole
Shown 13 Oct 19
Kate Kane ( Ruby Rose ) has a knife with Alice's DNA, and wants to test it. She has a theory that Alice ( Rachel Skarsten ), a villain who specialises in mind-games, is really Kate's long lost sister Beth Kane.
A gang of thugs tries to steal the DNA sample. It seems that there is a third party involved.
Col. Jacob Kane (Dougray Scott - Mission Impossible 2 ) orders his agents to catch or kill Alice's gang. Yes, somehow the rent-a-cops have unlimited legal rights - literally a license to kill!
Kate's step-sister, med-student Mary Hamilton ( Nicole Kang ), also runs a secret clinic where she gives free treatment to poor people. To start with, this subsidises the corrupt healthcare system that she claims to oppose. Secondly, this makes her the first point of call for wounded criminals such as Alice's gang members.
Batwoman (2019) [Season 1, Episode 3]
Down, Down, Down
Shown 20 Oct 19
Kate Kane ( Ruby Rose ) secretly meets with Alice ( Rachel Skarsten ). In spite of Alice's many murders of innocent civilians, Kate is willing to make a deal with her. Unfortunately for Chuck Dodgson (Brendon Zub - Charmed (2018) ), Alice is obsessed with mentally torturing her father. Can Alice go 24 hours without comitting murder if that is what it takes to get Chuck back?
Tommy Elliot (Gabriel Mann - Legend of the Seeker (2008) ), Bruce Wayne's old frenemey, drops by in search of Batman. Yes, just like Olly Queen he had a best buddy named Tommy. And since everyone thinks that Batman is back in town, Tommy assumes that Bruce is back in town too.
Someone steals a super-pistol from Wayne Enterprises secret lab. This is the only weapon powerful enough to penetrate Batman's body armour.
Kate goes to Tommy's party, where she flirts with Reagan the barmaid ( Brianne Howey ). Everyone seems to hate Tommy, even Col. Jacob Kane (Dougray Scott - Mission Impossible 2 ) - despite the fact that Tommy is one of his biggest customers. Reagan is the only one who sees that as a real estate mogul, Tommy is basically deepening the city's socio-economic segregation.
Kate's ex-lover, Sophie Moore ( Meagan Tandy ), is assigned to bodyguard Mary Hamilton ( Nicole Kang ). They get trapped in an elevator with Sophie's cow-orker/husband Tyler (Greyston Holt - Bitten ). Will Sophie take the opportunity to be honest with him?
Batwoman (2019) [Season 1, Episode 4]
Who Are You?
Shown 27 Oct 19
A cat-burglar named Magpie ( Rachel Matthews ) is in town.
Chuck Dodgson (Brendon Zub - Charmed (2018) ) has been tortured by Batwoman for the last few weeks. Finally Luke Fox talks the torturer into taking her victim to a doctor. The only unlicensed doctor that Kate Kane ( Ruby Rose ) knows of is her step-sister, Mary Hamilton ( Nicole Kang ), who Dodgson tried to assassinate - but at least the doctor tries to be professional. Better, Mary can get info without actually torturing anyone.
Batwoman (2019) [Season 1, Episode 5]
Mine Is a Long and a Sad Tale
Shown 03 Nov 19
Batwoman releases Chuck Dodgson (Brendon Zub - Charmed (2018) ) so she can follow him and trap Alice ( Rachel Skarsten ).
Col. Jacob Kane (Dougray Scott - Mission Impossible 2 ) goes after Kate Kane ( Ruby Rose ), and runs into Dodgson. It turns out that the renegade's relationship with Alice isn't straightforward. Her real love is a platonic one for her foster-brother, Mouse. Dodgson's agenda is to defeat Kane, who he holds responsible for Gotham's segregation between extreme wealth and poverty. The truth is, Batwoman herself might actually agree with this.
Batwoman (2019) [Season 1, Episode 6]
I'll Be Judge, I'll Be Jury
Shown 10 Nov 19
A killer dressed like a medieval executioner is killing law enforcement people in ways similar to the official government methods of execution. His motive is that he believes his targets are guilty of corruption, and that they deliberately target poor black people. This is a bit of a whitewash - it implies that the problem is limited to a trio of bad characters rather than a deeply corrupt and unequal system.
We get some mentions of familiar characters. The District Attorney is named as the one who convicted Jack Napier, AKA the Joker. It turns out that Mayor Copplepot brought back the firing squad as a means of execution.
Col. Jacob Kane (Dougray Scott - Mission Impossible 2 ) denounces the Executioner as being a Social Justice Warrior. This marks Kane out as being a strawman. Luke Fox has more valid complaints, although he is allowed to because he is a young black man not an old white one.
The subplot is about Alice and Mouse stealing a pistol-sized coil-gun that is powerful enough to penetrate the bat-suit.
Batwoman (2019) [Season 1, Episode 7]
Tell Me the Truth
Shown 17 Nov 19
A freelance sniper is assassinating scientists in Gotham. A female ninja is hunting the sniper. She turns out to be Julia Pennyworth ( Christina Wolfe ), one of Kate's ex-lovers. Small world.
Kate's main ex-lover, Sophie Moore ( Meagan Tandy ), finally has to be honest with her husband Tyler (Greyston Holt - Bitten ). There are lots of flashbacks to Kate's expulsion from Military School, when she won the Battle of the Sexes by proving a CIS-gendered woman is better than a CIS-gendered man ... and by extension, a trans-woman ...
The subplot is about Alice and Mouse's pistol-sized coil-gun that is powerful enough to penetrate the bat-suit. An international gangster, Sophia, wants it.
Batwoman (2019) [Season 1, Episode 8]
A Mad Tea-Party
Shown 01 Dec 19
Kate's main ex-lover, Sophie Moore ( Meagan Tandy ), is still working with her husband Tyler (Greyston Holt - Bitten ). Workplace dating is not a good idea. It turns out that her husband no longer trust her.
Alice ( Rachel Skarsten ) and Mouse conduct a revenge plan, taking over an award-giving ceremony hosted by Dr. Ethan Campbell (Sebastian Roché - Odyssey 5 ).
Batwoman (2019) [Season 1, Episode 9]
Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part Two
Shown 09 Dec 19
This takes up after the events of Crisis on Infinite Earths: Hour One, as depicted in Supergirl [Season 5, Episode 9] .
This is a setup for Crisis on Infinite Earths: Hour Three, to be continued on The Flash [Season 6, Episode 9] .
Batwoman (2019) [Season 1, Episode 10]
How Queer Everything Is Today!
Shown 19 Jan 20
A hacker hijacks the morning commuter train into the city. Batwoman saves four hundred passengers, but gets photographed by them (instead of paparazzi). A brave young policeman helps in the rescue, despite having none of the billion-dollar advantages Batwoman has.
Batwoman complains that the general public seem obsessed with her private life. Later on she decides to divulge intimate details of her private life, in order to set herself up as a representative for lesbianism.
Batwoman (2019) [Season 1, Episode 11]
An Un-Birthday Present
Shown 26 Jan 20
Beth wanders into Wayne Towers, and wonders why nobody recognises her. It turns out that she is from an alternate universe, thanks to the Crisis on Infinite Earths events.
We get more flashbacks to the events that turned Beth into Alice, as in Batwoman (2019) [Season 1, Episode 5] Mine Is a Long and a Sad Tale. Now Alice is in the custody of the Crows, but Mouse takes hostages to trade for her release. With Col. Jacob Kane (Dougray Scott - Mission Impossible 2 ) in GCPD custody, Sophie Moore ( Meagan Tandy ) is in charge.
Batwoman (2019) [Season 1, Episode 12]
Take Your Choice
Shown 16 Feb 20
Col. Jacob Kane (Dougray Scott - Mission Impossible 2 ) is locked in the same prison as his former minion, Chuck Dodgson (Brendon Zub - Charmed (2018) ). The good news is that Dodgson knows about all the corruption that the Crows have been responsible for. The bad news is that the man convicted of killing Lucius Fox is also in the prison, and for some reason sides with Kane.
Sophie Moore ( Meagan Tandy ) is in temporary charge of the Crows, so she starts a massive lockdown of the city. She even puts a shoot-on-sight out order on Alice ( Rachel Skarsten ). Yes, this story is full of ironies.
Since Beth is an anomaly caused by the Crisis on Infinite Earths events, she cannot exist indefinitely in the same universe as Alice. Kate Kane ( Ruby Rose ) must choose which one to sacrifice. Luckily Alice is in the hands of her step-sister, who still bears a grudge after the murder of her mother.
Batwoman (2019) [Season 1, Episode 13]
Drink Me
Shown 23 Feb 20
Nocturna ( Kayla Ewell ) is a femme fatale who seduces people, then drains their blood. She would rather read a magazine than have sex with her victims, so she obviously has even more psychological problems than the average vampire.
Thanks to the expert testimony of Dr. Ethan Campbell (Sebastian Roché - Odyssey 5 ), a specialist in facial reconstruction, Col. Jacob Kane (Dougray Scott - Mission Impossible 2 ) has been exhonorated for the killing that Alice framed him with. However, now everyone thinks that Alice is dead.
Kate Kane ( Ruby Rose ) has started up a gay bar, so she can get richer by helping rich lesbians hook up. Nocturna uses it as a hunting ground for her next victim, so the bat-family stake it out. The only two straights, the doctor and the computer nerd, might actually be the ones to score ...
Sophie Moore ( Meagan Tandy ) has to choose between her carrer and her love-life. In the heteronormative world, shows like Friends and Sex in the City were castigated for having female protagonists choose the Life part of their work-life balance. Now, almost twenty years later, a show aimed at lesbians is giving the same answer. Will it get the same treatment?
Batwoman (2019) [Season 1, Episode 14]
Grinning from Ear to Ear
Shown 08 Mar 20
Duela Dent ( Alessandra Torresani ) is the niece of Harvey, the famous District Attorney. She goes around carving up the faces of famous online influencers, giving them Joker smiles like that of Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight . It turns out she is a former patient of Dr. Ethan Campbell (Sebastian Roché - Odyssey 5 ), and is attacking his other patients.
After the uncovering of law-enforcement corruption in Batwoman (2019) [Season 1, Episode 6] I'll Be Judge, I'll Be Jury, the man accused of killing Lucius Fox is up for a retrial. Col. Jacob Kane (Dougray Scott - Mission Impossible 2 ) begins to suspect that the Crows were involved in corruption, and for some reason they paid a fifty thousand dollar bribe as inducement for a witness to destroy videotape evidence. Yes, poor old Dodgson was right all along!
Sophie Moore ( Meagan Tandy ) goes on a date with Batwoman. Unfortunately Sophie's homophobic mom comes to town, and Sophie has never come out to her.
Alice is obsessed with catching the doctor who held her prisoner as a child. It is not just a case of revenge - he has Mouse, her beloved foster-brother.
Batwoman (2019) [Season 1, Episode 15]
Off with Her Head
Shown 15 Mar 20
Dr. Ethan Campbell (Sebastian Roché - Odyssey 5 ) and Alice ( Rachel Skarsten ) both turn the tables on each other. She gets strapped down and filled with Fear Gas, which forces her to relive her worst memories. In her case it is the time she spent with Cartwright's mother, a bossy old woman who Alice refers to as the Queen of Hearts.
Batwoman (2019) [Season 1, Episode 16]
Through the Looking Glass
Shown 22 Mar 20
Alice ( Rachel Skarsten ) escapes from Col. Jacob Kane (Dougray Scott - Mission Impossible 2 ), but discovers that her crew of thugs has been wiped out by the female gangster that she double-crossed in Batwoman (2019) [Season 1, Episode 7] Tell Me the Truth. Worse, Mouse is missing and Alice will need help getting him back. Luckily, due to the fate of Dr. Ethan Campbell (Sebastian Roché - Odyssey 5 ) Alice now has leverage on Kate Kane ( Ruby Rose ).
Julia Pennyworth ( Christina Wolfe ) is back in town. She teams up with Kate Kane's other ex-lover, Sophie Moore ( Meagan Tandy ), to investigate the killing of Lucius Fox. Since the original suspect has been released, someone is killing off all the witnesses.
Batwoman (2019) [Season 1, Episode 17]
A Narrow Escape
Shown 26 Apr 20
Kate Kane ( Ruby Rose ) is suffering from Imposter Syndrome, so she refuses to wear the Bat-Suit. Instead she solves crimes in her normal day-clothes. At least one cosplayer is running around as the new Batwoman, to give hope to the beleaguered city of Gotham. In all fairness, Kate is a cosplayer too.
Alice ( Rachel Skarsten ) is in Arkham Asylum with Mouse, Tommy Elliot (Gabriel Mann - Legend of the Seeker (2008) ) and a cat-burglar named Magpie ( Rachel Matthews ). She has a plan to change things.
Julia Pennyworth ( Christina Wolfe ) and Sophie Moore ( Meagan Tandy ) are still working together. This time they have to hunt down The Detonator, a supervillain who has not struck in seven years. By incredible coincidence, not only did he come back just after the Lucius Fox case was reopened but the bombs he plants apparently target the evidence.
Batwoman (2019) [Season 1, Episode 18]
If You Believe in Me, I'll Believe in You
Shown 03 May 20
Tommy Elliot (Gabriel Mann - Legend of the Seeker (2008) ) left Lucius Fox's secret journal with a money launderer, who is currently auctioning things to organised crime figures.
Kate Kane ( Ruby Rose ) goes into the nightclub, and discovers Reagan the barmaid ( Brianne Howey ) is now working there. Julia Pennyworth ( Christina Wolfe ) is Kate's backup ... in both senses, one assumes.
A cat-burglar named Magpie ( Rachel Matthews ) is in town.
The underworld figures deal in millions of dollars. But the people who run Gotham, the corrupt billionaires who run businesses like Wayne Enterprises, spend that much in a weekend shopping spree. The wealth gap between the haves and have-nots is incredible. Doctor Mary can get two and a half million dollars in a suitcase in the middle of the night.
Batwoman (2019) [Season 1, Episode 19]
A Secret Kept from All the Rest
Shown 10 May 20
Kate Kane ( Ruby Rose ) regrets her hook-up with Reagan the barmaid ( Brianne Howey ). Luckily Julia Pennyworth ( Christina Wolfe ) is still in town.
Alice ( Rachel Skarsten ) and Mouse use Tommy Elliot (Gabriel Mann - Legend of the Seeker (2008) ) as their gofer. With bandages instead of a face, and a pair of silenced automatics, he gets nicknamed Hush by the media. Strangely he is using .45 ammo rather than .22 rounds, but perhaps he got a ton of subsonic ammo from the same place he got the surpressors.
Mouse wants to double-cross Tommy ASAP, because he wants to stay in Arkham and enjoy the good life. After all, now he has the run of the place. Alice prefers to use Tommy for revenge on mutual enemies.
The MacGuffin is Lucius Fox's journal, because it contains the design of a weapon that can penetrate the bat-suit. Kate has already destroyed two such weapons - the Hamilton coil-gun and the Wayne rail-gun. Her suit will only work as long as nobody develops a better weapon.
The bat-team has a new member - the lesbian schoolgirl from a few episodes ago. Yes, the bat-cave will end up with more lesbians in it than the actuall full-on lesbian bar that Kate opened. Meanwhile, Kate is jealous because her two ex-lovers have now paired up in their own lesbian relationship. Has none of them heard of a three-way? And did any of the male heroes in the Arrowverse ever spend as much time working on his sex life - with as many love interests?
Batwoman (2019) [Season 1, Episode 20]
O, Mouse!
Shown 17 May 20
Alice ( Rachel Skarsten ) and Mouse hide out in the sewers. Mouse wants to retire and live happily ever after, but Alice prefers to use Tommy Elliot (Gabriel Mann - Legend of the Seeker (2008) ) for revenge on mutual enemies. To penetrate the Bat-Suit they need Kryptonite. Yes, this two-for-one mineral can kill both Batwoman and Supergirl!
The Arkham breakout that Alice caused in the previous episode has unleashed the most terrifying villain so far. Titan Turnow, a gigantic former American Football player, is on a kill-crazy rampage with a pair of machetes. Now he is taking revenge on anyone involved in his conviction. Since his rage apparently stems from steroid abuse and Traumatic Brain Injury, this is the social justice issue of the week.
Col. Jacob Kane (Dougray Scott - Mission Impossible 2 ) is obsessed with taking Batwoman down. Alice is a far lower priority for him now. However, he agrees to team up with Batwoman. It could be that he needs her more than she needs him. After all the Crows have to blow their locations in the dark by using torches rather than night-vision goggles - even though infra-red technology dates back to the Second World War.
We discover that this reality's version of Bruce Wayne looks like Warren Christie ( Alphas ). Then it ends in a cliffhanger. Unfortunately Kate Kane ( Ruby Rose ) is being written out next Season, so her plot arcs will have to be tied up.
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