01x14 - Grinning From Ear to Ear

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Three years after Batman disappeared, his cousin Kate Kane sets out to protecting the streets of Gotham City.
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01x14 - Grinning From Ear to Ear

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Duela, hurry up. It's time to go. _

First, apply your base and rub it all around.

Then follow your hollow to shave off the pounds.

Fine-line your lips to hide that off-putting frown.

Duela get out here. We have to go.

Come on. We're gonna be late.

Duela, I am so not kidding.

Aah!

Oh, my God, your... your face.

♪ You kiss my lips so, so guiltily ♪ Have a good one.

♪ Now the passion is gone from your eyes ♪ Mary, hey.

Hi.

Super cute boots. Thanks.

You're in a good mood.

You say that like it's a bad thing.

Where's my cowl?

In the shop. Giving it a little upgrade.

Upgrade? Hmm.

Like... X-ray vision?

Nope.

Echolocation.

Oh, that was a good idea, but no.

Somebody's in a good mood.

Am I?

You so are, like giddy happy.

I'm not allowed to be happy?

You just got suspended from The Crows, so no.

Mm.

Oh, my God. You're sleeping with someone.

I'm not sleeping with anyone, but can we please pause for a moment to appreciate the fact that those words actually came out of your mouth?

Okay. Fine. Hooking up with.

We shared a moment. With?

With? If you tell anyone, it'll take me an hour to hide your body.

Uh-huh. Spill.

Batwoman.

No, you didn't.

It was a peck that lasted several minutes.

Batwoman can't have a girlfriend.

It was a kiss, Luke.

Yeah, last night. Then what?

Do you really want to know the answer to that?

Does she know who you are?

I have no idea, which, I admit, is a little strange, but...

You said you knew who she was.

I thought I did.

I was wrong, like, really, really wrong.

So you seriously have no idea.

No. Wait. Do you?

No.

You finally get Sophie off your tail, and now you're swapping spit with her.

I don't think you know what kissing is.

I don't think you know what Bruce went through, why Batman pushed people away.

You realize, the moment anyone knows Batwoman cares about Sophie, it puts a target on her back.

She becomes a liability.

Nobody needs to find out.

Doesn't mean they won't, Kate.

Hee hee! Ha!

She totally just texted you, didn't she?

She wants to meet at my place later.

Mm.

I'm leaving now.

Have fun, and Sophie...

I'm happy for you.

"Alice, AKA Jane Doe 7113, "the deranged leader of the Wonderland g*ng, was fatally gunned down last week in a motel parking lot by an unidentified sh**t.

No services are planned at this time"?

Wha... I'm sorry. This is my obituary?

"Mentally deranged leader"?

That's my synopsis, a tiny, little blurb below the fold?

I survived captivity for 11 years, escaped, and enacted the perfect revenge.

What took you so long?

Wanted to get a clear sh*t of him.

That's not the face I see in my nightmares, but I'd recognize that pipe anywhere, even in the dark.

It's him.

As you know, some wacko dubbed the executioner blew a hole in the city's corrupt court system a few months back...

Then I blew a hole in him. What's your point?

Forced the D.A.'s office to reopen a bunch of his old cases and funnel them through a new judge, but you know this new judge...

Davis Wellington, Crows contracts dating back to 2004.

My client hopes that you will call the judge and get him to move his case up.

Ha ha! Why would I do that?

Because my client's Reggie Harris...

And you owe him your life.

Thank you.

You're better to me alive, puppy dog.

Reggie is an opportunist using this cabal nonsense as a "get out of jail free" card.

He confessed to gunning down Lucius Fox in a C-store robbery.

That confession was coerced by a corrupt GCPD cop.

It's not a Crows problem.

Yet.

Based on some whispers my client heard in the slammer about this place, Crows have some secrets of their own.

That almost sounded like a thr*at.

It is.

Let's not turn it into more.

Call the judge.

Get him to move Reggie's court date up, or this place gets blown up in the same way the D.A.'s office did.

This is definitely a first.

Me, too, actually.

So, um...

Do you want to come inside?

I can't.

I... I came here to tell you that this has to end before you get hurt.

I can take care of myself.

This is different. I have enemies.

If they connected us, they could use you against me.

Well, I won't tell them if you don't.

You know it's not that simple.

So what do you suggest?

Let me walk away.

Okay.

So walk.

Someone's here. I'm on it.

No. I got it.

Oh!

Hmm.

Give your own mother a heart att*ck.

Mom, what are you doing here?

Surprising you.

Next time, I'll call first.

We're locking up.

I'm on the phone.

My company's valuation is twice that much.

I don't care about fixed capital.

Look at our intangible assets... i.e., me, my brand, my image.

You can't put a price on that.

I'm gonna have to call you back.

They had no budget for this photo sh**t, and it's starting to show.

Hello? Is anyone there, not even, like, a janitor or someone?

Who's there?

Aah!

Uh...

Uh...

Aah!

Talk about the unkindest cut.

Social media influencer Kimberly Wright was the victim of a brutal face-slashing last night.

GCPD suspect this is now the second social media influencer att*cked by the serial slashionista.

Talk to me, Gotham.

Where's the dislike button when you need it?

How'd it go with Sophie?

Sophie. Uh... ahem. Uh, well, she... it was really cold, and it was a bit hard to hear, and then her mom just showed up out of nowhere.

So "dog ate my breakup"?

There's a lunatic with a box cutter targeting kids.

We need to focus.

Already on it.

Kimberly Wright described her attacker as "a woman in her 20s who wore a hoodie and a surgical mask".

Yeah. That's why the GCPD can't I.D. her.

Interestingly, neither of the victims had any s*ab wounds on their bodies.

She went after their face.

Their face is their brand, their business.

This is personal.

Where you off to?

To see the only Instaface I care about.

Yeah. I mean, it's all my feed is talking about.

Even Kylie Q is threatening to go web-silent out of respect.

Thank you, doctor.

Are you okay?

I mean, I barely knew Kimberly, but still, it's pretty freaky, and... don't worry... my fanbase left when my stepdad supposedly k*lled my mom, so I am hardly worth the data.

Good, not about the fanbase thing.

That sucks.

Do you know anyone in that circle that could be a target?

Well, it depends on who you ask.

I mean, everybody knows that Kimberly Wright has Miley McGinn's nose.

Except me, apparently.

Same corrective surgery... shape, slope, length.

I mean, it's a thing.

People were even whispering, maybe Miley had something to do with the att*ck, pissed that Kimberly stole her nose, but if you think about it, Miley copied Mia's cheekbones, and Mia and Xena have the same chin, which I believe belonged to Ariana at one point.

Anyway, I am sure there is a who's who of potential victims in Dr. Campbell's waiting room as we speak.

Dr. Ethan Campbell? Yeah.

The only plastic surgeon in the city worth going to, not that I would know.

Actually, if you're looking into this because you own a real estate firm and these women are most likely future property buyers... Exactly, yeah.

I'm around if you need a side... person.

I mean, I'm a D.M. away from half these girls.

I'd be happy to poke around for some clues or whatever.

It's probably safest if you stayed out of it, but I might ask someone to drop by Campbell and just give him a heads-up. I could do it.

I mean, I'm a med student where he lectures, so, now that I think about it, my vast array of medical knowledge could come in handy in endless scenarios.

I'm good, Mary. Thank you.

Okay. Well, I'm happy to help.

Bye, Mary.

Rewind.

You and your husband separate, and you didn't think to call me?

I thought it was best to let the dust settle.

Where's my phone?

I'll tell Tyler all the ways he's making the biggest mistake of his life.

Mom, stop. It's not like that.

It was me. You?

I, um...

I fell out of love with him.

You fell out of love with a handsome, decorated, capable man who always sent me flowers on my birthday.

Why don't you give me the real story?

Mom, that is the real story.

Well, Jacob Kane called.

He told me about your suspension.

Heh, so that's why you're in town.

This isn't some motherly "I missed you" visit.

More of a "please don't end up under a bridge" visit.

How are you gonna pay the rent?

By working at a place that aligns with my values.

I don't see eye to eye with The Crows' way of doing things anymore.

Oh, please don't tell me you wish they were more like the GCPD.

No, more like Batwoman.

Ohh...

She is someone who represents all of Gotham... the poor, the rich, and in between... and she's saved my life on several occasions.

She is a damn criminal who gets away with it.

You never had a problem with Batman.

You thought he was cute.

Batman was different.

How, mom? How was Batman different?

He represented values I actually believed in.

You mean, he's not gay.

Hey, I don't have a lot of time, so we should probably make this quick.

You okay?

My mom, she...

I'm 28 years old.

I have two degrees and own a condo on a river, and I spend every waking moment wondering if she's proud of me.

And if she were to find out about this...

Upside of having to hide it... she won't.

So what's up?

I did some digging, and I think the Gotham serial slasher is targeting patients from a plastic surgeon by the name of Ethan Campbell.

I know him.

His affidavit cleared my boss of m*rder charges.

That's why I'm here.

I need you to find out what he knows.

I have no authority. The Crows suspended me.

Does Campbell know that?

The last victim of the slasher was also a patient of yours... Mia Cortez.

We're worried the next victim could be a name in one of those files.

Kimberly Wright told every one of her 10 million followers about her nose job, so if it's a case of jealousy, you have a lot of names to sift through.

One theory is she's targeting copycat surgeries.

Have you ever...

Cut a smile into a patient's face?

No, Agent Moore. I certainly have not.

Then maybe she's not targeting copycats.

Maybe she's making copycats.

By inflicting her victims with the same scars she has?

Have you ever treated a woman with this type of scarring?

Uh, actually, yes, 8 years ago.

A teenage girl was brought to me with a psychiatric rap sheet as long as my arm, had the worst self-inflicted scars I've ever seen.

She cut her own face?

Yes. She did.

Duela Dent. What can you find on her?

Daughter of Evelyn, father unknown.

Her uncle Harvey is a beloved A.D.A.

Wait. Here's something.

She was just released from a mental health facility.

How did you get her name?

Bat sources, okay?

Would those Bat sources be of the tall, dark, and girlfriend-material variety?

I'm choosing to ignore that.

I found something.

It's her hit list.

Run the name Myrtis Dinker.

Myrtis Dinker?

Nope. Nothing, no Myrtis Dinker.

Oh, I have an idea.

Press the red button on your right gauntlet.

Oh.

Sorry. Your left gauntlet.

That was your upgrade?

Cowl cam. What do you think?

Use this without my permission, and I will find a new place to put my Batarang.

Yeah. Copy that. Running the image now.

And?

I'm still working out the bugs. Just...

You're okay. It's okay.

It's okay. I'm gonna get you help. Just...

Huh! Hyah! Uhh!

Come any closer, and I turn my mom into a pez dispenser.

Duela, you do not need to do this.

And she didn't have to force me to be someone I'm not, someone I hate, someone I can't even look at, so I'm gonna go, and you're gonna need a mop.

No! No.

Stay with me. Stay with me.

It's gonna be okay. You're gonna be okay.

I have spent hours upon hours cooking up all the ways that I could t*rture that vile man.

Now that he's right here, right under my nose, i...

You're blocked.

Exactly, Dr. Malone. Ha ha!

I am blocked. Ahh...

Oh, don't be so hard on yourself.

I mean, it's a normal reaction.

Victims held in physical and emotional captivity oftentimes revert back to the age they were held when facing their captor.

So what are you saying, I don't find closure?

No, of course not, but you clearly have unresolved fear.

My fear is that I will k*ll him instantly, forgetting to relish in his slow and painful demise.

Those are just your defenses talking.

I don't have defenses. Ha ha ha! Mm...

If you don't mind, in my professional opinion, I see you putting up a hard, blustery exterior, but the truth is, you are still terrified of this man.

You are still just a little girl, and you know when you confront him face to face that he will find a way to regain that power over you once again.

So then shrink me, hmm? What do I do?

I suggest an emotional shield, a third person that acts as a buffer between you and the abuser.

Well, you have been incredibly helpful, Dr. Malone. Ha ha!

I do wish we could've made this a weekly affair.

Oh! No. Please. No.

I won't tell anyone you're alive.

Please. I won't tell anyone.

Please! Please don't.

I won't tell anyone!

Well, well, Dr. Fix-me threatened with a lawsuit by a 16-year-old who did not consent to the restorative plastic surgery he performed on her.

Hmm.

What an interesting, little psychopath.

How long are you gonna keep me here?

As long as it takes for you to come to your senses.

Ha ha ha! Alice will find me.

Mm. Alice is dead.

No.

I sh*t her.

No. No.

No. No.

Son... No. No.

You're better off without her.

All she ever did was put your life in danger to advance her own agenda.

All I've done... is protect you...

From the cruelty of the world.

The only thing cruel in my world is you.

You think that way now, but in time, you'll come to see the truth.

What are you doing?

What are you doing? What are you doing?

What are... what are you doing?

You wanted to see me, sir?

Our favorite ambulance chaser Bobby Reeves stopped by.

He's poking around a m*rder case your team ran point on.

Yeah, hard to forget.

Harris gunned down Lucius Fox and a cashier at a sip & dash.

What's the problem?

We turned him over to the GCPD.

Yeah, to Stu Donnelly, the officer accused of coercing confessions in at least 21 cases.

We handed a lot of perps over to Donnelly, Commander.

Are we saying they're all innocent?

You don't find it unusual that the sip & dash's

4 security cameras weren't working in the 5-hour window when the robbery took place?

Only thing I find unusual is Lucius Fox was a hero to the city and people are trying to set his k*ller free.

I was wondering when you were gonna hit me up about the slasher case.

How did you know?

Because I am smart and perceptive, two traits people often overlook.

Anyway, I was hoping that you could help me I.D. someone, someone that doesn't pop up on my facial recognition system.

Mm-hmm.

Oh, that's Veronica May.

You sure? Yeah.

Apparently, she changed her name after high school, and if my name was Myrtis Dinker, I would, too, and I'm guessing the reason why her face stumped your Bat tech is because that's not her nose anymore... or her chin.

Any idea how I can find her?

Well, she pretty much lives on board the May-mobile.

The what?

It's part makeover truck, part rolling billboard for her makeup line.

Just look for the gaudiest thing on the road.

We need to find that cosmetics truck.

I appreciate that, but a truck in Gotham, kind of a needle in a haystack.

The needle is hot pink.

That narrows it down.

Let me run a color filter on the satellite.

Okay. We've got a ice cream truck, an unfortunate paint job on a lambo.


That's not good.

Duela's been here, no sign of Veronica.

Hold up. I think I got company.

Shouldn't be here.

Neither should you.

I've been listening in to The Crows' radio.

They'll be here any minute.

I'm not leaving until I find every single person that was in that truck.

Looks like Duela forced them into another vehicle.

Why here?

Uh, Veronica's skin care line is made at a plant down the road.

You by the truck, put your hands in the air now.

We have to get out of here.

Get out of here now. Come on.

Get on. Wait. What?

Get on.

What the hell are you doing?

Oh, I'm sorry.

Do you have a problem with people stealing medical supplies?

Because, um... hi.

I thought I made it clear how I felt about you when I left you to die.

You did, but then I saved your life, and now you owe me, so... did Batwoman not tell you?

Not tell me what?

After Nocturna drained your blood, you were on death's door.

I found you and revived you with my own, meaning I literally pumped life back into your veins.

Ugh, I need a bleach transfusion.

Oh, I'll take that as a thank you.

Why would you do that?

Let's just say it was more about Batwoman and less about you.

Thanks for the goods.

Do you know who she is?

Batwoman?

Of course I do.

Oh, do you not?

Sad.

Guess you two aren't really pals after all.

Hmm.

Aah!

Aah!

Duela, stop. Please let me down.

I'm helping you, Veronica...

Oh, I mean, Myrtis.

Oh...

Ohh!

Oh, my God, look. You made your point, okay?

I wasn't a great friend after the incident, but, honestly, I was afraid of you.

Because I was finally happy?

Happy people don't slice their faces open.

Ha! What do they do, hmm, shave a bone off their nose, slit their eyelids open, s*ab needles into their lips?

You know, the only difference between you and me is that I got institutionalized and you got famous.

My mother wanted me to be you.

Put me down, you psycho!

It's time to show the world what I see when I look at Veronica May.

No! Duela, stop! Please don't!

No!

Going somewhere?

Uh! Uh! Uh!

Agh!

Oh! Uh!

Aah! Help!

Aah!

Tell me someone got that on camera.

So should I take Veronica up on her offer to share an uber?

Call me crazy, but I felt like we made a good team in there.

We did. But?

How do you see this playing out... dinner, movie, I take you back to my cave?

You live in a cave?

I don't know.

Guess I haven't really thought about it.

If I were to tell you who I am right now, would you want to know?

What? Because once that happens, I'm no longer a secret.

I'm a face, a person, a woman, and I bring all the complications that come with that, so do you want to be in a real relationship, or do you want to be with someone you can keep secret?

Because we can never be more than this, and that shouldn't be enough.

You're right.

As long as I'm with a woman who wears a mask, I'll always be wearing one myself.

I think I have some things I need to take care of.

I'll let the GCPD know about Duela.

Good-bye, Sophie.

Who's there? Please help.

Untie me, please. Who's there?

An ally.

You and I were both wronged by the same man.

He took my adolescence just like he took your smile.

I will get revenge for both of us, but first, I'm gonna need a little something from you, hmm?

Want to explain this?

It's a bank statement.

I know it's a bank statement.

I don't know why The Crows sent a sip & dash

$50,000 after the Lucius Fox m*rder.

It says right here, "Code 501".

It's a restoration courtesy payment for us trashing the place when we arrested Harris.

So this money has nothing to do with the lost security footage.

You don't really think a Crow would destroy evidence.

Thought dispatch said she was locked up.

Duela...

How... did you get in here?

Just flashed that pretty smile you gave me.

Back! Outside.

Over here.

Is that the slasher?

Lord have mercy.

I'm finally perfect.

You shouldn't be here, Duela.

Sorry. You got the wrong girl.

Heh. No.

No. You're dead. I... I sh*t you.

Oh, again, you got the wrong girl.

You like taking things from children, don't you?

Well, we're all grown up now and here for a little payback.

Moore, it's me. Look.

I may question your decision-making when it comes to Batwoman, but I've never questioned your integrity, and at the moment, I need it more than ever.

I think The Crows have a major problem.

I'll explain when you call me back.

_

Not sure how charging $5.00 for a coffee is not a criminal offense.

Ha ha ha! Ha ha ha!

I think you're gonna need something stronger.

I lied to you the other day.

That's what I do now.

I lie. I lie so much, I don't even realize I'm doing it anymore.

Oh, Sophie... what lie?

I didn't break up with Tyler because I fell out of love with him.

I broke up with Tyler because I was never in love with him.

Sweetheart, I need you to start making sense.

When I was at Point Rock...

Mm-hmm?

I met someone, and for the first time, I was happy, really, really happy...

Oh...

And I want to find that again.

Okay. Okay. Then go find him, honey.

Go find him.

It wasn't a him, mom.

It was a her.

For years, I kept it a secret.

I thought I could have both... the version of me that my school and my family could be proud of and the version of me who knew who she was.

Ohh...

So the good lord didn't make it hard enough on you, not enough to be a woman of color, not enough to come from nothing, not enough to have to prove your damn worth to the world every time you want to be part of it, huh?

You got to add this on top of it?

I didn't ask for this, just like I didn't ask for any of those things, but each of them make me who I am.

And why am I only hearing about it now?

Because I didn't want you to look at me the way you're looking at me now.

Oh, Sophie, I am so sorry about that, sweetheart.

What'd you expect disappointment to look like?

You look like you had a long night.

More like a really long day.

If you want to talk about it, you want to talk about anything, you know I'm here, right?

I... lost a piece of real estate I had my heart set on, but wasn't the right move.

Timing was off.

Oh. Huh.

Do you remember the day that you came back to Gotham?

I threw you that welcome-home party, and then 6 hours later, I was stitching up your shoulder, telling you that I owned an illegal clinic.

Of course I remember.

It never once occurred to me that you'd tell my mom or your dad that I was living a double life or that you'd try to shut me down or tell me I could get sued or kicked out of school or arrested.

I knew I didn't have to worry about you judging me because I trusted you...

So I hope one day that you feel the same way about me.

What do you want?

For you to drop the act and the face.

Uh!

Mm...

I thought I would never have to see you again, but I was wrong.

I see this face every night as I go to sleep and every morning as I wake, and sometimes when I close my eyes and shake too long.

If you're gonna k*ll me, do it.

k*ll me. Get it over with.

Shh shh.

We mustn't speak such nonsense.

I would never k*ll you, at least not with these nimble, little fingers.

What do you want?

My brother Mouse.

Surely, you have him, and I want him, so where is he?

Ha ha ha!

Why is that so funny?

Ha ha ha! What?

Yeah. Yeah.

I will tell you where you can find your... precious Mouse.

(GASPING)
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