03x10 - Troubled Water

[bunniefuu]

[indistinct conversations]

[people clamoring]

[clamoring stops]

One at a time. Go.

The contamination occurred
approximately hours ago at : p.m.

Pump Station .

It's the main distribution point,

down channel from the
Moulton filter turbines,

feeds directly into all five boroughs.

Do we know what this stuff is?

Apparently, it's some kind
of unidentified hallucinogen.

It's presenting at a high
concentration: . parts per million.

That doesn't sound so bad.

It's bad.

If it were salt, it'd taste like
you were drowning in the ocean.

It's completely flavorless and odorless.

You wouldn't even know it was there.

We need to issue a citywide
alert, tell the people...

Tell them what? There's
LSD in the water?

We don't even know
what we're dealing with.

I'll tell you what we're dealing with:

, gallons of water in use
the first hours of the breach.

That went up % every
hour until : a.m.

It's over % now.

Half the city's population
has ingested that water.

If even % of them drank it,

we've got six million people
in Gotham, that's what?

Sixty thousand people.

[Fletcher] We've got problems.

We got a shotgun as*ault at
JT Liquor over on Boylston,

we've got a double
homicide on rd Street,

we got warehouses all
over the east side on fire.

Every one of those
people drank the water.

Commissioner, we're spread pretty thin.

You might want to call in off-duties,

and you might wanna start
approving some overtime.

Yeah, do it.

Okay.

I've got a call with the mayor
in ten, what do I tell him?

[exhales]

What are our options?

Shut off the water.

Flush the system, drain it into the bay.

- How long would that take?
- A good job? Four, five days.

You can't shut off water to six
million people for five days.

- Hey.
- Hey.

You all right?

A little bit of brain fog from the
accident, but I'm feeling better now.

All right. Anything new out there?

We scanned the city
up and down. Nothing.

Senator McDonald's office just called.

The Feds are sending
in the National Guard.

Good. We could use the help.

No, they're not here to help.

They're sealing off the
city. No one in or out.

All right. Get down to the
DWP. Take back-up and a warrant.

I want that water shut off, now.

With pleasure, Commissioner.

[Jason] What the f*ck is this?

[Crane] This is where the victors
go to rest their weary heads.

[Jason] We didn't win.

They were gonna take me back,
but you f*cked it all up.

[Crane] So you had a moment.

I've had plenty of them myself.

Let bygones be bygones.

I forgive you.

[exhales]

Sprezzatura.

[Crane exhales]

Show some respect.

Sit.

- You know who Edward Bernays is?
- The sauce guy?

Eggs and bacon.

Classic American breakfast.

- Do you know why?
- What does this have to do with...

Pork farmers paid Edward
Bernays to make it so.

See, but Edward Bernays, he had this...

This uncle, right?

Dear old Uncle Sigmund.

As in Sigmund Freud.

See, and Freud taught Edward
Bernays how the human mind worked.

And Edward, he worked the human mind.

He didn't sell the proletariat bacon.

He sold them the idea
that a hearty breakfast

was what every doctor
thought was best for them.

After that, the bacon, it sold itself.

Edward Bernays understood that an idea

is the most powerful w*apon we have.

[keyboard clacking]

It's not the product,
it's how you sell it.

And Gotham is in need of a new product.

We now interrupt your
regularly scheduled program

to bring you a message for
the good people of Gotham.

[computer chimes]

[cellphone rings]

[cellphones ringing]

- [man ] You see this sh*t?
- [man ] Yeah, what the f*ck.

[Crane over speakers]
Gotham City used to

have a protector, a guardian angel.

But Batman abandoned Gotham and left

Nightwing and his friends in his place.

What's this?

It's not good.

[Crane] And what has Nightwing done?

He's robbing you.

Poisoning the very water you drink,

the water you give to your children.

Nightwing is a criminal.

Protected by Gotham City Police.

Only you can stop him.

There will be a $ , reward paid
to the person who brings him in.

Dead or alive.

But take heart, Gotham,

a new hero will rise,

and you will know his name.

Red Hood.

[theme music playing]

There's no way that people
actually believe that sh*t.

People believe what
they need to believe.

They're scared.

And Crane just gave their fear a target.

[sighs] Okay, how many people
do we think have been affected?

Thousands.

I mean, anybody who's drank from
the municipal water supply

in the last eight hours.

Not everyone, right?

Look, we can still reach
them. Get ahead of this.

d*ck, if we lose their
trust, then it's all over.

Even when things were at their worst,

the people of Gotham believed that Bruce

and my dad would be there for them.

And we will be, too.

We do what we do best.

We fight for this city.

We can fix this, Barbara.

"One river, many wells.

Discovered by Ra's al Ghul.

Nepal. Syria. Others?

Hufrat Alwilada.

Place of rebirth.

The Lazarus Pit."

[bats chittering]

[wings flapping]

[chuckles]

[Kory] Gar.

Gar!

We've got a problem.

Come on.

[Donna] Why are we stopping?

This is as far as I go.

National Guard's shutting down every

bridge and tunnel in and out of Gotham.

You might have told
me that at the airport.

I thought you knew.

Gotham is not the travel
destination it used to be.

It's not safe for a lady.

I'll take my chances.

Good luck.

[men grunting]

How do we tell the good
guys from the bad guys?

No clue. Your guess is as good as mine.

Stay. Damn it.

[growls]

[both grunting]

[d*ck over comms] Kory.

Maybe it wasn't a good
idea, me staying here.

No. You got a $ ,
bounty on your head.

It'd only makes things worse.

[Beast Boy] I got another one.

[both grunting]

Come on, pal.

[grunting]

- [snoring]
- Hmm.

[breathes deeply]

Looks like the worst of it is over.

Hold that thought.

Please don't hurt us.

sh*t.

[Starfire] Folks,

everything's all right.

[woman] You're Titans. Nightwing's g*ng.

No, we're not much of a g*ng, really.

More like roommates.

Just get the f*ck out of
here and leave us alone.

We're here to help.

That video you saw, it's all lies.

They're the reason the water's poisoned!

Kory, get them out of there.

- He wants us to just leave?
- I vote stay.

Give them a good reminder
of which side we're on.

If you stay, it will only get worse.

Get out now.

Yeah, that's right. Get
the f*ck out of here!

[sighs]

Lydia?

[both grunting]

Your sensory perception is off.

I've been following you for ten minutes,

but you were completely unaware.

What are you talking about?

What are you even doing here?

It's not every day one
is returned from the dead.

I need to know what
it is that came back.

You mean, "who it is."

Your return is the first
part of a larger journey.

You must return home
with me to the island.

That's not happening.

When you d*ed, we began a
ritual to bring you back.

And here you are.

You must undergo testing

to discover what has happened
and how it has changed you.

I'm fine.

I'm going to Gotham.

So be it. We'll test you here.

Where are we?

[Lydia] The training grounds.

Oh, come on, Lydia.

Once you have proven to me that you are

fully prepared to
reenter the world of men,

you may go to Gotham.

Dietrich and Harris are on
their way to Gotham Memorial.

Tell me.

g*nsh*t wounds. Dietrich is
stable but Harris isn't tough.

What happened?

Uh, domestic call. They show up,

guy's freaking out.

They go to subdue him, but it turns

out it was the wife who drank the water.

She had a g*n in her robe.

- Jesus.
- Just starts sh**ting.

The husband is dead.

Things are bad.

They're gonna get worse.

We're gonna get through this.

Okay? I need you to know that.

And I need all the other officers
out there to know it, too.

It would mean a lot to them to
hear it coming straight from you.

I'm gonna talk to them.

But right now I'm talking to you.

I'm asking you to trust me on this.

Please.

I need your support.

We have to stick together or all
of this is just gonna fall apart.

[cellphone vibrating]

Harris just d*ed on the table.

[Lydia] Earn your passage.

You gotta be f*cking kidding me.

Why was I able to defeat you before?

I've been dead for a while.

You reacted with fear.

Uncertainty, like a human.

I'm not afraid of you, Lydia.

No, you're afraid of yourself.

[blade swishing]

[indistinct rock music
playing over speakers]

[man] Thank you.

[d*ck] Hey.

[Barbara] Hey.

[d*ck] Is it safe here?

I got guys on four
corners outside, so...

Safe as we can be.

[waitress] Anything for you guys?

Uh, I'm fine with coffee, thanks.

sh*t of absinthe, please.

Jesus. Really?

I'm running out of good
ideas. Resorting to bad ones.

There's an art gallery
around the corner, too,

if you want to go heist a
Monet for old time's sake.

- Cheers.
- Thank you.

Cheers.

So, um...

Do you remember that place you had
on Temple, with the rain gutters?

Yeah. The ones that you broke.

Got me into your room, didn't it?

I got the scars on my hand to prove it.

So, you said that you had a plan.

I'm gonna turn myself in.

Make a show of it at
the GCPD, as Nightwing.

God, you really are out of good ideas.

I need to show the people I'm
not working with Gotham Police.

Give the city's trust
back where it belongs.

With you.

Then what? We put Nightwing on trial?

It'll never get that far.

I'll pay bail and disappear.

Work out of sight, just like always.

Except this time with the Titans.

I don't like it.

I don't like it either,
Barb, but it's the best I got.

[waitress] Another one?

Sure.

Make it two.

So, this art gallery of yours...

they got any Rembrandt?

[chuckles]

I'll do it for a Rembrandt.

[Crane] I know a painter shouldn't
be charmed by their own brush,

but f*ck me running.

Police outnumbered,

the Titans are MIA.

- For now.
- What?

What did you say?

For now.

Where's the optimism?

Where's the vision?

I thought we're gonna give the
people some hope, a new way.

[sighs]

I get it.

I get it.

This is your home.

Familial fires still burn.

But buck up, Jay.

There is rebirth in dissolution.

It's a sh*t cr*cker of
a place, but it was mine.

And it still is yours.

When they write the history of Gotham,

the final chapter is going
to be titled "Red Hood."

Batman is just a footnote.

A Salieri to your Mozart.

They'll always want Batman.

Or the other Robin.

Not anymore.

It's you.

Finally.

- It's you.
- [sighs]

I don't know.

Well, look, if this
canvas is too grand...

f*ck you and your grand bullshit.

I'm here, aren't I?

I need you committed % to this. %.

Like I said, I'm here.

You need to believe in
you, in your ascendancy,

in your legacy.

Red Hood.

Say it with me.

- Red Hood.
- Red Hood.

- Red Hood.
- Red Hood.

- Red Hood.
- Red Hood.

- Red Hood.
- Red Hood.

- Red Hood!
- Red Hood!

Red Hood.

What do you want me to do with this?

Go shopping.

[cellphone ringing]

[Molly] Jason, are you there?

Please talk to me.

You're scared of me.

I was.

Now I'm scared for you.

Have you seen what's
happening out there?

[scoffs]

Yeah. I'm aware.

I saw the video.

None of this is making sense.

But Jay, you've always
been there for me.

Let me be here for you now.

How?

Let's go.

Leave Gotham.

What do you mean, leave?

I mean, pack up our sh*t, get the
f*ck out of here and never look back.

And go where, Molly?

Who cares? Oregon, Alaska, Arizona.

Hawaii?

[chuckles] Yes, sure.

Anywhere but here.

[sighs] I can't.

Yes, you can.

We can.

Red Hood...

That's not who you are.

You don't know that.

I do.

This is something I have to do.

I don't get it.

I know.

But this is all I have left.

You're one of the few
good people that I know.

Don't let Gotham take that.

You should go.

- Jason...
- [line disconnects]

[dialing]

[line ringing]

[over recording]
Hey, it's Jason. Leave a...

[sighs]

So we turn ourselves in and then what?

And then we post bail,
continue doing our work,

but in a less public way.

Work in the shadows, take
this city back night by night.

It's not gonna be easy, and it's
not gonna be fast, but we can do it.

If you have a better idea,
please, now's the time.

They hate us.

They've been manipulated
into hating us, by Crane.

Conner, Blackfire, what do you think?

It was brutal out there.

I don't wanna be looked
at like that again.

Well, surrender isn't my thing.

But I am used to people looking
at me like I'm a monster,

so whatever you all decide on, I'm in.

Kory?

We've played it by the book so
far and this is where it's led us.

So maybe you're right.
Maybe we try a new way.

I'm in.

All right, then. Let's suit up.

We go in together.

As a team. As a family.

You can't avoid who you are, Donna.

You must confront it.

And still you run.

[both grunting]

I know you've always hated
me because I'm part human.

To you, it had always made me... less.

[both grunting]

If you keep doing things
the way you always have,

you will die again.

First, my daughter Angela,

then you.

I could not survive that again.

I push you to be more
because you are more.

You are of your world and my world.

That makes you the best of us.

I'm... I'm so sorry, Lydia.

Do not be sorry.

Be stronger.

You were born not just to
protect people, Donna...

but to lead them.

You must rise.

So, it's his day with his daughter.

He lets her do make
up all over his face.

That's how he robs the bank.

- Whoa!
- [man] What the f*ck?

[Red Hood] You know what to do.

There's more where that came from.

[shushing] It's okay. It's okay.

So you're him, right?

[bag unzipping]

- [exhales]
- [Red Hood] Say it.

Say my name.

Red Hood.

On Tamaran, it is called the Pit.

It's dark.

So dark you cannot even see your hand.

It isn't like that here.

Right?

Right. Totally not like that.

It's gonna be fine. d*ck
and Barbara have a plan.

We're just gonna go in and out.

This is really just all for show.

We're gonna be together the whole time.

I've got you, I promise.

- [siren wailing]
- [indistinct radio chatter]

[Starfire] This seems excessive.

Barbara cleared it with
me. It's all for show.

They need to stand their ground.

Looks more like a funeral
procession than a perp walk.

This is just optics, right?

Optics.

Let's just get this over with.

- [grunts]
- Move along.

I got you.

Back off.

Easy.

We're not here for a fight.

Move in!

[grunting]

Stand down!

[groans]

No!

Blackfire.

sh**t it.

[Fletcher gasps]

[officer] Wall up!

I need to get her out of here. Cover us.

sh*t. Go!

[groans]

[grunting]

Fletcher, put down your w*apon.

Put it down!

We gotta get out of here. Now!

- Where are the others?
- They're gone.

[Blackfire groans]

Okay.

Stay with me.

What are you doing?

I have to try.

I hope this works.

What's going on?

What are you doing?

Let go!

[grunts]

What the hell did you just do?

I didn't do anything.

You did this.

You took my powers.

I was dying, Koriand'r. You...

I was healing you

and you took everything.

Was this your plan all along?

To make me care about
you, to get close to you,

so you could steal my powers?

Why would you say that?

You tried to steal the
throne and you failed.

Now everything you want can be yours.

You're being ridiculous.

None of this is what I wanted.

What's it gonna take
for you to trust me?

[woman screams in distance]

[indistinct yelling]

We can't stay here.

Let's find somewhere safe. Just us.

We can talk, fix whatever this is.

I'm going to help the others.

Haven't you given them enough?

You are a queen, Koriand'r.

You were never meant to be a
soldier in someone else's army.

A family, Blackfire, not an army.

I am your family.

I'm not gonna abandon them.

They wouldn't do this to me.

After what just happened?

Oh, you're fooling yourself.

Yeah, maybe.

But I've decided.

What if something happens to you?

Who will heal you then, sister?

I'll take my chances.

I wouldn't expect you to understand.

I don't.

Where are you going?

You're not the only one
with unfinished business.

[sighs]

[breath trembling]

I'm sorry.

Yeah. Me too.

Commissioner, I'm
gonna need your w*apon.

[sniffles]

Barbara Gordon, you have
the right to remain silent.

Anything you say can and will be
held against you in a court of law.

You have the right to an attorney.

If you cannot afford an attorney,

one will be appointed for you
before any questioning if you wish.

If you decide to answer questions
now without an attorney present,

you will still have the
right to stop answering

at any time until you talk to an attorney,

knowing and understanding your rights

as I have explained them to you.

Are you willing to answer my
questions without an attorney present?

- [indistinct shouting]
- ♪ You and me are gonna paint this town ♪

♪ We'll go wild ♪

♪ And seize the night ♪

♪ Am I not the one you're
dreaming of, my angel? ♪

[spray can rattling]

Identification, please.

I'm afraid I don't have my wallet on me.

Orders are no entry without ID,
so you'll have to turn around.

Gotham's closed for business.

Ah, good old Gotham.

Always rolling out the red carpet.

Is there a problem, ma'am?

[exhales] Starting with "ma'am," yeah.

But the main point is, I
traveled a long way to get here,

crossed a lot of bridges.

I know it might seem crazy, me wanting

to get into a steaming heap like Gotham,

but turns out I do.

So, basically, turning
around is not an option.

Turn around, ma'am.

Or we will take you in.

[crackling]

Been there, done that.

See, I knew you were gonna go there.

[soldier coughs]

You gonna let me in now?

- [sirens wailing in distance]
- [helicopter blades whirring]

[voices whispering]

Rachel?

Did I die again, or are you really real?

Of course I'm real. Are
you hurt or just sleepy?

I think I have a hole
where the dart sh*t me.

I think I'm fine.

How did you find me?

I could just feel you, your energy.

I started at GCPD, ended up here.

[groans, grunts]

What happened out there?

Crane and Jason happened.

They turned the whole city
against us, even the cops.

Things went real bad real fast.

Where are the others?

I don't know.

Where are we?

- [Superboy] Still nothing?
- [Nightwing] Lines are down.

Barb sh*t a cop. She's
gonna need our help.

She's the Commissioner,
she'll be all right.

Any luck with the others?

[sighs] I got the same message.

Like everything's shut down.

d*ck, I think we should go home.

Red Hood and the cops
know about Wayne Manor.

It's the one place we can't be.

So let's go outside,
help some people out.

Look, I wish we could, but right now,

our only job is to not get caught.

Gotham City's on its own.

[Crane] So this is what a
billion dollars gets you.

[exhales]

[scoffs] Interior designers
the world over exclaim, "Meh!"

All right, enough with the
whole tortured hero stuff.

Come on, we have reached the summit.

It's time for us to enjoy the view.

I think this calls for some spirits.

Look, let's make a toast.

[drink pouring]

To bad seeds.

To being them.

To knowing them.

To growing them.

[glass clink]

We gotta redecorate.

Starting with this.

Actually, you should do the honors.

It's time to finaly payback your
father for the gift's his given you.

[Bruce] I don't want you to be Robin.

Please don't give up on me, Bruce.

I've made my choice.

I'm proud of you, son.

- [grunting angrily]
- [canvas ripping]

[panting]

Welcome to Crane Manor.

["Back to Black" by
Amy Winehouse playing]

♪ He left no time to regret ♪

♪ Kept his... wet ♪

♪ With his same old safe bet ♪

♪ Me and my head high ♪

♪ And my tears dry ♪

♪ Get on without my guy ♪

♪ You went back
To what you knew ♪

♪ So far removed ♪

♪ From all that
We went through ♪

♪ We only said good-bye
With words ♪

♪ I d*ed a hundred times ♪

♪ You go back to her
And I go back to... ♪

♪ We only said good-bye
With words ♪

♪ I d*ed a hundred times ♪

♪ You go back to her
And I go back to... ♪