02x15 - Armed and Dangerous

[bunniefuu]

[CAR ALARM BLARING]

Hey, hey, hey!

Hey, hey.

Eli, knock it off.

Do yourself a favor.

Don't make me your problem.

[SIREN]

[TIRES SQUEAL]

What the hell's going on?

Sir, this man is trying to steal a car.

This guy is a known car thief.

You know what?

I have photographic evidence.

TAVAROFF: g*n!

MAN: -year-old male with multiple g*nsh*t wounds to the abdomen.

He lost consciousness en route.

Vitals are unstable, and he lost over a liter of blood at the scene.

DOCTOR: Get him up to the O.R. now.

JACOB: So, Agent Tavaroff, the Crows have been through this type of officer-involved sh**ting before.

We need to investigate the incident with Luke Fox and get your story, so run us through what happened.

Well, Agent Miller and I were on patrol when we heard a car alarm.

We arrived to find a suspicious-looking man loitering near a vehicle.

We approached.

Suspect reached inside his jacket and pulled out a g*n.

Luke Fox used to work for my daughter.

He seems more like the type to wield a keyboard than a g*n.

Well, I don't know him, but I know what I saw.

Suspect turned to sh**t, and I fired before he could do the same to us.

Sounds like you should be commended for your bravery, Agent Tavaroff.

Any more questions?

We have to review the bodycam footage.

Send in Agent Miller.

Of course, sir.

Thank you.

[HEART MONITOR BEEPING RAPIDLY]

Lost his pulse!

We need to start CPR now.

He's flatlining.

Hello?

Dad?

- How many times was she sh*t?

Two.

The first b*llet caused injury to his kidney, spleen, colon.

The second tore through a major vein, causing massive blood loss.

Already coded twice, and right now, he's in a coma.

They're not sure if he's gonna make it.

Wait.

Tell me everything that happened.

We were on the phone.

He saw some guy jack a car, so he said he would handle it.

What do you mean "handle it"?

Oh, God.

I don't know.

So when he didn't call me back, I got worried, and...

You realized he couldn't handle it.

Why didn't Luke just call it in?

I told him to, but he said that he recognized the guy from your holding cell.

Eli or something.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

White boy.

He was in jail with us for stealing a car.

You think that he did this?

For his sake...

I hope not.

I will let Batwoman sort that one out.

I've nominated myself to save Luke's life.

So why aren't you at Gotham General right now?

Because Gotham General doesn't have this.

[SNAP]

_ Things I don't want to know for , , Alex.

_ Curiouser and curiouser.

_ What?

_ Typically when one storms out after winning an argument, they don't come crawling back.

Takes the drama out of it.

Figured I'd ditch the evidence.

Probably for the best considering whose daughter that is.

No idea.

Riddle me that.

Might want to ditch this, too.

So... you think I won the argument?

No.

I think you stopped me from retrieving the password to Kate's memory bank, and now I'm left puzzling through her files, trying to retrieve some answer key so I can get Kate's memory back!

Still won't give up on Kate, huh?

I know why I'm invested, but why is Black Mask so obsessed with knowing all the dirty details of the Kane family?

Our dead doctor's been sending him her research.

I don't care.

I told you how I feel.

Your sister isn't worth you getting k*lled over.

Fine.

I guess I'm on my own then.

[ENGINE REVVING]

WOMAN: ♪ I'm coming at you ♪

♪ You're playing cool ♪

♪ But you cr*ck under pressure, pressure ♪

[TIRES SQUEALING]

♪ Watch me clear the gate ♪

[SINGING INDISTINCTLY]

I didn't do anything.

You're driving a stolen car, dumbass.

I prefer the term borrowed.

Yeah?

Were you borrowing a car earlier when you sh*t the guy who tried to stop you?

It wasn't like that.

The Crows rolled up out of nowhere.

What do you mean the Crows rolled up?

They did this?

I've never sh*t a g*n in my life.

How are you here and he's in the hospital?

They saw us both.

I may have said he was boosting the ride.

You think maybe that was gonna get him sh*t?

He was stupid enough to grab his phone.

Next thing I knew, someone yelled out "g*n" and then fired.

How the hell did you get away?

I saw a chance, and I ran.

They didn't bother to follow.

I swear.

That's how it went down.

What did they look like?

Badge numbers, I.D.s, plates.

Uh...

Tuh...

Ta... Tavaroff.

I heard the one guy scream, "What'd you do?" At him.

You know, if that guy had just minded his business and let me take the car, I'd have been out of there, and he'd be fine.

You're saying this is his fault?

It's the truth.

He didn't need to make me his problem.

And the Crows didn't need to sh**t him.

Sounds like your beef is with them, so how about letting me go.

How about not?

Unh!

Maybe you should have minded your own business.

[HEART MONITOR BEEPING]

Dad.

Dad!

You know it's impossible to get your old man's attention when he's deep in thought.

Bruce.

What are you doing here?

You called me here.

I...

I didn't...

Why would I call you here?

Luke, you've been sh*t.

You brought me here because you have a choice to make.

DANA DEWITT: Gotham reels from the latest sh**ting of a Black man at the hands of the Crows.

This incident comes on the heels of the recent Crows controversy where some say excessive firepower was used to contain the latest Snakebite epidemic.

Crow officials have yet to release a statement on the issue, and per their official policy, they refuse to release the names of the agents involved.

Behind me, protestors are gathering...

How much longer?

An hour or two tops.

Crows let the real suspect get away, didn't even bother chasing him.

I left him for the GCPD.

MARY: They can't get away with this.

We have to get justice for Luke.

Focus on saving him.

I'll take care of the Crows.

How do you access the freaking internet on this thing?

Uh, I think...

Okay.

Son of a bitch.

Is that the agent who sh*t Luke?

Russell Tavaroff.

He was responsible for the m*ssacre at the church, crashed my False Face operation two weeks ago.

Of course he did this!

Hey.

You need backup?

Not me, but I can call Sophie.

I want to see how Russell does against someone who is bulletproof.

Hang on, Luke.

Help is on the way.

[CRASH]

[ALARM BLARING]

You've got to be kidding me.

MARY: Get out of here.

I'm going to assume if Batwoman were here she wouldn't have sent you to shoo me away with a big box store brand taser.

Rest assured...

[STAGE WHISPER]

I'm not afraid of you.

Yeah.

Okay.

How are you still even here?

Didn't False Face deal with you already?

Actually, that's what brings me.

I was wondering if you had any unexpected run-ins with Black Mask's side chick?

Goes by Circe.

- Never heard of her.

- Are you sure?

She used to run around in a wooden hockey mask.

Now she's a supermodel-esque assassin.

I'm sorry.

Why am I supposed to care about this person?

You aren't, and turns out, she doesn't care about you either.

Well, helpful as always.

Toodles.

Uh, mmm.

There's always a reason with you.

Who is she?

Turns out Black Mask is the only person who hates the Kane family more than I do, and as much as I'm unwilling to admit it, that includes you.

Watch your back, steppy.

So you came here to warn me out of the... goodness of your empty chest cavity?

Enemy of my enemy and all that.

Aren't you besties with Batty?

Maybe it's worth keeping her within reach if you want to live.

I know you're in love...

and maybe if you'd seen it earlier in your life, you might not be the monster that you are today.

As much as I hate you, Alice, everyone deserves love.

[DOOR SHUTS]

[CAPE FLUTTERS]

[CRASH]

[BOTH GRUNT]

[RAPID g*nshots]

Not so easy now, is it?

Huh!

TAVAROFF: Huh!

Agh!

Confess to what you did, and maybe I'll let you keep breathing.

- It's not your fight.

- Yeah?

You sh*t an innocent, unarmed Black man.

The fight is in my DNA.

Innocent?

Ha!

I looked him up.

Kid was released from jail hours before we caught him stealing a car.

He broke the law just like you're doing right now.

[TIRES SQUEALING]

- Unh!

- Ugh!

[RYAN GROANING]

[TIRES SQUEALING]

[GRUNTING]

Body go bye-bye?

Can't be traced back to us.

"Us".

That word does have a nice domestic flare to it, even in the context of disposing of a body.

You made your priorities clear.

I'm headed out, so if there's a point you're trying to make, make it.

I betrayed you, I k*lled you, I...

I even chose my sister over you, and yet still I haven't fully pushed you away, so either you're a masochist or you hate yourself, but which one is it?

You're infuriating, unpredictable, and, yes, you tried to k*ll me...

but I can't help who I love.

We're survivors, orphans who made our way in this world alone except somehow we found each other.

Whatever we felt for each other was enough to bring back our memories.

That's real, Alice.

My whole life I've been caged by Cartwright and then Safiyah, even my own sister.

For the first time, I'm free to make my own choices.

- So choose.

- No.

Because I want it all.

I...

I... I want you, and I want my sister back, and if you truly loved me, you would want me to have it all, too.

Have to admit kind of surprised you called me.

- Don't know many Crows.

- Ex-Crow.

Them either.

I need your help.

You okay?

You should see the Crows' truck.

The Crows ran you down?

One of Russell Tavaroff's boys.

He has people watching his back, so I need you to tell me everything about him and his crew.

Are you sure you don't want to be with Luke right now?

- Luke's gonna be fine.

- Fine?

He's unconscious in the ICU.

Mary's on her way to the hospital with Desert Rose.

It will save his life.

Um, excuse me.

I need to see Luke.

And I need you to step back.

Since when did this ICU room become the hottest club in Gotham?

No one's allowed in.

No.

I just spoke to Luke's doctor, and I'm not no one.

I'm Mary Hamilton, daughter of Jacob Kane, your boss, so unless you want to be pulling shifts at the Gotham Mall, I suggest you let me in.

We're here on your father's orders.

DEWITT: The Crows have issued a statement on the incident along with newly released body camera footage.

We should warn viewers that this footage is disturbing.

I have photographic evidence.

RYAN: Wait.

How was Luke holding a g*n?

This makes me want to puke.

The Crows have just released the name of the armed suspect...

Lucas Fox, who was released from jail hours before the confrontation.

The g*n found at the scene was also connected to a recent gas station robbery.

-year-old Fox is the son of the late Wayne Foundation CEO Lucius Fox and currently works as head of security at Wayne Tower.

They literally photoshopped a g*n into Luke's hand in the bodycam footage.

Not just any g*n.

It was linked to an armed robbery, which means when Luke wakes up they're gonna charge him for robbery and attempted as*ault.

If Luke wakes.

There are two agents stationed outside his door.

Mary couldn't get them removed.

If Mary can't administer the Desert Rose...

Luke's gonna die.

How is there a damn video of Luke carrying a g*n?

- I don't know.

- Well, think!

Because I highly doubt Tavaroff has a degree in alpha bro and digital art!

Tavaroff is a bully with a bunch of lackeys, who will do whatever he wants.

It was probably one of them.

A m*rder of Crows.

Okay.

So tell me how to get my hands on the original footage.

What time is it?

: .

All the bodycam metadata is sent to the Crows' air-gapped server, which always deletes at A.M. every night.

If we can get the metadata off that server, we can compare it to the footage playing on the news and prove the original was altered.

Well, that just flowed right off your tongue.

What are you talking about?

Tell me how many times have you seen something like this happen and never said anything?

How many times have you participated in something like this?

Never.

I never knew it went this far, and when I did, I quit.

Yesterday!

Not long ago, you threw down the badges of the two agents who ran over Wolf Spider, and you told me you could change the culture.

You knew it was broken!

Ryan, I didn't sh**t Luke, so please stop acting like this is my fault.

It's not!

It's mine!

- What?

- It's my fault.

Luke got sh*t because of me.

That's crazy.

Why would you blame yourself?

I gave him hell for being a bystander.

I called him privileged.

Ryan, you didn't do this.

Luke... put himself in the way because of me.

Sophie, he can't die!

How are you here right now?

H-How is... how is... he?

What is going on?

Where do you think we are right now?

- In your office.

- Are we, though, really?

This is... my subconscious.

Exactly.

Right now, you are lying in a hospital room.

Doctors have no idea how to fix you.

A machine is keeping you alive, and you have a choice to make.

You can hang on, or you can let go and join him.

Okay.

If this is purgatory, does that mean that you're dead?

You tell me, Luke.

It's your subconscious.

So... what's it gonna be, buddy?

Bruce, I don't know.

I just want to go talk to my dad.

No.

Doesn't work that way.

What do you mean?

He is right there.

Why can't I just go talk to him?

Because if you go talk to the old man, that's it.

You're dead.

Your decision's been made.

There's no going back.

[KNOCK ON DOOR]

Moore, I thought you quit.

Come to change your mind?

Russell Tavaroff is not the agent you think he is.

Well, I could say the same about you.

Doesn't reflect well on me when my best agent hands in her badge without even discussing it with me first.

There's nothing to discuss.

Last year, we said we'd drain the swamp once we discovered Agent Robles was hired to k*ll Lucius Fox.

Now we're right back where we started, another Crow lying about another Fox case.

You quit less than hours ago, and then you come in here, and you tell me how to run my operation?

I'm asking to reexamine the facts of the case.

Two years ago, I tracked down a r*pist.

He att*cked several women, we all knew he did it, but the evidence was circumstantial.

It wouldn't hold up in court, so when airtight evidence appeared at the last minute, I didn't question where it came from because he was guilty.

We put a r*pist behind bars.

I know we did, but we also bent the rules.

And how many lives have we saved?

All I'm saying is if evidence could appear out of thin air once, it can appear again.

I have been loyal to you since day one.

years, no questions asked, but... once I saw the truth, I couldn't unsee it, so I'm begging you, sir, please open your eyes before anyone else has to die.

[DOOR SHUTS]

[BEEP BEEP BEEP]

RYAN: Just landed in the Crows nest.

SOPHIE: Copy.

Just hacked into the Crows' camera feed.

You've got minutes before the data wipe activates.

What about Luke?

It's in motion.

Hmm.

So hot tip.

Coffee at the hospital caf is extra tragic, but I brought these fresh.

WOMAN: ♪ Downtown breaking out from the underground ♪

♪ Said got loose from you ♪

I actually came back to apologize for my behavior earlier.

You know, "I'm Mary Hamilton. Rrrwww!"

Heh!

Who do I think I am...

Kimmy K, right?

WOMAN: ♪ Hey, ooh ♪

♪ Yeah, I can't believe ♪

You're just doing your jobs, and...

so heroically, too.

The entire city of Gotham owes you both a huge debt of gratitude.

From us all.

WOMAN: ♪ Yeah, I can't believe ♪

This is so stupid.

Dad!

Dad, it's Luke.

Okay.

What is happening?

Science.

The land of the living is pulling you back.

Vitals are stabilizing, wounds are healing.

On paper, you could get up tomorrow and go for a jog.

You're about survive, my friend.

Now are you staying, or are you going?

Because if you wait much longer, that decision is gonna be made for you.

I'm...

Bruce.

You asked to see me, Commander.

Yeah.

Can you, uh, help me with something, Tavaroff?

Luke Fox never had so much as a speeding ticket, parking ticket, fix-it ticket.

Hell, he's never even had a late payment on a bill.

How does a guy like that suddenly graduate to GTA, robbery, and possession of a firearm?

I can't say, sir.

You'll have to ask him when he wakes.

The Snakebite case two days ago resulted in nearly a dozen deaths.

Agent Moore's final report indicated requesting the use of nonlethal force to subdue the users.

Well, my crew and I were surrounded by cannibals high out of their mind, sir.

Well, you could have used tear gas, stun g*ns.

Come on.

This organization has its own damn armory.

Well, if we had an IA investigation every time a firearm was discharged, we'd never make it back into the field, sir.

And if I was to look at all your cases, how many of these instances would I find?

How many would we find in yours, Commander?

What about lighting up Batwoman at Goliaths Stadium?

The Crows have never shied away from using extreme force.

That is not why I started the Crows.

Well, that's who we are now.

Well, then maybe we need to take a long, hard look at ourselves and ask if the Crows deserve to exist.

In the meantime, I want your badge, I want your g*n, and I want you out of here.

You are sidelined until I can conduct a full investigation into you and your little posse.

If that's what you got to do, sir.

Unh!

Or maybe... we'll be just fine if we get rid of the problem.

- RYAN: I'm here.

- SOPHIE: Okay, Batwoman.

According to the report, Tavaroff's footage will be in stack .

It should be on your right.

We really need you to wait in the visitors' lounge.

Oh, I'm just saying I am happy to consult my dad about better benefits.

I mean, you bravely put yourselves in the line of fire, and that's your pension?

Seriously, I...

think about your life, think about your choices because the Crows hurt people like my friend Luke, so just ask yourselves who are you really protecting here, hmm?

Mary Hamilton, crazy seeing you here.

Evan Blake.

I bought you a coffee.

You failed to mention Luke was a cutie pie.

Ha!

Luke got the Desert Rose.

- Is he awake?

- Not yet.

We're at minutes to A.M.

Password worked.

I'm in.

Good.

Found the bodycam files.

- Oh, no.

- Talk to me.

There's hundreds of files in Tavaroff's folder.

If it's by date, it'd be the last entry.

They're not saved by date because why would the Crows make something easy?

Can you get Luke's before it's destroyed?

I can't find Luke's footage.

- Oh, my God.

- What?

Tavaroff and his m*rder have the Commander.

He's not conscious.

You need to stop them!

I need to save Luke before these files are erased!

You don't kidnap the Commander and plan to let him live.

They're gonna k*ll Jacob Kane.

Figure out where they took him.

Saw the Snakebite kits in the trash when I was tying him up.

Commander's a fricking junkie.

So... let's give him the worst high he's ever had.

Dude, ?

That'll k*ll him.

He was gonna turn us all in.

It's either us or him.

Do you want to go to jail?

How about you or you?

All it takes is a half-wit judge and a soft jury, and we're all done.

Ffft.

Huh?

That's what I thought.

Now... shut up and let the Commander enjoy his last high.

[ALL GRUNTING]

Aah!

Lights.

I wanted you to see this.

[BOTH GRUNTING]

Unh!

Have fun at Blackgate.

Huh!

Thanks.

You know what I gave up to save your ass?

Clearing Luke Fox's name.

Your boys are trying to ruin his life.

I...

I didn't know it was this bad.

Yeah?

Well, you should have.

You want to do good, I get it.

I bend the rules, too, but at least I have a code.

What's yours?

I gave you the match and the gas can, Commander.

It's up to you to do the rest.

Burn it down, or you're just as bad as them.

Luke's mom just pulled into the lot.

Why isn't he waking up?

It doesn't make any sense.

His vitals have stabilized.

He should be awake by now.

After one dose of the Desert Rose serum, my Kryptonite poisoning went away immediately.

Are you sure Wolf Spider did it right?

I'm positive.

I watched him do it.

- Then why isn't it working?

- I don't know.

I should have been the one to inject it.

I should have been there.

I could have done more.

Two Crows agents sh*t and framed and Luke Fox by placing a g*n at the scene when he, in fact, did not have a w*apon in his possession.

[REPORTERS MURMURING]

Even more disturbing, the doctored bodycam footage to make it look as though the phone in Mr. Fox's hand was that g*n.

REPORTER: Will you be releasing the real bodycam footage?

Unfortunately, it was destroyed, but I am personally willing to testify to this in court.

In the meantime, the agents involved in this deep fake are being held for as*ault with the intent to k*ll.

I am lucky that Batwoman was there to save my life.

What does this say about the Crows as an organization and you as its leader?

Well, I started the Crows because I wanted to protect Gotham from the kind of monsters who would highjack a school bus and run a family off the road like they were nothing, but somewhere along the way, the Crows began cutting corners to get results.

While Agent Tavaroff is directly responsible for what happened to Mr. Fox, I am guilty of harboring these types of actions for years.

I want to offer a direct apology to the Fox family for all the hurt that we have caused, but these are not isolated moments, and apologies mean nothing without actions.

I have therefore come to the conclusion that there is only one way to make amends.

As the founder and majority shareholder, I have decided to disband the Crows effective immediately.

DEWITT: What will this mean for the security of Gotham?

When did you first...

You did that.

You shut them down.

They can't hurt anyone anymore.

We... did it, Luke, so I'm gonna need you to wake up now, please, because there is no Batteam without you.

Come on, Luke.

Wake up.

Who else is gonna roll their eyes at me every time I thr*aten to redecorate the Batcave...

or ignore my fashion advice, even though clearly only own a suit?

It's me and you in the Batcave, Luke, so...

we need you.

I need you, so...

This is so unfair.

None of this is fair.

It doesn't matter that you worked for Batman or both Batwomen, that you saved hundreds of lives, cleaned up entire neighborhoods.

You have given hope to thousands of people.

You still got sh*t...

and there is a whole mess of people out there willing to believe that you deserved it just because you're Black.

Then what's the point?

It's not for me to say, but you need to decide...

now.

You left, and I...

I've always wondered why.

Why you just walked away, hung up the cape...

And it's because it's just all so damn depressing.

Because no matter what good we try to put into the world, it's still a world where this happens.

And I don't want to live in that world anymore.

I want to be with my dad.

WOMAN: ♪ Stay the course ♪

And that's your choice.

WOMAN: ♪ Look up ♪

Okay.

Hey, Dad.

It's Luke.

I'm...

I'm here.

WOMAN: ♪ To the north ♪

♪ An eye for an eye, we're at the edge ♪

I think he's waking up.

WOMAN: ♪ We do ♪

Luke.

You're alive.

Welcome back.

Heh.

Heh.

WOMAN: ♪ Just look down, don't want to drown ♪

♪ Because who's gonna care? ♪

♪ Who's gonna care? ♪

[CELL PHONE VIBRATES]

- ♪ Who ♪

♪ Who-ooh-ooh-ooh ♪

You did the right thing.

Thanks to you.

Doesn't matter how we get there, sir.

What matters is that we do.

This is why I always looked up to you.

You were always my best agent, Moore.

WOMAN: ♪ Whoa, oh ♪

The fact that I've broken into this parking structure more times than I can count says the Crows maybe weren't all that great at security anyway.

It's been a long day, Alice.

What do you want?

I need your help, and I know what you're thinking...

"Me help you?

I've made it my paternal legacy to disappoint you at every opportunity".

Alice.

Kate's alive.

- Not this again.

- No.

Daddy, she's alive.

Not maybe possibly being held on an invisible island somewhere.

She's here in Gotham under the influence of Black Mask, so you and I are gonna do the one thing that you Kate never did for me.

We are gonna stop at nothing, and we're gonna get her back.

MAN: Greg, move your head!