After rewatching the action-packed crossover episode, we get back into the swing of Batwoman with Season 1 Episode 10, “How Queer Everything Is Today!” I can’t wait to jump back into our thrilling city of Gotham.
The episode begins with a rush of a train that has lost its brake system. Batwoman (Ruby Rose) is in pursuit. She saves the day but ends up needing saving herself by a GCPD officer. Cameras snap, and Gotham begins to ship Batwoman and the officer. Kate (Rose) and Luke (Camrus Johnson) disagree with the benefit of this publicity.
Over at the cemetery, Mouse (Sam Littlefield) and Alice (Rachel Skarsten) have a tea party next to Catherine’s grave. The two disagree about Kate and her relationship with Alice.
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While dealing with grief, Mary (Nicole Kang) says goodbye to her social media following just as Kate visits. She gives Kate the cold shoulder, revealing that she is working with Jacob (Dougray Scott) and Sophie (Meagan Tandy) to help Jacob’s murder defense. The two disagree on Alice, and Mary dismisses Kate.
At the train station, Kate and Luke investigate the accident. They find a packet analyzer, theorizing that it could have been used to hijack the train remotely. After they find the device, Gotham gets a cryptic message on all their devices and screens.
At a press conference, the hacker interrupts the Mayor’s reassurances by giving out his credit card number, encouraging Gotham to go shopping. Luke and Kate disagree on going dark to avoid a hack.
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In Blackgate Penitentiary, other prisoners give Jacob a hard time. When Mary calls, desperate to prove his innocence, he urges her to talk to someone about what she’s going through.
Chasing another lead, Kate finds Sophie interrogating a person of interest in the train accident. After she loses her temper on the person of interest, she encounters Batwoman. The two have an unexpectedly vulnerable moment of Sophie admitting her husband left her and believes she’s hiding something from herself. Batwoman provides wise words.
Still on a quest to save Jacob, Mary searches for a doctor to serve as an expert witness in Jacob’s trial, but cannot find anyone willing to testify or even believe her.
At the Batcave, Kate struggles with Gotham’s image of her and who she really is as Batwoman. By isolating the hacker’s voice, the duo discovers the hacker, known as The Terrier (Malia Pyles), is a woman, and she recorded the videos at Gotham Prep.
While conferring with Sophie, Mary reveals her professor lead is a bust; she sees Alice at Gotham University.
Batwoman crashes a high school party, and the selfies and photos fly as she looks for the hacker. She confronts the hacker, Parker Torres (Pyles). Parker explains the train was a prank to get her parents’ attention as they want to disown her because she’s gay.
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As they part ways, Alice attacks Parker, coming to blows with Kate first. She knocks Kate out and takes Parker. Over at Gotham University, The Crows burst into a dorm room void of Alice. Because of the false lead from Mary, Sophie visits Mary, who is packing up her clinic. She urges Mary to talk to someone about all she’s dealing with.
To find common ground with her sister, Alice urges Batwoman to remove the mask and drop the hero act. She threatens Parker with a handsaw, which causes Kate to comply. The next phase in Alice’s plan is to use Parker to out Kate as Batwoman. She also tells them she brought C-4 to the dance.
Upon Kate’s insistence, she complies with Alice’s request, hacking phones to reveal Kate’s identity. Alice lets her go, and Kate apprehends Alice. The two argue as sirens ring outside. While Kate believes Parker has saved the day, Alice tells her the detonator is not in the room. Mouse, in a car down the road, has the detonator and presses it as police speed by.
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All the students clear the space before the explosion, getting to safety. In the nick of time, Kate repays the cop who saved her by saving him from the explosion. As the crowd urges them to kiss, Kate declines.
The next day, Parker visits Kate at Wayne Manor. She promises Kate she won’t share her secret, and Kate gives her a community service packet as penance for her acts as The Terrier. The two have more common ground than Parker realizes.
The Crows have Alice in custody and Sophie presses for Mouse’s location. In the Batcave, Luke gifts Kate a birthday cupcake and the two talk about the cover spread of Batwoman, revealing herself to be a lesbian, shutting down rumors and stepping out of the shadows in at least one respect.
At the end of the episode, a brunette Alice stands in the middle of Kate’s office. When pressed for information and checked for a false mask, she insists she is Beth.
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I loved the themes in this episode. Kate’s struggle with not outwardly being who she truly is, paralleling with Parker’s past and Sophie’s struggles, truly felt very impactful.
Because of Parker’s experience, it inspired Kate to make her statement as Batwoman on her sexuality, which put to bed all the gossip about Batwoman and the GCPD cop.
Then the ending, the last scene of actual Beth, not Alice, or so they lead us to believe, is truly jaw-dropping. I can’t wait to get deeper into the rewatch in the next episode.
You can stream Batwoman on HBO Max.
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