Speaking of, Ryan is absolutely killing with the media and getting ready for her next interview when Marquis comes over with an Avengers-style disguise. A hat. He just put a hat on. Sophie comes over in a panic because she can’t find Jordan, and we get the moment from the promo where Sophie introduces herself to Marquis as Ryan’s… “very good friend” according to Ry Ry. But while that might not be what we wanted to hear, Ryan informs PR Charlie that her girl comes first and goes off to look for Jordan.
“You hurt her, you die.”–Sophie Moore, probably.
In the Batcave, Luke’s still trying to talk to his dad via the suit, but it’s still not working. Batwoman radios in asking for help to find Jordan. Luke pings her phone, which is still on the floor of the event space. Meanwhile, Marquis comes over to Ryan with a tip on Jordan’s location.
Sophie and Ryan break down the door to the room Jordan’s supposedly being held in, and they’re met with a very literally frozen Jordan. Whatever was happening to that person from the opening, is happening to Sophie’s sister, and Soph is a WRECK. She immediately goes into “I got this” mode, but Ryan gets her to slow down before doing anything rash. She promises Soph that they’ll figure it out together. TOGETHER. Ahem.
RYAN, YOUR HANDS
They managed to get Jordan to the clinic where Mary is running tests and researching how they can save the younger Moore. Sophie breaks my entire heart when she pleads with Mary to tell her how to help her sister. And like a light when you’re surrounded by darkness, Alice cuts through the tension to ask if she should get a hairdryer to thaw out Jordan. I don’t think I’ll ever tire of characters being utterly confused by Alice’s presence in any given situation.
In this case though, Alice proves her usefulness by unveiling the people who did this to Jordan as the BeeGees.You know, the Black Glove Society? Obviously. The BGS found out Jordan was going to use her speech to expose them, so they decided to use Jordan and her friends as test subjects. Sophie wonders why Jordan wouldn’t tell her what she was working on, and Alice astutely replies that Jordan knew Soph would try to stop her. Sophie decides to take Alice to Jordan’s apartment to look for clues.
“It’s like she’s trying to speak to us…”
Back at the event, Ryan watches the coroner take out a dead body in pieces, right there in the open. Luke’s still on comms and mentions how convenient it is that Marquis was the one who got the tip on Jordan’s location. Ryan says as much to her brother, who actually came over to apologize for Jada’s behavior.
At that moment, Charlie comes over to inform Ryan of the news she missed while her phone was on silent. Girl, you live in GOTHAM, at least put that shit on vibrate!! Turns out, the Wayne stock is plummeting because Vesper reported its acting CEO has been diverting company money into her own accounts. Ooooo Jada girl, you play dirty!
“Wow, I didn’t think ‘mommy issues’ included ALL THIS.”
Ryan’s investigating the hotel room, and Luke tells her that Jada actually didn’t make this one up; the money that’s being diverted is actually funding Batman/woman. The two realize the BGS was using heat lamps to thaw the bodies, and they follow a heat signature to another room where they find what’s left of another of Jordan’s friends.
At Jordan’s apartment, Sophie warns Alice not to make any comments because she lived in a sewer (LOL). This is not the point at all, but Jordan has an enviable collection of books, whew! As Alice searches for anything pointing to the BGS, she hallucinates the guard again and asks how his neck is, like some kind of Meagan Tandy. Alice is on the absolute edge, and the guard tells her, “Maybe if you knew what was real about yourself, Beth, the rest of the world would fall back into place.” I don’t usually include long direct quotes like this, but this one hit particularly hard.
Alice is doing her best.
For as long as she can remember, Alice has been playing pretend. It’s how she coped with her abduction and every other trauma after that. She’s built up so many personalities and walls to protect herself, that now, when she’s finally in a place where she can start to trust, she has no idea which part of her is Beth. And it doesn’t help that when she does lower those walls, someone is always waiting to remind her why the walls were up in the first place. Let Alice heal, is what I’m saying.
Alice finds the BGS files in the vent, and “Jeturian office!” is highlighted, which is fine. The same hat guy from earlier shows up with some cronies and Alice asks if they’re make-believe before handing the files over. They fight, and Sophie no joke flies into the room, takes down several bad guys, before the main guy knocks her out.
Meanwhile, Mary’s trying to re-freeze Jordan (while wearing the cutest hat!) and Luke calls seemingly just to lash out at her for not finding a solution yet. I see what you think you’re doing here, Luke, but I’m here to tell you that what Mary did is very much not the same.
GIVE MARY HAMILTON A BREAK 2022
Mary mentions her night in the park AGAIN, which reminds her of plants, which reminds her how plants survive the winter, which means they need to thaw Jordan from the inside out. Obviously.
Back at Jordan’s apartment, Sophie and Alice come to tied to chairs with a path of gasoline-soaked books leading right to them. Sophie starts to blame Alice for the situation, and Alice actually opens up to Soph about her delusions getting worse. The fire ignites, but before it can reach them, RYAN SAVES THEM. And y’all, the way Ryan and Sophie look at each other?!?!?! They’re really going to slow-burn this, and I don’t think I care. I am HERE for the angst.
Same, Soph
We’re back at the clinic, and Jordan is completely thawed, but can’t respond to her sister’s love and relief until her body resets. Ryan pulls Soph aside to apologize for not catching the people who did this to her sister, and vows to go after them.
“Hm, yes? Mommi? What? You needed something?”
Sophie tells Mary that Alice’s psychosis is getting worse and Mary thinks the Arkham meds are contributing. So Alice suggests her good friends Ry Ry and Renee-nay (I cannot) authorize a work release to keep Alice out of Arkham for the time being. And guess who gets to keep an eye on her? SOPHIE MOORE, Y’ALL!! I cannot wait for the shenanigans that ensue with these two living together.
HANG THIS IN THE LOURVE
At Wayne Enterprises, Ryan struts in to find Luke and Charlie waiting with the news that while they know Ryan had no knowledge of the missing money, the stock price is still plummeting. They managed to get Argus to agree to a cover story (I see you, Diggle!), but the board still wants Ryan to resign.
Neither Ryan nor Luke can afford to lose the company. Not for monetary reasons, but because of what it means to them. Ryan refuses to let Jada take her calling, so Luke asks her if she’s going to stay and fight despite the odds. And before Ryan answers, it’s clear what she’s going to say. Because of anyone, Luke should know that Ryan isn’t the one to run from a fight. He was one of the people who doubted Ryan the second the put the cowl on and yet, here she stands.
“And I am telling you…I’m not going…”
Down in the Batcave, Luke reactivates the failsafe which brings his dad’s voice back as the AI. He asks the one question he needs his father’s answer to: is he ready to wear the suit? His father tells him that he’s not.
At The Hold Up, Ryan’s having a drink with Marquis (ummm, what happened to happy hour with Mary?) and she asks her brother if he still thinks the two of them can take down Jada. Because she refuses to let her have Wayne. I’m not entirely sure that I trust Marquis, but after seeing what his mother does next…
Jada is the mysterious client, that the hat guy was working for. He was able to get the device to freeze and unfreeze organic matter, but won’t answer any questions about his methods. And the first person Jada plans to use this on?? Marquis!!
“She’s as coooooold as ice!”
Next week, the Wildmoore slow burn continues with Ryan bringing Sophie to dinner at Jada’s! Ryan in a jumpsuit! Sophie in a dress!! I’mma pass away, y’all.
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“You hurt her, you die.”–Sophie Moore, probably.”
I’m wheezing.
I’m gay and Sophie is so pretty it hurts.
Yeah. WHY IS NO ONE LISTENING TO MARY ??? (I appreciated Mary sassing Luke)
“HANG THIS IN THE LOURVE” Sophie’s face. I cheered. This is going to be phenomenal xD They were already comedy gold last season. I’m still not over Alice eating a plant to be honest.
Oh god, how did I forget Alice eating a plant?! ❤️
I wanted to throw everyone in the trash can for how they were treating Mary this episode. SERIOUSLY WHAT IS THEIR PROBLEM?!?!?? Ugh!
If you live long enough, you can live to see Andrew taking off his glasses like Giles.
(I only realized Charlie is played by the same actor who played Andrew in Buffy when my partner pointed it out to me though.)
While I am living for this WildMoore slowburn, and Ryan and Sophie becoming more amd more devoted to each other, I’m gonna need Ryan to divert about 20% of her energy into asking Mary about waking up on a bench. On a good day, Gotham parks are beset by killer crocs and swarming deadly bats, and Ryan and Luke just took it in stride.
I love this specific super show because even though the whole team is aware of the wild, amoral shit Alice has done and might do again, Sophie and Mary have really stepped up to advocate for Alice, and Ryan only grumbled a little bit.
They literally don’t have to, but they’re aware enough of her trauma and her crumbling mental health and the broken system trying to keep her sick, and they can’t just leave her to her madness. Love a super team with some clear moral lines and empathy.
I love when the writers make their flagship diegetic. It’s a simple but effective way to acknowledge the fans.
I’m still mostly confident we’re gonna get our Wildmooore endgame, but I think it’s also safe to say we got queerbaited this week. That promo reeeeealy leaned into teasing the romance, and yet they didn’t get together. Not saying that can’t be redeemed soon, but I think it should also be called what it is for now
Also, is there a section missing from this? It seems like a chunk got skipped in between the photos captioned “It’s like she’s trying to speak to us…” and “Wow, I didn’t think ‘mommy issues’ included ALL THIS.”
It’s not queerbait as they gave us exactly what was in the promo lol. No promises were made to give us any more than that. We already knew Wildmoore was gonna be slow burn and they already confirmed the love triangle. I’m just very excited for how it will all play out.
They don’t necessarily have to have promised it specifically for that promo to count as queerbaiting. It leaned heavily into the potential Wildmoore romance, teasing that we’d get more when we ultimately got pretty much only what was shown in the teaser. The writers certainly aren’t queerbaiting, but I still say the promo team was unfortunately dabbling in that area
Queerbaiting to me is when queerness is implied and teased to draw queer viewers in but never acknowledged as anything more than subtext. Batwoman is too gay of a show for queerbaiting to be possible.
This is just classic drawing out a will-they-won’t-they, and every show with a straight pairing does it! I’d be annoyed if this level of tension were happening between two characters the show insisted were straight, but Ryan and Sophie are both lesbians, and I for one am here for the slow burn.
This season is so good so far!!
I have never really gotten the whole damsel swooning when the hero rescues her thing until the books froze and Sophie looked at Ryan like that and Batwoman looked at Sophie and I about passed out from all the hotness.
I’m usually mad about the team being jerks to Alice, but poor Mary these last couple episodes!
If anyone reads this, The episode is 304 but the title shows 404. Just a correction.
Alice continues to be the queen of physical comedy with that rolly chair exit from the room with Mary. Had to replay it a couple times!
Can’t wait to see Sophie as Ryan’s plus one next week, and Alice and Sophie as roommates!
i did not expect “alice as comedic relief” this season but i am NOT MAD ABOUT IT. i’m literally in love with this episode. i mean, for god’s sake, everyone block the next five days on your calendar to pay undivided attention to mary, and then ryan and sophie can spend the next five days staring at each other across a variety of rooms.
but i cannot possibly overstate how excited i am for these four women to be teaming up like this. sophie and alice ROOMIES?? more of mary and ryan roomies?? alice and mary SISTERS?? alice and ryan PARTNERS??? sophie and ryan GIRLFRIENDS??? literally this is the future liberals want.