Ruby Rose’s Batwoman was introduced in the Elseworlds and Crisis on Infinite Earths storylines in Supergirl and The Flash. We get the narration of Kate Kane (Rose), flashing back to swimming through a dark lake to find a key for her hand-cuffed ankles. A box is placed over the hole of the icy lake surface blocking an escape! She flashes back to her younger age (Gracyn Sinyei) when her sister, Beth (Ava Sleeth) get into a car accident. She takes off her ankle cuff and uses it to smash repeatedly at the ice. Kate lifts herself up and is angry at the unnamed elder (Gray Horse Rider) who tested her. She moves to Gotham City three years without a Batman. The Crows truck stops at city hall. Their commander, Jacob Kane (Dougray Scott) scans his wife, Catherine (Elizabeth Anweis) and then kisses her. Catherine’s daughter, Mary (Nicole Kang), is busy taking selfies before joining the party. Agent Sophie Moore (Meagan Tandy) checks the security points. Catherine says that Batman has abandoned them and asks Mayor Akins (Chris Shields) to shut down the Bat Signal. The security monitor shuts down. Crow security is cut down by knives thrown by Alice (Rachel Skarsten). She first appeared in Detective Comics #854 (2009). Skarsten played the teen Dinah Lance, Black Canary, in the Birds of Prey series, pre-CW. She appears on the monitor to talk to all of Gotham. Alice says that one of them will die and turns over the monitor showing the dead officer. A masked man runs and then fights with Agent Moore. She falls and then is caught in a jumping sheets by the gang. Sophie is in fairy tale terms, the captured princess, who needs to be rescued by the Red Knight, Kate, who needs to find her role first.
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BATWOMAN -- “Pilot” -- RUBY ROSE -- Elizabeth Morris/The CW.
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Sunset, Kate puts on a necklace. The elder says she has a phone call. Mary calls Kate that Sophie was kidnapped. Flashback of Kate kissing Sophie. On a motorcycle, Kate rides in. Commander Kane covers the run down on the gang. He sees his daughter in the motorcycle gear and hugs her. Kate offers to work for her father. He calls her “a female Bruce Wayne.” The flashback, the couple talks about spending time away from the school, she is seen by an officer and reminded about the code of conduct. Kate rides her motorcycle to the Wayne Enterprises building and climbs in. She flashes back as a child seeing a necklace. Kate is interrupted by Luke Fox (Camrus Johnson) who has a gun on her, she slips in a paper clip, and has her cuffed. He questions her and takes her to a security office. She cuffs Luke and then enters the security camera footage of the kidnapping. Kate shows up at her father’s apartment, it is a surprise party, Mary is excitable, and wants to get a drink with her half-sister. She flashes back to Kate kicked out of the academy with Sophie still in her cadet uniform. She walks away from Kate. The relationship is set here so no surprises or developments. The pilot is in a rush to bring all of the story points, but the only one missing is how she started training with the elder.
At the party, Kate shows her father the camera footage of the kidnapping, she sees something strange on the video, a close-up shows “Milk will be behaved.” She remembers that it is part of an orphanage, a man is a rabbit mask rushes to her, but Kate knocks him down. Then, she fights with several more masked men. Kate can obviously fight, but she needs some weapons. She is knocked unconscious, when she revives, Kate finds herself tied up, and meets Alice in her chair. Alice wants Kate to deliever a message to her father. She says Sophie is the “daughter her father always wanted” holding a disciplinary stick that she uses to knock out Kate! Commander Kane arrives and gets the report that his daughter is gone. Kate revives and finds herself patched up by Mary in an “underground illegal clinic” at Gotham University. Kate was dropped off. She rides her motorcycle over to the Crows building and questions her father. Kate finds anger at her father sending her away. She twists Luke’s wrist to ask about Bruce. She goes to the necklace of her Aunt Martha in a pyramid container, she moves it to a switch and twists the container. This opens the secret door. Kate goes down the elevator which has Luke panic. She finds the abandoned Batcave and turns on the power. She then finds herself surrounded by bats and then flutter around her past the Bat suit. Luke runs up when she reveals the identity of Batman. The missing Batman is something that was in the Birds of Prey series, not in the comics, this part takes too long when Kate should be working on her suit for some time.
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BATWOMAN -- “Pilot” -- RUBY ROSE, CAMRUS JOHNSON -- Kimberly French/The CW.
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Kate’s narration shows the newspaper headlines that Bruce has followed. The flashback of the bus accident. Batman used hooks to try to hold the car, but it fell leaving young Kate as the survivor. Batman saved the school bus of kids, but not Kate’s mother. She pushes a button that reveals the weapons of Batman. Kate looks at the Batman suit. She tells Luke to change the suit. She answers her phone with Mary saying Sophie is located. The Gotham Movie in the Park has Crow and Gotham police officers patrol the park. Command Kane sees a suspicious building. This is where Sophie is being kept, Alice kisses one of her men. The movie is a Zorro film. The mayor congradulates Commander Kane. Alice calls up Kane. She tells him the Crows truck has “forget-me-nots”, he races over to see it is filled with explosives. Then, she points him to the building with Sophie ready to fall. One of Alice’s gang is taken down, then another. The Batwoman lands down in shadow. Alice struggles with Batwowan. The detonator is knocked away by Batwoman. She takes Sophie and makes a fall. It is the return of The Bat to Gotham, including radio announcer, Vesper Fairchild (Rachel Maddow), the city just hasn’t recognized Batwoman. The pilot shows the potential of the show, usually the CW super shows are gradual, but we get most of the characters and plot here. Usually the super shows have one-two great seasons and then just fade into routine or odd directions, I hope Batwoman has a more stronger plotline for several seasons.
Four Batarangs out of Five!
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