Batwoman, “The Rabbit Hole”, Review!

Gotham does not have a Batman.  Missing for three years.  A woman is terrorizing the city defended by the military.  It flashes back to 15 years ago, the missing sister of Kate, Beth.  Presently, Jacob is debriefing the Crows in finding Alice.  Crows search a room and Alice’s gang destroys a truck.  The gang members are taken down by Batwoman.  She is shot by one of them, but her armor protects her.  She rides her motorcycle to the Batcave into an elevator.  Kate removes her mask and is met by Luke.  Kate is on a search for Beth.  Vesper Fairchild broadcasts about Batman.  At a family dinner, Kate is with Mary, her stepmother, and her father.  Kate reveals that her sister is Alice.  She says the knife had the same stone as Beth’s birthstone.  Alice pours tea for a kidnapped people.  She wants to go after Commander Kane.  Alice has forgotten about her knife.  She kisses a henchman, Chuck Dodson (Brendon Zub), and wants revenge for her father giving up the search.  Charles Dodson is of course the real name of Lewis Carroll, author of Alice in Wonderland.   

BATWOMAN -- “The Rabbit Hole” -- RUBY ROSE, RACHEL SKARSTEN -- Katie Yu/The CW.  

Alice's knife is in a bag analyzed by Kate in the Batcave.  Flashback, young Kate screams out Beth’s name and is consoled by her father in an office to get her call.  Luke walks up and mentions DNA samples.  He acts as a Q showing the Batman’s equipment.  Kate says he sounds like his father, Lucius.  Kate meets with Sophie at her office.  She suspects Kate is Batman.  Kate says she isn’t Batman and jokes that she would be Wonder Woman.  At the garage, Kate gives the knife to Sophie to check for DNA.  Sophie gives the knife back to Kate.  A van speeds past them and Aice’s gang is there to get Alice’s possesion, they fight in the smoke, and escape in the van when  uses her gun.  Jacob is angry at the attack.  He mentions the attempted bombing at Robinson Park (this of course refers to one of the Batman creators, Jerry Robinson).  Kate goes to Mary’s clinic at Bennett Ave.  A patient was bleeding and Mary took out from him a Batarang.  Kate pulls up the patient and says a message for Alice, “From Kate Kane, waffles.”  The Crows are watching video on Dodson Avenue.  I wonder if Batman villain, Mad Hatter, Jervis Tetch, will show up.  Jacob sends the Crows to a location.  Kate calls Sophie and mentions the waffles.  She needs Sophie to give her time.  I wonder about the name of Alice's henchmen, Vesper Fairchild mentions Alice and the Wonderland gang, are they are the Wonderland gang? 

Luke sees a console activate at the Batcave.  There is a signal, he sees the computer target a location.  Kate drives her motorcycle to a park.  Flashback to her father bringing food to Kate in the morning.  He has given up on the search for Beth after months.  Kate blames herself for the loss of Beth who fell from the car accident.  She stares at the park table.  Crows break into the house and see the dead people who were kidnapped.  Jacob tells Sophie it was his former house.  Alice/Beth confronts her sister on a swing.  On the swing, Alice faces Kate, who mentions her knife was tested for DNA.  Alice proves that she is her sister by showing up at the park.  Then, brings up that the press knew about the park too.  Is she playing mind games?  Sophie covers the body, later it is explained that they were the owners of the house, and reports to Jacob that they are at the park.  Kate brings up the crash.  Alice brings up how she survived.  Kate gets a call from Mary.  Alice asks Kate when she slept through the night.  Kate says she hasn’t and says she wanted to be there with her sister.  Alice cuts her hand and gets a Crow targeting laser.  Love the meeting of Kate with Alice, this sets up without superhero fighting, the question of Kate's missing sister.  

BATWOMAN -- “The Rabbit Hole” --  DOUGRAY SCOTT -- Katie Yu/The CW.  

Kate puts herself in front of Alice.  Jacob wants his daughter to get away.  Kate says killing Alice will cause him to lost both daughters.  Jacob orders Alice to be taken to Arkham Asylum.  Kate feels betrayed by Sophie.  Alice is angry at Kate.  Mary is on the phone and the power goes out!  Chuck Dodson chokes Mary, but she stabs him and escapes.  Mary hides in a room that she blocks with a cabinet.  Chuck uses an axe to cut into the room.  He is pulled back and knocked out.  Mary looks up to see Batwoman watching the report on Alice being moved to Arkham.  The bridge explodes stopping the van.  In some respects, Kate is everywhere to tie in all of the cast, this is almost forced.  The police car burns as Batwoman races to the site on her motorcycle.  Luke mentions that she is five minutes away.  The van is in the river, a repeat of teh accident, Alice floats there and is pulled away by Batwoman who gives her a ventilator.  Alice wakens.  Police fire down and the van explodes sending the two away.  Luke calls for Kate, but Batwoman is unconscious on the shore.  A dog barks at Batwoman.  Luke uses the controls to shock her suit.  The police do not find her of course.  There are further complications for Kate, her search for Beth, and her step-family.  Could it be that Alice, or whoever she works for, took Beth’s body to get at Jacob and maybe arranged the accident?  We get Batwoman in her full uniform and red hair next episode!  

Three Batarangs out of Five! 

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