Batwoman, “Who Are You?”, Review!

Batwoman continues, we have Kate finally becoming Batwoman last episode, a possible relationship with the bartender Reagan, and the mystery of Beth, Kate’s twin sister.  Could the mystery also be connected with the disappearance of Bruce Wayne?  So will we see him at the finale?  Night, Gotham City, a jewel thief ziplines across a building.  Then, the thief with the bluish white wig (Rachel Matthews) takes a ring, sets off explosives for the security guard, and escapes up her rope!  Day, Vesper Fairchild reports the crime and asks where was Batwoman?  Sophie watches on her computer.  It is switched off by Kate who is in bed with Reagan.  It seems like Batwoman has her priorties right!  She gets the text from Luke and tries to get away.  Kate motorcycles to the Wayne Building thinking about her identity.  She meets Roxanna, who represents the Museum of Antiquities, Kate has loaned Martha Wayne’s necklace.  Her assistant, Margaret (Matthews) is helping set up a photograph shoot of the display.  Luke updates Kate on the crime.  Later, he takes Kate to the Batcave to show the prisoner questioned by Kate.  

BATWOMAN -- “Who Are You?” -- RUBY ROSE, RACHEL SKARSTEN --   Photo: Jeffery Garland/The CW -- © 2019 The CW Network, LLC. All Rights Reserved.

The graves of Gabrielle and Elizabeth Kane are being dug up by a bulldozer while Catherine watches.  She walks over to her car, but is interrupted by Alice and her gang.  It looks like blackmail.  Alice wants a “top secret weapon” created by Catherine.  The blackmail is Catherine trying to keep her husband, Jacob, from knowing his daughter is alive.  At the secret clinic, Mary walks out excited to see Batwoman who asks for help, showing the prisoner.  Mary checks on the patient’s leg which is infected.  Gotham at night,  Batwoman is at the top of a building when Luke calls.  Magpie drops in, but her line is cut, she picks herself up to fight Batwoman.  She is acrobatic, but flips towards a window, Batwoman tosses a Batarang at her and it slips back shattering a glass case!   Funny, but it works to see a superhero getting the hang of her weapons.  Vesper critizes Batwoman using the batarang.  Luke isn’t certain what happened.  Her power?  Kate took grenades from Magpie’s belt.  She heads over for a lunch.  Jacob listens to classical music as Sophie checks on him,  She brings him a report on the explosive that freed Alice.  It was from Hamilton Dynamics.  

Reagan is walking with Kate and she asks about why she left and realizes it was an ex-girlfriend.  Kate brings up Sophie.  Reagan notes that she was evicted from her building.  She gets another text from Luke and makes up another excuse, but asks Reagan out to a fundraiser.  Luke makes some tests when he gets an alarm and rushes to the office with his pistol.  He is knocked down by Magpie and blacks out.  The next day, Kate is furious that Magpie stole Martha Wayne’s necklace.  Luke has a cold compress on his head.  Kate worries since Martha died for the necklace.  Luke explains that Bruce spent a million dollars buying the lost necklace.  He also says that Magpie is using explosive ink.  Luke says that Sophie would be able to track down the ink.  Kate tells Sophie and tries to keep her father out of it.  Three men are attacked by Alice’s gang and she knows they were sent by Catherine.  She selects one of them to send a message and cuts the finger off a thug with garden shears.  Luke goes over Bruce more comfortable in his identity as Batman.  He says the explosive ink was sent to a P.O. box.  Kate notes that she has gone to the Gotham Hotel.  Batwoman walks the dark halls talking to Luke over her mike.  She sees the room where Magpie keeps the stolen jewelry.  It is cold which Luke says is rigged to react to climate control.  He lowers the temperature of the suit and asks Kate how long she can hold her breath.  As she searches, Luke says that he realized the Batarang was for Bruce who has long arms!  He suggests she hack into Magpie’s hard drive.  She suddenly sneezes and there is an explosion, Batwoman is thrown out of the window!

BATWOMAN -- “Who Are You?” -- RUBY ROSE -- Photo: Sergei Bachlakov/The CW -- © 2019 The CW Network, LLC. All Rights Reserved.

The prisoner revives and Mary checks his iv.  He calls out to Alice and Mary pretends to be her.  She asks him to explain her plans, but he gives cryptic answers.  “She” cares about someone and Alice has plans for the Mouse.  It is strange that Alice would not find her henchman, but is probably part of her plan.  Wayne Building, Luke places the necklace in the pyramid case back on the mantle.  Batwoman is on patrol as Luke is in the Batcave.  He is printing what was found on Magpie’s hard drive.  Batwoman notes that she has seen Reagan and invited her there.  Catherine meets with her injured thug.  She picks up her phone and speaks to Alice.  At the party, Kate walks in with a bag.  She sees Reagan and then stows teh bag at a mechanical room.  Sophie checks on Kate and then Reagan walks up to them.  Later, Kate has drinks with Reagan.  This is a complication to Kate’s relationship, she has to make the choice between hero and happiness.  Roxanna is there and says that a security guard found the necklace.  She goes to speak at the podium and then unveils the necklace!  Kate speaks to Luke who says that Magpie sent a bomb!  The 3D printer forms a necklace.  Kate heads to the mechanical room.  The lights go out and an alarm is set at the fundraiser.  Batwoman confronts Magpie, but she activates the explosive!  The villany of Magpie, the hard truths revealed for the show, and the tie-in to Batman’s origin is brilliant!  

Four Batarangs out of Five!