In the office of Doctor Harleen Quinzel (Mia
Sara),
Helena (Ashlea
Scott)
learns that her court mandated sessions are finished, but
Quinzel
invites her back for more. But Helena says no because of her
father - when her mother died, all she wanted from him was to
find out who killed her mother. Then she wanted that man dead.
Of course, he wouldn't help so she now relies on no one but herself.
Meanwhile,
at New Gotham Police Department (NGPD) Detective Reese (Shemar
Moore)
escorts a criminal known as Slick (Silas
Weir Mitchell) into
custody. Slick offers Reese and a few other cops a bribe to let
him go.
Of course, they reject it. They leave him with no choice but
to get away using his own resources. Once he's alone, he turns
into water and escapes through and air vent. Not long afterwards,
he shows up in the shower of his boss...Harley Quinn. She's angry
that he was caught hijacking the truck and she grabs him in a
vulnerable area. She gives him one more chance to finish the
job he started...her plan is to take over Gotham in revenge for
what they did to her sweet Mr J!
The next morning in the Clock Tower, Barbara (Dina
Meyer)
fills in Dinah's (Rachel
Skarsten)
school entry forms while Alfred (Ian
Abercrombie)
serves breakfast. Dinah however is playing with some of the
crime fighting
gear and accidentally smashes the breakfast with a bat-erang.
Alfred thinks it was a nice throw, but Barbara insists she needs
to learn with the basic ones first. After Helena arrives
after a slow night on the streets of Gotham, Barbara asks Dinah
for her basic information (birth certificate, school records,
etc) but she says they all burned in a really big fire. She also
says her parents are dead and makes an excuse to leave. They
all think its odd, and agree she's hiding something. Barbara
agrees to run a background check on her, but tells Helena she's
a runaway meta-human and life is hard out there for kids like
that.
Later at school, Barbara sorts through her lesson plans when
another teacher, Wade Brixton (Shawn
Christian)
asks her out to dinner. She says she got so caught up with her
business, prompting Wade
to ask all about it. Barbara makes up an excuse...online baking.
He buys it, and the two make plans to go out.
In the Clock Tower, she tells Helena about the date, but Helena
says her baking cover story is the worst yet. Barbara also says
that Dinah gave them a false name - her background check turns
up nothing...she gave them a fake name. A facial recognition
program identified her as a runaway called Dinah Redmond. Just
then, Dinah arrives wearing Helena's clothes. Huntress tries
to get her to take it off by flaring her eyes, but Oracle intervenes
- there will be no super powers to settle domestic disagreements.
Outside, Barbara and Helena continue their discussion about Dinah
- apparently her foster parents didn't even report her missing.
Barbara also says that she has enormous potential and she can
train her as a hero. When Dinah is alone, the Delphi alarm goes
off and she contacts Oracle.
Across the
city, Reese and a police team hover over the body of a cop
- he
was killed on dry land and all the signs point
to drowning. Everyone thinks its impossible except Reese who
plans to find out what's going on. Back at the Clock Tower, Oracle
explains that Delphi makes sure they get all the details from
the police as soon as it comes in. The coroner report lists the
dead cop's cause of death as heart failure but Barbara thinks
there’s more to it and sends Helena to the morgue to retrieve
some lung tissue.
At NGPD,
Detective Grace Tanner (Lise
Simms) is about to head home -
the cop that was killed
was her partner. Both of them rejected Slick's
bribe a couple of nights ago. She takes a drink from the water
cooler and steps in a puddle. Moments later, the puddle follows
her and morphs into Slick, who then shoots water from his hands,
drowning her in the office. Back in the Clock Tower, Barbara
examines the lung tissue at the same time as getting ready for
her date with Wade. She says there’s something odd going
on with the lung tissue.
At the Dark Horse bar, Helena is serving drinks when Dinah shows
up wanting to know why she is always being ignored. Dinah says
she came to Gotham to be a hero like her, but Helena won't trust
her until she knows who she is, who her parents are and what
she is running from. Meanwhile in the park, Wade wheels Barbara
to their candle lit table. She is amazed, but during the meal
she gets beeped after Delphi reports another cop has been killed.
She makes up an excuse and leaves, promising to make it up to
him.
Oracle comms Huntress with info about the dead cop. When they
arrive, Barbara explains they are looking for Silas Waters, AKA
Slick. Dinah dubs him liquid-guy. The truck he tried to hijack
was filled with black market weaponry. They think Slick will
be going after Reese next.
In Harley Quinn's office, Slick bubbles in as she's reading
the paper - one of her patients killed his ex-girlfriend then
himself. It was her who convinced him to express his rage. Slick
asks why a super villain needs a day job, but Harley insists
her patients are hobbies. She sends Slick after Reese so they
can hijack the truck.
Elsewhere, Reese goes
for a swim when Huntess shows up to warn him. She tells him
Tanner is dead and he's next on the list.
Reese says he's in way over his head because Slick can liquify
- wherever water can go he can too. Reese is naturally sceptical
(especially when she talks with Oracle through comms) but when
Slick attacks them he soon realises there might be something
to her story. Oracle advises Huntress to use a fire extinguisher
on Slick to turn him back into his normal self. It works for
a little bit, but after a short fight he ends up turning back
into liquid guy. They end up getting locked in a steam room,
forcing them both to strip down into the bare essentials. Reese
uses the opportunity to quiz Huntress on what’s going on.
In the Clock Tower, Dinah talks with Alfred about her life growing
up - she was all alone, but now there is someone like her that
she can look up to. But all she seems to do is piss her off.
Alfred tells her not to worry - in his experience the more you
care about someone, the more you can piss them off.
In the steam room,
Helena asks Reese why he goes after the weird and unexplained
but he refuses to offer any information. He says
he needs to get out because he's the only cop left on tonight’s
detail...Helena quickly realises that Slick is planning on hijacking
the truck again, and this time he's killing the cops that can't
be bought. Oracle locates the other cops guarding the truck (they
are in Slick's pocket) and they discover the location of the
truck.
As the shipment pulls into a warehouse, Slick and his goons
get a hold of the tuck just as Helena and Reese barge in. Slick
attacks Reese and tries to drown him while Helena is held at
gun point by two guys with flame throwers. Luckily, Dinah shows
up and uses the bat-erang to knock out one of the thugs and Helena
uses the flamethrower to stop Slick. Huntress then calls Oracle
to say she found Dinah. She congratulates her on a job well done
and gives her the keys to go home. After checking Reese is okay,
Helena heads out into the night.
In the Clock Tower,
the three talk about the nights events, and Huntress tells
Dinah she was there when she needed her...she
trusts her. Dinah breaks down and tells them all about her life.
Her mother left her with foster parents when she was six, and
they forced her to hide who she was. That’s why she ran
away. Now she doesn’t want to go home - the only place
she's felt at home is with Helena and Barbara. The agree she
can stay and go off to find whatever Alfred left for dinner.
The next day at school, Wade comes into his classroom to find
Barbara and a romantic lunch spread. He accepts her apology and
the two make up. Later on the Clock Tower balcony, Helena and
Barbara reflect on everything that has happened - Slick, Reese,
Wade and Dinah. Barbara believes Slick was just the front man
for someone else with a master plan. Helena stops by Harleen
Quinzel's office, and says she's decided to stick with the therapy
for a little while.
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