In the dark streets of New Gotham, Detective Reese (Shemar
Moore)
activates the bat ring that Helena (Ashlea
Scott)
gave him after he helped her take on Al Hawke. Moments later,
she drops down
from above. Reese is surprised that she arrived so quickly and
goes on to talk about taking their relationship to the next level
to see if they are compatible...just some no strings fun. Huntress
says she's up for it, but there are a lot of things that he doesn't
know about her.
Later that
night, a biker gang wearing animal masks burst into a club
and rob everyone in the building, taking
their wallets, purses, watches and jewellery. The bar tender
pulls out a shot gun and the woman wearing the cat mask leaps
across the bar and knocks him out, taking the gun. As the gang
speeds out of the club, she takes off her mask...its Helena! At the New
Gotham Police Department (NGPD), Huntress appears as Reese
is getting
into his car. He shows her some surveillance
camera pictures showing the robbery at the club. He asks if she's
enjoying herself running around terrorising people. Huntress
however says that she's only getting into character...that’s
why he asked her to go undercover. Helena gives him the next
target and they set up a bust to catch the gang.
That day
at school, Wade Brixton (Shawn
Christian) brings
Barbara (Dina
Meyer)
some coffee and the two joke around about dating. Barbara
tells him she'd rather stay friends but Wade again makes a joke,
saying that she's way cuter than his other friends. Feeling a
little better, Barbara agrees to continue seeing him if they
can take it slow. The two end up sleeping together.
After breakfast,
Barbara talks with Helena about her 'encounter' with Wade.
Barbara asks her to keep her voice down because Alfred
(Ian
Abercrombie) is
around, but Helena says Alfred has heard of sex so its okay.
Barbara feels she branching off into a new phase in her relationship
with Mr Brixton, just like she is with Reese. Helena fills Helena
and Dinah (Rachel
Skarsten)
in on the plan to stop the gang. Barbara tells Dinah that she
doesn't need to get involved with
the crime fighting, but she says the Black Canary died...not
her mother. To her, she lost Caroline Lance when she was six.
The next
night, Helena meets up with the biker gang who offer her a
celebration for making the paper. The leader of the gang,
Mick Winters (Shane
Johnston), gives 'Cat' a motorcycle of her
very own and invites her on their next job. Wolf (Sarah
Brown)
however is jealous
because of the chemistry between Winters and Cat, but agrees
to let the newcomer join them.
At the next
target, a fancy restaurant in down town New Gotham, Reese sits
eating dinner while his partner, Detective McNally
(Brent
Sexton) coordinates the surveillance from the van parked
nearby. Just as Reese wonders if the gang will show up, they
burst in
the door and again start robbing everyone. Wolf has a jammer
that is cutting off all electronic signals, including the comms
device Reese is using. Before the bust can get any worse, Reese
pulls out his gun but Helena knocks him out before he can get
involved.
The next
morning, Barbara works to train Dinah but feels that the hero-in-training
is using her grief to lash out instead of
training as she's supposed to be. Dinah denies this is what’s
happening and runs off to look through the Delphi system. Alfred
talks with Barbara about Dinah and the case Helena is working
on. He says that a vigilante and the police never have an easy
time...the same was true for Batman and Barbara's father, Commissioner
Gordon. He worries however that Helena will be attracted to the
lawlessness of the gang just as Bruce Wayne was to the lawlessness
of Selina Kyle.
At the gang's headquarters, Helena plays strip poker and has
the entire gang down to their underwear. Winters leaves to drop
off their earnings to the boss. Huntress tries to get a shot
at meeting the man in charge, but Winters says that not even
Wolf has come with him on a meeting.
In reality, their boss isn't a man...its Doctor Harleen Quinzell
(Mia
Sara).
He pays her everything they've ripped off and she talks about
using the money to buy weapons of mass destruction
to help her take over. Winters tells her about their new member
and Harley Quinn says she wants to meet her...when the time is
right that is.
Elsewhere,
Reese and McNally talk about the failed bust and his mysterious
source
as they watch the gang from a distance.
McNally leaves for coffee, and Huntress shows up to tell the
Detective that Winters isn’t the top dog. Helena plans
to leave the gang to work and instead go after the big cheese.
Reese however would rather take out the animal gang before anyone
else gets hurt. He asks for the next target, but Helena says
they're planning on lying low for a while, then disappears into
the night.
When she gets home, Helena makes so much noise that she wakes
Barbara, and tells her about the big boss. Oracle thinks that
their boss might be the same woman who they've been looking for.
She explains that she didn't tell Reese about their next target
to give her a chance to identify the woman at the top. Barbara
begins to wonder if Helena might be getting too involved with
the Animals.
At their
lair, Wolf arrives with a bag full of munchies, telling Winters
that when
she was at the store she saw a "dumpy
guy" in a cheap suit buying coffee and donuts. Suspicious,
she followed him and found the police surveillance van that Reese
and McNally were using. Winters tells her to welcome to cops
into the gang, but to keep it quiet and don't tell the others.
At the van, McNally challenges the trustworthiness of Reese's
source, and he in turn says he trusts her. McNally has a hard
time accepting the fact that his snitch is a woman, so McNally
heads off to buy some coffee. Moments later, a call comes over
the radio that the Animals have hit another target. As he runs
back to the van, it explodes with McNally still inside.
As Helena arrives in the Clock Tower, expecting to be lectured
by Barbara about getting too involved with Winters and his thugs.
But instead, Barbara tells her about the explosion. Helena's
immediately thinks that something happened to Reese, but Oracle
says he's fine but his partner is in the intensive care unit
at New Gotham General Hospital.
Outside the hospital, Helena tries to apologise but Reese says
its her fault that McNally is hanging on by a thread. She promises
that she'll stop the Animals, but Reese says that he's going
it alone now and gives her back the bat ring - he'll stop the
Animals himself...and if Helena is with them then so be it.
Back in the Clock Tower, Dinah shouts at Helena, telling her
that if she's going after the Animals then so is she. That night,
Huntress arrives at the Animal lair and says she wants to go
all in and meet the boss. Winters agrees because the boss wants
to meet her and then kisses her, causing Wolf to get agitated.
Helena's cat eyes flare because of the passion and then she leaves
to coordinate with Barbara and Dinah. After a small outburst
from Dinah about dealing with loss, the team head out to do their
job.
Huntress heads into the lair with Dinah watching in the van,
relying everything to Oracle. Once inside however, Huntress finds
Reese badly beaten and chained up. She cries out Reese's name
and Winters zaps her. Dinah wants to go in, but Oracle warns
her to stay back and let Huntress do what she went there to do.
However, Dinah is worried that she'll never come out again...just
like her mother.
Winters beats
Helena a little, and tells her that Wolf saw the two of them
at the
hospital. Reese and Helena argue about their
plan to stop the Animals. As he starts zapping Reese and Helena
with a tazer, Dinah quietly sneaks in, knocking off the thugs
one at a time. Helena also fights back, freeing herself. As Wolf
tries to run, Dinah kicks in the door and knocks her out. Winters
runs, and Reese goes after him and ends up with a gun pointed
at Winters head. He wants to blow his head off for what he did
to McNally, but Huntress goes after him and tries to convince
him not to pull the trigger. Winters heckles him, trying to get
him to pull the trigger. But when he says that Huntress is just
some "stupid bitch", he pistol whips him. When the
police sirens start wailing, Huntress and Dinah slip away without
Reese noticing. When he looks around, he finds the bat ring sitting
on a ledge for him.
The next day at Dr. Quinzell's office, Helena talks about Reese,
explaining to the therapist that they finally worked things out.
Quinzell says Helena shouldn't worry about other people because
she'll always have her to come to. At New Gotham High School,
Wade comes to see Barbara and finds the flowers he gave her sitting
on her desk. Barbara apologies for the way she acted with him
and the two make up.
On the roof
of the Clock Tower, Helena looks at her cat mask and her mothers
Catwoman one. She tells Dinah that part of the
rush of crime was like getting to know her mother again...especially
the side of her she didn't know. Helena goes on to say that Black
Canary loved Dinah so much that she gave her life for her. Dinah
gets upset because she didn't even know her mother when she was
snatched from her. Helena gives her a hug to let her know she
understands and that in time she will be able to forgive her
mother.
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