Somewhere
in Gotham, a group of thugs from the Petrov gang family is
waiting on someone on the run. They think he might be too
afraid to come out of his rabbit hole now that he is being hunted
by the police. One of the men says it won't be a problem as he
is unrecognisable. Another group enter the room, accompanied
by Frankie Spitz (Kristofer
McNeeley)...and
Al Hawke (Mitch
Pileggi), the man who killed Dinah's (Rachel
Skarsten)
mother!
After escaping
police custody, Hawke had surgery to change his appearance
so he won't be recognised by the police. Elsewhere,
Huntress (Ashlea
Scott)
and Oracle (Dina
Meyer) listen
in on the conversation between the two gang families. Eventually
during their discussions, they
realise that they are being set up - Hawke didn't contact Petrov,
and Petrov didn't contact Hawke. Moments later another group
of gangsters open fire from outside the building. Huntress arrives
just in time to watch the third gang drive off into the night.
As she scans the bodies looking for Hawke, Reese (Shemar
Moore)
bursts in hoping to catch the gangster. When he finds out that
Hawke
wasn't one of the dead guys, he lets out a sigh of relief, causing
some unrest in Helena. Little does she know that Al Hawke is
actually Jesse's father.
At the Clock Tower, Huntress and Oracle talk about Hawke and
manage to pull up a photo of his new identity. As Dinah arrives
asking questions about the mystery man, they are forced to make
up a story about who he is - they say he's a shoe thief. Dinah
then heads off to school, and Oracle decides that once the have
Hawke they can tell her who he is.
Somewhere in New Gotham,
Spitz talks on the phone, demanding to know how the person
he's talking to missed. He threatens to
kill him, and his new specialist shows up. Spitz wants Hawke
dead without his fingerprints on the trigger. The specialist
confirms that he's up to the task thanks to his special talents
- he has the power to walk through walls. Reese shows up at a
Noodle House and meets up with a couple of Hawke's goons who
take his gun and drive him to Hawke. Al orders the goons to give
Jesse back his gun, and tells Jesse that he is the only one he
can trust. He explains that he wants to retire, and Reese says
he can help him if he turns states evidence and goes into witness
protection. Hawke reluctantly agrees for the sake of his wife.
He says he doesn't want to but he needs to. Then, from out of
nowhere, the specialist shows up and attacks Hawke’s bodyguards.
Hawke mutters he's "one of them" and then they go on
the run. Reese triggers the bat ring and Huntress rushes to help.
After school, Dinah
comes back to the Clock Tower to find the Delphi system scanning
for any traces of Hawke's new identity.
When Huntress meets up with Reese, she immediately wants to beat
the crap out of him but Reese holds her back saying he's changed
and will turn states evidence. She demands to know what Hawke
has on him, because if he didn't have anything Reese wouldn't
be saying that. After an argument, he shouts "He's my father!"
Back at the Clock
Tower, she tells Barbara and Dinah about Hawke and Reese. Dinah
doesn't care about Hawke and she wants to kill
him. Oracle considers it, causing Dinah to loose control and
sending things flying about the room. Across town in the hotel,
Hawke asks Reese if his "girl friend" is "one
of them". He explains Black Canary was just the first of
them that he had encountered but they are everywhere. Jesse defends
her, saying she's just a normal person only with special abilities.
The two have a bit of a heart to heart, and Hawke says he's proud
of everything he's done. Huntress arrives and they quickly deduce
it was Frankie Spitz that put the hit out on Hawke.
Back on the streets, Reese and Helena track Spitz down to a
very exclusive club. While waiting on him to show, they talk
about Reese's family and how he could have become a cop while
growing up in the Hawke crime family. He explains it all started
when he borrowed his dads car as a kid. He was pulled over and
the cop searched the car for booze and drugs. Instead, he finds
a body in the back. As he's getting ready to bust Reese, he reads
the drivers license and runs when he sees the name Hawke. That
was when he realised who his father was and when he became Jesse
Reese.
In the Clock Tower, Barbara has a talk with Dinah and she promises
that the gangster will pay for what he's done. But if he turns
states evidence, he could put a stop to organised crime in New
Gotham and will finish her mothers life work. Dinah dumps her
comm-set on the table and leaves.
Meanwhile, Frankie finally shows at the club and Reese gets
a chance to talk with him. They asks about the hit man, but he
denies any involvement. He also says it was him that sent the
tip to Reese about the meeting in the first place. At the hotel,
Hawke talks on the phone to his wife when suddenly it is pulled
from his hands...and Dinah is standing in the doorway!
Frankie meets with the specialist and tries to call off the
hit while Huntress and Reese watches. He says hes not going to
quit and snaps his neck. Both Reese and Huntress try to take
him on, but when Huntress throws him at a wall he goes straight
through it. Just then, Oracle contacts Huntress saying that Dinah
is missing and she has a bad feeling about it.
Back at the hotel, Dinah is shouting at Hawke and using her
powers to throw things at him. Hawke tries to talk her out of
what she's doing, saying that Black Canary wouldn't want her
to do it. This only fuels her rage further and she starts inching
closer. Huntress arrives and stops her, letting Al Hawke get
away. They both argue and a knife flies across the room cutting
Helena's arm. Dinah quickly comes to her senses. Reese barges
in and asks what she was thinking letting Hawke run out. Dinah
becomes very emotional, saying she was thinking about the last
time she saw her mother in the paws of Al Hawke.
In the Clock Tower,
Barbara makes sure Dinah is okay and Huntress goes back out
looking for Hawke. Oracle also says she’s
working on a way to stop the wall walker. Dinah feels so responsible
for everything and starts to doubt her own trustworthiness as
a hero. Barbara is able to reassure her by saying that if she
really wanted Hawke dead then he would be.
On the streets, Jesse and Helena talk about Dinah - it wasn't
the first time Reese had seen that look on her face and he wonders
if its even possible Hawke can change. This leads Helena to open
up about her mother, the notorious Catwoman who changed when
she was born. Reese then gets a call from Hawke and they head
across town to meet him. Helena tells Oracle where he is, but
before they can get there Dinah gets to him. Al tries to apologise
to her, but the specialist comes out of a wall and offers Dinah
a choice - move out of the way or die. She moves out of the way.
She then tackles him, and Hawke knocks him through the wall.
They run, and Dinah comms Oracle who tells her to go two blocks
east to the abandoned hospital.
They make it to the radiology dept and Huntress shows up to
take on the specialist with Reese. They fight again, and when
she knocks him into the door he is unable to go through and ends
up materialising inside the door. Outside, Hawke pulls out of
turning states evidence and asks for some time to think. He assures
Jesse he is out of crime for good and offers to get out of Jesse's
life for good. As Jesse shakes his hand, he slaps on a pair of
handcuffs and puts him in the back of his police car.
As Helena and Dinah walk home, Helena says she's impressed that
she managed to protect Hawke instead of killing him...and that
her mother would be proud.
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