In one of
the darkest alleys of New Gotham, a young blonde woman (Heather
Dawn) walks home when she is attacked from behind by a
man with on eye (Donovan
Lietch). He says she's been watching
her and she lifts
her hands up, shooting lightning at him. He says that it was
her lightning that attracted him to her and he zaps her with
a stun gun. After shooting out a bolt of lightning at a nearby
power line, she staggers forward into the arms of Huntress (Ashlea
Scott).
The guy tries to back off, but Dinah (Rachel
Skarsten)
shows up behind him and starts beating the living crap out of
him. Eventually Huntress
joins in, much to Dinah's annoyance. During the fight, the damaged
power lines fall towards the injured woman but Dinah catches
it with her powers while Huntress drags her to safety. The one
eyed attacker goes on the run and Huntress looses him...but she
does find an interesting metal disk with an odd logo on it in
his place.
Back at the
Clock Tower, Huntress and Dinah fill in Oracle (Dina
Meyer) on
the nights activities, and they believe the disk is a key card
for something. Apparently, meta-humans have been going missing
all over Gotham. Reese (Shemar
Moore)
sends a signal to Huntress - one of the meta's has been found
dead. While she joins him at the
scene, Dinah goes to No Man's Land to meet Gibson (Robert
Patrick Benedict).
Meanwhile on the streets, the one eyed guy attacks another woman,
stunning
her and dragging her off someplace.
Later, Dinah pummels
the training gear in the Clock Tower when Huntress enters asking
if Gibson put the word out about the disappearing
meta's. She is annoyed that she is still being treated like a
kid when she is ready to be a superhero. She also offers to take
on Helena, but she shrugs it off saying she needs to learn her
limitations. Oracle learns about another disappearance and confirms
she was a meta. She also carries out an analysis on some samples
Reese gave her from the dead woman and discovers granite...but
there is very little granite in New Gotham because of the earthquake
that toppled the original Gotham City. She thinks that’s
where the woman was killed, and it would also explain how the
one-eyed guy got away using the tunnels of Old Gotham. Huntress
goes to investigate, but refuses to take Dinah with her. Barbara
gives her the key card and Alfred (Ian
Abercrombie)
offers some wellyboots but she turns them down - a superhero
can't look good in wellyboots.
In the alley where she lost the suspect, Helena finds an entrance
to Old Gotham. Barbara guides her in. When Dinah learns Huntress
left without her she is pissed, but Alfred is confused by her
anger - why would she want to crawl through sewage to get to
the remnants of Gotham. Huntress comes out of the sewers in some
kind of prison...and its been turned into a fighting arena. She
looses contact with Oracle and the one eyed guys sneaks up behind
her, shooting her with a stun dart.
Inside the
Gladiatrix, its meta-human against meta-human and Helena is
meant for the next match. She talks with another meta
(Abby
Brammell) who fills her in on their circumstances. She
then stops talking with Helena because she's the enemy and
tries
to zap
her with
lasers from her eyes. The one eyed guy shows up and activates
a control vest, inflicting pain on both Huntress and the other
meta. No powers must be used outside the ring. He taunts Huntress
and says he lured her to the ring, then injects her with a drug
to bring out her rage.
Back at the Clock Tower, Oracle learns another disk was discovered
at a crime scene...and the arresting officer was Detective Reese.
She gives him a call, and she sends a picture of the disk to
him. He recognises it and explains all he has on it are rumours
of an underground fighting ring where woman fight to the death.
Oracle tells him Huntress has gone missing while looking for
the missing woman. Reese offers his help and Oracle agrees.
Meanwhile in her cell, Helena gets fed a plate of gruel, but
the meta she spoke with didn't get any. Helena gives her what
she got, but she won't eat it fearing Huntress poisoned it. One
eye shows up, and tells Helena he loves the game because woman
have always rejected him because of his appearance. He also says
soon Helena will fight and he will love to see what she can do
in the ring.
Oracle sends Dinah after Huntress, giving her an upgraded comm-set
to keep communications open even in Old Gotham. In the arena,
Laser Claire and the current Champion are being prepped for a
fight, but Huntress asks to go instead. One eye agrees because
she is now his favourite. Huntress, now known as The Green Scorpion,
goes head to head with Kayla the Destroyer. Kayla throws fire
at Helena, who is able to dodge most of the blasts. She lunges
at Kayla and quickly beats her senseless. But even in the end,
she refuses to kill her. Back in her cell, One Eye says in the
ring you either kill or you die. He also notices Helena is resisting
the drug, but when she gives in her kills will be much more savage
than any other.
In the Clock Tower,
Oracle finds traces of the drug in the dead girls hair. When
she finds out what it does, Alfred points out
that someone like Helena won't need the drug to loose her temper
and the more she is on it the more dangerous she is. Reese triggers
the bat ring, and when Oracle calls him he says he was able to
strong arm the guy he took the disk from. He discovered that
the fight club is called Gladiatrix and the guy who owns it is
paying off high ranking cops to look the other way...so he wants
to go in himself! She directs him where to go, and tells him
to roll down his window. When he does, Alfred hands him a comms
set "compliments of Oracle". When he looks away, Alfred
vanishes into the night.
At Gladiatrix, Dinah sneaks in and finds Huntress in her cell.
One Eye and his goons grab her, and fit her with a vest...she's
going to be Huntress' next challenger!! In the ring, she talks
with Oracle before fighting with Helena. She is able to spot
Reese in the crowd and Oracle orders him not to get involved.
Both Huntress and Dinah fight while she works on finding an antidote
for the drug. She works out that another dose will overload the
part of the brain the drug affects and will stop its effects.
Through the back. Reese fights with one of the Gladiatrix goons
and after a few lucky punches he gets him to say where the drugs
are kept. He gets enough of the drug to free the girls and tranqs
the other guards.
Back at the ring, the fight is just heating up when Reese jabs
Huntress with the antidote. One Eye sends his men after him,
but the meta human women he frees protect him, forcing the guards
to run off and abandon the Gladiatrix. The woman then go after
One Eye themselves. Meanwhile, Dinah continues to fight with
Helena until Reese is able to drug her as well. Once free of
its influence, they all corner One Eye. Reese decides to take
a walk and let the meta's handle him.
Later, Dinah and Huntress solve their differences...sort of.
The next night, Dinah goes after a criminal solo for the first
time without Huntress interfering...she finally became a hero.
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