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Previously on batwoman:

You're responsible for everything she does

until you two have tracked down every last one of those toxic toys

from Batman's trophy case.

A thousand nanobots are swimming through your bloodstream,

sending out tracking beacons to satellites as we speak.

The suit thought you were injured.

Which prompted a system-wide shutdown, putting the suit in safe mode.

I thought you and I agreed you'd stay out of my business.

This is personal.

Because I'm your daughter.

Bus driver, wait!

Wait! Wait! Wait, you piece of—-

ipaytaxes!

I pay your salary, man. Screw you!

Yo. Wanna see something awesome? Taylor, check this out.

T, look.

- Found it catching frogs under loeb bridge. - Shh.

I'm about to unlock a pet.

Taylor, come on.

Evan, chm.

Tell them I'm gonna be late. No, I'm sorry, it's not my...

You gotta be kidding me.

I love this fricking town.

Gotham officials have no comment on how a tank of liquid nitrogen

ended up in the hands of schoolchildren

and caused this bus to freeze.

Gotham officials are linking the freezing agent to Mr. Victor fries,

the deceased cryobio/ogist Gotham remembers...

As one of Batman's coldest enemies...

Ms. Wilder is here for your meeting, Ms. Jet.

Officials are asking anyone with information as to where the freeze serum came from

to call the gcpd.

That's why I take the subway.

I'm sorry we didn't get a chance to finish our conversation last night.

I have to admit, I never planned on meeting you.

It's a lot to process.

I see you've risen above your circumstances to get your degree,

climb the corporate ladder, become the acting ceo of Wayne.

You've turned yourself into a rather remarkable young woman, Ryan.

Thank you.

Look, I didn't come here to blame you for anything.

Whatever your situation was at the time, if you were young or scared,

or I was unplanned, unwanted, whatever.

No judgment.

I just wanted you to know that it's all good. I turned out okay.

Ryan, in an effort to respect your time and mine,

I will try to make this as simple as possible.

I'm not interested in having a relationship with you.

Now, if you don't mind, I have a meeting I need to prepare for...

Wait. Why have me and then cover it up?

Adam, will you let Bonnie know I'm on my way?

You paid a doctor $2 million to fake your name on my birth certificate

and then made it look like you died so I never came looking for you.

What were you afraid of?

Sometimes it's better to stop asking questions.

So you invited me here just to show me the door.

If you continue to try to have anything to do with my family,

I will personally see to it that you and Wayne enterprises

will come to severely regret that decision.

I always wondered who my birth mother was.

Now I know.

Someone not worth my time.

I'm glad we're on the same page.

Whoa. I missed it? Damn.

See, this is what I get for second-guessing my kicks.

I went deep vault for you, Wilder. Worth it?

I actually used to have those in blue.

There you go. Worth it. We're connecting already.

Marquis, I thought you were on your way

to Metropolis magazine's influencer party tonight.

I was. Then I heard you were sitting down with a new young ceo without me

and I figured it was a scheduling oversight, so I bounced.

I am sorry. Who are you?

You're "new" new.

That's cool. I won't take any offense.

I'm jeturian industries executive vice president Marquis jet.

Also known as my son.

You were very clear about knowing the absolute minimum.

You weren't even sure if you wanted to get to know Jada.

So knowing she had another kid would have just complicated it more.

A kid she kept while she gave me away.

- Was he cool at least? - I have no idea.

Jada kicked me out of there so fast I didn't even get my parking validated.

This is exactly why I wanted to keep that door closed.

So, what now?

You didn't hear?

Mr. Freeze's liquid nitrogen can got into the hands of a bunch of 8th graders.

I need to find it.

I mean about your mom. What can I do?

What do you need?

You poor thing.

- I'm so sorry, Ryan. - Thanks.

It sucks but I'll be fine.

Okay, first, how dare she?

And second, how did you know she was still alive?

Okay, everyone was like, "boo-hoo, evil Alice killed Ryan's mom."

As if it wasn't bad enough.

And now, against all odds,

I miraculously provide her with another one,

and you guys are just bitching and moaning...

Can I get some water? Please. Someone?

Okay, please tell me you have some info on this freeze stuff.

The canister itself is a compact,

custom-built vacuum flask that makes its contents,

aka the freeze stuff,

more concentrated and seemingly less dangerous than it is.

Little goes a long way.

The kid likely found it near the Gotham river,

thought it was a harmless dry-ice gun.

I'm really not feeling well.

I think it's all these tracking nanobots inside me.

My skin, it, um, feels like spiders are running through my veins.

Okay. That's not a thing.

Wayne tech uses nanobot injectables in their research all the time.

Are you calling in sick? Is that what this is?

Montoya wants us to work together.

My team gets a beat on a Batman trophy,

and you use your creepy-ass brain to help us figure out where it is.

And I would love nothing more, truly,

than to talk about an errant can of liquid nitrogen,

but I'm finding it very difficult to focus through my pain.

And I would hate Ms. Montoya to think that our little arrangement didn't work

on account of me being in a hostile work environment.

What did I do to deserve this?

It's probably not the worst thing if we give Alice a sick day.

- Why does she get a day off? - Because I know where the canister is.

Plus, I doubt you want one of Gotham's most wanted with you

breaking into the gcpd.

I'm in.

Cool. I can only keep the cameras dark for five minutes, so start looking.

You sure it's here?

Logs say it was tagged and filed at 10:07 am. This morning.

No record of anyone removing it.

I think I know why Batman kept his own evidence locker.

What is this? What did you do?

I found it, Nora.

- We can finally finish what Victor started. - You stole Victor's freeze tank?

Nora fries.

You're gonna tell me

how you were frozen for 20 years...

And lived to talk about it.

I was able to compare entry and exit footage from the time of the theft

and track down who broke into the evidence room first.

Are you sure about that?

Dee works at the gcpd processing desk.

She's one of the few people who has access to the evidence room's secure back area.

Dee also called in sick today.

And this lady has never called in sick once in 20 years.

Okay, but all the items in the evidence room,

there has to be something easier to fence.

Which is what I thought.

Why would anyone risk everything for this stuff,

apart from the guy who invented it.

You mean the Mr. Freeze dude? I thought he was dead.

Victor fries. He is. Brilliant cryobiologist.

Half a dozen doctorates.

Still insisted on being called Mr. Freeze.

Then again, captain cold wasn't really a captain, so...

Who's that?

Ah, yes.

That is Nora fries.

In an arkham intake photo taken three years ago.

Nora was diagnosed with macgregor's syndrome,

a progressive lung disease that, at the time of her diagnosis, had no cure.

Victor created a unique liquid nitrogen formula

to supply her cryochamber that kept her in stasis until a cure could be found.

And he died before it happened.

Eventually her cryochamber ran out of Victor's liquid nitrogen cocktail.

When she thawed, Nora learned that doctors found a cure for macgregor's.

So they administered it, but she was so disoriented by the 20-year time gap,

officials sent her to arkham.

She escaped in a breakout three years ago and has been Mia ever since.

So, what's the connection?

Dee smithy is Nora fries' sister.

Send me the address, I'll fire up the Batmobile.

Okay.

Uh... who's bouncing a basketball off of Bruce Wayne's shelf of first editions?

That would be my brother.

J“ just when you think you know the game I change the rules... j“

J“ I had you fooled... j“

ooh. Girl's got reflexes. You play?

Yeah, in all my spare time.

What are you doing here?

You free for a drink later?

- Jada didn't tell you about me. - Tell me what, Wilder?

She made it very clear she wanted nothing to do with Wayne enterprises.

And that I have nothing to do with her.

Oh, you ruffled some feathers.

What'd you do?

Because normally she eats that rags-to-riches stuff up.

Reminds her of herself.

So you think you know my story.

Twenty-seven.

Raised in the system, stint at blackgate, and now acting ceo of Wayne.

Oh, and, uh, you're my sister.

She told you that?

She didn't have to.

- How did you figure this out? - Oh, nannies talk.

Like mine did when mom disappeared for nine months straight.

Heard about it as a kid years later,

why her and my old man didn't speak for a full summer after that.

So it was an affair.

Then we fast fonnard 27 years,

some bad-ass chick one year younger than me

shows up at the company,

throws my mom off her game,

and has got her scheduling all these secret meetings

while I'm supposed to be out of town.

Here you are.

The sister I never knew I had.

I would ask you for a hug but you look like you could kick my ass, so...

Pretty sure your mom might beat me to it.

Our mom.

I don't think you should be here.

But I've already picked out my office next to yours.

- What are you talking about? - Because it's the corner.

Way better view.

I don't even know why you're in this place. It's so... limited.

You wanna partner with Wayne enterprises?

Morn thinks that I'm in this for the pjs and free concert tickets.

Which would mean I'd be an honorary vp until she's dead in her loubies.

Unless I make my Mark. Show her what I can do.

Same with you.

Why don't you show her what she missed out on the last 30 years?

What do you say, sis? Wanna join forces?

Show her what we got?

You said you'd think about it?

I couldn't ask him to wait in the lobby

while I followed the 20 on a missing freeze tank.

What exactly is there to think about?

What it might be like to actually have a brother.

Okay. I get that.

But Jada jet didn't earn her spot on the Forbes 150 by making idle threats.

She literally promised to destroy Wayne enterprises.

Okay, okay. I'm in Dee's house.

We're late to the party. Someone was here and it got ugly.

No sign of Dee or the freeze tank.

- What? - Or the roommate we didn't know about.

I think Nora's living here.

I thought you said they found the cure for macgregor's.

They did.

According to Nora's medical records, she received it years ago.

From the looks of it, she's still sick.

Maybe it didn't take?

Maybe Dee wanted to put Nora back in her cryochamber to save her sister's life.

- So who broke into the house? - Someone after the same thing?

I don't suppose you know where one would find a cryochamber?

What do you know about ace chemicals?

Only that no good thing ever happened there.

And I'm sending you the address now.

Here. Everything you need to know about cryogenics.

My brother-in-law kept meticulous notes.

What's your problem?

Just learned my sister was gonna put me on ice,

and now I got a gun on my bad hip.

What do you think I'm gonna do, run?

These are the musings of a madman. I can't read this.

You gotta show me how it works.

How on earth would we know the first thing about that?

They didn't even offer science to women when I was at university...

Show me...

Or she dies.

BP and heart rate totally normal...

98.6.

Glucose levels are as average as they come.

Which are all common symptoms of faking it.

With care like this,

it's amazing you managed to save any lives.

There's nothing wrong with you, Alice.

At least, not physically.

I'm sorry.

I think my dangerously high fever

is interfering with whatever you are hinting at.

The postcards from dad?

It's funny, I was actually kind ofjealous of you

when I thought that he was writing to you and not me.

And then when I found out it was just you being totally delusional,

it honestly was a relief.

I'm so glad my madness has soothed your daddy issues.

Does that happen a lot? Those delusions?

-Just the once. —uh—huh.

So this whole performative "I'm sick" Thing isn't...

Hmm. I don't know, a cry for help, maybe?

I learned a long time ago that cries for help don't work.

I'm an official doctor now, so if you need actual help,

I have to give it to you.

So do you?

I see what's going on here.

You couldn't help bat boy,

so now you're burdening me with your savior complex.

Bat boy?

Says in his files he's having some unfortunate performance issues.

You went through my files? That cabinet is locked.

I broke out of the crows with a fishing line.

Your office warehouse cabinet didn't stand a chance.

Anyway, it's your fault for taking forever to see me

and not giving me any magazines.

I assume batwoman knows she's working with an emotional ticking time bomb.

Batwoman doesn't break into my file cabinet

because it's called doctor-patient confidentiality.

Perfect. I'm not a doctor.

So, what's the issue?

Mm.

Now you're in the middle.

That is a dilemma.

Do you tell bossy pants batwoman that Luke's ignoring his PTSD symptoms,

or do you keep Luke's secret...

Because you love him?

I do not love Luke like that.

You have no idea what you're talking about.

Sure.

But a little piece of advice.

I'd keep that to yourself.

Telling Ryan will only, um, fill you with resentment.

How do you figure?

Because she'll ignore you, Mary.

I'm sorry, do you not see your place on this team?

I've been on it for less than a month and it's already glaringly obvious.

They don't see you unless they need you.

Just like daddy and just like Kate.

If you wanna go on liking them...

It's probably best you know your place.

Watch your six. Got a read on some major firepower in the south parking lot.

I got eyes on three more inside.

Copy that. Be careful, batwoman.

This is going to make my client very happy.

Until he realizes it doesn't work.

Can it, Nora.

You think we're walking out of here? We've seen their faces.

What do you mean it doesn't work?

It works fine.

- Just a little dust, a few disinfectant wipes... - The chamber works.

It'll freeze you solid, but you'd die of hypothermia eventually.

Then what's the point of this stuff?

Constant exposure to the freeze serum

will stop time and keep you from aging.

But coming out of it's a whole other story.

Look, my husband was brilliant.

But he didn't realize that once I was released

from the chamber and thawed,

time would catch up.

Three years ago I came out of that thing a 34-year-old.

Look at me now.

At this rate, I'll be 122 by Christmas.

Your sister was about to lock you back inside of it.

The only way to stop my sister from dying

is to put her back on ice till I can find a way to slow the aging.

That's some dedication.

If what she's saying is true, this is going to be a major problem.

Add me to that list.

Get her out of here.

- Can you walk? - Better than her.

There's a clinic on rucka and Bennett. It's not far.

They'll take care of you.

- I can't leave Dee. - I'll find her.

A gun? Could you be more basic?

Come on. Let's do this.

Come on!

All right. Let's see this thing in action.

Mm-mm. My client wants to know how it works without wasting product.

But that's the whole point of Victor's liquid nitrogen.

The formula is what keeps her alive.

Turning on the machine without it will just blast her with cold air.

She'll die from hypothermia.

Does it look like I care?

I'm not killing batwoman.

How long do you think it's gonna take

for my driver to find your sister just hobbling down rucka street

and make her roadkill?

Turn it on or your sister dies.

If batwoman doesn't die,

you do.

Take her to the car.

Batwoman to batcave. Gonna need a little help.

Whoa, talk to me. What is happening?

- They trapped me in the cryochamber. - What?

- Get me the hell out of here. - I'm pulling up your biometrics.

Your core body temperature's dropping like crazy.

Yeah. I'm pretty aware of that.

Okay. Access the suit's temp regulator.

Yeah.

Oh, boy.

Seriously? You couldn't keep that to yourself?

The regulator must've frozen up. You have ten minutes before full blown hypothermia.

You need to stay awake, okay?

You need to suit up.

Help Dee.

They took her somewhere.

No. I gotta keep you from passing out.

I am okay.

If you pass out, it's over, Ryan.

I won't.

Okay?

I promised...

I promised Nora I would protect her sister.

Please don't let me die a liar.

- Any word from Dee? - Batwoman is on it.

She won't let anything happen to your sister.

Have you considered cataract surgery?

That'd be a bit like cleaning the windows on the hindenburg.

Dr. Hamilton, I was 34 for two decades.

I got out and started aging double-time.

Life's catching up to me.

Why stand in the way?

I thought that's what you wanted. To literally stand in the way of time.

I have an idea. Let's talk about what I want.

What the hell are you doing?

Get these nanobots out of me now!

You know I can't do that.

That's the only thing preventing you from escaping Gotham entirely.

Hm! I wonder why I'd want them gone.

Get them out!

- Batwoman would kill me. - And I will kill Nora.

Do you not understand cause and effect? How do you have an md?

Let her.

- What? - What?

I am so sick of people sacrificing their lives for me.

My husband. My sister.

The research, the lost years, the desperation. For what?

So I can be trapped all over again?

So you want me to kill you?

Could you be a worse hostage?

You...

What is wrong with you?

- I literally just let her go. - I was being nice to you.

You think I want nice?

You think I want this stupid arrangement with batwoman, who I can't even stand,

and little miss judgie two shoes being nice?

It's no wonder I'm losing my freaking mind.

I am so sorry about that.

Believe it or not, she is my sister.

You certainly fight like it.

But I gotta say, I understand her.

You understand the woman who just had you at knifepoint?

I follow the news. She's been trapped her whole life.

And now she wants her freedom.

Does your sister know that's what you want?

Dee has wasted too many years of her life trying to fix me.

I love her too much to tell her the truth.

Batcave to batwoman.

Batcave to batwoman.

Sophie?

Batwing's en route. Are you good?

I'm fading.

I just wanna sleep.

Yeah. That's the hypothermia talking.

Yeah. It's awfully convincing.

Yeah, but you can beat it. But you gotta stay awake.

If you sleep, you die.

I can't...

Can't stay awake...

Then maybe this is a good time to tell you I'm mad at you.

What'd I do?

Where do we stand?

You and me.

Because you were willing to have me do all the dirty work to find your mom,

but when it came to sharing how you felt about her,

you went straight to the bat team.

Hang on.

You're telling me...

That I hurt your feelings?

I'm telling you, you don't know me.

You think you do, but you have no idea.

Okay. Captive audience here.

What should I...?

What should I know about you...?

Batwoman, don't fall asleep on me.

Batwoman!

Ryan!

Ryan, wake up!

Hey. Hey. Hey.

I got you. You're okay.

Batwoman, are you good? Batwing?

Someone talk to me, check in!

Yeah. She's okay.

She's okay. She's conscious.

I got her.

Traffic cams found us two vehicles matching the suvs from ace.

Northbound, about six miles out. Got a glimpse of Dee in the back.

So she's alive. Thank god.

Clever.

- _|\/|e? - Sophie.

The way you kept me from nodding off back there.

You're clever.

Which means you're right. There is something I didn't know about you.

I will take that as a thank-you.

Are you flirting with Sophie right now?

What? No.

What are you doing? I know what flirting is. What was that?

I am not flirting with Sophie.

Guys. Comms. On?

J“ we just need to speak it so we can proceed again... j“

They just turned onto the tricorner bridge.

J“ be a resister you got to get up, be a resisterj“

j“ you got to get up, be a resister... j“

got them.

J“ you got to get up, be a resister... j“

j“ you got to get up, be a resister j“

j“ you got to get up, be a resister j“

j“ you got to get up, be a resister j“

j“ you got to get up, be a resister j“

We're good!

We lost them.

Not to state the obvious, but you do see that impassable gap in the bridge, correct?

I need a copy on the chunk of bridge missing at your 12 o'clock.

Control freak. Add that to your list too.

Batwoman, what the hell are you doing?

It's working!

Gun it!

Whoo!

That was badass. You gotta admit. That was badass.

It was interesting.

Interesting?

Woman, you are hard to please.

Hurry up! She's gaining!

Get out. Get out!

Let her go.

Let's hope Victor took good notes.

What the hell is happening to me?

Not much left, but Renee was willing to cross it off her list.

Thanks for having my back back there.

Guess it's safe to say you figured out the glitches in your suit.

You could say that.

It's because he disabled the fail-safe.

His dad designed the suit to react to Luke's physiology.

A surge in heart rate shuts it down.

That seems counterintuitive.

Because he's not supposed to wear it until he's ready.

Mary, what are you doing?

I shouldn't have cleared you for field duty. I'm sorry.

I put your life and this team in jeopardy.

You wanna worry about the team?

Worry about the psychopath who held Nora at knifepoint today.

Alice was having a temper tantrum.

You were having a physiological reaction to stress.

Look, I'm the team doctor.

I know what I'm talking about.

I hear you, Mary.

And thank you.

But I wouldn't be standing here if batwing hadn't been with me last night.

- And what about next time? - That's the risk we both take.

No offense, Ryan,

but you don't have PTSD from being shot...

I don't have PTSD.

Okay. Give it to me straight.

Are you up for this?

Absolutely.

Okay.

Then keep an eye on it.

But until we get these weapons off the street, I need Luke by my side.

I had to say something.

No, you didn't.

Thank you.

J“ hold on tight... j“

You don't sleep, do you?

He knows I'm his sister.

How?

He's smart and ambitious.

And incredibly reckless.

He wants to work together.

What do you want?

It's funny, when it came to family, I never allowed myself to ask that question.

But then Alice ripped off the band-aid. Um...

If I'm being real?

I want a mom who knows all my food allergies.

And tells me my skirt's too short,

and texts my girlfriend about TV shows they like,

and loves me unconditionally.

That's what I want. I want a mom.

It's her loss, Ryan.

Yeah. Well, Jada...

Is one of the most connected people in Gotham.

Which means making her my enemy puts everyone I care about at risk.

So as tempting as it is to have a brother,

I gotta put the team first.

J“ but I'll be by your side j“

there's a bronchodilator to help with the breathing

and meds to help with the pain.

Should be enough to manage the pain these next few days.

Are you sure you wanna risk being out?

Gcpd's probably out hunting for us as we speak.

Batwoman took care of it.

Neither of you have anything to worry about.

Thank you, Dr. Hamilton.

Victor and I had our first date in this park.

Are you sure you're not tired?

We can go home.

Dee, I wanna breathe in the fresh air

with whatever lungs I have left.

And then I wanna let it all go.

You're giving up?

I've been dying my whole life, Dee.

Instead of trying to stop time, this once,

what do you say we enjoy the precious moments we have left?