Kate believes her. But Alice has planted evidence – a falsified autopsy report showing Beth’s body was never recovered. Kate finds it in Catherine’s private safe. For a brutal two minutes, Kate turns on her stepmother, accusing her of knowing Beth survived. Catherine breaks down: “I suspected. For one night. But Jacob was drowning in grief. What was I supposed to do – give him false hope?” The tension is raw and unresolved. Batwoman tracks Alice to the cemetery. The fight is not a physical brawl but a psychological war. Alice has rigged the Prometheus core to overload, but she reveals her true weapon: “The Serpent’s Tooth” – a recording of Beth, age 13, begging Catherine to come back for her. It’s real. Catherine heard it and did nothing.
Batwoman – “The Serpent’s Tooth” Plot Summary A. The Blackout & The Batsuit’s Betrayal Gotham’s financial and industrial districts go dark. Crow helicopters crash-land. Jacob Kane (Dougray Scott) orders a lockdown, but without power, their non-lethal weapon caches are useless. Batwoman (Ruby Rose) responds to a factory fire, only to realize her suit’s internal systems are failing. The heating coil in the gloves glitches, nearly fusing to her skin. Luke radios: “Someone backdoored the suit’s firmware. The same code used to hack Wayne Tower in episode 4.” BatWoman 1x9
Mary is trapped. Save her secret clinic and her mother’s reputation, or betray Catherine – the woman who truly raised her? Kate confronts Catherine at Wayne Manor (now running on backup generators). Catherine admits she knew about Project Prometheus’s vulnerability – it was designed by a former employee of Johnathan Crane (a tease for Season 2). But she denies any cover-up. “Beth died in that accident, Kate. I didn’t kill her. I just… moved on. That’s not a crime.” Kate believes her
Kate freezes. Alice grins. “See? Our mother chose silence over us.” For a brutal two minutes, Kate turns on
Cut to: A Wayne Enterprises subsidiary lab. (Elizabeth Anweis) is meeting with a Powers Industries representative. She’s signing off on a “clean energy prototype” – a small, humming cylinder labeled Project Prometheus . The representative smiles. “No more blackouts, Mrs. Hamilton-Kane.” As she initials the document, the lights cut. Emergency sirens blare. Through the red haze, a masked figure – not Alice, but one of her new “Card Soldiers” – smashes the glass and steals the prototype.
