- Luke Fox: You looked me in the eye, and said miracles happen.
- Mary Hamilton: I know. So do tragedies.
- Victor Zsasz: Plenty of open seats elsewhere.
- Ryan Wilder: You don't remember me. I dated Angelique Martin.
- Victor Zsasz: You're Angelique's ex? Then by all means, stay and do whatever you want. Just don't do to me what you did to her.
- Ryan Wilder: So you do know me.
- Victor Zsasz: I know you broke her heart. Apologies if I'm overstepping. I'm just a sucker for lesbian drama.
- Mary Hamilton: You're Victor Zsasz.
- Victor Zsasz: I'm actually here to clean up a little mess. It seems you and I have ruffled some of the same feathers. Now I have to tie up some loose ends.
- Mary Hamilton: Would those feathers belong to Safiyah?
- Victor Zsasz: I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you, so I'll just tell you. Yes.
- Sophie Moore: So let me get this straight. Alice, the defector thief, is granted a private audience with your queen while you, the loyal soldier, gets to babysit me all day. That's why you hate Alice, isn't it?
- Tatiana: If Safiyah lets Alice live today, I need you to be okay with her roaming free in Gotham.
- Sophie Moore: Wouldn't it be easier for the both of us if I dumped her ass in a padded cell?
- Tatiana: Easy rarely earns victory.
- Sophie Moore: What victory? Why are we here? What do you really want with us?
- Tatiana: Are you going to grant her freedom or not?
- Sophie Moore: The second I have the chance, I'm putting Alice away for good.
- Tatiana: Then I have no more use for you.
- Sophie Moore: Why am I still alive?
- Alice: Yeah, that's probably not a good thing.
- Sophie Moore: Why is that not a good thing?
- Alice: Because Safiyah spared you, which means she has a crush on you, which is all very well and good until it's not.
- Sophie Moore: Why are you still alive?
- Alice: Because Safiyah and I need each other. Toodle-oo!
- Sophie Moore: Hey. You're still one of Gotham's most wanted criminals.
- Alice: But if you arrest me, then I can't complete the job that your new... girlfriend has tasked me with. And then she might never tell me where... Kate is.
- Sophie Moore: Kate?
- Ryan Wilder: [Mary is in danger] You keep trying her. I'll suit up. Oh, and don't kill me, but I made some alterations.
- Luke Fox: To what, the suit? It's not yours.
- Ryan Wilder: I know. It's Kate's, but if I'm gonna be Batwoman, I'm doing it my way.
- Luke Fox: But the suit is perfect.
- Ryan Wilder: Have you seen the damn wig?
- Luke Fox: [picking up the Gotham City Gazette] "Bat Girl Magic," huh? Where did they get a professional photo of you?
- Ryan Wilder: You didn't hear? Yeah, uh, Mary's doing all my PR now.
- Luke Fox: Well, of course she is.
- Victor Zsasz: So, I take it you're the replacement. What happened to the old one? She get killed, or are you like Sammy Hagar to her David Lee Roth?
- Batwoman: You're looking at me wondering which old white guy I am?
- Victor Zsasz: Ugh. Kids today. No sense of history.
- Batwoman: Not gonna sweat some freak who uses his skin as a knife sharpener.
- Victor Zsasz: Well, at least it's my skin, because - and I'm only being honest - you don't seem very comfortable in yours. It's like... trying to pass for somebody else.
- Batwoman: I didn't design the damn suit.
- Victor Zsasz: Heh. I can tell, because I don't see the Batwoman in you, and maybe that's because I don't see the you in Batwoman.
- Batwoman: You want to know what I see?
- Victor Zsasz: Is it a shoulder-fired surface-to-air missile?
- Batwoman: [he takes out and aims a mini-RPG] Oh, hell, no!
- Colonel Jacob Kane: NTSB found Kate's phone in the wreckage. Since you and Mary wouldn't answer my calls, I had the tech team on all night trying to override the password.
- Sophie Moore: Actually, that's why I'm here.
- Colonel Jacob Kane: Do you have any idea what in the hell Kate was doing looking into a painting by Jack Napier?
- Sophie Moore: Maybe we can ask her when we find her, sir. I think Kate's alive.
- Victor Zsasz: Okay, now that was really something. Real confidence behind it. I haven't been kicked like that since... well, Batman.
- Batwoman: Not trying to pass for him, either.
- Victor Zsasz: Story for another time, but... you should ask yourself... if the person you're inflicting pain on actually enjoys pain... at what point do you just... give up?
- Alice: You took everything from me!
- Safiyah Sohail: Because I gave you everything. Just like I'll give you your sister.
- Alice: That's Kate's necklace.
- Safiyah Sohail: If I blew up Kate's plane with her inside, how could I possibly have this?
- Luke Fox: I wanted to say I'm... sorry for being so hard on you. You kicked some major ass yesterday.
- Ryan Wilder: I get it. You miss Kate. But I need you to give me a chance, a real chance 'til she's back.
- Luke Fox: Yeah. Deal.
- Ryan Wilder: And, uh... let me make some upgrades to the Batmobile.
- Luke Fox: Okay, now you're being crazy again.
- Safiyah Sohail: I know you want me to be a bad person, but I'm not. I didn't kill your sister. Last thing I'd ever do is draw attention to my island.
- Alice: Then why do I have a note signed by you saying otherwise?
- Safiyah Sohail: Oh, then, by all means, you got me, Alice. My name was on a note.
- Alice: Then who blew it up?
- Safiyah Sohail: Clearly, someone who thought you still matter to me.
- Alice: Last year, I worked with one of your men, the Rifle. Traded a weapon designed to kill Batwoman in exchange for a vial of your Desert Rose serum. Only I reneged on my end, handed over a broken piece of technology.
- Safiyah Sohail: Go on. I'm dying to know how this ends.
- Alice: You killed my entire gang in retaliation.
- Safiyah Sohail: You have a gang?
- Alice: Had.
- Safiyah Sohail: Killing lackeys. Sounds tedious.
- Alice: Or thorough.
- Safiyah Sohail: If I was being thorough, why are you standing here?
- Ryan Wilder: I dove out of a flaming building just for a list of names?
- Mary Hamilton: Just a prolific hitman with a long list of names. Anyone else have a pit in their stomach?
- Luke Fox: Let's figure out who they are first. Janet Evans is... a ninth-grade biology teacher. Paul Akins... plumber. Jamal Walker... stockbroker. I... I don't get this. I'm not seeing a connection.
- Mary Hamilton: There's no way we can protect all these people.
- Ryan Wilder: What if we don't have to? Zsasz doesn't find work, work finds him, meaning someone hired him to get this list. We figure out who he works for, and we stop them.
- Mary Hamilton: But how?
- Ryan Wilder: I ask him.
- Luke Fox: [sarcastic] Because he really opened up to you the last time.
- Ryan Wilder: Not as Batwoman. As Ryan.
- Luke Fox: Are you insane? Why would a hitman rat out his employer?
- Mary Hamilton: But he does know who you are, or at least of you peripherally, so it's worth a shot.
- Luke Fox: Or you become a tally mark over his right eyebrow.
- Ryan Wilder: Or I find out who hired him.
- [to Mary]
- Ryan Wilder: You're a billionaire, right? How much of that is liquid?
- Safiyah Sohail: I hated what you did, but I'd be lying if I said I hated how you did it. Poisoning hundreds of people only to turn around and save them just to spite a single enemy. You got my attention.
- Alice: This may come as a shock to you, but your approval means very little to me.
- Safiyah Sohail: Wasn't always the case. Remember when we met? You were hiding out on that yacht we were raiding. You'd just escaped captivity. Your Mouse locked away, his father out in the world. You were so... broken, so angry like a siren thrashing in her net. You thanked me for finding you.
- Alice: You didn't find me.
- Safiyah Sohail: No. No, you found yourself. Because I taught you how to turn your rage into power, but that rage never included killing Kate, and now it consumes you to the point of seeking revenge against her supposed killer? Why? What happened?
- Alice: Can't a girl change her mind?
- Safiyah Sohail: Not the girl I knew. Not the girl who loved her sister more than anyone. What happened between the two of you, Alice?
- Alice: If you must know... I always thought Kate and I were one and the same, not hero and villain, just two sisters who would do anything for one another. But I was wrong.
- Safiyah Sohail: I've forgiven you for what you did all those years ago. Which is why it's going to be much harder forgiving you for this. You exposed the secret of the Desert Rose to the world. Coryana is the garden, and I am its keeper. My family has dedicated lifetimes to protecting its secret. History is littered with colonizers who come with their false ideals and pillage for their own profit; the African diamond trade, oil in the Middle East. Coryana is no different. Our garden will be ravaged, and our peaceful island will cease to exist.
- Alice: Well, maybe you should have thought about that before you blew up my sister's jet.
- Safiyah Sohail: I didn't bring down her jet.
- Alice: And I didn't expose the secret of the Desert Rose to the world. I gave it to just one person, and she did the rest.
- Safiyah Sohail: And who is this person?
- Agent Whelan: What's his mask made of, wood?
- Agent: Commander says to go after the head of the snake. According to my CI, that guy is at the top of the False Face Society.
- Agent Whelan: You got a name?
- Agent: Not yet.
- Agent Whelan: Get one. I'm not giving the boss a photo of some dude in a black mask.
- Mary Hamilton: Safiyah. I've never heard of her.
- Luke Fox: It's one of her many aliases. The only Safiyah we have in our database has half a dozen European passports with just as many names; Nasar, Sohail, Patel...
- Mary Hamilton: Okay. So how do we find her?
- Luke Fox: Well, if she's extremely shady, odds are Ryan's already in a book club with her.
- Mary Hamilton: What's your problem with her?
- Luke Fox: I don't have a problem with Ryan.
- Mary Hamilton: Then what's your problem with me?
- Luke Fox: This is not a permanent gig.
- Mary Hamilton: I know. You've said that a thousand times.
- Luke Fox: Then why get her a job, lie to her P.O., throw a pep rally every time she does something right?
- Mary Hamilton: Because we're her team. She's the Bat.
- Luke Fox: She's a stand-in who fits the suit until Kate comes back.
- Mary Hamilton: Except she's not! Kate is not coming back, Luke.
- Luke Fox: How can you say that after everything we're been through?
- Alice: I am not leaving this island without Kate.
- Safiyah Sohail: She'll be brought back to the island as soon as you leave. I'm not foolish enough to have you both here at the same time.
- Alice: And I'm supposed to just believe you?
- Safiyah Sohail: I have every intention of giving you your sister back, but before I do, I need you to do something for me.
- Victor Zsasz: [looking for room on his body to log a kill] Uh-oh. Are you kidding me? Well, look at who's getting close to retirement.
- Batwoman: Seriously?
- Luke Fox: That would have been a 10 if you stuck the landing.
- Batwoman: I would have stuck the landing if the boots actually fit.
- Luke Fox: [she throws batarangs at a drug dealer] You know we don't have an inexhaustible supply of those, right? About a grand apiece. We're at about 4 grand now?
- Batwoman: [nailing the dealer in the knee] Ha ha! Worth it!
- Victor Zsasz: Champagne, sir.
- Vin Capalaci: We didn't order champagne.
- Victor Zsasz: No. Your wife back home did.
- [hitting him in the face with the bottle]
- Victor Zsasz: She sends her love.
- Vesper Fairchild: Good morning, Gotham. I'm looking at a very distant, very fuzzy photo from the other night's Batwoman rally, and dumb question: did we get a new Batwoman? Dumber question: is she black? Don't get me wrong, I'm all about the representation in G-Town, but did I miss something?
- Victor Zsasz: [a fight bursts in on Capalaci's mistress in the tub] You know, if he really cared, he'd have sprung for the soaking tub for two.
- Pretty Woman: [he breaks Capalaci's neck] No!
- Victor Zsasz: Now, Mrs. Capalaci, now there's a woman who spares no expense. I am not cheap, and there are plenty of reasonably-priced hitpersons available to handle a perfidious husband and his sudsy paramour.
- [showing her the wine bottle]
- Victor Zsasz: This is a Brute Millesime. Now, I could have just as easily picked up a bottle of the cheap stuff, but Mrs. Capalaci insisted on the finer vintage because she wanted you to know that she was willing to spend more on you than her husband was.
- Victor Zsasz: You must be the new girl. Did you find what you're looking for?
- Batwoman: [feeling her utility belt] B-Batarang?
- Luke Fox: Somebody used 'em all.
- Mary Hamilton: They run out?
- Luke Fox: Use the bo staff.
- Victor Zsasz: While we're all waiting for something to happen, can I make you a drink?
- Ryan Wilder: Not late.
- Parole Officer: Nope. You had a comfortable 12-second cushion before I would have had to revoke your parole for missing your appointment. I assume this means you have a day job now?
- Sophie Moore: Safiyah? How do you know her?
- Alice: How do *you* know her?
- Sophie Moore: She's been surveilling Julia and me for months.
- Alice: Hmm. She always did like to watch.
- Sophie Moore: And why are you here?
- Alice: To do us both a favor. It's been a while since I killed a queen.
- Sophie Moore: For the record, when you fail and I end up dead alongside you, it's no longer considered a favor.
- Alice: I poisoned my one true friend Mouse so I could enact the perfect revenge on my family, and Safiyah ruined everything! If I die today, so be it.
- Colonel Jacob Kane: The False Face Society is peddling a new injectable, Snakebite. It's an addictive psychedelic made from mushrooms and Scarecrow's fear toxin. Figure out the False Face chain of command. I am not letting this get a foothold in my city.
- Luke Fox: When did you start working at the Hold-Up?
- Ryan Wilder: When my P.O. wouldn't get off of my ass about punching a clock.
- Batwoman: The suit's bulletproof, dumbass.
- Devil: Who are you?
- Batwoman: Batwoman.
- Devil: Nah. You ain't Batwoman.
- Batwoman: Is that so? Luke, I need a good comeback. Luke?
- Luke Fox: Uh, sorry. Nothing's coming.
- Batwoman: [fist-fighting the dealer, with each landing blow] Does this... clear... things... up?
- Devil: [with his arm wrenched behind his head] Are... are you beeping?
- Luke Fox: Yeah. What is that? Is that an alarm?
- Batwoman: Tag in the GCPD. I gotta go.
- Luke Fox: You got somewhere else you need to be?
- Alice: One last meal before the slaughter?
- Safiyah Sohail: I had you drugged, kidnapped, and shipped to my doorstep. This is my way of saying no hard feelings. Come. Sit with me.
- Alice: If it's all the same to you, I prefer my poison in pill form.
- Safiyah Sohail: You think I'd go to the trouble of bringing you all the way here just to poison you?
- Alice: Yeah, so you could have a front-row seat.
- Safiyah Sohail: I'm not the one who started this fight, Alice.
- Alice: What is the appropriate reaction to learning my sister's plane was blown out of the sky?
- Safiyah Sohail: You stabbed me in the back, exposed my island's most precious resource to every opportunist in Gotham.
- Alice: Well, a wise woman once taught me it's not worth sending a message unless it's loud.
- Safiyah Sohail: You always were my best student, but I'm afraid you've been misinformed. I didn't blow up your sister's plane. Someone wants you to think I killed Kate when the truth is I haven't thought about her or you since you left this island five years ago, which means the two of us have a puzzle to solve, so sit, my friend, and join me for a glass like old times.
- Alice: You missed a gorgeous sunrise.
- Sophie Moore: Where are we?
- Alice: Well, I'm exactly where I'm supposed to be, although I'm a little surprised they got you a companion ticket. I guess they needed someone to report back I was dead.
- Sophie Moore: You planned on being kidnapped?
- Alice: I needed a grand gesture to get an audience with the queen, and what do you get the girl who has everything? Answer: you get her so pissed off that she sends her most skilled killer to fetch you.
- Sophie Moore: Sorry. Who did you piss off?
- Mary Hamilton: What's with the mark on his forehead?
- Luke Fox: Running facial rec right now.
- Ryan Wilder: Don't bother. It's Victor Zsasz. He's a hitman. He logs his kills with hash marks.
- Luke Fox: How are you on a first-name basis with a prolific hired assassin?
- Ryan Wilder: Because I know people who know him.
- [seeing their looks]
- Ryan Wilder: What? We kind of run in the same circles.
- Luke Fox: You run in the...
- Mary Hamilton: Ran in the same circles, okay? Past tense, and very large, wide circles, which has now just come in handy because now we know who we're looking for.
- Ryan Wilder: [her phone buzzes] My P.O. is at the Hold-Up looking for me. I gotta go.
- Luke Fox: What about Zsasz?
- Ryan Wilder: I'll deal with him when you find his address. His scars are works of art. He ships in some high-end French skin-care lotion. Name translates like a baby's butt or something.
- Mary Hamilton: Les Fesses de Bebe!
- [seeing Luke's look]
- Mary Hamilton: What? It's really good stuff.
- Ryan Wilder: Yeah. You two, go...
- Luke Fox: Track the baby's butt. Yeah. I got it.
- Ryan Wilder: Your phone is about to ring, and the answer is yes.
- Mary Hamilton: Roxanne, will you excuse me? Hey, Amy. Can you help Roxanne to the lab?
- [giving her assistant a file folder]
- Mary Hamilton: Yeah. Thank you.
- [leading Ryan a few feet away]
- Mary Hamilton: Come here. What are you doing here? I'm in the middle of a consul...
- Ryan Wilder: I am so sorry. I just...
- Mary Hamilton: [her phone buzzes] Mary Hamilton. Yes, I am the current owner of the Hold-Up. Ryan Wilder's parole officer. Okay. Hi. Did I just hire Ryan for a bartending position?
- [Ryan non-verbally urges her to say yes]
- Mary Hamilton: Yes. Yes. I was very impressed by her... fruit-slicing abilities. Yeah. Okay. Talk to you soon.
- [hanging up]
- Mary Hamilton: Since when can parolees work at a bar?
- Ryan Wilder: She is making an exception because I can't get a job.
- Mary Hamilton: Well, this is perfect, because working at the Hold-Up will detract people from thinking you're you-know-who, and it'll explain why we'll be hanging out together all the time.
- Ryan Wilder: All the time?
- Mary Hamilton: Mm-hmm.
- Ryan Wilder: Luke said I'm only keeping the suit warm 'til Kate gets back. You make it seem like she's not. Which one is it?