Plot
With Lucius Fox's journal recovered, yet utterly unreadable thanks to a unique code, Alice and Tommy Elliot (dubbed Hush by Gotham's media) begin kidnapping code-breakers from all around Gotham City, eventually grabbing Luke Fox and Julia Pennyworth. Yet as Kate goes into a battle to save half of her allies, she finds herself wondering who she can really trust in the faet of a stunning revelation..
Influences
Batman: Hush by Jeph Loeb & Jim Lee and Batwoman: Elegy by Greg Rucka & J.H. Williams.
Artistry
The chase scene where Batwoman moves to save Parker Torres from Hush is amazing.
The fight scene with Kate taking on the inmates in Arkham is a good one.
Bat Trivia
This episode gives the Arrowverse version of Tommy Elliot his supervillain codename; Hush. In the episode, this is because of the one word he is heard to say while abducting a professor from a library. In the original comics, Hush's codename was a reference to the nursery rhyme, "Hush, Little Baby" about a baby that is promised various gifts if it will stop crying but is never satisfied.
Batwoman saves Parker Torres near the Williams Viaduct. This is likely a nod to artist J.H. Williams, who co-created the modern version of Kate Kane.
The translated page of Lucius Fox's journal we briefly see when Alice is viewing it through the translator glasses contains a number of references to the 2007-2008 "Resurrection of Ra's Al Ghul" storyline. Apart from confirming that Batman had dealings with Ra's Al Ghul and Talia Al Ghul in the Post-Crisis Arrowverse timeline, the blurb also makes mention of the vigilante Azrael and the Order of St. Dumas and Order of the Pure that created him.
The journal also makes reference to the Suit of Sorrows - an armored costume which was created for Azrael and apparently briefly worn by Batman before he fell victim to a curse on the suit that caused whoever wore it who was impure of heart to go berserk.
The journal also makes reference to the Suit of Sorrows - an armored costume which was created for Azrael and apparently briefly worn by Batman before he fell victim to a curse on the suit that caused whoever wore it who was impure of heart to go berserk.
Technobabble
Hush uses two .45 caliber pistols.
Hush uses two .45 caliber pistols.
The code Lucius Fox used to write his journal is a poly-alphabetic cipher, using hundreds of characters in multiple languages and alphabets.
A corresponds with Heth, which is the first letter of the Aramaic alphabet, which is the first alphabet alphabetically out of all the languages Luke recognizes in his father's journal.
B corresponds with the Babylonian alphabet, but it isn't the second letter.
There's an interval variance each time the code changes alphabets. Luke eventually figures out that it is based on his social security number.
B corresponds with the Babylonian alphabet, but it isn't the second letter.
There's an interval variance each time the code changes alphabets. Luke eventually figures out that it is based on his social security number.
Parker asks if Mary can bypass the data throttle on the Bat Computer.
Mary discovers a pair of Lucius Fox's old glasses in a drawer in the Batcave. These turn out to be a pair of smart glasses that are programmed to auto-translate Lucius Fox's journals when the person wearing the glasses looks at his code.
The Bat-Suit is equipped with a sonic scanner that, in addition to picking up radio signals like the police band, allows Kate to find the distinctive sound of an electrical current running in a large building.
Dialogue Triumphs
(Kate grills Julia on why she secretly went after Reagan without telling her.)
Kate: Why didn't you just use your name? Tell her you're with The Crows?
Kate: Why didn't you just use your name? Tell her you're with The Crows?
Julia: I see. Reagan can't be trusted and now no one can be trusted.
Kate: Not no one. Just people who have lied to me in the past and last time I checked that included you.
Kate: Not no one. Just people who have lied to me in the past and last time I checked that included you.
(Luke says he doesn't think Julia is hiding anything from them, despite Kate's suspicions.)
Kate: Do you believe her over me?
Luke: Am I not allowed to disagree with you now?
Kate: Not when we're both being lied to.
Luke: Am I not allowed to disagree with you now?
Kate: Not when we're both being lied to.
Luke: I trust her, Kate!
Kate: Then I can't trust your judgement.
Kate: Then I can't trust your judgement.
Luke: Says the girl who went home with the bartender and left the key to destroying Gotham on the nightstand.
Mary: Damn!
Kate: If you don't like how I do things, no one is forcing you to be here.
Luke: You know what? You are absolutely right.
Mary: Damn!
Kate: If you don't like how I do things, no one is forcing you to be here.
Luke: You know what? You are absolutely right.
(As Alice kills the second code-breaker in as many days.)
Hush: They need more than 90 minutes to figure it out! Alice, you keep killing them!
Alice: Well, they keep disappointing me!
(Kate and Mary have just hit on the idea of trying to track Hush by using Professor Carr's pacemaker.)
Mary: So we trace it back to where it transmitted its last signal. And then we'll know where he died and then we'll find Hush. That's genius!
Kate: Mmm-hmm.
Mary: Right.
Kate: Mmm-hmm.
Mary: Right.
Kate: Let's do it.
Mary: Ok.
Mary: Ok.
Kate: Yeah.
Mary: Yeah.
Kate: Right.
(There is a long pause as they both look at each other expectantly.)
Mary: Sooo.... trace it!
Kate: Uh... How?
Mary: You don't know?!
Mary: Yeah.
Kate: Right.
(There is a long pause as they both look at each other expectantly.)
Mary: Sooo.... trace it!
Kate: Uh... How?
Mary: You don't know?!
Kate: (quietly) Kind of a Luke thing.
(Kate and Parker exit the elevator down to the Batcave.)
Parker: OMG! Full disclosure; I thought Batcave was a metaphor. Are there, like- AAH!
(Parker screams as a swarm of bats fly past her on the walkway. Kate doesn't even blink.)
Kate: Yep. Not a metaphor.
Parker: OMG! Full disclosure; I thought Batcave was a metaphor. Are there, like- AAH!
(Parker screams as a swarm of bats fly past her on the walkway. Kate doesn't even blink.)
Kate: Yep. Not a metaphor.
Continuity
Tommy Elliot, his face still bandaged, kills 3 people with silenced pistols before abducting a professor from Gotham University Library. He is dubbed "Hush" after the one word he was heard to say by any witnesses.
Kate tracks down Reagan and learns of her relationship to Magpie.
Reagan tells Kate that Magpie's real name is Margot.
Reagan tells Kate that she told all this to a blonde woman with a British accent who knew Kate. Kate realizes immediately this is a reference to Julia Pennyworth.
The professor Hush abducted is identified as Professor Carr.
Carr identifies characters in Lucius Fox's journal that are Aramaic, Babylonian and Mayan.
Mouse asks why Alice doesn't simply kill Kate when she's not in her bat costume. Alice insists there must be a reckoning and Kate must know it was her who arranged her death, which is also why she doesn't just have Hush kill her.
Professor Carr's area of expertise is numerical analysis rather than linguistics.
Alice electrocutes Professor Carr to death.
Alice wants to abduct Luke Fox. Mouse is against this, as that will surely get Batwoman's attention.
Alice agrees to let Mouse and Hush try and kidnap two more experts before she goes after Luke Fox.
Alice agrees to let Mouse and Hush try and kidnap two more experts before she goes after Luke Fox.
Kate confronts Julia over her going after Reagan in secret.
Tony Kim, a Crow's client, was abducted. He is 45, works undercover for the NSA as a code-breaker.
Professor Carr's body was dumped in the same vicinity as where Tony Kim was abducted.
Luke has know Julia since they were kids and he considers her trustworthy.
Luke has know Julia since they were kids and he considers her trustworthy.
Mary knows who Professor Carr was, saying he taught Cryptography I and II at Gotham University. This, coupled with the news Hush just kidnapped an NSA agent, leads her and Kate to conclude that Hush must have the journal and is trying to get someone to translate it.
Alice kills Tony Kim; again by electrocution using a shock therapy device.
Alice kills Tony Kim; again by electrocution using a shock therapy device.
Alice sends Hush to kidnap Parker "Terrier" Torres from 110.
Mary remembers that Professor Carr had heart troubles. This leads Kate to wonder if he has a pacemaker that can be tracked. Unfortunately, neither she nor Mary have any idea how to track a pacemaker on-line.
Mary remembers that Professor Carr had heart troubles. This leads Kate to wonder if he has a pacemaker that can be tracked. Unfortunately, neither she nor Mary have any idea how to track a pacemaker on-line.
Parker has a girlfriend named Gina now.
Gina calls Kate's landline for Gotham Pride Real Estate and tells her the last place Parker was on FindMyFriends.com was in Somerset and that someone grabbed her while they were chatting on FaceTime.
Batwoman is able to save Parker from Hush, though he is able to escape.
After failing to catch Parker, Alice insists that now they go after Luke Fox, like she wanted to in the first place.
Gina calls Kate's landline for Gotham Pride Real Estate and tells her the last place Parker was on FindMyFriends.com was in Somerset and that someone grabbed her while they were chatting on FaceTime.
Batwoman is able to save Parker from Hush, though he is able to escape.
After failing to catch Parker, Alice insists that now they go after Luke Fox, like she wanted to in the first place.
Luke did some digging on Julia and confirmed that the SRR let her go for freelancing. He confronts her on this fact at Crow's Headquarters.
Crow's HQ is based in Wilson Plaza.
Kate brings Parker to the Batcave.
Julia says there are things about Kate Luke doesn't know and can't know, which relate to who she is freelancing for.
Mouse mimics Kate's voice in a phone call to find out where Luke is so they can kidnap him.
Alice threatens to kill Julia if Luke can't crack the code on his father's journal.
Alice threatens to kill Julia if Luke can't crack the code on his father's journal.
Luke says that his father was a Mensa member with a 163 IQ.
Sophie shows up at Kate's office to ask her if she had seen Julia.
Sophie offers to break things off with Julia if that's a problem for Kate. Kate says she can do whatever makes her happy.
Sophie tells Kate that Luke was with Julia before she went radio silent.
Alice plans to kill Hush once he stops being useful and tells Mouse this in private.
Luke is able to crack the sequence his father created for his journal.
Luke's social security number starts with 535.
Luke is able to crack the sequence his father created for his journal.
Luke's social security number starts with 535.
Parker is able to use the Bat Computer to track Professor Car's pacemaker. This leads her to discover he died in Arkham Asylum. Kate then makes the leap, based on the burn marks on Carr's body, that Alice is electrocuting her victims.
Mary discovers a power of Lucius Fox's old glasses is a pair of smart-glasses coded to auto-translate his journals.
Luke translates part of his father's journal, but refuses to tell Alice what it says, saying his father died for this secret and so will he.
Luke translates part of his father's journal, but refuses to tell Alice what it says, saying his father died for this secret and so will he.
The journal Alice has doesn't contain weapon designs: it describes how to break the Bat-Suit.
Kate offers to trade the glasses for Luke and Julia's lives. Alice agrees.
Kate offers to trade the glasses for Luke and Julia's lives. Alice agrees.
Alice arranges a mass jail-break at Arkham Asylum to cover her escape and distract the Crows, who show up to arrest Batwoman.
Jacob Kane blames Batwoman for the break-out after the fact.
Jacob Kane blames Batwoman for the break-out after the fact.
Luke tells Kate that she screwed up trying to trade his life for information that could hurt her.
Kate tells Luke that there is no Batwoman without him.
Parker tells Kate she should fight harder for Sophie.
Julia is confirmed to have nerve damage in her arm and a numbness in her left hand.
Sophie and Julia kiss after Julia is looked over by the medic.
Julia tells Kate that she tracked down The Rifle after he tried to kill her in 107 and she made a deal with his boss to save her life. Julia was going to exchange the journal for Batwoman's life. Julia made the deal before she knew the journal explained how to kill Batwoman and, knowing that, the deal is now off.
Julia says the woman she was working for is Safiyah Sohail - the woman who was first mentioned in 107 as having a grudge against Alice.
Kate claims to have never heard of Safiyah Sohail.
Jacob Kane lights the Bat-Signal to tell Batwoman that if he sees her again it will mean war.
Alice finishes reading the journal and determines that the element needed to destroy the Bat-Suit is Kryptonite.
The Bottom Line
A solid episode which does more to make Hush seem threatening than 90% of his comic book stories, even as an underling of Alice, even as it lays the groundwork for Season 2 and Safiyah Sohail's arrival in Gotham. This episode doesn't really feel like the penultimate episode of the season, however, so it will be interesting to see how everything is tied up in a week.
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