History Recap / Batwoman2019S1E3DownDownDown

* RealityEnsues: "Batman" seemingly returning starts riling up people who have a score to settle with him. Kate alters the suit and makes it obvious she's not Batman both to clear up confusion and also to hopefully get some of these people to either back off or at least know they're going up against someone different.

* NotSoDifferent: Alice and Catherine both ask Jacob how he and the Crows can protect Gotham if he can't even stop Alice from breaking into his own home.

* IncrediblyObviousTail: Mary isn't happy to have a Crow bodyguard scaring away potential future husbands.

* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: Alice denies that Beth is still in there, claiming that she only saved Kate's life because she needed her alive for her EvilPlan, but she's visibly moved on finding the map young Kate drew of her search.

* BadDreams: Alice suffers a nightmare about walking into a creepy basement as a child, finding a flayed face in a barrel of water. The experience [[HorrifyingTheHorror leaves Alice shaking in a cold sweat]] when she wakes up.

!!Tropes:

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Subverted; Kate offers to release Dodgson if Alice can hold off of killing anyone for 24 hours. Alice reluctantly agrees, only to murder a Crow in Jacob's penthouse, half-heartedly reflecting that "Kate's gonna be so disappointed". She later admits to doing it to Kate, casually remarking that Kate will just have to let Dodgson die.

* HiddenDepths: When Mary starts barking about helping an injured woman, Sophie protests "they're professionals, you're a second-year med student!" When Mary expertly figures out what's wrong, she brushes it off as "I read ahead" but Sophie clearly realizes her entire socialite persona is an act.

** Alice gets Kate's attention by shining the Batsignal on Wayne Tower, very similar to how Renee Montoya as the Question shines it on Kate's apartment at the very end of ''[[ComicBook/FiftyTwo 52]]''.
** Much of Elliott's background matches his comic book persona right down to how he "hushes" Kate when they first meet.

* ObfuscatingStupidity: Mary plays up being nothing but a party-loving heiress and is annoyed that Sophie is now her bodyguard which can hurt her real job. It's when she expertly relates what's wrong with an injured woman that Sophie realizes it's an act.
* ObviouslyEvil: Tommy is this in spades. The first time we see him is in a [[ShadyRealEstateAgent real estate commercial]] where his voice and demeanor give off the vibe of a CorruptCorporateExecutive (not helped by him paraphrasing Donald Trump's catchphrase to "Make Gotham safe again"), and when he actually meets Kate in person, and it's strongly implied he knows Bruce is Batman. It doesn't take long for Kate to correctly guess that Tommy was behind the theft of the rail gun, and her suspicions about him prove correct at every turn. And then there's also the fact that he, you know, shares the name of a well-known member of Batman's Rogues Gallery.

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Elliott takes jabs at Kate being a lesbian and Reagan outright calls him a misogynist, which he demonstrates by referring to Kate by the cutesy nickname of "Candy Kane" and referring to Batwoman as Batman's "side-piece". He's elitist as well, dropping an elevator full of serving staff and threatening to do the same to "people the city will actually ''miss''".

* ComicBookMoviesDontUseCodenames: Tommy is never referred to as "Hush".

* BadassNormal: Even without the rail gun, Tommy puts up a very good fight against Batwoman, the latter of whom is wearing the Batsuit at the time.

* OhCrap:
** Tommy finally loses his arrogance when Kate informs him that rather than being sent to jail where he can bribe his way out, he's being sent to Arkham.
** Catherine freaks out when she sees that Alice has left playing cards on her desk that make a number she recognizes, hinting that Alice and Catherine have a deeper connection.

** The police call for the fake body at the Gotham Gazette is referred to as a 10-54. In at least some jurisdictions, that's the proper code for "possible dead body."

* ObviouslyEvil: Tommy is this in spades. The first time we see him is in a [[ShadyRealEstateAgent real estate commercial]] where his voice and demeanor give off the vibe of a CorruptCorporateExecutive, and when he actually meets Kate in person, and it's strongly implied he knows Bruce is Batman. It doesn't take long for Kate to correctly guess that Tommy was behind the theft of the rail gun, and her suspicions about him prove correct at every turn. And then there's also the fact that he, you know, shares the name of a well-known member of Batman's Rogues Gallery.

* ObfuscatingStupidity: Mary plays up being nothing but a party-loving heiress and is annoyed that Sophie is now her bodyguard which can hurt her real job.