Alice’s true goal: She wants Catherine Hamilton-Kane to publicly confess to covering up the accident that “killed” Beth. She broadcasts a ransom video across all emergency channels: “One mother’s truth for the city’s light. Refuse, and I’ll plunge every hospital, every orphanage, every police precinct into permanent night.” Mary Hamilton (Nicole Kang) is running her underground clinic in the blackout, treating Crows injured in the initial surge. A young Card Soldier, “ The Knave ” (a 16-year-old girl with a scarred smile), brings in a wounded comrade. Mary treats him. In return, the Knave gives Mary a burner phone. Alice’s voice crackles: “Hello, half-sister. Here’s the game. Catherine has one hour to confess. If she doesn’t, I release a video of you stitching up my soldier to every news outlet. Your clinic, your mother, your life – gone. Or… you can inject Catherine with this syringe.” A vial of pale green liquid is shown: diluted Scarecrow fear toxin , modified to induce temporary paralysis and vivid hallucinations of one’s worst failure.
The trail leads to (guest star Gabriel Mann), now acting as a liaison between Wayne and Powers. He smugly tells Kate at a charity dinner (lit by candles) that “mergers require sacrifices. Sometimes, you have to let the old tech die to birth something new.” B. Alice’s Court of Cards Alice (Rachel Skarsten) has abandoned the Wonderland Gang’s old hideout. She now operates from a decommissioned subway car buried beneath the Gotham Cemetery. Her new lieutenants are the Card Soldiers – former Crows and street kids she’s “reeducated” through a mixture of fear and twisted affection. The stolen Prometheus core isn’t a bomb. It’s a frequency disruptor that can override any Crow biometric lock. BatWoman 1x9
Kate freezes. Alice grins. “See? Our mother chose silence over us.” Alice’s true goal: She wants Catherine Hamilton-Kane to