Season 2 Episode 11: Blizzard
My name is Bruce Wayne. When I was 8 years old, my parents were killed by an evil. And so I made a promise to fight that evil. I traveled the world for 18 years, and returned to Gotham City to protect it. Now I have new allies, helping me in my crusade, but I also have new enemies. New threats have arrived in my city, and I must stop them. I am vengeance. I am the night. I am the Batman.
Previously on the Batman...
Bruce has changed to his old vigilante suit
He's training Barbara to become a new vigilante
Still taking Venom
Mr. Freeze was arrested
He has to save his wife who's frozen
Barbara and Bruce are in the training area of the cave, training by sparring. Y'know, with the sticks? Like on Arrow. Barbara is actually able to surprise Bruce a little but Bruce is the won who wins.
"You show promise. But you still need a lot of training." Bruce says.
"Which I'm willing to take." Barbara comments.
"And you will. But for now, you wait."
"Bruce, you know I won't be able to wait."
Dick walks into the Batcave, taking off his cape and Robin mask.
"I'll spar with you." He says.
"Thanks, Dick." Barbara says and walks over to the sticks.
Dick quickly follows her. Meanwhile, at Gotham National Bank, the front doors are crashed open by a car. A man in a mechanical suit stomps out. He aims his gun and fires it at the booth in which the bank teller stands, turning the glass to ice.
Mr. Freeze.
Mr. Freeze walks over to the glass and punches it. He gets into the back of the bank and stomps towards the vault.
"I don't want to hurt anyone, but I need the money inside that vault." Freeze states.
One of the bank tellers hastily opens up the vault for Freeze. Freeze walks inside.
"Thank you."
He takes the money inside and puts it into the van.
"Thank you all for your time." He states.
The van drives away from the bank just as police arrive.
The Batman
Robin starts investigating the crime scene at the bank. He sees the ice by the back of the bank.
"Ice?" Robin asks.
Robin then contacts Bruce back at the Batcave.
"Bruce, I'm seeing ice in the bank." Robin states.
"Ice? Do you think Mr. Freeze is back?" Bruce asks.
"Must've escaped or something. Plus some of the witness reports say they saw a tall man in a mechanical suit. Sounds like Freeze to me."
"What did he do?"
"They say he peacefully, sort of, took the money and left."
"Peacefully?"
"Well, yeah he broke in and shot the glass, but other than that, he didn't hurt anyone. They say he didn't want to hurt anyone."
"...alright, head back to the cave. We'll find him."
Gordon walks up to Robin.
"Hey, where's the other guy?" Gordon asks.
"He's off doing his own business. He'll be back soon." Robin says and walks off.
Dick walks into the Batcave and meets Bruce and Barbara.
"So how do we find Freeze?" Dick asks.
"His tech is made by GothCorp. Plus, he'll be at the coldest point in Gotham City. We can locate him using the Waynetech satellite." Burce says and walks over to the computer.
"If you remember correctly, Master Bruce, Wayne Enterprises owns Waynetech satellites. Which means you lost access to them as soon as you were kicked out of your own company." Alfred states.
"And that's why I have Lucius."
Bruce calls Lucius.
"Lucius, I need your help. I need to track down Mr. Freeze, he broke out. I need you to use the satellites to find the coldest point in Gotham City." Bruce explains.
"I'll try, Mr. Wayne. But I'm simply the man who makes the technology. Don't have access to the satellites."
"Please, Lucius. You're the only one who can help."
"Like I said, I'll try."
Oswald leaves his office in Wayne Tower and walks down the hall towards the bathroom. Lucius then sneaks into his office and walks up to the computer. He starts typing and eventually gets access to the satellites. He starts typing in the command to search for cold signatures.
Meanwhile, Oswald starts washing his hands and pulls out a paper towel to dry them. Lucius is still working on the computer. He selects Gotham City and starts the search. Oswald steps out of the bathroom and starts marching down the hall back towards his office.
Lucius finds cold signatures. He pulls out a pen and marks their location, before closing the application. Then Oswald walks into the office and sees Lucius by the desk.
"What are you doing in here?" He asks.
"...sorry, Mr. Cobblepot, I had some papers I would like you to see, my latest design of some new tech Wayne Enterprises is developing. I'm pretty proud of it, and I'm sure you'll like it too. I looked around the office, but you weren't here." Lucius lies.
"Well, didn't I tell you to knock first?" Oswald scolds and moves behind the desk.
Lucius leaves the office and goes back into the hallway.
"Lucius?" Bruce asks.
"I've got some specific cold signatures, usually associated with cryogenic technology developed at Gothcorp."
"Okay, where is it?"
"Well, it's moving. I think I've got his final destination now, if you're ready."
Bruce turns to his team and nods. Bruce dresses up in his old vigilante suit and Dick dresses up as Robin.
"What about me?" Barbara asks.
"Stay here. You're not ready to be out on the field yet." Bruce orders.
"Understood."
Mr. Freeze marches throughout the halls of the labs trying to save Nora. He breaks into the room where she's kept and takes the capsule.
"I'll be taking her!" He declares.
As he wheels her into the back of his truck, the vigilante and Robin drop down.
"Get away from her!" Freeze shouts.
"Victor, you've robbed a bank, broken into these labs, just look at what you're doing." Bruce says.
"But I am this close to discovering a cure! Just a little more research and I can save her, myself! I am not hurting anyone, leave me and her be."
"We can't let you do that, Freeze!" Robin shouts.
Robin fires his grappling hook which wraps around Freeze's arm. Freeze pulls out his freeze gun and fires, turning the wire to ice, but it moves past the wire, onto the gun, freezing Robin's arm, down his side, and catching onto his belt.
Robin yells.
Freeze looks at what he's done with horror.
"ROBIN!" Bruce shouts and turns to Dick.
Freeze waits, before taking a couple of slow steps back, and then deciding that Nora is more important. He runs inside the truck and starts to drive off.
"Go! Go, get him!" Robin says, and Bruce runs off and grabs onto the truck. He throws a shuriken at Robin which he catches with his free hands and uses it to dig himself out of the ice.
The truck speeds down the road with Bruce hanging onto the back. He climbs to the top of the truck as Freeze makes a turn and speeds towards a tunnel. Bruce sees this and then hangs off the side of the truck to avoid being knocked off. He shimmies across the side to get to the driver's seat.
Freeze drives out of the tunnel as Bruce climbs onto the hood and throws and some spikes to blows the tires. Freeze steps on the brakes and Bruce is thrown off of the truck. Freeze starts reversing as Bruce gets up and starts running towards him.
Freeze however fires his ice gun, freezing the road, which makes Bruce slip to his knees and Freeze drives down the tunnel and takes another turn to escape.
Bruce and Dick walks back into the Batcave to greet Barbara with two cups of hot chocolate.
"I thought you might be a bit bitter about losing Freeze, so I made some hot chocolate for the both of you. Plus there's a blizzard hitting Gotham in a few days."
"Yes! We're getting a White Christmas this year." Dick says, taking a cup. "Wait, do you think Freeze is doing that? And if not CAN he do that?"
"No. No one can control the weather, especially not with a gun." Bruce says, ignoring the cup and going to take off his costume.
"Barbara, I need to talk to you about your training." Bruce states.
"Sure."
"Ooh! I got an idea. I'll be upstairs." Dick takes another sip of his cocoa and jogs towards the stairs.
Barbara walks over to Bruce.
"What's up?" Barbara asks.
"You're getting really good at your training." Bruce says.
"Thanks."
"I'm close to letting you on the field. But while you have physical training, you need to think about hte mental."
"Mental?"
"Yes. It's just as important. Being out on the field isn't easy. There's a lot out there. It's not as easy as being in the cave and hacking into a device."
"Easy?"
"My point is, there's a lot of messed up stuff out there. You're going to encounter a lot of death, a lot of madmen and women. You'll encounter people who you may not want to bring in, but have to. You may encounter people who you may want to kill, but can't. You need to mentally prepare yourself for what's out there."
"I know, Bruce."
"Here are the ground rules: We never kill. Ever. Not even the criminals we'll face out there. No matter how bad you want to, you'll never kill them. You won't even let them die. If you can save them, you will. Saving people, even the monsters, is always the first priority. You think you can handle that?"
"Yeah. Did you mentally prepare Dick the same way?"
"No. I think he's still creeped out by Two-Face to this day."
Barbara gives him a half smile. They then hear loud music playing from upstairs. The song, Jingle Bell Rock.
They walk out of the wine cellar entrance and see Dick setting up lights around Wayne Manor, listening to the music from a speaker. He even has a Santa hat on.
"We're having a Christmas dance." Dick states.
"No we're not." Bruce states.
"Yes, we are."
"No we're not."
"Yes we are.
"No we're not."
"Yes we are."
"No we're not.
"Yes we are."
"We had a dance a couple weeks ago."
"Don't care. Christmas."
"I vote for a dance." Barbara says.
"Thank you Barbara!" Dick shouts.
"Barbara...don't encourage him." Bruce warns.
"I'll set up the decorations, and the music and everything. You saying the Batman's scared of socializing?"
Bruce scowls.
"Ooh! We need to buy a tree!" Dick says.
He reaches into his utility belt which he's still wearing and pulls out his grappling hook and zips off the ladder he's standing on.
Barbara chuckles, then turns to Bruce.
"You had to encourage him, didn't you?"
Barbara then walks back into her apartment and into the living room. Gordon walks into the living room after her.
"I know I asked this before, but where are you going all the time?" Gordon asks.
"It's not all the time. Seriously." Barbara says.
"I know, I know. You don't wanna tell me. But...nothing. I guess, I-"
"-am overprotective?" Barbara interrupts.
"I won't argue with you there. I am pretty overprotective but...just be careful."
Gordon hugs her.
"You always worry, dad."
"I don't care."
Meanwhile, Freeze walks through the front doors of a hospital.
"I need some of your doctor's help." Freeze states.
Inside at an old empty warehouse, Freeze stands in front a long table with medical and science equipment. Around the table are several scientists and doctors.
"Nora Fries was diagnosed with McGregor's disease. Stage 3. Incurable. But I think I am near a cure. I need you to help me find the missing ingredient to cure the disease." Mr. Freeze informs the hostages. "You will not leave until you have found at least an answer. If you do, you will be let go, unharmed."
"So that's why you kidnapped us?" A doctor shouts out.
"No, Dr. Thompkins, I've kidnapped some of you for an answer to a different question." Freeze answers.
"And what question is that?"
"Would Nora survive if she woke up now?"
Bruce puts on a ski mask for his vigilante suit and takes a pill of Venom.
"There. I've made a...prototype Batsuit for Ms. Gordon. Not the most efficient, and it could certainly improved, but the design should be satisfactory is I do say so myself." Alfred says.
"Thanks, Al." Barbara says, taking the suit.
Robin puts on his mask.
"So where's Freeze and the doctors?" Robin asks.
Bruce activates his comms.
"Lucius?" He beckons.
"Doing it now. Warehouse 2B. Near the Sionis Steel Mill." Lucius states.
"Got it. You ready?" Bruce asks.
"Always am." Dick replies.
"What about Barbara?"
Barbara pops out in her suit.
"Look good?" She asks.
"Yup." Robin answers.
"Batman, Robin, and Batwoman. Let's go."
"I still think you're a bit young for the BatWOMAN title." Robin says.
"Really?"
"Yeah. More like Batgirl."
"No. I'm not being called that."
"Let's just go." Bruce states.
The three drop down on a roof across the street from the warehouse.
"There's a sewer system that leads under the warehouse. Robin, you take that sewer tunnel and wait there for my signal. I'll go through the vents." Bruce explains.
Robin jumps off the roof towards the sewers.
"Barbara, you follow me. Stay behind me." Bruce says.
Bruce and Batgirl make their way through the vents as Robin runs down the sewer tunnel. He places a bomb on the ceiling and turns it up to the maximum setting. Bruce sees, through the vent, Mr. Freeze and the doctors.
Bruce pushes open the vent.
"Remember. Stick with me." Bruce orders.
He jumps out of the vent and crashes down onto the table.
"Freeze! You have to stop this!" Bruce announces.
"I cannot stop! I would never hurt these people, but I am this close to saving Nora. Please..." Freeze pleads.
Batgirl hops out.
"Sorry, Freeze. Everyone to this side of the room!" She yells.
All the scientists and doctors run to one end of the room.
"No! This is my wife! Don't take her from me! Not again!" Freeze shouts.
"Robin! Now!" Robin blows the bomb, creating a huge hole in the floor and grapples up.
Freeze fires his ice gun which Robin dodges and Bruce throws a shuriken. It clunks to the ground off of Freeze's suit. Robin grapples and kicks the gun out of Freeze's hands. Freeze swipes his arm, knocking Robin back.
Freeze then throws out his fist towards Bruce, and several components open up around his wrist.
"I've made a few improvements." Freeze states.
An ice beam fires out from his wrist, trapping Bruce's ankle to the ground, and freezing his leg. Bruce grunts and Freeze runs over towards Nora, before getting knocked to the ground by Batgirl. She jumps over to Bruce and breaks the ice holding his leg with one kick.
"I had that." Bruce says.
Freeze gets up and aims his wrist again, but Robin knocks him down with one last kick to his visor. Gordon and the cops burst in and find Freeze on the ground. They arrest him as the vigilantes escape the warehouse.
"I was so close..." Freeze whispers.
One of the doctors taken returns Nora's capsule to the labs she was working in. That's when Bruce Wayne enters.
"Dr. Thompkins, may I speak with you for a second?" Bruce requests.
"Sure. What is it, Bruce?" She asks.
The cure Freeze was working on. Was he actually on the verge of curing her?"
"The Batman feeling sympathetic? ... No. I investigated it, and the cure would've degraded too quickly to help her."
"And what about waking her up?"
"She would have survived the process with the correct gear. Theoretically. It was a risk Victor was willing to take."
"A real shame."
"I would tell you that everything will be alright as long as you donate, but then I remembered, you lost your company who with drawled all funds. Those funds really helped us here, Bruce. Such a shame what Cobblepot is doing to the company. To your parent's legacy. Thomas seemed like such a good man."
"He was. The conspiracies are all lies. But now bad things are happening."
"Don't worry, Bruce. I'm sure it will all work out in the end. Are you okay? You don't look well."
Bruce looks at the floor.
Meanwhile, at Arkham, Victor is being transferred into the psychiatrists room and strapped down to the couch.
"Tell me, Victor, why do you love your wife more than anything in the world, more than anyone else, more than yourself?" The doctor asks.
"That's the commitment I made, and I'm never going to break it." Victor states.
"But do you think when she wakes up, she'll be happy with what you've done in her name?"
"I try not to think of it."
"Well maybe it's time you should, in case you do it again, Victor."
"You don't know me. And I don't know you."
"Then let's get to know each other. Your name is Victor Fries. Mine is Professor Hugo Strange. You are now under my care. Let's get to know each other." He says with a smile.
The Batman
Next Time on the Batman: Child's Play (2x12) The Mid Season Finale
Bruce and his team are starting to secretly plan against the shadow and his team to take them down, but the shadow is starting to catch on. They both make moves against each other, until this all ends in a confrontation, between Bruce, and his mysterious stalker.
FRRO SDUWB!