Title: Pilot
Directed By: Marcos Siega
Air Date: October 6th, 2019
Written By: Caroline Dries
Official Description: SERIES PREMIERE – Kate Kane (Ruby Rose) never planned to be Gotham’s new vigilante. Gotham is a city in despair, the Gotham City Police Department have been overrun and outgunned by criminal gangs. Enter Jacob Kane (Dougray Scott) and his military-grade Crows Private Security, which now protects the city with omnipresent firepower and militia. Years before, Jacob’s first wife and daughter were killed in the crossfire of Gotham crime. He sent his only surviving daughter, Kate Kane, away from Gotham for her safety. After a dishonorable discharge from military school and years of brutal survival training, Kate returns home when the Alice in Wonderland gang targets her father and his security firm by kidnapping his best Crow officer – and Kate’s ex-girlfriend – Sophie Moore (Meagan Tandy). Although remarried to wealthy socialite Catherine Hamilton-Kane (Elizabeth Anweis), who bankrolls the Crows, Jacob is still struggling with the family he lost, while keeping Kate –– the daughter he still has –– at a distance. But Kate is a woman who’s done asking for permission. In order to help her family and her city, she’ll have to become the one thing her father loathes –– a vigilante. With the help of her compassionate stepsister, Mary (Nicole Kang), and the crafty Luke Fox (Camrus Johnson), the son of Wayne Enterprises’ tech guru Lucius Fox, Kate Kane continues the legacy of her missing cousin, Bruce Wayne, as Batwoman. Still holding a flame for Sophie, Kate uses everything in her power to combat the dark machinations of the psychotic Alice (Rachel Skarsten), who’s always somewhere slipping between sane and insane. Armed with a passion for social justice and a flair for speaking her mind, Kate soars through the shadowed streets of Gotham as Batwoman.
Reoccurring Cast:
Guest Stars:
Special Notes: See Below
2 potential scenes: Kate Kane (Batwoman) & Alexa (Likely Alice, her twin sister):
~Scene 1~
Alexa: Curiouser and Curiouser! Drop the gun, my dear.
Kate Kane: First let her go. She needs a doctor.
Alexa: She needs more than that- and in about ten minutes she’ll need: dialysis, CPR, our thoughts and prayers…
Kate Kane: You people are insane.
Alexa: Can’t argue with that. We’re ALL mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad. I’m Alexa. How do you do?
Kate Kane: Just Alexa?
Alexa: Alexa, the one who called you home and poof! Here you are!
Kate Kane: Half of Gotham is looking for you, but you know it, that I’d find you first.
Alexa: You’re a smart girl. Almost as smart as me!
Kate Kane: Now what? You want me for ransom?
Alexa: Billionaires are so predictable! I don’t care about your money. It’s your father. He took the flair out of- his Crows took the flair out of Gotham! There’s no imagination left, no fun, no sense of wonder! I thought, “How do I get them to go away?” Then I thought, “I know! I’ll threaten to kill his only living daughter!” Tell him it’s the easy way. The hard way will be much more…muchier!
~Scene 2~
Kate Kane/Batwoman: What happened to you? The Alexa I knew was kind, and warm, and didn’t lure innocent kids to their deaths with ice cream cones.
Alexa: So you heard about that! I mean, you got to admit- come on! Nothing? A little curl up in the corner of your lips? Come on…almost there!
Kate Kane/Batwoman: What happened to you?
Alexa: I’m fine, and yes, I’m seeing a therapist. She’s great. You got to call her! Seriously, call her! You got your father’s frown lines and all this righteousness that’s not doing your forehead any favors.
Kate Kane/Batwoman: I want the old Alexa back.
Alexa: Spu-laaaash. That was the sound of old Alexa falling out of my pocket and into the toilet. Please don’t be the bag of rice.
Kate Kane/Batwoman: We haven’t seen each other in years and this is all a joke to you!
Alexa: What do you want? Do you want me to tell you what I went through? Tell you how the thought of seeing you again got me through a decade of hell? That I soldiered on because that’s how I was raised? To be strong? To shut it out? To soldier on? I did all of that. I soldiered on, for the first six days and nights, and on the seventh? I rested. I let go, and old Alexa died.
Kate Kane/Batwoman: I don’t believe that. I believe you’re still holding on.
Alexa: Martin! Come in here please.
Martin: What’s up?
Alexa: What was I going to ask you? Sorry, it was just on the tip of my tongue. Jamie was blabbering on about something and then I thought, oh I know! I wasn’t going to ask you anything! I was just going to do THIS.
Alexa: *stabs Martin, and looks back at Kate:* The only one still holding on dear, is you.
2 potential scenes: Kate Kane (Batwoman) & Meriedith (Likely Bette Kane, Flambird):
~Scene 1~
Meredith: Are you kidding me!
Kate Kane: Meredith! Hi. I’m not kidding.
Meredith: Hi! How are you? Tell me everything!
Kate Kane: Everything? It’s been a while.
Meredith: Three years, ten months, and eight days. Yeah, I was counting! Are you training to be a Crow or a monk? Because literally not one phone call? Ugh! Okay. You’re home. I’m over it! So Gotham sucks and everything is awful. Oh my god, you would love this new club in China Town. I’m totally ditching Bio to take you tonight.
Kate Kane: Bio? I thought you were starting a fashion clothing thing?
Meredith: I was. Until I found myself competing against both the Olsen Twins and the entire cast of Teen Mom. Anyways, we’ll have to take security or my mom will freak, but we can catch up on where you’ve been, where you travelled, are you seeing anyone?
Kate Kane: I’m actually on my way out.
Meredith: But no!
Kate Kane: Soon though, I promise. I got to go-
Meredith: Wait!
Kate Kane: Really nice to see you.
Meredith: I didn’t even get your new…number.
~Scene 2~
Meredith: So my therapist told me I’m prone to catastrophize, but I think someone stole chemicals from Goth Corp yesterday, and I’m feeling like you’re the one to tell?
Kate Kane: More specifically they had a cyanogen chloride stolen yesterday.
Meredith: Oh my god! Did you just hack into Goth Corp’s firewall to figure that out?
Kate Kane: I read yesterday’s paper.
Meredith: Oh. Cool. I mean, minus the part where cyanogen chloride can be vaporized and air exposure is lethal.
Kate Kane: I need the FAA’s flight radar cross-referenced with all scheduled flight plans.
Meredith: To find the plane’s trajectory! Such a good idea! O-oh! You want me to do that?
Kate Kane: Can you?
Meredith: Totally!
2 potential scenes: Kate Kane (Batwoman) & Landon (Likely Luke, Lucious Fox's Son):
~Scene 1~
Kate Kane: So you like…worked for Batman?
Landon:: Work. Present tense.
Kate Kane: So then you know where he is.
Landon:: I’m just saying he’s not dead.
Kate Kane: So he’s alive somewhere? What you got can slowly bleed out.
Landon:: Why are we talking about this?
Kate Kane: Touchy subject. Got it. So if you DID know where he was would you tell me or…are we not there yet?
Landon:: We wouldn’t be having this conversation right now if I knew where he was.
Kate Kane: Why not?
Landon:: Because I would’ve brought him home by now, and your ass would’ve never found the Batcave. Because unlike your step-sister, Bruce Wayne knew how to keep a damn secret.
Kate Kane: I just figured seeing as you’re like his guy, that he’d call or text or something?
Landon:: He’s not dead! Now drop it!
~Scene 2~
Kate Kane: You didn’t tell me your dad was Stan Howard.
Landon:: So?
Kate Kane: So? He was a legend! Ran Wayne Enterprises – shared the Wayne Foundation.
Landon:: Used the folks at the Crow as a gun. I don’t feel like talking about it.
Kate Kane: My dad does that. He’d either start talking about something or erase it from happening.
Landon:: That’s not why I don’t talk about it.
Kate Kane: That’s why? Seems counterintuitive.
Landon:: Because it pisses me off! Watching him die is the sort of thing that can turn your blood into gasoline- and I am one match away from doing something that can delete his entire legacy! My dad built this city into something good, and he was killed by something that should have never existed in the first place. And who paid the price for it? Not the Crows. Not the Mayor. I did.
2 potential scenes: Jaimie & Sloane (But sounds like Kate and Stephie):
~Scene 1~
Jaimie: Sloane!
Sloane: You waited? W-what- did anyone see you?
Jaimie: I don’t care. Screw this place, they don’t deserve us.
Sloane: It’s not that easy, Jaimie.
Jaimie: What did you tell them?
Sloane: What they wanted to hear.
Jaimie: So you lied.
Sloane: Look, without Point Rock you are still a billionaire. I’m not. I need this school! I mean- I want to be here.
Jaimie: Sloane, they don’t want you.
Sloane: Well unfortunately, I don’t have the luxury of being offended by that. Maybe it’s best if you keep your distance from now on.
Jaimie: I know you love me.
Sloane: Please don’t make this harder than it has to be.
Jaimie: Tell me I’m wrong!
Sloane: You’re not. Bye, Jaimie.
~Scene 2~
Sloane: You always loved this place.
Jaimie: What are you doing here?
Sloane: Formally thanking you for saving my life, and you?
Jaimie: Formally feeling sorry for myself. This view is the only thing in Gotham that hasn’t changed.
Sloane: So you bought the building to keep it from changing. I uh, I heard you and your dad fighting. I didn’t know you came back for me.
Jaimie: And I didn’t know you married a man. Guess we’re even.
Sloane: Hm.
Jaimie: I don’t know, maybe you made the right choice at Point Rock after all.
Sloane: I made the right choice for me, you made the right choice for you.
Jaimie: Lot of good it did me.
Sloane: Well if you want my advice, the system wasn’t built for you. You don’t fit. You’ll never fit, and that is a good thing. That’s what I fell in love with.
Jaimie: Does your husband know you’re here?
Sloane: He is investigating a chemical theft at Goth Corp.
Jaimie: Would he care that you’re here?
Sloane: He knows that you’re an old friend.
Jaimie: Old friend. Got it. You’re still lying.