WARNING: The following contains major spoilers for “Survived Much Worse,” the latest episode of Batwoman, which aired Sunday on The CW.
According to Batwoman showrunner Caroline Dries, Ryan Wilder (Javicia Leslie) will be implementing new “Bat rules” for her team to follow moving forward.
Prior to this week’s “Survived Much Worse,” Ryan was of the mindset she would only serve as Batwoman until her predecessor, Kate Kane, was found. However, now that Ryan believes Kate is truly dead, it’s going to affect the way she approaches fighting crime in Gotham. “This is a woman who, everything good in her life has been taken away from her, and I think in the back of her mind, she always thought maybe the Batwoman legacy was going to be taken from her too, but now she’s realizing it’s not,” Dries explained to Variety.
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Realizing it’s all on her to serve as Gotham’s Scarlet Knight from this point, Ryan will be inspired to lay some new ground rules for the rest of her crew — namely, Luke and Mary — to abide by, now that they no longer see her as Kate’s temporary replacement. The first, if not more, of these will be revealed on next week’s Batwoman episode, which is appropriately titled “Rule #1.”
Of course, as viewers also learned this week, Kate is secretly alive and not-so-well, having sustained heavy facial injuries since her plane crashed in the Batwoman Season 2 premiere. This will provide an in-show explanation for the character’s recasting, with Krypton‘s Wallis Day taking over the role from Ruby Rose. What’s more, Dries indicated Kate’s experiences have changed her mentally as much as physically, saying she has a “complicated, mysterious, tough” journey ahead of her. At the same time, Day’s Kate will be “incredibility complicated,” even more so than Rose’s was in the show’s first season.
The full synopsis for “Rule #1” reads,
THE CHOICES WE MAKE — Batwoman (Javicia Leslie) confronts Gotham’s biggest foe, while new information forces those closest to Kate to make some difficult decisions. Ryan’s feelings for Angelique (guest star Bevin Bru) puts her partnership with Luke (Camrus Johnson) and Mary (Nicole Kang) at risk, while Alice (Rachel Skarsten) goes on a warped walk down memory lane. Michael Blundell directed the episode written by Nancy Kiu and Maya Houston (#209). Original airdate 3/28/2021.
Batwoman stars Javicia Leslie as Ryan Wilder, Rachel Skarsten as Alice, Meagan Tandy as Sophie Moore, Camrus Johnson as Luke Fox, Dougray Scott as Jacob Kane and Nicole Kang as Mary Hamilton-Kane. New episodes air Sundays at 8 p.m. ET/PT on The CW.
Source: Variety
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