This is constructed of actual human skin?
Yeah. We've linked DNA on the mask to dozens of individuals, all dead.
- I'm not following. - Alice robbed morgues months ago.
We think she was stealing skin off corpses to help Mouse make that mask,
so he could impersonate Commander Kane and kill Catherine in the process.
Look, Dr. Campbell, your name carries a lot of weight in this city.
We could use your testimony.
I agree there's a definite likeness to you.
But, uh, the notion of a man crafting a mask out of different skins
to perfectly resemble the face of another man
and pulling it off convincingly, this...
is science fiction.
Right now, we have an innocent man in prison
and a murderer in custody who's refusing to talk.
- Doctor, if there's any way you can help... - I'm sorry.
You say you have, uh, this Mouse character under lock and key?
We got him on 24-hour watch in Gotham General.
I'll need to meet him.
I'll run a few tests, and if they convince me this is possible...
then I'll sign the affidavit testifying that an innocent man could have been framed.
Thank you, Dr. Campbell.
I hope I can get you out of here. I really do.
We need you back at headquarters.
Don't doubt yourself.
- You'll find Alice. - If I don't...
her next victim is on me.
You wanna prove to this city,
from Alice to every criminal that you're a force to be reckoned with?
Well, then, you eliminate the threat, at any cost.
Go, go, go. Move, move, move.
Honestly, I don't know who's a bigger threat to Gotham...
Alice...
or us...
For letting her get away.
Hands up!
Don't move.
Show us your hands.
I want her dealt with, for good.
Which is why I'm ordering a B-42.
- Sure you can do that, Moore? - It's acting commander.
And yes, if you see Alice, do not hesitate.
Shoot to kill.
Weird observation, but, um, Gotham seemed a lot less bumpy on my Earth.
Sorry, I'm avoiding checkpoints.
We need to get you out of town. Once we get you out,
we can figure out what's wrong with you... Your ear. You're bleeding.
It's getting worse. Speed up.
I would love to, Mary, but slight problem.
- Since when is there a checkpoint here? - I can't exactly turn around.
Tell them I'm going into labor and we need to get to a hospital.
Um, have you seen you?
- I can't breathe. - Now what is the problem?
I'm having an asthma attack and in need of medical attention...
Okay, I'm sorry...
- You're yelling... Stop! - Why can't you just lie?
Guys!
We're screwed.
- Under the blanket. Go, go, go. - Okay.
- It's tight. - Guys, guys, guys, I gotta stop.
Look, not to pull the whole, "Do you know who my father is?"
but maybe the reason Alice escaped your custody in the first place
is because the Crows have a tendency of overlooking details,
like, "Hi, my dad is your boss."
- Miss Hamilton. - Exactly.
- So if you could tell your boys to stand down. - Just...
- trying to do our job, ma'am. - And we so do appreciate it.
Go Gotham.
- I need you to step out of the car. - That was my Yorkie.
- Automatic weapons give him anxiety. - Get out of the car!
Hey, we're cool. Just gonna reach for my seatbelt, okay?
Ideas?
Panic?
Step out of the vehicle, ma'am.
- Okay. Okay. - Okay.
Really, we're doing this?
Got someone in the back.
What's going on?
Halt. Stop!
Go!
Apologies for a late broadcast, Gotham.
Like many of you, I was stopped on my way to work
by Crows agents looking for Alice.
On the upside, I'm pretty sure that involuntary pat-down
counts as my annual mammogram.
Holy police state, Batwoman. Can we find her already?
What are we looking for?
Now, see, I wouldn't be caught dead in that uniform.
But I'm glad you were.
Hey, you figured it out yet?
No swelling, no pressure build up. Her hearing is fine.
Hemophilia causes nosebleeds, but she has no signs of any bruising,
and it doesn't explain the migraines.
All of that is to say that no, I haven't figured it out yet.
But I won't stop until I do.
You missed all the fun. Batwoman showed up and saved us.
Really? That's fortunate.
She likes me. Plus, she kind of owed me one.
Really?
Okay, problem.
What?
Her cells are disintegrating on a molecular level.
May I? I'm no expert at multiverses.
But you are two credits shy of astrophysicist, so whatever you're thinking, spill.
I've read some theories on multiple universe hypothesis,
inflation model, MWI of Quantum Mechanics.
MWI?
- Many-Worlds Interpretation. - Many-Worlds Interpretation.
Does anyone here speak real people?
Right, um...
In my research, I theorized that these universes are separated for a reason.
If I'm right, it means Alice has one mother of a headache now too.
Collateral damage from the multiverse collapsing.
In other words, this universe is literally not big enough for the both of us.
And the longer we coexist in this world, the more we're living on borrowed time.
Except we're borrowing it from each other.
As cells decay, the body goes haywire. Synaptic misfire.
Pain receptors go into overdrive.
Until eventually...
If we can't find a way to save you, you're both gonna die.
So not to pile on, but according to this neurodegeneration program,
at this rapid rate of cell deterioration, "eventually" is about seven hours from now.
Does alcohol slow down degeneration or something?
Here.
No, but it gives me a buzz while I face my mortality.
You are not going to die, right?
Uh, okay.
So when in your mind did I become proficient in extraterrestrial cell decay?
Get her to a hospital.
Where the Crows will kill her before anyone can say "multiverse."
See?
Whiskey.
We have three of the smartest people in Gotham in this room right now.
Put your heads together and think of something.
Where are you going?
If Beth is enemy number one in Gotham, then we have to get her to a hospital outside.
Maybe a face-to-face with this new commander can help us get past the check points.
I'm sorry. By telling her what exactly?
- I haven't figured that out yet. - I have.
It's easy. You have say that an event called Crisis
merged an infinite number of universes resulting in Alice's not so-evil twin
from another earth ending up on this earth. Just ask Supergirl or the Flash.
And oh, by the way, I swear I'm not Batwoman.
Orders to transport the inmate.
Get away from me.
Mouse.
It's me, my darling. I've come to get you out of here.
How are you doing that?
How are you her?
How am I who? You're speaking nonsense.
"The Queen of Hearts, she made some tarts, all on a summer day.
The Knave of Hearts, he stole those tarts," and?
- Yeah. - And?
"And took them quite away." What's wrong with you?
Alice?
Yes.
- Who the hell else would I be? - She tricked me.
- Who? - A girl...
with your face, and your eyes and your smile.
Alice, she was... She was you, I swear.
That... That girl and your sister, they convinced me she was you.
That's how Kate got away, how I ended up here.
It was a perfect match, and I believed her.
Alice, your ear.
I do believe you to be right and something else to be wrong from beginning to end.
Why are your ears bleeding?
You have enough on your plate without having to worry about me.
Where are you going?
Change of plans, little Mouse. I have some digging to do.
And when I find my answers, I'll be back for you.
I know you will.
Eyes on all the floors.
Dumpsters, rafters, drain pipes.
Remember, she's a sewer rat.
You ambushed five of my guys at a checkpoint last night.
- Care to explain? - Detaining the former commander's daughter?
That's a statement. Besides, what happened to probable cause?
Alice got away on my watch.
It's on me to find her.
- And it's on me to protect my city. - Copy that.
So if the law-breaking vigilante is done telling me how to do my job,
I should get back to it.
Call off the shoot-to-kill order on Alice.
Why are you protecting a terrorist all of a sudden?
I'm protecting you.
Is this really how you wanna start your command?
Ruffing up innocents.
Unlawful searches.
Your boss is in jail.
You're losing your clients.
And half the city thinks the Crows are on some kind of power trip.
A manhunt like this puts innocent lives in jeopardy.
Alice puts innocent lives in jeopardy.
Then let me find her.
My way.
Tell the Crows to stand down.
Are you crazy?
You once told me you trusted me.
- I'm sorry. - Commander Moore.
I can't.
Coming back out.
Remember me, commander?
Dodgson.
I take that as a yes.
What about cryo technology? Bruce knew a guy with a cryogenetic tank.
We freeze your body in cryostasis and slow the cell deterioration.
So a -196 degree bath in liquid nitrogen?
Yeah. That sounds survivable.
Fair.
Hyperbaric chamber? We could simulate high altitude and increase my red blood cell.
You'll never adapt to hypoxia in the...
three hours and 37 minutes you have left.
It'll probably just kill you faster.
Okay. I'll just keep drinking.
- We have to think of something. - We already have, Luke.
We're too polite to say it,
because it's the one option that Kate refuses to consider.
The Earth's balance can't handle the existence of two Beth Kanes.
In order for one of us to live...
the other has to die.
You are...
not me.
A cataclysmic collapse of another universe?
An infinite number, actually, probably having existed
in parallel past, present, and future timelines.
"Alice thought the whole thing very absurd,
but they all looked so grave that she did not dare to laugh."
How did you get in here, Alice?
The front desk guy, Kyle...
Kent?
Karl?
Karl, yes.
You'll find him in the janitor's closet.
Well, we need a new plan, Sophie is not messing around...
You weren't going to tell me, Kate?
We have a sister.
You haven't exactly made yourself available.
Here I am.
And...
here you are.
Smart.
Friendly.
Adorable.
Leave her alone.
No. It's... It's okay.
I understand why she resents me.
Oh. Goody. Let's add "blindly empathetic" to the list.
I'm just saying...
I wasn't held captive for half my life.
I'm confused.
Surely someone found you washed up on the riverbank
after mommy's car crashed into the river.
No one found me.
Because I never washed up onto the riverbank.
Then how did you survive the infamous crash?
Do tell.
I doubt you simply swam to shore like a nimble little frog,
paddling past mother's head as it bobbed in the rapids.
Beth didn't go over.
But there was a crash.
Was there not?
I see.
So on your Earth...
rather than simply standing by and sobbing,
your Kate pulled you from the car before it fell.
I've always wondered what my life would have been like if you had saved me.
I just never imagined that I'd be so...
basic.
Eyes that never had to witness the horrors that I saw.
Ears that never had to hear the evils I heard.
Lips that never had to beg for her life.
Two Beth Kanes can't exist at the same time.
Technically speaking, we are an anomaly of intergalactic proportions.
Got it.
So in order for one of us to live...
the other has to die.
Now, I am no astrophysicist.
But I'm pretty sure that two minus the one who doesn't belong means I get to live.
And my knife is pretty good at subtraction.
How did you do that?
- Alice, stop! - Kate, Beth needs you.
We're running out of time.
You got a trial date yet?
They're a little slow around here.
I thought you and I could use a little alone time to talk.
I didn't think you did anything without Alice's permission.
The only thing more dangerous than a corrupt man...
is one who thinks he's noble.
Not sure I need a morality lesson from the guy
who sided with one of Gotham's most prolific killers.
Alice had a psychotic break to survive.
She never claimed to be good.
You did.
But your men tampered with evidence, bribed and beat the people
who were too poor to afford the Crows' services.
Your men killed good people.
So now I'm gonna kill you.
- Thank you. - You're better to me alive, puppy dog.
According to my sources, you're on your way out of here.
And now that I got a target on my back for saving a glorified cop,
it's only a matter of time before I need you to return the favor.
Cell abnormalities.
Common birth defects.
Where are you, cosmic catastrophes?
Oh, look, another sister.
Ah-ah-ah. Do no harm, remember?
- Help me. - Uh, no?
You are not allowed to discriminate.
Do something.
Freak show cosmic anomalies are way above my pay grade.
Lest we forget,
I saved your life.
Oh, lest we forget, you had your dormouse dress up as my dad
and poison me and my mom.
But you lived.
Healed from the...
poison instantly.
Because I gave you the only antidote on the planet.
The serum from the Coryana Desert Rose.
People underestimate you, Mary.
Turns out
you are very, very useful.
No!
Paging Dr. Stateman to the mental ward, please.
Dr. Stateman, please.
Jonathan Cartwright.
My name is Dr. Ethan Campbell, and I am a plastic surgeon here in Gotham.
I understand that you've pulled off quite the scientific feat.
Consider me intrigued.
I'm not speaking to anyone.
Look at you, all grown up.
Out in the world, with friends who love you.
From my research, it seems that you even got yourself a job
at Dusty's Roadside Tavern.
You see, purpose in life is a hard thing to come by.
I would know.
I spent a decade reestablishing mine.
Am I supposed to know you?
That's precisely the point, Johnny.
You aren't.
No.
My purpose?
Shielding my son from ridicule.
Carving out a pocket in a world of anguish, so that he could feel love and joy.
That purpose...
was undone when...
my own boy...
betrayed me.
Dad?
Hello, son.
It is a father's greatest joy to see his son follow in his footsteps.
You could have made me so proud.
- I thought you were dead. - As I intended.
Meanwhile, I took on the life I deserved.
Recognition, praise, prestige.
But...
at the cost of losing you.
Because of her.
Tell me where Alice is.
Why?
So you can kill her? That...
Tell me where she is, Johnny, so I can forgive you.
Forgive me?
For what?
For standing up to my abuser?
For being a weak little boy.
Too powerless to realize a broken girl
with a distorted imagination was taking advantage of you.
- You... You gave her to me. - As a playmate.
And you...
let her convince you that she was family.
She was my family.
She accepted me.
All of me.
The scars, the burns, the face
you raised me to believe was too repulsive for the world to see.
You looked at me and you saw a monster.
She saw the window to the world.
I will never...
ever betray her.
- Tell me where she is, son. - What are you doing?
Making it so you no longer have a choice.
No, no, no.
Let me have it.
Mary!
My brilliant, beautiful stepsister.
I beg you.
As a family.
That blood is the only thing that will keep me alive.
I know.
And I can't think of anyone who deserves it less.
Crows Security.
I understand you're looking for the leader of the Wonderland Gang.
I believe I know where that little wench is hiding.
Good news, Mary called. Said she found something out.
- She's on her way. - I like her.
Promise me you'll protect her, okay?
We are not having those conversations, okay?
You're gonna make it through this. Just hold on.
Distract me, then.
What's Luke's deal?
Why?
Okay, the hallucinations have definitely started.
What about you?
Why are you still single?
You sure this is how you wanna spend your last 45 minutes?
You and I...
we never did the twin jealously thing.
We're always looking out for each other.
Checking in.
Getting advice.
But there was one thing that you had that I always wanted.
A soulmate.
Really?
Anyone I know?
Alice, we know you're inside.
Surrender immediately. We have the building surrounded.
I'm at the west entrance of Wayne Tower. Position for entry.
What the hell is going on?
Alice called the Crows hoping they would kill you.
Even on her deathbed, she's ruthlessly brilliant.
We have a major breach.
They're in the lobby, ascending the east and west stairs.
- Then lock the elevators. - They're gonna be here any second.
Kate?
Kate!
- Batcave, now. - Okay.
Wait. What?
- If the Crows find you, they will kill you. - Yeah, I know... Where are we going?
Catherine?
I see.
I'm being haunted on my deathbed by my past sins.
Ooh.
I'm so scared.
The universe must think fondly of Kate to give her everything she wants,
the version of you that she lost.
You don't know my sister.
No. I beg to differ.
I've known her almost as long as you've known her.
Because you're a snake...
who slithered her way into my family.
I was accepted...
by your father, by your sister.
And despite all of the mistakes that I made, I showed remorse.
You don't have any remorse, Alice. You're evil through and through.
And that's why Kate will never choose you.
Here's what's gonna happen.
Mary is gonna take that syringe to Kate...
and tell her that it will only save one of us.
And Kate...
Kate's gonna pick me.
For your sake I hope that's true.
But just in case she chooses otherwise...
I'll save you a seat in hell.
Well, I finally found something on this Earth to be jealous of.
Why risk your life every night for a city of strangers?
Well, I think not saving Beth that day on the bridge ignited something in me.
You couldn't save your own mom and sister, so...
now you save every mom and sister.
Guilt can make sane people do crazy things.
This isn't guilt.
This is courage.
Okay. You need to sit.
So the Crows are searching top to bottom. I counted 50 or so on foot.
They have 10 trucks outside, a chopper in the air.
- We really gonna have to wait them out. - We don't exactly have time to wait.
Mary, where have you been?
Okay. I'll be right out.
What the hell happened?
Alice called the Crows and sent them into the building.
- Oh, my God. Did they find Beth? - She's fine. I have a panic room. remember?
Okay. That's right. It's genius.
- Okay. So how do we save them. - What?
- You found a way to save them, what is it? - No, no, no.
I said I found a solution to save one. Beth.
My blood.
When Alice poisoned me, she gave me an antidote.
The serum from the Coryana Desert Rose.
She claimed it was a universal cure-all, and it worked like a charm.
So we give it to them both.
Then it will cancel out and we'll end up right where we started.
One has to have the edge over the other, even if it's just a few seconds.
My blood will regenerate enough of Beth's red blood cells
for her to live a little bit longer.
And Alice dies?
- And I walk away from her all over again? - You are not actually considering saving Alice,
are you?
Kate.
This is a no-brainer.
And not to rush you, but you've got less than 20 minutes before they're both dead.
So go in there and save one of the most compassionate,
smartest humans that I've ever met.
Or go back into that clinic and save Alice, who killed my mom.
The choice is yours.
Kate.
- Is that really you? - It's me.
Tell me you found Mary.
- Yeah. - And did she...
The syringe?
I know her blood is the key to saving you.
I knew you'd come back.
I knew you'd choose me.
- Hey. - Hey.
Can we have a minute?
- Sure. - Thanks.
You're not gonna tell me who my soulmate was, are you?
And ruin all the fun?
Luke told me about the blood.
I'm sorry you're in this position.
More sorry you are.
Look, before you make your decision...
can I just say, after spending time with Alice,
face-to-face, her rage, her pain.
Somehow, I understand her.
If the circumstances had turned out differently...
They didn't. I didn't act.
I didn't save her.
I did nothing.
And I'm not about to do nothing again.
You have to hurry.
- Alice. - Oh, Kate.
There's... There's no time.
Do it.
I came to say goodbye.
What?
Goodbye, Alice.
No.
Are you sure this is what you wanna do?
Just you asking that is proof that I made the right choice.
You've always been my hero.
Get her out of here. It's only a matter of time before they find the elevator.
But there's still the small problem of the checkpoints.
Right. Uh, take my bike.
The tunnels will get you past the parameter.
And the bike will get you through the checkpoint.
- I'll be there as soon as I can. - Just back up.
Take your...
- Your who now? - Bat bike.
Okay. Yeah. I'll just make sure I heard what you said.
Kate.
I don't know how can I ever thank you.
You're alive and that's all that matters.
Hey.
Why?
Because she's pure...
and good?
You don't even know me.
Not the real me.
I know what you showed me.
I couldn't save you.
And all I can hope is that you find peace.
Kate, stay with me?
I'm here.
Halt. Stop!
William Checkpoint to Moore.
Go for Moore.
Possible Bat sighting,
blazed through William Checkpoint, headed north.
Unknown passenger, looked female.
It could be Alice. Possible target.
- Want us to pursue? - Negative. Stay put. I'm on it.
I hope that guard won't miss his face.
What the hell are you doing to me?
Shh, shh, shh.
Hush now, son.
I'll be back for you soon.
Man, the acceleration index on this bike...
Moore to base.
I need backup for an arrest at the Twin Pines Inn.
No. Hey. No, no, no.
Hey. Oh, come on.
Hey. No. Come on. Wake up, Beth. No. Beth, come on.
No, no, no.
You...
let me die.
But I didn't.