Warning: This article contains spoilers from Sunday’sBatwoman, titled “Off With Her Head.”
“I’ve demonstrated there is no difference between me and everyone else.
All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man to lunacy.”
(Full disclosure: The episode in question was written by former EW staffer Natalie Abrams).
This is the final straw for Alice, who proceeds to burn Mabel to death.
Similarly, Kate snaps after hearing this story and strangles the life of out Cartwright.
“Its just visceral, primitive Kate acting with her true emotions that are bubbling out of her.
Its just a human girl killing the monster that destroyed her family.”
Kate herself is shocked and horrified by what she did at the end of the episode.
With good reason, in my opinion.
Why was it important to take Kate in this direction?
It was important to me because I was trying to figure out Kates own morality and who Kate was.
Were on the journey with her.
Were watching her develop her own code.
Who is it going to be?
Its like Olivers killing people at the end of Act 2 of the pilot.
And you had this moment arrive in alongside Alices first kill, too.
And shes like, Because Im me.
This is what integrity looks like.
Im all the things that Alice isnt because you stripped them away from her.
Im sort of the good version of that person thats left.
To me, its the yin and yang of that.
Also showing the line separating them isnt as thick as we thought it was, either?
What makes Kate so interesting to me is that shes not this earnest cookie-cutter good guy.
We get into that in the next episode.
I think its pretty obvious that if Alice wanted to kill Cartwright herself, she could have.
She had him in her possession.
With Alice, there is a method to her madness.
What does this mean for Kates relationship with Alice?
The whole point is Kate saying to Cartwright, I am not Alice.
She turned out bad, I turned out good.
Obviously now, things are blurry and we saw that they need to go bury this body.
Thats where well pick them up in the next episode.
They need to work as a family.
Now this family has this huge secret.
For Alice, this is good.
In episode 10, she told Kate, Just let me be!
Accept me as your sister!
And Kates like, No you arent.
You were, but youre not anymore.
For Alice, this is great obviously.
For Kate, it has her questioning a lot of things.
Do I know myself at all?
The trauma of this moment will obviously have an impact on Kate going forward.
This will have residual effects.
Thats the whole point of earning her to actually commit the act and then making the consequences feel real.
This clearly isnt what she had in mind.
Will Mary and Luke find out happen, and how will they react?
That decision will give insight into how awful Kate feels about this.
Batwomanairs Sundays at 8 p.m. on The CW.
