You've been coming here for three months, Helena. You've barely said a word. Talk therapy works better when you actually speak.
Court sent me here for anger management, right? Observe the managing. I'm cured. You're a genius, Harleen.
You sideswiped two cars, flattened a stop sign, crushed a fire hydrant...
...Knocked out a security guard...
I shoved him to get him out of the way, barely even touched the guy.
And why were you in such a hurry?
I don't know, I had things to do.
I understand that whatever it was seemed urgent to you-
No, you DON'T understand. You don't know me. You don't know anything about me. Let's just run the clock out here and call it good, Harleen.
I do know that on this day, seven years ago, you watched your mother die. And a few months later, Barbara Gordon became your legal guardian. There's no mention of your father.
Because at the time, I didn't know who he was.
...Bruce Wayne is my father.
[Suprised] Your father... is one of the wealthiest men in the country, and you move in with a schoolteacher?
Wasn't exactly Father Knows Best - He didn't know he HAD a kid. Clueless is a RADICAL understatement.
Sounds like your relationship with your father is conflicted.
[Snorts] What relationship? He didn't raise me, my mom did. I miss her. She... She was funny, crazy, and dangerous... and in that one moment, she was gone. That's when everything changed. I changed.
Into someone maybe I wasn't meant to be.
I'm telling you, word on the street are that these deaths are your garden-variety "goodbye, cruel world." Is there anything to eat in here?
The way they did it, it's almost as if they were RUNNING from something...
There's never any food. Gazillion dollars worth of computer equipment and not one jar of peanut butter!
This doesn't make any sense. If I were gonna kill myself-
Helena Kill yourself. You wouldn't. [Holds up some crackers] Do you know how old these are?
Barbara [Splutters] Wait, what do you mean, I wouldn't kill myself?
Helena It's just not your nature.
[Rolls away from her desk] I resent that. I'm as broody and romantically self-destructive as the next girl!
Helena Yeah, in a "Let's go get the bad guys, let nothing stand in the path of the mission" sort of way! You know, I'M the one that does all the night sweeps, I'M the one that does all the fieldwork, I'M the one with bruises in really embarrassing places - Would it KILL you to go to the grocery store every once in a while‽
...What is this obsession with food?
You try fighting the forces of evil when your blood sugar's low!
She knows how to get in. What if she knows who we are?
[Smirks] We could kill her.
...We're the good guys, we don't kill innocent people. We don't kill ANYONE.
And how did she find us, hmm? [Dinah starts to stir] She must have followed you.
Well, she's HERE! I mean, this place is supposed to be a secret; that's the whole point of a secret lair!
[Groaning] It's not her fault. [Sits up] I followed her. She didn't know.
[Dinah stares at her, flashing back to her nightmare of the Joker shooting Barbara]
[Grins] It's YOU! I should have known you two would be together! [Helena and Barbara stare at her] Look.... Sometimes when I touch people, I see things. Things that, um, that only they know. And sometimes, when I dream things, they come true.
So, um, what does this thing do exactly?
This machine will tell me if there's any biological evidence of the abilities. In other words, if you're metahuman.
In most people, less than 5% percent of neural cells are active. Your cerebral cortex activity is... [Surprised] over 50%.
So it's true. I'm officially a FREAK.
Hey, watch it with the f-word.
There are people in the world, Dinah a lot of people, with abilities beyond what we think of as human. No two metahumans have the same gifts. Don't ask me where the powers come from, no one knows. Natural mutations, biological experiments...
There's been weird stuff with meteor showers.
The point is, you're one of a long line of people who had to hide what they are.
Uh, like Helena, technically. I'm not metahuman.
But you're both heroes and you save people.
Barbara No.
[At the same time] WHAT?!
Dinah ...Why not‽
[Mocking] SORRY, we don't have an opening for Junior Supergirl!
You can't stay here, you have to go home.
...Do you think I'd get on a bus and come to a city where I didn't know a soul, with no money and no job... if I had a place to go back to? I mean, I came to New Gotham looking for something, and I didn't even know what it was, but now I DO!
After my mother's death, I learned more than just my father's identity - I learned he had a whole other life.
I'm not sure I understand. Do you mean another family?
More like a... REALLY AGGRESSIVE hobby.
Uh... YEAH. I guess a part of me I blamed him for what happened to my mother. If Barbara hadn't taken me in...
I've known her since I was kid. She was just trying to help.
Human beings are essentially selfish creatures, Helena. No matter how we try and mask it to the world or ourselves. You say Barbara rescued you. Did she do that for you? Or for herself?
[Huntress is handcuffed to a statue at a crime scene]
Okay, I REALLY don't have time for this...
RDetective Reese
You're in a crime scene, lady; You'll MAKE time!
You can see it's a suicide.
RDetective Reese
Yeah, seem to be a lot of those going around lately, huh? You know, my colleagues, they think I'm crazy. But I'm beginning to wonder if somebody isn't giving these vics a little push!
[Into her comm, to Oracle] You'd like this guy, he's got your paranoid turn of mind.
RDetective Reese
Excuse me? What was that?
OOracle
Neighbors reported sounds of a fight. He must have been in the area to have gotten there so fast. You have a few minutes before the black-and-whites show up, just... GET OUT OF THERE.
RDetective Reese
So, you know this man?
He was dead when I got here.
RDetective Reese
[Sceptically] Really? Oh, so then the best you can say for yourself is you were robbing a dead guy.
You're a DETECTIVE; DETECT - What was I gonna do? Strap a few paintings on my back, take the elevator? I don't have any gear for a heist and I don't have any weapons. What did I do, come in here and chat him into hanging himself?
RDetective Reese
Even if I were to believe you, you still haven't answered my question; What are you doing here?
[Serious] Same thing you are - Just trying to save someone. Guess we were both a little too late. We're on the same side, Reese.
OOracle
Now, wait just a minute!
[To Oracle] I KNOW what I'm doing, BACK OFF.
RDetective Reese
[Confused] Do you hear voices or something?
You have no idea. Someone dropped the Hermez shooter off at the precinct doorstep last week, right? [Reese frowns] And the Dorsett kidnapper? I practically gift-wrapped that one for you.
RDetective Reese
[Aims his gun at her] Who are you?
[Twists her hand in the cuffs] I'm NOT your enemy.
RDetective Reese
What, I'm supposed to believe you're a FRIEND?
I didn't say that. [Kicks Reese's gun away, and tosses him the handcuffs. In a flash, she's at the window] I HATE locks.
RDetective Reese
So you save people.
RDetective Reese
Then why don't you carry any weapons?
I AM the weapon. [Winks and jumps off the balcony]
You've been here before, haven't you?
It was a long time ago. Another life. Before I was ever Oracle, I had another name, another identity. Another self. I used to work with a man, Helena's father. He was Gotham's greatest champion, and most people never even knew he existed. The last time I ever fought at his side was in this place. We'd cornered the worst criminal Gotham had ever known, smashed his organization and hunted him down. I know Batman could have killed the Joker but he didn't. And his honor had a price. The Joker got away from the police, only for a few hours, just long enough to send a man to kill Helena's mother and to come for me himself.
I think the Joker wanted to drive Batman mad. And maybe he did a little. Because a few months later, he left. Left New Gotham, his work... Everything. Even the daughter he never knew he had.
[To Ketterly] Well, Larry... This really is quite the disappointment, isn't it? I needed those documents, Larry. I had a dream of New Gotham, and people writhing in pain, dying on the streets and everything under my command. You ruined my dream, Larry. At least temporarily. What happened, Larry? I wish you could tell me. Because somebody stopped you and that means somebody is trying to stop ME. Well, just goes to show you: never send a business man to do a psychopath's job.
It's hard for me to come here, Harleen.
Luckily for you, this is your last court-mandated session.
Then I must be officially sane. What a relief.
You don't have to come back, unless you want to. I know you think you can't trust anyone but I'd like to help you, if you'd let me. Why is it so difficult for you to let people in, Helena?
[Beat] After Mom was killed I found out about my dad, who he was.
Well, most people would be excited to discover that a billionaire philanthropist like Bruce Wayne was their father.
I only wanted one thing from him: That he find the man that killed my mother.
And then I wanted that man dead.
We can't just go around killing people, Helena.
Yeah, that's... That's what I hear. All I wanted from him was revenge, Harleen. If it had been the other way, Mom would've done it. They hadn't been together in years. She would've killed for him. And that's when I learned what my mom always knew: Rely on no one but yourself.
[About Dinah] I think she's evil.
You think she could be evil? If you would just take your clothes HOME once in a while, instead of leaving them all over the Clocktower, she wouldn't have found your sweater to begin with. You know what, this is not about clothing, and you know it.
Easy for YOU to say, she's not poaching your daywear!
Her parents didn't even report her missing; Sounds like she had a reason to run away.
Still don't know what that was.
She's got incredible potential. I just have this gut feeling that-
So do I. Like I'm about to get sucker-punched.
Helena, think about how we learned. How we ALL learned; Dick Grayson, Tim Drake, Jason Todd, even YOU - It's more than a tradition, it's a LEGACY; Take in those like us, mentor and train them, never turn away someone with the hunger to become what we are. That's what your father would have done.
Helena Batman was YOUR role model, NOT mine.
[Beat] Yeah, you keep saying that...
I told you trust had to be earned and I was wrong: Trust is a gift. You were there for me when it mattered for both of us. And as for the rest of it, it's an act of faith believing in someone. I believe in you. Whatever your name is.
Redmond. My name is Dinah Redmond, and I have been lying to you about everything. My mother left me with foster parents when I was six, and they taught me to be ashamed of what I was, never to tell anyone, to hide it. Then, when I couldn't hide it anymore, they were gonna take me somewhere. Somewhere to make my powers stop. And I thought if I told you my real name that you'd call them, and they'd take me away.
Dinah, don't you ever wanna go home?
Being here, with you, it is the only place I have ever, ever felt at home in my entire life.
Helena! What can I do for you?
I've been rethinking this whole do-everything-by-myself thing, Harleen. And I've decided I want to continue therapy, even though I don't have to. Maybe a little help sometimes isn't... SO bad.
[Helena smiles and goes to sit on a chair, as Dr. Quinzel shuts the door]
Why don't you tell me about him?
CMDetective Claude Morton
Then you know you can't win.
You're killing your own kind, WHY?
MDetective Morton
I'm NOT your kind. You're a MONSTER! And as long as even one of you exists, I'm a FREAK! This pain in my head comes from YOU! Every time I get near one of you, I change into something... I don't wanna be. Into something that I HATE! So, I am going to destroy all of you. And when the last one of you dies I'll be normal. I'll be free!
And I'M the one in therapy.
If you wanna know if I killed him... I didn't, he jumped. You look terrible.
RDetective Reese
And you don't.
Another perk of the meta lifestyle, I heal quick. On the outside, anyway. [Moves towards Reese] I can't decide if I should thank you for not shooting me or beat you senseless for drawing a gun on me. You know things like me are dangerous and violent.
RDetective Reese
Are you saying that you aren't dangerous and violent?
Absolutely, I am. But not because I'm meta.
RDetective Reese
[Sighs] Look... I'm just... I'm not used to-
No. It's time for you to listen: Metahumans are just people. Not all metas are bad, just like not all cops are good. There's lot of metahuman criminals in New Gotham. Because there's a lot of criminals here, period. And as for me, I'm half-meta and I'm half-human and I am proud of both.
RDetective Reese
I never thought you killed him. But, beat him to a bloody pulp? That one crossed my mind a few times. [Beat] Hey... Why won't you just tell me your name?
...'Cause the first time we met, you asked me WHO I was - But last night, you asked me WHAT I was. I won't tell you my name; You haven't earned it.
Hey, how'd the thing with Wade's folks go?
Short version? Complete and utter parental rejection.
Well, they just don't know you.
Not any more than Reese knows me.
And we can't really tell them, can we?
What do you think it's like for Morton? You know, to hate yourself so much?
He didn't understand. It's not WHAT you are, it's WHO.
Hey, what do you say we head down to Gibson's, the three of us misfits?
[Smiles] I think we deserve a night out. Helena?
[Grins] Damn straight. And I can't think of a better place to spend it. Gibson's it is.
Uh, What happened to wanting to be like other girls?
