- More of Alice's dark past is uncovered when Cartwright shares a twisted story with Kate while Jacob goes searching for his wayward daughter. Mary and Luke follow a lead on Beth's killer.
- Kate finds August, and she and Jacob question him as to Alice's whereabouts. Meanwhile, Alice finds Mouse and rescues him from the fear toxin, only to fall victim to it herself and relive her time growing up in the Cartwright household - and tending to Mommy Dearest.—Gislef
- The Past
At school, Jacob collects Kate and Beth, revealing the presents he has in the back of his van for their bar mitzhvah. Kate and Beth insist they'll get home at their own, and Jacob leaves. His wife Gabi them necklaces with their birthstones and says that what defines their characters is how they balance their conflict emotions. She promises that she'll be thinking of them as she wears her matching necklace, and hugs them both.
Now
A woman walks down the streets and a man follows her. As he says that he's friendly, Batwoman drops down. The man attacks her and Batwoman defeats her. When he shoots her in the pack, Batwoman's Kevlar protects her and she knocks him out. The woman points out that the Bat-Signal is in the sky, and Batwoman goes to the top of the GCPD and finds August lying unconscious nearby. When Batwoman checks him, she finds a piece of paper in his mouth, from Alice, referring to "Mommy Dearest".
The next day, Jacob responds to Kate's call and comes to her bar, and she asks him to promise not to kill him. He refuses and goes in, and finds August there. Kate says that August was left there, and she says that she'll tell Jacob everything once he takes a drink. Once he does, Kate says that Alice found August and let him there, and Alice isn't dead.
Alice goes to an old house following Augustus's directions and looking for Mouse, and finds him in the basement hooked up to the fear toxin. She turns off the gas and frees Mouse, and he screams at her that she's dead. Alice slaps him, then explains that August thought she killed him but he was wrong. She gives their secret password to prove that it's her rather than Beth, and Mouse says that it was the Queen of Heart's house.
The Past
A car pulls up to a house and an old woman on an oxygen tank goes inside. Inside, Beth is cleaning the floor. Johnny asks August how long she'll be staying with them, and August says that his grandmother can't get by on her own. The old woman, Mabel, knocks at the door and August lets her in and greets his mother. She points out that August is smoking and that she can "take a hint" that he wants to kill her, and notices Johnny. Johnny awkwardly hugs her, and Mabel tells August that he fixed August's scar and asks when he'll fix the house. Beth bows to Mabel, who admires her necklace and asks where she got it. The girl says that she doesn't remember.
Now
Kate suggests that the dead "Alice" was another skin pirate minion, and explains that August is posting as Campbell at Yyy. Jacob is furious but says that they have no proof to prove Campbell is August. Kate wonders what they should do with August, who wakes up. He says that he was expecting Alice, and Kate asks him who "Mommy Dearest" is. August says that Alice is playing games against the master of games, and he's not going to let her win. He tells Kate and Jacob that he spent the last eight years fooling all of them.
Alice asks Mouse why August locked Mouse up, and Mouse says that August wanted him to see the truth. He explains that he used the toxin into unlock his greatest fear, and his greatest fix is Alice. He throws her down, stunning her, and then handcuffs her to the chair. Mouse tells Alice that she destroyed his family, and now her greatest fear will destroy her. He puts the mask to her face and Alice inhales the fear toxin as Mouse leaves.
Alice hallucinates being freed in the basement. Mabel comes in and Alice stares at her in terror. When she turns, she finds a bloody Mabel confronting her, saying "Off with your head!"
Luke goes to Mary's clinic and Mary says that one of her patient saw their flyer for reward on the license plate they spotted. The patient, Mad Dog, tells them where he saw the car at a junkyard. Once he leaves, Mary points out that Mad Dog got them their first lead on Beth's killer.
August tells Kate and Jacob that he used the fear toxin to convince Mouse that Alice destroyed his family. He figures that Mouse will snap and dose Alice with the toxin, and unless adrenaline is administered soon, she'll die. August offers to tell them where Alice is in return for his freedom. When Kate and Jacob, August says that the toxin will destroy Alice's sanity and she'll unravel completely, outing herself to Gotham when she goes nuclear. Jacob starts to choke August, and Kate pulls him off and warns that they'll be no better than August is if they kill him. August figures that Alice is seeing Mommy Dearest.
The Past
Beth brings tea to Mabel and tells her that she's so beautiful. Mabel doesn't believe her and says that she's alone and old. Once she drinks her tea, Mabel slaps Beth for putting too much sugar in and then throws the cup on the floor.
Now
The hallucination of Mabel has Beth hold her hands out.
The Past
Mabel pours the hot tea from the pot on Alice's hand, saying that it's too hot. She then says that Alice was a pretty girl and shows her her reflection in the mirror.
The Past
Mabel cuts off Beth's hair, saying that it's too long.
The Past
Mabel says that they're out of cream and Alice runs upstairs to get some.
The Past
Beth searches desperately for cream but there is none. She runs out to the old barn and finds a locked refrigerator. August comes in and asks why she's there, and Beth says that she's looking for cream and wonders why the refrigerator is locked.
Now
August says that Mabel beat Alice so often that she became numb to it, and figures that in Alice's madness, she's hallucinating Mabel demanding her tea. Jacob promises that he'll find Alice and then skin August alive, and Kate him gives August's phone and says that if they can trace it then they can find Alice. As August works on his bonds, he tells Kate that Alice wanted to break Kate by having her talk to him. Kate insists that she's different from Alice, and August says that he'll tell her where Alice is if Kate gets her movie. As Kate brings him a glass of water, she says that August never knew the real Alice. She demands to know where Alice is, and August grabs the glass, breaks it, and cuts his own throat, promising Kate that she'll never find Alice.
Luke and Mary go to the junkyard, and they bicker about how they're looking for a car in a junkyard. Mary works out that Luke would have gone somewhere warm, spots a fire barrel, and Luke spots a car with its tires still on that matches the color. The plates match, and Luke apologizes to Mary for doubting her. He pries open the trunk and they find the rifle August used to shoot Beth inside. Kate calls as Batwoman and asks for help closing a severe neck wound. Mary walks her through closing the wound with a staple gun. August has a pulse, and Mary says that he'll still need treatment. She assures that she's always there to help.
Alice crawls across the floor, and Mabel tells her that no one came for her then and no one will come for her now. Batwoman arrives and tells Alice that she's there. Jacob comes in and tells Batwoman to get away from Alice, and Batwoman fights him. The two struggle, and Jacob insists that the world is better without Alice. Batwoman agrees, saying that Alice will never be worth of it, and the hallucinating Alice begs them not to leave her.
When August revives, Kate resecures his bonds and tells him that she's going to give him something to live for: his free path. When August wonders why Kate won't kill him anyway, Kate insists that she's not a killer. She says that she's everything August stripped away from Alice. Once August gives Kate Alice's address, Kate calls Jacob and passes it on to him.
At the office, Mary pokes at the books near the hidden door while Luke tries to track down the licensing plate. He realizes that he didn't search inactive registrations, and discovers that the plates expired 20 years ago. The car was registered to Mabel, and Luke says that they have to call Kate.
Alice manages to free herself and pulls the mask off. The cellar door is locked, and Alice sobs that she can't do it again. She breaks open the glass over a boarded-up window, picks out a piece of glass, and prepares to cut her throat. Jacob breaks in and tells her to stop. Alice figures that he isn't real, and Jacob assures her that he is and then tackles her down the stairs and injects her with the adrenaline to nullify the toxin. As Alice cries, Jacob holds her in his arms.
Later, Jacob covers over Beth with a blanket. She asks where Kate is, and Jacob says that Kate is with August and got him to tell them where Alice was. Alice wonders why Jacob came, and Jacob says that he cares and he wanted Alice to hang onto her sanity. She figures that August hasn't gotten to the story about Mabel yet, and Jacob says that August told them about his mother. Alice says that the story isn't about August's mother.
After Jacob calls Kate, Kate asks August where Mabel is. August says that Mabel died years ago, and Kate asks if he killed Beth. He says that Beth looked exactly like Alice, and she wore the necklace that matched the earrings. He says that the earrings matched the necklace that Mabel coveted.
The Past
Mabel puts on the earrings and tells Beth that they were a gift from her son.
Now
Alice describes seeing the earrings to Jacob, and they reminded her of how their mother gave them the necklaces so she would keep her daughters close to her heart.
The Past
Beth goes out to the barn and unlocks the refrigerator.
Now
Alice tells Jacob where August got the earrings, and Jacob demands to know how he obtained them. She finally tells him that August got them where he thinks.
The Past
Beth finds Gabi's severed head in the refrigerator.
Now
August tells Kate that Mabel wanted a fresh start and begged for Gabi's face from when August fished it out of the river. He held her off, and the hope gave Mabel something to live for. August says that Gabi was a beautiful woman and it would have been a pity for her beauty to go to waste.
The Past
Beth walks into Mabel's room, knocks the handle off her oxygen tank, and uses it as a flamethrower to burn Mabel alive.
Now
Kate screams that August stole everything from her, chokes him, and rips opens his neck wound. As Gabi's words echo through her head, Kate gets hold of herself and tries to revive August. Jacob returns with Alice and begs him to save August. He tries to revive August but the man dies. Alice closes August's eyes and recites lines from Alice in Wonderland, talks about her wonderful dream, and smiles. She then congratulates Jacob, saying that both of his daughters are killers before walking off.
Luke finds an obituary about Mabel, right before August disappeared. Mary figures that Kate won't rest until she brings the monster to justice.
Kate leaves and figures that she's become the thing she's fighting against. As she drinks, Alice finds her and drinks with her. She says that they'll need a drink for the night ahead of themselves, and points out that bodies don't bury themselves. Kate takes a drink and then follows Alice off.
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