S1E4 -WHAT DREAD GRASP, DARE ITS DEADLY TERRORS CLASP!-
-Halloween episode
Waylon Jones was born with reptilian traits and was raised by his abusive aunt. Jones was alienated a toddler and forced to stay inside at all times by his aunt. He was taught basic skills and nothing more; she even fed him like an animal.
Eventually, so spiritually broken, and physically beaten, he killed his aunt and ate her in order to survive.
As a naturally, well-built adolescent covered entirely in green scales, he fled Gotham, finding recluse in a circus. Ridiculed and caged by the ringmaster, “The Killer Croc,” living in chains among the animals, rather than the people, fed only on the circus animals that were no longer able to perform. Over the years, the freaks of the circus grew to consider him a friend, if not family.
When the circus had become a financial burden, the ringmaster set the trailers on fire while crossing over a bridge. He’d hoped to burn everyone and everything, including himself, to nothing more than ash. Gnawing his hands off, Croc, instead of jumping into the water to save himself, leapt through each trailer, looking for his family; no others would be so lucky. Into the water he dove as the only survivor; his hands, to his shock, regenerate.
Making his way back to Gotham, dwelling in the harbor, he survived on rats, birds and sea life. He was isolated for months, driving him further into madness.
Stories of a man-eating croc were spread quickly throughout Gotham.
His appearance and personality had become increasingly bestial. The pollution has slowly robbed him of all identifiable human traits.
He soon began to snatch fishermen and the like so that he could quench his appetite.
In droves, Gothamites searches the waters looking to kill the animal about which they heard. Many blamed Daggett’s pollution but the mayor vehemently denied the accusations on his behalf.
Thanks to Sue, Batwoman was able to find the underwater cavern where Croc rested and battle the beast. In a purely surreal sequence, akin to many horror movies, Waylon Jones creeps, lurks, hunts, and swims towards his prey, the Red Knight. Montoya is able to shoot him enough times to save Batwoman before it was too late.
She has Bolton make the arrangements to lift from the sewers, and arrest, Croc, while she claims the handling of Gotham’s new vigilante. When she lifts the cowl in private to expose Kane’s face, Kane wakes and flips out, pulling away. Montoya shoots in the air and rattles on about Batwoman escaping; catching on, with a connection being made between the 2, she evades the public eye.
Summer Gleason ends the episode by interviewing panel of scientists on whether the perp is devolving or if this is actually Darwinism at its best; in order to survive, Jones is evolving into a superior species. They also discuss who is at fault and who should be feared.
“Hitherto, he had known only humiliation, contempt for his condition and disgust for his person.”
“Are we to feel fear of, and hatred for, the animal inside of the human? Or should we fear the human inside of the animal? Should we fear Waylon Jones or seek to understand that we, the abusers and tormentors, created the monster?”
“My guests on the subject include biologists Jason Woodrue, Kirk Langstrom, and Gerard Shugel, as well as physiologists Chase Meridian, Dennis Barclay, and, assigned by Arkham Asylum to be Waylon Jones’ personal Psychologist, Simpson Flanders”
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S1E5-OASIS-
Refer to Alan Scott’s bio for the major plot of the episode. A minor plot introduces the henchmen, Walrus (actually Tusk) and Carpenter, of Mad Hatter.
-Alan Scott-
-A mid-season addition to the team, Scott was gunned down by mobster, Rupert Thorne’s crew, just outside of their club, The OASIS, for refusing to let the mobster run his gambit from said bar; his business partner, Sam Zhao, was killed by “a gas leak explosion” inside his apartment, for the same reason.
Doiby Dickles, close friend and manager of Oasis, to whom the business was left if something were to happen to both owners, pulls up in time to see his friend writhing in pain in a pool of his own blood. Thorne walks over to his car, shakes his hand, and says “Congratulations, Dickles, now help us dump the body; and, remember, this bar is yours in name only. I do what I want, when I want. Are we clear?” “Yes, sir.” Scott nearly drowns after being thrown into Slaughter Swamp until he wakes up just outside the swamp.
Staggering back, covered in muck but without bullet wounds, he was still miles away from anything when a car pulls up. Sue Jumps and catches him, “I found your ring near a club, it told me you were here. Come with me, Alan, we’ll get this green off you. My friends can help you. And thus, Alan Scott is now a contributing member of, what he refers to as, The Outsiders (Team Bat).
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S1E6-FIXER UPPER-
Mad Hatter, unseen, kidnap again. Sue, Renee, and Alan follow clues to find them. Although the warehouse, covered in Wonderland paraphernalia, is without Tech, they know they’ve stumbled onto his path.
A murder goes unsolved; Paul Dekker, the street peddler of the drug, CRAZY QUILT, is discovered having had his head bashed in by a can of yams and his head scalped.
Humphry Dumpler is an autistic man with a compulsive desire to "repair" that which he considers to be broken. Humphry disassembles and reassembles mechanical devices that upset him in some way. The devices he "fixes" cause numerous accidents, such as a subway train derailing. Humpty Dumpty's final crime is to adjust the gears in a clock tower, causing one of its hands to fly off, killing dozens of people.
When Batwoman try and apprehend him, She dislocates both of her arms. Humphry promptly slips her arms back into their sockets and surrenders to her. Humphry asks if he could finish his project before he goes away. Curious, she inquired as he takes her to his home to reveal he had dissected his grandmother, who was complaining of aches and pains, and sewn her back together with bootlace but needed more time to fix her correctly “because she hasn’t responded probably because she’s angry I didn’t fix her.”
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S1E7-MOB RULES-
Alan spooks Rupert Thorne by appearing, but not confronting, Thorn at OASIS. When Thorne’s crew follow Scott, he dashed out through the back of the club. Cornered, he motions to stop at one of the men, “This has nothing...” and a green light beams from his hand, blinding the thug. With that, he hops the fence and escapes; more baffled than ever.
The mayor sits with Thorne and Daggett to discuss Batwoman. Daggett brings up Croc and the questions Gothamites are beginning to ask concerning the pollution. Thorne wants to bring up Alan Scott but does not, knowing his failure to kill Scott may be seen as a weakness.
Batwoman hits the streets trying to learn the identity of Dekker’s killer.
Montoya and Bolton have to stop a crazy mob from attacking Daggett during a press meeting. It is at this meeting, Gothamites dub Daggett “the 1%.”
Santo Cassamento is the leader of the Cassamento family, and the mob boss for whom Paul Dekker was working. He has had a decades long affair with Maria Bertinelli. He has conspired to merge the Bertinelli family with his own since Frank Bertinelli’s death.
Cassamento’s lieutenant, Tony Zucco, warns him that the mob could be losing control of the city. He suspects Dekker was killed by Batwoman if not the combined efforts of Thorne, Daggett, and Mayor Hill, in an attempt to make a final play to control the city in its entirety. He suggests going after the killer, be it the Red Knight, or the 1%.
Sue meets Rex Calabrese; there’s a spark. Afterwards, we learn Calabrese is a no-luck gambler.
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S1E8-THE BLUE BEETLE BEGINS-