History Recap / BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE7POV

* MythologyGag: The crooks drilling a safe is similar to the scene with Jack Napier and his gang in Tim Burton's ''Film/{{Batman}}''.

After a sting operation to take down a drug lord goes wrong, the three cops involved (Detective Harvey Bullock, Officer Renee Montoya, and rookie cop Wilkes) are grilled by InternalAffairs. Each tells his or her version of the story, but inconsistencies between them lead to all three being suspended. On the way home, Montoya puts the pieces together and realizes where the mob hideout is--and good thing too, because Batman, who was believed to have perished during the operation, is found captured there.

* SelfServingMemory: Combined with RashomonStyle. Harvey Bullock's account of events paints him as a brave hero and Batman as a menace, while the animation shows him bumbling around and Batman doing most of the work (though Bullock does take on several thugs singlehandedly). In a slight twist to this, the rookie cop unintentionally does the same, depicting Batman as a supernatural Badass; for example, he claims Bats took down a fleeing crook just by pointing at him, apparently having missed the GrapplingHookPistol in his hand (it was too dark to see it).

* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: A mook opens fire with a tommy gun on Batman and Montoya at close range, but uses up the entire clip seemingly just to shoot an outline around them!

* GiantMook: Driller stands nearly 7 feet tall and sends the tough-talking Bullock running by raising his fist. He's also more persistent than the other thugs against batman.

* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Hackle cares more about trying to finger Montoya, Bullock, and Wilkes as {{Dirty Cop}}s than about figuring out what really happened and how to get back the lost $2 million.

* ThisIsSomethingHesGotToDoHimself: When Montoya figures out the criminals are at Gotham harbor, she is about go for backup, but remembers she's suspended and has to go on her own. Fortunately, Batman is there too.

* ForkliftFu: A mook tries Batman to run down Batman with a forklift. It doesn't work; Batman commandeers the forklift and drives it off the edge of the dock, where it punctures a hole in the bad guys' fleeing ship.

!!Tropes:

* BlameGame:
-->'''Bullock:''' ''(to Hackle)'' Why don't you ask them [Montoya and Wilkes] why they were late?\\

* DaChief: Commissioner Gordon plays the ''opposite'' of this despite his rank, standing up for his officers while it's the IAD investigator that plays the role straight.

* EurekaMoment: Officer Wilkes hears one of the captured criminals refer to "Doc", and Officer Montoya hears another criminal refer to "Hathcock". It is only when she is taking the train home later that she makes the realization that "Doc" is "Dock", and she goes to the Hathcock warehouse at Gotham Harbor.

* ForkliftFu: A mook tried this on Batman. It didn't work as Batman then used said forklift to puncture a hole into the bad guys' fleeing ship.
* HighClassGlass: The gang leader.
* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: A mook opens fire on Batman and Montoya at point blank, but uses up the entire clip seemingly just to shoot an outline around them!
* InternalAffairs: The episode revolves around an Internal Affairs investigation into a failed sting where the intended target, a Gotham drug lord, escaped and took the 2 million dollars in seed money that the police had laid in as bait.

* JerkassHasAPoint: Hackle's harshness on Bullock is justified as Harvey's story is the most obviously falsified.

* NoNameGiven: We never learned the gang leader's name.
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Hackle, who places suspecting Montoya, Bullock and Wilkes for one of them being a DirtyCop over what actually happened that night and how to take down the gang.
* RashomonStyle: Bullock, Wilkes, and Montoya tell three different stories. Bullock is trying to make himself look like a hero with Batman being the bungler, contrasts with what we're actually shown. Wilkes is being honest in his retelling, but as a rookie who didn't really get a good look at what was happening, he pictured Batman as some kind of metahuman with magical abilities, when we're really seeing Batman using his tools and weapons. Montoya's account is pretty exact, except that she erroneously believes that Batman was killed.
* SelfServingMemory: Combined with RashomonStyle. Harvey Bullock's account of events paints him as a brave hero and Batman as a menace, while the animation shows him bumbling around and Batman doing all the work. In a slight twist to this, the rookie cop unintentionally does the same, depicting Batman as a supernatural Badass; for example, he claims Bats took down a fleeing crook just by pointing at him, apparently having missed the GrapplingHookPistol in his hand (it was too dark to see it).
** Bullock actually did a good job beating up the thugs by himself, but the fire overwhelmed him.
* ThisIsSomethingHesGotToDoHimself: When Montoya figures out the criminals are at Gotham harbor, she was about go for backup but remembers she's suspended and has to go on her own. Fortunately, Batman was there too.

* RashomonStyle: Bullock, Wilkes, and Montoya tell three different stories. Bullock made himself like a hero with Batman being the bungler, contrasts with what we're actually shown. Wilkes (a rookie who didn't really get a good look at what was happening) pictured Batman as some kind of metahuman with magical abilities, when we're really seeing Batman using his tools and weapons. Montoya tells us what really happened, except that she erroneously believes that Batman was killed.

* UnreliableVoiceover: There are three separate {{flashback}}s, each narrated by a member of a sting operation that had gone wrong and each telling their experiences in the lead-up and aftermath of the sting. Officer Wilkes is honest in his story, but misunderstood much of what he saw, so his description of Batman resembles a magical creature instead of a costumed crimefighter. Detective Harvey Bullock knows what happened, but is deliberately falsifying his statement to cover his own mistakes and blames it on Batman. Officer Renee Montoya tells a mostly accurate story, but mistakenly believes that Batman was killed. In all cases, the on-screen flashbacks show what ''really'' happened, along with where the narration differs from the actual events.

* UnreliableVoiceover: There are three separate {{flashback}}s, each narrated by a member of a sting operation that had gone wrong and each telling their experiences in the lead-up and aftermath of the sting. Officer Wilkes is honest in his story, but misunderstood much of what he saw, so his description of Batman resembles a magical creature instead of a costumed crimefighter. Detective Harvey Bullock knows what happened, but is deliberately falsifying his statement to cover his own mistakes and blames it on Batman, and, indeed, the actual on-screen events disagrees with his story. Officer Renee Montoya tells a mostly accurate story, but mistakenly believes that Batman was killed.

* UnreliableVoiceover: There are three separate {{flashback}}s, each narrated by a member of a sting operation that had gone wrong and each telling their experiences in the lead-up and aftermath of the sting. Officer Wilkes is honest in his story, but misunderstood much of what he saw, so his description of Batman resembles a magical creature instead of a costumed crimefighter. Detective Harvey Bullock knows what happened, but is deliberately falsifying his statement to cover his own mistakes and blames it on Batman. Officer Renee Montoya tells a mostly accurate story, but mistakenly believes that Batman was killed.

* NeverMyFault: Harvey Bullock blames Batman for ruining the whole operation, and accuses Montoya and Wilkes of being late (when in fact he [[LeeroyJenkins went in without waiting for backup]]).

* ThisIsSomethingHesGotToDoHimself: When Montoya figures out the criminals are at Gotham harbor, she was about go for backup but remembers she's suspended and has to go on her own.

* MythologyGag: The crooks drilling a safe is similar to the scene with Jack Napier and his gang in ''Film/{{Batman}}''.

* RashomonStyle: Bullock, Wilkes, and Montoya tell three different stories. Bullock made himself like a hero with Batman being the bungler, contrasts with what we're actually shown. Wilkes (a rookie who didn't really get a good look at what was happening) pictured Batman as some kind of metahuman with magical abilities, when we're really seeing Batman using his tools and weapons. Montoya tells us what really happened, which matches up with reality except that she believes that Batman was killed.

* NeverMyFault: Harvey Bullock blames Batman for ruining the whole operation, and accuses Montoya and Wilkes of being late (when in fact he [[LeeroyJenkins went in without waiting for backup]].

* RashomonStyle: Bullock, Wilkes, and Montoya tell three different stories. Bullock made himself like a hero with Batman being the bungler, contrasts with what we're actually shown. Wilkes pictured Batman as some kind of metahuman with magical abilities, when we're really seeing Batman used his tools and weapons. Montoya tells us what really happened, and we see how it goes as well, and she believed Batman was killed.

* NeverMyFault: Harvey Bullock blames Batman for ruining the whole operation, and accuses Montoya and Wilkes of being late.

* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Hackle, who places suspecting Montoya, Bullock and Wilkes for being a DirtyCop over what actually happened that night and how to take down the gang.

* JerkassHaSAPoint: Hackle's harshness on Bullock is justified as Harvey's story is the most obviously falsified.

* UnreliableVoiceover: There are three separate {{flashback}}s, each narrated by a member of a sting operation that had gone wrong and each telling their experiences in the lead-up and aftermath of the sting. Officer Wilkes is honest in his story, but misunderstood much of what he saw, so his description of Batman resembles a magical creature instead of a costumed crimefighter. Detective Harvey Bullock knows what happened, but is deliberately falsifying his statement to cover his own mistakes and blames it on Batman. Of the three, only Officer Renee Montoya tells an accurate story.