History Recap / Batwoman2019S1E2TheRabbitHole

** When showing off Batman's [[ToTheBatNoun bat-]]gadgets, Luke draws attention to a bat-cutting laser and a bat-rebreather as examples of why such [[OverlyLongGag bat-]]gear is only meant for Batman. Batwoman later uses both to cut Alice out of a sunken van and save her from drowning.

* NotSoDifferent: Alice invokes this in a letter to Kate, writing that Kate wearing the Batsuit makes them equally crazy.

* RealityEnsues: Kate's disguise as Batwoman is less than effective on those who know her well; Sophie asks outright if it was Kate who saved her in the previous episode, and Alice recognizes her easily when Batwoman saves her from drowning.

** The card in the box Kate receives at the end of the episode, "You have our father's eyes," are the same words Alice says at the end of the ''Batwoman: Elegy'' storyline in ''ComicBook/DetectiveComics''. Unlike the show, Batwoman and Alice's relationship as siblings wasn't established until the end of ''Elegy''.

* {{Irony}}: Noted by Mary when she points out that Alice tried to have her killed because she's a ReplacementGoldfish, when in truth Kate barely acknowledges her as a sister. The true irony is that Kate saved her life as Batwoman, but can't tell her about it.

* FamilyEyeResemblence: Used by Alice to let Kate know she's realised Batwoman's SecretIdentity. She leaves a box containing a bat and a card saying ''You have our father's eyes.''

* TakeThat: An in-universe example; after Luke pulls a non-malicious IAmNotMyFather comment, Kate says Lucius is useful, unlike him.

* BaitAndSwitch: Kate tells Sophie that, had she known, she would've come to the wedding--to stop it.

* AmbiguouslyBi: Discussed when Mary seems quite eager to assign a label to Sophie, much to Kate’s irritation, mentioning a number of possibilities (bisexual, bicurious, pansexual etc.).

* CopKiller: Alice’s status as this is in part why the GCPD permits the Crows to shoot her on sight.

* ManlyTears: Jacob sheds some in a flashback while coming to terms with Beth’s “death”.

** Kate calls out Sophie for betraying her. In the flashback, she calls out her dad for giving up on the search for Beth.

* BaitAndSwitch: Kate tells Sophie that, had she known, she would've come to the wedding...to stop it.

* CassandraTruth: Obviously, everybody has a hard time believing that Alice is Beth with each having their own reason. The main one it seems is the inability to [[UsedToBeASweetKid reconcile the sweet girl they used to know with the psychotic woman she's become.]]

* ChekhovsGunman: The Wonderland goon who Kate batarangs at the beginning of the episode is the same one who shows up at Mary's clinic, who Kate uses to send Alice a message. His injury also provides Mary with the [[ChekhovsGun batarang]] she later uses to defend herself against Dodgson.

** The card in the box Kate receives at the end of the episode, "You have our father's eyes", are the same words Alice says at the end of the ''Batwoman: Elegy'' storyline in ''ComicBook/DetectiveComics''. Unlike the show, Batwoman and Alice's relationship as siblings wasn't established until the end of ''Elegy''.

* ThatWomanIsDead: Kate considers this about Alice in her closing voice over; the murderous psychopath Alice is a far cry from Kate’s childhood sister.

* WouldHarmASenior: Alice kills an elderly couple living in her old childhood home.

* WeAreStrugglingTogether: The Crows and the GCPD don't seem to get along very well.