History Recap / Batwoman2019S1E7TellMeTheTruth

* BerserkButton: Understandably (for several reasons), LGBTQ discrimination is a big one for Kate; when the manager at Alessandro's tries to kick her and Sophie out for appearing to be a couple, Kate immediately makes a scene, humiliating the manager, and later, plans to set up a gay bar across the street as a bit of revenge.

* NewOldFlame: While OnTheRebound from Sophie, Kate had an affair with her martial arts instructor Julia, only to find out she was a Pennyworth sent by Bruce Wayne to keep an eye on her. Kate then assumed the whole affair was a setup and walked out on her.

* LovesMyAlterEgo: The owner of Alessandro's is thankful to Batwoman for saving his restaurant and patrons from The Rifle, even offering her a free meal in an interview. When Kate and Sophie meet there later, however, he reveals himself to be homophobic, trying to get them to move outside while using the excuse that Kate doesn't fit the dress code.

** Sophie tells her husband Tyler that Batwoman didn't say anything to her, but he checks the footage and sees them standing very close and Sophie even lowering the gun she's pointing at her, strongly implying there's something more going on.

** Kate claims to be over Sophie in order to put the whole mess behind them, and Sophie tells her husband that she no longer has feelings for Kate. Sophie may have practice believing this, but Kate is obviously lying and Tyler also seems skeptical.

** Tyler calls Sophie on how a three year relationship is longer than any relationship ''he'' has had before meeting Sophie, so there's clearly nothing casual about what happened with Kate.

** When Sophie is willing to reconcile, Kate tells her she made the right decision back in the Academy and she'll stay out of her life from now on.

* ConflictingLoyalties: Sophie is torn between Kate whom she loves and those whom she feels she owes loyalty to--her husband Tyler, and Jacob, her commanding officer who has always backed her.
* CruelToBeKind: Sophie lied about not having any feelings for Kate because she didn't want to tell her that her own father encouraged Sophie to denounce her. To be fair, Jacob seemingly ''was'' looking out for her; as he said, he knew Kate would never listen to his argument, and Kate, unlike Sophie, didn't ''need'' to join the Army (for financial reasons).

* {{Flashback}}: Several, to Kate and Sophie seperating during the academy days.

** Kate was able to outperform over 200 cadets in sharpshooting at the academy... while being hungover as hell. At the end of the episode, Sophie gives her the medal back.

* FailureGambit: Alice uses this to screw over Sofiyah, a mysterious criminal who wanted the Hamilton Dynamics coil gun for an unknown purpose. She first hires The Rifle, an associate of Sofiyah's, to kill the main designers of the gun so that it can't be reproduced. Then, knowing the gun will be tested on Batwoman to prove its effectiveness, she sabotages it to make it nonlethal against the batsuit before exchanging it to The Rifle for a vial of antidote she intends to use for her own plans. Thus, The Rifle (and by extension, Sofiyah), are left with a damaged if not outright useless gun and no apparent way to fix it, while Batwoman gets to live and Alice gets her end of the deal.[[note]]Alice didn't count on Julia wearing the Batsuit, but the result is the same.[[/note]]

* TheGhost: The Rifle's boss, Sofiyah, who wants the coil gun for some reason and who Alice seems very pissed about.
* GreaterScopeVillain: Sofiyah for this episode as noted above.

* RecycledPlot: Kate deflects suspicion of herself being Batwoman by doing [[Recap/ArrowS1E5Damaged exactly the same thing Oliver Queen did at about this same point in his first season:]] have a trusted friend dress up as the vigilante and be seen while the "real identity person" is seen elsewhere.

* WhamShot: Mouse has been posing as Jacob.

* FailureGambit: Alice uses this to screw over Sofiyah, a mysterious criminal who wanted the Hamilton Dynamics coil gun for an unknown purpose. She first hires The Rifle, an associate of Sofiyah's, to kill the main designers of the gun so that it can't be reproduced. Then, knowing the gun will be tested on Batwoman to prove its effectiveness, she sabotages it to make it nonlethal against the batsuit before exchanging it to The Rifle for a vial of poison she intends to use for her own plans. Thus, The Rifle (and by extension, Sofiyah), are left with a damaged if not outright useless gun and no apparent way to fix it, while Batwoman gets to live and Alice gets her end of the deal.[[note]]Alice didn't count on Julia wearing the Batsuit, but the result is the same.[[/note]]

* ChekhovsSkill: In a flashback, Sophie mentions that Kate aced her sharpshooter trial while suffering from a massive hangover. In the present, she demonstrates this by shooting out the tire on a Crow van while also driving a motorcycle, using iron sights.

** Point Rock's [[{{Unperson}} unpersoning]] of Kate is unusual compared to how real-life cadets discharged for DADT-related violations were treated around the same time Kate would have resigned; in some cases, at least, administration officials were actually supportive of the cadets in question, as in the case of [[https://www.haasjr.org/perspectives/first-person-stories/katherine Katherine Miller.]] In the comics, the commandant of West Point was sympathetic to Kate being outed, and offered to accept what he knew would be a false assertion that she was straight, but Kate chose to follow West Point's student code of honor and refused to lie, leaving him no choice but to expel her.