History Recap / Batwoman2019S1E8AMadTeaParty

* DiggingYourselfDeeper: Lampshaded by Mary when her stepsister tries to explain away her comment that Alice/Beth is family, implying that Mary isn't.
* DisproportionateRetribution: However immoral and illegal Catherine's evidence tampering was, most people would agree it didn't warrant death, and certainly not in the form of a slow, painful neurotoxin. Then again, it ''did'' lead to Alice being kept prisoner by a madman for eleven years and broke her mentally, so she's not exactly the most rational person out there.

* ExplainExplainOhCrap: When Tyler wonders why Mouse didn't kill them, Sophie realises that Alice can't kill her because Kate would never forgive Alice for killing the woman she loves...Sophie then realises she's SayingTooMuch.

* FakeShemp: Throughout the entire episode Mouse is wearing the disguise of Jacob, and thus Sam Littlefield doesn't appear in the episode at all.

** The same when Catherine tries to explain herself. She tells her that she earns a sip of the cure...just before revealing that Mary is ''also'' poisoned.

* MotiveRant: Alice screams to Batwoman that she spent her whole life alone, planning revenge on Jacob for abandoning her and Catherine for seeping into their family. So she wants to make them both suffer like she did.

* NotNowKiddo: Played with; Kate tries to warn Sophie that Jacob is actually Mouse, but Sophie hangs up as she's about to meet with Jacob (and she really doesn't want to talk to Kate with her suspicious husband listening). However Kate sends a text message spelling things out. Sophie texts back that she's on it right before she's tranquilized, causing Kate to assume that Alice's plan has been thwarted at an early stage.
* OffingTheOffspring: By the end of the episode Jacob is perfectly willing to kill Alice after everything she's done.

* ProperlyParanoid: It's implied that Mouse suspects that Kate has figured out his deception after the phone call, and appropriately responds by taking Sophie and Tyler into the private room and tranquilizing them, so Kate can't get Sophie's help. In the end he and Alice come out victorious, ultimately rending moot that Kate is able to correctly guess his identity.

* VillainHasAPoint: Downplayed. Alice makes a valid point about Jacob taking evidence provided by Catherine, someone he had only known for a few months at the time, at face value and not looking into it further to confirm the truth. Doubly so since Kate had personally checked the area the evidence had been found and turned up nothing, which she had told Jacob about. Jacob responds that he had no reason to think Catherine was lying or mistaken though he doesn't deny that Alice is right about his failings and admits he took the easy way out by not further investigating Catherine's discovery because he didn't want to confront the fact that he hadn't been able to find Beth.

* ConvenientlyPlacedSharpThing: Tyler uses Sophie's ''wedding ring'' to break out of Alice's restraints.

* SimpleStaff: Kate uses one throughout the episode, even though she breaks it in two, much to Luke's dismay.

* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: Alice sends Kate on a wild goose chase to rescue Jacob, as Alice just wanted to ensure Batwoman wouldn't be there to thwart to first stages of her plan. Jacob has actually been drugged and left in his SUV to take the fall for Catherine's murder.

* EscapeArtist: Tyler uses Sophie's ''wedding ring'' to break out of Alice's restraints.

* RecycledPlot: This isn't [[ArrowS2E20/SeeingRed the first time]] in the Arrowverse in which a villain creates a SadisticChoice involving a mother and a daughter, only for the mother to willingly sacrifice herself so that her daughter can live.

* ReplacementGoldfish: Alice sees Catherine and Mary as a replacement family for Jacob, angrily claiming that her father replaced both her [[PsychologicalProjection and Kate]].

* NeverMyFault: Alice tells Batwoman that it's Catherine's own fault she was poisoned for coming into their lives.

* IgnoredEpiphany: Alice is genuinely moved by Jacob and Catherine's heartfelt apologies. She still destroys both of their lives with a smile not long afterwards.

* MotiveRant: Alice screams to Batwoman that she spent her whole life alone, planning revenge on Jacob for abandoning her and Catherine for seeping into their family. So she wants revenge for the pain she's suffered.

* DisproportionateRetribution: However immoral and illegal Catherine's evidence tampering was, it didn't warrant death, and certainly not in the form of a slow, painful neurotoxin.

* EscapeArtist: Tyler and Sophie use their ''wedding ring'' to break out of Alice's restraints.

* HoistByHerOwnPetard: Alice poisons Catherine with a neurotoxin developed by Hamilton Dynamics.

** At the end of the episode, Jacob promises to kill Alice for her actions. Kate, having finally given up on her sister, says she won't get in the way.

* MotiveRant: Alice screams to Batwoman that she spend her whole life alone, planning revenge on Jacob for abandoning her and Catherine for seeping into their family. So she wants revenge for the pain she's suffered.

* ThisIsUnforgivable: Jacob and Kate give up on any possible redemption for Alice in this episode.

* WhamEpisode: Alice kills Catherine and frames Jacob for her murder, and Tyler and Sophie separate.

* WeUsedToBeFriends: Mary doesn't want Kate's sympathy at the end of the episode, both being sick of the way she treated her, and her step-sisters indirect role in her mother's death.

* StockFootage: TheStinger, which was already shown on ''Series/Supergirl2015''.

* SadisticChoice: Happens accidentally. Mary drank some of the poisoned champagne that was only intended for Catherine. Since Alice only anticipated needing a single dose, Catherine now has to choose between herself and her daughter.

* ReplacementGoldfish: Alice sees Catherine and Mary as a replacement family for Jacob, angrily claiming that her father replaced both she [[PsychologicalProjection and Kate]].

* {{Revenge}}: Alice's whole plan in this episode is to get back at Catherine (and, to a lesser extent, Jacob) for faking her death. She not only publicly thrashes Catherine and Jacob's reputations, she murders Catherine with a dose of neurotoxin and frames Jacob for it.