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* BlatantLies: Ryan tells a doctor that her injury came from a spider bite. The doctor later calls her in for more tests when he finds that the injury is ''radioactive''. Of course, it could've been a radioactive spider, like that other superhero.
* BothSidesHaveAPoint: Jacob and Mary's argument over her clinic. She's been helping a lot of people who can't afford licensed medical assistance, but in doing so she's violated numerous laws, and since she hasn't finished her qualification as a doctor yet she's technically gambling with her patients' lives.
* BothSidesHaveAPoint: Jacob and Mary's argument over her clinic. She's been helping a lot of people who can't afford licensed medical assistance, but in doing so she's violated numerous laws, and since she hasn't finished her qualification as a doctor yet she's technically gambling with her patients' lives.
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* BlatantLies: Ryan tells a doctor that her injury came from a spider bite. The doctor later calls her in for more tests when he finds that the injury is ''radioactive''. Of course, it could've been a radioactive spider, like [[ComicBook/SpiderMan that other superhero.superhero]].
* BothSidesHaveAPoint: Jacob and Mary's argument over her clinic. She's been helping a lot of people who can't afford licensed medical assistance, but in doing so she's violated numerous laws, and since she hasn't finished her qualification as a doctoryet yet, she's technically gambling with her patients' lives.
* BothSidesHaveAPoint: Jacob and Mary's argument over her clinic. She's been helping a lot of people who can't afford licensed medical assistance, but in doing so she's violated numerous laws, and since she hasn't finished her qualification as a doctor
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* ToxicFriendInfluence: Sophie points out to Ryan that Angelique is this to her. Given her unrepentant attitude towards wanting to keep on dealing, she isn't exactly wrong.
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* ToxicFriendInfluence: Sophie points out to Ryan that Angelique is this to her. Given her Angelique's unrepentant attitude towards wanting to keep on dealing, she isn't exactly wrong.
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* TheUnfavorite: Mary feels like she has always been this to Jacob. But at the end of the episode, she tells him that she now actually prefers being ignored, as opposed to him taking away the one thing that matters to her (her clinic).
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* TheUnfavorite: Mary feels like she has always been this to Jacob. But at the end of the episode, she tells him that she now actually prefers being ignored, as opposed to him her stepfather taking away the one thing that matters to her (her clinic).
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* NotSoDifferent: Jacob tells Mary that she and her mother are this, due to both using illegal methods to save lives.
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* NotSoDifferent: NotSoDifferentRemark: Jacob tells Mary that she and her mother are this, due to both using illegal methods to save lives.
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* NoGoodDeedsGoesUnpunished: As Mary feared, Jacob finding out about the clinic spells the end of her practice; no matter how many lives she's saved or how good her intentions were, the clinic is very much illegal (Jacob specifically cites practicing medicine without a license, impersonating a doctor, and possessing narcotics as Mary's crimes while they argue about it).
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* NoGoodDeedsGoesUnpunished: NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: As Mary feared, Jacob finding out about the clinic spells the end of her practice; no matter how many lives she's saved or how good her intentions were, the clinic is very much illegal (Jacob specifically cites practicing medicine without a license, impersonating a doctor, and possessing narcotics as Mary's crimes while they argue about it).
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* NoGoodDeedsGoesUnpunished: As Mary feared, Jacob finding out about the clinic spells the end of her practice; no matter how many lives she's saved or how good her intentions were, the clinic is very much illegal (Jacob specifically cites practicing medicine without a license, impersonating a doctor, and possessing narcotics as Mary's crimes while they argue about it).
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* RealityEnsues: As Mary feared, Jacob finding out about the clinic spells the end of her practice; no matter how many lives she's saved or how good her intentions were, the clinic is very much illegal (Jacob specifically cites practicing medicine without a license, impersonating a doctor, and possessing narcotics as Mary's crimes while they argue about it).
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* CovertDistressCode: Mary calls Luke and tells him that she needs help by calling him "Lukas" (which she never does) and asking him to come to the clinic "like a Bat out of hell".
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* CovertDistressCode: Mary calls Luke and tells him that she needs help by calling him "Lukas" "Lucas" (which she never does) and asking him to come to the clinic "like a Bat out of hell".
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* BlatantLies: Ryan tells a doctor that her injury came from a spider bite. The doctor later calls her in for more tests when he finds that the injury is ''radioactive''.
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* BlatantLies: Ryan tells a doctor that her injury came from a spider bite. The doctor later calls her in for more tests when he finds that the injury is ''radioactive''. Of course, it could've been a radioactive spider, like that other superhero.
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* {{Flashback}}: There are more detailing Ocean's and Alice's past. It's shown that Ocean is the one who trained her.
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* {{Flashback}}: There are more detailing Ocean's and Alice's past. It's shown that Ocean is the one who trained her.her for Safiyah.
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* WhatTheHellHero: Ryan is furious that Luke is basically allowing Alice to run loose in order to use her to find Coryana.
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* WhatTheHellHero: Ryan is furious that Luke is basically allowing Alice Alice, leader of the gang that murdered her mother, to run loose in order to use her to find Coryana.
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* AmbiguousSituation: Did Catherine know about or have any hand in Dr. Rogers' experiments? Rogers works for Hamilton Dynamics, and Catherine herself got up to some shady stuff with her company, but there's no confirmation that Catherine was aware of Rogers's illegal experiments.
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* AmbiguousSituation: Did Catherine know about or have any hand in Dr. Rogers' Rogers's experiments? Rogers works for Hamilton Dynamics, and Catherine herself got up to some shady stuff with her company, but there's no confirmation that Catherine was aware of Rogers's illegal experiments.
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** Alice calls Safiyah "sick" for sending her to kill someone she once loved but can't remember. Safiyah also demonstrates this trope by saying that it would be telling Alice the details of her relationship with Ocean and then sending her to kill him that would actually be sick.
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** Alice calls Safiyah "sick" for sending her to kill someone she once loved but can't remember. Safiyah also demonstrates invokes this trope by saying that it would be telling Alice the details of her relationship with Ocean and then sending her to kill him that would actually be sick.sick. Although she's happy to do so if Alice wants.
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** Safiyah sent Alice to kill Ocean, knowing full well about their past romance. Even Alice thinks this is "sick".
* LampshadeHanging: An irritated Jacob reflects on how yet ''another'' of his daughters was living a double life.
* LampshadeHanging: An irritated Jacob reflects on how yet ''another'' of his daughters was living a double life.
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** Safiyah sent Alice to kill Ocean, Ocean knowing full well about their past romance. Even Alice thinks this is "sick".
* LampshadeHanging: An irritated Jacob reflects on how yet ''another'' of his daughters was living a doublelife.life he had no idea of.
* LampshadeHanging: An irritated Jacob reflects on how yet ''another'' of his daughters was living a double
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Jacob is a bit harsh in shutting the clinic down, but he's not at all wrong to point out that it's illegal in a number of ways and that Mary isn't yet a qualified doctor.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Jacob is a bit harsh in shutting the clinic down, but he's not at all wrong to point out that it's illegal in a number of ways and that Mary isn't yet a qualified doctor. Although this is a bit hypocritical given that Jacob and his Crows have also operated outside the law.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Jacob is a bit harsh in shutting the clinic down, but he's not at all wrong to point out that it's illegal in a number of ways.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Jacob is a bit harsh in shutting the clinic down, but he's not at all wrong to point out that it's illegal in a number of ways.ways and that Mary isn't yet a qualified doctor.
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** Alice calls Safiyah "sick" for sending her to kill someone she once loved but can't remember.
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** Alice calls Safiyah "sick" for sending her to kill someone she once loved but can't remember. Safiyah also demonstrates this trope by saying that it would be telling Alice the details of her relationship with Ocean and then sending her to kill him that would actually be sick.
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* BothSidesHaveAPoint: Jacob and Mary's argument over her clinic. She's been helping a lot of people who can't afford licensed medical assistance, but in doing so she's violated numerous laws, and since she isn't a qualified doctor yet she's technically gambling with her patients' lives.
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* BothSidesHaveAPoint: Jacob and Mary's argument over her clinic. She's been helping a lot of people who can't afford licensed medical assistance, but in doing so she's violated numerous laws, and since she isn't hasn't finished her qualification as a qualified doctor yet she's technically gambling with her patients' lives.
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* BothSidesHaveAPoint: Jacob and Mary's argument over her clinic. She's been helping a lot of people who can't afford licensed medical assistance, but in doing so she's violated numerous laws.
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* BothSidesHaveAPoint: Jacob and Mary's argument over her clinic. She's been helping a lot of people who can't afford licensed medical assistance, but in doing so she's violated numerous laws.laws, and since she isn't a qualified doctor yet she's technically gambling with her patients' lives.
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* AmbiguousSituation: Did Catherine know about or have any hand in Dr. Rogers' experiments? Rogers works for Hamilton Dynamics, and Catherine herself got up to some shady stuff with her company, but there's no confirmation that Catherine was aware of Rogers' illegal experiments.
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* AmbiguousSituation: Did Catherine know about or have any hand in Dr. Rogers' experiments? Rogers works for Hamilton Dynamics, and Catherine herself got up to some shady stuff with her company, but there's no confirmation that Catherine was aware of Rogers' Rogers's illegal experiments.
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* ArmorPiercingResponse: Alice claims not to have emotional attachments while speaking with Safiyah. Safiyah points out that Alice is doing whatever possible to get her sister back, which actually manages to shut Alice up for a moment.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Ryan notes that her Kryptonite poisoning is likely to be a slow death.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Alice calls Safiyah "sick" for sending her to kill someone she once loved but can't remember.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: EvenEvilHasStandards:
** When Ocean (not yet aware of their forgotten relationship) presents a theory that Alice might have been the one to steal the Desert Rose and framed him for it, Alice admits that she wouldn't do that, implying that selling out someone she loved would be a line even she wouldn't cross.
** Alice calls Safiyah "sick" for sending her to kill someone she once loved but can'tremember.remember.
* EveryoneHasStandards: Ryan has no fondness for Sophie, but she still can't bring herself to let her die.
** When Ocean (not yet aware of their forgotten relationship) presents a theory that Alice might have been the one to steal the Desert Rose and framed him for it, Alice admits that she wouldn't do that, implying that selling out someone she loved would be a line even she wouldn't cross.
** Alice calls Safiyah "sick" for sending her to kill someone she once loved but can't
* EveryoneHasStandards: Ryan has no fondness for Sophie, but she still can't bring herself to let her die.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Jacob is a bit harsh in shutting the clinic down, but he's not at all wrong to point out that it's illegal in a number of ways.
* KickTheDog:
** Ryan takes a couple of shots at Sophie, asking if she's ever been in love (Ryan knows she has; Sophie told Batwoman in the previous episode that Kate is the love of her life), and pointing out that unlike Sophie, she fights for people she loves (a shot at how Sophie's romance with Kate ended).
** Safiyah sent Alice to kill Ocean, knowing full well about their past romance. Even Alice thinks this is "sick".
* KickTheDog:
** Ryan takes a couple of shots at Sophie, asking if she's ever been in love (Ryan knows she has; Sophie told Batwoman in the previous episode that Kate is the love of her life), and pointing out that unlike Sophie, she fights for people she loves (a shot at how Sophie's romance with Kate ended).
** Safiyah sent Alice to kill Ocean, knowing full well about their past romance. Even Alice thinks this is "sick".
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* NeverMyFault: As Ryan notes, despite Angelique apologizing for her arrest, she hasn't actually changed her ways, showing that she isn't taking responsibility for it. Angelique also justifies her choice of career by saying that, unlike Ryan, she was never adopted, framing a criminal activity that she admits that she enjoys as a necessity while also refusing any attempt by Ryan to get her out of it.
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* OhCrap: Ryan is horrified to learn that there's radiation in her injury, and it gets worse when she researches Kryptonite and realizes that the poisoning is likely terminal.
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* SadisticChoice: Batwoman has to choose between the map to Coryana (knowing that, in addition to finding Kate, she needs the Desert Rose to cure her Kryptonite poisoning) and saving Sophie's life. She hesitates for a moment, but hands it over.
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* ChekhovsGun: Luke tells Ryan that the Batsuit can administer a shot of adrenaline, and she uses it in the fight against Aaron.
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* HostageForMacGuffin: Ryan gives up the map when Sophie is held hostage.
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** Sophie lets Alice know the painting conceals a map to Coryana.
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* PapaWolf: Jacob attacks Aaron to protect Mary.
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* DownerEnding: The map to Coryana is lost, Ryan's Kryptonite injury is revealed to be fatally poisoning her, Jacob wants to shut down Mary's clinic, and adding insult to injury, Ryan's relationship is on the rocks.
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* DownerEnding: The map to Coryana is lost, Ryan's Kryptonite injury is revealed to be fatally poisoning her, Jacob wants to shut down Mary's clinic, and adding insult to injury, Ryan's relationship is on the rocks.rocks because she bugged Angelique's phone.
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* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: Dr. Rogers, the Hamilton Dynamics scientist overseeing experiments on the Desert Rose serum, is willing to continue human experiments even when attempts to transfer the serum keep killing the patients. Then, he sends an unhinged patient (whom he himself made unstable by experimenting on to deal with his emotional problems) to threaten Mary and Jacob in order to find out where the serum came from.
* MoralMyopia: Ryan blatantly refuses to work together with Crow's or listen to Luke's reason for working together with Alice, but at the same time tries to make excuses for Angelique's criminal behaviour because she loves her.
* MoralMyopia: Ryan blatantly refuses to work together with Crow's or listen to Luke's reason for working together with Alice, but at the same time tries to make excuses for Angelique's criminal behaviour because she loves her.
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* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: Dr. Rogers, the Hamilton Dynamics scientist overseeing experiments on the Desert Rose serum, is willing to continue human experiments even when attempts to transfer the serum keep killing the patients. Then, he sends an unhinged patient (whom he himself made unstable by experimenting on him to deal with his emotional problems) to threaten Mary and Jacob in order to find out where the serum came from.
* MoralMyopia: Ryan blatantly refuses to work together withCrow's the Crows or listen to Luke's reason for working together with Alice, but at the same time tries to make excuses for Angelique's criminal behaviour because she loves her.
* MoralMyopia: Ryan blatantly refuses to work together with
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* WorfHadTheFlu: Both Batwoman and Jacob are at considerably less than their best while fighting Aaron; Ryan is suffering from terminal Kryptonite poisoning, which already incapacitated her earlier in the episode against 2 ordinary robbers, while Jacob is fighting through a stab wound.
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* WorfHadTheFlu: Both Batwoman and Jacob are at considerably less than their best while fighting Aaron; Ryan is suffering from terminal Kryptonite poisoning, which already incapacitated her earlier in the episode against 2 two ordinary robbers, while Jacob is fighting through a stab wound.
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* YourDaysAreNumbered: Ryan determines that the Kryptonite poisoning in her wound is likely to be fatal.
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* YourDaysAreNumbered: Ryan determines that the Kryptonite poisoning in her wound is likely to be fatal.fatal.
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!!Tropes
* AllForNothing: After all the trouble Sophie goes to in order to get the map to Coryana, Batwoman is forced to trade it for Sophie's life before the heroes can get any use out of it.
* AmbiguousSituation: Did Catherine know about or have any hand in Dr. Rogers' experiments? Rogers works for Hamilton Dynamics, and Catherine herself got up to some shady stuff with her company, but there's no confirmation that Catherine was aware of Rogers' illegal experiments.
* AmnesiacLover: A mutual example with Alice and Ocean, who were lovers on Coryana before Safiyah wiped their memories of each other. They're understandably awkward around each other when this starts coming back to them.
* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: Sophie basically blackmails Ryan into installing Spyware on Angelique's phone to get to Ocean, otherwise she'll go to Blackgate.
* BigBadEnsemble: On top of Alice and Safiyah's power struggle and Black Mask running the False Face Society from the shadows, we have Dr. Rogers, who is willing to do whatever it takes to get the Desert Rose.
* BlatantLies: Ryan tells a doctor that her injury came from a spider bite. The doctor later calls her in for more tests when he finds that the injury is ''radioactive''.
* BothSidesHaveAPoint: Jacob and Mary's argument over her clinic. She's been helping a lot of people who can't afford licensed medical assistance, but in doing so she's violated numerous laws.
* CarFu: Aaron rams a truck into Jacob's car to incapacitate him and Mary.
* CovertDistressCode: Mary calls Luke and tells him that she needs help by calling him "Lukas" (which she never does) and asking him to come to the clinic "like a Bat out of hell".
* {{Determinator}}: Ryan is determined to keep fighting despite suffering from increasingly painful and likely terminal radiation poisoning. Luke is amazed at her resolve.
* DownerEnding: The map to Coryana is lost, Ryan's Kryptonite injury is revealed to be fatally poisoning her, Jacob wants to shut down Mary's clinic, and adding insult to injury, Ryan's relationship is on the rocks.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Alice calls Safiyah "sick" for sending her to kill someone she once loved but can't remember.
* FakingTheDead: Alice and Ocean use a body double to make it look like she's killed him.
* {{Flashback}}: There are more detailing Ocean's and Alice's past. It's shown that Ocean is the one who trained her.
* HeroicSecondWind: Ryan using the Batsuit's emergency adrenaline shot to get back on her feet during the fight in the clinic.
* ILied: Angelique claims that she can't abandon her job as a drug dealer due to knowing too many secrets about dangerous people. When Ryan later offers her an out, Angelique admits that she actually likes her job and doesn't ''want'' to quit, blatantly telling her that she lied earlier.
* InternalReveal:
** Jacob finds out about Mary's clinic.
** Luke discovers that Ryan's wound is worse than she's been letting on.
** Ryan finds out about Luke's encounter with Alice two episodes earlier.
* IWillPunishYourFriendForYourFailure: Aaron threatens to kill Jacob if Mary doesn't give him the cure.
* LampshadeHanging: An irritated Jacob reflects on how yet ''another'' of his daughters was living a double life.
* LetMeGetThisStraight: Ocean points out to Alice how nonsensical the thought of him framing Safiyah for killing Kate sounds.
* MadeOfIron: Jacob is barely even annoyed when Aaron stabs him in the side with a scalpel.
* MoodSwinger: Aaron, due to his brain cancer impacting his amygdala.
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: Dr. Rogers, the Hamilton Dynamics scientist overseeing experiments on the Desert Rose serum, is willing to continue human experiments even when attempts to transfer the serum keep killing the patients. Then, he sends an unhinged patient (whom he himself made unstable by experimenting on to deal with his emotional problems) to threaten Mary and Jacob in order to find out where the serum came from.
* MoralMyopia: Ryan blatantly refuses to work together with Crow's or listen to Luke's reason for working together with Alice, but at the same time tries to make excuses for Angelique's criminal behaviour because she loves her.
* MythologyGag: Kryptonite being lethal to humans has its roots in the comics, where Lex Luthor contracted terminal cancer from carrying around a piece of Kryptonite for years.
* NotSoDifferent: Jacob tells Mary that she and her mother are this, due to both using illegal methods to save lives.
* RealityEnsues: As Mary feared, Jacob finding out about the clinic spells the end of her practice; no matter how many lives she's saved or how good her intentions were, the clinic is very much illegal (Jacob specifically cites practicing medicine without a license, impersonating a doctor, and possessing narcotics as Mary's crimes while they argue about it).
* TheReveal:
** Ocean got exiled by Safiyah for trying to steal a Desert Rose.
** Ryan's Kryptonite injury isn't just severe, it's causing terminal radiation poisoning.
* ThisIsUnforgivable: Angelique breaks up with Ryan after finding out about her installing spyware on her phone.
* ToxicFriendInfluence: Sophie points out to Ryan that Angelique is this to her. Given her unrepentant attitude towards wanting to keep on dealing, she isn't exactly wrong.
* TragicVillain: Aaron Helzinger, who suffers from brain cancer which impacts his amygdala, causing constant, violent mood shifts. He wants nothing more than to be cured from his horrible condition.
* TheUnfavorite: Mary feels like she has always been this to Jacob. But at the end of the episode, she tells him that she now actually prefers being ignored, as opposed to him taking away the one thing that matters to her (her clinic).
* WellIntentionedExtremist:
** Dr. Rogers wants the Desert Rose to cure horrible diseases, and he doesn't care how many lives he has to go through to get it, even threatening Sophie at gunpoint to secure a map to Coryana.
** Jacob characterizes the late Catherine as one, seeing her as a person who always tried to do the right thing, but went too far. He's worried that Mary's illegal clinic means she's on a similar path.
* WhatTheHellHero: Ryan is furious that Luke is basically allowing Alice to run loose in order to use her to find Coryana.
* WorfHadTheFlu: Both Batwoman and Jacob are at considerably less than their best while fighting Aaron; Ryan is suffering from terminal Kryptonite poisoning, which already incapacitated her earlier in the episode against 2 ordinary robbers, while Jacob is fighting through a stab wound.
* WoundedGazelleGambit: Ryan acts as if she is in pain and needs her meds for Angelique to leave the room, so she can install the spyware on her phone.
* YouCalledMeXItMustBeSerious: Luke notes that Mary never calls him Lucas when she has to call him to bring over the map to Coryana to her clinic, letting him know she and her dad are being held hostage.
* YourDaysAreNumbered: Ryan determines that the Kryptonite poisoning in her wound is likely to be fatal.
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* AllForNothing: After all the trouble Sophie goes to in order to get the map to Coryana, Batwoman is forced to trade it for Sophie's life before the heroes can get any use out of it.
* AmbiguousSituation: Did Catherine know about or have any hand in Dr. Rogers' experiments? Rogers works for Hamilton Dynamics, and Catherine herself got up to some shady stuff with her company, but there's no confirmation that Catherine was aware of Rogers' illegal experiments.
* AmnesiacLover: A mutual example with Alice and Ocean, who were lovers on Coryana before Safiyah wiped their memories of each other. They're understandably awkward around each other when this starts coming back to them.
* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: Sophie basically blackmails Ryan into installing Spyware on Angelique's phone to get to Ocean, otherwise she'll go to Blackgate.
* BigBadEnsemble: On top of Alice and Safiyah's power struggle and Black Mask running the False Face Society from the shadows, we have Dr. Rogers, who is willing to do whatever it takes to get the Desert Rose.
* BlatantLies: Ryan tells a doctor that her injury came from a spider bite. The doctor later calls her in for more tests when he finds that the injury is ''radioactive''.
* BothSidesHaveAPoint: Jacob and Mary's argument over her clinic. She's been helping a lot of people who can't afford licensed medical assistance, but in doing so she's violated numerous laws.
* CarFu: Aaron rams a truck into Jacob's car to incapacitate him and Mary.
* CovertDistressCode: Mary calls Luke and tells him that she needs help by calling him "Lukas" (which she never does) and asking him to come to the clinic "like a Bat out of hell".
* {{Determinator}}: Ryan is determined to keep fighting despite suffering from increasingly painful and likely terminal radiation poisoning. Luke is amazed at her resolve.
* DownerEnding: The map to Coryana is lost, Ryan's Kryptonite injury is revealed to be fatally poisoning her, Jacob wants to shut down Mary's clinic, and adding insult to injury, Ryan's relationship is on the rocks.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Alice calls Safiyah "sick" for sending her to kill someone she once loved but can't remember.
* FakingTheDead: Alice and Ocean use a body double to make it look like she's killed him.
* {{Flashback}}: There are more detailing Ocean's and Alice's past. It's shown that Ocean is the one who trained her.
* HeroicSecondWind: Ryan using the Batsuit's emergency adrenaline shot to get back on her feet during the fight in the clinic.
* ILied: Angelique claims that she can't abandon her job as a drug dealer due to knowing too many secrets about dangerous people. When Ryan later offers her an out, Angelique admits that she actually likes her job and doesn't ''want'' to quit, blatantly telling her that she lied earlier.
* InternalReveal:
** Jacob finds out about Mary's clinic.
** Luke discovers that Ryan's wound is worse than she's been letting on.
** Ryan finds out about Luke's encounter with Alice two episodes earlier.
* IWillPunishYourFriendForYourFailure: Aaron threatens to kill Jacob if Mary doesn't give him the cure.
* LampshadeHanging: An irritated Jacob reflects on how yet ''another'' of his daughters was living a double life.
* LetMeGetThisStraight: Ocean points out to Alice how nonsensical the thought of him framing Safiyah for killing Kate sounds.
* MadeOfIron: Jacob is barely even annoyed when Aaron stabs him in the side with a scalpel.
* MoodSwinger: Aaron, due to his brain cancer impacting his amygdala.
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: Dr. Rogers, the Hamilton Dynamics scientist overseeing experiments on the Desert Rose serum, is willing to continue human experiments even when attempts to transfer the serum keep killing the patients. Then, he sends an unhinged patient (whom he himself made unstable by experimenting on to deal with his emotional problems) to threaten Mary and Jacob in order to find out where the serum came from.
* MoralMyopia: Ryan blatantly refuses to work together with Crow's or listen to Luke's reason for working together with Alice, but at the same time tries to make excuses for Angelique's criminal behaviour because she loves her.
* MythologyGag: Kryptonite being lethal to humans has its roots in the comics, where Lex Luthor contracted terminal cancer from carrying around a piece of Kryptonite for years.
* NotSoDifferent: Jacob tells Mary that she and her mother are this, due to both using illegal methods to save lives.
* RealityEnsues: As Mary feared, Jacob finding out about the clinic spells the end of her practice; no matter how many lives she's saved or how good her intentions were, the clinic is very much illegal (Jacob specifically cites practicing medicine without a license, impersonating a doctor, and possessing narcotics as Mary's crimes while they argue about it).
* TheReveal:
** Ocean got exiled by Safiyah for trying to steal a Desert Rose.
** Ryan's Kryptonite injury isn't just severe, it's causing terminal radiation poisoning.
* ThisIsUnforgivable: Angelique breaks up with Ryan after finding out about her installing spyware on her phone.
* ToxicFriendInfluence: Sophie points out to Ryan that Angelique is this to her. Given her unrepentant attitude towards wanting to keep on dealing, she isn't exactly wrong.
* TragicVillain: Aaron Helzinger, who suffers from brain cancer which impacts his amygdala, causing constant, violent mood shifts. He wants nothing more than to be cured from his horrible condition.
* TheUnfavorite: Mary feels like she has always been this to Jacob. But at the end of the episode, she tells him that she now actually prefers being ignored, as opposed to him taking away the one thing that matters to her (her clinic).
* WellIntentionedExtremist:
** Dr. Rogers wants the Desert Rose to cure horrible diseases, and he doesn't care how many lives he has to go through to get it, even threatening Sophie at gunpoint to secure a map to Coryana.
** Jacob characterizes the late Catherine as one, seeing her as a person who always tried to do the right thing, but went too far. He's worried that Mary's illegal clinic means she's on a similar path.
* WhatTheHellHero: Ryan is furious that Luke is basically allowing Alice to run loose in order to use her to find Coryana.
* WorfHadTheFlu: Both Batwoman and Jacob are at considerably less than their best while fighting Aaron; Ryan is suffering from terminal Kryptonite poisoning, which already incapacitated her earlier in the episode against 2 ordinary robbers, while Jacob is fighting through a stab wound.
* WoundedGazelleGambit: Ryan acts as if she is in pain and needs her meds for Angelique to leave the room, so she can install the spyware on her phone.
* YouCalledMeXItMustBeSerious: Luke notes that Mary never calls him Lucas when she has to call him to bring over the map to Coryana to her clinic, letting him know she and her dad are being held hostage.
* YourDaysAreNumbered: Ryan determines that the Kryptonite poisoning in her wound is likely to be fatal.
