History Recap / BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE1OnLeatherWings

Bruce Wayne takes the hair and a copy of the recording to Gotham Zoo and gives them to chiropterologists (scientists who study bats) Dr. March, Dr. Francine Langstrom, March's daughter; and her husband, Dr. Kurt Langstrom. Dr. March later calls Wayne and claims the hair belongs to a common brown bat, while the recording is of brown bats and starlings fighting. Bruce immediately recognizes this as a lie; he had already analyzed the sounds and hair in the Batcave without success. When he rechecks the sample, his computer confirms that the hair and sounds do not match either starlings or brown bats. The scene cuts to one of the scientists destroying the hair and recording.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: One of the S.W.A.T cops attempts to flush Batman out of a room by tossing in a tear gas grenade. Unfortunately, he failed to notice the warning signs that there was flammable material in there.

** Batman saves one of the S.W.A.T. cops trying to capture him from an explosion midway through the episode. He even pulls the man back to his feet and takes a moment to make sure he's okay before fleeing down the nearest alley.

* PinPullingTeeth: A S.W.A.T. cop does this with a tear gas grenade.

** Dr. March's line "They're survivors" of referring to bats was similarly said by Batman in the [[Film/Batman1989 Tim Burton film]].
** The cop watching the crime scene that gets hit with Batman’s knockout gas is reading a book called “P.S. Your Dog is Gone,” a play on Creator/JamesKirkwood’s play and novel “P.S. Your Cat is Dead.”

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Alfred is voiced by Creator/CliveRevill rather than Creator/EfremZimbalistJr.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Alfred is voiced by Creator/CliveRevill rather than Creator/EframZimbalistJr.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Alfred is voiced by Clive Revill rather than Efram Zimbalist.

* The cop watching the crime scene that gets hit with Batman’s knockout gas is reading a book called “P.S. Your Dog is Gone,” a play on Creator/JamesKirkwood’s play and novel “P.S. Your Cat is Dead.”

* DramaticIrony; Dr. March gives Bruce, of all people, a lecture on bats.

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** There is enough of Kurt Langstrom left in Man-Bat that when his wife walks in on the tussle between him and Batman, he immediately stops fighting and cowers in shame. It's only a momentary hesitation, however, before he flees and Batman takes off in pursuit.

-->''Alfred:'' Two for dinner, sir?

* SecretRelationship: Two employees at the Phoenix Laboratories are looking for a place to make out when they spotted Batman sneaking in and call the police.

--->'''Alfred:''' (''in response to the headline "Gotham Police Declare War on Batman"'') I gather you've been reading ''How to Make Friends and Influence People''.

* KnockoutGas: Batman takes out one group of SWAT officers with gas grenades. They have gas masks, but not the time to put them on before the gas becomes effective.

* SecretRelationship: Two employees at the Phoenix Laboratories are looking for a place to make out when they see Batman sneaking in and call the police.