- Kate Kane: How did Nocturna know about the Desert Rose?
- Alice: You mean, how did you know that Nocturna knew about the Desert Rose? Because Mary is alive because, uh, I saved her.
- Kate Kane: You sent her after Mary.
- Alice: Of course I did. It was Mary's life or mine, and someone had to choose me for once.
- Kate Kane: If you want me to feel guilty, I don't. I never will, not after everything you've done.
- Alice: Hmm. See, I don't believe you. I think somewhere deep down there's a teeny, tiny part of you that's relieved I lived, that you hadn't quite failed at saving me
- Kate Kane: And they call Nocturna a vampire when all you do is feed off my guilt like the parasite you are.
- Alice: So you're saying that you feel guilty.
- Kate Kane: What's the end game, Alice? Why'd you save Mary?
- Alice: To prove to you how stupid you were for letting me die.
- Kate Kane: Stupid? Stupid was thinking that my sister was redeemable. Stupid was convincing The Crows not to kill you. Stupid was rescuing you from the Gotham river, convincing Dad that I could get Beth back. Stupid was thinking that you could ever, ever possibly be worth it.
- Alice: But maybe I don't want you to give up on me.
- Alice: [reading file on Dr. Campbell] Hmm. Gotham's most elite plastic surgeon, 20 years of lipo, rhino. Hmm.Now this is interesting. 6 years ago, he took a sabbatical. When he returned, divorced his wife, started specializing in facial reconstruction of child burn victims. 6 years ago, hmm? What a long and sad tale you have, Dr. Campbell, or should I perhaps call you August Cartwright? What do you think? Is the caterpillar trying to convince the world that's he's a butterfly? If so I will follow him to you My little Mouse, and together We will pull off his wings.
- Mary Hamilton: I'm more than happy to run your blood, but you don't seem like you have the flu.
- Kate Kane: [feigning a cough] I've, uh, been pulling all-nighters doing real estate courses, and it's like germs galore.
- Mary Hamilton: You know you can tell me anything?
- Kate Kane: Right, yeah.
- Mary Hamilton: So maybe these perceived flu-like symptoms are a manifestation of the guilt you feel for choosing Beth over Alice, and even though Alice miraculously survived, you drew a line in the sand that you can't erase, forever altering the dynamic between you and your twin.
- Kate Kane: [sputtering] You got all that from a blood draw?
- Luke Fox: So, I ran the mystery shooter's partial plate.
- Kate Kane: And?
- Luke Fox: The three numbers I remembered don't match a single registered sedan. I think the plate was stolen.
- Kate Kane: So not only did we let an innocent girl die, but I can't even bring her killer to justice.
- Luke Fox: Mary's making reward fliers for any info on that vehicle. Okay, we'll find something. In the meantime, though, we still live in Gotham, where there's still plenty of justice to dole out.
- [offering a tablet]
- Luke Fox: Maybe this will take your mind off things.
- Kate Kane: A vampire?
- Luke Fox: A wannabe vampire.
- Kate Kane: You can't be serious.
- Luke Fox: That's kind of my point. Lately, things have been a little too serious, and you could use the distraction.
- Kate Kane: Then bring me an old-fashioned bomber, or an arsonist, or-or someone that actually exists in the real world.
- Colonel Jacob Kane: My own daughter and one of Gotham's most diabolical killers dead on a metal slab. After everything, it seems there should be so many emotions, but... all I feel is hollow.
- Sophie Moore: It was destined to end this way, sir.
- Colonel Jacob Kane: The bullet wasn't one of ours. You radioed in and said you had her in your sights. What-what happened?
- Batwoman: [flashback] Call off the shoot-to-kill order on Alice.
- Sophie Moore: You're kidding.
- Batwoman: Let me find her. Tell the Crows to stand down.
- Sophie Moore: [return to the present] I didn't have a lock. The target kept moving.
- Colonel Jacob Kane: Hmm. Well, someone got her, anyway. Side effect of making an entire city your enemy.
- Mary Hamilton: Okay, that's weird. You have Special K in your blood.
- Kate Kane: Ketamine?
- Mary Hamilton: Want to tell me how that happened?
- Kate Kane: [evasively] I was partying pretty hard last night.
- Mary Hamilton: Partying?
- Kate Kane: Someone must have slipped me something.
- Mary Hamilton: I thought you said you were taking real estate classes.
- Kate Kane: I was. No one wants to learn about zoning laws sober.
- Reporter #1: Mr. Kane, how does it feel to be exonerated?
- Colonel Jacob Kane: Any day that justice prevails is a good day in my book.
- Reporter #1: You've proven you were framed by Alice and her gang. What are your next steps?
- Colonel Jacob Kane: Return to the Crows and restore peace to this city. Look, Alice is dead, Gotham is safer because of it. At the end of the day, that's all that really matters.
- Mary Hamilton: Wasn't supposed to be Beth.
- Luke Fox: We did everything right. We found a loophole, we-we kept her alive, we got her through the checkpoints. I thought we were in the clear, and then it just... just came out of nowhere.
- Mary Hamilton: It wasn't your fault, Luke.
- Luke Fox: Look, we need to figure out who shot her.
- Mary Hamilton: I agree, but first, we need to prepare ourselves for the real Alice. The Crows think that she's dead, and she's not, which means no one's out looking for her, and if my twin picked my alien doppelganger's life over mine, I'd be on the verge of going nuclear.
- [to Kate]
- Mary Hamilton: Uh, no offense.
- Kate Kane: You're right. I looked her in the eye and I told her I chose to save someone else.
- Mary Hamilton: Kate... you did the right thing. You have to know that.
- Kate Kane: It doesn't matter, because the wrong Beth lived. Now Alice is back on the loose because of me, and we need to brace ourselves for the consequences.
- Luke Fox: She seduces her victims, drains their blood, and leaves them for dead. It's all very early 2000s. Both victims were lured out of clubs on the Strip in Old Gotham. Crows are replacing every doorman, so I thought we should patrol the only other bar in that neighborhood on that street. It's a place called the Catch.
- Kate Kane: It's a janky, old fishermen's bar. It's not really her demo, but, um, what about Curse?
- [seeing the confusion in his face]
- Kate Kane: EDM. It's invite-only.
- Luke Fox: Oh, oh! Curse. The... yeah. Yeah, right. Okay. Yeah. I thought... I thought you said "purse," which is why I was like "A club called Purse? That'd be weird."
- Kate Kane: You have no idea what I'm talking about.
- Luke Fox: Not a one. Nope.
- Luke Fox: Since the encounter was so... intimate, we may be able to get something off the suit's UV detection system.
- [showing her a small, hand-held device]
- Luke Fox: Behold. 600 watts of 95% UVA and 5% UVB. Works great for fingerprints, counterfeit money, checking out motel bedspreads.
- Kate Kane: Ew.
- Luke Fox: The temporary paralysis was the result of Nocturna injecting you with an animal tranquilizer. That's got to be her M.O.
- Kate Kane: It wasn't really an injection. It was more like a bite, nibble, lip thing.
- Luke Fox: Do you mind?
- Kate Kane: I'm just saying, she had actual fangs that delivered the ketamine. You know, like, just when she bit down on my lip...
- Luke Fox: [extremely uncomfortable] Understood and moving on.
- Colonel Jacob Kane: Alice may be gone. So is the city's trust. We are hemorrhaging clients. Not because we're weak or ineffectual or indecisive. It's because for the first time in four years, we have competition. The city likes Batwoman because she doesn't subscribe to the rules. It makes her entertaining. She gets to dress up, cause whatever mayhem she chooses, and zip-line away to cheers and adoration. That's not how protecting a city works, and now... there is a new predator on the streets; Nocturna. Let's find this blood-guzzling serial killer before Batwoman does. Let's remind everyone what real authority actually looks like.
- Sophie Moore: [the assembled Crows disperse] Like you never left.