Do Not Resuscitate

"Do Not Resuscitate" is the sixth episode of the second season of Batwoman, and the twenty-sixth episode overall. It aired on February 28, 2021.

Synopsis

As Ryan Wilder's Kryptonite wound grows more severe, it hinders Batwoman's ability to protect Gotham. Growing interest in reproducing the serum from the Desert Rose puts Mary's and Commander Kane's lives in danger. Meanwhile, Alice's reunion with a fellow Coryana inhabitant presents unexpected complications.^[src]

Plot

Years ago, when Hamilton Dynamics was still owned by Catherine Hamilton-Kane, the company did human experiments on Aaron Helzinger in an attempt to cure him of his psychological problems, but the problems became worse and became potentially fatal. Aaron, dubbed Amygdala, was locked away until a cure could be found.

More recently, Hamilton Dynamics discovered that the Desert Rose cure provided by Mary Hamilton could cure cancer, but the company's scientists have been unable to duplicate the panacea. Amygdala was commissioned by Dr. Ethan Rogers to find answers from Mary.

As Mary and Jacob Kane were returning from seeing legal counsel who suggested that they should just declare Kate Kane dead, Amygdala kidnaps them and takes them to Mary's clinic to get the answers he seeks so he can be cured of his own cancer and to provide the answers that Dr. Rogers seeks.

Meanwhile, the pain that Ryan Wilder feels from her Kryptonite wound while operating as Batwoman is so intense, Angelique Martin takes her to Gotham General Hospital where Ryan lies and tells her doctor that she has a spider's bite. Angelique uses her money from being a drug dealer to pay for the medical bill.

When Ryan goes to work at The Hold Up, she is approached by Sophie Moore who attempts to blackmail Ryan with enough evidence to arrest Angelique on drug charges for her to place spyware on Angelique's phone to procure her supplier; Sophie knows that the supplier is Ocean and she also knows that Ocean created the fake Napier painting, so he must have the real item. The painting is needed to find Coryana. Ryan makes a deal with Sophie and ultimately installs the app in her girlfriend's phone, for the sake of Angelique's freedom, who has no desire to stop selling drugs though offered a regular job.

In an abandoned subway train car, Alice and Ocean compare notes about their missing memories and their time at Coryana. Ocean finds it preposterous that he is being blamed for Kate's disappearance. Alice talks to Safiyah Sohail who tells her that she wants Alice to kill Alice's past lover if she wants Kate. For the sake of her twin, Alice fights Ocean but they are interrupted by Sophie who tracked Ocean via the app. At gunpoint, Sophie demands the Napier painting; when Ocean burns it, the map to Coryana appears.

Mary confesses to her father that she has been running her clinic for months, to Jacob's surprise. To fool Amygdala, who is torturing Jacob, Mary calls Luke Fox, pretending he has the map to Coryana, to have him retrieve Batwoman, but Ryan is in too much pain to be full functional so Luke calls Sophie also for back-up. The women converge on the clinic and they with Jacob all fight the super-strong villain.

Suddenly, masked thugs arrive and surprise everyone by holding Sophie at gunpoint to get the map and extract Amygdala.

Garnering Mary's disapproval, Jacob begins to shut down the clinic, citing numerous reasons of how it is illegal.

Angelique and Ryan, who received a call from her doctor that she has radiation poisoning, part ways because Angelique suspects that Ryan bugged her phone.

Alice calls Safiyah and tells her that Ocean is dead after she stabs a man with Ocean's face; Safiyah wants to see the body, meaning Ocean and Alice can confront Safiyah about their selective memory loss.

Cast

Starring

Guest starring

Shivani Ghai as Safiyah Sohail
Nathan Owens as Ocean
Bevin Bru as Angelique Martin
RJ Fetherstonhaugh as Aaron Helzinger/Amygdala

Co-starring

Rachel Maddow as Vesper Fairchild (voice)
Milo Shandel as Dr. Ethan Rogers
Paolo Maiolo as Dr. Rafael Rodriguez
James Hibbard as Elderly Male
Trae Maridadi as Young Boy
Jesse Hutch as Attending Nurse #1
Mat Yanagiya as Attending Nurse #2
Alison Matthews as Doctor
Matt Montgomery as Frazzled Intern
Taylor Tai as Brute #1
Sean Kohnke as Brute #2

Trivia

Sophie had Ryan use a device called a high-frequency generator receiver to spy on Angelique and to learn the location of Ocean; the device was a plot point from the 2008 film The Dark Knight.
The components Kryptonite is made of is a reference to Superman III.

Batwoman season 2
"Whatever Happened to Kate Kane?" • "Prior Criminal History" • "Bat Girl Magic!" • "Fair Skin, Blue Eyes" • "Gore on Canvas" • "Do Not Resuscitate" • "It's Best You Stop Digging" • "Survived Much Worse" • "Rule #1" • "Time Off for Good Behavior" • "Arrive Alive" • "Initiate Self-Destruct" • "I'll Give You a Clue" • "And Justice For All" • "Armed and Dangerous" • "Rebirth" • "Kane, Kate" • "Power"