A new villain sinks her teeth into Gotham and The Hold Up opens in grand fashion. Sophie reluctantly requests that Kate keep her distance knowing their interactions could compromise her career.[src]
The title of the episode is a reference to the 'Drink Me' potion from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, a concoction that makes its consumer shrink down to ten inches high, which was the exact height of the door that Alice was attempting to get through in the novel.
The episode references the belief that Nocturna is a vampire and that drinks blood despite not being a vampire, which is a common characteristics of vampires in legends and folklore.
Nocturna was originally going to appear in an episode of Batman: The Animated Series as a vampire, but the episode was canceled after Fox censors objected to the storyline, which would have involved Batman being turned into a vampire and craving human blood. Producer Alan Burnett later recounted the events by saying "We also wanted to do a Nocturna story Bruce had drawn a hot model of her, but she's a vampire, which would've involved bloodletting, which was a huge no-no for kids TV".
The storyline involving Nocturna began in Detective Comics #529 (August 1983), and her first appearance was in Batman #363 (September 1983).
