Batwoman (season 3)

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Batwoman
Season 3
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Starring
Country of originUnited States
No. of episodes7
Release
Original networkThe CW
Original releaseOctober 13, 2021 (2021-10-13) –
present (present)
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The third season of the American superhero television series Batwoman was announced in February 2021 and premiered on The CW on October 13, 2021. It stars Javicia Leslie, Rachel Skarsten, Meagan Tandy, Nicole Kang, Camrus Johnson, Robin Givens, Victoria Cartagena, and Nick Creegan.

Episodes[]

No.
overall		No. in
season		TitleDirected byWritten byOriginal air date [1]Prod.
code		U.S. viewers
(millions)
391"Mad as a Hatter"Holly DaleCaroline DriesOctober 13, 2021 (2021-10-13)T13.231510.47[2]
Time has passed since Black Mask and Alice were remanded to Arkham Asylum. Alice fan Liam Crandle buys Mad Hatter’s lost hat, learns its secret, and decides to become the second Mad Hatter. Alice apparently receives postcards from Jacob as she is visited by Mary. Ryan Wilder recovers the poison ivy sprig as Luke Fox has issues with the glitches of his suit. Renee Montoya urges Mayor Hartley to let her act before Gotham City becomes "Jim Gordon's version" again. During the graduation, Mad Hatter mind-controls Mary into removing the university chairman's organs causing Ryan to reluctantly spring Alice from Arkham Asylum. Alice confronts Mad Hatter into undoing the mind-control as she stabs him in the back. Afterwards, Alice is returned to Arkham by Luke. Ryan comes up with the "Batwing" codename for Luke and turns down Sophie's information about her real mom. Jeturian Industries CEO Jada Jet is informed about a security breach about her, Mary gets a package from Kate, and Luke finds an A.I. version of his dad Lucius Fox in his helmet. Having learned Batwoman's identity from Alice, Renee forces her to work with Alice to find and neutralize all the Batvillain items.
402"Loose Tooth"Jeffrey HuntChad Fiveash & James StoterauxOctober 20, 2021 (2021-10-20)T13.231520.49[3]
Montoya explains that any violation will land Alice in solitary confinement in Arkham forever. Their first assignment is to deal with a Killer Croc-like situation involving the tooth of Killer Croc. As Jada Jet complains about industrial espionage to Ryan, Wayne's acting CEO, Sophie tells Ryan that Jada is her birth mother. Mary meets the Lucius Fox A.I. as Luke speculates that the health status was behind the glitch. Alice determines Killer Croc's hunting grounds, and Batwoman and Alice head there at night where young Whitney has been abducted. In a sewer they meet Mason, whose son Steven was infected by the tooth and has become the monster. To protect Steven, Mason subdues Batwoman with a cattle prod, also frying Alice's ankle monitor before Steven drags her away. Batwoman finds Mason dead, rescues Whitney, and subdues Steven, while Batwing catches Alice and injects tracking nanobots into her. With Whitney rescued and Killer Croc's tooth in Montoya's custody, Vesper reports both Alice and Killer Croc 2.0 are both in Arkham, the latter in a special habitat. Montoya opens Poison Ivy's sample and finds it a fake. Ryan visits Jada and announces her parentage to her.
413"Freeze"Greg BeemanNancy KiuOctober 27, 2021 (2021-10-27)T13.231530.42[4]
Jada is impressed with Ryan but wants nothing to do with her. Her charming son Marquis, on the other hand, wants to work with Ryan behind Jada's back. The sudden freezing of a city bus points to the late Victor Fries, whose widow Nora survived being unfrozen but is now infirm, though cured of her original illness. Batwoman raids the GCPD evidence locker for Fries' machine. Before she gets there, Nora's sister Dee has stolen it as both of them are abducted by mercenaries working for an unknown client. With Batwing's help, Batwoman recovers the machine and rescues Nora and Dee, but the lead mercenary escapes. Alice complains that she is sick, hallucinating the nanobots crawling inside her skin, and fails to escape when Nora is indifferent to being taken hostage. After Mary visits Nora and Dee in a park and offers further medical help, she is suddenly seized by a vine and dragged away.
424"Antifreeze"Holly DaleDaniel ThomsenNovember 3, 2021 (2021-11-03)T13.231540.52[5]
No one is interested in Mary's strange overnight stay in the park, as Ryan is feted as one of Gotham's young business leaders. As she meets Marquis there, Jordan suddenly disappears, and when Marquis helps them find her, she has been frozen somehow at room temperature. Alice has persuaded Montoya to let her out again after Mary speculates that her hallucinations may come from drugs given her at Arkham. Alice determines that the Black Glove has been freezing people, unsuccessfully reviving them until Jordan (who was investigating them) has been recovered. Ryan learns that Jada has leaked to Vesper that Wayne funds have been diverted into a black budget (in fact the Batcave's). As Wayne's stock tanks, Luke and Wayne PR employee Charlie are able to sell the diversion as a classified defense project for A.R.G.U.S. with help from John Diggle, but the board of directors ask for Ryan to resign as acting CEO, since Wayne risks a hostile takeover should she not. A Black Glove operative delivers Jada what he says is a reliable freezing and unfreezing technique. Jada plans to use this on Marquis while claiming that he will be going on a "leave of absence".
435"A Lesson from Professor Pyg"David RamseyCaroline Dries & Ebony GilbertNovember 10, 2021 (2021-11-10)T13.231550.37[6]
Batwoman picks up Alice from Sophie's apartment to look at a man strangled with a bullwhip. Renee thinks it might be Catwoman's -- it isn't, but Alice reviews old files with Renee. She identifies the killer as minor villain Flamingo but also learns about Renee's history with Poison Ivy. Ivy's powers and habits can be transmitted by infection, and Alice suspects this has happened to Mary. Meanwhile, Ryan has been invited to dinner by Jada and brings Sophie as a guest so she might bug Jada's office. The chef serves wine dosed with a paralytic and reveals himself as Professor Pyg, whose life was ruined when Jada fired him. Ryan, Sophie, and the Jets flee into Jada's panic room, after Ryan stabs Pyg. As Ryan leaves to find an epipen, Jada denies to Sophie that she knew about the Black Gloves' experiments. Ryan collapses as Jada surrenders. Ryan is finally able to use an epipen on Marquis, who recovers and stabs Pyg to death. Jada tells Ryan that she plans to freeze Marquis because he has been a sociopath since Joker shocked him with his joy-buzzer. The final scene has Marquis spreading blood across his lips in the Joker's style.
446"How Does Your Garden Grow?"Robert DuncanJerry Shandy & Natalie AbramsNovember 17, 2021 (2021-11-17)T13.231560.41[7]
A man is found entombed in a honeycomb with honeybees, alerting the police and Montoya. Sophie asks Renee about the Black Glove who froze the currently-recuperating Jordan, and Renee advises Sophie to stay away from them. Mary revives the man, who claims that Mary did this. Apparently Mary was infected by Ivy's plants -- she remembers nothing, but she handcuffs herself to a console. Batwoman and Alice later find Black Glove operative Virgil Getty, who froze Jordan and his friends, buried up to his neck in soil, apparently by Mary. Ryan keeps Getty from Renee, but Alice leaks his location to Sophie, who tortures Getty about Black Glove before Batwoman stops him, but then somebody quickly kills Getty. Alice uses sunlight to transform Mary, who knocks out Luke and is freed by Alice. The new Poison Mary lures Batwoman and Batwing to the botanical gardens, where she traps and subdues them with plants, making off with the Batwing component with the A.I. for Lucius Fox. Renee frees them while scolding them for withholding this information. As Sophie and Renee make out following a drink together, Ryan calls in a favor from Jada Jett. Alice steals a car and leaves with Poison Mary.
457"Pick Your Poison"Holly DaleKelly Ota & Emily AlonsoNovember 24, 2021 (2021-11-24)T13.231570.46[8]
Ryan helps Jada capture Marquis in exchange for a cure for Mary's condition. As Jada prepares to place Marquis in suspended animation, he escapes and steals the cure. Alice and Mary flee Gotham, planning to give Alice a full blood transfusion to rid her of the tracker nanomachines. Marquis forces his way into Wayne Tower and beats Luke unconscious. Ryan confronts Marquis, who compels her to sign over control of Wayne Enterprises to him in exchange for Mary's cure. Mary's burgeoning mind control powers allow her to quickly find sufficient blood donors for Alice, and they complete the transfusion. Ryan manages to track down Mary, but then the latter hypnotizes her to reveal what she would do if Mary didn't take the cure. Mary calls up vines to trap Ryan and destroys the cure, saying the Poison Ivy persona is her true self, before absconding with Alice. With Luke sealing the Batcave to keep Marquis from finding it, Ryan, Luke, and Sophie watch as Marquis makes his public debut as the new CEO of Wayne Enterprises, promising to put a smile on the faces of Gotham's populace. As Alice also watches this event, Mary makes a similar debut in the costume of Poison Ivy as she embraces her new form.
468"Trust Destiny"[9]Marshall VirtueEbony Gilbert & Daphne MilesJanuary 12, 2022 (2022-01-12)TBATBD
479"Meet Your Maker"[10]Michael BlundellCaroline Dries & Maya HoustonJanuary 19, 2022 (2022-01-19)TBATBD

Cast and characters[]

Main article: List of Batwoman characters

Main[]

Recurring[]

Guest[]

Production[]

Development[]

On February 3, 2021, it was announced that The CW had renewed 12 original series for additional seasons through the 2021–2022 television seasons. One of those series was revealed to be Batwoman, along with other Arrowverse series The Flash and Legends of Tomorrow.[14]

Casting[]

Javicia Leslie reprises her role as Ryan Wilder / Batwoman, having replaced Ruby Rose in the second season after the latter left the show. Rachel Skarsten, Meagan Tandy, Nicole Kang and Camrus Johnson also return as Beth Kane / Alice, Sophie Moore, Mary Hamilton and Luke Fox / Batwing respectively;[15][12] however, Dougray Scott did not return as Jacob Kane.[16] In July 2021, Robin Givens, Victoria Cartagena, and Nick Creegan were cast as new series regulars for the third season, as Jada Jet, Renee Montoya, and Marquis Jet, respectively; Cartagena had previously played Montoya on Fox's Gotham.[12][11][17] In August 2021, Bridget Regan was cast in the recurring role of Pamela Isley / Poison Ivy.[18] Amitai Marmorstein was cast as Mad Hatter.[13]

Filming[]

Filming began production on July 19, 2021, and concluded on December 22nd.[19]

Release[]

The season premiered on The CW on October 13, 2021.[20]

Reception[]

Viewership and ratings per episode of Batwoman
No. Title Air date Rating
(18–49)		 Viewers
(millions)		 DVR
(18–49)		 DVR viewers
(millions)		 Total
(18–49)		 Total viewers
(millions)
1 "Mad As a Hatter" October 13, 2021 0.1 0.47[2] 0.1 0.26 0.1 0.73[21]
2 "Loose Tooth" October 20, 2021 0.1 0.49[3] 0.1 0.26 0.2 0.75[22]
3 "Freeze" October 27, 2021 0.1 0.42[4] TBD TBD TBD TBD
4 "Antifreeze" November 3, 2021 0.1 0.52[5] TBD TBD TBD TBD
5 "A Lesson from Professor Pyg" November 10, 2021 0.1 0.37[6] TBD TBD TBD TBD
6 "How Does Your Garden Grow?" November 17, 2021 0.1 0.41[7] 0.1 0.36 0.2 0.77[23]
7 "Pick Your Poison" November 24, 2021 0.1 0.46[8] 0.1 0.31 0.2 0.78[24]

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