1x18 - Games
♪ Beware... ♪
♪ Beware the bat ♪
Previously on "Beware the Batman"...
Humphrey Dumpler worked for the mob.
Genius account, went crazy after it got blown up. {*}
He escaped protective custody was never heard from him again...
until now.
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Batman, where are we?
Last thing I remember we were checking out a lead on a weapons' stash.
- Next thing, I wake up here. - Ambush. Poison darts.
Demfil chloride if I'm not mistaken. {*} Hits quick, leave just as fast.
So how do we get out of here?
Cage with fancy furniture is still a cage.
Katana wait!
- A trap! - Good call.
No, simple deduction. No trap on my door was meant to put us at ease.
Lower our guard. Whoever put us here knew I would see through that.
Our captors studied our tactics.
- Short corridor here. - Then that's our route.
Commissioner Gordon.
Mayor Grange.
- Tobias Whale! - Wake up, loser.
Batman! Where...
I was in my office. Opened a window...
I was walking to my car in the City Hall parking lot.
I was visiting friends. Celebrating being out on bail.
Where are we now?
Why Mayor Grange!
You're on square one of my latest little game.
- Humpty Dumpty. - Dumpler!
This is Commissioner Gordon at the Gotham PD.
- Release us now or... - But you just got here!
Don't you even wanna see what's for dinner?
Go ahead. Don't wanna to get cold.
That's right. The first course of this mystery is murder!
Someone in this room was responsible for any missed person's life.
But who? Answer that and I let all the innocent parties go free.
Let's get started. Each of you has been given one helper card.
An eclipse?
Yours is blank, Batman. Because you shouldn't need any help!
Each card is an answer to a clue.
Match the right card to the clue and you can move on.
The first clue is right before you.
And to make things interesting
there will be little obstacles along the way.
What you mean by "obstacles," baby?
Better hurry! That's it you made it in. {*}
It'll take all five of you to solve this mystery.
And if Mayor Grange dies before you do, it's game over!
For all of you!
- Batman, we could use a little help. - I am helping.
I'm working the puzzle.
- So the knife is the murder weapon. - To easy.
The dummie's fingers and lips were blue, suggesting suffocation.
But the stab wound is bright red.
His blood was properly oxygenated.
- The scuff marks on the knees. - The body was moved.
Hey! Finish your game "I spy" get over here and help me.
The Mayor doesn't have much time.
The mannequin only appear stabbed,
but he was poisoned with carbon monoxide somewhere else,
that would explain the oxygenated blood. Then brought here.
A crime that began as one thing then became another.
Only one card given to us matches that theory, Katana.
The butterfly.
Begins its life is a caterpillar before becoming something... different.
You cracked the case, Batman! Well done.
I hope everyone likes boardgames!
Stand on a lit tile and everything is humpty toy. {*}
But if your tile goes dark and you're still on it, you're out of the game...
permanently!
Tiles will light at random.
And you can only stand on one, for so long before it goes dark again.
So keep moving!
If you don't solve the mystery of what happen in this room
and lay down the right card, too many tiles will fall away
and together you're all hit rock bottom!
Whale, turn over that picture frame.
I'll lead the mysteries solving to you, geniuses.
It's all right. I've got this.
It's a picture of a woman and a girl. Maybe the woman's daughter?
This room could belong to the dead body
that we've found in the dining room.
That could be his wife and child in the picture.
Seems likely.
The wires belongings left out like this.
You said the body was moved. Maybe he was killed in here.
Possibly. Or maybe obducted from this room,
made to disappear from his family.
Gordon, your card.
Something that disappears like a rabbit dropped in a magician's hat.
Well played players!
Whale!
Batman. Batman!
Can you make it over here?
- Don't you think we're trying? - The beds are no, but...
Are you all right?
Yeah, but there aren't a lot of floor tiles left.
It might take us some time to make our way to you.
We need to find a way out of here.
Running isn't the answer. Dumpty wants that exuse to kill us.
Are you willing to risk everyone's life on that?
Let's run down what we know. Humpty-Dumpty says
someone in our group had something to do with
what happened to the man on the dinner table.
Whale is the only criminal in our group. He's got to be guilty of the murder.
If it is murder, the first clue: Someone or something
that is not what it at first appears to be.
The second clue: Making someone or something disappear.
This mystery might not be about a murder at all. But some other action.
And that means the guilty party could still be any one of us.
Including you and me.
Us? We didn't commit any crimes.
Batman, are you listening to me?
You don't look good, Marion.
Don't baby me, Jim! I just need some water.
I see if I can find some.
Stay with me, and when we get our share, I can get us both out of here.
In exchange for a pardon?
If you're feeling grateful baby, I wouldn't say "no."
This room ... it feels familiar.
Does anyone recognize the song?
I do. It's an old sailor's song.
Peered down at the Gotham docks all the time. {*}
It's called "Deadman's moon". Creepy tune.
I think you need to see this.
"Bats of the Western hemisphere." "Be your guide to the study of bats."
"The migration pattern in meeting habitats of the common bat."
Every book in here is about bats.
I knew it! I knew it was something that stone freak did.
Yo popo, arrest him! Mystery solved!
You shouldn't be accusing anyone, Whale!
You're the one met, knew the song and the record player, remember?
Stop yelling! Don't you see this is what Humpty Dumpty wants?
For us to turn on each other.
I'm not gonna die in here because of all of you!
Braille.
You stay together here play this psycho's game.
We all know he'll never let us win.
I'll find a way out. Good luck, chunk! {*}
Why are you all just standing there doing nothing?
We can't just let him run off, or we all dead!
Marion, wait!
We need to stay together!
We have to go after them.
- Wrong move. - Are you kidding?
Who knows what could happen to them without us.
Humpty Dumpty is a master game player. He knew this would happen
now, which means our team breaking apart is part of his game.
If we go after Whale and Mayor Grange, and don't solve his puzzle,
we lose and Dumpty wins. Meaning, we die.
What if you're wrong?
A sea shanty about the moon, {*}
books on bats written for the blind, hiding deadly weapons.
Rather then staying, one of our team ran, and then another followed.
Both only concerned their own lives.
How do you get the eclipse out of all that?
In an eclipse you turn away because
if you look into an eclipse you could go blind. You turn a blind eye.
Just like Whale and Mayor Grange did to the safety of the group when they ran.
Excellent Batman!
You better find your friends though.
You still need everyone to make it out of here!
Hang on a second.
Guess, I like the shooting gallery.
Next time think the problem all the way through
before you decide on a course of action. And don't question me again!
You fool! You gonna get us all killed!
Lady, you've got no authority over me in here.
All of you, stay back!
Let me go! Let me go!
What is this?!
Pictures of ships.
Another naval reference like the song in the Victrola. {*}
Burned cash. A payoff gone wrong.
Whale, enough! This is what Dumpty wants.
This is how he wins the game.
I don't care about no game, Bat!
Nowhere to look without seeing yourself.
Can't hide in here.
Have you solved the mystery, Batman?
Do you know who the bad person is?
- Yes, I know. - Good!
Who's that?
I know this guy.
He is an arm's smuggler I put away in Black Gate.
- Ernie.... - Croskey! Ernie Croskey.
Captain at the Flying Fox, based in Gotham harbor.
The Flying Fox?
I believe each of us has a connection to that ship and this man.
A crime that began is one thing but became another.
Ernie Croskey's ship was smuggling weapons into Gotham.
- Weapons purchased from.... - Illegal assassins.
I was the middleman, undercover for the CIA.
We wanted to track the weapons, see if they let us to any of the lead cells.
We never met Croskey though. I just loaded the ship.
Croskey didn't even know the weapons were on board.
- Did he, Whale? - Man that wasn't my shipment
- did it right under Croskey's nose. - Too bad it never got to you.
- You were burnt on that deal. - By me.
Thanks to a tip from Batman.
Since Whale never took possession of the weapons, I couldn't hold him.
But I could arrest the guy he think.
The second clue: Something made to disappear.
In this case an innocent man taken from his family, Ernie Croskey.
Who I prosecuted and sent to jail.
The third clue:
Turning a blind eye. In one way or another we're all responsible.
The villian we've been looking for ... is us.
Ah! The sweet smell of victory.
I knew you could do it, Batman!
No! This is wrong.
Whale's the only one who was committing a crime.
We thought we were doing the right thing!
Excuses excuses. Just like the people who ruined my
life made excuses, when they pulled me into their war.
Well, it won't happen to Ernie.
When I worked for Whale I watched Ernie take the fall and did nothing!
Now I'm correcting my mistake.
Where am I? Who are all of you?
These are the people who took you away from your family, Ernie!
Who framed you. I brought them here for your revenge.
What are you waiting for? Take them out!
I don't wanna hurt anyone. I just wanna go home to my wife and daughter.
You will Ernie. We'll help you.
No! He's a liar! This is game over, Batman!
You're forgetting your own rule, Humpty.
That everyone responsible for what happened to Ernie would be punished.
You never spoke up for Ernie when you had the chance.
You're as guilty as we are.
No! no! You're twisting my rule!
This is my game and I'm the winner.
Oh-oh.
You're still trapped and without me
you'll never get out alive.
Huh? Oh, no!
Now it's game over.
Is Dumpty secure?
Yes. When Humpty Dumpty wakes up from that great fall,
he'll be riding in a cell at Black Gate.
Whale, you'll be moving into Ernie's cell.
Obstruction of justice and weapons' smuggling on top of your previous crimes.
I think that's grounds for having your bail revoked.
Go. I'll handle Dent and the police.
Back to the mansion?
- For me, I'm going alone. - Alone? Why?
Did I do something wrong?
In the library, once I decide on a plan, it's not up for discussion.
I thought you were becoming more interested in beating Humpty Dumpty,
then the safety of Gordon and the others.
- I chose the right course of action. - This time.
I just thought that what we do, we do for Gotham and its people.
Their safety comes first.
Even Bruce Wayne would agree with that.
I'm not Bruce Wayne.
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