"Instinct" Beware the Batman, Cartoon Network, 5 October 2013
We have the return of the series debut villains, Professor Pyg and Mr. Toad. Can't hardly wait
-We open with a Lady Gaga-esque performer (hassled by all of two photographers) being menaced by the aforementioned Pyg and Toad. She maybe should haven't told them her outfit took six rare birds to make either.
-Now with Bruce and Katana. They are having a training session at a fancy restaurant. Bruce is anyway, Katana seems content to simply eat. Bruce, thanks to his mastery of crime fighting, sees a waiter stealing from the till, a cheating husband (which really isn't a crime that I would think Batman would concern himself with but ok) and a pickpocket. He doesn't seem too interested in stopping these crimes though, but with lording this over Katana.
-Also, how does he know the husband is cheating? There is a pale spot on his finger marking a ring, but that might be the guy's wife and he lost the ring? Maybe he's divorced? Or does Batman somehow know the personal details of everyone in Gotham?
-They leave and the singer is causing quite the commotion, mostly by being dressed in a chicken mask and hanging from a nearby clock tower. Her ropes are cut but thankfully Batman saves her by crashing them both through a plate glass window, no doubt severing several arteries. Pyg and Toad take a break for tea and biscuits.
-The note on the women's body gives them a clue. A lyric from Baa-Baa Black Sheep it seems, but of course Batman figures the key part of the rhyme is 'lane' from "the little boy who lives down the lane". Katana starts to use the Bat Computer and comes up with a hundred streets in town with lane in them, but Batman knows only three should be looked at...because he's Batman.
-Now we see...a fey matador? Pyg and Toad easily subdue him and leave him in a death trap dressed as a fox. The trap is nice, but strange. It's four saw blades on two poles moving towards him from both sides. Did he have this in his office? I don't think Pyg and Toad brought it with them.
-Ah, the gentleman they saved was a fashion designer 'noted for his work in leather'. He also has a note tucked into his jacket. A note that would have been turned into shredded soggy bits if Batman failed to save him, so why bother with it?
-Side note: Batman notices the mask has a Cole Plastics logo on it. It also has the same motif as Plastic Man. Nice touch.
-Katana takes the note to Jason Burr. Burr is acting weird, even for him (more on that later) and Katana leaves.
-Batman finds Pyg and Toad, supplexing the former. Batman loses the fight though, but finds a set of blueprints. From there we figure out that the missing lyric from the rhyme is coming into play. Heading to the Gotham Opera House, they discover the rest of the plot and several large bombs set to go off in less than a minute.
-They escape of course and Katana is convinced everything is over. Batman proves her wrong again, but one phone call (and awkward banter) later, the truth is known.
Pyg and Toad are going to blow the fashion show on a boat with a heat sensitive bomb. Which seems rather time consuming and easily thwarted.
Batman and Katana stop them of course ("Bruce Wayne knows yachts") but Pyg and Toad escape.
Jason Burr, now with green eyes, informs Lady Shiva that neither Katana or Wayne suspect a thing. Shiva calls him Dr. Burr, but with the green eyes shouldn't that be Cypher? Or was Burr evil all this time?
Next time we'll see the return of Magpie.
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