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The trail leads to (guest star Gabriel Mann), now acting as a liaison between Wayne and Powers. He smugly tells Kate at a charity dinner (lit by candles) that “mergers require sacrifices. Sometimes, you have to let the old tech die to birth something new.” B. Alice’s Court of Cards Alice (Rachel Skarsten) has abandoned the Wonderland Gang’s old hideout. She now operates from a decommissioned subway car buried beneath the Gotham Cemetery. Her new lieutenants are the Card Soldiers – former Crows and street kids she’s “reeducated” through a mixture of fear and twisted affection. The stolen Prometheus core isn’t a bomb. It’s a frequency disruptor that can override any Crow biometric lock.

Mary is trapped. Save her secret clinic and her mother’s reputation, or betray Catherine – the woman who truly raised her? Kate confronts Catherine at Wayne Manor (now running on backup generators). Catherine admits she knew about Project Prometheus’s vulnerability – it was designed by a former employee of Johnathan Crane (a tease for Season 2). But she denies any cover-up. “Beth died in that accident, Kate. I didn’t kill her. I just… moved on. That’s not a crime.” BatWoman 1x9

Cut to: A Wayne Enterprises subsidiary lab. (Elizabeth Anweis) is meeting with a Powers Industries representative. She’s signing off on a “clean energy prototype” – a small, humming cylinder labeled Project Prometheus . The representative smiles. “No more blackouts, Mrs. Hamilton-Kane.” As she initials the document, the lights cut. Emergency sirens blare. Through the red haze, a masked figure – not Alice, but one of her new “Card Soldiers” – smashes the glass and steals the prototype. The trail leads to (guest star Gabriel Mann),