“Fair Skin, Blue Eyes” is episode four of season two of Batwoman.
Ryan is trying to track down the new drug, Snake Bite. She convinces a user to give up his dealer, and is chasing the dealer down in the most normal-looking Batmobile, ever, when the wound caused by the Kryptonite bullet causes her vision to blur. She should probably get that seen to. Ryan is questioning the dealer, a member of the False Face Society, when the alarm at a jewellery store goes off.
No-one seems to be robbing it. Because the alarm was triggered by a young boy who wanted to get Batwoman’s attention. His brother left for school two months ago and never got there. Nobody cares. Does Batwoman care?
Kane is giving a press conference. In the previous episode, “Bat Girl Magic!”, Safiyah revealed that Kate was alive and her father is offering a $1 million reward to anyone who can provide info on who took her and how it happened.
Mary is watching the news, as is Luke. Luke thinks they now have a chance of finding Kate. Mary, not so much. The person who told Sophie that Alice was alive was Alice, and the person who told Alice was a mystery woman called Safiyah, who just hired a hitman to kill Mary. Mary thinks they’re playing Telephone with homicidal women. Luke says he’s leaving to find someone who wants to find Kate as much as him.
Ryan arrives after Luke has gone. They look into the background of the missing boy, Kevin Johnson. Ryan went to the same foster home. Not always happy memories, but she did make a friend, another girl who promised to always have her back. Ryan says they should check the route. Is Mary ready for a field trip? In the Batmobile.
No, in Ryan’s van. Mary loves old vans and is taking selfies. She finds out that Ryan also lives in the van. They stop outside a comic shop; one the young Ryan went to. A woman starting chatting to young Ryan, offering her jelly beans. She’s just the neighbourhood candy lady. She also has some comics that she was going to donate. Would Ryan like to take a look. Ryan declines at first, but then agrees. With predictable consequences.
Mary asks why they’ve stopped at the comic book shop. Because Ryan thinks that Kevin was grabbed from here to be brainwashed and then sold to a gang. Because it happened to her.
Sophie is getting ready when she finds Alice in her condo. Alice reminds her they need to find someone called Ocean, so that Safiyah will give them Kate. Alice manages to talk, or guilt, Sophie into helping.
Kane has a photo of a painting, the last thing on Kate’s p0hone, with Safiyah scrawled across the image. The painting is an original Jake Napier. Better known as the Joker. It was stolen from a crime scene and is bouncing around the black market.
In the Batcave, Ryan is saying that the Candy Lady doesn’t need to hide in the shadows. She can operate in the open, preying on the children no-one will miss. The Candy Lady had shut young Ryan in a loft room. Ryan will stay there until someone claims her. The Candy Lady, who is creepily nice, says that she’s just a good Samaritan. There are 60 jelly beans in the jar, and she’ll take one a day. By the time none are left, Ryan will realise the Candy Lady is the only one there for her. And she’ll get a new family.
Days and then weeks pass and then the Candy Lady ties and gags Ryan., Because a search team has arrived at the house, looking for a missing girl. That missing girl is not Ryan. However, Mary recognises the description of who they were looking for. Beth Kane. And Kate kept all the records of the search for her sister.
Sophie isn’t finding Ocean and Alice is being, well, Alice. Then Luke knocks on the door. Which Alice answers, pointing Sophie’s gun at him. Awkward.