“Tell Me the Truth” is episode seven of season one of Batwoman.
Kate is writing to Bruce again. She doesn’t know how he did it. Night after night, working in the shadows, in secret and alone. There’s an Italian restaurant, Alessandro’s, and, across the street, a sniper is taking aim at a guest. Just as he shoots, he’s dragged back and fastened to the ceiling by a line, causing him to miss. The Crows converge on the scene, with Sophie in charge. Kate is wondering if Bruce ever let himself trust anyone and asks how that worked out. As Kate is leaving the scene, as Batwoman, Sophie calls her by name. Kate denies she’s, well, Kate, and Sophie tells her that her father has ordered the Crows to stop Batwoman at any cost. Kane needs to know Kate is his daughter. If Kate won’t tell him, Sophie will. Kate says she will find Sophie, and leaves. In the ristorante, a woman, English by the sounds of it, is examining the bullet hole and calls it in. The Rifle has made his way to Gotham.
Vesper Fairchild is on the radio, talking about how the mystery killer killed two people but stopped from killing the third by Batwoman. Batwoman is apparently welcome at Alessandro’s any time for a free meal.
Kate is training in the Batcave when Luke arrives and asks if she’s heard her dad has filed for divorce. Short answer; yes. Kate isn’t losing any sleep over it. Luke also didn’t sleep last night. When Kate doesn’t follow up on this, Luke has a conversation with himself about what he was doing. The two dead both worked for Hamilton Dynamics. The third for a company that does things for Hamilton Dynamics. Likely not a coincidence. Kate says they need to find the shooter. Luke doesn’t have his home address. Kate wants him to find it. She explains Sophie planning to tell her father, who will freak out and shut them down. Can Kate trust Sophie? She used to.
At the Crows, Sophie asks her husband, Tyler, if he’s seen Commander Kane. Tyler thinks he’s upstate. Sophie want to talk to him, in person. Tyler is curious; he will be the second one to know. Tyler has also found CCTV footage of Sophie talking to Batwoman before she left, when Sophie said they hadn’t talked. Is Sophie working with her? Does she know who Batwoman is?
Mary is with her mother in a car; she thinks it’s a pity Kane isn’t there. On hearing that Kane is upstate and that Kate isn’t coming either, Mary says that, if she knew attendance at the hearing was optional, she would be anywhere else. She’s losing her sister just after they started getting a connection. Katherine is the only family Mary has left, and she doesn’t want to be in the same car as her mother. Katherine has received a message and makes a phone call. She discovers that the coil accelerator went missing in the previous episode, “I’ll Be Judge, I’ll Be Jury”, and that Dean Deveraux is dead.
Kate is watching the previous night’s target and Luke has spotted the shooter. Then he spots another heat signature. That one jumps down on the shooter and stop him. Kate manages to bring the shooter down as he runs, but the third, the woman from the bar by the voice, doesn’t want Batwoman to bring him in. So, he gets away as the two fight. Until Kate uses a kick which makes the other woman remove the hood. She knows that Kate is Batwoman – because she taught her that move. Julian Pennyworth, Alfred’s daughter.
The third attempted victim runs into an alley, and gets repeatedly stabbed by Mouse. Alice claps and tells the shooter, the Rifle, that’s how you kill someone the first time. Just imagine if Alice failed at a third of the things she set out to do. The three dead are the only people who know how to make the coil accelerator. It’s now one of a kind. His boss should be grateful. The Rifle needs to know that the gun works before his boss will pay. Alice demonstrates that it does. Surprisingly, not by shooting him.
In the Batcave, Julia is telling Kate about the Rifle. She’s tracked him here. Julia also congratulates Kate in following in her cousin’s footsteps. Though Katye thinks Bruce was better at keeping secrets. Luke arrives at this point, and he knows Julia too. Julia suggests Kate and her team up. It seems Kate is holding a bit of a grudge over the last meeting; Bruce had asked Julia to keep an eye on Kate after she was expelled from military school and they got involved. Though who she really was, according to Julia, was the only lie she told. Luke fills Julia in on Sophie; Kate does not appreciate her life being discussed.
Kate meets with Sophie at Alessandro’s, but before they can get very far, the owner asks Kate to leave, because sneakers are not involved. More accurately, he saw Kate and Sophie hold hands, decided they were a couple and didn’t want them in his restaurant. So much for Batwoman being welcome any time. Perhaps Kate should have worn the cowl. He wants the two to leave, until Kate mentions just how much of a fuss she could cause by getting Mary to bad name Alessandro’s to her 3.5 million followers. Now that he’s agreed they can stay, Kate is not going to.
At Point Rock, Kate and Sophie had agreed to tell the truth. Sophie didn’t, though; she explains to Kate she got a second opinion. From Kate’s father. Kane told Sophie that, if she told the truth, she wouldn’t graduate. Kate is fearless, passionate and reckless, and Kane can’t convince her otherwise. That’s what he loves about her. He’s not telling Sophie what to do, he can’t make that decision for her, a decision she shouldn’t have to make, but he needs to tell her what will happen. So, Sophie lied.
Sophie is going to tell Commander Kane that Kate is Batwoman. Kate has a Plan C for that. Then, there’s the question of what Alice wants so badly she is willing to steal a sister-killing gun for it. There’s also the fact that Alice doesn’t want Kate dead and, if she did, as she accidentally told Mouse in the previous episode, it’s not as if she needs to wait for Kate to put on the Batsuit first.