“Bensonhurst” is episode ten of season one of Harley Quinn.
King Shark is streaming saying first day of unemployment. Then changes it to funemployment, as he and Clayface are at a fair. In the previous episode, “A Seat at the Table”, Harley’s crew quit on her. She’s watching King Shark’s stream in her office at the Legion when Bane comes in. He reminisces about the park and then tells Harley that instastalking her former crew is not very healthy. Harley complains that they ditched her because of one mistake. Bane suggests blowing them up. That’s not Harley’s thing. Bane could blow them up for her. No thanks. Harley says they are both spending the weekend alone. No; Bane is going to Black Manta’s beach lair. He takes it Harley didn’t get the invite- perhaps check her spam folder.
At the mall, Harley is watching a sleeping Cy motor around in his wheelchair. She sends a message to Ivy, not knowing Ivy was captured when she went to Planetside Pavers. Sane Harley appears and tells Harley there is always someone who will provide comfort and listen. No; not Ivy. Harley arrives at a house and greets her mother. The opening credits are for The Quinzels.
Ivy wakes fastened to a table and a man in protective gear says she probably has the usual questions. He doesn’t have the answers; he’s just a low-level goon. No, he can’t let Ivy go. He needs the job. In reality, he’s a kindergarten teacher and he’s just sidegooning to raise extra cash for craft supplies. If he does let her go, his rating will drop below three stars and that’s not good. Ivy says that, if he doesn’t, he will be the first person she kills. He tells her that she’s going to be harvested in two days, then gets a call from a parent.
Outside, the goon plucks a dandelion clock and blows it. He’s probably going to regret that at some point. Naturally, one of the seeds goes inside and lands on Ivy. It grows into a dandelion and Ivy tells it to find Frank and tell him to get Harley to come rescue him.
Harley is unloading on her mother, who she hasn’t spoken to in a few months. As in thirty-six. Harley’s mother suggests she become a psychologist again and just do the life of crime thing on the weekend. Harley isn’t interested. She’s also not happy her mother kept a second-place trophy. It seems Harley was poised to win a gymnastics competition when her father told her he needed her to take a dive. He owes a lot of money to bookies and bet on her to lose. Harley does lose but isn’t happy about it. In the present, she says she’s glad her father is rotting in jail. Except he isn’t. He got out and got back together with her mother. Harley is not happy.
Frank is at Ivy’s apartment when the dandelion arrives and fills him in. Frank needs his pot guy to drive him to Brooklyn.
Harley’s father also bought a Trans Am with the extra money he made from her taking a dive. But he’s given up betting. The jail thing was nothing to do with gambling; that was for nearly beating an Irish to death. He hopes Harley will forgive him. Harley’s grandmother is saying she has brain cancer when her head explodes. From a sniper’s bullet, not aggressive cancer. The sniper riddles the room then comes in. Everyone is apparently dead. They’re just pretending. Harley captures the assassin and is trying to get him to talk when her father shoots him. The sniper was apparently there for him. He borrowed money from the mob. He’ll go speak to them; they’re famous for being reasonable. Harley decides to go with, because after they kill her father, they’ll go after her mother.
Harley’s family is dysfunctional to say the least. It’s not surprising she turned out the way she did.