Gotham Girls Webisode 310 Cold Hands Cold Heart

ORIGINAL AIR DATES: 11/19/02
EPISODE NUMBERS: 30
PRODUCTION CODE: 330

SYNOPIS:
_{The Commissioner, twitching in the Batsignal, explodes into a pile of gears and wheels and microchips: He’s a Robot! Who is behind this robotic Commissioner? None other than the Commissioner’s supposedly loyal assistant, Dora Smithy. Sister to Nora. Sister-in-law to Mr. Freeze. The Robotic Replacement was designed to crack down on the costumed villains – like Mr. Freeze – whom Dora blames for her sister’s fate. In a final pitched battle in an old Mr. Freeze hideout, Dora falls into a vat of cryo-solution and is turned into a female version of Mr. Freeze. The very thing she hated.}

_{Immediately after Batgirl's attack, Detective Montoya charges out the door to the roof, gun in hand. Batgirl, however, denies having done anything to the Commissioner, and draws her attention to the remains of a robot lying on a shattered Batsignal, switched in for Gordon around the time the men came back and made with Mr. Freeze's technology. The problem is, Mr. Freeze is still in jail, but Batgirl says she didn't quite have an accomplice in mind...}

_{Batgirl reveals a photo of Mr. Fries, his wife Nora, and another girl, with a message written to Nora and her new beau, signed "D." - Dora. They find an invoice in her office for a package picked up the same day the men arrived, taken from 333 Coldwater Road.}

_{This turns out to be the address of an all-but-abandoned ice cream factory, now housing the cryogenically frozen body of Commissioner Gordon, other high-end freezing equipment, and Dora. Hearing an alarm go off, she dons a costume and freeze gun, and goes to meet the intruders as they bust in through the gate.}

_{Montoya is frozen inside her car, but Batgirl eludes Dora, tying her up with a grappling hook. Dora assures Batgirl that Gordon is safe, even as she breaks free of her bonds, accidentally starting the revival process on his chamber. She rants about her motivations, about Victor Fries, who tore her and her sister Nora apart, and wouldn't let her sister die in peace, as she bears down on Batgirl, driving her on the defensive and knocking her against a piece of solid iron.}

_{Going on about how all "costumed menaces" should be destroyed, Dora holds Batgirl, beaten, over a vat - when she is interrupted by Commissioner Gordon, awake, out of his chamber and already up and about. Caught off-guard, she drops Barbara on the catwalk, and her raving takes on a defensive tone, trying to ignore the fact that if Victor had listened to her and not tried to save his wife, Nora would be dead. Faced with how much she has become like Victor Fries, or even sunk below him, she backs up - and slips on the ice she created, falling into the vat of freezing solution herself.}

_{At the police station, Catwoman, Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy are herded inside, in handcuffs. Ivy is reluctant, and Harley insists that they promised to let themselves be arrested - but Catwoman points out that they never promised not to escape. Seeing that her partners are already free, Harley easily liberates herself from her own handcuffs.}

_{The real Commissioner Gordon and Batgirl meet on the roof of the police department, discussing what's happened so far. Dora won't be charged; she's been "punished enough." However, in Arkham Asylum, Dora is seen locked away, frozen by her own hand... when her eyes open, solid red, and she exhales, cracking the glass on her chamber's window...}

Written By: TBA

Directed By: TBA

Tara Strong (Batgirl)

Adrienne Barbeau (Catwoman)

Adrienne Barbeau (Renee Montoya)

Jennifer Hale (Dora Smithy)

Arleen Sorkin (Harley
Quinn)

Diane Pershing (Poison

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