Huntress goes undercover as part of a biker gang to help Reece capture them. Meanwhile, Barbara has concerns about her relationship with Wade and Dinah tries to get over her mother's death.

The best word to describe this episode would probably be 'bland'. It does move the relationships along a little, in the sense that it picks up Dinah's inability to express her grief after last episode, and the connection between Helena and Reece is explored a little more, but with the announcement of the show's cancellation coming this week, there's a feeling of it being a huge waste of time. We're not likely to see the pay-off of anything, so now I'm only really in it for the fight sequences and seeing Harley in action. Even if this were a show that was going to continue on, there's very much a feeling of running on the spot here. Barbara's reaction to Wade seems a bit ridiculous considering he's never had any problem with her disability before, Dinah's problem would be better if Rachel Skarsten didn't look like she is about to burst into tears at any moment while claiming she can't cry, and when there's a chance for one of the girls to meet Harley, the opportunity is squandered.

On this last point, this seems the perfect chance. After all, Helena is building a cover as a hard-living rebel, and knowing that Harley is behind what's going on would give her an edge. The slightly weird thing is that although the leader of the gang keeps referring to his boss as 'he', Barbara starts referring to the mysterious villain as 'she' immediately. How did they reach this conclusion? There doesn't seem to be a lot of especially convincing detective work going on for someone trained by Batman.

Next up, we have Reece. Apparently he's using Helena to infiltrate a gang because they'd spot him a mile off. Firstly, wouldn't she have to be on the books for something like this, and secondly is there not one person employed by New Gotham PD who can go undercover in a biker gang? It doesn't make sense; you can't just bring in vigilante assistance without someone noticing. On top of this, he's increasingly becoming a cop caricature: he's tough, stubborn, refuses to accept help, and in this episode is caught and beaten up, leading him to try to kill the ringleader, only to be stopped in his rage by Huntress. How many times have we seen something like that happen?

On the plus side, it's good to see Dinah getting out there and kicking some ass; she's been idle for too long and should be involved in the stories as much as possible; it's a shame Huntress refuses to work with someone, as it causes trouble trying to Dinah featured in the story, but at the end she comes through rather well. In theory there's nothing massively wrong with this episode, it's just formulaic and obvious and needs a slightly better group of villains too, as this lot are the tedious posturing type for most of the episode, especially the girl called 'Wolf' who serves very little purpose other than scowling. There should be more to this series.

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