The second season of The CW’s Bat Woman starts on Sunday night with the episode title asking an important question that Alice (Rachel Skarsten), Jacob (Dougray Scott), Sophie (Meagan Tandy), Lucas (Camrus Johnson), and Maria (Nicole Kang) needs an answer. What happened to Kate Kane (Ruby Rose)? But with Kate out, the focus shifts to Gotham’s newest defender in Javicia Leslieit’s Ryan Wilder, who sees the process as an opportunity to correct the street injustices that she sees every day. But taking on the mantle of “The Bat” also means facing a particularly deadly bandit gallery consisting of Alice (who learns very quickly that it is Batwoman doesn’t have that “family bond” with her to hold her), Safiyah (Shivaani Ghai), murderer Victor Zsasz (Alex Morf) and Black Mask and the False Face Society. So much for a learning curve
With only a few hours to go, the CW released a preview offering us some insight into Wilder’s story when she meets her parole officer. In the clip, Wilder explains the harsh realities of someone’s life with a record just trying to get a second chance at a job and a place to live – and how Jacob’s CROWS destroyed the life she knew:
A look at what’s to come for the second season of Batwoman
In the second season of Bat Woman, when Ryan Wilder (Javicia Leslie) first discovers Kate Kane’s bathing suit, she has no idea how her life is about to change dramatically. A sassy and smart lesbian with a difficult past, Ryan sees the suit as his chance to finally be powerful and no longer a victim while surviving on the city’s tough streets.
While Ryan gets lost in the shadows, Gotham struggles with his missing hero, believing that Batwoman fled the city after a public standoff with Commander Jacob Kane (Dougray Scott) and crows. But Kate Kane’s disappearance hits most heavily at home, where Jacob, Sophie (Meagan Tandy), Lucas (Camrus Johnson), Mary (Nicole Kang), and even Alice (Rachel Skarsten) each struggles with devastating news in its own way. Meanwhile, the False Face Society tightens its grip on Gotham, distributing a dangerous new drug known as Snakebite, “Bruce Wayne” (Warren Christie) finds his way home to wreak havoc, Safiyah (Shivaani Ghai) comes up with revenge plans, and a new set of villains descends on the city.
It doesn’t take long for Ryan to realize how much the symbol on the suit means to Gotham, launching her on a personal journey that takes her from an incipient substitute to a confident cover crusade, from living in her van with her plant to chasing villains in the Batmobile. Ryan Wilder becomes a Batwoman very different from Kate Kane – she own Batwoman – but with the same understanding of what it means to be a hero.
Based on DC characters, Bat Woman is from Berlanti Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television with executive producers Greg Berlanti (Arrow, Flash, Supergirl), Caroline Dries (The Vampire Diaries, Smallville), Geoff Johns (Arrow, Flash, Titans), Chad Fiveash (The Vampire Diaries, Gotham), James Patrick Stoteraux (The Vampire Diaries, Gotham) and Sarah Schechter (Arrow, Flash, Supergirl) Shivani Ghai (Dominion, The Catch), Leah Gibson (Jessica Jones), Nathan Owens (Demonic nannies), and Alex Morf (Gotham) join the cast of the second season.