Wednesday, September 25, 2024

The DC Animated Universe Weekly Review - Batman: The Animated Series

 Batman: The Animated Series

Episode 31

The Cape and the Cowl Conspiracy

 


This is a solid episode to watch in first run but lacks the same pizazz in repeats.  It’s still fun though.   Batman is helping Commissioner Gordon track down some missing stolen McGuffin.  Batman knows Josiah Wormwood did it but cannot prove it.  So he tries to shakedown Baron Wacklaw Josek to get the information.  Josek then hires Wormwood to get Batman’s Cape and Cowl.  Wormwood agrees and through a series of elaborate traps eventually captures Batman’s Cape and Cowl.  Wormwood probably could have bought or fabricated his own but one can assume there’s something in the challenge.  Wormwood had a very Riddler style to Batman’s traps but that villain hadn’t shown up yet.  The big twist is Josek is really Batman (the real Josek was thoroughly scared out of town by Batman) and it was all a ploy to trick Wormwood into confessing how he pulled off the crime Commissioner Gordon was having Batman investigate.  A solid bate and switch too.  Since Wormwood confesses to a different crime all on his own, his lawyers cannot argue coercion or entrapment.  Batman did solicit Wormwood to commit a bunch of crimes to steal his Cape and Cowl but Wormwood isn’t prosecuted for that.

 

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Joseph Ammendolea
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