Batman: The Animated Series
Episode 53
Paging the Crime Doctor
Matthew Thorne is a doctor and Rupert Thorne’s brother. He’s a disgraced doctor who lost his license years ago and now works as a mob doctor for Thorne’s gang. Rupert needs a serious surgery but Matthew isn’t qualified to do it. So he kidnaps Dr Leslie Thompkins which puts Batman on the case.
While investigating the missing Doctor, Batman learns Matthew Thorne was friends with Bruce Wayne’s parents. Meanwhile Rupert Thorne orders Leslie Thompkins killed after the surgery is completed. Matthew Thorne finds out and will have none of it. He helps her escape. Batman shows up and saves the day.
The most touching part of the episode is when Bruce Wayne offers to help Matthew Thorne with his legal troubles on one condition. At which point Matthew Thorne decides he’s not for sale anymore and refuses. Then Wayne explains it’s nothing illegal, he just wants to know about his father. A touching ending to a man who we sometimes forget dresses like a bat and beats up criminals because he lost his parents as a child.
Written by
Joseph Ammendolea
Owner/President
“I Like To Play With Toys” Productions®
ILikeToPlayWithToysProductions@Yahoo.com
