Batman: The Animated Series
Episode 70
House & Garden
The ending of this episode is great. The build-up is a bit slow. Poison Ivy has gone straight, meanwhile there are a bunch of crimes fitting her Modus Operandi. Plants targeting rich people. Batman investigates her and turns up nothing. She’s married to her doctor Steven Carlyle who’s also a professor at Gotham University where Dick Grayson goes. He has two sons Chris and Kelly. Dick Grayson gets kidnapped and held for ransom.
Some action and thrilling stuff happens, Batman saves Dick Grayson and he puts on his Robin suit to help solve the case. Plot twist, Ivy is the villain. Chris and Kelly are girls, not boys. Ivy has been making plant clones of Steven Carlyle but could only make boys. They have a limited lifecycle and eventually mutate into a giant green monster.
Batman stops them by putting herbicide in the plant water. Ivy made one last clone of herself, knowing Batman would likely stop her. She bought enough time to escape. The ending scene of her flying away crying is more poetic than anything. Her fake happy life being married with two sons was the closest she’d ever get to normalcy.
Written by
Joseph Ammendolea
Owner/President
“I Like To Play With Toys” Productions®
ILikeToPlayWithToysProductions@Yahoo.com
