Harvey Dent is on the loose and out for revenge in the penultimate episode of the season!
SPOILER WARNING! The following contains spoilers for Batman: Caped Crusader Episode 9 titled “The Killer Inside Me”. Do not proceed if you wish to avoid spoilers!
MAJOR POINTS
- Harvey Dent’s dual personality is in full swing
- Dent seeks revenge and ruthlessly kills several of Rupert Thorne’s men
Opening Stinger: Harvey Dent gives his victory speech for being elected mayor. However, the crowd whispers about his face and how he looks like a monster. Dent awakens in his home with half of his face bandaged. He sees Mayor Jessop appointing a new acting District Attorney. Dent vows they will all pay and smashes the TV.
Bruce Wayne takes Dent out to dinner to cheer him up. Dent makes increasingly angrier and meaner comments about everybody around him during their meal. Eventually, he stands up and removes his bandages, exposing his half-scarred face.
Dent walks the streets of Gotham while his split personalities have a conversation with each other. He rescues a man from getting mugged, only to shoot the assailant in the knee afterward. The mugger tells Montoya and Gordon the man who shot him had half of his face disfigured. Gordon knows this means Harvey.
Harvey tracks down Tony Zito, the man who disfigured him. He kills him by burning him alive and evades Batman’s pursuit. Dent then breaks into Rupert Thorne’s house and takes out all of his goons like something out of Scarface. Batman stops Dent from killing Thorne and his son. Harvey breaks down in tears weeping over what he’s done.
In the final scene, Dent finds that Barbara Gordon will be the lawyer representing him.
MAJOR QUESTIONS
- Will Dent survive the season?
- Will he even accept help from Barbara given their history?
- Will Thorne seek revenge after Dent killed so many of his men?
FINAL GRADE: B-
This episode started pretty much where the previous one left off, with Dent dealing with the injury and emotional anguish of his maiming. While he is never referred to as Two-Face, the duality of his personality still shows. It’s a good performance by Diedrich Bader presenting Harvey as talking like two separate people. This incarnation of Two-Face is depicted in a more sympathetic light than others. Dent is traditionally depicted as a good man whose bad side came out after his maiming. This time, Dent is a seedier character while his scarred side is the voice of reason.