"That's the way with me- always late..."
Yes, I know: the cliffhanger resolution isrubbish, re-editing things so Batman and Robin can nip down a conveniently-placed trap door, emerging next to a conveniently placed Alfred in his conveniently placed car. Not only that, but the ending cliffhanger is also Batman and Robin in a building about to face a fiery doom.
And yet... this episode is actually pretty good. And you know what? I know it;s a movie serial, but this episode is genuinely all actual plot advancement. Yes, I know, unheard of.
It's amusing how Daka is getting increasingly exasperated by his underlings' failures, but his thinking is sound here- hearing of Marshall talking to Chuck White and arranging his murder by the splendidly outre means of a poisoned cigarette. Marshall is discovered dead just as Bruce happens to be at the station to identify Marshall, hearing the Captain ruefully describe Batman as his "best detective". Hilariously, Bruce steals some evidence, test it in his lab and then, as Batman, rings up the Captain to tell him. I like this Captain much more than Jim Gordon.
We even get Daka using Linda as bait for Batmam, ad Martin as bait for the, er, bait, actually developing existing plot threads. This is a rather striking upswing in quality, and the racism is, well, no worse than the usual baseline. Can they keep this up?
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