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Catwoman
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01:03:50
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01:10:18

SUMMARY

Late that night, Catwoman breaks into the Hedare mansion and snoops around until discovered by Laurel. Catwoman and Laurel engage in a vicious brawl until Laurel announces that she wants to help her take George down. Laurel informs Catwoman of George's whereabouts tonight and gives her a cell phone so she can contact her.

Meanwhile, George and Drina are attending a unique dance performance. When Drina leaves in a huff, Catwoman pounces on George and is about to kill him when the police burst in.

Catwoman flees across the stage into the rafters, where Tom Lone appears and tries unsuccessfully to apprehend her. Finally surrounded by cops, Catwoman thrusts a live cable into the circuit board, plunging the room into darkness as she makes her escape.

ANALYSIS

With the task of breaking and entering the Hedare mansion in order to dig up some dirt on her former boss, Patience finally gets the opportunity to make good on the term "cat burglar." Unfortunately, George and Laurel seem to have done most of her job for her, as Patience encounters no security guards, surveillance cameras, or guard dogs as she climbs over the gates and strolls right up to the house. Even when she gets there and slices a hole in the window, the next shot reveals Patience entering through an unlocked, already-open door.

Just like a cat, Patience immediately loses interest in her immediate goal, wandering the house and spinning around in an office chair instead of conducting her investigation. Perhaps she might have taken a nap in front of the fireplace, if Laurel didn't bring her back to reality with the immediate purpose of complaining about her marriage even more; to be sure, this relationship must be pretty bad if Laurel feels the need to air her dirty laundry to a complete stranger breaking into her house dressed up like a cat.

After their brief scuffle, Patience informs Laurel that Beau-line is so toxic she "wouldn't caulk a sink with it," leaving the viewer with a somewhat surreal mental image of Catwoman doing some home improvement. This is to say nothing of why she might dream of caulking a sink with face cream in the first place, or whether she measures the quality of all face creams by whether she would caulk a sink with it.

Laurel also decides to give Patience a cell phone, pretending to go along with her theory that George is responsible for Slavicky's death and Beau-line's cover-up. It may be naïve of Patience to accept such an easily-tracked device from someone she can hardly be sure of trusting; it downright unhygienic, however, when she proceeds to shove the phone down the front of her pants for safekeeping. Possibly, Patience is rethinking her decision to lose the pockets when cutting tiger stripes out of her leather pants.

At the Cirque du Soleil-style performance, George and Drina already appear to hate each other, raising the question of why he has a mistress at all if he's just going to take her to boring dance performances instead of having sex with her. George is awfully surprised when Catwoman suddenly appears and mounts him, but this is nothing compared to the raucous applause from the theater audience in response to what they believe is part of the show. This is certainly understandable, as Catwoman's interruption must be the only thing keeping many audience members awake.

In fact, the show they should be watching is going on in the rafters, where stage lights swing back and forth so perilously, so directly in the path of the walkway, as to suggest a growing pile of decapitated stagehands directly below. Tom Lone, now confronted with his girlfriend's alter ego, somehow fails to recognize her at this critical moment. At this point, even hearing her voice and seeing most of her face, Tom wouldn't think to suspect Patience if she scratched the word "Sorry" into his flesh with her diamond fingernails.


MEMORABLE SCREENCAPS
Helpfully, Laurel has already set this phone to "vibrate." Yeah, we went there.
These people are having the time of their lives.
Tom Lone looks down in confusion now that Catwoman has been replaced with a melting wax double.
Being classy: just another one of Catwoman's powers.
READER POLL
Who do you think is Laurel's stunt double?
(a) Bea Arthur
(b) Gene Hackman
(c) SPOILER! Laurel does all her own stunts because Beau-line makes her indestructible
SLOW ROLL CONNECTIONS
It's always nice to catch up with old friends. So it is with excitement that we note the location of tonight's dance performance: The Centah ! While it's nice to see that Honey's mom has REALLY pulled this place together, it's also comforting to learn that although Honey has clearly moved up in the world, her choreography for "Hydropolis" sucks as much as when she did a similar video for the Tweet .

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