Warning: SPOILERS for Batwoman season 2 premiere.
The Batwoman season 2 premiere saw Alice finally reveal the details of her grand plan for revenge upon her father, Jacob Kane, which, amusingly, was virtually identical to one of Ethan Hunt's plans in Mission Impossible 2. And it's interesting because the plan in that film was used against Sean Ambrose; a villain played by Dougray Scott, who also plays Jacob Kane on Batwoman.
The Mission Impossible franchise is famous for its daring action sequences and ever-twisting plotlines. One of the most famous twists in Mission Impossible 2 centered around Sean Ambrose thinking he finally had Ethan Hunt at his mercy, taunting the super-spy before emptying the clip of his gun into him as Hunt moaned helplessly, his jaw apparently broken by Ambrose's henchmen. It was only in his moment of triumph that Ambrose noticed a tell-tale bandage on Hunt's hand, revealing that he wasn't really Ethan Hunt, but his right-hand man, Hugh Stamp, who had lost a finger earlier in the film. Hunt had cleverly fit Stamp with one of his trademark latex masks after taping his mouth shut, giving Hunt the distraction he needed to make his escape.
Alice had a remarkably similar plan, though her scheme only made sense to her. The final episodes of Batwoman season 1 found Alice partnering with the villain Hush, trying to recover the journal of Lucius Fox so she could learn the secret of how to destroy Batwoman's apparently impenetrable armor. Eventually she discovered that Kryptonite was the only substance capable of piercing the Bat-Suit, leading her to construct a special flesh-mask for Hush that would allow him to impersonate Bruce Wayne and acquire the last piece of Kryptonite on Earth, which was under lock and key in Wayne Tower. Hush was willing to play along for the sake of making his dreams of becoming Bruce Wayne come true, and it all would've led to Alice having Jacob kill Kate, albeit not knowing he was shooting his daughter.
Alice finally gave Hush an explanation in "What Happened To Kate Kane?" as she drunkenly mourned her sister and lamented that her perfect revenge plan had been ruined by Kate's apparent death. When Hush asked Alice why it mattered since Kate was dead either way, Alice explained that once she had the Kryptonite, she was going to arrange for Jacob Kane, who had been hunting Batwoman for months, to acquire it. Alice then planned to arrange a confrontation between the two, during which Commander Kane would get the chance to shoot Batwoman with the Kryptonite. Only then, as Jacob Kane pulled off Batwoman's cowl to see the face of the woman who had defied him for so long, would he realize that he had just murdered his own daughter. Thus would Alice have her revenge upon the twin sister she felt had betrayed her and the father she felt had abandoned her after she was kidnapped as a teenager and raised by an abusive mad doctor.
Despite Batwoman utilizing the same false-face tricks as Mission Impossible 2, this seems to be more of a happy coincidence than an intentional nod to Dougray Scott's villainous role. Tricking someone into killing their ally is a fairly old trope, regardless of the circumstances. Unfortunately for Alice, while she didn't bring her plan to fruition, she did manage to claim some degree of satisfaction by revealing her sister's secret identity to their father, leaving him to cope with the fact that Kate Kane had died thinking her father hated her.
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