- Title: Batman: Caped Crusader – And Be A Villain
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The second episode of Batman: Caped Crusader starts when the actress Bruce Wayne (Hamish Linklater) is dating goes missing after their night out together. Batman’s investigation leads him into a swordfight on the set (in proper Errol Flynn style). The fight’s end leads our detective to uncover the bodies of a producer and co-star of the film who somehow Montoya (Michelle C. Bonilla) talked with after he was already dead (we also get an early scene where Montoya asks Bruce questions as well, seeing her appear multiple times over the course of the investigation).
“And Be A Villain” works really well in reintroducing a classic version of Clayface in this darker version of Gotham City as the bruised actor who turned to the wrong person for help and ended up a monster. After catching him in a lie, Montoya follows the aging Basil Karlo (Dan Donohue) only for him too to turn up dead (although it’s not a human body left behind this time around which Batman will later uncover while Montoya discovers the motives for the crimes). We also get a sequence of Batman chasing Clayface around the city before losing him and the final confrontation which explains Karlo’s condition and his confession that, as the title of the episode suggests, a villain is the role he was born to play.
