- Title: Batman: Caped Crusader – Night Ride
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Hmm, okay? The oddest episode of the First Season of Batman: Caped Crusader introduces a ghostly anti-Robin Hood terrorizing the poor of Gotham City by robbing from charities and the like. While the episode’s B-story continues to play out the seediness of Gotham City in Harvey Dent (Diedrich Bader) falling behind in the polls and accepting the help of Rupert Thorne (Cedric Yarbrough) which will have repercussions in the final two episodes of the season, this ghost story certainly seems a bit out of place. The ghost does weave into Harvey’s story, giving him another public black eye and causing the candidate to take a hard look at Thorne’s offer.
Discovering he’s actually fighting a ghost, and not someone who very much appears to be a Scooby-Doo villain masquerading as one to rob armored cars, Batman (Hamish Linklater) enlists the help of occult expert Linton Midnite (also voiced by Yarbrough) who isn’t really given a proper introduction here but provides the Caped Crusader with means to exorcise the ghost. The episode is also notable for including Lucius Fox (Bumper Robinson) attempting to do some good in Gotham City and Alfred (Jason Watkins) who is momentarily possessed by the ghost.
