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Prey for the Hunter

Episode Number: 3    Season Num: 1    First Aired: Wednesday October 23, 2002    Prod Code: 175452
Helena and Detective Reese clash again when they both try to track down a serial killer who destroys metahumans by taking on their powers. Meanwhile, Dinah ditches school when she learns from Helena there is a metahuman-only bar, and Barbara meets Wade's parents who think she is not normal enough for their son. (TV-14,L,V)

Cast and Crew

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Writer: Kay Foster, Adam Armus, Adam Horowitz, Edward Kitsis
Director: Chris Long
Star: Dina Meyer (Barbara Gordon/ Oracle),  Ashley Scott (Helena Kyle/ Huntress),  Rachel Skarsten (Dinah Lance),  Shemar Moore (Jesse Reese)
Recurring Role: Shawn Christian (Wade Brixton)
Guest Star: Josh Waters (Frosty),  Robert Patrick Benedict (Gibson Kafka),  Callie de Fabry (Gabby),  Nathan Holland (Carl),  Autumn Reeser (Girlfriend),  Charlene Hall (Kindley Teacher),  Hans Hernke (Student),  Joe Flanigan (Claude Morton)

Notes

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German title: "Nur nicht normal" (means: all, but normal) (edit)
Ratings for 12/04/02 - 2.7/4, Position 5 of 6, 111 out of 136 Shows. (edit)
Ratings for 10/23/02 - 4.8/7, Position 5 of 6, 92 out of 131 Shows (tie). (edit)
This episode is unusually short, it only runs 39:47 in length. (edit)
The song that was playing during the last scene was "Anything But Ordinary" by Avril Lavigne which was uncredited in the show. While in Smallville's episode 2-2 "Heat", Mark Snow (who also does the music for the show) used another Avril Lavigne song called "Tomorrow" which was also uncredited. (edit)

Quotes

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Morton: Now, my chief says this guy doesn't exist, that no serial killer would use such a wide variety of methods.
Reese: And what do you say?
Morton: I say this one does. That's the problem with only looking for things you've already seen... it makes you blind to the stuff that's right in front of your face.
Reese: Ha. Yeah, well, I hear you on that one, but you might just want to keep that opinion to yourself if you want to be taken seriously around these parts.
Morton: Ask me if I care. (edit)
Wade: Hello. Hi. Um, listen, about Tuesday night, I was wondering. I, I know it's really short notice, but my folks are coming through town, and...
Barbara: Oh, oh, no, no. I, I totally understand. You need to cancel. That's fine.
Wade: Actually, I was hoping you'd come to dinner with us.
(Barbara stares in shock)
Wade: Nice deer in the headlights impression. Very subtle. (edit)
Carl: What do you want?
Morton: I want you.
Carl: Hey, man, I did nothing to you.
Morton: It's not about what you did. It's about what you are. (edit)
Helena: Why is school so terrible? Did something happen?
Dinah: Not exactly. I just thought it was going to be different here, you know? But people still stare at me, and they won't talk to me. I can see it coming. It's going to be just like home.
Helena: News Flash - it's high school, the closest thing our society has to institutionalized torture. (edit)
Helena: If you want to know if I killed him... I didn't. He jumped. You look terrible.
Reese: And you don't.
Helena: Another perk of the meta lifestyle. I heal quick...on the outside, anyway...I can't decide if I should thank you for not shooting me or beat you senseless for drawing a gun on me, 'cause, you know, "things" like me are dangerous and violent.
Reese: Are you saying that you aren't dangerous and violent?
Helena: Absolutely, I am. But not 'cause I'm meta.
Reese: Look, I'm just, I'm not used to...
Helena: No, it's time for you to listen. Meta-humans are just people. Not all metas are bad, just like not all cops are good. There's a lot of meta-human criminals in new Gotham, because there's a lot of criminals here, period. And as for me, I'm half-meta, and I'm half-human, and I am proud of both.
Reese: I never thought you killed him. But... beat him to a bloody pulp, that one crossed my mind a few times. Hey, why won't you just tell me your name?
Helena: Because the first time we met, you asked me who I was. But last night, you asked me "what" I was. I won't tell you my name. You haven't earned it. (edit)

Trivia

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At the end, Dinah saves Huntress because Morton gets a crippling headache in the presents of two metahumans. However at the start of the episode, Morton (presumable) kills "acid spitting guy" in the proximity of Huntress. Why didn't Morton get a crippling headache then? (edit)
When they show the "No Mans Land" outside, it said "Metahuman Bar Only." Apparently they don't take their own rules seriously, because later Barbara Gordon, who is not a metahuman, decides to show up. (edit)
Why does Helena leave Reese with Morton, who just shot and tried to kill him when he refused to shoot Helena? All she does is tell Barbara to call an ambulance and then she runs off. Of course, Morton doesn't finish up killing Reese for some unknown reason or another that isn't explained. (edit)
Good thing the roof that Helena and Morton are fighting on is handicap-accessible so Barbara can show up for the last scene. (edit)
When they grapple on the edge of the roof, Morton says they'll fall together and die together. But...we've seen repeatedly that Helena can throw herself off high buildings and survive...ummm, somehow, with some metahuman power or another. And Morton seems to have a full understanding of the powers he mimics. So why would he think they're going to die at all? (edit)

Allusions

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Dinah: Barbara, you're channeling June Cleaver.
June Evelyn Bronson Cleaver, the wife of Ward Cleaver and the mother of two sons, is a fictional dramatic character on the American television sitcom Leave It to Beaver. (edit)
Helena: Fine, I'll go to No Man's Land.
In the Batman comics, this was a story arc that took place over about a year's time. Gotham was hit by an earthquake in an arc called "Cataclysm" which was followed by "Aftermath." "No Man's Land" was the story-arc that began the restructuring of Gotham after the earthquake in "Cataclysm." (edit)
Det. Morton: I've seen perps who can shoot lightning from their fingertips, drop from ten stories, or turn into bugs.
The first two villain-of-the-weeks on Smallville could...shoot lightning from their fingertips and turn into bugs. (edit)
Bludhaven
Morton said he was transfered from Bludhaven. Bludhaven is the home city of Nightwing (who in reality is Dick Grayson, formerly Batman's sidekick Robin). (edit)
Morton: I guess he thinks I'm Mulder Jr.
Nod to the X-Files and David Duchovny's character - apparently the X-Files show exists in the DC universe. (edit)
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