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Three Birds and a Baby

Episode Number: 4    Season Num: 1    First Aired: Wednesday October 30, 2002    Prod Code: 175453
When Helena rescues an abandoned baby boy and brings him back to the Clocktower, Barbara and Dinah try to help, but to everyone's surprise, the baby, Guy, is only happy when Helena is holding him. Even more surprising is the fact that Guy wakes up from his nap as a walking, talking 5-year-old and is soon a teenager. Now in a race against time, the Birds of Prey discover that Guy is programmed to live his entire life in three days, and to kill the first person he attaches to, putting Helena in grave danger. (TV-PG, V)

Cast and Crew

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Writer: David H. Goodman, Julie Hess
Director: Craig Zisk
Star: Ian Abercrombie (Alfred Pennyworth),  Dina Meyer (Barbara Gordon/ Oracle),  Shemar Moore (Jesse Reese),  Mia Sara (Dr. Harleen Quinzel/Harley Quinn),  Rachel Skarsten (Dinah Lance),  Ashley Scott (Helena Kyle/ Huntress)
Guest Star: Bobby Edner (Guy at 9 Years),  Kevin Rankin (Dr. Lewis Melfin),  Brody Hutzler (Mercenary),  Brad Bufanda (Punk),  Rachel Monet Koda (Mother),  Victor Bevine (Guy at 40 Years),  Matthew Josten (Guy at 4 Years),  Richard Stobie (Guy at 70 Years),  Michael Welch (Guy at 14 Years),  Riley Smith (Guy at 20 Years),  Brad Bufanda (Bully)

Notes

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Music:
Fragile Awarness by The Pattern
Guns Save by Atrixo
Flesh and Blood by Kirstin Candy (edit)
German title: "Baby" (edit)
Episode was orignally titled "A Guy's Life" but later changed to its current title. (edit)
The title of this episode came from a play on a film comedy titled Three Men and a Baby in which three men had a baby left on their doorstep, but did not know the mother or anything. They took care of it and then the mom came around and they did not know which man was the dad. (edit)

Quotes

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Harleen: Just so I understand, the woman who has continually thwarted my plans is alive and unidentified, the prototype has been completely lost... how is this possible?
Mercenary: They were fighting a coordinated attack, like a team.
Harleen: He was programmed to kill her! He was programmed to kill anything in his path. How is she doing this? Drugs? Some kind of counter-implant? What she possibly have used that would be more powerful than the neural mesh?
Mercenary: Well it looked to me like they were friends.
Harleen: Oh, that's it. She overrode millions of dollars in bioengineering research and surgical procedures by becoming his friend. Don't be insane. (edit)
Guy: You know you just feel sorry for me cuz I'm a freak.
Dinah: Oh please, like the three of us are so aggressively normal. (edit)
Mercenary: I'm a little confused. You're a psychiatrist?
Harleen: That's part of who I am. I don't suppose you tell people at cocktail parties that you're a mercenary for hire willing to kill as brutally as necessary, if the price is right?
Mercenary: I usually leave out the killing part. (edit)
Helena: Are you angling for a phone number, detective?
Jesse: Would it do me any good if I say yes?
Helena: I doubt it, but I'd enjoy watching you try. (edit)
Guy: Why do we live inside a big clock?
Dinah: He has a point
Helena: Hey, don't look at me, I didn't pick it--senior superhero chooses the lair. (edit)

Trivia

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Trivia: The constellation they're looking at, at the end of the episode, is Orion also known as The Hunter. (edit)
At the end of the episode, Harley breaks the neck of the mercenary with one snap. Killing people is not usually her style. In all the comic incarnations of Harley, she's usually been squeamish about killing anybody, and leaves it up to "Mr. J." Most of the time the worst she'd do is knock someone unconscious with a huge mallet or drugs; since when did she become homicidal? (edit)
Why doesn't Dinah ever use her powers on Guy at any of his stages of growth to figure out something about him? Or does she try off-screen and just not find out anything? (edit)
It's pretty hard to believe that the baby's neck survives all those whiplash maneuvers Helena executes while fighting the bad guys, what with its totally unsupported head. (edit)
Watch the clock gears in the tower, particularly in the last scene when they're talking outside. The teeth of the two wheels don't mesh - they just rotate separately of each other. (edit)

Allusions

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Dr. Melfin: Very impressive, but are you faster than a speeding bullet?
Another Superman in-joke/reference. (edit)
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