Written by: Hilary J. Bader
Directed by: Dan Riba
Animation by: Dong Yang
Original air date: May 15, 1999
My Rating: 3/5

Description: The episode can be summarized VERY quickly! It's about an assassin named Curare who attempts to kill Sam Young, Barbara Gordon's husband, who is about to testify against a big influent guy. So all along the episode Curare traps Sam Young somewhere and encounters Batman and fights him and Batman wins and Curare tries again (.................). Otherwise Barbara visits Bruce in the Batcave and Terry finds out she was Batgirl. They both meet again in a the street another day and Barbara tells Terry she and Bruce once dated in the past but she got weary and they split up...

Yes if Barbara didn't make these revelations about Bruce's past the plot of this episode would have been terrible. So thanks to that it's just in the middle. If you have read my summarize carefully you may have noticed the Curare was lame. And indeed it was. The whole episode seemed kindda rushed to me. Every time Curare appeared she was just playing with her sword, fighting, and that was it. I didn't see the point of the appearances. It's too bad since she looks terrific in her suit with her ninja moves and skills and her sword abilities...
The lines about the past were nice. The most surprising moment came up when Barbara started to chat about her relationship with Bruce. I definitely didn'tt expect that.
The animation was weird. Sometimes it was awfull, like in the very fist scene in the park when Curare chases Gordon and Sam, sometimes it was incredibly terrific and smooth, like in most of the action scenes. So overall the action sequences were very impressive.
I truly loved the endingof the episode. It was original and funny: seeing Curare hunted by one of the members of the League of Assassins was a great idea.

As a conclusion one can say the plot is poor and the action very well rendered. BUt it's surely not a great intro to Curare's character...

Salvor