EPISODE NUMBER: 39, Production Code 313

PLOT SUMMARY:

Hugo Strange creates a AI database called DAVE (Digitally Advanced Villain Emulator), encoded with the minds of Gotham's greatest criminals, in order to better predict their crimes. However, DAVE breaks free and proclaims himself to be "Gotham's ultimate criminal mastermind".

WRITTEN BY: Alexx Van Dyne

DIRECTED BY: Brandon Vietti

CAST:
Rino Romano (Bruce Wayne / Batman)
Alastair Duncan (Alfred Pennyworth)
Mitch Pileggi (Commissioner Gordon)
Jeff Glen Bennett (D.A.V.E.)
Richard Green (Dr. Hugo Strange)

QUOTES:
Bruce: "How can DAVE not realize he's a computer program if he just uploaded himself?"
Hugo Strange: "The criminally insane mind often creates its own reality"

INTERESTING NOTES:
- Richard Green takes over the role of Hugo Strange from the late Frank Gorshin.

- The psychopathic computer, DAVE, may be named as an homage to Dr. Dave Bowman, who battles the insane computer HAL9000 in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968

- DAVE's "face" resembles Brainiac's distinctive V of lights, inverted and red instead of green.

- DAVE's fashion of discovering Batman's identity is similar to how Ra's al Ghul deduced the secret in the Batman: TAS episode "The Demon's Quest (1)" (physical description, necessary wealth).

- Batman faces an artifical intelligence whose name is short for a longer, more technically specific title (DAVE). This is very much like HARDAC in the Batman: TAS two-parter "Heart of Steel".

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