• Airdate: February 24, 1993
• Director: Dan Riba
• Writer: Martin Pasko

     A girl wakes in her bed to the arrival of her friend, “Mojo,” as a pair of invisible hands put a locket down beside her. The girl, Kimmy, tells him that her mom said they will be moving soon, which shocks Mojo. Kimmy’s mother, Helen, walks in asking her who she is talking to, thinking that Mojo is Kimmy’s imaginary friend.
        Lloyd Ventrix, at a jewelry expo, enters a bathroom and puts on a grey outfit, hitting a switch that turns him invisible. He begins stealing jewelry and an attending Bruce Wayne changes into Batman in the bathroom. He follows the invisible man and is able to cover him in paint, but the man is able to burn it away and escape after beating Batman around. At his hideout, we learn Lloyd is Kimmy’s father, and he vows to not let Helen, his ex-wife, take Kimmy away. He confronts Helen, but she refuses to have anything to do with him and tells him to stay away. Batman questions a scientist about the special plastic invented not too long ago that works as an invisibility cloak. It is revealed that Lloyd was an errand boy for the scientists and is the only other person to really know about it. Batman goes to Helen’s home and warns her, telling her the plastic is toxic. Inside Kimmy’s room, her father talks her into following ‘Mojo.’ Batman takes off to find them.
        Lloyd reveals himself to Kimmy, who knows he isn’t supposed to be near her. Batman appears and knocks Lloyd aside as Kimmy runs back home. Ventrix gets in his, also invisible, car as Batman jumps atop. Letting the car get hit by a car as he escapes, the two continue fighting and Batman uses a water tower to reveal Ventrix’s location by puncturing it and raining water down, at which point he beats and subdues him.
        On a new night, Kimmy is talking to someone outside about moving far away. Helen enters and asks who Kimmy is speaking to, who says it is Batman. Helen closes the window, telling Kimmy to get to bed, as we see Batman on the roof of their house.

        See No Evil is kind of a frustrating episode. I like the fact that it’s more of a small scale, personal story that tackles a very real and creepy subject, all things considered. There’s also quite a bit of ridiculousness here that sort of ends up taking away from the overall tone of the episode, with a few of the ideas seemingly here just because it was thought to be neat to do but don’t really end up working.
        The villain here can be argued as one dimensional, and I’d give you that. But this is a story where it’s fine, and a very straight-forward, angry, bitter criminal worked well enough here. I’ve seen people say they wished the father was more 3-dimensional and less of a stereotype, possibly even being somewhat sympathetic (or as sympathetic as one can get here), presented as someone who falls into disturbing desperation. While I agree that would have been interesting, I’m not sure if they would have been able to decently set it up in the 22-minutes they have without it feeling like his jump to kidnapping is a sudden change in character.
        Though they don’t get a ton of screen-time, Kimmy and her mother are both still very likable here. The scene between the mother and Batman after Kimmy was kidnapped is really good, with a lot of emotion in the performance in a small space of time.

        The fight scenes between Batman and Ventrix are well-staged, with good touches made to the fact that Batman is dealing with someone he cannot see. The use of water near the end is especially great, leading to wonderful imagery.

        Now, the bad. First of all, I can suspend my disbelief enough to buy that this plastic suit can make Ventrix invisible. Sure. But there are moments it gets to be too much. I wrote in my notes that I don’t understand how him simply holding the briefcase makes it disappear, as well as the things he drops into it as he steals them. I had completely forgotten, then, about the ending sequence, where an entire car disappears. How? I feel like I missed something. I also feel as though that was only included because the idea of Batman on top of an invisible car sounded too good to pass up, including a line from two witnesses they pass by who say; “I didn’t know he could fly.” It’s such a massive jump that it kind of takes you out of the moment.
        Speaking of the two remarking on Batman being able to ‘fly’, there are a few instances of tonal whiplash. Batman chases the invisible man to an abandoned floor under construction, where he exclaims; “Where are you? I know you’re here.” Cut to a worker sitting somewhere eating a sandwich and looking confused and worried. These two moments in particular come at times when everything around it is supposed to be dramatic, and they end up really standing out as being odd choices.
        There are a few other bits that don’t quite work here. The suit can magically burn (?) off anything on it that makes it visible. Again, how? Also, I can buy the suit may be toxic, though have a hard time buying that prolonged exposure to it causes ‘damage to the mind.’ Maybe the toxic-ness does that? I don’t know, but it feels like they placed it into the episode to raise the stakes. Which shouldn’t be needed considering we’re dealing with a crazy, obsessive man who can turn invisible and is planning on kidnapping a child.
        Batman also easily passes up the opportunity to tranquilize Ventrix near the end, instead deciding to toss out a line and hit a flying kick. C’mon, buddy, you’re smarter than that!
        And how does Ventrix survive a blind leap out of a car from an elevated train track onto an apartment rooftop?

        There’s a bit here where Bruce changes into Batman in the bathroom of the gathering where Ventrix first begins stealing things, which could have gone badly had someone noticed he was the only one that went in there and then, voila, Batman came out. But I don’t really care about that as it leads to a genuinely funny moment where, coming out of the bathroom meaning business, Batman throws the door open so hard it knocks the heck out of a nearby guard by accident.
        There’s also a moment where Batman says ‘peekaboo’ to Ventrix before punching him. Stupid or awesome? Or awesomely stupid? You decide!

        It might sound like there is quite a bit wrong with the episode, and there is, with a lot of my notes dedicated to me being snarky and sassy towards it. But even with all of that, this was always an episode that I enjoyed. Is it great? No. Is it memorable? Not necessarily. Could it have been better and maybe said more about these kind of real world threats in its universe? Definitely, but it’s not a total waste, in my mind, and it’s not an episode you’d regret spending 22-minutes with. Lord knows the last episode I looked at featuring kids was infinitely worse.