The Everywhere Man

"**The Everywhere Man**" is the fourth episode of the fourth season of *The Batman* and the forty-third episode overall.

## Synopsis

When evidence from a series of art thefts by the Everywhere Man, a new costumed villain with the power to replicate, implicates Bruce's close friend John Marlowe, Batman believes there must be another explanation. Now, Batman must unmask the identity of the "Everywhere Man" and prove his friend's innocence.

## Plot

John Marlowe is a close friend of Bruce Wayne. He is known as an introverted scientist and inventor with a passion for art. After being away on a quantum technology research funded by the government, Marlowe reappeared as a highly sociable and proud character who is willing to spend a lot on expanding his art collection. It is an attempt to steal a painting from this collection that brings Batman into contact with the Everywhere Man. When the robbery was botched, Everywhere Man eluded Batman and vanished inside a broom closet. Later at the Batcave, the Dynamic Duo are investigating the blueprints of the building,confused by it since there was no way out of that closet. The Batwave then rings. The next art robbery happened at the Gotham Museum of Art, where a group of Everywhere Men toyed with Batman and Robin. Surprisingly, nothing from the attack on the company earlier was stolen, as proven by Clea. Back at the Batcave, Batman scans a hair sample and finds it belonging to Marlowe,which does not make sense, as Batman saved Marlowe from Everywhere Man earlier. Then at Marlowe's company, Bruce pays a visit. He wants to see the closet for himself. John opens it for him, and unbeknownst to him,Bruce is scanning it with his glasses. Alfred says he is picking up traces of low-spectrum radioactivity. Dick has also found the same traces at the museum on the stolen paintings that mysteriously reappeared. Bruce then picks up the traces all over John. At the company, Batman brings up that John went away on a quantum technology research funded by the government, which would explain why he is radioactive. He detects two radioactive spots in the building, so he and Robin split up. Batman enters a confidential room,and finds Everywhere Man at a computer. Batman subdues him quickly and unmasks him, revealing him to be Marlowe. Batman suspects Marlowe has been teleporting, but in reaity ,he has been cloning. Batman deduced that they had been dealing with a gang of thieves who were all wearing identical costumes that created the illusion of only one perpetrator. Further investigation revealed that Marlowe had created the Quantex, a device that could duplicate objects, including people. He reveals he can pull the clones as well as create them,which explains how one of them escaped the closet. He then admits that he duplicated the art he stole; he took the originals and left the copies. Meanwhile, Robin is sneaking past the clones to free Batman from the Everywhere Man. Robin finds a door with the "prisoner" inside. He beats the clones guarding the prisoner, who he assumes to be Batman, He opens the door, and finds the original Marlowe. Meanwhile, Marlowe's clone says the original Marlowe had used the device on himself to expedite his research. This first duplicate developed free will, subsequently imprisoned the original Marlowe and took his place. The duplicate then created the identity of the "Everywhere Man" and began stealing things using the device to both create a "gang" to commit the crimes and to leave a copy of the stolen item behind. One of the clones then revolts against the copied Marlowe and demands to conquer the world instead of wasting time with art. Marlowe pulls the clone into the device. Batman theorises Marlowe killed the original, but he confesses he is a collector, not a murderer. Batman realises the original Marlowe is in the building, which is all he needed to know. He drops a smoke pellet and escapes. Marlowe sends his clones everywhere around the building to find Batman. A fight with Batman and the Everywhere Men occurs at the atrium. The copied Marlowe gets there and boasts, then gets striked by Robin. Marlowe summons more clones. Robin reveals he has the Quantex prototype, and makes his own army. The Robins fight the Everywhere Men. The Robin clones are taken out easily, since the prototype's clones are not as durable. The clones then capture the original John, and Batman runs out of gadgets. Batman cleverly plays with the clones' heads. He says that after this, Marlowe will have no use for them, and they will all cease to exist. They fight each other for survival. The original Marlowe then tricks the bulk of the Everywhere Man duplicates into turning on the first duplicate. The duplicate erases all the clones to protect himself. In the chaos, Marlowe was able to recover the Quantex from the first duplicate and subsequently erased Everywhere Man from existence. Marlowe returned his art collection to the Museum of Art and was not held responsible for the crimes that were committed by his duplicates. John states that part of him always wanted to be like the first duplicate, but Clea admits she likes him as is.

## Cast/Characters

* Rino Romano as Bruce Wayne/The Batman
* Evan Sabara as Dick Grayson/Robin
* Alastair Duncan as Alfred Pennyworth
* Brandon Routh as John Marlowe/Everywhere Man
* Allison Mack as Clea
* James Gordon (cameo)
* Robinson Sprang (cameo)

## Events

- Character debuts:

* Everywhere Man
* Clea

- Everywhere Man is redeemed.

## Trivia

* When Robin swipes the card to open the prison cell, the automatic lock stops at the combination "102415". That same number is also October 24, 1915 which is the birthday of Batman creator Bob Kane.
* Greg Weisman did not know who would voice Marlowe and Clea when writing the script.

## Errors

* There are 2 of the woman with a purple dress and red hair.

## References

1. ↑ https://www.s8.org/gargoyles/askgreg/search.php?qid=11388