Stephanie Brown

**Stephanie Brown** is a formidable coder, but her greatest talent might be hiding a less-than-perfect home life. With sarcasm matched only by her intellect that ensures no one could talk down on her and get away with it, Stephanie was raised on a steady diet of brain-teasers and puzzles. But to Stephanie, the greatest puzzle of them all may well be the one within herself.

## Appearance

Like Turner, Stephanie appears to be between 16 and 17 years old, she is of average height, athletic build and has blonde hair and brown eyes, in most of the series she is seen wearing the school uniform but has also shown that she likes it better gothic and punk style.

## Biography

### Background

She grew up with Crystal Brown and Arthur Brown, her father being a talent show presenter, who taught her how to solve and discover clues as a child, which would help her in her future missions.

### Pilot

Stephanie first appears in the pilot episode where she is seen talking to Turner, after the fencing match between Brody and Turner ends, she attends to Turner's party where she kisses Brody (much to Turner's jealousy), after the party, Stephanie comforts Turner over the death of her father, and they discover the Batcave in Wayne Mansion, they use the Batcomputer to hack the Gotham's banks and find out who paid Bruce Wayne's alleged killers for murdering him , there they realize that someone framed Turner by putting their name on the receipt of the $100,000 withdrawal, after Turner is arrested, Stephanie tries to discover who was responsible for having framed Turner.

### Scene of the Crime

After Turner is arrested, everyone looks at Stephanie since she was Turner's best friend, then Brody talks to her, and Steph reveals that Turner asked her to hack Gotica's bank to find out who framed him by putting the withdrawal of With $100,000 in his account, Brody tries to convince Steph to stop helping Turner out of trouble but Steph ignores him. Stephanie goes to the hideout but Duela threatens her with her knife, thinking that Stephanie was a stranger but Turner convinces her to drop her knife, then Stephanie tells Turner that the police confiscated everything in the Batcave, including the Batcomputer. Harvey discovers that Stephanie is the one who has been helping Turner, so Harvey sends a team of police officers to bring Stephanie to the police station for questioning. In the interrogation, Stephanie refuses to speak or confess anything, then Brody arrives, Stephanie thinks gave her up, so Harvey thinks to talk to Brody since Stephanie refused to confess or say anything, after Brody's interrogation, he confesses to Steph that he took the blame so she wouldn't get in trouble.

#### Under Pressure

Stephanie introduces herself and meets Carrie at the library, and Stephanie tells her that the police took Carrie's credits but Carrie doesn't give much importance to that, Stephanie tells her that she knew Batman a little, and he would be very proud of carrie After Brody arrives, and Carrie leaves, Brody invites Stephanie to the founders gala to which Stephanie accepts, much to Turner's jealousy, who doubts her friend's decision but Duela interferes saying that Brody got Stephanie out of trouble Turner got Stephanie into so she has a ticket to go to the "Brodeo" but Stephanie asks Duela to stay off her side, Stephanie asks Turner if he has any clues about the Court of Owls, Turner mentions that he has no clues, but in the Batman Diaries, he mentioned that the Court of Owls had been hunting the Waynes for years starting with his great-grandfather. Stephanie attends the founders' gala tonight where she meets Brody's parents, later Turner calls Stephanie about the mutants's plan, Stephanie escapes and goes into the subway tunnels where she would meet the Gotham Knights, after Turner tries to take the bomb but Harper tells him that if he moves it, it will explode like this Harper and Stephanie try to turn it off, then they realize that the mutants's bomb can go off but not go off, Turner questions that idea, mentioning that it can kill mutants too but Duela tells him that the mutants are ready because they have gas masks and that is their plan to escape, Stephanie and Harper try to deactivate it but they need the help of a policeman to buy time. While Turner convinced Harvey to help him and Duela helped Carrie take down several members of the mutant gang, Harper and Stephanie got into a fight over who had a better plan to turn off the bomb, Turner, Duela and Carrie take out as many mutants as they can, the second in charge of the mutant gang manages to recover the detonator so Stephanie and Harper must defuse the bomb now, Stephanie cuts the main cable, which manages to extinguish the bomb but Harper gets angry with her because they both could have died.

#### Of Butchers and Betrayals

Carrie and Stephanie help them investigate Talon's knives, but the team realizes they need the police department's files on the strangely scarred accidental death corpses, so Cullen infiltrates the police department again, then Cullen manages to connect Stephanie's USB drive to the police department's main server. Turner wants to break into the house of his father's deceased lawyer since he was the last victim to be killed with Talon's knives, so he gathers Harper, Cullen, Stephanie and Duela, and Turner enlists Harper's help to get him teach to pick locks. While Turner and Harper investigate the lawyer's house, Duela, Cullen and Stephanie investigate Talon's knives, Duela shows them a yearbook about serial killers that the Joker had shown him, in the yearbook Duela shows them a murderer named Felix Harmon who had the same knives as Talon, but for his crimes as the serial killer know as the Gotica's butcher, he was executed in the town square, then Stephanie finds out that he has a daughter, so Duela asks if she knows how her dad's knives ended up with Talon. The next day, Turner gathers Stephanie, Cullen and Harper to tell them that he plans to go back to Wayne Manor and retrieve his father's will to prove everyone's innocence, Carrie arrives and informs the team that she is going to speak with Felix Harmon's daughter to find out how Felix's knives ended up in Talon's clutches, while Carrie and Duela are investigating Eunice Harmon, Cullen and Stephanie discover that Talon's knives have a substance that makes people go crazy and hallucinate, after Cullen mentions that it's like her dad who yells, hits and smashes with alcohol, then Stephanie apologizes to Cullen for that and reveals that her mom is the same, so Cullen realizes that Harper was wrong about Stephanie's life and they have a lot in common with her, later at night Cullen and Stephanie are still investigating the substance of Talon's knives, Stephanie reveals to Cullen that her mom is a pill addict, he asks her if that's the reason she's staying up late with him, to which Stephanie nods, so Cullen comforts her, later Duela and Carrie return to the lair and reunite with Stephanie, Cullen and Harper, Stephanie mentions that it's no coincidence that Eunice Harmon is associated with the Court of Owls, Duela mentions that according to her, her dad still sends her gifts, but Harper mentions that the Court surely sends her gifts to make her believe that her dad is still alive to which Cullen asks why they would do that, then Carrie sees in the visit log that Cressida Clark is the one who sends Eunice the gifts, so Duela, Cullen, Harper, Stephanie and Carrie realize that Cressida is from the Court, and they remember that Turner is with her, Stephanie calls Turner, at first Turner doesn't believe them, but then Cressida comes back into the room with a gun, forcing Turner to hang up, everyone worries about Turner so Carrie goes to rescue him, Turner later returns to the lair where he is comforted by Stephanie.

#### More Money, More Problems

Stephanie arrives at the Belfry mentioning that she had good news but no one pays attention to her since it was morning since they were asleep so she tries to give them the news mentioning that she brought donuts, so they all wake up, Turner asks if she found the answer that Felix Harmon, who has been dead for more than 100 years, is still alive, Stephanie thinks Cressida is the one who paid for Eunice's stay but she was wrong and explains that the Court of Owls uses shell companies to hide their financial transactions, so one of those companies is paying for Eunice's stay. The next day Turner tells Carrie and Stephanie his plan to rob the mob but they take it as a crazy and dangerous plan, in the Parents Luncheon, Stephanie gives a speech but notices that her mom is swallowing her pills, so she knows it won't end well, so Stephanie tries to keep her mother out of trouble then Stephanie meets Carrie's mom and she warns Carrie that her mother is at the Luncheon. Later Stephanie convinces her mom to come home since she was out of control from the pills. At night after lunch, Stephanie returns to her house and realizes that her mother is asleep, so Stephanie covers her mother and then goes to her room.

#### A Chill in Gotham

Stephanie goes to her dad's studio, who is the host of a game show, she asks her dad for help to decipher the McKillens' accounting, but her dad only tells her "My little Sherlock, fear not, you'll figure it out at last" Stephanie doesn't understand what her dad is referring to, but then he leaves, much to Stephanie's anger, then Harvey calls Stephanie. Stephanie tells Turner that Harvey told her Joe Chill wants to talk to Turner, Duela tells Turner he's lucky, which Turner questions and Duela tells him it's because Joe Chill is Gotham's patron saint of bad guys, to which Stephanie tells her that she must be the #1 fan of Joe Chill.then Turner agrees to go see Joe Chill. While Turner was visiting Joe Chill, Stephanie, Cullen and Harper were investigating how to decipher the McKillen accounting code but Duela wants to convince them to drink in honor of Joe Chill, Stephanie and Harper start drinking whiskey but only to compete with each other, later Cullen, Stephanie and Harper continue to investigate the code, Cullen asks Stephanie if her dad didn't give her any clues but Stephanie says only one because her dad expects that Stephanie can resolve the clue by herself, since her dad had high expectations of her even before she became a celebrity then a verbal fight starts between Duela and Stephanie, then Cullen takes the whiskey from Stephanie. Harper and Stephanie discover that the clue that Stephanie's dad gave he referred to an encrypted book, so they go to the library to look for the book, Cullen, Duela, Harper and Stephanie look for the book without stopping until they manage to find it, when they find it everyone is happy, and Duela accidentally knocks over a stack of books, Turner returns to the Belfry where he tells Duela, Stephanie, Harper and Cullen everything Joe Chill told him about the Court, after finding out the ledger, the Knights find the location of the opioid dealers and take them out. Returning to the Belfry, Duela drinks the last of the Whiskey in honor of Joe Chill, then she meets Turner with whom she shares glances until Cullen, Harper and Stephanie arrive, but then Duela leaves Harper, Stephanie, Cullen and Turner alone in the room.

#### Bad to Be Good

Turner, Cullen, Harper, and Stephanie investigate the cases of stolen paintings and realize that all the paintings belonged to Alan Wayne, and the only ones with an interest in Alan Wayne are the Court of Owls, so they decide to investigate more about the theft of the paintings. Cullen, Turner, Harper and Stephanie continue to investigate, but after Harper decides to go talk to Dylan to get more information about the paintings, when Harper returns, Turner asks if she found out anything about the paintings, Harper tells him that Dylan told him that the thief must be someone new because Dylan had never heard of him, Stephanie finds out that the thief only needs one painting to finish his collection of Alan Wayne paintings, she gets the address of the painting, which is why Cullen, Turner , Harper and Stephanie decide to go to the basement where the painting was. At night they go to the basement where the painting was, Cullen, Turner, Harper and Stephanie fight against the thief, but manages to hurt Harper, so Stephanie tries to heal his gunshot wound while Cullen and Turner catch the art thief who turns out to be Detective Green, she tells them that the Court blackmailed her into killing her family if she didn't steal Alan Wayne's paintings, but due to the injury Cullen and Turner caused, she is unable to steal the painting then Turner and Cullen decide to enter to steal the painting, Turner with an explosive from Carrie, manages to open the warehouse door, Cullen and Turner enter the warehouse but have 1 minute to take the painting before the alarm goes off, then they manage to take it and escape with the paint. Later back in the Belfy Stephanie bandages Harper's wound.

#### Belly of the Beast

After the Court clocks that Cullen had stopped at the same time in the same hour, minute and second the Gotham Knights decide to investigate it, Stephanie help them with the investigation, they investigate the different hours, minutes and seconds in which the clocks stopped, with the clue that Joe Chill gave Turner, they discover that the time of the clocks marks a place, after investigating they discover that it is about the old Gotham power plant, Cullen, Stephanie and Harper wonder what will happen there, Turner and Duela mention that it must be a meeting of the Court of Owls where they meet to share information about their plan, but then Stephanie leaves the Belfry since a pharmacy called her to give her a medicine that she did not order. Stephanie goes to her dad's study to tell him that her mom ordered extra pills under Stephanie's name, her dad tells her that it's because her mom feels bad and needs extra medication but Stephanie tells him that the accident her mom had was 5 years ago and he tells his dad that if his mom keeps taking pills it can cause worse pain, but his dad gets angry and tells him to call the pharmacy again. Later Stephanie goes home to find her mother wasted from alcohol, she takes her pills, but her father gets angry and blames her for everything because he worries about their reputation.

#### Dark Knight of the Soul

After learning that Cullen, Harper, and Carrie decided to abandon Turner, she gets mad at them for all the times Turner risked himself to save them, and they abandoned him, but Carrie mentions that if they went unprepared, the Court could possibly have killed them. Cullen says that they still have time to rescue Turner since the head of the Court had mentioned that he had plans for Turner, to which Stephanie asks what plans the Court has but no one answers, Cullen explains that the map must lead to the Cut to the Electrum but the map is from old Gotham and there is no X marking anything, then they observe the map of Alan Wayne's painting, Duela, Cullen, Harper, Stephanie and Carrie notice a strange X in which it leads them to a place where the electrum could be, which they can exchange for Turner, a plan that everyone agrees. Harper and Stephanie go to the place where Alan Wayne's X marked the place, Harper uses Stephanie to distract one of the Court workers who was looking for the Electrum to steal one of her radios. At the Beflry, Cullen continues to investigate the map and traces the points that were on the map, Stephanie asks how it would look if they connect the dots, then Cullen join the dots on the map that showed the Gotica skyline, Cullen stitches the line into a painting of the old Gotham skyline, where it is revealed that the Electrum was hidden in the subway tunnels. In the subway tunnels, Harper and Stephanie search the Electrum, then Stephanie realizes that they are near the sewer where Alan Wayne died, while looking for the Electrum, Harper tells Stephanie how her frequency scanner works, then Stephanie uses Harper's scanner and finds the Electrum, Harper takes a tube and hits the part where Stephanie says there was Electrum, they find a box with Alan Wayne's initials on it and are glad they found Electrum. At the Belfry, everyone investigates the Electrum and mentions that it is very small, Stephanie mockingly asks if that is the way the Court will achieve immortality, Stephanie along with Harper manage to find out that the Court has Turner in Wayne Manor. Later Duela and Cullen manage to save Turner, who returns to the Belfry, Stephanie and Harper are happy to hear that Turner is okay.

## Abilities

* **Genius-level intellect:** Stephanie is a highly intelligent young woman; she has a 4.0 GPA in computer science and takes AP English while on the fast track for MIT.
	+ **Computer specialist/Skilled computer hacker:** Stephanie is a skilled computer hacker and coder. With help from the Batcomputer, she was able to break into every bank in Gotham to determine who paid for Batman's assassination.

## Appearances

### Season 1

* Pilot
* Scene of the Crime
* Under Pressure
* Of Butchers and Betrayals
* More Money, More Problems
* A Chill in Gotham
* Bad to Be Good
* Belly of the Beast
* Dark Knight of the Soul
* Poison Pill
* Daddy Issues
* City of Owls
* Night of the Owls

## Behind the scenes

* Stephanie Brown was created by Chuck Dixon and Tom Lyle, and made her DC Comics debut in *Detective Comics #647* as the street vigilante Spoiler.
* This is Stephanie's second live-action appearance, the first being in the second season of The CW's *Batwoman.*

## References

1. ↑ Season 1, Episode 2: ***Scene of the Crime***
2. ↑ Season 1, Episode 3: ***Under Pressure***
3. ↑ Season 1, Episode 1: ***Pilot***