I'm never getting over the fact that Bruce pivoted the entire plot of The Batman (particularly his trajectory through it) after encountering Selina. He's helping Jim Gordon investigate Mayor Mitchell's murder. Ok. The leads they have so far take him to The Iceberg Lounge and the Penguin. Ok. Following Selina afterwards makes complete sense–he correctly deduced that she was somehow linked to the girl with Mitchell in the photo, who he was trying to find. Ok. And, success! Selina leads him right to her. He's looking right at her. But this is when things turn towards the illogical.
You can even pinpoint the exact moment he loses the plot–Selina goes to get Annika a glass of water, and Bruce's eyeline pov leaves her, the person he was actually looking for, and stays on Selina. Then when Selina goes to her bedroom, he moves–literally, bodily moves–from the apartment's main window to her bedroom window. It's a wrap at this point. "he's totally driven by base impulse re: selina." When she leaves, that's his opportunity to confront Annika–the person who personally knew Mitchell and might have information about what led to his murder (this is later confirmed)–without interference. And yet...he hops on his bike and follows Selina again, to who the hell knows. Leaving his biggest lead behind. 🙃 I have to mention @clawsnoir, one of the only people I've seen point this out–"following her was not the smart move (cornering annika would have been) but he couldn't help himself" (x).
So, when he confronts Selina at the Mitchell home, and asks if he hurt Annika and “What does she know?”, it's wild because he could've been (should've been), at that very moment, asking all this to Annika (also, if he was, she might not have gotten abducted; not then, at least). Then after he admits to being a Peeping Tom, he tells Selina, “Let's go talk to her,” and it's like, this is insane, because you were just...there...could've been talking to her right now. 🥴 Selina's connection to Annika, that Bruce just happened to stumble upon, was initially supposed to be a means to an end–then all of a sudden they're an "us" and he's recruiting her to be his partner in investigating the mayor’s murder. Crazy business.












