Season 3, Episode 16: “These Delicate and Dark Obsessions” (5/1/2017)

Jim is looking at the file on Michael Ness; Harvey tells him  they can’t find Nigma, after all he did.  Jim figures out that the man who killed his father, driving “drunk” wasn’t really drunk after all; he hit them on purpose.  It was a hit.  Jim confronts the Commissioner; he asks him who ordered the hit on his father.  He says, “Frank Gordon. Your uncle.”  Afterward, Jim pulls a gun and holds it to the head of Frank Gordon; he asks if it was true.  Gordon says yes, trying to explain that he “became a risk” to the Court, by threatening to expose it; Jim arrests his uncle for the murder of his father.  As he’s putting the cuffs on him, Jim is caught offguard; Gordon head-butts him.  He has information about where the weapon will be arriving (the one the Court is planning on unleashing on Gotham); he tells Jim that he needs to meet with the Court and “buy some time” and says Jim needs to find out ‘when’ it will be arriving, and make a choice.  Jim and Harvey try to figure out who they can get to help them; he calls Barbara (who is now calling herself “Barbara Queen”).  She goes and tortures a man to get him to tell her what is arriving at pier 9C.

Ivy wheels Penguin into her greenhouse; she is all cherry, and he is being a grump.  She’s trying to baby him, and it’s making him angry; he asks about all the plants… she tells him they are her friends.  She gives him a cup of Willow tea; he throws the cup on the floor and says he needs to get back to Gotham.  She tells him she could help, if he weren’t being such a jerk.  He asks her to deliver a message for him, to Gabe; she demands a “please” then agrees to do it.  When Gabe shows up, he nearly squeezes Penguin to death; Penguin tells him that he needs him to put together an “army.”  Gabe takes a minute to understand what he wants of him; Oswald calls him a “human Labrador” when Ivy ask about him.  Penguin insults her when she tells him that she thought they were friends; she sulks.  Gabe surprises Penguin and backhands him across the face, knocking him out cold; when he comes to, he is tied up in a chair, next to Ivy.  She tells Penguin she expects him to be nice to her from now on; she tells their captor to lean closer to her so she can whisper in his ear; he falls under her spell and she orders him to kill all the other men.  She stops him from killing Gabe, for Penguin; Penguin gets the man’s gun and tells Gabe loyalty must be extended before it can be returned.  Gabe falls to his knees and says he will do anything for Oswalds forgiveness; Penguin asks Ivy to make him smell her purfune.  Gabe calls  Penguin a “tiny freak who used to hold an umbrella” and Penguin goes crazy.  He grabs a garden shovel and stabs Gabe numerous times, screaming “a freak, a freak, a freak, ahhhh.”

The Court of Owls meets; the lady leader talks about a weapon they are going to unleash on Gotham, to cleanse it, so they can “rebuild” it themselves.  They pass judgment by sticking feathers in a stand to show their agreement; Gotham must fall, she says.  Jim meets with his uncle, who tells him that he is supposed to kill him; he tells Jim, as he holds a gun on him, that he needs him to join the Court of Owls.  He tells him to finish what he started and says he his parents would have been so proud of him; then he shoots himself in the head.  Jim screams.

Bruce wakes up in a prison; a man comes in and Bruce asks if the Court of Owls have something to do with this.  The man neither admits or denies this; Bruce says he will be missed, but the man says they’ve taken precautions to make sure no one notices he’s gone.  When the man leaves, Bruce tries to escape, but just keeps running from one hallway to another, that all look the same.  The man seems to be at the end of every hall; Bruce asks him if it is some kid of maze.  He asks Bruce how long he’s been running down the corridors of his life, just to end up in the same place.  Bruce says he’s not scared of him; the man notes that he is scared of something though.  He tells him to sit and see what he has to offer.  He shows Bruce a set of ‘needles’ with an engraved symbol on the end, that seems to hypnotize Bruce; he goes into some sort of other realm.  The man tells him they have returned to Gotham; Bruce sees his parents walking down the street, and himself, and the man pulling the gun.  He comes back to reality; the man tells him he just “relived” a memory.  One is always inside their own mind, he says; he tells Bruce he has never really left that alley and tells him to go rest.

Season 3, Episode 15: “How the Riddler Got His Name” (4/24/2017)

Nigma goes to see a man he calls “Professor” and asks him this riddle: I can fill a room, or just one heart; others can have me, but I cannot be shared. What am I?”  The Professor (a chair of the chemistry department) answers incorrectly; Ed gets mad, then apologizes.  He asks another question:  I can be the member of a group, but I can never blend in. What am I?  The Professor shakes his head; an Individual, … “I feel your every move, I know your every thought, I’ve known you since birth, and I’ll see you when you rot. What am I?” The Professor says he doesn’t know; Nigma says, that’s too bad and sets a bomb to explode as soon as he exits the building.

A “clue” is sent to the police station; Harvey looks at it.  It’s a drawing of geometrical shapes; the commissioner says it’s a drawing of the Knight’s Tour.  This commissioner, Luscious Fox, “tomorrow, when the pawn’s on queens, you’ll find my next target in the belly of the beast.”  Ed tells him to solve this clue and says he’ll be one step closer to passing his test; he hangs up and says to himself that he will also be one step closer to introducing himself to Gotham once and for all.  Harvey and Lucious pick up a guy who owns a pawn shop on Queens Avenue; the man is not cooperative.  They discuss the last half of the clue; Harvey asks Fox if he wants to cut the guy open to see what’s in his belly – the man gets nervous and tells them that he wasn’t supposed to work today, but he was covering for “Teddy Therio” - Lucious says Therio is the Greek word for beast.  They go to find this guy.  A wet penguin sits on Edward’s couch as Ed takes a pill; he turns and asks how many times he has to talk to him about dripping on the couch.  Penguin makes fun of him for worrying about his drug induced hallucinations making a mess.  Ed frets about needing a teacher; Penguin tells him the best villains make themselves – Edward determines then that the best villains are actually defined by the man who try to stop them, and he says Jim Gordon is the one he wants to battle.  Penguin isn’t happy about that; he tries to convince Ed that his attempts are failing and asks him to admit that he is lost without him.  Penguin suddenly appears in a tuxedo, performing a dance and song, about which Edward is not impressed.  Ed leaves the apartment; Penguin calls out to him.  Nigma shows up at the police cadet graduation and meets with Harvey behind the curtains; Harvey tells him to get lost.  

When Harvey gets a call from Lucious Fox, Edward grabs him, saying, “it must be about me.”  He steps out on stage and asks the crowed a riddle: “Light as a feather, yet no man can hold it long. What am I?”  Answer, “Your breath.”  He releases a deadly toxin into the room; he calls Lucious and tells him that the cadets and Bullock will die if he doesn’t come meet with him.  He asks Lucious the same question he first asked the Professor; Lucious answers “Love.”  Nigma says no, it’s Lonliness.  He cuts a rope on the chair holding Harvey over the railings.  He asks the second question he asked the Professor, the Individual one; Lucas answers with Snowflake and argues that it is also befitting of the riddle.  Edward cuts another rope.  Final riddle, he asks the third question.  Lucious asks him if he killed Penguin; he repeats the riddle and insists that Lucious answer it.  He does; he says a “Reflection.”  Ed smiles and says that is correct; the last rope holding Harvey’s chair breaks.  Ed says, “oops” and walks away; Fox reaches over the railing and grabs Harvey just in time.

Bruce practices throwing at a target; Alfred says he seems distracted.  He supposes it is because of Salina, but Bruce denies that.  Alfred tells Bruce about a girl named Silvia that he used to be in love with, broke up with and found closure over.  Alfred says Ms. Kyle has offered him the same opportunity and he suggests he take it; he lays a note on the counter.  Bruce says fine and takes the note.  He finds Salina on the streets, as he is getting harrased by Sonny and she saves him; she then tells him to get lost.  He asks why she asked him to meet her there if she was going to be that way; she denies putting any note in his mailbox.  She leaves and Sonny (and his three men) try to beat Bruce up.  Bruce wins the fight and begins walking back home; he runs into his double, who injects him in the throat with a “powerful knock-out drug.”  He says this is what he was made for; to be Bruce Wayne.  He goes to the mansion; Alfred asks him if he wants some Shepard’s Pie.  The imposter says that sounds great; Alfred seems surprised, but says okay then and goes to get it.James goes shooting with his Uncle; his Uncle asks if he has ever heard of “The Court of Owls” – he says it was a secret society, of which he is still a member.  He tells Jim that his father was also a member, and the Court wants him to become a member.  He asks how they could be a part of it; he says they thought they were doing good, but the Court lied to them.  He says he despises them now, but remains a member, one which they believe to be loyal.  He says the Court killed Jim’s father; Jim doesn’t believe it, believing his dad simply died in a car wreck.  He tells Jim now that he has been asked to join, they could destroy it from within.  He asks him to believe in him.  Jim leaves.

Harvey and the police to Penguin’s masion, looking for Nigma; he’s not there.  But there is a painting, with a green question mark painted on it.  Edward is waiting for Lucious in his car; Fox asks him why the deadly toxin turned out just to be a knock-out drug.  Edward says he wasn’t out to kill people, just to make a point.  He thanks Fox for helping him figure out how to become himself; Lucious reminds him that he has already killed six people, seven counting Penguin.  He suggests Ed turn himself in; Nigma asks if his actions seem mad to him, defends his actions and tells him he is “The Riddler.”  He knocks him out, using his gun and laughs out loud; he is standing on the docks next, saying how he loves the view.  Penguin, now in his wet suit again, says he is not a fan.  He assumes Edward will understand why; he comments the he doesn’t think anyone is going to be afraid of “The Riddler.”  Edward takes out his pill tin and dumps his medication in the water; he turns around and Penguin is gone.  He says, “goodbye Oswald.”Harvey’s uncle meets with the old woman who heads The Court of Owls; he tells her to give him a little more time.  He believes Jim will “come around.”  She says he better.

Ivy sprays her plants; she hears a sound.  She says, “well, look who’s alive.”  Penguin jumps up out from under the covers; he asks who she is.  She introduces herself and says she’s been nursing him for weeks; she says he sleeps a lot.  He smiles, and says he just remembered that he has someone he needs to kill.

Season 3, Episode 14, “The Gentle Art of Making Enemies” (1-30-2017)

Scene opens with the explosion across town; the police station is in chaos.  Jim asks one phycho where Jerome is; he responds “look around, he’s everywhere” and laughs wickedly.  Car alarms are ringing as Penguin is brought to Nigma; he asks where “they” are.  Nigma tells him he’s alone; he asks if he brought anyone else.  Penguin says, no… and Nigma shoots the two men who brought him.  He holds the gun to Oswald’s face and tells him he knows he killed Isabella.  Oswald is tied up now and sitting on the hood of Isabella’s car; Oswald admits that he killed her… but he says, if he didn’t, Ed would have, just like he did “the other one.”  He tells him he did it because he loves him; Ed says love is about sacrifice, putting someone elses needs before your own.  He points out a vat of acid above him, which will fall went an ice cube (that is holding the rope together) melts.  Edward tells Oswald goodbye.

A policeman happens by and finds Penguin tied to the car; he manages to cut him lose just in time, as the ice breaks and the vat of acid falls all over, disintegrating the hood of the car.  Oswald goes home, where he is confronted by Barbara’s girlfriend and henchman; he tells him she is the one who killed his mother and gloats that he never did anything about it.  Penguin tells Barb he underestimated her; she tells him she wants him to help her find Ed.  If he doesn’t she is going to kill him; she asks him what his answer is.  Penguin has a realization; he says she’s right, he should want Edward dead.  But he says Ed was right; he should have been willing to sacrifice his happiness for Ed’s.  He says he will do that now; he refuses to help her find him.  Ed steps out; Barb says he was wrong, Penguin didn’t give him up like he thought he would.  Oswald asks Ed if this means he passed his test; Nigma says he isn’t sure what it means.

Jim tries to distribute units and riot gear; Harvey tells him no one is in charge at City Hall.  Jim tries to figure out what Jerome wants; he decides to go talk to Lee.  She says the last thing Jerome mentioned was the he remembered trying to kill Bruce Wayne; Jim heads to Bruce’s mansion.  There, Jerome has already entered and began rampaging; his crew tear the place apart, while he talks to Bruce.  He tells him he is there to kill him, because it’s the last thing he remembers he wanted to do; Bruce says he remembers him from that night at the benefit.  He says he is quite a showman; he can’t believe he would want to kill him there, with no show.  Bruce tells him he’s important and killing him should mean something; Jerome realizes he is right, he deserves a public death.  Jerome tells the crew to kill the butler; Alfred tells Bruce it will be okay. 

Alfred does a good job of fending off the three men, and Jim arrives just in time to help him.  They kill the men and head out to find Bruce.Jerome takes Bruce to a very strange amusement park, where real people popped their heads up out of holes, as if the gophers in the whack-a-mole game, and standing as targets for shooting and ball throwing games, and Bruce was being forced to watch all of this at gunpoint.  Jerome paints Bruce’s face like a clown, using the blood from another clown he stabs in the stomach to draw a frown on Bruce’s face.  As a man throws darts and a girl, holding a balloon in her mouth, in front of the board with other balloons, Bruce asks Jerome what the point is.  Jerome says these people there are the people who wash your car and take out your trash; luding robbing killing, once the lighs went out they showed their true faces… they want to open your viens and bathe in your blood, he says.  Bruce says that’s not true; there are good people in Gotham.  Jerome drops a man in the dunk tank, which is filled with piranhas; they immediately attack him and the tank turns bloody.  

Jim and Harvey arrive at the amusement park; they have a plan.Circus begins; the first act starts and sucks, Jerome shoots him in the back; he brings Bruce out next, tied to a pole.  He brings out a cannon and faces it at Bruce; it’s loaded with a ball and a bucket of nails.  Jerome mounts it; Jim fires a shot in the air.  Bruce picks his handcuffs with a staple Jerome shot into his arm earlier and gets free just before the cannon fires.  The stump of the pole that remains is littered with nails; Jim see this and heads off to find Bruce.  Jerome follows Bruce in the a house of mirrors.  Bruce jumps him, beats the crap out of his face (literally) and grabs a broken piece of mirror to stab him; he stops when he catches a glimpse of himself in the mirror.  He walks out and leaves Jerome laughing, face smashed, on the floor.  He comes out to see Alfred and calls out to him; they hug.  Jerome comes out and Jim confronts him; he punches Jerome and his face goes flying off, landing in a puddle on the ground.  

At home, Bruce tells Alfred that he almost killed Jerome; he says the idea felt right, like justice.  Alfred says there is a fine line between Justice and Vengeance.  He says he knew where the line was tonight; he didn’t cross it.  Bruce makes his first rule:  he will not kill.  Alfred tells him they need to get back to work.  Bruce goes to meet “the Court.”  He tells them he is ready.  Jim gets a visit from his Uncle Frank.  Penguin begs for his life, while Ed holds him at gunpoint, on the edge of the docks; he tells Ed thos would be cold-blooded murder of someone he loves.  Nigma says he doesn’t love him; he is still angry that he killed Isabella.  Penguin cries and tells him he can’t do this; Ed tells him he loved her and he killed her… he shoots him and pushes him off the dock into the water.  Penguin sinks; blood rises.

Season 3, Episode 13, “Smile Like You Mean It" (1-23-2017)

Bruce has a visitor at the mansion; he’s an ass, demanding money from Bruce for Salina’s mother’s freedom.  Salina’s mom asks Bruce if he is sure he wants to pay the money the man wants; he says, he owes her for saving their lives.  Salina says they should call the police and have him arrested, saying if they pay him, he will just come back for more; she suggests Bruce start keeping a lot of cash around if he pays it.  Her mom says another option is for her to just leave again – Salina gets mad and tells Bruce to pay it if he wants.  He pays it and her mother takes it to deliver it to the ‘blackmailer’ (and they laugh about a great ruse it was).  When Salina discovers her mother was pulling a scam all along, working with the man who was demanding the money and only came back to town to work a con after finding out Salina and Bruce were “a thing,” she is angry and tells her mother – right up in her face – not to ever come back to this town again.  Salina goes back and hits Bruce after he admits that he suspected her mother was just after the money; she’s pissed that he gave it to her anyway.  Then she gets more pissed about the fact that he lied to her – although he says he just didn’t tell her… same thing, she says.  She hits him again and again, then demands that he fight her.  She kicks at him; he catches her leg and says he won’t fight her.  She leaves angry. 

Two security guards sit, playing cards in a restricted area; they see a man round the corner, with an entourage behind him… they tell him to stop or they will fire; he laughs.  One guard fires, hitting one of the bunch behind this man; then he tells the other guard to call for backup – that guard pulls out a knife and stabs him.  The man laughs again.  The group of them walks to the cryogenic storage containers, and find the one with Jerome “the joker” in it, still grinning.  The man says, “it’s really you” and he laughs once more.  The scene changes; it’s obviously later… Jim Gordon, Harvey and some other detectives – they look at the containers, trying to determine how they got there and what is being done with them.  Jerome’s container has the word “HA” written in spray paint with all over it, and big eyes over the window.  They hear a noise; it’s the goon who was shot.

Jim has an idea.  He takes him back to the station; this weirdo says he is impressed to be meeting Jim Gordon.  He tells Jim they are a “large band” and they “are everywhere” adding, “Jerome is just the first step.”  Gordon orders a citywide call to look for the symbol painted on the container.  Harvey and Jim look at dozens of pictures of areas around town that have been painted with the same “joker” symbol; they wonder how they’ve missed this until now.  Abandoned buildings and warehouses indicate that there’s probably more than one group, with different chapters all over town.  Harvey thinks there’s only fifty “wackadoos” at most out there; Jim says maybe, maybe not. A detective brings in plans of the electric grid in to Jim and Harvey; they locate exactly where the surge occurred when that girl, Melanie Blake, was electrocuted.  He says there were multiple surges as recently as fifteen minutes ago; Jim and Harvey take off for that address.  When they get there, they find Jerome with his face missing; they find a phone, but it provides no information.  Jim announces that the precinct has a mole; he shows them the phone and says there is only one number on it – he acts like he is dialing it, as he says, “let’s find out who the traitor is, shall we?”  One of the officers jumps out of his chair and takes off; they get him.  

Jim and Harvey interrogate the imposter – but he gives no answers; Jim slams him up against a wall and smacks him in the mouth, but he just laughs at Jim.  Harvey grabs him and punches him HARD a couple of times, then smashes him up against the wall again.  Lee walks in and injects the man in the neck and tells them to give him a few minutes and he’ll talk.  Jim wants to know why she did that; he tells her it was against the rules (haha) and she points out his hypocrisy.  He tells her she’s better than that; she responds with sarcasm.  He tells her that he thinks she came back to work too soon; she threatens to tell the commissioner he was punching a suspect in the face, if he says anything about her and walks off.  She goes back to the examination room to find an empty table and security guard dead on the floor; Jerome jumps out from the door behind her and holds a gun to her head and sits her down.  He asks her where his face is.

Barbara reads from the newspaper, as Penguin wakes from a nap on the couch; it’s a slam article written about Mayor “Crumblepot” – she mocks him and basically tells him he needs to get his shit together, clean up and be his old self again; she is calling a meeting with the heads of the families, at 1:00 and instructs him to be there… she says the gangs are rising, saying the king is dead and he needs to get things in order.  He asks why she is helping him and she replies, “because people think you like me” adding, as long as they are scared of him, she gets to keep breathing.  Oswald is dressed and properly groomed; Barbara stands behind the bar.  The room is empty; she claims she called everyone, and sent his invitation, but no one showed.  Penguin doesn’t believe her now; he accuses her of not even calling them.  He says maybe he should call any of the families and ask if they were really invited to this meeting… the phone rings.  It’s Tommy Bones; he tells Penguin he is done, saying they don’t work for him anymore.  They have Ed and are holding him hostage; they tell Penguin to step down from the business and they will let him keep being mayor. 

Nigma manages to sneak a phone call to his friend; Penguin vows to find him. Barbara and her girlfriend talking about the con they have pulled off, Penguin thinks one crew kidnapped Nigma and is still looking for Tommy Bones, who Barb mentions her girlfriend already killed.  They laugh about the “nimrods” that are there terrified for their lives, with their guard down.  Barb’s girl reminds her that she gets to kill Nigma when this is all over; Barb seals it with a kiss.  Then Barb says they are going to go with option “b” and her girlfriend jumps up with an automatic rifle and shoots all the men who are waiting there.

In a warehouse somewhere, the man who was laughing endlessly when the security guard was killed, is now hooking up a bunch of equipment to a bluish-Jerome, laying on an operating table, connected to wires, now hooked up to the machines.  He pulls a lever and Jerome’s eye twitches; he gets frustrated though when he doesn’t immediately reanimate.  The ‘laughing man’ gets frustrated because Jerome is still dead; his assistant yells at him, which pisses him off and he electrocutes the man by sticking a huge ‘hot’ cable right into his chest.  Jerome’s followers are getting impatient; this man promised them Jerome would return.  He panics, thinking all they want is to see his face – and he CUTS OFF Jerome’s face (and not very well, I might add).  He puts it on a string and wears it like a mask, descending the stairs and everyone cheers; he announces himself, as Jerome, but when they all get a good look at him, they are like, “what the hell?”  

The smile is gone from Jerome’s now amputated face and it is torn at the corner of the mouth; the man seems surprised when the people don’t fall for it – they all start shouting that they want Jerome; where is Jerome?!  He thinks quickly and tells them all Jerome is right there; he says, “he never really left us” and tells each one of them that Jerome is in them.  They are Jerome.  Harvey comes running out and tells Jim it worked; he talked… they have to go to the Channel 9 newsstation to make an announcement on the 6:00 news.   The laughing man wheels an automatic rifle and plods down the steps into the studio where news crews are filming, live; he shoots the newscaster and as people start to scatter, tells them that no one is going anywhere.  Sirens blare as police cars pull up to the station; a man stands in the window with a gun to the head of a hostage, sitting in a chair.  

Jim gets the now-not-so-laughing man on the phone; he makes his threats, claiming to ‘be’ Jerome and Jim calls him a fraud, saying he’s just the understudy, and tells him he’s boring him.  This makes the man very angry.  The man wearing Jerome’s face without the smile, is on the stage speaking to the camera as Jim and his officers storm in and arrest him.Outside of the news station, Jim gets a call; it’s Lee.  She says somehow, Jerome is alive, and he’s coming after Dwight (the former laughing man)… he takes him, drives back to his warehouse, takes his face back and STAPLES it on.  He then hands Dwight what looks like a car battery with cables hooked up to it; he asks what they are doing, and Jerome says, “you’ll see.”  He somehow gets a broadcast out; he has Dwight, dressed up like an officer tied up to a chair, with dynamite sticks strapped to him; he lights the end of a wick and leaves laughing.  

Jim runs out onto a balcony in time to see an explosion that knocks the lights out, grid by grid, all over the city.

Season 3, Episode 12, “Ghosts” (1-16-2017)

Mourners gather for Mario’s funeral; Harvey sees Jim off in the distance and asks what he is doing there – says if Falcone sees him, God only knows what he will do.  Jim protests he HAD to kill Mario because he was infected; Harvey understands that but says this is not the time or place and he needs to leave.  Jim goes home and finds a “messenger” – the man tells him, he messed up by killing “the Don’s son” and it’s only a matter of time before he ends up with a bullet in his head.  He tells him, personally though, he never liked Mario and tells Jim, “nice shot.”  Jim goes to work.  Lee comes into the police station, very angry with Jim, yelling in front of everybody.  She tells him he is the real virus, seeping into people’s lives until he destroys them and tells him he hasn’t heard the end of this.  Now he looks worried.  Lee talks to her father-in-law; he says Jim’s life is now his to take, “blood for blood.”  She tells him she hates him so much right now; however, knowing she once loved him, Falcone asks her if she can live with his death.  

Jim and Harvey investigate a death by electrocution; they are shocked to hear that two nights ago, this same girl had been stabbed by her boyfriend and was pronounced dead at that time.  They wonder how she was walking down the train tracks last night if that were the case; they go check with the morgue storage and find the box this girl had been stored in, empty.  Jim and Harvey come upon a group of people gathering to listen to a man speak; he tells them they are all prisoners and proceeds to play a weird video of a man with blood on his face inciting the crowd; Jim calls out “party is over” and holds up his badge.  Some fighting ensues and everybody rushes out; as Jim and Harvey try to follow, the assassin takes aim.  Shots are fired rapidly and Jim ducks out of the way; he runs into a kitchen, where the assassin pursues him.  The place gets shot up and people run out; Jim hides.  The man tells him he has had a good run and walks toward him; Jim catches him off guard and manages to disarm him and knock him to the ground.  Jim leaves.  

Salina sits uncomfortably with a woman, asking why she is back, and why now, after eleven years; it’s her mom.  She says she had no choice but to leave her at that orphanage – she, herself, was left there… she says she had her on the streets, where she grew up.  If she didn’t leave her, she would have gone to prison; she couldn’t take care of a five-year-old.  Salina blows her off and tells her goodbye; the woman leaves.  Alfred finds Salina’s mother at the door of the Wayne mansion, leaving a box for her daughter; he invites her in and Bruce asks her to stay.  She says she can’t but asks them to make sure Salina gets the box; “some things she kept from her time here in Gotham.”  Bruce asks the woman to give him a chance to talk to Salina before she goes; he takes Salina the box and convinces her to give her mother another chance.  Her mom comes in behind him; Salina hugs her.  Alfred makes dinner and Ms. Kyle says it is wonderful; Salina says he’s a real catch, but an easy mark though.  She picks his pocket, holding up his wallet.  Ms. Kyle stands up and hugs him, saying she sees what Salina means; she holds up his pocket watch.  He is not amused; Bruce offers to have her stay the night.  She says he is very kind.  They drive her to her hotel room the next morning and find a man there; he asks who the rich guy is, Salina tells him and the man says he is going to visit Bruce Wayne.  Her mother tells Salina they need to warn her friends; “Cole” isn’t someone they should mess with, she says.

Lee goes to visit the ex-Captain in prison; she wants to know if her husband would have become a diseased maniac and killed her.  He tells her this virus is the best thing that ever happened to him, saying it’s the antidote not the disease.  He says he is getting stronger every day; he feels it pulsing through his veins, restoring his body.   She thinks that means her husband could have been cured; they had time.  Barnes says he doesn’t need to be cured; and begins to yell about how everyone is going to be judged, murderers, thieves and rapists.  He screams they will all be convicted and executed; he will purge Gotham… Lee runs out of the cell.  She goes back and tells Falcone to call off the hit.  

Mayor Cobblepot is requested at an impromtu press conference; jobs are up, market’s up and crime is way, way down… his press secretary tells him to enjoy the moment.  His Chief of Staff says they need to cash in on this immediately; he suggests doing an interview with Margaret Hurst (who hosts a national talk show).  Penguin asks how his hair looks.  She says he has either found his calling, or just knows how to show people what they want to see; she wants the interview to take place at City Hall, this Friday.  Then she tells him, she isn’t a fan and she won’t be holding back; Gotham, she says will see their mayor as he truly is.  Penguin says he has nothing to hide, but looks worried as she leaves.  That night, Penguin is a awoken from sleep with a rock coming through a window; a picture frame is broken on the ground.  As he looks at it, the ghost of his father wanders through the living room; he tells Oswald “he is not to be trusted.”  The police knock on Penguin’s door and tell him someone dug up his father’s remains.  His father appears again, this time dressed in his Sunday best; he repeats “he can’t be trusted” and when Oswald asks who can’t be trusted, his dead father says “the birthday boy.”  That’s weird.  The next morning, Cobblepot comes into his office to hear people singing “Happy Birthday” in the lobby; he remembers his dad’s warning about the birthday boy.  

Penguin goes to check an empty office and finds a bag in a closet with a dead body in it; flies swarming the body.  His Chief of Staff walks in and asks what that is; Penguin flips out, thinking he's the one who put the body there and he lashes out with a metal trophy, smashing the man in the face several times, killing him.  The secretary knocks on this man’s door, asking if he has seen the mayor; Penguin rushes out, cleans up and shows up late for his interview.  Hurst says she hopes he is ready; she asks him how he brought Gotham to its safest period in history.  She says many died so he could rise and asks what he thinks of that; he says it’s an exaggeration.  She brings up the murder of Theo Gallivan; he says some people call it murder, other’s called it a public service.  She then asks about his father and he sees his father’s ghost, carrying the bloody trophy into the room.  Oswald gets nervous and says he needs to go; she says people of America want to know the truth and he says “to hell with the people.”  He goes back into the room where he killed the CoS, and finds the room completely clean, the bodies both gone.  Scene flashes to Nigma, who has the bodies in his trunk; Penguin’s “dad” walks up and transforms into the assassin.  Nigma tells him he did a good job; Barbara comes up and congratulates Nigma on a job well done, saying Penguin lost his mind on national TV just like he said he would.  He recalls setting it all up; they laugh about how they are going to exact their revenge on Penguin, eventually putting him out of his misery.  Barbara laughs.  

Harvey shows up at Jim’s with a couple rifles, telling Jim he deserved a little warning, since he is standing next to Jim most the time; the assassin follows him in, shooting.  Falcone walks in and tells the man the job is off, he can go home; he says okay and leaves.  Jim looks confused.  Across town, in a basement laboratory, a man I don’t recognize asks how the girl escaped; he says she led the cops right to him.   Another man says he turned for a moment and she must have stumbled out; but, he says, this proves his design works…she came back to life.  But not for long, the first man says, the current is still too strong; he says they have to move quickly.  He tells the man to “gather the others” saying it is time to “get him.”  The scene scrolls over to a dozen or so cryogenic containers with bodies in them, focusing last on the one… containing "The Joker.”

Season 3, Episode 11, “Beware the Green-Eyed Monster” (11-28-2016)

Mario talks to a man in a bar, who happens to be a hemotologist.  He asks him if he knows about the test for the virus; the man says he really can’t comment about it.  He takes the man outside and squeezes his head until it pops; blood spurts all over his face.  Jim says it reminds him of Barnes; Harvey says it couldn’t be, he’s locked up.  Jim finds a receipt from the lab where Alice Tetch’s blood is being tested; Jim asks the security guard to tell him if the dead man’s keycard gets used; he says it was used twenty minutes ago and he hasn’t logged out.  Jim gets knocked out immediately upon stepping into the lab, as Mario throws him through a glass window.  He writes “Arkham” on Jim’s hand and tells him to come find him.  Jim worries this man might be going after Captain Barnes; he goes to visit Jervis Tetch.  He threatens him, asking for the name of the other person infected with her sister’s blood – Jervis laughs at him.  He says he is having too much fun playing this game; Jim tells him it isn’t a game… he spits out a riddle about the one he loves being murdered by hate.  Jim asks what he means; Jervis says his name can’t be spoken – from healer to killer, he says, it is no easy trick.  Jim supposes he is referring to Dr. Strange.  

Harvey asks Jim if he’s crazy shooting Mario on his wedding day; Jim tells him he didn’t have a choice, he has the virus.  Harvey doesn’t believe him; Jim insists, as they wait for the lab to test Mario’s blood.  The technician tells Jim and Harvey that he does not have the virus; Jim says he knows he has it, and he figured out how to beat the test, and he is going to prove it.  Jim talks to Mario; he doesn’t deny having the virus… he tells him he will do anything to keep Lee.  He says what keeps him up at night is that a part of her still loves Jim.  Jim suggests they find her and ask; Mario says he doesn’t think so.  ‘Victor’ walks in and holds Jim at gunpoint; then says he can go when the clock hits a certain time.  

Alfred and Bruce get ready to go after the Court of Owls; Salina is worried about Bruce; she says she thinks it’s a punk move for him to make a deal with the people who killed his parents.  Alfred tells him he did what he did to protect her, and it cost him dearly.  Bruce, Alfred and Logue (the leader of the Whisper Gang) stand on the rooftop, discussing their next move.  He sees Salina; tells her they are going to incorporate their plan today.  Salina shows up to help.  They catch guards off-guard and knock them out, sneak into the mansion and head for the saferoom; they shoot an arrow with a cable attached to it into the safe and Salina tightrope walks across it, as Bruce holds it with all his might.  She puts the key in and unlocks the door; there is only a statue of an owl inside.  She takes it.  Mario walks in and hits Bruce; he drops the cable and Salina falls to the floor.  The alarms go off.  Alfred starts fighting Mario; Bruce steps in, and so does Salina.  She hits the man over the head with a vase.  A mysterious woman appears; Salina says it’s her mom.  

Barbara comes to see Nigma again; she asks if he’s figured out who really killed Isabella.  He tells her he is searching the entire city and won’t stop until he finds them; she calls him a naive baby.  She makes a riddle about love; Nigma gets what she is suggesting… that Oswald is in love with him and killed Isabella out of jealousy.  He says its ridiculous; he asks what her motive in all this is.  She claims she just wants justice for that poor, sweet girl.  Nigma tells Penguin that he has been having the desire to become more than friends; Penguin gets excited and tells him that he feels the same way too.  He moves in to kiss him; Nigma holds his hand up and says there’s been a misunderstanding – he was talking about becoming business partners.  

As Penguin is awarded a plaque, Edward imagines stabbing him in the back.  He actually has a knife in his hand; he folds it up when Oswald comes to talk to him and tells him he is his best friend and doesn’t want to lose him.  Nigma hugs Oswald and tells him that he is his best friend too, and he wants him to remember that.  He goes to the bar where he finds Tabitha and Butch and Barbara; he tells them that he wants to destroy Penguin.  Barbara tells Nigma she wants to be in charge after he takes Penguin out; she tells him they could make quite a team.  He apologizes to Tabitha about her hand, which is now reattached but in bandages.  Jim goes to see Lee at the church and tells her she can’t marry Mario; he tells her that he loves her, and never has stopped.  He begs her, please, not to marry him.  She tells him that her and Mario are leaving Gotham after the wedding and he will never see her again; she is angry that he waited until now to tell her.  She slaps him and tells him to get out.  As Jim is escorted out, the wedding begins; he backhands the two men walking him out, and gets the crap beat out of him by them.  

Mario and Lee are pronounced husband and wife; the men drive Jim somewhere and toss him out on the street.  He goes to see Falcone and says he needs to know where Lee and his son are; he tells his dad, if he has the virus, he could kill Lee and if he does that will be a line-crossing he can’t come back from.  Falcone tells him where they are.  Lee and her new husband stand on the dock at his father’s “refuge” that few people know about; they discuss Jim.  He asks her if there is any part of her, no matter how small, that still loves Jim; she says a small part of her will always care about Jim, but she married him – she loves him.  He says that’s all he needed to know.  The words “she loves him” echo in Mario’s head; he approaches Lee with a knife.  Jim walks in just as he is about to stab Lee, and shoots him.  The knife bounces out of his hand and down the rocks, into the water; Lee doesn’t ever see it.  She turns to see her husband shot dead.

Season 3, Episode 10, “Time Bomb” (11-21-2016)

Lee and her fiancé have dinner with his dad.  He tells her he is sorry to hear about the Captain; she tells them that everything he did was due to the virus, and explains about it.  They finish dinner and leave; the valet goes to get Falcone's car.  It explodes.  Gordon comes to investigate along with most of the GCPD; Falcone tells James they need to talk – he tells him he has his share of enemies.  Why now, James asks… he says his son is getting married, what better time to settle an old score.  Gordon tells him he doesn’t need him and his men tearing up Gotham, looking for revenge.  Falcone says he will allow Jim one day to find whoever is responsible for this. 

Penguin holds a meeting, Barbara walks in asking if her invitation got lost; he says no, she points a gun at him and asks if he knows where Tabitha and Butch are.  Penguin denies knowing anything; Barb says they are an item now (barf, she adds)… says she’s supposed to check in every night and she hasn’t.  She assumes he took them; he tells her to apologize and beg his forgiveness and he might let her leave alive.  She puts the gun away and apologizes.  He tells her, regardless of their history, if she ever points a gun at him again, his giant of a maid, Olga, will be cleaning her brains off the floor.  He orders everyone out.  Penguin calls to tell Nigma that Barbara King was there looking for them; he asks if Nigma is “finished” yet – Ed tells him he needs time to work through his grief.  He turns around to tell Butch and Tabitha, who are tied to chairs in the shop he is in, puts a ball gag in Tabitha and Butch’s mouth but then takes Butch’s out; Butch tells him to give Penguin a message for him.  Ed tells him this has nothing to do with Penguin; it’s about Isabella.  Butch says he doesn’t know what he’s talking about.  Nigma gently electrocutes him. 

Jim and Harvey show up at another crime scene, too late; the body is still warm.  Looking through some papers, notes of some sort, Jim says, “Carmine is not the target.”  They run out; they head to the wedding rehearsal… Jim grabs the groom and tells him he is the target, not his father.  A car drives by; bullets fly.  Salina and Bruce sit down to lunch; Salina is rather rude to Alfred.  She says she wants to leave and he says she shouldn’t; she asks Bruce to “tell the help” that she can come and go as she pleases, but he says he agrees with Alfred.  They sort of get in a fight and when she says nothing has changed, he says she has made that abundantly clear.  He says he is determined to find out what that key goes to; Salina says he should consider that it might just be an old key.  He says no.  Ivy tricks Alfred into smelling her perfume and asks him how you turn off the alarm; while cleaning the key, Bruce asks Salina why she told Ivy they weren’t a couple… she asks why he told her they were.  She says she just wants to be “them” and not make a big deal of it; he concedes.  They notice Ivy is missing; Bruce asks Alfred how she turned off the alarm – he has no explanation.  A man calls and says he has Ivy; he wants a ransom.  Alfred asks where and when; they go to a manhole, as directed.  Bruce tells Salina he knows there is no sense in asking her to stay there; she says no and heads down the manhole.  Bruce follows; they find Ivy and the men holding her.  Bruce demands to talk to the man they work for.  They tell the men they didn’t bring the key with them; Bruce says he needs to speak to the woman in the mask, to know his friends will be safe.  The man tells Bruce he is not his enemy… he says a group that calls themselves “the Court of Owls” is the enemy.

Jim talks to Mario and tells him he needs to stay at the station until they catch this guy; he says he isn’t going to let him ruin the wedding.  He goes to talk to his father; the father swears that his son wouldn’t be mixed up in anything.  Jim gets a call; Mario has left the station, saying he was going to “take care of it” himself.  Barbara comes by while Penguin is out and tells the man she wants to talk to her; she flashes her ring to tempt her… she takes it.  She says Mr. Penguin treats her nice; she likes him, but the other one, not so much.  She mentions how much Mr. Penguin likes Nigma and Barbara seems surprised, laughs and says they’ll revisit that later.  She asks about Nigma and if he said anything about her missing friend; she said he mentioned a “special delivery” and gives her a receipt from ‘Stocks and Bondage.’  Butch still swears he has never even heard of this woman, Isabella; Nigma gives up on electrocuting him.  He turns his threats toward Tabitha.  Butch insults him and he shocks him one last time, no-so-gently; Butch passes out.  Tabitha asks what he wants; he takes out her gag and tells her he wants an eye for an eye… but in this case, he’ll take a hand, he says. 

Barbara goes to a sadomasicist shop and tortures a guy until he gives her the number to the safe; she finds a paper and calls Nigma a sick bastard.  She walks out, leaving the man trapped head and hands.  Nigma explains the next part of his plan, and gives Tabatha a choice - a blade that will fall on Butch, or fatal jolt of electricity.  Bruce asks this man who they are; he says they call themselves “The Whisper Gang,” Gotham’s most notorious smugglers.  Business has changed, he says; he knows what the key goes to – a safe; he shows Bruce a map and the location of the safe.  He says he doesn’t know what is in the safe, but it’s obviously important because there are people who don’t want them to find it.  Bruce shows the man the key he found; he says these people killed his parents… he backed off because he thought there was no way to beat them.  That may no longer be the case, if what this man says is true. 

James finds Mario, in a jewelry store; he tells him they have to get out of there, then sees a bike through the window.  It’s too late; gunshots, masked men and jewelry displays getting knocked over.  Mario sticks a ring in one man’s eye, and asks why they are coming after him.  As he chokes him, the man sputters out, “you know why.”  Jim calls Lee and tells Mario she deserves to know what’s going on; he says either he tells him, or he will.  He gives Tabitha the trigger for the shock, and puts her hand in a tiny guillotine; if she leaves it there and sacrifices her hand, Nigma says he will set them both free.  Butch pleads with her, and tells her he loves her; she tells him she isn’t in the same place, but she drops the trigger and leaves her hand there.  She passes out after looking at the blood spurting out of her amputated limb.  Butch begs Nigma to untie him so he can take her to a hospital now.   He and Barbara take her, and her hand, to the hospital; Barbara figures out who killed the librarian… she tells Butch, if she is right, they can have way more than vengeance, then says they need to start a war. 

Harvey congratulates Jim and says it’s not everyday you get to save the man who’s going to marry the woman you love; then he tells him that he should tell Lee how he feels.  They look out the window to see Falcone pulling a tooth out of the suspect’s mouth – a gold tooth; Jim threatens to arrest him, and he tells him the man won’t be filing charges.  He walks out.  On a rooftop, a masked man asks the leader of the Whisper Gang if he has found the second key; he doesn’t answer.  The man stabs him.  Falcone talks to an obviously rich woman in a limousine; he says he knows she set up the murder and made it look like a mob hit.  She tells him he won’t win; he says if his son dies, winning won’t be the point.  She tells him his son is safe, at least from them, for now; she will call on him when she needs him – she tells him to enjoy his dinner, and he exists the car.  Lee says she was on her way to the rehearsal dinner and then heard herself telling the cab driver his address; she says her fiancé is a good man… and then asks Jim what he has to tell her.  He says he wants happiness for her, more than anything; she says it sounds like goodbye – adding they haven’t done it properly yet – and she kisses him, and says, “Goodbye, James Gordon.” 

Mario, walking down the street, is harassed by some punks; he grabs one by the neck and lifts him up in the air, screaming, “she loves me, and I won’t let her go… she loves me!”  His eyes are turning red and bulging; he must also be infected with the virus.