Tuesday, November 29, 2016

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.

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