“Vote for Oswald Cobblepot for Mayor… and ‘Make Gotham
safe again’!” (I found this funny,
given that our election was going on at this time – and it reminded me of
Trump’s slogan.) This announcement
rings out over the loud speakers as Jim strolls down the street… Jim hears the
hypnotist’s watch and his voice telling him he should kill himself; he steps
out in front of an oncoming semitruck.
A pulls him out of the way just in time. Oswald gives his speech, thanking his mother for encouraging him
that he could do anything. Nigma collects a payment from a member of the
election board; cash. Someone follows
the man. Oswald claims name-calling and fear mongering by his opposition, Lol –
sounds familiar doesn’t it? Butch tells Jim the city is going to hell in a
hand-basket! That’s funny. My mom said something similar about the
United States earlier this summer (*before she declared me dead again). Jim meets Barbara in the bar, he tells her
he needs a favor; she teases him about being hypnotized – asks if he’s barking
like a dog. He tells her the hynotist
is dangerous… She tells him he came in earlier to hire “some muscle” for a
performance he’s planning…w flair. Jim
tells the Captain that he needs to speak to Alison Tetch; he says it can’t
wait. Tells him he had a run in with
her brother last night and now he’s “having thoughts.” He tells him whatever issues he has to work
out, he’s got to deal with them; he gives him five minutes with Alison in the
interrogation room. He tells her about
his encounter with her brother; asking for something he can do to fight this until
he finds him… she questions his motive – he hopes they can help each
other. She determines his watch ticking
was what he used, and anything that ticks will trigger the hypnotic state. She tells Jim about a story from their
youth, when her brother hypnotized her (into thinking she wanted to be with him
sexually I’m guessing), they were thoughts a brother should never have. Jervis Tetch goes to find Deaver and Dumphry
– the Terrible Tweeds…a wresting team (I guess). He tells them he needs to break his sister out of jail at the
GCPD. He pulls out his stopwatch. The wrestlers go to the GCPD and start
jumping off the loft and tackling the officers; Jervis strolls in. Jim is not fair behind him, telling him to
put his hands in the air. Jervis turns
around with the stopwatch handing in his right hand. Jim yells back for Alice
to go; she tries to run, but gets taken by the wrestlers. Jim turns the gun on himself; Captain knocks
him on the head with his cane. Salina
is now tied to a chair; the boss is talking to her, threatening to have his man
cut one of her fingers off. Bruce’s
double comes in the door and beats the crap out of the two men; he unties her
and she takes off running, telling him “let’s go.” She checks his wound and sees several other scares, realizing he
is not Bruce… she asks “who are you?” A
young girl comes up to thank “Mr. Penguin” for “getting rid of all of the
monsters”; he smiles and says he feels wanted… the girl holds out her hand and
“says nice doing business with you.”Butch hands her some cash. Nigma asks how he feels now. Like he’s been betrayed, he replied, of
course. Misjudged him as a friend. Nigma replies “I am your friend,” continuing
with a riddle: “I can’t be bought, but I can be stolen with a glance; I’m
worthless to one but priceless to two… what am I?” (Sounds like love to
me.) Penguin gets angry, refuses to
answer the riddle, says he doesn’t care or need a stupid riddle right now; he
wants to be mayor and tells him to stay out of his way, adding, “I’m warning you.” Salina tries to doctor Bruce2’s wounds; and
asks him “who would make a Bruce Wayne look-alike anyhow?” he replies he
doesn’t know. Didn’t even know they
looked alike until two days ago. Tells
her how they met, that he asked Bruce if he had any answers; he didn’t. Then he tells her he was watching from the
hall the other night when they were talking; he noticed the ‘way’ she was
looking at Bruce. He admits that he cut
his hair and tried to make her think he was Bruce today (when he rescued her)
because he wanted to see what that felt like, to have someone look at you that
way. She denies looking at Bruce in any
such ‘way.’ She tells him she has two
friends; one is now barbequed and the other is at the bottom of a river; he
asks what about Bruce, and she says “forget about him” – then she tells this
boy that he needs to stop worrying so much about what others think of him; he
is more normal than he thinks. He leans
over and gently kisses her. Jim is
lying on a cot in the hospital. Dr.
Thompkins… (Lee, M.E. and James’ old girlfriend) is there with him and tells
him that he was attacked. He asks to be
uncuffed, but she says she can’t. Then
she goes on to talk about his disappearance from her life, how she tried to put
herself back together, and how she met Dario.
She asks what he’s has to say, and he says the past is the past; he
can’t change that. She doesn’t want
anger and regret to be all that’s left of them; tells him he is being put on a
24 hour suicide watch. She leaves with
the remark that we can’t change the past, and that there is a difference
between moving on and “letting go.”
Butch gives a speech to his guys; says he knows Gotham like the back of
his hand – holding up his prosthetic hand.
Everyone laughs; they toast and drink.
He gets an urgent call after being told that Nigma got away from the man
he had following him. Detective
interrogates one of the wrestlers, brings up old family history he knows about
because his father was a fan…Then he starts lighting the wrestler’s mask on
faire, asking what it is he wants to know where Jervice has taken his
sister. The wrestler caves, saying,
“Okay, okay, I’ll tell you.” Jervice
tells his sister that he forgives her for everything, but she needs to
understand the consequences if she ever leaves him again; he tells her she
needs to understand how important she is to him. He injects her with something from a huge-ass syringe. She screams. Jim arrives in a paddy wagon; Dectective tells him Lainy told him
here to find him. He shows up just in
time; pulling his gun on Tetch, along with Detective… tells him if he lets him
leave with his sister, he might free him from that nasty little impulse. Jim repeats his command to let her go. Tetch directs his attention to a metronome,
clicking back and forth and something is triggered in Jim’s brain (he sees all
kinds of interesting things from his past)… he screams “No!” He shoots the metronome and gunfire breaks
out; as Tetch tries to pull his sister
to flee with him, she refuses and struggles to get free. She falls from a balcony onto a metal post
below; he cries out but his men drag him away.
Bruce finds his double on the roof, demanding to know where Salina is – his
double says he doesn’t know. He asks if
he’s angry because he was pretending to be him, or if he spent the day with
Salina. Bruce responds angrily when 2
tells him he has no idea what he actually wants; Bruce replies with “at least I
know who I am.” He says he doesn’t know
why he was created, but he knows he doesn’t belong in Gotham; he jumps off the
roof, telling Bruce to thank Salina for the kiss. He lands on a car roof and jumps down the ground. Bruce and Alfred watch in amazement. Alison asks what he is going to use her
blood for; he says to create a few dozen monsters by mixing it into a public
drinking fountain. She protests, saying
she’ll do whatever he wants. He says
“you will now”; he tells her their connection keeps him sane – it always
has….then he laughs. Captain asks
Deputy to explain himself; he says he was following a lead. He tells him Jim Gordon is going to get him
killed one day – and he replies, “maybe, but until that day I will never turn
my back on him.” Butch comes in angry,
grabs Nigma and holds him up against the wall… he says Nigma went around collecting
all their bribe money back from the city officials. He afraid that may cost Penguin the election; Penguin can’t
believe Nigma betrayed him. He asks
Nigma why he shouldn’t kill him… aside from all the witnesses, Nigma tells him
to look at the television; Oswald Cobblepot won the election. Penguin finally figures out Nigma’s riddle –
yes, LOVE is the answer. Penguin
announces Mr. Edward Nigma as his Chief of Staff; Butch looks a little pissed
off. Penguin realizes the people love
him; Nigma says if he would have bought the election, he would have never known
that. Nigma tells him he believes in
him – even when he doesn’t believe in himself, and that’s why he did it. He makes Nigma his #1 and demotes Butch;
Butch really doesn’t like Nigma. Alfred
and Bruce sit down to dinner and discuss whether they will ever see his
look-alike again; Bruce doesn’t like the fact that Dr. Strange made him. Alfred points out that there could be
various reasons. Bruce asks if Alfred
thinks Salina really kissed him; and if she thought it was him, wondering if
she will kiss him someday. Lainy asks
Jim if he is okay; she is back in town and wants to be amicable, at least, with
him. He tells her he is happy for her,
and her new life – he asks if that’s a place to start. She says yes; he smiles. Across town, a big black car pulls up with
an older lady in it, saying they have been looking for 2 for a long time,
telling him he should think of them as his new parents. He gets in the car. The Captain is strolling through the fair
grounds, when he notices a drop of blood on the ground; he walks over to it and
looks up to see where it’s coming from.
A drop rolls out of a pipe and lands right in his right eye. His veins enlarge for a moment all over his
face; then return to normal. He looks
horrified, and says “no.”
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