The Captain happens into a warehouse where he finds a
man, cutting up a body in a tub and dropping body parts into a vat of acid; he
tells him he just wants to punish him.
The man begs to be arrested, but the Captain says they are past
that. Jim and Bullock get a call to the
warehouse, where they find a man’s body hanging, head on the floor…and the
partial man still in the tub. Captain
Barnes goes to see Tetch; he asks him how to beat the virus… he tells him he
needs to know how it has affected him – anger and violent rage, he sees. Tetch asks if he has heard the voices yet;
tells him that he will, and then he won’t be himself (only Alice). Lee and Falcone talk about their upcoming
engagement party, for which he father has planned a big affair. Then she tells him Jim Gordon is returning
to the GCPD; he isn’t happy about it, but says he trusts her. She leaves for work. Jim comes in, asking about the man they
found in the tub; she said he had his face removed (which Jim wonders about
because the acid would have removed it anyway). “What must be broken before it can be used?” Edward has made eggs for breakfast; his
girlfriend is going to a librarian’s conference… she puts on a pair of glasses
that look just like the one’s Ms. Kringle used to wear. He freaks out and runs to another room where
he sees Kristin in the mirror; she taunts him about killing her, and asks how
long until he kills this girlfriend.
The Captain goes to a bar, looking for “the Toad” and receives a cold
welcome; he beats a couple of guys up and demands information about ‘Polly
Pennys’ (the man who was disposing of the body last night); the man gives up
another name… the doctor who does the face transplants. Captain Barnes finds him, and arrests
him. Penguin goes to see Isabellla, and
delivers Ed’s message; “it’s over,” he tells her – and kind of feels bad as he
notices all that they have in common.
He tries to let her down gently, but she says she is not going to let
this go; love is rare, she says, and she realizes that Oswald loves him
too. Penguin insists that she let Ed
go; she refuses, saying she will write to him or whatever it takes to stay in
his life. Oswald tells Edward; Ed goes
to see her. When he gets there,
Isabella is dressed exactly like Kristin; she says he needs to face his fear,
forces him to look at her and puts his hand on her throat. They kiss passionately. Dr. Thompkins report notes that it would
have taken extreme strength to remove Pennys’ head from his torso; Barnes
brings in the ‘doctor’ in handcuffs.
Jim congratulates him; he says it wasn’t easy. The doctor has a lawyer and gets released almost immediately;
Captain Barnes finds him again, and says he should have done this the first
time, as he slams his head down on a marble table top, then lifts him up
against the wall by the throat – he says, he is judge, jury and executioner –
he slams him against the wall a few times, and eventually through it, where he
falls to the street. As the Captain,
back at the party, stares at the people in the crowd, their faces distort and
become bloody and gross.
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