Tuesday, November 29, 2016

Season 3, Episode 9, “The Executioner” (11-14-2016)

The Captain serves justice to three men, by hanging them from the rafters of a warehouse after kicking the chairs out from under them.  Later, he questions one Gordon, who he heard had talked to one of the men – he’s wondering if he said anything about the killer.  The James says no; the Captain isn’t sure he believes him.  He wants him to go out on a call with him; on the way, they discuss a man who was beaten in the bathroom at a bar.  The Captain was there; he insists Gordon interview him while they are driving.  He then discusses Galivan (the man James Gordon shot way back when) and the fact that good men do what is necessary.  Ivy goes to an older gentleman’s mansion, where she asks him to show her his safe (hypnotizing him with some perfume) and bashes him over the head.  He almost grabs her before she escapes from the house; he vows to find her.  She goes to Salina’s and this time tells her that its her; she then eats all of Salina’s food.  Salina calls Bruce; he asks Ivy what she’s doing, but she is rude to him.  She tells Salina that guys just give you stuff when you “look like this.”  She tells her about the guy she was with last night, she stole a necklace, and says he might come after her.  They hear something; Salina looks out the door and sees a man with a rifle; there are actually two of them.  Ivy, Bruce and Salina go out the other door.  On the rooftop, Bruce buys the necklace from Ivy for $5,000 so that they can return it to the man.  When they get to the man’s house, he is dead on the floor, with an arrow through his eye.  Salina gets mad and throws the necklace; it breaks open, revealing a key.  They decide to go to Bruce’s house for now; Ivy is impressed with his place.  He offers food; Ivy says she could eat.  She calls Bruce Salina’s boyfriend and, for some reason, Salina still denies that he is her boyfriend.  Penguin asks why Nigma keeps checking his watch; he says he’s waiting for a call from Isabella.  He gets a call, but not from her; it’s the GCPD and they want to talk to him.  He is nervous about why.  When he gets there, they show him Isabella’s body, half burned – they think she fell asleep at the wheel.  Oswald tells him he will always be there for him; Nigma hugs him, but falls into a depression.  He is laying on the couch and doesn’t want to move; Oswald tells him he needs to do something to move past this – Nigma decides to go to the place where she was taken from him.  He lays flowers on the road at the train crossing and tells Isabella goodbye; he notes that they are four blocks from her apartment.  He talks to a blind man; he tells him the girl was screaming “help, help” bloodcurdling, he says, before the crash.  Nigma goes to the shop where Isabella’s car was taken; he checks it and finds cut lines to the brakes.  He goes home and tells Penguin – he says he knows who did it – Butch.  He figures it’s retaliation for exposing him.  Penguin vows to find him and make him pay for what he’s done.  Gordon and the Captain question a man at gunpoint; he denies doing anything.  The captain shoots him anyway and then turns his rifle on Gordon.  James asks him when he became “this” – the Captain says this is who he has always been, but things have never been so clear in his life.  James figures out that he is infected with the virus.  The Captain threatens to frame him for this man’s murder; but it depends, he says, on whether or not Gordon will join him (he tells him he knows he shot Galivan).  Gordon tells him he will not join him; he stands against him, he says.  A couple random guys walk into the warehouse and distract Captain… James jumps out the window and runs off.  Harvey comes into the police station to see the mad house; he gets told that Jim has killed someone – he doesn’t believe it.  James calls him, and tells him the Captain has lost his mind and is trying to kill him; he tells him he is infected with the Tetch virus.  Harvey goes to ask Lee for help; he says right now, they are all Jim has.  She fakes a blood test to convince the PD that the Captain has the virus.  Still running, Jim ducks into another warehouse, but the Captain heads him off and now has him at gun point again.  Jim tells him he needs help, and says it doesn’t have to be this way; the Captain asks if those are going to be his last words.  He says, no, “Go to Hell.”  When Harvey and the rest of the GCPD arrive, the Captain looks out the window and James jumps him; they fight, James gets the gun and points it at him.  The Captain tries to convince Gordon that he is the same as he is; he pulls out another gun and fires.  Gordon shoots him first.  Back at the station, Gordon thanks Lee for what she did; she says it was nothing.  Harvey asks Jim if he thinks Barnes will be alright; he says it doesn’t know.  He apologizes for doubting him; Jim says he didn’t…not when it mattered.  The captain is now in a straight jacket, repeatedly yelling, “guilty, guilty, guilty!”

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