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.”