- Following several bank robberies, Gordon and Bullock investigate the Red Hood gang. Meanwhile, Selina bonds with Barbara, Penguin faces problems, Fish tries to reclaim her position, and Alfred is visited by an old friend.
- James cleverly works out one of the garage colleagues who rob banks masked and became dangerously popular when their leader enabled a quick escape by throwing cash at the public. He, the only one in a red hood, was however killed by a greedier, more violent fiend, and a third is desperate for the r-hero role to win back his girlfriend. Bruce insists to offer hospitality to Reggie Payne, a marines vet friend of Alfred's, who was off the grid for ten years after his wife's death drove him to the bottle. To run his nightclub, Oswald must overcome an alcohol sales ban from Moroni, for which Butch knows a smart way. Fish gambles with homeless lives and even sacrifices one of her own eyes to maximize the pressure on the supervisor to get direct negotiations with his mysterious doctor boss.—KGF Vissers
- "Gotham" - "Red Hood" - Feb. 23, 2015
Well this was gruesome.
We have five separate storylines tonight.
Back at the scary prison-cum-spare parts factory Fish is taken to see the manager. Along the way she peers into rooms she passes and sees people with missing limbs and eyes. After she learns that the man she is speaking to just manages the place--- they sell their spare parts all over the world and the in house doctor does "experiments"-- and doesn't own it she demands to speak to him, a Dr. Dolemacher. The manager tries to talk with her and says that perhaps a shower and a set of fresh clothes will make her more amenabble. Unfortunately for Fish when she returns all clean and in nice white clothes he tells her that she has two options, he takes her eyes from her right now-- he notes she has remarkable ones that will fetch a high price and two men are ready behind her to put her in a straitjacket-- or he can kill everyone in the basement which would be inconvenient. She notes that he forgot the third option and grabs a spoon and digs out her own left eye, flings it on the floor, and stomps on it. Um, ew. She then promptly collapses.
Meanwhile, over at Barbara's Cat seems to feel guilty about the mess she and her friend have made of the place. She goes to thank Barbara for letting them stay and says she was just about to leave. Barbara is already swigging booze in what appears to be the morning since she is clearly still upset from seeing Jim making out with Leslie.. She looks at Cat and says she's turning into a beautiful woman. Cat disagrees. Later, Barbara lays out a bunch of her fancy clothes and tells the girls to take whatever they like. She holds one sparkly dress up in front of Cat in a mirror and tells her her beauty can be a weapon as powerful and deadly as any knife or gun. Disgusted, Cat asks Barbara exactly what he beauty has done for her and walks out.
Penguin is having problems of his own. He can't seem to book anyone good at his club-- we watch a terrible comic get booed offstage-- and he's run out of booze because Maroni controls Gotham's liquor supply and if he can't kill Penguin he's going to squeeze his business. Butch tells Penguin he needs to do something post-haste and that he put his blood and sweat into the club when Fish owned it and he doesn't want to see it fail. Penguin hatches a plan to rob a liquor shipment but Butch is one step ahead and has some fake cops commandeer the shipment instead. Either way, free booze! Back at the club they toast to no longer being sidekicks. When Penguin tries to toast Fish-- whom he says he oddly misses and muses that our enemies define us even more than our friends--Butch won't drink with him saying Fish got what she deserved.
Harvey and Jim are running down the "Red Hood" Gang, a group of bank robbers whose seeming leader wears a red hood.
They are a quintet of idiots but they cased the first bank the first time and timed the response time. They pull off the first heist but just as they're about to get busted, the original guy wearing the red hood gets the smart idea to throw some of the money in the air to cause gridlock with the people on the street so the police can't get through.
When they are counting their money, Red Hood man proclaims that the security guard in the bank couldn't hit him with a single bullet because the hood was magical. This is, of course, hogwash, but an older, greedier member of the team gets sick of him and shoots him and takes the hood. In the next heist he is the man, except that a local restaurant owner sees him take the hood off and IDs him in a line-up. Harvey and Jim follow him back to his apartment where yet another member of the gang believes the hood has power-- in this case, the robberies are in the paper of the "red hood" gang throwing money out to the people and he thinks showing his girlfriend the hood will keep her from leaving him. So he shoots the old guy. Harvey and Jim enter and save his life and notice that the man has three loan rejectiong from banks. He wanted to open a bakery but had no collateral so they were revenge robberies. They now know where the next robbery will take place and roll up before it can go down. The guy in the hood thinks he can't be shot, and he's wrong as the police take him down. Later, a young boy grabs the discarded hood, puts it over his head, makes finger guns and shoots at the police.
And finally, Alfred is paid a visit from an old buddy named Reginald Payne. They served in the British Special Air Service together. (From their descriptions of covert missions and killings to Bruce it sounds like the equivalent of SEALs/Special Forces). Reggie has been down on his luck--lost his house, his wife, and his sobriety-- so Alfred and Bruce offer to take him in for a few days. Alfred cleans him up. Reggie spars with Bruce a bit, encouraging the boy to really hit him and starts to show him special tactics when Alfred stops him. Later, when they're regaling Bruce with tales of their exploits -- and Reggie and Alfred enjoy some wine-- Reggie notes that he and Alfred killed a lot of men. Alfred sends Bruce to bed but he overhears Reggie asking him why he doesn't show Bruce who he really is. Later still, Alfred catches Reggie in the study stealing from the Manor. Reggie says he's in real trouble. Alfred offers to help and when this is turned down he says it's time for Reggie to leave. Instead, Reggie stabs him and leaves him for dead. Bruce finds him and calls for an ambulance. Later, Jim shows up at the hospital to find a distraught Bruce saying that he can't lose Alfred since he is all he has left. Jim comforts him.
We cut to Reggie in the boardroom of Wayne Enterprises showing them the photos that he took of Bruce's various files and evidence wall. He says Bruce has a lot of theories and questions but no real evidence of anything. He says Alfred will either die or be in the hospital for several weeks so now is the time to "take care" of Bruce. They hand him an envelope with a bunch of money for his spy services and thank him. He lamely tries to beseech them that Bruce is a good kid. They dismiss him.
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