- The Ogre breaks down Barbara's emotions, while Gordon and Bullock track him down. Meanwhile, Penguin leads a massacre, beginning an epic war, while Bruce learns the truth about Wayne Enterprises and Nygma deals with his recent actions.
- The Ogre breaks down Barbara's emotions, while Gordon and Bullock go to great lengths to track him down. Meanwhile, Penguin leads a massacre, beginning an epic war, while Bruce learns the truth about Wayne Enterprises and Nygma deals with his recent actions.
- "Gotham" - "The Anvil or the Hammer" - April 27, 2015
Jason/The Ogre and Barbara
We open on the pair the morning after what sounds like an eventful night. He has breakfast plans, she wants to leave. He said they had fun and he asks her to stay. She tells him he doesn't have to do this and they shouldn't pretend it's more than it is. He says he's not pretending and wants her to stay. She says no and he stops her. He says he was pretending but not in the way she thinks. He says the night they met he was going to kill her. She says this isn't funny. He says then he saw the real her and he realized she was the woman he'd been searching for. She says he's lying. He commands her to stay and have breakfast. She knocks him off and runs for the door but it is locked. He throws a hood over her head and says he will do it the hard way.
As she hangs from the ceiling of his torture room, in cuffs and gagged, he explains about his first kill and how he thinks she may be his soul mate but he'll need her help figuring it out.
He removes her gag and she spits on him. He asks her questions and says he wants their relationship to work but she is uncooperative and slaps him. She says Jim will find her and he slaps her and says not to mention his name again. He hands her a drink, claiming it's water. She chugs it. He tells her he loves her like no one ever has and tells her to not try to escape and come take a look at something. He shows her his Polaroids of all his victims noting he had to "kiss a lot of frogs." She asks if he killed them all here in this room. He says yes. She faints. He tells her not to worry, he will set her free and that she is "the one."
He wakes Barbara up on the couch. She cries as he holds her in his lap. He tells her there's no need to cry. She says he's going to kill her. He asks her if she wants him to. She says no. So he asks her to tell him who to kill. She's confused. He says he sees her truth and wants to set her free. She says that making him murder someone is insane. He says she'll learn and to tell him who to kill or he will kill her right now. She says she can't. He holds a knife to her throat and repeats the question. She shakes her head yes and whispers in her ear.
Jim and Harvey
Lee checks in with Jim at the precinct. He thinks she may be still alive since her body hasn't been found. Lee tries to convince it's not his fault. He says he knowingly put Lee in danger but feels bad that he didn't even think of Barbara and whatever happens to her is on him.
Harvey brings in a kid who claims he doesn't know anything but has been bragging he does. They show him the sketch and the kid says he never saw him before. But then tries to bargain in the theory that maybe he does know something. Jim threatens to beat the kid up and he gives up wear Jason/the Ogre worked, an underground sex club called the Fox Glove that moves around. Jim says he has no choice but to talk to Penguin to find it.
He shakes Penguin down, offers him another big favor, and gets the info and invitation.
He heads back to the precinct and gives Harvey the invite in order to get in and bust them and then Jim will head in and they can squeeze the owner.
Harvey heads into the party at the club. It's an "Eyes Wide Shut" kinda deal with people in masks and bondage gear and costumes. He looks around for clues I guess. A woman onstage announces the night's main attraction, some kind animal act that we don't see. Harvey pulls out his badge and announces himself telling no one to move.
Jim talks to a hooker named Sally working the party who had a run in with the Ogre 9 years previously that left her with a huge facial scar. She doesn't know why he let her go but it was before he started killing so they venture he was working up the nerve. She gives them a lead on a location and asks them to kill him, not arrest him. Jim says he will.
Harvey and Jim find the Ogre's apartment and his kill room. He and Barbara are not there. Jim can still smell her perfume in the room. The phone rings in the room, it is, of course, the Ogre. He tells him Barbara is safe, safer than she was with Jim and he'll see him around. They deduce from background noise that he is headed upstate to her parents' mansion. He kills her parents and says he's doing it for her.
Jim and Harvey arrive and they are already dead. Barbara walks into the living room in bloody clothes as her parents dead bodies sit together on the couch. She is in shock and wonders what he is doing there. The Ogre knocks out Harvey who falls down the stairs. He attacks Jim from behind and they fight as the Ogre tries to stab him. He gets up and holds the knife to Barbara's throat. Jim trains his gun on him and tells Barbara she will be okay. The Ogre says he will slit her throat. Barbara asks him to leave them alone. Harvey approaches from behind and distracts him and shoots him in the head. Barbara is good and freaked out, asking if he is dead. Jim says he is and it's going to be okay.
He gets applause back at the precinct house where he apologizes to Lee, who tells him his sense of mission is part of why she loves him. She admits she was scared Barbara would get hurt and that he would blame himself and that their love would die, she says her concern was selfish. He says if he had to do it again he would protect Lee first. They kiss.
Nygma
Nygma awkwardly rolls two trunks through the precinct into the morgue. Inside are Doherty's body parts. He looks at it and says "no body, no crime."
He is about to dissolve the body when Kristin Kringle knocks on the door looking for a file. She walks in and sees the body parts and is aghast. He says the man died in a factory accident. She wonders how he can do this job. He says it's key to have a sense of humor. She asks if he's seen Doherty. He says he hasn't and shows her out.
Nygma speaks to Doherty's skull, "alas, poor Yorick"-style trying to figure out what to tell Kristin about where he went. He considers a goodbye letter and then pounds the skull to dust.
Kristin Kringle reads the letter "from Doherty." She wonders why she keeps picking creeps. Nygma pushes the letter into a file where you can only see the first letter of every line and it reads "Nygma." He giggles.
Bruce and Alfred
In the study Alfred hands Bruce a letter that came by messenger. Bruce thanks him. Alfred is off to ID Reggie's body. Bruce asks if he wants him to come. He says no and is confused why he would off himself. Bruce says he heard he fell out a window. Alfred doesn't believe it and says he wants to give him a proper send off and leaves.
Bruce opens the letter and it has the key from Selina with a note saying she hopes what he find what he seeks and to be careful.
Bruce heads to Wayne Enterprises and while on a tour he asks to use the restroom. He pulls the fire alarm on the way. He sneaks into Bunderslaw's office and opens the safe. It is empty.
Bunderslaw walks in and says he's been expecting him ever since his "friend" borrowed his key. Bunderslaw closes the safe. Bruce simply states that Bunderslaw hired Reggie to kill Alfred. The man counters that he hired him to look into what Bruce knew and didn't mean for anyone to get hurt.
He sits at his desk and smiles and says he told the board that Bruce was a special boy and would need the "talk." He admits that Wayne Enterprises is a multinational corporation that maximizes the bottom line at all costs and that Bruce's father-- like his father before him--agreed with this sometime unscrupulous approach and that Bruce will eventually get on board too and live the life his parents wanted him to. Bruce does not believe this.
Bunderslaw approaches him, threateningly, and says he begs him to reconsider. Lucious Fox-- our first meeting-- enters and says there is a PR rep looking for Bruce. Bunderslaw says to reunite him. At the elevator Lucious tells him to keep his face neutral since there are cameras-- that he installed-- everywhere. He tells Bruce that his father was a good man, a stoic, who kept his best self hidden and that the company did not know who he really was. So now, Bruce has an ally. Lucious wishes him good luck.
Back in the study Bruce confesses about Reggie and Selina and Bunderslaw and his empty safe and his encounters at Wayne Enterprises and what he said about his father and grandfather. He is clearly wrestling with this. Alfred says his father was a good man. Bruce says even good men have secrets.
Bruce cuts a picture of his father's head out and places it on his evidence wall.
Penguin
Penguin has Butch place a pistol and machine gun under the bar at the place he just bought from the old Italian lady. She is hosting a party for Maroni that night and that is when he plans to have him killed. He is excited the day has finally come.
Penguin's contract killer checks in to make sure everything is set for the Maroni hit. Penguin instructs him to say something special to Maroni before the kill. The killer notes he never understands the whole final words before the killing thing but he'll do it.
We cut to Maroni meeting an old mob pal who just got of the joint and they are celebrating at Penguin's new place.
The killer shows up with a "gift" from Falcone and a message from Falcone that it's just business. Then the guys pull out the guns planted in the bar but they are empty/jammed. Maroni can't believe Falcone would do this and plans to send a message of his own back and kills them both.
This news gets back to Penguin at the club through Butch. He doesn't seem nervous. Butch realizes he knew, he set him up. He took the firing pins out of the guns. Butch says he could've had Maroni dead. Penguin says he'd still be under Falcone's thumb, this way he will be free since Maroni is out for blood.
Falcone receives a box with the severed head of his lieutenant-- the one Penguin had try to "kill" Maroni. Moments later Maroni's men open up on three separate Falcone businesses. The mob war is on.
We cut to the Penguin giggling gleefully.
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