Two villains meet their maker and Bruce meets his double
They dont call it the mad city for nothing.
Questions of sanity still abound inGotham.
For the aesthetics of it all, probably.
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The only Court shot-caller whom weve seen isnt a complete stranger to Bruce.
With no ace in his back pocket, Bruce acquiesces.
Needless to say, youll not see me again, Kathryn coolly offers, and well see about that.
Her manservant knocks out Bruce once more for the trip back home.
Meanwhile, Valerie is still looking to make her name on the Indian Hill escapees with her reluctant partner.
She breezes into Gordons seedy bachelor pad (You dont bring women here, do you?
), interrupting his spiked morning coffee and offering him another chance to get the bounty on Fish.
Val needs to find her source again and figures Gordon might have some advice on how to do it.
Shes a petty thief, a street kid, Valerie says.
I like her, though, shes got style.
Gordon does that smile-grimace thing, because he has a pretty good idea whos been feeding Val her tips.
Unsure how to find Selina, Gordon takes Val to Sirens to ask his sadistic ex for the intel.
Barbara could not be more delighted to see him walk through her door.
God, she breathes.
Its the games that tire Gordon, even if hes gotten better at playing them.
He turns to leave, and the part of Barbara that cant disappoint him surfaces briefly.
She mentions something about an old bank.
Valerie and Gordon dont stick around to hear the particulars.
He pegged her as an opportunist from the jump; how did Gordon not see this coming?
At the precinct, Bullock promises Val first crack at Fish once shes in custody, per their deal.
Without even casing the joint, the GCPD preps a raid on the abandoned bank.
Bullock gives his St. Crispins speech to the cops and reminds them to look for Mrs. Peabody.
Cops die and Fish goes free.
He wants her dead, and he doesnt care how it happens.
With Fishs hand-picked hostage in their Scooby van, theyll have his location soon enough.
One touch of a hand and hes her willing accomplice again.
An enraged Barnes offers to take Gordon to Stranges holding cell himself, along with a few dozen officers.
The press show up en masse, Valerie leading them like a general.
Barnes is distracted; Gordon is free to come up with a plan thats actually viable.
That plan comes with the Penguin and a mob of citizens who are just barely not carrying pitchforks.
Oswald is experienced in how fear works and how it can easily be coaxed into anger.
Fish Mooney dies tonight!
he screams, and the mob cheers.
NEXT: Mamas boy
But first, Gordon has to get to Fish.
He runs around to the back of the estate while Barnes staves off the mobandthe press.
Sid (evil Barry Allen) wants to take him out.
Gordon makes his offer: Bullock for an assist on her safe escape.
Strange (him: Wait a second…), and its a deal.
Vigilante justice at its finest.
Theres just one problem.
Oswald is an emotional little bastard with serious mommy issues.
And Fish can still play him like a fiddle, no mind control necessary.
But shes the only mother he has left.
To prove it, she claims him.
Fish tells Oswald how proud she is of how powerful hes become.
Its a straight-up lie; Fish always wants to be the top dog.
But he takes the bait.
Still, an angry mob needs a victim, lest it turn its rage towards its leader.
Theyve got a bad feeling about this.
Valerie has one, too.
She shows up to Gordons apartment that night to find out what the hell happened in those woods.
Shes dead-on in assuming her sparring partner had a hand in that sketchy exchange.
And if that were really Fish in the flames, she posits, Oswald wouldnt have obscured her identity.
Whats Lee doing back in town, and what happened to the assumed Mr. Lee?
Jim Gordons got one more thing to drink about.
