You love Lee, Valerie says to him from her hospital bed.
Which means were done.
This very conversation is the reason why Tetch didnt shoot to kill.
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What better recompense then, than to use that blood to drive all its citizens insane?
Jervis and the remaining Tweeds collect Alices body from the morgue to harvest the poison still inside.
But first, Jervis visits a perverse medicine man to purchase an accelerant.
Jervis takes a dab and blows it into the mans face for his troubles.
Gordon turns up at the morgue when he hears about Alice, ready to get to work.
As a civilian, like you do.
Barnes is right, Harvey says.
Be a cop or dont.
Gordon is his friend, but hes run out of favors.
Serving the city means serving the city, not cherry-picking cases that personally affect him.
Theres a fear there that Gordon still hasnt faced.
Jervis and his men gained access to the morgue by bribing a guard with a record.
Its the GCPDs only lead on finding him and, more importantly, Alices blood.
Lucius Fox debriefs Barnes on the labs second round of testing.
Barnes was hoping for better news, not just for himself now, but for Gotham.
He has reason to be.
Finding Val asleep, Gordon pokes his head into the hallway.
He sees Jervis, who leads him down the stairwell and into the hospital basement.
Jervis blows the substance into his face.
NEXT: The other woman
Gordon may be on to something with denial.
Oswald could tell you that acknowledging your own emotions doesnt always turn out so great.
Its as if millions of Tumblrs suddenly cried out in joy, and were suddenly silenced.
Ed and Isabella are sitting on her stoop when the morning paper hits their feet.
Hes not even sufficiently sorry when he strolls into the mansion.
Hes too overjoyed to see Ed safe to even be upset with him.
I met someone, Ed says, beaming.
I think Im in love.
Ed is still dreamy as a Disney princess while he helps Oswald dress for Gothams Founders Day dinner.
Oswald shows up at the library using Founders Day research as a cover story.
Isabella knows who he is, of course.
The mayor is all politeness.
I should thank you for brightening Eds spirits, he says.
Hes been so down since he got out of Arkham.
Uncanny how much you look like her, he continues.
Its that swan-like neck.
Ed loves a neck.
Isabella doesnt know who her is, but shes thrown anyway.
He could get rid of her for good, but instead he wants to prove something.
He wants to prove that hes the only person who can accept Ed completely for what he is.
And if Isabella is driven away by his past, that simply means shes unworthy.
Oswald heads to the very exclusive annual dinner satisfied that his rival has been neutralized.
While hes there, Oswald meets a rather severe-looking woman Kathryn, of the Court of Owls.
He doesnt have much time to ruminate on this before Jervis crashes the party.
The Mad Hatters flair for the dramatic is also his downfall.
Its a ridiculous amount of overkill to spike the wineandforce Gothams most powerful to drink it at gunpoint.
Why not spike it and leave?
His grandstanding provides enough of a delay for Barnes and Bullock to work the guard and anticipate Jervis plan.
The GCPD arrives before Penguin and the rest can sip from their poison cups.
As hes arrested, Jervis gets a bit of satisfaction when he sees evidence of contamination in Barnes eyes.
Is that my dear sister I see?
NEXT: Far out, man
Gordon misses the raid, paralyzed as he is.
He spends most of the episode in a Red Queen-induced dream sequence.
(You got dosed, buttercup.
Welcome to your hallucination.)
Death is the real star of this show.
He fights next to Oswald in a trench; Oswald tells him never to leave his unit behind.
Another floor gives Gordon a look into the life he knows he cant have.
Hes greeted at the door by two enthusiastic kids and inside by Lee, doing her best June Cleaver.
Theyre all happy together; Gordon even cracks a smile.
But as soon as he gets comfortable, the kids and Lee disappear.
He strangles Barbara and demands she take him back there.
Shes not having it because any regrets Gordon has are his and his alone.
I know youre lost.
You want to find your way home?
The last stop on the Gordon Magical Mystery Tour is a car trip with his deceased father.
A famous Gotham D.A., Peter Gordon was his hero for more than what he did in the courtroom.
Jim confesses to his dad that hes fundamentally different, a cop-out that Peter calls him on.
Everyone has darkness; everyone has regrets even a noble D.A.
Hes gone too soon (No, I want to talk to you more.
He walks into Barnes office and signs back up with the GCPD.
When Oswald returns to the mansion, hes shocked to see Isabella there.
So Ed accidentally killed his ex-girlfriend who looks just like her.
Have you seen whats on Tinder?
Seriously though, something in Isabella is stirred by the confession.
Whoisshe, besides a thorn in poor Penguins side?
Great lovers, great heroes all their legacies are dependent on how theyre remembered.
The episode closes on the exposure of a possible pretender.
Kathryn discusses Oswalds value to the Court with a man in shadow.
Well keep an eye on him, he says.
Judgment is coming, Kathryn, for all of us.
Hes in profile, but the voice is familiar.
And he wears a meaningful decoration on his finger: the Gordon family crest.
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Episode grade: B
