He even helps stop Kathryn from giving a portion of the towns most powerful citizens some bitter medicine.
But it all spins out a little too cleanly with Penguins help, doesnt it?
Lets start from the top.

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Hes out of time to play coy about it.
Its a dangerous recon mission, but hes out of options at this point.
Gordon tries to pull a not now on him, but thats not gonna cut it.
Gotham is sick, she says.
With a shot of detective work, theyre able to narrow that list down to just one location.
I didnt want to kill these people.
I just lost control, patient zero says.
Im the good guy here.
Not for nothing, but it saves Jims life.
If she believes his lab has been compromised, shell only be encouraged to disseminate the poison sooner.
The timer reads 15 minutes, which gives Jim plenty of time to think about her proposition.
The girls are then instructed to run before the Tetch poison begins to fill the room, and voila.
Its time for a reckoning, yall.
But her retaliation play might be fruitless anyway because the Owls plans for him are working out just swimmingly.
Your rage, Bruce, it blinds you.
You seek to control it, and yet it controls you, and it has ever since that night.
Rage and pain are two sides of the same coin, he says.
But what does it mean?
Someone I thought was loyal to me has been deceiving me from the start, she tells him.
Jim Gordon threatens to undo what we both seek.
I need you to kill him before he can do that.
As if Gordon needed someone else to place a target on his back right about now.