And if hes breathing, you better believe hes causing trouble.
Smile Like You Mean It obliterates any remaining doubt that Cameron Monaghans character isGothams Joker.
And even as he slept, Jeromes acolytes were growing their ranks and paving the way for his return.
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He also let fear of the mob whose fervor he stoked be his undoing.
(Could be more than one group.
Could be multiple chapters.
Like the Elks.)
(Is everything plugged in?
Try turning everything on and off.)
The prophets public cant be disappointed.
If you disappoint a bunch of bloodthirsty malcontents, they tend to turn on you.
Lucky Dr. Tompkins ends up in possession of Jeromes faceless corpse.
If they carry out his wishes, they all have become him.
Fortunately, the bad apple is also a twitchy one.
Jim smokes him out with a bluff, and he ends up in interrogation with both detectives.
Sickened, Jim and Harvey both go into Ass-Kicking Cop mode instead.
Lee strolls in and calmly injects the man with truth serum, with perfect comic timing.
But Lee reminds her ex that shes not there to be a paragon of righteousness for him.
The cops warn the station to start evacuation procedures, but its too late.
The neo-Maniax make a loud show of taking over, mowing down anyone who stands in their way.
Dwight rehearses his speech, which was certainly meant to be made by Jerome.
But the face doesnt make the man, and Dwight can only mimic his absent leader for so long.
Its a full-blown hostage situation when the GCPD arrives.
He even repeats Jeromes half of his conversation with Jim Gordon.
The detective usually doesnt have much of a sense of humor, but he can deliver a sick burn.
Youre doing one thing Jerome never did, Jim says before hanging up on Dwight.
Lee has always been capable, but shes newly fearless in the wake of Marios death.
(I really liked you guys … What happened?
He killed my husband on our wedding night.)
Jim, Harvey, and a SWAT team cut short Dwights broadcast mid-speech.
But the damage has been done.
The anarchists have heard the call.
Dwight wants to know if Jerome is mad at him about the identity theft.
Dwight wanted to be the movement.
In death, he is.
Jerome straps explosives to his No.
1 follower and activates the cult he didnt even know he had.
He debuts his stapled visage in the live feed and advocates for a Gotham purge.
Its going to be a deadly night in Gotham, and Jim has no idea who he can trust.
Oswald thinks he has a good idea of that himself, but love is blind.
Public opinion has turned against Mayor Crumblepot since his calamitous interview with Margaret Hearst.
And if Oswald cant maintain a shred of credibility, hes useless to them.
If only he could find Ed, Ed would fix it all.
He thinks hes being shrewd in seeing through her plan.
But then Oswald hears a threat that changes everything.
Tabitha forces Tommy Bones to call and say that hes holding Ed as his prisoner.
Hell only live if Oswald gives up the figurative throne.
Of course, this phone call sends Penguin into a rage.
Another one this time from Ed, begging his hero for rescue forces him into action.
Hell rip Gotham apart to find Ed and burn every last bridge on the way.
The Court of Owls will have something to say about all of this, certainly.
Bruce has abandoned his investigation into the Court for now.
Selina was meant to overhear her mother arguing with Cole about money in Ghosts.
She was meant to offer Bruces help.
But Selina cant see the good intentions in this.
Shes been betrayed by her own family and never expected to be able to say the same of Bruce.
How ironic that in the same episode where she indirectly confirms (finally!)
that theyre dating, Bruce does something that Selina might not be able to forgive.
