Gotham Recap: "Harvey Dent"

Written by John Edward Betancourt

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Oh Gotham, how you continue to impress.  This week was a fast paced episode, filled to the brim with important little details and as always hints of things to come, especially when it came to the man whose name shared the title of this week's episode, "Harvey Dent".

Yes, good old Harvey had a plan this week to potentially draw out some of Gotham's more unsavory businessmen by tying Dick Lovecraft to the Wayne murders in a risky gambit. His plan was to leak the story that GCPD had a secret witness ready to go to testify against him, of course the plan fails miserably, but we are treated to one incredible outburst from Harvey that certainly speaks to his future role as a madman terrorizing Gotham.  Yet, that was really it for Harvey this week, short and sweet because the rest of the episode had two other big storylines to handle. 

The first one was the escape of an inmate from Blackgate Penitentiary, Ian Hargrove.  Mister Hargrove was a bomber who destroyed buildings and companies he deemed bad for society and only recently harmed other human beings in the process. But good old Fish had bigger plans for Hargrove, using him to exact revenge on Falcone. Yes, she wanted to hurt Falcone where it matters most, in his wallet, and while the heist failed miserably in the respect of making Fish that much richer, the cops now knew where Falcone hid his money and all that bread undoubtedly found itself seized.  

But the best part of the show last night was Gordon putting Selina Kyle up in Wayne Manor to keep her safe as he continued to work toward solving the Wayne murders.  It was awesome to see Bruce quickly develop a crush on the woman he will someday have one wild and weird relationship with, but it was even better to finally see Bruce acting like a kid once again. Selina actually managed to bring out the best in Bruce, and challenge him in ways we hadn't see him go through yet. This whole little subplot was as Aflred put it, "a breath of fresh air."

Either way, I really enjoyed this episode. I loved watching Harvey damn near lose his mind around Lovecraft and see that insane fury burning in his eyes.  Despite being a classy prosecutor for the city and state, that evil is already starting to brew within him.  I also loved how the recently renovated Arkham Asylum was re opened as a home for the criminally insane, simply because well...we all know how well that works out.  Until next week...

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