Gotham Recap Part II: "Rogues' Gallery"

Written by Shae

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One of my favorite shows has finally returned after an eternity. It felt that long but I guess that's because I just missed this show so much. Yep, Gotham is back and it was a fantastic episode! I may have missed its premiere, but I'm here to catch you up on it so we can both be ready for tonight's show.

Gordon is settling into his new job and that is interesting. Being a security guard at Arkham Asylum is not all it's cracked up to be. In the midst of a play, an inmate charges the stage and all hell breaks loose. Gordon subdues the enraged guy and then gets the blame for the attack period. Which makes no sense, but whatever. To make matters worse, an attack on an inmate happens. The man who charged the stage is found with burn marks on his temples. It appears that someone has done a crude electroshock therapy on him, only they fried his brain. With one inmate now a living vegetable, the pressure is on to find who did it. A second attack leaves the next victim better, but stuck on a loop of reciting Shakespeare. At this point Gordon calls in a friend for help. Bullock is all too happy to assist on the case. He brings in the head of Arkham to question him, essentially giving Gordon the chance to look through patient paperwork. 

The quirky nurse helping Jim is a bit too polite if you ask me. And as she helps Jim to the basement we see why. She's not a nurse but a patient. When the new hot doctor shows up to help Jim, our suspicions are proven true. The nurse runs off and opens the cell doors, letting all the patients in the wing out. Jim and the Doctor barely escape. The nurse is trampled by the other inmates. They believe she was the one experimenting on the others. But it's shortly revealed by her autopsy that she was a victim as well. Jim rushes off with Harvey back to Arkham to find the director and a security officer dying and dead respectively. It seems our escaped sociopath is free with another inmate, his best experiment yet, and things have gone from bad to worse since he's now on the loose.

With all this happening it seems there's some fighting amongst the Falcone "family" of who would take over if the old man died. Fish is trying to get everyone on her side, but it seems nobody is willing to really side with her. Butch, her side kick, knows the guy challenging Fish. Technically, he's the next in "line" to take over. Butch thinks he can persuade the guy to their cause. But, that's not the case. He offers Butch a deal to join him. The decline of the offer is Butch putting a bullet through the guys head. It seems that loyalty is strong. Penguin's loyalty isn't being questioned. He's hiking up the tax on fishermen in Maroni's name, only the big boss didn't approve of this and Penguin finds himself in some serious trouble when he's thrown in jail and left there. Maroni eventually comes, but with a huge warning to Penguin.

Selina finds Ivy laying in the street sick and takes her to Gordon's apartment. Apparently nobody has been there for a long time. The two stay until Ivy is feeling better...when they leave, they leave a mess. Jim does return only to think Barbara had been there, she sadly hasn't. She's still at Montoya's. Or, she had been. Montoya confesses that this was a bad idea and that she can't help Barbara. Which isn't what the blonde wants to hear. Seems the whole world is a mess....

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