They wanted to know what evidence Bruce found out about them, but he confessed he had bluffed. She abandoned him on that part of town while she drove to the latest “911” – the two didn’t cross paths until she tried going back to him for help. Kathryn also requires that Bruce cease all investigations into the organization’s existence and his parents’ murders. This second episode should give us a better idea of whether that objection holds, thanks to a subplot that finds Kendra (Taylor Spreitler) asking her Uncle Kyle (Gary Valentine) to toughen up Chale (Ryan Cartwright). The Talon looms over as Bruce talks to her. He tells Fish he can get her out of the house. He asks, “What’s in it for you?” After Ivy told Fish she would tell on her, Fish ordered Marv, her underling who has the ability to age people to death, to kill Ivy. Meanwhile Ivy Pepper washes up on a beach wearing a sweater that still seems way too big on her. Gordon does that smile-grimace thing, because he has a pretty good idea who’s been feeding Val her tips. Ivy claimed to have “changed” inside and outside after her monster-zap swan dive into Gotham’s sewer system, meaning we’re supposed to ignore the fact that last week Ivy was an awkward teenager and this week she’s suddenly the sexpot that Batman fans have long known her to be in the comics. The cops want to arrest Fish, but the Penguin wants to kill her.
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Fish decides there’s one person who might be of help to her, Bullock.
Gordon doesn’t give Barbara the kiss, but she does give him information on a bank that Selina mentioned. After being hell-bent on killing Fish, he had the opportunity to eliminate both she and Hugo Strange for their past misdoings. “She’s a petty thief, a street kid”, Valerie says. Peabody was one, but she died last week. He says that she can use the phone if she wants and is surprised when she says that she doesn’t need to because no one is looking for her. The look on Strange’s face when he sees Fish again is amazing-and not just because she dresses like Magneto now. They take out the feds guarding Hugo Strange, and Fish tells him they have unfinished business. Barnes had told both men that Jim shouldn’t even be there and that he had no idea where odd was. She admits to him that she knows something went down with Mooney and Penguin, but she doesn’t know what exactly happened. “And when that’s done, you’re going to make me an army so I can have this city kneeling at my feet”.
Gotham airs Monday nights at 8:00pm ET on FOX. Bruce told them that he has the goods on them. Suddenly desperate, Barbara begs Gordon’s attention a moment longer and recaps a disturbing dream where she had to push a crippled Jim around in a baby carriage. Even though I thought the story about Ivy was misplaced (as in, should’ve been in a different episode), everything was fluid and well paced. He offers Fish a deal – Bullock for a way out. He shows Gordon Peabody’s body and theorizes that she was killed because she was useless to Fish. Watch her face though when she hears the dude say, “Relax, they’re just plants”, as he chucks one in the trash. Fish is most likely looking for odd. “Don’t come back.” She and odd walk away. So Penguin has his mob rush the GCPD, who all have to try to stop them.
Jim goes to Barnes with Fox, and shows him Harvey’s badge from the scene of the abduction.
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Back at Gordon’s home, Valerie showed up again and correctly guessed what Gordon had done with Fish and Penguin. They kiss as the camera cuts to Lee (Morena Baccharin) getting off a train in Gotham.
