last week<\/a>. Tossing thugs outta windows is Gordon\u2019s way of getting the word out that he\u2019d like to have a sit-down with Jerome.<\/p>\nWhile Gordon and Bullock are busy gathering intel, it seems things are heating up at the Galvan residence. Apparently Barbara and Tabitha (Tigress) are setting up housekeeping and getting quite cozy at it. However, before there\u2019s any real skin-on-skin contact Theo shows up with breakfast and promptly sends Tabitha off to chaperon Jerome on his latest escapade. Over tea and toast, Theo divulges the fact that he believes his family didn\u2019t get the recognition it deserved for its contributions to the building of Gotham, and his current wave of mess and mayhem serves as payback. Oh yeah, as part of this scheme he plans to destroy Jim Gordon in the process. He tells Babs that\u2019s where she comes into the picture. Well, he has her undivided attention now.<\/p>\n
Back at the precinct house, Bullock tells Gordon that they should talk to the Penguin because he may have incited into this latest bit of chaos that\u2019s befallen their fair city. Gordon\u2019s non-committal on the idea but Bullock presses on with it. After barking some orders at the precinct\u2019s surviving minions, Gordon gets some understanding and affection from his girlfriend Leslie, the medical examiner. She also tells him that the Gotham Children\u2019s Hospital benefit will be happening, and she wants him to accompany her \u2014 there\u2019ll be a magician she says, trying to entice him. He begs off. Manhunts for notorious killers can\u2019t be put on hold, not even for magicians. Bullock interrupts the tender moment the two are having to say that\u2019s Jerome\u2019s father, the blind fortune teller from last season, has been located and, well praise be, he\u2019s still in Gotham. How the fuck about that!<\/p>\n
Now we find out what Jerome\u2019s latest errand is, a visit to see dear old dad. After reminiscing over old times, Jerome implies that his visit is about tying up loose ends and the old man is a big loose end. He also is going to leave all kinds of evidence lying around to make it seem as though this latest bit of criminal commotion was the blind man\u2019s idea. This\u2019ll take any suspicion off Theo. \u201cYou will be a curse upon Gotham\u2026 Your legacy will be death and madness,\u201d the old man tells his son after Jerome explains the master plan. \u201cSay hi to Mom,\u201d Jerome replies before poking his pop in the eye with a four-inch blade. Gordon and Bullock arrive just in time to find the body and to be incapacitated by the knock-out gas that was left behind. There\u2019s a small encounter with Jerome and Tigress in which Gordon goes down for the count.<\/p>\n
Now for the main event. Young Bruce Wayne and Alfred arrive at the hospital benefit with Alfred explaining to the young caped-crusader-to-be that they have to keep up appearances. They\u2019re greeted by Leslie and Alfred immediately falls under the spell of her charms, poor sap. While mingling Bruce runs into Selina Kyle. She\u2019s all fashionably dressed and acting real innocent and young lady-like as she picks the pockets of Gotham\u2019s rich and powerful. \u201cWell, you wanna steal stuff it helps to go where the rich people are,\u201d she tells Bruce after he inquires about her being there. She then reminds him that he also benefited from her nefarious talents at one time thus helping him gain info on the dirt happening at Wayne Enterprises. Theo and Tabitha show up at the benefit as well and immediately manage to make the acquaintance of the deputy mayor. The mayor, of course, is still \u2018indisposed\u2019.<\/p>\n
The show gets underway with Leslie acting as emcee. She introduces the magician, the Great Rudolpho, along with his pretty assistant. Don\u2019t they both look rather familiar? Rudolpho performs a few standard, corny tricks, including sawing Bruce in half, and then he performs his first real trick \u2014 killing the deputy mayor. Leslie, of course, recognizes Babs, the assistant, and calls Gordon just as Jerome, Rudolpho, kills the deputy mayor with one of his blades. It seems as though knives are to be the theme for the evening. As the deputy mayor falls to the floor, the usual hell breaks loose, goons shooting guns, people running and screaming, you get the picture. Alfred acquits himself well handing out an ass-whipping or two as Bruce runs after Selina. Gordon shows up on the scene to find that his girlfriend is in dire straights, being held hostage by Jerome and Babs. Theo strides forth, reminding one of Donald Trump, and chastises Jerome for his “behavior” and showing that he\u2019s not afraid to stand up to such scum. Jerome promises to shoot him in the face later. Theo even offers himself as a hostage; I don\u2019t know if Donald would do the same under such circumstances, though. Selina leads Bruce toward a little-known exit and escapes when he decides that he has to go back for Alfred, but not before telling Selina that he\u2019s missed her. Ain\u2019t young love something! I\u2019m sure that\u2019ll have repercussions of some kind later on in the season. Gordon sees Selina coming out the exit and heads into the building.<\/p>\n
For his next victim, Jerome calls upon Bruce to come up to the stage but when Bruce is a no-show he threatens Alfred. Gordon shows up to stop Bruce from stepping forth, but he fails. Jerome grabs the kid but not until after Bruce manages to slip Alfred the gun Gordon gave him. Gordon comes in, guns blazing, and he and Alfred quickly dispatch Jerome\u2019s goons. Jerome, meanwhile, stands grinning onstage holding a knife to Bruce\u2019s throat drawing blood. Gordon can\u2019t get a clear shot, and things look grim. Then Theo pops up behind Jerome and stabs him in the neck, I said knives were the theme for the evening, didn\u2019t I? There\u2019s shock on not only Jerome\u2019s face, but Barbara\u2019s as well (not to mention mine) as Jerome departs this life. \u201cI\u2019m so sorry Jerome; you have real talent,\u201d Theo quietly tells the gurgling, gasping, dying psychopath. \u201cBut now you see the plot thickens. Enter the hero.\u201d Don\u2019t think Donald\u2019s tried that one yet. Pity, it might do wonders for his poll ratings that seem to be slipping as of late. Before anyone can do anything else, Babs exits stage right and literally disappears.<\/p>\n
While all this goes on Bullock pays Penguin a little visit and reminds Oswald that Bullock holds him responsible for what happened to Fish Mooney with whom Bullock was rather tight. This seems to somewhat upset Penguin\u2019s little umbrella cart.<\/p>\n
In the aftermath, Theo gets to play the hero, and Alfred gets the blues when he finds that Leslie and Gordon are an item. Meanwhile, as Jerome lies cold on the coroner\u2019s table, random folks all over Gotham start laughing uncontrollably for no apparent reason and one of them even murders a couple of folks. So I have to really wonder, as we see Jerome lying there with an unmistakable grin on his face if we\u2019ve seen the last of him. Hmmm?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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