- While Gordon seeks information about the recent controversy with Commissioner Loeb, Fish's allegiance with the prisoners is questioned when she appears to join forces with Dr. Dulmacher. Meanwhile, after an attack close to home, Bruce deals with the aftermath.
- Bruce sits at Alfred's sickbed, agrees not to tell even Jim that Reggie abused him and prevents him from getting up without medical clearing. Only D.A. Harvey Dent dares standing up with Gordon against corrupt commissioner Loeb, who blackmails cops -notably Harvey- into helping him prevent drug trade accomplice detective Arnold Flass being tried at all, even stand as candidate police union president. They work out the duo must be in league with Falcone and resolve to stop them by destroying the blackmail evidence. After escaping a trap set by Flass's ex-partner, Oswald agrees to help them get to the documents in exchange for five minutes insight and a marker. It's a farm, guarded by a deceptively hospitable couple, who mainly guard a human secret from Loeb's traumatic family past. Fish finally meets the organ trade boss Dr. Dulmacher, who isn't as easy as she hoped, yet surprisingly generous.—KGF Vissers
- "Gotham" - "Everyone Has a Cobblepot" - March 2, 2015
We open on Alfred in the hospital with Bruce at his side and Jim checking in on him. Alfred complains about the food. Apparently, it's the next day. Jim asks who did it. Bruce is about to say until Alfred clearly tries to cover up for his "friend" Reggie who stabbed him. Jim gets a call from the captain and leaves and Bruce asks why not tell him the truth. Alfred says he's no snitch and he will sort Reggie out himself. And he's eager to do it, ripping out his IV and getting out of bed even though he is clearly too weak to do so. Bruce orders him back in bed.
A woozy, one-eyed Fish wakes up in the prison/hospital and meets the famous Dr. Francis Dulmacher, the founder of the facility. He says it's a pleasure to meet her. She says she has gone to great lengths to meet him. He agrees and is clearly impressed with her. She offers to be his right-hand man. He doesn't know Falcone is so he's not impressed but she points out it's better to have her as his friend than his enemy. She applauds her panache and tells her to eat. And also informs her that he's given her a new eye but couldn't match her original color. She goes to a mirror, takes off her bandage and sees a bright blue eye.
Harvey Dent arrives at the precinct with the newspaper saying the charges against Flask has been dropped even though they had Flask's prints on the gun. Dent says it's all political and Commissioner Loeb is going to give Flask a promotion in the GCPD. Jim is disgusted and storms out of the captain's office, right into Flask, who invites him to his promotion party. Jim demurs. Flask says Gordon can't take him down because he's like a rising Phoenix.
Jim goes to confront Loeb who isn't interested in the fact that Flask is a murder and Loeb is bad cop. Loeb does not care. He shows him video of Harvey "confessing" that he presented false evidence against Flask. And that right there is Loeb's trump card.
Jim confronts Harvey who says he did what he had to do, what Loeb told him to do, what he needed to do that keep himself out of prison. He notes that Jim isn't the only one with a skeleton in his closet and that, as the title implies, everyone has a Cobblepot. Harvey killed a mobster. He tells Jim all the cops have something like this and it's what Loeb does. He says Jim needs to fall in line. Jim says the day he does that is the day he quits being a cop.
Edward Nygma goes to Ms. Kringle and tells her fun facts about bodily fluids in an awkward way to get information from her about Flask, whom she dated. She says she now knows there are far better men in the world than Flask implying strongly that Nygma is one of them.
Jim goes to Dent to explain how Loeb uses dirt on cops, businessmen, and politicians to exert influence. Dent says he has nothing on him. Jim wants to find Loeb's cache of video evidence and destroy it and thus destroy his influence. They try to figure out how to find it. Jim claims he doesn't know what Loeb has on Harvey. Dent gets a lightbulb.
They head back to the precinct and interrogate Loeb's former partner Griggs in the locker room. He claims that Loeb was with him when his wife died-- an old rumor has it that Loeb killed his wife-- and that he knows nothing about any secret files but Jim and Dent both know he's lying. The guy says they are out of their depth and should swim back to shore. Jim realizes that Loeb has something on this guy too. He sweats Griggs about what it is. He says he doesn't know what they are talking about but that Loeb always said that to keep something safe to give it to this Chinese bookie he knows, Shi Lu.
Fish tells Dulmacher that she likes her new eye. She reminds him the people in the basement trust her and she will continue the flow of healthy organs to him. He shows her into his office and talks about how he is fascinated by replacing parts until the person becomes something new. She asks if they have a deal. He says conditionally: she will return to the basement, give back his guard, and keep the organs coming. She asks what happens if she fails. He takes her to a room and says that people who fail him still have their uses and shows her the man who used to be his "office manager," the one that Fish first met. Dulmacher has replaced most of his body parts to make him a woman. The man is, understandably, upset. He has a kicking red manicure though.
Bruce reads to Alfred at his bedside. Cat comes to visit and mocks what he is reading as depressing. She tells him that Ivy spotted him and asks if he's okay. She hugs him and says she's sorry. He smiles. He tells her what happened. He says he thinks Reggie was there because of him, astutely assessing the board sent someone Alfred would trust to spy on him. He says he's going to track him down. Cat scoffs but then offers to help. He doesn't want anyone else to get hurt. She says he knows how to find her.
Jim and Dent go see Shi Lu who works underneath a Chinese restaurant. He claims to not know Loeb. Dent tries to squeeze him. Lu gets a call on his cell phone. He then somehow knows their names. He tells them to wait right there, and suddenly all the men sitting around the table counting big wads of cash draw a myriad of weapons. Dent and Jim run but they are cornered in an alley. Harvey busts through a fence with a car and rescues them.
Dent wants to go back. Harvey says it will be too late. He says he will get the information. His methods are, unorthodox. He takes Griggs and holds his head out the door near the pavement while Jim drives and Griggs admits that Loeb is in cahoots with Falcone and they are crazy to go after them. After they let him go, Harvey is inclined to agree with Griggs and says who would talk? Jim has an idea.
They go to see the Penguin at the club. He claims to be happy to see them and asks what he can do for them. They present their case and Penguin notes that if he found out where the video/evidence cache is tells them it could cost him his life and asks what's in it for him. Jim says he will owe the Penguin a favor. Harvey knows this is a bad idea. Penguin points out a valuable bottle of wine on the table and that it is Maroni's favorite and says this information could prove useful. His deal? If he helps Harvey and Jim find the secret files he wants 10 minutes alone with the files and is allowed to take what he wants. Harvey again notes this is a bad idea. But Jim says he gives him five minutes and he doesn't touch anything that has to do with cops. That plus a favor from Jim Gordon and Penguin is in.
Fish goes back to the basement to rally the troops. She says they will get their demands met when, in a show of good faith, they return the guard they are holding hostage. She then snaps her fingers and men come and take away two people, including her buddy Kelly. One of the prisoners complains that Fish is working for "them" now. She reminds them that she told them not everyone would live and that these deaths will ensure survival for the many so she kept her promise.
Jim, Harvey, and Penguin go to an old big house in the country where Penguin thinks the files are. He wants to stay in the car to avoid being seen. Jim and Harvey are having none of that. Suddenly an older man knocks on the car window. Penguin makes up a story that Loeb sent them. The old man invites him inside where he and his wife serve them coffee and cake and they claim that Loeb was worried about security and sent them to inspect the place. The old man tells his wife to get the "keys" and she returns with a shotgun and she and the old man open fire. Harvey shoots the man. Penguin crawls away but is confronted by the older woman, Jim shoots her and she falls and knocks her head. Neither is dead, however, so Jim hands a grateful Penguin her shotgun and tells him to watch them while they look around. Jim and Harvey head up to the locked attic and, shockingly, find a thirtysomething woman dancing around and singing to herself. She is clearly touched and, it turns out, Loeb's daughter, Miriam.
Back at the precinct a suit clad Nygma gives Ms. Kringle flowers and asks her out to dinner for that night. Sh demurs because she is dating a beat cop. He seems kind of crass but nice, and very handsome and offers Nygma a riddle that he solves easily. (What has hands but can't clap? A clock.) The beat cop calls Nygma "riddle man" and says he will stump him next time. Nygma dumps his flowers in the trash.
Jim, Miriam, and Harvey sit and chat. She explains she has always lived in the attic and her father comes to visit on Sundays, they play checkers and he lets her win. Jim, who is much nicer than Harvey, says his dad did that too. Jim asks what happened to her mother. Miriam says she died. She goes off to get something and Jim theorizes that Miriam saw Loeb kill her mother or maybe even killed her and that is why she is locked up, she is, in essence, Loeb's own Cobblepot. She returns and shows them the "jewelry" she makes in her spare time.
It is made of dead starling bones. They land on her windowsill and "you can catch them if you're really silent and still." And she notes she can be very silent. She says she crushes the back of their heads. Jim asks about her mother's death. She says sometimes people make mistakes or at least that's what her father said. He asks if she made a mistake with her mother, like with the birds. She says not like with the birds, she had to use a candlestick on her mother. Her mother wouldn't stop singing. Apparently, there was a party for her when she was a teen and was supposed to sing at the party but her mother wouldn't stop, so she killed her with a candlestick, as you do. Her dad covered it up.
The older couple overpowers Penguin and escape. He apologizes to Jim and asks if what Loeb is hiding is there. Jim says it is. Penguin says they had a deal and he wants a look. And just then Miriam comes out. She notes that Penguin looks just like a bird. Then she says, "I love birds." (Creepy! Run Penguin!)
Jim goes to see Loeb, armed with this new information. He drops one of Miriam's "necklaces" on his desk. Loeb says Miriam is sick and didn't mean to hurt her mother but she just has these urges. He says to go ahead and expose him, he can weather the scandal. Jim says he knows why he has had her locked away, he loves her sincerely and wants to keep her out of Arkham. Jim says he'll keep doing it. Loeb says Jim is colder than he thought. Jim agrees it would appear that way. Loeb says he will step down if he keeps Miriam out of it. Jim doesn't want him to resign since he will likely be replaced by another Falcone lapdog. He wants Loeb to stay in place and basically black mail him, to get Flask prosecuted, and he can send all his evidence on the cops to Harvey for safekeeping, and they'll decide who to prosecute. Loeb says he loves his daughter but he loves living even more and if he does that he'll be a dead man. He says no, Jim can have Harvey's file and that's it. He asks if that's all. Jim says there's one more thing.
We cut to a press conference and Loeb endorsing Jim to be head of the policemen's union, the job that was supposed to go to the dirty cop Flask. Jim gives Harvey his file. Harvey looks at it and says to Jim, "You know you tell yourself, I'll do this one bad thing and all the good things I'll do will make up for it, but they don't." He notes that Penguin is going to come asking for his favor and tells Jim to be careful.
We cut to Penguin drinking from the famous bottle. He is with the older couple at the club. He tricked Jim and Harvey. He let them "escape" with the promise of hiding them away in Arizona to keep Loeb from killing them. He tells them that he only has one ticket though so only one can go. The old man says they've been together 20 years and won't split up. Penguin says it's the only choice. She asks how he's going to decide which one gets the ticket. Penguin says he's leaving it up to them, she promptly turns on her husband and beats him to death. She turns to Penguin and asks when the train is. He says there isn't one, he just needed their help. He pulls out the shotgun and notes he was down to one shell, and shoots her.
Fish goes to Dulmacher who says he's been thinking about having a salsa night at the facility for the guests-- the people who come to buy the black market organs. He is proud she has completed her task and the lines of supply of bodies are on track again. He welcomes her to upper management and says the view is better here than in the basement. He pulls back a curtain and tells her she can see why he's not worried about her betraying him and escaping: She looks out the window to see they are on an island in the middle of what looks like the ocean. She agrees, yes, she can see there is little danger of her escaping.
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