- The circus comes under attack while Gordon and Dr. Thompkins are in attendance.
- James gets over his objections to lover Dr. Leslie Thompkins's eagerness to join him on investigation now she can officially contribute expertise as medical examiner. While they attend the circus privately, the snake woman is found murdered there, in a serpent cage. The case revolves around her adolescent son Jerome and the blind fortuneteller Paul Cicero, whose volunteered 'tips', which Gordon wants to dismiss, is forced to follow up on by Leslie, but analyzes surprisingly. Oswald indulges in granting his crone mother a nightclub podium the public can barely appreciate under violent pressure, and gets Falcone's enforcer Victor Zsasz's help when Moon's formerly dog-loyal right hand Butch Gilzean. Fish meanwhile finds a macabre way to blackmail herself and the homeless gang she now controls into more equal negotiations with the armed supervisor's goons.—KGF Vissers
- "Gotham" - "The Blind Fortune Teller" - Feb. 16, 2015
We open on a sleeping Bruce Wayne. It is a dark and stormy night. He has a notebook on his lap filled with questions.
We cut to Oswald's club where he is beaming at his mom as she performs on stage. The other patrons roll their eyes.
Down in the weird prison, Fish awakes and wakes everyone else with a clap. People line up to drink water from a faucet.
Barbara returns home drunk to find Cat and a friend squatting in her apartment. She asks where Jim is. Cat tells her that he dropped off his keys last week. Barbara says screw him anyway. She asks who the girls are.
Jim and Dr. Leslie enjoy the feats of the circus, watching the men on the flying trapeze and canoodling. A clown car arrives and the clowns start assaulting the circus performers. Jim holds up his badge and tells everyone to freeze.
Back in the club Mama Cobblepot finishes to no applause until Penguin starts some. A man comes in booing calling her an old bag. Penguin kills him.
Jim interviews the clowns who began attacking people. None of them seem to know why. Leslie tends to circus performer wounds. There is apparently a family feud among the circus folk, the Graysons versus the Lloyds.
One of them says it's "Lila's fault" and another shushes her. Leslie tells Jim this was the best date ever and tells him the leads she got about Lila, a snake dancer. He offers to have her driven home. She wants to come with him to meet Lila. Jim asks the Ringmaster after Lila and he takes them to the performer trailer park. Her son Jerome answers, he hasn't seen her since this morning. She left without her hat, coat, and purse. The ringmaster says Lila is a "party girl." Jim wants to let her snake out thinking it will lead them to Lila. The four of them- Leslie, Jim. the Ringmaster, and Jerome-- follow. The snake leads them to a truck where Lila is dead under the back of a tarp. Jerome collapses in despair. Jim says the Ringmaster knew she was there. He says she was like that when they found her.
Back in crazy tunnel prison, Fish addresses the inmates while standing atop the back of a man on all fours. She says the wardens are keeping them as transplant donors and they need to do something about it and she has a plan and they must do what she says. She says some of them will make it out alive and some will die, and they will die with dignity and a purpose and next to family, since they are all they have. She urges them to fight. They seem to want to follow her.
Back at the circus the Ringmaster leads them to where they found Lila's body and they were going to give her a proper burial. The heads of the circus families figured if it was an outsider it was an act of god and if it was a circus person they have their ways of rooting them out. Jim says the GCPD has its ways too. He arrests all the circus people and brings them back to the precinct to the amusement of Harvey.
Jim interviews Jerome who says his mother was perfect except for being a bad cook. She has lots of FWBs but no actual boyfriends. Jerome says his mother's love life didn't bother him and says sex is a healthy human activity and without his mother's love life he wouldn't be there. He says he has no other family other than the circus.
Jim interviews one of the men that was sleeping with Lila who attacked another man sleeping with Lila who he thought she was going to pick. Both men think the other man killed her. They have centuries old grudges against each other.
Back in the prison, Fish leads the revolt on the guards. She starts by trying to negotiate with them for water and blankets and...magazines. They say they want their prisoner. She instructs her thugs to kill the guy. She notes that the prisoners have value only alive and they will kill each other if need be. The lead guard is freaked and says she needs to see the boss. She invites him down. The guard says she has to come with them. She says she will as long as he's willing to stay down here while she does. Thinking better of that, he says he will be back with the boss. She says to deliver the items on her list in the meantime. The prisoners cheer and then remember the dead guy. Fish goes and kisses his forehead.
The captain is impressed, amused, and annoyed by Jim's snake following trick and the precinct full of circus folk. Harvey calls it a doozy. Nygma and Leslie present info about Lila's death, knife/hatchet wounds. Jim sends the non-suspect circus people home and tells them to stop their feud.
Leslie is impressed when he acts all tough. She wants to finish their date. She offers to cook him dinner at her place. She asks if he had to guess who would he think killed Lila. He says he doesn't like to guess. A blind man, led by a small boy, walks in and claims he's a psychic and he knows who Jim and Leslie are. His name is Cicero and he says Lila sent him a message from the other side. Lila told him that a servant of the devil lies in the garden of the iron sisters. Leslie is intrigued, Jim is sarcastic. Cicero says to make of the message what he will. Leslie chides Jim for not being open-minded. They bicker a bit, she is clearly a potential believer, he is not.
Alfred tells Bruce his meeting with the board of Wayne Enterprises has been confirmed. He tells Bruce he thinks it's a bad idea, reckless and dangerous. Bruce says his mind is made up. Alfred says ifthey're both found dead in a ditch not to blame him.
Back at Oswald's he plays "Heart and Soul" on the piano onstage, while some of his thugs play poker at a table.
A sassy Barbara models a cute, mini-skirt outfit to get Jim back. Cat and her friend say they have to dress like she's not trying. Apparently, they've all become fast friends.
Jim goes to have dinner at Leslie's. He cuts into her food and praises it highly. Leslie thinks she's decoded the psychic message, she thinks it references the women in the iron gates of Arkham. He dismisses. She calls him arrogant in his certainty and this could be a clue. He says he'll check it out. She says she'll go with and wants to go now since it's only half a mile away.
They head to the bridge near the gates and a park underneath. He says they shouldn't make a habit of this since it's no place for a lady. She busts him saying that he says he wants a strong woman to keep up with his crazy life but when push comes to shove he wants her home baking cookies. He says he'd prefer pie. They find a hatchet engraved with the initials of Satanic cult that was thought inactive. There is blood on the handle. Jim calls it in.
Jim and Lee head back to the precinct and he has two people in separate rooms. They bicker again about him being right about something and he notes that he is and she was the one that wanted to find Satanist hatchets and she knew what he wanted to do.She agrees and says she gets overly enthusiastic about things. She is about to quote her mother when she realizes he doesn't care about what her mother said and tells him to let her know how it turns out and leaves, in a small huff. He calls her back. He admits she was right about being a hypocrite and invites her into the interrogation. She gloats a bit.
They talk to Mr. Cicero again and talk about the hatchet. Jim says Cicero is an accessory to the murder and he invented the message and planted the hatchet for them to find so the police think that Satanist's were responsible and that he is protecting someone. Jerome arrives. Jim accuses Jerome of killing his mother and being in cahoots with Cicero to plant the evidence. He thinks Cicero is his dad and that is why he helped protect Jerome. Cicero crumbles and confesses. Jerome is confused and sad and starts to cry and then he starts laughing and says "My mother was a cold-hearted whore who never loved anyone" including crummy old man Cicero. His whole demeanor has changed and he begins to smile and giggle and confesses to killing his mother.
Ladies and gentlemen, I think we have met the Joker.
Lee is saddened by this turn of events. Jim goes to check on her in the locker room. She says she's good and that it was ugly but it was also kind of thrilling, like looking down a deep,dark tunnel and thanks him for letting her be there and kisses. He calls her an unusual woman. She says he just doesn't know many women. She asks if they can go home now. They kiss., passionately, just as Barbara walks in and is not happy with what she sees.
A woman plays the violin onstage at Oswald's. Victor Zsaz arrives and tells him that Don Falcone thinks he's messing up the club financially. Victor is with Butch and Oswald gasps and reels back at the sight of Fish's former right hand man. Zsaz giggles and says Butch is harmless. Falcone didn't want to "throw him away" so Victor "worked on him" in his basement and he seems oddly docile and agreeable and Victor says he knows the club business and will do exactly what Oswald says. Penguin asks him to dance and Butch begins to hoof it up.
Bruce meets with the Wayne Enterprises Board. He opens his notebook and starts asking questions about underworld involvement in Arkham and chemical weapons manufacturing.
The circus folk thank Jim for his help. Harvey wonders why Jim is so happy and realizes he had sex. Jim grins.
Bruce lays down his concerns. The board says these are shocking stories and rumors and that they will look into it. He says he hopes they will because he'll be raising these issues at the shareholders meeting. They are outwardly calm but obviously concerned.
The guard returns and says she has a deal with the manager: she'll go up and see him and Schmidt the guard will stay down there in the prison. She asks his name: Thomas Schmidt. She takes his baton and says her family will show him a good time. She walks out under guard.
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