After the battle with Scarecrow and the battle to save the supplies, Bruce really stepped up to help save the day. Barbara arrives to see her most trusted confidant die, so I guess Barbara will be motivated by revenge this season as the multipart gang war heats up.īruce and Gordon end up with the chopper swag as we close things out with a subtle but effective change to the Bruce/Gordon dynamic. Penguin gets the upper hand on Tabby and stabs her in the heart.
And it all ends badly as our cast whittles down by one. It’s a fun standoff with Penguin taking the fallen copter, GCPD arriving and Tabby Galavan making her last stand for Butch. Butch died in Tabby’s arm and Barbara Kean’s gal Friday has sworn revenge. Don’t forget, Penguin killed Butch right after Butch was cured of the Grundy curse. So when Bruce’s copter goes down thanks to a mystery assailant (Bane? Jeremiah?), Penguin and the GCPD led by Gordon race to retrieve the much needed supplies.Ī standoff ensues until Tabitha Galavan shows up to kill Penguin. Penguin even gets a Dark Knight Risesinspired knee brace to help with his limp. He controls the flow of bullets and has kind of become the Gotham version of Negan. He is munching on steak and feeding his bulldog (named Edward in a nice touch) more vittles than most Gotham citizens eat. But somehow, Penguin is doing better than ever. So really, none of heroes start off the season in a good place, nor does the Riddler. A mysterious nurse tells Bruce, “She needs the Witch.” Who can the witch be? Might it be Lee Thompkins? When last we saw Lee, she was dying but in the insidious hands of Hugo Strange? Or is there a new player in Gotham? Because with our boat load of current characters and with Bane and Harley on the way, one not just front load the final season with a hardcover DC’s Who’s Who worth of players? It seems like through the whole No Man’s Land ordeal, it will be Selina’s life that will be the highest stakes. Later in the episode, Selina tries to kill herself because she can’t stand being crippled. This would all be just mindless action without Selina at the heart of it. Scarecrow makes off with a ton of prescription drugs leaving Bruce desperate to help Selina.
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This leads to the most Batman moment of arguably the entire series so far as Brice dons night vision goggles to take down Scarecrow and his goons. There is hope, as Selina undergoes an experimental surgery to restore some of her mobility, but during the operation, Scarecrow raids GCPD and the hospital where Selina is being operated on. It’s hard to watch such a powerful portrayal of Catwoman confined to a bed, and it’s all played with the appropriate amount of gravitas despite the camp trappings of the rest of the series. This week, Brice orders a chopper delivery, which kicks off the man action for the season five premiere.Īs for Selina, seeing the always confident and capable young woman paralyzed has the emotional resonance it’s supposed to. But Bruce has not abandoned his civic responsibility as, through Lucius Fox, Bruce is supplying Gordon and the GCPD with supplies. So where’s Bruce Wayne in all this, you ask? Bruce is with Selina who is paralyzed after the tragic events of the last season finale.
We don’t know where Lee Thompkins or Hugo Strange are, Riddler is waking up in dumpsters as his Edward Nygma personality tries to reinsert itself, Jeremiah is still among the missing, and we still have the enigma of the newly introduced Orphan. Penguin controls city hall and the Gotham armory, Barbara Kean and her Sirens control the area around Barbara’s club and also control food distribution, the west of Gotham is controlled by Scarecrow (still wearing the best freakin’ comic accurate costume in super hero media), Firefly and Mister Freeze are warring for the north of Gotham, and the GCPD controls the area around the precinct while caring for the citizens of the besieged city.
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