The next morning, Barbara comes out to the kitchen and Jason asks how
she slept. When she says that she has to go, Jason asks her to stay and
Barbara says that they shouldn't pretend that their night together was
more than what it was. He admits that he was pretending with her and
that he originally intended to kill Barbara the night that they met.
However, Jason says that he saw the real Barbara and insists that she's
the one that he's been looking for. He releases her and says that she's
going to have breakfast with him. When she runs for the door, Barbara
discovers that the door is locked and Jason tosses a bag over her head
and says that they're going to do it the hard way.
Jim arrives
at the station and Leslie worries that he hasn't ate or slept in days.
She assures Jim that it's not his fault that the Ogre took Barbara, and
that it's not his fault if she gets hurt. Leslie says that she
understands, just as Harvey comes in with a street pimp, Jake, and says
that he's been bragging that he knows who the Ogre is. Jake claims that
he doesn't know anything but the officers take him to the interrogation
room. Meanwhile, Edward brings in two suitcases and goes to his lab, and
then takes out Tom's severed body parts.
Jim and Harvey show
Jake the sketch of Jason and Jake tries to bargain for his information.
Jim tells Harvey that he's going to violate several interrogation
procedures and Harvey excuses himself to get some donuts. When Jim is
done, he goes out and tells his partner that Jake worked as a barman at
The Foxglove, a high-class brothel that moves regularly. Jim figures
that he can call in a favor with Oswald to find out where it is, even
though Harvey advises against it.
Jason goes into his workshop
and checks on Barbara, who is suspended from the ceiling. He says that
he's sure that she's the one for him but he needs her help.
At
the manor, Alfred brings Bruce an envelope that was delivered by
messenger and then says that he's going to identify Reggie's body at the
morgue. He doesn't believe that Reggie got drunk and fell out a window.
Once he leaves, Bruce takes out Bunderslaw's safe keys from the
envelope.
Butch goes to Lidia's bar and explains that Oswald
sent him there to check his due diligence. Once Lidia goes in the back
to prepare a big dinner, Butch hides two guns behind the bar and under
the jukebox. He then goes back to the nightclub and tells Oswald that
it's done. Jim comes in and asks Oswald for The Foxglove's location.
Oswald tries to negotiate but Jim grabs him and draws his gun on Butch
when he tries to intervene. The officer warns Oswald that he has no idea
what he's capable of and gives Jim the brothel's location, but warns
that the detective owes him a big favor.
A PR woman shows Bruce around Wayne Enterprises. He excuses himself to go to the bathroom and then sets off the fire alarm.
Back at the invitation, Jim shows Harvey the invitation he got from Oswald and Harvey offers to go into the brothel.
Jason removes Barbara's gag and she spits in his face. He insists that
Barbara is the one and she slaps him, and Jason says that it's okay.
However, when she says that Jim will find her, Jason slaps her and warns
that if she mentions Jim then it will make him mad. He gives Barbara a
glass of water and she glances at the door, but Jason warns her that
he'll gut her if she tries to run. Barbara comes over and Jason shows
her the photographs of the other women that he's killed in his workshop.
Barbara stares at them in shock and then passes out from the drug in
the water.
At Wayne Enterprise, Bruce enters Bunderslaw's
office and opens the safe. There's nothing inside and Bunderslaw comes
in, clearly expecting him. He says that he knew Selina took the key from
him at the ball, and admits that he hired Reggie to find out what Bruce
knew. Bunderslaw then says that he's having the same talk with Bruce
that he did with Thomas Wayne and his father before him. Thomas stormed
in with his secret files, demanding justice, and Bunderslaw explained
that all of Wayne Enterprise's criminal activities were the reality of
the business. Bruce insists that his father was a good man, and
Bunderslaw advises him to reconsider his position. They're interrupted
when a junior executive, Lucius Fox, comes in and says that the PR woman
is looking for him. Bunderslaw orders Lucius to escort Bruce back, and
Lucius agrees. As they go to the elevator, Lucius tells Bruce that
Thomas wasn’t the man that the company thought he was. He then wishes
Bruce good luck and walks away.
Edward prepares to destroy
Tom's body parts with acid. Kristin arrives at the door and asks for a
case file, and Edward goes to get them. When she notices the severed
limbs, Edward claims that they're from a victim of an industrial
accident. He gives Kristin the file and she asks him if he's seen tom,
who missed their dinner. Edward says that he hasn't seen the man and
then quickly gets Kristin out of the lab.
Connor comes to the
nightclub and Oswald tells him that the guns are hidden in the
restaurant. The hitman confirms that he'll give Maroni the message as
Oswald instructed and wonders how Oswald knows that Maroni will be
there. Oswald shows Connor a newspaper article about Maroni hitman Tommy
Bones being released from prison.
Tommy arrives at Lidia's and Maroni and his men greet the killer.
Harvey arrives at The Foxglove and makes his way to the main room. The
hostess, Lucy, introduces two sexual performers. Shocked, Harvey takes
out his badge and orders everyone to freeze.
Jason holds
Barbara after she wakes up and tells her that he won't kill her if she
tells him who to kill. She refuses and Jason says that she's never lived
without fear, but she'll learn. He warns that he'll kill her if she
doesn't say and puts the knife to her throat, and Barbara whispers a
name to him.
Jim meets Harvey at The Foxglove and threatens to
perp-walk all of the clients in front of the press unless Lucy talks.
She tells him to talk to a girl, Sally, who explains that Jason took her
home and cut up her face. They realize that it was before Jason killed
his first victim and figure that he was warming up. Sally describes a
hotel in midtown near where Jason took her and they realize where the
Ogre can be found. As they go, Sally asks Jim to kill Jason and he
readily agrees.
At Lidia's Connor and his thug come in and
claim that Falcone sent them with a bottle of rare wine. Maroni has his
men search them for weapons and then invites them in. The two hitmen go
for the hidden guns and Connor gives the message that Falcone had
trouble deciding to kill Maroni. They then pull the triggers but the
guns don't fire. Maroni's men gun down the other men and Maroni figures
that it's a miracle that the hitmen's guns didn't fire. He tells Connor
that he's going to send a message to Falcone that he's coming for him,
but he doesn't need Connor alive to do it. Tommy then shoots Connor
dead.
At the nightclub, Butch breaks the news to Oswald. When
he realizes that his boss isn't surprised, Butch figures that Oswald set
up the whole thing. Oswald admits that he sabotaged the firing pins on
the guns and that he wants Maroni alive... and ready to kill Falcone.
After Edward burns the rest of Tom's body, he contemplates the man's
skull for a moment and decides to fake a goodbye letter from the man. He
then puts the skull in a bag and smashes it to pieces.
Jim and
Harvey go to Jason's apartment but discover that he has already left.
Harvey finds the workshop and they realize that Barbara was there
recently. Jason calls on a nearby phone and tells Jim that Barbara is
with him. As noises sound in the background, Jason tells Jim that
Barbara doesn't need his protection and never did. Once he hangs up, Jim
and Harvey realizes that the noises were the sounds of a car driving
over a bridge near a train. They realize that there's only one bridge in
Gotham that matches that description... and it leads upstate to where
Barbara's parents live.
At the Keane manor, Jason sits
Barbara's parents down on the couch and tells them that Barbara is
finally waking up. He tells Barbara that they're doing it for her and
then stabs her mother and father.
Jim and Harvey arrive a few
minutes later and find the butler dead at the front door. They split up
to search the house and Jim finds the Keanes' corpses on the couch.
Barbara walks in, covered in blood, and asks Jim what he's doing there.
Jason knocks out Harvey from behind and then goes after Jim.
A shell-shocked Barbara tells Jim that he's not supposed to be there.
Jason attacks Jim from behind and they fight, and Jason finally grabs
Barbara as a shield. Jim aims his revolver and orders Jason to
surrender, but the killer insists that he loves Barbara more than Jim
ever could. Barbara begs Jim to leave them alone…z just as Harvey comes
in and yells at Jason. Distracted, the killer turns and Jim shoots him
in the head, nicking Barbara's neck. Jason goes down and Jim goes to
Barbara, telling her that everything will be okay.
The next
day, Alfred tells Bruce that the Reggie he knew died years ago. Bruce
tells him the entire story of what happened and how Selina pushed Reggie
to his death when he threatened to expose them to Bunderslaw. Bruce
explains what Bunderslaw told him about Thomas, and admits that even
good men have secrets.
At the station the next morning, the
officers applaud Jim when he returns. Leslie congratulates him privately
and Jim apologies for ignoring her earlier. She admits that she was
afraid that Jim would blame himself for what happened if Barbara got
hurt, because he protected Leslie first. Jim assures her that he loves
her, not Barbara, and he'd protect her first again.
Edward
visits Kristin, who is reading the supposed letter from Tom. In it "Tom'
claims that he's leaving town and doesn't want to see her again. Once
she walks out, Edward glances at the letter--and the first letters of
each line that spell out NYGMA--and chuckles in triumph.
At the manor, Bruce cuts a photo of himself and his father in half, and puts the half with his father on his evidence board.
A messenger brings a box to Falcone. He opens it and finds Connor's decapitated head inside.
Maroni and Tommy gun down some of Falcone's men.
Soon, Essen learns about the attacks and tells the officers that they are now in a shooting war.
At his club, Oswald gets the reports of the attacks and laughs triumphantly.
Written by Gadfly on Jun 26, 2019