- Gordon and Bullock inspect a cold case involving "the Ogre", a serial killer who targets young women in Gotham City. Meanwhile, Fish plots her escape from the Dollmaker, and Bruce and Selina confront Reggie.
- Bruce keeps even Gordon in the dark about Alfred's stabbing but stops him from leaving his sickbed too early to deal with Reggie before the vet leaves, and gets help from street-smart Selina to track the fiend down. Now installed as police union boss, James grudgingly accepts a beat cop's plea to personally investigate a serial killer of young woman, with enthusiastic Leslie and tipped by Cobblepot, but it's a trap. On the island, Dr. Francis Dulmacher shows Fish his seemingly infallible escape prevention, but she plays two groups of organ 'donor' prisoners against each-other to divert the armed guards while she steals the helicopter, but is shot.—KGF Vissers
- "Gotham" - "Beasts of Prey" - April 13, 2015
Thanks to the break we get a long "previously on" to get everyone back up to speed.
We open on Fish peering out the window first at a helicopter and further away a boat. She walks through the hospital greeting patients warmly. She goes to a locked door and breaks the lock and calmly steps outside. She appears in no hurry.
Suddenly, a truck full of armed men pull up. The leader asks Fish what she's doing. She explains she is Dulmacher's new assistant and was just taking a stroll. He says she can do what she wants inside but can't come outside and he is the man who catches the poor souls who try to escape. She asks if there are many. He says the water does most of the work but he handles the rest. She says she didn't realize she couldn't go outside. He tells her if she makes that mistake again she will pay with her life. So, Fish was testing the security system.
She heads down to the basement and tells her old right hand man Kelly that she is hatching an escape plan and they are going to get off the island or die trying.
Fish goes to a group of the biggest, baddest dudes in the basement and explains she wants to bust out with her help. They wonder why them and not the others she has been friendlier with. She says things might go sideways out there and she needs stone cold killers at her side. She tells them about the boat. They wonder why not the helicopter? She asks if any of them can fly it. Silence. Her either, that's why the boat geniuses. Fish goes to steal the keys from the Dollmaker's office and he catches her almost red-handed. Behind her back she picks up a letter opener and claims she wasn't trying to escape. He says he will shoot her until she tells the truth. She shows him the letter opener but claims she wasn't going to kill him, she was going to kill herself to stop the nightmares from coming about what he might do to her. He says if she lies to him again he will turn her into an unthinkable creature and will bring her back from the dead if he has to.
She goes to her big guys and says it's time to go. She sends them out to the gate and goes back to get Kelly. Dollmaker says he knows she lied and is about to capture her when her original gang of friends from the basement attack him and put him down. Fish tricked the big guys into going to the gate and pulling the security team away from the chopper, which it turns out she can fly after all. The security team dispatches with the knuckleheads at the gate and get off one shot at the chopper before Fish flies away and hit her on the side but she manages to suck it up and keep flying.
Meanwhile, Cobblepot is on a mission of his own. He is trying to buy into what very much looks like a dump of an Italian restaurant owned by a battle axe named Lydia. Lydia does not want to sell at any price. He says everyone wants something. She says her granddaughter Antonia has hooked up with a devil: a musician. She wants her back. Oswald says she'll be back by Sunday Mass. He and his henchman Gabe make quick work of it, cutting off his fingers and sending Antonia back to grandma. She agrees to let Cobblepot be her silent partner. Gabe is confused as to why Oswald wants the place. He says it is where he is going to kill Don Maroni.
Jim goes to have lunch with Bruce. They make small talk in the library over comically large sandwiches that Bruce has made. Jim asks why he and Alfred lied about who attacked him. Bruce says he can't help him. Jim says he knows that Alfred has some kind of vigilante plan and that is dangerous for them both. Bruce tells him he understands but continues to stonewall him. He does look like he feels bad about it though.
Alfred is back up and about and clearly ready to go after Reggie. He wants to catch him in a bar with his pants down before he flees town. Bruce says he will go too. Alfred isn't having that but then he suddenly clutches his side. Someone should not be out of bed yet because when he puts his hand under his shirt it comes back bloody from him pulling his stitches.
As Alfred lies on the couch dozing, Bruce makes a list of gun ranges in the city and slips out. After visiting them all and not turning anything up, he hunts down Selina. She is confused why Alfred thought Reggie would be staying a few days at a gun range. Bruce doesnt know he just said "shooting gallery." Selina laughs at his naivete knowing that Alfred meant drugs and that Bruce needs to get out more often.
Selina and Bruce find Reggie in a flop house. They take his drugs to make him talk. He claims he didn't mean any harm he was just supposed to take some documents. He asks who sent him, he gives him two names including a woman named Mathis and a man named Bunderslough. He said he wanted to know what Bruce knew and was scared but that he should let Alfred deal with it. They are still holding his drugs on the window ledge. He tells Bruce not to judge him for his vices and says Bunderslough will come after him and there's nothing he can do to stop them, and they are just silly little children and threatens to tell on them. He leans out the window to grab his drugs. Bruce clearly wants to push him out the window but can't so Selina is the one who does it, killing him.
At the precinct Jim is approached by a uniform cop about a cold case, a brutal murder of a woman named Grace Fairchild. He says he and some of the other younger guys have been watching him and know he is serious about cleaning up the GCPD and want to help and he thinks this case will be a good one.
Jim goes to pick up Lee for dinner and she looks at the case file. Grace was killed in her neighborhood and there are no leads. Lee points out that there are several speakeasies in that part of town that are easy to miss unless you're in the know. Jim says he will check it out. The photos are awful and she says she is glad he is looking into it. Jim appeals to Harvey for help who, of course, complains a bunch, mostly that Jim is doing this for ambition not justice, and then gives in and helps. Nygma gives them a list of speakeasies and at the last one they find a bartender who remembers waiting on Grace, mostly because her date was hot.
We flash to Grace on the date sitting where Harvey and Jim are standing. The guy is attractiveplayed by Milo Ventimigliaand he's got a good line. She asks why someone so attractive is single and replies that what he wants scares women away. She asks what he wants. He says it's cheesy but what he really craves is unconditional, intense, real love. She totally falls for it and goes back to his amazing loft apartment with him. What she doesnt notice while she is looking around is he has some kind of dungeon in a room whose door he quickly shuts. She is impressed with the place and he claims he hasn't brought many women back there lately and she calls herself lucky and says she'd be willing to stay for the night.
We flash back to the present and Harvey and Jim know this was the place she disappeared and both now seem determined to find her.
Nygma turns up with a photocopy of a missing piece of evidence from the crime scene. It is a picture of a broken heart and Bullock freaks out. He pulls Jim aside and says it is the calling card of a serial killer they gave up hunting long ago because whenever they would investigate, someone close to the cop investigating would have a loved one murdered which is why no one has been stupid enough to investigate. They call him the Ogre and he has killed at least a dozen women and his profile is wealthy and educated. Harvey calls it the GCPDs little secret. Harvey wonders who the cop was who gave him the file but Jim doesnt see him.
In another flash to Grace's captivity we learn that all of this is true. His name is Jason and he kept her shackled in his house, but one night when she overcooked dinner, he killed her. But first he took her picture and put it with at least 12 other women. He tells her not to worry because he knows he will one day find true love. Yikes! He wasnt kidding about being intense.
Back in the present they find the cop and he confesses that Loeb put him up to it, to appeal to Jim's ambition and get him to take the case. Loeb clearly wants the Ogre to kill someone close to Gordon. If he keeps investigating Lee could be in danger but he tells Harvey he has to keep investigating. He calls her and leaves a message to call him right away. He confronts Loeb in the precinct and tells him once he gets Ogre behind bars hes going after Loeb. He tells him hes done.
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