Titled: “‘Heroes Rise: Light the Wick”
Rage against the machine…
Two pieces of the puzzle are quickly coming together for the Court of Owls’ plan to devastate Gotham, but there’s one wild card they seemingly were not expecting: the return of Oswald Cobblepot from his watery grave. With the Riddler currently indisposed, the Penguin has time to shill for the good guys with his Freak Army in exchange for access to his old frenemy. He even helps stop Kathryn from giving a portion of the town’s most powerful citizens some bitter medicine. But it all spins out a little too cleanly with Penguin’s help, doesn’t it?
Let’s start from the top.
The episode begins with Kathryn’s assassins paying a little visit to Arkham Asylum to see one very special patient: Captain Barnes. Kathryn might not be able to get ahold of Alice Tetch’s blood to extract that mad virus directly, but Strange can siphon it off of one of the most potently infected victims, and that should do the trick just fine. It’s now weaponized and airborne.
Lee’s still snooping around for further details on Frank Gordon’s death and has herself convinced that his COD was homicide, not suicide, based on the fact that the bullet in his brain was replaced — a classic sign of a cover-up, in her professional (and personal) opinion. Harvey asks her to stay away from the case and insists there’s nothing going on, but she can see through the ruse and takes personal offense to being lied to. But Harvey’s got no time to change her mind right now because…
Jim is attending the newest Court meeting, wherein Kathryn informs everyone that Gotham’s demolition is imminent. He’s out of time to play coy about it. He decides to find out what he can about Kathryn the old-fashioned way: by running a print off of her mask after the meeting is adjourned. Jim is almost caught in the act, but he thinks on his feet by playing dumb about the loved-ones rescue list that they’ve been asked to fill out and manages to get the prints to Harvey…..
