Here’s a wedding tip for you: When you’re still in love with the bride, it doesn’t matter how many innocents the groom has killed. If you don’t forever hold your peace anyway, you’ll come off looking like the jerk. Jim Gordon learned this lesson when he discovered the frightening truth about Lee’s fiancé, Mario — to her, the seemingly noble doctor who turned away from his family’s criminal lifestyle and chose a career of service instead.
For all we know, that’s who Mario really was before Jervis Tetch pricked him with a laced needle. But now he’s going the way of Chief Barnes, being consumed by the blood virus and the concentrated fury it brings out in him. The cop’s inner darkness is his disillusionment with the state of crime and punishment in Gotham City. Mario’s is his insuppressible fear that Lee still loves Jim, and when she realizes that, she will leave him.
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