- Someone is kidnapping homeless kids and one of them is a young girl named Selina Kyle. Meanwhile, Oswald Cobblepot goes off the grid.
- Detectives Gordon and Bullock investigate a child trafficking ring preying on Gotham's street kids, including Selina Kyle. Meanwhile, Penguin resurfaces in the countryside and begins to make his way back to Gotham, leaving victims in his wake.—Jiilo_Kim
- James insists on investigation the disappearance of homeless street kids, not just potential sex toys but randomly. When he and Harvey manage to retrieve the recent bus-load, mayor Aubrey James just sends them all to a juvenile institution up state, but the bus is hijacked and the kids kidnapped again. Selina Kyle, the worst street rat, manages to hide and fight back. When James finds them, she gets a promise of freedom to disclose the real killer of the Wayne parents. Oswald has escaped, gets a ride from prankster frat boys but proves a murderously bad sport and kidnaps one for ransom. Wayne is hurting himself, so butler-guardian Alfred appeals to James, the discipline-exempt orphan's only hero, to talk sense into him, but he surprisingly insists on helping the rescues kids. Don Carmine reminds Fsh of her place by ordering her favorite waiter beaten up for no reason.—KGF Vissers
- Gordon and Bullock start investigating the abductions of street kids by Patti and Doug, operatives of Dr. Francis Dulmacher, A.K.A. the Dollmaker, and have been posing as members of the Mayor's Homeless Outreach Program. Mayor Aubrey James announces plans to help Gotham's homeless kids, rounding them up and shipping them out of town. Patti and Doug hijack one of the buses of street kids, including Selina. After Bullock's extreme interrogation of an informant, Gordon obtains a clue. Gordon and Bullock arrive and catch Patti and Doug while encountering Kyle. While Bruce has plans to find a way to help the children, Gordon meets with Kyle who states that she has been watching him during his visits with Bruce and might have some information on the person who shot the Waynes. Meanwhile, Cobblepot kills one of two men after they mock his walking pattern. He takes refuge in a rented trailer after his faked death, plotting his return to Gotham City, having kidnapped the other man for ransom. Falcone confronts Mooney for her plans to overthrow him, having heard from Cobblepot. The former warns her by having her lover beaten. Allen and Montoya investigate Cobblepot's mother.
- "Gotham" - "Selina Kyle" - Sept. 29, 2014
We open on Bruce Wayne holding his hand over a candle flame, testing the limits of his pain. Alfred comes in but doesn't catch him. But he notices him hiding his hand and takes a look and is aghast and angry. He grabs him and calls him a stupid little boy and then hugs him and apologizes and says it will be alright.
We cut to Selina Kyle in a dirty alley hanging with some vagrants. Patty and Doug from the mayor's homelss outreach project show up with food and candy. "Cat" as she is known declines. But they turn out to be villains and poison and shoot the homeless, throwing one through the plate glass window of a restaurant.
The next morning Jim and Harvey come to investigate while Selina looks on from on high. One of the homeless was a veteran. Harvey doesn't care that he was a vet. He salutes his service but says he's now a dead bum. The beat cop was checking out the restaurant scene. Jim thinks the "bum" may be related to the victim. The cop says the restaurant pays him to look after them and he wasn't going to babysit a dead bum. Jim calls him a bad cop and they fight.
Jim and Harvey talk to the kid thrown through the window. He explains about the woman with the pin and says homeless kids have been disappearing for weeks. Harvey doesn't believe him and thinks the kid is the killer and wants to beat a confession out of him. The kid says to ask "Cat." Jim pulls off the overzealous Harvey and tells him beating suspects is illegal. Harvey brings up Gordon putting "a man in the river." Harvey says he doesn't care about a dead snitch or Gordon's guilty conscience. They fight and bump into another guy and Harvey kicks him.
Oswald is hobbling along the road. A car stops to give him a ride and it's a couple of young guys.They offer him a beer. They ask him what happened. He says it was his own fault and his own foolish arrogance led him astray. He says he will be back. One of the guys notes he walks like a penguin and Oswald promptly stabs him in the neck with a broken beer bottle.
Smash cut to: Gotham.
Harvey and Jim argue with the Captain who thought Jim was "on board." She tells them to get back to work. Jim tells the Captain about the homeless snatchers. Ed Nygma lingers outside. He say the kid had a fast acting knock out drug that they used to use at the Arkham Asylum-- which has been closed for years-- to knock out patients. Captain says to keep it quiet. Jim wants to tell people as a warning. She says no press, it's an order.
They head to talk to Fish whose turf this happened on. Harvey wonders if they should go see if Fish is still mad at them. Carmine enters Fish's club for a chat. He says he spoke to Oswald before his death and that he said the deaths of the Waynes would bring troubled times for Carmine and the city. He agrees saying without the Wayne's Gotham is out of balance. Fish says he shouldn't worry about his enemies. Carmine says he's worried about his friends and that Oswald told him that Fish said that he was getting old and it was time for her take over. She swears she never said that. He puts it aside. He asks after her. She says she's good. He asks which man in the club is her lover. She says her heart has been broken too many times for that nonsense. She says if she's referring to the boy she keeps around for exercise he is not her lover. Carmine calls the bartender over and tells him to be good to Fish because if he breaks her heart he will break Lazlo's heart. He then swiftly has him beaten up right in the club. He kisses Fish's hand and thanks her being honest. After he lives, a near teary Fish kicks everyone out.
Allen and Montoya go to see Oswald's very quirky mother-- played by Carol Kane-- who doted on her boy. They ask if she knows anyone who would do him harm. She says it must be a woman who has him in her clutches. Montoya isn't buying that.
Back at the club, Fish's head thug Butch is telling her it was too early to make a move on Falone. She says she knows she needs more money, men, and territory but one day she swears she's going to kill that old man with her bare hands nad teeth. Butch offers to hold her shoes. She says she wishes Oswald was still alive since she didn't make him suffer enough.
Oswald drives up to an old dude in the farm country and rents his trailer for $100 a week. The guy notices his truck and Oswald runs to cover up the bodies in bags in the back.
The homeless kids wake up in a dank room. They look down a hole in the center of the room that never seems to end. They worry this spells doom.
Harvey and Jim pay Fish a visit and she seems happy to see them. "I knew I'd regret killing you as soon as I gave the word, but you know me, I'm feisty," she says. She notes Jim's murder of the Penguin and says he's just a sinner like her and she's a little sad about his death. They ask about the kid snatching. She says there is a buyer overseas taking healthy kids but no one knows why and no one cares to know.
Jim tells Barbara about the kid-snatching and how he can't tell the press. She says she can't believe how corrupt things are. He says she has no idea. She wonders if he's been okay lately, he says he can't sleep. She says to call in an anonymous tip. He says he can't tell them. She calls the Gotham Gazette. He gets angry that she did that and says she can't do that with stuff he tells her. She says it was the right thing to do. He says it was but not to do it again.
The next day the Captain slams down the paper with the front page story about child snatching. Harvey and Jim both claim ignorance. They go to investigate the dealers of the knock-out drug.
We cut to Patty and Doug who are being confronted by the guy who has been warehousing the kids and supplying them with the drug, he's mad about the story in the paper and that it will bring heat. He wants more money. They say they don't have it. They say the "dollmaker" needs the children. So she knocks out one of the guy's thugs with her poison pen, just as the Jim and Harvey show up.
Outside Harvey tells Jim to "control your woman" when he deduces Barbara dropped the dime. Harvey talks about loving all kinds of women and pegs Jim for the kind of guy he is: high school sweetheart, whores overseas who made him sad, and then love of his life Barbara.
Harvey and Jim confront the boss, Quillin, and says they have a warrant. A shootout with Patty and Doug ensues and they escape. Quillin orders his thug to kill the kids and clean the room. Jim overhears this, shoots the thug, who falls down the hole, and finds the kids.
The mayor holds a press conference in the police precinct and thanks Jim and Harvey and says he will protect the kids. He rounds up street kids-- in handcuffs-- and deposits them in children's services. Later he tells Jim that the cute and undamaged ones are going to foster homes and essentially to prison upstate for the rest. The mayor says homeless kids need structure. Jim says he's using the kid snatchers as a pretext to lock homeless kids. They both know where they stand and they toast.
Aflred comes to see Jim and asks him to come visit at teatime the next day.
At home Bruce is drawing disturbing pictures and listening to loud rock music.
As Selina is being put on the bus she asks to speak to Jim Gordon. The admitting woman disagrees. Selina pulls her locket out of her pocket and smiles at the picture of the woman inside. Suddenly we discover Doug and Patty are the drivers of the Corrections buses. Selina makes a break for the back door of the bus and Patty pulls out a gun and stops her and warns the other children to stay seated. The buses depart.
Harvey beats Quillin in lock up for information. Jim doesn't stop him. Quillin tells them about the Patty and Doug and how their truck had a picture of a plate and a fork on it. He intuits that maybe they eat them?
The kids are offloaded and Patty and Doug put them in cargo containers. One kids missing. Selina hides on the bus. Patty goes to look for her. Selina eludes her and slides under the bus. Doug says it doesn't matter since they have more than enough. Patty says the dollmaker will be pleased.
Jim and Harvey come up empty on the plate/fork trucks. Jim realizes it's not a plate and fork it's a trident just as the doors shut on the Trident shipping containers. One of Patty and Doug's thugs arrives with his eyes scratched out. Patty shoots him in the head. Selina continues to slink around trying to get away. She drops her locket and gets Patty's attention. She holds up her hands as if she's going to surrender just as Jim arrives and takes down Patty. Jim asks her name. She asks why that's his business. Harvey corrals Doug.
Jim goes to see Bruce. Alfred first tells him about the nightmares, the cutting and burning. Alfred says there will be no psychiatrists which was his father's orders which was to trust him to choose his own course. Bruce enters and says he knows Alfred brought him there to talk some sense into him. Bruce says he's fine and that Alfred is a worrywart. Jim says Bruce should talk to someone. Jim claims he talks about what he saw in the war, a little. Bruce knows he's lying. Jim doesn't want him to hurt himself. He says he burned his hand testing himself. Bruce says he's been following Jim's exploits in the paper and feels bad for the homeless kids. He wants to give them money. Jim says it doesn't work that way. Bruce donates clothes instead.
It turns out the kids will still be going upstate, in their new duds! Selina protests and again asks for Gordon or threatens, the very nice-seeming man helping her, that she will say he touched her. He goes to fetch her.
Oswald lays on the floor of his trailer and looks up at his handiwork on your typical murderer's wall of crazy--or in this case ceiling: photos, newspaper clippings, drawings. He gets a call on a cell phone. One of the kids is still alive and Oswald is trying to ransom him. The parents think their son is trying to prank them and hang up. Oswald notes that's disappointing. He tells the bound and gagged kid: "You must be quite the scamp."
Jim talks to Cat. She offers to trade him info to get out of the precinct. She says she's been watching him and knows he's friends with "the boy" meaning Bruce. She says she saw who killed the Waynes, clear as day.
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