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Gotham: I need a Cobblepot

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Moving closer to the end of Season 1, Gotham’s Everyone Has a Cobblepot delivered quite the punch to set up a nice little boxing ring of favors. Spoiler warning incoming because I’m going to talk openly about the episode and spoil the wonderfully nutty details of this week’s episode. Watch it first if you’d like to see it for yourself before reading.

Interesting bit of trivia before we delve into last night’s Gotham. Benjamin McKenzie, our beloved Jim Gordon is the only actor known to have played both Gordon (Batman’s ally) AND Batman himself! He voiced the role of Bruce Wayne/Batman in Batman: Year One, an animated film that premiered at Comi-con in 2011. How cool is that? And for you sci-fi and or Longmire fans, Katee Sackhoff played Detective Sarah Essen.

I’ve wondered what they were going to do with a one-eyed Fish since last week’s episode but didn’t have to wait too long, no? Suppose I should have realized Dr. Parts would fix her up. I generally love the Fish Mooney story lines but I’m not feeling this one yet. She’s powerful, insane and will not be bested. This, however, working for the Dollmaker, I don’t like it. I want to see her working towards her return to Gotham, her plan to take back what’s hers by taking what was yours. Stranded on an isolated island making sure the basement dwellers are brought up for parts on schedule seems beneath her.

And gruesome.

Selina stopping by to see Bruce was the feel good moment of the night. She can pretend to not care about Bruce all she wants but she can’t stay away for long. Bruce needs her help, too, even if he feels he should go it alone. They work well together. Think she’ll tell Alfred where to find his mate Reggie before Bruce can turn him in?

The real meat and potatoes was with Gordon, Bullocks, and Penguin tonight. And Harvey Dent I suppose. When we first moved from North Carolina to Iowa I expressed a fear of getting lost to our Mayor. He told me not to worry, that this part of Iowa was set up on a grid system, that if I took a wrong turn to keep making right ones until I was back on my path. (He was right, too!) I was reminded of that advice as I watched Bullocks and Gordon tonight. Bullocks was so lost in wrong turns he forgot he was lost until Gordon came alone. Now Gordon is headed down a path all too familiar to Bullocks, hence the warning story of how one bad deed can’t be made up by a series of good deeds. It’s always going to be a bad deed.

Will Gordon listen?

Gordon is out to rid the department of corruption but that corruption runs so deeply it starts at the top with the Commish and  courses all the way down. They all have a Cobblepot and Gordon realizes he has to use his Cobblepot to start righting everyone elses before the GCPD can be an effective police force again.

Bullock comes clean to Gordon about his own Cobblepot, having had a gun held to his head as he was told to choose his own life or that of the lowly mobster scum. He decided to comply and killed the guy. Commissioner Loeb has a file on every cop and their Cobblepots and used Harvey’s as leverage to get Bullock to go on record saying he faked evidence against Flass. Flass is to be the next President of the force and Gordon’s not having it. He wants Flass retried for murder but to get Loeb to agree he’s got to find Loeb’s Cobblepot. (Boy howdy am I using that word a lot in this post!)

Enter Penguin, the master of information!

Penguin makes a deal with Gordon to do your favor in return for a favor now. Penguin wants a share of the goods in the files Loeb has secreted away. Gordon accepted these terms, only slightly amending them to protect his fellow officers. What’s important is that his desire to clean up the GCPD led to him unwaveringly accepting the terms, owing Penguin a favor, no questions asked. That’s a pretty powerful thing to give and one that will, most likely, bite him in the rump one day. Hard.

They take Penguin with them to the farm house where Loeb has his “secrets”. These three, Gordon, Bullock and Penguin are highly entertaining together. More of this please! There’s a creepy old couple taking care of Loeb’s crazy daughter (who killed her mother leading to Loeb covering it up, hence his “Cobblepot”). While Gordon and Bullock are sussing this bit out upstairs Penguin is making a deal with the old couple, probably to save face should Falcone find out, rather than keeping them at bay as Gordon instructed. Penguin has yet to find a way out of a hardship on this show.

Gordon uses this information and jumps from making a deal with the devil (Penguin) to holding his own secret file over Loeb in order to get his way, Flass being retried for murder. Bad things for the sake of the greater good, no? Marked a big turn for Gordon.

Penguin, having learned a thing or two about cleaning up messes lest they go boom in your face, makes sure the old creepy couple can’t turn him in to Falcone by killing them. This is the Penguin we’ve been  missing for a few weeks!

I enjoyed the episode even with the Fish dealing body parts story line. What did you guys think? Will Penguin over-use his favor with Gordon or will he wait, holding it over his head for a while? If Gordon was willing to go outside of the law, turning to Penguin, to help fight the law, what will he be willing to do next time? And how is Fish going to get off that island?


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