History Recap / GothamS5E1YearZero

At the crash site, the Lo Boyz are picking through the wreckage when Penguin shows up, flanked by rifle-toting goons in black dusters. He wants the supplies for himself. They kill all the Lo Boyz with minimum fuss and proceed towards the wreckage when the GCPD show up and draw their guns on them. Penguin informs Jim that he did not fire the rpg, and was not even aware there was a helicopter coming, and then tries to order Jim to take his cops and leave. Tabitha then gets the drop on all of them and kills half of Penguin's goons before grabbing Oswald himself. She holds a pistol to his face, then fires. The pistol misfires. Penguin, laughing at the irony, grabs the knife from his limp leg and stabs Tabitha, killing her. Barbara arrives just in time to see this, and overcome with hatred of Penguin, opens fire on him. A gunfight between all parties ensues. Bruce sneaks out of the warehouse and finds Penguin's truck, which is filled with ammo. He knocks out the two sentries and takes some. Back inside the warehouse, Barbara dispatches Penguin's remaining goons, but gets shot in the shoulder. Penguin advances on her when Jim walks out into the open again and offers Penguin a deal - 50% of the supplies for Barbara's life. Penguin makes Jim a terrible counter-offer, and then goads him with the fact he's out of ammo. Jim then draws his gun and shoots Penguin in his limp leg, using the ammo collected by Bruce. The GCPD can now collect the supplies.

* BatmanColdOpen: The episode starts 10 months after the events of the episode proper, over a year into No Man's Land, and sees Gordon, Bullock, Penguin and Riddler uniting along with the remnants of the GCPD and firing into a group of paramilitary stationed outside the quarantine wall. When we return after the intro, it's 10 months prior, and our heroes are dealing with a very different threat - that of starvation.

* BittersweetEnding: Jim and Bruce manage to acquire enough supplies to last for six more weeks and they got friends on the outside helping them (most likely in secret without the government's knowledge), but Tabitha is dead, both Penguin and Barbara are preparing to go to war with each other, Penguin has put a large bounty out on Jim's head, and Jeremiah is implied to be back.

** When first testing out his new leg brace Oswald notes that it's missing something and tells his workers to put a knife on it, he then uses that knife to kill Tabitha when she's distracted trying to unjam her gun.

* ConspicuousConsumption: While Penguin's people are passing out from starvation Penguin himself enjoys professionally cooked meals...and then feeds the entire thing to the dog because the meat was overcooked.

* {{Irony}}: Attempted by Tabitha, wanting to use Penguin's own bullets to kill him but a defect (which Oswald himself had dismissed) causes a misfire, saving his life and giving him the opportunity to kill her.

** Barbara constantly tells Tabitha to be patient to kill Penguin, but then he stabbed Tabitha to death.

* ObstructiveBureaucrat: The Government. Particularly the person Gordon is talking to through the radio. He constantly have to remind Gordon, obviously annoyed that Gordon refuses to listen.
* PragmaticHero: Jim could have easily killed Penguin when he had the opportunity and have one less villain to deal with, but Penguin's death would mean his turf would be up for grabs and with his stockpile of weapons and ammunition factory, anyone who gets their hands on it could spell serious trouble for Jim and his people. So while Jim is not exactly ''thrilled'' at Penguin's set up, he's arguably the best person to be in that position.

** Tabitha doesn't want to trade with Penguin for obvious reasons but Barbara points out that they need his ammo in order to protect the women they're sheltering and even bargains to get 2,000 more rounds on top of the 1,000 initially offered.
** Instead of killing her immediately, Penguin gives Barbara the chance to just close the chapter on the whole Tabitha/Butch thing and to walk away from wanting revenge knowing that 1, if he kills Barbara her followers will hunt him down and 2, Barbara is somehow able to acquire fresh food which is a luxury right now so having her alive is in his all around best interests.

* SeriesContinuityError: Alfred claims that they tried to get Selina out of the city but the bridges were blown up before they got the chance. The problem is Alfred and Bruce didn't get back to the hospital until ''after'' dealing with Ra's and Jeremiah, where the bridges were blown up ''during'' the fight.
* StatusQuoIsGod: Early in the episode, Oswald is fitted with a leg brace that all but eliminates his limp. Later on he gets shot in the knee and as the flash forward to Day 391 shows, even with the brace on he ends up getting the limp back.

* WeirdCurrency: Because actual money is basically worthless in the city now, when Penguin puts out a bounty on Jim for shooting him the reward is 100,000 bullets.

Back in the bullpen, Lucius explains to Gordon that they have a week's rations left. Gordon orders to cut rations in half, and not for the first time, giving them two weeks at most to get more food, when Bruce shows up and tells them what happened at the hospital. He lets them know he has already drafted a helicopter to fly into the GCPD district and drop off supplies. The government will stop him doing it again, so it has to work this time. Bruce goes back to the hospital, where Selina sullenly tells him she thinks being his friend is what did her in. Meanwhile, at city hall, Penguin is getting a contraption fitted to his leg to fix his limp. He thinks it should have a knife attached. Mr.Penn Is debriefing Penguin on the situation in the gun factories. The workers are hungry, and more are getting injured by the day; the quality of the guns being produced is falling sharply, with many misfiring and jamming. Penguin tells him he cannot fix the food problem, even as he eats a steak that he then feeds to his bulldog for being 'overcooked'.

Riddler wakes up on the roof of a building, and can't remember how he got there. Groggily, he gets himself back to the Falcone mansion, where he has his base. He's alive, but he's been blacking out periodically and waking up with no memory of how he got there. He is convinced that his Ed persona is controlling him during these blackouts, but he can't speak to Ed. That's strange. Mr. Penn is back to working for Penguin, and he's out of the baby bib. He's come to the Sirens' Club to make a deal with Barbara and Tabitha - ammo in exchange for food. Tabitha is open to it, but Barbara would rather die than ever work with Oswald Cobblepot. Tabby accepts the deal, after tripling the amount of ammo offered, and Barbara storms out.

'''Back at GCPD''', Gordon enters the power room and finds the main generator (not the Wayne Enterprises one) has been sabotaged. He investigates a little bit, and then Scarecrow appears; he figured that while he was there stealing the GCPD's food, he may as well kill Gordon, and so he tries. Gordon falters at first, but soon turns the tables and pushes Scarecrow back. Scarecrow slips away, right as his guys elsewhere in the building get away with the majority of the remaining rations.

Riddler wakes up on the roof of a building, and can't remember how he got there. Groggily, he gets himself back to the Falcone mansion, where he has his base. He's alive, but he's been blacking out periodically and waking up with no memory of how he got there. He is convinced that his Ed persona is controlling him during these blackouts, but he can't speak to Ed. That's strange.

Mr. Penn is back to working for Penguin, and he's out of the baby bib. He's come to the Sirens' Club to make a deal with Barbara and Tabitha - ammo in exchange for food. Tabitha is open to it, but Barbara would rather die than ever work with Oswald Cobblepot. Tabby accepts the deal, after tripling the amount of ammo offered, and Barbara storms out.

Back in the bullpen, Lucius explains to Gordon that they have a week's rations left. Gordon orders to cut rations in half, and not for the first time, giving them two weeks at most to get more food, when Bruce shows up and tells them what happened at the hospital. He lets them know he has already drafted a helicopter to fly into the GCPD district and drop off supplies. The government will stop him doing it bagain, so it has to work this time. Bruce goes back to the hospital, where Selina sullenly tells him she thinks being his friend is what did her in. Meanwhile, at city hall, Mr.Penn Is debriefing Penguin on the situation in the gun factories.

With Gotham cut off from the rest of the country, everyone scrambles to adapt to the new status quo; the Penguin has taken over City Hall, with the most firepower at his disposal, Barbara Kean is the most well provisioned, and Jim Gordon and a handful of policemen struggle to protect those unable to evacuate, as supplies dwindle.