History Recap / GothamS5E4Ruin

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Jeremiah kills a child slaver for complaining about his work schedule.

* CasualDangerDialog: Zsasz spends the entire episode either under fire or in the custody of an angry mob who want him dead. Despite this, he acts as if he's out at the grocery store and cheerfully shrugs off everything that happens to him.

* MythologyGag: Jeremiah's smocky white coat and straight razor licking both come from ComicBook/GrantMorrisonsBatman, where the Joker went so far as to split his own tongue.

* AmbiguouslyGay: While Jim and Harvey are, ahem, talking to Zsasz he sassily asks them if they want to strip-search him to make sure that he isn't responsible for blowing up Haven. A moment after an officer walks in and tells Jim that Lucius is calling him. Zsasz's reaction?

*** His Pax Penguina from the beginning of the previous season are hung up in the courtroom they setup for Zsasz's trial.

* FreezeFrameBonus: If you look closely in the scene where Ecco is taking the new workers away/Selina is revealed to have infiltrated the group, in the background you can see Jeremiah first look around as she stares after Ecco, then spin his entire body round to face her, indicating he's caught on to her presence - foreshadowing the events of the following episode.
* HannibalLecture: Defied. Jeremiah starts to calmly taunt Selina when she stabs him in the chest but she then stabs him over and over again to [[ShutUpHannibal shut him up]].

** Riddler kills the bombing witness in the same way he murdered his boss in Film/BatmanForever.

* OffWithHisHead: Penguin attempts to have Zsasz executed with a guillotine though Gordon stops him before it can take place.

* RedHerring: The GCPD believe that Zsasz is responsible for the bombing for most of the episode though it is revealed halfway through that he had nothing to do with it.

'''Selina''': (stabs him) Don't. Say. Anything.

* TooKinkyToTorture: Zsasz only compliments the table when Bullock slams his head down on it. Even when Penguin has him tied up and ready to execute he seems darkly amused.

** Selina stabs Jeremiah in the chest repeatedly, seemingly killing him. [[JokerImmunity But he turns up two episodes later.]]

* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Penguin and Zsasz remain unaware that Sofia murdered Carmine.

** Selina stabs Jeremiah in the chest repeatedly, killing him.