Directed by Oz Scott
Written by Sue Chung
Gordon makes the best of his new posting at Arkham, while Cat breaks into Gordon's apartment to get Ivy off the streets.
Tropes:
- Abandoned Hospital: Not abandoned enough, unfortunately for... everyone.Gordon: You rushed into opening, and now you're running this place with skeleton staff and zero surveillance in an unsafe and insecure 200-year-old maze!
- Benevolent Boss: Sara Essen would bring Gordon back in a second if she could. His current boss... not so much.
- Conflicting Loyalty: Butch Gilzean is caught between Fish and a childhood friend who also wants to be the new boss. His decision winds up being pretty final.
- Fauxshadowing: A Greek tragedy being performed at Arkham during a thunderstorm? Sounds like a perfect intro for Maxie Zeus!
- Friend on the Force: Invoked when Jim, now just a security guard, manages to get Harvey Bullock to come down to Arkham and kickstart the investigation in his stead.
- Hope Spot: For a second it looks like Gordon ordering the inmates to get back in their cells is going to work.
- Horrible Judge of Character: The nurse who helps Gordon investigate the semi-murder.Nurse: He never tells a lie, poor peaceful soul he is.
Gordon: He murdered his entire family with an ax.
Nurse: Never hurt a fly before or since.
Inmate: I said sorry. - Mean Boss: Gerry Lang, who uses Jim Gordon as his personal scapegoat.
- Mildly Military: Or procedural. Jim is wearing mismatched insignia on his Arkham uniform: he has Sergeant stripes (3 chevrons) on his sleeve, but only two chevrons on his collar insignia.
- Playing Sick: Funny how Ivy's cough goes away once she has Cat waiting on her hand and foot.
- Red Herring: "Nurse" Duncan.
- Redemption Equals Death: Lang finally starts helping Bullock with his investigation, and is stabbed to death almost as soon as he returns to Arkham.
- Spell My Name with a "The": Oswald would like you to know that he's the Penguin.
- Terrible Interviewees Montage: Jim's interrogation of the Arkham inmates is a Black Comedy take on this.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Gordon calls out the warden for Arkham being entirely unsuited to its current use (see Abandoned Hospital above). The warden's response? And, frankly, Jerkass Has a Point, for all he's trying to pin everything on Gordon.Warden: Excellent. Excuses. That's the nature of municipal operations! You inherit problems and you use the resources at hand to do what you can.
