Directed by Danny Cannon
Written by Ken Woodruff
Gordon and the GCPD continue to hunt for Fish, who's hunting for Strange. Bruce comes face-to-face with the Court of Owls. Ivy survives the attack on her, but is incredibly changed.
Tropes
- Badass Boast: Penguin gives one before rallying the mob to go after Fish, in defiance of the police:"The GCPD is not Gotham. Gotham listens to me."
- Bait-and-Switch: We're teased that Marv gave Poison Ivy her plant powers along with her aging. Not quite yet.
- Batman Gambit: At Gordon's behest, Cobblepot orders the mob to storm the building, which leads Barnes to send all units to the front of the house, therefore allowing Fish to leave through the back door and walk right into Cobblepot's clutches.
- Berserk Button: Ivy attacks the man who picked her up because he doesn't take care of his plants.
- Boxed Crook: The government has been trying to squeeze Strange for the secrets of Indian Hill.
- Burn the Witch!: As the episode title indicates, Penguin rallies an angry mob to hunt down Fish and her gang. Said mob beats a few of Fish's minions to death, and then burns their bodies on a makeshift pyre.
- Call-Back: Penguin lets Fish off in the same way that Gordon spared him, with an admonishment to leave and never come back.
- Deal with the Devil: Bruce makes one with the Court, agreeing to cease investigation into them if they spare him and his loved ones their wrath.
- Do Not Call Me "Paul": In an inversion of what it was like in Season 1, Cobblepott gets upset when Fish calls him "Oswald" instead of "Penguin".
- From Nobody to Nightmare:
- Fish lampshades this in regards to Penguin, noting how he's gone from rubbing her feet to being the terror of Gotham.
- Ivy is undergoing this as well post-age up, as she's gone from being an odd but kind girl to a cold-blooded killer.
- Gory Discretion Shot: Fish's minions are brutally beaten to death by an angry mob, but we never see any of the results and said mob went through the trouble of putting the bloody mangled corpses in body-bags before tossing them into the fire.
- Magic Pants: Played with. When Ivy is aged up from teenager to adult, her sweater is somehow still big enough to cover her, but her pants only reach a little past the knee.
- Overnight Age-Up: Thanks to being partially exposed to Marv's powers last week, Ivy has been aged into adulthood.
- Pet the Dog: Fish admits that the reason she didn't kill Penguin the last time she saw him is because she couldn't bring herself to destroy what she sees as her greatest accomplishment. Penguin is moved enough by this honest confession that he in turn spares her and lets her escape with Strange.
- The Bus Came Back: Lee.
- This Is Gonna Suck: Jim realizing Vale's source is Selina...and the only person who might know where she lives is Barbara.
- Ungrateful Bastard: After being aged up Ivy meets a man who takes her in, gives her new clothes and offers to help take her back home. She later attacks him for not properly taking care of his plants.
- Villainous Legacy: Fish considers Penguin as hers, as she sees nothing in her life as comparable to turning a spineless wimp into the most feared man in Gotham.
- Villain with Good Publicity: Penguin, thanks to stirring the city's hatred of Fish's gang of "monsters". By the end of the episode, the crowd is chanting his name and carrying him on their shoulders.
- Zerg Rush: Penguin gets the Gotham citizenry to pull one on Fish's minions. Their powers give them the edge at first, but they eventually fall to sheer weight of numbers.
