Directed by Rob Bailey
Written by Tze Chun
With the creation of Haven as a safe place for refugees, Gordon hopes to stop the gang-fighting in Gotham. Selina is determined to find Jeremiah and convinces Bruce to help her. Meanwhile, Penguin goes to Haven to reclaim his staff.
Tropes
- And Your Little Dog, Too!: Not only did nearly all of Penguin's followers desert him, but they took his bulldog Ed with them. Or possibly he went willingly...
- Ax-Crazy: Ecco has become an unstable murderous sociopath.
- Bad Boss: Penguin's status as this comes back to bite him in the ass when all of his people defect and flee to Gordon's safe zone.
- The Blade Always Lands Pointy End In: When Bruce and Selina venture into the Dark Zone, they duck behind a car door to avoid the blast of a nail bomb. Somehow, every nail gets stuck in the car door as if they were aimed directly at it.
- Brutal Honesty: Mr. Penn lets Penguin know exactly why his people left: they hated Penguin.
- The Bus Came Back: Penguin's housekeeper Olga returns after not being seen since season 3.
- Cannon Fodder: Penguin uses the remaining gang members to make the GCPD waste the last of their ammo.
- Canon Immigrant: The Mutants and their leader show up as a gang that Bruce and Selina encounter in the Dark Zone. In the comics, they exist exclusively within the canon of The Dark Knight Returns (which ironically takes place when Bruce and Selina are already elderly).
- The Cavalry Arrives Late: Harvey goes to ask Barbara for help, but by the time they get back to Haven, Gordon and Penguin have already defused the situation. And Barbara has to be talked down from just murdering Penguin on the spot. All Harvey did was make things worse.
- Cult: One has cropped up around Jeremiah. The first stage of admittance has people playing a game of Russian roulette to see who is willing to sacrifice everything for his cause.
- Curse Cut Short: When Penguin opens the door in search of his dog Edward:Penguin: PENN! WHERE THE F- [gets interrupted by a song from a sole Gertrude Cobblepot Memorial Choir member]
- Didn't Think This Through: Said word-for-word by a member of the Street Demons after they attack Penguin, who points out that if he had attacked their compound, there would have been no survivors left and he wouldn't have been stupid enough to leave evidence that it was him anyways.
- Downer Ending: After building up Haven in the previous episode and here, right at the very end someone blows it up and kills many if not all of the refugees being housed there.
- Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Harvey comments that their trip through the Dark Zone in the previous episode happened "last week"; the show airs on a weekly basis.
- Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: Penguin's people leave him because they're tired of his antics and that he doesn't care about them at all.
- Mythology Gag:
- The Giant Mook that Selina faces off with in the Dark Zone bears more than a passing resemblance to the Mutant Leader from Batman: The Dark Knight Returns.
- At one point, Ecco mockingly calls Selina "Puddin'," Harley Quinn's pet name for Mister J.Selina: Don’t call me Puddin’.
- Ecco's distorted and messily-painted face is like the Joker's abused mistress Alicia in Batman (1989).
- During their fight, Selina's voice turns into a literal cat-like hiss.
- Never My Fault: Even after Mr. Penn tells Penguin, in no uncertain terms, that everyone left him for Haven because they all hated him, Penguin still has the audacity to blame Jim for everything that's gone wrong for him.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: All that Bruce really accomplishes in accompanying Selina to Jeremiah's church is distracting her long enough for Ecco to stab her in the leg.
- Russian Roulette: Those that want to join Jeremiah are made to play this, but with a twist: they point their guns at the back of each other's heads, signifying their willingness to die and kill for Jeremiah. Selina plays the game and survives by jamming the hammer of the gun pointed at her head with her hand.
- Sanity Slippage:
- Ecco has gone from being Jeremiah's calm and professional bodyguard to his most devoted and slavish follower. The implication is that her sanity took a hit when she performed the same Russian roulette test as the others, but her gun did go off and the bullet is stuck in her head.
- Selina's also becoming more violent and unbalanced the longer she searches for Jeremiah. Bruce has to stop her from beating a gang member to death. Whether that has anything to do with Ivy's cure for her condition or not remains to be seen.
