Pilot
- Turner has a whole lot of shit drop on him in the first episode, learning that his adoptive father is dead, that his adoptive father was also Batman, and that everyone now believes that he was responsible for the murder, which also means that he's being sought out by his Honorary Uncle Harvey Dent. In a single episode, he's lost almost his entire support network, and now he has to rely on Harper, Cullen, and Duela, who all currently hate him.
- Though Duela is pretty bonkers, it's hard not to feel sorry for her when she recounts how she was born and raised in Arkham Asylum, and her father—the Joker—abandoned her and her mom to run off with Harley Quinn. As she notes, while the others were hearing lullabies at night, her bedtime stories were about things like the Court of Owls. No wonder she's the way she is.
The Scene of the Crime
- Carrie finds something in Bruce Wayne's journal that she can't share with Turner, and decides to hide it out of loyalty to her former mentor.
Of Butchers and Betrayals
- Stephanie lets slip that her mother, like Cullen's alcoholic father, is an abusive addict, to pills in her case.
- Turner realizing not only is Cressida working for the Court but she helped set up Bruce's murder. The idea the woman who was like a mother to him has been part of all this hits him hard.
More Money, More Problems
- Harvey confesses to Dr. Meridian that he is aware that he's suffering from dissociative episodes, and fears that he's becoming like his father. He recounts how his father was a terrible alcoholic who got violent when he was drunk, but when he sobered up, he never remembered what he did while he was drunk, and was always wondering why Harvey was crying or where he got those bruises from.
- It's even worse for the audience members who know that, unless things take a very different path from the comics, poor Harvey is doomed to be just as bad, if not worse.
- The episode ends with Carrie having to sneak back into her mom's apartment just in time for her mom to find her, and looking terribly guilty that the one time her mom managed to show up for a parents' day luncheon despite her busy schedule at the hospital, Carrie wasn't there. And then we see Stephanie coming home to find her mom passed out on the couch. What makes it even worse is that in Stephanie's case, it's implied to be at least somewhat normal.
A Chill in Gotham
Bad to Be Good
Belly of the Beast
- A brief bit of Duela talking of her mother, a twisted con artist who took so many identities, she was known as "Jane Doe." Despite how the woman never truly cared for her, Duela can't help but feel a bit sad not knowing her.
- Stephanie's entire family problem. Her mother is addicted to painkillers to the point she gets a prescription in Stephanie's name. Her father is too concerned about his public image to admit his wife has a problem. It builds to Stephanie stealing the pills to flush down the toilet with her mother pounding on the door and calling her a bitch as Stephanie cries.
- To top it off, Stephanie's father comes home and blames her for her mother's breakdown.
Dark Knight of the Soul
- Under the influence of the Court's poison, Turner learns the truth about why he was adopted - Batman was responsible for the deaths of his parents, and Bruce Wayne felt guilty about it and adopted him.
Poison Pill
- Carrie reveals to Turner that she knew about the circumstances behind his adoption from Bruce's journal and chose to withhold that information because she thought it would only make his grief worse. Turner is pissed because he spent weeks thinking that the missing pages from the journal were a key to Bruce's murder.
- Brody finds out that his dad is a member of the Court of Owls and goes to Stephanie for help, and she talks him through how to gather evidence and get himself and his mother somewhere safe, and Brody goes and tries to carry out their plan. Unfortunately, it turns out that Rebecca is also in the Court of Owls, and she coldly stabs Brody dead.
- Desperate to save Turner and redeem herself for withholding information from him, Carrie brings him to her mother. Dr. Kelley is pissed to find out that her daughter has been consorting with a known fugitive and bluntly tells her that she might lose her medical license and they could both go to jail.
Daddy Issues
- This episode starts out on an incredibly sad note—Duela recounts how she spent her eighth birthday wandering the halls of Arkham Asylum by herself. Her "presents" were a playing card from the Joker and a cupcake from the asylum vending machine.
- The terrible facade that is Stephanie's life completely falls apart, as her father is busted for prescription fraud and Lincoln March tries to blackmail her into giving up the location of her friends. Her dad is going to jail, her mother has abandoned any pretense of loving her (and will probably not do well without her husband providing drugs for her), and she's now as much of a fugitive as her friends.
- Watching Turner nearly die several times in the space of only a few days has gotten to Cullen, and thus Turner's reckless new attitude upsets him. After spending a whole day chasing after Turner and Duela and barely preventing him from getting arrested, Cullen hits his limit and tells Turner that he can't keep putting up with this, because Turner is one of the few friends he has and the thought of losing him hurts him too much. When a contrite Turner hugs him, Cullen just breaks down crying, looking like he's just been holding in so much.
- Duela learns the awful truth about her origins - she's not the Joker's daughter, she's Harvey Dent's daughter, conceived when he slept with her mother Jane in a fugue state. When Harvey came out of the fugue state, he had no idea why Jane was so fixated on him and assumed that she was a Loony Fan, and thus locked her up for eighteen years, not knowing that she was pregnant with his child. To keep Duela safe, Jane lied to her, telling her (and everyone else) that she was the Joker's daughter so that nobody would dare hurt her for fear of earning the Joker's wrath. Enraged by these revelations, Duela shoots Harvey in the chest.
- Meanwhile, Duela is clearly haunted by having (she thinks) murdered a man in cold blood.
- Harvey survives thanks to the bullet hitting the coin in his pocket, only to learn that Lincoln March has leaked the story of his ties to Duela to the press, making him a pariah.
City of Owls
Night of the Owls
- Duela begs Harvey not to let his alternate persona out. As he hums the tune that triggers him, she keeps begging until she finally blurts out "Dad!"
- Rebecca lays out why she chose Duela to take the fall for killing Bruce Wayne, and why she's setting Duela up to take the fall for the Court's bombing of Gotham: not only is everyone prepared to assume the worst about her because of her supposed parentage, but there was always a good chance that she would prove their assumptions right, because her first instinct has always been to fuck over everyone else to save her own ass. And indeed, at that very moment, the other Gotham Knights except Turner assume that she's already preparing to set off the other bombs to save her own life.
- The series ends with the rest of the Gotham Knights all believing that Turner died when Wayne Tower collapsed, and Turner has no way of telling them otherwise because he got kidnapped by Henri Ducard's people.
