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* NoodleIncident: How Riddler tracked down where Martin had been hidden. It apparently involved him dressing as an old Polish woman, and taking advantage of Zsasz's love for disco but Oswald interrupts him and tells him he'll explain an other time.

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* NoodleIncident: How Riddler tracked down where Martin had been hidden. It apparently involved him dressing as an old Polish woman, woman and taking advantage of Zsasz's love for disco disco, but Oswald interrupts him and tells him he'll explain an other time.
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* ShutUpHannibal: Sofia feigns caring for Gordon once more and tells him that she'll spare him if he begs for his life. He tells her to go to Hell in response.
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* {{Angrish}}: Penguin devolves into flabbergasted gibberish when he finds out Penn worked for Sofia.
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* TheMole: Penguin's accountant, Mr. Penn, is revealed to have been spying on him for Sofia Falcone, and on Sofia for Carmine Falcone. When Sofia found out, he forced him to spy on Carmine for her.

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* TheMole: Penguin's accountant, Mr. Penn, is revealed to have been spying on him for Sofia Falcone, and on Sofia for Carmine Falcone. When Sofia found out, he she forced him to spy on Carmine for her.
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* NoodleIncident: How Riddler tracked down where Martin had been hidden. It apparently involved him dressing as an old Polish woman, and taking advantage of Zsasz's love for disco.

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* NoodleIncident: How Riddler tracked down where Martin had been hidden. It apparently involved him dressing as an old Polish woman, and taking advantage of Zsasz's love for disco.disco but Oswald interrupts him and tells him he'll explain an other time.
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Directed by Creator/NickCopus

Written by Creator/SethBoston
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* TheBusCameBack: Martin, Headhunter, Freeze, and the Dentist all return.

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* TheBusCameBack: Martin, Headhunter, Freeze, and the Dentist all return. Ra's Al Ghul also reappears for Barbara, though he seems to be a hallucination.



* CelebrityParadox: One of the goons guarding Martin reads a copy of ''Detective Comics'', although it doesn't seem to feature its most famous [[Franchise/{{Batman}} spinoff character]].

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* CelebrityParadox: One of the goons guarding Martin reads a copy of ''Detective Comics'', although it doesn't seem to feature its most famous [[Franchise/{{Batman}} spinoff spin-off character]].
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* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Sofia doesn't believe Jim's refusal of her terms was about protecting the GCPD, believing it to be about him. Partially Justified by, as she points out, her terms matching her father's terms for control of Gotham for decades, though fighting that state of affairs was Jim's first story arc.
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* OhCrap: Riddler's reaction when he realizes that Grundy's got his memory back.
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* DisappointedInYou: Sofia was disappointed in both Gordon and her father Carmine.
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* TheMole: Penguin's accountant, Mr. Penn, is revealed to have been spying on him for Sofia Falcone, and on Sofia for Carmine Falcone.

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* TheMole: Penguin's accountant, Mr. Penn, is revealed to have been spying on him for Sofia Falcone, and on Sofia for Carmine Falcone. When Sofia found out, he forced him to spy on Carmine for her.
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* CelebrityParadox: One of the goons guarding Martin reads a copy of ''Detective Comics'', although it doesn't seem to feature its most famous [[Franchise/{{Batman}} spinoff character]].


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** Grundy's got his Butch Gilzean mind back, and turns on the Riddler.


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* MuggingTheMonster: The pawnbroker's attempt to beat up Bruce and Selina, take their money, and keep the jewelry backfires on him. That said, Bruce still pays him after knocking him unconscious.
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Sofia's downfall is ultimately because of her pissing off just about ''everyone in Gotham''.
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* ExplainExplainOhCrap: When Penguin figures out Riddler's riddle:
-->'''Penguin''': A knuckle sandwich! Oh... ::gets punched::
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* TheMole: Penguin's accountant, Mr. Penn, is revealed to have been spying on him for the Falcones.

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* TheMole: Penguin's accountant, Mr. Penn, is revealed to have been spying on him for the Falcones.Sofia Falcone, and on Sofia for Carmine Falcone.
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* SecretIdentityVocalShift: After he and Selina beat up the pawn shop owner's thugs, Bruce chides them in as deep and growly a voice as a 16-year-old kid can muster, {{Foreshadowing}} this trope.

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* SecretIdentityVocalShift: After he and Selina beat up the pawn shop owner's thugs, Bruce chides them in as deep and growly a voice as a 16-year-old teenage kid can muster, {{Foreshadowing}} this trope.
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* SecretIdentityVocalShift: After he and Selina beat up the pawn shop owner's thugs, Bruce chides them in as deep and growly a voice as a 16-year-old kid can muster, {{Foreshadowing}} this trope.

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* BoomHeadshot: Penguin dispatches both of the goons sent to execute Riddler with bullets in the back of the head. On the other hand, Lee shoots Ms. Falcone ''in the forehead,'' and TisOnlyABulletInTheBrain -- when he visits Jim in hospital, Harvey tells him Sofia's "in a coma."

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* BoomHeadshot: ''Lots'' in this episode. Penguin dispatches both of the goons sent to execute Riddler with bullets in the back of the head. On the other hand, Lee shoots Ms. Falcone ''in the forehead,'' and TisOnlyABulletInTheBrain -- when he visits Jim in hospital, Harvey tells him Sofia's "in a coma."



* TisOnlyABulletInTheBrain:

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* BoomHeadshot:
** Lee does this to Sofia.
** Penguin headshots both of the goons sent to execute Riddler.

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* BoomHeadshot:
** Lee does this to Sofia.
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BoomHeadshot: Penguin headshots dispatches both of the goons sent to execute Riddler.Riddler with bullets in the back of the head. On the other hand, Lee shoots Ms. Falcone ''in the forehead,'' and TisOnlyABulletInTheBrain -- when he visits Jim in hospital, Harvey tells him Sofia's "in a coma."


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* TisOnlyABulletInTheBrain:
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* NoodleIncident: How Riddler tracked down where Martin had been hidden. It apparently involved him dressing as an old Polish woman, and taking advantage of Zsasz's love for disco.
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* VillainousFriendship: Penguin ultimately chooses saving Riddler over killing Sofia.

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* VillainousFriendship: Penguin ultimately chooses saving Riddler over killing Sofia. Riddler doesn't directly rat out Oswald's location even under torture, he just taunts Sofia with a riddle.
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* ResurrectionSickness: ''Something'' is wrong with Barbara, and it is hinted to be from her dip in the Lazarus Pit. She's experiencing migraines, sees a hallucination of Ra's, and her palm starts glowing white.

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* TheMole: Penguin's accountant, Mr. Penn, is revealed to have been spying on him for the Falcones.
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* TheMasochismTango: Selina calls out Bruce for being a "douchebag" last time they met, and tells him not to bothering to apologize since he'll probably just do it again. He responds by saying he missed her too.

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* TheMasochismTango: Selina calls out Bruce for being a "douchebag" last time they met, and tells him not to bothering bother to apologize since he'll probably just do it again. He responds by saying he missed her too.
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Gordon and Bullock search for someone who's key to stopping Sofia. The Riddler breaks Penguin out of Arkham. Bruce helps Selina deal with the guilt from her part in Ivy's murder spree.

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* BattleCouple: Bruce and Selina easily dismantle the guys they fight in the pawn shop.
* BoomHeadshot:
** Lee does this to Sofia.
** Penguin headshots both of the goons sent to execute Riddler.
* TheBusCameBack: Martin, Headhunter, Freeze, and the Dentist all return.
* CallBack: Sofia's men drag Riddler to the same dock where he himself twice before tried to kill Penguin (and where he ended up frozen). Both agree afterwards that they never want to see it again.
* CruelMercy: Harvey refuses to let Jim confess to his part in Sofia's rise, instead letting him live with the guilt.
* DefiantToTheEnd: Bleeding out on the floor from multiple gunshot wounds and told to beg for mercy, Gordon instead tells Sofia to go to hell.
* TheDogBitesBack:
** Headhunter is happy to hunt down Penguin for Sofia, as payback for being stabbed by him.
** Lee shoots Sofia in the head, and breaks Samson's hand with a hammer, as payback for what they did to her in the previous episode.
* InvulnerableKnuckles: Subverted. Bruce is shown having to ice his hand after punching out a guy in the pawn shop fight.
* TheMasochismTango: Selina calls out Bruce for being a "douchebag" last time they met, and tells him not to bothering to apologize since he'll probably just do it again. He responds by saying he missed her too.
* VillainousFriendship: Penguin ultimately chooses saving Riddler over killing Sofia.
* YouExclamation: Sofia, upon seeing that Lee is the one who shot her.

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