Directed by Larysa Kondracki
Written by Jim Barnes, Ken Woodruff, & Megan Mostyn Brown
As Gordon and Bruce investigate Strange's experiments, he counters by unleashing the resurrected Galavan — now believing himself to be the Warrior Monk Azrael — and sending him after Gordon. Meanwhile, Nygma investigates Strange's work from within Arkham.
- All Your Base Are Belong to Us: Azrael attacks the GCPD in order to kill Gordon.
- Ancestral Weapon: Invoked by Strange, who gives Galavan a sword and claims that it's one that's been passed down for generations. Peabody mentions in an aside that it's only a day old, and then it breaks when he's fighting Barnes.
- Came Back Wrong: It's confirmed that Galavan lost his mind during his resurrection. Specifically, his mind couldn't reconcile his death and rebirth, so it's fragmented.
- Call-Forward:
- Bruce watches with awe as Azrael evades the cops and makes his escape. It seems that the sight of a mysterious masked figure leaping around in a cape has caught his interest.
- During their argument, Barnes sarcastically suggests that maybe Gordon should run the GCPD, with Gordon saying maybe he will.
- Peabody calls Galavan “Mad as a hatter.” Foreshadowing the appearance of Jervis Tetch, perhaps?
- Cassandra Truth: Barnes doesn't believe Jim at all when he tells him about Strange's experiments. When you tell people that fantastical are going on behind the scenes, and have repeatedly been shady with truth, the chances of people believing you are practically zero, even if you have good intentions.
- Chewing the Scenery: Hugo Strange and Galavan/Azrael devour the scenery.
- Drunk on the Dark Side: Not that Hugo Strange was ever good, but bringing someone back from the dead has affected Strange's usual stoicism.
- Flashback: Galavan/Azrael has one to his election when he sees one of his campaign posters in an alley.
- Exact Words: As a test of his skills, Strange gives Galavan a case, and tells him to use what it holds to kill another inmate. Galavan proceeds to bash his skull in with the case.
- Foreshadowing: Two references to the Mad Hatter:
- When talking about the resurrected Galavans' rampage, Ms. Peabody calls him "as mad as a hatter", itself an Alice Allusion.
- Strange starts using stories as the basis for the new minds he wants to tinker with for future resurrection subjects. He then reads from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, referencing the Mad Hatter.
Strange: ...Not what I meant, but close enough. Try opening the case, my son. - Ham-to-Ham Combat: Inevitable when Hugo Strange and Azrael share a scene.
- Loss of Identity: Galavan, as a result of his resurrection, is an unstable blank slate. This allows Strange to remold him into Azrael, based on his fragmentary memories of the stories he grew up on.
- Mythology Gag:
- Azrael's method of cutting the GCPD's power and taking out the police from the shadows is similar to how Batman operates. Bruce is even seen later in awe of his skill.
- Here, Azrael's mask, costume, and echoed voice are more similar to Phantasm rather than the comics' Azrael.
- Pet the Dog: Nygma befriends some of his fellow Arkham inmates, and comes up with ways to help with their respective psychoses.
- Rustproof Blood: When Strange is training Azrael, presumably several hours after he massacred the orderlies, there are still bright red hand prints on the wall.
- This Cannot Be!: Azrael's reaction when Barnes actually manages to break his alleged Ancestral Weapon. It distracts him long enough for Barnes to get the upper hand in the fight.
- Urine Trouble: Ed gathers various items from the other inmates, one of them being a bottle of ammonia. He sprays the contents in the air and tastes it to check for ammonia. Guess where the most available source of ammonia would be for someone in a prison/hospital?
- Vader Breath: Azrael's helmet makes Galavan breathe like this.
- Wrecked Weapon: The real purpose of Azrael's sword is symbolic, simply a part of Strange's ploy to control him. Plus, there's no reason for Strange to have an actual sword-smith on his staff. The sword promptly breaks after being parried a couple times with a random piece of pipe.
- Wrong Genre Savvy: Barnes tries to invoke Screw the Money, I Have Rules! with Bruce, believing him to be, at best, a naive Upper-Class Twit (and at worst a typical corrupt Gotham patrician) trying to throw his clout around to influence a legitimate police investigation. To be fair, with any other rich kid in Gotham, he'd probably be right.
