Gotham Season One: Welcome Back, Jim Gordon

Good cops vs. Bad cops

When a key witness in a homicide ends up dead Gordon suspects it was an inside job by the GCPD, meanwhile Penguin take's over Fish's business and Fish herself is being tortured by Falcone's men.

An episode where we had to deal with the corrupt GCPD again and have read some reviews saying that they where annoyed that it was addressing this issue once again. I on the other hand am glad the villains where cops again because I think it needs more than one episode to reform the GCPD. For one Gordon really shined again in this because you just got to really like his portrayal to be unflinching in his sense of justice, especially when it seemed the narcotics squad was untouchable. I really liked Gordon's speech at the end to his fellow officers and how they, included Essen, supported him this time. However it didn't end too well for Gordon when he wonders if getting Penguin's help was such a good idea; I hope they don't just drop this in future episodes. The other big story that was going on was with Fish but I think her torture was completely wasted since they didn't do anything, even if I liked her I would still feel this way. However once again Fish's right hand man Butch really stood out with the way he freed himself, rescued Fish and got her to safety - the guy has some real iron loyalty. It annoys me that even though Fish's actress confirms she isn't returning for season two (hopefully killed off) I bet we are still going to have to go through some big story arc with her which will waste a lot of screen time when it should be given to Butch.

"I bet you'll probably never hear from Ivy or Selina again Master Bruce"

As for everything else it is always good to see Bruce and Alfred (their absence was even explained) and even though their scenes wasn't much it was still nice to see Alfred helping Bruce once again. Hopefully they will play a large part next episode, especially since Selina says she never saw the shooting in the first place. The scenes with Penguin and his mother didn't feel really important except at the end when he her said how he out foxed Fish however I always hate how afraid he is around her. Like he said he has already proved that he is better than her because of his big plan with Falcone and the fact he predicted all her plans; I just want him to kill her already because I think it's obvious Penguin will at the end (Penguin is canon to the comics while Fish is not). Finally Nygma's moments with Kringle are still really funny and it is great how he has his own small subplot not that tried to the main story. Oh yeah and it is always great seeing Zsaz being all badass once again and I really like his helpers in the show.

"Your two seconds off, you have to follow my movements exactly!"

Overall an enjoyable episode but that was mostly because of Gordon's main story arc.

SCORE: 6/10

Highlights: Gordon vs. the narcotics squad
                   Butch again proving to be good character

Let - Downs: Fish didn't get tortured
                      Could have had more Bruce and Alfred scenes
      

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