Gotham: Everyone Has A Cobblepot

March 3, 2015 1:05 PM - Season 1, Episode 18

Jim discovers that Commissioner Loeb controls the GCPD via an extensive blackmail file on almost every cop, and sets out to exploit it for his own ends. Fish Mooney meets Dr. Dulmacher and tries to secure her own position.
posted by Small Dollar (9 comments total)

That special effect was straight out of Mars Attacks.
posted by Catblack at 1:38 PM on March 3, 2015

Which one? The shot of the island?
posted by DirtyOldTown at 2:34 PM on March 3, 2015

I'd assume that was the shot of the Frankensteined former prison manager. Super creepy and kinda fake-looking! And I like how Fish now has a sufficiently unusual physical feature for her to be believable as a Batman villain.
posted by Small Dollar at 3:27 PM on March 3, 2015

Now that you mention that long shot pullback, Fish Mooney seems to have stumbled into the filming of a Repo: The Genetic Opera sequel.
posted by Catblack at 12:15 AM on March 4, 2015 [1 favorite]

Pretty solid episode for Gotham. I wonder what the Penguin's angle is in letting Ma & Pa Kettle go? I doubt he let them get the drop on him. He's a little weasel, but he's a vicious little weasel with a scattergun.
posted by entropicamericana at 11:32 AM on March 4, 2015

I'm pretty sure that Penguin killed her keepers, but...where is Loeb's daughter now? I didn't get the impression she was with Loeb. And given the way she and Penguin looked at each other, I have to wonder if maybe Miriam didn't remind our very oedipal antagonist a little too much of his mom...

The Fish's Eye subplot worked out exactly as I thought it would, but I'm sad that Gotham already took Jeffrey Combs off the board. Between this and Julian Sands, casting fantastic genre-favorite actors in all-too-short-lived roles is beginning to look like a heartbreaking trend (I'd include Mark Margolis, but I'm guessing he will be back).
posted by kittens for breakfast at 3:43 PM on March 4, 2015 [1 favorite]

Between this and Julian Sands, casting fantastic genre-favorite actors in all-too-short-lived roles is beginning to look like a heartbreaking trend

So who's next? Brad Dourif?
posted by DirtyOldTown at 7:48 PM on March 4, 2015 [1 favorite]

hah, turns out I dozed off before the episode was over and missed the denouement with Ma & Pa.
posted by entropicamericana at 9:36 AM on March 5, 2015 [1 favorite]

Everyone's looking a little more outlandish, a weird body-horror scene, some more gothicky horror.

And this is how it starts - easier to keep a corrupt man in place, he's controllable. Get him thrown out, and Gordon has to start all over ...
posted by the man of twists and turns at 9:23 PM on March 17, 2015