Gotham City, ten years ago. A man
slowly embodies the Spirit of the Goat, going from meek to fierce. So
far the Goat hasn't spoiled the Waynes family celebration. They're
opening their home to orphanages. On a rooftop a girl is grabbed by
the Goat.
Harvey is eager to get inside, but his
partner is willing to let the girl die. The maniac has already killed
two, and Shelley Lawson may soon make three. Randall Milky believes
that he's embodied an ancient spirit, who is sacrificing the girls.
Harvey rushes in, and his partner has no choice but to follow him in.
They find the girl, and she was recently placed there. His and his
partner fall through the floor. Harvey shoots and kills Milky, but
his partner does not rise. Harvey sounded a lot like Jim Gordon back
there.
Now. Harvey is haunted by a murder
scene that is very familiar looking. Nygma tries to get Harvey to
play his game, but Harvey isn't interested in riddles. The girl comes
from money, likely the eldest in the family, the Goat always killed
the first born. Harvey isn't happy to have a copy-cat killer on a
case that brings up troubled memories, and he's definitely not happy
about being on the clock before Gordon.
Gordon and Barbara are fighting again.
She's unhappy about secrets, and Gordon has no choice but to keep
them. The city is corrupt. He came to be a cop, but the city needs
something else. Barbara isn't asking for it all, she just wants half
of what he carries. They're not still fighting but rather
negotiating. She wants him to just let her in, and then they're okay.
His phone continues to vibrate across the table. He promises to tell
her everything he can, to make it right.
Montoya and Allen continue to canvas
the water front trying to find anything to prove that Jim Gordon
murdered Oswald Cobblepot. If they don't get some hard evidence soon,
then the MCU is dropping the case. They speak to a homeless man, and
he points the finger at Gordon, saying that he killed in cold blood.
Though he'd likely say just about anything at the moment as long as
he doesn't have to leave his spot.
Jim Gordon shows up to the crime scene.
Harvey is in an extra good mood this morning. The Goat being back,
even as a copy cat is bad news for the Gotham PD. He figures that the
Goat knew the victim, and the pair head to speak to her family.
Harvey wants Nygma to alert him before the autopsy starts, but
doesn't tell him what he's looking for exactly, and the normally easy
going Nygma hardens at the secret.
Mr. Hastings has been having nightmares
about a dark presence. He claims that his daughter was loved by
nearly everyone. His hand begins to spasm, and his response time
slows. His therapist suggests a break. Neither of the Hastings are
really up to dealing with their daughter's death, but Mr. Hastings is
especially weak the therapist informs them.
Nygma goes to the Records Annex,
sniffing at the record keeper. He's looking for information on the
Goat killings, and he finds that interesting. He also finds it
interesting that the keeper's parents kept their surname and named
her Kristen Kringle. They must be humorous people. She doesn't seem
to appreciate Nygma, reminding him that he needs to check out any
records. Nygma moves onto the poor organization of the place. She
warns Nygma that she has everything where she wants it. He offers to
help it, and she doesn't take him up on it or the double entrende.
Gordon and Harvey look for clues.
Harvey remembers on the last case, they didn't find any signs of
entry either, but that the victims were taken from their homes. Milky
had keys to the building because of his work. Gordon puts a call in
for all personnel who have access to the Hastings building.
Oswald pays his deal old mother a
visit. She thinks that he ran off with some hussy. There was no
hussy, only cruelty, and savagery. He just wanted a little respect.
She tells her beloved boy that they are only mean because they're
jealous. He plans to be someone in Gotham, and she is confident he
will be.
The autopsy reveals that the girl
asphyxiated. Harvey asks the ME to look at the base of her skull for
a small incision, stitched closed. The ME is surprised to find it,
and inside is a foreign object, a penny. That was a fact that was
never released. It can't be a copy-cat.
Milky always put a penny in the back of
the heads of each of his victims, but Harvey has no clue about it.
The detail was left out of the file for a reason. The ME that worked
on the case is dead, so that only leaves Harvey, and his former
partner. Captain Essen sends him to go pick Diggs's brain for ideas,
and see if he leaked the coin info.
Bruce watches Goat Watch. Many of the
Gotham elite are headed to the Swiss Alps in order to slip from the
threat. Alfred points out that Bruce is fits the victim description,
and suggests that perhaps they should slip away just in case. But
Bruce refuses to leave, he doesn't think the Goat will come for him,
and he has work to do.
Kristen is horrified to return and find
that her Records room has been reorganized by Nygma. She freaks out.
The room was perfectly organized. She wants to know what she ever did
to him, wondering if he wants her job. He doesn't want her job, but
her... to keep her job. Seeing her distaste he makes a getaway,
leaving her to her files.
Harvey tries to let Gordon out of
seeing his former partner, Diggs, but Gordon won't have it. Diggs is
in a wheelchair now, after the incident with the goat. Number one
rule in Gotham, no heroes, Diggs reminds him. He'd been wondering
when Harvey would come to him about the case. They sealed the
records, so no one should know about the coins. Harvey reveals that
the current killer is also stitching pennies into the heads of the
victims. Gordon asks if there was any ideas where that trademark came
from. If none of them talked, then Milky wasn't working alone. Diggs
thinks its s conspiracy. Harvey doesn't buy it. Diggs remarks that
Harvey has always thought he was the smartest one in the room. Diggs
warns Gordon to be careful of Harvey, that he's a loose cannon with a
white knight complex, that could get him hurt. Gordon is surprised at
his description of Harvey. Harvey checks with Diggs's nurse to make
sure that he's still getting the stuff that he's been sending.
Another socialite gets ready to leave.
She sends her maid to grab some things for her while she heads
upstairs. The maid is grabbed by the goat and tossed aside. The girl
comes down stairs to check on Anita, and is also grabbed.
Harvey wants every free cop on the
case. It's their guy. Milky's past crime to dress and display the
victims took about eight hours so they have a little bit of time.
Barbara confronts Montoya, but Montoya
doens't think she should be there, or seen in public with her.
Barbara asks her to keep an open mind about Gordon, she knows he's
protecting her. He wants to open up to her, but he's afraid. Montoya
knows he has a good reason to be afraid, that what he knows, who he
knows could kill her. The judge has issued a warrant, and she warns
Barbara to get out. If Gordon is going to be arrested, then by his
side is where she needs to be.
Harvey and Gordon narrow down the
possible suspects, while Nygma is all too quiet. His cracks are
showing more and more.
Harvey and Gordon arrive to the most
likely location. The girl is still alive, but drugged. Shes already
in position, and its deja vu all over again. Same place, same
scenario us running. Gorodn heads after the girl, who is still alive,
and Harvey goes after the goat. Harvey and the Goat tussle, and the
Goat throws Harvey down the stairs taunting him. You can never stop
the Goat, he always comes back. Gordon rushes in to assist Harvey,
throwing more than a few punches. He knocks out the Goat.
Cat creeps into the Waynes mansion.
Bruce is asleep on the couch as she looks at his wall of suspects and
information. Cat grabs a trinket off the desk, but exits quickly when
she hears Alfred down the hall.
Penguin takes a bath. His mother has
pressed his suit. His overly dotting mother, takes up the sponge and
rubs him down. She worries about his safety, but he's made a friend
with a police man, a good one.
Harvey and Gordon update Captain Essen.
They've done good, but Harvey something is bothering Harvey. Prior to
taking up the goat persona, both the current and previous Goat's had
the same job, were mild mannered with no violent or criminal. It was
like they were over taken by something. Harvey is haunted by the
cases. He watches the man through the window as his demeanor suddenly
changes from fierce and confident to scared.
Gordon returns home, Barbara is
packing. He's exhausted, but she tells him that he has to listen.
Montoya has a witness to the Cobblepot murder. Gordon insists that he
didn't kill the man, and she believes him, but there's a warrant for
his arrest. She wants to know what he's hiding. She wants to know
what's changed, he's been different since he started the job, and she
wants to know what happened. Barbara wants him to run. If they take
him away, she's scared that she'll lose him, but he refuses to run.
Allen and Montoya come to arrest Gordon for the murder of Oswald
Cobblepot. Barbara watches him taken away in handcuffs.
Harvey pays the Hastings a visit again.
He wanted to speak to the therapist, rather than Hastings. She's a
hypnotherapist, and he wants to know a little about her pro bono
patients. The current Goat is one of her patients and she's been
doing pro bono work for 12 years. He noticed that Mr. Hastings had
clenched his fist the day before, when the questioning got intense,
it wasn't a spasm, and researching Harvey found that sometimes that
tactic is used to teach patients to do that rather than another
compulsion. But the guy being held also does that. Harvey wants to
know what he's fighting. Harvey also knows that she treated Milky as
well. She hypnotized the crap out of the men, to make them forget who
they were, turning them upside down. She underestimated him, and he
continues to unravel the scheme. He wants to know the reason behind
it. It's all about therapy, not for the men, but for Gotham. The city
use to have hope, until the rich and powerful gunned it down in the
street. If they believed the Goat was real, that they wouldn't
tolerate it, then they would shape up. Its true that you can't
hypnotize someone to do something they don't actually want to do, but
they were willing. Mr. Hastings comes to check on his doctor. Harvey
plans to arrest her, but instead she unleashes Hastings on him, while
she gets away. Harvey gets free of Hastings, and shoots the Dr in the
leg.
Harvey has to explain to the Captain
why he drove to the nice part of town and shot the doctor. She was an
accomplice he tells her. Gordon is brought in in cuffs, and he's not
happy. They all want the same thing, and he's actually progressing in
cleaning up the city. Captain Essen isn't happy about seeing her
detective in cuffs. Allen lists the charge against Gordon, which
Gordon says is a lie. Harvey backs him up like a good partner, but
its the truth. Allen and Montoya arrest Harvey as well, the witness
identified him at the scene as well. Captain Essen isn't willing to
stand for them taking down the GCPD, and Harvey and Gordon are apart
of it. There's no need for haste though, Cobblepot makes an entrance,
announcing himself, and Harvey is not pleased.
