In the Gotham recap, Galavan strikes back, Gordon discovers the Order of St. Dumas and Bruce makes his move to find out who killed his parents…
By Damon Martin — Editor/Lead Writer
Only one more episode to go until the fall finale for Gotham and things are set up to end on a bang after Galavan avoided prosecution and ended up with Bruce Wayne in his crosshairs.
Gordon found out a lot more about the Order of St. Dumas but he still wasn’t in time to stop Galavan and now he might be forced to turn to a fowl friend to help him bring down the biggest bad in all of Gotham City.
With that said, let’s recap the latest episode of Gotham titled ‘Son of Gotham’….
Blood of the Nine
Jim is feeling guilty about not pulling the trigger last week to kill an assassin, which could have saved a rookie cop from dying. All season long he’s been torn from within about the monster that he’s supposedly hiding away but when he finally suppresses the urge, someone else dies that could have been saved.
As conflicted as Jim is, he’s got bigger issues to deal with this week as Galavan’s trial is about to begin and he’s trying to find a little more evidence to convict him.
Harvey tracks down a lead that the mayor’s office tried to buy an old church that was once owned by the Order of St. Dumas until it was sold years ago and converted into a rub and tug establishment. Gordon knows this is connected back to Galavan somehow but what’s his interest in an old church?
When Gordon and Bullock show up, they find the place has been ransacked, people killed but one culprit is still there — a man dressed as a monk and he’s not going to go down easily. Gordon finally gets the better of him, but rather than be captured, the man utters something about the blood of the nine and then steps into oncoming traffic to kill himself.
The monk that Gordon and Bullock see are just the first of many popping up all over the city, kidnapping people, slitting their throats and then dumping the bodies. Finally, Gordon realizes the way they are moving around the city so stealthily is by using the sewers, and when he goes down to investigate, he finds a lone monk and knocks him out cold.
Gordon discovers that he’s part of the Order of St. Dumas — an ancient cult that believes in penance via flagellation to show their devotion to god, he realizes that this guy isn’t going to give up any information. So instead of beating it out of him, Gordon covers his eyes and tricks him into giving up the information while believing that he’s speaking to another of his brothers.
It seems the Order of St. Dumas was once a powerful faction in Gotham City but they were forced out and now they are coming back to reclaim their turf and it all ends with the sacrifice of the ‘son of Gotham’ at the end of the ritual known as the blood of the nine. Eight others are dead so that only leaves the one son — wanna take a guess who it might be?
The Knife and the Girl
Bruce teams up with Selina to find out of Silver St. Cloud really has been playing him this entire time with the intent of wrestling his company away to give to her uncle. Bruce does everything he can do to get into Summer’s good graces and even offers to pay for her uncle’s legal defense as long as she can get the name of the person who murdered his parents.
She agrees to help but just when she tells Bruce that Galavan has accepted, a van pulls up and kidnaps both teenagers and takes them into captivity.
The criminal is called The Knife — aka Chibs from Sons of Anarchy aka Tommy Flanagan — and he’s interested to know what Bruce and Silver are hiding when it comes to the deaths of Thomas and Martha Wayne. It seems he was sent by somebody inside Wayne Enterprises and he wants to find out what they know and he’s willing to cut off fingers to get it out of them.
When no one is talking, the Knife takes Bruce into another room and then comes out with a blood soaked rag and says that he was strong willed and didn’t give up anything. Now it’s Silver’s turn and she tries playing the sad, weeping damsel in distress but eventually her tears dry up and she unleashes a wicked tongue telling her would-be kidnapper that if he doesn’t release her immediately, her uncle Theo will cut him into a thousand little pieces and leave him in 10 different dumpsters across the city (or something to that effect).
Finally, the Knife threatens to cut off one of her fingers and Silver comes clean — her uncle told her the man who killed the Wayne’s was named M. Malone but that’s all she knows.
A moment later shock washes over Silver as Bruce and Selina emerge from the other room — the Knife worked for Bruce and he was setting her up to give him the truth — and now he also knows her true agenda because when he was supposedly being tortured, she didn’t blink but as soon as the threat came to her, she wilted like a flower.
Silver tries to explain but Bruce is already done and he leaves her there alone while he goes back to Wayne Manor with Selina.
She told him before this whole thing started that the best liars are the ones who tell the truth. Bruce apparently told Silver that he trusted her with his life and that he knew he could count on her no matter what. He tells Selina that what he whispered was very true — it just wasn’t about Silver.
Selina dips out rather than hang around for a make out session but Bruce might wish she stuck around by the time his night comes to an end.
Whiplash
When Alfred can’t find Bruce because he’s not in on the young master’s plan to trap Silver in a lie, he goes to Galavan’s penthouse to investigate. There he runs into Galavan’s sister and the two of them end up in a fight.
Alfred gets enough of an upper hand to knock her out momentarily, but she gets her vengeance with a knife slice across his belly and a dagger thrown into his shoulder while he tries to escape on the back of a garbage truck.
Alfred falls in head first and now he’s stuck amongst the trash and possibly bleeding out.
A Free Man
Just as Jim feared, when he gets to the courthouse for Galavan’s hearing, former Mayor James has recanted his story and now says it was Penguin who locked him up and threw away the key. Without any other evidence, Galavan walks and Gordon ends up punching him on the way out.
Unfortunately, Galavan already knew he’d be free and he had a couple of the cops on his payroll stop Gordon outside the courthouse, tase him and throw him into a warehouse downtown where Gotham’s new mayor plans to finish this.
Meanwhile, Penguin is still living with his new pal Edward Nygma until he gets an unexpected visit from one of his top lieutenants. It seems the news of Galavan’s release has hit the streets and Penguin is going after him with both barrels.
Back at the warehouse, Galavan tells Jim a big part of his plan — how his real name is Dumas and how he plans to retake this city in his family name — but first he has to get rid of the nosy cop who can’t keep his mouth closed. Galavan cuts Jim loose and then proceeds to kick the living shit out of him with some serious kung-fu he’s been hiding all season long. Galavan tells his goons to finish Jim off while he tends to other business.
Leaving two no named thugs behind to kill someone is like sending red shirts down to a planet and expecting them to come back alive.
Galavan’s business takes him to Wayne Manor where with no Alfred around to protect him, Bruce is left defenseless. Galavan says that Bruce is the last son of Gotham and his death will officially turn the town back over to his family the way it should have been over a hundred years ago.
Back at the warehouse, the cops are beating the crap out of Jim when two shotgun blasts ring out, killing both of them.
Penguin has saved the day!
It seems he had someone following Galavan this entire time and now he’s depending on Jim to lead him back to the good mayor so he can put a bullet in his head once and for all for killing his dear mother and then framing him for all the awful shit that’s been happening in Gotham City for the past few months.
