Monster
Director: Paul Edwards
Writers: Danny Cannon
Air Date: May 9, 2016
*This review contains spoilers! Score and Non-Spoilers at the bottom!*
You ever get that feeling you shouldn’t enjoy something, but you do it anyway? Well, I actually have been legitimately enjoying Gotham this season, even though the show took a baseball bat to what is considered canon. Actually no, they took the SWORD OF SIN to the canon. To those who didn’t see last week, this show’s version of Azrael had arrived and tried to kill Gordon for being a sinner. With the combined efforts of the police, and Barnes going one on one with a pipe, he’s unmasked as the resurrected Theo Galavan, brought back by Hugo Strange. Gordon is able to expose him to the rest of Gotham, and now Tabitha, Theo’s sister, wants to fix whatever Hugo did to his mind. Is this a lost cause? Or will Theo turn against his master when his mind clears?
We open with Bullock and Gordon leading a team with warrants to search Strange’s office at Arkham, knowing well it was him who created Azrael. Unfortunately for them, Hugo had already shredded the documents and orders them to leave until they get the proper paperwork. With that lead cut, the pair decides that the best chance to find Theo is to go to his sister. When they find her, she’s attempting to leave the city in fear of her brother’s new outlook. She explains that her family told stories of the ancient assassin Azrael, and that his blade was passed down in the Order of St. Dumas, and that her grandfather is keeping it in his crypt with the rest of the family.

Meanwhile Bruce goes to find Selena and tried to convince her to help him to expose Strange, but obviously, she’s skeptical about the whole resurrection thing. However, Bruce then brings up a very good point with its resurrection record: Arkham has Bridgit, her friend who was a pyromaniac. Selena decides to go in alone and sends Bruce home. She finds her way into Arkham, and as she is navigating through the air conditioning vents, she runs into Edward, who is trying to get out. She agrees to help him if he can point her in the direction of where she can find her friend, to which Edward reluctantly agrees.

Back with Selina, we find her going through the asylum until she can find the elevator down to the lower levels. After the guards find that Edward escaped, it gives her the opening to head down where she finds the terrible creations left behind by Strange, including a menacing large man with green reptilian eyes which is an obvious nod to Killer Croc… YES, I WANT KILLER CROC IN GOTHAM! Especially with this whole experiment thing going on now, it's perfect! Alright back on track, we end her story as she does find Bridgit in a kickass new outfit, going by her new “uber-villain” name: FIREFLY!

Bits and Pieces:
Well, remember that epic assassin that was on last week’s episode that took down officers with ease like the Batman that was meant to be? How about we take him away and replace him with a cookie cutter horror movie villain who lumbers around like Jason Voorhees in knight’s armor? No? Well too bad! And while you're at it, enjoy the cheesy cliched horror movie set up on one-half, and a way to wiggle Selena back into the plot in the other. It ain’t no raptor girl episode, but after the kick ass Azrael episode, this was not how it should have gone.
6/10
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