Gotham - 'The Blind Fortune Teller'

Well, here it is. A crowd of circus performers sitting around the GCPD and I
can't think of a single wry caption.

The circus is in town, and that means fun, frolics, feuds and gruesome murder. It barely comes as a surprise that Gordon's date with Thompkins is interrupted, first by a fight between the Flying Graysons and a rival circus family, and then by the discovery that the snake charmer is missing, then found dead. Thompkins, who has just the sort of morbid, gruesome fascination with murder that we like to see in our MEs, persuades Gordon to let her tag along, despite her insistence on pursuing leads dropped by the titular visually-impaired sideshow psychic. Ultimately, Gordon is able to admit that she is tough and that they should be a partnership of equals, notwithstanding that she is wrong about almost everything she says.

I would be less okay with yet another villain appearing if this
guy was less awesome-creepy.

Elsewhere, the Penguin's nightclub is struggling, not least because he puts his mother on the stage and cuts up anyone who heckles her (seriously, he slices into a heckler and there is zero comeback from the authorities; by Zeus the GCPD sucks.) Thus, Don Falcone sends him a helper; it's Fish Mooney's sidekick Butch, now apparently so thoroughly tortured by Victor Zsasz that he'll do whatever he's told. This is a sad sight to see, and I really hope someone hurts for this later.

Elsewhere yet, Mooney herself is making a splash in live organ donor city, and... Okay, I gotta say, for the first time I am buying that Fish Mooney is a power. She thrives in adversity in a way she never did as the successful, contented boss.

Oh, and Barbara hangs out with Ivy and Cat - I'm assuming that she turned up at the apartment very, very high and just sort of stayed that way - before swishing into the precinct to win back Gordon, only to find him clinched with Thompkins. She storms out, probably swearing to move to Arrow or The Flash, where her status as canon missus might be honoured despite a total lack of chemistry.

I almost forgot! Bruce meets with the board of Wayne Enterprises and basically rips them a new one for being corrupt. As with Fish, I am suddenly on board with the Bruce Wayne story in a way that I wasn't before.