Gordon and Bullock become suspicious of Barnes, and comb through evidence of the murder at Lee and Mario’s engagement party. Nygma goes to Penguin when he hasn’t heard from Isabella. Meanwhile, Ivy reveals her identity to Selina and Bruce, but quickly leads them to trouble.

Gotham seems to close one storyline while kicking up another. This week mostly focuses on Barnes going all judge, jury, and executioner as he runs around town. That story gets put into overdrive as Gordon and Bullock figure out something is up.

Barnes is pretty much the Judge from the animated Batman series and it’s an interesting character that will hopefully come back at some point. The story feels like it wraps up in some ways, but also leaves things wide open to continue as well. It’s probably the strongest part of the episode and as goofy as it began, it wraps up in a pretty solid way.

Then there’s the death of Isabella which Edward becomes suspicious over. As a whole, this plot line has been silly and the bromance between Penguin and Nygma hits a different level that continues to be odd. It all feels like there was a concept here and the writers weren’t quite sure where to go with it all.

Finally there’s the grown up Ivy which continues to be creepy for so many reasons. There’s a kid in the body of an adult and that together makes for a combination that makes me so uneasy. Where they have it all going I can’t forget she’s a teenage kid!!!! Seriously, did no one pause to think what they were doing here!? It doesn’t help that in growing her up, they also sexed up the character to a level that’s on full display. This is Poison Ivy, but the sexiness just makes me want to scrub the ickiness of it all off. Such a horrible idea.

Overall, a mixed bag of an episode. There’s some good acting. There’s some good action. And it’s one of the stronger episodes of an uneven season. We’ll see where it goes from here, but it’s clear the season is enterting a brand new phase after this episode.

Overall Rating: 7.15