<Li> Camila Perez as Bridgit Pike / Firefly </Li> <Li> Stu "Large" Riley as Sampson </Li> <Table> <Tr> <Th> No . overall </Th> <Th> No. in season </Th> <Th> Title </Th> <Th> Directed by </Th> <Th> Written by </Th> <Th> Original air date </Th> <Th> Prod . code </Th> <Th> U.S. viewers (millions) </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="13"> A Dark Knight </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> 67 </Th> <Td> </Td> <Td> "Pax Penguina" </Td> <Td> Danny Cannon </Td> <Td> John Stephens </Td> <Td> September 21, 2017 (2017 - 09 - 21) </Td> <Td> T40. 10001 </Td> <Td> 3.21 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="8"> In the aftermath of the Tetch virus incident, Penguin has regained control of Gotham's underworld and begun issuing "Licenses of Misconduct;" every criminal who possesses one can commit a "legal crime," though not approved by Gordon and Bruce . Selina and a reluctant Tabitha agree to a license . A group of unlicensed criminals led by Merton and Grady Harris decide to defeat Penguin, releasing Jonathan Crane from Arkham to help them produce his father's fear toxin . Knowing that Gordon cannot help, Bruce decides to fight the licenses himself . The night Penguin opens the Iceberg Lounge, the Harrises are captured before they can attack the party but, when Penguin decides to execute them, Ivy turns on him and cuts the power . Merton uses the fear toxin on Penguin before being arrested by Gordon . The toxin makes Penguin see an escaped Nygma . Bruce steals the list of licensed criminals, but is then found on the scene of a robbery by the GCPD . Grady, who escaped from the party, returns to Crane's house, but discovers Jonathan has adopted a new persona, calling himself "The Scarecrow" and spraying Grady with fear gas . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> 68 </Th> <Td> </Td> <Td> "The Fear Reaper" </Td> <Td> Louis Shaw Milito </Td> <Td> Danny Cannon </Td> <Td> September 28, 2017 (2017 - 09 - 28) </Td> <Td> T40. 10002 </Td> <Td> 2.87 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="8"> Gordon frees Bruce . Penguin gives the former 24 hours to apprehend Crane in order to prove the GCPD is still efficient . With no support from the other cops, even Bullock, Gordon walks into Arkham and fights off dozens of inmates influenced by the fear toxin and eventually gets dosed himself . He walks into a hallucination and sees a dying Lee, but successfully overcomes his fear and uses water to nullify the inmates' reaction to the toxin, forcing Crane to run . Penguin mocks the GCPD and offers the policemen a spot on his payroll . Gordon decides to seek Falcone's help to defeat Penguin . Meanwhile, Selina and Tabitha meet with a presumably demised Barbara, who asks them to join her arms business, onto which Penguin later forces a license . After being convinced of Barbara's sincerity, Tabitha and Selina decide to join . Ivy robs a potion store and drinks a combination of them, turning feral . After Bruce almost gets killed during his vigilantism, Fox, who seems to be aware of his activities, provides him with a "Prototype Suit," making him faster and more resilient . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> 69 </Th> <Td> </Td> <Td> "They Who Hide Behind Masks" </Td> <Td> Mark Tonderai </Td> <Td> Steven Lilien & Bryan Wynbrandt </Td> <Td> October 5, 2017 (2017 - 10 - 05) </Td> <Td> T40. 10003 </Td> <Td> 2.92 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="8"> In Arabia, AD 125, a deceased warrior is taken from the battlefield and placed into a healing pool known as the Lazarus Pit; once revived, the future Ra's is tasked by his master to find his future heir and given a ceremonial knife . In modern - day Gotham, the knife is sold at auction by Penguin; Bruce, playing a wealthy spoiled brat, outbids Barbara for it . She is revealed to have been revived by Ra's and tasked with retrieving the knife . She sends Selina to convince Bruce to yield it, but to no avail . Barbara seduces Ra's . Jim visits Carmine, who declines his request, revealing his imminent demise . His daughter Sofia, however, comes to Gotham to help Gordon after they share a kiss . Ed is stolen from the Lounge by one of Penguin's employees, Myrtle Jenkins, who was a former classmate of Ed's and is a current follower . Ed finds that his brain has suffered, such that he is not able to answer even children's riddles . Penguin has Myrtle killed to make an example and Ed wanders around the city, angry to learn that Penguin is in control again . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> 70 </Th> <Td> </Td> <Td> "The Demon's Head" </Td> <Td> Kenneth Fink </Td> <Td> Ben McKenzie </Td> <Td> October 12, 2017 (2017 - 10 - 12) </Td> <Td> T40. 10004 </Td> <Td> 2.75 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="8"> Bruce has antiquist Niles Winthrop and his grandson, Alex, study the knife . Ra's later shows up and kills Niles, forcing Alex to escape with the knife . Bruce tells Jim about the knife . They find Alex and are attacked by Ra's's psychotic enforcers . Bruce and Alex escape the scene . Ra's visits the GCPD as a Nanda Parbat official before Alfred arrives and tells Jim about the previous activities of Ra's, who escapes . Alex and Bruce return to Niles' museum, where the former has hidden the knife . After recovering it, the enforcers attack them just as Jim arrives and kills one while luring the other away . Ra's holds Alex hostage, demanding the knife, which Bruce deems too important . An impressed Ra's kills Alex and is arrested, implied to be part of his scheme . Meanwhile, Cobblepot threatens Sofia not to contemplate a takeover . He uses her to trap and execute Falcone loyalists, completely trusting Sofia, who tells Jim that it was all part of her takeover plan too . Ed spends hours to make petty riddles to defy Cobblepot, who convinces Ed that he is no longer the Riddler, sparing Ed's life for more humiliation . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> 71 </Th> <Td> 5 </Td> <Td> "The Blade's Path" </Td> <Td> Scott White </Td> <Td> Tze Chun </Td> <Td> October 19, 2017 (2017 - 10 - 19) </Td> <Td> T40. 10005 </Td> <Td> 2.75 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="8"> Following Alex's funeral and learning that Ra's has applied for diplomatic immunity, Bruce takes the knife and vows to kill him at Blackgate . Ra's says goodbye to Barbara after giving her an unknown mystical power . Upon arriving, Bruce is ambushed by Ra's and the League posed as COs . When Alfred reports him missing to Gordon, they arrive at Blackgate, and subdue the League . Ra's states that he is cursed to an eternity, and provokes Bruce into killing him, breaking the curse and rendering him to a decayed corpse . Bruce suspends his vigilantism; and Alfred keeps the suit until he can move on . Meanwhile, Butch's body is dumped in waters owned by Indian Hill . He is revived with no memory, premature language, pale skin and superhuman strength, assuming the name "Solomon Grundy". He encounters and befriends Nygma, who takes him to a wrestling ring where Lee is working as the medic . Sofia attempts to level with Cobblepot, and the two begin bonding . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> 72 </Th> <Td> 6 </Td> <Td> "Hog Day Afternoon" </Td> <Td> Mark Tonderai </Td> <Td> Kim Newton </Td> <Td> October 26, 2017 (2017 - 10 - 26) </Td> <Td> T40. 10006 </Td> <Td> 2.87 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="8"> A man wearing a pig's head begins killing police officers acting as Cobblepot's bagmen . Deducing that the killer intends to fight corruption, Gordon and Bullock find the last target, but are too late to prevent his death, leading to the duo's capture . Gordon frees himself before the killer cuts Bullock's throat to facilitate his escape . Gordon tells Bullock that he knows the latter has also been on Cobblepot's payroll, demanding him to cease it . "Professor Pyg" is revealed to have larger - scale plans . Meanwhile, Cobblepot suspects Sofia's intentions and confronts her, but is deceived again when he learns that she has been constructing an orphanage . Nygma begins making money using Gilzean, trying to hire Thompkins to restore his genius . After running out of medicine in her private clinic, she accepts Nygma's offer . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> 73 </Th> <Td> 7 </Td> <Td> "A Day in the Narrows" </Td> <Td> John Behring </Td> <Td> Peter Blake </Td> <Td> November 2, 2017 (2017 - 11 - 02) </Td> <Td> T40. 10007 </Td> <Td> 2.75 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="8"> Pyg kidnaps three officers . Cobblepot and his temporary enforcer Headhunter ally with the GCPD to take down Pyg, disapproved by Gordon and Sofia, who warns Cobblepot of the bad publicity should the alliance fail . They find one officer murdered, and the second one, Fisoli, critically wounded . While Fisoli is taken away in an ambulance, the alliance traps Pyg in an abandoned courthouse with the third officer, Patel . However, it is a trap and Bullock shoots Patel . Gordon saves them alone, reclaiming the GCPD's publicity and ruining Cobblepot's . Penguin kills Headhunter in rage, while Fisoli, revealed to be Pyg in disguise, escapes to enact further plans . The GCPD stops recognizing the License . Meanwhile, during a fundraiser, Bruce is met by Grace Blomdahl, his former classmate . He is also re-introduced to a now friendly Tommy Elliot and Brant, who acts arrogantly against Bruce . As vengeance, Bruce excludes Brant while he parties at a nightclub he purchases, and develops a romance with Blomdahl . In order to make amends with Barbara, Selina and Tabitha steal from a biker's club, accepted by the former . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> 74 </Th> <Td> 8 </Td> <Td> "Stop Hitting Yourself" </Td> <Td> Rob Bailey </Td> <Td> Charlie Huston </Td> <Td> November 9, 2017 (2017 - 11 - 09) </Td> <Td> T40. 10008 </Td> <Td> 2.70 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="8"> Barbara, Selina and Tabitha are dispatched by Cobblepot to kidnap Nygma, after learning of his popularity and mocking Cobblepot in the Narrows . Cobblepot also dispatches Bridgit to kill them in case they fail . Arriving, Barbara is distracted by Lee and Tabitha recognizes Gilzean . After Tabitha defeats Gilzean, who begins remembering, in a fight for Nygma, Bridgit arrives, but Lee incapacitates her; she also becomes the new leader of the fights after Cherry is killed by Barbara . Meanwhile, Gordon is offered a promotion to be the new Captain of Gotham Central, arranged by Sofia . Although initially hesitant, he takes the position when Bullock's bitterness leads to him missing out on a police officers ceremony . Cobblepot takes advantage of a mentally unstable orphan named Martin, and psychologically manipulates him to use his inner and outer demons . Gordon ends his partnership with Sofia . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> 75 </Th> <Td> 9 </Td> <Td> "Let Them Eat Pie" </Td> <Td> Nathan Hope </Td> <Td> Iturri Sosa </Td> <Td> November 16, 2017 (2017 - 11 - 16) </Td> <Td> T40. 10009 </Td> <Td> 2.62 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="8"> In a plot to launch an attack on Sofia's orphanage, Pyg kills several homeless people and cooks their insides, stuffing them into pies . His base of operations is exposed by the GCPD, prompting Pyg to kidnap Harper, using her as leverage against Captain Gordon . When a dinner at the orphanage rounds up several of the rich and powerful, including Cobblepot, Pyg launches his plan into motion, torturing the rich into cannibalism by way of eating the pies . Gordon is subdued while trying to find Pyg and with Harper's help, he defeats Pyg in combat and arrests him: Cobblepot's friendship with Sofia is ruined when Martin, acting as an insider for Cobblepot tells him of her interactions with Gordon, confirming his suspicions . Bruce, now bitter after not feeling satisfaction in avenging his parents' death via the death of Ra's al Ghul, he continues his partying ways after abandoning Alfred on a nature walk, and strains his relationship with him . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> 76 </Th> <Td> 10 </Td> <Td> "Things That Go Boom" </Td> <Td> Louis Shaw Milito </Td> <Td> Steven Lilien & Bryan Wynbrandt </Td> <Td> November 30, 2017 (2017 - 11 - 30) </Td> <Td> T40. 10010 </Td> <Td> 2.59 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="8"> Gordon visits the Pyg in Arkham Asylum, after Fox has realized that the Pyg has undergone numerous facial surgeries . Fox learns that he was a serial killer named Lazlo Valentin . The Pyg later breaks out of Arkham . Thompkins and Nygma are conflicted with a rival mobster, Sampson in the Narrows, who challenges her leadership . After Sampson ransacks Thompkins' clinic, she poisons his drink, and offers an antidote on the condition that he resigns from power in the Narrows . Thompkins also learns that Nygma's side effects from being frozen have been worn off--Nygma begins having hallucinations of his dual personality, as the Riddler . Cobblepot confronts Sofia, and has her tortured by the Dentist, one of Cobblepot's assets . However, as part of an intricate plan, Sofia flees but is kidnapped by Barbara, Tabitha and Selina . The four make an alliance and after Zsasz explodes Barbara's safehouse, they use Martin as leverage against Cobblepot, while Gordon learns of Sofia's intentions to use the GCPD against Cobblepot via Gordon's promotion . The two factions meet under a bridge, and Cobblepot fakes Martin's death in a car bombing to force Sofia to retreat, declaring war . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> 77 </Th> <Td> 11 </Td> <Td> "Queen Takes Knight" </Td> <Td> Danny Cannon </Td> <Td> John Stephens </Td> <Td> December 7, 2017 (2017 - 12 - 07) </Td> <Td> T40. 10011 </Td> <Td> 2.53 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="8"> While Nygma is being haunted by his alternate Riddler persona, Grundy is kidnapped by Tabitha and is repeatedly hit over the head in an attempt to have him remember her . She ultimately gives up, but Grundy soon awakens, regaining higher speech and remembering his past life as Butch Gilzean . Bruce's arrogance prompts Alfred to fight him in hand - to - hand combat after threatening to send him away . A conceited Bruce fires Alfred from service in Wayne Manor, and forces him to resign as his legal guardian . Pyg becomes involved in a conspiracy with Sofia to assassinate her father Carmine and blame Cobblepot for the hit . After Carmine's funeral, Sofia manipulates Gordon into arresting Cobblepot for the supposed murder of Martin, and Zsasz, revealed also to be working for Sofia sells him out to the GCPD . Sofia reveals her true motive to not take over Gotham, but to allow Gordon to live with the guilt for killing her brother Mario, also killing Pyg in the process . Cobblepot, now mentally unstable and sentenced to Arkham, meets Jerome Valeska . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> 78 </Th> <Td> 12 </Td> <Td> "Pieces of a Broken Mirror" </Td> <Td> TBA </Td> <Td> TBA </Td> <Td> March 1, 2018 (2018 - 03 - 01) </Td> <Td> TBA </Td> <Td> TBD </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> 79 </Th> <Td> 13 </Td> <Td> "A Beautiful Darkness" </Td> <Td> TBA </Td> <Td> TBA </Td> <Td> March 8, 2018 (2018 - 03 - 08) </Td> <Td> TBA </Td> <Td> TBD </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Th> No . overall </Th> <Th> No. in season </Th> <Th> Title </Th> <Th> Directed by </Th> <Th> Written by </Th> <Th> Original air date </Th> <Th> Prod . code </Th> <Th> U.S. viewers (millions) </Th> </Tr>

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