Directed by Kenneth Fink
Written by Seth Boston
Bullock's past comes back to haunt him when he and Gordon investigate two murders at Sirens; Bruce and Alfred explore the tunnels beneath the city; Penguin and Nygma's plans to escape are thwarted by the least likely of suspects.
- Adaptational Attractiveness: Comic Book-Jane Doe is usually depicted as freakish-looking, actually having no skin of her own. Here, Jane is quite normal-looking, even pretty (though she’d tell you otherwise.)
- Asshole Victim:
- Dix and his buddies Bogs and Lewis. Right before he was killed, Dix had no remorse over what they did and told Bullocknote to just drop it.
- Jane's father is this too, as Bullock later found out that he was a vicious domestic abuser.
- Back for the Dead:
- Mr. Penn ends up surviving his injury from episode 3 only to be killed by The Riddler here.
- Bullock's old partner Dix, last seen way back in Season One, returns to be killed off.
- Being Good Sucks: Bullock is still haunted and guilt-ridden at the end over his actions in the long-ago case against Jane's mother. This stands in stark contrast to Penguin and Riddler laughing at the latter's killing Penn.
- Breather Episode: The villain in this episode is sympathetic and easily dealt with and the Ventriloquist storyline is mostly comedic relief. This and the next episode are mostly to allow the audience to see the characters interact with each other more after dealing with Jeremiah and before dealing with Bane.
- Call-Back: While wondering about the identity of whoever impersonated Dix, Harvey theorizes that it might be "Basil" who impersonated Jim in the season 2 finale.
- Canon Character All Along: Arthur Penn is really the Ventriloquist.
- Chekhov's Gun: The sonar module Riddler is working on at the start of the episode is used near the end to incapacitate Penn.
- Cop Killer: The villain in this episode is killing the cops that ruined her life.
- Death of Personality: Jane's original persona has all but disappeared and has been replaced by a bitter and depressed shadow of her former self who is driven purely by revenge. She even says that Jane Cartwright is dead and Jane Doe is all that remains.
- Dirty Cops: Dix, Bogs, and Lewis convinced Bullock to frame Jane's mother all for the sake of gaining a promotion. Bullock is the only one who felt bad about it at all.
- The Dog Bites Back: Mr. Penn, having had enough of being pushed around by others, creates the Mr. Scarface persona to help him get even.
- Downer Ending: The Bullock storyline ends this way. Jane is killed by a reluctant Harvey after getting her revenge which didn't help her at all. Bullock is haunted by what he did and fails to gain forgiveness from either Gordon or Jane herself. He lost his former partner and is clearly upset over his death despite the guy being an asshole. It's also implied that there is now a rift in Gordon and Bullock's friendship, hinting at their more adversarial relationship in the comics.
- Dramatic Unmask: Toward the end, Jane Doe takes off her creepy white mask to reveal... a normal-looking young woman. She just thinks she's a hideous monster.
- Easily Forgiven: Subverted. At the end, after Bullock tells Gordon the whole story, Gordon asks if Bullock is expecting forgiveness. By the tone of Bullock's voice, it seems clear that he wasn't expecting it, and believes he doesn't deserve it.
- "Everybody Laughs" Ending: The Scarface storyline ends with Penguin and Riddler laughing at how ridiculous the entire situation is and how twisted their friendship is.
- Foreshadowing: While he does resemble Arnold Wesker from the comics and animated incarnations, since this version of the Ventriloquist is instead named Arthur Penn, it isn't likely that he will live long enough until Bruce becomes Batman. Sure enough, he didn't even survive to the end of the episode.
- Framing the Guilty Party: Bullock and the other cops forced Jane to lie that she saw her mother kill her father because she was guilty of it. It wasn't until after her sentence that Bullock learned that the father was an abusive Asshole Victim.
- Greater-Scope Villain:
- Hugo Strange is this for the Bullock storyline, as he was the one who transformed Jane into a shape-shifter and contributed greatly to her mental breakdown.
- Jeremiah for Bruce and Alfred's storyline, as his poisoning of the Gotham river has infected the man who abducts and attempts to kill Hank as well as a lot of other innocent people too.
- Hope Spot: Penguin "kills" Mr. Scarface and is ready to welcome Penn back into his service... and then Riddler shoots Penn.
- Hypocrite: Riddler tells Oswald that he's opportunistic, his loyalty is shaky at best, and he will hurt anyone to get what he wants. Oswald fires back that he's one to throw stones since he's done all of that too.
- Insistent Terminology: Scarface is a dummy, not a doll.Penguin: (to Riddler for correcting him while at gunpoint) Seriously?!
- Jerkass Realization: Oswald has this when Penn angrily confronts him about all the abuse that he has heaped on him over the years.
- My Greatest Failure:
- Harvey feels this way when confronting the killer.
- Alfred feels this way for letting himself get brainwashed by Jeremiah, which inadvertently led to the mansion's destruction.
- Mythology Gag:
- Penguin mistakenly calls Penn "Arnold", which is the real name of The Ventriloquist in the canon Batman mythos.
- Bruce picks up a few shards of broken metal and throws them at the infected man in order to save Alfred, similar to how Batman throws his batarangs.
- Jane Doe's unmasking and face revealed to be normal (and pretty) is similar to Calendar Woman from The New Batman Adventures who had a similar psyche.
- The man turned savage and deformed by the chemical poisoning behaves much like Killer Croc.
- Never My Fault: Dix just scoffed when Harveynote said they made the girl into a killer.
- No Sympathy: When Bullock learned the murdered victim was an abuser, Dix, Bogs, and Lewis don't care. They tell Bullock it doesn't matter, the wife committed a crime, Bullock arrested her and got the promotion. They repeatedly tell him to drop it whenever the guilt eats him up, because "there are no heroes in Gotham".
- Not Quite Dead: Mr. Penn woke up in the GCPD morgue, stitched himself as best as he could, and snuck out.
- Pet the Dog: Penguin is overjoyed to see Penn alive again, which is quite something considering how he usually treats his underlings.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Oswald is on the receiving end of one which points out how he takes and takes from everyone around him but gives nothing back.
- Spot the Imposter: There's a moment where Jane Doe and the person she's imitating are in the same room and have to be identified. Unfortunately for Jane, she picked Barbara who Jim and Harvey know personally. In addition to acting too nice for Barbara, Jim just asks for one of them to tell him how they met, which Jane obviously can't answer.
- Swapped Roles: Alfred, due to his guilt over the destruction of Wayne Manor, recklessly throws himself into the fight against the sewer mutants. Bruce is the one counseling caution, in a reversal of their usual roles.
- Theme Naming: Bogs and Lewis are nicknamed Mix and Hicks, and Harvey's former partner is called Dix.
- Too Dumb to Live: Dix called Bogs and Lewis idiots for not realizing their murderer wasn't him since that person was capable of walking.
- Villain Has a Point:
- Riddler points out that while Penn has clearly gone mad, he is completely right about Oswald being a selfish and callous Jerkass.
- Also Penguin points out that he never made Mr. Penn kill anyone, like what Scarface is doing.Mr. Penn: Well that's true.
Scarface: Eh?!
- You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!: Even after all the insanity they've seen in the last few years, Oswald and Ed clearly cannot believe they're talking to a man who acts like his gangster dummy is a living person.
