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Directed by Creator/JeffreyGHunt

Written by Creator/JimBarnes & Creator/MeganMostynBrown
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* HeroicBSOD: Bruce in calm and composed when he decides to rejects Galavan's offer but loses it when he sees the documents Galavan claimed to have on the Wayne murders burnt to a crisp.

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* HeroicBSOD: Bruce in is calm and composed when he decides to rejects Galavan's offer offer, but loses it when he sees the documents Galavan claimed to have on the Wayne murders burnt to a crisp.



** When Jim walks into the room to arrest Galavan the first thing he does is punch him when he opens his mouth.
* SpannerInTheWorks: Nygma first gets interrupted by a random hunter when disposing of Miss Kringle's body, then while he's getting tools to dismember the hunter to bury in the same hole, he discovers someone ''else'' has stumbled across the scene and so he has to track them down as well. [[LampshadeHanging Nygma points out for a secluded forest there seems to be a lot of people]].

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** When Jim walks into the room to arrest Galavan Galavan, the first thing he does is punch him when he opens his mouth.
* SpannerInTheWorks: Nygma first gets interrupted by a random hunter when disposing of Miss Kringle's body, then while he's getting tools to dismember the hunter to bury in the same hole, he discovers someone ''else'' has stumbled across the scene and so he has to track them down as well. [[LampshadeHanging Nygma points out that, for a secluded forest forest, there seems to be a lot of people]].



** Really, the hunter that comes across Nygma in the woods. Actually going up to someone in the middle of a forest, clearly burying ''something'' is pretty stupid. Yeah, he had a gun, but then he ''turns his back'' to Nygma to look at what he was burying.

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** Really, the hunter that comes across Nygma in the woods. Actually going up to someone in the middle of a forest, forest clearly burying ''something'' is pretty stupid. Yeah, he had a gun, but then he ''turns his back'' to Nygma to look at what he was burying.
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** Really, the hunter that comes across Nygma in the woods. Actually going up to someone in the middle of a forest, clearly burying ''something'' is pretty stupid. Yeah, he had a gun in case anything happened but then he ''turns his back'' to Nygma to look at what he was burying.

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** Really, the hunter that comes across Nygma in the woods. Actually going up to someone in the middle of a forest, clearly burying ''something'' is pretty stupid. Yeah, he had a gun in case anything happened gun, but then he ''turns his back'' to Nygma to look at what he was burying.
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** Really, the hunter that comes across Nygma in the woods. Actually going up to someone in the middle of a forest, clearly burying ''something'' is pretty stupid. Yeah, he had a gun in case anything happened but then he ''turns his back'' to Nygma to look at what he was burying.

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* CallBack: Penguin still has the trailer he purchased at the beginning of the first season.



* SpannerInTheWorks: Nygma first gets interrupted by a random hunter when disposing of Miss Kringle's body, then while he's getting tools to dismember the hunter to bury in the same hole, he discovers someone ''else'' has stumbled across the scene and so he has to track them down as well.

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* SpannerInTheWorks: Nygma first gets interrupted by a random hunter when disposing of Miss Kringle's body, then while he's getting tools to dismember the hunter to bury in the same hole, he discovers someone ''else'' has stumbled across the scene and so he has to track them down as well. [[LampshadeHanging Nygma points out for a secluded forest there seems to be a lot of people]].
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** When Jim walks into the room to arrest Galavan the first thing he does is punch him when he opens his mouth.
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* MummiesAtTheDinnerTable: Nygma plans to have one last picnic with Miss Kringle before the hunter interrupts.
* NightmareSequence: Barbara's chapel dream, which shows her to have more angst about her new criminal life than she lets on.
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* DisneyDeath: Barbara apparently falls to her death but after the commercial break is revealed to have survived the fall, albeit with serious injuries.

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* DisneyDeath: Barbara apparently falls to her death but after the commercial break is revealed to have survived the fall, albeit with serious injuries. Also counts as a subverted DisneyVillainDeath.
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* ContrivedCoincidence: Nygma walks deep into the woods to dump Kringle's body and still runs into a random hunter. The time it takes Nygma to get rid of the hunter's body allows Penguin to find his dumping ground.

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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Despite Barnes justifiably being pissed off at Bullock for disobeying orders and previously ordering him out, he still acts based on Bullock's deduction of where Barbara took Jim.

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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: ReasonableAuthorityFigure:
** Barnes doesn't dismiss the idea that Galavan may be corrupt when Gordon points it out. But he wants actual evidence before they arrest the newly elected Mayor.
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Despite Barnes justifiably being pissed off at Bullock for disobeying orders and previously ordering him out, he still acts based on Bullock's deduction of where Barbara took Jim.
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* ArtisticLicenseLaw: 13 year-old Bruce Wayne selling his shares in Wayne Enterprises to Galavan simply wouldn't fly in the real world.

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* TooDumbToLive: Barbara lampshades that Jim knew he was walking into a trap and still did it because he was overconfident.

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* TooDumbToLive: Barbara lampshades that Jim knew he was walking into a trap and still did it because he was overconfident.overconfident (or perhaps because [[DeathSeeker he doesn't really care about survival]]).
* TrapIsTheOnlyOption: Gordon realizes that Barbara is leading him into a trap, but thinks going along with it is the only way to get the goods on Galavan.
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* ShutUpHannibal: Barbara's attempt at psychological games to show Lee she doesn't really know Jim and he keeps secrets crashes to a halt when Lee flatly states that yes, she ''does'' know that Jim had to kill a man because of the Penguin to get reinstated.
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* EvilIsPetty: Galavan tosses the documents he claims contains the details on the assassination of the Waynes into the fireplace when Gordon bursts in to arrest him, preventing Bruce from seeing them even though Bruce had absolutely nothing to do with what is happening.



* HeroicBSOD: Bruce in calm and composed when he decides to rejects Galavan's offer but loses it when he sees the documents Galavan claimed to have on the Wayne murders burnt to a crisp.



** Galavan also made the effort to isolate Bruce from possible supporters by having Silver keep him from kids his own age (and Selina) and keeping James Gordon busy (but not dead), but overlooked Bruce's strongest supporter, Alfred, whom even the CorruptCorporateExecutive Wayne Industries board knew represented a threat.

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** Galavan also made the effort to isolate Bruce from possible supporters by having Silver keep him from kids his own age (and Selina) and keeping James Gordon busy (but not dead), but overlooked Bruce's strongest supporter, Alfred, whom even the CorruptCorporateExecutive Wayne Industries board knew represented a threat.threat.
* VillainHasAPoint: Galavan correctly points out Wayne Enterprises is a corporation doing immoral and illegal things run by a CorruptCorporateExecutive board that would be prepared to kill Bruce if necessary to preserve their power.
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* DisneyVillainDeath: Barbara apparently falls to her death but after the commercial break is revealed to have survived the fall, albeit with serious injuries.

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* DisneyVillainDeath: DisneyDeath: Barbara apparently falls to her death but after the commercial break is revealed to have survived the fall, albeit with serious injuries.
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** Galavan also made the effort to isolate Bruce from possible supporters by having Silver keep him from kids his own age (and Selina) and keeping James Gordon busy (but not dead), but overlooked Bruce's strongest supporter, Alfred, whom even the CorruprCorporateExecutive Wayne Industries board knew represented a threat.

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** Galavan also made the effort to isolate Bruce from possible supporters by having Silver keep him from kids his own age (and Selina) and keeping James Gordon busy (but not dead), but overlooked Bruce's strongest supporter, Alfred, whom even the CorruprCorporateExecutive CorruptCorporateExecutive Wayne Industries board knew represented a threat.

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* VillainBall: Galavan kept the mayor, who he had kidnapped and tortured, alive ''why'', exactly?

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* VillainBall: VillainBall:
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Galavan kept the mayor, who he had kidnapped and tortured, alive ''why'', exactly?exactly?
** Galavan also made the effort to isolate Bruce from possible supporters by having Silver keep him from kids his own age (and Selina) and keeping James Gordon busy (but not dead), but overlooked Bruce's strongest supporter, Alfred, whom even the CorruprCorporateExecutive Wayne Industries board knew represented a threat.
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* TooDumbToLive: Barbara lampshades that Jim knew he was walking into a trap and still did it because he was overconfident.

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* TooDumbToLive: Barbara lampshades that Jim knew he was walking into a trap and still did it because he was overconfident.overconfident.
* VillainBall: Galavan kept the mayor, who he had kidnapped and tortured, alive ''why'', exactly?
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* FakeStatic: Barnes orders Gordon and Bullock to abort the mission when he realizes that they are heading into a good spot for an ambush; Bullock pretends that the radio signal is breaking up.

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* DisneyVillainDeath: Barbara apparently falls to her death but after the commercial break is revealed to have survived the fall.

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* DisneyVillainDeath: Barbara apparently falls to her death but after the commercial break is revealed to have survived the fall.fall, albeit with serious injuries.


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* SpannerInTheWorks: Nygma first gets interrupted by a random hunter when disposing of Miss Kringle's body, then while he's getting tools to dismember the hunter to bury in the same hole, he discovers someone ''else'' has stumbled across the scene and so he has to track them down as well.
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* DisneyVillainDeath: Barbara apparently falls to her death but after the commercial break is revealed to have survived the fall.
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Despite Barnes justifiably being pissed off at Bullock for disobeying orders and previously ordering him out, he still acts based on Bullock's deduction of where Barbara took Jim.

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SplitPersonalityMerge: Nygma feels whole as a result of the events following Miss Kringle's death, merging his regular personality with the confident Bad Eddie.
TooDumbToLive: Barbara lampshades that Jim knew he was walking into a trap and still did it because he was overconfident.

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* GreatDetective: Bullock is able to figure out where Barbara took Jim based on what Barbara said in the police car.
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SplitPersonalityMerge: Nygma feels whole as a result of the events following Miss Kringle's death, merging his regular personality with the confident Bad Eddie.
* TooDumbToLive: Barbara lampshades that Jim knew he was walking into a trap and still did it because he was overconfident.
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Theo Galavan attempts to convince Bruce to sell his 51% ownership of Wayne Industries, and sends Barbara to keep Jim distracted so he can't interfere. Edward Nygma attempts to dispose of Miss Kringle's body but keeps running into complications.

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SplitPersonalityMerge: Nygma feels whole as a result of the events following Miss Kringle's death, merging his regular personality with the confident Bad Eddie.
TooDumbToLive: Barbara lampshades that Jim knew he was walking into a trap and still did it because he was overconfident.

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