Gotham - Season 3 Extras

This article lists the various background character deaths that occur in the third season of Gotham.

Mad City

1. Better to Reign in Hell...

• Jim Gordon confronts one of the Indian Hill escapees outside a drug store. Although Gordon is no match for him, the fight sees the monster ending up standing in the road just as a fire truck comes along, slamming into the mutant thug and killing him.
• When Fish Mooney and her gang break into the Gray Pharma Plant, her lackey Marv removes his gloves before touching a Gray Pharma worker. The worker ages rapidly at Marv's touch and dies, leaving behind a wrinkled old husk.
• A gangster named Boris enters the Sirens Nightclub along with two goons, telling Barbara Kean that the place is theirs now. For a moment, Barbara fakes being terrified, then bursts out in maniacal laughter, confusing the gangsters. While the trio stand there bewildered, Tabitha Galavan walks up behind them and slashes the throats of the two goons.

2. Burn the Witch

• A battle breaks out when the GCPD raid Mooney's hideout. A mutant gang member with electrokinetic powers kills two police officers by electrocuting them.
• With Harvey Bullock in tow, Mooney's gang arrive at the facility where Hugo Strange is being held. As Harvey talks to the guards at the front door, Sid uses his super-speed to take their weapons before he and Bullock knock them out. Not satisfied with just leaving them unconscious, Sid shoots the downed guards.
• Sid shoots another guard when he and Mooney enter the facility.
• Penguin leads a violent mob to the facility and has them barge past the police and enter the house. Nancy and Sid start shooting at the riled-up citizens, killing an unknown number of them before they themselves are lynched to death.

3. Look Into My Eyes

• After hypnotizing a young doctor during a party at the Sirens Nightclub, Jervis Tetch later visits the man's home. Under Tetch's command, the doctor kills his wife by striking her with a fire poker. Tetch then commands the doctor to bury his wife in the garden and then kill himself.
• Alice Tetch is threatened by her landlord, who slaps her hard enough to draw blood. The landlord then tries to sexually assault her, kissing her and getting her blood in his mouth. This results in the landlord becoming infected with the virus that runs through Alice's veins, causing him to become violent and enraged. Alice locks the landlord in a closet, but later on, Gordon arrives at Alice's apartment after Jervis had hired him to find Alice. Hearing commotion coming from the closet, Gordon unlocks it and is suddenly attacked by the maddened landlord. Alice then returns to the apartment wielding a gun and shoots the landlord twice in the back. She then douses the body in gasoline before setting fire to it.

4. New Day Rising

• Jervis hypnotizes the caretaker of a disused amusement park into giving him the property. He then has the entranced man lay his head down on the lever of a high striker before raising a large mallet and bringing it down on the man's head, both killing him and striking the bell.
• When the Terrible Tweeds attack the GCPD, Dumfree Tweed grabs a cop on the upper floor and throws him down into the bullpen where he lands on Bullock's desk, dying on impact.
• Two of the Tweeds are killed during the abduction of Alice from the GCPD. Though not shown on-screen, this is confirmed by Bullock when he later interrogates one of the unnamed brothers.

5. Anything For You

• The new Red Hood Gang - under the direction of Butch Gilzean - threaten a Catholic school into spreading bad press about Penguin, who is now the Mayor of Gotham. The gang torch a school bus and leave a priest with his hands bound together while holding a grenade. After pulling the grenade's pin, the gang walk away and the pleading pastor is blown up. The camera pans up towards the skyline before the explosion, so the gory details aren't shown.
• After learning that Penguin has found out where the Red Hood Gang is hiding, Butch decides to break them up before Penguin learns that he hired them in the first place. He arrives at the detergent factory where the gang is hiding out and tells them that they're done, but the gang leader demands that they get paid first. Instead, Butch raises a tommy-gun and shoots the gangsters dead.
• When Barnes asks about the report on Alice Tetch's blood, Lee Thompkins explains that tests had been conducted on three lab rats to determine the effects of the virus. Only one rat displayed symptoms and had chewed its way through a dozen wire mesh cages to get to the other two rats and kill them.
• Inside the Sirens' kitchen, Zsasz's goons hold Tabitha hostage. Hardly as helpless as the goons think she is, she grabs a utensil from a tray and slashes the neck of the goon holding her at gunpoint.
• As Butch is confronting Penguin in the club, the second of Zsasz's goons staggers out of the kitchen with a knife in his back, followed by Tabitha.
• The episode ends with Jervis Tetch in his lair, along with a woman dressed in Alice's clothing tied to a chair. As Jervis laments over Alice's death, the fake Alice remarks that she isn't dead. Jervis corrects this by sliding a knife across his captive's throat.

6. Follow the White Rabbit

• Jervis abducts and hypnotizes a child as well as a newly-wed couple. He later lures Gordon into a scenario where he must save the life of one or the other. While a truck is speeding towards the child on the street, the married couple are about to step off an overpass to their deaths. Gordon ends up running towards the boy, pulling him out of the road before the truck hits him. However, the newly-weds step off the overpass. Their deaths aren't shown on-screen, though the sound of them hitting the pavement can be heard.
• After drawing Gordon to Gotham Water and Power, Jervis forces him to shoot one of two captives tied to electric chairs. When Gordon refuses to kill either one, Jervis flips a switch and activates the electrical current to the chairs, killing both captives.

7. Red Queen

• Jervis acquires a hallucinogenic compound from an herbalist as part of his plan to take revenge on Gordon and all of Gotham. He dips a finger in the Red Queen dust which he then blows into the herbalist's face. The last that is seen of the herbalist is him falling into a hallucinatory trip, but the Red Queen eventually causes the victim's brain to burn out, so the herbalist almost certainly dies later on.

8. Blood Rush

• At the beginning of the episode, Paulie Pennies, a cleaner for the Gotham underworld, is disposing of the body of Maxwell Symon's latest victim. After Pennies is brutally murdered, both bodies are examined by Lee Thompkins at the GCPD. Symon's victim had died as a result of having his face surgically removed.

9. The Executioner

• Having now been fully corrupted by the Tetch virus, Barnes has adopted the persona of "The Executioner". In the pre-title sequence, he has captured three known criminals who have all repeatedly escaped justice, taking them to an abandoned building where he ties a rope around each of their necks. He then kicks out the footrests they are each standing on and watches as they hang.
• Gordon and Barnes pay a visit to a mobster named Sugar (played by Wade Mylius). When they question him about Maxwell Symon, he claimed to know nothing about the doctor's death. Barnes, of course, believed him, but still shot Sugar because he was a criminal.
• Anton - A wealthy Gothamite portrayed by Jeremy Crutchley. After visiting his home, the now-adult Ivy Pepper used a perfume of her own concoction to mesmerize him and make him open his vault. She looted his safe and ran off with an emerald necklace. When Bruce, Selina and Ivy went back to Anton's home to return the necklace, they found Anton dead with an arrow through his eye.

10. Time Bomb

• After enjoying a dinner at Don Falcone's mansion, Mario and Lee are about to leave. A chauffeur goes to bring their car around, but when he starts the engine, the car suddenly explodes and the chauffeur is killed.
• Suspecting that a man dubbed "Fuse" was hired to make the car-bomb used in the attempt on Mario and Lee, Gordon and Bullock visit his apartment. When they arrive, they find that the apartment has already been broken into and Fuse is lying dead on the floor, having been shot not long before.
• When a trio of assassins come after Mario at a jeweller's, Mario and Gordon manage to subdue them. Revealing a previously unseen dark side to his nature, Mario viciously strangles one of the assassins to death.
• The Court of Owls sends a Talon after the Whisper Gang at the harbour. Dmitry, a masked member of the gang, is killed when the Talon impales him through the back with a blade.
• At the end of the episode, Mario witnesses Lee getting into a taxi after leaving Gordon's apartment. It is here that we see that Mario is infected with the Tetch virus as he hears a mocking whisper in his head saying that Lee loves Gordon and becomes violently angry. It is then that two street punks attempt to mug him, but Mario overpowers them both with his virus-enhanced strength, knocking one punk to the ground and murdering the other by choking him with one hand.

11. Beware the Green-Eyed Monster

• While having a drink at a bar, Mario meets the hematologist Ryan Pfeffer, who is working on the Tetch virus. Under the virus' influence, and knowing that the man is developing a way to detect infected individuals, Mario takes the hematologist out back and murders him while imagining that the man is Jim Gordon, crushing his victim's skull with his bare hands.
• Gordon's investigation of Pfeffer's murder brings him to the Gotham Bio-Lab where the virus is being researched. After being granted access, Gordon enters the main lab where he finds a dead body in a hazmat suit. The victim had been killed by Mario, who then ambushed Gordon.
• The Talon strings up three Whisper Gang members, including Jacob Volk, and kills them by slashing their throats.
• Bruce, Selina and Alfred attempt to steal an object belonging to the Court of Owls, but their heist goes awry when a Talon comes for them. During the ensuing fight, the Talon is about to kill Alfred when a mysterious stranger (later revealed to be Selina's mother) intervenes and smashes a vase over the assassin's head. Alfred then seizes the opportunity to stab the Talon through the chin, killing him.

12. Ghosts

• Lucius Fox shows Gordon and Bullock the corpse of a girl who was found undressed on the train tracks and died on her way to the hospital. Fox states that before she appeared, the marks on her head signal an electrical current went through her, but the weird part is that three days ago, she was stabbed and taken to the morgue and yet she appeared the night before.
• After Carmine Falcone puts a hit out on him, Gordon is attacked by Victor Zsasz and his hench-girls. He runs into a restaurant kitchen where the assassins follow. Gordon takes down one of the girls by shooting her in the shoulder; it is unclear if she dies or not. The second girl gets close to Gordon, but he uses her as a shield when Zsasz opens fire, resulting in her death.

13. Smile Like You Mean It

• Dwight Pollard and his cult enter a warehouse where the cryogenically frozen body of Jerome Valeska is being kept. The two guards at the front desk get up as the cult approaches, one of which draws his gun and opens fire, shooting one of the cultists, although not fatally. As it turns out, one of the warehouse guards is also a member of the Cult of Jerome. When his partner tells him to call for backup, he instead draws a knife and stabs his partner, laughing while he does it.
• Dwight and the cult attack the Channel 9 TV studio where Dwight guns down the lead producer.
• At the GCPD, Lee enters the medical examination room to find that Jerome's body is gone and that the guard who was watching over him is dead on the floor. Jerome's reanimation was delayed and he stabbed the guard in the neck after waking up.
• At the Sirens, the heads of Gotham's leading crime families have gathered in order to cut a deal with Barbara and Tabitha, hoping they can protect them from Penguin's wrath. However, Tabitha decides she would rather just kill them and guns them all down with an assault rifle.
• Jerome leaves the GCPD in a stolen police cruiser, running over a pedestrian on his way to the TV studio.
• Gordon and Bullock lead the Strike Force into the studio, gunning down one of Jerome's followers in a corridor.
• Three of the cultists are shot dead when the Strike Force storm the Channel 9 newsroom.
• After Dwight is captured, a uniformed officer takes him away to a police cruiser. By then, Jerome is at the scene, disguised as an officer. He stabs the uni dead and takes Dwight without anyone noticing, until it's too late.

14. The Gentle Art of Making Enemies

• Penguin and two of his cronies arrive at the abandoned Kane Chemicals building where they find Nygma, who is alone and unharmed after supposedly being kidnapped. Seeing that Penguin only has two goons with him, Edward draws a gun and shoots the two henchmen.
• While Kathryn watches from her high-rise window, chaos spreads across Gotham as fires and explosions consume the city in the wake of the blackout caused by Jerome. The number of deaths caused by the outbreak of mass hysteria cannot be determined.
• When Jerome kidnaps Bruce from Wayne Manor, he leaves behind three of his followers with Alfred. After Jerome and Bruce are gone, Gordon arrives at the manor and Alfred distracts the cultists long enough for Gordon to take aim. Gordon then kills two of the cultists by shooting them. Alfred then steals the third cultist's machete and stabs him with it.
• At Jerome's carnival of madness, he and Bruce watch as a cultist plays a makeshift Whack-a-Mole style game, with real people instead of plastic moles. At least one of the captives in the game is killed as the cultist brings down a large mallet and is then squirted in the face with blood.
• As Bruce is getting his face painted by a clown, Jerome stabs the clown in the stomach with a switchblade. He then smears the clown's blood across Bruce's mouth in a frown. Whether the clown dies or not is questionable as he is seen staggering away after being stabbed.
• Jerome decides to play another carnival game; a businessman is strapped to a chair suspended above a tank of water. The water is also full of ravenous piranhas. As Jerome is about to toss a ball at the target, Bruce shoves him, throwing off his aim. Jerome calls foul and just walks up to the target, pushing the button to drop the businessman into the tank. The piranhas devour the man in seconds.
• As Jerome announces that the carnival's main event is about to begin, a cultist dressed as a cowboy continues hollering, much to Jerome's annoyance. He draws a revolver and shoots the cowboy to shut him up.

Heroes Rise

15. How the Riddler Got His Name

• Nygma ties up a professor working in a chemistry lab, asking a number of riddles that the captive professor fails to answer correctly. Infuriated by the apparent stupidity of a supposed intellectual, Nygma fills the lab with natural gas and lights up the Bunsen burners, departing the building before the lab explodes and kills the professor.
• While tying up the professor, Nygma confessed that he had previously killed three other people: an artist, a philosopher and a writer.
• At the Van Dahl Mansion, Nygma - along with a drug-induced hallucination of Penguin - goes over the people he has killed while in search of a mentor. As well as the aforementioned victims, he also killed a museum curator.
• At the GCPD, Lucius adds one more to Nygma's murder count when he talks to Bullock regarding the string of killings.
• Three competitors at a chess tournament are electrocuted to death by devices that Nygma had planted beneath their chairs.
• Teddy Thirio - A man murdered by Nygma as part of his rebirth scheme. Dr. Thompkins conducts an examination of his body and determines that he died from blunt force trauma.

16. These Delicate and Dark Obsessions

• At a warehouse by Gotham Harbour, Barbara interrogates the harbour master, who is working for the Court of Owls. During the torture, a sound is heard coming from the front door and Barbara sends one of her minions to investigate. Off-screen, the goon has his throat slit by one of the Court's Talons.
• Barbara has five other goons attack the Talon, but the assassin kills them all in seconds with his sword.
• After Barbara and Tabitha have fled, the Talon decapitates the harbour master.
• When Gabe calls over some goons to Ivy's conservatory to take pictures of Penguin for an upcoming auction, a bound Ivy calls one of the mobsters over to whisper something in his ear. When the goon gets a whiff of Ivy's perfume, he falls under her spell. Under Ivy's command, he draws a gun and shoots three goons, though he lets Gabe live.
• After Ivy commands the mesmerized goon to untie her and Penguin, she then orders him to give Penguin his gun. Penguin then shoots the goon in the head.

17. The Primal Riddle

• In order to get in contact with members of Gotham's upper crust, the Riddler decides to disrupt a showing of Hamlet at the Gotham Theater. As the actor playing Hamlet calls out the Ghost, we see that the actor playing the Ghost is lying dead backstage. Nygma had apparently cut him down with a sword.
• Nygma steps out on stage to issue his threat to Gotham's ruling elite. While on stage, he criticizes Hamlet's performance before thrusting the tip of his sword into the actor's chest.
• Penguin and Ivy visit a metal foundry to see Bridgit Pike in the hopes of recruiting her. Penguin offers to murder her current boss to "sweeten the deal", but Bridgit decides to do it herself. Scooping up a ladle full of molten metal, she walks up to her boss, announces that she quits, then flings the searing hot slag in the man's face.
• On Riddler's direction, Barbara arranges for a biker bar to be bombed. While Gordon and Bullock are at the hospital, victims of the blast are being wheeled in. The victims all appear to still be alive when they enter the emergency room, though whether they all remain so is unknown.
• In the emergency room, the more able-bodied bikers start throwing hands with the doctors. Nygma uses the brawl as a distraction to kidnap Aubrey James. When Gordon comes back into the room, he pulls back the curtain to James' bed to find him gone and his bodyguards lying dead on the floor.

18. Light the Wick

• At Arkham Asylum, Barnes is being led to a wagon by a trio of orderlies. He manages to break the chains restraining him and grabs one of the orderlies, snapping his neck.
• Gordon and Bullock arrive at the lab where the Court had been weaponizing the Alice Tetch virus. Upon entering the lab, they find a bloodbath; most of the guards and scientists are dead, having been slaughtered by a test subject who is infected with the virus. When the test subject reveals himself, he has blood around his mouth and covering his scrubs, indicating that he killed his victims by biting them, perhaps even indulged in some cannibalism.
• When the test subject attacks Gordon, Hugo Strange appears behind him and injects him with a syringe. While the subject was most likely sedated, there is a possibility that Strange killed him.
• The Court plants an aerosol bomb containing the Tetch virus in the centre of a gala for the Daughters of Gotham and Gordon is expected to stand by and watch it go off in order to prove his loyalty to the Court. Unable to allow such a thing to happen, he fights against the Talon that has been watching him. As the two fight, Penguin arrives with Firefly in tow. Firefly torches the Talon with her flamethrower and the assassin tumbles through the window overlooking the gala hall, frightening the attendees who all evacuate before the bomb goes off.

19. All Will Be Judged

• The Sensei reveals one of his own memories to Bruce. In this vision, he questions a Court member regarding the assassination of Thomas and Martha Wayne. He then draws a blade and stabs the Owl in the neck.
• Inside the Court's jail, Penguin and Riddler enact an escape plan. Riddler pretends to hold Penguin at knifepoint, drawing the guards. He then falsely cuts Penguin's throat, but when the guards inspect him, they find that Penguin's "blood" is actually just Jell-O from his meal tray. Riddler snatches the dart gun from one of the guards and shoots him, rendering him unconscious. The second guard is killed when Penguin retrieves the shiv that Riddler had been holding and stabs him with it.
• Shortly after Barnes has been defeated and sent off to Arkham, Bullock receives word that he escaped while in transit, killing three guards in the process.

20. Pretty Hate Machine

• The Sensei returns to Gotham with Bruce in tow, ready to pass judgement on the Court of Owls. He urges Bruce to order the execution of the Court members, but Bruce hesitates in spite of his conditioning. The Sensei then claps his hands and several Talons emerge from the shadows with blades drawn, which they use to cut the throats of the eight Court members at the table.
  • Gordon, Bullock and Alfred later arrive at the scene where the Court's leading council were murdered. One of the Court members is still hanging on to life and tells Gordon what happened there before finally succumbing to his wounds.
• As Prof. Strange is handing off the dispersal bomb to a trio of Talons, Bullock and Alfred burst into the building. A Talon attacks by slashing at the duo with his blade, but is shot dead by Bullock.
• At the end of the episode, despite Alfred's best efforts, the Sensei forces Bruce to activate the bomb at Union Station, which disperses the Tetch virus, infecting thousands of people.

21. Destiny Calling

• An elderly woman infected with the Tetch virus enters a bank, asking to withdraw all her money. When the teller informs her that her account has been closed, the woman bashes against the security screen with a blood-covered hand, indicating that she has already killed. When a security guard approaches her, the woman grabs him and hurls him across the room with superhuman strength.
• As the infected woman leaves the bank with a bag full of money, we are shown a scene of chaos out on the streets of Gotham. Countless people have been infected with the virus and driven insane; a man is seen smashing a bicycle, a man is chased by a pair of deranged girl scouts, and on the monorail track, a passing train is shown to be on fire.
• At the GCPD, officers are struggling to keep infected citizens detained due to their increased strength. Several officers are shown being beaten up, though it is not clear if any officers have yet been killed.
• Nygma looks out the window of the Sirens club quoting Shakespeare as he watches Gotham burning.
• Back at the precinct, a uniformed officer informs Detective Alvarez that the National Guard has come into the city. Alvarez, who has the Tetch virus, tells the officer to leave him be. When the officer addresses him again, Alvarez goes berserk and grabs the officer, snapping his neck.
• In his maddened state, Alvarez starts shooting at the other officers, managing to kill at least one before Lucius knocks him out by bashing a typewriter over his head.
• As Bruce walks down the street, an infected man breaks through the front window of a shop. When the man comes out, he is shot dead by a pair of MPs.
• When Mooney and her group emerge from the lab where Strange had stored the Tetch virus antidote, they discover the gunman that had been left to stand guard is lying dead on the floor, killed by a group of ninja-like assassins.
• Firefly and Mr. Freeze attack the mysterious assassins, but another assassin appears behind them and cuts down Fish's two remaining triggermen.
• As a ninja leaps towards him, Freeze blasts the assassin with his cryo-gun, freezing him solid. The frozen assassin shatters to pieces when he hits the floor.
• When Gordon and Bullock arrive at the slaughterhouse lab, Gordon - under the virus' influence - intervenes and grabs a sword from one of the assassins, using it to kill the five ninja who are still fighting. He also unintentionally stabs Mooney, causing her to drop the antidote vials in her hand.
• A paddy-wagon carrying Jervis Tetch is stopped by a wrecked car in the middle of the street. When the van stops, Tabitha fires a machine gun into the cab and kills the driver.
• At Ra's al Ghul's urging, Bruce kills Alfred by thrusting a sword through his heart. Immediately after the deed, Bruce's mental conditioning breaks and he sees what he has done.

22. Heavydirtysoul

• Having killed Alfred at the end of the previous episode, Bruce just as quickly restores him to life. He takes a bowl full of water from the Lazarus Pit and pours it over Alfred's wound. The wound seals up and Alfred regains consciousness.
• By the end of the episode, an antidote to the Tetch virus is released to Gotham's citizens, bringing the crisis to a close. It is unknown how many citizens died as a result of the viral attack.