Gotham - Season 4 Extras

This article lists the various minor/background character deaths that occur in the fourth season of Gotham.

2. The Fear Reaper

• After being doused by Jonathan Crane's fear gas, Warden Reed goes on a panic-driven rampage in Arkham Asylum. Armed with a revolver, he shoots a group of five orderlies who he, in his toxin-induced mania, hallucinates as demonic clowns.

3. They Who Hide Behind Masks

• The episode begins with a flashback to 126 A.D.. Amidst a vast battlefield where the corpses have completely hidden the ground, a lone horseman finds the slain body of the man who would become Ra's al Ghul. The horseman takes Ra's' body and immerses it in the waters of a Lazarus Pit, restoring him to life.

4. The Demon's Head

• After Sofia Falcone comes to Gotham, she is visited by three of her father's old capos, who ask her if Carmine is coming back or if she is taking over his empire. Sofia insists that neither of those things are happening, but then Penguin and Zsasz arrive at her door. While Sofia and Penguin are sat down together, three gunshots are heard in the background as Zsasz executes the three capos.
• Sofia talks with Jim Gordon and describes a memory from her childhood about how one of her father's henchmen had been on his knees begging for the don's forgiveness, only for Carmine to stab him in the neck.

5. The Blade's Path

• Nygma and Butch Gilzean (now resurrected as the zombie-like Solomon Grundy) are attacked by a group of men led by a man that Butch attacked shortly after his revival at Slaughter Swamp. Butch beats up all of the men easily, with one confirmed dead after having his neck snapped.
• At Blackgate Penetentiary, Ra's al Ghul's minions (disguised as prison guards) attempt to kill Gordon and Alfred. In the ensuing fight, Gordon and Alfred manage to wrest guns from the false guards and shoot several of them. The last guard standing has his gun aimed at Gordon while Alfred has his trained on the guard. After a tense standoff, Alfred proves to be quicker at pulling the trigger and finishes off the guard.

6. Hog Day Afternoon

• Dave Metzger - A crooked police officer portrayed by Warren Bub. He investigates a strange noise and finds a cat sitting in a doorway. Just as Metzger kneels down to pet the cat, a man in a pig mask appears behind him and murders him with a meat cleaver. The next day, Metzger's body is found with a pig's face over his head.
• Hammer - A prize fighter in Cherry's underground fight ring, portrayed by Gabriel "G-Rod" Rodriguez. He fights against Grundy, savagely bludgeoning him with his signature hammer, but Grundy is completely unfazed. When Grundy fights back, he punches Hammer once in the nose and that is enough to put him down. As Hammer lies bleeding on the canvas, Grundy picks up his weapon, brings it down on his head and kills him, much to the crowd's excitement.
• While Gordon and Bullock are shaking down crooked cops as part of their investigation into Metzger's murder, they are alerted by the sound of a woman screaming and come running. They find the bodies two more cops sat on a bench outside the courthouse, their heads obscured by pig heads, just like Metzger. When the masks are removed, the detectives find that the victim's throats had been cut.
• Grundy takes on the champion of Cherry's fight ring, who fights with a makeshift mace. During the fight, Grundy grabs the mace from his opponent, knocks him to the canvas and bludgeons his face in with the mace.
• Nakajima - The last of Penguin's bagmen being hunted by Professor Pyg, portrayed by Jonathan Lee. Bullock and Gordon find him tied up in an abandoned factory with a pig mask over his head, but he is still alive. As Bullock works on cutting Nakajima's bonds, Gordon pulls off the mask. However, Pyg had implanted a grenade in Nakajima's stomach and tied the pin to the mask. The pin is pulled as the mask is lifted off, which is when Gordon notices the grenade. He alerts Bullock and they dive for cover just as the grenade explodes, destroying Nakajima.

7. A Day in the Narrows

• Forty-four boxes are delivered to the GCPD, each one containing the severed head of a pig. Gordon interprets this as a message from Professor Pyg, stating that he is escalating his crusade against corruption. There are forty-five cops in the precinct, a pig's head for each one except Gordon, who Pyg seems to admire.
• Word comes in that three cops have gone missing in the Narrows, Gotham's roughest district. When the GCPD arrive, they find an empty squad car, the seats red with blood.
  • Entering an abandoned building on Hoover Island, Gordon and Bullock find two of the missing cops tied to chairs in a room. One of the cops is dead, the other is still alive but has a knife embedded in his stomach.
• Selina breaks into the hideout of the Street Demonz motorcycle gang and steals their stash of money. One of the gangsters was working under the hood of a car when the theft occurred and failed to notice anything before the alarm was triggered. The other Demonz decide to punish him by revving up a motorcycle and grinding his face against the rear wheel.
• After the taskforce arrives at an abandoned courthouse, Gordon recieves a phone call from Pyg, who reveals that he had disguised himself as one of the abducted officers, namely the one who Gordon found alive on Hoover Island and left in an ambulance. The officer Pyg was impersonating had already been killed.
• Tabitha sneaks into the Street Demonz hideout to help Selina escape. However, as they duck down and plan their move, Barbara suddenly walks in through the front door, pretending to be a delivery girl. Once the Demonz' guards are down, Barbara drops her facade and draws a gun, shooting five of the Demonz dead.
• Bullock leads the taskforce into the courthouse to capture Pyg. Inside, they find what appears to be Pyg standing over a tied-up Officer Patel. Bullock shoots Pyg, but when he gets closer, he finds out that the officer in the chair is actually a dummy and the person he shot is the real Patel, dressed up as Pyg. Suddenly, a wooden barrier blocking a stairway falls over to reveal a Gatling gun on a tripod, which automatically fires into the group of assembled cops and mercenaries, killing most of them. Gordon later enters with an assault rifle and manages to destroy the gun turrets. By then, only Bullock, Patel, Ruseckas, Headhunter and Harper are left alive.
• After the courthouse debacle, Pyg phones Gordon again. He is shown still in his disguise as Officer Fisoli, standing outside the ambulance he had been taken away in before. Behind him, the ambulance crew lie dead.

8. Stop Hitting Yourself

• Mr. Murderface - A fighter in Cherry's underground fight ring. He fights against Solomon Grundy and during the fight, Grundy experiences a brief flashback of his previous life as Butch Gilzean, remembering his relationship with Tabitha. When he snaps back to the present, Grundy quickly decks Murderface and then proceeds to rip his arm off before beating him with it. Murderface quickly dies from a combination of blood loss and trauma.
• At the Iceberg Lounge, Penguin is meeting with Barbara and another unnamed crook when his assistant Mr. Penn makes him aware that Nygma is mocking him in a clown show at Cherry's. When the unnamed crook laughs at this revelation, Penguin becomes furious and stabs him in the neck.
• When the Sirens arrive at Cherry's, they are shocked to find that Butch is still "alive". In the ring, Grundy kills his current opponent in the same way he killed Mr. Murderface.

9. Let Them Eat Pie

• Before the opening title card, Professor Pyg, disguised as a good Samaritan, offers a meal to six homeless people. The food is poisoned and the six vagrants die, after which Pyg butchers their bodies.
  • Outside Gotham Central, Pyg has set up a tent where numerous onlookers have gathered around. Gordon investigates to find two bodies dressed in French aristocratic clothing sat at a table. Three live pigs are in the tent as well, which have started eating one of the corpses. Autopsy later reveals that the victims were poisoned and had their organs removed after death.
  • Gordon and Harper investigate Pyg's hideout at an abandoned paper factory where they find another of his victims lying on a table with his organs removed. A smoker oven is also found in the lair, leading Gordon to believe that Pyg is cooking his victims.
  • Having usurped the fundraiser banquet for Sofia Falcone's orphanage, Pyg has made pies out of the organs he harvested from his victims, intent on forcing the wealthy attendees to eat them.

• When Pyg threatens to kill the mute orphan Martin if the attendees refuse to eat their pies, one guest speaks up and states in no uncertain terms that the boy's life doesn't matter and still refuses Pyg's demands. Penguin is enraged by the man's callousness and stabs him in the head with a pick. Unwilling to let the boy he befriended die, Penguin then scoops up some pie with his hand and eats it before demanding that everyone else eat too, lest Penguin hunt them down himself.
• Just as Sofia is about to eat her pie, Gordon suddenly bursts into the dining room. Snatching a gun from one of Pyg's henchmen, he shoots both of them.

10. Things That Go Boom

• At Arkham Asylum, an aggressive inmate becomes violent when Pyg starts playing "Ave Maria" on a gramophone in in the common room. When the enraged inmate attacks him, Lazlo snaps a vinyl record in half and stabs his attacker in the chest with one half, before using the other half to slash his throat.
• Penguin's hired torturer, the Dentist, is about to start work on Sofia when she warns him that her people will kill his entire family if she is not heard from at an appointed time. Concerned that this may be true, the Dentist decides to let her go. He calls over a Penguin thug watching over him to tighten Sofia's restraints. As the thug works on the restraints, the Dentist uses his drill to bore a hole through the thug's skull.
• Sofia walks out of the orphanage to her limousine, only to find that her chauffeur is dead in the driver's seat.
• After Pyg's real identity and his past crimes are discovered, Gordon calls Arkham to have a guard placed in his cell. The guard enters Pyg's cell after noticing that it appears empty. However, Pyg had managed to hide himself above the cell door and had made a noose from his cot's sheets, using it to hang the guard before escaping. He also left a message for Gordon on the wall, written in the guard's blood:- "IT'S BEEN FUN JAMES. - LAZLO"

11. Queen Takes Knight

• Gordon and the GCPD find a doctor barely alive after having survived a surgery performed by Professor Pyg. The doctor had his throat slit and was choking on his own blood when found. It is unknown if he got medical attention in time or if he died.
• Outside the Falcone mansion, Carmine and two of his henchmen are shot dead by a group of drive-by shooters. Sofia is shot too, but survives.
• With Sofia being held in protective custody, war breaks out between the GCPD and Penguin's criminal empire.
  • In the first scene of the ensuing montage, a gun battle takes place inside an old warehouse. Four of Penguin's minions and one police officer are killed in the shootout.
  • Inside a building, the Sirens are tied up and watching Penguin's goons shooting through the windows at GCPD officers on the ground. Barbara and Tabitha comment on how the thugs are all about to get killed, aggravating one of them, who turns around and tells them to shut up. As he does this, the thug takes a bullet to the head and falls over dead.
  • Tabitha, still bound to a chair, falls to the floor and shuffles over to the fallen thug's handgun. With some struggle, she manages to aim and shoot at the two remaining thugs by the windows.

12. Pieces of a Broken Mirror

• In her last appearance in "The Fear Reaper", Ivy consumed a variety of exotic chemicals in a Chinese drug store which altered her DNA, making her even more plant-like. At the start of this episode, she emerges from a coccoon just as the now-abandoned store is being scavenged by a trio of crackheads. One of the punks takes an interest in the now-adult Ivy and starts hitting on her, but Ivy then grabs him by the throat. As she touches him, the punk's veins turn visibly green as Ivy's very touch fatally poisons him. After watching their friend die, the other two crackheads run away.

13. A Beautiful Darkness

• Ivy and Selina invade the home of Wayne Enterprises researcher Roland Charles, using Ivy's perfume to mesmerise and immobilize the scientist and his family. While Selina is busy burgling the house, Ivy scratches Roland's cheek, infecting him with her toxin and causing poison ivy to grow and spread within his body, resulting in a horrific death.
• Dietrich - An inmate at Arkham Asylum that Jerome Valeska had rendered catatonic by subjecting him to electric shocks. In an attempt to kill Jerome, Penguin switched himself out with Dietrich when Jerome attempted to hang him. Penguin instead electrocuted Dietrich with a lamp after the vegetable wet himself; he hoped to kill Jerome, who was holding the noose.
• Using the water of the Lazarus Pit, Ivy engineers a new type of flower, one that she can use as a weapon. She kills two people by blowing the flower's pollen at them, infecting them. The couple die as new flowers grow out of their bodies.

14. Reunion

• Ivy walks into the bar where Harvey has been working, bringing her new killer plant with her. Seeing that Harvey isn't there, she decides to leave a "message": she infects the current barkeep and the three patrons present with her flower's pollen and they eventually die with plants bursting through their flesh.
• Ivy uses a video camera to record a threat to all of Gotham. In the recording, she reveals yet another victim of the plants she's created.
• When Ivy crashes the Wayne Foundation annual dinner, she kills one of the guests using her crimson flower, blowing pollen into the man's face. The other attendees watch in horror as flowers erupt from the victim's body.
• When the GCPD arrive at the banquet hall, Ivy orders her hypnotized minions to kill everyone. One of the minions is killed in the ensuing shootout. It is unknown if anyone else dies during the shootout as no other bodies are seen.
• Sofia meets with Lee to "negotiate" and Lee offers up information on Gordon that Sofia can use to manipulate him. Sofia, however, isn't interested and her two henchmen grab guns that had been planted in Lee's office, using them to shoot Lee's bodyguards.

15. The Sinking Ship, The Grand Applause

• The Riddler orchestrates Martin's escape from Sofia Falcone's goons. Having previously infiltrated the apartment where Martin was being held, he left instructions for Martin on his notepad. Following these instructions, Martin goes into the kitchen and turns on the gas for the stove before going back into the lounge. A moment later, the two hired goons smell the gas and go into the kitchen. A firework then crashes through the window and the gas is ignited, blowing up the two goons.
• After being appointed by Sofia to run the Narrows, the gangster Sampson gives a demonstration to the residents of what happens when they don't pay for protection. He viciously beats a man while his victim's family watches before shooting him in the head.
• Gordon shoots three of Sofia's underlings when they arrive at Spa Bo'sh Sumka.
• Two more of Sofia's goons follow Gordon into the spa's kitchen where they also end up being shot.
• Riddler is taken to the docks by two of Sofia's henchmen to be killed. However, Penguin arrives just in the nick of time and shoots the two goons dead, saving Riddler.

16. One of My Three Soups

• At Arkham, a guard has her throat slashed by another guard who had previously been hypnotized by Jervis Tetch.
• The hypnotized guard leads Jervis out of his cell and down a corridor. The bodies of three guards lie in the corridor, their throats previously cut by the mesmerized guard.
• As the Mad Hatter and Scarecrow spring Jerome from his cell, two dead guards can be seen on the floor behind them.
• After Jerome is freed, Mad Hatter orders his hypnotized guard to kill herself and she slashes her own throat.
• Gordon and Bullock arrive at Witt Street on Jervis' orders where they find a pair of newlyweds standing in the middle of the road, clearly hypnotized, with a wrecking ball hanging overhead. A group of hypnotized thugs suddenly emerge from the cars surrounding the couple, restraining the two policemen. Deciding that he's not going to give Gordon any chance of saving the couple, Tetch orders the wrecking ball be dropped and it lands on the newlyweds, gruesomely crushing them.
• While Barbara and Tabitha listen to the radio, the news reports that 27 Gothamites have been killed since the breakout from Arkham Asylum.
• The League of Shadows arrives at Barbara's club and see that she bears the mark of the Demon's Head, symbolizing that she is their new leader. One assassin refuses to accept a woman as leader and attempts to cut Barbara's hand off, but Barbara wrests the man's knife from him and stabs him in the gut with it.
• After Barbara forces all of the assassins to take a knee, the five women among the group gun down all of the men, fifteen in all.

17. Mandatory Brunch Meeting

• Bruce arrives at St. Ignatius where he meets the dean to ask him why Jerome had come there. He finds that the dean has been hypnotized by the Mad Hatter and is wearing a bomb vest, holding a detonation switch in his hand. Gordon and Bullock arrive on the scene and Gordon shoots a nearby clock, thinking that is what is keeping the dean under Tetch's spell. However, the dean remains entranced thanks to a ticking fob watch in his waist coat and he triggers the bomb, blowing himself up.
• At Meyer & Hayes, Jerome walks up to the reception desk with a shotgun demanding to see Xander Wilde. The receptionist runs away in terror and Jerome tells her not to bother calling security, stating that they are all "headless", implying that he murdered all of the guards already.
• Jerome interrupts the Meyer & Hayes board in the middle of a meeting and demands to see Xander Wilde. When Mr. Hayes tells him that Wilde isn't there, Jerome turns and shoots a board member dead. He also shoots Hayes off-screen just as Gordon and Bullock arrive.
• At Penguin's mansion, Jerome spins the cylinder of his revolver several times before firing its one bullet into the chest of a former Arkham inmate.
• Jervis and Scarecrow present a captive businessman to Jerome to use as a test subject for a deadly toxin that Scarecrow has produced. Scarecrow sprays the man with the toxin and the captive begins to laugh uncontrollably as his facial muscles are pulled into a hideous grin. The sickening, snapping sound of the victim's jaw breaking can be heard just before the closing title card appears.

18. That's Entertainment

• During a meeting between the Deputy Mayor and the members of the Moral Authority Society, Jerome and his Legion of Horribles attack and kill the group's security personnel. The slaughter isn't shown on-screen.
• Gloria Bainbridge - A member of the Moral Authority Society, portrayed by Brenny Rabine. After she and her cohorts are taken captive by the Legion of Horribles, Scarecrow sprays her with the laughing gas he concocted for Jerome's scheme. The last that is seen of Gloria is her exploding into deranged laughter as the gas drives her mad and presumably kills her like the last victim of the toxin.
• Jerome takes over the Gotham Music Festival being held in Paisley Square. While a band is performing, he cuts the lead singer's mic before revealing himself to the crowd. He then proceeds to beat the lead singer to death with a microphone stand.
• At the Sirens' nightclub, five gangsters are threatening Barbara and Tabitha. Barbara has her new group of assassins kill the gangsters with shurikens. The lead gangster survives the throwing stars, but as he crawls around on the floor, Lelia approaches and stabs him in the back with her sword.
• Mr. Freeze and Scarecrow break into Wayne Enterprises to force the lab staff to produce more laughing gas. On the way in, Freeze uses a grenade-like device to flash-freeze two security guards.
• Commissioner Reynolds - Gotham City's police commissioner and one of the hostages Jerome abducted at the start of the episode. He and the other hostages are sat on the music festival stage with bombs strapped around their necks. When Gordon tries to negotiate with Jerome, the maniac loses his patience and detonates Reynolds' collar, blasting his head into pulp in front of the terrified crowd.
• Archbishop McGregor - Another of Jerome's hostages. While Gordon visits Bruce to convince him to come to Paisley Square, Jerome grows impatient and sets off the Archbishop's bomb collar, killing him as Bruce, Alfred and Selina watch on live television.
• Bullock leads a squad of police to the Wayne Industries chemical lab. After passing by the previously frozen guards, they enter the lab to find all but two of the staff frozen. One of the two survivors laughs maniacally, possibly affected by the laughing gas, and attacks Bullock. Bullock knocks the mad lab technician out by hitting him over the head with a pail.
• Several SWAT snipers prepare to open fire on Jerome and Firefly. Unfortunately, Jerome had already placed his own fanatics in the snipers' positions the night before, so they had been watching the snipers all day. As the snipers get ready to shoot, they are all shot dead themselves by Jerome's goons.
• Scarecrow and Hatter arrive at a hangar in order to commandeer a blimp to release the laughing gas over Gotham. When the captain and pilot confront them, Scarecrow kills the pilot by spraying him with an acidic mist that dissolves his face. Hatter then hypnotizes the captain so that he will pilot the blimp.
• Bullock and his team storm the rooftop overlooking Paisley Square and gun down Jerome's minions.

19. To Our Deaths and Beyond

• After being brought back to life, Ra's al Ghul expresses his anger towards his followers for resurrecting him. One minion suggests that Ra's made a mistake in choosing Barbara Kean as his successor. In response, Ra's kills the minion by digging his skeletal fingers into the man's neck and tearing out a chunk of flesh.
• When Ra's tries to take back the Demon's Head from Barbara, Lelia and her assassins attack him. Even in a zombified state, Ra's proves to be more than capable of holding his own as he easily cuts down three of the assassins.
• One of the assassins takes Barbara and they run out into the street. Ra's follows them and then kills the assassin by throwing his scimitar through her back.

20. That Old Corpse

• As Bruce and Jeremiah are fighting in front of Jerome's grave, Jerome's cultists arrive and grab Bruce. One of the cultists gleefully praises Jerome's "victory" through Jeremiah when suddenly, Jeremiah draws a gun from his sleeve and shoots the fanatic in the head.
• Jeremiah and Ecco arrive at the Wayne Energy Research Labs where Ecco shoots two guards dead.

21. One Bad Day

• Jeremiah and his followers arrive outside the GCPD where Jeremiah demands that Gotham be evacuated in six hours so that he can set off a series of bombs to destroy the entire city, intent on rebuilding it from the ground up in his image. To demonstrate his sincerity, Jeremiah sets one bomb off that destroys a clock tower not far from the police station. It is unknown how many people die as a result of the tower's collapse.
• Penguin, Butch, Barbara and Tabitha are forced to fight against Jeremiah's minions inside his hideout.
  • Barbara guns down three of Jeremiah's goons.
  • Butch grabs a goon and slams them into a wall.
  • One last goon is shot dead by Tabitha.
• Inside Scarecrow's lair, Bruce finds the captive Alfred, who appears to have been driven mad by Scarecrow's insanity gas. Brandishing a cutthroat razor, Alfred slices the corners of his mouth into a Glasgow smile, laughing while he does it. He then attacks Bruce and the two fight, with Alfred gaining the upper hand and pinning Bruce to the floor. Before he can kill Bruce, Alfred is suddenly shot in the head, much to Bruce's horror. Selina enters the room, with Alfred standing beside her. As Selina explains to Bruce, Scarecrow had been pumping his fear gas into the room, causing Bruce to hallucinate. The man he had been fighting wasn't Alfred at all, but a random citizen that Scarecrow and Jeremiah had tortured.
• From the safety of a bunker on the outskirts of the city, Jeremiah flips the switch to set off his bombs. However, nothing happens; Bullock had managed to disable the network circuit and disarm them all. After seeing that their leader's plan and his attempt to kill Jim Gordon had failed, Jeremiah's minions become disillusioned. Disappointed in his followers' fickleness, Jeremiah dashes out of the room and locks it behind him. He then throws a switch beside the door, revealing that the room he was just in was actually an incinerator. The furnace is activated and the cultists inside are all burned alive.

22. No Man's Land

• At City Hall, Mayor Burke and his assistants are discussing lifting the citywide evacuation order. Looking out the window, they see Ra's al Ghul standing on the roof of the building across the street. A moment later, one of Jeremiah's battery bombs planted beneath City Hall goes off, destroying the building and killing everyone within.
• While Bruce is questioning Jeremiah at the GCPD, the lights suddenly flicker and go out. When they come back on, the two soldiers that were guarding Jeremiah are lying dead on the floor and both Bruce and Jeremiah are gone, having been spirited away by Ra's.
• Barbara leads a group to Ra's' hideout on the outskirts of Gotham and a battle ensues.
  • One of Ra's' minions is gunned down by Penguin.
  • Another minion is later seen lying dead on the floor. It is unknown who killed him or how.
• Just as Bruce and Barbara kill Ra's, the bombs he had planted on all the bridges leading out of Gotham explode. While the bridges had mostly been cleared by the time the bombs went off, it is possible that some people may still have been on them when they collapsed.
• With Gotham declared a no-man's land by the government, the city's criminals begin seizing what territory they can.
  • Penguin and his cronies decide to take control of a museum, shooting two thugs who are squatting there.
  • Elsewhere, Mr. Freeze kills two thugs by blasting them with his freeze gun.
  • A punk enters a supposedly abandoned building to find that Scarecrow has turned it into a chemistry lab. Scarecrow then appears behind the punk and decapitates him with a scythe.
  • With Ra's al Ghul gone, the remnants of the League of Shadows swear allegiance to Barbara. Barbara, however, decides that men are the cause of all of Gotham's problems and only allows the League's sisters to join, ordering them to kill their former brothers. The bodies of the male assassins are then strung up outside the Sirens' club to warn others away.
  • Inside an orphanage, a masked woman watches as a masked child repeatedly hacks away at a body with a hatchet.