God, I could listen to Sean Pertwee talk for EVER. If I were Bruce, I'd always be like "read me a story, Alfred." As Batman, that would be both hilarious, adorable, and creepy. He wants Bruce to go outside. Bruce would rather put up cork boards full of files. A vigilante is born.
So, Maroni's next move after getting a piece of the Arkham deal is to rob one of Falcone's casinos. It isn't for the money, it's the principle of it. And of course Oswald is drinking it all in while furiously wiping dishes.
So, it looks like the core of our story is about Harvey not being able to eat his lunch. Or, maybe about a street drug that you find randomly in your guitar case and inhale like a moron. SERIOUSLY? Do even drug addicts forget what city they live in? Especially when the drug is TELLING you to breathe it in? So, the drug turns the dude (who was at least honest with his 'need money' sign) into a superpowered milk fiend who runs off with ATM machines on his back. And that still isn't the weirdest call the Gotham PD have ever gotten.
Fish has a plan that involves her new little pet learning opera. Obviously it involves getting her pretty girl in with the Italians. She then meets with Falcone along with some other mob guys at a black Cadillac convention. She gets up in the face of the Russian dude, and it's a typical pissing contest.
Follow the milk, officers. FOLLOW THE MILK. They follow the empty milk cartons after a hooker tells them where to find 'The Strongman', as the police captain calls him. He's crashing hard, and wants them to find The Man With The Golden Gun. Or maybe it's the Man With The Mangled Ear. He gets mad when Gordon and Bullock try to arrest him, so he shoves them off about three feet, then lifts the ATM over his head to chuck at them. Too bad that's when his strength runs out. Don't you just hate when that happens, and you get crushed by an ATM because of it? Gordon and Bullock are very worried about if this drug booms in the streets. Which it's doing as Mr. Mangled Ear is passing it out like candy.
Bruce is turning his study into the Batcave as he's looking up why Wayne Enterprises would allow mobsters to be victorious on the Arkham project. He's already becoming quite the detective, since he's found their offshore corporations and dummy companies.
The police station is mayhem with all the Viper addicts. The cops can't really control their strength. Nygma is 'fascinated' to the point of nearly jizzing his pants about Viper. It uses DNA, and burns off calcium as energy, hence the milk fetish. But, then the bones collapse, and they die. Hence the falling ATM. This stuff can only be made in a state-of-the-art lab, and the prime suspect is a subsidiary of Wayne Enterprises. We see the hooker from earlier tripping out, and then her bones collapsing.
Maroni is still all about robbing the casino, and Oswald pipes up that he knows the janitor there who can get them in through access tunnels. Maroni thinks that it's also incorrect for Oswald to not like his Penguin nickname. He sees more than a dishwasher in a suit, which is what his henchman sees. Then Oswald blabs about working for Fish Mooney, and that they think he's dead. He laughs, then slams Oswald's head into the table. The henchman then goes to 'ask' Gordon to come with him, and that in involves Oswald. He isn't given a choice but to tell Maroni everything, including that nobody else knows that Penguin is alive.
Gordon comes back to the office to find a pile of boxes from Wellzyn. Their lawyers made it clear that they weren't involved. Turns out that's not really true. Viper was a project to make super-soldiers, but it was the unsuccessful first stage because of the side effect of death. After Thomas and Martha Wayne died, the project was started up again, called Venom. This is all according to a Philosophy professor friend/terrorist cohort of Mr. Mangled Ear. He takes some Viper and bends the hell out of his wheelchair, and then dies (of course).
The whole plan is to use the air ducts at the Wayne charity thing to use the drug on 'important' people so that the message will get across. Too bad that Alfred finally got Bruce out of the house - and into the party. Bruce actually wanted to go though, so he could ask about the irregularities in the Arkham project. He's disappointed that none of the board members are there, and he's getting stonewalled (sort of) by a middle-management woman. He's a kid who will not be denied, though. But then they're interrupted by a message from Stan (Mr. Viper), about Wellzyn and Wayne Enterprises. He then fills the room with the gas. Alfred notices immediately and covers Bruce's head with a coat to get him out of there.
On the roof, Gordon has a gun on Stan, and then shoots a hole in the Viper canister. Stan gets a giant-ass whiff, then chucks himself off the roof, but not before telling them to check Warehouse 39. They go, but it's been cleaned out - by the middle manager that Bruce was talking to at the charity event. Jesus, is EVERYBODY in Gotham dirty?
The heist of the casino goes off as planned, much to Oswald's relief, since he was probably going to get the slicer again if it didn't. Meanwhile, Falcone is enjoying some solitude while feeding pigeons. And heeerrreee comes the secret weapon, humming an aria that his mother used to sing to him. She's also dressed differently, and apparently looks a bit like her. That's why Fish was teaching her to act more motherly. And while her little weapon is working her magic, Fish is fucking that Russian mob dude from earlier, both of them plotting against Falcone as foreplay.
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