Gotham: Jim Gordon Sure Feels Guilty

Dr. Hugo Strange Analyzes Gordon’s tendency to carry the weight of the world in this clip from Gotham’s season finale!

On Gotham, Clayface is running around as Jim Gordon while the real Jim is still in the clutches of one Dr. Hugo Strange! What torturous experiments is Strange performing on Gordon? Is he injecting him with weird DNA? Making him hallucinate? Giving him deformities? Just shocking him with electricity til he gets bored?

It turns out none of the above. Dr. Hugo Strange after all, is a professional. And as a professional psychologist, he really wants to know what makes his patients tick. What drives them to do what they do? And he is doing the same with Jim Gordon. What is at the heart of Jim Gordon? A lot of guilt, most of it not really earned as we see in this clip from Gotham’s season finale, “Transference”!:

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Granted, James Gordon has a ton to feel guilty about, but most of the things discussed in this clip aren’t really his fault (sure, he definitely pushed Lee away but the miscarriage certainly wasn’t his fault and neither was his dad dying in a car crash). You might think this would actually be therapeutic for Gordon and Strange is helping him, but he’s most likely breaking down whatever mental barriers Gordon has so that he is very susceptible to whatever Strange wants him to do. Will Jim have a mental breakdown? Will his time under Strange’s influence change him dramatically, and might it even be for the better (he almost seemed to be making some breakthroughs in that clip)? But more importantly, will he be able to escape Strange and save Bruce Wayne & Lucius Fox, who are trapped by Nygma and sure to die shortly from poison gas?  Tune into Gotham’s season finale this Monday on Fox to find out!

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