Brr! Winter has officially arrived on Fox's Gotham, especially now that Victor Fries, aka Mr. Freeze, is in town and making life difficult for everyone, particularly Jim Gordon and the GCPD.
It looks like the icy villain will remain a threat to the city next week, as Gordon, Bullock and Barnes continue to try and hunt him down, in spite of learning that he's only trying to help his dying wife, Nora. The things people do for love ...
A new promo released for next week's episode, "A Dead Man Feels No Cold," suggests that the hunt for Fries continues in "Dead Men Feel No Cold" as Gordon and company ask Nora for help in finding him. Will she cooperate now that she's seen the villainy of which her husband is capable?
The video also shows Penguin finally meeting Dr. Hugo Strange (B.D. Wong), and it seems that Penguin, aka Oswald Cobblepot, will become one of Dr. Strange's next experiments.
"I think it's safe to say that his [Strange's] meeting with Oswald is a sign of how he'll interact with the other characters," Wong said to the Hollywood Reporter. "In the episodes that I've shot already, that is kind of his M.O., what makes people nervous around him. You're not scared of him because he's got a gun on you necessarily; you're scared of him because of what he might make you do."
Next week's episode also promises that some new information will arrive for Bruce Wayne (David Mazouz) about the death of his parents. Fox previously stated that we'll learn the identity of the Waynes' killer by the end of this second season, and how young Bruce deals with that will start laying the groundwork for him to eventually become Batman (although we'll probably never actually see him as Batman on the show).
"Every time I get a script, it's really propelling Bruce into becoming Batman," Mazouz told USA Today. "Every single episode he gets stronger, every single episode he becomes more who Batman is."
Gotham airs on Fox on Mondays at 8 p.m. EST.
