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‘Gotham’ Season 1, Episode 16: ‘The Blind Fortune Teller’

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Gotham

Gotham season 1, episode 16 airs tonight on Fox.

Gordon takes Dr. Leslie Thompkins to the circus, but the outing turns dangerous when the circus comes under attack. Meanwhile, Falcone gets Butch Gilzean to help Penguin with the nightclub, and Bruce Wayne schedules a meeting with the Wayne Enterprises board.

The good. The evil. The beginning. Everyone knows the name Commissioner Gordon. He is one of the crime world’s greatest foes, a man whose reputation is synonymous with law and order. But what is known of Gordon’s story and his rise from rookie detective to police commissioner? What did it take to navigate the multiple layers of corruption that secretly ruled Gotham City, the spawning ground of the world’s most iconic villains? And what circumstances created them – the larger-than-life personas who would become Catwoman, The Penguin, The Riddler, Two-Face and The Joker? Gotham is an origin story of the great DC Comics super-villains and vigilantes, revealing an entirely new chapter that has never been told.

Gotham season 1, episode 16 airs Feb. 16 at 8 p.m. EST on Fox.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=UU2zkeSg_I8EsNpx3nA_OYSw&v=X43wrfOhnEk&feature=player_embedded

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