13. There's A Reason The Inmates Were Performing The Tempest
Rogues' Gallery was a mid-season highlight for the first season of Gotham. A disgraced Jim Gordon demoted to guard duty at the reopened Arkham Asylum set the stage for first a deliciously dark murder mystery and then a full-blown prison riot, featuring many of the enemies seen throughout the show up to that point and introducing a few more. There's also a bizarre interlude where the inmates are performing a play. Odd, but not unheard of; apparently theatre is one of the many extra-curricular activities prisoners are encouraged to join in with. In this case they're performing Shakespeare's The Tempest; the Bard's plays often have a significance to the imprisoned. In this case The Tempest had a very real significance for the plot of the episode: it involves an evil magician controlling the mind of beast-man Caliban, which mirrors the actions of Jack Gruber disguised as a doctor manipulating inmate Aaron Helzinger to kill Dr Lang and various other people around Arkham.