Gotham Season 5: 6 Major Questions We Have After Trespassers
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Contains spoilers from Gotham Season 5, Episode 2.
Gotham returned to screens last week with a spectacular premiere episode. Entitled Year Zero, the instalment laid the groundwork for much of the final season's narrative, and ultimately delivered in every possible way. It did leave viewers with plenty of questions, but this week's episode, Trespassers, set out to resolve many of them.
After the fourth season's finale saw the city crumble, Year Zero explored the fallout of the incident, checking in with the majority of the series' protagonists. Trespassers deviated from this a little, in that it focused more exclusively on Jim Gordon, and the rescue mission he initiated to save a group of youngsters, all of whom had become slaves to the villainous Soothsayers.
It was a much slower instalment of the Fox series this week, and quite a few of the main characters were noticeably absent. However, in spite of the plot-of-the-week nature of this episode, it has left us with quite a few questions going forward - some of which we hope will be clarified in future instalments of Gotham's final season.
6. What Relevance Does "Mother" Have?
Gordon, Bullock and a large group of GCPD officers ventured into one of the city's far-off districts in the hopes of locating and rescuing the oppressed kids that were being used as slaves by the evil Soothsayers. After a brief altercation with the antagonistic bunch of villains, the two detectives found themselves running for cover - with several of the kids still in tow.
They took refuge in a nearby hotel, and while in the building, Gordon was confronted by an eccentric, mask-wearing woman whom one of the hotel-dwellers referred to as "Mother". She engaged in a brawl with Gordon, but the creepy lady soon gave up, and vanished.
In truth, the scene - and the Mother character - felt incredibly pointless, and served little purpose to this episode, other than to drag the story out for an additional 10 minutes. Should the character rear her creepy head again in the future, however, before Gotham's curtain comes down, then this scene may have more relevance, but for now it seems as though it couldn't be more irrelevant to the story.