Gotham Season 5 Premiere: 7 Major Questions We Have After Year Zero

Contains spoilers from Gotham Season 5, Episode 1.

Gotham returned to our screens this past Thursday with what can only be described as an incredibly compelling season premiere - one that laid the groundwork for the final stories of the Batman-prequel series. Save for a few missteps, the episode - entitled Year Zero - delivered in pretty much every department, and set up what promises to be a thrilling final season.

The previous season had concluded with a city-wide evacuation taking place but, in spite of this, Gordon and Bullock - ever the heroes - decided to remain behind in the hope of saving the city from the impending forces of antagonism.

Year Zero finds the two detectives months down the line, and things aren't going so well for them. They're cut off from the outside world, and they're rapidly running out of the supplies they need. In comparison, The Penguin is ruling over the city with an iron fist, looking out for no-one - other than himself, that is.

The action-packed premiere episode has succeeded in getting us excited for what's to come next, but in doing so, it has also left us with many questions.

Of course, when we're discussing questions related to Gotham, one of them would have to be centred around the prince of puzzlers himself, Edward Nygma. During Year Zero, Ed suffered from a series of blackouts. He often woke to find that he'd gone to sleep in a dumpster, which would be enough to annoy anyone - let alone someone as glamorous as Ed.

Nygma believes the blackouts to be the work of his other personality - the good Ed. If this does prove to be the case, it'll be a bit of a cop out considering this storyline has been explored several times on the show already. There is another possibility, however, and it's one that would be much more compelling.

If you remember back to the Season 4 finale, Ed was thought to be dead after a violent altercation with his love interest, Lee Thompkins. After discovering Ed's corpse, Oswald had his former friend's remains brought to Dr. Hugo Strange, hoping the crazed doctor would bring him back to life.

Considering he's, well, alive in Season 5, it would appear that Strange succeeded in his mission to revive Ed, but could Strange perhaps have messed with Ed's head in the process, or are the blackouts a mere side effect of whatever awful experiment the doc conducted on him?