The eponymous amateur team of crimefighters gets into serious trouble in the eighth episode of the CW’s Gotham Knights, as Turner gets in over his head and goes on a suicide mission to take on the villainous secret society Court of Owls by himself. In the previous episode, we saw the team strike a bargain with the Court by rescuing Detective Green’s family in exchange for a particular artwork that belonged to Thomas Wayne, and later it was revealed that the artwork was concealing a map that was of seminal importance to the Court. Duela worked with Carrie to extract information about the Talon from Eunice Harmon, and they accidentally came across a stash of old photographs of members of the Court joining in secret meetings. Cressida, the Wayne housekeeper whose betrayal was the reason for Bruce’s death, had approached Harvey to seek help, and as the latter hesitated, she promised to share sensitive information about the Court in exchange for her immunity. As the team tries to find a way to hold the Court accountable for their actions, even more, disturbing truths are revealed in Gotham Knights Episode 8, and Harvey slips further into derangement.
Spoilers Ahead
How Did The Team Learn About The Court’s Meetup Places?
Gotham Knights Episode 8 begins with a trunk shot, showing a couple of muggers planning to distribute the stash of weapons that they have managed to bring into Gotham City and plan to distribute to the criminal gangs. Turner, Harper, and Cassie appear on the scene, spoil their plans, and wait for Cullen to arrive with a getaway vehicle. Cullen arrives a bit late, and the team flees from the scene, not before Harper marks the criminals with sketch pens to attribute the credit to their team. It seems like the members are growing into the hero-ing thing and public appreciation quite well.
As for his delay in arriving, Cullen remarks that he was following the watch with Court insignia that he stole from the deceased detective Ford, which had stopped during their mission. In the third episode of Gotham Knights, we saw that Duela had managed to recover the pile of loot from the charity gala hostage situation, which consisted of the riches of Gotham’s elites. In that pile of loot, a number of Court insignia watches were found too, and as Cullen decides to take a look at them too after following a hunch, he sees all the watches have stopped at the same time. The team gathers around and sees in disbelief that the dials of all the watches are rotating fast and stopping in a particular pattern, and from the clue Joe Chill shared with him before his death about the Court’s location, “Watches all the time,” Turner speculates that those specified times might be a clue of some sort.
Stephanie manages to deduce that the timestamps are particular coordinates denoting latitude and longitude, which the Court might be broadcasting for the private meetups that they are known to conduct using the time signal, especially after gaining the artwork of Thomas Wayne. It seems most likely that the Court is arranging a meetup of the members. Turner makes the desperate decision to go to the meeting in disguise to learn about the Court’s plans, despite the rest of the team members’ disapproval.
Stephanie’s Misery
Previously, viewers saw Stephanie struggling to deal with her addicted mother, and despite Stephanie’s best efforts to look after her, she constantly slips further down the road. During the team’s conversation, she receives a call from pharma about some orders she apparently made, and it becomes clear to her that her mother has been using her name to gain access to unprescribed drugs. Stephanie goes to her father, the popular quiz show host Arthur Brown, who is unwilling to help her mother at any cost, as sending her into rehab will malign his reputation. Stephanie returns to her home and throws away her mother’s ‘supplies,’ which triggers a bout of cursing and a tantrum by the latter. To make matters even worse, Arthur returns home and blames Stephanie for everything that has happened instead of admitting that his wife isn’t in a problematic situation. It seems more and more apparent that Stephanie leaving her parents is just a matter of time now.
What Happened To Harvey?
After recovering from a stab wound courtesy of Talon, Lincoln March returns to his home and, unbeknownst to his wife Rebecca, discovers her and Harvey Dent’s affair. In front of the press, Lincoln March announces the fugitive group led by Turner Hayes as the culprits responsible for the attack orchestrated against him and holds Harvey accountable for their escape.
Meanwhile, Harvey arranges a secret hideout for Cressida to keep her off the Court’s radar. He gets a call from Rebecca, who suspects that Lincoln has known about their affair and is awaiting repercussions, suggesting the unpredictable, cruel, latent nature of her husband. Harvey goes to check up on her and, upon returning, finds Cressida absent from the hideout. Moreover, he finds a tape recorder lying in the room with a command to be played written on it. Curious, Harvey plays the recorder, which starts playing Mozart’s Fantasia (just like the fifth episode of Gotham Knights), and it triggers Harvey’s latent personality disorder.
What Did Turner And Duela Find Out In The Court Meetup?
Despite repeated warnings from the rest of the team members, Turner remains adamant in his decision about infiltrating the Court’s secret. With the limited time they have to attend the meet, Cullen can manage to craft only two trademark owl masks as part of their disguise. As a result, Duela and Turner decide to enter the meetup as a couple, and they do so after spotting the location of the meetup hideout.
At the meetup, the local leader of the Court showcases the map that was concealed inside the artworks that were in the possession of Thomas Wayne. It is revealed that Thomas Wayne used to be a member of the Court, but he betrayed the Court for the greater good and had hidden the map away from the Court’s prying gaze—a map that can finally lead the organization to the location of Electrum, an elusive, almost non-existent material that can grant the consumer immortality. With the Court already sucking the city dry, an opportunity of this caliber will make the Court invulnerable; hence, Turner and Duela decide to sneak inside the inventory and steal the map. However, just as they are about to leave, Turner and Duela see that Cressida is being escorted by Talon in front of the Court and is about to be executed for her apparent betrayal, and Turner decides to save her.
Just as the Talon is about to deliver a killing blow on Cressida, Turner chops his head off, and in the midst of the ruckus that ensues, he flees with Cressida. Turner sends Duela back to the team’s getaway point with the map while he disappears in the wilderness with Cressida. Upon questioning why he saved her despite her past actions, Turner states that everyone deserves a chance; that’s what his father, Bruce, had taught him.
Cressida reveals that the Court of Owls plans to exploit Gotham forever by gaining the mystical element known as Electrum, and Bruce knew about this, which is why he changed his last will (which Cressida had burned earlier) to donate his entire fortune to the underprivileged of Gotham City. The Court thrives on poverty and class difference, and if Bruce’s last will had come to pass, it would have changed the city’s history forever. Before Cressida could reveal anything more, she was stabbed to death by the leader of the Court, and Turner was captured by the Court.
Why Did The Court Of Owls Abduct Turner And Harvey?
The eighth episode of Gotham Knights ends with Harvey waking up in a dilapidated hideout of the Court, wearing a bloodied owl mask, and discovering his hand and clothes to be stained with someone else’s blood. With Gotham’s White Knight in the Court’s grasp, the Court will have no problem having its way with Gotham’s socioeconomic structure. Added to that, Bruce Wayne’s last heir, Turner Hayes, has been abducted by the Court too, and the leader mentions having plans for him. The leader is revealed to be Lincoln March, and with this revelation, it becomes quite clear that Lincoln March will finalize the Court’s attempt to directly control the administration, as bringing in the fugitive Turner in front of authority will give him a significant boost in his mayoral campaign as well. The rest of the team has to step up big time in the next episode in order to rescue Turner and save the city from being forever doomed in the hands of privileged puppeteers.
