The trauma of committing his first murder was enough to cause Edward to develop a split personality, one that's crazier and more aggressive. Prior to the events of the show, he won the Whippleburn Prize for excellence in criminal science writing for an article titled "What’s Wrong With This Right? Gordon tells Ed to be easy and that Bullock was simply being colorful. For the first time, Tom fully realizes that Nygma has a crush on Kristen. After she leaves, chuckling to himself a little, Nygma repositions the note, revealing that the first letters of each line spell "NYGMA" down the left margin. Batman: Hush is an American comic book story arc published by DC Comics featuring the superhero Batman.It was published in monthly installments within the comic book series Batman, running from issue #608–619 in October 2002 until September 2003.The story arc was written by Jeph Loeb, penciled by Jim Lee, inked by Scott Williams, and colored by Alex Sinclair. Ethel arrives and asks Aaron to come with her. Edward earned his degree at Gotham City University. As Lee had shot Firefly (Penguin's enforcer) prior to publicly exposing Cherry and her being previously praised for offering treatment she's declared the new leader of Cherry's turf is with Ed as her second-in command. He types one out and plays dumb when he finds Kristen reading it. Oswald confirms that he didn't have anything to do with it before telling Edward that he thought he needed help and saying "What else are friends for?". Nygma's cell phone starts ringing, to which Leslie inquires if that's Kristen calling Ed, when it's really Oswald. - silence. As he gapes in horror at what he's done, Tom grips him by the shoulder as though to knock him down again, and Nygma flies into a rage, stabbing him ten more times. 'That was in the riddle too,' Ed said quietly after a moment. Once they began to walk. He may also tell half-truths. While trying to figure it out, Edward screams in frustration at the mirror and demands the other Ed show himself. Oswald further questions him about Isabella and finds out where she works, paying her a visit. "Rise of the Villains: Mommy's Little Monster", "Rise of the Villains: Tonight’s the Night", "Rise of the Villains: The Son of Gotham", "Wrath of the Villains: This Ball of Mud and Meanness". Freeze to zapping Edward into an ice sculpture. The Riddler ends up being handed over to Sofia after Butch, who has since got his memory back, brings him to Tabitha and Barbara. ... Life, however, rarely thrives in a city as corrupt as Gotham, and it's only time until the Dark makes its move; one that is impossible to out play. She got him to hand over his money, telling him that she may be able to help him. The series opens at the Republic of Moldavia exhibit, located at the Gotham City World's Fair, the Moldavian prime minister slices into the Moldavian friendship cake and unknowingly causes it to explode, releasing a concealed riddle. The following day, he returns to the GCPD with the now-dismembered corpse, intending to dispose of it in the morgue. She asks if blowing up the mayor was his plan to put his name out there before Edward claims that it is a callback and explains that he was waiting for Bruce to begin his speech in order for him to interru. When she revealed Nygma's damaged mind, not able to even answer children's riddles, Cobblepot left the room and had Zsasz kill her to make an example. The story already feels complete and cohesive, hinting at a somber tale centering around a young, unseasoned Batman, pursuing a homicidal Riddler wreaking havoc on Gotham. Ed wore the same black bowler hat however he had new glasses that had been tinted with green. Bullock explains that they don't and that they just wanted to know where it comes from, calling Ed a dummy. Isabella then prepares to leave town and Oswald comes up with another plan to get rid of her, employing Gabe to cut her brakes. Now everybody has a gimmick. "It's just that he's such a bad--" he begins, but Kristen cuts him off, placing a hand on his arm. Believing Oswald is going to kill him, the latter says instead that he wants Edward around to make sure that he never makes the same mistake again, which leads Mr. As the game begins, Nygma asks Lee the first riddle: "I can be broken without being held. Edward dons his new outfit, provoking the kidnapped Mayor James and watching the news on Wayne Tower. However, he was kidnapped and given bombs by Arkham guards under the orders of Jeremiah Valeska in order for Edward to blow up the newly built Wayne Tower. Barbara asks why she should assist him, with Ed promising her the best intel ever in return for the location of Strange. The group then organizes a plan after taking one of Walker's recordings in which they will make a deal with Eduardo to spare Lee's life. However, Lee showed up and managed to convince Nygma that she no longer has feelings for Jim, and Gordon is released after Lee promises to leave Gotham with Nygma. [28], When knocked out by Theo Galavan, a confused Jim Gordon wakes up to Nygma and Oswald singing with each other. The Riddler reveals himself with Batman and Robin hanging. Oswald then explains to Ed that his mother used to sing it to him every night before he went to sleep. Later after a failed kidnapping attempt on him at the behest of Oswald which ends with Cherry being exposed as Penguin's informant and Barbara shooting her in the head, who along with Tabitha and Selina signify their resignation to Penguin. Gordon asks where they get it, and Ed inquires why exactly they'd need some. Ed teams with Barbara, Tabitha and Butch. While Edward is buying a bottle of wine he meets a librarian named Isabella, a dead ringer for Kristen Kringle, and they fall in love. But because he has earned it and because he needs him, Oswald was now willing to say his name and thereon called him Riddler, causing the Riddler to re-emerge. [44], Oswald pays her another visit, this time at her home, and warns her to stay away from Edward but she refuses to do so. Oswald would then keep refering to the frozen Nygma as if he were in the conversation, asking him if he could see what he has to deal with. He also wore dark purple gloves. - silence. Leslie nearly discovers the corpse, but Ed quickly makes up an excuse to get her away by telling her that he and Kristen had a fight and asking if she could give him some advice over coffee. She claims that she feels that she has been mean to him for the longest time. During their reunion, the duo confronted gangsters who were easily outmatched by Solomon Grundy's superhuman strength. After being taken by a mysterious man disguised as a GCPD officer, Edward is taken into a black car by the man, where he finally meets with his old friend, Oswald Cobblepot, after a decade of being in Arkham Asylum. Nygma nervously says "I'm glad he's dead." Walking into the facility, Nygma discovers the screams of the horrible creatures in the facility. However, this made Oswald change his mind and said that he was going to make him live not knowing who he really was, sparing Ed's life for more humiliation. Ed hears his footsteps on the floor and pulls out the gun, pointing it at Gordon. [37], Nygma asks if they know who funds Indian Hill. [22], Nygma later proudly announces to Detective Gordon and Leslie that he and Kristen are now an item, and asks if they would join them for a double date. Ed quickly fabricates a lie that he was talking to his plumber and proceeds to tell another lie that Kringle had left town with Officer Dougherty. [30], When Leslie asks Gordon for help on finding Kristen Kringle, Gordon goes to Ed for help and visits him in forensics, where he's working on yet another case with a corpse. Though he was defeated by Selina Kyle and Barbara Kean, he managed to reunite with his old friend, Oswald Cobblepot. Guerra is promptly fired after being found with the body parts in his possession. [35], After Ed gets the elevator out of Indian Hill, Right after Jim Gordon and Harvey Bullock walked by, A guard spots Ed, He asks him about what he is doing out of his cell, A frightened Ed tells the guard that it was a big mistake, he tells the guard that he just got lost, and he tells him he wants to go back into his cell when Ed is back in his cell he tells himself he needs to get out somehow, before he spots the vent above his cell. Ed begins to romantically pursue department archivist Kristen Kringle, angering her by reorganizing her filing system in an attempt to improve it. He tries to riddle them and Lucius figures out that the answer is "home," and asks Nygma if he's talking about his own home. However, Oswald began to question the coast of this action, asking his greatest opponent who of both was really frozen. Ed then flees the area. [36], Nygma is then put back in Arkham, sharing a cell with Stirk, a cannibalistic inmate. She tells him that she appreciates his concern, but has realized that there are far better men in the world than Arnold Flass. [31], At the Gotham Museum Of Art, Ed snuck in a fake bomb, then sets it off when the place becomes populated. Alfred went to the roof to notify Bruce what happened downstairs. Gotham has come to an end, but there are plenty of unanswered question after the series finale.Shortly before the end of season 4, it was revealed that Gotham's next run would act as the show's conclusion and with a clear end in sight, these final episodes were intended to bring all characters and storylines to a mostly satisfying resolution.Jim Gordon completed his journey … After being released from Arkham and becoming The Riddler, Ed wore an emerald green suit with a black waistcoat with and emerald green tie. Penguin is later cornered by Gordon and Bullock until a gunfight breaks out between them and Zsasz and Headhunter. After the party is interrupted by Jim Gordon and the GCPD, Edward is asked where the rest of the bombs are by Gordon, however, he claims that the bomb he used on the mayor was all he was given before he discovers that Oswald didn't breaking him out of Arkham, much to his surprise. Jim tells him that he needs his help and that he didn't kill Pinkney and he needs to find the man who framed him Jim shows Ed the recording that was recording from the I.A and that they secretly record everything that calls in, Ed says smiling "They do? He attempts to reassure her by saying he killed Tom to protect her, saying she'd never let anyone hurt her, as he loved her, all the while, unknowingly choking the life out of her. Edward knows he is lying since Isabella was killed in a car crash. Some people use me to deceive, but when delivered, I am the greatest gift of all. As soon as Victor turned off all of the lights and the two were gone, Myrtle Jenkins entered the room with a blowtorch to free the Riddler from his frozen state. Ed comes to inform Essen, Gordon, and Bullock that Mackey had a high level of a knockout drug in his system. Like most of his DC incarnations, Nygma always has an inability to tell a permanent lie. Suddenly, Edward stops Oswald from continuing to walk as the two glance up at the same vigilante, who was travelling from one building to another. Oswald continues to pleading that he created him and that he loves him but Edward shoots him and he sinks into the water.[49]. Ivy Pepper, who sneaked from behind Cobblepot then said that Riddler definitely was the frozen one, but Penguin ordered her to go somewhere else as soon as he noticed her. Then, Edward carries food on a platter, entering a room in the tower, where Mayor Aubrey James has his hands tied up, his mouth ducktaped and a vest with a bomb attatched to it. Kristen recoils in disbelief, saying that Nygma is wrong, that Tom was alive. Later, he framed Jim Gordon after the latter began looking into the death of Kringle. Once given a dose of fear toxin, Oswald hallucinated of a demonic version of Edward coming out of the ice block representing his greatest fear.[55]. As soon as these words left Cobblepot's lips, the Riddler quickly calmed down, laid his pen down, adjusted his glasses and then looked straight into Oswald's eyes, asking him if they shall get to work before both of them bursted out into laughter, with Riddler now finally free from his inner prison once again. Not even the busyness of Gotham streets reached them this high up. In the GCPD truck, Edward argues with Oswald, who claims that the mysterious vigilante said that Gotham was Oswald's while Edward responds by telling him that he was there. Ed later wakes up and is confronted by Jim as to whether he has full control of his mind or not. No one can reach it, not even the queen. Suddenly, the army falls unconscious when the team releases a sedative gas. Later that night, Nygma returns to the lab and confronts his alter ego, who asks Edward how it felt to commit a crime and not get caught by Leslie. Without the struggle, Riddler actually manages to mellow out a bit, gaining some of the calmer traits Ed had. Edward changes the bomb report to another sheet. [50] They start bickering but decide to work together to escape while agreeing to continue their feud.[51]. Unknown to him, thanks to Hugo Strange planting a control chip in his brain, it silenced his original Ed Nygma personality, effectively freeing him of the eternal struggle. However, the ghost turns out to be Clayface who is working alongside Edward. Cory Michael Smith has joined the cast of Gotham as Edward Nygma. As Edward is taken into Arkham Asylum, inmates start yelling and screaming. Assuring her that he never meant to offend her, Nygma's makes his way out and happens to overhear Kristen thanking Flass and remarking on how weird Nygma is. Nygma looks down at his wilted bouquet, then, in a fit of heartbroken rage, tears it up and throws it into a garbage can. Oswald tells Edward that the two need to find out who this vigilante is and show him that Gotham is their city, which Edward agrees to. but Harvey says that Jim is innocent and that he didn't kill Pinkney Ed says that that's unfair and asks Bullock what he's gonna do about it but before leaving, Bullock says that he wish he knew, Nygma starts to smirk.[33]. Gotham's going full Batman in its series finale, at least if this series finale trailer is any indication.. Oswald refuses to hear why, and proceeds to leave but Ed quickly stops him and tells him that love is their crippling weakness and that they are better off without it. He returns to the library and updates his progress. Jim states he was Ed's friend, but Ed dismisses this, believing that Jim simply pitied him. Hours later he comes across an isolated trailer, and when approaching the door it bursts open and Nygma is stunned. Nygma again pleads his innocence. Kristen wonders how she ever could have let Tom push her around as he did. Riddler is one of my favorite Batman villains. Meanwhile, in the streets, a confused Nygma walked down a street, where he saw a poster of Oswald in the Iceberg Lounge with himself frozen in the background hanging on a window, showing him that Penguin is in control of Gotham once again. Nygma smiles, murmuring to himself that "there's hope". Kristen leaves the room and, grinning goofily, Nygma grasps the part of his arm that she touched, certain that she'd finally returned his affections. As she closes the door, Ed holds it open with a newspaper. While driving out of town she discovers her brakes are not working and she drives into the path of an oncoming train, which kills her.[45].