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"A Bitter Pill to Swallow" is the ninth episode of the second season and 31st episode overall from the FOX series Gotham. The episode was written by Megan Mostyn-Brown and directed by Louis Shaw-Milito. It was first broadcast in November 16, 2015 in FOX. In this episode, Tabitha sends a group of hitmen to kill Gordon after Galavan's arrest.
A woman and her cohorts appear in Arkham, kills the asylum guards and subdues Barbara, Jerome, Sionis, Aaron Helzinger (Stink Fisher), Robert Greenwood (Dustin Ybarra) and Arnold Dobkins (Will Brill). The woman, Tabitha (Jessica Lucas), brings them to her brother Theo Galavan (James Frain). Galavan plans on using them as a group to wreak havoc ...
Barbara walks inside the GCPD and Gordon suggests he risk himself to find more information about Galavan. While en route to an unknown location on Barbara's instructions, the squad car is assaulted by Tabitha and her crew. Gordon wakes up in Gotham Cathedral, where he and Barbara were going to have their wedding before their break-up.
After Victor Zsasz destroys Barbara's club, Tabitha was present when Barbara sides with Sofia Falcone. Tabitha hears about what happened to Selina Kyle as she assists Barbara, Alfred, and Penguin into fighting Jeremiah Valeska and Ra's al Ghul's men. When Gotham City becomes a no man's land, she finds that Butch is restored.
Falcone then has Cobblepot take Sofia out of Gotham, with the intention to have her killed if she ever returns. Gordon arrives at the manor to see Sofia getting escorted out with her belongings. Just then, a van pulls up and men in black ski masks open fire, killing Falcone, shooting Sofia in the stomach, and kidnapping Tabitha, Barbara and Selina.
Barbara reconciles with Tabitha, while the female League members recognize her worth as a leader and continue to serve her. After a vision of a cataclysmic event that will soon devastate the city, Ra resolves to remain alive and use the coming disaster to shape Bruce into the "dark knight of Gotham."
Gordon is offered the position of Captain of the GCPD but he is hesitant about the situation. Meanwhile, Barbara, Tabitha and Selina are dispatched by Cobblepot to go and bring back Nygma after discovering he is making fun of him the fight club. However, Solomon's memories begin to return, which may threaten their business in the fight club.
Tabitha enters the safe house and finds a case on the table. Barbara walks in with gun in hand. They argue and then begin fighting, culminating in Tabitha using her whip to knock down a construction light that electrocutes and kills Barbara. A news broadcast in the hospital reports that the antidote has been released and Gotham is returning to ...