Edward Nygma and Oswald Cobblepot took most of the spotlight in "Gotham" season 2 episode 7 titled "Mommy's Little Monster."
The little monsters are growing episode by episode and what's more scary about that? Those two working together.
Cory Michael Smith, who plays Nygma who will eventually become the classic Batman villain The Riddler, teased his character and Robin Lord Taylor's Oswald Cobblepot, which is of course the man who became The Penguin, will soon work together in one of the episodes of the Fox TV series.
"It happens a bit coincidentally, I run into him, and he's very not well," Cory Michael Smith told Comicbook.com.
"I am a saving grace, an angel, and I get to play Nurse Edward (laughs). I kind of save him from being at the end of his rope, I rescue him and nurse him back to health, lovingly and with admiration. That is the beginning of our friendship."
Both actors previously teased to Hidden Remote about their team up in one of "Gotham" season 2 episodes. However, before that happens, they will undergo major ordeal.
For Nygma, it has something to do with him accidentally killing his girlfriend. The accident is somewhat triggered by his 'imaginary' friend which he finally embraced in this week's episode.
"So this episode tonight, for me, was about the moment that he stops running away from this person or rebuking him or being terrified of these parts of himself," Smith said.
"He embraces them at the very end, so he becomes this much more whole person. So now, it's about playing the role of Tin Man and trying to work this new body, and responding to situations in a very different way. He's now accessed these parts of him, and he can use them, but he may not be skilled with them yet."
Oswald Cobblepot's plight, on the other hand, stems from the pain inflicted to him by another villain Theo Galavan who wants full control of Gotham City.
"I think he did become complacent," Taylor told The Hollywood Reporter when asked Cobblepot's struggle.
"He built his empire on a very shaky foundation, and that was Butch Gilzean. Butch was essentially brainwashed, and Oswald was overly trusting in the conditioning that Butch received, never expecting that it could be reversed or changed, which is really an oversight on his part."
The show will return on Monday for the episode called "Tonight's the Night." Read "Gotham" season 2 episode guide here.
