Cameron Monaghan Weighs In on Jerome's Gotham Future

SPOILERS Ahead for tonight's episode of Gotham, "The Last Laugh!"

Well, did you see that one coming? After months of teases, extensive promotion, and lots of laughs, it turns out that Jerome is very likely not The Joker. At the end of the episode, Jerome looked dead, very dead. He was stabbed in the neck, both bleeding and choking out, and didn't make a move or a sound once he was on the coroner's table.

So is there any way for Jerome to come back? I asked actor Cameron Monaghan if he'd even be interested in coming back to the role, and he was cautious.

"I mean, it would depend, just like it has every single time, on how it's done, if it makes sense, what the ideas were," Monaghan said. "Obviously, I've had an extraordinary time and a fun time with the character so far. But I wouldn't want to ever do something that felt forced or unnatural to the story that they were telling or to the story of the character. If they could find a natural, logical way to bring Jerome back? Then yeah, I probably would. But there's no telling as of right now."

So Jerome is definitely dead, according to the actor, but if there was a way that made enough sense, he'd come back around. After all, in comic books, characters have come back from falling twenty stories, being shot multiple times, and even being vaporized down to next to nothing. So what's a little stab in the neck?