Gotham Season 3: Gordon Is A Bounty Hunter Of Monsters

He may be known best as the Gotham City Police commissioner, but Jim Gordon is on a very different track in Gotham Season 3.

Gordon, played by Ben McKenzie, has become a lone wolf. Gordon has become a lone wolf, hunting down the monsters that escaped from Hugo Strange's lab at Indian Hills in Gotham Season 2.

"I think he's actually just applying the skill set he's had previously," McKenzie tells Blastr. "He is just unencumbered by the rules and regulations of being a police officer. He doesn't have to abide by any of that stuff, which is freeing. I think he enjoys, in a dark way, some of that. What will be interesting, after that phase when he ultimately – of course he has to rejoin the GCPD; you can't possibly keep him out of it too long – is how does he come back to it? What is his new point of view on Gotham as a society writ large, and his role in it. What does he hope to accomplish, and how?

That doesn't mean that Gordon isn't still the law and order cop that most Batman fans know him as though, he just recognizes that sometimes the law doesn't go far enough.

"I think he believes in the rule of law insofar as the rule of law will get you there," McKenzie explains. "When it doesn't, there are other means at his disposal."

That seems pretty consistent with what longtime Batman fans know of Gordon's relationship with Batman.

Gotham Season 3 premieres Sept. 19 at 8 p.m. ET on Fox.

Season Three will peel back the curtain on the infamous criminal organization known as the Court of The Owls. With the Indian Hill escapees on the loose, JIM GORDON (Ben McKenzie) must take matters into his own hands as a bounty hunter in Gotham. He makes it his mission to find HUGO STRANGE (guest star BD Wong), the mastermind behind the horrifying Indian Hill experiments, and FISH MOONEY (guest star Jada Pinkett Smith), one of Strange's subjects. Meanwhile, GCPD Detective HARVEY BULLOCK (Donal Logue) and Captain NATHANIEL BARNES (Michael Chiklis) remain at the forefront of the fight against crime in the monster-ridden city. Also, BRUCE WAYNE (David Mazouz), with the help of his trusted butler and mentor, ALFRED PENNYWORTH (Sean Pertwee), and former Wayne Enterprises employee, LUCIUS FOX (Chris Chalk), discovers there are still more secrets to uncover regarding his parents' murders.

As the city sinks deeper into chaos, GOTHAM will continue to follow the evolving stories of the city's most malevolent villains: THE PENGUIN (Robin Lord Taylor); EDWARD NYGMA/the future RIDDLER (Cory Michael Smith); SELINA KYLE/the future CATWOMAN (Camren Bicondova); BARBARA KEAN (Erin Richards), TABITHA GALAVAN/TIGRESS (Jessica Lucas) and BUTCH GILZEAN (Drew Powell). The series also will catch up with the future POISON IVY (Maggie Geha), who, after an encounter with a monster from Indian Hill, finds herself reborn as a young woman who's harnessed the full power of her charms; and will dive into the origin stories of JERVIS TETCH/MAD HATTER (Benedict Samuel), a talented hypnotist teetering on the edge of madness; and the TWEED BROTHERS.