Jada Pinkett Smith Talks Gotham Ending

Warning: Spoilers for Gotham’s Season One finale are below.

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When Fish Mooney fell into Gotham’s frigid waters during last night’s season finale of Gotham, her final fate felt rather ambiguous. After all, no one saw a body. And now, actor Jada Pinkett-Smith, is opening up about her character’s rather open ending. In an interview, Smith remained rather cryptic about Fish’s—and her own—future with Gotham.

Regarding the likelihood that Fish actually survived her fall at the hands of the Penguin, Smith said, “That’s for the fans to determine. You saw the ending. She could be and she couldn’t be. Who knows? It was an interesting ending.”

What’s more interesting, however, was Smith’s other comment that she will not be a “series regular” in Gotham’s second season. So, does this mean that Mooney might survive and resurface for a smaller role? After all, that mohawk went way before its time. 

“If she survives the fall. [Laughs] Yeah, I mean, it was water below,” Smith told Entertainment Weekly.

Indeed it was. In fact, Fish’s ultimate fate is a rather nice parallel to the Penguin’s supposed “death” at the beginning of the season. As fans remember from the premiere, Fish ordered Jim Gordon to kill Penguin and dump his body in the Gotham river. And he turned out alright, so it only seems poetic that Fish would survive the role-reversal.

We’ll just have to wait and see when Gotham returns for its second season on Fox this fall.