Gordon (Ben McKenzie) gets tasked by a young officer to investigate the murder of a girl, Grace Fairchild (Willa Fitzgerald).
Through flashbacks, a man, Jason Lennon (Milo Ventimiglia) seduces Fairchild in the bar and brings her to his house, but when she asks to leave, he kills her.
Upon discovering a painting of a broken heart, Bullock states the murderer is a serial killer known as "The Ogre", who targets young women.
When Selina threatens to throw his drugs through a window, Payne reveals that the Wayne Enterprises people who sent him to retrieve the files were Molly Mathis and Sid Bunderslaw.
The episode received a rating of 64% with an average score of 5.4 out of 10 on the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, with the site's consensus stating: "'Beasts of Prey' introduces an exciting new character arc with the Ogre, even if it strands Fish Mooney on an island of irrelevance.
"[3] Matt Fowler of IGN gave the episode a "okay" 6.7 out of 10 and wrote in his verdict, "Gotham returned with a creepy, sick new villain (don't overcook his lamb!
Club's Kyle Fowle gave the episode a "C+" grade and wrote, "Even on its best days Gotham plays like a collection of footnotes and sidebars to the real Batman show most of us wish we were watching, and there's no clearer example of this than the continuing saga of Fish Mooney on Dollmaker Island.
At least when Fish was in Gotham she had a role to play in the city's underworld power struggle, and by extension Oswald Cobblepot's transformation into the Penguin.