‘Gotham’ Season 4 Spoilers: Jerome Valeska Won’t Appear In Midseason Premiere

One of the highlights during the second half of “Gotham” Season 4 is the return of Jerome Valeska (Cameron Monaghan), but he won’t be appearing in the first episode back.

Monaghan shared this piece of news on Instagram. He said that the Fox show will return in just a few days, but his character will return next week.

When he does, he will even be forming a partnership with Oswald Cobblepot (Robin Lord Taylor), who is better known as the Penguin.

Executive producer John Stephens earlier talked to TV Insider to shed some light regarding their partnership. “Jerome has taken over Arkham and now runs it as his own personal, twisted kingdom,” he said. “Jerome has plans for Gotham as well — plans that Penguin is integral to. And from Jerome’s point of view, Penguin will join him or die.”

The two of them will plot together to bust out of Arkham Asylum. When they do, the Penguin will definitely go after Sofia Falcone (Crystal Reed), who betrayed him earlier this season.

Co-executive producer Wynbrandt is really excited for fans to see what they have done with Jerome’s storyline. His return will mark something big in Gotham City, and all of the villains will side with him to unleash chaos like never seen before.

“This is a very original kind of take on this story and we’re really excited about it because his reintroduction into the Gotham world is going to have him crossing with characters we’ve not yet seen him with. Which is really kind of a theme we’ve been playing with this whole season and something we challenged ourselves over designing this season,” he said.

Some of the villains that Jerome will gather will probably be the new Scarecrow and Poison Ivy. When the show returns, David W. Thompson will breathe to life the role of Jonathan Crane while Peyton List will embrace the new Ivy Pepper. Maybe he will also get Solomon Grundy (Drew Powell) and the Riddler (Ed Nygma) on his side.

“Gotham” Season 4 airs Thursdays at 8 p.m. EST on Fox.