As Gotham Season 2's promotion ramps up, focus continually aims at the colorful villains emerging throughout the city, rather than young Bruce Wayne’s cowled future. Still, a new photo takes us inside the major Bat-revelation of Season 1's finale, while Ben McKenzie offers his take on when the series should introduce a full-grown Batman.

TVInsider debuted our second official photo of the new season, in which Alfred and Bruce descend into the mysterious cavern beneath Wayne Manor that Bruce’s father Thomas had used for even more mysterious purposes. However, series star David Mazouz cautions against thinking of the discovery as a “Batcave,” at least yet:

 

Gotham Season 2 Batcave Photo
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It changes everything in Bruce’s life. It changes how he sees Alfred, the criminal side of Gotham, even how he sees his parents. It’s definitely not the Batcave. What is down there are clues to Thomas Wayne’s secret life and what he was trying to do before being killed.

 

And whether or not Bruce starts thinking of any nocturnal animals to populate his newfound lair, co-star Ben McKenzie spoke up at Wizard World Chicago to confirm the series’ plans to reserve Batman until the last possible moment of the series:

 

 

Elsewhere of Gotham Season 2, we know the second run will make series regulars of Drew Powell’s Butch Gilzean, Chris Chalk’s Lucius Fox, Nicholas D’Agosto’s Harvey Dent, and Morena Baccarin’s Dr. Leslie Thompkins. Producers will incorporate such Bat-baddies as Clayface, the Mad Hatter, Mr. Freeze, Hugo Strange, Tommy Elliot, and potentially even the Court of Owls, while early episodes will serve as a “pre-embryonic” (sigh) origin story for the Joker.

In addition to Natalie Alyn Lind’s Silver St. Cloud and True Detective star James Frain’s role as sinister philanthropist Theo Galavan, Gotham Season 2 will also feature Michael Chiklis as Captain Nathaniel Barnes, Jessica Lucas as Galavan’s sister (and future Tigress) Tabitha, along with Dustin Ybarra as a homicidal cannibal. Victoria Cartagena and Andrew Stewart-Jones have also been downgraded from their series regular roles of Renee Montoya and Crispus Allen.

Gotham Season 2 will return on Mondays this fall, so take a look at the teasers above and below while we wait.

 

 

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