page_title: Smile Like You Mean It (Gotham)
section_title: Writing
hierarchical_section_title: Smile Like You Mean It (Gotham) / Production / Writing
caption_attribution_description: English: Actor Cameron Monaghan at Nerd HQ 2014's panel for The Giver
context_page_description: "Smile Like You Mean It" is the thirteenth episode of the third season, and 57th episode overall from the Fox series Gotham. The episode was written by Steven Lilien & Bryan Wynbrandt and directed by Olatunde Osunsanmi. It was first broadcast on January 23, 2017. In the episode, Dwight makes one last attempt to bring back Jerome to life and decides to just cut off his face and act as his incarnation while the real Jerome is revealed to be resurrected and hell bent for revenge. Gordon and Bullock attempt to stop the cult from broadcasting a message of anarchy across the city while Cobblepot discovers that everyone is turning against him after the interview. Meanwhile, Bruce and Selina discover the real reason Maria came back to her.
  The episode received critical acclaim, with significant praise towards the return of Jerome, Cameron Monaghan's performance and the final scene, citing it as one of the best episodes of the series.
context_section_description: The early talks to bring Jerome back to the show resurfaced when the show killed the character in The Last Laugh. According to executive producer John Stephens, he explained: "If you watch the episodes closely, as they go forward this year you'll start seeing the seeds of the way that story will continue to develop. And we probably have not seen the last of that fellow." Throughout the second and third season, Cameron Monaghan teased the return of the character and finally on August 2016, Stephens confirmed the character's return, citing that it was their intention to bring him back and "You'll have these underground movements that have started to talk about Jerome and what he represented and how he's going to come back like in the days of John the Baptist" and "he plays into the idea of transformation. When he comes back, you want to see that new version. That next step forward." Monaghan also explained that after the death of Jerome in the second season, the producers were liking the idea and planned on bringing him back in the third season but the original idea included Hugo Strange or the Dollmaker involved in his resurrection.
caption: The episode marks Cameron Monaghan's return to the series.
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