Brian Truitt

USA TODAY

As if the Penguin, Riddler and now Mr. Freeze running around didn't already mean Gotham City was a crazy place, now things are gonna get really Strange on Fox's Gotham — that's Professor Hugo Strange, at your service. Played by BD Wong wearing some super-cool specs, the longtime Batman bad guy from comics gets his big introduction as the new psychiatric head of Arkham Asylum when episodes return later this month.

His first patient? None other than the Penguin (Robin Lord Taylor). In this exclusive clip from the Feb. 29 episode, the fiend gets locked up in Arkham and then Strange gets up to his tricks to figure out if Penguin really killed Theo Galavan (James Frain).

Strange is going to be a cool Gotham villain because of his knack for getting into the heads of fellow baddies, says executive producer John Stephens: