Batman White Knight & Curse of The White Knight - Full Story | Comicstorian

the white knight universe is ever expanding but this universe where joker is basically the good guy and batman is the bad guy started somewhere and that's today's video this is comic story i create audio dramas of your favorite comic books and i have a blast doing it we cut down on the b plots trim out the text in the panels and this allows you to have something to collect while we avoid major copyright problems i do advise going to your local comic book store or shopping online for these books to give yourself full context now the white knight universe is an alternate take on the batman mythos and today we're going to be bringing you the two stories that started the whole thing combined into a single video we're doing this because the universe is expanding with white knight harley quinn beyond the white knight and white knight red hood and who knows what else is coming so you kind of need to know how we got to where we are so that i can cover all the rest of them and currently on the channel they're all separated into multiple videos so i'm just making it easier for all of you hope you guys enjoy batman the white knight and the curse of the white knight it was late night as the batmobile speeds off through the gates of arkham asylum as it pulls up the guards come walking down the steps stating right this way sir all the men walk a familiar yet different voice asks how is he a cell door is open and inside bruce wayne batman sitting in his cell chained up like the other inmates one of the guards tells jack napier the man who used to be the joker that he hasn't said a word batman gets up from his bed towering over jack and jack smiles telling him i'm in need of your help but how did things turn out this way the joker free and batman arrested it began a year ago on a night just like any other the joker skating through the streets on a jet-powered skateboard taunting batman to follow him over the drawbridge the joker makes it over but inside of the batmobile barbara tells batman that he needs to not jump the fairy is down below and if they fall but batman steps on the gas rock getting over the gap onto the bridge he follows joker as he skates off the highway and onto some nearby buildings and barbara shouts that there are people living in those houses how do you know that they won't crumble under the weight of the batmobile the joker skates down by a construction site flipping the handle onto a cement truck to pour all of its liquid cement onto the ground but batman still having no regard for anything at random skits through the cement not letting off of the gas sending a wave of cement at the workers but before they could get covered dick grayson races by on his bike grabbing the workers and moving them to safety the joker pulls on ahead and batman stops the car as dick pulls up telling barbara that she needs to keep a better leash on batman he's out of control and barbara shouts dude he doesn't listen batman looks on her head and chases after the joker so barbara hops out onto dick's bike stating that he's getting worse and dick tells her she should have done what he did leave batman runs on ahead knocking over a security guard and barbara stops to make sure he's okay but once batman gets inside of the warehouse the joker yells congrats on another great performance partner can't wait until they make a playset of a shipping over a branch however there always needs to be a bit of challenge to our relationship always raising the stakes making each of us stronger each time batman starts heading up to the next level of the building stating there's no relationship between us and the joker tells him come on we're gotham's favorite power couple and just like any couple we're supposed to always fight [Laughter] just then the joker comes out of the shadows wielding an axe and batman spins back punching him in the face the joker yells we're a team just admit it that's our whole dynamic the only thing missing is the love making batman tells him that's the thing i only pretend that we're a team because it gives you some form of purpose you can't see the whole truth that you don't matter not to me gotham or anyone the joker begins picking himself up asking so we're gonna lay all of our cards on the table huh guess that means i don't have to hold back batman tells him i'm not holding anything back because i've got nothing left joker swing shouting vigilantism isn't about justice it's about control fix the city in your own pathetic way of salvaging a broken life even gordon is fed up with you watching his men get turned into cannon fodder in the front line of a war that they didn't ask for it's all falling apart and there's nothing you can do to stop it [Laughter] batman gets beating into the joker all the while he shouts face it gotham's greatest villain is batman but batman continues to punch the joker in one last time before telling him just stop talking and then the joker begins to hold up a small bottle of pills everyone rushes in to find batman sitting over the joker with his bloody fist raised and the joker stating i wanted to prove it with these if i can get better i can get this city back on track finally showing you all that batman needs the joker batman grabs the pills telling him fine you want to get better then open up he pops the top of the pill bottle and begins pouring the pills into the joker's mouth and then covering his mouth forcing him to swallow as foaming is a drip out of the corners of his mouth a person recording with her camera phone hits save and walks away the joker lays lifeless in a coma his mind beginning to put things about his life back together again before when he was just jack napier aspiring comic trying to make it in gotham his life becoming joker and how the madness began to sink in he wakes up gasping from the nightmare as he sits in his cell he looks at all of the batman and joker themed things covering his cell and back in wayne manor dick shouts asking what the hell is wrong with you batman you've been acting completely out of control bruce seemingly not listening goes back to studying the pills that he just forced the joker to take stating that these pills are a complete mystery even to him dick shouts he's not even listening again and barbara tells him please let us in tell us what's wrong bruce looks up with a worried look and then tells the two to follow him as the three walk down the hidden staircase they walk into what looks like a medical facility and they see alfred on the bed dying dick and barbara run to see him and they ask what's wrong with him and bruce says that he's dying and they don't know the cause of it he's been like this for a month dick looks over the cords connected to alfred and notices that they have ice on them and he says that that's freeze tech you're working with freeze bruce tells them that they've been making a lot of progress he was just hoping that they could fix this so that they wouldn't have to see him like this later that night jim meets with the mayor to go over their problem regarding the joker turns out someone at the scene leaked out a video showing batman working directly with the gcpd something that jim has publicly denied to the city he pours himself some coffee stating that this isn't about the joker anymore this is about the public seeing another case of police brutality the mayor shouts that it's not just that the gcpd has turned a blind eye to batman there shouldn't even be a batman the fact that we need one shows that the gcpd is incompetent just then the intercom turns on and the secretary outside says that dr leslie tompkins is here to see them leslie walks in and says that jack napier has made a full recovery took some plastic surgery but otherwise he's going to be fine the mayor says thank god maybe now he won't sue them and as leslie holds in her paper she says that's the thing she's worried about his mental condition whatever those pills that he ingested were they seemingly have cured him we would have assumed that it was fake but you can't fake a cat scan or iq testing he really is a genius he's also been spending his time in arkham library for the past three days working on his own legal case he's filing charges against the gcpd batman and gotham city and given his newfound mental capacity you should be worried a short while later jack is brought into the interview room and jim says joker and jack stops him telling him mr napier will be fine but as he sat down in cuffs he begins picking the log stating that he's going to assume that they're here to make him an offer jim gets up telling him you're lucky we don't add more time to your sentence for and jack talks over him asking for stealing a scooter please batman cause more damage than i did so here's what's going to happen we're going to go to trial i've been taking the rap for batman's reckless vigilantism for far too long and now it's your turn jack places his arms on the table going on stating that batman has been endangering innocent individuals by driving an unlicensed weaponized tank he then endangered a construction site by plowing through a cement truck and injuring three people knocking over an innocent guard he then trespassed and destroyed thousands of dollars in medical equipment while assaulting me as i tried to surrender and all the while the gcpd did nothing but stand there and watch as batman violently made me swallow those pills so if you won't arrest batman then i have no choice but to file suit against the gcpd to answer for his crimes it is time to show gotham that it's better than the joker in the dark knight so now i'm going to be it's white knight jack napier goes to trial he tells the jury in the crowd that it is time for them to put away the criminal who is the root cause for all of this the gatekeepers the one percenters who allow this kind of corruption to exist in their city as the joker he served his time and now it is time for jack napier to give back fight back against these gatekeepers and then they could reclaim the city that they all love gotham it didn't take long for the jury to reach a verdict and that verdict was to let jack napier free as jack walks the streets of gotham he finds himself in one of his old hangouts zoinko's joke shop he walks up to the door and just before he can reach for the knob it flies open and harley shouts daddy's home she then says yuck look at that face it's so normal how about they clean it up with some makeup and jack stops her from putting the lipstick on him tells her to hang on he's wanted to come back here so that they can talk he's been doing a lot of thinking though please hear him out harley he sits her down telling her that first he owes her an apology for the way he's treated her over the years she was supportive even when he had his crazy mood swings it was this iconic obsession with batman and she was caught in the middle of it harley shots yeah she was but keep talking about that stuff and you're gonna turn me on jack reaches into his coat telling her that he's not joking around anymore it was unhealthy but now it's all over it's time for him to give her the version of him that she has always wanted he kneels down sliding a ring onto harley's finger and as she looks at it she bursts out laughing stating nice try you may have fooled the courts but not me jack says put i'm serious and she kicks him in the stomach asking what did you just call me are you for real whining about love and feelings enough with this crap now go put on some freaking makeup and let's go rob something he reaches for his medicine and harley grabs him shouting stop with the pills they're messing with your head you don't need them you need me jack tries to talk stating but pudding and harley slams his arm back down yelling i am not your pudding suddenly harley is kicked in the back of the head and a voice tells her no she's not a hand reaches down and the original harley quinn picks up the ring stating hey jack apology accepted as quinn's hyenas begins sniffing harley she yells you left and quinn tells her yeah and now i'm back don't get me started on the violent cheerleader thing either so to make sure that you understand that cheerleader loved joker whereas i loved jack despite his flaws and now he's cured so you can buzz off cheerleader harley meanwhile elsewhere freeze stands in front of the cryotube with noah freeze inside of it one of the scientists says that they're ready to attempt reversing the freeze tech mr wayne and bruce looks up and asks victor if he's ready he tells him that they shall begin barbara looks at the small glass case with a tube in it seeing two mice with helmets and she shouts oh my god they're so cute with their helmets victor tells bruce to proceed and suddenly the glass case is filled with liquid barber begins panicking shouting that they're going to drown and as the glass fills the mice don't victor lets the mice out stating that it has been a success and bruce tells him congratulations without any more delay victor begins to pull the tubes off of his suit stating that there is no time to delay and bruce yells not yet we have to observe the mice to make sure that they live and victor tells him that his help has been invaluable he has given him a chance to save his beloved wife by harnessing technology pioneered by the third reich and for that he would like to thank both him and his father now leave me alone victor begins turning the dial and barbara asks does he really think that he doesn't have a million ways to stop him and suddenly victor's helmet fills with the same liquid used on the mice and bruce quickly runs over to remove it victor gets back up gasping but his skin begins to age rapidly bringing him to his current age bruce says that this is what they were hoping to avoid he was frozen in his 30s and it's been about 50 years victor gets back up stating that he feels warm and barbara yells the mice they died from old age how do we know that nora will survive this bruce tells her we don't victor crawls up to the cryotube and bruce goes on stating that even if she does they still don't have a cure for mcgregor's disease which is why she was frozen in the first place later at the old harley's apartment jack looks around stating that this is also normal he sits down and he asks so you left me and an entirely new harley quinn took over harley sits down telling him yeah you're a narcissist who suffered from dysmethia and schizophrenic personality disorder hell the pills may be causing an imbalance which is why you're normal you probably aren't cured per se but with the right support you could be jack remains quiet and hardly tells him i'm a psychiatrist remember jack then asks her what did i do to make you leave me and harley asks you really not remember you were an easy man to fall in love with being with you didn't make me feel like a criminal it made me feel free but as we spent time together i could see the obsession with batman growing it was like i was sharing you with batman and that's when i knew you were in love but not with me things began to get worse and that night when you abducted robin you almost killed him just to get something out of batman i stopped you and i could see it in your eyes the man that i loved was gone and all that was left was the joker i went to batman for help but when i returned with batman you had already killed jason todd all that was left was blood we never ended up finding robin's body shortly after jack follows harley to the roof and he asks did did i murder robin and harley tells him you're the only one he knows for sure jack sighs and says they need to save gotham they need to lead a rebellion turn gotham against batman by villainizing him showing the damage that he's done harley asks so gotham city will be saved by the least likely person jack napier and jack tells her yes along with harleen quinzel because i can't do this without you the following night jack asks all of gotham's worst villains to meet he tells them that they have spent too much time fighting with each other rather than fighting batman tonight you would like to change that but first let them all have a drink everyone takes a sip of their drinks and harley hands jack mad hatter's hat everyone looks around asking where's clay face and jack puts on the hat telling them that he's here more or less what everyone doesn't know is that just prior to the meeting jack used the mad hatter's mind control to take control of clay face he had him dissolve into dust and then jack used that clay and put it into the drinks of everyone who is here right now drinking the hat would have had so much more of a problem controlling a small army but if they could control one person and maybe put that person into everyone everyone's eyes begin to change green and harley asks if it's working and jack tells her yes of course it's working over at zonko's the new harleen begins to get dressed stating that he's just a liar after taking so many of those damn pills like a damn drug addict she's going to destroy the joker legacy the worst part she's enabling him anything for her desperate romance she's just holding him back think that he won't break loose but the joker he's more than just a man he's a riot later in the streets all of the villains begin to attack the city together their strikes are all in sync creating as much chaos as possible batman drives into bane stating we need to hurry and move this to a less populated area and batman then fires two hooks one hitting croc and bane and he begins to drive off as batman is driving off up in the helicopter jim tells the pilot to focus on batman they can't lose sight of him and harvey shouts we can't follow him he's gonna be fine it's our guys that we need to watch over they're completely overwhelmed down there jim shout so they can't win this without batman now follow my orders and follow batman back on the ground batman whips the batmobile around flinging both croc and bane into a construction site and he gets out stating this is all a part of the joker's plan croc and bane look at each other they begin to tear down the construction site and batman tells dick and barbara that they need to follow barbara tells him to wake the building is going to collapse and just as batman begins to chase after the support beams begin to give way and they come crashing down on top of him he begins to pull his bloody and broken body out of the debris and barbara goes to check on him and he shouts just get away from me he crawls into the batmobile telling the computer to set auto drive medical protocol wayne tech hidden entrance as it begins to speed off jim's helicopter touches down and harvey shouts asking what are you doing we just left the others we used to be cops barbara looks back at jim and asks what is happening to them as the cops clear out jackheads over the law offices of hill and hill where croc and bane created the destruction and harley says it worked jack tells her that it did with the police busy with everyone they could finally get what they came looking for he starts sifting through the filing cabinets asking do anyone know why lawyers and accountants make paperwork so dull and confusing he pulls out a stack of papers and he says it's to hide secrets and this this is gotham's biggest secret back with batman he pulls himself out of the batmobile losing more and more blood with every step he tries to bandage himself and as he looks at alfred he holds up his hand the pain begins to become too much for batman and as alfred looks up he sees him fall to the ground the next morning jack sets out to hold a press conference to show the things that he's recently learned about he tells everyone that for too long they've been the victims of batman's reckless behavior no one to hold accountable not even the gatekeepers but recently i've obtained something that proves the one percenters of gotham want to drive our city under its control they want to do that with the batman devastation fund the gatekeepers slipped it into the natural disaster relief fund these records show just how much it costs gotham each year to have batman and that number is three billion dollars that money was for floods and hurricanes that never happened three billion on gotham's only disaster batman that is why batman diverted the battle away from the downtown so that he could protect the rich people in the financial district by sacrificing backport many of you do not trust me because i was the joker but let me use the joker's knowledge of the city to remove the plague that has been haunting you later as batman begins to wake up he sees himself lying on a bed with wires connected to him freeze tech wires he asks did alfred and when he looks up he sees alfred sitting in a chair batman calls out to him and when he gets out of bed he notices that it's already too late alfred took himself off life support to rescue batman to rescue bruce wayne his son the next day bruce held services for alfred's burial and the whole time no one never said a word as the night sky comes dick and barbara stand by thomas and martha wayne's graves and dick says bruce did his best to look after him but he never knew how to raise a teenager back when he ran away it was alfred who would come after him hugging him promising everything would be okay he always wondered what would happen if alfred didn't come barbara looks over and sees the grave that is there for jason todd and she asks who's that and dick tells her that he was the first robin supposedly killed by the joker but they never found a body he lifts his bottle to take a drink and barbara asks why wouldn't bruce have told me that that's huge dick goes on telling her that jason was like a son to bruce closer than he could ever be he takes a drink and barbara says bruce is going over the edge i need your help on this dick dick tells her that he's not a part of this anymore he only came to the funeral for alfred and barbara shouts that he may wear a different outfit but he's still robin she grabs dick by the collar screaming that it's a fight between us and bruce alfred was bruce's moral bearing and without him there's nothing protecting gotham elsewhere the new harley makes her way into a building asking where is everyone harley looks down and sees some clay and begins following the trail until she finds clay face lifeless she notices the hatter sitting off in the corner and pulls the mind control device off of him and the hatter shouts asking who she tells him that her name is quinzel and napier took the joker until he gets back she's standing in hatter says so she's neo-joker and neo asks was jack here hatter begins to say his riddles and neo shouts english you creepy leprechaun and hatter begins to explain that the joker wanted to use his device to create an army it's because it would be hard to influence that many that he used clay face and fed him to every super villain neo looks at clayface and asks is he even alive and touches him and that's when clayface begins to turn to dust only leaving his brain behind neo catches the stating that's nasty but she's pretty sure he's alive she looks back at the hatter asking if he can override napier's control and hatter begins to put on his control band telling her yes as long as i'm closer to clay face's brain suddenly there's a shuffle and as neo goes to check on it she tells hatter that he's welcome to tag along but he better stop with the alice in wonderland crap the door swings open as hatter sees the room full of other supervillains he says holy shmoley then neo tells him that's better as a new day begins in backport duke native to the burrow holds a rally telling everyone at first he didn't trust jack napier he thought jack didn't understand blackport or what it stood for but all of that changed jack's actions showed that he cared about them and in turn he earned his trust god knows that he doesn't look it but jack napier he's one of them and that is why he is voting for napier as councilman jack pulls the curtains down revealing his new campaign and jack takes the mic telling him that he is honored to be here today many of you may know who i am or who i once was but that has changed i am here to work for your forgiveness it is time for gotham's elites to give the power back to the people that it truly belongs to you together we will show the other boroughs how to get things done as jack heads off stage to lead his protest he stops before jim and the gcpd asking i hear that you're here to stop my peaceful protest harvey tells him you aren't marching without permits and duke tells him that's funny because we submitted our papers last week and no one's gotten back to us harley begins yelling that he never got him and even if he did he doesn't help ex-cop turncoats but while the two argue batman swoops down taking both jack and duke down barbara shouts asking what do you think you're doing and the crowds begin to shout at batman telling him let him go and jack yells for everyone stop stop everyone please back away so that no one gets hurt i will go of my own free will as jack gets up he dusts himself off and he sits in the back of a patrol car telling jim come sit with me we have much to discuss later at jim's office jack takes a sip of his coffee and says that the first thing that he'll do as councilman is increase the budget on coffee because this is disgusting jim tells him cut the crap i don't care how many you've scammed i know it's just another long con so out with it jack says fine my idea is simple i would like to redistribute to the batman devastation fund found in mayor hill's old firm and give it to the police force with it we'll create the gotham terror oppression unit building up an elite task force with our best vigilantes a squad of super cops it would be a perfect compromise mixing vigilantism with a group of gotham's finest we get batman to work with us rather than against batman and the kids can keep their secret identities however the vigilantes will wear gps body cameras and play by the rules it will allow for accountability batgirl is already frustrated with batman and nightwing will follow her with them we can learn some of batman's secret technologies please look over my proposal long and hard you'll see that the gto is a good idea as jack leaves the precinct duke meets him outside asking if they've already let him out jack tells him i was never actually arrested while jack walks down the steps harley grabs him asking when did you become such a good guy jack tells her it's because you're there to keep me honest harley kisses him telling him that she's proud of him now take her out for the night on the town later in the evening neo-joker now in possession of jack's hatter technology leads an assault on the gcpd precinct harvey grabs a gun asking who the hell is that some kind of new joker and neo tells him no just a stand-in you may call me neo-joker for now as the super villains storm the building batman barbara and dick all begin to make their way to help suppress the threat though while in the chaos neo and hatter head into the records room and hatter begins downloading the gcpd secret files once the two have what they want neo orders everyone to pull it back and banding is to rip the bat signal off the roof jim pulls out his gun and bane turns back throwing the bat signal into him knocking him off the ledge batman quickly jumps in after him but after catching him he crashes down to the alleyway below jim gets up looking at the broken bat signal and batman tells him uh i'll get you a new one jim tells him no i'm done defending you we need a new plan gotham will demand it you know napier's right if batman wanted to stop crime he would give the gcpd a fleet of batmobiles at a thousand utility belts but the gto is a good plan so if you want to help join it if not stay the hell away from me with that jim leaves a speechless batman on the alleyway back at jack's apartment he watched the news on the recent attack against the gcpd and he tries to use the control device to call the villains back harley tells him that it's got to be her they have to stop the other harley neo she's planning on stealing him from her but a voice then asks why don't you let him decide for himself and jack and harley turn to see neo standing in the doorway croc and then grabs jack slamming him into a wall and neo tells jack come on let him out i know the joker is in there somewhere the joker is held prisoner buy those pills and jack asks what you want to force me back into my psychosis so you can reclaim your fake romance it was never real you were fake croc releases jack and neo pauses for a moment and says no you're just wrong i just need to draw him out the way i'm going to do that is i'm going to be the one taking control of gotham joker's a massive ego won't allow me to surpass him later that night jim calls barbara and dick to a warehouse a dick asks where are they and why are they here jim says they really need to talk to them barbara says they and jack napier steps out stating i'm only asking for 10 minutes of your time he leads the two of them into a warehouse stating the original anti-ism isn't working i've come up with a method that we can all work together and adapt to change jack then shows them new batmobiles stating that he only wishes to help them together we can make a fleet of state-of-the-art batmobiles there will be better coordination less collateral damage and this will be run by commissioner gordon jack tosses the set of keys to barbara telling her but the best part is you'll all get your own batmobile meanwhile at neo's hide on neo-sci stating that destroying the police headquarters didn't shake him she's got to think bigger only if the joker was here she really misses him haddad looks up from his table asking how long were they together anita explains that it all started when she was working back at the bank see she used to be a cutter one day she wondered how many cuts she could make before people would notice and then he showed up the moment joker pointed a gun at her she realized that she actually wanted to live she would do anything to even help him rob the very bank she worked at it may have been because she looked like harley that joker let her come along and eventually he gave her one of harley's old suits to wear but after the bank robbery joker took time to manage her wounds and while it may have been stockholm syndrome she started to believe that that is where she belonged hatter asks what was her name before all of this and she tells him marry him miriam drew's pattern says that maybe it's for the best that she got away from him and then there's a ding hatter says it looks like they're in he looks at the files and neo asks what they're looking for and hatter tells her that it would give her an advantage over napier neo reads through and finds out that there's a lot of security around victor freeze wait freeze was a nazi how old is he the two of them begin to read the files and neo then looks at an old photo and asks who is freeze shaking hands with and hatter says that is one of the wealthiest families in gotham victor freeze the nazi worked with the waynes the next morning back in the warehouse jack takes his pills for the day and then he begins to cough up blood harley runs over to check on him and he tells her that he's fine i'll see a doctor later harley shouts that she is a doctor jack tells her sometimes the pills just upset his stomach it's not a big deal they're supposed to train remember as jack begins to work on his fighting skills batman heads to where jack was originally hiding looking for clues as he looks barber and dick make their way to him and batman tells them there's something not sitting right about all of this two massive assaults one in the financial district and the other on gcpd headquarters by super villains who never worked together what's more none of them said a single word the only two people who spoke were the hatter and neo-joker so it's possible that they were using hatter's mind control cards on the entire group batman bends down to look at something and then he pulls his hand back to discover it covered in clay dick tells him that none of them saw any of the hatter cards and barbara asks what's on batman's fingers he tells her that it's clay clay face was the only criminal not here he must be involved in this he bags up the sample and barbara begins to say that there's something else and batman quickly says you want me to join the gto there's no chance in hell that i'm teaming up with jack napier and the gcpd's new attack force dick tells him the napier's changed and batman tells him nothing has changed joker got out of arkham and is trying to hurt gotham with his latest scheme we've all seen it before dick walks up to batman telling him yeah until napier breaks a law there's nothing we could do about it and batman tells him you want him to win don't you because it'll prove me wrong so that you can believe that he's better than me dick tells him that he's just afraid that this will make him worse than napier that everything he's done was for nothing that he took the wrong lesson from his parents death batman pulls back to swing a dick but barbara charges in throwing batman to the side she then turns back to dick shouting you know what you both suck why is it such a pissing contest between you and why am i always in the middle bruce gave you everything dick you don't get to talk to him like that and bruce you need to carefully think about your next move because gotham is losing its patience with batman bruce stands on the legend rather than answer he fires a hook and swings off into the city a short while later up in jack's apartment balcony harley drinks her coffee and says that she was wondering when he would come batman leans out of the shadow shelling her joker's in over his head this is your chance to help him and she asks so you can put him in jail no thanks batman takes out the clay sample and says i know joker used clayface to manipulate everyone and harley says his name is jack and if you can prove it then arrest him harley goes back stating jack isn't a villain anymore whatever his sins are he's put the city on the right track so i'm begging you please let it go before it's too late batman turns and punches the stone pillar destroying it shouting am i the only one who hasn't lost my mind yet can't you see that he's a violent psychotic maniac harley then says jack has changed gotham forever but he can't see it because he's so obsessed with figuring out how it all went wrong he and jack want the same thing but he won't get it unless he works together with him batman doesn't respond jumping off the balcony and jack says that he's never heard batman yell like that before harley tells him just stop it i meant everything that i said maybe if the two of you weren't so stubborn you would realize how similar you both are later outside of wayne manor hatter looks through his computer and says the security system here is military grade what could wayne be hiding in there and neo asks so what who cares if wayne has secret nazi records and had her laugh stating patience my dear information is the key to power every successful criminal knows that now if we can just learn the secrets of the waynes neo gets out of the van shouting forget this hacking it is taking too long and hatter asks what are you going to do storm the fortress and she yells no i'm the one in charge and yes suddenly vines begin to creep out of the walls and up into the mansion and neo stairs with poison ivy she says see i'm gonna knock the gate over ivy makes her way in using her vines to feel for any hidden areas and then on the second floor she finds a hidden room neo pushes back the false wall and looks around stating that no one has been in here for a long time hatter runs over to the table looking at a series of blueprints and says that this is it the files in the freeze family and the ss it looks like the project involved hidden tunnels that run throughout gotham this is what we came for suddenly there's a creek of wood and neo tells hatter to be quiet someone's here and bruce runs out in his pink robe shouting oh my lord you hooligans get off my property as neo and had her run out ivy drags bruce with them and the three hop back into the van to make their escape a short while later a car pulls up and dick gets out asking what happened and bruce says that he's not sure they broke in and they found a hidden room that even he didn't know about harvey pulls it behind and yells that he's got them on the radar nice robe mr wayne dick glasses he gets back into his car and says yeah stay put mr wayne the gto will handle this up ahead on the highway the hatter tries to escape the gto and with a new fleet of batmobiles montoya duke barbara dick and harvey all close in on her montoya and harvey use their cars to pinch the van and then the mind control villains begin to pull out attacking everyone while everyone begins to avoid the oncoming attack there's a loud comb as a batman drives his batmobile onto the highway crashing into harley's van up in the helicopter above jim shouts for him to stand down the gto have this under control and barbara then radios and asking what are you doing and bruce tells her protecting my family and he steps on the gas batman's batmobile begins to pick up speed pushing the van closer to the edge until he rams both vehicles over the vehicles crash into passing freight ships causing it to crash into one of the support fillers keeping the bridge up but while this is happening batman ignores it grabbing neo asking what did you take from the waynes as neo pulls back her backpack opens and batman sees clayface's brain with a mind control card in it he asks what the hell and neo snatches the backpack and kicks batman off of her and begins to make her escape as batman gets back up he looks at what else he grabbed and sees the pictures of his parents with freeze just then the support pillar on the bridge gives causing the entire bridge to begin to fall into the river below once the stones stop falling jim flies by the wreckage and announces to everyone that he is putting an apb out he wants batman arrested in the eyes of the gcpd he is no longer a vigilante he is a super criminal later at freeze's lab freeze goes over the most recent data from his test and he reads that his aging is irreversible then the paper is slammed down onto the table with batman's bloodied hand in the picture of his parents he looks at freeze and he tells him start talking and freeze tells him that the wanes are a family of many secrets onto they bruce elsewhere neo and hatter begin to follow the blueprints to an old abandoned tunnel they walk in to find an old facility that used to be run by freeze and then mad hatter flips the power breaker and the lights come on they see a giant machine mounted to the wall and it's a large breeze cannon with the manhunt for batman underway jim sits down with a nightwing and batgirl in his office asking one question the one question that everyone wants to know who is batman both barbara and dick tell them that that was not a part of the deal they would join up as long as that knowledge was kept secret and jim says that he doesn't like it either but batman's left him no choice his recklessness put gotham gate bridge into the bay allowing every super criminal to escape dick tells everyone that he'll help bring batman in but not like that not revealing his identity jack napier then says nightwing is right he broke the law as batman and he needs to be arrested as batman one's under arrest will remove the mask for everyone to see who he really is and dick says it again i will help you take batman down but the mask stays on that is non-negotiable barbara asks after everything that he's done for you you should all be ashamed you owe him another chance batman has served gotham for decades and now you're willing to ignore all of that for a seemingly reformed joker well i won't be a part of this any longer jack places his hand on dick's shoulder telling him you did the right thing and dick turns back punching jack napier shouting i'm here for gotham not you jim grabs another cigarette stating we need a plan to corner batman our gto cars are tough but not batmobile tough duke suggested they probably use an emp to stop batman but they'll run into the issue that all of their gto cars will be fried as well montoya then says that they need something as tough as a batmobile but something analog something old school jack asks do you have anything like that and dick tells them no but i can steal one a short while later the original batmobile speeds down the highway catching up to batman's modern batmobile jim sitting inside blindfolded asks if everyone's in position and everyone calls out roger over the radio but from there everyone begins to move into position to force batman to take a sharp turn through a warehouse the autopilot for the analog batmobile follows batman close behind and once both of them are inside montoya calls out to light them up several spotlights turn on shining down on the two batmobiles and as batman shouts trying to cover his eyes jim says that he's turning off the engine now as the enp hits and batman is still dazed from the lights jim takes off the blindfold and turns the car back on he starts to give the bat there'll be a more gas and he says that he's sorry for doing this but someone's got to get through to you he rams into the side of batman's car causing both of them to crash into the nearby power line he then slowly crawls out from underneath the wreckage and batman tells him he'll always be the joker we know this that is jim gets out of cost maybe but joker isn't our problem right now it's batman quickly jumps over the ledge to the lower streets and as he does the voice calls out that he's not easy to get over jack walks out telling him the fanboy inside of him is still rooting for him part of him never wants this to end batman pulls out a batarang and he presses it to jack's neck and jack says look at you i'm unarmed wouldn't you rather beat me the old-fashioned way one more romp for old time's sake batman that takes off the utility belt in the cape and without saying a word he cracks jack napier across the face jack wipes the blood dripping from his nose and he says that's more like it the two men punch and they kick at each other every strike hitting harder than the last but as jack headbutts batman he grabs the utility belt wrapping it around batman's neck he then twists and squeezes the belt until batman's struggle begins to fade that his body falls to the ground he sits down looking at batman's body and he says that he thought of this moment for decades wondering what he would do seeing him so broken and vulnerable oh god what have i done later as lightning strikes over arkham jack walks through the gates carrying the body of batman as the officers help set him down one mentions that they'll finally get to see who this guy is but jack shouts no we agreed to keep his secret those were the terms and justice he says that the sky lights up and the hatter tells neo-joker that her patience has paid off she is the most dangerous villain in the history of gotham ready when she is neo smiles telling him hit it and a blast of cold air hits the city freezing everything that the cold candidate has been aimed at everyone scrambles to get into the air and as jim looks out of his helicopter he sees on the building two words send joker a short while later over in frieza's lab barbara shout stating that the technology was pioneered in the final days of the third reich is that giant cannon in the middle of gotham harbor his does that belong to mr freeze freeze continues his work telling her that she must be the lab assistant that was with mr wayne and barbara quickly remembers that she's still in her batgirl costume frieze tells her that he's already aware of who mr wayne is and do a secret to safe with me barbara then asks how did he know and freeze says that when bruce lost a lot of blood the butler insisted that the freeze tech be transferred to mr wayne barber then asks why would he help the waynes and freeze explains that it started a long time ago when i met mr wade as a boy back in world war ii thomas helped with the allies in creating a secret program they utilized valuable nazi assets high-ranking prisoners like my father baron von fries thomas convinced the allies to let my father continue his work so long as it was for medicine however the facility that was built for my father was ultimately turned into a weapons facility and thus my father created the cannon you now have what you want it's time for you to leave and barbara asks so you're not coming to help us and freeze tells you that his father built a cannon he knows nothing about it now leave me and my wife in peace back with jack napier he takes more pills and hardly shouts that he's taking way too many he swallows the pills yelling that he can't stop if he stops the joker comes back that pathetic hot topic shoplifter is in over her head harley grabs him shouting she is not pathetic she is a person a flesh and blood woman who loved you and wanted to give you everything jack pulls away grabbing one of his coats telling her that she is an oversight i can handle her and harley tells him that he had a good run but he's in way over his head maybe it's time to hand this over to someone with a little more experience in fighting dozens of super criminals jack leaves asking her how can you seriously be suggesting that i just spent a year proving batman's methods didn't work he gets writing he heads over to the gcpd all the while the officers begin yelling and shouting asking what they're supposed to do jim says that the white house has declared a state of emergency and jack yells that they don't need help this is a gotham city problem and we can handle it ourselves he turns back to the crowd telling them all we have to do is wait for the military to get here but as jack grabs his head the color of his skin begins to go white and the maniacal laughter of the joker can be heard as he begins to shout and we'll give this neo joker exactly what she wants as the entire gcpd listened to jack let out a mad cackle as he becomes the joker everyone grabs their guns they point them directly at him harley grabs a hold of him shouting oh god this can't be happening and after a few more lasts jack begins to cough and the color of his skin returns to normal as he says that he is okay he's got him under control hardly then yells what the hell was that and jack tells her that the medication has started to lose its effect he didn't tell anyone because he was trying to fight it but it's getting worse jim asks how long can he hold it back and jack tells him long enough to stall neo-joker no matter what by the end of the day neo-joker will be defeated by either me or the joker while the gto forces move out dick and barbara visit bruce wayne in his cell and barbara asks how long is he going to sit there they all know that he can break out at any time he sits at his cot stating she begged me to let it go like she knew that this was going to happen like the two of us would need each other barbara asks who are you talking about bruce tells her heartily i figured out what's going on joker will come for me neo-joker is too powerful and soon he won't have a choice meanwhile with the freeze cannon neo surrounds herself with all the villains still under the hatter's control and tells jack that she knows him she's known him for years she saw the joker being buried by that same man who was threatening to take him from her so she indulged his darker side she became evil harley quinn in hopes of the joker returning and then she breed him jack says you can't do this and neo yells let him out because the only one who could stop me from destroying gotham is not you jack jack remains quiet and he finally tells neo you win i'll bring you the joker he turns and neo asks where are you going and jack spins back around as the joker shouting you will not question me you want me back then we do it my way once a jack steps out of the small cottage harley follows him and jack says i turned this city upside down exposed the corruption and ended vigilantes all i wanted was for people to see the truth that gotham's problems aren't special they don't need a law breaker like batman i followed the rules and it still didn't work what's worse is all of this is my creation harley asks him are you in there am i speaking with jack and jack size telling him that should have worked harley turns to him asking who are you kidding you used every criminal to scare them into giving you power you weren't playing fair from the beginning and now is not the time to start neo-joker can still be defeated you just need a new way to rig the game and that's by doing something the joker would never do work with someone that she would never expect later in batman's cell jack opens it up and he tells him i need your help batman stands up telling him i'm gonna take a wild guess and say that it was harley who told you to come here you're sharp but you still aren't seeing all of the angles jack asks him so you'll help me and batman tells him i will always help gotham but before i do that we have to agree on something after all of this i want a full confession about everything how you attack the financial district all of this happening because of you and ultimately your responsibility in the creation of the neo-joker explain to everyone how you exploited the legal system and the lies tell everyone that regardless of who you try to be deep down you will always be a murderer always the joker and jack gails i am jack napier not the joker i turned gotham into a better place than batman tells him but you broke the law and jack shout so did you you might think that you're better than the joker but you'll never be better than jack napier jack then uncovers batman and as batman leaves jack jumps up behind him stating that i will give you the confession only if i take the entire rap harley goes free batman sits down to the batmobile and tells him your confession for harley's freedom only if you tell me what happened to robin what happened to jason todd batman hits the gas with jack sitting next to him and he tells him i want to remember but the joker is holding it over me because it gives him power batman waits for a moment and then he tells him you better make him say it close your eyes and concentrate he tortured jason because the joker wanted something jack closes his eyes and begins to think back and he slowly begins to remember jack says that the joker was jealous of jason the joker wanted to know who batman was he wanted to know his true identity just before killing him jason finally broke he said i wish i'd never met bruce wayne and then the joker let him go batman stares at jack and he asks he's alive why wouldn't jason return to me then and jack tells him because he was broken not only by the joker but by batman for making him robin in the first place the joker let him free so that the game could go on batman would suffer more thinking that jason was dead than knowing the truth batman then asks if the joker knew that i was wayne why didn't you say anything and jack stops him oh i knew that you were bruce wayne i've known for months ever since i uncovered the batman devastation fund i learned that it wasn't paid for by taxpayers it all came from companies that bruce wayne owned bruce stares for a moment and then he goes back to driving and jack says i know everything there's a lot more to the wings than you think bruce a short while later at frieza's lab freeze leaves nora to rest and bruce says that she survived free says thank god yes i won't wake her yet what am i supposed to do tell her how my father's evil haunts us even to this day with that cannon bruce tells him that she won't see it because he's gonna help them fix it so freeze grabs a chair sitting down stating i already told the woman in red hair that there's nothing i can do the only thing i can offer you is knowledge about the tunnels thomas constructed those tunnels to help gotham move supplies and medical equipment it was a fast network thomas must have a map of it bruce then says neo-joker and hatter stole that map and free psy stating that he knows where they are they used to sneak out to see norm later after returning to the gcpd jim looks at the map and says after all of this we still don't know anything about these tunnels well our next step is going to begin our invasion there are seven entrances and we're gonna fill them with seven batmobiles jack tells everyone that they're going to need to forget about the gto cars he has something better he leads them into the next room and everyone looks down in the garage to see batman and his fleet of batmobiles jack smiles and says batman and me working together it's the last thing that she'd expect as jack laughs he begins to turn into the joker and bruce quickly charges adam and places them into a headlock jack begins to cough at being choked and hardly runs up to him telling him that he needs to come back just breathe his skin slowly begins to turn back to normal any cost telling him i got it he's under control it's okay as everyone looks around every officer has their gun pointed at jack again and batman tells him jack rise with me as everyone starts to head to their cars batman reaches into his pocket taking out the note that alfred left for him before passing barbara asks what it is and that man says that it's something that alfred left by his bed before he woke dick says what's on it and batman tells him that he's too afraid to read it these are alfred's last words he's not ready to see them barbara asks if he's going to be okay and batman says that he'll never be okay his hardest struggle has been to not let all of this affect everyone else one day he's going to leave them a note like this and what will it say probably something that tries to protect them something that they can look back on and draw strength from the darkness something that will make up for his mistake something about why he still fights his batman something about fighting for them because he wanted to leave them a safer gotham a gotham that they could be proud of so that one day they could take off these masks barbara and dick hug bruce wayne and dick tells him that it's a bit too long to fit on a note barbara laughs telling him yeah he hugs the two of them back stating that while he was in arkham he had a lot of time to think about what's really important so jim tells everyone his time and he and batman walk to the batmobile as jim says about the whole arresting batman thing he's but batman stops him tells him don't be you did the right thing things have gone too far but it won't be for much longer after tonight i'm taking off the mask and telling gotham the truth of a batman with that everyone gets into their assigned batmobiles and they race down the highway towards the freeze cannon jim tells everyone over the intercoms that their primary objective is to retake the cannon capturing neo-joker is secondary there are too many people counting on them to restore the city back to normal so everyone needs to focus on that and in bruce's car jack asks if he thinks it's going to work as bruce tells him that they have no choice the device is the only thing protecting neo so he'll be watching he's going to have to go after her and once they get inside he won't want to talk to jack he's going to have to pretend to be the joker but jack tells him there's one problem with that and the joker shouts i won't be protecting as batman silently stares the mad cackling of the joker fills the batmobile and the joker shouts i was always wondering what it's like in here very dark and gloomy very batman could use an air freshener though sandalwood perhaps batman shouts that he needs to speak to napier and joker tells him i'm sorry but with what we're up against we're better off with me trust me on that batman asks trust and the joker says relax batsy we're on the same side batman wants to save gotham and joker wants to show the cosplayer how to swallow her teeth as joker goes on batman crashes into vain and the rest of the gto begin to engage with the other villains still under neo's control gordon tells everyone to remember they're not here to fight these walls are the only thing separating them from gotham bay just get to the cannon up on the cannon neo and hatter watch and hatter yells that they've gotta keep them from the cannon if they take control and neo shouts she knows there's like a million things going on over in duke's car harley hangs out smacking croc with her mallet setting harvey up to crash into him but once the truck stops moving croc picks up the truck and shakes him out onto the ground duke calls out to harvey and throws him a gun just in time for the both of them to fire into croc's stomach batgirl tries to pull ahead but a rocket flies by blasting right into the windshield blinding batgirl montoya swerves after knocking rockets out of the way and batgirl yells that she can see the cannon now delivering the package now she steps on the gas and hits the launch button rocketing herself to the highest point of the cannon as the batmobile crashes into it batgirl crawls out it is quickly grabbed by ivy neo tells her that she should have brought backup and batgirl managers to say i did just then ivy is hit in the back with a cold blast and freeze stands up telling them i'm sorry but i'm all out of ice puns freeze continues to fire at neo forcing her to retreat and once it's clear batgirl asks if he can do it he looks over the controls and says the cryo manifold seemed consistent with his father's earlier designs indicating where the formula might conjoin batgirl says huh and freestyles are yes i'm good down below neo begins to make her escape and as batman speeds up joker calls out to her you wanted the joker you're gonna get me and all the bruises that come with it joker jumps off the batmobile punching neo knocking both the hatter control hat and clayface's brain onto the ground as the control device breaks clay faces sand starts to leave all of the billow to begin to form back up into his original form he begins to tower over everyone and he points at the joker shouting phew and joker says oh um hey clay so what exactly do you remember clay face starts to charge at the joker and batman yells he's coming straight for joker and joker yells no crap world's greatest detective huh batman throws the keys to the batmobile to joker telling him get out of here now joker jumps into the battle bill and shortly after harley follows batman holds onto clay face as jack shouts i'm back in control of my body the joker is suppressed i'm not sure for how long this might be our last chance there's something i need to say you were right only you knew the joker's biggest secret that buried inside of him was a good man thank you for giving me the chance to learn who i really was and for giving me the chance to fall in love with you all over again but before jack can pull away clay face slams down onto the ground causing jack to swerve off course harley looks ahead at the giant set of steel doors that are closing and yells we won't make it and neo and hatter speed by on rocket's rocket and neo says no but this will there's room for one more i really loved you but i want you to live after a moment of hesitation harley says that she's right she does love him and that's why but before she could finish jack hits a button stating that if one of them is going to live it's going to be the one who deserves it i love you puddin now get going as neo inches ahead an explosion goes off as jack hits the steel doors and through the smoke harley shoots out riding on a bat cycle she looks back calling out jack and she looks at neo and her sadness turns to rage back on the cannon the force in the explosion sends cracks throughout the tunnel causing the inside of it to flood batgirl tells frieza they are running out of time it's now or never and freeze hits one last button speaking to his father that he hopes he's watching this is for thomas wayne suddenly the cannon fires again but the heat begins to thaw out the city giving life to those that have been frozen and while that goes on batman jumps into the bay looking for jack finding him unconscious he pulls him out of the water and begins to give him cpr and jack begins coughing up water asking where's harley back in the tunnels harley and neo are racing against the giant wave of water that is following them the two ride along the walls and they find a sewer to escape and just as they fly into the air harley grabs onto neo's backpack the two fall into a nearby building as harley begins to punch and she shouts he's dead because of you and neo struggles yelling i was trying to save him from those pills they were turning him into something that he wasn't harley then pulls one of neo-joker's knives from her back and says he was always jack napier and she stabs neo in the chest harley then picks neo up and dio says that she's got to admit we both fell in love with him he was always the joker you don't want to admit that you fell in love with an abusive loveless serial killer harley brings the knife up yelling no i loved him in spite of all of that and just before harley could stab again duke comes over the radio he says he's not sure if you can hear him but jack's alive a short while later back over at the pier jack tells batman you should have let me drown i would have died a hero and batman says i would never let that happen jack asks what not letting me die or not letting me be a hero and batman tells him pick one a few seconds later harley pulls up with neo excitedly yelling pudding harley then runs over to hug jack and jack tosses the keys of the batmobile back to batman tunneling him a deal's a deal here's a copy of my confession now take me back to arkham but i do have a request can you at least allow me to return before i revert to the joker allow me to walk through the gate while i still have my dignity as gordon brings jack to his nice newer cell he says that it's a small gift a thank you from gotham jack looks around telling him thank you i have one last request marry me and harley before we are out of time a short while later as the sun begins to set a priest comes into the cell and says do you holleen quinzel take jack nepia for better or for worse until death do you part and harley says i do and as the priest asks jack the same question the color in his face begins to fade it begins to cough up blood he falls to the ground as the priest continues and the priest finishes with joker grabbing hardly by the head shouting like you but while the joker's laugh echoes throughout the halls of arkham neo listens and she smiles later as batgirl and nightwing wait in a building batman tells them thank you for coming i thought we could read this letter that alfred left when he died together i just nightwing tells him it's okay batman opens up the letter left to him by alfred before he passed and he begins to read it out loud the letter told him that he knew that he would be frightened to let him go that his death would make him feel more alone than ever but he must not push the ones that he loves away he is happy knowing that he will one day read this and that barbara and richard will be there to support him and that is because they love him reading this also means that he will finally be ready to say goodbye goodbye my son p.s check the loose floorboard in my quarters there's something there you're ready to see with that the next day came and gotham began to fix itself and returned to normal the man jack napier confessed that he manipulated the justice system to free himself that he was the one who originally controlled the villains causing them to attack harley worked with duke to restore back port and give many in the area jobs but as harley returned to her apartment that night she sits on her balcony stating that she is probably the only person that can hear him sneaking up batman jumps down and says i know about the pills you're the one who created them and you knew that if you provoked me enough i would force the joker to ingest them you're the one who recorded it you pitted gotham against me and that you planted the seeds for napier's reform this whole time everyone thought jack was the white knight but it was all you harley tells him you're good jack didn't even figure it out and batman asks who do you think told me harley thinks and then asks if jack knew why didn't he say anything babette asks why did you do it it wasn't because of romance there was another reason harley leans back and says the joker might have been responsible for terrorizing gotham but batman wasn't exactly making it any better someone needed to break the stalemate before the two of them tore this city apart no one else knew them like she did she was betting on jack having a lot to show she was right harley turns to leave but before going batman says napier mentioned something about his old cell about discovering joker in that cell what did he mean harley waves her hand and says i'm not sure and then batman asks do you really think napier's gone harley looks back and smiles before going back into her apartment later at the gcpd gordon shuts the door to his office stating that he heard that he and freeze had been working on a serum to revive nora and they finally managed to bring her back batman then says if only there were two patients that we lost one gordon asks was it someone close and batman tells him it was my best friend gordon sits down and tells him that he's sorry i'm in the drops keys to the batmobiles on the table and he says i've learned a lot over the last year i've enjoyed herding criminals i became batman because i could be as brutal as i wanted but sometimes i wonder why i wear the mask gordon tells him gotham needs batman you may have gone off the rails a bit but we both know you did some good here napier did us a favor we now know the flaws that we could work to fix them given time gotham will also learn to trust batman again batman reaches for his mask removing and telling him no we need to tell them who batman is it's the only way anyone will trust me but most importantly is the only way that you'll trust me jim laughter fills the halls of 1685 arkham manor as its current owner and ruler lafayette arkham wildly charges into battle edmund wayne holds out his sword telling the crazed general that he does not wish to kill surrender and leave the valley and give back what belongs to him lafayette grabs on to priest bakar and holds a blade to his neck asking if he's willing to pay the price it's at that moment that edmund cracks his whip pulling lafayette off of bakar by his neck asking what price lafayette shouts that gotham valley is cursed there are demons in these darkened forests ancient ones that seep in from the mountains no one is safe and they will turn into a monster like the rest of them edmund tells him that he is sorry but he doesn't believe in curses he plunges his sword into lafayette's neck and he kicks him down the well and all the while lafayette laughs as he plummets to his death current day arkham asylum the warden of the facility taps away at the keypad stating that all the cameras have been turned off they are all very interested in what he has to offer the joker steps out of a cell telling him of course you are now come along we have some personal items to collect as the two walk through the empty halls of the asylum joker asks where is everybody and the warden tells them that they had to move everyone out for renovations it's all a part of gotham's new nate pierre initiative all the problems that he uncovered while the joker spins around grabbing the warden by the caller shouting we are going to get one thing straight right now that was jack and dpr not me two separate people you got it he lets him go telling him it took me years to turn the city into the capital of crime and napier hijacks my body and manages to ruin the party the warding gets back up asking what are we here for and joker holds up a bag telling him for the final act batman and napier will never see it coming this city's biggest darkest secret the beginning and the end of gotham a joke only i know about now there's something i'm forgetting ah yes the old disappearing pen trick joker takes a pen out of the warden's jacket and stabs it into his neck and the warden shouts asking did you bring me here to stab me joker doesn't well i couldn't stop you earlier because that would have caused the scene and i don't like to be rushed now make sure not to spill any blood on the way back don't need batman snooping around the old cell thanks warden during this time though at the wayne manor bruce finally sits down to read the note that alfred left him at the end of our last story the note was alfred's final goodbyes but there's something else detailed in it something that alfred had hidden away a journal by one edmund wayne before bruce could even open up the book the bat signal is shining in the sky calling him back to duty as bruce sits up and heads into arkham he meets with the warden and he asks what happened how did the joker escape his cell the warden tells him that he isn't sure the joker stabbed him in the hallway end but batman stops him wrong an attack line like that creates a cast off pattern and splatter on the wall now a clean puddle like what we have here on the floor the warden stops asking him what are you trying to say and batman turns around screaming where is the joker the warden begins to stumble over his own words yelling i don't know joker went to a cell and he left afterwards batman and jim examined the joker's old cell when they notice some fresh markings on the walls batman sticks a knife into the crack seeing a false panel and he pulls it aside to reveal a hallway into an abandoned well he shines the light on the wall seeing a message written in blood but because of how long it's been there most of the letters are faded or someone attempted to erase it the two look around and jim sees a bone sticking out of the ground and says that there seems to be a body here but while the body is exhumed and examined over at saint raphael hospital the military vet jean-paul valley receives news that he has cancer it could have been exposure to the tactical use chemicals like napalm or agent orange and jean-paul stop some stating i can't talk about that and as he does it begins to get a weird feeling he gets up from the table and he walks outside into the hallway and a nurse runs over stating you can't leave here without any clothes but as the nurse reaches out jean-paul grabs the man by the head slamming him into the wall shouting don't touch me john paul then walks into the chapel falling into the candle yelling i can't no jesus christ i can't and later over the gto offices batman and batgirl look over their findings and find out that the body that's been discovered belongs to lafayette arkham batgirl says that she remembers hearing the poems about laffy and how he would be in the woods eating children batman tells her that arkham was a british general who controlled gotham valley in the 1600s and batgirl yells yeah and he was also a vampire she then asks what about the medallion that was found or the message written in blood batman tells her that he can't be sure on those yet but there's something else a chest that alfred left behind containing the journal of edmund wayne the first wing to come to gotham what's more there was another item in the chest a whip made of bat leather they don't know what the joker has but it goes all the way back to the founding of gotham city and somehow involves the wings back with jean paul he mops the floors of the church that he's been working at when suddenly the lights go out he asks is that to you father a voice tells him to put down the broom he's not a janitor he is the king the rightful heir of gotham light subtly shines out the glass window as the silhouette of a man stands there holding a sword the man goes on stating the wars that you have been through the ghosts in your nightmares god has been torturing you god has been preparing you joker leans out of the shadows holding the sword telling jean-paul they murdered your ancestors they seized your land and for seven generations they have sat on your throne jean-paul asks are you an angel and joker tells him yes and i am here to reveal your holy destiny he then releases the sword dropping it into the brazier and continues jean paul the truth is behind your name the valley god needs you as real jean-paul takes the sword as it burns with fire and joker tells him i need you to take the flame so that i may take the light to correct the sin that has spread darkness throughout your kingdom to do that we must slay the demon the man whose family has cursed gotham miss wayne [Music] over with bruce wayne he is sitting looking through the journal that alfred pennyworth left to him before he passed the journal recalls the stories of what happened to edmund wayne back in the 1600s when they tried to take the land of gotham and he sees that edmund wayne was nothing more than a common thief after being caught one night he was approached by a man who would later be revealed to be bakar and bakar told him that he was meant for something greater than these mere tricks so while on their way to prison bakar rescues edmond by killing dozens of guards but then again they seem to have more about them than just the average guardsman bakara spoke of a destiny that brought them to gotham valley and before their showdown with lafayette they trained bakar taught edmond how to fight how to fire a gun how to survive gotham valley was where his family was and where he would make his final stand however bakar's help came with a heavy cost half of gotham and that wasn't something that he was willing to grant but while bruce was looking through the journal in his office there was a knock at his door bruce's assistant stated that there's a woman here and she doesn't have an appointment before bruce could respond the woman says that it's very important that she speaks with him she's there regarding their bat problem bruce tells his assistant let her in and then asks what he can do for her she sits down telling him that he and the police can lay off her clients they're a mutual friend the joker told her everything bruce tells her that there's been a misunderstanding and the woman stops him telling him that this could go a lot quicker if he stops playing stupid and just accepts that right now she knows more about bruce wing than even he does her name is ruth and she created the batman devastation fund she's also the financial handler for some of gotham's wealthier citizens the people napier called the elites she was there to point out that it's in both their interest for him to make the napier initiative go away bruce asks if she's going to try and blackmail him and ruth says no she's just here to tell him the facts there's a rumor going around that bruce wayne is considering telling gotham the truth about batman but what does he think would happen if he does let that go through if he does reveal the truth of his identity first the stock and his companies would plummet as the fbi seizes all of his assets and he's arrested for terrorism thousands of people would lose their jobs resulting in even more crime and poverty he'd lose his fortune over the hundreds of assault charges from decades of vigilantism everyone who has ever worked with him would then be charged for aiding and abetting including the gcpd so it's really simple if he wants what's best for gotham he should continue being batman and fighting crime low level crime and he'll find a way to help the elites by stopping the napier initiative as ruth leaves bruce tells her that he doesn't care what it takes to expose her she says that he should because he won't survive this neither will dick or barbara or anyone else that he's roped into his insane cause the next day gordon stands before the people of gotham at a press meeting stating that he isn't a politician he's just a blue collared kid who wanted to be an unpaid cop he isn't that good at a spin and he doesn't like cameras and he has no patience for bs the truth is he hated jack napier because he was the joker doesn't matter what he was trying to do he was the joker and unlike the voters he didn't have the luxury of ignoring all the horrible things that napier did as the joker frankly he's stunned that people have voted nate pierre as a councilman it took a long time for him to see that jack napier brought out the best in gotham though while jag napier wasn't perfect and his past did haunt him he did show gotham that they had to be better and how they could be better and that's why they created the napier initiative as commissioner he ended police corruption addressing the problems in places like backport and supporting programs like the gto but the root of their problem isn't on the streets it is in their ivory towers and that is why he's asking for their support give him the power to stop the so-called elites not as their commissioner but as their mayor that's when laughter can be heard and the joker walks out onto the stage holding a gun telling them my brand of comedy embraces the classics squirting flower whoopee cushions yo mama jokes impressions are never really my thing but hey let's give it a whirl joker slaps on a fake mustache telling him my name is jim gordon and i'm running for mayor not only am i an incompetent policeman who allowed batman to ruin this city but i'm also a cheating husband and terrible dad i'm too stupid to even notice that my own daughter is actually bat's girl how was that too much nose but while this is going on back over at ruth's desk she sighs stating that it doesn't look like wayne is going to cooperate so mr valley your plan b jean-paul sets his sword on the desk telling her ezreal ruth tells him okay azrael mind pulling your sword out of my mahogany desk asriel leaves his sword into telling her i don't have time for your schemes for me it's simple bruce's family took my kingdom in cold blood and now that's exactly what i'm going to take back michael is a sniper and gabriel is demolitions our specialty is disrupting enemy networks by removing key players and gotham has a lot of key players ruth tells him that it's not enough to kill batman he must replace him become their batman in exchange they will make him rich like a king just tell her exactly what they need meanwhile over at the gcpd jim gordon lights a cigarette telling himself that joker was right he spent years working alongside his own daughter and he couldn't tell because of some silly mask he's a hell of a detective jim points to bruce wayne telling him and you all this talk of trusting and turning a new leaf stating that you'd reveal yourself to gotham when exactly is that going to happen bruce tells him that they both agreed that it would complicate things and jim shouts well i was wrong you should come out as bruce wayne then maybe joker and the elites wouldn't have destroyed my little girl's life later still trying to process what happened bruce turns to the last person to help him the last person that could help him harley quinn as harley reads the paper on her balcony she says out loud that he keeps forgetting that she is the only one in gotham he can't sneak up on bruce steps out telling her that he needs her we have joker in custody and we need help interrogating him harley tells him that she doesn't give a crap about the joker so bruce asks what about jack napier she pauses for a moment and tells him jack is gone she can't go down that road again her heart can't take it besides she has other things to worry about as she turns to show herself in the light brew steps back asking you're pregnant and harley tells him oh look it's the world's greatest detective with nothing else to go on bruce returns to the bat cave to go over the files of what gotham valley used to be what it was back in the days of edmund wayne and bakar but before long the computer indicates that there has been a security breach bruce looks at the computer and the image of a hooded azrael appears that he tells bruce our brothers were to define the land and live in peace however one son rose against the other like cain and abel god cursed cain for what he had done just as he had cursed gotham i am the vengeance i am god's wrath here to break the curse and rise up against you and deliver this land from evil after three centuries the house of wayne will finally be rectified and with that asriel gives the word burn him and with the finishing of that sentence the batmobile starts to fire up next the bat jet flies up crashing right before bruce just as bruce gets back to his feet the batmobile speeds by with bruce quickly jumping onto it and pulling at its wires outside gabriel loads up the truck stating that she's just set the charges on the mansion and azrael tells them move out while bruce rewires the batmobile ezreal radios in that it's too late bruce this is god's will without answering bruce punches the navigation screen he begins to drive out of the bat cave as it is bursting into flames and with that the wayne mansion explodes and azrael and his team drive off [Music] the explosion blasts the batmobile into the water effectively destroying it and forcing bruce to kick out the windows just to even escape as he swims up gasping for error nightwing shouts there and batgirl asks if he's okay nightwing tells her to just get the hell out of here debris from the mansion is still falling down everywhere when once the three are clear nightwing tells bruce that he's sorry there was no way to rescue him without blowing his cover as the gto helicopter flies down bullock leans over asking that's bruce wayne you gotta be kidding me as the helicopter goes into the air bruce looks out watching as his home turns to ash later as bruce sits unmasked in the gcpd batgirl asks how the hell did this happen who would attack him directly and bruce says that he only saw a glimpse of him a strange mask a red cloak big sword used hatter to hack into the security systems and turned everything against him montoya then asks how could they have found him and bruce tells it that he's pretty sure that he was sent by a woman named ruth she walked into his office at wayne tech the other day and said that she was working with the joker and that she knew everything about batman and bruce wayne in the entirety of the wayne situation she also said that she represented the elites and wanted him to cooperate in stopping the napier initiative batgirl says that she doesn't understand if he knew so much about him why bother exposing her bruce says that it's because without him they can't make money on the batman devastation fund they need batman or a version of batman that will cooperate with them bullock scoffs telling him great just what gotham needed another colorful whack job and bruce tells them that no this one is different the joker picked him for a reason the medallion left behind was the symbol of an ancient cult the order of saint dumas the man and the cloak was wearing the same thing back then though edmund wasn't alone he had a partner named bakar who wore this symbol and edmund was supposed to give him half the land of gotham in exchange for the help batgirl asks is the guy who blew up your house at ascendant of bakar and bruce tells her that or joker convinced him that he was just then the group gets a call and montoya tells everyone that gordon is on the phone he's ready to interrogate the joker but before beginning bruce has one place to be as harley unboxes and begins to assemble her new crib she says to herself if you were supposed to have a screwdriver for this thing why wouldn't you include one just then bruce hands are a screwdriver and harley tells him that he's the creepiest handyman ever what does he even want bruce starts to put the crib together telling her i thought a lot about you over the last year how you turned the city against me know what the worst part of that was harley tells him getting beaten by a girl bruce tells her no it was losing my family harlow tells him that he doesn't have a family they're all just a bunch of weirdos and tights and bruce tells her well when you're an orphan you make family wherever you can find it harley then responds oh i didn't know you were an orphan no offense but that kind of explains a lot harley looks away telling him you're just here to try and trick me to help you get jack back and bruce tells her it's not a trick he takes off his mask revealing himself to be bruce wayne to the harley quinn of this universe and tells her i need you to trust me later back at the police department bruce walks into the interrogation room and the joker laughs shouting [Laughter] well done i miss the barbecue bruce holds out the medallion asking who is he and the joker yells that is my knight the elites are my pawns and ruth is my queen check bruce places his hand on the table telling him i know about lafayette arkham joker pauses and bruce goes on telling him that's right we found the body thanks to the help of jack jack told me that he discovered the joker there all those years of everyone thinking that you were the worst villain out there but instead you're just a cheap knockoff joker slams his hand on the table in frustration and then tells him well a great performer shouldn't be ashamed to admit his influences napier accidentally found laffy when he was trying to dig out of his cell and with me all my secrets that's when the joker was created laffy told me a joke written in blood the greatest joke in all of gotham a joke only i know the truth about the wayne family and i've been laughing ever since just waiting for the right moment to begin the grand finale the day that i finally get to share the joke with the entire city bruce asks what did the message say the joker smiles you'll just have to wait and see just then a voice says that if the joker won't cooperate they know someone who will joker looks over stating oh this is gonna be good and harley tells jack that she needs to speak to jack not the joker joker yells oh lord can't you take a hit it's over you're worthless weak unlovable victimhood is your superpower bruce gets ready to jump over the table when harley stands up stopping i'm telling him it's fine i've been called worse joker then sees harley's stomach seeing her pregnant and bursts out laughing what are you here for child support i'm gonna guess it states you're having twins i suppose i can spare a few bucks one of those brats is basically mine we'll have to abort to napiers though hey batman have a coat hanging around the utility belts after it being harley's turn to lunge over the table at those remarks harley and bruce leave looking through joker's old cell to see if there was anything that they missed and harley says that this place is creepier without the psychopaths in it as the two step into the well harley asks if this is where old laffy died so who killed bruce says that there were two men one was a pirate named bakar and the other was edmund wayne lafayette survived the fall but before he died he wrote a message in blood did napier ever mention anything about it harley shrugged says that he never said a word she was just as disappointed about knowing the grand finale like them also she's going to throw this out there but have they ever thought that maybe edmund killed bakar how also that medallion have gotten in here bruce takes out a scanner and says that he thought that it fell off during the struggle but he found something another body meanwhile over at a bar in gotham jim and the other gcpd officers kicked back as jim announces that he's going to be stepping down as commissioner to pass the reins onto montoya montoya says whoa whoa whoa why are you picking me what about bullock and bullock throws his arms around her the title ain't for me besides it's about time that we had a lady at the helm antalya throws her drink in his face asking oh is this some equal opportunity crap and everyone laughs jim heads out stating that he's gotta work on his speech for tomorrow don't stay up too late commissioner as he steps out he lights his cigarette and then he notices batman in the shadows he walks over taking a drag telling him i was hoping that i'd run into you listen i'm sorry about blowing up about barbara it's just she's all that i got left batman but i know better than anyone that she wasn't forced into this kind of life just promise no more secrets deal jim holds out his hand but the hand that takes it is not bruce's and whoever that is reaches out deal back with lafayette's well bruce begins to dust off the bones with suddenly harley screams bruce asks what's going on and harley yells that it's happening this chunky blonde is not going through that tiny passage back out harley lays down and asks do you have any bat strength painkillers in that belt of yours and bruce tells her this is not a good idea we don't know how safe but harley grabs bruce by the cow shouting just give me your damn drugs or i swear to god i will make you find a pregnant woman back with jim he's thrown to the ground by azrael and when he goes for his gun everyone starts to hear shots being fired as everyone runs outside they see azrael holding his sword to jim's neck and jim telling him so barbara i love her i couldn't have been more proud of her just then michael and gabriel opened fire on montoya and the rest of the gcpd while having cover fire jim asks who are you and azrael tells him i am the light of the world he that followeth me shall not walk in the darkness but shall light the life asghar then thrust his flaming sword through jim's chest telling jim tell the devil that asriel sent you the thunk into jim's chest can be heard by everyone and as they stop to look bullock is shot in the shoulder ezreal then puts his foot on jim's chest pulling the sword out kicking jim gordon over the legend into the alley below [Music] as the emts rush into gotham hospital no one can hear the screaming that is all around them babs thinks back to the car ride with her father when she was younger and how she said that she didn't want to go to school anymore because a boy pushed her down when he tried to kiss her she didn't tell the teachers because she didn't want to get the boy in trouble it was then that jim told her that if anyone ever tries to hurt her she's to hurt them back harder that's what babs is thinking about as her father is dying on the operating table she hopes she wishes but as machine starts to let out that long ear piercing beep she knows that her father jim gordon is gone she rushes out of the hospital telling herself that it's not true and as she does she passes batman batman saw the look in her eyes and he knew he knew what had just happened he runs past going past all of the doctors the nurses feeling the same level of dread that babs did jim gordon was gone later at the gcpd babb shouts asking how could they manage to let her father's killer escape with all of them there they were all there when her father was gunned down in an alleyway why was he killed with all of them there batman tells her it's because of the napier initiative if jim was to become mayor then he would become the biggest threat to their enemies babs turns back screaming no they killed him because of you because of what batman started jim gordon believed in you and he was willing to put it all on the line while others hid in the shadows like a coward nightwing tries to stop her but montoya grabs her telling her that she needs to focus right now they're in the middle of a manhunt nightwing snaps back asking who put her in charge and montoya grabs his jacket shouting james goddamn gordon did and if you're going to continue to work for the gto you better get used to following her orders but while discourse falls on the gto batman takes his leave to check on harley he climbs in through her window asking how are they and leslie tells him that they're a bit underweight but she isn't too worried batman pulls off his mask and leslie asks if he's sure about this telling everyone who he really is is he really going to reveal it to the entire world batman turns to her telling her that there's something else jim was killed before batman can even finish getting the words out he falls to his knees and he begins to cry back at the gcpd babs combs through the records and surveillance tapes trying to find a clue on who her father's killers were when nightwing tells her that they both know that montoya is going to order her to take a leave of absence to get over the loss of her father pam says that she'll just quit then no one can stop her from finding asriel they should be angry right now bruce is out of his mind and they all bought into it capes cows secret identities this insanity has ruined their lives but no one wants to say anything because they're too deep nightwing turns to leaves telling her that he isn't in the habit of defending bruce but she's not being fair they both chose this and so did her father as he goes babs goes back to the computer when she notices a customized military vehicle leaving the scene shortly after her father's death and meanwhile over at one of the many safe houses batman looks over the journal that was left to him by alfred pennyworth when he passed away once more to try and find information of its origin when leslie comes down with some tea she sees the pages and she asks if alfred finally told him batman looks back asking how did she know and leslie says that she was there when alfred received a letter that was addressed to him at the time batman was still a new thing and alfred focused on taking care of business affairs the letter asked for him to come to an address that wasn't on record to one of the older parts of gotham alfred knew that he had to go and that's when they met a man a man who claimed to be the last knight of the order of saint dumas a priest that priest handed alfred the journal telling him that he trusts that the journal would be given to bruce wayne when the time was right but before alfred could ask any questions the man disappeared batman looks at the monitor stating that the journal spoke of a curse a blood feud between the wanes and the bakars but whatever it is he needs to figure it out might be the only way to find this asriel at this time over at the gcpd babs is gearing herself up in the armory and she gets ready to leave when bullock asks if she's sure she wants to do this does she plan on just like arresting him babs walks up to him telling him no she doesn't so bullock grabs a rifle atta girl you drive moments later batman gets a call from nightwing telling him that babs and bullock are missing they took the tumbler and they turned off the gps he's going to assume that backup locators are in all batmobiles ones that even the gcpd doesn't know about batman remains silent for a few seconds and then he says that she's headed up route 1 near the gotham river later across town azrael along with michael and gabrielle start making their way to the hideout when suddenly a batmobile slams into the side of their truck the two vehicles fall off the side of the cliff and they crash into the canal below azrael pulls himself out of the wreckage asking is that batman abs walks over with her gun and through her tears she tells him no someone far worse her finger tightens around the trigger and as she pulls it a battering whips around the muzzle of the gun pulling it out of her hands batman calls out to her asking what do you think you're doing and that's when michael and gabrielle opened fire azrael leans up tackling babs to the ground and bullets shouts hurry up and shoot shoot him now and batman's moment of hesitation azrael grabs babs and knees her in the back with a loud crack before he can pull any harder batman loosens the batarang from the gun throwing it around azrael's neck and quickly pulls him off batman jumps on i'm shouting the fight is between you and me leave the others out of this as batman pushes down on azrael's sword it suddenly ignites and azrael says this is your retribution this is god's will batman has launched across the field yelling i know all about edmond and bakar and no matter what was taken the waynes have been and always will be the protectors of gotham azrael walks over telling him i agree and he swings the sword at batman's face as the rest of the gto arrive they take down michael and when nightwing calls out looking for barbara he sees a shadow rising out of the smoke batman steps out with his mask torn off holding barbara's limp body [Music] the day after barbara gordon and bullock went to get revenge it went horrible the city of gotham is mourning the death of commissioner james gordon everyone stops to pay their respects but there's one person who is not at the funeral batman later at the gcpd batman pulls up with bullet yelling where the hell were you jim died because of you and you were too busy to attend his goddamn funeral montoya tries to calm down bullock but he pulls away shutting no what about babs why didn't you waste asriel when you had the chance montoya tells him because he and barbara went to rogue that's why barbara is in a wheelchair and that kind of reckless behavior is going to get you suspended bullock batman tells the both of them no bullock is right i should have been there after everything that happened i i wish i just wasn't sure i'd be welcome i didn't want to cause a fight montoya goes on stating that what made gordon so great is that he understood two things trust and compromise he accepted that the good guys didn't always get along they just needed to trust each other and then moving forward sometimes meant embracing their differences bullock asks how do they move forward from this and batman holds up a dis saying by focusing on the work we've always believed that gotham again is a small village on the coast that's why the journal's map is so strange it places the village in the wrong place on the edge of the large bay that extended inland in an area that we know as gotham reservoir however the journal is inaccurate the settlement is beneath the reservoir someone tried to erase history by flooding and that man was edmund wayne my ancestors with arkham dead edmond tried to reclaim his own inheritance but rather than honoring his promise to give bakar half of gotham edmond killed him edmund convinced the british to help him purge the entire valley so that they could turn it into one of the most valuable ports of the new world he then erased all evidence of bakar and the chapel of saint dumas by damming the river and flooding the valley the villagers who lost their homes then resettled and back port edmond redrew the coastline as the land below the lake dried up and then he built a new settlement by selling property to the east india trading company that is the truth about gotham and it's how the wayne's fortune started in the new world that's why the joker sent ezreal by reviving the descendant of bakar joker wants to expose the cover-up and destroy the wayne legacy and if we're going to get any more information out of the joker there's only one person that can do it so later harlequin is visiting the joker in jail with their children in hopes of getting through to jack napier harley sits down at the glass divider asking jack where asriel is and what did the message written in blood on the well walls state joker walks up stating jesus not you again thought i made myself real clear he then stops and begins to look around where is he harley sits down telling him that batman's not coming and joker says i always thought that you were pretty boring maybe that's why i kept you around you made me look that much more hilarious but this this is just stupid why would you risk bringing your children here what's stopping me from escaping and kidnapping and harley says that he won't because jack won't let him the joker burst out laughing [Laughter] and harley tells him that if he won't let jack in then they will never see her again and the only memories the children will have with her father is this nightmare joker holds his head trying to contain his laughter telling her maybe i was wrong maybe you're funnier than i give you credit for harley takes one last look at the joker and then says goodbye jack i love you as she begins to leave a voice calls out to her telling her to wait i i love you too and that voice came from jack napier once jack is secured in a chair with a dozen armed guards around him he looks at the twins and says that they're beautiful he's so sorry that he couldn't have been there harley tells him it's okay batman delivered them it was a bit of an emergency while investigating laffy jack says wait wait wait wait batman delivered my children bored exactly where the joker was born at laffy arkham's grave if that isn't dripping with irony and harley reaches out telling him that there's more going on here than they realize they need help jack tells him that he can't joker knows everything that he knows it doesn't work the other way around and harley takes jack's hand telling him to think where is azrael giant religious nut with a big flaming sword just think jack so jack tries to concentrate when suddenly he sees it the sword the flaming cross a sword lodged in a pool of holy oil and some old church with a giant stained glass window saint jerome's chapel in old gotham harley says it that's good very good what about the message on the wall the one in bloodjack jack focuses on the night that he was there he could see words and they said they said oh no harley asks what is it and jack tells her well i'll tell you but you cannot tell batman harley asks why and joker tells her because it would destroy him meanwhile over in ruth's office she tells azrael that their contract has now become void he has become a liability he was an investment to fight the napier initiative they paid him to eliminate batman so that they could replace him not wreak havoc all over got them with a flaming sword azrael puts on his masks telling her i was clothed in a robe dripped in blood and the name by which i am called is the word of god ruth looks at azrael's sword as it hangs next to her head telling him that she was hoping that they could be civil about this and that's when bain charges in tackling astral to the ground ezreal fights back stating that the mercenaries are weak they only worship money bane gets up asking you think that i am weak then let's turn up to juice a little he injects himself throwing azrael across the room and starts to pull him back by the tassels as he begins to laugh he lifts up azrael above his head telling him your faith is your weakness that's when bane feels the tube in the back of his head get cut and he drops azrael gabriel is standing there and asriel ignites his sword stating that often mercenaries leave themselves exposed bane tells him the tube is there to challenge anyone to come in close if they dare cut it and asriel picks up bane by the tube telling him i will accept your challenge and with a single cut he lobs off bane's head ruth begins to shout asking him to not do this and asriel recoats his sword telling her this is a special form of napalm when i pull the sword out there's a button that will set the sword on fire if i don't push the button then no flames however the napalm can still be ignited even by something as small as a candle he lays his sword down on a roof while gabrielle ties her down and she screams asking what do you want asriel tells her i want a list of your clients all the names of the elites giving her a set time limit as it melts down and ruth yells wait wait wait i'll tell you later in arkham the prisoners get up when they hear a pair of heavy footsteps coming down the hall they look down to see a man with a bat symbol holding a sword and seconds later a flaming sword begins to cleave through the villains one by one joker wakes up well it would seem that someone is clearing out the competition i how'd you get past the security the man says they just let me walk through and the joker asks why would they let you do that azrael steps out of the shadows wearing the bat suit that ruth was working on tells him because i'm batman [Music] as azrael and joker begin to make their escape joker says that he really wants to know did security just let you through because you looked like a cyber metal batman didn't even raise an eyebrow as joker looks down at the entryway though he sees all of the dead security guards and he says oh that makes sense gabriel hands the joker his gun telling him that they still need to fight through the next batch get ready as the metal doors slide open asriel gabriel and joker all open fire meanwhile over at one of batman's safe houses batman tells harley that he can tell that she's keeping something from him something jack napier said the alter ego of the joker harley says does he even trust her and batman says that i trust that you have a good reason as to why you'd be keeping something from me for now we're going to split up i'll look for azrael while you go to the gto building harley pauses for a moment and says thanks for trusting her be careful batman batman's first stop is the pub where alfred first received the journal to speak with the saint dumas priests and to try and find a lead the priest says that he has not seen asriel since the joker got to him and batman asks why should you be trusted so the priest tells him because jean-paul valley is a very dangerous man and he needs to be stopped batman then asks who is he and the priest sits down stating that he is a knight of the order of saint dumas a historian and a collector when he learned that the joker founded the journal he knew that he had to get it from him he feared the joker would use the journal to expose the truth about gotham's curse and disrupt the peace that the waynes had created since he was a kid he was taunt what it really meant to be a knight that every warrior must find balance and that you can't know violence unless you know peace but jean-paul grew older he became angry restless and uncontrollable so the order did what they thought best and they sent jean-paul to war they had hoped that the battlefield would quench his bloodlust and that he would have returned to shed those demons however the joker destroyed all of that by reigniting the blood feud the bakars and the wings and now the entire city will know the truth of edmund wayne batman says i already know the big secret and i really don't care edmund didn't want to share his inheritance so he killed bakar and then flooded the valley destroying the village that he could rebuild his fortune the priest asks is that what you think happened there is much more to the story than what's in that journal the order of saint dumas sent picard to gotham on a quest to bring peace to the valley but rather than converting the sinners he joined them and so he was banished but bakar wouldn't go quietly he wanted vengeance he wanted to seize power by finding the last wing their goal was to overthrow the criminal empire of gotham and the two became criminals themselves thieves smuggler's pirates they became the worst of the worst and years passed and once edmond's heart had become as dark as the criminals that they had worked with bakar began the next part of his plan to turn edmond into a killer bakar sent edmond to laffy arkham and the two were divided the valley in half but bakar he had other plants however i will not give you all of the answers now sometimes one must find their own path to discover their own truths it's at that moment that montoya shouts over the radio that azrael is at the gto and they need help now as the priest leaves a batman asks again who he is and the priest tells him my name is jason blood and i've been in this valley a very long time batman then asks how do you know all of this and as jason touches the mirror his own reflection becomes that of a demon and he tells him that he has some experiences with curses a short while later over at the gto building batman pulls up asking what happened and montoya tells him that it was asriel he attacked with no warning they managed to get gabriel batman starts to look around asking where's harley but off in the distance harley's dogs begin to bark and dig in the debris as batman is rushing over after moving around the rubble harley begins to cough and weakly says he took them he took my babies batman batman tells her to relax her ribs are broken lay down end but she screams i'm not gonna lay down i want my children back and i'm going to go get them back from the joker batman tries to calm her down but harley yells no this is all your fault you had me put up with more of the joker's humiliating abuse and you had me become reminded of how blind i was all of those years ago and now you've exposed my children to it batman realizes that there's no talking her down he goes to his bike and he hands harley her costume telling her suit up but before leaving everyone then sees the bat signal appearing in the sky and nightwing asks where is that even coming from so batman looks in the direction of the spot stating looks like it's coming from the old arkham building batman and harley race over to arkham narrowly dodging the traps that are in place for them azrael sits and watches of the entryway and right when he sees footprints on thermal he begins his hunt once he's close enough batman leaps over the ledge throwing a flash grenade that disrupts azrael's suit and he jumps in kicking him in the face meanwhile elsewhere harley quietly walks through the halls calling out the jack that the joker wants to murder their children we can't allow this to happen jack you need to take control the echo of the joker rings throughout as he tells them this place is special this is where i first met arlene quinzel the virtuous woman who would care for anyone that's why she was turned into harley quinn to be arkham's biggest embarrassment and inmate that's why you keep aligning yourself with the powerful myself napier and now batman all because you're weak now your children will see for themselves just how helpless their mother really is as the joker jumps out of the shadows he hesitates shouting in pain and his skin slowly turns back to normal as jack napier runs over telling harley don't listen to him you're not helpless the truth is the joker is scared of you harley that's why he's always kept you at a distance because you saw the things that he was most ashamed of his humanity and his compassion that's how we're going to beat him you've surpassed everything that the joker ever did to you he said helplessly buy while you overturned gotham and batman in ways that he never could he's humiliated by you harleen joker's greatest enemy isn't batman it's harley quinn as jack hands harley the twins she asks what can i do to help just tell me what you need me to do jack and his hand begins to tremble as he grips the gun and he tells her you need to run i can't keep control of him as harley turns to go the joker takes back control of the body laughing as he points the gun at harley's back but before he could pull the trigger jack fights for control grabbing a hammer smashing himself on the face or the joker's face harley shouts that he did it but jack tells her no she has to keep running the joker will never leave them alone he'll never leave their children alone there's only one way to end this harley as she tries to help him up jack pushes her away and he puts the gun beneath his chin hardly yells for him not to do it and as jack is crying tears streaming down his face he tells her i love you harley the gun begins to shake and heels i can't the joker won't let me do it harley take the gun stop me she takes the gun as the joker takes control lunging at her and just as he gets her hands on her there's a single gunshot back with batman azrael continues to beat autumn telling him try harder this is way too easy batman groans are you enjoying this and azrael doesn't admit it we both are batman yells we are not the same i do not kill and azrael tells him you're just one who doesn't have the conviction to do what must be done and if you don't you'll never bring peace at batman screams how does killing bring peace to gotham why did gordon have to die you're not a knight fighting a holy war you're a demon just like bakar and that's why you lost everything because you dared attack the wings but then the laughing can be heard in the distance as joker walks up all bloody you've got it all wrong batman it wasn't bagar who died next to laffy it was edmund wayne with arkham dead the car's plan was almost complete all he needed to do was eliminate edmond and so he did he could then steal edmond wayne's identity flood the valley and start rebuilding gotham edmond barely survived the fall into the well but before he died he left a message on the wall a message in his own blood hoping that it would one day reveal the truth i am edmund wayne as batman begins to process this information asriel slams his sword into batman's shoulder and the joker goes on yelling that's why i've always been smiling because the joke i was told in edmonds tomb that gotham's greatest hero is descended from criminals that batman is using a stolen fortune to wage a war on crime that his own family helped create do you get it bruce you're not a real wayne as a realist azrael holds out the ring telling him once this is over i'll be taking it all back from you and the rest of the elites but before azrael could push the sword in further harley jumps through kicking him off the ledge into the dark pits below she then turns and points the gun at the joker who laughs shouting you won't do it you don't have the she pulls the trigger and with a single gunshot the joker falls to the ground batman and harley kneel unable to say anything as a jack wipes the tears from harley's face batman takes jack's hand and he tells her that she'll be okay and harley turns to batman holding him as jack napier finally in control takes his final breath and passes on [Music] as the realization of not being a wayne sets in batman thinks back to how this all began he would often stare at the cross sword hanging on the wall wishing he could pull one down but after that fateful night he would stare at the swords and cry he would cry and blame himself for what had happened he was the one who wanted to go see the movie alfred found the young bruce staring up at the wall and said that he would like to propose a deal if he was ready to attend the funeral he would be ready to hold the rapier when they get back he will learn how to use it how to fight so that the next time that he's in danger he'll know what to do young bruce sniffles asking like zorro and alfred tells him yes like zorro now the current day a much older batman stares at the swords once again thinking about how the waynes were always guardians going all the way back to the middle ages they were nobles using their wealth to defend the people who shared their land and as batman he wanted to honor that tradition learning the truth of edmund wayne has been difficult but never once was not being a wayne a thought the truth is azrael's a descendant of a man who died in that well as batman stares at the computer screen hardly tells him that he was right she was keeping something from him jack napier and her were worried what the truth might do to him but they both knew that he would eventually figure it out she couldn't stop it but she would at least be there for him when he found out the truth batman lets out a sigh the joke is right there is a curse in gotham and it's batman harley shouts that's bull was your father a curse was your mother we're not responsible for something that we never knew about and neither are you who cares if you're technically not a wane you're still doing what you've always done guarding the city using your fortune to protect people batman's stops are telling her not according to this it's the list of the elites the gto found a ruth or what was left of her after azrael killed her there are names of every business and every investor she's ever made profit on most of its channel through one company the largest company in gotham wayne core that's why she didn't want me to come to gotham with the truth i was her biggest client harley harley asks how did you not know your batman you know the world's best detective batman sits back telling her that's the problem i've been batman for so long that it's taken over my life i can't even shake someone's hand without imagining three different ways of breaking their elbow i don't even know how to beat bruce wayne anymore i don't really know who he is joker and azrael have proven it gotham will never forgive me harley kneels down telling him yes they will after all they forgave jack napier for being the joker and you know why because he took off the mask he asked for forgiveness he knew in order to help gotham you had to trust gotham batman tells her i do trust gotham and hurley asks do you do you really batman then says it'll destroy everything if i reveal it i will have nothing left i'll just be a poor bruce wayne harley takes him by the hand telling him you'll still have your friends you'll still have me later that day barbara struggles to walk again in crutches when she happens to slip there wasn't a nurse that caught her from falling it was batman no it was bruce wayne and bruce tells her that she's making good progress and barbara says that azrael almost broke her spine the doctors are stunned at any recovery bruce says that he's not after all you're a gordon and i'm sorry barbasia is telling him no it's not your fault i shouldn't have gone after azrael after he killed my father without and bruce stops her no i should have done it i should have used that gun to kill asriel barb was taken back asking what batman would never bruce tells her no i'm not batman anymore turns out i'm not even a wayne i can't fix gotham's corruption because i'm part of that corruption the family fortune the cape the cowl i need to come clean barbara it'll be the only way to come clean might be the only way to destroy the elites and give this city a new start barbara asks what are you talking about and bruce tells her he thought that coming clean was too dangerous said it was safer for batman to just disappear do you think he'd understand do you think he'd forgive me for what i've done barbara asks who is he and bruce says your father barbara takes bruce's hands and says that he really frustrated her father not because he broke the law but because batman was proof that they couldn't fix gotham by following the rules that's why he took the risk and embraced batman he admired batman part of him wanted to be batman if he was here right now he wouldn't want you to do that he would trust you to make your own decision then do everything that he could to support it bruce later that evening the newly appointed police commissioner renee montoya holds a press conference telling the people of gotham that she is declaring a city-wide emergency as they begin the manhunt for the man known as azrael he is responsible for the death of dozens of super criminals 23 police officers and those include the late commissioner jim gordon but as she goes on the feed is cut and images of batman begin to appear batman tells everyone that it's been his honor to serve them over the past few decades fighting crime saving lives all in an effort to make this city a better place however he knew that it couldn't go on forever it's clear to him that the era of batman must come to an end over the years things have become more complicated it's no longer a childish game of cops and robbers it's serial killers monsters and super criminals when this began all he needed was some rope and a pair of handcuffs now he is a one-man army who does as much damage to the people as he does to the criminals he has become a villain and that is why jack napier beat him that is why as of this moment he is supporting the napier initiative because batman means being whatever gotham needs him to be and that they all now need to know the truth that batman is really bruce wayne as bruce pulls the mask down he goes on stating that he recently learned that the wayne empire had been hijacked by those who have corrupted gotham the most the elites that is why he is giving it all away to destroy the elites to give back to the people of gotham his fortune does not belong to him it belongs to the people of the city all the money in the assets will be put into non-profits to create better schools libraries homeless shelters and scholarships everything generated will be donated back to gotham offsetting their taxes for decades gotham will no longer be a city of darkness it will become a city of light a beacon it will be a place without shadows without batman but first he needs a favor azrael is still out there as soon as the sun goes down he'll make his move and as batman he can get him but not at the cost of hurting those around that is why he is asking everyone to stay off the streets until asriel is caught he is asking for their forgiveness he is asking to trust him one last time he is asking for their permission to be batman one final time as the cameras turn off montoya asks you really can't help yourself huh making decisions alone and forcing everyone to fall in line bruce tells her i started this now i need to end it you want to arrest azrael without getting people hurt this is the best option montoya says that most of gotham doesn't even like him right now how can he be sure that eight million people will stay clear of the streets bruce heads into the garage telling her it's a risk but if we clear the streets i'll know that they're with me and when it's all over i'll turn myself in and gotham no one is above the law not even me azrael will most likely be targeting hospitals with ruth dead he'll need a new source of medication we'll need people keeping an eye on the cameras around the cities the rest will be out in the streets looking montoya asks what will you be doing azrael destroyed most of the batmobiles when he attacked the gto there's only one left bruce looks down at the very first model batmobile he tells her yeah and it's my favorite one as everyone gets ready to head out nightwing stops bruce asking what happens when we catch azrael is he going to be brought in safely and allowed to serve his time or do you have something else in mind bruce bruce asks what are you trying to say and nightwing tells him i know exactly what this is about it's not worth it you'll not be able to live with yourself batman does not kill bruce thinks long and hard for a moment and then he tells him batman is dead and so is asriel the check engine light kicks on and bruce races ahead leaving nightwing behind with the streets clear empty of civilians bruce thinks to himself that this is it this is his last night as batman as bruce stands out in the open montoya calls over the citywide monitor stating that they have spotted azrael east river highway heading north bruce puts on his mask and he jumps in telling her i'm on my way everyone quickly converges to the reported site and they see azrael swinging from the rooftops montoya tells everyone that they need to quickly get ahead and stop him before he doubles back around that's when azrael lands in the middle of the streets bruce presses a button and as the rest step on the gas they suddenly feel their cars slowing down bruce speeds by with nightwing quickly getting out to check what's wrong and shots i knew it a remote disruptor with bruce ohlone opens fire on azrael throwing him off balance launching a grappling hook snagging azrael by the leg once secure bruce hits the brake slamming azrael into the back of the car turning on the thruster as a fire washes over him asriel gets back up telling him now that was a nice trick bruce flips the car into reverse driving backwards all the way to the airport crashing into a plane as that plane explodes bruce gets out of the car holding an assault rifle pointing it directly at azrael azrael tells him and i thought batman didn't kill isn't that what makes us so different bruce pulls the trigger but as the bullets are pelting azrael's armor he leaps forward grabbing bruce asking if you're no longer batman then who are you bruce struggles telling him i am your reckoning azrael lifts bruce up telling him i have traveled the world seeking something bigger than myself something that would repair me bring me peace but instead i found that there's no peace or someone like me only war and as i look back at the blood spilled in my wake i realize that i've become too accepting of those demons that i've lost my soul i would bring others into that war but right now i am alone trying to be a martyr in a battle that killed me a long time ago we're the same brothers like cain and abel not bound by blood but by destiny god put us on different paths but we ended up in the same place the city will fight you batman even after this but then again there won't be a city left not after the flood suddenly the sound of the car can be heard as it crashes into azrael freeing bruce knocking him back bruce gets back up and nightwing steps out asking is that a gun what are you trying to do this isn't how we do things bruce bruce tells him azrael has to die for what he's done for what he stands for maybe batman will die in the process maybe that's for the best maybe that's what gotham really needs a clean slate nightwing asks haven't you learned anything after everything that's happened nothing's changed bruce takes a deep breath and then tells him it's because of me that gordon is dead barbara can barely stand azrael is right i brought this war upon everyone i tried to save them and i failed because i wasn't much of a father to them nightwing begins to cry telling him maybe not but you were my father and i still believe in you don't end it this way don't make me watch bruce stops him you've always been smart enough to see the flaws maybe that's why there's always been a wedge between us because we both know who the better man is now step aside and let me end this dick nightwing shouts fine but end it your way not as ezreal as batman a short while later after putting in the report that israel is planning on destroying the dam the coast guard orders the pilots to sweep the area in search of israel but as one pilot heads out he is stopped when he sees azrael waiting in the shadows for him as he approaches the damn bi helicopter bruce rockets into the lake converting the batmobile into the boat model azrael and batman's missiles both fire at the same dam but azrael's missiles miss and bruce is hit the helicopter comes crashing down when azrael pulls himself out of the wreckage and he sees bruce stan and they're holding the rapiers his father once hung on the wall azrael begins to set the laser sight on bruce telling him this batarang's going to rip right through you and you brought rapiers swords to a gunfight bruce calls out i saw the sword on your back iridot allah it's arabic for god's will if that sword is god's will then that's all you should need right asriel azrael laughs and pulls the sword out may the lord shine brightly on each of us they both go in swinging and striking each of bruce's attacks removing bits and pieces of azrael's armor as azrael swings his sword knocking one of the rapiers away stating you never change always trying to disarm your opponent azrael lunges one last time knocking away the other rapier but bruce quickly jumps behind him slamming asheville's head into the car telling him shields the car quickly begins to clink as the armor plating comes out and then it slams shut onto azrael's head bruce takes the sword from him and as he pulls his helmet off azrael grabs the blade telling him i have one last question for you do you think they knew your parents did they know that they were swine draped in pearls fake aristocrats bred from rotten bloodlines bruce grits his teeth as he pulls back on the sword and he swings the sword cutting cleanly through azrael's throat and the blood pouring out azrael tells him you hit my carotid artery you did it you killed me you finished what my car started you eliminated the last wayne bruce takes off his mask running to the car grabbing the first aid kit telling him no i won't let you die he begins to stitch it up using a threaded needle as quickly as he can and as he spares azrael he returns to the gcpd so that azure real can safely be put behind bars as everyone welcomes him back montoya asks are you sure about this and bruce holds out both his wrists telling her yes people fart wide come to watch as bruce steps into the police car and when he gets in there he sees harley quinn at the wheel he asks her what are you doing and she tells him i've already lost jack i'm not losing you i i can't be alone bruce tells her you won't be you're not alone you're just feeling lost i know the difference i would personally like to thank you for everything that you have done without your help this whole thing might have ended differently you guided me out of darkness you saved my soul and right now i'm returning the favor i'm not going anywhere and if you need anything you know where you can find me harley she unlocks the car she steps out and she sees bruce's hand on the window she draws a heart with the droplets of water the next day gotham begins to heal as life slowly goes back to normal with the help of the wane of fortune but the next question remains on the minds of everyone without batman what kind of city will gotham be drew sits in his cell awaiting his trial when a voice asks why am i here bruce tells the man on the military uniform that montoya wanted someone to keep an eye on him someone who knows his tricks and can stop him from escaping the man tells him we both know that no cell can hold you do you really expect me to believe that you intend on staying here there's got to be another reason bruce stands up and he tells him yes there is i want to talk as the man steps forward the light glints off his name tag and it reads todd and there you go i hope you guys enjoyed today's video i know it's kind of a weird full story since technically each of these had their own full story but as comics are getting more confusing with the storylines getting more and more sprawling and things being more difficult to find so was our channel so i'm trying to make it a little bit cleaner for you guys to find the videos you're looking for such as white night parts one and two you guys are awesome and i appreciate all the support you guys have given us for nine to ten years now you're just incredible thank you and i will see you next time right here

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Length: 124min 34sec (7474 seconds)

Published: Mon Aug 08 2022