Batman takes down Roadrunner and drags him into police headquarters, where he meets with the Commissioner again. This man is a super-villain calling himself the Roadrunner, and he traps Batman in a car-crusher.
She is a decent woman who seems terrified, and Batman tracks her problems down to a weapons smuggler named Bixby Rhodes. There is a dead woman inside the whale, and Batman visits Sonia to investigate the death of her friend. Hungry CityĬommissioner Gordon uses the Wayne crime labs again when a dead killer whale is found in the middle of a large Gotham bank run by Tony Zucco's daughter Sonia Zucco. was also not responsible for the birds being released. Batman appears to take care of the criminal, and confirms that James Jr. When Gordon finally takes down Blount, Blount implies that he murdered Keller in an act of revenge. carrying Bess' keychain but this was never proven. Bess had been one of Barbara's friends, and she disappeared in the woods while they were on vacation. was accused of murdering a girl named Bess Keller. Still dealing with his son's return, he remembers the day James Jr. Jim Gordon hunts down a man named Roy Blount he believes to be the Peter Pan Killer, a child murderer he chased in his early days. They take these thugs down successfully, but Batman suspects the men are working for a new criminal they've never seen before. Batman and Red Robin take down the bird poachers responsible for the aviary, although the Dealer's hallucinogenics are still in Batman's system. He is applying for a job at Leslie Thompkins' clinic to help other psychopaths and asks his father to put in a good word for him. insists to his father that he has never murdered anyone but has recently been diagnosed as a psychopath, and is taking medication. sits down in her place to confront his father. She leaves the restaurant they're meeting at, and James, Jr. is back she reminds him that his son is a remorseless killer and he needs to be careful. When he goes to warn Barbara that James, Jr. The Commissioner finds a bloody bird eating a rat in his apartment when he arrives home, unaware that his son is secretly watching him. Harvey Bullock alerts Commissioner Gordon that his son has come back when they suspect him of freeing every bird in the city's Aviary. Back in Wayne Tower, Alfred finally helps him move some personal items into his new home while Dick reflects on how much darker Gotham City has become. Dick successfully defeats this monster, although the plane explodes and crashes into the harbor where no body is recovered. Throwing the Dealer's prized super-villain artifacts overboard, he fights the Dealer who has taken Man-Bat serum. Oracle helps him track down the Dealer escaping on a plane, and he uses a high-tech flying Batsuit to attack it in the air. Fighting his way through the violent illusions, Batman escapes the building and makes it to a hospital. The Dealer outs him immediately and reveals that he's sabotaged the gas mask, commanding his followers to tear Batman apart while he's subjected to hallucinogenic nerve gas. The members of this wealthy cult are required to wear gas masks to hide their identities, and Dick sneaks in wearing one of these. Batman infiltrates the Mirror House with Oracle's help, a moving location the Dealer uses to hold his macabre auctions. They investigate several murders and track down two officers who have sold equipment from the super-villain evidence locker to a mysterious man known as the Dealer. Commissioner Gordon approaches Wayne Enterprises to use their state-of-the-art crime lab built for the GCPD, which has gone unused out of spite from the department. Grayson struggles to make the identity his own, as he still does not feel comfortable living in the Wayne Tower penthouse like Bruce. Dick Grayson continues to protect Gotham City as the new Batman even after Bruce Wayne has returned and started Batman Incorporated.