Shortly after, Commissioner James Gordon informs Bruce of a break-in at Thomas’ office. Dick is incapacitated by Scarecrow's fear toxin while Hush kidnaps Selina. The two become a crime-fighting couple, but Hush later lures Dick and Selina to Thomas’ grave, where they are attacked by Scarecrow. Bruce takes Selina to the Batcave, where she meets Dick and Alfred and learns of Bruce's son Damian. He then threatens to hurt everyone close to him, prompting Batman to reveal his identity to Catwoman. While on patrol, Hush catches Batman's attention and confronts him, although Hush tricks him by using mirrors. Following the Joker's arrest and Thomas' funeral, Bruce deduces that Hush knows he is Batman. The Joker attempts to claim his innocence before Batman brutally beats him and nearly kills him.
During the commotion, Hush lures Thomas outside and kills him, framing the Joker for the murder, much to Batman's anger. Hush later kidnaps the Joker to persuade Harley Quinn into attacking an opera Bruce, Selina, and Thomas are attending. After Ivy is defeated, she reveals she was acting on the orders of a vigilante known only as " Hush".
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Catwoman pushes Lois Lane off a building to free Superman from the mind control. Ivy uses Kryptonite lipstick to take control of Superman and orders him to kill Catwoman and Batman. There, Batman confronts Lex Luthor, now a probationary member of the Justice League after helping them defeat Cyborg Superman, about delivery list of an ethylene compound utilized by Ivy. Batman later reluctantly works with Catwoman to find Ivy, following a lead given by her to Metropolis. Waller uses the special tranquilizers supplied by him to stop Bane from escaping police custody and capture him herself. The masked vigilante who shot Batman then arrives to confront Ivy about the ransom and gives her Kryptonite.īatman helps Amanda Waller retrieve Bane from police custody in return for information. Meanwhile, Catwoman delivers the ransom to Poison Ivy, who has been controlling her with a hypnotic kiss. When Bruce declares himself ready to be Batman again two weeks earlier than Thomas advised him to be up and around, Alfred gives him a new bulletproof batsuit with a padded cowl for better skull protection. Alfred contacts Bruce's childhood friend Thomas Elliot, a renowned brain surgeon, to aid his skull. Batgirl takes Batman back to the Batcave where Alfred and Dick Grayson create an alibi for how Bruce Wayne suffered the injury. Catwoman rescues him from a gang of criminals who tried to unmask him, but Batgirl chases her away.
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While pursuing her, a masked vigilante shoots through Batman's grapple line, causing him to fall onto the sidewalk and crack his skull.
Batman agrees to do so as Catwoman steals the ransom. After Batman rescues an abducted child from Bane for a ransom, Lady Shiva approaches Batman to inform him of an unknown Lazarus Pit intruder and requests his help in identifying the intruder.