- When the Joker kills Jason, Dick returns to Gotham to see how Bruce is handling it.
- When a death in the family happens, Dick Grayson returns to Gotham City to an off-kilter Bruce Wayne and is also reunited with Commissioner Barbara Gordon. Kory begins to have strange, uncontrollable flashbacks. Bruce flees Gotham unexpectedly and leaves Dick to protect the city with the ominous instructions to "be a better Batman".—Raj Rudolph
- In the Batcave, Jason Todd listens to a police broadcast.
Bruce Wayne is in his private jet, and gets a call from Jason. Jason says that he has Joker, and some police stumbled on to him while answering a break-in call. He has Joker's location at the old abandoned amusement park. Bruce tells Jason that he won't be back until morning and that Jason should stand down until then. Jason insists that he can do it on his own, and that he's not afraid of Joker.. He picks up a mask with a chemical dispenser, and tells Bruce that he's not afraid of anything anymore. Bruce forbids Jason from going, and Jason says that he's got it.
Once Bruce hangs up, Jason contemplates the mask, then goes to his costume and takes hit of the gas. He then loudly curses Joker and gets his costume.
Robin goes to the amusement park and breaks in. He finds a dead security guard strung up, his face distorted by Joker venom. Joker arrives, knocks Robin down, and beats him to death with a crowbar.
At Dayton Labs in San Francisco, Gizmo and his men break in and steal a vial of chemicals. As they leave, Nightwing knocks one of them out, and then attacks the others. Beast Boy joins in and takes out more, and turns into a tiger and goes after the last one. He then joins Connor and Krypto, who are impervious to the bullets more thieves shoot at. Connor smashes them through a wall.
Starfire flies in and uses her heat aura to destroy the bullets fired at, and then takes out the shooters.
Gizmo runs to his escape van and tells his last man to stop him. Nightwing easily takes the man out, and Gizmo comas out with gun only to discover that Connor, Krypto, Beast Boy, and Starfire are with Nightwing. Krypto barks and deafens Gizmo, who collapses in pain at his shattered eardrums.
When the police arrive, Connor and Beast Boy tell the lead officer that thieves were stealing a genetically-enhanced Ebola variant. The SFPD officer thanks them for what they've done for the city, and another officer comes up to get Connor's autograph for his son. He isn't interested in Beast Boy's autograph.
A TV reporter is talking to Starfire, and Starfire says that the real heroes are the police officers without powers. Starfire tells the reporter that Nightwing is around, and then steps aside to take a call. Justin Cole, her therapist from Las Vegas, has seen Starfire on TV and called her. He asks how she is, and Starfire says that she's doing much better since their last meeting. Justin points out that Starfire never called him, and she says that she wasn't in a good place. She suggests that they catch up, and says that she'll call him.
As Starfire hangs up, Nightwing steps out of the shadows and congratulates Starfire. They're interrupted when Nightwing gets a call.
In Gotham City, Tim Drake is out on the streets at a news kiosk reading a story about Batman. His mother Janet calls and asks where he is, and Tim says that he's making a delivery. Policemen pull up, and the officers ask Tim why he's out past curfew. He says that he works for 24-hour delivery, and offers them some of the dumplings he's delivering. One officer notes the Batman insignia on Tim's bike, and Tim says that he's a fan. The officer dismisses Batman as a sociopath, and then he and his partner are called to the amusement park
Tim rides to the noodle shop his family runs, and his cousin Stephen Chen gives him some money to make sure Jason looks good when he's at school. Tim reluctantly takes the money before his father Jack comes back and sees it. The TV is running a story about Robin's death, and how Joker was waiting for the police and taken in without further incident. Janet offers Tim her condolences, and Tim stares at the TV in shock.
The next day, Dick drives to Wayne Manor, finds no one there, and goes to his room. He finds Jason's notes on chemistry, and goes to the study and finds a glass of whiskey and TV tuned to the news. Dick goes to the Batcave and finds Bruce cleaning the blood out of Jason's mask. He says that he's glad the cops got to Joker before he did, and Dick asks if he can help with any arrangements.
Bruce says that they've all been taken care of, and the funeral has already happened. He tells Dick that he had Jason buried in the Wayne family plot next to Alfred. Dick says that he understands it was difficult for Bruce in particular, and that they were Jason's family.
When Dick discovers that Bruce is focusing on a new criminal in Gotham, he asks if they can talk about Jason's death. He wonders why Jason was studying, chemistry, and Bruce doesn't know and doesn't care. Dick reminds Bruce that he taught him not to bury emotions, and Bruce says that the advice was meant for Dick, not him, and life goes on.
At Titans tower in San Francisco, Kory tells Gar and Connor what happened to their former teammate. Kory is angry at Jason for never getting over his anger, and is sick of learning people like Jason and Donna. With that, she walks off.
That night, Gar is in his room watching videos of animals and remembers that Rachel isn't there to talk to. He figures that with Jason dead and Rachel gone, it's trying to "up his game" by learning to change into any animal. He "talks" with Rachel and admits that he misses her.
In Gotham, Richard approaches the current police commissioner-a wheelchair-bound Barbara Gordon--at a snow-covered crime scene. She welcome Dick back to Gotham, and Detective Jones says that the current victim was killed like the others. Barbara and Dick talk privately, and Barbara expresses her condolences on Jason's death. She says that they took Joker back to Arkham without a fight, so he could steal Bruce's chance to get justice.
Barbara asks how Dick is doing, and he admits that he's not doing great. He wonders why Jason would have gone out on his own, and Barbara points out that Jason often did something impulsive. Dick points out the chemistry book, and Barbara says that there's no mystery. She figures that Jason went out because he had something to prove, and it got him killed.
Dick asks Barbara if Bruce seemed off to her when she met him earlier, and Barbara says that he seemed the same as always. When Dick says that he doesn't think Bruce is processing it well, they both agree that Bruce is in denial. Dick figures that it's different then with Bruce has lost close friends in the past, and is worried about his mentor. He suggests that they should talk to him, but Barbara says that she's avoided having personal conversations with Bruce since her father died and she retired as a costumed crimefighter. Barbara finally agrees but says that she doesn't know when, and Dick leaves.
Later, Barbara goes to the manor and talks to Dick and Bruce about Jason's exploits. Bruce turns the conversation to the current killings, and Barbara says that she would rather talk about Jason and drink. Then she says that they have no clues on the killer, but she'll call for Batman if she needs him. Bruce says that he and Jim had better communication when Jim when alive and they were fighting the "war". He insists that crimefighting is a "war" for Gotham's soul, and Jim knew that protecting Gotham required sacrifice.
Barbara points out that her father died of a heart attack after Mr. Freeze froze him in a block of ice, and figure Bruce sees Jim as a sacrifice that he dragged into his "war", like Dick and Jason. She says that Bruce weaponized Dick's grief, and convinced Jason if he'd be invincible if he put on a mask. Barbara says that Bruce drove Dick away, and got Jason killed, and she figures that Bruce wants Joker to keep escaping so Bruce can hide behind Batman.
When Barbara leaves, Dick goes after her and says that he asked for help. Barbara says that she was helping... whoever Bruce would have recruited as Robin next. Dick says that the Titans failed Jason, because they didn't have the patience for Jason's problems. Barbara tells Dick to go back to San Francisco, and Dick says that he's not leaving Gotham before he figures out what Jason was doing before he died. She says that Jason was being used by Bruce, and tells Dick not to let Bruce do it to him again.
In his room, Dick reads the chemistry book Jason was studying, He then checks the hidden panel and finds Jason's collection of things: a girlie magazine, a bundle of cash, a flash drive, and a listing for a house. Dick goes there and finds Jason's chemistry lab, and wonders what Jason was doing. He finds masks and vials of chemical,.
Someone comes in, and Dick attacks the intruder. He subdues the drug dealer, who says that he heard someone was cooking a new drug there. Dick tells the dealer that if he comes back, Dick will throw him through a window and dislocates the dealer's shoulder before leaving.
Dick goes to Batcave and analyzes the drug, but the computer is unable to analyze the compound. A file update completes, and Dick works out the password and finds several photos of kids. Bruce comes in and Jason asks who the kids are. Bruce says that their potential recruits as Robin, and Dick asks if he wants to turn more kids into weapons like him, or get them killed like Jason.
Dick tells Bruce about the chemical Jason was manufacturing, and the lab. When Bruce says that he didn't know, Dick tells him that he didn't know because he didn't care. Bruce was already looking for Jason's replacement. Bruce asks Dick if he wants to be Robin again, and Dick angrily tells him that he doesn't. He tells Bruce that he's just as bad as Joker, and the two of them have been poisoning the city together. Bruce tells Dick that he can't do it alone, and Bruce tells him not to do it at all and walks out.
At Titans Tower, Kory is in the kitchen drinking to Jason. She suddenly has a vision of being taken down a hallway on a gurney, blacks out, and finds herself standing in the middle of traffic on a street.
Dick wakes up when Bruce comes in with a bloody crowbar. Bruce says that "he" started it, and Bruce ended it. Dick asks Bruce who "he" is, Bruce says that Joker laughed at him, and Dick and Barbara were right. He says that it's been all a game that he should have stopped playing a long time ago, and tells Dick that it's over for him now. Bruce tells Dick that he sees things that he doesn't, like Jason being involved in something, because Dick cares more than he does. He says that the city is Dick's now, and he should be a better Batman because Bruce couldn't be. With that, Dick turns and leaves.
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