Someone had tampered with Barbara's computer, and someone had tampered with the Iceberg Lounge's computer. Could that be a coincidence?
Batman had never heard of a hacker in Gotham City as skilled as Oracle. Scarecrow, the apparent culprit, did not fit either. Even if he had such capable technical personnel under his command, his ordinary military trucks could never match the Batmobile's maneuverability.
Batman reconstructed the timeline in his mind.
8:02 p.m. Individual victims began appearing, and Scarecrow announced his plan to destroy Gotham with Fear Gas.
9:10 p.m. The Bat-Lamp lit up. Batman formally began his fight against Scarecrow. He first dealt with the street conflicts caused by the Fear Gas while having Barbara track Scarecrow's whereabouts across Gotham City.
10:00 p.m. Batman's arm was cut during a street confrontation, and he saw Joker's phantom in a mirror for the first time. At the same time, Barbara discovered a lead concerning the military trucks.
10:20 p.m. Batman caught up with the military trucks and subdued two of the men inside. After obtaining the next lead, the trucks were taken back to the Batcave.
10:40 p.m. Batman rescued Poison Ivy from one of Scarecrow's safe houses and, at Peter's request, sent Poison Ivy and the toxin seized from the driver back to the Batcave.
11:00 p.m. An unidentified gas anesthetized the entire city, and Federal Bureau of Investigation aircraft appeared.
Clearly, 11:00 p.m. was a dividing line. Before that, everything had remained within Batman's expectations, but after the unidentified gas spread, matters gradually began slipping out of control.
11:10 p.m. Barbara called, and Batman learned that Peter had been kidnapped.
11:30 p.m. Batman found a clue left by Scarecrow and followed it to ACE Chemical Plant, only to fall into an ambush. When he woke up, he saw Nightwing, who