At that moment, Batman stood in the doorway. Across from him was Thomas, his face twisted viciously as he held Lex by the throat. To one side between them, Cobblepot held up a bloodstained dagger.
The cold lights flickered. The scene containing all four of them seemed frozen into a block of ice. Time suddenly came to a halt, then began to rewind.
When the faint morning light spilled into Wayne Manor, Bruce was already working in the study. The Arc Reactor model he had obtained from Schiller sat at his side, but he was not studying it at the moment. He was focused on his previous investigation.
He had not forgotten that he had been investigating the deaths of the Eliot couple. To do that, he had wanted to investigate Falcone.
But the investigation into Falcone had reached a dead end. Everything in this city seemed connected to him, yet at the same time, nothing seemed connected to him.
With that line of thought stalled, Bruce switched to another approach. He revisited the crime scene and gathered quite a few detailed clues. One clue that particularly caught his attention was the photographs he had taken of the Eliot couple's footprints.
It had rained not long before that day, and some of the mud and dust on the ground had not fully dried, making it possible to collect tire tracks and footprints.
The tire tracks showed that the Eliot couple had parked their car on the main road and gotten out to walk into the alley. From the car to the spot in the alley where they were killed, they had both walked normally. Judging by their stride, neither of them had been hurried or anxious.
In other words, they had not been chased into the alley, nor had they