Chapter Summaries

Jude completed Ivy’s custom gene serum, restoring her human appearance and awakening powerful, controlled plant abilities. He left Gotham with Ivy and Bridget for Central City, but a truck attacked them on the road.

• Jude injected Ivy with the serum, which restored her complexion and caused a cypress vine to grow rapidly under her control.
• Jude injected Bridget with another serum, healing her damaged arm, and decided the three of them should flee Gotham for Central City.
• Jude, Ivy, and Bridget left Cobblepot Technology Company, bought a used Jeep, and drove out of Gotham.
• A blinding light distracted Jude, who swerved to avoid an oncoming truck and crashed into the guardrail.
• The truck turned around and charged at Jude, Ivy, and Bridget again.

Jude, Firefly, and Ivy fought James Carrell’s men and the Court of Owls’ Talons after the attackers ambushed them on the road. Ivy killed for the first time, but the fight left her badly injured when a Talon overpowered her with gas and wrist blades.

• Jude, Firefly, and Ivy escaped the truck’s crash as James Carrell arrived with armed men and demanded Jude show himself.
• Firefly attacked with flames, while Ivy restrained the gunmen with vines; Jude killed Carrell with a laser, and Ivy crushed the remaining men despite her hesitation.
• Jude reassured Ivy that she had done what was necessary and told her she was both Ivy Pepper and Poison Ivy.
• A helicopter arrived with three Talons, and Jude shot the pilot as the Talons jumped down to attack.
• Bridget and Jude fought off two Talons, while the third told Ivy the experiment on her had succeeded and demanded she join the Court of Owls.
• Ivy refused and attacked with thorned vines, but the Talon used yellow gas to weaken her, stabbed her arms, and struck her into the air.

Jude, Ivy, and Bridget defeated the Talons pursuing them, but their car was destroyed and they expected the Court of Owls to send more attackers. As they prepared to leave Gotham for Central City, the Batmobile arrived with Robin offering them a ride.

• Jude froze one Talon with his Freezing Ray after silently sneaking behind him.
• A Talon crippled Bridget and Ivy, but Jude pulled Bridget out of danger and froze the attacker.
• Butter Bot shot a Talon, and Ivy's giant carnivorous plant swallowed him and knocked him unconscious with venom.
• Jude injected Ivy and Bridget with life liquid, restoring their injured arms.
• Jude warned that the Court of Owls had more Talons, so the group decided to leave Gotham for Central City.
• The Batmobile stopped in front of Jude, Ivy, and Bridget, and Robin offered them a ride.

Jude and his friends met Batman and Robin, then took shelter at a country villa while Jude explained the Court of Owls’ history and its conflict with the Wayne family. He revealed that Alan Wayne had been killed by a Talon, but he did not know whether the Court had also killed Bruce’s parents.

• Damian Wayne offered Jude and his friends a ride in the Batmobile, and Bridget challenged him before Batman stepped out to speak with them.
• Batman said he would protect them from the Court of Owls and demanded an explanation for what happened at Arkham.
• Jude and his friends rode with Batman and Robin to a country villa, where Jude warned Batman that the Court knew nearly everything about Gotham.
• Jude explained that the Court predated the Wayne family and had killed Alan Wayne after he refused to obey it.
• Jude described the conflict between the Court and Wayne Group, then said he did not know whether the Court had arranged the deaths of Thomas and Martha Wayne.

Jude revealed Batman’s identity to Bruce Wayne and shared information about the Court of Owls and Arkham’s experiments. Bruce planned to investigate, but Batgirl interrupted with an emergency report that several villains had appeared together.

• Bruce questioned Jude about his parents’ deaths, and Jude admitted he did not know whether they had been murdered or died in an accident.
• Jude exposed Bruce Wayne as Batman, and Bruce removed his cowl and introduced himself to Jude.
• Damian asked Bridget to remove her mask, and she revealed her severely burned face.
• Jude told Bruce that the Mobius Chair or the Time Stone might reveal the truth about his parents, then identified prominent families connected to the Court of Owls and a castle Bruce had investigated as a child.
• Bridget and Ivy told Bruce that Arkham held human experiments, and Bruce asked how to investigate the facility’s depths.
• Batgirl contacted Bruce with an emergency report that Two-Face, Clayface, Mad Hatter, and Killer Croc had appeared together.

The Court of Owls ordered the Talons retrieved and destroyed while continuing to target Batman, and Bruce gathered the Bat Family to confront a coordinated wave of villain attacks. Jude joined the response, and the group split up to rescue hostages at three locations.

• The Court of Owls declared the failed Talons unworthy and ordered them destroyed, while directing its pursuit to focus on Batman and the Bat Family.
• Batgirl warned Bruce that Two-Face, Clayface, Mad Hatter, Killer Croc, and other villains had launched simultaneous attacks, and Bruce summoned the Bat Family.
• Damian insisted Jude accompany them, and Jude agreed in exchange for Bruce's help improving his fighting skills and access to rare materials.
• Bruce brought Jude to the Batcave, where the Bat Family learned that villains had taken hostages at Gotham Bank, the Green Tree Hotel, and Ruili Cosmetics Company.
• Bruce assigned himself and Jude to Ruili Cosmetics Company, Nightwing and Damian to Gotham Bank, and Red Robin and Batgirl to the Green Tree Hotel.

Batman and Jude entered Ruili Cosmetics Company to rescue hostages held by Clayface and Killer Croc. Jude reached the hostage warehouse and attacked Killer Croc with a Freeze Gun while Batman confronted Clayface inside the building.

• Batman and Jude arrived at Ruili Cosmetics Company, where Commissioner Gordon explained that Clayface and Killer Croc had taken hostages without making demands.
• Clayface ordered Batman to enter alone, and Batman used Alfred's surveillance feed to locate Killer Croc and the hostages on the seventh floor.
• Jude turned invisible and told Gordon he would deal with Killer Croc, while recommending a fire truck to help against Clayface.
• Batman was ambushed by Clayface, whose sludge corroded his suit and cut his grappling line.
• Jude reached the seventh-floor warehouse and fired his Freeze Gun at Killer Croc.

Jude subdued Killer Croc and rescued the hostages before joining Batman in his fight with Clayface. Clayface recovered from their attacks and charged at them again, leaving Jude and Batman facing a dangerous fight.

• Jude broke into the seventh-floor warehouse, froze Killer Croc and a hostage, and alerted Commissioner Gordon that the criminal had been subdued.
• Jude left the hostages in police custody and went to help Batman, who was fighting Clayface.
• Clayface ambushed Bruce after surviving the anesthetic grenade, but Jude froze Clayface's arm and blasted his head.
• Clayface recovered and attacked Jude, who froze and shattered his clay arms, only for them to grow back as Jude called for them to run.

Jude and Batman stopped Clayface by washing him into the sewers, then learned that Commissioner Gordon had been kidnapped. A cryptic note led Batman to identify the Riddler as the kidnapper.

• Jude fought Clayface with the Freeze Gun while Batman worked to get the fire truck's hose ready.
• Batman sprayed Clayface with high-pressure water until his body dissolved into the sewers.
• Alfred reported that Two-Face had been captured, Mad Hatter had escaped, and Batgirl was still fighting Scarecrow at the Green Tree Hotel.
• Police officers told Batman that Commissioner Gordon had disappeared during the chaos and handed him a note left by the kidnapper.
• Batman recognized the note's question-mark signature and identified the Riddler as Gordon's kidnapper.

Bruce and Jude solved the Riddler’s clue and rushed to Gotham’s circus maze, where Gordon was being held. The Riddler revealed the cryptic phrase “Spade K” before vanishing, leaving Bruce’s team to decipher it while Bruce and Jude searched for Gordon.

• Bruce answered the Riddler’s riddle with “corn,” and Jude deduced that Gordon was being held in a maze because corn was also called maize.
• Bruce drove the Batmobile to the circus, and he and Jude entered the maze after learning it belonged to the Wayne Group.
• The Riddler projected his face in the maze and revealed that Gordon was tied up somewhere inside with a mechanism set to kill him.
• Jude asked the Riddler what he was plotting, and the Riddler answered “Spade K” before opening the maze gates and disappearing.
• Bruce contacted Alfred, learned the other Gotham cases were being handled, and ordered him to decipher “Spade K” as Bruce and Jude searched for Gordon.

Jude and Bruce advanced through Nygma’s trapped maze by solving riddles while Alfred and Stephanie tried to decode the clue “Spade K.” Damian interpreted it as pointing to Wayne Tower, but Stephanie remained concerned that the target might be crowded Central Plaza.

• Bruce and Jude avoided a drone’s gunfire and chose the middle passage after solving a riddle about Gordon’s location.
• Alfred asked Stephanie to help interpret the clue “Spade K,” but neither of them could identify its meaning.
• Jude and Bruce translated a Hindi riddle and safely chose the right-hand path, after which Nygma warned that wrong answers would cost Gordon fifteen minutes.
• Stephanie and Alfred considered King David and Central Plaza as the answer until Nightwing recognized that Spade K represented the King of Spades.
• Damian connected the clue to Gotham’s four ruling families and concluded that Wayne Tower was the target, while Stephanie worried the clue might instead mean Central Plaza.

Jude and Bruce solved the Riddler’s music-key puzzle and opened the door to continue rescuing Gordon. Meanwhile, Damian and Nightwing searched Wayne Tower, where Nightwing found intruders dismantling a machine in the technology R&D department.

• Jude and Bruce fought their way through the Riddler’s traps and lost time after choosing the wrong keys.
• Jude deduced that the keys represented musical major keys and told Bruce to choose C, which opened the door.
• Damian and Nightwing went to Wayne Tower while Stephanie headed to Central Plaza.
• Nightwing found the security door to the technology R&D department forced open and called Robin for help.
• Nightwing saw Stockman and Zeko directing ninjas as they dismantled a machine.

Bruce, Jude, and James Gordon escaped Nygma’s maze after defeating a giant robot, but Bruce remained committed to his mission and Alfred then reported that Wayne Group had been robbed.

• Bruce and Jude reached Gordon, solved Nygma’s riddle, and saved Gordon when Nygma changed the rules and ordered the robot to kill him.
• Nygma fled as the robot pursued Bruce, Jude, and Gordon through the maze with a Gatling gun and a blade.
• Jude examined the robot and found its weak point while Bruce tried to restrain it, then the two disabled it together.
• Jude challenged Bruce’s belief that he alone had to protect Gotham, but Bruce continued toward his next mission after Gordon explained his stubbornness.
• Bruce, Jude, and Gordon emerged from the maze, and Alfred told Bruce that Wayne Group had been robbed.

Nightwing and Damian stopped Baxter’s ninjas from stealing equipment in Wayne Tower, but Anton Zeck transformed into a Boar-man and injured Damian. After the guards subdued the intruders, a silver-armored stranger blasted them aside and confronted Baxter.

• Nightwing attacked Baxter’s ninjas as they tried to remove a piece of equipment, and Anton Zeck accidentally turned on Baxter during their dispute.
• Damian joined Nightwing, wounded Anton Zeck with Katana, and was struck hard when Anton transformed into a Boar-man.
• Nightwing tripped Anton with his staff and used a tranquilizer bomb as armed security personnel entered the laboratory.
• The security captain recognized Nightwing and Robin, and Baxter and the ninjas surrendered to the guards.
• A silver-armored man descended, questioned Baxter, and blasted the security personnel away with an energy shockwave.

Nightwing reported that Shredder’s Foot Clan had stolen a Wayne device, and Jude identified the intruders and explained their plan to spray Mutagen across Gotham. The Bat Family realized the Foot Clan was cooperating with the League of Assassins to destroy the city in exchange for Lazarus Pit water.

• Nightwing told Bruce and Jude that Shredder’s armored forces had overwhelmed him and Damian and stolen the device.
• Jude teased Nightwing about his relationship with Bruce and nearly provoked a fight before Bruce redirected everyone to the investigation.
• Batgirl showed the security footage, and Bruce identified the stolen device as a citywide pesticide sprayer.
• Jude identified Bebop, Stockman Fly, and Shredder as Foot Clan members from New York.
• Jude said the Foot Clan had likely allied with Ra's al Ghul to destroy Gotham in exchange for Lazarus Pit water.
• Jude warned that the Foot Clan planned to spray Mutagen over Gotham, transforming residents into beasts and causing catastrophic destruction.

The Court of Owls planned to exploit the conflict between the Bat Family and the League of Assassins, while Ra's al Ghul joined forces with Shredder to spread mutagen across Gotham. The chapter ended with a League warrior transformed into a Deinonychus.

• The Court of Owls voted to wait for the League of Assassins and Bat Family to clash before intervening, and the old man ordered the Talons unsealed for the Night of the Owls.
• The Court discussed the mayoral race, learned that Penguin had rejected their proposal to withdraw, and added him to the purge list.
• Ra's al Ghul arrived at the Ace Chemical Factory with hundreds of League of Assassins warriors to meet Shredder and inspect the stolen spray launch device and mutagen.
• Shredder demanded Lazarus Pit water in exchange for the mutagen, but Ra's al Ghul asserted control over their partnership and promised the water after Gotham was destroyed.
• A League warrior injected the mutagen to prove his loyalty, then transformed into a Deinonychus.

Shredder and Ra's al Ghul prepared to mutate hundreds of Foot Clan members and unleash a chemical attack on Gotham at dawn, while the Joker returned to the city with Harley and planned to visit Ace Chemical Factory. In the Batcave, Bruce organized a search for the Foot Clan, and Jude warned the others to investigate Ace Chemical Factory because the Joker had not appeared.

• Shredder showed Ra's al Ghul a mutated Deinonychus, and Ra's ordered more Foot Clan members to receive Mutagen for an attack on the Bat Family.
• Shredder told Ra's that Baxter needed a day to repair the spray device, so they planned to begin their attack at dawn the next day.
• The Joker and Harley crashed their car, then the Joker said they would return to Gotham and go to Ace Chemical Factory.
• Bruce checked Damian's injuries and sent him to bring Firefly and Poison Ivy to the Batcave.
• Bruce contacted Commissioner Gordon, and they began searching Gotham for the Foot Clan using police resources and surveillance footage.
• Jude urged Batgirl Stephanie and the others to investigate Ace Chemical Factory and warned them that the Joker's absence was suspicious.

Damian brought Ivy and Firefly to the Batcave, where Ivy discovered she could use plants to scout Ace Chemical Factory. Batman’s team attacked the factory to destroy a spray device and capture Shredder and Ra's al Ghul, but a Tyrannosaurus Rex blocked their charge.

• Damian drove Ivy and Firefly to the Batcave, where they met Stephanie and demonstrated their abilities.
• Lucius told Bruce that five hundred suspicious newcomers had gathered at Ace Chemical Factory, and Bruce ordered the Bat Family to prepare for an attack.
• Gordon told Bruce that the criminals captured that morning had been taken, likely by the League of Assassins, and Bruce summoned the police to the factory.
• Ivy used nearby plants to scout the factory and discovered ninjas and dinosaurs inside, while Jude warned the group about the Foot Clan's Mutagen.
• Shredder and Ra's al Ghul prepared for Batman's arrival, and the Batmobiles smashed through the factory gates as ninjas attacked.
• The Batmobiles charged toward Shredder and Ra's al Ghul, but a Tyrannosaurus Rex suddenly appeared in their path.

Batman and his allies fought Ra's al Ghul’s mutated villains as a stampede of beasts threatened Gotham. Amid the chaos, Jude vanished after activating his belt.

• Jude and the others escaped the wrecked Batmobile and defeated half of the Foot Clan ninjas.
• Ra's al Ghul revealed his mutated villains, including Two-Face, Scarecrow, Mad Hatter, Professor Pyg Valentine, and Ventriloquist, then unleashed hundreds of beasts.
• Ra's al Ghul withdrew to guard the spray device while Shredder and the mutated villains attacked Batman and his allies.
• Commissioner Gordon arrived with hundreds of officers, but the beasts charged toward them and forced the police to take cover.
• Jude activated the switch on his belt and vanished amid the battle.

Jude followed Ra's al Ghul to the spray device at ACE Chemicals and tried to destroy it, but Ra's detected and drove him out. Meanwhile, members of the Court of Owls began warming a basement full of coffins, awakening an army of Talons.

• Ra's al Ghul led Jude to the room where Dr. Baxter Stockman was repairing the spray device, while Bebop and Rocksteady guarded it.
• Stockman told Ra's the device would be ready within an hour, and Ra's discovered Jude hiding nearby.
• Jude attacked the spray device, but Ra's raised a barrier to protect it and tracked Jude by his breathing and heartbeat.
• A masked man and woman entered a basement in Gotham City and discussed the Talons and Batman.
• The masked man activated the basement controls, warming the numbered coffins until hands began reaching out from inside.