Recaps

Li Wei killed Gabriel after Lucifer rejected her attempt to fall, then absorbed the Holy Grail and God's Blood to activate Vladimir, the Crimson Reaper's Hero Template. Lucifer and Michael arrived seeking the vanished relics, leaving Li Wei to face their demands.

• Lucifer rejected Gabriel's fall and prevented Heaven's angels from intervening, so Li Wei continued attacking her.
• Gabriel gave up resisting, revealed that the Holy Grail and God's Blood were in Li Wei's hands, and was beheaded by Li Wei.
• Li Wei absorbed the Holy Grail and God's Blood, bought Vladimir, the Crimson Reaper's Hero Template, and fused it with himself.
• Lucifer and Michael appeared before Li Wei and demanded the Holy Grail and God's Blood, offering rewards and pardons in exchange.
• Li Wei told them that he had absorbed the relics, and Michael sensed that their auras had disappeared completely.

After Li Wei absorbed the Holy Grail and God's Blood, Michael threatened him and the others but left rather than fight Lucifer. Li Wei kept Michael's tracking mark so he could lure more angels, then examined his new Vladimir abilities and completed Kayle's final trial.

• Michael realized Li Wei had absorbed the Holy Grail and God's Blood, threatened him and his companions, and returned to Heaven without attacking.
• Lucifer removed Michael's marks from Constantine and the others, while Li Wei chose to keep his mark to attract angels and hunt them for Angel Feathers.
• Li Wei and the others collected Archangel Gabriel's Angel Feathers and burned the rest of his body before heading back to the cabin in the woods.
• At the cabin, Li Wei examined Vladimir, the Crimson Reaper's abilities, including Blood Pact, which increased both his health and ability power.
• Li Wei completed Justice Angel Kayle's final Ascended Stairway trial by killing Archangel Gabriel and gained the Transcendent State's additional attack range.

Li Wei explored the Sacred Divinity he had gained, then arranged for his group to return to Gotham and built an intelligence network in Los Angeles. As they prepared to leave, he contacted Poison Ivy Ezri to help ensure Constantine and the others had a safe arrival.

• Li Wei discovered that Sacred Divinity greatly increased the sacred power available through Justice Angel Kayle's Hero Template, though Constantine could not explain what divinity was.
• Li Wei and the others postponed creating an Artificial Angel army until they returned to Gotham, where Ra's al Ghul could recruit and train orphans through the Kinkou Order.
• Li Wei gave Anton and Daddy Midnight Invisible Flowers so they could report supernatural activity in Los Angeles and promised to grant them abilities later.
• Li Wei confirmed to Constantine that he could genuinely grant abilities to others, and Constantine realized Li Wei could build a force powerful enough to rival Heaven or Hell.
• Li Wei arranged ferry tickets for the group to return to Gotham and called Poison Ivy Ezri before they boarded.

Li Wei returned to Gotham with Constantine and the others, where Cobblepot and Arkham Asylum’s staff staged an enormous welcome at the docks. The spectacle revealed how much influence Li Wei held in Gotham, and Gordon’s strained greeting hinted that the city had grown more dangerous while Li Wei was away.

• Ezri told Cobblepot to suspend his arms-smuggling business for the day and arranged a welcome for Li Wei’s return.
• Li Wei and his companions disembarked to find Cobblepot’s armed gangsters, Gordon’s officers, and Arkham Asylum’s staff gathered at the docks.
• Cobblepot greeted Li Wei obsequiously and explained through his actions that he had suspended arms deals throughout Gotham; Li Wei ordered the crowd to disperse.
• The ship’s captain told passengers that he had once escaped Gotham, leaving them curious about the city and Li Wei.
• Gordon greeted Li Wei and hinted that Gotham’s increasingly dangerous situation might require help from Arkham Asylum.

Li Wei returned to Arkham Asylum, reunited with its staff, and learned how the Kinkou Order had created a tense three-way balance in Gotham. As Dr. Hugo began discussing new patients who could receive Hero Templates, Li Wei told Constantine and his companions to stay because the cases concerned them too.

• Ezri welcomed Li Wei and his companions at the docks, while Dr. Hugo and Warwick grew excited to learn about their supernatural abilities and the Angel Feather.
• Li Wei and the others returned to Arkham Asylum, where he recounted his encounters in Los Angeles and Constantine's group demonstrated their powers, including Chas's ability to survive cutting his own throat.
• Ezri and the others explained that Ra's al Ghul had rebuilt the Kinkou Order, creating a three-way standoff among the Order, the Gotham Police Department, and Cobblepot's gang.
• Li Wei told Constantine's group to stay for the discussion of Arkham Asylum's new patients because it concerned them too.
• Dr. Hugo began describing the bizarre crimes committed by recent arrivals, including a man who repeatedly threw feces at Gotham police officers.

Li Wei reviewed the files of revived Arkham Asylum residents and chose Mr. Freeze Victor Fries and Firefly Bridget Pike as candidates for Hero Templates. He planned to give Fries Lissandra’s powers and hoped Brigitte could activate Revenant Brand’s template, but still needed to meet her.

• Gotham Police Department officers sent a man who repeatedly threw feces at them to Arkham Asylum after a psychological evaluation linked his actions to past persecution.
• Li Wei learned that Dr. Hugo had revived Victor Fries and his wife Nora with the Fountain of Resurrection, and that Fries now assisted Hugo at Arkham Asylum.
• Li Wei decided that Fries was suited to the Ice Witch—Lissandra Hero Template.
• Li Wei learned that Dr. Hugo had revived Brigitte Pike, who had escaped her abusive brothers, become a vigilante, and died in a fuel-tank explosion.
• Li Wei identified Brigitte as the ideal vessel for Revenant Brand but could not determine the template’s activation conditions, so he planned to meet her.

Li Wei prepared to grant Hero Templates to Constantine and the others, but Constantine had to wait because Li Wei lacked a suitable template. At Indian Hill Hospital, Li Wei began Brigitte’s Evolution Ceremony by loading Revenant Brand into her.

• Li Wei explained the benefits and enforced loyalty of Hero Templates, and Sif, Zedd, and Chas agreed to receive powers while Constantine accepted that he would have to wait.
• The group left the banquet and followed Li Wei to the underground Indian Hill Hospital for the Evolution Ceremony.
• The Hero Mall System offered Li Wei Revenant Brand after Brigitte awakened the template, and he purchased it for her.
• Li Wei began the ceremony with Brigitte, and the crimson ball of light merged into her, twisting her face into a savage expression.

Brigitte completed the Evolution Ceremony, gained Revenant Brand’s power, and accepted Arkham Asylum as her new home. Li Wei then began Fries’s ceremony, which started with Dr. Hugo’s bizarre mouse-wheel procedure before Li Wei prepared Ice Witch Lissandra’s template.

• Brigitte endured the painful transformation and absorbed the memories and abilities of Nuohe Keegan.
• Brigitte rose from the wreckage of her wheelchair, and Li Wei welcomed her home; she vowed to stand with Arkham Asylum.
• Li Wei called Fries into the laboratory, where Dr. Hugo strapped him to a wheelchair and forced a mouse wheel into his mouth.
• Li Wei summoned Ice Witch Lissandra’s template, and Fries felt its extreme cold despite his resistance to freezing.

Li Wei completed the Evolution Ceremonies for Fries, Chas, Sif, and Zedd, granting them powerful Hero Templates, before preparing Arkham Asylum for a visit from Gordon and Barnes. As he waited in his office, he reflected on his connection to Gotham and planned to harvest the insect farm’s cockroaches to replenish Soul Essence and grow stronger.

• Li Wei gave Fries the Ice Witch Lissandra template, then oversaw the transformations of Chas into Undead Warrior Sion, Sif into Justice Angel Kayle, and Zedd into Fallen Angel Morgana.
• Constantine asked Li Wei to delay his own ceremony because he feared Dr. Hugo’s humiliating ritual, and Li Wei agreed that they could discuss it later.
• Li Wei sensed Sheriff Gordon and Director Barnes approaching, sent Constantine and the others to hide their new abilities, and had Brigitte and Fries return to the underground hospital.
• Li Wei recalled the Fiddlesticks dummy that had covered his absence, returned to his office, and reflected on finding a sense of belonging in Gotham.
• Li Wei noted that his Soul Essence was running low and that Wayne Enterprises’ insect farm held nearly a million cockroaches, at least half of which he could harvest.

Gordon and Director Barnes asked Li Wei for help dealing with the Kinkou Order, but he refused to intervene. After Barnes explained that the Mad Hatter planned to spread a mind-altering virus and destroy Gotham, Li Wei agreed to stop him.

• Gordon and Director Barnes visited Arkham Asylum and asked Li Wei to help counter the Kinkou Order.
• Li Wei refused, saying he was only an asylum director, and Barnes stopped Gordon from pressing him.
• Barnes told Li Wei that the Mad Hatter could hypnotize people and had used controlled police officers to escape capture.
• Barnes revealed that the Mad Hatter had found his sister to extract a virus that made victims violent and planned to infect Gotham.
• Li Wei agreed to investigate and stop the Mad Hatter from destroying Gotham.

Li Wei agreed to stop the Mad Hatter, but secretly planned to use the infected Director Barnes as a Hero Template vessel rather than cure him. After finding the Mad Hatter and Alice hiding near a police station, Li Wei chose to keep them in play so he could use the situation to introduce a vigilante and strengthen Gotham’s heroes.

• Director Barnes asked Li Wei to research an antidote after revealing that the blood toxin was infecting him and causing increasingly frequent bouts of aggression.
• Li Wei agreed to investigate the toxin but decided Barnes might serve as a vessel for the Barbarian King, Tryndamere, and considered Gordon as a possible successor to Barnes.
• Li Wei considered ARGUS a continuing threat, but ARGUS was preoccupied with the Criminal Alliance, whose agents were being killed as soon as they entered Gotham.
• Using Twisted Fate’s Destiny ability and the file Barnes provided, Li Wei located the Mad Hatter and Alice hiding in an empty house beside a police station.
• Li Wei chose not to capture the siblings immediately, planning instead to use the Mad Hatter’s remaining value to introduce a Gotham vigilante and considering Alice as another possible Hero Template vessel.

Li Wei arranged for Bruce Wayne to take on the Mad Hatter, relying on Ra's al Ghul's training and planning to have Alice sent to Arkham Asylum. Three days later, Bruce left Wayne Manor in specialized gear, unaware that Li Wei, Ra's al Ghul, and Jerome were watching him.

• Li Wei asked Ra's al Ghul about Bruce Wayne's training, then explained his plan for Bruce to confront the Mad Hatter.
• Ra's al Ghul worried Bruce might not send Alice to Arkham Asylum, but Li Wei said he would persuade Bruce by claiming Alice's blood could help cure Director Barnes.
• Ra's al Ghul prepared Bruce for real combat, while Jerome and the Criminal Alliance discussed making a spectacular operation to celebrate Li Wei's return.
• Gotham's factions investigated Li Wei's whereabouts as the city remained quiet for three days, and Cobblepot ordered his men to avoid trouble.
• Bruce left Wayne Manor wearing protective equipment designed to counter the Mad Hatter, while Li Wei, Ra's al Ghul, and Jerome secretly watched him.

Bruce Wayne rescued Alice after defeating the Mad Hatter, then left the area with her instead of taking her to Arkham Asylum. Li Wei and Ra's al Ghul watched as Bruce headed toward Gotham’s outskirts, waiting to see what he would do with her.

• Bruce used scans and careful tactics to evade traps in the Mad Hatter’s hideout.
• Bruce resisted the Mad Hatter’s hypnosis and knocked him unconscious in a fight.
• Bruce freed Alice and dragged the Mad Hatter to an alley near the Gotham Police Department, where he left him tied up.
• Bruce led Alice away from the police department and headed toward the outskirts of Gotham City while Li Wei and Ra's al Ghul observed.

Bruce struggled to decide where to take Alice after rescuing her, and Ra's al Ghul advised him to bring her to Arkham Asylum. Li Wei persuaded Bruce to do so, where he began preparing to make Alice a Hero Template vessel while concealing Arkham's secrets from Bruce.

• Ra's al Ghul called Bruce and warned him that Alice's blood was needed to develop an antidote and that taking her to Wayne Manor could expose Bruce's identity.
• Li Wei teleported into an alley, revealed that he knew Bruce's identity, and urged him to bring Alice to Arkham Asylum, citing infected police director Barnes as a reason for the antidote.
• Bruce followed Li Wei into the empty alley, then changed course and assured Alice he would keep her safe at Arkham Asylum.
• Li Wei summoned Dr. Hugo and Warwick to conceal Arkham's abnormalities until he could turn Bruce into a Hero Template vessel.
• Warwick admitted Bruce and Alice to Arkham and led them to Li Wei's office, where Li Wei invited them to sit.

Bruce left Alice in Li Wei’s care at Arkham Asylum after securing promises about her safety and freedom. Li Wei learned that Alice’s blood held a dangerous unknown substance and began persuading her to join Arkham Asylum by revealing his powers.

• Li Wei explained how he had identified Bruce, and Bruce agreed to leave Alice at Arkham Asylum so her blood could be studied.
• Bruce left, while Li Wei reassured the anxious Alice and took her to the underground Indian Hill Hospital for examinations.
• Dr. Hugo found that Alice’s blood contained an unknown infectious substance that affected even Poison Ivy and other Hero Template carriers.
• Li Wei decided to have Alice join Arkham Asylum, and Dr. Hugo prepared the Evolution Ceremony.
• Li Wei showed Alice a white flame that burned through a stainless steel table and told her it was power, not magic.

Li Wei granted Alice Vladimir, the Crimson Reaper’s Hero Template, giving her Blood Magic and freedom from her brother’s control. Alice chose to stay at Arkham Asylum for now, while Bruce Wayne returned the next morning under his civilian identity to investigate the asylum through a donation.

• Li Wei offered Alice power to resist her brother, the Mad Hatter, and Alice quickly agreed to receive it.
• Dr. Hugo prepared the Evolution Ceremony, and Li Wei granted Alice Vladimir, the Crimson Reaper’s Hero Template.
• Alice endured the transformation, gained Blood Magic, and changed into a mature, pale, red-eyed form before learning to shift back to her original appearance.
• Alice told Li Wei she could sense a group of vampires and chose to stay at Arkham Asylum until Bruce felt at ease about the place.
• Bruce Wayne arrived at Arkham Asylum as the Wayne family’s young master, using a proposed donation as his reason for visiting.

Li Wei persuaded Bruce to make Arkham Asylum a paid holding facility for criminals Bruce could not send through the legal system. He then explained his plans to the asylum staff and asked Constantine how he and the other guests were adjusting to Gotham.

• Bruce visited Alice and found that Arkham Asylum had treated her well, easing some of his suspicions about Li Wei.
• Li Wei proposed that Bruce send difficult-to-prosecute criminals to Arkham Asylum, and Bruce agreed to pay five times the rate Gotham City Hall paid.
• Li Wei saw Bruce off and reflected that the arrangement would bring Arkham Asylum both money and prisoners.
• Li Wei briefed Dr. Hugo and the other employees on his plan and warned them to conceal anything abnormal from outsiders.
• Li Wei called Constantine over and asked how he was finding Gotham, and Constantine said he felt restless after having nothing to do.

Li Wei sent Constantine and his companions to hunt Hell creatures and evil spirits after sensing that Hell’s contact with the Human Realm had spread to Gotham. The group set out without Li Wei, eager to test their new powers, but their first target had already been destroyed in a house fire and explosion.

• Li Wei told Constantine that Hell creatures had appeared in Gotham and urged him to bring Sif, Zedd, and Chas along.
• Constantine gathered the others, and they agreed to hunt the supernatural creatures; Chas looked forward to proving himself with his Undead Warrior Sion Hero Template.
• Constantine considered how the group could protect cities after leaving them, but decided they first needed to clear Gotham.
• Sif and Zedd used their sensing abilities to mark likely locations, and the four drove to the first site in an SUV prepared by Warwick.
• The group found the possessed person’s house burned and blown apart, and Constantine used a spell to learn that the evil spirit had been an ordinary possession case.

Constantine, Sif, Zedd, and Chas found that Gotham locals had already destroyed several evil spirits through brutal methods, so they hurried on to protect anyone who might still be at risk. At the next site, Chas charged into a house where an evil spirit’s host was trapped, and Constantine hypnotized the gangsters before they could set it alight.

• Constantine and the others found the first evil spirit had been destroyed by Gothamites using flames and explosives, then encountered more sites where locals had dealt with the spirits themselves.
• The Los Angeles group continued to the marked locations, determined to save anyone who might not be able to resist an evil spirit.
• Chas used Sion’s Brutal Charge and raced into a house packed with explosives as Gotham gangsters prepared to burn it.
• Constantine arrived with Sif and Zedd, cast a hypnotic spell on the gangsters, and made them leave while chanting that littering and arson were immoral.

Constantine, Sif, Zedd, and Chas cleared Gotham’s evil spirits, with Chas overpowering hosts and Constantine destroying the spirits. The resulting injuries sent many former hosts to Arkham Asylum, and the pattern in their cases reached Director Barnes, who was left to consider the report.

• Chas subdued an evil spirit’s host, and Constantine destroyed the spirit and treated the man’s dislocated arms.
• The four-person team cleared Gotham’s marked locations in less than three days, often finding that residents had already dealt with the spirits.
• Former hosts arrived at Arkham Asylum with unexplained injuries, and Dr. Hugo diagnosed them with sleepwalking after Li Wei explained what had happened.
• Gotham police traced the former hosts’ strange incidents but set the cases aside because the people had Arkham’s sleepwalking diagnoses and had caused little harm.
• Gordon delivered the officers’ report to Director Barnes, who read it and fell into deep thought.

Barnes concealed the worsening effects of Alice’s blood toxin while Li Wei withheld the antidote, hoping to bring Barnes under his control. After the exorcists returned to Arkham, they planned to travel onward as a team, and Dr. Hugo took charge of angel feathers for his artificial-angel experiments.

• Barnes ordered Gordon to close the investigation into Arkham because they had no evidence, then hid his worsening blood-toxin symptoms and injected himself with a sedative.
• Li Wei watched Barnes struggle with the toxin and kept secret that Dr. Hugo had already found a way to neutralize it.
• The four exorcists finished clearing Gotham of supernatural threats and decided to travel to other cities to fight creatures entering the Human Realm.
• The team returned to Arkham, where Li Wei approved their plan and gave them a check for expenses.
• Dr. Hugo took the angel feathers collected in Los Angeles and continued developing ways to create Artificial Angels.

Constantine and the demon-hunting team left Gotham while the city’s factions grew wary of Li Wei. Meanwhile, Bruce Wayne advanced as a vigilante, and Li Wei discovered Jerome’s plan to bomb a Wayne Enterprises hospital, then called Alfred to speak with Bruce.

• Constantine and the others agreed to report strange people and events to Li Wei before departing Gotham without interference from its factions.
• Bruce Wayne improved his armor and crime-fighting skills with Lucius Fox’s help while maintaining his public playboy image.
• Li Wei discovered Jerome and the Criminal Alliance preparing Ian’s precisely placed bombs to destroy the grounds of a Wayne Enterprises hospital without harming people or nearby buildings.
• Li Wei decided to let Bruce confront Jerome’s plan and called Wayne Manor to ask Alfred to put him through to Bruce.

After Li Wei warned Bruce Wayne that someone planned to bomb a Wayne Enterprises hospital, Bruce struggled to find a lead and began building a citywide intelligence system. He installed concealed ultrasonic devices in Wayne-branded statues and moved on to a free streetlight project, while Li Wei watched Bruce advance toward becoming Batman.

• Li Wei warned Bruce Wayne that someone in Gotham planned to blow up a Wayne Enterprises hospital, but he could not identify the culprits or their plan.
• Bruce tried to trace the threat through explosives, but Alfred explained that too many Gotham residents possessed them for that lead to be useful.
• Bruce decided against human informants and ordinary cameras, then proposed using bats’ ultrasonic echolocation to monitor Gotham.
• Lucius designed compact ultrasonic devices, which Bruce arranged to hide inside Wayne Enterprises statues across the city and connect to his father’s supercomputer.
• Li Wei watched Bruce establish the intelligence system, intending his enemies’ greater strength to push him toward relying on wealth and technology.
• Bruce proposed that Wayne Enterprises replace Gotham’s streetlights for free, and City Hall accepted the plan.

Bruce used the citywide ultrasonic pulse network to locate Jerome and the Criminal Alliance preparing explosives, then sent a miniature drone to scout them. Jerome shot the drone down, but Bruce identified the four main criminals and began planning how to capture them without confronting them head-on.

• Wayne Enterprises finished installing ultrasonic pulse devices disguised in streetlights across Gotham in under three days, disrupting the Criminal Alliance’s bomb preparations during construction.
• Bruce used the Batcave supercomputer to investigate the city and located Jerome and the others manufacturing high explosives in a warehouse.
• Bruce sent a miniature drone to observe the warehouse, but Jerome sensed it, fired his sniper rifle, and destroyed it.
• Bruce recognized Jerome, Scarecrow, Riddler Edward, and Bomb Man Ian among the gathered criminals and judged that he could not defeat them all in a direct fight.
• Bruce decided to find another way to stop the bombing and capture the Criminal Alliance members for trial and imprisonment in Blackstone Prison.

Bruce anonymously reported Jerome’s warehouse to the police, forcing the Criminal Alliance to evacuate before officers arrived. Jerome traced the operation to Bruce at Wayne Manor and watched him prepare in the Batcave, setting the stage for their next confrontation.

• Bruce anonymously reported the warehouse to the Gotham City Police Department, which deployed a large force after mistaking the explosives for the Mad Hatter’s bombs.
• Jerome spotted the police convoy, realized the warehouse had been discovered, and ordered the Criminal Alliance to move its explosives and flee.
• Sheriff Gordon arrived to find the warehouse empty, and Edward’s preparations left the police unable to track the Criminal Alliance.
• Officers mistakenly accused the Mad Hatter of having accomplices and beat him during interrogation, while he wrongly hoped the Criminal Alliance would rescue him.
• Jerome used his vision across Gotham to identify Bruce Wayne as the person behind the police raid and watched him prepare equipment in the Batcave.