Recaps

Miao Mu awoke in Gotham as an intern police officer at the Arkham Police Department and learned he had arrived in the main Batman universe just before Bruce Wayne became Batman. After discovering a mysterious Adventure Treasure system, he joined Jerry Cabson to pursue the thief who had robbed Captain Wei Fei.

• Miao Mu transmigrated into the body of an Arkham police intern and was dragged from the bathroom by Jerry Cabson to join the search for a cat burglar.
• Captain Wei Fei berated the precinct over the theft from his home, then ordered the officers to investigate despite providing no clues or access to the crime scene.
• Miao Mu read a Gotham Gazette report about Bruce Wayne's return to Wayne Enterprises and concluded he was in the main Batman universe before Batman's career began.
• Miao Mu activated the Adventure Treasure system and received a message that a treasure had refreshed for him to explore.
• Jerry Cabson claimed he knew who had robbed Wei Fei and told Miao Mu that catching the thief could earn them full-time positions and a promotion, so Miao Mu set off with him.

Miao Mu and Jerry Cabson left Arkham Precinct and traveled to the Lower East Side to seek information from Oswald, a former acquaintance who had joined Carmine Falcone’s Button Men. Miao Mu also wondered how to use his newly obtained Adventure Treasure ability as the two entered the rain-soaked neighborhood.

• Miao Mu and Jerry walked through Arkham District, and Jerry said Oswald could help them find information about a criminal.
• Jerry explained that Oswald had become one of Carmine Falcone’s Button Men, and he and Miao Mu decided to look for him.
• Miao Mu and Jerry took the elevated subway to the Lower East Side, where Miao Mu pondered his Adventure Treasure ability.
• Miao Mu and Jerry walked through the rain toward the poor apartment blocks as hostile residents watched them.

Miao Mu and Jerry visited Oswald for information about the burglar who robbed Wei Fei, and Oswald directed them to Fesso Grocery Store. On the way there, Miao Mu sensed a hidden treasure near the garbage mountain, split from Jerry, and entered the dangerous dump.

• Miao Mu and Jerry reunited with Oswald, who welcomed them into his apartment and heard their request for leads on the burglar who robbed Wei Fei.
• Oswald gave Miao Mu a Fesso Grocery Store business card as a clue, asking him not to reveal the source.
• Miao Mu and Jerry headed toward the garbage mountain, but Miao Mu sensed a hidden treasure and sent Jerry to the store alone.
• Miao Mu approached the garbage mountain, covered his face against the stench, and shot a hostile wild dog that fled wounded.

Miao Mu found the Eye of True Sight, used it to spot and kill a coyote, and helped Jerry pressure a shopkeeper for information about a thief. The pair left the store in their underwear and set off to find Otis.

• Miao Mu dug through rotten garbage and found a magical pendant called the Eye of True Sight, which let him see all around himself for five minutes.
• Miao Mu used his new sight to detect a coyote behind him and shot it dead.
• Miao Mu entered Feiso General Store, saw the shopkeeper preparing to spray him, and threatened him into checking his coded ledger.
• The shopkeeper revealed that a man with stolen goods had asked about prices and pointed Miao Mu and Jerry toward a cabinet in exchange for their clothes and Oswald's umbrella.
• Miao Mu remembered the suspected thief was Otis and ran out into the rain, while Jerry hurried after him holding up his shorts.

Miao Mu and Jerry tracked down Ratcatcher Otis Flanagan at the DeAngelo Wastewater Treatment Plant, hoping to confront him. Otis fled toward the sewers, but Jerry blocked his escape and left him trapped between them.

• Miao Mu recalled how Otis had been wrongfully imprisoned for ten years and later gained the ability to control rats.
• Miao Mu prepared a gasoline bottle while Jerry armed himself with baseball bats and protective gear.
• Miao Mu and Jerry reached the homeless encampment at the DeAngelo Wastewater Treatment Plant and used a cream bun to draw out Otis.
• Miao Mu recognized Otis when a rat appeared from his pocket, and Otis ran toward the sewer entrance.
• Jerry cut off Otis's route to the sewers, trapping him between himself and Miao Mu as Otis raised his hands and declared they had brought this on themselves.

Miao Mu defeated Otis by fighting him and convincing him that he had been framed and was innocent, calming the rats Otis controlled. In the sewers, Otis showed Miao Mu and Jerry the valuables he had stolen, and Miao Mu let him keep his dignity and called him a hero.

• Miao Mu used fire and close combat to overpower Otis while Jerry fought off the rats at the sewer entrance.
• Miao Mu told Otis that he had been framed and had committed no crime, and Otis broke down crying as the rats settled and retreated.
• Miao Mu chose not to arrest Otis and followed him with Jerry into the sewers to recover the valuables Otis had stolen.
• Otis showed them the hidden stash and explained that he had stolen the valuables after leaving prison because he had nowhere to go.
• Miao Mu gave Otis his coat and reassured him that he was a righteous outlaw who could become a hero.

Miao Mu and Jerry delivered stolen gang records to Chief Wei Fei and secured their appointments as full officers. After Jim gave them shabby uniforms and guns, Miao Mu kicked open the warehouse door and confronted him.

• Miao Mu gave Otis Feiso General Store’s business card and left with Jerry, while Otis wondered whether they were friends.
• Miao Mu and Jerry told Chief Wei Fei that they had recovered the gem box and account books from a wastewater ditch, and Wei Fei confirmed they could become full officers.
• Miao Mu and Jerry revealed that they had pried off the gems, damaged the box, soaked the records, and made themselves look battered to conceal what they had done.
• At Logistics, Jim drove Miao Mu and Jerry away, then tossed out worn uniforms and Colt Lawman revolvers without holsters.
• Miao Mu kicked open the warehouse door, sent Jim sprawling, and entered with a revolver as Jerry followed and shut the door.

Miao Mu confronted Jite over stolen pay and withheld police supplies, then discovered that Gotham's police equipment had been stripped or replaced with useless gear. He left the logistics warehouse with a new Glock 17 and uncovered the extent of Chief Wei Fei's corruption.

• Miao Mu threatened Jite with Russian roulette until Jite admitted he had taken half of the probationary officers' pay, while Jerry angrily tried to shoot Jim with an unloaded revolver.
• Miao Mu demanded the officers' money back and required Jite to replace their worn uniforms and guns according to regulations.
• Miao Mu found that the warehouse's bulletproof vests contained plastic plates instead of ballistic material, and Jite blamed Chief Wei Fei.
• Jite showed Miao Mu that most firearms, grenades, and ammunition were missing from the warehouse, with only a few Colt Lawman pistols left.
• Jite gave Miao Mu and Jerry two Glock 17s that he had kept privately, and Miao Mu took one while Jite agreed there was no problem.

Miao Mu and Jerry celebrated becoming regular police officers, then reported to the Arkham Police Department and were sent out to patrol. After joyriding around Arkham District, Miao Mu drove toward the Lower East Side to sell the gems and retrieve their belongings from Fesso Grocery Store.

• Miao Mu and Jerry toasted their new lives as police officers on a rooftop in Arkham District.
• Miao Mu and Jerry arrived at the Arkham Police Department, where Deputy Chief Leto Granger assigned them desks under Captain Floyd.
• Captain Maide ordered Miao Mu and Jerry to patrol and gave them a police car.
• Miao Mu and Jerry drove around Arkham District, passing Arkham Asylum and enjoying their new police car.
• Miao Mu told Jerry they were heading to Fesso Grocery Store to sell the gems and retrieve their uniforms and umbrella, and drove toward the Lower East Side.

Miao Mu and Jerry sold a genuine sapphire, recovered their pawned belongings, and used the money to plan a celebration at the Zeus Grand Hotel. Miao Mu invited Oswald and Otis, then brought Otis a suit and told him to meet them at seven.

• Miao Mu and Jerry learned that most of their gemstones were fake, sold the genuine sapphire, and reclaimed their clothes and umbrella.
• Miao Mu suggested celebrating at the Zeus Grand Hotel and invited Oswald and Otis along with Jerry.
• Miao Mu gave Jerry half the money to buy a suit, and Jerry said he would meet them at the hotel.
• Miao Mu drove to the DeAngelo Wastewater Treatment Plant, found Otis, and invited him to dinner.
• Miao Mu handed Otis a suit and told him to meet them at the Zeus Grand Hotel at seven.

Miao Mu, Jerry, Otis, and Oswald shared a meal at the Zeus Grand Hotel, where Oswald asked Miao Mu to help find a killer who stitched victims together. Oswald left after learning his men had been attacked, while Miao Mu agreed to watch for the killer in Arkham.

• Miao Mu brought Jerry and Otis to the Zeus Grand Hotel, where Oswald joined them for dinner.
• Oswald introduced himself to Otis, and the group toasted their friendship over an elaborate meal.
• Oswald asked Miao Mu to find someone in Arkham who mutilated victims by sewing body parts together, explaining that the killer had murdered his man’s five-year-old brother.
• Miao Mu suspected the crimes were linked to Pig-Faced Professor, while Oswald said Lieutenant James Gordon’s investigation had traced the killer toward Arkham.
• Oswald received a call that a hooded attacker had struck his men and left to deal with it, taking back his cleaned umbrella from Miao Mu.

After dinner, Otis went into Gotham’s sewers with Bastian and a swarm of rats to search for a man, while Miao Mu and Jerry were requisitioned to respond to an emergency in Coventry District. They pursued a bus carrying Red Hood gang robbers, and Miao Mu opened fire as the chase reached the bus.

• Otis thanked Miao Mu, accepted his Glock 17, and set off alone to search for the person mentioned earlier.
• Otis changed into sewer gear, descended underground, and sent rats out to find the man.
• James Gordon requisitioned Miao Mu and Jerry’s patrol car and ordered them to 46th Street in Coventry District.
• Miao Mu and Jerry joined a police pursuit of a bus carrying Red Hood gang members and stolen valuables.
• Miao Mu leaned out of the patrol car and fired at the bus, killing Red Hood Number 7.

Miao Mu and Jerry pursued the Red Hood gang’s getaway bus, trading gunfire until Miao Mu blew out a tire and their police car plunged into the Gotham River. The bus stopped nearby, and the gang began fleeing as police sirens approached, leaving Red Hood No. 1 and No. 9 behind with the injured No. 3.

• Red Hood No. 1 fired at Miao Mu and Jerry’s police car, and Miao Mu reported the chase to Feras of Gotham’s Special Operations Unit.
• Miao Mu urged Jerry to keep pursuing, and the two fired at the bus while Jerry drove and Miao Mu switched to the back seat.
• Miao Mu used his Golden Hexagram to aim at the bus’s rear wheels and burst a tire, but their police car went through a guardrail and sank into the Gotham River.
• Red Hood No. 1 fired at the river while Red Hood No. 10 ordered the gang to retreat as police cars approached.
• Red Hood No. 10 left Red Hood No. 1 and No. 9 to look after the injured Red Hood No. 3, and Red Hood No. 1 boarded the bus with his rifle.

Miao Mu and Jerry escaped the river, defeated the Red Hoods, and were taken into custody by the Special Action Team after Miao Mu found a Shark-Tooth Armguard. They left for a precinct while Chief Gordon arrived at the scene.

• Miao Mu found a Shark-Tooth Armguard in the river and used it to help overpower Red Hood No. 1 after Jerry shot Red Hood No. 9.
• Miao Mu stopped himself from killing Red Hood No. 1, then took cash and jewelry as police surrounded the bus.
• Flass questioned Miao Mu and Jerry, who explained that they had stopped the robbers and asked about their wrecked police car.
• The Special Action Team escorted Miao Mu and Jerry away to change and give statements, while Miao Mu hid the stolen valuables and admired the armguard.
• Chief Gordon arrived as Miao Mu and Jerry were taken to a nearby precinct.

Suspended Gotham officers Miao Mu and Jerry were denied credit for stopping a robbery, and Miao Mu considered making money from LexCorp stock. When Bastian delivered Otis’s message about a body at the sewage plant, Miao Mu set out to meet him.

• Miao Mu read that Gotham officials had taken credit for the robbery arrests while he and Jerry received no reward and were blamed for the destroyed police car.
• Miao Mu considered trading LexCorp stock based on the pattern of Lex Luthor’s defeats and inventions, then inspected his Shark-Tooth Armguard.
• Bastian arrived with Otis’s note saying he had found a body and wanted Miao Mu to meet him at the sewage plant.
• Miao Mu armed himself and left to meet Otis, while Jerry stayed behind with the Mexican restaurant owners’ twin daughters.

Miao Mu and Otis found a grotesquely stitched corpse in the sewers of Arkham District, along with bloodstained tools that might belong to its maker. When Myers ordered Miao Mu to stay and guard the body, Miao Mu refused, warning that the killer might come to silence them and demanding to know what Myers would do.

• Bastian led Miao Mu to Otis, who said he had found a corpse in the sewer and had been attacked by a fast-moving creature.
• Miao Mu examined the swollen corpse, which had four arms, three legs, and pieces of several faces sewn onto it.
• Otis showed Miao Mu bloodstained saws, drill bits, and stitching wire, and Miao Mu told him to call the police because he was suspended.
• Miao Mu and Otis discussed the homeless people living near the treatment plant, and Miao Mu suggested helping them learn to support themselves.
• Myers and two officers arrived to photograph the body, and Myers told Miao Mu his suspension was lifted and ordered him to guard it.
• Miao Mu refused, warning that the killer might return to silence them and asking Myers what he wanted.

Miao Mu and the police investigated a badly decomposed corpse at a sewage plant, where he met the unusually composed part-time forensic worker Edward Nygma and solved one of his riddles. Nygma began a gruesome on-site dissection as the officers struggled to stomach the sight.

• Jerry arrived at the sewage plant with Detective Harvey Bullock and other officers to inspect the corpse Miao Mu had been guarding.
• Bullock and the officers recoiled from the corpse's stench, while Jerry and another officer vomited.
• Edward Nygma arrived to examine the body and posed Miao Mu a riddle, which Miao Mu solved by answering that it was a person's name.
• Nygma explained that he worked part-time in police department logistics and began examining and dissecting the corpse with Miao Mu's assistance.
• Nygma cut open the corpse's organs and skull, prompting more officers and nearby homeless people to flee or vomit.

The Arkham Police Department briefed Bullock and the officers on the Dollmaker’s gruesome murders and began setting up a command center in Arkham District. Miao Mu invited Nygma to dinner, and Bullock joined them as the group left together.

• The police presented evidence that the Dollmaker had committed eleven cases, leaving nineteen confirmed victims, and narrowed his location to Arkham District.
• Bullock took charge of the investigation because Gordon was occupied with the Red Hood Heist and requested local manpower and a command center.
• Miao Mu asked Bullock for details about the suspect, but Bullock said he had no information yet and that files would arrive that night.
• Bullock selected Miao Mu and several others to help establish an office, while Director Wei Fei promised support.
• Miao Mu invited Nygma to a Mexican restaurant and answered Nygma’s riddle with a joke about steak.
• Bullock joined Miao Mu, Nygma, Jerry, and the others as they headed to dinner.

Miao Mu treated Nygma to an expensive dinner at the Carmen family’s Mexican restaurant, earning the detective’s friendship and admiration. As they discussed the Dollmaker, Nygma deduced that the killer was a skilled surgeon refining his work and revealed that the latest victim’s spine had been smashed by brute force before the body drowned.

• Pemola Carmen served Miao Mu and Nygma steaks, and Miao Mu bought the Wayne Estate fiftieth anniversary wine to honor Nygma.
• Nygma accepted Miao Mu’s praise and toasted him as a friend, while Captain Bullock watched and thought more highly of Miao Mu.
• Miao Mu asked Nygma what kind of person the Dollmaker was, and Nygma identified him as a skilled surgeon based on the neat stitches on the bodies.
• Nygma explained that the Dollmaker’s victims had become progressively more complete, as though he were practicing to create something extraordinary.
• Nygma said the latest victim had been drowned and that someone with brute force had smashed the corpse’s spine.

Miao Mu befriended Edward Nygma and drove him home, where Nygma reflected on his loneliness and watched Miao Mu keep guard outside. Later, Miao Mu met Oswald to collect money for an SSS Card and told him the police had a lead on the Dollmaker.

• Miao Mu drove the drunken Edward Nygma home after the two bonded over riddles and friendship.
• Nygma returned to his apartment, contemplated a painting about loneliness, and watched Miao Mu wait outside before driving away.
• Miao Mu met Oswald and collected twenty thousand dollars to buy an SSS Card for a brilliant strategist.
• Oswald borrowed ten thousand dollars from Miao Mu to sponsor promising students through university.
• Oswald told Miao Mu that the police had a lead on the Dollmaker and warned him about rats nearby.
• Miao Mu told Oswald that a light-brown rat named Bastian liked sweets, then left him pondering the clue.

Miao Mu used Edward Nygma’s deductions to connect the Dollmaker’s experiments to a robbery by three monsters and predicted that their next move would involve buying drugs on the black market. He headed for a black-market warehouse in Tricorner, with Jerry sent to gather backup, as a new adventure treasure hunt appeared.

• Miao Mu paid Pamola the remaining bill with Jerry’s pawned necklace and an IOU, but Pamola forgave the debt and tore up the note.
• Miao Mu received Edward Nygma’s notebook, which explained that the Dollmaker had created a living monster through his experiments.
• At the task force meeting, Miao Mu proposed investigating black-market drug suppliers, then learned that three monsters had robbed an armored truck and escaped through the sewers with seven million dollars.
• Miao Mu bet Chief Bullock that the Dollmaker would seek drugs on the black market and asked Jerry to contact Otis and Oswald.
• Miao Mu drove toward the black-market warehouse at 461 Riverside Road with a pistol, bulletproof vest, and shotgun, while Jerry went to find Otis.
• An Adventure Treasure Hunt notification appeared as Miao Mu sped toward Tricorner.

Batman, Bruce Wayne, attacked a deal between Sal Maroni and Barton Mathis, the Dollmaker, but the fight escalated when Mathis unleashed his grotesque creations. A tan Dodge sedan crashed into the warehouse and struck Defective No. 31, while its unseen driver announced an armed arrival.

• Sal Maroni and Barton Mathis arranged a deal at Warehouse 461, but Batman ambushed the gangsters and knocked them out.
• The Dollmaker revealed Masterpiece No. 29, Scrap No. 11, and Defective No. 31, who attacked Batman.
• A tan Dodge sedan smashed through the warehouse shutter and rammed Defective No. 31, narrowly missing Batman.
• The sedan crushed Defective No. 31 against a stack of crates, and its driver shouted a taunt before the roar of a Remington M870 Shotgun.

Miao Mu battled Dollmaker Barton Mathis and his monstrous creations in a warehouse while Batman fought alongside him. After Miao Mu killed the creatures and wounded Barton, he introduced himself to Batman, who secretly investigated him through Alfred.

• Miao Mu killed Defective No. 31 and confronted Dollmaker Barton Mathis in the warehouse.
• Batman and Miao Mu fought Masterpiece No. 29 and Scrap No. 11, with Miao Mu severing Scrap No. 11's arm and Batman restraining Masterpiece No. 29.
• Miao Mu shot Barton in the hand as he tried to fire at Batman, then let him flee toward the sewers.
• Miao Mu killed Scrap No. 11 while Batman subdued Masterpiece No. 29 with a tranquilizer.
• Miao Mu identified himself to Batman, while Alfred searched his records and relayed his background to Batman over the radio.

Miao Mu helped Dollmaker Barton escape Batman, then joined Otis and Jerry in tracking Barton through Gotham’s sewers. Batman stayed behind to fight Masterpiece No. 29 as the pursuit continued underground.

• Miao Mu told Batman that Dollmaker Barton had escaped into the sewers, while Batman questioned him at the warehouse.
• Jerry and Otis arrived, and Miao Mu freed himself as Otis’s rats swarmed Batman and Masterpiece No. 29 attacked him.
• Batman threw a Batarang at Miao Mu, who caught it and ran from the warehouse with Jerry and Otis.
• Otis summoned rats to follow Barton’s blood trail to an open manhole, and Miao Mu, Jerry, and Otis entered the sewers to pursue him.

Miao Mu and his allies confronted the Court of Owls after finding Dollmaker Barton in the sewers. They killed Reserve Talon Drank and pursued the other Talon, while Jerry and Otis swore to keep the encounter secret.

• Dollmaker Barton fled through the sewers after being attacked, but Reserve Talons Drank and Herd stopped him and questioned him about his injuries.
• Rats attacked Barton, and Drank and Herd tried to take him away as Miao Mu, Otis Flanigan, and Jerry arrived.
• Miao Mu and Jerry opened fire on Drank, who dived into the sewage and then lunged at Miao Mu with a dagger.
• Otis distracted Drank with his lantern, allowing Miao Mu to blast off his arm, and Otis's rats and Jerry finished him off.
• Jerry warned Otis to keep the encounter secret, and he and Otis followed Miao Mu in pursuit of Herd and Barton.