Recaps

Miao Mu defeated two fighters at Villains' Bar and questioned the waitress about a bald man who had visited. After learning her name was Helena Bertinelli, he left, unaware that she secretly followed him and his companions.

• Miao Mu knocked out a knife-wielding thief with a brick and defeated a much larger Russian fighter with an Iron Monkey Fist uppercut.
• The referee gave Miao Mu his winnings, and he asked the waitress about the bald man who had visited the bar.
• The waitress, Helena, said the bald man had met several people and left, then told Miao Mu her name.
• Russ Herrog questioned Helena about Miao Mu and identified him as a capable cop.
• Helena learned that Herrog knew who Miao Mu was, then slipped out of the bar and followed him.

Miao Mu took Jason toward Crime Alley on a night train, where the Bald Gang ambushed them and learned how dangerous Miao Mu was. Helena watched the fight from the next carriage and recalled her uncle’s warning about Miao Mu’s strength.

• Miao Mu gave Milo the police car keys, then agreed to take Jason home to Crime Alley.
• Miao Mu and Jason boarded the night train, where seven members of the Bald Gang confronted Miao Mu.
• The Bald Gang attacked, and Miao Mu quickly knocked down several men while Jason struck one with a wrench.
• Miao Mu defeated the remaining gang members and shouted insults at them after the fight.
• Helena watched from the next carriage and remembered her uncle saying Miao Mu was very strong.

Miao Mu woke at Jason’s shelter, left him a burger and a note inviting him to the Arkham Police Department, then was assigned to guard a Gotham networking event. The Mayor’s Residence lost power, and Miao Mu and Bullock spotted Batman overhead as Bullock led officers inside.

• Miao Mu woke beneath the water tower, found five dollars, and went to buy bread after realizing he had slept most of the day.
• Jason found the burger Miao Mu had left with a note inviting him to the Arkham Police Department, though he barely remembered Miao Mu’s name.
• Miao Mu was sent to guard a networking event at the Mayor’s Residence after a series of recent attacks and robberies had strained Gotham’s police force.
• Bullock teased Miao Mu about drinking with Gordon, then sneaked a cigarette while they guarded the front yard.
• The Mayor’s Residence suddenly lost power, and Miao Mu spotted Batman flying overhead as Bullock ordered the officers to sound the alarm and led them inside.

Batman infiltrated the Mayor's Residence during a banquet and declared that he would bring Gotham's powerful figures to justice. As Miao Mu recognized Batman's plan and waited inside the chimney, Batman fought through the panicked crowd and headed for Falcone.

• Bullock and Miao Mu found the Mayor's Residence locked behind bulletproof doors, windows, and reinforced walls, while a damaged power station left them without electricity.
• Miao Mu climbed onto the roof, discovered Batman had entered through the chimney, and descended before realizing Batman was targeting the city's corrupt elite.
• Miao Mu recognized that Batman had raided the Mayor's Residence to confront Gotham's corrupt officials and stopped himself inside the chimney.
• Batman appeared at the banquet, announced that he would bring everyone to justice, and released a smoke bomb that sent the guests into a panic.
• Batman incapacitated Falcone's bodyguards in the darkness and moved toward Falcone, whom he had come to target.

Miao Mu reached the mayor’s residence banquet hall and found Falcone taped to the wall after Batman’s attack. Falcone left under heavy guard and ordered his men to offer Gotham’s most profitable operation to whoever killed Batman.

• Miao Mu climbed down the chimney, entered the dark banquet hall, and frightened the gathered dignitaries into silence with his gunfire.
• Miao Mu found Falcone taped to the wall and recognized him as Gotham’s underworld godfather.
• Gordon’s officers entered the hall, helped the guests out, and Gordon vowed to send Falcone back to prison.
• Falcone departed in a convoy guarded by his Roman Praetorian Guard.
• Falcone ordered his men to promise Gotham’s most profitable operation to whoever killed Batman.

After the police failed to find Batman, Gotham launched a major manhunt under James Gordon, who secured broad authority and resources to catch him. Bruce Wayne learned that the city and underworld had targeted Batman, while Miao Mu prepared Arkham officers for a sweep of Sal Maroni's territory in the Upper East Side.

• Gotham officials funded the police and Blackgate Prison, and Commissioner Loeb assigned James Gordon to lead a three-month effort to capture Batman.
• Gordon secured command of the special major crimes unit and patrol airships, access to elite officers, and warrants for Batman and his helpers.
• Bruce repaired his equipment in the Batcave as Alfred warned him about the consequences of turning Gotham's powerful people against him.
• Miao Mu reviewed the coordinated police missions targeting Sal Maroni's Mafia organization and noticed Arkham officers had been assigned to the Upper East Side.
• Miao Mu called Milo and ordered the officers in Offices One and Two to prepare for the operation and keep it confidential.

Miao Mu used new funding and weapons to rally Arkham officers for a cross-jurisdiction crime crackdown in the Upper East Side. On the way out, he captured Jason and then left Milo running on foot after the Adventure Treasure refreshed.

• Miao Mu distributed the City Hall funding among the families of fallen and injured officers and the rest of the Arkham Police Department, sidelining Wei Fei.
• Miao Mu armed the officers with shotguns and ordered them to raid Upper East Side gangs, arrest criminals, and seize their assets.
• Miao Mu sent Milo to fetch Nygma’s laptop and make a copy of Gotham’s wanted list before leading the convoy out.
• Miao Mu spotted Jason hiding by a utility pole, grabbed him, and stuffed him into the Hummer, calling him his son.
• Miao Mu kicked Milo out of the Hummer after the steel bridge and made him continue on foot, then received a notice that Adventure Treasure had refreshed.

Miao Mu and Arkham officers raided a Maroni Family casino in the Upper East Side, arresting its staff and finding a large stash of drugs. They moved on to Zero Point Bar to continue their crackdown before dark.

• Miao Mu led Arkham officers in a raid on an underground casino, where they killed a gang punk who drew a gun and arrested the remaining suspects.
• Milo found 250-gram packets of high-purity white powder in the casino warehouse, and Miao Mu ordered the scene documented and the suspects taken to the Upper East Side Police Department.
• A casino manager tried to destroy Zhang Xuhu’s mission list, which mapped Maroni Family territory, but Miao Mu kicked him away and officers subdued him.
• Miao Mu wondered whether Gordon or Batman had planned the operation, then ordered officers to leave the dead punk for Upper East Side police to handle.
• Jason told Miao Mu that Zero Point Bar was on Fourteenth Street, and Miao Mu led the officers there to make more arrests.

Miao Mu raided Zero Bar and pressured the owner into revealing that the goods and a specialist Maroni had hired were in an apartment behind the bar. He attacked the apartment and discovered the electric-powered villain Electrocutioner.

• Miao Mu raided Zero Bar with Arkham police and demanded to know where the goods were hidden.
• Miao Mu used a rigged Russian roulette threat to break the bar owner's silence, and the owner revealed the apartment behind the bar.
• Miao Mu and Milo positioned their officers outside the apartment, where electric arcs struck Milo and the other officers as they entered.
• Miao Mu broke through a window, dodged an electrical attack, and fired at the source, but the arcs stopped his bullets.
• Miao Mu used the Eye of True Sight to evade another electric attack and identified the attacker as Electrocutioner.

Miao Mu battled Electrocutioner through the bar and nearby streets, struggling against the villain’s electrical attacks and armored suit. After Miao Mu found a possible way to defeat him, he called Jason over for help.

• Miao Mu dodged Electrocutioner’s electric attacks, but his bullets and a strike with handcuffs barely affected the villain’s protective gear.
• Electrocutioner chased Miao Mu into an alley and sent debris flying; Miao Mu shielded Jason, was wounded, and told him to run away.
• Miao Mu returned with a shotgun and wounded Electrocutioner, who tore free of his power cables and charged into Zero Bar.
• Miao Mu spotted a possible solution and beckoned Jason over to help him.

Miao Mu and Jason defeated the Electrocutioner by soaking him with a fire hydrant, but the resulting explosion knocked Miao Mu unconscious and badly injured him. Oswald took him to Leslie Thompkins for treatment, while police arrived to contain the wider gang violence.

• Miao Mu smashed the Electrocutioner's cracked helmet with his shotgun, but the Electrocutioner struck him down.
• Miao Mu called for Jason to open a fire hydrant, and the water caused the Electrocutioner to short-circuit and explode.
• Jason found Miao Mu unconscious, and Oswald arrived and carried him away for medical treatment.
• Gordon and his officers secured the area after police defeated Maroni's forces in the warehouse district and other parts of Gotham.
• Miao Mu woke at Leslie Thompkins's clinic while she treated his wounds.

Miao Mu received stitches from Mrs. Thompkins while Jason waited outside, where he overheard a struggling man named Jack lamenting his failures to his pregnant wife, Jenny. After following a crowd of cats, Jason found Holly, who directed him back toward the hospital.

• Mrs. Thompkins stitched Miao Mu’s back wound without anesthetic and told him Oswald had brought him to the hospital.
• Miao Mu said Jason was his adopted godson and promised to take responsibility for him.
• Mrs. Thompkins gave Jason money to get food, and Jason wandered into a dark neighborhood after losing his way.
• Jason overheard Jack tell Jenny that he had lost his theater job and could not support their family.
• Jason followed several cats to Holly, who pointed him toward Mrs. Thompkins’s hospital.

After Gotham Police Commissioner Loeb reprimanded Gordon for targeting Falcone, Gordon and Bullock focused on building a case against Maroni. Meanwhile, Jack agreed to help two robbers break into ACE Chemicals after learning that his wife Jenny had died, leaving him numb as the robbery approached.

• Loeb ordered Gordon to arrest Batman and scolded him for investigating Falcone, while Gordon and Bullock discussed the obstacles to prosecuting Maroni.
• Two men recruited Jack, a former ACE Chemicals lab assistant, to guide them through the plant for a bank robbery and gave him a Red Hood mask.
• Police officers told Jack that his wife, Jenny, had died.
• Jack's partners pressured him to go through with the robbery so he could pay for Jenny's burial, and he agreed.

After Jenny’s death, Jack was betrayed during a robbery at ACE Chemicals and fell into a pool of corrosive chemicals, emerging transformed and laughing. The next day, Gordon reopened the Red Hood case and assigned Jerry to help investigate.

• Jack mourned Jenny outside her home, then joined two robbers planning to rob ACE Chemicals while wearing a Red Hood mask.
• Police raided the chemical plant, and the robbers abandoned Jack as officers and Batman pursued him.
• Jack fell into a hazardous wastewater pool, escaped through a drainage valve, and emerged with corroded skin, laughing and calling out to Jenny.
• Gordon visited Jerry at the Arkham Police Department to ask about Miao Mu, who had gone to Star City, then assigned Jerry to the Major Crimes Unit to investigate the Red Hood case.

Miao Mu left Gotham with Jason to travel to Star City by way of Metropolis, while Maroni returned to the police station seeking protection from Batman. The story left Miao Mu and Jason driving away as Gordon held Maroni in custody and dismissed his lawyer’s demands.

• Miao Mu watched Jason practice Iron Monkey Fist and considered his talent as they prepared to leave Gotham.
• Miao Mu showed off his upgraded firearms and told Jason to pack their camping gear and the Iron Fist Stone Monkey.
• Miao Mu and Jason drove away from Gotham in a rose-red Beetle, heading toward Star City by way of Metropolis.
• Batman broke Maroni’s right leg shortly after Maroni left the police station, forcing him to return in a wheelchair.
• Gordon brushed off Maroni’s lawyer’s demands and mocked Maroni for needing police protection.

Miao Mu arrived in Metropolis to buy LexCorp stock while Luthor was imprisoned, then went to the Daily Planet with Jason to seek Superman’s autograph. After meeting Jimmy Olsen, Miao Mu learned that Lois and Clark were investigating missing children and that their friend Kate had encountered trouble.

• Miao Mu bought LexCorp stock, confident that Luthor would eventually regain his fortunes, and sent Jason to the Daily Planet to get Clark Kent’s autograph.
• Jason returned with Jimmy Olsen, whom Miao Mu recognized and greeted enthusiastically before asking him to sign a Superman-themed autograph book.
• Jimmy explained that Clark and Lois were investigating a missing persons case involving children disappearing across Metropolis.
• Miao Mu offered to help investigate after Jimmy mentioned that their friend Kate had run into trouble.

Miao Mu and his companions tracked the missing children to an abandoned toy factory, where weaponized toys attacked them. Lois and Clark were trapped inside, and Miao Mu entered the workshop armed, leaving the children’s fate unresolved.

• Miao Mu, Jimmy, and Jason drove toward the toy factory after Lois and Clark stopped answering their calls.
• Miao Mu warned Jimmy to stay in the car when toy cars swarmed out of the factory, then told him to drive away while he fired on them.
• Miao Mu threw a grenade onto the factory’s plastic lawn, setting off an explosion that exposed a field of hidden nails.
• Lois and Clark struggled against adhesive holding them to the workshop floor as Lois listened to the gunfire outside and Clark detected only one person approaching.
• Miao Mu kicked open the workshop door and aimed his assault rifle at Lois and Clark, and Lois warned him not to hurt the children.

Miao Mu rescued Lois from Anthony Scott’s trap at the toy factory and helped Clark keep his Superman identity hidden while Kate remained in danger. Superman appeared after an explosion, and the chapter ended with him rescuing Jimmy and Jason’s car before flying off to save Kate.

• Miao Mu evaded the adhesive-covered children, restrained them, and freed Lois while learning that Anthony Scott was Toyman’s son and the Second-Generation Dollmaker.
• Lois remembered that Kate was in danger, and Miao Mu pulled Lois and the controlled children from the factory as he warned of explosives.
• The toy factory exploded, and Superman appeared carrying what Miao Mu recognized as a doll model rather than Clark.
• Superman lifted Jimmy and Jason’s Beetle out of a ditch, set it back on the road, and flew away to rescue Kate.

Superman swiftly captured Anthony Winston and delivered him to Metropolis Prison while Miao Mu drove Lois and Jimmy back to meet Clark. After Lois thanked Miao Mu and signed his autograph book, the group reunited and went to dinner together.

• Superman carried Anthony Winston to Metropolis Prison, put him in an empty cell, and sealed the wall with his heat vision.
• Miao Mu drove Lois and Jimmy, who praised his rescue of Lois and thanked him for helping them.
• Miao Mu asked Lois for an autograph, and she wrote that he was a good man.
• Jimmy spotted Clark waiting beneath a streetlamp, and Lois reunited with him and introduced Miao Mu.
• Miao Mu told Clark he admired his environmental writing, and Lois invited everyone to dinner.

After dinner with Lois, Clark, and Jimmy, Miao Mu and Jason drove toward Star City. A treasure alert redirected Miao Mu toward Los Angeles, where he hoped to find something connected to the retired Watchmen and the still-active Rorschach.

• Lois paid for dinner, and Miao Mu told the group he planned to drive to Star City to visit friends involved in a lawsuit.
• Jimmy gave Jason a Superman action figure before Miao Mu and Jason left, and Miao Mu told Jason that Superman was real.
• At dawn, Miao Mu received an Adventure Treasure alert pointing toward Los Angeles and stopped the Beetle at the fork in the road.
• Miao Mu recalled Los Angeles's history of masked vigilantes and Rorschach, then decided to follow the alert and look for abandoned vigilante relics.

Miao Mu took Jason to Los Angeles, found Rorschach at a protest, and lured him into an alley to fight. Rorschach gained the upper hand with his experience and improvised weapons, leaving Miao Mu reeling.

• Miao Mu told Jason they were in Los Angeles and planned to explore while waiting until evening to dig beneath a cathedral tree.
• Miao Mu spotted Rorschach at a protest and had Jason steal his sign to draw him into an alley.
• Miao Mu confronted Rorschach with a GCPD badge and challenged him to a fight in exchange for answering how he knew him.
• Rorschach attacked Miao Mu with a broken bottle and targeted his ribs, while Miao Mu landed a powerful punch and fought back with Iron Monkey Fist.
• Rorschach used trash can lids to strike Miao Mu over the head, leaving him disoriented.

Miao Mu fought Rorschach in an alley and learned that Rorschach’s instincts and fear-inducing mask gave him the advantage. Rorschach left after agreeing to meet Miao Mu again at midnight, while Miao Mu resolved to improve and told Jason to practice.

• Miao Mu fought Rorschach, who kept him on the defensive with sharp instincts and vicious attacks.
• Rorschach used his shifting ink mask to frighten and daze Miao Mu, then escaped Miao Mu’s blade attack with a Grappling Gun.
• Jason tried to strike Rorschach with a brick, but Miao Mu stopped him.
• Miao Mu claimed he had identified Rorschach through online government records and asked him to teach him, but Rorschach refused.
• Rorschach agreed to meet Miao Mu again at midnight, then left the alley.
• Miao Mu told Jason he would beat Rorschach next time and ordered him to practice his forms before dinner.

Miao Mu met John Constantine outside a Chinese restaurant after a falling mirror smashed his Beetle, and he immediately threatened the notorious exorcist at gunpoint. He fled back inside, where he found Jason suffering a severe nosebleed after drinking the restorative soup.

• Miao Mu and Jason ate pork knuckles while the restaurant owner prepared a medicinal soup, and locals borrowed a large mirror to help investigate a supposedly possessed girl.
• A crash outside revealed that the mirror had fallen from an upper-floor window and smashed onto Miao Mu's Beetle.
• John Constantine introduced himself as a professional exorcist and fixed his attention on Miao Mu's golden hexagram bracelet.
• Miao Mu recognized Constantine as a dangerous, unlucky con artist and pressed his revolver to Constantine's forehead.
• Miao Mu returned to the restaurant and found Jason bleeding heavily from the nose after drinking the soup.

Miao Mu and Jason dug up the God Coin, but an uncanny stranger appeared and returned it to Miao Mu. Miao Mu wished to become stronger, changing the coin and receiving three Adventure Treasure alerts, then entrusted it to Jason for safekeeping.

• Miao Mu and Jason went to a churchyard at night and dug up a box containing the God Coin.
• A strange man appeared without warning, dodged Miao Mu's attacks, and returned the coin to him before Miao Mu fled with Jason.
• Miao Mu concluded that the stranger was an angel and wished on the God Coin to become stronger.
• The coin landed on heads, its guaranteed wish side changed, and three Adventure Treasure alerts sounded in Miao Mu's mind.
• Miao Mu gave the coin to Jason and warned him to save it for a crisis because its remaining wish had only a fifty-percent chance of success.

Rorschach pushed Miao Mu through a rooftop pursuit that helped him draw on his qi and agility, then led him to a human-trafficking operation. Miao Mu joined Rorschach in attacking the gang, but Rorschach finished the fight first as Miao Mu headed into the building.

• Miao Mu left Jason in the Beetle and followed Rorschach over rooftops, struggling to keep up with his movements.
• Miao Mu crossed a gap between buildings by punching through windows and hauling himself up, cutting his hands on the shattered glass.
• Miao Mu’s qi spread through his limbs during the chase, and he gained enough speed to close in behind Rorschach.
• Rorschach identified Mr. Big Man as a human trafficker and attacked the Ultimate gang members carrying people toward their vans.
• Miao Mu kicked the bald thug into a van, while Rorschach killed or incapacitated the remaining gang members and called Miao Mu too slow.
• Miao Mu drew his M500 Revolver and walked into the building.