"Just a habitual gesture." Clark explained, "Bruce is right up ahead. It won't cause him any trouble if we go see him like this, will it?"
"It's fine. I'll talk to someone I know first." Roland found Commissioner Gordon.
"You're already the—I don't even know how many—group to come looking for me today, all saying you want to see Bruce." Commissioner Gordon sighed. "There are still so many reporters gathered outside. The noise is giving me a splitting headache."
"I have an idea. Why don't you release Bruce? Then no one will bother you anymore."
"Exactly. And I won't have to worry about all this stuff anymore either—I can just send him straight to prison." Commissioner Gordon rolled his eyes.
"You don't look that busy to me. You even have time to joke around with us." Roland said, "Take us to see him first. We need to figure out what happened."
"All right." Gordon brought the two of them to the place where Batman was being temporarily detained.
"Bruce, you don't look so good." Roland watched Bruce scribbling in the air with a wooden stick. "They aren't really going to send you to Arkham for treatment, are they?"
"Do you know how to talk to people?" Bruce shot him a look. "I'm thinking about what happened earlier."
"Oh, oh—so what exactly happened?"
"It's actually quite simple. Joker and Black Mask's target from the very beginning was me. Everything else was just a smokescreen to draw our attention away." Bruce said, "It seems he hadn't accounted for Jason and the others, though, so many of Joker's plans were rendered useless."
"That explains why Joker's actions seemed so disjointed." Roland thought of something. "But even with all that interference, and Harley Quinn being taken away directly by Astra, Joker still managed to