Recaps

Riddler offered Carmine Falcone several suspects in the Holiday Killer case, and Carmine later visited Alberto’s grave, where Batman confronted him. Catwoman intervened and then chased after Batman, while Sofia Falcone visited Kara Viti at a shooting studio.

• Riddler named Catwoman, Kara Viti, Calendar Man, Sal Maroni, James Gordon, Bruce Wayne, and Carmine as possible Holiday Killers, and Carmine said the guesses helped eliminate suspects.
• Carmine visited Alberto Falcone’s grave with flowers, where Batman challenged him over the price of Alberto’s death and the other innocent sons harmed by Carmine’s crimes.
• Catwoman knocked Carmine’s pistol away, then joined Batman in a chase before he left after seeing the Bat-Signal.
• Catwoman followed Batman after he refused to answer her questions about her connection to Carmine.
• Sofia Falcone entered a studio and hugged Kara Viti as Kara shot at targets.

Sofia Falcone learned from Kara Viti where the pistols that killed her brother came from, while Roland prepared to turn Roland Cathedral into a school for children and Gotham’s workers. In Gotham, Bruce Wayne flirted with Selene, and the Irishmen involved in the bombing implicated the Falcone family while asking not to have their sentences reduced.

• Sofia Falcone asked Kara Viti about the pistols that killed Little Alberto, and Kara agreed to tell her where they came from.
• Roland showed the workers the classroom in Roland Cathedral and announced that he would teach them after their five-day break.
• Killer Croc brought children from the Sewers and his Underground Kingdom to Roland’s new school, sparking bizarre rumors across Gotham.
• Bruce Wayne shared lunch with Selene and agreed to spend a break with her.
• At Gotham General Hospital, Jimmy, Kevin, Willy, and Donny told Commissioner Gordon that someone from the Falcone family had coached them, then insisted they did not want lighter sentences.

Sofia Falcone traced a .22 pistol to the Gunsmith, then suspected her Driver of betraying her and marked him for death. After the Triad debated how to respond to the Armorer’s killing, Zhao Feng proposed placing a bounty on the Holiday Killer.

• Sofia Falcone learned that the Gunsmith was in the Zhou Family Teahouse and confronted him, testing one of his pistols before killing him.
• Police found the Gunsmith dead with a .22 pistol and a damaged Baby Pacifier, then released Sofia for lack of evidence.
• Sofia accused her Driver of leaking her movements and gave him the Mafia’s kiss of death; he denied betraying her and shot himself in front of a security camera.
• Zhao Feng asked the Triad’s elders and juniors how to answer the Armorer’s suspicious death, while Uncle Qian urged them to attack the Falcone family.
• A lawyer argued that the Holiday Killer was responsible and proposed a two-million-dollar bounty, which Zhao Feng and the others approved.

Roland opened a school for Gotham’s homeless children and recruited retired police officer Hollihan to teach them. After the first lesson, Roland checked the students’ homework before Harvey Dent and Gilda invited him to dinner, where they discussed Gotham and Bruce Wayne’s romantic entanglements.

• Roland kept Jason and the other children from skipping class at the new school in Roland Cathedral.
• Hollihan agreed to become the children’s teacher after Roland asked him to guide them.
• Hollihan taught the first lesson while the children behaved themselves, and Roland checked on the class from outside.
• Roland asked Jason about the homework and assigned the students additional work.
• Harvey Dent and Gilda joined Roland for dinner and talked with him about Gotham, Gordon, and Bruce Wayne.

Roland learned that Faye Gunn had triggered inspections against Grand Church and went to investigate her boarding school, where he discovered its students were being taught about firearms. Back at Church, he found Jason beating Eddie, who had allegedly tried to poison the cafeteria food and nearly killed Tommy.

• Harvey gave Roland ownership of the church property and cleared its legal issues, then learned that Faye Gunn had filed a complaint against him.
• Roland visited Faye Gunn's school and overheard her asking Eddie to deal with him, before hearing her teach students about semiautomatic pistols and revolvers.
• Roland returned to find the students training on an obstacle course and learned that the class monitor had taken a sick student to the infirmary.
• Roland entered the Dark Room and found Jason whipping a gagged Eddie, whom Jason accused of trying to poison the cafeteria food and nearly beating Tommy to death.

Roland learned that Mrs. Gunn had sent Eddie to poison his food and make a news story, then visited the injured Tommy at the hospital. After children from Mrs. Gunn’s school were hospitalized with food poisoning, her efforts to comfort them attracted attention, and Bruce Wayne visited the next day.

• Roland and Jason beat Eddie until he confessed that Mrs. Gunn had sent him to poison Roland’s food and stir up publicity.
• Roland told Jason to deal with Mrs. Gunn, while Eddie explained that she had taken him in and pressured him to do bad things.
• Roland visited Tommy in the hospital, learned Tommy’s father had broken his legs for skipping school, and comforted him with chocolate from Hollihan.
• Roland heard that children from Mrs. Gunn’s school had been poisoned by mushrooms and were hallucinating in the hospital.
• Mrs. Gunn comforted the sick children, drawing attention through reports of her actions, and Bruce Wayne visited them the next day.

After exposing Mrs. Gunn’s criminal operation, Roland celebrated the children’s new start and gave gifts at his church on Mother’s Day. Scarecrow’s Fear Toxin then plunged Gotham into chaos, and as Roland joined Harvey to hunt him, Batman fled through Crime Alley, haunted by memories of his parents’ murder.

• Harvey told Roland that Mrs. Gunn and the children would face prison, though the children’s ages and remorse could reduce their sentences.
• Roland gave Mother’s Day gifts to the children who had mothers, then led a service at his growing church.
• Scarecrow’s diluted Fear Toxin made Roland see giant cockroaches, and Harvey found him and handed him a gas mask.
• Roland joined Harvey on his motorcycle to search for Scarecrow as fear spread across Gotham.
• Batman ran through Crime Alley while reliving memories of asking his mother to wear her pearl necklace on the night she died.

After defeating Scarecrow, Bruce learned that a mysterious letter had summoned his father to England and traveled there in his place with Roland and Jason. Earl Peter DeWittlin revealed that Bruce inherited a family duty and entrusted him with the Holy Grail just before the earl was found already dead.

• Batman defeated Scarecrow, but Officer Toby Redd shot him; Harvey and Roland pursued Bruce and found him unconscious at Martha Wayne’s grave.
• Harvey and Roland brought Bruce to Wayne Manor, where he recovered and received a package addressed to his deceased father, Thomas Wayne.
• Bruce examined the package’s ancient list and invitation, then agreed to visit Lord Winslegate in England with Roland.
• Bruce arrived at the Winslegate manor with Roland and Jason and met the aged Earl Peter DeWittlin alone.
• Peter told Bruce that the Wayne family had once been Gawains and that Bruce must inherit their responsibility, then gave him the Holy Grail.
• Bruce asked whether Peter was dying, and the butler replied that the earl was already dead.

After the Earl’s death, Bruce carried the Holy Grail box toward Gotham, but a League of Assassins attacker sabotaged their plane and forced an emergency landing on a deserted island. As the group made camp and searched for food, Bruce discovered that Roland’s Cross Knife seemed to hold unusual energy.

• The Earl died after entrusting Bruce with the mission to protect the Holy Grail, leaving Bruce puzzled about why his family had been chosen.
• A League of Assassins fighter disguised as a flight attendant attacked Bruce aboard the private jet and demanded the box.
• Roland disarmed the attacker, but the fight left the pilot unconscious and the plane’s instrument panel damaged; Bruce made an emergency landing on a deserted island in the Atlantic.
• Roland and the flight crew built a shelter while Bruce and Jason gathered fish, sea snails, and kelp, and the group spent the night taking turns watching the captive assassin.
• On the second day, Roland used his roar and Red Letters to catch wild birds, then fashioned a pot from the plane and prepared the birds for a meal.
• Bruce examined Roland’s Cross Knife and released a streak of black light with it, leading Roland to suspect that Hawkeye had made it a black blade.

After more than a week stranded, Roland and Bruce escaped the island after Roland defeated pirates who had come looking for Bruce Wayne. As they headed for Gotham, the city was under attack by unknown forces, and Gordon took command after Commissioner Rob tried to flee.

• Bruce tried to undo the assassin’s brainwashing with hypnosis, but Roland fell asleep and was kicked out of the tent.
• Roland and Jason spotted a boat offshore; its armed passengers asked for Bruce Wayne, and Roland defeated them when they opened fire.
• The men revealed they were pirates who had heard about Bruce’s disappearance through the underworld, and Bruce used their ship’s satellite phone to contact the rescue team.
• A reporter interviewed Bruce and Roland aboard the rescue ship, while Roland insisted that his nickname was Priest, not Bomb Priest.
• In Gotham, Commissioner Rob received reports of assassinations and gang losses, then announced he was leaving the city.
• Gordon punched Rob unconscious, drew his gun, and ordered the Gotham City Police Department to listen to him.

Demons invaded Gotham, and Batman, Roland, and Bronze Tiger fought them using specialized equipment and martial arts. Ra's al Ghul watched the battle, then leapt into the fray as the demons began to retreat.

• Commissioner Gordon sent officers to seize weapons from Gotham gangs, while Carmine Falcone ordered Sofia to release a hidden monster against the demons.
• Solomon Grundy emerged from the sewers and attacked a red-winged demon as cultists watched; Killer Croc sought shelter and Roland learned Gotham was under attack.
• Bruce flew Roland back to Gotham, confirmed the attackers were demons, and donned the Snake Suit, secretly named Anti-Roland Armor Mark One.
• Ra's al Ghul identified Batman and ordered Ubu to watch him, while recounting his repeated failures to obtain the Holy Grail and criticizing the Morrowen Family for summoning demons.
• Batman used the Snake Suit's Sonic Cannon, Leech Snake Arrows, and Power Punch to defeat demons, while Roland and Bronze Tiger fought alongside him.
• Ra's al Ghul judged the battle settled, then leapt from Gotham Cathedral and cut a flying demon in two as the cultists looked on.

Ra's al Ghul came to Wayne Manor to reclaim the Holy Grail, but Batman and Roland refused to hand it over. Roland defeated Ra's al Ghul using First-Stage Blood Rage and demanded a direct water supply from the Lazarus Pit in exchange for releasing him.

• Ra's al Ghul defeated the Morrowen Family's leader and told Batman to inform Bruce Wayne that he would reclaim the Holy Grail the next day.
• Batman, Roland, and Bronze Tiger planned to confront Ra's al Ghul, while Roland returned to the Church and made his students redo their demon-destroyed homework.
• Ra's al Ghul arrived at Wayne Manor, where Batman fought him before Roland challenged him to a duel.
• Roland activated First-Stage Blood Rage and defeated Ra's al Ghul, then beat him again after he drank from the Lazarus Pit.
• Roland held Ra's al Ghul hostage and demanded that the League of Assassins run a water pipe from the Lazarus Pit to his house.

Roland traded Ra's al Ghul’s release for a bathtub of Lazarus Pit water, then tested its restorative power alongside the Holy Grail. Bruce decided the Grail was too dangerous to keep and revealed that he had found the knight Justin Arthur, who might guard it.

• Ra's al Ghul agreed to send Ubu for Lazarus Pit water in exchange for his release, while Roland warned him not to threaten Gotham or Talia al Ghul.
• Roland kept Ra's al Ghul restrained and guarded by Bronze Tiger until Ubu delivered the water, then released him after threatening to retaliate if he targeted Roland’s loved ones.
• Roland asked Bruce to bring the Holy Grail and tested its healing power on an injured rat, then demonstrated that Lazarus Pit water could resurrect a dead rat.
• Bruce remotely mixed the two waters, which boiled and released red steam; unsettled by the results, he stopped the experiment.
• Bruce told Roland he wanted someone else to guard the Holy Grail and revealed that he had found the knight Justin Arthur, who had emerged after a glacier melted.

Justin Arthur took the Holy Grail to Avalon, while Bruce continued working despite his exhaustion and reflected on his father on Father's Day. In Gotham, Falcone and Maroni's rivalry deepened, and Bronze Tiger agreed to teach at Roland Cathedral after bargaining with Roland over his pay.

• Justin Arthur accepted Bruce's Holy Grail and flew to Avalon, the resting place of his king.
• Bruce dismissed Alfred's advice to rest, and Falcone warned Maroni that Solomon Grundy was a dangerous card before ordering Minos to show him out.
• Noah Maroni suggested Sal Maroni seek advice from his retired great-uncle, and Sal prepared a bottle of wine for the visit.
• On Father's Day, Bruce told Alfred that he missed Thomas Wayne, and Alfred reassured him that Thomas would have saved anyone who came to his door.
• Bronze Tiger arrived at Roland Cathedral to repay Batman by training the students, then negotiated a job with Roland for room, board, and five hundred dollars a month.

Luigi Maroni’s murder pushed the Maroni and Falcone families toward war, while Harvey Dent obtained evidence against Sal Maroni and learned that Alberto Falcone was the Holiday Killer. In prison, Alberto rejected his father’s attempt to silence him and revealed that Batman had caught him.

• Sal Maroni celebrated Father’s Day with Luigi, who advised him to avoid a major conflict with Falcone, but Luigi was soon found shot dead beside a broken pacifier.
• Sofia Falcone gave Carmine Falcone a Father’s Day gift, then told him Luigi had been killed and agreed to prepare for war with the Maronis.
• Harvey Dent learned from Commissioner Gordon that Alberto Falcone had faked his death and was the Holiday Killer, then met Sofia and accepted her evidence against Sal Maroni while wearing explosives.
• Police arrested Sal Maroni and placed him in the cell next to Alberto, where Sal cursed the Falcone family throughout the night.
• Carmine visited Alberto in prison and asked him to confess only to Luigi’s murder, but Alberto declared himself the Holiday Killer and said Batman had caught him.

Batman uncovered and shut down a Maroni Family drug factory while Sal Maroni was convicted and sentenced to life in prison. Maroni appeared ready to offer evidence against Falcone, setting up the next legal fight.

• Batman explained to Harvey Bullock how he traced Alberto to the Holiday killings and said an unknown organization might have helped Alberto, though its power and existence remained uncertain.
• Roland and Bronze Tiger disrupted an attempted courtroom attack on Sal Maroni, only for Harvey Dent to reveal that the supposed acid was makeup remover he had prepared as a prank.
• Batman followed a drain pipe to a secret underground drug factory on former Maroni land and helped Gordon's officers arrest its workers and guards.
• Batman told Gordon that the Maroni Family obtained prescription drugs through forged medical records and East End residents who resold their painkillers.
• Sal Maroni was sentenced to life in prison and whispered to his defense Lawyer, prompting Harvey Dent to expect evidence against Falcone.
• Roland woke after the trial, and Harvey said a new case against Falcone would follow as Falcone and Gordon attacked the Maroni Family.

Commissioner Gordon, Harvey, Roland, and Batman helped crush the Maroni Family’s resistance in Gotham’s East End, while Harvey prepared to use evidence against the city’s corrupt officials. They celebrated over a late-night meal, unaware that someone else was also celebrating the crackdown.

• Gordon’s police force raided the Maroni Family, and Batman helped officers capture Noah Maroni after he attacked them.
• Roland and Harvey stopped an armed robber, and Harvey persuaded him to turn himself in.
• Gordon warned Harvey to secure confessions and evidence against the Maroni Family’s higher-ups as arrests overwhelmed the police force.
• The group ate together, and Bronze Tiger described teaching martial arts to unruly children at Roland Cathedral.
• Harvey revealed that Maroni’s lawyer had delivered evidence against Falcone, Commissioner Rob, and Mayor Hamilton.
• The group left as dawn approached, unaware that someone else in Crime Alley was celebrating the crackdown.

Black Mask targeted Bruce Wayne through his childhood friend Thomas Elliot, whose apparent murder drove Bruce to stage his own death. Bruce was taken to Arkham Asylum, where the Joker watched doctors pronounce him dead, while the Riddler endured the Joker’s repeated alarms.

• Gordon and Harvey Bullock investigated a masked gang taking over the East End, while Black Mask ordered his men to watch Thomas Elliot and planned to hurt Bruce by killing his friend.
• Bruce welcomed Thomas back to Gotham, but Black Mask attacked them at the opera, stole Thomas’s jade pendant, and shot him as he chased after him.
• Bruce mourned Thomas at his funeral, then told Roland that Thomas had faked his death to lure Batman and declared that he would fake his own death too.
• News reported that Bruce had gone insane, and at Arkham Asylum he lay unresponsive while the Joker taunted him.
• Doctors tried to revive Bruce, covered him with a sheet, and wheeled him away; the Joker then repeatedly raised false alarms about the Riddler dying.

Bruce Wayne staged his death while Roland and Bruce used a fake three-Batman fight to plant a tracker and listening device on Silent, who was actually Tommy. Roland proposed forcing Tommy to give up being Batman, but while Bruce considered the plan, Silent began fighting crime across Gotham and left Black Mask consumed by rage.

• Alfred flew Bruce's body away for a sky burial while Gotham held a funeral, where Jason and Dick mourned and an unknown old man recited Bruce's favorite poem.
• Black Mask and his armed men stormed the funeral and discovered Bruce's coffin was empty, then encountered three Batmen who fought among them.
• After the fight, Bruce revealed that he had planted a tracker and listening device on Silent, and he and Roland found other listening devices in the Grand Church that might have come from the Maroni Family.
• Roland proposed using a Batman: Arkham Knight-style ordeal to make Tommy abandon his ambition to become Batman, and Bruce agreed to consider the risky plan.
• Silent Batman defeated Falcone's men at the Gotham Police Department and beat Black Mask while demanding information; Black Mask responded with furious hatred.

Roman vowed to unleash his anger on Gotham, while Black Mask formed a shaky alliance with Penguin and freed Arkham inmates to hunt Batman. Batman and Roland stopped the villains’ chaotic battle, then Bruce confronted Hush, who revealed how he had outthought Bruce since childhood.

• Roman, enraged by his losses and Bruce and Tommy’s deaths, decided to take his fury out on Gotham.
• Black Mask offered Penguin a partnership and weapons deal, then recruited Joker and other Arkham inmates to attack Batman.
• Bruce, Roland, and Bronze Tiger went after Black Mask while Dick left to watch Hush.
• Hush escaped his cave, but Black Mask and the villains turned on one another after Joker realized Hush was not Batman; Batman arrived and subdued them.
• At Roland Cathedral, Bruce unmasked himself before Hush, and Hush explained that he had found the tracker by anticipating Bruce’s thinking, just as he had when they played chess as children.

Bruce confronted Hush about his hatred and used Roland’s Wonderland device to make him experience a Batman scenario, but Hush’s repeated failures left him delusional. Hush later died mysteriously in the church’s secret room, and Roland pressured a terrified medical examiner to investigate.

• Hush admitted he had wanted his parents to die and resented Bruce’s father for saving his mother, so Bruce knocked him unconscious and agreed to Roland’s plan.
• Roland used the Wonderland device to immerse Hush in a Batman story, where Hush killed Riddler, became The Batman Who Laughs, and repeatedly restarted the game.
• After several failed runs, Hush insisted he was Batman, and Bruce knocked him out and locked him in the church’s secret room.
• The next day, Bruce and Roland found Hush dead without an apparent cause, and the surveillance footage showed no explanation.
• A frightened medical examiner mistook Hush’s surgically altered face for Bruce Wayne, so Roland brought Commissioner Gordon to help and promised the examiner acceptance if he identified the cause of death.

After Bruce Wayne returned from the dead, Roland and Gotham’s allies learned that Penguin planned to legalize crime through a license system. Bruce rejected the proposal and confronted Penguin, who admitted it was his idea.

• Batman buried Zang Mo in the coffin of Thomas Elliot’s stand-in, and Bruce Wayne’s return sparked wild rumors across Gotham City.
• Ra’s al Ghul discussed whether anyone could secretly monitor Roland and decided to wait for another opportunity.
• Roland and Jason celebrated the cathedral’s medicine sales, while Harvey reported that most of the Falcone leadership had been arrested.
• Gordon told Roland and Harvey that Penguin proposed crime licenses to lower crime and police casualties while raising city revenue.
• Bruce arrived and vowed to stop the proposal, then went with Batman to confront Penguin at the Iceberg Lounge.
• Penguin admitted that he had proposed the crime license system.

Penguin launched a law-and-order campaign for Gotham City council while plotting to legalize crime through Crime Licenses, and Roland discovered that Mayor Hamilton’s allies were targeting people connected to Batman. Harvey Dent and Commissioner Gordon also uncovered assassination attempts arranged by the Falcone family.

• Batman rejected Penguin’s Crime License proposal, and Roland left the Iceberg Lounge with Batman.
• Penguin entered the city council election and surged ahead in the polls with his law-and-order platform.
• Jason knocked out an elderly nun who threatened Roland Cathedral’s mural, and Roland’s group caught reporters hired by Carton Hill to smear the cathedral.
• The reporters revealed Carton Hill was Mayor Hamilton’s niece and that the mayor was targeting people associated with Batman.
• Harvey Dent’s guards captured an assassin sent by Mario, while Commissioner Gordon’s twins stopped another assassin posing as a policewoman.
• Roland learned that he alone had been targeted with an old woman as a honey trap.

Harvey, Bruce, and Roland dealt with the fallout from Gotham’s attempted honey traps while Catwoman confronted Katrina, who claimed to be Carmine Falcone’s daughter. Bronze Tiger disciplined two fighting boys and remembered his martial-arts past; in Hong Kong, Wu Shan arrived to take Cassandra to America to study martial arts.

• Roland told Harvey and Gordon that he had beaten the woman sent to distract him, while Bruce admitted Selene had spent the night with him but taken nothing.
• Catwoman subdued Katrina, who said Mario had sent her to ask for help freeing Carmine Falcone and Mario from prison; Catwoman refused and warned that the Falcone family was near collapse.
• Phoebe Fisher teased Gordon about his night off, while Sofia Falcone watched Harvey defeat another assassination attempt in court.
• Roland pretended not to recognize people asking about Pamela Mitchell, then Bronze Tiger made James and Eddie practice horse stances after their fight and recounted how he learned to control his violent impulses.
• In Hong Kong, Wu Shan told Cassandra’s aunt she planned to take Cassandra to America to study martial arts, prompting the aunt to object.

Lady Shiva brought Cassandra to Gotham, where she challenged Roland and lost after a long fight. That night, Roland survived an assassination attempt and the Holiday Killer murders left Gotham’s mayor, police commissioner, and crime bosses dead, with Bruce suspecting someone had copied Alberto’s methods.

• Lady Shiva took Cassandra to Gotham to train her and hoped Cassandra would one day defeat her.
• On Halloween, Lady Shiva visited Roland’s church and challenged him; after an hour of fighting, she conceded defeat.
• A group of gunmen attacked Roland at the church, and he killed the surviving attacker after learning Mayor Hamilton Hill had sent them and that other teams had targeted Harvey and Gordon’s family.
• Roland and Harvey discussed the Holiday Killer’s escape, then Roland visited the mayor while Harvey went to Commissioner Rob.
• The next day, the news reported that Hamilton Hill, Gillian B. Rob, Mario Falcone, Milos Grapa, Carmine Falcone, and Sal Maroni had been killed, with jack-o’-lanterns and other clues left by their bodies.
• Bruce concluded that someone other than Little Alberto had used the Holiday Killer’s methods and told Alfred he needed to discuss the murders with his friends.