Recaps

Roland built a refuge for Gotham’s poor while clashing with its criminals and helping Batman confront the Joker and Harley Quinn. After using a rumor about photographer Diane Gilden to draw out Batman, he left the story with the Falcone Family using her as bait.

• Roland fed Jason and gained enough Goodwill Value to draw Caesar Gattuso’s Word Spirit, Kamaitachi, then rescued Jason from the Mad Hatter’s troupe and fought gunmen in the subway.
• Roland was arrested for attacking the subway gunmen, met Killer Croc in detention, won Hawkeye’s Cross Knife, and returned to the Church to help Jason sell roses.
• Roland and Bruce Wayne escaped Pamela Lillian Isley’s vines, then helped stop the Mad Hatter from abducting Natalia as Gotham’s Holiday Killer murders and Falcone ledger copies stirred conflict.
• Roland donated blood, gained Bajiquan, and went to sell souvenirs at the zoo, where he and Harvey Dent hid from the Falcone men after Harvey admitted he was the Holiday Killer.
• Roland recovered money extorted from his people and planned to renovate the Church into a refuge, while Batman pursued Poison Ivy, Joker, and Harley Quinn.
• Roland helped Batman trap Joker and Harley, but Harley freed Joker before Roland subdued him, and Batman rescued Harley from the sea and sent her to Arkham.
• Roland drew Caesar Gattuso’s A-rank mixed-blood bloodline, rescued people from deliberately set fires, and told Jason to spread a rumor that Diane Gilden was Batman.
• Penguin confronted Diane at the Gotham Gazette, but a woman from the Falcone Family stopped him and revealed that the Falcones had made Diane bait for Batman.

Roland and Batman pursued Gotham’s criminals as Harvey Dent’s suppressed side emerged and took control. The arc ended with Roland’s crew staging Batman’s execution to lure Joker into a trap.

• Roland worked with Batman to expose Penguin’s explosives smuggling, then helped him secure Penguin’s cooperation and arrest.
• Roland and Jason uncovered a corrupt SWAT operation at the docks, escaped with the smuggled furs, and encountered the super-strong Mark Desmond in Blüdhaven.
• Roland helped Batman rescue Natalia from the Maroni Family and stop the Mad Hatter, then concealed that he had killed the Hatter.
• Harvey’s anger worsened after Scarecrow’s release, and Roland helped him confront the Mob before discovering that Harvey’s Dark Side had taken over.
• Roland and Bruce entered Harvey’s dreams through the Wonderland Device, where Bruce witnessed Harvey’s murderous alter ego and Gilda reassured Harvey that she loved both sides of him.
• Roland used a healing spell to help victims at the ACE Chemicals fire, then joined Harvey Bullock in capturing Maroni gunmen who revealed that Joker had stolen the Fear Toxin.
• Roland arranged a staged public execution of Batman with Killer Croc, using Dick Grayson’s apparent death to draw Joker to the station.
• Joker crashed into the station as Killer Croc began the countdown and declared that he had come to save Batman.

Roland helped Batman and Gordon contend with Joker, Victor Zsasz, and Gotham’s criminal families while the Holiday Killer’s murders escalated. The arc ended with Carmine Falcone sending Sofia to find the killer after attacks on the Dent household and the discovery that Alberto had been taken into the sewers.

• Roland stopped Joker’s laughing-gas rampage, helped Batman capture him, and later protected Gotham from Joker’s attacks and tricks.
• Roland captured Hugo Strange and Victor Zsasz, then staged Zsasz’s death to give Commissioner Gordon a heroic story that improved the police department’s standing.
• Roland auctioned the Wanderer Pearl, fought Clayface, and encountered Talia, who wanted to have a child with him.
• Roland learned the Falcone and Vitti families planned to target Barbara Gordon and her newborn, then helped Gordon defeat Johnny Vitti’s armed men.
• Harvey Bullock found footage placing Gilda at the café before Fiona’s murder, but destroyed the recording and later pursued a witness who accused Alberto Falcone.
• Roland and Bullock investigated Alberto’s funeral and bedroom, found a listening bug, and learned from Batman that Deathstroke had killed Johnny Vitti.
• Harvey discovered that someone had pulled Alberto from the river and taken him into Gotham’s sewers, while the police blamed Fiona’s murder on a drug-addicted mugger.
• Falcone’s hired Irishmen attacked Harvey Dent’s home, and Carmine sent Mario toward Blackgate and Arkham before asking Sofia to find Alberto’s killer.

Roland and Bruce faced Gotham’s demon attack, the League of Assassins, and the collapse of its crime families while Bruce entrusted the Holy Grail to a knight and staged his own death. The arc ended with a series of murders mimicking the Holiday Killer’s methods, leaving Bruce convinced that another killer was at work.

• Batman confronted Carmine Falcone at Alberto’s grave, while Catwoman followed Batman and Sofia Falcone embraced Kara Viti after a shooting practice.
• Sofia killed the Gunsmith and prepared for war with the Triad, while Roland opened his church school and dealt with an attempted poisoning by Mrs. Gunn’s student Eddie.
• Scarecrow’s Fear Toxin led Batman to his parents’ graves, and Bruce and Roland traveled to England, where the dying Earl Peter DeWittlin gave Bruce the Holy Grail and its mission.
• A League of Assassins attacker forced Bruce and Roland to make an emergency landing, and after they escaped by pirate ship, Commissioner Gordon took control of Gotham’s police response.
• Demons attacked Gotham, and Roland defeated Ra’s al Ghul in a duel before making the League deliver Lazarus Pit water, and Bruce later entrusted the Holy Grail to Justin Arthur.
• The Holiday Killer case brought down the Maroni and Falcone families, while Bruce faked his death and Roland helped capture Black Mask and immerse Hush in a Batman simulation.
• Bruce returned after Hush died, rejected Penguin’s crime-license proposal, and joined Roland as assassins targeted them and their allies.
• Lady Shiva brought Cassandra to Gotham, and after Roland fought off gunmen sent by Mayor Hamilton Hill, several Gotham power brokers were found dead in apparent Holiday Killer-style murders.