"Why are you back again?!"
After chatting with Nygma, who was setting traps on the roof, Li Jie had just returned to the entrance when he discovered, to his exasperation, that Harleen Quinzel had sneaked back into the lobby.
"I'm not joking, Doctor. There's no telling what we might face tonight." Li Jie rested a hand on his gun to intimidate her. "If you don't leave..."
"Ta-da!"
Harleen pulled a sheet of paper from her pocket and shook it open in front of him. "An order personally signed by Chief Bob, authorizing me to participate in tonight's operation."
"What the FUCK! How did he agree to that? Did you sleep with him?"
"Convincing you wasn't easy, but convincing him was a piece of cake." Harleen giggled. "I offered to help stabilize the little girl's emotions and used the news from the West District as leverage. He agreed immediately."
"Fuck..."
Li Jie sighed in despair. But a doctor carried considerable weight in Bob's eyes, and there wasn't much more he could explain. "Then you have to tell me first. What exactly is this news?"
"Hmm... all right. I figured you'd hear it from the chief sooner or later anyway."
Harleen nodded and lowered her voice. "According to an internal bulletin from Gotham University's academic Ethics Committee, Dr. Krain conducted human experiments on at least a dozen officers in the West District police counseling program he supervised, without fully informed consent. He combined high doses of mixed hallucinogenic gases with subliminal suggestion."
Li Jie's pupils constricted slightly.
Harleen spread her hands a little and continued, "The results weren't nearly as rosy as his reports claimed. At least five officers suffered complete mental breakdowns and have already been transferred to Arkham for treatment in a closed ward. Several others developed severe symptoms, including