Chapter Summaries

Li Jie spoke with Raven about the rescue from Hell, then investigated Dick Grayson and contacted Oliver. Meanwhile, James Gordon arrested Sal Maroni, leaving Harvey Dent eager to pursue the rest of the mob network despite Gordon’s warning that Maroni had singled him out.

• Raven thanked Li Jie for risking his life to bring her back from Hell, and he lightened the moment by teasing her and promising her a week without homework.
• Li Jie asked Raven what she thought of Dick Grayson, then requested a clearer forensic photograph and called Oliver.
• James Gordon led a Tactical Team raid on Sal Maroni’s office and arrested him on multiple criminal charges.
• Maroni threatened Gordon and Harvey Dent as officers took him away, while Gordon warned Dent to be careful.
• Gordon collected Maroni’s business cards as evidence and left the casino uncertain whether the arrest would weaken Gotham’s corruption or unleash further trouble.

Li Jie brought Oliver Queen and John Diggle to meet Floyd Lawton, hoping Oliver would employ the detained marksman and help him regain custody of his daughter. Lawton accepted the arrangement after Li Jie beat him twice in a quick-draw contest, and Li Jie hinted that another unexpected recruit awaited Oliver.

• Li Jie told Oliver and Diggle that Floyd Lawton was in custody and proposed that Oliver meet him about a security job.
• Oliver met Lawton in the detention area, where Li Jie offered help with custody of Lawton's daughter, Zoe, and a chance to work for Oliver.
• Lawton challenged Li Jie to a gun-drawing contest, but Li Jie beat him twice and Lawton agreed to cooperate.
• Li Jie outlined a plan for Lawton to serve time at Blackgate while a lawyer pursued custody and Oliver offered employment guidance.
• Li Jie told Oliver that Lawton was a Russian Communist Party member and hinted that another recruit might surprise him.

Li Jie secured another two million dollars from Oliver Queen for the Temporary Shelter School before chaos broke out when two boys were injured playing on a cactus. At the East End Police Department ceremony, Wilson and Harleen Quinzel were promoted to sheriff and prepared to lead their own squads.

• Oliver Queen praised Li Jie's shelter and donated two million dollars after Li Jie promised to display his name above Bruce Wayne's on a separate monument.
• Li Jie and Oliver rushed inside the school after hearing screams, where they learned Jason Todd and Karen had been injured competing to sit on a cactus.
• Li Jie told Wilson he would help Floyd Lawton with his custody problem but could not afford to hire the mercenary as a regular officer.
• At the East End Police Department ceremony, Bob promoted Wilson to sheriff for helping Li Jie rescue a child from Hell.
• Bob promoted Harleen Quinzel to sheriff, and Li Jie said she and Wilson would form and command their own squads.

Li Jie took command of the newly established Major Crimes Unit just as a gang of Red Hood-masked robbers attacked Kane Memorial Bank. Harleen, Poison Ivy, and Anna intervened before backup arrived, and Harleen knocked down one robber as Ivy’s plants overwhelmed another.

• Bob gave Li Jie the paperwork appointing him head of the East End Major Crimes Unit, and Li Jie ran into Wilson as the bank robbery was reported.
• Red Hood robbers crashed a school bus through Kane Memorial Bank’s entrance and took control of the lobby while forcing open the vault.
• Harleen, Poison Ivy, and Anna spotted the attack during patrol and drove to the bank before dispatch could provide details.
• Anna took cover under rifle fire while Poison Ivy used accelerated growth to entangle the robbers with plants inside the bank.
• Harleen charged into the bank with a lead-wrapped bat and struck robber number six in the face, knocking him down.

Li Jie warned James Gordon that Sal Maroni might attack Harvey Dent during the trial, and Gordon rushed into court to stop him. He found only a handkerchief, leaving Gordon publicly humiliated and Harvey to continue the trial under a cloud of doubt.

• Li Jie learned that Harvey Dent was prosecuting Sal Maroni and warned Gordon that Maroni might bring a weapon or acid into court.
• Li Jie reached Kane Memorial Bank to assist officers responding to an armed robbery.
• Gordon reconsidered Li Jie's warning about the court marshals and ran into the courtroom.
• Gordon tackled Maroni and searched his pockets, but found only a handkerchief.
• The judge ordered Gordon to leave, Maroni mocked him, and Harvey returned to his closing argument with his confidence shaken.

Li Jie pursued the Red Hood robbers after their grenade attack left the bank lobby full of casualties, while Harleen and Poison Ivy worked to save the wounded. Elsewhere, Harvey Dent told Gordon that Maroni’s trial had been postponed indefinitely, and the chapter ended with Li Jie finding the fleeing robber’s trail leading into Chinatown.

• Red Hood Number One threw grenades in the bank, killing and injuring civilians before escaping through the rear, while Harleen and Anna were knocked outside by the blasts.
• Li Jie arrived, ordered emergency aid and a perimeter, then left Harleen, Anna, and Poison Ivy to treat the wounded as he and Wilson chased the robbers.
• Harvey Dent explained that Gordon’s courtroom tackle had damaged the prosecution’s credibility, causing the judge to postpone Maroni’s trial indefinitely, and Gordon apologized.
• Li Jie and Wilson caught Red Hoods Number Four and Number Five after their stolen Ford Explorer crashed; Number Four raised a shotgun and Li Jie shot him, while Number Five said Number One had escaped on a motorcycle.
• Li Jie saw that the fleeing robber had gone west toward Chinatown, where the crowded street prevented the Patrol Van from following.

Jack Napier and Jenny’s comedy rehearsal in a Chinatown recreation room was interrupted by a green-haired gunman who planted bombs, shot Old Chen, and forced the hostages into a lethal choice. The gunman left Jack and the old men with separate remotes as the bomb timer continued to count down.

• Jack Napier rehearsed Chinese comedy with Old Chen and the Chinatown elders while his pregnant wife, Jenny, watched.
• A green-haired gunman entered, mocked Jack’s hopes for a normal life, and began planting bombs in the room.
• Old Chen drew his revolver to stop the gunman, but they fired nearly simultaneously and Old Chen was shot.
• The gunman threatened the hostages and ordered one elder to recite dish names while he finished installing the bombs.
• The gunman gave Jack a remote that could kill some hostages and gave the elders another that could kill Jack, Jenny, and their unborn child, then left with the timer counting down.

Jack and Jenny faced a deadly choice as the green-haired gunman watched the hostages turn against one another, until an interruption caught his attention. Meanwhile, Li Jie and Wilson followed Chinatown residents’ discreet signals to Old Wu’s community center, where they heard the gunman invite them inside.

• Old Lu tried to grab the remote, but Old Zhang stopped him and the two argued over whether to sacrifice the hostages.
• Teacher Zhou stepped between the groups and urged them not to let the gunman turn them against one another.
• The green-haired man heard an unexpected interruption and moved toward the crowd.
• Li Jie and Wilson searched Chinatown, and residents silently directed them toward Old Wu’s community center.
• Li Jie and Wilson reached the community center and heard a voice inside invite them in.

Li Jie stopped Clown’s hostage game and helped save Old Chen, while Harleen faced consequences for her disastrous bank operation. Later, Jack decided to help Chinatown, and Li Jie visited the recovering Old Chen.

• Li Jie shot Clown, ordered the community center evacuated, and called Clark to take the wounded Old Chen to a hospital before Batman arrived to deal with the bombs.
• Bob suspended Harleen as sheriff and reassigned her to Li Jie’s unit as an ordinary detective; Li Jie comforted her and urged her to learn from the loss of life.
• At the hospital, Jack told Li Jie he wanted to help run the community center, and Li Jie gave him Oswald Chesterfield Cobblepot’s number and warned him not to become someone he hated.
• Li Jie visited Old Chen, who had survived his wounds, and joked with him about his gout and his habit of drinking.

Li Jie unlocked a guaranteed-hit shooting skill and made personnel plans while dealing with the consequences of Wilson’s advice to Owen. In the Batcave, Bruce Wayne investigated Li Jie’s supernatural power and decided Batman would visit Chinatown to learn more about Guan Gong.

• Li Jie unlocked Dead Center of the Brow and Excessive Caution, then encountered Owen, who had lost weight while trying to rescue Trudy.
• Li Jie confronted Wilson for encouraging Owen, and Wilson searched for other women to introduce him to.
• Li Jie assigned officers and technical personnel to new roles, then called Jim to recruit him for an East End press conference.
• Bruce Wayne and Alfred analyzed footage of Li Jie wielding the Nth Metal spear and identified poses resembling Guan Gong.
• Bruce decided Batman would visit Chinatown, while Alfred began researching offerings for Guan Gong.

Li Jie managed the fallout from the Kane Memorial Bank robbery through a press conference, victim compensation, and a community-policing assignment for Harleen Quinzel. Meanwhile, Harvey Dent gave Gordon a final chance to help convict Sal Maroni through a strictly procedural tax-fraud case, leaving Gordon to find witnesses and seek Maroni’s incriminating confession.

• Li Jie defended the police response at a press conference and announced security upgrades funded by Bruce Wayne, while concealing a policy permitting lethal force without warning.
• Bruce Wayne’s foundation launched enhanced compensation for victims and their families in exchange for nondisclosure agreements and waivers of lawsuits against the police.
• Li Jie showed Harleen Quinzel a grieving father’s interview and assigned her to community policing so she could hear residents’ concerns and help rebuild trust.
• Harvey Dent told Gordon that Judge Paxton had approved one final, strictly legal attempt to prosecute Sal Maroni, but barred Gordon from appearing in court until closing arguments.
• Harvey presented a tax-fraud strategy based on Maroni’s business records and asked Gordon to find financial witnesses and secretly record Maroni admitting to tax evasion.

Li Jie responded to a jewelry-store robbery involving Mark Desmond, a super-strong man with a child’s intelligence, and clashed with Batman over whether to shoot him. Batman and an ally subdued Mark with repeated anesthetic doses, and Li Jie took him to Arkham while Batman promised to keep watching him.

• Li Jie received a report of armed robbers and a giant at the Brilliant Jewelry Store, then arrived to find Mark Desmond tearing apart display cases while an armed accomplice threatened customers.
• Mark walked outside with stolen jewelry, and Li Jie aimed at him until Batman knocked his rifle aside and explained that Mark was a human victim of a drug accident.
• Mark panicked when he realized his accomplice Roland had disappeared and charged down the street, so Batman used cryogenic grenades while a red-and-green figure fired an injection dart at him.
• Mark resisted the anesthetic and rampaged through the street until several more darts knocked him unconscious, after which Batman sedated him for transport.
• Li Jie agreed to take Mark to Arkham for treatment, and Batman said he would catch Roland and keep watching Li Jie.

Li Jie delivered Mark Desmond to Arkham Asylum, where new director Jeremiah Arkham promised humane treatment and rehabilitation. Uneasy about Arkham’s sudden reforms and Jeremiah’s apparent normality, Li asked Edward Nygma to investigate him.

• Li Jie and Ron Bushnell brought the sleeping Mark Desmond to Arkham Asylum, where Jeremiah Arkham introduced himself as its new director.
• Jeremiah explained that Hugo Strange had left after disagreements over unethical experiments and described plans to improve Arkham’s treatment and security with Wayne Foundation funding.
• Li Jie inspected Special Care Unit-A and saw Mark settled into a spacious room designed for patients with unusual abilities.
• Li Jie and Jeremiah discussed Roland Desmond’s exploitation of Mark and the evidence needed to challenge his guardianship.
• Li Jie told Ron he found Arkham’s improvements unsettling, then called Edward Nygma to ask about Strange’s departure and Jeremiah.
• Nygma agreed to investigate Jeremiah after Li said the new director seemed unnaturally normal.

James Gordon received evidence from Oswald Cobblepot that could expose Sal Maroni’s tax fraud, then began preparing it for Harvey Dent while concealing its source. Cobblepot reported back to Li Jie and moved to recruit former Maroni associates as Gordon planned to present the strongest evidence the next morning.

• Oswald Cobblepot gave James Gordon financial records and a USB drive detailing Sal Maroni’s suspected tax fraud and explained that he wanted Maroni imprisoned before he could flee Gotham.
• Gordon accepted the evidence, texted Harvey Dent that he had found a breakthrough, and left Cobblepot’s name out of the message.
• Cobblepot told Li Jie that Gordon had taken the material, agreed to make any businesses he acquired legitimate, and headed to the Dock District to meet managers who had left Maroni.
• Gordon reviewed the documents and recordings at the precinct, found evidence of deliberate fraud, and decided to present Harvey with the cleanest material while protecting the informant’s identity.
• Gordon sorted and secured the evidence before sleeping on his office couch, intending to show Harvey the strongest documents in the morning.

Bruce Wayne investigated the deity-invocation power Li Jie had used and questioned whether Li Jie's trip to Hell had affected his judgment and mental state. Meanwhile, Gordon woke from a dream about Barbara and Dick kissing and realized the photographs Li Jie had given him showed them together.

• Bruce reviewed Chinatown residents' instructions for honoring Guan Gong and concluded they had treated him as an outsider seeking guidance rather than as Batman.
• Bruce studied crime surveys and footage of Li Jie using his power, then decided he needed to assess its rules and Li Jie's mental state before questioning him directly.
• Bruce told Alfred to supplement, but not discard, his existing response plan for Li Jie.
• Gordon woke from a dream of Barbara and Dick kissing, checked the photographs, and concluded that Dick Grayson was caught.

Li Jie agreed to consider Gordon’s request to watch over Harvey Dent during Maroni’s tax fraud trial, then turned to Harleen for insight. Meanwhile, Amanda Waller established A.R.G.U.S. to prepare for an unidentified object approaching Earth.

• Li Jie asked Harleen whether rubbing a cuff while talking meant someone was lying, and she explained it could signal anxiety or pressure.
• Gordon told Li Jie he was barred from attending Maroni’s upcoming trial and asked him to watch Maroni and Harvey Dent.
• Li Jie questioned how he could protect anyone in court without a weapon, then agreed to think of a way to help Gordon.
• A U.S. defense command center detected an unidentified object speeding toward Earth and found it could not be intercepted with existing weapons.
• Amanda Waller announced the creation of the Department of Extranormal Operations, codenamed A.R.G.U.S., and ordered it to assess unusual assets and prepare for the approaching threat.

Li Jie attended Sal Maroni’s tax fraud trial, where the jury found Maroni guilty on all seven counts. Maroni attacked Harvey Dent with concentrated sulfuric acid, but Li Jie stopped most of the splash and helped treat Harvey before he was taken away by ambulance.

• Li Jie watched Harvey Dent deliver his closing argument while an Internal Revenue Service employee explained why a conviction mattered.
• The jury found Sal Maroni guilty on all seven federal felony charges, and Maroni picked up his Thermos to address Harvey.
• Maroni flung concentrated sulfuric acid at Harvey, but Li Jie struck his wrist with a stone ball and knocked the Thermos away.
• Li Jie poured water over Harvey’s chemical burns and reassured him as court staff restrained Maroni and called an ambulance.
• Li Jie helped Harvey leave the courtroom and briefed the medical personnel when they arrived; the Internal Revenue Service employee praised Li Jie and gave him a business card.

Li Jie and Harleen visited Harvey Dent in the hospital, where they saw how badly his injuries and despair had affected him. Harleen advised Grace on how to support him, while Li Jie left unsure what Harvey would become and later remembered he still wanted to beat up Maroni.

• Li Jie shielded Harleen from reporters and brushed off their questions about his courthouse actions and supposed movie offers.
• On the way to Gotham General Hospital, Li Jie warned Harleen that Harvey might be changed by the attack.
• Li Jie and Harleen learned Harvey was awake but unable to receive visitors, and they saw his severe burns through the observation window.
• Grace thanked Li Jie for helping Harvey, and Harleen advised her to support him without minimizing his pain or promising everything would be fine.
• Harleen explained that Harvey's despair came from his fixation on perfection and public image, and offered to give Grace guidance for supporting him.
• That night, Li Jie remembered Maroni had thrown acid at him and decided he needed to find time to beat him up.

Amanda Waller coerced Floyd Lawton into joining a special task force by threatening Zoe’s guardianship, while Rick Flag moved to requisition Mark Desmond from Arkham’s care. Jeremiah Arkham resisted the transfer and called the East End Police Department as Mark continued playing in the ward.

• Amanda Waller showed Floyd Lawton surveillance of Zoe and pressured him to join her task force in exchange for securing the girl’s future.
• Floyd Lawton accepted the preliminary agreement after Waller promised Zoe a protected new identity, and Waller ordered him to await transport at six the next morning.
• Rick Flag presented Jeremiah Arkham with federal authorization to take Mark Desmond for a classified national security mission.
• Jeremiah argued that removing Mark would violate his treatment and dignity, but Rick gave him two hours to prepare the transfer.
• Jeremiah watched Mark rebuild his block tower, remembered his promise to protect his patients, and called the East End Police Department.

Li Jie tried to stop Rick Flag and A.R.G.U.S. from taking Mark Desmond and Floyd Lawton out of Gotham, but the federal agents overpowered Mark and removed him from Arkham. After Rick warned Li Jie that Gotham would have to accept new rules, Li Jie relayed the threat to Batman, who vowed to show Waller whose city Gotham was.

• Li Jie ordered officers to block the Narrow Island bridge and went to Arkham to challenge the federal transfer of Mark Desmond.
• Rick Flag showed Li Jie transfer paperwork, announced that Floyd Lawton had also been moved to federal custody, and said A.R.G.U.S. would take Zoe Lawton.
• Mark resisted the agents' sedative and attacked them, but they subdued him with electric darts and a powerful injection before restraining him for transport.
• Rick Flag threatened Jeremiah Arkham with the loss of federal funding and warned Li Jie that A.R.G.U.S. outranked private interests and local rules.
• Li Jie told Batman that Rick had delivered a warning from Waller, and Batman replied that she would see whose city Gotham was.