Chapter Summaries

Li Jie met the fired toy designer Winslow Schott in Metropolis and offered to help him find work. The chapter left Winslow with Li Jie's business card and possible leads through Bruce Wayne or Chief Bob.

• Li Jie called Chief Bob and suggested adding pedestrians to Gotham's forty-mile-per-hour speed limit after recalling Clark's warning about an accident at S.T.A.R. Labs.
• Li Jie noticed Winslow Schott sitting on a bench with a box of belongings and offered him a sandwich.
• Winslow told Li Jie that he had been fired after his boss allegedly stole the design for his interactive dolls.
• Li Jie encouraged Winslow not to give up and offered him a business card, suggesting he seek work with Bruce Wayne or Chief Bob.

Li Jie met Clark, Kara, and Whelan for dinner in Metropolis, where Whelan greeted him with a flying bear hug and discussed his basketball career. The dinner ended with Li Jie learning that Whelan might receive a lucrative contract if a trade for a first-round draft pick succeeded.

• Li Jie arrived at Mokton Steakhouse with carnations, expecting to meet Clark's parents, but found Clark waiting with his cousin Kara.
• Whelan arrived and lifted Li Jie into the air with a crushing hug before catching him safely.
• Li Jie, Clark, Kara, and Whelan took a booth, where Kara ordered a steak platter and Whelan ordered three forty-ounce tomahawk steaks.
• Li Jie and Whelan warned Kara that Gotham was dangerous, while Clark redirected the conversation to Whelan's basketball career.
• Clark said Mr. Danees was negotiating with Cleveland for a first-round draft pick, which could bring Whelan a large signing bonus and a five-year contract worth over forty million dollars.

Li Jie paid for the enormous steaks, returned to his hotel, and tried to practice deep breathing before Kara Zor-El arrived on his balcony. Kara made him pose as her cop boyfriend for photos to show off to classmates, then flew away.

• Li Jie paid the six-hundred-dollar steak bill, said goodbye to Whelan and Kara, and drove back to his hotel.
• Li Jie added a skill point to the Little Man card and began practicing deep breathing, but a knock at his window interrupted him.
• Li Jie found Kara Zor-El on his seventh-floor balcony, where she asked whether he knew about her and Clark.
• Kara insisted Li Jie put on his jacket and Gotham Police Department badge, then took photos of them posing together.
• Kara explained she wanted to show her classmates a cop boyfriend and flew away with the camera.

Li Jie visited Midway City to investigate the reported accident at S.T.A.R. Labs and met Harkness, a former boomerang celebrity. The chapter ended with Leonard inviting Li Jie, whom he believed had no jurisdiction there, to join a bank robbery.

• Li Jie drove to Midway City and found only limited damage and ongoing repairs at S.T.A.R. Labs despite reports of a costly accident.
• Li Jie learned from a newspaper that lightning had struck S.T.A.R. Labs, damaging equipment and injuring a visiting police forensic examiner.
• Li Jie recognized Harkness, who explained that he had once been known as Captain Boomerang, and bought him lunch.
• Leonard arrived and invited Harkness to help rob a bank, then asked Li Jie to join them.
• After Harkness introduced Li Jie as a Gotham City police officer, Leonard confirmed that Li Jie had no local jurisdiction and renewed his invitation.

Li Jie explored Midway City, where he noticed a strange flicker of electricity before Barry Allen crashed into an alley and revealed his connection to the Speed Force. Barry vanished again after hearing that Leonard was planning a bank robbery, leaving Li Jie to call after him.

• Li Jie declined Leonard's invitation to join a bank robbery and checked into an inn in Midway City's old quarter.
• Li Jie spent the afternoon exploring Midway City and enjoyed dinner at a family-run Italian restaurant.
• Li Jie noticed a brief, strange flicker of electricity while walking back toward the inn.
• Barry Allen suddenly appeared in an alley by crashing into a pile of garbage, and Li Jie drew his gun before Barry said he was a Central City forensic examiner.
• Barry admitted he had accidentally run into the Speed Force and spotted Li Jie while traveling through it.
• Barry heard that Leonard was planning a bank robbery, then created a distraction and vanished in a streak of electricity.

Barry Allen tested whether he could travel back to the night his mother died, but the Speed Force rejected his attempt and kept drawing him toward a Gotham police officer’s timeline. Meanwhile, Li Jie read about the Flash’s swift arrest of a bank-robbing crew and decided to visit somewhere else the next day.

• Barry Allen returned to Midway City and recalled gaining his speed after the particle accelerator accident at S.T.A.R. Labs.
• Barry ran into the Speed Force and tried to reach his childhood home, but the Speed Force pushed him out when he attempted to change the past.
• Barry sensed that a Gotham police officer’s timeline anchored the Speed Force, and he felt the officer’s scrutinizing gaze within it.
• Barry told Sisco Ramon he was fine after staying up late to catch bank robbers.
• Li Jie read a newspaper report about the Flash’s rapid arrest of the bank robbers and decided to check out somewhere else tomorrow.

Li Jie arrived in Star City after a long drive and used his Gotham police badge to avoid a shakedown at a police checkpoint. A homeless man told him that Green Arrow had recently targeted the mayor and corrupt businessmen, and Li Jie decided to settle in and look for an opportunity to profit.

• Li Jie gained a level in his combat skill and a skill point after changing Winslow Schott's fate.
• Li Jie drove across several states, lost nearly twenty thousand dollars in Las Vegas, and reached Star City exhausted.
• Star City police tried to extort a hundred dollars from Li Jie, but backed off when he showed them his Gotham City Police Department badge.
• Li Jie paid a homeless man five dollars to learn why police were stopping drivers.
• The homeless man said Green Arrow had attacked a company's warehouse and exposed corrupt dealings, prompting Li Jie to consider seeking him out.

Li Jie explored Star City, witnessed Robin Hood stirring its residents, and fought off two muggers on his way back to the Apex Hotel. Robin Hood appeared during the fight and challenged Li Jie, who pointed out that he was a newcomer with no connection to the city.

• Li Jie left the Apex Hotel, observed Star City's bleak streets, and noticed leaflets protesting Queen Consolidated's treatment of a neighborhood factory.
• At the Wildcat bar, Li Jie turned down a young woman's dare before hearing that Robin Hood had strung up protection-money collectors nearby.
• Li Jie left the bar and headed back toward the Apex Hotel, commenting on Star City's broken streetlights and dim signs.
• Two young muggers tried to rob Li Jie, and he broke one man's knee and punched the other in the face.
• Robin Hood landed on a nearby fire escape and began to confront Li Jie, who replied that he had only arrived in Star City that day.

Li Jie confronted Green Arrow after stopping two men who had tried to rob him, then challenged Oliver Queen’s belief that Star City was his responsibility alone. Oliver left with a new conviction that Green Arrow should serve the city’s people, not rule or redeem himself through them.

• Green Arrow interrupted Li Jie after he had beaten two would-be robbers, then warned him not to cause trouble in Star City.
• Li Jie argued that Star City belonged to its residents, not Green Arrow, and called it the people’s city.
• Li Jie gave Green Arrow his Gotham Police Department business card and invited him to discuss philosophy or sponsorship in Gotham.
• Green Arrow left the alley without answering, while Li Jie continued toward the Pinnacle Hotel.
• Oliver Queen reconsidered his role and decided Green Arrow should be a weapon in Star City’s people’s hands, asking himself whose future each arrow served.

Li Jie attended Oliver Queen’s charity gala in Star City, where he ignored the guests’ expectations and focused on the food. Oliver tried to discuss Li Jie’s views and probe his reaction to Green Arrow, but Li Jie’s blunt question about Oliver’s beard left him flustered.

• Li Jie accepted Oliver Queen’s invitation to the Star City charity gala, deciding to attend but not donate.
• Li Jie arrived at the gala in his leather jacket and jeans and concentrated on the appetizers instead of mingling.
• Li Jie recognized Oliver’s young companion from the previous night, and she hurried away after recognizing him.
• Oliver sat beside Li Jie and tried to make conversation, but Li Jie asked for hot pepper soup and challenged Oliver’s claim to know people in Gotham.
• Li Jie pointed out that Green Arrow had a beard like Oliver’s, and Oliver pretended the vigilante was copying his style.
• Li Jie praised Green Arrow’s taste and returned to eating, leaving Oliver frustrated and unsettled.

At a Star City charity banquet, Oliver Queen tried to embarrass Li Jie by inviting him to speak and pledging money in his name. Li Jie instead described the dangers facing Gotham’s children and donated the cash he had collected for them, leaving the audience moved and Oliver defeated as a donor pledged money to Gotham’s Eastern District Precinct.

• Oliver Queen invited Li Jie to speak at the charity ceremony and pledged an additional five hundred thousand dollars in his name.
• Li Jie declined Oliver’s donation and told the guests about Gotham’s violence, the police’s work, and the children endangered by the city’s failing CPS.
• Li Jie explained that the Eastern District Precinct had started a child relief program and that he had collected donations across the country for a shelter and rescue center.
• Li Jie donated the seventy or eighty thousand dollars in his bag to Star City charity, saying his precinct would protect the children in Gotham.
• A woman from the audience, who Li Jie had met at the bar, pledged five hundred thousand dollars to Gotham’s Eastern District Precinct, while Oliver Queen realized he had lost.

Li Jie’s speech at the Star City gala prompted donations for Gotham’s children and left Oliver Queen seeking advice on how to help his city. Li Jie then continued his trip toward Florida, where he encountered a roadside brawl in Jacksonville.

• Thea Queen’s pledge inspired other guests to donate, raising the children’s aid program total to 2.3 million dollars.
• Oliver Queen pledged another 700,000 dollars and later asked Li Jie how he could effectively help Star City.
• Li Jie told Oliver to study history and recommended the selected works of a great man from his homeland.
• Li Jie left Star City in the Cherokee and traveled south toward Florida, stopping along the way to see the gypsum dunes and cross Lake Pontchartrain.
• In Jacksonville, Li Jie saw a middle-aged man fighting off a crowd and heard a large man shout that the attacker had shit on his hands.

Li Jie traveled from Miami to Key West, where he encountered a man claiming to be the god of wine whose power was affecting the Sunset Celebration crowd. The god’s influence did not affect Li Jie, who dismissed him as someone who belonged in Arkham.

• Li Jie watched Miami police arrest an armless man who had stabbed his neighbor with sharpened toenails.
• Li Jie drove the overseas highway to Key West and explored the town’s relaxed streets before heading to Mallory Square.
• Li Jie watched the Sunset Celebration, where the crowd grew increasingly uninhibited as the sun set.
• A man in a Hawaiian shirt asked Li Jie why the god of wine’s power had not affected him.
• Li Jie accused the man of releasing a hallucinogen, then told him that in Gotham he would have been sent to Arkham and demanded his family’s phone number.

Li Jie’s defiance left Dionysus’s divine powers unable to affect him, provoking the god to unleash a deadly attack in Mallory Square. Diana stopped Dionysus with her lasso and warned him not to display divine power in the mortal world.

• Li Jie dismissed Dionysus’s claims about the gods, and Dionysus tried to transform him into an animal.
• When Dionysus’s power had no effect, Li Jie punched him in the nose, and Dionysus healed the injury and grew furious.
• Dionysus intensified his curse and then threatened to tear Li Jie’s soul apart, throwing Mallory Square into chaos.
• Li Jie reached for his phone as Dionysus gathered destructive energy, but Diana’s golden lasso bound Dionysus’s wrist and disrupted his power.
• Diana approached Dionysus and Li Jie and warned her brother not to display divine power in the mortal world.

Diana stopped Dionysus from forcing his revelry on Mallory Square, and her Lasso of Truth confirmed that Li Jie was an ordinary man despite his immunity to the wine god’s power. After Diana left, Li Jie watched the square descend into chaos and later kept delaying his trip home to Gotham for more strange Florida incidents before finally deciding to leave.

• Diana restrained Dionysus with the Lasso of Truth and challenged him for unleashing divine power among mortals.
• Dionysus explained that his power could not affect Li Jie, while Diana questioned Li Jie and confirmed his answers were truthful.
• Diana persuaded Dionysus to leave, and his departure ended the unnatural revelry but left Mallory Square in disarray.
• Diana introduced herself as Diana Prince, then departed while Li Jie watched the crowd recover from the chaos.
• A burly man asked Li Jie what had happened, then plunged into the sea; Li Jie suspected he would need rescuing.
• Li Jie repeatedly postponed his return to Gotham to witness more bizarre Florida incidents, then finally decided to go home.

At a precinct meeting, Bob and his officers assessed the supernatural threat pursuing Raven and decided to protect her while preparing for further attacks. The meeting ended with Bob asking Li Jie what else he had to tell him.

• Bob asked Nygma to assess the monsters, and Nygma concluded that firearms could destroy them while the nature of Raven’s father remained uncertain.
• Otis revealed that he could summon and command rats, demonstrating their abilities to the officers.
• Li Jie described meeting Dionysus and Diana in Florida and argued that powerful supernatural beings could exist.
• Nygma reasoned that Raven’s father had to act through agents and projected power, but Li Jie warned that handing Raven over could endanger them.
• Bob decided to keep Raven under the precinct’s protection and ordered his officers to inventory weapons, seek new equipment, and strengthen security.
• Bob assigned Li Jie to watch over Raven and gather information, then asked him what else he had wanted to discuss.

Li Jie told Chief Bob about a three-million-dollar donation from Star City, prompting Bob to plan a campaign to divide Gotham's police department and its budget. Later, Nygma became curious about Li Jie's resistance to the God of Wine's powers and began drawing his blood.

• Li Jie told Bob that a Star City charity had given him three million dollars for the Gotham police.
• Bob proposed splitting the Gotham Police Department into separate divisions with their own budgets and using the donation to win government support.
• Li Jie told Bob that Cobblepot might have taken Falcone's twelve million dollars and that they could potentially recover half of it.
• Nygma asked Li Jie about the God of Wine's failed powers and began drawing blood from him for research.

Li Jie discovered that his qi training had improved his constitution, then went with Wilson to bring Raven from the hospital to the station. After Raven’s soul magic failed to affect him, she asked him to protect her and help her find a way to resist Trigon, and they left the hospital together.

• Li Jie completed his meditation task, sensed qi moving through his body, and found his physical constitution had improved.
• Li Jie returned to the station, collected the keys to his new room, and told Anna to keep patrols in order before he and Wilson went to retrieve Raven.
• Raven’s doctor said she was healthy enough to leave the hospital, though her brain activity remained unusual.
• Raven attacked Li Jie with Trigon’s corruptive soul magic, but it had no effect on him; her physical magic burned his fingers, and she then healed them with Azarath’s magic.
• Raven concluded that Li Jie’s immunity might help resist Trigon and asked him to protect her while they studied their powers and weaknesses.
• Li Jie agreed to work with Raven, and he and Wilson escorted her out of the hospital toward the station.

Li Jie brought Raven to the Eastern District Precinct while a gray Chevrolet followed them, and Harleen Quinzel insisted on joining Raven’s protection and psychological care. Harleen offered information about Dr. Jonathan Crane’s controversial therapy program at the West District precinct, but Li Jie refused her request.

• Wilson spotted a gray Chevrolet tailing the patrol van, but Li Jie led the group to the Eastern District Precinct without confronting it.
• Harleen met Raven at the precinct and argued that the girl needed psychological treatment rather than being kept under guard without care.
• Li Jie told Harleen that Raven was the daughter of a cult leader and faced danger from assassins, but Harleen challenged him to reveal the whole truth.
• Harleen begged to take part in Raven’s care, citing her professional ethics and fascination with the girl’s trauma, while Li Jie repeatedly refused.
• Harleen offered inside information about Dr. Jonathan Crane’s therapy program for West District officers in exchange for access to Raven, but Li Jie still rejected her demand.

Li Jie arranged for Raven to stay at the precinct and called Jim for help as Bruce Wayne discovered that the League of Assassins had come to Gotham. Bruce recalled his past with Talia and prepared to protect Raven and the East End Police Department from Ra’s’s forces.

• Li Jie set up a bed for Raven at the precinct, asked Wilson to keep her company, and called Jim to warn him that Gotham was in trouble.
• Bruce Wayne and Alfred identified the League of Assassins near the Eastern District Precinct.
• Bruce remembered his training with the League and his passionate relationship with Talia.
• Alfred reported that Li Jie’s team had repelled a supernatural attack but might not withstand the League’s infiltration and assassination methods.
• Bruce ordered increased surveillance around the precinct and prepared the Batmobile to protect Raven and the officers.