Chapter Summaries

William joined a mission to steal documents from Falcone’s mansion and suspected Commissioner Norman was using him to target Maroni’s organization. With Stuart’s advice, William infiltrated the mansion, but an explosion disrupted the reception before the planned operation began.

• William received a waiter’s uniform, a mansion blueprint, and the electronic safe’s code from Norman, then questioned why Norman had assigned him the mission.
• William brought his suspicions to Stuart, who suggested Norman knew William worked for Maroni and might be targeting him or Maroni’s organization.
• William entered Falcone’s reception disguised as a waiter and met the head of security, who planned to draw the guards away at 12:15 a.m.
• William watched a pianist perform, considered using a beacon on her, and closed an unsolicited notification from Little A.
• An explosion rocked the mansion at 11:55 p.m., sending guards outside and giving William a chance to enter the second floor before the planned time.

William used a magical party invitation to fool Falcone’s guards into treating him as a VIP, then forced his way into Falcone’s office. After defeating Falcone in a duel, William turned his attention to the mechanical safe.

• William disguised himself as a guest and used the High-Society Party Invitation to convince the guards to leave him alone.
• When William found Falcone’s Office locked, the invitation’s VIP treatment compelled the guards to help him and obey his orders.
• The guards broke down the office door, where William found Carmine Falcone waiting with a foil.
• William defeated Falcone in a brief duel and pinned him to the floor.
• William looked toward the mechanical safe.

William broke into Falcone's office, subdued him, and retrieved the prepared documents, then escaped onto the roof to meet Stuart. After someone disguised as Stuart attacked him and took the envelope, the real Stuart caught William as he slipped off the roof and pointed out the impostor's escape route.

• William tied up Falcone, opened his safe, and took the fake documents Falcone had prepared for the test.
• William learned from his contact that armed men were coming, gagged Falcone, and used fireworks to make it seem as though a fierce gunfight was underway.
• William climbed out the office window and onto the roof, where Stuart waited in a Batsuit.
• A figure posing as Stuart snatched the documents and struck William in the neck, leaving him dizzy as he recognized the Beacon Mark clue.
• The real Stuart caught William before he fell and said the impostor had run that way.

Stuart confronted Batwoman after she stole documents from Falcone Manor, and their fight ended with her landing a powerful blow using a hydraulic weapon. William arrived too late to stop their motorcycle from crashing into Wayne Manor.

• The masked woman escaped Falcone Manor with documents, but Stuart found her on the mountain road and demanded the envelope.
• The woman charged Stuart on her motorcycle, and he clung to its rear until it crashed through Wayne Manor’s gates and exploded.
• Batwoman survived the crash and fought Stuart inside Wayne Manor, dodging his kicks and attacking him with grappling tools and hand-to-hand strikes.
• Stuart invited Batwoman to beat him and claim the Batman title, then overwhelmed her during their fight in the hall.
• Batwoman caught Stuart off guard with a hydraulic-powered elbow strike to his face.

Batwoman, revealed as Kathy Kane, fought Stuart over a stolen envelope until William stopped him from hurting her and she escaped. Kathy returned home to her twin Kate, who had covered for her at the Falcone Estate, while William's new system profile revealed that Kathy believed he was an evil scientist controlling Batman.

• Batwoman defeated Stuart with her Hydraulic Exoskeleton, but Stuart ambushed her from the shadows as she tried to leave.
• William stopped Stuart from striking Batwoman, and she mistook William for the evil scientist controlling Batman before escaping with a smoke bomb and losing her cape.
• William completed a system quest to rescue Kathy Kane, gaining a save use, a Marking Beacon, and permission to mark her, but her profile showed extreme hatred toward him.
• Kathy left Gotham Hospital and returned to her apartment, where her twin Kate said her cover at the Falcone Estate had held.
• Kathy comforted Kate after learning a kind person had praised her piano performance, then complained about meeting an awful man.

Norman tested William’s loyalty by checking whether Falcone’s documents had been opened, then trusted him after confirming the envelope was intact. When William returned home, Maroni accused him of betrayal and struck him, but William’s favorability toward Maroni began to rise again.

• Falcone told Norman that William had taken the documents and warned him to check whether the envelope had been opened.
• William met Norman on the police station roof, where Norman inspected the envelope and confirmed it had not been opened; Stuart watched from hiding.
• Norman revealed that the documents recorded his dealings with Falcone and praised William for keeping quiet, while William claimed he wanted to rise in the police force.
• Maroni confronted William at his apartment, accused him of betraying the family, and hit him with his gun.
• William glared at Maroni as the favorability bar, which had reached zero, began to rise.

William survived Maroni’s confrontation and considered using the affinity system to inherit his criminal empire, while Stuart advised him to plan before making a move. Elsewhere, George revealed his betrayal by holding a gun to Oswald’s forehead after a deal turned into a shootout.

• William provoked Maroni until he backed down, promising to stop assigning him unexpected jobs and asking whether he had enough money.
• Stuart returned with dinner, inferred Maroni had visited, and suggested William inherit Maroni’s criminal empire before killing him.
• Stuart told William to stay behind and plan his next steps, then went out in the Batsuit while William decided to sort out the system save.
• At an abandoned chemical plant, George and Oswald waited for a deal connected to Maroni, and George reflected on his failures and his mother’s death.
• Gunfire erupted when the other party arrived, and Oswald returned wounded, saying the deal had been a setup and suspecting Maroni wanted him dead.
• George pressed a gun to Oswald’s forehead and revealed that he had betrayed him.

Stuart failed to save Hila after the abandoned chemical factory’s bridge collapsed, and Hila dissolved in the chemical pool as his consciousness transformed. William later woke from a nightmare about the death, while Stuart returned from patrol troubled by the rescue and asked whether Bruce Wayne could have done better.

• Hila tried to remove and sell scrap metal from an abandoned chemical factory, but Stuart caught him and helped him dismantle more of it.
• The steel bridge collapsed beneath Hila, and Stuart’s grappling hook pierced his shoulder but failed to keep him from falling into the chemical pool.
• As Hila’s body dissolved in acid, he remembered his hardships and began laughing as something new filled the gaps in his flesh.
• William woke from a nightmare and asked the AI assistant to explain how the system’s save feature worked.
• Stuart returned from patrol dejected after failing to save Hila and asked William whether Bruce Wayne would have done better.
• William reminded Stuart that he was Bruce.

William tried to pressure a grieving mother into dropping charges, but gave her $50,000 of his own money instead. After learning that Bruce Wayne was listed as the driver in the case, he was shot aboard a moving light rail, where Casey died beside him, and he suspected Deadshot Floyd.

• William told Gordon he would work for Norman, though he secretly planned to let Maroni's anxiety weaken his organization.
• Norman ordered William to pressure a mother into dropping charges against the driver who had killed her son.
• William promised the mother $50,000 from his private savings, then asked Gordon to investigate the driver.
• Gordon told William that the file named Bruce Wayne as the driver, prompting William to hurry back to the precinct for an explanation.
• William encountered Casey on the light rail, but a distant gunshot struck him and killed her beside him.
• William examined the bullet hole in the shattered window and identified Deadshot Floyd as the likely shooter.

Deadshot shot William, triggering his one-use reload and sending him back three days. William resolved to uncover who had hired the sniper, linking the attack to the Wayne family power struggle and planning to investigate with Stuart.

• Floyd shot at William through the light-rail carriage, and William escaped the train before a bullet struck his chest.
• William died and reloaded to the night Maroni had visited him, discovering that his reload function had turned gray.
• William suspected Harold Wayne and the people who had taken power at Wayne Enterprises of targeting him.
• Stuart returned as Batman, and William reassured him after Stuart lamented failing to save someone.
• William and Stuart planned to investigate the Mad Hatter and Wayne Enterprises, starting by finding Deadshot’s middleman.

William and Stuart searched for a way to hire a hitman, but Scarface could not identify the shooter William needed. A mysterious caller directed them to No Man’s Land to find Floyd, and they entered the island’s hostile territory.

• William pressured Wolf into giving him an address where he could seek a hitman, then went with Stuart to a bowling club to meet Scarface.
• William offered Scarface a million dollars for a shooter skilled at ricochet shots, but Scarface said he knew no such hitman.
• As William and Stuart left, a mysterious caller told William to go to No Man’s Land to find Floyd.
• William and Stuart reached No Man’s Land and faced hostile gangs and pickpockets as soon as they stepped onto the island.
• Stuart caught a boy trying to steal William’s service pistol, angering the burly men surrounding them.

Stuart and William fought their way through a gang in No Man’s Land and learned that Floyd Lawton Jr., alias Deadshot, had friends at a nearby factory. When they entered the factory, they encountered professional wrestlers and sensed a far more dangerous presence approaching.

• Stuart shielded William and attacked the No Man’s Land gang when they refused to let them pass.
• Stuart fought off the gang while coaching William to relax and break through the encirclement.
• Stuart questioned a defeated thug, who directed them to a factory where Floyd Lawton Jr.’s friends gathered.
• William and Stuart entered the factory and found a group of professional wrestlers rehearsing their routines.
• A wrestler identified Stuart as the East End’s Underground Fighter and told his companions to wait for their coach.
• William and Stuart sensed a dangerous presence appear silently behind them.

William and Stuart found Bane and asked him to help them reach Floyd, the hitman hired to kill William. After Floyd confronted William, a system quest tasked William with resolving Floyd’s predicament, and William lost his patience.

• Bane welcomed William and Stuart, then took them to his room after William confirmed his identity with the beacon.
• Bane agreed to lead them to Floyd, his old friend, and accidentally burned the back of his head on a light bulb.
• Floyd greeted Bane and William at his home, recognized William as his target, and sent his daughter Lika to her room.
• Floyd confronted William with a revolver and said he could either kill him or wait to die.
• William received a quest to help Floyd resolve his predicament and asked about his daily difficulties, then slammed the table in frustration.

William and Stuart failed to stop Floyd from escaping, then William remembered a mother and child from before the reset and saved the boy from a car. He recognized the fleeing driver as Bruce Wayne and called him their new target.

• Bane stopped Floyd and Stuart from attacking each other, but Floyd escaped through the window while Lika clung to Stuart.
• Bane threw Stuart and William out the window, then stayed with Lika as William and Stuart returned to central Gotham City.
• While waiting in the rain, William recognized a mother whose child had died in the pre-reset timeline.
• William rushed into the crosswalk and saved the boy from a Ferrari Testarossa, narrowly avoiding being hit.
• William recognized the driver as Bruce Wayne and shouted to Stuart that they had a new target.

William and Stuart chased a fugitive through Gotham and confronted Harold Wayne, whom William identified as the prime suspect behind a conspiracy. Harold tried to bribe William to stop investigating, but William revealed he knew about Harold’s alliance with the Mad Hatter to ambush Batman.

• William commandeered an SUV, and Stuart joined him as they pursued a sports car through the rain.
• Stuart shot out both rear tires of the fugitive’s car, then smashed its windshield after it became trapped in an alley.
• The fugitive fled into the Gotham River, and William called the police while tracking him with a beacon.
• Harold Wayne arrived with a convoy and had his men retrieve the fugitive, while William demanded they identify themselves and hand over the suspect.
• After a lawyer identified William to Harold, Harold offered him a blank check to abandon his investigation.
• William told Harold he knew about his plan to work with the Mad Hatter to ambush Batman, frightening him.

William confronted Harold over Bruce Wayne’s disappearance and uncovered the truth about the Bruce double and the plan to kill him. Harold left after offering William a stake in Wayne Enterprises, while Commissioner Norman blocked Gordon from questioning William.

• William accused Harold of hiding a double who had been impersonating Bruce Wayne, and Harold’s thoughts revealed that the double had been arrested after hitting a boy with his car.
• Harold’s thoughts also revealed that he had arranged for Deadshot to kill William before the world rolled back, while William’s Marking Beacon exposed the remaining details of Harold’s plan.
• Police arrived, and Harold threatened to reveal William’s identity if he took Bruce’s double away; William put away his pistol and said he would consider Harold’s offer of a 3.5% stake in Wayne Enterprises.
• Harold told Commissioner Norman that William had rescued Bruce Wayne after Bruce’s car plunged into the river, then left with his bodyguards.
• Gordon tried to speak with William, but Norman blocked him and warned him not to interfere with other people’s freedom.

William, Stuart, and Gordon planned to replace the double with Stuart so he could gather evidence against Harold, and William sought Casey's help. Casey doubted William’s story, while her sister Kate appeared and seemed to recognize him.

• Norman drove William home after Harold offered him Wayne Family shares, and Gordon confronted him about handing Stuart over.
• William told Gordon and Stuart that Harold had hired a gunman, and Stuart proposed using Batman as bait before William devised a plan to swap Stuart with the double.
• William tracked down Casey and asked her to help protect him while Stuart took the double’s place at Wayne Tower.
• Casey rejected William’s explanation and ordered him to leave, but Kate returned home and offered him a drink.

William recruited Floyd to use his Mechanical Compound Eyes to scout an estate where Bruce’s double and Harold were hiding. Floyd and Stuart prepared for Stuart to infiltrate the estate disguised as the double and uncover the planned transfer of Wayne Family assets.

• William startled Floyd at Bane’s hideout, where Floyd learned the contract to kill William had been canceled.
• William persuaded Floyd to help scout a building, and Floyd agreed to work without pay if William stayed away from him afterward.
• William and Stuart argued over how to recover the Wayne Family assets and prepare for the estate infiltration.
• Floyd mapped the estate’s interior from a tree and gave Stuart the route sketch, explaining that water droplets could help him see areas he could not observe.

Stuart infiltrated Harold Wayne’s villa and swapped places with the surgically altered double, while William took the unconscious man to a safe apartment to question him. Casey arrived at the rental after her sister Kate persuaded her that William was trustworthy.

• Harold scolded the double for jeopardizing the plan and had his medical team treat the wounds on his face.
• Batman knocked out the naked double, carried him out of the villa, and escaped the guards by posing among the suits of armor.
• Stuart and William exchanged places with the double, and William took him to a nearby apartment to seek information that could help bring Harold to justice.
• Gordon agreed to leave the double in William’s care, hoping the man would stay alive to testify.
• Casey arrived at the rental with supplies after Kate’s judgment of William eased her suspicion.

William, Casey, and Kate devised a way to make Bruce Wayne’s double fear the consequences of impersonating him. After Floyd confronted the captive with the Wayne Enterprises insurance scandal, the double confessed that he was not Bruce Wayne.

• William admitted he had no interrogation plan, and Casey called Kate for help before joining him in cleaning the apartment.
• Kate suggested making the double believe that being Bruce Wayne put him in serious danger, and William grasped her approach.
• The double woke in the apartment, assumed he had been kidnapped, and tried to arrange a ransom by claiming to be Bruce Wayne.
• Floyd threatened the double with revenge for the insurance scandal that had left injured people without timely payouts.
• The frightened double broke down and confessed that he was not Bruce Wayne.