Chapter Summaries

Qin Wei and Selina disguised themselves to travel through Gotham’s subway, where Selina punished a group of pickpockets who targeted them. The chapter ended with Henry taking Qin Wei hostage, only for Qin Wei to calmly ask whether Henry would really kill him.

• Qin Wei planned to expose the Court of Owls and tried to persuade Thomas Wayne to speak publicly while Thomas drew Wayne Tower’s layout.
• Selina agreed to travel with Qin Wei to check on her motorcycle, and she disguised him as a wealthy old man before they took the subway.
• Selina caught Henry and the other pickpockets stealing from passengers and secretly switched Henry’s wallet and its contents.
• Henry and his fellow thieves pursued Qin Wei and Selina into a dim station and threatened them with guns.
• Selina disarmed Henry and defeated the other pickpockets, but Henry seized Qin Wei with a knife and threatened to kill him.
• Qin Wei calmly asked Henry whether he would really kill him and warned that his answer would determine what happened next.

Qin Wei rescued Selina from Henry and left the gangsters money to deal with the aftermath before contacting Robin Hood’s hacker friends. He asked them to spread a video about Gray Sarcoma, Swamp Thing, and the Court of Owls, leaving the video’s release in their hands.

• Qin Wei broke Henry’s wrist after Henry chose to threaten Selina again, then gave the gang youths money to call an ambulance.
• The gang youths found Selina’s tied-up pickpockets and Henry badly injured in the restroom, and they grew frightened of Qin Wei.
• Qin Wei and Selina split up in the Diamond District, and Qin Wei bought a laptop and logged into Robin Hood’s hacker chat room.
• Qin Wei proved his connection to Robin Hood by plugging in a USB Drive containing Robin Hood’s encrypted work.
• Qin Wei asked the hackers to spread a video showing the Gray Sarcoma, Swamp Thing, and the Court of Owls’ place of worship.

Qin Wei recruited hackers to expose the Court of Owls and the Gotham Government, then learned that Barbara Gordon had secretly protected his identity and asked him to save her father. After meeting Selina, he heard that Thomas Elliot was spending time with her roommate Holly and decided to follow them.

• Qin Wei showed the hackers a video about Wayne Tower and warned them that uploading it would put them in danger; one hacker withdrew, but his fellow Gotham local agreed to help.
• The local hacker privately revealed she was Barbara Gordon, who had investigated Qin Wei, protected his secret, and erased evidence of his fighting skills.
• Barbara asked Qin Wei to save Commissioner Gordon from prison, and Qin Wei reassured her without revealing that the rescue was planned for that night.
• Qin Wei met Selina, who told him she had seen Holly walking intimately with Dr. Daniel Reed, whose real identity was Thomas Elliot.
• Qin Wei suggested that he and Selina follow Holly and Elliot to learn what Elliot was doing.

Qin Wei and Selina watched Thomas appear to date Holly normally, then arranged for Roman's men to kidnap him. The captive showed no sign of being Thomas or an Owl operative, leaving Qin Wei convinced he had captured a double and determined to interrogate him.

• Holly went on a date with Dr. Daniel Reed while Qin Wei and Selina followed and debated whether he was really Thomas.
• Qin Wei questioned his own identity after realizing his invented backstory had closely matched Bruce's life.
• Qin Wei had Roman's men seize Dr. Daniel Reed while Holly went to buy pigeon feed.
• The captive resisted weakly and showed no fighting ability, so Qin Wei suspected he had kidnapped Thomas's double.
• Qin Wei ordered the men to take Dr. Daniel Reed to the mansion's basement and planned to interrogate him.

Qin Wei captured and interrogated Dr. Daniel Reed, only to realize Reed appeared innocent and might be a clone carrying false memories created to protect Thomas Elliot. After Qin Wei and Thomas Wayne considered the possibility, they prepared to attack Blackgate Penitentiary, while Thomas Elliot readied his own assault under the name Judgment Knight.

• Qin Wei tortured Dr. Daniel Reed with Truth Serum, but Reed identified himself as a plastic surgeon, denied knowing the Court of Owls, and said he loved Holly.
• Qin Wei admitted to Holly and Selina that he had wrongly accused Reed, and Holly slapped him before running away in tears.
• Selina's suggestion led Qin Wei to suspect the Court of Owls had cloned Thomas Elliot and implanted Dr. Reed's memories into the duplicate.
• At Wayne Manor, Thomas Wayne agreed Reed might be a duplicate with false memories and teased Qin Wei about Holly's slap as they prepared to seize Blackgate Penitentiary.
• Tim remembered that the mysterious hero who once saved his family had worn no cape and smelled of machine oil.
• Thomas Elliot armed himself in Bat-Armor and planned to kill James Gordon, Floyd Lawton Jr., the Bad Men Gang, and the Bullies Gang at Blackgate Penitentiary as Judgment Knight.

James Gordon prepared for a prison fighting tournament where inmates planned to kill him for the amusement of wealthy clients. After striking Warden Jess, he entered the bloodstained ring to face his first opponent.

• Gordon trained in his cell and promised Victor Zsasz that he would revisit his case if he survived and escaped.
• Warden Jess taunted Gordon and revealed that he had arranged the tournament to have him tortured and killed for wealthy spectators.
• Gordon headbutted Jess, who ordered the guards to beat him before the tournament.
• Gordon was brought into the arena, where masked clients watched as the guards removed his handcuffs and shoved him into the ring opposite a waiting opponent.

James Gordon fought through a prison ring’s succession of opponents arranged by Jess, nearly collapsing after twelve rounds. Remembering why he became a police officer, he regained his resolve and faced the KGB Beast for what appeared to be his final fight.

• A tall, thin prisoner challenged Gordon over an old grudge, but Gordon knocked him out with a kidney shot.
• A bearded judo practitioner tried to repeat a sacrifice throw from their past fight, but Gordon used the man’s momentum to throw him fatally onto his head.
• Jess arranged waves of opponents to exhaust Gordon, who survived twelve rounds while suffering serious injuries.
• Near collapse, Gordon remembered his vow to bring criminals to justice and decided to uphold justice with his fists.
• The KGB Beast waited across the ring as Gordon regained his resolve and prepared to fight.

Gordon fought Anatoli in Blackgate’s underground arena until Warden Jess stopped the match and ordered the VIPs evacuated during a prison riot. As prisoners closed in on Gordon in the darkness, someone arrived and told him to leave the rest to them.

• Anatoli attacked Gordon, who struggled to evade his blows and fought back with a shard of glass.
• Jess ended the match after learning that prisoners in Blocks A and B had started a riot and were about to overrun Block C.
• Jess arranged for the guards to evacuate the VIPs and planned to escape Blackgate by helicopter.
• With the guards gone, prisoners surrounded Gordon in the arena.
• The lights went out, and an unseen person placed a hand on Gordon’s shoulder and told him to leave the rest to them.

Qin Wei fought the prisoners in Block D, killed Nicholas, and forced the survivors to return to their cells before rescuing Commissioner Gordon. Gordon insisted on pursuing Jess to recover evidence about the VIPs, leaving Qin Wei to face Anatoli, whose strange beliefs prompted Qin Wei to test a theory by singing a revolutionary song.

• Qin Wei ordered the prisoners back to their cells, but Nicholas attacked him with a shard of glass, and Qin Wei crushed his hand and killed him.
• The prisoners swarmed Qin Wei, who used his electrified cape and combat skills to defeat them, then ordered the survivors to take the injured and return to their cells.
• Qin Wei lowered Commissioner Gordon from the ceiling, but Gordon refused to leave without pursuing Jess and reclaiming evidence about the VIPs.
• Anatoli attacked Gordon, and Qin Wei blocked his powerful punch so Gordon could continue toward the second-floor doorway.
• Anatoli accused Qin Wei of being a dog of American imperialism, and Qin Wei sang a line from a revolutionary song to test his suspicion.

Qin Wei persuaded Anatoli to set aside his grudge against Gordon, while Gordon fought Jess in the prison warden’s office. Gordon killed Jess at the cost of his own life and left the story with the word “Justice.”

• Qin Wei answered Anatoli’s questions about Soviet history and explained that he wanted to liberate Gotham.
• Anatoli agreed not to obstruct Qin Wei and told him to find Gordon.
• Gordon reached the administrative offices and found Jess stealing money from the warden’s safe.
• Gordon and Jess fought, and Gordon shot them both by firing through his abdominal wound.
• As Jess died beside the money, Gordon mouthed “Justice” before succumbing to his injuries.

Qin Wei revived James Gordon with the Electrum Compound, but Gordon woke hallucinating and attacked him. Meanwhile, Thomas Wayne betrayed the prisoners he had gathered at Blackgate and ordered the Bad Men Gang to shoot them, leaving Thomas Elliot stunned by the massacre.

• Qin Wei found James Gordon gravely wounded and used the Electrum Compound to bring him back to life.
• Gordon woke in a violent hallucination and fought Qin Wei, overpowering him with Electrum-enhanced strength.
• Thomas Wayne ignored Qin Wei’s warning, freed prisoners throughout the prison, and herded them into the Exercise Yard.
• Deadshot searched D Block for Qin Wei but failed to find him before Thomas Wayne gathered the prisoners.
• Thomas Wayne ordered the Bad Men Gang to open fire on the prisoners in the Exercise Yard.
• Thomas Elliot arrived, saw the massacre, and cursed Thomas Wayne for taking the work he had planned to do.

Qin Wei rescued Gordon by suppressing and removing the Electrum Compound, then learned that Thomas Wayne had disrupted the plan and was attacking the GCPD. Thomas Wayne brought down the police helicopters and slaughtered the assault team before a powerful newcomer confronted him.

• Qin Wei froze Gordon, restrained him, and pulled the Electrum Compound from his back, leaving Gordon alive and free of his injuries.
• Floyd told Qin Wei that Thomas Wayne had planned a massacre at Blackgate Penitentiary, so Qin Wei prepared to evacuate his men.
• Thomas Wayne hijacked a police helicopter, shot down two others, and opened a breach in the prison wall for the Bad Men Gang.
• Thomas Wayne used the helicopter’s machine gun to kill the GCPD assault team at the prison entrance.
• A mysterious newcomer tore apart the helicopter and struck at Thomas Wayne, who tried to recover his grappling gun and escape.

Thomas Elliot used Lucius’s advanced exoskeleton to overpower Owlman and then attacked Qin Wei, who recognized that the armor’s strength made defeating him nearly impossible. The fight continued with Thomas revealing he knew Qin Wei was Bruce Wayne, while Anatoli watched from atop a wall.

• Thomas Elliot attacked Owlman with his AI-assisted exoskeleton, overwhelming him and fracturing his forearms.
• Qin Wei intervened with Batarangs and smoke bombs, but Thomas’s armor intercepted the projectiles and he knocked Qin Wei down with a smoke bomb.
• Qin Wei called Thomas by his real name, provoking him to abandon Owlman and attack Qin Wei.
• Thomas shrugged off Qin Wei’s liquid nitrogen sprayer and revealed that he knew Qin Wei was Bruce Wayne.
• Qin Wei spotted Anatoli atop a wall, watching the fight after apparently escaping the maximum-security section.

Qin Wei tried to expose the Court of Owls and rally Gotham’s poor, but Thomas’s automated armor overwhelmed the Prison Squad and killed Anatoli. As James Gordon prepared a desperate charge, Chato summoned the Revenge Demon Diablo to face the armor.

• Thomas revealed that he had framed Judgment Knight by murdering twelve citizens, but Qin Wei said he had recorded Deity and spread the video online.
• Thomas grabbed Qin Wei by the throat, but Anatoli struck him and triggered the armor’s automatic combat system.
• Deadshot and Anatoli damaged the Mechanical Batman Armor while Qin Wei tried to reach its AI chip, but the armor defeated them and killed Anatoli.
• James Gordon prepared to charge the armor with the prison bus, but Chato summoned the Revenge Demon Diablo at the prison entrance.

Chato, with Diablo’s help, defeated Thomas Wayne and left him incapacitated. After waking from his injuries, Qin Wei saw Lucius’s redesigned Battle Armor and then tried to persuade Chato to stay by offering a way to quiet Diablo’s vengeance.

• Thomas attacked Chato at high speed, but Diablo’s burst of heat repelled him, destroyed his armor’s systems, and left him unable to fight.
• Qin Wei woke at Wayne Manor and learned that the others had returned safely and that Lucius wanted to see him.
• Qin Wei visited the Batcave, where Lucius showed him the repaired Battle Armor and adjusted it to improve mobility and avoid aggravating his injured jaw.
• Qin Wei told Lucius that he had not managed to exploit Thomas’s armor weakness during the battle.
• Chato told Qin Wei he had made amends for helping imprison an innocent man and intended to leave, but Qin Wei tempted him with a possible way to quell Diablo’s vengeance.

Qin Wei formed an alliance with Chato after stirring the Revenge Demon’s anger, then confronted Owlman over the danger his actions had caused. He turned his attention to the captive Thomas Elliot and asked Owlman to leave so he could speak with him privately.

• Qin Wei described the history of oppression in the United States, provoking the Revenge Demon and prompting Chato to admit he wanted to act on its anger.
• Qin Wei offered to work with Chato, and they agreed to use each other to pursue their goals.
• Qin Wei confronted Owlman in the basement and struck him over nearly getting everyone killed during the Blackgate incident.
• Thomas Elliot mocked Qin Wei and Owlman, so Qin Wei slapped him and traded insults with him.
• Qin Wei asked Owlman to step outside so he could speak privately with Thomas Elliot.

Qin Wei recruited Thomas, who learned he was a clone and agreed to help in hopes of replacing Lincoln March. Meanwhile, Qin Wei abducted Holly and Dr. Reed, while the Court of Owls conspiracy spread through Gotham and public unrest escalated toward an explosion.

• Qin Wei told Thomas that he was a clone and offered him a chance to cooperate against the Court.
• Thomas accepted Qin Wei's offer after deciding to kill Lincoln March and take his place.
• Qin Wei abducted Holly and Dr. Reed with Selina's reluctant help.
• Barbara and Qin Wei's hackers spread evidence of the Court of Owls, stirring conspiracy theories across Gotham.
• Gotham residents from opposing factions marched against the GCPD, and state police efforts failed to ease the unrest.

Qin Wei used Daniel Reed’s existence to convince Thomas that he was a clone, then sent Thomas to drive Holly away while Daniel grappled with his identity. At Gordon’s home, Barbara grew suspicious of someone pretending to be her father, and the intruder began opening the door.

• Thomas saw the unconscious Daniel Reed and, after Qin Wei stopped him from killing him, accepted that he was a clone; Daniel learned the truth and was told tooth wear could reveal his age.
• Thomas agreed to break up with Holly for Daniel, exchanged clothes with him, and pretended to be Daniel so Holly would leave the castle.
• Thomas cruelly told Holly he had only wanted her body and claimed he would join Qin Wei’s criminal organization, frightening Holly into fleeing with Selina.
• Barbara heard a voice claiming to be Gordon at her door, noticed the suspicious hour, and became increasingly afraid.
• Barbara dropped and shattered a vase as the door handle began turning by itself.

Qin Wei prepared to expose the Court of Owls’ crimes, but Joker abducted Barbara and forced him to move up his attack on Wayne Tower. Joker’s schemes also set the Court and Bat Family on a collision course, with Owl Night imminent and a separate catastrophe seeded in Metropolis.

• Under Qin Wei’s questioning, Thomas revealed the Court of Owls’ methods for controlling Gotham officials and exploiting the city, and Qin Wei prepared Thomas and Daniel to broadcast the evidence.
• Qin Wei discussed the cost of his plans with Gordon at Anatoli’s grave, but Tim interrupted them after discovering Barbara was missing.
• Joker called through Barbara’s phone, revealed she was bound in Thomas Wayne’s office at Wayne Tower, and demanded Qin Wei come for her within twenty-four hours.
• Qin Wei ordered Tim to start the livestream and told the Romans to create a riot as cover for his infiltration of Wayne Tower.
• Joker had leaked the League of Assassins’ hideout and Wayne Manor to the Court, setting the Court and Bat Family up to attack each other’s bases as hundreds of Talons prepared to strike.
• Joker revealed that he had recently approached Lois Lane in Metropolis under disguise, unknowingly planting the seeds of a catastrophe three months later.

Oswald Cobblepot recounted how he seized the family inheritance by killing his brothers and uncle, then faced the Jewish United Consortium’s attempt to take the Cobblepot and New Roman Empire assets. After Qin Wei called to announce that the war had begun, Oswald turned toward the consortium representatives with a gun and a threat.

• Oswald killed William and Jason after inheriting the Cobblepot Family fortune, then shot his uncle Robert for betraying him.
• Oswald tried to revive the family businesses, but the Court of Owls and the Jewish United Consortium pressured him over the family’s debts.
• Lincoln March explained the Cobblepot Family’s role in the Court and threatened Oswald’s ill mother to force him into submission.
• The consortium demanded $5.2 billion and seized the family’s assets, while Oswald signed the agreement to avoid starting a war himself.
• Qin Wei called Oswald from a plane and told him to send every gang in his territory to Wayne Tower because the war had begun.
• Oswald confronted the departing consortium representatives and hinted that he had a bullet ready for them.