Chapter Summaries

Jason and Dick’s evacuation party was ambushed by Uriah Boone and Lincoln March, but Talia intervened before Superboy’s arrival turned the fight. Meanwhile, Qin Wei uncovered Dr. Reed’s plan to take control of the Court’s wealth, then faced Superman as Reed attempted to escape by claiming he was a hostage.

• Lincoln March demanded that the evacuation party surrender Thomas, but Jason, Gordon, Bullock, Harvey, and Dick sided with Thomas and fought the Court.
• Uriah overwhelmed the defenders and nearly killed Thomas, until Talia took Lincoln March hostage and forced Uriah to lower his scythe.
• Superboy Jonathan mistook Talia for a villain and charged her, but Uriah’s scythe shattered against Jonathan as he landed.
• Qin Wei confronted Dr. Reed, who revealed he had purged the Court to seize its wealth and argued that the Court’s power came from the financial system.
• Dr. Reed claimed Bruce Wayne had kidnapped him and tried to leave, while Qin Wei disarmed himself and asked Superman to stop threatening him with heat vision.

After the Gotham riots, Superman took Qin Wei and Dr. Daniel Reed into custody, but Qin Wei persuaded him to investigate the truth behind the unrest. Clark decided to return to Gotham disguised as Qin Wei, while Thomas Wayne and the Bat Family faced the aftermath at Wayne Manor.

• Qin Wei attacked Dr. Daniel Reed after disarming, and Superman stopped him before Reed was killed.
• Superman took Qin Wei and Daniel Reed to the New Jersey State Police Department, while Thomas Wayne told Oswald that Qin Wei had shouldered the charges.
• Jonathan arrived at Wayne Manor seeking the truth, and Thomas recounted what had happened during the unrest.
• During a private conversation, Qin Wei explained the causes of the riots to Clark and challenged his faith in the law and his identity as an American.
• Clark agreed to investigate Gotham and consider dropping some charges if Qin Wei's account proved true.
• Clark changed his appearance to resemble Qin Wei and planned to investigate Gotham undercover.

Will drove Daniel Reed away by threatening to haunt him, while Clark took up the Judgment Knight’s identity and began patrolling Gotham in the old Batsuit. Clark’s awkward first intervention ended with a frightened boy fleeing, and he then heard a military rescue squad calling for help against a monster.

• Daniel Reed told Qin Wei he planned to rebuild the Court under a new identity and acquire Wayne Enterprises, but Will attacked him when he tried to leave.
• Will threatened to haunt Reed for the rest of his life, deliberately drawing the former Court member’s hatred onto himself to protect the Bat Family from reprisals.
• Clark examined Will’s battered Batsuit, admired his resolve, and put it on before leaving the Senate to patrol Gotham.
• Clark tried to stop Red Hood gangsters from threatening a boy, but tore off the Batsuit’s cape and cowl while stepping on them.
• The boy panicked at Clark’s reassurance and ran away, while Clark mistakenly wondered whether the Judgment Knight frightened ordinary people.
• Clark heard a military search-and-rescue squad reporting gunfire and a monster in the Municipal District.

Killer Croc attacked Gotham’s soldiers before Jonathan subdued him, while Clark and Jonathan separately tracked Bane as he rampaged through the city. Jonathan confronted Bane in the sky, but chose to fight him at close quarters, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Killer Croc, Wei Lun, attacked a riot squad with his Red-powered strength until Jonathan defeated him and bound him with streetlights.
• Clark watched Jonathan’s first major mission and heard Bane calling for Deathstroke and Judgmental; Jonathan heard the call too, and they headed toward its source from different directions.
• Bane attacked Deathstroke at the Black Forest Bar, but Slade severed his wrist and escaped after seeing it regenerate.
• Bane attacked patrolling soldiers, and Jonathan intercepted him, then threw him into the air to limit damage to the city.
• Jonathan recovered from Bane’s throw and engaged him in a close-range fight as Clark watched, while Bane’s martial arts expertise gave him an advantage.

Clark received evidence linking Gotham’s wealthy and politicians to the city’s suffering, leaving him conflicted over the law and Will’s rebellion. Meanwhile, Bane knocked Jonathan unconscious before mistaking Clark for Bruce and discovering that he could not hurt him.

• Bane tricked Jonathan into approaching, then battered him through the riverbank and into the wilderness until he passed out.
• Clark froze the Gotham River and reinforced Three-Gate Bridge to protect the stranded civilians from the shock wave.
• A boy from the Snowy Night Bomb Bus Case gave Clark an envelope of criminal records that Joker had stolen, and Clark read the evidence with his X-ray vision.
• The boy thanked Clark for saving him, prompting Clark to remember why he had become a hero as he weighed Will’s actions against the law.
• Bane found Clark, mistook him for Bruce, and attacked him, but his blows could not move or injure Clark.
• Clark froze Bane’s arm after Bane’s knee broke against him.

Superman captured Bane while Lex Luthor stopped the Joker Gang from abducting Lois and confronted Joseph Cole about his plans. Joseph escaped with the mutilated Flash through time, arriving at the bridge where his past self first met V-Bat, and was killed by Qin Wei.

• Clark caught Bane after he snapped off his frozen arm and leaped into the sky, then said he was taking him to meet someone.
• Two Joker Gang members drugged and kidnapped Lois, but Eve Teschmacher ambushed them, checked Lois's condition, and returned her home on Lex Luthor's instructions.
• Lex confronted Joseph Cole about Brother Eye, his identity, and his plan to return Bruce to the universe, while Joseph predicted the timeline would soon change and erase memories of him.
• Joseph revealed that he had turned Wally West into an exercise bike and used him to travel through time as the world shook.
• Joseph arrived at the Robert Kane Memorial Bridge, where Royce and Qin Wei mistook him for his past self and shot him; Qin Wei killed him and discovered the Flash-brand exercise bike.

Will awoke in a transformed futuristic world and began figuring out how to escape his new restraints, while Lex Luthor took Bane and Killer Croc into custody for experiments. Lex recruited Bane for his B-Zero project, and Will ended the chapter immobilized in a prison exoskeleton but already considering a way out.

• Will woke in a New Jersey holding cell as the world transformed around him into a futuristic city, complete with a spaceship and a life-support pod.
• Lex Luthor met Superman and accepted Killer Croc and Bane, intending to study their abilities in his laboratory.
• Lex revealed his B-Zero cloning project and offered Bane release in exchange for cooperating with the experiment and avoiding Superman's attention.
• Will studied his prison uniform and deliberately broke a corroded faucet to draw the officers into his cell.
• The officers activated Will's exoskeleton joint locks, immobilizing him, but he began planning how to defeat them.

Will tried to disable his joint locks from inside a life-support pod while Derek Powers hired Victor Zsasz to kill him. In Gotham, Dick accepted Talia’s blessing to pursue the Judgment Knight legacy, as Victor slipped into the holding cell and Will discovered a thick live wire.

• Will tested the joint locks and decided to short them out using the life-support pod’s wiring.
• Daniel Reed warned Derek Powers that Bruce Wayne was dangerous, so Derek hired Victor Zsasz and prepared advanced equipment for him.
• The Bat Family argued over who should inherit the Judgment Knight title, while Talia released Dick to follow his own ideals and gave him a blade.
• Talia left for the League of Shadows to seek David Cain and Lady Shiva.
• Will dismantled the pod’s inner panel, and Victor descended through the holding cell’s ventilation duct as Will found a thick wire carrying current.

Will discovered a blue-gray sarcoma like the one associated with the Court of Owls and escaped his restraints during a blackout. Victor fought through the police station to reach him, then revealed that Derek Powers had hired him and recognized Will as the Judgment Knight, whom Gotham’s villains admired.

• Will recognized the sarcoma from Wayne Tower and suspected it was a medium through which the Court’s evil god influenced the world.
• Will used an electrical cable to trigger the restraints’ forced-locking procedure, while Victor killed police officers and made his way toward the holding cell.
• Victor entered the dark holding cell, but Will emerged carrying him after defeating him in the darkness.
• Victor identified Derek Powers as his employer and said he recognized Will as the Judgment Knight.
• Victor praised Will for leading villains against Gotham’s Dirty Cops and recruiting James Gordon, explaining that villains saw him as their savior.

Owlman discovered that Gotham’s people had accepted the military’s takeover after Judgment Knight inspired them to stand on their own feet, while Will uncovered signs that an evil god’s corruption had spread beyond Gotham and remained invisible to Superman. As Dick faced Lincoln March and Uriah Boone, a mechanical Batman arrived and initiated a cleanup protocol.

• Owlman found restrained bikers who explained that they had surrendered to the military because they wanted to follow Judgment Knight’s example.
• Jason put on Will’s handmade Batsuit and followed Owlman into Gotham, while Clark finished calming the city’s disturbances.
• Will gave Superman the tumor-like flesh, but Clark saw only an electronic component, and the footage of the mass had disappeared from Will’s phone.
• Will found evidence of the evil god’s influence in Jersey City and struggled to absorb Clark’s account of how his views had changed.
• Lincoln March ordered Uriah Boone to restrain Dick and muttered that he wanted to see Bruce and kill the Creator.
• A spacecraft arrived above Dick, and a mechanical figure with glowing red eyes identified its target and began a cleanup protocol.

Dick and his allies learned that a powerful robotic fighter had returned and that Will was back in Gotham, while Owlman pursued clues about the machine. Elsewhere, Lincoln March captured Dr. Reed and accepted his offer of money, but a hacker blocked the transfer and left Reed’s fate uncertain.

• A humanoid robot repelled Uriah, rescued Lincoln March, and announced that the city would no longer need the man it served before flying away.
• Dick told Jason and Owlman what had happened, and Tim messaged that Will had returned and wanted to meet them at the East End Senate.
• Owlman refused to join Dick and Jason, choosing instead to track the robot and press Lucius for information about Alfred and an unregistered aircraft.
• Dr. Reed sold Derek Powers Court technology and company shares cheaply, then prepared to flee Gotham with eight billion dollars.
• Lincoln March and Uriah captured Dr. Reed, and March agreed to spare him in exchange for the money in his accounts.
• A Robin Hood hacker logo appeared after the transfers failed, leaving Dr. Reed’s promised payment inaccessible.

Will’s group completed its stock-market heist, gained ten billion dollars, and ended the war, but Tim’s use of a backup account drew an angry call from Green Arrow. Will agreed to help Oliver Queen before the Robin Hood account caused further trouble.

• Robin Hood hijacked accounts under Tim’s name, sold stocks, and helped Will’s side withdraw ten billion dollars while the remaining funds went to struggling Gotham households.
• Lincoln March killed Dr. Reed while demanding to know where the money had gone, and Derek Powers ordered his men to find Reed.
• Will told the group at the Senate that the war was over and planned to use the money to repair Wayne Manor and rebuild Gotham City.
• Tim explained that he had used a backup account originally created for a job for Green Arrow, Oliver Queen, and feared the consequences.
• Will answered Oliver’s call, identified himself as Gotham’s Judgment Knight, and agreed to go to the address Oliver provided.

Will traveled to Star City to meet Oliver Queen, the elderly Green Arrow, after Superman helped expose Gotham’s criminals and endured public backlash for intervening in the case. Will’s first meeting with Oliver ended with Oliver serving him a dangerously spicy curry, leaving Will wary of the bowl he had agreed to finish.

• Superman delivered evidence of Gotham officials’ crimes to the Federal Police Department in public and recommended Harvey Dent as the prosecutor, while Will’s suggestion that the criminals might escape justice pushed Clark to cross his usual limits.
• Superman weathered an online backlash over his influence on the case, found support from Little Jonathan, and later thanked Will, who agreed to testify if summoned.
• Will asked Superman for a ride to Star City, then arrived at Queen Tower to meet Oliver Queen, a seventy-five-year-old former mayor who had spent much of his fortune supporting the poor.
• Will sneaked into Oliver’s apartment through a ventilation duct but was driven out by the fumes from Oliver’s simmering curry, and Oliver invited him to dinner.
• Oliver served Will blazing-hot beef curry and rice; when Will asked to swap bowls, Oliver agreed on the condition that Will finish all the food.

Will agreed to impersonate a fake Green Arrow to draw attention away from Oliver, who mistook him for Gotham's Judgment Knight, Thomas Elliot. Meanwhile, Thomas Wayne confronted Alfred about the past and met the mechanical version of his younger brother, Bruce.

• Oliver told Will that Star City's police had placed him under restrictions and that powerful investors might target him over the Securities Market incident.
• Oliver proposed that Will pose as a copycat Green Arrow while he held a press conference, and Will accepted the plan and examined the old suit and equipment.
• Oliver confidently identified Will as Thomas Elliot, Gotham's Judgment Knight, and Will went along with the mistaken identity.
• Thomas Wayne found Lucius's Anti-Superman Combat Aircraft at an old farm and reunited with Alfred, who explained why he had left Thomas behind as a child.
• Thomas Wayne rebuked Alfred over his past choices but agreed to meet Bruce's mechanical counterpart, whose stripped face revealed spinning gears.

Thomas Wayne discovered that Alfred had gone mad trying to resurrect Bruce with robots, then Will traveled to Star City's Slums to target the Snake and Rat Gang during a livestream. The broadcast drew a crowd of viewers and a warning from someone named Speedy, leaving Will's mission about to begin.

• Thomas Wayne confronted Alfred's robotic imitation of Bruce, and Alfred smashed its head while revealing a pile of other destroyed robot heads.
• Alfred resolved to keep rebuilding Bruce, while Thomas Wayne left feeling sympathy for the deranged butler.
• Will traveled to Star City's Slums, escaped another encounter with the Snack-Loving Fat Driver, and learned that poor residents underwent prosthetic surgery in exchange for their organs.
• Will reached the Snake and Rat Gang's territory and began livestreaming his planned attack as Green Arrow.
• Viewers debated Will's costume and sent virtual gifts, while a user named Speedy claimed to have found his location.

Will posed as Green Arrow while livestreaming an attack on the Snake and Rat Gang, drawing Star City’s attention and provoking Oliver Queen during a press conference. Roy Harper set out to confront the impostor, and Oliver realized Will had been struck by an arrow and prepared to suit up.

• Will ambushed gang members at the Snake and Rat Gang’s base, planted a bomb, and drew viewers who began identifying him as Speedy.
• Roy Harper watched the livestream, retrieved his bow, and headed for the slums to confront the fake Green Arrow.
• Will demolished an unfinished building and declared that he would inherit Green Arrow’s name, then the livestream cut out.
• Reporters questioned Oliver about the new Green Arrow, and Oliver denied any connection before ending the press conference in anger.
• Security men decided to investigate the new Green Arrow, while Oliver saw an arrow fly toward Will and went to retrieve his spare costume.

Will defeated Roy on a rooftop while trying to determine whether he was a threat. As Roy fell, he remembered how he had killed a corrupt organ dealer to save Oliver’s reputation, and why he had sacrificed his own superhero career to protect his mentor.

• Will blinded Roy with reflected sunlight and a flashbang, then dodged his arrows and knocked him through a collapsed section of the rooftop.
• Roy remembered finding a child at an organ dealer’s hideout and learning that the man had murdered children and sold their organs.
• When the dealer provoked Oliver into drawing an arrow, Roy blocked it and killed the man with a dagger.
• Roy punched Oliver and fled as police arrived, making it appear that Oliver had attacked him and preserving Green Arrow’s public standing.

Qin Wei, disguised as Will in Oliver’s gear, sought a way to resume his livestream and joined Malcolm Merlyn in discussing Star City’s future. Meanwhile, Lois accepted an assignment to investigate Israel’s military actions in Palestine despite pressure from the government and military, and left with Superman’s protection.

• Qin Wei rescued Roy Harper, threatened him when Roy pressed for answers, and disappeared into the Slums.
• Qin Wei forced a Slums resident to take him to Malcolm Merlyn, who could provide access to the upper-level network.
• Roy lost Qin Wei’s trail and decided to ask Malcolm for help identifying the powerful stranger.
• Malcolm recognized Oliver’s equipment and asked Qin Wei, whom he called the Judgment Knight, if he wanted to help liberate Star City.
• Lois told Clark she would report the truth in Palestine despite pressure to follow the military’s plan, then left for her assignment.

Will obtained a device that connected to the upper-level network from Black Arrow Malcolm, who revealed that a giant tumor was lodged in Star City's television tower. Will headed toward an abandoned hospital at Oliver’s urging, while Tim discovered Oliver had planted a Trojan and a group of hired villains prepared to intercept Will.

• Malcolm told Will that the League of Assassins had once contained a spreading evil in Gotham and showed him a huge tumor writhing inside Star City’s television tower.
• Malcolm gave Will a device that connected to the upper-level network, but Will refused to commit to saving Star City; after Will left, Malcolm predicted a coming war and spoke with Roy.
• Will resumed his livestream and headed toward Peace Star Hospital, suspecting Oliver had arranged the trip to expose a secret and use him to deal with enemies.
• Tim found Oliver’s Trojan on a computer and confronted him; Oliver admitted he wanted Will’s help but said Will would choose what to do.
• Mayor Dominic asked Uriah and the other villains hired by Gotham’s oligarchs to help stop Will from entering the abandoned hospital, then offered them a badge.

Will rescued a blogger from a batlike monster in the abandoned Peace Star Hospital, then faced Catman in the dark. The chapter ended with Catman’s backstory, including his humiliating first encounter with Selina.

• Oliver entered the slums seeking answers to a recurring dream, but a crumbling rooftop injured his arm.
• Black Arrow told Roy that the fake Green Arrow was Judgment Knight, and Roy reconsidered his loss to him.
• A paranormal blogger entered Peace Star Hospital to frighten the fake Green Arrow, but a batlike monster attacked him.
• Will rescued the blogger by brutally defeating the monster, then accidentally knocked the still-masked man unconscious.
• Catman attacked Will with darts and grappling hooks, and Will prepared to fight him in the dark.
• Catman’s history revealed that Selina had beaten him and stuffed him into a trash can when they first met.