Chapter Summaries

Qin Wei pushed Johnny Frost to confront his ex-wife, Sherry, then helped him attack the men harassing her and called Oswald for help. Johnny feared he had doomed himself by crossing Falcone, but Qin Wei introduced him to Mr. Cobblepot.

• Qin Wei’s intimate moment with Selina was interrupted by Johnny, and Selina escaped through the window while Qin Wei got dressed.
• At the strip club, Qin Wei urged Johnny to face his regrets and visit Sherry and their daughter, so the two drove to Sherry’s street corner.
• Johnny found Sherry working as a streetwalker, and Qin Wei kicked him out of the car to make him speak to her.
• Snakehead mocked Johnny and threatened him, so Qin Wei incapacitated Snakehead’s two underlings and Johnny beat Snakehead until Qin Wei stopped him.
• Johnny feared Falcone would kill him for the attack, and Qin Wei called Oswald, who appeared on the video call and stunned Johnny.

Qin Wei wrapped up his undercover work, secured Johnny's help in reaching Joker, and arranged a new job with Floyd. After Gordon called to say someone had deleted the surveillance footage, Qin Wei's phone glitched and displayed a threatening message: “I KNOW YOU!”

• Johnny reunited with Sherry and agreed to help Qin Wei meet Joker in exchange for killing Joker and rescuing Frena.
• Qin Wei arranged cleanup with Royce and called Gordon about the street surveillance footage; Gordon said he would review it and mentioned he feared trouble was coming.
• Qin Wei invited Floyd to take a private job worth a million dollars, and Floyd decided he would join Qin Wei's team if asked.
• Qin Wei texted Selina, but Gordon called instead and said someone had already deleted the surveillance footage.
• Gordon's call cut off as Qin Wei's phone heated up and went black, then showed the message “I KNOW YOU!”

Qin Wei built the Bad Men Gang’s power while Matches Malone became its notorious public figure, then learned that Johnny’s dangerous contact was coming to confront him. Johnny’s trust in Qin Wei strengthened as they prepared for the meeting.

• A mysterious hacker contacted Qin Wei, claimed to have erased surveillance footage of the robbery, and destroyed his phone before vanishing.
• Qin Wei expanded the Bad Men Gang’s control over the Upper East Side, while Matches Malone’s reputation spread and he recruited men for Oswald.
• Qin Wei disbanded the Croc Boss Gang after its members refused to accept his leadership and remained loyal to the missing Killer Croc Wei Lun.
• Johnny told Qin Wei that his contact had called and planned to meet him, apparently angered by Qin Wei taking control of the Bad Men Gang.
• Qin Wei proposed bringing the man to his own territory and promised to kill him, while admitting he could not guarantee they would find Johnny’s daughter.
• Johnny thanked Qin Wei, and his remaining hesitation gave way as they prepared for the confrontation.

Qin Wei and Floyd set a trap for Joker, but Joker disguised himself as Johnny and was exposed when Qin Wei noticed their positions. Qin Wei captured Joker and planned to torture him for Frena’s whereabouts, then discovered something in the Ford’s trunk that left him stunned.

• Joker seized Johnny in the Ford and said he would take him to see Frena.
• Floyd took position with a sniper rifle while Qin Wei waited inside the building for Joker to enter.
• Joker disguised himself as Johnny, but Qin Wei ordered Floyd to shoot the man behind him, wounding Joker and exposing the disguise.
• Qin Wei tied Joker’s wounded arm, questioned him about Frena, and dragged him downstairs.
• Qin Wei opened the Ford’s trunk and was shocked by what he found inside.

Qin Wei avenged Johnny by killing the Joker, but Johnny and his daughter died, leaving Qin Wei burdened by grief and guilt. After disappearing from Gotham for six months, he returned as the ruthless Judgment Knight and began hunting criminals with help from a mysterious partner.

• Qin Wei discovered Frena's corpse in the trunk, then dragged the Joker behind a car until he died while laughing from the neurotoxin.
• Qin Wei returned to find Johnny dead and Sherry grieving, while Oswald's men arrived and the Bad Men Gang surrendered.
• Qin Wei left Gotham alone and vanished for six months, abandoning his home and communication devices.
• Selina searched the empty Senate and found clothes in the wardrobe with a conspicuously empty space where something had once hung.
• Qin Wei, now called the Judgment Knight, broke a robber's arm and questioned his mysterious partner, who warned him that the Owl was still circling overhead.

Qin Wei reflected on his life in Gotham’s homeless encampment and the dark-side mission he had begun pursuing. On his last day there, a rocket attack drove the residents into panic, and Qin Wei saw a skull-masked man leading armed thugs into the refuge.

• Qin Wei hid his bloodstained Batsuit at the tunnel entrance and shared breakfast with the homeless old man keeping watch.
• Qin Wei entered the encampment, where Hans welcomed him, and he thought back on his six months there and his efforts to reshape Gotham.
• Qin Wei recalled fighting Jason Todd at Mayor Locke’s home, then training and earning money to send to the Croc Boss Gang in Killer Croc Wei Lun’s name.
• Qin Wei struggled to sleep on the final day of his self-imposed stay in the encampment.
• The old man brought Qin Wei’s Batsuit back after spotting a crowd approaching, and Qin Wei put it on as the encampment woke.
• A rocket blasted open the refuge entrance, and Qin Wei saw a black-skull-masked man surrounded by thugs.

Black Mask invaded the Tunnel Settlement to recruit residents into the Masked Society using mysterious masks that enslaved their minds. As Hans tried to resist, an unseen figure emerged from a tent and dragged away two of Black Mask’s men, leaving Roman wary of a new threat.

• Black Mask arrived at the Tunnel Settlement and ordered its residents to swear allegiance to the Masked Society.
• Qin Wei learned from a hacker that the masked intruder was Roman Sionis, and the hacker explained Roman’s rise and his recent losses to Red Hood.
• Roman recruited residents by placing masks on them, which appeared to control their minds and turn them into obedient followers.
• Hans tried to stab Roman, but masked former members of the Croc Boss Gang pinned him down and Roman took his dagger.
• A tent toppled, and an unseen figure dragged two armed attendants inside; Black Mask’s men fired into the tent but found only the attendants’ bodies.

Qin Wei and Jason cornered Roman Sionis in the Refuge Tunnel after Qin Wei dismantled his gang in the dark. Jason took Roman for himself, while he and Qin Wei reunited after half a year.

• Roman dismissed the idea that the intruder was the Mysterious Dual-Gunman, then realized his identity had been exposed when the attacker called him out.
• Qin Wei used a cloak and flashbang to blind Roman’s followers, then silently took them down in the Refuge Tunnel.
• Hans recognized Wei Lun and broke free of his restraints as Roman’s forces collapsed around him.
• Roman fled toward the tunnel exit, but Jason arrived in the Batmobile and confronted him with a Crowbar.
• Roman tried to bargain with Jason, and Qin Wei revealed himself by voice and asked Jason whether he should handle Roman.
• Jason recognized Qin Wei, chose to deal with Roman himself, and prepared to attack.

Qin Wei and Jason stopped Roman’s mind-controlled gang, and Qin Wei returned to Gotham after six months away. As he caught up with Royce and learned Oswald was dealing with a family inheritance crisis, Mr. Hacker called with news of a major new incident.

• Roman revealed that his masks could control anyone, but Jason shot him before he could finish explaining.
• Qin Wei collected Roman’s masks, then reunited with Jason, who let him keep driving the Batmobile.
• Qin Wei returned to his office and learned that Tucker Cobblepot had left his estate and family leadership to Oswald, provoking their relatives.
• Qin Wei reviewed Oswald’s financial reports and saw that the gang was shifting from crime toward legitimate businesses.
• Mr. Hacker called Qin Wei about a huge incident, and Qin Wei was startled to hear his real, childish voice.

After Jason left Wayne Tower with custom gear from Thomas Wayne, Joker announced a deadly bus game and publicly revealed the Court of Owls. Thomas recognized the broadcast as a declaration of war and answered Bane’s call as the Court prepared to act.

• Thomas Wayne noticed Jason was distracted during training and gave him custom equipment before Jason left Wayne Tower.
• Joker hijacked a news broadcast and threatened to explode twenty buses unless they stayed above the required speed and kept enough passengers aboard.
• Joker tied the bus clues to a hidden document that could help Gotham’s gangs challenge Maroni for power.
• Joker displayed the Court of Owls’ emblem on camera, exposing the secret organization to the public.
• Thomas Wayne realized the Court would likely send its remaining Talons to assassinate Joker, then answered Bane’s call and agreed that the time had come.

Naldo boarded a bus hijacked by the Joker Gang, who announced a twelve-hour survival game tied to bombs and the number of passengers in their seats. Selina sent Qin Wei the bus’s location and license plate, and the chapter ended as the game was about to begin.

• Naldo boarded the bus and discovered a woman’s corpse hanging from the overhead handrail.
• A Joker Gang member explained that the bombs would explode if fewer than twenty-five passengers remained seated or the bus slowed below fifty miles per hour.
• Naldo sat beside Selina and muttered in panic until she knocked him unconscious.
• Selina realized the passengers needed someone to take charge and discreetly sent Qin Wei the bus’s location and license plate.
• Selina counted down the final seconds before the Joker Gang’s game began.

Selina tried to keep the passengers calm after the bus bomb’s countdown ended, while Qin Wei warned that the situation could collapse. As Joker’s gang planted more danger, Gordon gathered a small group of honest officers to oppose the corrupt GCPD and set out into the blizzard.

• Selina urged the bus passengers to stay seated, but a man warned that snow and traffic could force the bus below the bomb’s required speed.
• An explosion destroyed a bus ahead, and the man drew a pistol to stop the passengers from standing as the Joker Gang watched without intervening.
• Qin Wei told Selina the crowd might soon get out of control, and she spotted a black letter T painted on the bus ceiling.
• Gordon realized most of the police force had deployed without his orders to destroy evidence and cover for Gotham’s elite.
• Harvey Dent and Bullock joined Gordon, who led twenty-two young officers and traffic cops in reciting their oath before they went out into the blizzard.

Qin Wei joined a gang pickup rescuing a Bomb Bus from corrupt police, then boarded the bus and helped Selina fight the Joker Gang. After discovering the bomb was wired through a passenger’s chest and heart, Qin Wei realized the bus passengers were in grave danger, while the human bomb delivered a taunting message from Joseph.

• Qin Wei hitched a ride with a gang pickup and joined its crew as they fought police attacking Bomb Buses.
• The pickup helped keep a bus from overturning, and Qin Wei climbed aboard as the gang tried to stop him.
• Qin Wei exchanged gunfire with the Joker Gang inside the bus while Selina knocked down their last fighter and demanded to know how to disarm the bomb.
• Qin Wei shot the captured gang member and examined the bomb, finding that its wire ran through a large wound in the passenger’s chest.
• The human bomb laughed and told Qin Wei that Joseph said he could never become Batman and would lose to Batman completely.

Qin Wei and his allies moved the bus away from the bomb threat, but Joker’s next test forced Qin Wei to choose between trusting Joker’s promise and saving Cameron. Qin Wei killed Cameron to disable the bomb and declared that he always won.

• Qin Wei left the bus with Selina, while a transport truck arrived to carry the passengers to safety.
• Mr. Hacker identified the bomb as a C4 detonator that Gordon could disable by freezing its battery.
• Gordon discovered the bomb was stitched to Cameron, whose past crimes included causing thirteen deaths and framing firefighter Garfield.
• Cameron read Joker’s message offering the passengers a chance to escape if they left him behind.
• Qin Wei refused to trust Joker’s promise, froze the bomb with liquid nitrogen, and killed Cameron.
• Qin Wei tore the bomb from Cameron’s chest and told Gordon that he always won.

Gordon let Qin Wei go as the bus crisis continued, while Harvey and Gotham’s gangs fought corrupt police at an intersection. A corrupt sniper targeted Harvey, but Floyd killed him first.

• Gordon learned that the state Police Department had removed him from his post and issued a warrant for his arrest, and he decided not to arrest Qin Wei.
• Gordon left to help another bus, while Qin Wei planned to support Harvey and Selina; Gordon seriously considered Qin Wei’s offer to join Oz’s Gang.
• At an intersection, Officer Carls and the corrupt police fought gangs after blowing up a bus, and the gangs united to push them back.
• Harvey directed the gangsters’ defense and ordered two teams to flank the corrupt police as he noticed their gunfire weakening.
• A corrupt police sniper aimed at Harvey, but Floyd shot through the sniper’s scope and killed him.

The gangs defeated the crooked cops with help from Deadshot, giving Qin Wei more time to rescue people across Gotham. Harvey pursued Officer Carls alone, but Maroni ambushed him in an alley and prepared to disfigure him.

• Deadshot’s precise shots helped the gangs rout the crooked cops, while Carls received a call from George promising to come help.
• Harvey left Bullock in command and went alone after Carls, hoping to kill the crooked cops’ leader.
• Harvey encountered a scavenger in an alley and gave him money, but the man struck him from behind with a brick.
• The scavenger revealed himself as Maroni and crushed Harvey’s hand as he lay injured.
• Maroni blamed Harvey for his downfall, drew a dagger, and said he would reveal Harvey’s true face.

Maroni mutilated Harvey Dent before fleeing through Gotham and returning to Murder Alley, where memories of the Wayne family’s murder and his deal with Carmine Falcone resurfaced. Mr. Cobblepot appeared and confronted Maroni, asking if he was ready to be beaten to death with a familiar cane.

• Maroni peeled Harvey’s face away, taunted him, and chewed the removed skin as Harvey screamed and tried to shoot him.
• Maroni fled into an old district, wandered through its alleys, and recognized the remains of Murder Alley.
• A pearl under Maroni’s foot brought back memories of the night he killed the Wayne family.
• Maroni remembered that Carmine Falcone had hired him and that Royce Ben had taken the murder charge before Maroni silenced Royce’s pregnant wife.
• Maroni realized that his ordeal had been orchestrated behind the scenes, and Mr. Cobblepot arrived with his cane to confront him.

Oswald Cobblepot took revenge on Maroni and asserted his place as head of the Cobblepot Family, while Qin Wei interrogated Officer Carls about the attack and Harvey’s disappearance. After reporting Carls to Bullock, Qin Wei heard Harvey’s voice from across the street.

• Oswald reminded Maroni how he had beaten him with the Owl Cane and broke Maroni’s knee before striking his back.
• Two men declared that Falcone was unworthy to stand before the new Cobblepot Family head, and Maroni realized Tucker Cobblepot had backed Oswald.
• Qin Wei killed one crooked cop and forced Carls to reveal that Joseph Powers had sent them and arranged the release of George and Chato from Blackgate Penitentiary.
• Carls said he knew nothing about the Court of Owls, so Qin Wei broke his thigh and reported his location to Bullock.
• Qin Wei heard a desperate howl from across the street and recognized Harvey’s voice.

Qin Wei tracked down Sal Maroni after Harvey Dent was gravely wounded and killed him in Crime Alley. On Naihe Island, Dick admitted to Talia that he wanted to leave and find his friends, and Ra's al Ghul allowed him to go.

• Qin Wei found Harvey Dent bleeding badly, and Harvey urged him to leave for the battlefield while Selina was informed of his condition.
• Following Mr. Hacker's directions, Qin Wei reached Crime Alley, where Sal Maroni recognized him as Bruce seeking revenge for his parents.
• Maroni begged Qin Wei to spare him, but Qin Wei smashed his fist into Maroni's Adam's apple.
• Dick sneaked into the underground training grounds to look for his kung fu uniform, but Talia caught him and questioned his plan to find his friends.
• Dick told Talia that his friends and the home they had given him still mattered, and Ra's al Ghul laughed and let him go.

Talia outfitted Dick in an assassin uniform once worn by Bronze Tiger and urged him to announce the League of Assassins’ return. Meanwhile, Qin Wei reunited with Oswald and secured Harvey’s safety at the hospital, wary that Gotham could collapse if Harvey fell into darkness too.

• Talia remembered how her father had changed since the League of Assassins was destroyed and accepted calling him “Father.”
• Talia took Dick into a sealed equipment chamber and dressed him in the old assassin uniform of Ben Turner, also known as Bronze Tiger.
• Talia explained that Bronze Tiger had been like an older brother to her, but chose not to give Dick his mask or make him bear Bronze Tiger’s identity.
• Oswald recognized Qin Wei, lowered his bodyguards’ guns, and greeted him with a punch and a handshake.
• Qin Wei learned from Selina that Harvey was out of danger and told her to restrain him while Oswald sent men to guard the hospital.