Recaps

Harvey Dent challenged a new bureaucratic delay while Harleen Quinzell grew more aware of her feelings for Joker, and Victor Fries returned to his work after being insulted on campus. Pamela discovered that Wayne Enterprises was clearing trees, then found a tabloid photo of Chen Mo and resolved to rescue him from Wayne Manor.

• Harvey Dent learned that the archive had added a coordination-office approval requirement and set out to confront the office responsible for delaying his request.
• Harleen Quinzell questioned Joker about his contradictory stories, noticed his attention to her mood, and realized she had fallen for him.
• Victor Fries heard students call him a freak but returned to the laboratory and continued checking on Nora.
• Pamela found severed roots where Wayne Enterprises was clearing trees for a factory expansion and learned that the new workshop would provide jobs for local families.
• Pamela saw a tabloid photograph of Chen Mo, decided he should not remain in Wayne Manor, and vowed to get him out, even if Bruce Wayne had to die.

Chen Mo and Peter helped Batman investigate a municipal official’s murder, leading them to suspect Harvey Dent and confront him about his past killing of Milos Grapa. Harvey admitted to the murder and set a coin toss to decide whether he would surrender or keep killing, leaving the choice unresolved as the coin spun in the air.

• Chen Mo and Peter joined Gordon and Batman at the scene of a municipal official’s murder, where Chen Mo identified pollen on the victim’s clothes that matched a plant at Harvey’s home.
• Batman reviewed Harvey’s movements and old case files, connecting Harvey to the unsolved killing of Milos Grapa.
• Chen Mo, Peter, and Batman found Harvey organizing former mob associates at a bar and learned he had obtained the upstream documents for the Nuclear Bomb Warehouse.
• Batman confronted Harvey with the evidence, and Harvey admitted that he had shot and killed Milos Grapa to get results.
• Harvey told Batman that he would flip a coin: heads meant he would surrender, while tails meant he would keep killing; the coin spun as the chapter ended.

Chen Mo and Batman raided a gang hideout to arrest Harvey, but Harvey declared that he would rule the streets through lethal force and escaped during a gunfight. As Chen Mo and Batman searched for him, Batgirl reported that Joker had escaped from Arkham.

• Chen Mo knocked Harvey's coin away and angrily challenged him for using it to decide who would die.
• Harvey took the coin's landing as a sign to become the boss of Gotham's streets, threatening to kill anyone who defied his orders.
• A gunman opened fire as Harvey retreated into the storage room, and Chen Mo, Batman, and Peter subdued the attackers.
• Chen Mo and Batman searched the passage beneath the hideout but found no sign of Harvey.
• Batgirl told Chen Mo, Batman, and Peter that Joker had escaped from Arkham.

Harleen followed Joker to a chemical pool, where he transformed her appearance and named her Harley Quinn; she embraced his plans to prepare presents for Batman and Spider-Man. At Gotham University, Pamela manipulated Victor Fries’s resentment toward students, and Victor began assembling a weapon while his wife remained in the Cryogenic Chamber.

• Harleen admitted that she had struck an Arkham guard three times after he grabbed Joker, and Joker led her to a chemical pool.
• Joker pushed Harleen into the pool, then pulled her out; seeing her skin turn white, he called her Harley Quinn, and she eagerly accepted the name.
• Joker and Harley discussed Victor Fries and a plant attack, then left to prepare presents for Batman and Spider-Man.
• Pamela visited Victor at Gotham University and stirred his anger about students who had mocked and filmed him.
• Victor resisted acting at first because his wife Nora was in the Cryogenic Chamber, but Pamela persuaded him that the students should fear him.
• Victor checked Nora’s monitoring data, then gathered metal tubing and connectors to make a gun.

After Chen Mo returned to the Batcave, Batman ordered him examined because Venom was intensifying his anger. While helping Barbara monitor Gotham, Chen Mo tracked a Mr. Freeze attack and then spotted vines growing near Wayne Tower, which led him to suspect Pamela was alive; he left for the tower despite Batman and Barbara telling him to wait for backup.

• Chen Mo admitted that Venom intensified his anger, and Batman sent him back to the Batcave for an examination while Peter continued pursuing Joker.
• After the examination, Chen Mo helped Barbara monitor emergency reports and located Victor Fries attacking people downtown with a freezing weapon.
• Chen Mo used surveillance footage to help Batman, Peter, and Harvey rescue injured people and clear an alley during Victor Fries's attack.
• Chen Mo and Barbara spotted abnormal vines growing near Wayne Tower, and Chen Mo suspected that Pamela was still alive.
• Chen Mo ignored Barbara's warning to wait for backup and ran toward Wayne Tower after Batman told him to stop.

Pamela, now Poison Ivy, took Wayne Tower hostage to force Bruce Wayne to stop destroying forests, while Spider-Man tried to protect the employees and talk her down. Pamela’s pheromones failed to affect Chen Mo through his mask, so she kissed the mask and sent him into a bewitching illusion.

• Pamela dangled a manager over the atrium and demanded that Bruce Wayne close riverside factories and halt woodland clearing.
• Chen Mo arrived as Spider-Man, rescued the manager and employees, and tried to persuade Pamela to release them peacefully.
• Pamela attacked Chen Mo with vines and pheromones, but his mask filtered the toxin and he bound her vines with webbing.
• Pamela used the hostages to stop Chen Mo from escaping her grasp, then kissed his mask and drew him into an illusion.

Chen Mo stopped Poison Ivy and helped Victor Fries regain access to Nora’s care, then visited Pamela and reaffirmed their friendship. As their situations settled into supervised care, Joker and Harley Quinn prepared to break inmates out of both Blackgate and Arkham.

• Chen Mo resisted Pamela’s pheromones, freed the people trapped in the café, and defeated her after she released him.
• Peter and Batman subdued Victor Fries, who asked them to keep Nora’s monitoring and care going; Batman assured him that someone was looking after her.
• Chen Mo argued that Pamela needed treatment and a suitable place to live, while Bruce arranged supervised care for her and Victor Fries at Blackgate.
• Chen Mo visited Pamela at Arkham, returned her botany book, and promised to keep seeing her as a friend while they worked through their disagreement.
• Joker and Harley Quinn planned to open both Blackgate and Arkham and set their inmates free.

Chen Mo responded when Harley took over Arkham’s broadcasts and opened its cellblocks, then discovered that prisoners at Arkham and Blackgate were affected by laughing gas. The mass breakouts spread across Gotham as the city erupted in uncontrollable laughter.

• Chen Mo saw Harley broadcast footage of abuse at Arkham and announce that the patients could take their turn treating the doctors.
• Harley opened Arkham’s cellblocks, and Chen Mo armored up, contacted Batman, and helped evacuate staff while trying to contain the riot.
• Chen Mo stopped Alberto Falcone and Calendar Man from forcing Scarecrow to attack a medical worker, then rescued the captive.
• Chen Mo noticed Alberto and Calendar Man laughing despite their injuries and warned Batman that they might have been exposed to laughing gas.
• Batman reported a mass breakout at Blackgate, where prisoners were also laughing as they escaped.
• Laughter and chaos spread through Gotham as alarms sounded, police arrived, and people rushed into the streets.

Chen Mo searched Arkham Asylum for Poison Ivy, then turned on laughing patients and villains as Venom covered his armor. Peter arrived and stopped Chen Mo from continuing to beat Alberto Falcone, leaving the two Spider-Men facing off over how to handle the inmates.

• Chen Mo found Poison Ivy missing from her care ward and asked Batman to check the cameras while he followed the sound of laughter.
• Chen Mo beat Mad Hatter and several other patients who had attacked people, ignoring Batman's order to stop after one man was incapacitated.
• Bruce saw Venom covering Chen Mo and redirected Peter to Arkham while he headed to Blackgate.
• Chen Mo injured Calendar Man and Alberto Falcone, but spared Scarecrow after confirming he had not joined the violence.
• Peter helped an injured medical worker escape, then returned to Arkham and caught Chen Mo's wrist as he prepared to strike Alberto again.
• Chen Mo refused to back down, insisting that the inmates needed to be hurt enough to remember their wrongdoing.

Chen Mo and Peter helped Batman and the others rescue hostages from Arkham and Blackgate, while Joker used the chaos to abduct injured villains and infect them with the Batman Who Laughs Virus. The prisons’ hostages were rescued, but Joker escaped with his newly controlled followers and began turning them against Batman.

• Chen Mo restrained himself from beating Alberto Falcone further and helped Peter evacuate Arkham’s staff and injured prisoners.
• Chen Mo, Peter, Batman, Batgirl, and Robin fought armed inmates at Blackgate and rescued the hostages, while Black Mask and Killer Croc escaped through a rear passage.
• Chen Mo found Victor Fries safely caring for Nora in a sealed room protected by the filtration system he had installed.
• Chen Mo and Peter rescued Penguin from inmates, and Batman’s team learned that Joker had attacked the remaining personnel at Arkham and taken the injured villains.
• Joker brought Calendar Man, Mad Hatter, and Alberto Falcone to a safe house, where he revealed that they had been infected with the Batman Who Laughs Virus and made them agree to follow him.

Roman Sionis returned from Blackgate and began rebuilding his criminal crew, only to find Harvey Dent recruiting former gang members as well. Meanwhile, Pamela searched Gotham University for Chen Mo, then headed to Wayne Manor after deciding he was probably safe there.

• Roman learned that the injured Penguin was hospitalized at Wayne Hospital and that Cobblepot had become Gotham's most powerful underworld figure.
• Roman ordered the garage owner to contact his remaining allies and began recruiting men to restore his gang.
• Roman found Harvey Dent hiring former Falcone men and challenged him, but Harvey let the workers choose whom to follow.
• Pamela searched Gotham University and its greenhouse for Chen Mo but could not find him.
• Pamela concluded Chen Mo had likely been taken to Wayne Manor and set off to check on him.

Chen Mo confronted Bruce about his brutal methods and Gotham’s cycle of recapturing criminals, while Bruce warned that Harvey had begun killing people he judged guilty. After learning Pamela had visited the Manor, Chen Mo set out to stop Killer Croc, leaving Peter behind to finish eating.

• Batman used high-frequency ultrasound against Venom, but Chen Mo had hidden the symbiote in his armor and mocked Batman’s contingency plans.
• Chen Mo defended his attacks on Gotham’s criminals, while Bruce pointed out that Peter had been the one to stop him.
• Bruce showed Chen Mo files about Harvey’s recent killings, and they argued over whether criminals should be handled through the law or killed.
• Alfred told Chen Mo that Pamela had visited the Manor and left; Chen Mo asked Alfred to let her wait if she returned.
• After Batgirl located Killer Croc attacking a shop, Chen Mo left to confront him and told Peter to stay and finish his meal.

Chen Mo defeated Killer Croc and helped evacuate people during Gotham’s crisis, then heard Harvey explain why he was using force to organize relief. After an elderly woman comforted him, Chen Mo stopped a gunman from targeting her and discovered she could defend herself too.

• Chen Mo rescued a clerk from Killer Croc, then beat Croc and webbed him up.
• Batgirl told Chen Mo that police and Robin were on their way to assist with the evacuation.
• Chen Mo helped Harvey and his men clear roads and rescue people, then questioned Harvey about ruling through force.
• Harvey described corruption that had derailed his investigation into a relief home exploiting patients and their families.
• Chen Mo helped an elderly woman escape a shop, and she comforted him as he struggled to hold back tears.
• A gunman aimed at the elderly woman, but Chen Mo webbed his gun off target and saw her raise a smoking cane of her own.

Chen Mo and Jason helped residents and workers during the chaos in Gotham, rescuing people from a burning processing plant and arranging medical transport. The chapter left Chen Mo watching Harvey’s gang members help the injured as Wayne’s rescue team headed to the area.

• Chen Mo stopped an armed man from attacking an old woman, and Jason arrived to check that she was safe.
• Chen Mo learned that Jason’s parents had died and urged him to stay close while they helped others.
• Chen Mo broke open the processing plant’s chained doors and rescued trapped workers while Jason led them to safety.
• The plant’s owner and foreman argued over the locked doors, and Harvey took the owner’s vehicle keys to transport the injured.
• Chen Mo contacted Batgirl for medical support, then helped the foreman treat a worker’s bleeding arm.
• Harvey’s gang members loaded and assisted injured workers as Wayne’s rescue team headed to the area.

Chen Mo helped evacuate injured people from a Relief Station, seized a shipment of guns, and reconsidered how fear could make Spider-Man more effective against people who hurt others. Meanwhile, Joker ordered Roman to disrupt Harvey Dent’s relief efforts, setting up a new threat to the aid operation.

• Chen Mo and Harvey’s men reached the Relief Station, where Chen Mo webbed up armed men blocking the entrance and broke one man’s wrist when he reached for a gun.
• Chen Mo helped treat and evacuate the injured, confronted the Relief Station’s manager about an account book, and had the weapons left behind so the men could carry patients.
• Jason told Chen Mo that criminals had returned to robbing people soon after Spider-Man caught them, and Chen Mo began to understand why some people feared him.
• Vines caught a falling woman and her child, while Wayne Enterprises vehicles arrived to transport the injured and distribute water.
• Joker watched footage of Spider-Man and Harvey helping people, then ordered Roman to make the aid recipients fight over supplies and cause trouble for Dent.

Chen Mo and Jason spent the day helping people and clearing dangerous streets in Gotham, with Jason proving useful as his guide. The night ended when Peter arrived and Jason discovered that he was wearing Spider-Man's suit.

• Chen Mo subdued gang enforcers blocking a truck and drove his Spider-Mobile through Gotham while Batman and the others handled emergencies.
• Jason went to school looking for Peter and Dick, then found Chen Mo's car and tried to remove one of its wheels.
• Chen Mo caught Jason, invited him along for a drive, and let him help navigate around damaged roads and dangerous areas.
• Chen Mo and Jason rescued people caught in a firefight, helped clear delivery routes, and received instructions from Penguin and Harvey.
• After Jason asked to join Chen Mo again, Peter arrived with food, and Jason recognized him beneath the Spider-Man mask.

Chen Mo, Peter, and Jason patrolled Gotham together, and Jason joined their vigilante team after learning their identities and receiving armor. They stopped an armed gang and found Black Mask, then discovered another thug assaulting a victim in a workshop as Chen Mo and Peter intervened.

• Jason learned that Chen Mo and Peter were superheroes and that Bruce Wayne was Batman, then accepted armor and joined their patrol.
• Chen Mo and Peter discussed how injured criminals were staying off the streets before stopping armed men who were harassing a driver.
• The spiders fought their way through the gang’s yard and building while Jason helped free the captives.
• Chen Mo and Peter confronted Black Mask in his office, then heard a victim screaming in the Repair Workshop below.
• Chen Mo kicked the gang leader assaulting the victim as Peter webbed the man holding him down.

Chen Mo tracked down Roman and nearly killed him after seeing the cycle of Gotham criminals escaping and hurting people again. Batman intervened in Anti-Superman armor, and Chen Mo turned on him for blocking the execution and doubting him.

• Chen Mo and Peter rescued injured workers at Black Mask's hideout, while Black Mask fled into the storerooms and Peter asked Batman for help.
• Chen Mo fought through Joker's projections and traps, ignored the taunts about his anger, and found Roman trying to escape through a locked back door.
• Chen Mo webbed Roman to a post and beat him, then considered killing him rather than letting him return to crime after another prison escape.
• Batman arrived in Anti-Superman armor and caught Chen Mo's punch before it could hit Roman.
• Chen Mo accused Batman of protecting Roman and never trusting him, then lunged at Batman and swung a punch at him.

Chen Mo fought Batman after Batman stopped him from killing Black Mask, while Joker broadcast the clash and accused Spider-Man of abandoning his old restraint. Pamela was exposed to Harley’s enhanced toxin and forced to go with her as her powers began spiraling out of control, while an enormous spaceship approached Earth.

• Chen Mo fought Batman in the warehouse and yard after Batman intervened to protect Black Mask, while Peter rescued Roman and moved onlookers away.
• Joker took over a television broadcast and used edited footage of the fight to provoke Gotham’s citizens into arguing about Spider-Man, Batman, and Black Mask.
• Chen Mo continued attacking Batman, warned a bystander away from falling rubble, and told Peter he would confront Joker after the fight.
• Pamela saw the broadcast, tried to call Chen Mo, and headed toward the livestream’s location after helping an injured man.
• Harley attacked Pamela with an enhanced toxin, causing Pamela to lose control of her laughter and her plant powers, then led her toward Spider-Man.
• An enormous spaceship approached Earth as the Gotham livestream continued.

Chen Mo and Batman stopped fighting when Joker’s coordinated attacks spread across Gotham, forcing the heroes to rescue civilians and confront the wider crisis. As fires and mind-controlled crowds overwhelmed the city, Chen Mo headed for Joker’s television station with Jason, determined to reach him first.

• Peter left to help Robin at the Shopping Mall, while Jason joined the fight between Chen Mo and Batman.
• A laughter-inducing toxin began spreading through Gotham, and Chen Mo and Batman ended their fight to respond to Joker’s attacks and identify Tetch’s mind-controlled civilians.
• Joker used a live broadcast to threaten people by phone and set fire to homes and shops, while Barbara coordinated emergency responses.
• Peter and Dick rescued civilians at the Shopping Mall, stopped Scarecrow’s fear toxin from trapping them, and opened a safe exit despite Riddler’s misleading directions.
• Chen Mo and Batman organized rescues as fires spread, then Chen Mo took Jason toward the television station to reach Joker before Batman did.

Chen Mo tried to stop Pamela as she laughed uncontrollably and attacked people with growing roots, while Batman and the others headed for Joker’s chaos at the TV Station. After a collapsing street sent Chen Mo and Pamela into old tunnels beneath Gotham, he kept trying to reach her and finally got her attention.

• Joker forced a woman to choose between two buildings, then set both buildings on fire after she asked for help.
• Chen Mo and Jason rescued a patient from an ambulance trapped by Pamela’s roots, and Chen Mo recognized Pamela as the source of the attack.
• Chen Mo fought Pamela’s vines while Batman took Jason and the injured person toward the TV Station, and Chen Mo told Batgirl to investigate what had happened to Pamela.
• Chen Mo tried to restrain Pamela and calm her, but she kept attacking as burning plants and collapsing walls opened a huge hole beneath them.
• Chen Mo and Pamela fell into old tunnels, where Chen Mo freed himself from the roots and reached for her hand.
• Pamela’s laughter briefly stopped, and she looked at Chen Mo when he asked her to look at him.

Chen Mo and Pamela tried to escape the burning passage, but an alien ship attacked and Pamela took a blast meant for him. As Chen Mo sank with her into the underground spring containing the Dionysian Factor, he held her lifeless body and faced an uncertain miracle.

• Chen Mo helped Pamela recognize him as Spider-Man, and she admitted she loved him and had saved people earlier that day.
• Chen Mo and Pamela climbed toward the passage entrance, but an alien spacecraft attacked Gotham and blasted apart the tunnels around them.
• Pamela shielded Chen Mo from a second beam with roots and foliage, taking the blast herself; Chen Mo covered her wounds with his nanotech armor and tried to get her to safety.
• Pamela died in Chen Mo's arms, and he vowed that Joker and the attackers would pay.
• As the collapsing passage carried them toward the underground spring, Chen Mo plunged into its water with Pamela and the Dionysian Factor seeped into him.

Chen Mo survived his injuries as Venom and escaped the flooded ruins, leaving Pamela behind. In Gotham, Venom killed a gang of escaped criminals who were attacking a wounded man and nurse, then disappeared when more gunfire sounded nearby.

• Chen Mo's healing powers and Venom's influence revived him, while vines lifted him from the pool and carried him away from Pamela.
• Venom climbed through a bomb-damaged passage and emerged into Gotham as criminals celebrated their release from Blackgate.
• The criminals stole a van from a driver transporting a wounded man, killed the driver, and prepared to set off a firework beside the stretcher.
• Venom attacked and killed the criminals, stopping their assault and leaving the nurse and wounded man alive.
• The nurse asked Venom for help, but he turned toward distant gunfire and leaped away.

Venom attacked the gang threatening Penguin’s restaurant and killed Gold Earring before pursuing a fleeing pickup to the Freight Yard. There, he confronted Black Mask, Alberto Falcone, Scarecrow, Riddler, and Mad Hatter as they prepared to fight him.

• Venom defeated the gunmen outside the restaurant and killed Gold Earring after he offered Penguin payment.
• Venom chased a pickup toward the Freight Yard while the restaurant guards carried the wounded to safety.
• At the warehouse, Black Mask learned Alberto Falcone had taken his car, then Alberto returned with the vehicle and the people he had collected.
• A man warned the group that Venom was coming, and Venom webbed the pickup across the warehouse exit.
• The gang raised their weapons and prepared to attack as Venom swung through the warehouse doors into their gunfire.

Venom tore through Roman's men at the Freight Yard while Scarecrow's fear toxin distorted his senses, and Joker broadcast the fight for Gotham to watch. Roman, Alberto Falcone, Riddler, Mad Hatter, and Scarecrow fled into the loading area, but Venom followed them inside and disabled the shutter controls as the survivors raised their guns.

• Venom fought through the gunmen as Scarecrow sprayed fear toxin that made him see distorted images, but Venom destroyed the shelving and killed or incapacitated the attackers.
• Mad Hatter ordered guards to pin Venom down, but Venom used webs and brute force to knock them aside while Roman and Alberto Falcone escaped through a passage.
• Venom forced his way through a steel door as Roman and Alberto fled, and Riddler searched for another route to draw him away.
• Joker watched the surveillance feed, broadcast Venom's fight over the Freight Yard speakers, and taunted Roman as the men continued to retreat.
• Venom pursued the survivors into the loading area, and Edward tried to close the rolling shutter after them.
• Venom hung from the beam inside the loading area, tore the shutter control box from the wall, and left the remaining men aiming their guns at him.