Recaps

Chen Mo helped Batman defeat Black Mask's men and disable their sonic cannons, but Batman left without sharing the ledger or giving him a ride. Afterward, Chen Mo sensed and captured the assassin Shadow, while red-eyed pigeons watched from the alley.

• Batman raided Black Mask's factory, but modified sonic cannons weakened him until Chen Mo webbed their power lines and sealed the exits.
• Batman defeated the thugs and opened a safe containing a ledger, then argued with Chen Mo and left alone in the Batmobile.
• Chen Mo swung through Gotham, thinking about the ledger and the names Black Mask, Falcone, and Maroni, when his Spider-Sense warned him he was being followed.
• Chen Mo lured Shadow into a dead-end alley, trapped him in webbing, knocked him unconscious, and stuck a cartoon turtle note to his forehead.
• Red-eyed pigeons landed near Shadow and watched him as Chen Mo disappeared.

Penguin set a plan in motion to lure Batman into a dockside ambush and provoke Maroni into a gang war, hoping to profit from the chaos. Chen Mo prepared for another exhausting night patrol, while Penguin watched his pieces move into place, unaware whether his carefully laid plan would succeed.

• Penguin marked routes between Falcone's dockside warehouses and Maroni's territory, planning to ambush Batman and use the gang conflict to seize power.
• Penguin ordered his men to prepare and relied on his birds to track events across Gotham.
• Chen Mo fed Bruce the puppy, complained about the demands of patrol and comic work, then put on his patched suit and left for the night.
• Penguin's birds reported that Batman was following a fake arms-deal lead toward the dock district while Spider-Man patrolled the East End.
• Penguin watched a crow fly off and celebrated his plan to weaken Batman and Maroni, confident he would profit from the ensuing fight.

Bruce Wayne investigated Spider-Man’s identity and decided the child needed protection, but left to confront Penguin after detecting trouble at the docks. Chen Mo continued patrolling the East End, avoided a poisoned sandwich, and swung toward explosions at the docks.

• Bruce Wayne found no official records identifying Spider-Man and decided to pursue protecting and adopting him.
• Alfred alerted Bruce that Falcone and Maroni’s conflict had intensified, and Bruce went to face Penguin at the docks.
• Chen Mo finished a busy patrol and stopped a nervous robber from holding up a convenience store.
• The clerk gave Chen Mo a sandwich, but Chen Mo’s Spider-Sense warned him it was poisoned, and a pigeon died after eating a crumb.
• Chen Mo heard gunfire and explosions at the docks and swung toward the flames.

Batman survived Penguin’s ambush at Gotham’s docks, defeating the gunmen while injured. He realized the arms deal was bait and headed toward the much larger battle between Maroni’s and Falcone’s men.

• Batman followed a tracker to Warehouse Three and dodged a sniper’s shot before gunmen surrounded him with crossfire.
• Penguin taunted Batman over a loudspeaker, revealing the ambush was meant to show Falcone that Batman could bleed.
• Batman used smoke, stealth, and a Batarang to disable the snipers and machine gunners, then captured the remaining attackers.
• Batman bound his shoulder, secured the gunmen and their weapons, and learned Maroni’s men had raided the real warehouse district.
• Batman abandoned the false arms-deal lead and headed toward the battle between Maroni’s and Falcone’s forces.

Maroni's forces attacked Falcone's warehouse while Black Mask's False Face Society raided the docks for smuggled tobacco. Batman intervened on both fronts, disabling the raiders and reaching the warehouse's second floor as the gun battle continued.

• Maroni's assault team smashed through the western fence and came under heavy fire from Falcone's fortified warehouse.
• Black Mask redirected the False Face Society to surround Batman, but his riders found Falcone's tobacco crates and began loading them onto motorcycles.
• Batman moved across the container roofs toward the fighting and silently knocked out two False Face Society riders.
• Maroni's men rammed a truck through the warehouse gate, but Falcone's gunfire forced them back.
• Batman climbed into the warehouse through a ventilation window and emerged at the second-floor firing position after disarming a gunman.
• Batman used his Grapnel Gun and Batarangs to stop the False Face Society riders as they tried to flee.

Chen Mo intervened in the dock battle between Maroni’s and Falcone’s forces, using a collapsing stack of containers to block the False Face Society’s reinforcements without crushing anyone. He joined Batman inside Warehouse Three, where they faced the remaining gunmen together.

• Oswald ordered his men to withdraw and let the False Face Society and Batman fight, planning to clean up afterward.
• Batman silently took down gunmen inside Warehouse Three while working to defuse a bomb threatening the docks.
• Chen Mo surveyed the battle from a crane, then toppled a stack of unsecured containers to block the False Face Society’s motorcycle convoy without hitting the gangsters.
• Batman watched Chen Mo’s careful control and recognized that he was trying to avoid hurting anyone.
• Chen Mo smashed through a warehouse window and joined Batman as the surrounding gunmen aimed at them; Batman told him not to kill anyone.

Chen Mo and Batman defeated Falcone and Maroni’s gunmen at the docks, then helped drive off the False Face Society while Penguin’s sniper attacked from above. Afterward, Batman addressed Chen Mo as “Spider-Man” and told him to get down from the Batmobile, leaving them about to continue on foot or separate.

• Chen Mo disarmed and webbed gunmen while Batman fought Maroni’s men inside the warehouse.
• Chen Mo spotted a brief scope reflection at a shattered second-floor window as Batman emerged wounded.
• Batman used a captured machine gun to shoot the False Face Society’s motorcycle tires while Chen Mo webbed off their routes.
• Penguin’s sniper shot a rider, throwing the False Face Society’s attack into chaos and forcing its commander to retreat.
• Batman summoned the Batmobile, called Chen Mo “Spider-Man,” and told him to get down from the roof.

Batman and Chen Mo raided a False Face Society stronghold as Black Mask’s forces took over Falcone’s remaining outer bases. Chen Mo sealed the exits while Batman fought inside, and the chapter ended with Batman warning that people were still inside.

• Batman revealed a new passenger seat in the Batmobile and drove Chen Mo toward the stronghold.
• Batman told Chen Mo to hold the perimeter and prevent anyone from escaping.
• Chen Mo webbed up the alleys and rear entrances, trapping a False Face Society member on a motorcycle.
• Chen Mo disarmed a gunman firing from a second-floor window while Batman subdued the stronghold’s occupants.
• Batman emerged with an unconscious gang member, and Chen Mo reported that no one had escaped.
• Batman said there were still people inside, and Chen Mo replied that he thought he had seen them.

Batman and Chen Mo raided Penguin’s stronghold and destroyed his elite troops, while Black Mask used the attack to weaken Penguin. Chen Mo left before Gordon arrived, and Batman headed back to the Batmobile.

• Batman revealed that Penguin’s False Face Society had been bait and that elite flanking troops guarded the stronghold.
• Batman and Chen Mo stormed the surveillance room and fought through Penguin’s forces, while Chen Mo webbed up bombs and several attackers.
• Batman captured the flanking force’s commander and made Penguin listen over the communicator as his troops fell.
• Chen Mo and Batman took out the last sniper, and Penguin watched every green dot on his monitors turn gray.
• Black Mask watched from a nearby rooftop, pleased that Batman had crippled Penguin’s henchmen, then slipped away.
• Chen Mo left before Gordon arrived, and Gordon asked Batman whether Chen Mo was his new partner before Batman returned to the Batmobile.

After a night patrol, Chen Mo watched Gotham’s news blame masked vigilantes for the dock fight and compare him unfavorably with Superman, while learning Bruce Wayne had funded medical care for injured civilians. He left for home worried about money, repairs, and overdue comic pages.

• Chen Mo watched a news report criticize Batman and Spider-Man for the damage and casualties caused during the dock conflict.
• Chen Mo saw Killer Croc’s web-wrapped arrest photo and watched footage of Superman stopping a runaway school bus in Metropolis.
• Chen Mo learned Wayne Enterprises and Gotham Public Hospital had created a medical fund for civilians injured in the conflict.
• Chen Mo finished his patrol, changed out of his Spider-Man suit, and bought a cheap sandwich at a convenience store.
• Chen Mo worried about feeding Bruce, repairing his suit, and finishing his artwork before he ran out of money, then headed home.

Chen Mo defeated loan sharks who tried to collect his dead father’s debt, then returned home to find that his system had raised his strength and improved his webbing. He ended the night trying to draw, only to snap his pen with his newly enhanced strength.

• Chen Mo refused to pay the loan sharks’ inflated claim that his father owed a hundred thousand dollars and defeated the four men who attacked him.
• Chen Mo tore up the IOU and forced the skinny collector to admit that the debt had been a mistake.
• Chen Mo stuffed the four brutes into a garbage can and left the alley, then returned to his attic and greeted Bruce.
• Chen Mo’s system increased his strength limit from four tons to eight tons and made his webbing stronger and adhesive.
• Chen Mo tested his new webbing, sat down to work on a comic page, and accidentally broke his pen.

Chen Mo finished the second issue of Gotham Phantom, tested his upgraded strength and webbing, then began patrolling Gotham as Spider-Man. He left three car thieves cocooned for the police and swung off toward the next block.

• Chen Mo completed the second issue of Gotham Phantom and hid the sealed envelope under his sofa.
• Chen Mo tested his eight-ton strength and thicker webbing on a rooftop, breaking bricks off an abandoned chimney.
• Chen Mo swung to the East End and caught three car thieves attempting to steal a pickup.
• Chen Mo bound the thieves in webbing, left a note on one of them, and swung toward the next block as police sirens approached.

Bruce Wayne announced a new education program for homeless and undocumented children while the Falcone Family took control of Penguin’s Iceberg Lounge and assets. Penguin returned to the emptied lounge and, left with little more than his umbrella and crows, resolved to endure his losses for now.

• Bruce Wayne defended funding the East End shelter and announced a Wayne Foundation education program for children excluded from school.
• Alfred briefed Bruce that Falcone had taken the Iceberg Lounge, its records, and Penguin’s remaining personnel, while Penguin himself remained alive.
• Penguin returned to the lounge and learned that his signed authorizations had transferred its operating rights to the Falcone Family.
• Penguin found the underground base emptied, fed the remaining crows, and restrained his anger as he considered his losses.

Chen Mo was swept into the Wayne Foundation’s street-level school registration program after deciding free meals were worth the risk. Bruce Wayne recognized him on a live camera feed but chose not to intervene or give him special treatment.

• Chen Mo crossed chicken breast off his budget, then heard a Wayne Foundation bus offering free meals and compulsory school registration to homeless children.
• Chen Mo tried to avoid the registration team, but a clipboard-carrying woman and a reflective-vested man recorded him as a fifteen-year-old with no fixed address and put him on the bus.
• Chen Mo noticed the community station’s per-child subsidies and realized gang-linked workers were profiting from hauling children to school.
• Bruce Wayne watched the registration vehicles on a Gotham map and recognized Chen Mo from the East End bus’s camera feed.
• Bruce told Alfred not to intervene, explaining that the citywide program could reach unregistered children without exposing his search for Chen Mo.

Chen Mo enrolled at the Wayne Foundation’s East End registration point and received a temporary student ID, school supplies, and a mailing address despite having no guardian or permanent home. As he prepared to start at East End No. 7 Public Middle School, a gang observer took note of him, and Chen Mo quietly toasted Bruce Wayne.

• Chen Mo gave his name and explained that he had no birth certificate, guardian, or fixed address, and the staff enrolled him using a temporary student number.
• The registration staff issued Chen Mo a student ID, lunch card, school bus map, medical appointment slip, backpack, and food.
• Chen Mo realized the Wayne Foundation’s registration system could bring homeless children into school despite their missing documents and addresses.
• A man in a red cap watched Chen Mo and noted that he was alert and worth observing, but decided to leave him alone for now.
• Chen Mo shouldered his backpack, looked at his student ID, and quietly toasted Bruce Wayne.

Chen Mo began attending East End No. 7 Public Middle School, where he and Barbara Gordon spotted signs that local gangs were recruiting and moving contraband among the students. When a hallway brawl exposed a handgun, everyone scrambled toward it, leaving Chen Mo and Barbara facing an immediate threat.

• Chen Mo arrived at East End No. 7 Public Middle School and passed its failing metal detector with his suit and web-shooters hidden in his backpack and on his wrists.
• In class, Chen Mo met Barbara Gordon, saw a gang member assault a student, and used a flicked pencil to expose a knife hidden by another boy, who security escorted away.
• Chen Mo noticed a folded note marked M-17 and watched students and gang members exchange signals, leading him to realize the gangs were already assessing the new arrivals.
• At lunch, a brawl broke out in the hallway, and a small-caliber handgun fell from a locker onto the floor.
• The students and staff moved toward the gun as the tall boy in the black jacket blocked the teacher; Barbara pulled a younger child behind her and reached into her backpack.

On his first day at East End No. 7 Public Middle School, Chen Mo handled a gun with suspicious ease, drawing Barbara's attention and confirming Bruce Wayne's suspicions about his skills. After hearing students plan to target him at the east gate that night, Chen Mo decided to begin patrolling Gotham there.

• Chen Mo unloaded the gun a student brought to school and returned it to the teacher, prompting Barbara to notice his practiced handling.
• Bruce Wayne reviewed the hallway footage with Alfred and concluded that gangs were testing the school and Chen Mo.
• Chen Mo wrote an essay about wanting Gotham schools not to need signs banning guns.
• Barbara asked Chen Mo if he had been scared, and he joked that his knees were weak mentally.
• Chen Mo overheard the boy in the gray cap and the tall boy in the black jacket mention the new kid, the east gate, and tonight, then decided to patrol there.

After discovering that his comics were being widely sold in Gotham despite receiving only a one-time manuscript payment, Chen Mo went on patrol as Spider-Man and tracked down the adult organizing the students who had cornered him. He left the man and the students for the police, warning the kids to stop bullying classmates.

• Chen Mo joked with Barbara before leaving school and complained that the Wayne system kept him alive but did not keep him fed.
• Chen Mo found his comics on sale throughout Gotham and realized he had received only two thousand for the manuscript as a one-time payment.
• Chen Mo returned to his building, greeted Bruce, then changed into his Spider-Man suit to finish his patrol.
• Chen Mo connected the students who had cornered him to an organized group and decided to find the adult backing them.
• Chen Mo found the students with their organizer, dislocated the man's shoulders, and warned the kids to stop bullying classmates or taking similar part-time jobs.
• Chen Mo secured the man on an iron railing as police arrived, then left after telling the students to take a few days off.

Chen Mo arrived at a Gotham public high school launching the Wayne Foundation’s Educational Equality Pilot Program and saw students facing violence, poverty, and neglect. In class, students mocked the program and Bruce Wayne’s charity, leaving a pen mark on his smiling face in the poster.

• Chen Mo entered the school past guards who let students stash confiscated weapons in a basket for later pickup.
• Chen Mo exchanged a strange greeting with a tall, skinny boy, who called him sick in the head and hurried away.
• The principal announced the Wayne Foundation pilot program over the PA as students fought and mocked its promise of a future.
• Chen Mo saw the sharp divide between wealthy and poor students in his classroom.
• Students complained about stolen lunch money, frozen food, and unusable meal vouchers, then ridiculed Bruce Wayne’s charity.
• A student threw a pen at the Wayne Foundation poster and left a black mark on Bruce Wayne’s face.

Chen Mo saw hungry students blame Bruce Wayne and the Wayne Foundation after the school’s new lunch system left many without food. When Barbara stopped him from taking meals set aside for visitors, she warned that individual heroics would only lead to harsher security.

• Ms. Morris introduced the Wayne Foundation’s school programs, and students argued over whether Bruce Wayne was responsible for their hunger.
• Chen Mo watched students whose lunch cards failed go without food, while others mocked the school’s promises and shouted for Wayne to buy them lunch.
• When a student threw his tray and was pinned down by guards, Ms. Morris told the guards to let him go because he was hungry.
• Chen Mo spotted hot meals reserved behind the cafeteria counter and considered taking them to feed the students.
• Barbara stopped Chen Mo and warned that stealing food would bring cameras, stronger security, and more trouble for everyone.

Chen Mo saw hungry students left without meals while a hot-meal box was reserved for visiting delegates, and he discussed heroism with Barbara. He then whispered a plan to her, and Barbara agreed to help despite warning she might never speak to him again if it failed.

• Chen Mo noticed the hungry students waiting in the cafeteria and the untouched hot meals marked for the visiting delegation.
• Barbara warned Chen Mo not to act in a way that could get the students in trouble, then explained that she wanted to try being a hero like her father.
• Chen Mo and Barbara argued over whether reckless heroes could fix problems, with Barbara insisting that someone had to inspect the hole in the road to fill it in.
• Chen Mo studied the cafeteria equipment and security guard, then asked Barbara what kind of criminal her father hated most.
• Chen Mo told Barbara his plan, and she agreed to help while warning him she would stop speaking to him if it failed.

Barbara and Chen Mo used a staged cafeteria accident and food-safety procedures to ensure the students who had missed lunch received the remaining meals. Barbara recognized that Chen Mo had engineered the distraction, leaving her to wonder whether he was trouble like the roundabout hero in a popular Batman comic.

• Barbara distracted the security guard with a detailed complaint while Chen Mo nudged a cleaning cart, causing a tray rack to crash and draw everyone’s attention.
• A cafeteria worker knocked the meal container, spilling three boxed meals; Barbara declared the food unsafe to reseal and invoked her father, Gordon, the police commissioner.
• Barbara ordered the worker to document the accident and distribute the remaining thirty-six meals to students who had missed lunch, and the worker complied.
• Chen Mo took a meal home for his puppy Bruce, prompting Barbara to tease him about how the Gordons use procedures instead of confronting enemies directly.
• Barbara realized Chen Mo had manipulated the timing and the cart without touching it, and she decided he reminded her of Batman, whose comic she followed.

Barbara and Chen Mo watched students at East End No. 7 Public Middle School argue over the Wayne Foundation’s delayed meal program, with poor students demanding food and middle-class students protesting the disruption. As competing videos spread online, the chapter ended with the parents’ group chat erupting.

• A hungry boy cursed Bruce Wayne while insisting the promised meals were owed to the East End students, and other poor students agreed.
• Middle-class students complained that the newcomers’ behavior and meal program were damaging their education and accused Bruce Wayne of seeking good publicity.
• Chen Mo told Barbara that every group had a reason to complain, while the person who tried to help became everyone’s target.
• Students filmed the cafeteria, and Barbara and Chen Mo appeared in footage as competing accounts of the meal program spread through the school forum.
• An hour after the first video appeared, the parents’ group chat exploded.

Parents, reporters, and social media users turned problems on the Wayne Foundation’s first day at East End No. 7 Public Middle School into a controversy over student safety and Bruce Wayne’s charity project. The public debate focused on class conflict and blame while ignoring the specific failures behind the lunch disruption.

• Parents in the East End No. 7 Public Middle School group complained about safety, lunch confusion, and the Wayne Foundation’s pilot project, then circulated demands for more security and separate activities for disadvantaged students.
• Rumors exaggerated reports of weapons at school, and parents gathered as a news van arrived at the gates.
• A reporter interviewed parents who argued that Bruce Wayne should take responsibility and that ordinary children should not bear the costs of the project.
• Social media hashtags and viral posts framed the controversy as Bruce Wayne making students pay for his charity.
• By evening, the debate had expanded into an argument about public education, class, and charity, while people ignored the lunch delivery and registration failures.

Bruce Wayne investigated the failures behind the East End No. 7 Public Middle School meal program and traced the missing meals to a tangled chain of contractors and systems. He uncovered suspicious corporate connections but had not yet identified who was responsible.

• Chen Mo and Barbara left through the school’s back gate after reporters gathered at the main entrance, and Chen joked about graffiti demanding that Wayne leave dinner behind.
• Bruce reviewed cafeteria footage, subsidy records, delivery logs, and online reactions, then identified Chen’s role in triggering the meal disruption and noted Barbara’s resistance to the staff.
• Bruce concluded that the crisis stemmed from a chain of systems where each party could deny responsibility, and he focused on the red error marked “Not synced.”
• Alfred brought Bruce coffee as Bruce opened the foundation, supplier, cafeteria, and education oversight systems to examine their records.
• Bruce traced the meal supplier’s layered corporate structure to municipal contracts and shell companies, finding roots in the Cayman Islands and connections across Gotham.