

### The Contract

- BW hires street thugs to help in rescue efforts. They suspect Bats pressed BW to hire them, although some do not believe Batman exists. Despite the selfish motives, they rescue a family trapped under a building, and say yes when a little boy asks if Batman sent them.

### House of Cards

- Ra's is enjoying the chaos in Gotham. Thinks Bats trying save the city is childish. W/ Gotham fallen, hopes that Bat’s will finally take a place by his side ...

### A Bird With a Hand

- Penguin searches for survivors. When he finds one, he asks their profession. Those who are useful to him are dug out and told he will recall the debt. Those who are useless to him are left to die.

### Trapped

- A man is trapped in the rubble of his destroyed office building. He is unable to call for help, but hears a rescue party nearby. Robin convinces them that someone is trapped, and they dig out the area. It's revealed that Robin was searching for a different voice, and the man continues waiting with nobody looking for him

### Love Me 2 Times

- Two face buried in pit of rubble. His henchmen consider turning him in for a reward. They attempt to retrieve him, but he get the upper hand pushes them back into the pit, He flips his coin to decide their fate, and smiles.

### Little Orphan Andy

- A little boy's parents die in the quake, and he's left alone. He sits in shock, until a fireman brings him to Leslie Thompkins.


Part 10: The Contract • House of Cards • Trapped • A Bird With a Hand • Love Me 2 Times • Little Orphan Andy

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#### Two Down

- Right after the earthquake, Renee Montoya reluctantly 48 hours off duty from GCPD to get some rest.
- She joins the rescue efforts and even teams up with Two-Face to help people. She wonders why Two-Face is helping them. Two-Face's decisions are based his coin toss, if the coin lands on the good side, he must help people. Renee worries what happens when it lands on the bad side. One night, thugs attack Two-Face and Renee saves him.
- Batman heard her gunshot and shows up. Dent tosses his coin but before it can land, Renee takes it in mid-air. Batman tries to arrest Two-Face but Renee him to left him stay and that she will be responsible for the man's actions. Batman agrees and leaves.
- Renee tells Dent that he doesn’t need the coin, and she is keeping it. Two-Face does as Renee tells him. Batman is skeptical how long that will last.

#### The Comforts

- A couple wander into Joker’s house while looking for supplies. Its creepy, smiley-face wallpapers, clowns everywhere, a room full of broken batsignals, blood splatter and the fridge full of organs, a morbid trophy room and a room full of corpses.
- Weirdly, the TV and the phone are working, and the phone rings a few times. At first the couple don’t answer it out of fear, but when they are desperate, they try answer it hoping it is the police.
- Batgirl stops them from answering the phone and gets them out. She answers the phone from afar using a Batrope and when its lifted the house explodes. The man gives his wife a canned drink he took from the fridge, but it turns out to be Joker Venom and she dies.

#### Harold

- Harold Allnut was inside the Batcave when the earthquake struck. He is devastated everything he built damaged and starts to repair them.
- Alfred arrives and tells Harold to stop fixing the Batmobile because that isn't really important right now, there's larger things to fix.
- Saddened, Harold walks to Gotham. He is happy to work on repairing the city.


Two Down • The Comforts • Harold

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### Little Bat Lost

- Francine Langstrom (wife of Man-Bat, who is missing) uses her son Aaron to help find food due to his enhanced senses.
- Some seeing this, a man (Graff) attacks Francine and kidnaps Aaron since he thinks he will be valuable for Penguin.
- Francine goes to see the Penguin but the man refuses to help. Batman is watching, notices the presence of Francine and forces the Penguin to tell him why was she there. After Batman is gone, Penguin ordered his henchmen to find and kill Graff (for causing trouble, making Bat intervene on his turf).
- Batman learns about Francine's son and he goes to her home and offers his help. He discovers that she has already injected herself with the Man-Bat Serum. Then Francine and Batman go to the subway station were Graff is holding Aaron prisoner. Francine attacks Graff and the man runs away. Elsewhere, Penguin's henchmen kill him.
- Francine and her son are reunited. Francine and both her child, Aaron and Becky, now all transformed into bat-people, leave Gotham.

### Turn On, Tune In, Freak Out

- Jenkin Yates is a TV show host trapped in Gotham after the quake. He is still broadcasting. Batman and Oracle decide that the man could help save Gotham, and they amplify his signal nationwide.
- Yates broadcasts the events and the lives of the people of No Man's Land. They hope citizens of the America will seen the human side of Gotham and touched by what they watched.
- However, a gang is attempting to break into the TV Studio and Yates worries his program might be cut short. Batman clears the street gang. Yates is shocked to see that the gang is gone, a batarang let behind, and then he informs his viewers (he doesn't actually know his signal is amplified) that he will continue his broadcastings.
- After the show, a man Washington, D.C. starts to make some phone calls.

### Identity Crisis

- Batman is fighting Killer Croc when Croc seizes the chance to grab the cowl and take it off. Batman knocks Croc before he can recognize him but a man nearby, Patrick Kryder, recognizes Batman as Bruce Wayne.
- Kryder was a former psychiatrist and he was assigned to treat Two-Face back in Arkham Asylum. Kryder thinks that he can use Batman's identity to bargain with Harvey.
- Kryder goes to see Two-Face, but when he arrives, Two-Face has nothing but contempt for the man. Two-Face is not interested Batman's identity, saying it is meaningless in No Man Land, and after tossing his coin he kills Kryder. Shortly after, Batman arrives and feels sorry for the man.


Little Bat Lost • Turn On, Tune In, Freak Out • Identity Crisis

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- Leslie Thompkins wakes up after having a nightmare.
- She goes to see Mikey, the former False Facer, who is looking over an unconscious Mr. Zsasz. She checks on a few more patients, then walks out of the medical center and calls for the man who is hiding in the shadows of the street.
- Out comes Killer Croc and asks about his friend's state. She tells him that he is pretty bad. Croc is furious at Zsasz for attacking his friend. Croc wants to attack Zsasz but Leslie convinces him to stay outside until his friend has recovered.
- Suddenly Petit’s police arrive with Huntress and start shooting at Croc, thinking he is a threat. Croc runs and some of the men chase him down.
- Leslie returns to the clinic to find Zsasz attacking a now unconscious Mikey. Leslie rushes in to tend to Mikey. Leslie doesn’t allow Huntress to remove Zsasz from the medical center.
- Batman and Batgirl arrive and deliver some medical supplies. Batman is horrified to see her taking care of Zsasz.
- A gunshot is heard outside, Batman goes outside to see Pettit struggling with Huntress for his firearm. She wanted to take it off before Batman could see it.
- Croc announces that he is going to strike back.
- Batman returns to the medical center and tries to talk sense to Leslie about Zsasz, but she tells him to leave. He leaves the place under Batgirl's watch.
- Zsasz recovers and attacks Mikey again. Batgirl and Huntress she Leslie bravely confront Zsasz. Suddenly, Huntress attacks Batgirl.
- Croc, who has defeated Petit, takes this opportunity to attack Zsasz.
- Batman arrives and traps Zsasz. Croc runs aways. Leslie thanks Batman for what he does for the city. She asks what will happen to Zsasz and Batman tells her Nightwing will regain control of Blackgate and he will be prisoner there.
- Later, Leslie recalls her nightmare, in which the monster turns out to be Batman and instead of hurting Leslie, he falls to his knees asking for Leslie's forgiveness. In the dream, she tells him that she will always be there for him as he will always be there for Gotham.


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