- Bruce saves the shaman and the girl from the sunk car, but the girl’s body temperature is dangerously low. Bruce tells the shaman to save the girl by telling her the tale of the bat but the shaman refuses and instead he tells Bruce to do it. Bruce is unsure about it, but the shaman tells him that he has the mark in his eyes and that all he needed was to put on the Batman cowl. Bruce obeys and puts on the cowl, tells the story and the girl quickly recovers.
- The next day, Bruce talks to the girl if there was any other survivor the night they saved him. The girl reveals that they saved another man as well. Bruce realizes that the man they saved was in fact Tom Woodley, the assassin he fought in the mountains.
- Bruce goes back to Gotham, but before leaving Alaska, Bruce gives the old shaman some money and also a generous donation to the hospital were the girl was. The shaman tells Bruce to "become the mask", and Bruce is left pondering about the meaning of that.
- That night, Batman breaks and enters the suspect’s (Fisk’s) place and discovers the hidden Chubala shaman disguise, and evidence showing that Fisk because inspired by Spurlocks who to learn the Chubala rituals and begin his cult leadership. Batman comes up with a plan that would allow him to examine the place more carefully. He (with great effort) get the attention of the building guards, knowing that they would call an inspector to examine the crime scene. The next day, Bruce, disguised as an inspector, places some acid in the shaman’s outfits bulletproof vest, replaces the bullets in his gun with blanks and sets some traps in the shaman disguise.
- At the manor, Woodley, who is wearing a tribal bat mask, holds Alfred captive. Woodley reveals to Alfred that he killed Spurlock for stealing the tribal bat mask and now he will kill the only man that has bested him: Bruce Wayne.
