Batman and Nightwing agree that the Red Hood's skills, methods, and arsenal are comparable to their own, except that the Red Hood is willing to kill to get what he wants. The chase leads to a train station above ground, and an explosion occurs facilitating the Red Hood's escape and leaving Batman and Nightwing temporarily shaken.īatman and Nightwing regroup in the Batcave, with Batman's butler, Alfred Pennyworth, bandaging Nightwing's right leg and taking him home. Nightwing takes notice that the Red Hood is able to evade Batman at every turn, including cutting a Bat-lasso before it went taut on his leg.
Nightwing later joins up with Batman and the chase leads to a blimp and rooftops. The Red Hood shows up and hijacks a helicopter, but is stopped by Batman and Nightwing. A lackey starts to talk about the next incoming shipment however, both Batman and the Red Hood have bugged the place, listening in on the conversation. The Joker taunts Batman by reminding him of Jason's death, tempting Batman to kill him, then denies any involvement with his successor.Īt his headquarters, Black Mask is angry because his "Amazo" was destroyed, and promptly puts a hit out on the Red Hood. Batman and Nightwing proceed to Arkham Asylum to interrogate the Joker about the Red Hood. Batman tells Nightwing that since the Red Hood began his reign of terror, drug trafficking has gone up, but crime has gone down. Later in the Batcave, Nightwing appears, having returned after he learned of the Red Hood. The current Red Hood rigs an explosion in the plant and escapes. Batman chases the Red Hood, who leads him to the Ace Chemical Plant - the site of the first Red Hood's transformation into the Joker. The Red Hood then kills the thugs with a sniper rifle. After a short fight, the robot is defeated and Batman interrogates the three thugs at the location and finds out they are working for the Red Hood. Nightwing (Dick Grayson), who was once the first Robin, arrives on the scene to help him.
He tries to interrogate them until the box that was in their truck opens and reveals Amazo, a powerful android with the ability to copy the abilities of every metahuman it encounters. As a warning, he tosses them a bag containing the severed heads of all their lieutenants.Īt the docks, Batman chases some thugs in a moving truck and crashes it into a wall. The Red Hood announces his takeover of the drug trade and tells them to give him 40 percent of their earnings in return for protection from both Batman and Black Mask, but he also tells them not sell their drugs to children. Batman arrives too late, and Jason is killed in the explosion.įive years later, in Gotham City, the vigilante/crime lord Red Hood has assembled a meeting with the city's top-earning thugs and drug dealers. He then sees a bomb ticking in the warehouse. Jason tries to get out, but the Joker put a lock on the door. In a warehouse in Sarajevo, Bosnia, the Joker beats Jason with a crowbar, ultimately leaving him half-dead on the warehouse floor. Ra's al Ghul hires the Joker to help him with his latest terrorist scheme, but soon regrets it when the Clown Prince of Crime kidnaps Jason Todd, the second Robin.