As you finish breakfast, you pencil in a few notes.

It looks like asking to be informed of “strange” events is a little too imprecise – alligators in the sewers is unusual, to be sure, but you doubt mundane animal control officers will be confounded by the average crocodile. If not … maybe put something in the water? You can check if there’s anything tasteless and harmless to humans that kills ‘gators, or something strong enough to put in the sewers that wouldn’t taint the main water supply … it’s kind of an interesting problem, but no point hitting the books for something that’ll be over so soon without your intervention.

The Arkham situation is interesting. The place needs work, to be sure, and you’ve little doubt that a few obvious suggestions will improve things mightily. But an increase in mental illness … could it simply be some sort of side-effect of the recent immigration from Metropolis, and subsequent rise in the crime rate? Criminals being more likely to have deep-seated psychological issues, perhaps? Definitely grounds for a meeting with the project head at some point.

Someone should be looking into these imitators, see if they’re doing more harm than good, and whether they could be … “deputized” by the existing legal system, somehow. You scribble down a quick note for Lucius to put together a small team in Metropolis with a couple of lawyers, private detectives, statisticians … it’s a shame you don’t have some sort of ready-made list of competent people, this needs competence but it’s not important enough to travel to Metropolis for weeks yourself. Ah well.

And then there’s this DA looking to see you. Harvey Dent. He seemed bright, creative, curious from what you remember of him. You liked him. Interesting that he’s looking for you, specifically … a genuinely effective legal system could potentially do a lot of good, if you could set it up. Definitely confirm for a meeting later today.

You pass the papers to Alfred as you clear up the remains of breakfast, wondering idly if he could be a traitor. Hmm, it’d be unfortunate if he were to betray you, it’d be bloody hard to find any information source with less of a chance of betrayal to check him against. Perhaps some sort of analysis of levels of agreement between different agents… you visibly shake your head as you dismiss the stray thought.

A brief pause to think over the past day and see if you came up with anything Wayne Industries’ R&D department should look into. Kord knows your suggestions are usually good.



Plenty of time left, so you squeeze in a bit more training. Getting a little sloppy at throwing-weapons, need to practice that more. Some basic slight-of-hand in front of the mirror seems fine.

As you practice – barely need to think about most of this stuff – you consider what to say to Dent.

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