Welcome again to beautiful Gotham City, faithful viewers, only this time we are going quite a few years back, to a time before the adventures of the Dynamic Duo had yet to begin! Tonight we take a look back to the days before billionaire Bruce Wayne and his youthful ward Dick Grayson fought side-by-side against Gotham's criminal evil-doers as Batman and Robin!

Our story begins at the Gotham Muncipal Bank, a popular hot-shot for unsavory burglers and people who just want to add to their Christmas Club accounts. Here we see Carol Fitzsimmons, seasoned teller of this branch and unwilling participant to eleven robberies and one visit from a troubled scroundrel known as The Moneypuncher. By this point of her career she had grown tired of all the guff from the periodic scofflaw incident and wasn't about to stand by and put up with one more incident. Today her convinctions would be put to the test.

"Alright everyone, we trust you know the drill!" Yes, on this day we will be seeing the sinister exploits of the carnie catastrophe known as Haly's Circus. "Did you not take that as hint to get down on the ground!" Flying John Grayson held command on the heist, as he assumed leader position within the Circus gang, comprised of his wife Mary, son Dick, Blunt the Strongman, and the expert knifethrower known only as The Great Zucco.

"Teller! Carol, it says your name is, give us the passcode for the vault!" However today Carol was not going to have it. She lunged at John with a rolled-up newspaper in which she hid broken glass in, who rolled away and leapt onto the ceiling. The Great Zucco stepped in to fight off Carol with a barrage of butterknives, as he was asked to take the non-lethal route. This would not go to plan as one of Zucco's knives wedged into a light socket, causing a small explosion that took out Carol.

Meanwhile Blunt ripped the door off of the bank's vault while Dick disabled the police alarm from within the vent. John and Mary focused on cleaning out the employee wallets. Their task completed, the Circus would take leave. "Thank you for attending our most recent performance! Be sure to tell your friends to come and see us!"

"Honey, you think they'll get word out to him?"

"Yes, we all know it's only a matter of time."

"Wait, are we talking about who I think we're talking about?"

"Yes. Ra's Al Ghul."