30th August 2011.

These are the private notes of Doctor Jeremiah Arkham, Ph. D. After being away from the asylum for a week, I have been reviewing the surveillance footage. I normally after a week, I check the tapes to see if anyone is trying anything, or doing anything. Everything was normal, and I stretch the term 'normal' in this case, as 'normal' as an asylum can be. No outbursts from patient #15666, Joker, and patient #13568, Mr Jones stayed out of sight in his sewers under the asylum. But I must note, in relation to patient #15249, Edward Nigma as associating more and more with patient #11941, Jonathan Crane.

In the past, the two have associated, but very little and only in dire circumstances. If there is no forced association between the two, they prefer to keep to themselves. But after looking over the tapes, Edward was escorted out into the grounds during Jonathan's designated hour. The two walked and talked. This happened over several days until finally, it would seem that the two have reached some sort of agreement. I shall have to investigate further.

31st August 2011

I have been talking to Dr Kellerman over any sort of change in patient #11941, and it would appear that there is none. He does seem to be cooperating more, but that does not necessarily mean that Jonathan has changed his attitude.

After finding no leads with my conversation with Kellerman, I decided to have Jonathan's cell turned over. Numerous pieces of contraband, but nothing of any real interest or concern, or so I thought until a piece of paper with a green question mark feel out of the book. Nothing else was on the paper. And I know from past experiences that this was clearly Edward's calling card. Edward and Jonathan are in league with each other. Further investigation into the matter is needed before I can truly understand what they're planning.

3rd September 2011

Dead end, I have hit a wall in my little investigation. Jonathan is not talking about the piece of paper, because he assumes that Edward must have slipped it into the book as some form of bookmark. He might be telling the truth, but it might also just be a ruse to get me off his back.

I have looked at the paper and a microscope and found nothing. All I've concluded is that Edward did indeed write this, but nothing more. Maybe it was just a bookmark, but I won't let myself believe it.

With less than ten minutes until my therapy session with Edward, I better be ready to inquire about the slip of paper. If he tries to lie I'll be able to tell, with his compulsion to tell the truth, the instant he attempts to lie, he turns as transparent as a window.

The session with Edward came up inconclusive. He asked me about my vacation to Maine and asked how much I must really like fishing to go all the way up there. I questioned him about knowing where I had gone and what I did on my vacation and all he told me was;

"Oh things get around doctor. Don't think you're above it all."

I wasn't sure where he had discovered the location of my vacation, but most likely he overheard a doctor or an orderly, as the staff knew vaguely where I was going in case of an emergency, but not the very detail of fishing. Maybe Edward had someone follow me?

No, that's just me being over paranoid. Even if Edward could possibly have someone follow me, I would have noticed in that isolated region, but I'd never put something like that past any of the Batman's Rogues Gallery. Always planning something to do against Gotham and its inhabitants, but not I've gone off topic, returning to the matter at hand.

I shall keep a closer eye on both Edward Nigma and Jonathan Crane. If the two are planning something, then the two will associate on the bare minimum, if not, then the two have no arrangement and it was just some coincidence that Edward took the extra hour of free time to spend it with someone roughly on his intellectual plain.

8th September 2011

After a few more therapy sessions with Edward and noticing his mood has changed again. He is acting more calmly and has even requested a change in his designated rec hour. He was on the same line as some of the docile patients; none of the other Rouges Gallery patients are on this line. He has requested to be placed with the rest, patient #12942 Harvey Dent, #11941 Jonathan Crane, #11948 Jervis Tetch and #12966 Pamela Isley. I see no reason why this should not be allowed and have arranged for the transfer of times to start Monday.

13th September 2011

After granting the request to patient #15249, Edward Nigma, he has been talking to patient #12966 Pamela Isley. I have never known these two to ever talk or associate. It is possible that she has attracted Edward and made him into a boyfriend or protector of some sort?

This is highly unlikely, seeming as the two do not have the same motives and work on two different levels of the criminal hierarchy. Edward likes to think he is smarter than Batman and all the other Rouges Gallery members, while Pamela is out to rid the world of all human. So the two want different ends, but I'm sure as sure can be that Edward would never degrade himself and want to rid the world of everyone and work with Pamela, only on his terms would he work with her.

With under an hour until my next therapy session with Edward, I better be ready to tell him that his medication is to be changed. He has been acting happier and more cooperative, so a change to his medication is needed. Hopefully he's not putting on an act in an attempt to be taken off medication entirely, but I'm sure he'll eventually fall back into his melancholy state soon, planning more riddles for Batman and his next greatest caper.

Yet another uneventful therapy session with Edward Nigma, he seemed more interested in telling me riddles like;

'Riddle me this, I'm not a hill, but more of a lump. This riddle is sure to stump.'

I was unable to solve Edward's riddle so then he decided that I wasn't worth talking to and sat there for the rest of the session in his own little world, not paying attention even when I told him that I was going to change his medication to something lighter, but when he is going to act like he is above it all, it would seem that I need to up his medication to something more suiting. But he didn't listen, more interested in looking at the chains that encompassed his wrists. Just as a precaution, even though I am sure I said he probably did not require them anymore, but I prefer to be safe rather than sorry is cases like Nigma's.

When the session concluded and Edward returned back to Earth, I noticed that he seemed oblivious to the conversation that I'd been having with him for the past half an hour. He then looked over at me while Cash and North escorted him back to his cell. He said;

"I forgot to thank you Doctor for changing my rec hour. I'm sure you had your say in the matter, so I thank you." He said with a large grin on his face. Not a sinister one I am used to, but a genuine smile.

I waited until I heard the sounds or receding footsteps in the hall before I pulled out a glass of whisky. I needed a little pick me up after a waste of a session like that, and with less than a few hours before clocking out, I had to have a glass to keep my spirits up.

21st September 2011

Medication in regards to patient #15249 has been reduced. He was not responding to the higher doses, so with less dosages of the same medication should now start to have a positive effect on him. Hopefully enough of one to get him of out his little world, so that I can get back to treating him the correct way.

On another note, #15666, Joker has been moved out of isolation due to the broken sewage pipe. It was most likely broken by #13568 by swimming into it or accidently mistaking it for food and attempting to eat it.

But I can only assume that this is the case, seeming none of the guards is willing to go down into the sewer with Mr Jones in an attempt to find out what is wrong and if the pipe needs to be replaced or even if Mr Jones needs medical attention. With Cash's enmity with Jones he is not going down and no other guard is willing to lose a limb or their lives to find out if something is wrong.

I am certain that it was an accident seeming Mr Jones is not really smart enough to arrange something like that and seeming he does not have an communications with other patients to plan anything like that.

On another note, the 'relationship' between #15249 and #12966 seems to have dissipated or never existed in the first place. Edward is back to doing puzzles and Pamela is tending to her garden on the grounds. With nothing more to say on the subject I leave it there.

-Jeremiah Arkham

To Be Continued...