Season One Episode 21: Killing Spree
My name is Bruce Wayne. When I returned home after 7 years of training, my city was run by mobsters and organized crime. So I became Batman, and made a deal with Captain Gordon and Harvey Dent to find evidence on each crime boss, and bring them down all at once. Things haven't always gone according to plan, but if this plan succeeds, then MY mission will be complete. I'm here to save Gotham City.
Previously on the Batman...
Dick has created the Robin persona
Two-Face has escaped with a hired gang
Hill has a plan for a super mafia
The evidence on Hill was stolen by Maroni's men
Bruce met Thomas Elliot as a child
A/N: Final 3!
Vernon walks into Maroni's pizza restaurant and sits down. Maroni walks out and sits across from him. Maroni hands him a stack of cash.
"Mr. Maroni, this is just too much!" Vernon says.
"Nah, I insist. Nothing is too much for a friend of mine! Seriously, take it. You've done a good job, Vernon." Maroni insists.
"Thank you so much, Mr. Maroni."
"So what's the deal with Dent?"
"They say he's gone nuts. He hired a gang to break him out from the courthouse. He hasn't been the same since that Joker guy scarred him with the acid."
The windows in the front then blow open and an explosion destroys the front of the restaurant.
Maroni gets up ad blood drips from his nose and mouth. He looks at Vernon who is also bloody.
"What the hell was that?" Maroni asks.
Maroni looks out of the gap in the wall and he sees Two-Face walk into the restaurant with two men and a used RPG.
"Gotham will be better with your death." He states.
"Oh Jesus!" Vernon says.
Two-Face fires his gun and it hits Vernon, killing him.
Maroni runs to the kitchen and escapes through the backdoor. He runs to his car and gets in. He starts the car when Two-Face runs out. He fires two bullets, but misses as Maroni drives away, escaping.
"Damn."
The Batman
Alfred starts stitching up the Batsuit as Bruce starts training. Dick is training with him. Holly is drinking some coffee and watching them train, as Lucius comes in with some new tech for them to try out.
"Got some new gadgets for you. And him." Lucius explains, pointing to Dick. "I've got the basics. Smoke bomb, grapple hook, shurikens in the shape of bats."
"Batarangs." Dick corrects him.
"Is he the one who came up with the 'Batcave' name?" Lucius asks.
"Yeah. He also called my car 'The Batmobile.'" Bruce says.
Selina walks into the Batcave.
"Guys, I've got some news on Harvey." She states. "He broke into Maroni's restaurant trying to murder him. Successfully murdered Vernon. He works for Maroni."
"What do you think of it, Mr. Wayne?" Lucius asks.
"Me, Harvey and Gordon, teamed up to try and take down all organized crime in Gotham. That includes Hill, Maroni, Zucco, Falcone, and Cobblepot before he was brought in. That's what Harvey must be doing. He's trying to take down organized crime by just killing them. He tried with Maroni and he's going to try again." Bruce explains.
"But we can find Harvey by tracking down Maroni." Dick says.
"Well, Maroni's gone missing. We have to find him, fast." Selina says and the group breaks up.
Bruce stays there, looking at the floor.
"Harvey, what's happened to you?" He asks himself.
Gordon walks up to the GCPD roof and sees the Bat symbol. He sighs when he turns around and sees Batman standing there.
"Jesus! ... Batman...where the hell have you been?" He asks.
"I've been away. Hill's planning to create a one big mafia right here in Gotham. It'll be unstoppable if he completes it." Batman states.
"I know. I saw the evidence. Stolen by Vernon. Murdered by Harvey. What the hell is he up to?"
"My guess is that he's murdering all the mobsters we planned on taking down. Why he's using murder instead of justice isn't clear. I don't know what's happened to him."
"So where is he now?"
"Probably trying to track down Maroni. He's going to finish the job. But we have to find Maroni now. He's disappeared."
"Well, how are you going to find Maroni?"
"...I need all the evidence you have on him. I need any close friends, try to find out..."
"What?"
"Vernon was the one who stole the evidence on Hill. But if he works for Maroni, why would he steal something for Hill?"
"Maybe he worked for him too?"
"No, I checked out his background after he died, he had no ties to Hill. Why even bother to hides his ties if he's dead? He had no ties to Hill. But Hill had several ties connecting him to Maroni. After the relationship between him and Falcone broke up, he and Maroni made a partnership. Hill must know something about it."
Batman turns to jump off the roof.
"Wait..." Gordon says.
Batman stops.
"You disappeared last time you left. Will you be back?" He asks.
"...I will. One last time." Batman says and jumps off.
He glides away from the building.
Alfred hears a knock on the door in Wayne Manor. He walks down the stairs and opens up the door only to see someone standing there, in a trench coat and ginger hair.
"May I help y-Tommy?" Alfred starts.
"Hey, Al." Tommy states.
"Mr. Elliot, we have not seen you around here in ages. What brings you back here?" Alfred asks.
"Mother thought it was time I should get out of the house, and so I thought, why not pay my old friend, Bruce, a visit? Is he here?"
"No, I'm afraid not. He's very busy at the moment."
Tommy looks past Alfred and sees Selina, standing in the other room. He gives her a smile. Selina doesn't return it.
"Ah, very busy. Well, tell him I called here and maybe we can meet up some time."
"Yes. I will."
"Bye, Al."
"Bye."
Alfred watches him go.
"...Tommy..." Alfred whispers under his breath.
Hill walks into his office and closes the door. He sits down at his desk when the back of his head is grabbed and slammed in the desk.
"MARONI! TALK!" Batman yells.
"SECURITY! SECURITY! COME ON, GODDAMMIT!" Hill yells.
Batman lets him go and takes his chair and uses it to lock the door. He grabs Hill by the throat and squeezes hard.
"Maroni. He's gone missing. Harvey Dent is after him. Where is he hiding?"
"I'm not telling shit to you!"
Batman slams him up against the wall.
"WHERE?" Batman growls.
"Gah! Dammit! All I know is that when there's a emergency, Sal usually goes and hides in his safe house!"
"Where is it?"
Later, Batman sneaks into Maroni's safe house and sees Maroni enter. He has several bodyguards around him.
"Are the doors locked?" He asks.
"Yes sir."
"Wait, I don't think they are." Another guard states.
"What? What do you mean?"
The guard walks up to the door and fiddles with the lock.
"What's wrong with it?" Maroni asks.
The door suddenly bursts open and Two-Face walks through.
"What the fuck?" Maroni asks
Two-Face shoots one of the guards but the guard who fiddled with the lock puts on a Halloween mask and pulls out his gun and walks by Two-Face's side.
"You son of a bitch." Maroni says.
"Gotham will be better with your death."
Two-Face points his gun at Maroni but Batman drops down a smoke bomb and tackles Two-Face.
"Harvey!" Batman yells.
"I think you've got the wrong guy."
Two-Face uses his free hand to fire his gun and hit Maroni. He yells and grabs his arm. The thug places a gun to the back of Batman's head.
"You might want to let me go, Bats. Unless you want a bullet in the back of your SKULL."
Batman quickly turns around and swipes the gun from the thug's hand. He tosses the thug across the room and he hits the wall. Batman turns only to hear a gunshot, and see Maroni, falling to the ground, dead.
"Harvey...what've you done?"
"Justice! True justice! Each and every one of these men are evil, and want to make Gotham a worse place. And I will not stop until Gotham is clean once more!"
"But that's not justice!"
"I'm not here to discuss this now. I'm not done yet. But no matter how this ends, we'll talk at the GCPD."
"What?"
BANG!
Batman grabs his leg and crouches.
"Dammit!" He lets out as Two-Face goes to leave.
He motions for his thug to come with him.
"Maroni's not the only one who send his men to go undercover. It's time he got a taste of his own medicine."
Two-Face leaves with the thug, as Batman eventually makes his way back to the Batcave.
Alfred starts stitching up his wound as Bruce thinks about what happened.
Dick sits next to Bruce.
"So what now?" He asks.
"Well, now...Harvey's going after the other crime bosses. Falcone, Hill...and Zucco."
Dick looks up.
"We can't let Harvey do this. have to stop him. We have to bring him in." Bruce states.
"How are we supposed to do that?" Dick asks.
"By protecting the mobsters. It's not going to be easy. Harvey has his men everywhere in Gotham. But we have to try."
The Batman
Next Time on the Batman: Life of Crime (1x22)
Batman and Robin know Two-Face is attempting to murder Tony Zucco, and so Batman must protect him. But he also has to deal with Dick being reluctant to protect his parent's killer, making the job not too easy.
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