The Arkham inmates and batfamily gave confused looks, not knowing about this guy well… all except joker he stayed silent not knowing what to think
Batman: jack napier he was a skilled chemist and failing comedian that went missing many years
Joker stayed quiet he remembers only bits and pieces of his past but that name was oh.. so familiar to him
Dr.ratt:sorry but we have to get this started no more questions
Jeannie: How'd it go? Did they like your act?Jack: Well, they, uh...They said they might call me. I got nervous and blew a punchline.
Harley: hahaha what a rookie ain't i right mistah jay "but the joker said nothing but looks down which confused everyone"
Two-face: what's the matter clown don't have a joker for this fool...
The joker looked at him with a look that screams murder made him shut up
Joker: leave me alone or I'll break your bones.
Jeannie:Oh.Jack: What do you mean, "Oh"?Jeannie: I didn't mean anything.Jack: Yes, you did, the way you said "oh" like that.Jeannie: Jesus, all I said was...Jack: You said, "Oh." As in, "Oh, so you didn't get the job?" As in, "Oh, I should've known?" As in, "Oh, so how are we going to feed our baby?" You think I'm not worried about that?
Ivy: he shouldn't take it out on her is every man like this
Joker felt offended and glared at her
Joker: he is probably just stress ivy " he said threatening"
Ivy: oh and how do you know your not him… heck if you were in his shoes you would have hi..t….her "joker gives ivy a glare that could rival batman's which scares her"
Jack: You think it's all a big joke to me? I have to go up on stage and nobody laughs. And you think I don't care. You think, you think... (CRYING) Oh, God! Oh, God! I'm sorry! I don't mean to take this out on you. You're suffering enough,being married to a loser.Jeannie- Honey, that's not...Jack- Yes, it is true.
Scarecrow: he seems to have depression and keeps putting himself down
Two face: what the fuck does that matter/ I'm sorry but why would that matter here
Scarecrow: meaning this man mental state is very fragile and it won't take much to break it
Jack: I can't support you. Oh, Jeannie.Jeannie: Shh. It'll be okay. The baby won't be here for another three months. Mrs. Berkis will let us slide on the rent a little longer, she feels sorry for me.jack:She hates me. She comes out in the hallway to scowl at me every time I take the stairs. That smell like cat litter and old people. I've just got to get you out of here before the baby comes. All I need is enough money to get us set up in a decent neighborhood. For crying out loud, there are girls on the street who earn that in a weekend without having to tell a single joke or blow a punch line.
Two face: heh she sounds like a bitch/ what an awful person
joker:(thought) heh… she kinda was… wait how do I know that!?! Could it… NO!!! I am not…just no
Every female in the room smiles sweetly at how much jack cares about Jeannie
Jeannie:(LAUGHS) Come here and stop worrying about us. I love you, job or no job. You're good in the sack and you make me laugh.
Scarecrow being a physiatrist took a glance at joker and jack but shook his head refuse to believe it
Scarecrow (thought): it would make sense whit his obsession with jokes, but he is actually capable of feeling love while the joker is a monster that cares for no one
Scene changejack:You see, I have a reason, a good one.I have to prove myself… As a husband and a father. I mean, well, this isn't the sort of thing I'd agree to do normally,without an important reason.Thug one: Of course.Jack: Did I ever tell you I started out as a lab assistant? Of course, I did, right? A good job, a real good job, but my heart wasn't in it. So, I quit to be a comedian,to make people laugh because when they laugh, they feel good. The thing is... (SCOFFS) They didn't.Now I'm not feeling good. That's why I'm here, for one big score!
Scarecrow:(thought) a la….a lab assistant it is him!!!! The skilled chemist and joking nature has to be the joker!!!
Scarecrow: I know who he is!!!
Batman: crow tell us who he is.
Harley: yeh tell us who is he!!!
Scarecrow was about to say but got shocked
Scarecrow: ahhhh! Why!!!
Dr.Ratt: no spoilers just keep watching
Batman: you can't get away with that
Dr.ratt: and what are you going to do with it
Batman sat down knowing he is using his identity for blackmail
Thug 1: Hey, can you try and be cool?Jack: Sorry, I usually don't drink at lunchtime. You're not lying when you say we'll get away with it? Nobody will know I was involved?Thug 1:Not to worry, friend. We'll take care of you.Thug 2: We need your help getting into that chemical plant you used to work in and into the playing card company next door. It's your expertise we appreciate.Thug 1: And to absolutely guarantee ain't nobody connects you to the robbery, you'll be wearing this.Reveals the red hood mask
Batman froze at the sight of the mask forcing him to remember the man he failed to save.
Jack: Wait a minute, I've seen that before in the papers. That's the Red Hood's mask. He raided that ice company last month.Thug 1:Smarten up, wise guy. There ain't no Red Hood. Just a bunch of guys like yourself and a mask.Thug 2:Right, the most valued member of the crew, he gets to wear it, no questions asked. 'Cause he needs the… "He can't afford to be connected to the job "so he deserves additional anonymity." Merits it.Thug 1: Sure. That makes sense, right? That's you.
The batfam glared they saw how desperate jack was and these thugs were just using him but decided not to say anything yet
Catwoman: I feel bad for him
Ivy nods at her
Ivy: I agree he would do anything for her "she turns to harley" see harley that is the kind of man you should be with
Joker for some reason felt like chuckling
jack: But there aren't any eye slits. How am I supposed to see?Thug 1: Well, therein lies the beauty. Two-way mirrors, just like the cops use, huh?Jack: I don't know, I don't know. That chemical plant… I quit 'cause it creeped me out. So grim and ugly,it was getting under my skin.Thug1 :But you know it like the back of your hand.Thug 2: Right.But this ain't about you, though.Jack: No. No, of course not. Just this once, then I can lead a proper life. Thug 2: Exactly. Can't make a nest without breaking a few eggs.Jack:(CHUCKLES) That's funny.
Jason felt a chill go down his spine as Jack chuckled. It felt so familiar.
Thug 1: No, it's cliche.
Thug 2: So, 11:00, Friday night, friend?
Jack: Starting Saturday morning, I'll be rich. Just trying to imagine that, my life, completely changed. Nothing will be the same...Not ever again.The bat family felt a chill go down there spines
Scene change
THUG 2: So, everything's settled for tonight? We can count on you?Jack: Uh... Well, of course. It'd be crazy to back out now. I mean, the worst part, lying to Jeannie, that's done. She thinks I have a club engagement.Thug1: No reason she shouldn't keep right on thinking that.Thug2 :Now, about tonight, wear a suit and a bow tie. It's kind of the trademark with this Red Hood business.Jack: It's what Jeannie will expect me to wear to the nightclub. Ah! It's perfect.Cop: Excuse me, sir? Could we speak to you outside for a moment?Jack: Me? But why? I haven't, I mean, uh...Cop: It'll only take a moment, sir.The thugs watch with a gun ready if jack had snitch
Batman Grits at the sight of the gun
Red hood: I would love to have use that guy's skull for target practice
Thug 2:Something you want to tell us, friend?Jack :There was an accident this morning… Testing the baby bottle heater. An electrical short and my wife died.
Ivy's heart nearly broke at the man she had tears in her eyes as the batfamily felt horrible knowing what kind of pain jack is going through
thug2:Gee, that's terrible. We're really sorry.Jack: The cops said it was a million-to-one shot accident. Said I should probably have another drink before I went to the hospital.Thug1:And you should. Rough break, man,probably want to be alone, right? That's cool. We'll see you back here tonight.Jack: Tonight? I can't. There's no reason anymore. Jeannie's dead.Thug 2: Oh, no, no, no, I'm sorry about your wife, but what's happening tonight, it's no little thing. And we can't ensure that anybody backing out remains healthy.Jack:- Uh, but...Thug 1: No buts and no exceptions. Look, tomorrow you bury your old lady in luxury. Tonight, you're with us. Get the picture.
Pretty much all of the theater was mad at that guy for forcing jack to rob the place
Batman nearly broke his chair in half at the site of a man losing his family only to be force to commit a crime it made him sick
Ivy : tha..t sick BASTARD if I see him I will use his corpse for food for my babies
Thug 2: Hey, quit your daydreaming, friend. It's showtime.Jack: I was just remembering. I used to walk along here to work each morning.Thug 1: Ah, that's good, real good. That's just what we need you to do.THUG 2: Just guide us through this stinking factory so we can get to the joint next door. And stay far away from us while we do the dirty work.It's like we're practically giving you money by cutting you in on this.Jack: Right now? Will I be able to breathe?Thug 1 :Not if you smoke.Jack:(CHUCKLES) That's a good one.Thug 1 : Maybe, I should be looking into your line of work instead of you looking into mine. You got a funny shaped head.Jack: Maybe I should've been a clown instead of a comedian.
Scarecrow looks at the screen it practically screams joker he was mad
Thug 2:There. You can see, friend?Red hood: (ECHOES) Yeah, but everything's red,stuffy too and it smells. Ooh, my voice sounds echo-y.THUG 2: Then shut up and get to work.RED HOOD: Okay, we go through here past the filter tanks and then Monarch Playing Cards is just beyond the partition. You know this place looks even worse in red.- It looks like...GUARD: Hey, you! Freeze! Come on, come on, get 'em up! Murph, get some men over to the rear bays. We're being robbed by the Red Hood Mob.Thug 1:You asshole! You said there was no security.RED HOOD: They must have altered things since I left.- (AIR HISSING)Red hood:It's so loud.Thug 2: For God's sake, run! This is all screwed up, run!Thug 1 :Man, which way?Jack:I can't see where I'm going.Thug 1:You useless son of a bitch.(aims gun at Jack's head)
Batfamily wasn't angry they we're pissed and they weren't the only ones
Ivy: they better not fucking touch him he is so far the only decent man I have ever seen.
Catwoman: yeah he's so loving and devoted he doesn't deserve anything to happen to him
(BOTH SHOT)Thug 2:I'm not the guy you want. It's him! He's our ringleader. He's the Red Hood.GUARD: He's pulling a gun!(KILLS THE THUG)RED HOOD:(GROANS)No, no, no, no, no!BATMAN: Stop! No more shooting. I'll take care of this my way.
Everyone froze now they knew batman had met jack and only hoped that he would listen to jack before attacking
Guard:It's that human bat guy.RED HOOD: Dear God, What did I do to deserve this?BATMAN: So, Red Hood, we meet again.Jack: Stay away from me,don't come any closer, you monster! Uh, uh... (FALLS IN THE VAT OF CHEMICALS SCREAMING)
Batman remembers that night he only wished he would have known he would have made sure jack lead a normal life.
(GROANING)-outside the chemical plant-Jack weaken from the fall craws out of a pipe
Everyone was relieved but scarecrow had a thought is this the moment he became the joker?
Jack:It burns! I'm itching all over. What's…
Everyone instantly recognized that voice looking at joker with tears not knowing the pain he felt before.
Jack: (LAUGHING)
The theater froze, they knew that laughing anywhere they looked at joker not wanting to believe a man so caring became a monster.
(THUNDER RUMBLING)joker:(LAUGHING MANIACALLY)
the theater at the man the were watching and they looked at joker who seems to have started a panic attack
Harley: puddin I...it's alright I.. I'm sorry for what happened to your wife.
Joker (still panicking): WHAT WIFE!!! T..THIS THIS IS A LIE I... I'M NOT JACK!!! I...I COULDN'T HAVE BEEN MARRIED!!! I COULDN'T HAVE BEEN…… NORMAL!!!!!!
Dr.ratt :shoots him with a tranquilizer much to everyone's surprise
Dr.ratt: I'm sorry but it's better for you to know I will put joker in one of the rooms you are staying at. Then we could continue
Harley: ya can't just expect us to just watch more after ya drop that big bomb on us
Dr.ratt:hmmm….. yes I do I have a busy schedule to attend to besides it would help with your nerves
Red hood: so that freak became a monster over one death!!!!
Dr.ratt(glares): no… let's see his mother who was insane, had tortured him as a child, Thomas Wayne and her Had an affair before and after he was born. And a father figure that hits him everyday they also forcing him to starve. When he finally finds love it's taken away from him...SO I SAY HE HAS PLENTY OF REASONS TO GO INSANE SO SHUT UP !
everyone stayed quiet to possess what he had told them but The batfamily just stared in shock at the thought of joker/jack related to bruce.
Dr.ratt: any questions no…. Now stay put I will return so we can watch more
(Up next clips of joker actually caring for harley quinn)