Dick realized that he had spent at least fifteen minutes staring at that same picture of the Flying Graysons, the acrobatic group that consisted of he, his mother, and his father. He remembered back when he was a kid at Haley's Circus with his parents... the most talented child acrobat that anyone had ever seen. Life was so good, happy, and carefree. And then one day, it all ended. Tears filled his eyes as he he was reminded of the image of his parents falling to their deaths, a vision that still haunted him as clearly as the day it happened.

"I could have saved them," he cried to himself.

That day he swore to never let that happen to anyone else. That day he also met someone else who could share his pain: Bruce Wayne. But while Batman supported Dick's efforts as the crimefighter Robin, he failed Dick as a father. The insult was made doubly deep when Dick returned home to find that Batman had already recruited a new Robin without even asking him. Poor kid, he had no idea what he was getting into. Dick decided that peoples' lives were at stake and that Tim Drake, the second Robin, needed a more positive role model and the unconditional love and support that Dick himself lacked from Bruce as he became more obsessed with Batman. He was going to return to the Batcave.