The Batman: Detective (2017 movie)

The Batman: Detective is the sequel and second installment to Zack Synder 's Batman saga. It is the sequel to The Batman (2015 film) and Sam Worthington along with many other actors and actresses will return in this movie, of course with different antagonists. Ben Affleck will be no longer writing this film, but David S Goyer will be writing this movie as his last movie he is writing for Synder. This movie will include a lot more detective scenes and action compared to the last one. Synder, after directing and experiencing how successful the last film was, says that the 2 next movies he will direct in this franchise will be lengthened and detailed, but unlike Christopher Nolan's series, it will be more Batman than ever and relate a lot to the story, both Bruce Wayne and Batman. Michael Fassbender says that he plays a minor role and only appears in a couple scenes in the movie, but he goes signalizing that he will have a very crucial role in the next film.

Cast

 * Sam Worthington as Bruce Wayne/Batman
 * Booboo Stewart as Dick Grayson/Robin
 * Bryan Cranston as Commissioner James "Jim" Gordon
 * Tom Hardy as Ferris Boyle
 * Jeremy Irons as Alfred Pennyworth
 * Daniel Day-Lewis as Victor Fries/Mister Freeze
 * Andrew Garfield as Garfield Lynns/Firefly
 * Stella Hudgens as Barbara Gordon
 * Denzel Washington as Lucius Fox
 * Kate Beckinsale as Officer Yi Lang
 * Oscar Issac as Floyd Lawton/Deadshot
 * Michael Fassbender as Attorney Harvey Dent
 * Casey Affleck as Dr. Jonathan Crane
 * Tyler Posey as Jason Todd (short role)
 * John Goodman as Detective Harvey Bullock
 * Yvonne Strahovski as Vicki Vale
 * Gabriel Macht as Jack Ryder (short appearance)
 * Stephen Lang as Slade Wilson (cameo)

Movie Length
2 hours, 49 minutes, 42 seconds

Story
As Gotham City's savior, more criminals breathe easier when the sun rises all because of the Caped Crusader, Batman. Bruce Wayne deals with his business company being incorporated with Ferris Boyle, Bruce's childhood friend. But things start to go down when scientist Victor Fries turns into the villainous Mister Freeze and two new villains, they all come from one name; GothCorp. Batman and his new sidekick, Robin, has to stop GothCorp and find out why Mister Freeze and Firefly are out in the loose before they turn Gotham City into an arctic with eternal fire.

Batman

 * 1) Smoke Bombs
 * 2) Batarangs
 * 3) Batclaw
 * 4) Weapons Disrupter
 * 5) Noise Beam
 * 6) Glue Grenade
 * 7) Explosive Gel

Robin

 * 1) Bird Grapple
 * 2) Explosive Gel
 * 3) Shurikens
 * 4) Staff
 * 5) Wind Shield
 * 6) Concussion Detonator

Plot
The film begins with The Batman: Detective sign. It goes into James Gordon being elected as the new commissioner of the GCPD because of his vital skills and intelligence and because Loeb was killed by Black Mask two years ago. Commissioner Gordon creates a batsignal aka batsign on the rooftop of the police department to alert Batman whenever in time of help. He needs help at the moment, so he calls in Batman, who is with his new sidekick ever since last year, which is Robin. Robin is Dick Grayson. Gordon says, "Hi you too. It's a very cold night today isn't it?" "Yep, it's snowing, but it is already March". Gordon gives Batman the mission to stop a gang of remaining Falcone thugs. They are near Jezebel Plaza, causing a rampage and holding 5 hostages. Before Gordon says, "Now, let me---" He sees that Batman nor Robin is there. Gordon chuckles, "He always does that, does he?" An annoying and ignorant leader of the criminals are dropping a load of boxes in filled with weapons. They hold the hostages in the plaza, having the guards watch the plaza, which are body guards for the Falcone members. Robin throws in his concussion detonator, which makes people have seizures in a blast. Batman jumps down, kicking his face, and throwing him into another thug. Robin jumps down, gliding, using his wind shield to block and beating the dozens of people with his staff. Batman does a flip, punching someone, gliding into them, and throwing a batarang at an incoming thug. The thugs get alerted and they yell, "I'm not afraid to kill you, Bat! Come at us!" They hear nothing, assuming Batman and Robin have given up, but Robin smacks his head into one thug, hitting him many, many times, while Batman uses the explosive gel to blow up the thugs and get everyone to safety. The Batmobile comes in, saving the 5 hostages successfully. The leader of the Falcone thugs gets away with money and jewelry, so Batman kicks him and takes the bag. Robin says, "Another successful mission, Bruce". "Thank you, Dick." "Now where are we going? Are we going to punch some more bad guy ass?" "Watch your language, Dick. We need to get home for supper." Jack Ryder, the new news reporter of Gotham City, is reporting about Batman's popularity in Gotham and how he saves lives. A person comes in the commons; "Yeah, I was with my sister and her boyfriend at dinner and these guys were about to jump her boyfriend and Batman comes in and beats the crap out of them!" It goes into a montage of Batman and Robin working together ever since Roman Sionis's defeat. Barbara Gordon is on the news; "I think Batman and Robin are good guys. I'm glad my father supports him and most of this city does. Wherever Batman is, he's about to make a house name for himself because he's amazing, but creepy (laughs)!"

Alfred brings Bruce turkey, ham, and a salad into the Batcave, while he is on the Batcomputer, checking the police files for any more Falcone thugs. He sees none and Alfred informs him, "Master Bruce, you should come up the manor and eat sir. Mister Dick is waiting for you too, sire." "Okay, Alfred. Hey look, I just finished modifying Robin's new Birdmobile." It makes a lot of noise and it goes silent and Alfred says, "Oh dear, not again." While eating dinner, Alfred says, "I have been looking into Wayne Enterprises yesterday. I saw a huge crowd of people..." Alfred continues to talk about Ferris Boyle. Bruce does not know who he is, until Alfred shows him a video tape of Bruce and Ferris playing in the playground with Thomas and Martha Wayne hanging out with Boyle's parents. Bruce slowly remembers him and Alfred informs him about working with him as a new member of Wayne Enterprises because his family has passed down his billionaire act. Bruce agrees and meets Ferris the next day, "Bruce, I can't believe I'm even talking to you right now. It's a pleasure to meet you again." "A pleasure to meet you too, Ferris. We can both make Gotham a better place." They get along again like when they were children.

Dr. Victor Fries is a scientist who is obsessed with snow and ice. He is walking in the streets of Gotham, grabbing dozens of sheets of blueprints for his study; The Freeze Project. He trips into people, "Excuse me, folks, sorry. Heading away. Old man in the way". He wants to do this project because it will make him rich and will help his dying wife, Nora Fries, who is mourning and dying in Metropolis City.

Dick is in class as he is a college freshman along with Barbara. Barbara is a Tech major, while Dick is a Martial Arts major. There is a new student in his class, Jason Todd, who makes an impression that he is negative and a "downer" because when Dick tried to befriend him, Jason slapped his hand and he is always a "slacker".

Ferris and Bruce are having dinner together in a fancy restaurant, where Ferris reveals that the new building in construction be will be founded by Ferris named, GothCorp.

Bruce asks, "So what is GothCorp for?" "You said we can help Gotham right? This company can fund the charges for Gotham violence and it has many powerful chemicals in it such elements as flames, ice, etc." Bruce nods and Ferris explains how GothCorp can help many lives. After the dinner, Bruce leaves and puts on his Batsuit in the Batcave. He uses the Batwing to fly out and he patrols Gotham. Meanwhile, Dr. Fries is still walking to GothCorp with his blueprints. He sees that the audience is very big and that people are presenting many times. Fries asks one of the managers about when he can do his Freeze presentation and the manager says, "At this rate, probably an hour". "An hour? Okay." Fries sits in the audience, as time moves on. More and more people go, but Fries did not go. He feels as if the people are setting him up. Dr. Fries runs into Ferris, who says, "I'm sorry, Mister Fries. It is almost midnight, we need to close up for the day". Fries gets frustrated with his life because he's always been bullied ever since elementary school and no one respects him except his wife, Nora. Fries is revealed to be a lunatic when he talks out of nowhere, "I'm sorry, Nora. I will get the money soon, baby..." Dr. Fries goes crazy, but he goes home for the sake of his boredom and his tired mood.

James Gordon of the GCPD hires a new officer named Yi Lang, a trusted, but beginner cop. Elsewhere, Bruce is training Robin in the Batcave; "Dick, you have to use your senses to 'smell' our enemies. Stay outputted and alert". Bruce punches Dick, stealing his staff, but Dick uses his strength for good, "Now is the best time, Bruce!" Bruce does flips and jumps on a steel canister and throws and cracks Dick's neck. "Man, you're good." "Yes, I am Dick. I've been in the game for almost 3 years and you still have lot to learn, Dick.

And please, from now on, call me 'dad'. Dick surprise attacks Batman by attempting to shield him, but Bruce jumps out of the way, and kicks Dick 50 feet straight in the Batcave. Alfred is watching, "Wow, you guys. Watch out. I don't want to clean up Mister Robin's blood". Lucius comes in to present to Bruce a new material to put on his Batsuit, which has spikes on it in the batgloves. He upgrades it to his suit and Robin, gets a hood for his suit. Bruce drinks water and Dick charges at him, but Bruce grabs his arm and says, "You still have a lot to learn, son".

Victor Fries wakes up and a phone call rings in his dirty apartment. His apartment looks very distraught and mild with psychotic photos of the GCPD and Ferris Boyle. He picks up the phone; "Hello?" "Hi, Fries. This is Ferris Boyle." "(sighs) What do you want, Boyle?" "There was an icy incident in GothCorp and I need you to clean it up". Fries heads his way there. He goes into GothCorp, where he tries to fix the icy incident. He sees the room full of ice eels and a powerful ice engine. He climbs on a ladder, saying to himself, "You are a genius, Mister Fries. Do not let others tell you how to live your life. You are awesome. I am awesome (plugs the cable in to fix the generator). I will do this for you, Nora". Fries gets shocked and falls into the ice engine and gets bitten by the eels, having him turn all white. The tank explodes. The ambulance comes and half the city is alerted because of the noise. Bruce Wayne sees it, standing silent, while Ferris just shakes his head and sighs.

At night, Bruce decides to suit up; "Master Wayne, where are you going?" "I'm going to investigate the crime scene at GothCorp. And Ferris said it was safe and sound... uh... (looks at the Batcomputer and types in about the scene). Something does not look right. I need to investigate it. I'll keep you highlighted for details, Alfred. Call in Dick when I need him." "Right a way sir." Batman gets on his Batmobile, stopping by GothCorp. He sneaks in there, seeing Harvey Dent in there talking to a scientist. He slowly breaks into the ventilation systems and goes throws a deep hole, which leads to the room Dr. Fries was 'killed' in. Batman detects the area, learning that Victor fell down the wires and through the tank with icy eels. He then learns Fries had been taken by someone unknown because earlier the ambulance lost him; "Alfred, I'm detecting very cold signals in the room. It seems Dr. Fries wasn't very careful this morning, but he seems to have been kidnapped by someone." "This Dr. Fries, sir. I never heard of him. Are you sure he works at GothCorp?" "I scanned the prints on his body. Yes". "Okay, well I suggest you don't go alone. I'm going to call Ro---" "Not now, Alfred". Batman heads through the prints and glides about two more miles, but the prints stop there, so he learns either Victor died at that area or someone is setting Batman up. A laser is pointed at Batman's eye, he jumps up and does a flip. An assassin on the rooftop with one red eye to laser and a sniper instead of a right hand. He says, "Batman is mine." They are at a yard near an abandoned warehouse in a quiet island near Gotham. One of the assassins say, "Deadshot, Floyd, what now?" "Ambush him. I want you to bring him in alive or I will shoot a bullet through your eyes!" "Okay boss!" So the villain's name is, Deadshot, aka Floyd Lawton, an expert mercenary and the world's greatest assassin. Batman fights the thugs, seeing that they are ninjas. A ninja tries to kick him, but he grabs their leg, pulling it over and throwing them into the ground. A ninja punches Batman in the face, strangling him, but Batman walks on one of the pins and cracks his head. Batman punches the ninjas but they have block armor, so a ninja almost punches Batman, but he brutally punches them many times, banging their heads together. A pyromaniac named Firefly, aka Garfield Lynns, flies into the battle. Batman sees Firefly and he has black armor with wings that breathe out fire. Batman detects his sensor and he seems to be filled with 99.9% fire because he poured fire on himself. Firefly kicks Batman, trying to explode him with fire, but instead he burns the whole yard. "Master Bruce! I'm calling in Robin to help you!" "No, Alfred! This is too dangerous for Dick!" "Call in Commissioner Gordon then!" Batman glides away as Deadshot is in a jet and Firefly is flying to get him. "Gordon, come in on the 19th square precint near New Gotham. I need your help." "What's that noise?" "It's Firefly and Deadshot!" "Lawton... I should have known. What happened?" "There's no time for me to explain (gets on the Batwing)!" Batman flies away shooting missles at Deadshot's jet and the jet explodes. Lynns catches Lawton. Gordon goes in, using a Ak Rifle to shoot Firefly off. His left wing dies and Firefly goes down in the air. Firefly yells, "This isn't over, Batman!" Gordon gets mad, punching a box. "You should have called me in earlier!" "I apologize. So who are they?" "Sweet Jesus. Garfield Lynns, that pyromaniac who blue the yard up, broke out of Arkham Asylum again!" "Arkham Asylum?" "Yes, it is an asylum out of island near Arkham City. It is for maniacs." "What about Deadshot?!" "He's the worst. He's a contract killer and he's worked with many government IA's and is now targeting you somehow." "I don't get how this all leads into Fries's accident. I was locating his tracks, but then Deadshot attacked me and led into a battle." "I guess you have two things to find then; get Deadshot and learn where Firefly is from and what he has to do with Fries." Batman goes away; "AH! I hate it when he does that". Batman goes back to the Batcave. Alfred and Lucius see his suit torn up and many bruises and bloods on his neck and other body parts. He falls down. "Master Bruce, are you okay?" "Yes (coughs out blood). These guys are such sociopaths. I mean I dealt with some before, but this..." "Bruce, I strongly suggest you let Robin in to let you. He is a very valuable ally." Bruce does not answer. He goes up to the Wayne Manor.

Barbara Gordon is in her apartment, on the computer, typing in clues about the Tech Fives for her class. She sees her dad come by her apartment to visit. She sees him pull up in a police car, but in normal clothes. Barbara hugs; "Dad, I missed you." "Yeah Barbara. I missed you too. How is college?" "It is very good, I'm actually studying for a huge project that could help my financial aid in grad school". "That's good." They talk and they bond again, having Gordon say how Barbara looks a lot like her mom/his wife. Meanwhile, the anonymous kidnapper of Dr. Fries goes back to GothCorp and goes into his secret lab. He is not revealed, but he has a very deep and dark voice and he laughs manic when he is studying on Fries, whose body is hooked with cold wires and his whole body is used to freeze temperature. He leaves the building, then seconds later, Fries wakes up and has a muscle spasm. He grunts very loud, freezing the whole lab. He wears an overall and picks up a face mask to put in front of his mouth.

Bruce cleans up his blood and is looking good as new. He looks outside, seeing the batsignal put up in the sky by Commissioner Gordon. He sighs. While he puts on his batsuit and heads to the rooftop Gordon is on, Gordon is talking on the phone with Bullock who is referencing to him about a GothCorp incident. Gordon hangs up; "Shit!" Ferris Boyle goes on the building and starts arguing with the commissioner about the GothCorp incident and how Garfield Lynns broke out of Arkham Asylum. Harvey Dent joins the conversation; "Ferris, how are you even a true owner and founder of GothCorp? Look what you created (shows tape of Fries slowly walking and freezing out of GothCorp Tower)!" "How is it my fault?" Batman comes in and all four of them talk about all the incidents having to do with it. Batman privately talks to Gordon, while Ferris and Harvey are "yapping" at each other. Gordon; "You need to go to Arkham Asylum and see if there's anything that might help us to figure out Garfield Lynns's escape." Batman glides away using his booster glide to go to Arkham Asylum. He sees Robin join in; "Dad, you need my help." "Thank you, Robin." Batman and Robin sneak into Arkham Asylum, having Robin pummel any sociopathic inmates in his way. Batman goes into the penitentary, where it holds all the special contaiment cells for remarkable inmates. He scans the area for clues, seeing that Lynns had a secret pocket that held a chip and if he pressed it, he will transform his suit into his body, but Batman learns Lynns did not have the chip earlier. He learns someone from Arkham Asylum named, Dr. Jonathan Crane, gave Lynns the chip to break out. Batman and Robin then hunt who Dr. Jonathan Crane is. They later see that Crane is a psychopathic shrink in Arkham Asylum who "helps" the inmates with their mental health. Crane tells Batman that Firefly is very powerful and that he is unstoppable. Batman chokes Crane and kicks his face really hard, falling him unconscious and bloody.

Batman and Robin continues to glide around to find any more clues and they see Fries, who dons himself Mister Freeze, absorbing an arctic location near New Gotham. Batman does not know it's Fries, so he punches him and Freeze starts to grow weaker, but he colds himself up. After a long battle with Batman attempting to hit Freeze, he flees, having Robin chase him down, but failing. Batman comes to the Batcave, telling Lucius to make a suit called, "XE Cyrodrill" for a safety in order to stop Mister Freeze; "Lucius, make it developed because it seems I'm in war with Lynns and Freeze." "I'm confused; I thought Dr. Fries was innocent." "He is mad and a turned sociopath. I need to stop him to foil his plans. Him and Firefly are planning to foil the city into arctic ashes." Lucius Fox and Bruce Wayne go out in the morning the next day to get breakfast. They see Ferris, having him inform them about a party being ran for GothCorp. Ferris asks if he can take the party in Wayne Manor and Bruce blindly accepts because he respects Boyle and he is his friend. Then, the screen immediately switch to Wayne Tower, where Lucius touches a Budha statue and it opens a secret entrance to a room where Bruce's Batmobile and Batwing is stored with special antidotes in case of emergencies. And it is the "backup" Batcave in case the other one is destroyed. Bruce makes a joke, "Ya know, Fox, this is real nice. Just having a white room (chuckles). That is so me. Thanks for getting to know me---" "Wayne, I'm---" "No, it's fine. Better create a list of my personalities, but you know it pretty well (sarcastically)." Bruce pulls these wires together and Lucius begins developing and putting certain ice prototypes from GothCorp into Bruce's XE suit. Lucius and Bruce set up a new mission to get Deadshot; "One down, Lucius, then the better it is. One less problem without it." "It's always the hard way isn't it, Wayne? Well, as you see here, I hacked into the communication systems where Deadshot is connecting with his assassins." They hear and see the wire that records Deadshot live secretly; "Mr. Lawton, what would we do now?" "I ain't restin' into the Bat is done with. I'm not letting him get to Firefly nor Freeze." While they are talking, Bruce puts on his Batsuit and says, "I can accomplish this before the party at Wayne Manor starts." "Yes, I believe you can, Bruce. The party starts at 8PM, and it is 5PM right now, so it is getting dark." "That's one thing you know about me."

Lucius connects with Bruce; "Mr. Wayne, Deadshot's whereabouts are in a bachelor party in the 50th Borks Place in Old Gotham". Batman flies his Batwing and sets the waypoint. Then, the party is happening and females and males are dancing with pop music. Deadshot is setting up camp in the inside rooftop inside the building. Barbara Gordon seems to be in the party somehow, even though the party is "21 and over", while she is only 18. Barbara drinks beer without her father's permission. Batman lands in the rooftop. Deadshot looks over because he heard a sound of someone entering the rooftop. Meanwhile, Lynns takes of his pyro suit and reveals his body, which is disturbingly burnt and worn out, with very, very red eyes. He laughs manic and Freeze comes into his room; "Guess GothCorp, as what I call the so called 'CEO' of it, Ferris Boyle, turned us into these creatures, right Freeze?" Mister Freeze grunts and says, "What have I done? Where am I?" "You're with me." Garfield reveals to Victor that he destroyed many innocent lives with his temperature. He has built a cyronetic ice suit for Fries, which is 7 feet tall with a blast ray freezing gun and wires to help him breathe and live. Freeze tries it on and his voice changes tremendously; "I will do this for you, Nora. I will hunt down Ferris Boyle and turn this city into a living ice." Continuing Batman's mission to defeat Deadshot, he sees Barbara and tells Lucius; "Barbara? Barbara Gordon? What is she doing here? It's not place for a young teenage girl to be. I gotta report Gordon of this, but first I need to make sure she is safe." Deadshot scans the room and sees Batman, taking down his thugs; Batman pushes one down a ledge, smacking his head and throwing him off. Someone tries to punch Batman, but he blocks with his arm, cracking it and punching it many times. Batman sees a disguised party teenager with a bat and he steals the bat and breaks it, hitting it with the thug. A criminal with a jet tries to ambush him, grabbing him, but he puts explosive gel in his engine, blowing him up. Everyone runs for their lives when they see this and Deadshot's missile. Barbara runs for her lives, having Batman smack someone into electricity, uppercutting another thug and punching her out of the window and hanging her. Thugs and assassins round up against him and he kicks and punches them all many, many, many times. He throws the smoke bomb, looking at the time; 5:56PM. Batman breaks through a brick wall, taking someone down. A remaining Roman Sionis mobster tries to shoot him, but he gets an assassin, having the assassin get shot in the chest instead. Batman throws a batarang at the mobster and uses the glue grenade to glue him together and he kicks him unconscious. Batman goes into the room Deadshot is "awaiting" him at. Batman runs into Barbara; "What are you doing here, young girl?" "I'm sorry!" James Gordon searches the building, seeing a whole bunch of unconscious and broken down bodies from Batman all over the building. Gordon angrily puts his hand on Barbara and takes her to his police car. Batman uses his sensor to find Deadshot and finds him. Batman hides for minutes and then Deadshot misses his attack having Batman disrupt his weapon and Deadshot can no longer shoot. Batman throws a batarang into his eye. Batman has killed Lawton and Batman says to himself, "Damn..."

Bruce comes back to Lucius's underground room in Wayne Tower. "Mr. Wayne, I see it went well. You did a very good job." "Yeah... but I didn't get any information from Lawton about Firefly and Freeze because he got killed by a batarang." "Oh... that is a bitter..."

Commissioner Gordon gets home, pulling his daughter's arm in HIS house. "What were you thinking, Barbara? You could have got killed in that party." "I'm sorry, dad." "Sorry does not cut it this time, honey. Those people could have killed you. If the vigilante did not come in and stop those criminals and gangbangers, then you could have been killed." "Dad, I said I'm sorry!" "How much have I taught you?" He goes on about how she should be responsible for her actions because of college. Barbara says she misses being with him and calls her "daddy". They hug and Barbara cries.

Dick is waiting outside, calling Barbara, but she is not answering. He hopes she is fine, as Bruce arrives and tells Dick that he is may be "good" enough to patrol Gotham City while Bruce is at Boyle's party. He suits up as Robin and takes off. Bruce goes to Alfred, both wearing a suit and tie to make good impressions for his fans. A quick scene shows Lucius shipping the development of the XE suit to the Batcave under Wayne Manor. And it shows Freeze getting prepared for something unknown... The party is going on and Boyle goes to Bruce; "Hey, Bruce. Thanks for letting me borrow your mansion for a party. We're going to hit it up, if you know what I mean?" "Yes, Ferris. I believe you can change the world. Good luck." Ferris goes on stage; "Compassion; that's the foundation GothCorp was built on. GothCorp, I believe, can change the world; this foundation will save millions with our projects such as the cyrogenetic ones aka to those of you who don't understand is gently the ice weapon (audience laughs). Thank you." A friend of Bruce comes on stage; "Thank you, Ferris. Thank you. What a swell guy. Okay, people. Let's celebrate the foundation of---" The mansion gets colder and freezes; "Woohoo. Did you forget to pay the heating bill or something, Bruce?" The icy wall explodes and Mister Freeze comes in. He uses his cyrogenic ice blaster. He freezes many people in a pack, punching them with his hand and they blow away to bits. Bruce gets spooked and Ferris runs away. Mister Freeze hits someone, freezing them; "Bring me Ferris Boyle!" Bruce wonders why Boyle is being targeted by "this guy". He learns it is Fries. Freeze has brang in reinforcements from Deadshot's old gang and a couple of surviving Sionis mobsters. Bruce talks into a his hidden chip underneath his sleeve; "Alfred, it is Freeze. I need to find out why he is after Ferris... Alfred?" Alfred seems to be in trouble, so Bruce searches the house.

Robin is having "peace time", stalking his girlfriend, Barbara. Robin sees a disturbance smoke coming from Bruce's mansion. He heads there. Bruce opens a door, then a thug smacks him with his carbine rifle, holding Bruce hostage. Bruce sees Alfred using a stick, hitting a thug, but a thug punches him and Bruce yells; "Alfred!!" A thug punches Bruce 5 times, until Bruce decides to use his martial arts skills for good as himself, so he breaks the gun and knee kicks the thug. He flips around punching a thug many times, putting his head into a light bulb lighting up. Bruce kicks a guy on his back, falling him down and punching the last thug to death. Bruce; "Alfred (picks Alfred up), are you alright?" "Yes I'm fine. These thugs don't scare me..." "Alfred don't..." "Be careful out there, Master Bruce. Find Mr. Boyle and make sure he is okay, sir, but you cannot accomplish that feat wearing that. You need to put on your other suit." Robin comes in to aid Bruce, so Bruce puts on his Batsuit. Batman decides to go around Wayne Manor for any other hostages. He sees none, except Vicki Vale being sexually abused by one of Black Mask's mobsters. He bumps them in the head, having them try to punch him, but he cracks their hand, putting batclaws around it. Vicki Vale; "Thank you, Batman. I owe you one. Do you need anything?" "None of your business, Vicki. Go back to safety." "Tell me what you're doing. Gotham City NEEDS to know." Batman does not answer, going to Wayne Tower because Ferris is hiding there. When they arrive, they see Ferris trying to his best hide, then Mister Freeze comes in, blasting Ferris with his ice radar. Mister Freeze; "I finally got my hands on you, Boyle." Before he leaves Wayne Tower for GothCorp Tower, Batman swing kicks Mister Freeze, putting an explosive tractor on him, but it does no damage. Robin uses his staff to smack Mister Freeze many times, as he blasts Robin's wind shield and it breaks in half. Robin uses his acrobatic abilities to try to stop Freeze and Batman, while punching and kicking Freeze; "Dr. Fries, this is not you!" "Ferris Boyle will pay for what they did to me. Firefly and I!" Batman learns that Firefly and him have created a partnership, then Freeze blasts Batman in the leg, but he breaks off with his explosive gel. Batman and Robin dodges Freeze's shots, then Batman punches Freeze many times to his "weak part", but Freeze ice punches Robin to the wall and he falls down Wayne Tower, but uses his bird grapple to get back up. Freeze somehow gets away.

Bruce goes into the Batcave and tells Alfred, "Alfred, Freeze was no match for us. Dick and I had a very hard time fighting him." "Freeze; he used to be an outcast in GothCorp. What does he want with Ferris Boyle?" "I don't know, but I'm about to find out. Where is the XE extreme environment suit?" "It's still in development, sir." Bruce goes over to it, looking and seeing that it is almost done. Bruce tells Alfred that he is going after Firefly next. He uses his Batcomputer, hearing the communications of Freeze and Lynns; "My next plan to you is the Pioneers Bridge, Freeze. That's the next step to turning Gotham into a living hell! Burn baby, burn!" Bruce says that he is going to Pioneers Bridge whenever Firefly attacks it.

Barbara is revealed to have a secret underground "nerd" lab in her apartment. She triggers a button and there are full of computers and hacking networks. She hacks into a network, where she hears that Firefly is planning to burn Pioneers Bridge and looks outside, seeing it is snowing even more because of Freeze. Barbara says, "Oh no, I have to tell my dad AND Batman. Telling my dad is not a good idea. Think Barbara. Think; how do I get Batman's attention?" Then she realizes that her father has a batsignal on top of the GCPD building.