Now Charlotte Rivers shows up, who Bruce had stood up for a date in issue 1. She's angry, but they end up kissing and more - they set up a stay-at-home date for the weekend at Charlotte's.
Batman on his cycle ruminating about the prior night, when they discovered Joker's face on the wall at Arkham. Commissioner Gordon and Dr. Arkham discussing how Joker got out without any security notice. Gordon steps out and is joined by Batman. We find that it was a Ray Quimby who took Olivia out of the police station. His record states he was arrested 10 years ago helping a killer named Wesley Mathis, who cut up and ate his victims. They wonder if it was Quimby who is the killer and if he busted Joker out. A dispatch states that Quimby was sighted with Olivia entering an old building.
Batman arrives and sees a parked cop car. Gordon arrives and hears a thumping in the trunk - when he opens it, somebody grabs him. Batman is now upstairs and discovers a dead Quimby with five knives sticking out of him, blood still pooling. He finds the dead cop, who's been dead at least twelve hours, so we know he wasn't the one who called in the sighting.
Batman is attacked in the dark by two guys, one who punches him exactly where Joker had stabbed him. They have skin sutured onto their bodies, just like the dead uncle Joker had killed at the beginning of #1. He's knocking them around pretty good when someone jabs him with a hypodermic and clubs him with a sledge hammer. He's down, but not out and we see a nurse with a mask standing over him with a sledge hammer - one of the guys calls her "sis" (Matilda). Batman headbutts the guy and "sis" is about to sledge him again when "Father" (Dollmaker) shows up with some henchmen; a clanging monkey, a evil toothy jester, and a hulking guy.
The issue ends when they bring in Gordon with sutures all over his head and face.
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