Batman Detective Comics #3

Batman sees it's not really Gordon, but a dead composite of people stitched together to look like him. As his side is going numb with paralysis, he starts the fight so he can hurry out before it's too late. He fights his way out and jumps through the window taking the jester with him.

At the abandoned Mercy Hospital, Gordon is in a cage and discovers sutures in his side. Olivia is there, outside the cage. She says Dollmaker wants to adopt her. She says Dollmaker is a victim too. Gordon tells her how to get a message to Batman.

Batman, beating up the jester for information, but discovers he doesn't have a tongue.

Outside the police station, news people shouting out questions. Charlotte Rivers is a TV reporter who is front and center. In the background, we see a small hooded figure (Olivia) entering the station.

The Batcave, Bruce is ruminating on the Wesley Mathis case files. He's looking at a cut up image implying that Mathis is now a composite of all his victims? We learn Mathis had been shot by a young Gordon in front of Mathis' son, Barton. Barton said his father had taken him on his "hunting trips" and then cannibalized the bodies. Barton went into foster care and disappeared a year later. Alfred tells Bruce that someone had turned on the Bat Signal.

Back at Mercy Hospital, Dollmaker and Matilda discuss cutting up Gordon. Dollmaker wants to wait and says that Gordon killed his father (so he's Barton, right?). He states that Gordon doesn't "even recognize your dead victim's face even when you're staring right at it" - so is Dollmaker Wesley Mathis or is he Barton wearing his father's face?

Batman arrives to find Olivia at the Bat Signal, who tells him that Dollmaker will operate on him again soon and hands him a note from Gordon: "Come to Mercy Hospital" with the 'r' in Mercy backwards.

The police try to grab Olivia, but she tazers him.

At Mercy Hospital, Batman figures it's another setup for him. He shouts for Dollmaker, but hears his voice on an intercom and sees a monitor showing Gordon strapped down and gagged - he sees an abandoned operating room. Then "Bentley" the big henchman from before grabs Batman around the neck from through the wall and chokes him unconscious.

Batman wakes up in the middle of a spotlit enclosure, with manacles attached to cabled puppet strings and at least six faux Jokers with knives surrounding him also hanging from puppet strings.