EPISODE NUMBER: 10, Production Code 111

PLOT SUMMARY:

The judge who sentenced The Joker receives a late-night visit ... and is trapped in a giant playing card. The Joker then tows him away as the cops look on, and Batman gives pursuit. The Joker loses him when Batman almost goes off a bridge. According to Arkham's records, Joker is still in jail, but Batman doesn't believe it. He goes to a card-manufacturing factory and the Joker shows up but is strangely untalkative as they fight.

Batman knocks out the Joker after an extended fight but discovers that the "Joker" is a guy in make-up. The man, Nolan, is an orderly at Arkham who the Joker blackmailed into helping him. The guy tries to shoot Batman but his rigged gun explodes and traps him in a giant playing card. Batman goes to Arkham and sneaks in while Alfred distracts Dr. Bagley, the head of the asylum. Batman visits the Joker's cell and is gassed. The Joker leaves for the theater, leaving Batman locked in.

An orderly calls in the police but Bruce disguises himself as the Joker, then escapes. Yin and Bennett go to the Gotham Theater and are knocked out, where they find themselves imprisoned with other audience members. The Joker has assembled them all there to witness him kill his various card-imprisoned victims by dropping them into a tank. Batman follows him there and rescues them, then drops the curtain on Joker and another fight ensues. The Joker is trapped in one of his own giant cards and hauled off.

WRITTEN BY: Adam Beechen

DIRECTED BY: Seung Eun-Kim

CAST:
Rino Romano (Bruce Wayne / Batman)
Ming-Na (Detective Ellen Yin)
Steve Harris (Detective Ethan Bennett )
Kevin Michael Richardson (the Joker / Judge Wigzell)
Henry Gibson (Bagley)

QUOTES:
Joker: The Batman! What if I hadn't been decent?
Batman: You're never decent, Joker.

Joker: (to Batman) I don't need you in my card collection. I never play with a full deck! INTERESTING NOTES:
- Nolan, the name of the orderly that Joker blackmailed, may be a reference to Christopher Nolan, the director of the most recent Batman movie, Batman Begins.
- The Joker mentions a chemical bath in the episode. Although his pre-Joker history may be different, it is at least established that the Joker fell into a vat of chemicals.

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