Apparently some backstabbing has taken place and Eddie feels like resolving the issue at Rob’s expense. Just before matters can get worse, Batman busts through a window and grabs one of Eddie’s thugs. A shootout ensues but Batman is able to dodge all bullets and finally gets a hold of Eddie himself and begins his questioning after taking him through a sewer. Batman wants to know whose responsible for the recent happenings regarding some of Gotham’s most ruthless gangsters, and figures Eddie is a good guy to ask.

Meanwhile back at the home of Oswald Cobblepot, the Penguin and Scarecrow are expressing their dissatisfaction with the lackluster job of their hired hands. However, that issue takes a backseat as an argument is struck between Penguin and Scarecrow and soon we see Cobblepot make it clear to Scarecrow that they are not equal partners, because Penguin is the one in charge. Next we see Scarecrow return to his laboratory where we meet his assistant Linda Fritawa. We don’t learn much about this character other than she’s very loyal to Crane and thinks quite highly of him, and perhaps cares for him as she tries to build a kind of friendliness. One interesting thing we find out about her also, is that she apparently has a medical condition as she explains that she cant function in daylight, rather only during the night is she able to do anything. They go off to work some more of a formula of some sort, likely to be related to the new fear toxin we’ve seen put to work in the previous issue.

Moving right along, later into the night we find Penguin and his cohorts stepping out of a limo and anticipating the arrival of someone named Connery as the two are to have a meeting. However its what they don’t anticipate that matters most as Batman swoops down and carries Cobblepot onto a rooftop. The dark knight lets Penguin know in no uncertain terms that he wants him to stop whatever hes involved himself with immediately. Of course the penguin denies everything all the way through but the point was to ruffle his feathers, as once back in the Batcave, Batman explains to Robin. He wants him to be nervous because then he tends to make mistakes.

Back again at Cobblepot’s place, we find Penguin once again berating Scarecrow. It is here that we see how concerned about and loyal to Crane, his assistant Linda Fritawa is. She explains to him that he deserves a greater reward than the disrespect that Cobblepot shows him. As he explains to her that his reward must apparently be earned we shift to a new location where a group of gangsters have congregated waiting for yet another to join them. Suddenly a hideous monster-like being crashes the gathering and wreaks havoc on them all. Before completing its destruction, the creature asks one of the thugs if they’re frightened.