The KGBeast, now relegated to doing mob hits, lined his target up in his sights. Before he could fire however, he was attacked and chased through a window onto an adjacent rooftop. The attacker, Harvey Dent - calling himself "Gotham's Protector," threw him from the rooftop.

A little while later, newly minted Gotham Police "golden boy" Harvey Bullock is on the scene investigating KGBeast's corpse. The body is found by the police dead on the spot where he landed. But a closer look reveals that it wasn't the fall that killed him - it was two bullets to the skull that ended the life of the Soviet villain.

Elsewhere, Harvey Dent was told his work as Gotham's Protector was over. He'd been stopping the crimes he once would have committed - as Two-Face.

After arriving back in his office, Commissioner Gordon receives a call from the Mayor. Poison Ivy has attacked the Vanguard Building. Gordon and a rookie cop, Harper, go to the roof and light the Bat-Signal.

Gotham erupts in a wave of cheers as the citizens watch Batman return to action for the first time in twelve long months. With little time for pleasantries, Batman and Robin leave almost as quickly as they arrived on the Gotham Police rooftop and head out via the Bat-Wing towards the vine-covered Vanguard Building.