It is almost dawn in Gotham City when Batman responds to gun shots. He encounters a masked gunman who shoots four people, killing two. Batman disarms the gunman and slams into him. Pulling off the mask he finds a sixty-seven year woman who later explains her actions as a whim. Meanwhile reporter Vicki Vale finds and photographs some homeless people. As she leaves another criminal, wearing an identical mask as the old woman, arrives and attacks the homeless men with an axe.