Synopsis for "The Court of Owls, Part Ten: Assault on the Court"

Maria Powers returns to her penthouse at the top of the Powers Hotel to find that it's been ransacked. Seeing this, she rushes back into the elevator and buzzes security. As the barred door closes, a hand stops the outer doors from giving Maria the added protection. To her horror, Maria Powers is greeted by the sneer of the Batman. He holds up an Owl mask, and Maria denies that it belongs to her husband. Batman already knows that the mask is actually hers. Joseph Powers is missing, and so is his mask. The Batman wants to know where he is. She dismissively responds that her husband is out of the country, and warns that the Court of Owls is not beaten yet.

After Batman leaves, he hears from Alfred that, as expected, Mrs. Powers has contacted her husband since the encounter, and he can piggyback a tracking signal on her call. However, Mr. Powers' phone seems to be within a deadzone, in which his exact location cannot be determined. This zone is in the south side of Gotham. Batman has already found his way there. He is overcome by a feeling of remembering - of remembering a part of the mystery that he somehow overlooked. The piece of the mystery which makes all of the others fall into place: Harbor House. As a boy, he had investigated it, hoping to find clues about his parents' deaths. Then, he had found nothing, but now - he will not come away empty-handed.

In his determination, Batman marches into the old building, ready to overcome any trap - any obstacle - in pursuit of his goal to bring down the Court of Owls. He is therefore taken aback, when he steps into a well-lit dining hall to see the Court sitting around the table silently. They are dead; every one of them.

By morning, Bruce is left puzzling over why the members of the Court would simply kill themselves like that. His thoughts are drawn to his parents' deaths, and he fidgets with the bullet casings that he has kept from their murder, all this time. Alfred tries to discourage him from dwelling on it, but Bruce's confusion turns to determination. The Court's death seems more like a setup to him than an act of despair at having lost to him. The dead members' money was siphoned off to another account, suggesting some kind of betrayal within the Court. As Bruce puts on his Batsuit he ponders over his parents' portrait, still unwilling to dismiss a connection between their deaths and the Court. Suddenly, he spots something that gives him a rush of understanding, and he realizes who was behind the Court's deaths.

Batman sneaks into the morgue, and opens a certain drawer, only to find a note reading "Follow me down the Rabbit hole?"

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Synopsis for "The Fall of the House of Wayne, Part II"

As Jarvis Pennyworth struggles to evade the Talon sent to kill him, he recalls how he feels a responsibility for the danger unleashed upon both Thomas and Martha Wayne and their very legacy.

Martha had been working to build a school for Gotham City's underprivileged and forgotten children. She believed that through the school, she could shape the city into a better place for her son Bruce, and for the second child that she still carried in her womb. She was nearly due, but she continued to work tirelessly to build the school while Jarvis looked after Bruce. Bruce was quite gifted, and Jarvis hoped that one day his son Alfred would grow to love the boy as he had.

One day, Martha had called Jarvis into her office to tell him to put Bruce to bed, but he had overheard her on the phone with the mayor, annoyed that someone claiming to be representing the city had threatened her away from building her school. The mayor disavowed any knowledge of the threats or those who made them. Angrily, Martha had hung up, not imagining that the threats could have come from somewhere other than City Hall.

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