Synopsis for "The Court of Owls, Part Eleven: My Brother's Keeper"

Having just claimed that he is the long-lost brother that Bruce Wayne never knew he had - Thomas Wayne, Jr - Lincoln March launches his powerful attack on the Batman, playing on the detective's need to follow the clues to their conclusion. Despite the knowledge that March has subjected himself to the same treatment as the Talons, effectively rendering him immortal, Batman returns each of March's punches.

As he charges, smashing Batman through the weak walls of the condemned Willowwood Home for Children, March analyses the story that defines him - that he believes is true. Through time, stories like those of Romulus and Remus - brothers meant to share a fate but torn apart by greed - ended with the the greedier of the two leaving the forgotten brother to rot. This time, March will kill the greedy Batman, who was so proud as to think that Gotham City was his. He thrusts Batman through the outer wall of the building and into a free-fall to the ground below. Batman manages to wrap his grapple around March's neck and yanks him down after.

March's Owl armour is equipped with technology that allows it to fly, and instead of falling, he flies upward, dragging the Batman behind him. He offers a tour of the life that he saw denied to him from the windows of Willowwood. They fly past Crowne Tower, in whose shiny windows March could see the reflection of the imposing Wayne Tower. In the reflection now, they can see the entire city reflected as a reversed and unnatural version of itself. Angrily, March swings Batman into the mirrored walls of the building, shards of glass cutting him. March remarks that this experience would not be entirely unlike what he experienced when the two of them were in the car accident that forced his premature birth - if his claims about their shared parentage are true.

March explains how he grew up as a sickly mute with no inkling of his identity. Martha Wayne had visited the Home often, and from those visits, March had realized that she was his mother. When he saw her on television, he had a revelation that he was the son of the powerful Wayne Family. Meanwhile, the Court of Owls had begun whispering to him in the night, telling him that he was truly Thomas Wayne, Jr, and a son of the city. Even after the Waynes had been killed, March hoped that his elder brother would come and find him. As he waited and hoped, the quality of service at the Willowwood Home declined significantly. All the while that Bruce didn't come for him, the Owls did, and they saved him from the failing home.

March had then convinced himself that his brother had forced the memory of him out of his mind in order to have the whole city to himself. He convinced himself that the reverse city he had seen in Crowne Tower's reflection was his inheritance.

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Synopsis for "The Fall of the House of Wayne, Part III (Conclusion)"

With his carriage house in flames at the hands of a Talon of the Court of Owls, Jarvis Pennyworth safeguarded the letter he had written for his son Alfred and smashed through an upper window to escape.

He remembered the accident that had occurred at the intersection of Lincoln and March; the accident that had caused the premature birth of Thomas Wayne, Jr. He remembered the screams and the blood the most. Martha had taken the brunt of the impact, shielding her son Bruce from danger. As a result, her unborn child, born early, was lost. From that point, she was consumed by sadness. Jarvis had even caught her speaking to her husband as if the child had survived, but she had covered it up when she realized he had heard.

To bring some closure to the issue the family had planted a willow tree at the edge of the Wayne Family cemetery. It didn't work and Thomas and Martha decided to leave the country for the summer, to heal away from the ci

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