16. A Dark Knight: One of My Three Soups

Complete story — includes the ending

Jervis Tetch breaks himself, Jerome, Scarecrow, and eighty other inmates out of Arkham before hypnotizing hundreds of Gotham citizens to stand on rooftops, forcing Gordon into an impossible situation. Though Tetch programs his victims to jump if they are told not to, Gordon finds a loophole and tricks the hypnotized people into saving each other, while apprehending Tetch. Bruce, blaming himself for not killing Jerome in their previous encounter, tracks him down with Selina's help as Jerome tracks down his abusive uncle. Jerome's uncle tries to kill him but Bruce intervenes and, in the ensuing encounter, he chooses to spare Jerome again. Jerome kills his uncle after learning the location of someone for whom he is searching; he and Scarecrow later rescue Tetch and head to 'St. Ignatius,' pursued by Bruce, who alerts Gordon. Elsewhere, Barbara, forcing herself to remember the events surrounding her resurrection, learns that Ra's al Ghul revived her so she could replace him as the Demon's Head and usurps leadership of the League of Shadows with help from the organization's female members, who kill their male comrades to protect her.