One year after the flooding of Gotham, the city is in chaos. With the power vacuum left by Carmine Falcone’s death and the Riddler’s attacks, criminal factions battle for dominance. Amid this, Batman (Bruce Wayne) continues his war on crime—but now faces a darker, more personal threat. A new serial killer stalks Gotham’s elite: the victims are mutilated, their corpses left with haunting smiles carved into their faces. Whispers grow of a mysterious figure known only as the Joker, an agent of chaos connected to the inmates of Arkham. As Batman investigates, he uncovers links between the killings and Dr. Harleen Quinzel, a brilliant but unstable Arkham psychiatrist drawn into Joker’s orbit. Meanwhile, Harvey Dent, Gotham’s new district attorney, rises to power, campaigning on law and order. But as he works with Batman to clean up the city, cracks in his psyche begin to show, hinting at a tragic fall to come. Torn between detective work and moral boundaries, Bruce finds himself walking a thin line. Gotham needs justice—but what if justice wears a smile? As alliances break and identities fracture, Batman faces his greatest dilemma yet: in a city that breeds monsters, can he stay the man he’s trying to be—or will he become the very darkness he fights?