At Louis Sanders house, Ellen Yin walks through the door with her gun, ready to shoot. She makes her way to the kitchen and sees Sanders dead body, lowering her weapon.
"It never gets easier, does it?"
Yin quickly turns around and aims her gun at Nightwing who was standing behind her.
"What the hell happened here?" Yin asks.
"Looks like who ever kidnapped the girl tonight, wanted to add murder to the list of felonies." Dick replies.
"So what? This guy is just going out, kidnapping and killing random teenage girls and retired cops?" Yin asks.
Dick leans down to inspect the blood.
"I don't know. Something in my gut is telling me that Sanders and the girl are somehow connected. Judging by the nature of his injuries, there was definitely some animosity. Did anyone have a grudge against him?"
"I mean, I didn't know the guy personally, but from what I hear, everyone loved him."
Dick starts thinking to himself about the victim, then Yin points out something in Sanders hand. He opens the victim's hand and sees a plastic wristband.
"What is that?" Yin asks.
"Looks like a bracelet they give to the mentally insane." Dick says.
"So our culprit is an escaped mental patient?"
"Looks like it. More specifically, Arthur Brown. A burn victim."
Dick stands up and faces Yin.
"Call this in. Do some digging, see what connection you can find between Arthur and Louis. I'll see what I can find at the hospital." Dick says.
As he walks off, Yin stops him.
"After this is over. I'm taking you in."
Dick smirks.
"That's fine. Let's find the girl first."
Dick then leaves and Yin radios into the station.
Meanwhile, at an unknown location, the kidnapped girl is chained to a bed, screaming for help, with tears in her eyes. She then hears Arthur at the door. When he opens the door, she is stunned by what she sees. Most of Arthur's face and body are covered in burns, and his jacket is stained with blood. When he walks over to her, she cowers in fear of him. Arthur puts a tray of food on the bed gently. He then runs his hands through her hair and leaves the room.
The girl kicks the tray off the bed and screams at the top of her lungs.
At the mental hospital, a doctor named Iman Avesta is working late at night. When she finishes all of her paperwork, she looks up and is scared by the sight of Nightwing.
"Sorry, didn't mean to scare you. Force of habit."
Avesta is shocked for a moment, then smiles.
"It's you. The first Robin. Nightwing."
"The one and only. I was hoping you could help me with something. Your old patient, Arthur Brown."
When Avesta hears the name, her face drops.
"Come with me." She tells him.
As Dick walks with Avesta, she tells him about Brown.
"Arthur was never a bad man, even after the accident. But his severe burns, mixed with the death of his wife, left him... unstable. While he was in here, he never said a word, just drew pictures and wrote on the wall with his own blood. The times he did speak, he only talked about getting someone back that was taken from him."
They then walk into Arthur's room, and Dick is a little shocked at what he sees. The room is covered with drawings of him and a little blonde girl together, standing over Officer Sander's dead body. The name "Stephanie" is written all over the walls in blood. As Dick makes the connection, he turns to Avesta with a sense of urgency.
"When he was talking about getting someone back, did he ever mention a place that he would bring them?"
Avesta thinks to herself for a moment.
"I think he said something about Crescent Hill."
Dick then hurries to leave, but Avesta stops him.
"Why do you do this? What drives you to put your life on the line for people you barely know?"
When she asks him this, memories of him loosing his parents, standing infront of their graves, and being taken in by Bruce Wayne flashes through his mind.
"I have my reasons."
As Dick leaves, Avesta smiles, writing down notes.