Nightwing #9

Synopsis

DIE TRYING Nightwing swings through Blüdhaven, but suddenly his jump-line snaps and Dick has to pull every trick he learned at the circus to not get killed while falling into the center of a closed mall. He immediately realizes that he is not alone though. First Dick thinks he has seen a man and a child, but then he gets flat-out caught in a shootout of several criminal factions. It takes Nightwing quite a while to escape all the shooters and to find out that it was Two-Face he saw earlier. And Dick remembers the kid Two-Face holds in his grasp - its the same young boy he sees night after night in a recurring nightmare. As in the nightmare the boy suddenly falls deep making Nightwing feel miserable because he is unable to save him. When Nightwing also sees the likes of Batman, Robin and Batgirl looking down at him and agreeing about how he has failed them, it becomes obvious that everything is not as it seems. Actually, the whole sequence Nightwing just went through was created by Scarecrow. The master of fear was called to Blüdhaven by Detective Soames to finally get rid of Nightwing ...