Sure enough, Joker got Red Hood's attention.
But getting Joker out of Arkham
was Jason's goal all along.
Black Mask was just the pawn to make it happen.
Jason was playing a long game of revenge
against Joker..
...against me
all building to a final confrontation.
He captured Joker, and summoned me to meet them.
I knew I couldn't be late.
Never missing a chance to gain a psychological advantage
Jason chose Crime Alley as our meeting place
where I lost my father and mother to a murderer.
Jason wanted it all to end that night
but I was going to save my son, or die trying.
We could've fought all night.
But no blow would land as hard as the one I felt
when he finally removed the helmet.
For that moment, I was just a father again.
I didn't wanna fight anymore.
I begged him to stop, to let me help.
But he wasn't done.
So neither was I.
It was always a contest with Jason
him against the world.
Even dying didn't teach him he was wrong.
There was no more reasoning, no more holding back.
He wanted pain, I was ready to unleash it.
Ready to drag that kid through fire
through hell and back, to show him once and for all
his contest wasn't with the world, it was with himself.
And then he finally got the moment
he'd been planning for five years.
Jason said he'd forgiven me
for not saving him that night in Bosnia
but that I didn't avenge his death afterward.
That I didn't kill Joker for killing him
was a betrayal he could not live with.
So he crafted his final challenge for me.
He wanted to look me in the eye
forcing me to make a choice
between our ideals.
Kill Joker or kill Jason
to stop him from killing Joker.
But life isn't a game and death is never a choice.
To make it so is our undoing, it would be my undoing.
I think about killing Joker every day
ending the monster that I let loose on the world.
But I'll never allow myself that release
a promise I made to my father and mother
an example to a son that I will never stop fighting
to protect from himself.
Aah! Ah..
No! Don't spoil it! This is better!
Yes!
I'm the only one who's gonna get what he wants tonight!
Bing, bang, boom!
Don't you just love a happy ending?
'We all go out together!'
I can never stop fighting to protect them from themselves..
...to protect them from me.