Eric Border is an idealist from Metropolis, so his first night working as an orderly at Arkham Asylum comes as something of a shock. While he had studied each of the inmates to the point that he felt like he knew them, he was unprepared, when he first arrived, for the sensation of looking into their eyes, and feeling like they already knew him. What most took him by surprise happened just hours after his shift began: The Batman was imprisoned at Arkham.