The story opens with a circus scene. Three acrobats swoop above a gasping crowd, among whom is Bruce Wayne. A young boy (one of the acrobats) watches on as his parents prepare for a particularly death defying leap, when suddenly a man in a suit that is half black, half white walks in, flipping a coin. The boy watches on in horror as the man levels his gun at the other two acrobats and fires twice. The two acrobats fall to the ground. The man, as the boy can now see, is horrifically scared on the left side of his face. He flips the coin. It comes down heads. In a somehwat sad voice, he apologises and levels the gun at the boys head. Suddenly, Batman swoops in and tackles the man (who he calls Harvey). The man growls that Harvey no longer exists, and that he is Two Face now. He grabs the boy