On a strip of bare land, Mayor Hill announces the beginning of construction for a new, modern prison, Stonegate Penitentiary, which will go a long way toward making Gotham safe for its citizens. Hill commends District Attorney Harvey Dent as the driving force behind the prison's construction. Harvey digs the first shovelful of dirt. Before the first bulldozer starts excavating the land, a pair of hands belonging to an unseen person carefully uproot a tall wild rose growing in the ground, and pot it.