Woozy from the drugs that were just injected into his system, Bruce Wayne demands to know why his old friend Lucius Fox would do that to him. When he looks up, though, he sees that Lucius is occupied with being taunted by his former colleague Karl Helfern, who now calls himself Doctor Death. Amid Lucius' screams, Helfern takes a syringe of his poison and thrusts its needle into the man's ear. Disgusted, Bruce leaps up and whacks Helfern's arm away with a length of pipe, only to watch the bone repair itself, and mutate. Helfern merely knocks him back, causing Lucius to beg Bruce to run for his life.