After stabbing the Batman through the back in the underground maze of the Court of Owls, the Talon announces that while he does plan to kill Batman, the vigilante will be given the honour of having his bones displayed in the maze, as a monument to his having been an honourable foe. Batman crawls to the hole and drops through, landing in one of the underground caverns through which the Gotham River runs, leading back to the Batcave. However, he soon finds that the river is coated in ice, and he no longer has the strength to punch through it. Defeated, he sinks down to the bottom.