PLOT:
Following his disappearance from Arkham, the police have the Riddler pegged for the mysterious King Tut murders given Tut's
predilection towards reciting cryptic poems at the scenes of his crimes. After waiting all night outside the apartment of the next
board trustee Leigh Carson, Tut finally makes his move at sunrise, confounding the tired police officers who had waiting in anticipation of a sunset timed attack. When Batman arrives to save the day he finds Tut and the Riddler both seemingly chasing after the woman. Batman opts for
stopping the Riddler (a move that only serves to associate Batman with the evil of Gotham and demonize him further in the eyes of Tut) allowing Tut to escape.
Once outside, Riddler attempts to explain that he was merely trying to help the woman board member escape as a means of thwarting this new villain that has stolen his M.O. Riddler reveals that he was able to anticipate the sunrise attack by determining that all of
Tut's cryptic poems have actually been passages from the Hymn of Aten. As history would have it, Aten the sun-god was briefly worshipped by the
Egyptians following Akhenaton's Amarna revolution. Later however, the real King Tutankhamun would reinstate
the pantheon of deities and their temples allegedly at the behest of his advisors Ay and perhaps Nefertiti.
While looking for a connection linking Gotham City's King Tut back to the museum, Batman and Riddler come across the profile of a man by the name of Victor Goodman. Goodman,
known for his controversial theory that Tut was assonated by his priests for still
believing in the Aten the sun god he denounced, was recently let go by the museum. Batman and Riddler
confer with Leigh Carson and find that
the reason for Goodman's release was his reaction to finding out that the Museum's board had decided not to invite the King Tut exhibit to town - citing a lack of funding. After suffering a blow to the head during his confrontation with the
board, Goodman began to take the parallels between Tut's persecution and his own quite literally and starts to see himself as the re-incarnation of the fallen
Pharaoh.
After the two leave, Leigh Carson phones Goodman in an attempt to sort things out. When Riddler and Batman arrive at Goodman's house a short time later, it's clear that Tut had been
expecting them. Appearing via video screen, Tut explains that he chose his
to use the puzzling riddles in his crimes on purpose in an attempt to manipulate Riddler into breaking out of Arkham and being lured into his trap. It would seem as though one of the chief reasons behind the museum's lack of funds was
the Riddler's crime sprees robbing them of their properties so often. Realizing they'd just stepped into a trap, Batman and Riddler make an attempt to run but Tut triggers an explosion which destroys his entire house with the Dark Knight inside!
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