Sensing that his time was running out, Victor Zsasz plans his final escape that night. But as he crawls into the sewer system he suddenly finds himself face to face with Nightwing! After leaving Arkham Asylum the night before, Nightwing went and searched Zolly Hiram's office and found blueprints to the Asylum. It was then that he realized that Hiram had built in secret escape tunnels through certain cells and was selling the tunnels' locations to inmates such as Victor Zsasz and Everard Mallitt for the money he needed to pay off his rising gambling debts. Having killed off Mallitt, Zsasz would have nearly gotten away with it if it weren't for Batman stumbling across Mallitt's file.

Nightwing and Zsasz do battle in the sewer system until Batman arrives and delivers the knock-out blow. Commissioner Gordon shows up at Arkham Asylum demanding to see Zsasz! An incredulous Jeremiah Arkham obliges and is absolutely flabbergasted to find that the madman had somehow escaped his impenetrable security systems! Although Arkham was in fact not involved nor aware of Zsasz's escapes, Batman makes sure to drive home the point that amidst the doctor's search to understand the mental disease of his patients he nearly allowed a serial killer to go free! Gordon explains their ruse to Arkham and Batman is allowed to go free.

So bent on forging his own path, Dr. Jeremiah Arkham burned his uncle's personal diary when he took over Arkham Asylum. But now, after this latest debacle, the line between sanity and insanity that Dr. Arkham once found so clear is suddenly blurred. And as he sits up at night deciding to start his own personal diary, he wonders if the madness that once overtook his uncle lurks within him as well.