We're almost there, Conway.
Just keep your eyes open.
Something could still happen.
Spider Conway.
Don't know what he's worrying about.
He's only got the sweetest deal of the century.
All he's gotta do is make like a canary at the crime-commission hearings...
and he gets 10 years off his time.
It ain't him getting to the hearings that's got him spooked.
It's somebody else getting to him before then.
There's a bomb on the boat!
Abandon ship!
Remind me never to think of you as a good-luck charm.
I'm over here! Help me!
Carver, I want Dock Street cordoned off three blocks in both directions. Move it.
Hardesty, call Forensics.
No sign of Conway anywhere, detective.
Start dragging the bay.
Taking me off the case? What kind of shuck and jive is this, Jim?
You know what I went through to get Conway out of Stonegate.
But it's worth it if his testimony can take down Rupert Thorne.
Which is why Thorne looks good for the bombing.
But if I let you go after Thorne, a lot of ugly ancient history is bound to come up.
I gotta relieve you, Harv, you know that.
Unless you want Internal Affairs all over you like a bad rash.
Ancient history. Yeah, right.
A real page-turner, isn't it?
Indeed.
Bullock was suspected of accepting graft from Thorne two years ago?
Right, but the case was dropped for lack of evidence.
It was just before Spider Conway went to prison.
And at the time of his arrest, Conway was working for Thorne.
So he might know something that Bullock doesn't want revealed.
Surely you can't think this Bullock person planted that bomb.
I'm not sure yet what to think.
After the explosion, I went to Stonegate Island...
to check out the dock the boat left from.
I found this.
A toothpick?
Where in the world?
Hey! Anybody here?
No! Not you!
It can't be! Stay back!
You'd better have the money to pay for that.
Here's how it works, slimeball.
I have questions, and if you have answers...
I'll leave you alone.
Oh, I got plenty of answers.
.38-caliber answers.
Now, then, you were saying?
I was saying...
you'd better hope your men are very good shots.
It's too hot in here. Let's get some air.
Wait! Stop! I'll tell you anything you want.
Did you order Spider Conway blown up?
That loser? I wouldn't wipe my shoes on him.
Conway's got nothing on me. Let him talk.
He could've talked his head off. No problem.
Okay.
Don't just stand there, you clowns.
Get me down!
No trace of Conway yet, commissioner.
Keep at it. I'll meet you back at headquarters.
I've had cats that made more noise than you.
We need to talk about Bullock.
I think he might have been responsible for the bomb.
Come on, you know there was evidence...
Conway falsely implicated Bullock at the graft inquest.
But you have no proof Conway lied.
Look, Harvey Bullock is hard to work with, even harder to like.
- But he's a good cop, Batman. He's clean. - Commissioner?
- Something? - Not a trace.
All right. Pull them back in.
We'll have to assume the worst. Batman?
For once, my friend, I hope your instincts are wrong.
Joey the Snail, brought in last night on a 605, right?
- Let me see him. - Bullock, that you?
Yeah. Now, let me see him.
I need to check your authorization.
Rise and shine, Joey.
Who's there?
Your worst nightmare.
No! Keep away from me!
Master Bruce?
Still intent on that scale or what-have-you, I see.
Believe it or not, the cellular structure is human...
but the texture of it is almost reptilian.
Do tell.
Bullock might not be the primary suspect after all.
In any event, I've made your favorite. French onion soup.
And when you let it get cold this time...
note that it's in a microwavable crock.
Crock?
Alfred, you're beautiful.
Imagine if I'd gotten around to telling him about the salad.
And as you can see by this re-creation of the crocodile's natural habitat...
crocodiles make their lairs in underwater caves.
Of course!
Batman!
Get us out of here!
No telling what he'll do.
Terrific. Just what I need now.
The freak job in the cape.
You're no prize yourself.
What can I tell you?
Being a reptile man ain't pretty...
but it's got its upside.
Like having the strength of a crocodile, for instance.
But I guess you've learned that by now, huh?
The hard way.
You know, they used to call "Killer Croc"...
the meanest dude in the Wrestling Federation.
Now they'll call him the guy who iced the Batman.
Don't hold your breath.
You've been rooted to that spot for over an hour, Master Bruce.
It's taken me that long to search through all these newspapers on microfiche.
Here, from the Miami Times Herald four years ago.
See? He started out a carnival sideshow attraction...
then became a pro-wrestler.
Two years later, Croc had moved to Gotham City and turned to crime.
He used to be penny-ante. I'd never heard of him.
But according to this, Bullock busted him...
based on the testimony from Conway and Joey the Snail.
Then Croc has escaped.
And now it's payback time.
You have Conway and the Snail. They can clear Detective Bullock.
True, but that won't get us Croc.
He won't return to his lair now that I know where it is.
I'll have to make him come to us.
Sir, excuse me...
- Wait a minute! If you could just... - Detective Bullock!
- Drive. - Croc!
- How did you...? - Escape? Simple.
The guards don't think about the sewers.
No one does except me.
It was you who set me up for Spider and Joey.
You got it. I wanted you to sweat it out...
in a cell for a while, like I did.
To know what it feels like, the way I do.
You?
Give it up, Croc. I know everything now.
You planted that toothpick on the dock, didn't you?
And you impersonated Bullock at the jail.
Yeah, and it would've gone down smooth if you hadn't butted in.
But, hey, I'm adaptable.
When you grow up looking like I do, you gotta learn to go with the flow.
I'll just take care of you first, then Bullock.
See, this ain't no Batcave.
You're on my turf now.
Croc!
Why? Why'd you stick your neck out like that to help me?
Because I thought you were guilty too, and I was wrong.
We may have different ways of enforcing the law...
but we both believe in it.
Go on. I'll take it from here.
Not a bad piece of work.
Tell me, Detective Bullock...
how does it feel to be cleared of all charges...
now that Killer Croc Morgan has been arrested?
I just want all the scumbuckets and dirtbags in this town...
to know they'd better lay low because Bullock's back...
and ready to kick butt!