BATMAN. DETECTIVE COMICS #804 - DC COMICS (2005)

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Theresa Cushing is terrorized at the sight of her husband pulling a gun and pointing it at her and just a few seconds away, she was dead. The man then stops and listens to the baby crying in the next room. He walks into the kid's room and point his gun to the baby, but before he could commit the crime, Robin comes crashing through the window and disarms the man. After this, the man goes berserk and tosses a knife at Robin, who catches the weapon and warns the man that he is not going to harm the baby. Desperate, the man tries to pull his face off and then he jumps off the window of the building, several stories above ground. However, when Robin looks through the window, there was no body lying on the street, nor blood.

Meanwhile, Batman is staring at the Iceberg Lounge at the distance and notices that the penthouse of the building has been blown to pieces and that Penguin, the owner of the building and the man he's been looking for several crimes, might be gone as well. Recalling Penguin's crimes, Batman remembers the name of the missing pregnant girl, Cassie Welles and suddenly he starts remembering Haddie McNeil, the girl he couldn't save from herself. Batman remembers that he attended Haddie's funeral as Bruce Wayne, a few days before. He tried to talk to her parents and offered them to start a foundation on her name, but they were uninterested and also deemed Bruce's efforts as just a way to compensate for her daughter's services to him. Bruce was left in shock and angry at them. Robin interrupts Batman's thoughts and informs him of what has happened at the Cushigns household, but Batman is still going after Mister Freeze and the girl he kidnapped in case she turns out to be Cassie Welles.

At that moment, Freeze has taken a minister to a cold room designed to keep meat fresh. Freeze wants the minister to marry him to his beloved "Nora", but the minister notices that the girl at the corner of the room is a young pregnant girl who must be taken away from the psychopath. The minister tries to get away by telling Freeze that they need witnesses, but Freeze shows him the several frozen bodies of the workers of the meat factory hanging from the meat hooks at the cold room and tells him that the witnesses are already there.

The detectives Frank Ivers and Elliot Lynch interrogate Marlene Welles at her home, about the disappearance of her daughter Cassandra, but after she refuses to tell them more information, Ivers begins to suspect that she is somehow involved on her disappearance. Marlene asks them to leave her home and Lynch tells Ivers that he might have said the wrong things, but Ivers disagrees…