E103: War Path

War Path is the second episode of Batman: Shadow War's season nine.

Plot
After Hush had been locked up, Batman decides to help Mr. Freeze get his wife back and searches for clues to track down the Ventriloquist. The Dark Knight returns to the museaum to interrogate Penguin but finds the Joker's men in there and takes them out one by one, and confronts the Penguin; who accuses him of leaving him to die but Batman does not care and wants to know the Ventriloquist's location. Penguin admitted he was unaware, but did tell Batman that his gang does his deals down an alleyway.

Batman heads to the alley and contacts Alfred Pennyworth to report the current situation, however he notices Ventriloquist's men in the alleyway with a political prisoner. The prisoner begs for food and in exchange, will become a servant to the Ventriloquist, the gangsters chuckle before pulling out a knife however Batman jumps down and disarms him before knocking him out and as the prisoner runs away, Batman pins the second to a wall.

Batman harshly questions the man, even breaking one of his fingers, and so he leads the Dark Knight to Ventriloquist's hideout. But once there, he leads Batman into a trap with several gunmen holding Batman at gunpoint and the Ventriloquist asks the Caped Crusader of what he wants. Batman states his coming for Nora Fries, but the Scarface says she has to be paid for, so Batman uses smoke grenades and then fights the henchmen. Ventriloquist flees and then uses a chainsaw in an attempt to kill Batman, the Dark Knight though disables the Ventriloquist and takes away Scarface, threatening to "kill" him if the Ventriloquist doesn't give up.

The Ventriloquist though listens to Scarface's beggings and surrenders, so Batman locks up the two and then finds Nora. He recovers Nora and moves her to Freeze, who thanks Batman as he kept his promise to rescue her. Batman tells Freeze to keep Nora safe in the GCPD while he goes to deal with Hugo Strange, also he borrows some of Freeze's equipment to help.