“Alan.”

Alan’s had a newspaper-a-day habit for as long as he cares to remember; since Bruce’s arrest he’s upped it to two, but neither Globe is quite so informative as the timbre of Denny’s voice. Today he sounds jovial, congratulatory. Alan’s name is transformed into a two-syllable slap on the back.

( 'I had nothing to do with it,' Alan says. )

The guards at Blackgate are starting to know him by sight. There are no pleasantries exchanged (unless the occasional sneered “Mr. Shore” can be considered a pleasantry) or special privileges accorded (although this is Gotham-there are some who’d say emerging unscathed from one of its prisons is a special privilege), but he’s now a known quantity, ( Read more... )