Johnny Sorrow floats out of the old Chinese theatre in downtown Gotham City with a big smile on his face. Or rather, he would have, if he could smile. As it happens, his mask maintains the standard blank expression that it always has, but inside, Johnny feels a good sense of pride at the act that he just perpetrated
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Someone like Johnny Sorrow, who is his own special brand of terror, is not to be suffered in this city. At the Museum of Moving Arts, Johnny Sorrow will have company.
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Le Fin Absolue du Monde. Supposedly, a movie written by the devil himself, or at the very least, by some particularly evil characters. The rumour went that if you even saw part of the film you would go mad. All of the film and you would die a most painful death. It was a film that Johnny needed to harness the raw chaos of. The raw evil, locked inside that reel.
He turns incorporeal and walks through the doors.
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A voice from the shadows, as disembodied in nature as Sorrow's in reality.
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He raises a hand to his mask. "Or are you going to threaten me, and therefore make me act in self-defence?"
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A hand on the edge of his mask, he continues to speak. "Now, I do believe that this museum is publicly accessible. Although it is past closing time, it is a civic building. Therefore I'm not even guilty of breaking and entering. So..." He puts his masked face close to Batman, "... what are you going to do about it?"
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When the mask comes off, the Bat therefore smiles. Faintly. Dryly. Unpleasantly.
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Not that he needs to see the face to try a takedown - he leaps in, using the taser built into the robot's hand to try and give Sorrow a jolt.
"And you've got a better face for radio."
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The Dark Knight is calm and cold as ice, even in the face of danger like this.
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He has a downloaded schematic of the theater visible in the display that the robot feeds him, so Ted knows the quickest ways to get around. The robotic form allows him to practically leap down the nearby stairs with acrobatic grace..
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