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James Hugh Calum Laurie CBE (born June 11, 1959), known professionally as Hugh Laurie, is an English actor, director, singer, musician, comedian, and author. He is known for portraying the title character on the Fox medical drama series House (2004–2012), for which he received two Golden Globe Awards and nominations for numerous other awards. He was listed in the 2011 Guinness World Records as the most watched leading man on television and was one of the highest-paid actors in a television drama, earning £250,000 ($409,000) per episode of House. His other television credits include arms dealer Richard Onslow Roper in the miniseries The Night Manager (2016), for which he won his third Golden Globe Award, and Senator Tom James in the HBO sitcom Veep (2012–2019), for which he received his 10th Emmy Award nomination. Forced to abandon rowing during a bout of glandular fever, he joined the Cambridge Footlights, a university dramatic club that has produced many well-known actors and comedians. There he met Emma Thompson, with whom he had a romantic relationship, which later ended yet they remain good friends. She introduced him to his future comedy partner, Stephen Fry. Laurie, Fry and Thompson later parodied themselves as the University Challenge representatives of "Footlights College, Oxbridge" in "Bambi", an episode of The Young Ones, with the series' co-writer Ben Elton completing their team.
Bruce stumbles into Wayne Manor limping from his recent fight against The Legion of Doom. He recalls what Black Mask had said to him after their last encounter and dwells on those words. Could it really be Bruce's Father? While Bruce is recovering, Black Mask is revealed to have never been arrested along side the rest of the Legion and that he was using a body double. When the Bat was away, the Mask did play. His iron grip is now firmly clasped around Gotham's crime. Black Mask is back. Bruce when nursing his wounds gets updates from Barbara who has been monitoring the New Black Masks movements under the new Alias Oracle. Once Bruce feels that he is fit to fight again he goes down to the Batcave to find something sitting on his Keyboard. A red eye mask torn to shreds by an explosion, next to it is his father's pin he always wore, and finally a pearl necklace belonging to his mother. As Bruce stares in shock something strikes him from behind, Bruce still slowed is able to move out of immediate danger but still gets hit. Facing down Black Mask in his own home. A sudden detonation from above goes off shooting flames into the stairwell and Bruce is knocked unconscious. Who is the New Black Mask really? Can Bruce actually stop this menace or does he truly know all of Batmans secrets?
