An aging Bruce Wayne, despite suffering from health complications continues to fight crime as Batman in a new high-tech Batsuit, although he has increased difficulty in handling criminals he once subdued with finesse. In the rescue of a kidnapped heiress and the daughter of an old friend of his, Batman suffers a mild heart attack and, at the risk of losing his life to one of the kidnappers, is forced to betray a lifelong principle by threatening the criminal at gunpoint, which scares him into running towards the police. Ashamed of how far he was willing to go for his survival and the fact that he used the same kind of weapon that ended his parents' lives and drove him to become the Dark Knight in the first place, Bruce ultimately but reluctantly decides that he has grown too old for his crusade and retires from crime-fighting and shuts down the Batcave. So he met Terry McGinnis.
