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After losing his wife to an uncurable disease, Victor Fries while trying to create a cure gets into an accident that turns him into the character Mr. Freeze who plans on using his technology and smarts to steal ingredients, he needs to make the cure. Meanwhile Bruce Wayne who is already on his fifth year as Batman starts investigating the case alongside commissioner Jim Gordan and detective Harvey Dent who are already trying to stop a criminal named Red Hood who eventually has an accident leaving him with all kinds of scars and drives him insane. Throughout the season Batman and others fight several metahumans while also trying to stop Victor and eventually put together that a man named Hugo Strange working for the prison Belle Reve has been illegally experimenting on prisoners and turning them into supervillains so that while Batman and G.C.P.D were distracted he could work in the shadows to take control of the Gotham underworld. In the season finale Jim Gordan and Harvey Dent manage to find Hugo's base but Hugo has disappeared meanwhile Batman and Victor have a fight in Ace Chemicals which leads to Victor explaining everything to Batman before falling into the chemicals and dying. The season closes with Batman and Jim Gordan setting up the bat-signal.