Now that Joker has been defeated Slade has returned to finish killing Batman but luckily Batman has help from Nightwing who has experience with Slade. Throughout the season Batman starts to get more violent and closed off after the death of Jason Todd but when a kid named Tim Drake discovers his and Nightwing's secret identities Bruce takes Tim under his wing and turns him into the third Robin. The season ends with a final battle between Nightwing and Slade which ends in the death of Slade. In the final shot of the season, we see Slade wake up tied to a table without his suit and when he looks up, he sees a man with a needle who introduces himself as Hugo Strange.
