With Batman free, the Batman Family continues to investigate the circumstances of the crime. Many start to doubt Bruce’s innocence. Oracle recovers the disk proving the journal entries from Vesper’s apartment had been altered. This means Vesper did not know Batman’s identity. Meanwhile, Huntress, upon uncovering Vesper’s corpse, realizes that Vesper was killed using a nerve strike and careful beatings, whereas the evidence suggests it was a ‘spur-of-the-moment’ attack on Bruce’s part. Nightwing and Alfred discover that infiltration of the Batcave is possible and ties in with the police’s timely entrance at Wayne Manor. With further assistance from Red Robin they uncover some evidence in their search, although Nightwing is forced to acknowledge that nothing that they have discovered is anything that Batman couldn’t have reasonably planted to throw them off. After the group reviews the evidence and Nightwing and Huntress stage how the murder took place based on the tape recording of Vesper’s last moments, Nightwing is now convinced that the Bruce he knows could not have committed the murder, and decides their next move is to focus on gathering evidence that would not compromise Bruce’s secret identity.
