Tales of the Bat-Family Season Nineteen: The End

After waking up in the Court of Owls courtroom, they attempt to bring Bruce into the court after learning about his plans to rebuild the city and reveal that his ancestors are one of the five families that founded the court. He is given a tour of the headquarters and informed on their goal of making Gotham its best, but they truly just want to keep their power when Bruce is in their way. Lincoln March reveals himself as a member and that it was his idea to recruit him but when Bruce turns them down he is thrown into a labyrinth where he wanders aimlessly for months. When he eventually makes a way out he makes his way back home and tells his family what happened where Dick reveals to Bruce that he has had encounters with their assassin Talon before who was trying to recruit him also. With all these revelations Bruce becomes beaten down feeling like the last thirty years have been pointless and he has made no real progress in Gotham. But when Talon breaks in trying to kill the family, and succeeds in killing Alfred, Bruce decides he has finally had enough. He attacks March in his home with the intention to kill him but he reveals they are brothers and he ways the illegitimate son of Thomas Wayne and that is why they didn’t kill Bruce. Eventually Bruce decides to make the ultimate sacrifice to end the corruption in Gotham once and for all, realizing that Gotham only needs him for one last fight after he has created many, and better protectors to succeed him.