Six months clean from Venom Bruce and Carrie are back to normal as the dynamic duo Then one day a masked assassin breaks in to the Batcave trying to kill the Batman and she comes very close, but him, Tim, and Carrie are able to subdue the assassin and lock her up, when they remove her mask they find that she is fourteen years old. She is unable to speak but she understands language- all languages. Bruce then runs a DNA sample and finds out she is Cassandra Cain, daughter of two of the greatest assassins and fighters the world had ever known David Cain and Lady Shiva and she was breed to be the best there is and was abused by her father her entire life, taught only to fight and survive and read body language, not to speak. When her father realizes that she failed her mission and embarrassed him in front of the League of Assassins, David goes after her to kill both her and the bat. Bruce decides to take her in and give her a better life and they stop David, in the end though Bruce decides to adopt Cassandra and she officially becomes a Wayne. During this time Gotham is still undergoing reconstruction and Bruce is developing a plan to rebuild Gotham for the better, realizing he can do more with his money than be Batman.
