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He also finds a computer that appears to have vital information about Wayne Enterprises,

but Alfred attempts to stop Bruce from investigating further out of concern for his safety,

even smashing the computer.Bruce refuses to back down and fires Alfred, but later relents

and hires him back under the condition they work together.Bruce, Selina and Alfred later

attend a charity ball that is infiltrated by criminals led by Jerome Valeska and Barbara

Kean.When Alfred's life is threatened by the intrusion, Bruce goes back for him and is

almost killed himself before Theo Galavan, a wealthy industrialist, intervenes and kills

Jerome.Galavan turns out to actually be the leader of the criminals, masterminding the

event to make himself look like a hero while secretly planning to destroy the Wayne

family.Galavan poses as a father figure to gain Bruce's trust, and Bruce grows close to

Galavan's niece Silver St.Cloud.Galavan eventually reveals his true colors and kidnaps Bruce

and Silver.With help from Selina, Gordon and Galavan's sister Tabitha, Bruce escapes and

saves Silver's life, leaving Theo there before Gordon and crime boss Oswald Cobblepot

confront and kill Theo.The second half of season two has Bruce continuing to track down his

parents' killer.Alfred eventually confronts Bruce and confirms the name of the killer as

Patrick "Matches" Malone (Michael Bowen).After receiving a gun from Selina and finding

Matches' location, Bruce confronts Matches in the latter's apartment, only to find that

Matches was contracted by another source that he refuses to name.Matches, who is suicidal,

begs Bruce to put him out of his misery, but Bruce refuses, leaving Matches to shoot

himself.Bruce then decides to live in the streets with Selina to learn what it takes to fight
crime in Gotham.He returns once Fox fixes his father's computer.Soon afterward, Bruce,

Fox, and Alfred discover that Hugo Strange (B.D.Wong), a former colleague of Thomas

Wayne, had ordered the hit.Strange had been conducting mutation experiments within

Wayne Enterprises' Indian Hills program; when Thomas shut the program down, Strange

retaliated by having him killed.When the GCPD refuses to indict Strange due to a lack of

evidence, Bruce personally heads to Indian Hills with Selina to confront Strange, who

unleashes a number of mutated monsters onto the city and captures Bruce, Lucius, and

Alfred.The GCPD intervenes when Strange threatens to blow the facility up, arresting

Strange and freeing the captives.Strange's monsters continue to roam the streets, however,

one of them including a teenage boy who resembles Bruce himself.=== Season 3 ===

Upon further investigation, Bruce encounters the Court of Owls, an organization revealed to

be pulling the strings in Wayne Enterprises.The leader of the Court, Kathryn Monroe, offers

Bruce a deal: if he stops investigating them, they will spare his life and those of his loved

ones.Bruce reluctantly agrees.Bruce eventually encounters and fights his doppelgänger,

faces off against a resurrected Jerome, enters a relationship with Selina, and is kidnapped

and trained by a mysterious Shaman, later meeting Ra's al Ghul in the process.In the

season's final scene, a masked Bruce dressed in military-grade body armor of his father's

invention saves a family from a mugger.=== Season 4 ===

While training to fight crime as the "Dark Knight", Bruce starts investigating Ra's al Ghul,

and learns that the mysterious terrorist wants to gain possession of a millennia-old

dagger.Bruce buys the dagger at auction to draw Ra's out, but Ra's retaliates by killing

Bruce's young friend Alex.Bruce becomes obsessed with avenging Alex, and confronts Ra's –

who surprises him by begging Bruce to put him out of his misery.Bruce refuses, but when

Ra's threatens his loved ones, he loses control and stabs Ra's with the dagger.Bruce feels

guilty for killing Ra's in cold blood, and falls into a deep depression.He numbs the pain by
partying nonstop, fires Alfred and gives up his plan to protect Gotham.When Ivy (Peyton

List) doses him with her hallucinogenic plant toxin, however, he sees a vision of a fearsome,

mysterious cloaked entity – what he would be in the future – who says he cannot escape

who he really is before dissolving into a swarm of bats.That night, he reconciles with Alfred,

and prevents Ivy from killing a crowd full of Gotham's social elite at a charity

auction.Meanwhile, he befriends Jerome Valeska's twin brother Jeremiah – unaware that he

is just as insane as his brother and planning to destroy Gotham.The League of Shadows later

kidnaps Bruce with the goal of resurrecting Ra's and having Ra's usurp the League's current

leader, Barbara Kean.Bruce reluctantly does so as a way to redeem his sin and Ra's returns,

albeit in a weakened form.Ra's eventually regains his strength and promises to leave Bruce

alone until the time comes to reforge Bruce into "Gotham's Dark Knight."After Jeremiah's

plan to bomb the city fails, Ra's returns to Gotham to ally himself with Jeremiah to fulfill

Bruce's destiny.When Ra's and Jeremiah reveal their plan, they both tell Bruce that they are

destroying Gotham for his benefit, to help him become the "Dark Knight" he is destined to

be.The two criminal masterminds kidnap Alfred and dose Bruce with Jonathan Crane's fear

toxin, plaguing him with hallucinations of Alfred going insane and attacking him.