1 00:01:07,483 --> 00:01:09,151 Well, what's she up to this time? 2 00:01:09,235 --> 00:01:11,779 I don't know. You can never tell with her. 3 00:01:11,862 --> 00:01:13,738 She's a wacky girl, you know that? 4 00:01:13,823 --> 00:01:15,157 She's gonna tell us something. 5 00:01:15,241 --> 00:01:16,659 Check it out. 6 00:01:18,536 --> 00:01:20,829 Wow, man, cool! 7 00:01:24,166 --> 00:01:26,293 I don't believe it. Chelsea... 8 00:01:26,877 --> 00:01:27,836 You got spliced! 9 00:01:28,921 --> 00:01:31,340 Crazy, girl. Your dad must have had a spizz fit. 10 00:01:32,008 --> 00:01:33,509 I don't know, Chels. 11 00:01:33,593 --> 00:01:36,137 Isn't messing with your DNA a bit drastic? 12 00:01:36,220 --> 00:01:37,387 Even for you? 13 00:01:37,471 --> 00:01:38,597 Please. 14 00:01:39,098 --> 00:01:41,266 Well, then why is the city trying to shut it down? 15 00:01:41,350 --> 00:01:42,684 Lighten up, Terry. 16 00:01:42,768 --> 00:01:44,811 The law's against practically everything we're into. 17 00:01:44,895 --> 00:01:46,187 You gotta keep an open mind. 18 00:01:46,689 --> 00:01:48,190 Here's all the info. 19 00:01:49,817 --> 00:01:52,402 Personally, I'd jump on it, if I were you guys 20 00:01:52,486 --> 00:01:54,362 'cause if you're not the first, then you're the worst. 21 00:01:59,201 --> 00:02:02,204 They call it splicing, the new high-tech teen rage 22 00:02:02,288 --> 00:02:04,248 that has taken Gotham's youth by storm. 23 00:02:04,915 --> 00:02:06,833 But outraged parents and lawmakers 24 00:02:06,917 --> 00:02:08,835 call the use of genetic animal augmentation 25 00:02:08,919 --> 00:02:10,462 a crime against nature. 26 00:02:10,713 --> 00:02:12,297 Some say it's a matter of choice. 27 00:02:13,090 --> 00:02:14,966 Splicing is like establishing myself 28 00:02:15,051 --> 00:02:16,469 as an individual, you know? 29 00:02:16,552 --> 00:02:18,220 Just like all my friends. 30 00:02:18,304 --> 00:02:20,389 - Yeah, that's right. - You tell him, man. 31 00:02:21,515 --> 00:02:23,433 At the center of the controversy is the director 32 00:02:23,517 --> 00:02:25,727 of the Chimera Institute, Dr. Abel Cuvier. 33 00:02:26,187 --> 00:02:28,981 I want to assure everyone that splicing is safe, 34 00:02:29,065 --> 00:02:32,318 reversible, and, more importantly, utterly beautiful. 35 00:02:32,902 --> 00:02:35,404 I was the first test subject, and as you can see 36 00:02:35,488 --> 00:02:37,072 I'm perfectly fine. 37 00:02:37,156 --> 00:02:39,491 Perfectly creepy is more like it. 38 00:02:39,575 --> 00:02:41,994 Him and that whole splicing fad. 39 00:02:42,078 --> 00:02:43,370 This is no simple fad. 40 00:02:43,954 --> 00:02:45,580 Something bad will come of this splicing. 41 00:02:46,540 --> 00:02:48,625 Something we'll most likely have to clean up. 42 00:03:05,851 --> 00:03:07,686 Gotcha! Gotcha good! 43 00:03:09,980 --> 00:03:11,898 You are so dead, Matt. 44 00:03:14,694 --> 00:03:16,112 Mom, can I get spliced? 45 00:03:16,195 --> 00:03:17,946 I want to be a real wolf man for Halloween. 46 00:03:19,740 --> 00:03:21,074 Sorry, Matthew. 47 00:03:21,158 --> 00:03:23,994 No son of mine's going in for some freaky body treatment. 48 00:03:24,078 --> 00:03:25,579 Aw, come on, Mom. 49 00:03:25,663 --> 00:03:27,581 What about that little relic from your wild teen years? 50 00:03:28,791 --> 00:03:31,418 Oh, Ter, please. That's different. 51 00:03:31,502 --> 00:03:33,712 A harmless little tattoo's hardly comparable 52 00:03:33,796 --> 00:03:35,589 to having antlers stuck on your head. 53 00:03:35,673 --> 00:03:37,341 Terry doesn't need splicing, Mom, 54 00:03:37,425 --> 00:03:38,926 'cause he's already a donkey! 55 00:03:39,009 --> 00:03:39,884 Hee-haw! 56 00:03:45,474 --> 00:03:47,142 You're lucky I'm late for school, twit. 57 00:03:52,606 --> 00:03:54,441 Mom, can I get a wolf man tattoo? 58 00:04:01,490 --> 00:04:04,576 As your district attorney, I'm making it my top priority 59 00:04:04,660 --> 00:04:07,037 to outlaw splicing completely. 60 00:04:07,371 --> 00:04:09,456 Impartial tests clearly show 61 00:04:09,540 --> 00:04:11,375 a rise in aggressive behavior. 62 00:04:17,089 --> 00:04:19,007 How's that for breaking news? 63 00:04:24,513 --> 00:04:26,431 Nobody can stop splicing. 64 00:04:26,515 --> 00:04:28,475 It's the future, whether you stinking, scared norms 65 00:04:28,559 --> 00:04:29,810 like it or not. 66 00:04:29,894 --> 00:04:32,521 How about not, snake-boy? 67 00:04:33,355 --> 00:04:36,399 Listen, norm. Don't even think about dissing us. 68 00:04:36,484 --> 00:04:37,693 Go chew a can. 69 00:04:37,818 --> 00:04:39,110 Huh? 70 00:04:49,121 --> 00:04:52,749 So will you petting zoo rejects be needing a doctor... 71 00:04:52,833 --> 00:04:54,209 or a vet? 72 00:04:59,131 --> 00:05:01,424 Your time will come, norm. You'll see. 73 00:05:01,592 --> 00:05:03,594 You'll all see. 74 00:05:20,778 --> 00:05:22,654 I don't know about this, Terry. 75 00:05:22,738 --> 00:05:24,448 Come on, Dana. 76 00:05:24,532 --> 00:05:25,824 You're the one who told me to keep an open mind 77 00:05:25,908 --> 00:05:26,992 to new things. 78 00:05:28,077 --> 00:05:29,953 Personally, I think the young lady would look 79 00:05:30,037 --> 00:05:31,705 stunning in spots. 80 00:05:35,334 --> 00:05:37,127 You're smart to come in now. 81 00:05:37,670 --> 00:05:39,755 If my critics have their way, splicing might go 82 00:05:39,839 --> 00:05:40,965 the way of the dinosaurs. 83 00:05:41,423 --> 00:05:44,008 Not that I don't plan to fight them tooth and nail. 84 00:05:44,385 --> 00:05:47,429 Yo! We need to see the doctor. Right now! 85 00:05:50,140 --> 00:05:51,474 Please excuse me. 86 00:05:59,733 --> 00:06:01,651 You know, Ter, as cool as this is, 87 00:06:01,735 --> 00:06:03,111 I just don't know if it's for me. 88 00:06:04,947 --> 00:06:06,823 Ter? Terry? 89 00:06:07,533 --> 00:06:09,451 Gee, thanks for the swell afternoon, Ter. 90 00:06:09,535 --> 00:06:10,994 I really enjoyed myself. 91 00:06:17,084 --> 00:06:18,460 It's all over the news. 92 00:06:18,544 --> 00:06:20,712 Those scared-o stiffs are gonna shut us down. 93 00:06:21,255 --> 00:06:23,048 Then we must strike tonight. 94 00:06:24,466 --> 00:06:26,384 The splicers' revolution cannot be stopped. 95 00:06:31,932 --> 00:06:34,768 If the norms are determined to drive us underground, so be it. 96 00:06:35,477 --> 00:06:38,146 But we'll take first blood from the throat of DA Young. 97 00:06:38,689 --> 00:06:40,023 Yeah! 98 00:06:48,532 --> 00:06:50,659 Wayne, I'm in the Chimera Institute. 99 00:06:50,743 --> 00:06:51,827 Wayne! 100 00:06:58,417 --> 00:06:59,459 McGinnis! 101 00:07:16,101 --> 00:07:17,936 What did you just do to me, Cuvier? 102 00:07:18,562 --> 00:07:21,064 Why, you've been spliced, of course. 103 00:07:21,148 --> 00:07:22,983 With a little something I prepared just in case 104 00:07:23,067 --> 00:07:26,487 Gotham's self-appointed defender ever fluttered into my business. 105 00:07:26,570 --> 00:07:29,281 You see, splicing isn't just style, Batman. 106 00:07:29,365 --> 00:07:32,993 It's lifestyle, something that will literally change the world. 107 00:07:33,077 --> 00:07:34,828 Have you considered checking into Arkham 108 00:07:34,912 --> 00:07:36,330 for a little RandR, doc? 109 00:07:36,413 --> 00:07:38,456 Because, quite frankly, you're nuts. 110 00:07:38,540 --> 00:07:40,416 You're welcome to your opinions for the short time 111 00:07:40,501 --> 00:07:42,419 you'll be human enough to have them. 112 00:07:47,800 --> 00:07:49,384 All right, Cuvier. 113 00:07:49,468 --> 00:07:50,844 Call your freaks off DA Young, 114 00:07:50,928 --> 00:07:53,764 or so help me I'll... 115 00:07:55,474 --> 00:07:56,683 What's the matter, Batman? 116 00:07:57,226 --> 00:07:58,727 Not feeling quite yourself? 117 00:08:00,521 --> 00:08:01,980 Don't worry about the DA. 118 00:08:02,648 --> 00:08:04,066 He's dead meat. 119 00:08:04,149 --> 00:08:05,191 And so are you. 120 00:08:24,169 --> 00:08:25,211 It won't matter. 121 00:08:25,629 --> 00:08:28,048 It's too late for you to save Young or yourself! 122 00:08:33,053 --> 00:08:34,471 Ah, thanks, hon. 123 00:08:34,555 --> 00:08:36,390 Sam, honey, maybe you should take a break. 124 00:08:36,473 --> 00:08:38,641 You've been at it since 5:00 this morning. 125 00:08:39,935 --> 00:08:41,394 Can't be helped. 126 00:08:41,478 --> 00:08:43,480 Putting Cuvier out of business is going to mean 127 00:08:43,564 --> 00:08:45,232 a lot of long nights. 128 00:08:49,737 --> 00:08:52,906 Right now I just can't relax knowing that Cuvier 129 00:08:52,990 --> 00:08:56,410 and his guinea pigs are out there, doing God knows what. 130 00:08:56,994 --> 00:08:59,454 I bet I could relax you. 131 00:09:06,920 --> 00:09:08,588 Evening, Counselor. 132 00:09:12,676 --> 00:09:13,927 Hey, Commish. 133 00:09:14,011 --> 00:09:15,262 Looking good. 134 00:09:15,345 --> 00:09:17,221 But not for long. 135 00:09:20,851 --> 00:09:22,102 Whoa, Sammy. 136 00:09:22,186 --> 00:09:24,188 Your honey's got some hectic moves. 137 00:09:27,149 --> 00:09:28,567 Too bad she can't stop us 138 00:09:28,650 --> 00:09:30,902 any more than you can stop Dr. Cuvier's dream. 139 00:09:32,071 --> 00:09:34,114 Break him in half. 140 00:09:40,454 --> 00:09:41,580 Sam! 141 00:09:41,663 --> 00:09:42,580 Get him! 142 00:09:53,133 --> 00:09:55,051 Whoa. What's up with him? 143 00:10:13,529 --> 00:10:14,821 Batman, stop! 144 00:10:14,905 --> 00:10:16,197 You're killing him! 145 00:10:23,789 --> 00:10:24,998 Come on. 146 00:10:25,374 --> 00:10:27,626 That psycho bat will finish the job for us. 147 00:10:35,300 --> 00:10:36,884 Batman. Terry? 148 00:10:37,469 --> 00:10:38,470 What's gotten into you? 149 00:11:04,454 --> 00:11:05,705 Wayne. 150 00:11:05,956 --> 00:11:07,749 Bruce. It's Barbara. 151 00:11:08,041 --> 00:11:08,875 Is Terry there? 152 00:11:09,293 --> 00:11:11,753 No, I've been trying to raise him all night, but-- 153 00:11:11,837 --> 00:11:13,171 Bruce, listen to me. 154 00:11:13,255 --> 00:11:14,297 There's something wrong with him. 155 00:11:14,381 --> 00:11:16,299 Something terribly wrong. 156 00:11:18,260 --> 00:11:19,594 Bruce? 157 00:11:19,678 --> 00:11:20,762 Bruce, are you there? 158 00:11:29,563 --> 00:11:30,772 Terry? 159 00:11:36,904 --> 00:11:38,155 Bruce! 160 00:11:41,533 --> 00:11:43,409 Help... me. 161 00:12:34,753 --> 00:12:36,546 Nice to see you, too. 162 00:12:36,964 --> 00:12:38,715 Can't say I blame him. 163 00:12:38,799 --> 00:12:40,884 You roughed us up before I could cure you. 164 00:12:41,426 --> 00:12:44,178 Cure me? Cuvier! 165 00:12:44,263 --> 00:12:45,639 He spliced me in his lab. 166 00:12:46,056 --> 00:12:49,100 With a massive overdose of vampire bat serum. 167 00:12:49,601 --> 00:12:52,312 I figured we'd be needing a new supply of the mutagen antidote, 168 00:12:52,729 --> 00:12:54,522 although it was sooner than I had expected. 169 00:12:55,274 --> 00:12:56,108 Thanks. 170 00:12:56,525 --> 00:12:58,360 Barbara told me about the attack. 171 00:12:58,819 --> 00:13:01,071 After Batman foiled the assassination attempt 172 00:13:01,154 --> 00:13:04,323 on DA Young, police raided the Chimera Institute, 173 00:13:04,408 --> 00:13:07,953 but Dr. Cuvier and his followers had already gone into hiding. 174 00:13:08,036 --> 00:13:11,831 I can assure you Cuvier will be found and prosecuted 175 00:13:11,915 --> 00:13:13,249 for this attack. 176 00:13:13,333 --> 00:13:14,792 Cuvier will be deadlier than ever 177 00:13:14,876 --> 00:13:16,294 now that's he's being hunted. 178 00:13:19,840 --> 00:13:21,466 What's this? 179 00:13:21,800 --> 00:13:22,634 Hmm. 180 00:13:22,926 --> 00:13:24,344 One of Cuvier's claws. 181 00:13:24,928 --> 00:13:27,221 Too bad we can't use it to find him. 182 00:13:27,431 --> 00:13:28,765 We can't. 183 00:13:31,601 --> 00:13:33,269 Look, wonder-dog, I don't like you 184 00:13:33,353 --> 00:13:34,687 and you don't like me. 185 00:13:34,980 --> 00:13:37,065 But how about cutting me a break this one time? 186 00:13:39,484 --> 00:13:41,986 Bad guy. You find. Me stop. 187 00:13:42,321 --> 00:13:43,405 Got it? 188 00:13:50,454 --> 00:13:51,705 Whoa, whoa, whoa! Wait up! 189 00:14:10,182 --> 00:14:12,559 Please, Doctor. 190 00:14:12,684 --> 00:14:14,644 We tried to kill him, but Batman was-- 191 00:14:14,728 --> 00:14:15,854 Forget Batman. 192 00:14:15,937 --> 00:14:18,064 It was your weakness that ruined my plans. 193 00:14:33,705 --> 00:14:35,415 All right. You've gotten us this far. 194 00:14:35,499 --> 00:14:36,333 I'll take it from here. 195 00:14:39,628 --> 00:14:41,921 Whoa, whoa. Stay! Stay! 196 00:14:46,009 --> 00:14:47,176 Good bat-dog. 197 00:14:49,179 --> 00:14:51,347 Now don't move until I get back. 198 00:14:56,353 --> 00:14:57,354 What is it? 199 00:14:58,855 --> 00:14:59,939 Prey. 200 00:15:20,377 --> 00:15:23,713 We could smell your human stink a mile away. 201 00:16:07,007 --> 00:16:08,174 What did you do to her? 202 00:16:08,925 --> 00:16:10,426 Let's just say I put the cat out. 203 00:16:11,261 --> 00:16:13,846 No. I'll never go back to being a nobody. 204 00:16:13,930 --> 00:16:14,805 You hear me? 205 00:16:29,821 --> 00:16:31,322 Have a dose of reality, pal. 206 00:16:31,406 --> 00:16:32,365 You need it. 207 00:16:43,001 --> 00:16:44,377 Fixed your pets, Doc. 208 00:16:44,753 --> 00:16:46,755 Now it's just you and me. 209 00:16:47,297 --> 00:16:49,716 So why not come on out and fight me, man to freakshow? 210 00:17:08,860 --> 00:17:09,944 Cuvier? 211 00:17:11,780 --> 00:17:12,822 No longer, Batman. 212 00:17:13,323 --> 00:17:14,907 Now you face a true chimera. 213 00:17:21,790 --> 00:17:23,708 You bring out the beast in me. 214 00:17:43,061 --> 00:17:44,270 Look at me! 215 00:17:44,354 --> 00:17:46,105 The abilities of the entire animal kingdom 216 00:17:46,189 --> 00:17:47,023 are at my command! 217 00:17:47,399 --> 00:17:50,151 What can one blind little bat do against that? 218 00:17:50,777 --> 00:17:52,195 The best I can! 219 00:18:14,259 --> 00:18:16,010 The hunt ends, Batman. 220 00:18:16,094 --> 00:18:18,763 Now you die. 221 00:18:24,227 --> 00:18:26,812 Can't control the changing! 222 00:18:41,328 --> 00:18:43,997 What have you done to me? 223 00:19:25,038 --> 00:19:27,040 Don't touch my dog. 224 00:20:06,079 --> 00:20:06,996 Terry? 225 00:20:08,873 --> 00:20:09,915 I'm okay now. 226 00:20:09,999 --> 00:20:12,084 Listen to experience, kid. 227 00:20:12,168 --> 00:20:13,627 I appreciate what you've done tonight, 228 00:20:13,712 --> 00:20:14,671 but ditch the costume. 229 00:20:15,463 --> 00:20:17,882 You can't live a life of narrow escapes forever. 230 00:20:19,134 --> 00:20:21,136 It's a thankless existence, 231 00:20:21,219 --> 00:20:23,512 and the rewards are small, if any. 232 00:20:24,180 --> 00:20:27,057 Well, sometimes the small rewards are the best ones.