Siren gets Commissioner Gordon under her spell and then goes after Bruce Wayne, whom she directs to give her the Wayne family fortune and jump from a skyscraper. Her hope is that Batman will come to Bruce's rescue, so she can enslave him and discover his secret identity.

Needing money to bet on the Wayne Handicap, Penguin steals the priceless folio of famous parasols from the Gotham City Library and is promptly tricked by Batman into returning it.