Ed is managing quiet... but he visibly perks when Oswald speaks, brightening up again. "A lot of the citizens might comply, but there's a thriving culture of dissent in the Down. There's two marked run syndicates I know of, the Rubies, who are almost exclusively marked, and another run by a man named James Westley. He's smart, cold, he's done this sort of work before. He pays me freelance to do cooking for him sometimes. He has an alliance with a shrink, Hannibal Lecter. This guy is... dangerous, not in an Arkham staff way. He looked at us and saw us both. Immediately. And it didn't worry him. He's a predator, but I don't know what kind. Not organised crime type. I heard from a little bird that Pennyworth and Lecter have been seeing each other socially.

"Physically, it's a dump. It's not the Narrows, but it's not great. Think... Grundy Street area. Main roads are generally safe. Some of the unmarked like to come down and prey on our kind. They usually don't come back a second time once they run into people like us." Submissives who still fight and bite and carry knives. "I have heard one disturbing thing. Totally aside of the this place's rules and culture. Dead people? Don't stay dead. It near broke Victor's heart and head when we found out. People who die, people in the program? Come back with the next intake generally."

Murder is not necessarily a solution here. It's less of an issue for Ed and Riddler as it will be for Oswald.