Wow, today was so busy it wasn't even funny.
Ms. Potter.
[LAUGHS]
Sorry, I, uh-- Excuse me.
[POTTER LAUGHING]
Ms. Potter?
[LAUGHING]
Oh! Ms. Potter.
[LAUGHING]
[ALARM RINGING]
[LAUGHING]
POTTER: Huh?
What's so funny?
[LAUGHING]
Going somewhere?
I don't think so.
[LAUGHING]
Tortured smile, uncontrollable laughing fits.
Joker.
Hardly seems like a simple bank scheme is worth his time.
[ALARM BLARING]
[LAUGHING]
[ALARMS RINGING]
[ALL LAUGHING]
Who said it was simple?
[LAUGHING]
BATMAN: We did what we could, but the outbreak was too scattered.
- Too random to contain. - Tell me about it.
I had my people all over Gotham trying chase down these giggle bandits.
Fortunately, the change was only temporary.
The victims have no idea what came over them or why.
Clearly, Joker infected these people to do his criminal bidding. But how?
That's the million-dollar question.
None of his victims seem to have anything in common.
ROBIN: What kind of person lets himself go all giggly for that goon?
Hey, it wasn't their fault. Joker obviously got to them.
Maybe he used a gas or powder...
...or, ha, something. I don't know.
You saw the tox screens.
There was no trace of anything in the victims.
- Ha-ha-ha! - Hey, I'm being serious here.
So-- So am I.
[LAUGHING]
Oh, boy.
[CRASH, ALARM RINGING]
BATMAN: The jewelry store.
- But who are they chasing? - Ha-ha-ha!
Batman, we've got a situ--
- Ha-ha-ha! - Unh!
Oh, no, you don't.
Hey. Unh! Whoa!
[LAUGHING]
Come on, Batgirl, snap out of it.
[LAUGHING]
[GRUNTS]
[LAUGHING]
Okay, this time, I'm not fooling around.
[BATGIRL LAUGHING]
Unh! Aah!
[GRUNTS]
[LAUGHING]
BATMAN: Batgirl. - Huh?
[LAUGHING]
[GROANS]
- Is it safe? - Ugh.
A brief time-out should reset her personality.
- Batman? - How do you feel?
Confused. What's going on?
Someone got a case of the giggles.
Who?
Oh! No. Oh, I must've been really out of it.
I hate pearls.
Do you know where you were taking the stolen jewels?
BATGIRL: No, but I've got an idea.
[CROWD LAUGHING]
Looks like the fish are biting tonight.
Ahoy, landlubbers.
Stop by to see me off?
How thoughtful.
Punch, gun it.
Bon voyage, Bats.
Great. Now what?
We figure out how he got to you.
[SLURPING]
Cute jacket.
This tanks.
You got a better idea?
No, but that doesn't make following the shopping queen tank any less.
Joker did something to Barbara at some point during her day.
Yeah, and by retracing her steps, we're hoping to figure out when and where.
But Bruce, we just spent the last two hours watching her shop for handbags.
Well, you're in luck. I think she's moved on to the main event.
Comic books?
Shoes.
[GROANS]
BARBARA: Ooh.
BRUCE: After her morning shopping trip, Barbara took the train to school.
Let's just hope they don't have a shoe store on campus.
[SIGHS]
[GROANS]
[MAN CHUCKLING]
[MAN LAUGHING]
[ALARMS RINGING]
[MAN LAUGHING]
[LAUGHING]
We could use some help here.
We got our own problems.
[BOTH LAUGHING]
[LAUGHING]
ANNOUNCER [ON TV]: This was the scene last evening.
If this particular giggle bandit looks familiar, he should.
It's none other than billionaire Bruce Wayne.
Proving even Gotham's elite can fall prey to Joker's schemes.
Annoying, isn't it? Welcome to my world.
Of course, all charges have been dropped against Mr. Wayne and his companions...
...despite a scuffle with the police.
The authorities are lucky to have sustained as few injuries as they did.
This time, Joker's victims...
...threw their stolen property off the East Canal bridge.
BATMAN: Wait a minute.
That woman looks familiar.
She was on the train.
Yeah, who could forget that hat?
BATMAN: The boy with the piercing, the old man.
They were there too. They all were.
The commuter train.
Joker's using the train.
How does he brainwash people with a train?
The lights.
JOKER [OVER PA]: Life getting you down, bubby?
Feel like you're just along for the ride?
Then relax. Clear your minds.
And look into the lights.
The peaceful lights.
The soothing lights.
[CROWD CHATTERING]
Make sure everyone stays out of the first car.
[WHIMPERS]
Blast. Public transportation.
What's the matter with the lights?
Your scheme has just been derailed.
[GRUNTS]
Excuse me.
I'm the conductor here.
And all passengers must get their tickets punched.
[GRUNTS]
Boys?
[GRUNTS]
Well, isn't that hospitable?
Judy wants you to have his seat.
[CRASH]
[CROWD GASP]
Heeyah!
Whoa!
[BOTH GRUNT]
[GRUNTS]
If you'll excuse me, I've got business to conduct.
[GRUNTING]
Runaway train, anyone?
[LAUGHING]
We're heading for a dead end.
But we've got all those passengers back there.
And no air bags.
Grab my arm.
[GRUNTS]
[ALL GASP]
[GRUNTING]
Come on. We make the rest of this trip on foot.
BATGIRL: It's all caves and tunnels down here.
Like a giant hunk of Swiss cheese.
In the late 1800s Gotham was a thriving coal-mining town.
Who knows how many tunnels riddle the city's foundation?
JOKER [OVER SPEAKER]: Ooh, crime fighter and history professor all in one.
I'm so glad you decided to drop in.
[ALL GRUNT]
JOKER: It must have been exciting in those days.
Such dangerous work down in the mines.
What with all the accidents, cave-ins and poison gas.
[ALL GRUNT]
Ahh. Mm, mm, mm.
End of the line.
Rise and shine, bat gang.
[ALL GROANING]
Look, you have your very own cage.
Just like Ralph here.
[LAUGHING]
It's a pretty good haul, don't you think?
Just imagine what I'll get for these on the Internet.
Let me guess. You're going to run us over with your train.
Real original.
I assure you, that joke is too obvious, even for me.
No, I've cooked up a far more crushing defeat for my little cave bats. Ha, ha.
You see, you were right about all the tunnels under Gotham.
The place is lousy with them.
So I thought I'd spruce them up a bit.
Dynamite.
Miles of it.
Just imagine, all these tunnels blowing at once.
The entire city swallowed into a great big sinkhole.
Ah. Ashes to ashes, and all that rot.
Ooh, love to chat, but I've got a schedule to keep.
Ta-ta.
This is the Cuckoo Choo-Choo, now leaving on Track 9.
Next stop, city limits, and the end of Gotham as we know it.
Mwah!
All aboard!
[HORN BLARING]
[LAUGHING]
- GPS? - It can tell us where we are.
I can tell you where we are. Stuck in a cave, miles below the surface.
I hate to say it, Batman, but he's right.
There's no way we can catch Joker now.
We've got nothing.
Not so.
We've got explosives.
Good heavens.
Sorry about the mess, Alfred.
The front door too conventional for you, sir?
[BATMOBILE APPROACHING]
You hear that?
Get in.
You gotta be kidding.
[LAUGHING]
WOMAN [OVER PA]: Train approaching.
[LAUGHING]
[HORN BLARING]
That's it. We're moving.
JOKER: Only three more miles to the city limits.
I'll miss you, Gotham, and the swell times we had together.
But most of all, I'll miss the good old Battyman.
I mean-- Huh?
[BEEPING]
Oh. I was so close.
It seems like we're always saying goodbye.
Huh?
Cover me.
Oh, hoo-hoo-hoo! Circus time.
[JOKER LAUGHING]
[JOKER GRUNTS]
[CLANK]
[JOKER GRUNTS]
[LAUGHS]
Say goodbye, Gotham. Ha-ha-ha!
Uh?
- Grr.... BATMAN: Sorry, Joker.
You can't send a signal without a battery.
Aah! I've been railroaded?
[GROWLING]
[GRUNTS]
[SIGHS]
- Oh. - Last stop, Joker.
You know, it's really a shame to seal it up.
Maybe you should expand. Add a Batgirl cave.
Batgirl cave?
I'm old enough to have my own cave.
I can park my cycle there...
...bring in some exercise equipment, a couple of beanbags.
How come she gets her own cave? I want my own cave.
Nobody's getting their own cave.
Well, gotta go.
- And where are you off to in such a hurry? - Late for a train?
Midnight madness sale at Gotham Shoes. You coming with me?
She's a regular joker.
[ENGLISH SDH]