Bruce, initially upset about all of this, eventually sees in Terry a kindred spirit and knowing how bad crime has gotten to be in the city he once patrolled, begins mentoring Terry in the ways of the Batman. One thing leads to another and Terry winds up stealing Bruce's Bat-Suit and brings Fixx in on his own. Terry wants Bruce's help with this but is shut down by the old man who instead tells him to take his problems to Gotham's Police Commissioner, Barbara Gordon.
He does some detective work of his own and traces the murder to a conspiracy involving Wayne-Powers Enterprises and a bodyguard to Dwayne Powers named Mr. When Terry comes home, he finds his father dead at the hands of The Jokerz, or so he thinks. Terry pokes around inside and, after uncovering the entrance to the Bat-Cave, starts to piece together the puzzle only to then get caught by Bruce and kicked out of the manor. Bruce and Terry get into, and win, a fight with the gang but Bruce's heart problems creep up again and he winds up needing Terry's help to get back inside and settled. Bruce Wayne has just turned seventy, living alone in Wayne Manor and basically hiding from the world when a teenager named Terry McGinnis winds up being chased onto the estate by a motorcycle gang called The Jokerz. Twenty years pass, and Gotham changes as all cities do. When he has a heart attack while working a case, he decides that it's time to hang up the cape and cowl for good. While he still fights crime, he now uses a specially designed Bat-Suit to do it.