Writer: Greg RuckaPlot: Before Helena recounts her quest to become the tool of her family's vengeance, the Huntress and the Question find Batman waiting for them, when they return to Gotham.
In only four pages, the animosity that went on between Bruce and Helena for the past several years gives way to common sense and respect. They no longer argue about methods or being part of the club - Batman becomes Helena's surrogate father, and when you realize his dialogue mirrors that of a paternal figure, Vic assures you that you're right, much to Ms. Bertinelli's naive denial.
Just as daddy dearest makes his warning-filled exit, leaving Helena and Vic alone, Helena's "annoying, little brother" arrives to spoil the romantic moment. Robin supplies her with some information, and rejoins the rest of his family on the opposite rooftop, where Nightwing makes a curious comment about how the Huntress' way "has been known to put bodies in the morgue," which is far from accurate. Dick's point does get across to Batman, and to the reader, though. In reality, Helena hasn't killed anyone. Well, at least not recently.
The story of her path to the role of the Huntress is documented magnificently by both the writer and the artists across a few splash pages, ending with a strong implication that Helena managed to find her family's murderer, and kill him herself.
Vic gets some great panel-time in here, too, bouncing some giggly jokes off the Bat-clan, and scaring the guano out of a private investigator. Since questions eventually find answers, Vic unwittingly discovers the secret of Helena's conception before she fully confronts it in the form of her real father, at the end of the issue.
