Batman leaves the Asylum and the inmates peacefully return to their cells, except for Two-Face, who looks at the moon and it is revealed that the coin landed scratched side up. Two-Face flips the coin and declares Batman free. Two-Face then declares that if the coin lands scratched side up they kill Batman, otherwise they let him go. Adams, stating that it should be up to Two-Face to decide his fate. Reacting instinctively, she slashes it across Cavendish's throat, killing him.īatman returns Two-Face's coin back from Dr. Grappling with Batman, Cavendish drops the razor, and Adams picks it up. Believing Batman to be "The Bat" itself, Cavendish accuses him of feeding the evil of the house by bringing it more insane souls. On April 1, the date Arkham's family was murdered, he lures Batman to the asylum. He continues his mission even after he is incarcerated in the Asylum himself he scratches the words of the binding spell into the walls and floor of his cell with his fingernails until the day he dies.ĭiscovering Amadeus Arkham's journals, the razor and the dress, Cavendish begins to believe himself to be the one destined to continue Arkham's work. Kneeling in the blood of his family he vows to bind the evil spirit of "The Bat", which he believes inhabits the house, through ritual and sorcery. The tragedy brings back the memory of killing his mother and a traumatized Amadeus puts on his mother's wedding dress and takes out the pearl-handled razor.
Years later, his wife and daughter were murdered by one of his former patients, a serial killer named Martin "Mad Dog" Hawkins. He then blocked out the memory and attributed her death to suicide.
Subconsciously, he had chosen to block the truth of the events, but in the dairy, it is clearly explained how he used a pearl-handled straight razor from his pocket to cut his mother's throat and free her from her suffering. However, Amadeus had suppressed a memory when one day, he finally saw the monster that tormented her - a great bat, a spectre of death. For many years she suffered delusions that she was being tormented by a supernatural creature, and would call to her son to protect her.
The hidden room turns out to have been Elizabeth Arkham's bedchamber.
When questioned by Batman, he prompts him to read a passage marked out in Amadeus Arkham's secret diary. He is revealed to have been the one to orchestrate the riot. Cavendish is dressed in a bridal gown and holding a straight razor to Dr. Batman fights his way through Arkham and his own subconscious, fighting some of his most dreaded enemies until he reaches a secret room high in the towers of the asylum - a room left unchanged from the days when the property served as Amadeus Arkham's childhood home.
Two-Face, meanwhile, has degenerated even further into madness as a result of Adams' well-intentioned therapy she replaced his trademark coin with a 6-sided die, and then with a tarot deck of cards rendering him incapable of making simple decisions such as going to the bathroom.īatman is forced into a game of hide and seek, and told he has one hour to make his way through the maze-like corridors and find a way out before his old foes are sent to find him. The patients are led by Black Mask and Joker, who kills a guard to spur Batman to obey his wishes. Among the hostages are a young woman named Pearl, who works in the kitchens the current Administrator, Dr.
In the present, on April 1, Commissioner Gordon informs Batman that the patients of Arkham Asylum have taken over the building, and will murder the staff unless Batman agrees to meet with them. Arkham renovated the family manor into the asylum following his subsequent inheritance of the property after his mother committed suicide. Synopsis for "Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth"īack in the 1920s, Amadeus Arkham witnessed his mother's descent into madness and as an adult, he became the architect and first administrator of Arkham Asylum, a mental institution dedicated to help the criminally insane and prevent them from being taken into the regular penal system.