Chapter 5 - Feat of Clay (2)

Previously on Batman: That's what ain't good for you. Having to keep going back to Daggett for that stuff. You're right, Teddy. I can't. I'll have to find a way to get lots of this stuff. On my own. I think our Mr. Hagen has outlived his usefulness. I want him dealt with. Sweet dreams, slimeball. "Bruce Wayne sought for questioning in attempt on executive's life"? Mr. Wayne, what was it like to be in jail? How do you respond to charges of assaulting Lucius Fox? - Mr. Wayne. - No comment. My client has no comment. - Let us through, please. - Mr. Wayne, over here. Mr. Wayne, Mr. Wayne, over here. - Over here. Over here. - Mr. Wayne, could you talk to us? Lmagine, Lucius Fox thinking I would harm him. And he's been with you, what, 10 years now, sir? Then whoever impersonated you did an uncanny job. "Whoever" is right. Bell said he didn't know. He had to be lying. But I know where to get the truth. Move it, Lupus. I want all this stuff out of here by sunrise. Matt, come on, you don't have to do this. You made a comeback before. You can do it again. Comeback? Comeback? From this? Face it, Teddy, Matt Hagen is history. This time for good. He's never coming back again. My contact on the force says Bell hasn't cracked, so far. Good. Well, I'm afraid we still have quite a mess to clean up. Sooner or later, I will take control of Wayne Enterprises. Their marketing operation will instantly give me a distribution network it would take years to build on my own. Till then, my takeover plan will have to be revised. Now that our actor friend Hagen is no longer available to us. Okay, Mr. Daggett, who do you want me to take out now? I want everything wrapped up by the time of that show. We're gonna settle the Fox matter once and for all. But But, Mr. Daggett, he's in a hospital. All those sick people okay, Mr. Daggett. But, Matt, you thought it was all over for you once before, and you were wrong then. You know, when you had your accident. Of course I thought it was over. I figured I was lucky to be alive. Just like I thought I was when Daggett came to visit me at his clinic asking me to be his first test subject. How could I say no? He told me his Renuyu formula could do in minutes what plastic surgery would take years to accomplish. It wasn't so bad, except for all those jobs you had to do for him in return. But, hey, it worked. You had your biggest hits after the accident. Yeah. Some of the best parts I ever had. Matt! You're changing and you didn't use your hands. You didn't even try. You did it automatically, like a reflex or something. Unbelievable. You know what this means, don't you? It doesn't have to be over. You can go on. We can go on. Wow! You can even form clothes out of your skin. But how? The formula must've soaked every cell in my body. It's It's some kind of miracle. What? What are you doing? No. No. You broke my concentration! It won't work, don't you see? It's too hard. It's like tensing a muscle. I can't keep it up for long. My career, life It is gone! And I can never get it back! I'm not an actor anymore. I'm not even a man. Pull in here. - The hospital? - Sooner or later Daggett will send someone to finish off Fox. Once I know who it is, I can take his place. And if Daggett thinks I'm his henchman I can walk right up to him and, "bam!" Goodbye, Mr. Daggett. Hey. Let me out of here. Please. All these viruses and bacteria, I could be infected. I know. Now, the man who impersonated Bruce Wayne I want his name. L I don't know who Crimson fever. Lousy way to go. No cure, you know. - The name. Now! - Okay, okay, it was Hagen. Matt Hagen, the movie actor. It's the truth. I swear. Then how did he fool Fox? He's good, but no actor, no makeup is that good. L I don't know. Oh, you're crazy. Last chance. - Talk! - All right. He had something. Something nobody else had. He could Nice going, Batman but I'll take it from here. - This is my collar. - Just a moment. - What in the name of? - Shut up. Relax, Germs. You won't have to hang around here too long. What in the name of heaven? Back off! All that shape-changing takes a lot out of you, doesn't it? Tomorrow on Gotham Insider my guest will be pharmaceutical king Roland Daggett whose new product can perform miracles even plastic surgery can't. Not even the Batman can stop me, Teddy. And that means Daggett won't have a prayer. Matt, please. You don't want to do anything crazy. Why don't you try to get some shuteye. Don't you dare patronize me! I told you, I don't need rest. I don't need food. And I don't need you! I've acquired the Matt Hagen films you requested, sir. Good, because now I'm sure that that thing I fought at the hospital is Hagen. His condition is apparently the tragic result of an experiment conducted by Daggett. Hagen apparently transforms, unconsciously sometimes like a reflex action. A face-lift in a jar? I love that idea. If you'll watch the monitors, you'll see that with Renuyu you can smooth away wrinkles, reshape imperfections literally remake your face however you choose. - Oh, that's great! - Yeah. Amazing stuff, Rolly. I see we have some questions in our audience. I'd like to ask Mr. Daggett about the rumors I've heard. I hear he's selling Renuyu through direct marketing because stores won't carry it due to its harmful side effects. Well, that's absolutely untrue. What about the addictive properties of Renuyu, Mr. Daggett? How, once you're hooked on it, you can't stop using it without horrible pain? No. I mean That's just not so. Why don't you show them what an overdose can do, Daggett. Why don't you tell them about me! You again. Hagen, listen to me. There is no Hagen. It's only me now. Clayface. See? I figured out how to manage this thing pretty good. What are you doing? Stop it! Look at them, Hagen. Look at what you used to be. No. No. Turn them off. You can play those roles again. Let me help you find a cure. No! Hagen's gone. Make him stop haunting me! Stop it. Stop it. Turn them off. I can't control it. I can't be all of them. Not all at once. Mother of mercy. It looks just like Bruce Wayne. You know what I'd have given for a death scene like this? Too bad I won't get to read the notices. I'm just glad to know it wasn't really Bruce Wayne who attacked me. Thank you, Mr. Fox. All charges against Wayne have, of course, been dropped. And Roland Daggett remains in custody. My word, sir. I should think after all this, it would be time to rest. Look. A piece of clay left behind when they took Hagen's body away. Watch. Electricity has no effect on it? Exactly. I wouldn't be surprised if the body they took to the morgue was only a shell. Don't forget, first and foremost, Hagen was an actor. He said it himself, Alfred. He called it a scene, maybe the greatest scene of his career. See you around, Matt. A death scene so real it fooled us all.