On Thin Ice | Batman & Mr. Freeze
Mr. Freeze moved from place to place in straight lines. In the past, he left evidence of his arrivals and departures with ice or rubble in generous quantity. Gotham rarely saw him, but every time it did it really saw him, on the news, in the headlines, in the streets, for weeks to come.
A summer went by without a freak glacier appearing by Ferris Boyle's home or office, and a Christmas went on without a contributory snowstorm. Those who knew of Victor's preoccupations assumed he became depressed, and went into private, pride-devoid sulking.
Then, a flurry of snow fell one of suburban towns outside of Gotham in the middle of the summer. The citizens there attributed it to freak weather, or at least that's what the newspapers said. People in this town heard the violent echoes from Gotham every day of the year and they practiced evacuation monthly. Its silhouette hung on their horizon and they knew it was just a few hours drive from here to there.
It was for their children's sake that they lied about people freezing in the streets. They told them all kinds of lies: The Police were testing new technology, flash-freezes happened to the cold-hearted, and it only happened to bad guys. It seemed the incidents occurred most often around one particular street- the same street a Ms. Nora Fields had moved into recently.
It was obvious, but no one wanted to admit it out loud. Something had to be done- Everyone agreed on that outside of the young and the flighty's hearing. Sure, most of the victims were criminals caught in the act- But what about Mr. Waburton or Ms. Moritz? They were just walking on Lawrence Road. Someone investigated, and after finding out just what they expected, that same someone called the GCPD, and someone there left the case out for the person most fit to deal with this problem.
