[ In fact, it turns around completely backwards and reveals that it's not a child at all. It's just a very detailed mannequin, with a ventriloquist dummy head.]
[Gas shoots out of a hole where the nose should be, at such a rate it fills the room almost instantly. The mouth has a speaker.]
[The dummy's face is painted to look like a clown's.]
[The pre-recorded cries for help give way to a voice, distorted by the effects of the knock out drug, but familiar, echoing the way it does in Gotham's nightmares.]
Tell me, Bird boy, have you ever heard the one about the ventriloquist that lost his dummy?
Now he's just a schizophrenic!
[Then the laughter comes. Familiar. Mocking. Delighted. Communicating more than words, letting the mad cruelty spill out of him for all to hear.]
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[ In fact, it turns around completely backwards and reveals that it's not a child at all. It's just a very detailed mannequin, with a ventriloquist dummy head.]
[Gas shoots out of a hole where the nose should be, at such a rate it fills the room almost instantly. The mouth has a speaker.]
[The dummy's face is painted to look like a clown's.]
[The pre-recorded cries for help give way to a voice, distorted by the effects of the knock out drug, but familiar, echoing the way it does in Gotham's nightmares.]
Tell me, Bird boy, have you ever heard the one about the ventriloquist that lost his dummy?
Now he's just a schizophrenic!
[Then the laughter comes. Familiar. Mocking. Delighted. Communicating more than words, letting the mad cruelty spill out of him for all to hear.]
HA HAHA HAHAHAHAHA!