Batman: 03 Nothing to Fear

Batman is a DC Comics character, and Batman: The Animated Series is owned by Warner Home Video. If you'd like to purchase this episode, you may do so here; if you'd like to buy the DVD box set, you may do so here. This episode was written by Henry T. Gilroy and Sean Catherine Derek, and directed by Boyd Kirkland.

The ghostly shadow of a scarecrow is projected onto a whiskey colored backdrop, its smile equal parts mocking and conniving. The instrumental evokes images of the thing's too thin fingers creeping slowly along a wall.

A helicopter flies through Gotham at twilight, carrying a mysterious figure and a man with a Tommy gun. (I think they hand those out at Gotham city limits.) There's an event to save the university, which has been beset by robberies and vandalism. In other words, it's your usual college campus.

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