The guilt over killing the Waynes coupled with seeing their extremely high profile son everywhere slowly drives him crazy, and begins to see Bruce's face everywhere. After falling off a building while trying to kill a cop who has found some long lost forensic evidence connected to the Waynes' murders, Batman tries to save him, but when Joe accidentally unmasks him he refuses to be saved because he thinks that he's finally gone nuts.

Bruce is then left wondering why this random old guy did these things before seemingly refusing to be saved for no apparent reason.