PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION:

"Officer Down" Part 6! The GCPD at last finds the person they're looking for, but time is against them, and not even Batman can bring the would-be killer to justice. As the clock ticks towards zero, several characters make decisions that will change their lives forever!

Story was included in the Batman: Officer Down Trade Paperback, released by DC Comics in 2001.

(official Batman website)


AUTHORS' COMMENTS:

My only comics foray without Christina. She was just learning to love comics as a reader and we had started writing together in TV, put thought I'd keep a seperate career for myself in comics. This was my first comic script, as well. This was part of a big Bat-book crossover. I was assigned a chapter and given a broad strokes outline of what needed to happen. When I saw my assignment, I realized that I wanted the centerpiece of the issue to be the interrogation. So, being a first time writer at DC I got totally ballsy, and asked them to move almost everything else out of the issue, including most of the Batman, Nightwing and costumed hero scenes. It was a weird move, but I had my reasons. I was heavily inspired by Homicide, and tried to give this issue the same feel as one of my favorite episodes of that truly great show, "Three Men and Adena." That episode was almost entirely set in "The Box," covering two cops and their increasingly desperate attempts to get a confession from the man they knew had killed Adena Watson. So I asked them to move all the non-interrogation scenes out that I could, and surprisingly, they agreed - we pushed some scenes back to Officer Down Part 5 and one, I think, forward to Chapter 7. The end result is a script I'm still very proud of. Though I hear at least one of the writers of the other chapters was not happy to have their issue crowded by the scenes I'd rejected. I bet they were doubly pissed when they asked which writer dumped the scenes on them, got the answer and could only muster the response: "who?"