"You want to know how Bruce went back into time," Adriana said to Jack. "Why?"
"You ask a question with a very obvious answer," he said in response. "To erase everything I did. To erase the Joker. Save some lives if I can."
Adriana looked at him quietly. He meant what he was saying.
"Did you talk to Dr. Kapoor about this?" Adriana asked.
"'Course not," he said, almost laughing. "Not entirely sure he even believes Bruce's tales of traveling to the past."
Adriana was silent again.
"So," he said. "Will you tell me?"
She didn't answer.
"You won't be telling me a thing, will you?" he asked.
"Jack," Adriana said. "I know you want to do this because of Arsenio. So that he won't find out what you did one day-"
"Yes," he said. "But also because it was wrong. If I can fix it, why shouldn't I? Go back to the start...be a normal person. Get a job at the post office or waste treatment. Be normal. Spare lives. Bring them all back."
"This...may be a selfish answer," she said. "But I don't want to lose my baby. Even if it means saving lives."
"Why would you lose him?" he asked.
"Because if you were never the Joker we never would have met," she said. "I never wanted kids, Jack. Never. I was always so careful. Always took the pill, until I left Damien. I was taking so many meds for so long...what was one more? But when I met you I just...let down my guard in a way I never had before. I forgot about everything...all the risk. And I'm glad I did."
He considered everything that she was saying.
"Okay then," he said. "What if I go back to after you fell pregnant? I could save at least a dozen lives."
"Jack...first of all we don't even know exactly when that happened-" she said.
"I'm pretty sure I have a good idea of when," he said. "Or I could find you again some other way. Go back to the beginning and...find you somehow. I know where you lived, after all. You'd have Arsenio again. However, the scars might scare you away."
He was making a joke, but she didn't laugh.
Adriana looked down at her hands.
"I'm sorry Jack," she said. "I can't help you. This isn't a good idea at all."
She didn't want to look up. She almost expected that he would be glaring at her or looking at her with even more disappointment. But when she finally looked up, he looked concerned.
"I won't ask you to help me with this again," he said. It was not a threat, but a promise. "Clearly...there is something more to this that is making you...uneasy."
"I'm sorry Jack," she said. "It's just..."
She took a deep breath.
"The way the Bruce went back into time," Adriana said. "He told me that someone helped him. This really...terrible woman. She's really the worst kind of person. She sent Bruce back into time, charged him half of his net worth. Then she...I guess gave him all types of potions and.."
Adriana blinked and shook her head.
"She's the one he had an affair with," Adriana said. "I can't help but believe that she planned it. It was like she was setting him up. Giving him awful potions to show him things in my past he never should have seen. I hate her. And if I ever see Twyla again I can't guarantee that I won't kill her."
