Batman: The Prince of Gotham

GCPD Pt. 3

Old Gotham, 5:43 PM 10/27/22, Gotham PD

Mayor Marion Grange:
"Come on Jim, you gotta think of something! Tricorner is becoming a damn war zone! One more terrorist attack or gang war and it'll marked FEDERALLY as a no man's land and i'll be out of a damn job!"

Commissioner James (Jim) Gordon:
"I know, and i understand your concern but the fact is the police are too damn weak. We need funding Grange, all my best men gone! all my best detectives gone! No one is left. These gangs are getting too powerful, hell most of them got military weapons at their disposal, we can't win against that, willpower won't win against that!"

Mayor Grange:
"Well make it fucking work!"

Just then detective Renee Montoya walks in

Renee:
"Sorry to interrupt commissioner, Mrs. Grange, but some guy just got brought in, Jonathon Graves, claimed he was at Whitlock before it blew up."

Mayor Grange:
"Well it seems i must get going, good luck on this case commissioner, for your jobs sake that is."

Mayor Grange leaves the PD, traveling back to her Penthouse in the Gotham Heights

Gordon:
"Thank you for getting her off my ass Montoya, i appreciate it. Anyways, who is this Jonathon Graves fella?"

Montoya:
"Right um, says here he's a goon for the Joker, convicted of armed robbery, assault, vehicular manslaughter, and possession of illegal substances. So yeah quite the record."

Gordon:
"And how does he connect to the Whitlock case?"

Montoya:
"We ain't sure yet Commissioner, we got em in a interrogation room right now."

Gordon:
"I'll make him talk, thank you Renee for the help."

Montoya:
"Of course Commissioner, have fun with him."

Gordon walks out of his office and straight to the room, where a rookie is tryna get ol' Johnny to talk

Gordon:
"Rookie enough, i'll take it from here."

Johnny:
"Yeah Rookie enough! hahahaha!"

Gordon:
"Jonathon Graves is it?"

Johnny:
"That's the name, now what do you want Gordo?"

Gordon:
"I ask the question Johnny, now, why claim you were at Whitlock?"

Johnny:
"Cause I was, got out just before the explosion went off, took the subway back to crime alley."

Gordon:
"If you were really there, what happened?"

Johnny:
"Slow down Gordo, I wanna gain something out of this too."

Gordon:
"Oh yeah, and what's that, wanna cookie?"

Johnny:
"Firstly, I wanna piece of that detective that brought me in here, and second, I want my record clear. Deal?"

Gordon:
"I cant make a deal on Montoyas behalf, besides I don't think you're exactly her type."

Johnny:
"Oh yeah, who is her type then huh?"

Gordon:
"Women usually."

Johnny:
"God dammit, I knew there was something off, anyways, what about the second part?"

Gordon:
"Your record cleared?"

Johnny:
"100% clean, deal?"

Gordon:
"Deal, now tell me what happened this morning."

Johnny:
"Alright, it all started off smooth, classic warehouse patrol until the shipment arrives right, then after signing the damn shipment papers, the lights cut out."

Gordon:
"The shipment, what was it, who delivered it?"

Johnny:
"One question at a time Gordo!"

Gordon:
"Do you want your record clean or not?"

Johnny:
"Right well, the shipment was gun parts, hell the whole operation was guns."

Gordon:
"And what did you plan on doing with these firearms?"

Johnny:
"We'll sell em, use em, who knows with the Joker."

Gordon:
"The ship captain, who is he?"

Johnny:
"I don't know his real name, but we always called him Jakey, maybe Jakey Badass at times."

Gordon:
"Thank you, now go on with your story."

Johnny:
"Right so as I was sayin, the lights cut out, and then couple of our boys rushed to the upper deck before getting capped. Then the guy right next to me got his shit rocked, he was laying on the floor in a pool of blood with a boot-sized dent on the back of his head. Finally, the shadow figure went after me, to me to surrender and put my gun down."

Gordon:
"Did you?"

Johnny:
"Of course I did, if I didn't I would've ended up with a boot mark in the face too!"

Gordon:
"This shadowy figure, who is he?"

Johnny:
"Listen Gordo i'm getting there, now like I said I put my gun down right, and then I shit you not Red mutherfucking Hood comes out of the shadows, throwing me into some crate!"

Gordon:
"And you're sure this is the Red Hood?"

Johnny:
"Fucking positive, Red Helmet, White eyes, Red hoodie under a black jacket, and some tactical cargo pants or something. If that don't scream Red Hood, I don't know what does!"

Gordon:
"Alright he threw you into a crate. what happened after that?"

Johnny:
"He asked about the Joker, where he is and what he is planning, my guess is he wants the big ol' joke man dead."

Gordon:
"He does, he want him very dead. Now is that all Johnny?"

Johnny:
"Yes Gordo, that'll be all."

Gordon:
"Great, Grey, Montoya, take Johnny boy here to Aaron Cash, he'll know what to do."

Grey and Montoya:
"Sir yes sir."

Montoya:
"So how'd it go commissioner?"

Gordon:
"Good, at least good enough... I got the information i wanted, now to work with the man in black."

Montoya:
"Have fun with that Commissioner."

Gordon:
"I always do."