Madness Is The Key

Chapter 8 - Surprising Turn Of Events

Harvey's P.O.V. 

The phone rang early in the morning at the district attorney's office and nothing could prepare him for what Gordon had to tell him.

Jim Gordon GCPD: 
"Come to the GCPD right away, we have Lau!"

Lau was a Chinese crime lord and accountant in Gotham City who dealt with the mob's money. He fled to China to protect their money. So why did he come back?

"Good morning" His eyes look up from the small display to his enchanting girlfriend, who comes up to him and kisses him lovingly. "Did you sleep well?" she asks as she takes a cup from the cupboard and pours herself some coffee.

"Rachel. They've got Lau. We have to go now." She almost chokes on her hot drink and puts the cup down on the counter in shock.

"What, how?" she asks, confused.

"I don't know, but we have to go to the GCPD!"

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Third P.O.V.

"So just how exactly where you able to get him?" Harvey asks the second he discovers Gordon. So he really was right. Behind the glass wall sat the Chinese mobster and his lawyer.

At least he's clever, Harvey thinks to himself as he sees his lawyer next to him.

"We didn't." Gordon admits.

"Batman? Well I knew that he was good, but somehow flying to Honkong just to get Lau and get back to Gotham is really impressive, I do have to admit that." 

"No." Harvey raises his eyebrows in astonishment. Now the detective made him curious. "Mr. Lau showed up by himself."

"Are you trying to tell me, that he turned himself in? Wasn't he just trying to bail with the mob's money?" It made no sense, why on earth would Lau do something like that? After all, he was already out of Gotham. Out of America. The Chinese would never have handed over their own man.

"We found this on Mr. Lau's phone." Jim hands him the phone. Curious, Harvey starts rummaging through Lau's phone, hoping to find out, what exactly motivated him to turn himself in. "Take a look at the last message."

He went into the Chinese man's messages and immediately recognized the reason. The last message had been sent from an anonymous number, but the message was more than clear.

Unknown:"

Don't bail now, Squealer.The Game has just started.I expect you in Gotham within 24 hours.
-J"

"Joker," Rachel whispers next to him.

"So you're telling me, that he came back to Gotham because of a text message from an unknown number?" Harvey asks dumbfounded. "I don't get it. I mean he was continents away."

"That wasn't the only message that he received. We were able to track down, that he started to receive the messages about two weeks prior and that's still not all. He recived threats by e-mail as well as chocolates and also photographs of his wareabouts. There are also photos of what we presume to be his mistress." Gordon explains while Harvey and Rachel continue to take a look at the pictures.

"I take it that the chocolate Mr. Lau received didn't meet his expectations?" Rachel mumbled under her breath.

"You'd think so, but we looked at it and nothing. There were no traces of any explosives, chemicals or anything like that. Just normal plain chocolate. Not even a hint of nuts, given that Mr. Lau seems to be allergic."