After defeating Dr. Freeze, Bruce, aka Batman, had ordered his team not to patrol during the blizzard set upon Gotham by the criminal.

Three weeks into the seemingly eternal blizzard, Alfred had been busy making dinner in the kitchen when a knock echoed at the door, slow and unsteady.

Opening it cautiously, pushing it against the snow gathering on the doorstep, Bruce reaches his hands out just in time to catch the child collapsing from hypothermia.