After the riot at Arkham Asylum 18 months ago, the new Mayor of Gotham — Quincy Sharp — and the old psychologist of Blackgate Prison — Dr. Hugo Strage — got the city council's approval, and walled off Old Gotham, the northernmost, poverty-stricken, crime-stricken and industrialized island in the entire city. You were thrown in here after speaking out against the megaprison.

You were forced into a line of prisoners shuffling forward, a TYGER guard behind you pointing his rifle at you.