On a cold night in Gotham City, Haly's circus campsite is aglow with the pulsating red and blue lights of Gotham City Police Department cars darting around. In this tense atmosphere, Jerome Valeska, the renowned 18-year-old acrobatic prodigy, sits outside one of the tents with cigarettes and a bottle of alcohol. His head hangs low, a gloomy expression masking his face as he receives distressing news: Jerome's parents have been brutally murdered in a nearby tent by his older twin brother named Jeremiah who is infamous as the criminal mastermind known as Joker.

As the ambient sounds of commotion reach Jerome's ears, he remains seated, unmoved. In a tone that is both irritated and solemn, Jerome gruffly inquires,

What is it?