After Bruce sent John to jail from almost killing thousands of people with 20 bombs in Gotham city, John has been abused by some very dangerous inmates that were very powerful than him. which ended up kicking, punching, stealing his food, telling him negative things, and marking his body with a knife putting mean and unfaithful words on him to rot. Now this made John from becoming the laughing physcho to a paranoid and fearful person who he is from today. Bruce didn't knew this after he wanted to pay him a visit just to get some information of how he got those bombs from where he saw John all messed up, when he definitely felt very bad for him and that he wanted to set him free from jail. Since he set John free he wasn't himself anymore and kept pushing everyone away. including Bruce to which he tried to help him as best as he could and wouldn't give up. Until one night everything changed for the both of them.