"An Egg Grows in Gotham" kicks off one of the greatest two parters of them all, writer Stanley Ralph Ross bringing out the best in the incomparable Vincent Price, his character of Egghead referred to as 'the rottenest egg of them all' and the smartest criminal that the Dynamic Duo have ever faced. Yet what tips the scales into the stratosphere of brilliance is the surprise casting of beloved comic actor Edward Everett Horton in the role of 'the last of the Mohicans,' Chief Screaming Chicken (a play on his Roaring Chicken character on F TROOP), who sells tacos and pizza at his roadside teepee outside Gotham City. It's time for the ceremony celebrating the founding of Gotham City when the Waynes, the Tylers, and the Savages leased the original property from the Mohicans at a price of nine raccoon pelts, though Chief Screaming Chicken would like to bow to inflation and up the ante to 12 pelts! Every exchange with Horton is a comic gem: "Indian poor businessman, my cousin, ooh...he sell Manhattan for 24 dollars, could have got 35!" Egghead manages to steal the Gotham City charter, revealing a clause that would enable him to foil the traditional event, thereby reverting Gotham City back to the Mohicans, in this case Screaming Chicken: "you no Indian giver?" Descendants Bruce Wayne, Tim Tyler (Steve Dunne), and Pete Savage (Albert Carrier) are dutifully kidnapped, but for another purpose, so that Egghead can deduce which of the three millionaires must be Batman, using a thought transference machine to drain the knowledge out of Bruce Wayne's brain!
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