- Ivy is dead, Harley's crew is captured, and Batman is his captive. Joker has everything he's ever wanted - but is it enough without Harley at his side?
- The dying Ivy tells Harley that "She can't... and then dies. Joker laughs on the television monitor on his tower, then sarcastically goes "Oops" and continues laughing. Harley, Kite Man, and Harley's crew lay Ivy to rest, and Clayface is glad to step in and give a few words. Psycho is impressed, until Clayface explains that he "borrowed" it from 'Star Trek II'. Kite Man says goodbye to Ivy and Frank breaks into tears. Psycho telekinetically lowers Ivy's body into her grave and buries her, and Harley runs screaming at Joker's tower. Telekinetically stopping her, Psycho warns that Joker will kill her as well. Harley says that she has an actual plan, and says that Ivy wanted her to get rid of Joker so that's what she's going to do... and she's working on a plan.
That night, the Bat-Signal goes out as Gordon throws the switch repeatedly. Batman finally arrives, and Gordon insists that his marriage is rock-solid. Harley comes out and says that she wants to take down Joker and they need to work together. Gordon goes to get his file on Joker, and Batman refuses to team up with Harley. The commissioner returns to reveal Joker has replaced his file with a musical greeting card, and Batman asks Harley what she brings to the table if he agrees to the team-up. Harley says that she brings the thing Joker wants most.
Later, Harley, Psycho, King Shark, and Sy advance on Joker's tower. Guns come out and Joker asks what they want. Joker insists on pointing out that he killed Ivy, and Harley says that Joker won and she wants to be on the winning side. She leads the tied-up Batman up, and Joker is thrilled she got him the one thing he doesn't have. Clayface, disguised as Batman, says that Joker is buying it, and Harley tells him to keep his mouth shut. Overhead, Batman ejects from his Batwing and parachutes on the tower. Joker is too busy gloating to notice, and asks Harley to sing his special birthday song. While Harley sings, Batman cuts his way into the tower.
Clayface joins on the song and finally loses control, reverting to his normal self to finish the song. Joke realizes that he's been tricked, and Harley grabs a discarded missile launcher and fires it at Joker. It explodes, and Joker sees Batman and seals himself in an impenetrable dome. Joker venom spews into the room and Batman passes out.
At the ground level, grappler grab everyone but Harley. She dodges away from them, and Joker's automated guns open fire on her. Harley runs off, and the newspapers declare Joker the new king of Gotham.
One Week Later
Joker soldiers march through Gotham, taking Gordon and his men prisoner. The new king puts out a million dollar reward000 reward. When Harley, and when nobody brings her to her, Joker pulls out King Shark's teeth and wears them around his neck on a string. He also forces Psycho to watch videos of feminism rallies, shoves Sy down a flight of stairs, spins Clayface on a turntable to make a Joker urn out of him, and forces everyone to laugh at his televised jokes or get gunned down. As for Batman, Joker makes him the cuckoo in his giant cuckoo clock.
Harley prowls through the shadows, avoiding the Joker soldiers.
Joker soon gets bored of torturing Batman and wonders if he's having a quarter-life crisis for his 25th birthday. Scarecrow pours champagne to celebrate, and Joker reminisces about how he and Harley used to celebrate birthdays. When Scarecrow unmasks Batman he and Joker are both shocked to discover that he's billionaire playboy Bruce Wayne. Joker is fu4rious that Scarecrow unmasked his nemesis, insisting that half the fun of their relationship was the mystery. He's so disappointed he can't even bring himself to torture Scarecrow. When Scarecrow says that he thought it was the kind of thing Harley would do, Joker insists that he doesn't care about Harley. Scarecrow points out that Joker kept saying Harley's name, Joker kills him with acid to the face. Turning to Batman, Joker asks where the electric car WayneTech promised that he put a deposit down on is.
Harley goes to Ivy's grave and leaves black roses that she dyed so that Ivy could have some of Harley with her. Kite Man emerges from behind the grave stone and reveals that he's been leaving there because he doesn't want to leave Ivy alone. Frank is with him, and a new bounty flyer for Harley alive blows into his face. Kite Man explains that Joker has Harley's crew captive, and is throwing a 80s party that night after the crew's execution, and Harley asks them to give her a minute alone with Ivy. Once they leave, Harley tells Ivy that she's probably going on a suicide mission and might see her on the other side. As Harley cries, one of her tears falls on the roses, and one of them grows behind her as she leaves.
Harley goes to the tower and Joker greets her on the TV screen. She tells him that there isn't going to be an execution, and threatens to blow herself up with a bomb vest if Joker doesn't do what she says. Joker lets her up to his penthouse in the tower and Harley asks what he wants from her. Joker gives her her old Harlequin costume and says that he wants her to put it on, and tells her to remember the fun she had in it. Harley insists that she didn't have fun, and once she got away from Joker she realized how deeply unfun being with Joker was.
Joker reveals the crew imprisoned nearby and points out that if Harley blows herself up, she'll kill them as well as herself and Joker. Everyone but Psycho tell Harley not to put on the costume, but Harley gets Joker promise that if she puts on the costume, he'll let the crew go. Harley puts it on and asks Joker if he's going to let her crew go. He drops them down chutes out of the tower, and they realize she sacrificed her life for them.
Harley asks what the plan is now that she's wearing the costume, and Joker tells her that he already has everything he wants but he's not happy. Once he got everything but Harley, he realized that it means nothing without Harley. Joker says that Harley is the missing piece to his happiness, and they both kiss... and stab each other in the side. They pull out the knives and fight, and Joker pins her down and says that Harley is his missing piece. He tells Harley that she's his one weakness, and he has no room for weakness so he has to get rid of her.
Joker figures that if he kills Harley, she'll live on as an emotional martyr in his soul. His goons arrive and take her with Joker, who takes her to the chemical vat where he "created" her. Joker explains that he's going to undo the mistake of creating her by destroying her, and the acid will make her a nobody. As Joker prepares to throw Harley into the vat, vines with roses on them grow toward the vat. Harley asks Joker to let her jump on her own so her last act can be her own, and Joker agrees.
Harley lets herself fall toward the vat, and Joker starts to walk away but realizes there was no splash. The vines lift Harley up, and she removes her Harlequin mask. Ivy lifts herself up with her vines and tosses away the goons. Joker runs for it, but Ivy garbs him and suspends him over the acid. Joker tells Harley that they can rule Gotham together, and then says that she's nothing without him. Harley tells him that it's not true, and she has f4riends who love and care about her. She's moving on with her life with the people who matter, and tells Ivy to drop Joker in the vat. Ivy is glad to do so, and Harley figures her tears brought Ivy back. They hug, and Ivy says that it was the renewing power of nature that brought her back... and maybe the tears helped a little.
As Joker sinks beneath the acid, he triggers a remote on his watch that blows up the tower. The pillar Batman is tied to comes down, releasing him. As a pipe falls on Harley and Ivy, Batman shoves them out of the way and the pipe lands on him. Harley and Ivy ride a vine out, and the exploding tower triggers an earthquake that turns most of Gotham into rubble.
Later, a news anchor reports that Joker is dead, Batman is missing, and there's no longer a Gotham for Joker to rule. The crew look over the wreckage of the city, and Psycho tells Harley that he always had faith in her. Ivy points out that the Justice League and the Legion are gone, and Gotham is in chaos, and Harley finally did it. The two of them hold each other and Harley admits the beauty of the destruction.
A laughing Joker emerges from the wreckage... his skin turned back to its normal color.
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