Story: "[Bruce Wayne: Fugitive Part Three]: Turning the Town Red Part One" (22 Pages)

Credits:

Ed Brubaker (plot, script)
Scott McDaniel (pencils)
Andy Owens (inks)
John Costanza (letters)
Gregory Wright (colors)
Wildstorm FX (color seperations)
Bob Schreck (edits)

Feature Character:

Batman (last in Batman: Gotham Knights #27)

Supporting Characters:

Alfred Pennyworth (last in Batman: Gotham Knights #27)
Michael Akins

Villains:

Nicodemus (first appearance)
Skink (first appearance)
Stumpy (a getaway driver, first appearance)

Other Characters:

Kelso (a psychiatric doctor; dies)
Jack McKenna (a long-serving corrupt city councillor; dies)

Fugitive: Bruce Wayne: Fugitive Part Two was in Birds of Prey #41 and Part Four is in Batgirl #27

Synopsis:

There's a new madman in Gotham City by the name of Nicodemus, kidnapping corrupt city officials and burning them to death; Commissioner Akins calls Batman in when another two councillors go missing. Meanwhile, Alfred is worried about Batman, and particularly his journals - some of them really don't seem to have been written by him. Batman catches up with Nicodemus while he is terrorising Jack McKenna, and although he saves him from asphyxiation, and the other councillor - Thomas Hart - is rescued, McKenna dies of a heart attack. Nicodemus then makes an announcement to the city that he intends to burn it all down, burned from the Earth to eradicate its evil.