Does anybody want to write a rat!BatmanBegins fic set right after the movie ended? I think it would be a great opportunity to explore several issues we have been accustomed to in HPMOR. The premise is: Batman learns that Ras'al'Ghul (sorry if misspelled) was trying to develop industrial-strength technique to produce the psychedelic gas. (Basically, to have the poppy in an in vitro culture, maybe modify it genetically and have an almost fail proof way to obtain unlimited and cheap substance.) RaG wasn't himself a specialist in this, so he hired a lab to work out the protocol. The lab team must include at least 1 person to operate a gas-chromatograph/mass spectrometer, 1 to tinker with the culture medium, 1 statistician, 1 specializing in plant secondary metabolites and (realistically, no less than) 1 assistant.
Now, Batman doesn't know whether RaG has ever succeeded in this scheme, and cannot just check using his (rather conspicuous) personas, but he has an inventor friend. So he buys the lab for W Corp and waits for evidence of culpability/innocence/... He gets to overhear them discuss the seemingly impossible phenomenon of the honest Commissioner and from their hypotheses can at least conclude they are capable of looking for alternatives - as he himself should have when somebody approached him to train him just out of the goodness of their heart.
In reality, every member on the team has had some misgivings about the use of their project, and sabotaged it in subtle ways, but seeing as this is Gotham and nobody quite knows what happened to RaG, they mistrust all outsiders.
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