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Out of all that he does manage to extract the message somehow but he needs to clarify one thing. "The good guys who don't like Batman are either sensitive, not so smart, or just don't get him. If they understood Batman they'd know that nobody is more about protecting the innocent than he is. But people forget that sadly. If you've done nothing wrong, you have no reason to fear the Batman. Simple as that. He's a very good guy under it all."

A little more sifting through bits is needed, including that part about cops and gay people which he's not quite seeing why that's there but who knew with her. "Compassion we do, not overtly but we do it in various ways but hope is a harder one to hit. And is useless if there's no action to act on it. So we start from the bottom. We clean up the streets, clean up the police force, get things safer and then people see that and they realize things are better here now. Not perfect, but better. So they stay. That's a form of hope isn't it? They see it's getting better. And if we've taken a city from a time where upstanding citizens could get gunned down in the streets to the point it's at today...how's that not hope it'll get better? We don't instill hope through talking about it, we do it by example."

He sighs and gives her a small smile. "Everyone works differently. What works for you won't necessarily work for me and vice versa. But at the end of the day I'd like to think some of the diverse methods out there balance. We need people who work with hope just as much as we do ones who work with fear. End results matter and, hey, if today's any indication, we're getting some good ones."