Terry is scolded by his mother about neglecting his chores, due to
his Batman duties. As a result of this, Terry's mother tells him that
his afternoon job with Mr. Wayne will be put on hold for two weeks
because she is grounding him with no electronic access, including phone,
afternoon job, online, computer except for schoolwork and TV privileges
and Terry groans in frustration as he feels that he is now put in jail
again by the warden while Mrs. McGinnis notifies Bruce to let him know
that Terry is grounded. Bruce asks Mrs. McGinnis if Terry has done
something wrong, but Mrs. McGinnis tells Bruce that Terry needs to learn
to respect her and Bruce tells Ace that Terry will be okay as it is
just a teenage thing. Bruce contacts Terry and tells him to act on his
mother's requests until she cools down because he will need Terry back
in action soon. Later that night while Terry is lamenting over his
punishment, Matt irritates Terry by taking night vision snapshots of him
with his camera and telling Terry to come down for dinner. Terry kicks
Matt out of his room before Terry asks Matt if Mr. Wayne called while he
is in solitary and Matt tells him no, but notices the TV is on as Terry
watches it and Matt tells Terry that he is disobeying his mother. All
of a sudden the TV emits a high frequency that causes Terry great pain
but not for Matt. Terry demands Matt to turn the TV off. Mrs. McGinnis
tries to have a word with Terry, but Terry realizes that Bruce is in
trouble and Mrs. McGinnis forbids Terry to leave the apartment as he is
grounded. So, Terry defies his mother as he charges out of the apartment
as Mrs. McGinnis tells Terry to get back inside while grabbing his
backpack and pulls out his batsuit. Bruce turns on the TV, but Ace growls at the screen. Suddenly,
the time on the clock changes to 2 am and Bruce gets a call from Mrs.
McGinnis. Mrs. McGinnis said she got into another argument with Terry
then Terry smacked his little brother Matt before leaving the apartment.
Bruce is stunned by the sudden change in time and Mrs. McGinnis abrupts
the call. Bruce assures Mrs. McGinnis that he will get to the bottom of
this. Bruce heads down to the Batcave to deactivate the bat suit just
in case Terry is under the influence of someone else. When Bruce reaches
the kill switch, he discovers a batarang has destroyed it and the
batmobile is gone. Bruce then receives an incoming message on the batcomputer. The
batmobile collides with a passing oil tanker. The oil tanker begins
leaking oil all over the highway while Terry gloats about his misdeeds.
The transmission between Bruce and Terry becomes muddled. Bruce tells
the batcomputer to replay and isolate the anomalous sub-frequency in the
recording of the message. The computer filters focal source of the
signal within the message and discovers that Spellbinder has isolated
the cowl radio frequency within Terry's suit thus bombarding Terry with
subliminal messaging. The computer tracks Spellbinder's location to an
antenna relay at the KKG TV building. Bruce decides to put a stop to it
by wearing his old batsuit one last time. Both Bruce and Terry arrive at the antenna relay. Both Batmans
think the other is under Spellbinder's control so they engage in a
fight. Terry fights Bruce who is wearing the suit that he wore during
his halcyon years. Terry tries to use his youth and strength to
overwhelm Bruce's strategic skills. Terry restrains Bruce with a bear
hug from behind but Bruce activates a gas mask then triggers a nerve gas
pellet which causes Terry to lose his grip. Terry loses his balance and
falls off the edge of a building. Bruce grabs Terry and the nerve agent
Oxy-Mix does its job by chemically erasing Spellbinder's hold over
Terry. Bruce and Terry head back to the batcave for the deeper analysis
into Spellbinder's manipulation. Bruce deduces that Spellbinder's target
was only Batman regardless if it was Terry or Bruce. The subliminal
message was meant for only them which is why Matt McGinnis wasn't
effected by the frequency. Bruce installs a few extra screens in the
visor of Terry's cowl in order to block out any of Spellbinder's
signals. Bruce tracks down the location of Spellbinder's actual base of
operations and transfers the info to Terry. Terry arrives just as
Spellbinder was introducing a few new victims to his enthrallment. Terry approaches Spellbinder as if he was still under
Spellbinder's influence but Spellbinder doesn't fall for it so he
activates his latest victims by having them attack Terry. Spellbinder's
latest form of influence stimulates the endocrinal and hormonal systems
within the brain which increases the strength of Spellbinder's mind
controlled victims. Terry acts fast by setting off a smoke bomb to
immobilize Spellbinder's victims. Terry then subjects Spellbinder to his
brand of subliminal messaging which causes Spellbinder to go catatonic.
The next day, Bruce and Mrs. McGinnis come to understanding about
Terry's grounding for four weeks while Terry can still work for Bruce
while he is grounded after Terry deliberately disobeyed his mother, ran
away from home, and is in even more trouble which allows him to maintain
his duties as Batman.