"But you haven't found any dead squirrels."

"I - why would we be looking for dead squirrels? - what the fuck are you doing here, Batman?"

Berra wakes up in a daze and pushes herself off the ground. She's not in the canyon anymore - where is she?

Wait wait can we go back to the Batman thing. Why is there a guy in a bat-themed suit there?

That guy sounds awesome.

The Batman thing was supposed to be the B-plot of the story and the Berra thing was supposed to be the A-plot - oh whatever.

BACK ON ZANEM:

"Tell me, Commissioner Gordon: what is the squirrel population of the Grand Canyon?"

"Not a clue," says the Commissioner, whose name is Zevan.

"Then we shall deduce it together. What is the human population of the Grand Canyon?"

"Clearly you have never been tied up over the Grand Canyon by the Riddler and forced to make your way to the edge by a human ladder, Commissioner Gordon. There are twenty human tour guides! And how many squirrels does a human eat in a day?"

"...none."

"Clearly you have never been tied up in a sewer by Killer Croc with nothing to eat but rodents and sewage. A healthy human eats fifteen squirrels in a day! And how often do squirrels reproduce?"

"Is there a point to this madness?"

"But-"

"But nothing, Commissioner Gordon! And so, what is the squirrel population of the Grand Canyon?"

"Twenty-seven thousand and... whatever you said?"

"So you would think. And yet there are a mere fourteen thousand! What does that tell you?"

"That one of your nonsense assumptions was wrong."

"It tells us that something is taking the squirrels."

And he vanishes into the night.

Meanwhile, back on Eifwen...