- Despite the cosmetics scare, the mayor still wants to have a parade.
- But what about the clowns?
- Bruce gets a message from Vicki Vale about their upcoming meeting, even though he never scheduled one.
- At Joker's lair, he's putting on his flesh-colored makeup for a night out on the town.
- Vicki waits for Bruce at the art museum restaurant, but he doesn't show up.
- In his place, a package with a festive bow. We hate surprises.
- Vicki opens it and finds a gas mask with a note: PUT THIS ON RIGHT NOW.
- Gas pours throw the vents, and Vicki quickly dons the mask.
- Everyone falls over, some guests face first into their food. Dinner is ruined.
- Joker and his crew of the whitest thugs ever show up, dance around to bad hip-hop music, and wreck the museum.
- Once all the art is ruined, Joker dances over to Vicki's table.
- He picks up her photography portfolio and calls all her pictures terrible.
- Joker: negging women since 1989.
- He introduces himself as a "homicidal artist" and he wants her to take pictures of his work.
- The work is "Sugar Bumps," who's brought in by Joker's thugs.
- Joker has her remove her mask, revealing her face, which is pale and scarred.
- He also wants to know all Vicki knows about Batman.
- When she won't give up the information, he tries to squirt her with acid from the flower on his lapel.
- She runs.