 Bruce Wayne makes a live, hurried appearance on a Gotham City television station to plea for Harriet Cooper to be freed by her kidnapper. During the broadcast, both Bruce and Commissioner Gordon reveal the money stolen by the bank robber was genuine. Zelda frees Aunt Harriet as a result. Now the "mad Albanian genius" shows Zelda the latest device he s built for her magician act. It is an "inescapable doom trap." The problem: it s truly inescapable. As a result, the criminals now bait a trap for Batman and Robin. If anybody can figure out how to escape it s Batman who is "the world s greatest escape artist." Two hitmen hide to kill the Dynamic Duo when they do escape.