JLA - Tower Of Babel: The Full Story

9. The Heist

Talia al Ghul, the daughter of Ra’s al Ghul, stole the contingency plans and other objects from Batman. As detailed in JLA Secret Files and Origins # 3, Talia observed the chaos her father had sown and remembered her part in its execution. It was never revealed how al Ghul discovered that The Dark Knight had developed countermeasures against his own teammates but Ra’s hatched a plan to use those countermeasures against the Detective’s team.

Several months before the attack, Talia infiltrated the Watchtower when the Justice League was otherwise engaged in a crisis. She found the encrypted files but realized that she needed additional files to decode them and knew they could only be held in one place: The Batcave. Using the same falsified teleporter code she used to get into the Watchtower, The Daughter of the Dragon teleported directly into Bruce’s inner sanctum.

Alone in the Batcave, Talia was able to find the files she needed to decode the initial files and save them onto an easily transportable CD. The female al Ghul wandered the cave until she discovered a version of “Red Kryptonite” that Batman had been experimenting on. Adding it to her bag, she departed the Cave and returned to her father’s lair.