10 Hidden Easter Eggs In Batman The Animated Series
7. Batman Finds A Psycho
Batman suspects that Detective Bullock has something to do with the disappearance of an informant. Spider Conway was due to receive early release in exchange for testifying against Rupert Thorne (I give him a week, tops) and is taken away by a mysterious assailant as his ships approaches the Gotham City docks.
Batman overhears Bullock and Commissioner Gordon speaking, both of whom are conscious that Conway's testimony could bring up a lot of ugliness from the past. Intrigued and suspicious, Batman breaks into police headquarters and rifles through the files on Bullock, thumbing through the B's to get there.
One name stands out for anyone who has seen Alfred's Hitchcock's Psycho, as BATES, N. is clearly legible on one of the files.
Major spoilers for that film ahead, so if you somehow haven't yet seen it, best look away now.
Norman Bates is of course the Psycho in question, one who was clearly deemed so dangerous that all police precincts received his file.
This is worrying - perhaps there were also a rash of shower murders in Gotham City? Who is to say? All that can be clearly determined by the episode's end is that, unless Norman Bates developed a very bad skin condition, and was suddenly able to bite with the ferocity of a Crocodile, he probably wasn't involved in this particular case.
Next time, Batman!