Jason Todd's been getting out of control in his duties as Robin so Batman decides he needs to take a break for a while.  While wondering around his old Crime Alley neighborhood he runs into an old friend of his family who provides him with some old papers that belonged to his parents.  In the box he discovers a birth certificate that reveals that the woman he believed to be his mother, Catherine Todd, was actually his step-mother and that his biological mother's name started with the letter "S."  He finds three likely candidates in his father's address book and takes it upon himself to track them down and discover if one of them might be his mother.

   Jason Todd is murdered by the Joker along with his mother, Sheila Haywood.