Chapter Three: I Know Now What I Must Become

*"The rich and the criminal legally hiding behind a corporate facade so they can buy up property. A safe place to hide their money. Or to run it through. It drives the housing market up, making the rent unaffordable to us lowly citizens. The tools of the rich... are the tools of the criminal. Protected by the system. The ultimate tool they can hide behind. Legally hidden. There are only two people in the world who might know the hidden identity of an LLC, other than the owner themselves. The lawyer who created the LLC on their behalf... or the accountant that did."*
―Edward Nashton**[src]**
**Chapter Three: I Know Now What I Must Become** is the third chapter in Paul Dano's limited series Riddler: Year One.

## Plot

Nashton decides to record a video of Joon's murder to send to the police. He then continues to work as normal, hoping to uncover incriminating details of Wayne Enterprises. He continues his investigations of New Beginnings, hoping for police involvement, and learns that Ana, Mr. Joon's daughter, had run the drug front organization following his death. Furthermore, Nashton also continues to be harassed by the mysterious stranger who claimed to know his name.

He eventually learns the police will not be involved, and contacts Ana through an online messaging service. However, he gets ghosted after asking her about the lack of police involvement. Restarting his Waterfront Industries investigations, he finds a disguised warehouse in Gotham's docks, previously used as a front for Maroni's crime syndicate and witnesses an exchange between Higgins and a GCPD officer. He then contacts Ana again, revealing to her that he knows about the GCPD's corruption and their money laundering for Drops peddling. She states that other lower income people are working for someone, whose identity she refuses to disclose. Closely investigating Maroni's assets, he realizes that they were integrated into the Renewal Program. Deducing that wealthy officials are exploiting criminals to conceal their resources and create slush funds; he decides to persuade Mr. Stone into giving him further access to Wayne Enterprises accounts by claiming to find irregularities in some accounts. Mr. Stone tells him that account information is stored in the Gotham Mountain security. Nashton contacts various message boards, and eventually finds another Wayne employee user, with whom he manages to infiltrate the storage and obtain account information.

Throughout the course of several months, Nashton's thorough investigations of Wayne Enterprises and KTMJ accounts. Initially yielding no results, he then reinvestigates KTMJ accounts after learning that the firm represents the Renewal Project. He manages to find out that many Renewal Programs funds were laundered to prominent city figures, including Mayor Don Mitchell Jr, Commissioner Pete Savage, and District Attorney Gil Colson. Moreover, he also learned of Falcone's role in Maroni's drug bust, becoming a "rat" against Maroni, and wielding these connections to further perpetuate his crime organization. Becoming extremely outraged by these events, Nashton's mental health becomes negatively impacted and decides to undergo extreme methods to expose the corruption after seeing the Bat-Signal shine.

## Characters

* Edward Nashton
* Ana Joon

## Appearances

### Locations

* New York City
	+ Gotham City

## Trivia

* Edward's journal entry at the end of the issue confirms that *Riddler: Year One* takes place in July 2021, months before the events of *The Batman*.

## External links

* Chapter Three: I Know Now What I Must Become on Wikipedia
* Chapter Three: I Know Now What I Must Become on DC Database