He wasn""t there to hurt her, only to affirm his innocence: "I never touched her...There was somebody else here." Before he could explain further, Lt.Thompson held a gun on the young fugitive and arrested him, although he fled (barefooted) but was soon apprehended down the street.Gordon was able to put a gun to the Joker""s head ("We gotcha, ya son-of-a-bitch!").For his efforts, Gordon was appointed as the new Police Commissioner by the Mayor.However, that night as Dent and Dawes were being escorted by police, they disappeared.Enraged, Batman interrogated the Joker in the Major Crimes Unit building - who proposed that the police escorts were working for Maroni, and that the two hostages were in warehouses on opposite sides of the city.During this early morning visit to the Black Pussy, he meets Mackley Q.Greene (Richard Purcell), manager of Tel-Avis Picture Productions - in town on a movie set during a location shoot for a one-reeler.Then, after a period of reassessment, there were glowing reviews, critical acclaim, aTime Magazinecover story on December 8, 1967 (for a feature titledThe New Cinema: Violence.