While Bruce Wayne (also Val Kilmer) was touring the electronics division of his successful Wayne Enterprises, he was detained by crackpot, nerdy researcher Edward Nygma (Jim Carrey) who was obsessed with brain waves - he had devised an elaborate, computerized invention that "beams any TV signal directly into the human brain.The "fragile" boy was taking vitamins, eyedrops, albuterol, and Poly-Vi-Flor, but Lois insisted: "He""s gonna grow up to be big and strong like his dad.Proody (Jack Kehler).His contact was crime lord "Uncle" Benny Chan (Kim Chan) (known for saying "Bloody marvelous") - and problems arose when their latest cargo freighter had been impounded by the Coast Guard ("a small delivery problem").In a Treadstone Safe House in Paris, CIA logistics coordinator and operative Nicky Parsons (Julia Stiles) aided the effort.