Alfred Pennyworth panel in Alfred's room opens, the result of a fail-safe planted by Bruce in the event of his death. Bruce leaves him one final task and also gives him an emotional goodbye, telling Alfred he considered him as a father. Alfred is left emotionally shattered, commenting more than once that, even if his biological fatherhood is a fabrication, in a deeper sense he actually was Bruce Wayne's father, having watched over him for years and feeling he failed him in the last moments. After the event of "Final Crisis", when Batman was apparently killed in action, Alfred finds himself with
Butler Cole Aspinall Butler Cole Aspinall Butler Cole Aspinall (11 November 1830 – 4 April 1875) was a British-born journalist, barrister and QC who migrated with his young wife to Melbourne Australia at first as an Editor and Writer for The Argus, but soon took up his lucrative legal practice as a defence advocate and later as a senior Victorian state politician. Aspinall was one of the chief counsel for the leaders of the 'Ballarat Riots' aka Eureka Stockade, and later defended Henry James O'Farrell for the attempted assassination of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh. Butler Cole Aspinall was appointed as Attorney-General of