The Joker had kidnapped dozens of infants and was holding them in the basement of the police station. Sarah Essen Gordon (Comissioner Gordon’s wife) is the first to reach Joker's position. Although she has him at gunpoint, the Joker tosses an infant at her, and Sarah instinctively drops her weapon to catch the child, saving it from injury. The Joker then shoots her in the head and leaves the infants with her lifeless body, sitting in a pool of her blood.