Batwoman #4 (2014)

While Maggie Sawyer) and Kate Kane) make love together for the first time, Bette Kane) goes out on the streets of Gotham City as Flamebird by herself.

Trying to take out a Chinese Tong gang, she encounters the entity known as the Weeping Woman, who warns that she should not have come. The gang's leader is a strong, monstrous man with a hook for a hand. Flamebird is confident, and continuously brags about her superhero connections while she takes a beating from the heavy. Finally, he manages to slice through her stomach with his hook, and she collapses, confused as to how she allowed it to happen. He leaves her for dead, panting in a puddle of her own blood, pooling in the snow.

By morning, Agent Cameron Chase) of the DEO) discovers Flamebird's body, unconscious and bleeding heavily. Somehow, she is still alive, though. Chase orders that she be taken to a secure location for unmasking.

After saying her goodbyes to Sawyer that morning, Kate goes out that night as Batwoman. She visits a woman running an illegal medical clinic, who she knows was on duty at the morgue the night that two children were brought there. In exchange for information about them, she promises not to bust her for the illegal clinic operations. The doctor explains that the two kids were playing in a condemned boathouse and drowned. Batwoman had encountered the Weeping Woman there earlier, and nearly drowned, herself.

The mother had come to identify her children reeking of alcohol, and the doctor expects that she was deported. Her name was ). Upon hearing the name, a Mexican gang member receiving treatment outbursts that Maria Salvaje is the risen dead.