Editing The Secret Defenders (Hybrid 70) (section)

==='''Harvey Dent/The Witness'''===

Harvey Dent has seen too much. Too much crime. Too much pain. Too much injustice. As a Chicago DA, he tried to fight street crime and then, when it became apparent that the low level thugs were a symptom, not the disease, he moved up the food chain. Mob leaders. Crooked politicians. Malignant CEOs. Even his own office. He was obsessed. A crusader. In his own way, a hero.

And a target.

It was inevitable someone would come for him. He was too good. Too efficient. Intra-office politics didn't seem to work; he had just enough of the right friends to seal off that line of attack. When his investigations were defunded or stonewalled, he went to the press. "Sunlight is the best disinfectant," he'd say. No secrets were sacred. Nothing hidden was ever safe. He found it. Laundered money, stashed drugs, hidden recordings, suppressed testimony - he always found it. 

And even when they came for him, he knew. A couple hitters. Pros. He knew they were coming, but Dent would not run. He fought. Bravely. But, ultimately, not well enough. Harvey Dent died in a "home invasion" a year ago. And that, his enemies thought, was the end of him.

Of course not. Even in the afterlife, Dent sees injustice. He can't not see it. That is his power, and his curse. Harvey Dent is The Witness to all the evil done in the universe. A lesser man would be driven mad by so much knowledge, and some would say he has been. But if so, that madness drives him and fuels his crusade to help those who feel powerless.