The similarities to Bruce continue to pile up, but alongside them are the things that reconfirm for Tim that Preston isn't Bruce (he's dead he's not dead he's lost) on a logical level, at least. Emotionally speaking, there's a persistent sense of discomfort settling in, but Tim ignores it, knowing that it's just due to the bad timing of running into a veritable doppelganger - or, well, mostly due to that - and that it will go away in time.

"Not exactly." His tone is still neutral, but takes on a note of thoughtfulness. "I can only speak for my own world with any certainty, but there, the police really weren't equipped to deal with superpowered criminals effectively. That's one of the reasons vigilantes such as myself started appearing, since we can track down and deal with the supervillains - to use the common term - and then hand them over to the proper authorities, or take them directly to facilities designed to hold them. Here, we have the problem of a disproportionate ratio of vigilantes and supervillains to police, plus police officers from worlds where vigilantes don't exist. I can't imagine that it's easy to organise responses to both street crime and everything else."