While Matthew reluctantly performed medicine on gangsters without a license as "The Crime Doctor," he surgically removed a benign tumor, with the help of his colleague, Dr. Matthew Thorne, lost his license when he failed to file a police report on a gunshot wound that he treated, and that he probably worked for Rupert. ![]() In the episode "Paging The Crime Doctor" it revealed that Rupert's younger brother, Dr. Another reference to Sal Maroni was made in that episode: Thorne, the one responsible for the scarring of Harvey Dent, participated in a mob war against Arnold Stromwell, whose appearance partially resembled that of Carmine Falcone, who was once involved in a mob war with Maroni in the original comics. Thorne cornered Stromwell and his estranged brother, Michael, and almost machine-gunned them to death before he was knocked out by Batman and left for the police. Batman saved Stromwell in time, and after persuading Stromwell to give up his life of crime, they worked together to bring Thorne down and restore Stromwell's legitimate life. Thorne's next appearance was in the episode It's Never Too Late, where he was at war with a rival mob boss, Arnold Stromwell, whom he plotted to ambush and kill. In that story, Thorne replaced mafia boss Sal Maroni as the mechanism for Dent's disfigurement and transformation into a criminal. Dent, called himself "Two-Face", later sought revenge on Thorne, and with the help of a reluctant Batman, succeeded in capturing him, although both Thorne and Two-Face were sent to prison, as Two-Face was just barely stopped from killing Thorne. Enraged, Dent "switched" into his alternate, and violent personality and chased Thorne into a nearby chemical processing plant, where an explosion permanently disfigures half of Dent's face and left his evil personality in permanent control. Thorne blackmailed Dent with his psychological records, and threatened to tell the press that the young DA suffered from multiple personality disorder unless he stopped prosecuting his henchmen. ![]() Thorne first appeared in the 2-part episode "Two-Face", in which he was indirectly responsible for district attorney Harvey Dent's transformation into the arch-criminal Two-Face. Rupert Thorne appeared at several points to virtually control Gotham's criminal underworld.
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