[ Clark should be hurt by the comment. Bruce is implying, by definition, that he's been underestimated too, and while that's true so is the opposite in some cases. But he feels strongly about Crane--by all accounts, the man that Alfred remarked upon is a joke, a caricature compared to the sharp villain Bruce knows. ]

He fashions himself as the Scarecrow, wears a burlap sack over his head and uses an airborne fear toxin on his victims. I wouldn't put it past him to develop a similar compound here.

In my world, he was directed in his machinations by Ra's al Ghul. They almost destroyed Gotham.