This website provides an excellent summary of the episode from The Batman entitled Artifacts:
Plot summary
In the year 3027, a team of archeologists, led by a man named Grey and a woman named Moria, manage to find the old Batcave and try to find answers about how to deal with Mr. Freeze, who had survived into that era. As they discover that the cave was reinforced with Titanium, with additional Titanium on the walls. As they find a tank-like Batmobile, the old Bat-suit, & a wheelchair, they theorize who the Batman was, several of their guesses being obviously incorrect. They’re hoping that the computer will hold some info on Freeze.
A millennium earlier, in the year 2027, Mr. Freeze, in a big, bulky robot suit, attacks the airport to retrieve an item. However, an older Batman (based visually on the version from Batman: The Dark Knight Returns), suffering from headaches, confronts Freeze. After trying to having a chemical solution that’d disrupt Freeze’s abilities, only for it to be unable to get though Freeze’s suit. Batman then confronts Freeze and they fight with Batman having difficulty and feeling his age. Barbara Gordon, now Oracle, had managed to redirect flights to the airport, but a plane nearby has to land and its wings are icing over. Mister Freeze (Dr. Victor Fries) (Pronounced as Victor Freese or Freeze) is a DC Comics supervillain, an enemy of Batman. ... The premiere issue of the series Spoiler warning: The Dark Knight Returns (known as DKR by fans) is a superhero comic book story published by DC Comics between 1985 and 1986, starring Batman. ... Oracle is a fictional character, the nom de guerre of a superhero appearing in the publications of DC Comics. ...
Dick Grayson, now Nightwing, flies in on the Batwing and tried to deice the plane, but is unable to. However, Nightwing gets out of the plane, and using gliders in his wings, glides over to the pilot’s cockpit and rescues the pilot. However, as Batman gets out of the way, Freeze blasts at the plane and destroys it. As Nightwing lands, the pilot runs off and Nightwing confronts Batman. Concerned about Batman, Nightwing asks Batman to sit the fight out and asks about passing the torch, with Batman replying that he’ll pass the torch “when the mission’s over.” Nightwing then responds by saying that the mission will never be over. Dick Grayson is a fictional superhero in the DC Comics Universe. ...
Freeze, digs thought the flaming wreckage of the plane and find the African star, a diamond and then puts it into a giant freezing cannon. As Batman and Nightwing confront Freeze, he freezes them. Meanwhile, Oracle’s worried about them after not hearing from them, Alfred tries to reassure her. As the city begins to freeze over, James Gordon, now retired calls his daughter and expresses concerns for her. She then quickly tell him by, when the Batwave goes off and discovers that the Batwing is about to fire on Batman.
The Batwing proceeds to fire on them, destroying the cannon and freeing Batman & Nightwing. With the ice having numbs the pain, Batman then attacks Freeze. He then grabs the diamond from the cannon’s wreckage and stabs it into Freeze’s dome, cracking it. He then, though the cracks, injects the solution. However, after doing that, Freeze smacks Batman off, only for Batman to crash the Batwing on him. Looking over the wreckage, Nightwing notices the Freeze is missing.
With his suit damaged and the solution in it, Freeze storms to his hideout and gets out of his suit, revealing the everything below his waist is gone and that it their place are three robotic legs. He then crawls over to the cryogenics chambers and freezes himself, hoping that then someone frees him, he’ll awaken in a future without Batman.
In 3027, after discovering that the Batcomputer’s memory didn’t survive and failing to retrieve it, Grey slams his hand into a wall and Moira looks and they discovers that the Titanium has coding on it. Realizing it is binary code and that Batman put it there to preserve all the computer code that was on his computers, they translate in with an image of Batman coming up on a screen, greeting them.
As Freeze rampages throughout, New Gotham, as the city’s called in that era, and comments on the absence of Batman. However, seemingly, Batman confront Freeze and Freeze wondering what’s going on as “Batman” disappears and reappears. Then, after reappearing “Batman” fires a diamond-tipped projectile, with several more joining it, releasing the solution into Freeze. As several Batmen confront Freeze, it is revealed that they were all holograms and it was really the team that found the Batcave that defeated Freeze. With Freeze captured, they then began to restore the Batcave and erect a statue in Batman’s honor.
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