Oh, really? I thought it opened up with him on the loose. (In retrospect, I suppose that it's possible that I'm mixing it up with the annual where Bats breaks Two-Face out of Arkham for some reason, and at the end he's still on the loose, and Gordon gives Bats a what the hell hero speech.)
Anyway, given that this one involved him acting as a mercenary for a Qadaffi-stand-in, and Death in the Family involved what it did, it's hard not to see a connection here.