In Bruce’s vision, the secret agent version of Alfred declared that it was his mission to bring Bruce to the dark figure, which will almost certainly motivate Bruce to ask Alfred to get back into gear in vigilante training.
The proto-Batman in “A Beautiful Darkness” wasn’t brought in just to hook fans who live for the nods to the Dark Knight destiny.
Bruce’s interactions with his dark doppelganger set the stage for the next period of growth on Gotham.
The experience was also enough to clearly shake Bruce out of the funk he’s been in since killing — or “killing,” as the case may be — Ra’s al Ghul, and he didn’t consider himself lucky after waking up from the vision.