[TIRES SCREECH]
GRUMPY: Three of a kind, Iet's do this. CHUCKLES: That's it? Three guys?
GRUMPY: Two guys on the roof. Every guy gets a share. Five shares is pIenty.
CHUCKLES: Six shares. Don't forget the guy who pIanned the job.
GRUMPY: He thinks he can sit it out and stiII take a sIice.
-I know why they caII him the Joker. HAPPY: Why do they caII him the Joker?
DOPEY: I heard he wears makeup. HAPPY: Makeup?
DOPEY: Yeah, to scare peopIe. You know, war paint.
[PEOPLE SCREAMING ]
GRUMPY: AII right, everybody, hands up, heads down!
I said, hands up, heads down!
Let's go, paI, I'm making a withdrawaI here.
-I said, hands up! -No!
DOPEY: Here comes the siIent aIarm.
And there it goes.
GRUMPY: Heads down!
AII right, tootsie, you're taking a dive with me.
-Down! I said, stay down there! WOMAN: Don't hurt me!
DOPEY: Funny, it didn't diaI 91 1 . It was trying to reach a private number.
HAPPY: Is it a probIem? DOPEY: No, I'm done here.
[SILENCED GUNSHOT]
GRUMPY: Sit down! Down!
Down! I said, stay down there!
GRUMPY: ObviousIy we don't want you doing anything with your hands. . .
. . .other than hoIding on for dear Iife.
CHUCKLES: On the ground! Stay on the ground!
Nobody make a move! Nobody! Stay down!
[SHOTGUN BLAST]
[ELECTRICITY CRACKLES]
Yeah!
You have any idea who you're steaIing from?
-You and your friends are dead. GRUMPY: He's out, right?
[SHOTGUN BLAST]
GRUMPY: What--?
Where did you Iearn to count?
HAPPY: They wired this thing up with Iike 5000 voIts.
What kind of bank does that?
GRUMPY: A Mob bank. I guess the Joker's as crazy as they say.
Where's the aIarm guy?
HAPPY: Boss toId me when the guy was done, I shouId take him out.
One Iess share, right?
GRUMPY: Funny, he toId me something simiIar.
HAPPY: He what? No! No!
GRUMPY: That's a Iot of money.
If this Joker guy was so smart, he'd have had us bring a bigger car.
[GUN COCKS]
I'm betting the Joker toId you to kiII me soon as we Ioaded the cash.
BOZO: No, no, no, I kiII the bus driver.
GRUMPY: Bus driver?
What bus driver?
DRIVER: SchooI's out. Time to go.
That guy's not getting up, is he?
That's a Iot of money.
What happened to the rest of the guys?
MANAGER: You think you're smart, huh?
The guy that hired youse. . .
. . .he'II just do the same to you.
Oh, criminaIs in this town used to beIieve in things.
Honor. . .
. . .respect.
Look at you. What do you beIieve in, huh?
What do you beIieve in?!
I beIieve whatever doesn't kiII you simpIy makes you. . .
. . .stranger.
[ENGINE STARTS]
[MOANS]
[CHILDREN CHATTERING ]
[SIRENS WAILING ]
MAN 1 : Mr. Mayor, you were elected in a campaign to clean up the city.
-When are you gonna start? MAN 2: I already have.
MAN 1 : Like this Batman.
We're hearing he's doing good, criminals are running scared.
-No, man. I don't Iike it tonight. -What are you, superstitious?
You got more chance of winning the PowerbaII than running into him.
That's not true. Our men in the Major Crimes Unit are close to an arrest.
Hey, Wuertz, mayor says you're cIosing in on the Batman.
The investigation is ongoing.
MAYOR: The process of cleaning up the streets is a long one.
I pledged in my campaign, uh, to have....
Ever intending to see your wife again, Iieutenant?
I thought you had to go Iook after your mother, detective.
Checked her back into the hospitaI.
I'm sorry.
-So he hasn't shown up? -He often doesn't.
I Iike reminding everybody he's out there.
Why wouIdn't he come?
HopefuIIy. . .
. . .because he's busy.
[TIRES SCREECHING ]
That's why we bring dogs.
-My IittIe princes. MAN: PIease.
PIease, they're crawIing in my mouth. PIease, I beg you, get them off.
CHECHEN: Look what your drugs do to my customers.
SCARECROW: Buyer beware.
I toId you my compound wouId take you pIaces.
I never said they'd be pIaces you wanted to go.
My business, repeat customers.
SCARECROW: You don't Iike what I have to offer. . .
. . .you can buy from someone eIse.
Assuming Batman Ieft anyone to buy from.
[BARKING ]
My dogs are hungry.
Pity there's onIy one of you.
[THUG 1 YELLS]
[THUG 2 YELLS]
[GUN COCKS]
CHECHEN: What--? SCARECROW: That's not him.
Loose the dogs!
[SCREAMS]
SCARECROW: That's more Iike it.
[TIRES SCREECHING ]
[GRUNTING ]
[YELLING ]
[DOG GROWLS]
[YELLS]
[DOG WHIMPERS]
[TIRES SCREECHING ]
Don't Iet me find you out here again.
-We're trying to heIp you. BATMAN: I don't need heIp.
Not my diagnosis.
What gives you the right? What's the difference between you and me?
I'm not wearing hockey pads.
OFFICER: Everybody back now!
[REPORTERS CLAMORING ]
He can't resist showing us his face.
GORDON: What's he hiding under that makeup?
RAMIREZ: Uh, can we get a minute, peopIe, pIease?
Him again. Who are the others?
Another bunch of smaIItimers.
[DEVICE CLICKING ]
BATMAN: Some of the marked biIIs I gave you.
My detectives have been making drug buys with them.
This bank was another drop for the Mob. That makes five.
-We found the buIk of their dirty cash. -Time to move in.
We'd have to hit aII banks simuItaneousIy. SWAT teams, backup.
What about this Joker guy?
One man or the entire Mob? He can wait.
When the new DA hears about this, he'II want in.
-Do you trust him? -Be hard to keep him out.
I hear he's as stubborn as you are.
ALFRED: Be nice when Wayne Manor's rebuiIt.
You can swap not sIeeping in a penthouse. . .
. . .for not sIeeping in a mansion.
Whenever you stitch yourseIf up, you do make a bIoody mess.
Yeah. It makes me Iearn from my mistakes.
You ought to be pretty knowIedgeabIe by now, then.
My armor.
I'm carrying too much weight. I need to be-- I need to be faster.
I'm sure Mr. Fox can obIige.
-Did you get mauIed by a tiger? -It was a dog.
-Huh? -It was a big dog.
There were more copycats Iast night, AIfred, with guns.
Why not hire them, take the weekend off?
That wasn't exactIy what I had in mind. . .
. . .when I said I wanted to inspire peopIe.
I know.
But things have improved.
Look at the new district attorney.
BRUCE: I am, cIoseIy.
Need to know if he can be trusted.
Are you interested in his character or his sociaI circIe?
Who RacheI spends her time with is her business.
I trust you don't have me foIIowed on my day off.
If you ever took one, I might.
Know your Iimits, Master Wayne.
Batman has no Iimits.
-WeII, you do, sir. -WeII, can't afford to know them.
And what's gonna happen on the day that you find out?
We aII know how much you Iike to say ''I toId you so. ''
On that day, Master Wayne, even I won't want to.
ProbabIy.
[DOOR OPENS]
MAN: Sorry I'm Iate, foIks.
[DOOR CLOSES]
-Where were you? -Worried you'd have to step up?
-Harvey, I know these briefs backwards. -WeII, then. . .
. . .fair's fair.
Heads, I'II take it. TaiIs, he's aII yours.
Yeah? You wanna fIip a coin to see who Ieads?
My father's Iucky coin. As I recaII, it got me my first date with you.
I wouIdn't Ieave something Iike that up to chance.
I don't. I make my own Iuck.
BAILIFF: AII rise. The HonorabIe Judge FreeI presiding.
I thought the DA just pIayed goIf with the mayor.
Teeoff's 1 :30. More than enough time to put you away for Iife, SaIIy.
With Carmine FaIcone in Arkham. . .
. . .someone must have stepped up to run the so-caIIed famiIy.
Is that man in this courtroom today?
-CouId you identify him for us, pIease? -You win, counseIor.
It was me.
[CROWD LAUGHS]
I have a sworn statement from you that this man. . .
. . .SaIvatore Maroni, is the new head of the FaIcone crime famiIy.
Maroni? He's a faII guy. I'm the brains of the organization.
[CROWD LAUGHS]
JUDGE: Order. -Permission to treat. . .
-. . .the witness as hostiIe? -Granted.
-HostiIe? I'II show you hostiIe!
[CROWD GASPS] [GUN CLICKS]
Carbon fiber, .28 caIiber, made in China.
If you wanna kiII a pubIic servant, Mr. Maroni. . .
. . .I recommend you buy American.
JUDGE: Get him out of here. -But, Your Honor, I'm not done.
[CROWD CHUCKLING AND APPLAUDING ]
We'II never be abIe to Iink the gun to Maroni, so we can't charge him.
But they're trying to kiII you, means we're getting to them.
I'm gIad you're so pIeased, RacheI. I'm fine, by the way.
Come on, Harvey. You're Gotham's DA.
You're not getting shot at, you're not doing your job right.
But, you know. . .
. . .if you said you were rattIed, we couId take the rest of the day off.
Can't. I dragged the head of the Major Crimes Unit down here.
Oh, Jim Gordon? He's a friend, actuaIIy. Try to be nice.
I hear you got a heII of a right cross.
It's a shame SaI's going to waIk.
Yeah, weII, good thing about the Mob is they keep giving you second chances.
LightIy irradiated biIIs.
Fancy stuff for a city cop. Have heIp?
We Iiaise with various agencies--
Save it, Gordon. I wanna meet him.
OfficiaI poIicy is to arrest the vigiIante known as Batman on sight.
Mm-hm. What about that fIoodIight on the top of MCU?
If you got probIems with maIfunctioning equipment. . .
. . .I suggest you take them up with Maintenance, counseIor.
I've put every money Iaunderer in Gotham behind bars. . .
. . .but the Mob is stiII getting its money out.
I think you and your friend have found the Iast game in town.
You're trying to hit them where it hurts, their waIIets.
It's boId.
You gonna count me in?
In this town, the fewer peopIe know something, the safer the operation.
I don't Iike that you got your own speciaI unit. . .
. . .and it's fuII of cops I investigated at InternaI Affairs.
If I didn't work with cops you'd investigated whiIe at IA. . .
. . .I'd be working aIone.
I don't get poIiticaI points for being an ideaIist.
I do the best I can with what I have.
You want me to back warrants for search and seizure on five banks. . .
. . .without teIIing me what we're after.
I can give you the names of the banks.
WeII, that's a start.
I'II get you your warrants, but I want your trust.
Oh, you don't have to seII me, Dent.
We aII know you're Gotham's white knight.
Yeah, weII, I heard they have a different name for me down at MCU.
I wouIdn't know about that.
MAN: In China, Lau Security Investments stands for dynamic new growth.
A joint Chinese venture with Wayne Enterprises wiII be a powerhouse.
FOX: WeII, Mr. Lau. . .
. . .I speak for the rest of the board. . .
. . .and Mr. Wayne, in expressing our own excitement.
Sir, I know Mr. Wayne is curious about how his trust fund gets repIenished. . .
. . .but, frankIy, this is embarrassing.
You worry about the diIigence, Mr. Reese.
I'II worry about Bruce Wayne.
It's done.
The numbers are soIid.
Do them again.
WouIdn't want the trust fund to run out, now, wouId we?
[SCOFFS]
FOX: Another Iong night?
This joint venture was your idea, and the consuItants Iove it.
But I'm not convinced.
Lau's company has grown by 8 percent annuaIIy Iike cIockwork.
His revenue stream must be off the books. . .
. . .maybe even iIIegaI.
Okay. CanceI the deaI.
You aIready knew.
Just needed a cIoser Iook at their books.
Anything eIse you can troubIe me for?
I need a new suit.
Yeah. Three buttons is a IittIe '90s, Mr. Wayne.
I'm not taIking fashion, Mr. Fox, so much as function.
You wanna be abIe to turn your head.
Sure make backing out of the driveway easier.
I'II see what I can do.
Took three weeks to get a reservation here.
I had to teII them I work for the government.
-ReaIIy? -HeaIth inspector's. . .
. . .not afraid to puII strings.
RacheI. Fancy that.
Yeah, Bruce. Fancy that.
RacheI, Natascha. Natascha, RacheI.
-Natascha. Are you the prima--? -Prima baIIerina for the Moscow BaIIet.
-Wow. Harvey's taking me next week. -ReaIIy? So you're into baIIet?
Bruce. This is Harvey Dent.
The famous Bruce Wayne. RacheI's toId me everything about you.
I certainIy hope not.
-Let's put a coupIe tabIes together. -I'm not sure that they'II Iet us.
Oh, they shouId. I own the pIace.
How couId you want to raise chiIdren in a city Iike this?
WeII, I was raised here. I turned out okay.
Is Wayne Manor in the city Iimits?
Is--? Heh-heh.
The PaIisades? Sure.
You know, as our new DA, you might wanna figure out. . .
. . .where your jurisdiction ends.
I'm taIking about the kind of city that idoIizes a masked vigiIante.
Gotham City is proud of an ordinary citizen standing up for what's right.
Gotham needs heroes Iike you, eIected officiaIs. . .
. . .not a man who thinks he's above the Iaw.
Who appointed the Batman?
We did. AII of us who stood by and Iet scum take controI of our city.
NATASCHA: But this is a democracy, Harvey.
DENT: When their enemies were at the gates. . .
. . .the Romans wouId suspend democracy and appoint one man to protect the city.
It wasn't considered an honor, it was a pubIic service.
Harvey, the Iast man that they appointed. . .
. . .to protect the repubIic was named Caesar. . .
-. . .and he never gave up his power. -Okay, fine.
You either die a hero. . .
. . .or you Iive Iong enough to see yourseIf become the viIIain.
Whoever the Batman is, he doesn't wanna do this for the rest of his Iife.
How couId he? Batman is Iooking for someone to take up his mantIe.
NATASCHA: Someone Iike you, Mr. Dent?
Maybe. If I'm up to it.
What if Harvey Dent is the Caped Crusader? Hm?
If I were sneaking out every night, someone wouId've noticed by now.
WeII, I'm soId, Dent, and I'm gonna throw you a fundraiser.
That's nice, but I'm not up for reeIection for three years.
No, you don't understand.
One fundraiser with my paIs. . .
. . .you'II never need another cent.
[METAL DETECTORS BEEPING AND WHINING ]
What the heII is this?
As you're all aware, one of our deposits was stolen.
A relatively small amount, 68 million.
Who's stupid enough to steaI from us?
Two-bit wackjob, wears a cheap purpIe suit and makeup.
He's not the probIem. He's a nobody.
The probIem is our money being tracked by the cops.
Thanks to Mr. Maroni's well-placed sources...
... we know that police have indeed identified our banks using marked bills...
...and are planning to seize your funds today.
And since the enthusiastic new D A has put all my competitors out of business...
-...I'm your only option. MARONI: So, what are you proposing?
LAU: Moving all deposits to one secure location, not a bank.
-Where, then? -No one can know but me.
If the police were to gain leverage over one of you...
...everyone's money would be at stake.
What stop them getting to you?
I go to Hong Kong, far from Dent's jurisdiction...
...and the Chinese will not extradite one of their own.
MARONI: How soon can you move the money?
LAU: I already have.
For obvious reasons, I couIdn't wait for your permission.
Rest assured, your money is safe.
[JOKER LAUGHING ]
Oh, hee-hee, aha. Ha, ooh, hee, ha-ha, ha-ha.
And I thought my jokes were bad.
Give me one reason why I shouIdn't have my boy puII your head off.
How about a magic trick?
I'm gonna make this penciI disappear.
Ta-da!
It's--
It's gone.
Oh, and by the way, the suit, it wasn't cheap.
-You ought to know, you bought it. CHECHEN: Sit.
I want to hear proposition.
JOKER: Let's wind the cIocks back a year.
These cops and Iawyers wouIdn't dare cross any of you.
I mean, what happened?
Did your baIIs drop off? Hm?
You see, a guy Iike me. . . .
-A freak. MOBSTER 1 : Damn right.
A guy Iike me-- Look, Iisten.
I know why you choose to have your IittIe, ahem. . .
. . .group-therapy sessions in broad dayIight.
I know why you're afraid to go out at night.
The Batman.
See, Batman has shown Gotham your true coIors, unfortunateIy.
Dent, he's just the beginning.
And as for the teIevision's so-caIIed pIan. . .
. . .Batman has no jurisdiction.
He'II find him and make him squeaI.
I know the squeaIers when I see them. . .
. . .and. . . .
CHECHEN: What do you propose?
It's simpIe. We, uh, kiII the Batman.
[MOBSTERS CHUCKLING ]
If it's so simpIe, why haven't you done it aIready?
If you're good at something, never do it for free.
How much you want?
Uh, haIf.
[MOBSTERS LAUGHING ]
GAMBOL: You're crazy. -No, I'm not.
No, I'm not.
If we don't deaI with this now. . .
. . .soon. . .
. . .IittIe GamboI here won't be abIe to get a nickeI for his grandma.
Enough from the cIown!
Ah, ta-ta-ta. Let's not bIow. . .
MOBSTER 2: Shit! -. . .this out of proportion.
You think you can steaI from us and just waIk away?
-Yeah. GAMBOL: I'm putting the word out.
Five hundred grand for this cIown dead.
A miIIion aIive, so I can teach him some manners first.
AII right. So, Iisten, why don't you give me a caII. . .
. . .when you wanna start taking things a IittIe more seriousIy?
Here's my card.
Mm-mm.
You're a hard man to reach.
Lau's haIfway to Hong Kong.
If you'd have asked, I couId have taken his passport.
AII that was Ieft in the vauIts were marked biIIs.
They knew we were coming. As soon as your office got invoIved--
My office?
You're sitting down there with scum Iike Wuertz and Ramirez and you're taIking--
Oh, yeah. I aImost had your rookie coId on a racketeering beat.
Don't try and cIoud the fact that cIearIy Maroni's got peopIe in your office, Dent.
We need Lau back. . .
. . .but the Chinese won't extradite a nationaI under any circumstances.
If I get him to you, can you get him to taIk?
I'II get him to sing.
We're going after the Mob's Iife savings.
Things wiII get ugIy.
I knew the risk when I took this job, Iieutenant.
How wiII you get him back, any--?
He does that.
Our Chinese friends Ieft town before I couId teII them the deaI was off.
WeII, I'm sure that you've aIways wanted to go to Hong Kong.
What's wrong with a phone caII?
I think Mr. Lau deserves a more personaI touch.
FOX: Now, for high-aItitude jumps. . .
. . .you're going to need oxygen and stabiIizers.
WeII, I must say, compared to your usuaI requests. . .
. . .jumping out of an airpIane is pretty straightforward.
BRUCE: What about getting back into the pIane?
-I'd recommend a good traveI agent. -Without it Ianding.
Now, that's more Iike it, Mr. Wayne.
The CIA had a program back in the '60s. . .
. . .for getting their peopIe out of hot spots caIIed Sky Hook.
-We couId Iook into that. -Yeah.
Okay. Now. . . .
Hardened KevIar pIates over titanium-dipped. . .
. . .tri-weave fibers for fIexibiIity.
You'II be Iighter, faster, more agiIe.
Perhaps you shouId read the instructions first?
-Yeah. -Now, there is a tradeoff.
Separation of the pIates makes you more vuInerabIe to knives and gunfire.
We wouIdn't wanna make things too easy, now, wouId we?
How wiII it hoId up against dogs?
We taIking rottweiIers or Chihuahuas?
ShouId do fine against cats.
I found one in Arizona.
A very nice man said he couId have it up and running in a week. . .
. . .and he takes cash.
-What about the fIight crew? -South Korean smuggIers.
They run fIights into Pyongyang, beIow radar.
-Did you think of an aIibi? -Oh, yes.
I beIieve this is your pIane, sir.
You Iook tired, AIfred. You'II be aII right without me?
If you can teII me the Russian for ''appIy your own bIoody suntan Iotion. ''
Yo, GamboI, somebody here for you. They say they've just kiIIed the Joker.
BOD YGUARD: They brought the body.
So, dead, that's 500.
How about aIive? Hm?
You wanna know how I got these scars?
My father was. . .
. . .a drinker. . .
. . .and a fiend.
And one night, he goes off crazier than usuaI.
Mommy gets the kitchen knife to defend herseIf.
He doesn't Iike that. . .
. . .not one bit.
So, me watching. . .
. . .he takes the knife to her, Iaughing whiIe he does it.
He turns to me and he says:
''Why so serious?''
He comes at me with the knife.
''Why so serious?''
He sticks the bIade in my mouth.
''Let's put a smiIe on that face. ''
And. . . .
Why so serious?
Now. . .
. . .our operation is smaII. . .
. . .but there is a Iot of potentiaI. . .
. . .for aggressive expansion.
So which of you fine gentIemen wouId Iike to join our team?
Oh. There's onIy one spot open right now, so we're gonna have. . .
. . .tryouts.
Make it fast.
MAN: WeIcome to Hong Kong, Mr. Fox.
Mr. Lau regrets he is unabIe to greet you in person today.
FOX: I understand.
For security purposes, I'm gonna have to ask you to check in your mobiIe.
Of course.
I must apoIogize for Ieaving Gotham in the middIe of our negotiations.
This misunderstanding with the Gotham poIice force. . .
-. . .I couIdn't Iet it threaten my company. -Of course.
A businessman of your stature wiII understand and. . .
. . .with you here now, we can continue.
WeII, I do appreciate you bringing me out here in such styIe, Mr. Lau, but I re--
[CELL PHONE RINGS]
We do not aIIow ceII phones in here.
I'm sorry. Forgot I had it.
No, I reaIIy came to teII you that our business deaI has to be put on hoId.
You see, we can't afford to be seen to do business with. . .
. . .whatever it is you're accused of being.
I'm sure a businessman of your stature wiII understand.
I think, Mr. Fox, a simpIe phone caII might have sufficed.
Mr. Wayne didn't want you to think he was deIiberateIy wasting your time.
Just accidentaIIy wasting it.
That's very good, Mr. Lau. ''AccidentaIIy. '' Very good.
Hey, sir.
There's a better view from the peak tram.
How's the view from LSI HoIdings?
Restricted.
Lau is hoIed up in there good and tight.
-What's this? -I had R & D work it up.
Sends out a high-frequency puIse. . .
. . .records the response time for mapping an environment.
Sonar. Just Iike a. . . .
Submarine, Mr. Wayne. Like a submarine.
-And the other device? -It's in pIace.
Mr. Wayne?
Good Iuck.
[SPEAKING IN CHINESE]
[BEEPING ]
[SPEAKING IN CHINESE]
[IN CHINESE]
[GRUNTING ]
[SIRENS WAILING ]
[CHATTERING IN CHINESE]
[LAU SHOUTING IN CHINESE]
[ENGINES RUMBLING ]
RACHEL: Look, give us the money and we'II taIk about making a deaI.
The money is the onIy reason I'm stiII aIive.
Oh, you mean, when they find out that you've heIped us, they're gonna kiII you?
-Are you threatening my cIient? -No.
I'm just assuming your cIient's cooperation with this investigation.
As wiII everyone.
No? Okay.
Enjoy your time in County, Mr. Lau.
LAU: Wait!
I won't give you the money. . .
. . .but I wiII give you my cIients, aII of them.
You were a gIorified accountant.
What couId you possibIy have on aII of them that we couId charge?
I'm good with caIcuIation. I handIed aII their investments.
One big pot.
Got it.
One minute.
RICO. If they pooIed their money. . .
. . .we can charge them as one criminaI conspiracy.
Charge them with what?
In a RICO case, if you can charge one of them with a feIony--
You can charge aII of them with it. That's great.
Mr. Lau.
What kind of detaiIs do you have about this communaI fund?
-Ledgers--? -Immunity, protection. . .
-. . .a chartered pIane back to Hong Kong. -After you testify in open court.
I'm just curious. With aII your cIients Iocked up. . .
. . .what's gonna happen with aII that money?
Like I said, I'm good with caIcuIation.
He can't go to County. I'II keep him here in the hoIding ceIIs.
What is this, Gordon, your fortress?
WeII, you trust them over at County?
I don't trust them here.
Lau stays.
Well, I don 't know about Mr. Lau's travel arrangements...
...but I'm sure glad he's back.
Put word out. We hire the cIown.
He was right. We have to fix reaI probIem.
Batman.
-I'm not aware of any participation.... -Our boy Iooks good on the tube.
You sure you wanna embarrass me in front of my friends?
Oh, don't worry. They're coming too.
STEPHENS: Have a nice trip. See you next faII.
WOMAN: Seven hundred twelve counts of extortion.
Eight hundred and forty-nine counts of racketeering.
Two hundred and forty-six counts of fraud.
Eighty-seven counts of conspiracy murder.
Five hundred and twenty-seven counts of obstruction of justice.
How do the defendants pIead?
[CLAMORING ]
Order in the court.
MAYOR: Five hundred and forty-nine criminals at once.
How did you convince SurriIIo to hear this farce?
She shares my enthusiasm for justice. After aII, she is a judge.
Even if you bIow enough smoke to get convictions out of SurriIIo. . .
. . .you're gonna set a new record at appeaIs.
It won't matter. The head guys make baiI, sure.
But the midIeveI guys, they can't.
They can't afford to be off the streets.
They'II cut deaIs that incIude some jaiI time.
Think of aII you couId do with 1 8 months of cIean streets.
LOEB: Mr. Mayor, you can't-- -No, get out. Both of you.
Sit down.
The pubIic Iikes you. That's the onIy reason that this might fIy.
But that means it's on you.
They're aII gonna come after you now, and not just the Mob.
PoIiticians, journaIists, cops.
Anyone whose waIIet's about to get Iighter.
Are you up to it? You'd better be.
Because they get anything on you. . .
. . .and those criminaIs are back on the streets, foIIowed swiftIy by you and me.
Jesus!
[SIRENS WAILING ]
ALFRED: I think your fundraiser wiII be a great success, sir.
BRUCE: And why do you think I wanna hoId a party for Harvey Dent?
I assumed it was your usuaI reason for sociaIizing beyond myseIf. . .
. . .and the scum of Gotham's underbeIIy:
To try to impress Miss Dawes.
Very droII, but very wrong. ActuaIIy, it's Dent.
ENGEL [ON TV] : Police released video footage found concealed on the body.
Sensitive viewers, be aware. The image is disturbing.
JOKER: Tell them your name.
Brian Douglas.
[JOKER LAUGHS]
JOKER: And are you the real Batman?
BRIAN: No. JOKER: No?
-No. -No?
Then why do you dress up like him?
[JOKER LAUGHS]
Whoo-hoo-hoo-hoo!
BRIAN: Because he's a symbol that we don 't have to be afraid of scum like you.
Yeah. You do, Brian. You really do.
Huh? Yeah. Oh, shh, shh, shh.
So you think Batman 's made Gotham a better place? Hm?
Look at me.
Look at me!
You see, this is how crazy Batman 's made Gotham.
You want order in Gotham...
...Batman must take off his mask and turn himself in.
Oh, and every day he doesn 't, people will die.
Starting tonight.
I'm a man of my word.
[LAUGHING ]
[BRIAN SCREAMING ]
[CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYING ]
Harvey Dent, scourge of the underworId. . .
. . .scared stiff by the trust-fund brigade.
-I'II be back. -RacheI.
A IittIe Iiquid courage, Mr. Dent?
-Thank you. AIfred, right? -That's right, sir.
RacheI taIks about you aII the time. You've known her her whoIe Iife.
Not yet, sir.
Any psychotic ex-boyfriends I shouId be aware of?
Oh, you have no idea.
[HELICOPTER WHIRRING ]
BRUCE: I'm sorry that I'm Iate.
I'm gIad to see that you aII got started without me.
Now, where is Harvey? Where--?
Harvey Dent, the man of the hour.
Where's RacheI Dawes?
She is my oIdest friend. Come here.
When RacheI first toId me she was dating Harvey Dent. . .
. . .I had one thing to say:
''The guy from those God-awfuI campaign commerciaIs?''
''I beIieve in Harvey Dent. '' Yeah, nice sIogan, Harvey.
But it caught RacheI's attention.
And then I started to pay attention to Harvey. . .
. . .and aII that he's been doing as our new DA.
And you know what?
I beIieve in Harvey Dent.
I beIieve that on his watch, Gotham can feeI. . .
. . .a IittIe safer, a IittIe more optimistic.
Look at this face. This is the face of Gotham's bright future.
To Harvey Dent. Let's hear it for him.
MAN: Harvey.
Harvey may not know you weII enough. . .
. . .to understand you're making fun of him. . .
-. . .but I do. -No, I meant every word.
You know that day that you once toId me about. . .
. . .when Gotham wouId no Ionger need Batman?
-It's coming. -Bruce.
-You can't ask me to wait for that. -It's happening now. Harvey is that hero.
He Iocked up haIf of the city's criminaIs, and he did it without wearing a mask.
Gotham needs a hero with a face.
DENT: You can throw a party, Wayne, I'II give you that.
Thanks again.
You mind if I borrow RacheI?
Lieutenant, that joker card pinned to the body?
Forensics found three sets of DNA.
-Any matches? -AII three.
The DNA beIongs to Judge SurriIIo, Harvey Dent and Commissioner Loeb.
The Joker's teIIing us who he's targeting.
Get a unit over to SurriIIo's house. TeII Wuertz to find Dent.
Protective custody. Where's the commissioner?
-City haII. -SeaI the buiIding.
-No one in or out tiII I get there. -Got it.
Gordon. What are you up to?
We're secure. I want a fIoor-by-fIoor search of the entire buiIding.
We beIieve the Joker's made a threat against your Iife.
These are dangerous peopIe.
You're not giving me a Iot of information.
Even we don't know where you're going.
Take the enveIope, get in, open it. It'II teII you where you're headed.
You can't Ieave me aIone with these peopIe.
The whoIe Mob's after you and you're worried about these guys?
Compared to this, the Mob doesn't scare me.
Gordon, you're unIikeIy to discover this for yourseIf, so. . .
. . .take my word, the poIice commissioner earns a Iot of threats.
I found the appropriate response to these situations a Iong time ago.
Them gunning for you makes you see things cIearIy.
Yeah, I bet.
Yeah. It makes you think about things you couIdn't stand Iosing. . .
. . .about who you wanna spend your Iife with.
-That's a pretty big commitment. -Not if the Mob has their way.
You get to expIain to my wife. . .
. . .why I'm Iate for dinner.
Sir, the joker card had traces of your DNA on it.
-Don't do that. -AII right.
-Let's be serious, then. -Okay.
What's your answer?
I don't have an answer.
How'd they get my DNA?
Somebody with access to your office or house. . .
. . .must have Iifted a tissue or a gIass-- Wait! Wait!
-WeII, I guess no answer is a no. -Harvey.
-It's someone eIse, isn't it? -Harvey.
Just teII me it's not Wayne. The guy's a compIete f--
What are you doing?
GORDON: Oh, shit.
[LOEB COUGHING ]
GORDON: Get a medic!
They've come for him.
We made it.
Stay hidden.
[SHOTGUN BLAST]
Good evening, Iadies and gentIemen.
We are tonight's entertainment.
I onIy have one question:
Where is Harvey Dent?
You know where Harvey is? You know who he is?
THUG: Hands up, pretty boy.
[THUG GRUNTING ]
Do you know where I can find Harvey? I need to taIk to him.
Just something IittIe, huh? No.
What's going on out there? Wayne!
Oh, thank God, you've got a panic room.
MAN: Hey, wait--
Oh, you gotta be kidding me.
You know, I'II settIe for his Ioved ones.
We're not intimidated by thugs.
You know. . .
. . .you remind me of my father.
I hated my father.
RACHEL: Okay, stop.
WeII, heIIo, beautifuI.
You must be Harvey's squeeze. Hm?
And you are beautifuI.
You Iook nervous. Is it the scars?
You wanna know how I got them?
Come here. Hey.
Look at me.
So I had a wife. She was beautifuI, Iike you. . .
. . .who teIIs me I worry too much. . .
. . .who teIIs me I ought to smiIe more. . .
. . .who gambIes and gets in deep with the sharks. Hey.
One day they carve her face.
And we have no money for surgeries. She can't take it.
I just wanna see her smiIe again. Hm?
I just want her to know that I don't care about the scars.
So. . .
. . .I stick a razor in my mouth and do this. . .
. . .to myseIf.
And you know what? She can't stand the sight of me.
She Ieaves.
Now I see the funny side.
Now I'm aIways smiIing.
[LAUGHS]
You got a IittIe fight in you. I Iike that.
BATMAN: Then you're gonna Iove me.
[GRUNTING ]
[BATMAN YELLS]
Drop the gun.
Oh, sure. You just take off your IittIe mask. . .
. . .and show us aII who you reaIIy are. Hm?
Let her go.
Very poor choice of words.
[LAUGHS]
[RACHEL SCREAMING ]
Are you aII right?
Let's not do that again.
-Is Harvey okay? -He's safe.
Thank you.
Jim, it's over.
As Iong as they don't get to Lau, we've cut off their funds.
The prosecution's over.
Nobody's standing up in front of a judge. . .
. . .whiIe judges and poIice commissioners are getting bIown away.
-What about Dent? -He's got any sense. . .
. . .Dent's haIfway to Mex--
DENT: So where do you keep your trash?
You're due in court. I need you aIive Iong enough to get you on the record.
You can't protect me. You can't even protect yourseIves.
You refuse to cooperate, you're not coming back here, you go to County.
How Iong do you caIcuIate you'II Iast in there?
Targeting me won't get their money.
I knew the Mob wouIdn't go down easiIy. . .
. . .but this is different. They crossed a Iine.
You crossed the Iine first.
You squeezed them, you hammered them to the point of desperation.
And in their desperation, they turned to a man they didn't fuIIy understand.
CriminaIs aren't compIicated, AIfred.
We just need to figure out what he's after.
ALFRED: With respect, Master Wayne. . .
. . .perhaps this is a man you don't fuIIy understand either.
A Iong time ago, I was in Burma. . .
. . .and my friends and I were working for the IocaI government.
They were trying to buy the IoyaIty of tribaI Ieaders. . .
. . .by bribing them with precious stones. . .
. . .but their caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a bandit.
So we went Iooking for the stones.
But in six months, we never met anyone who traded with him.
One day, I saw a chiId pIaying with a ruby. . .
. . .the size of a tangerine.
The bandit had been throwing them away.
-So why steaI them? -Because he thought it was good sport.
Because some men aren't Iooking for anything IogicaI, Iike money.
They can't be bought, buIIied, reasoned or negotiated with.
Some men just wanna watch the worId burn.
[VOICES SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
WOMAN: Your name, sir?
JOKER: Eighth and Orchard. You'll find Harvey Dent there.
BATMAN: Check the names.
''Richard Dent. ''
''Patrick Harvey. ''
Harvey Dent.
I need 1 0 minutes with the scene before your men contaminate it.
It's because of you these guys are dead--
Detective!
Give us a minute, guys.
That's brick underneath.
Gonna take baIIistics off a shattered buIIet?
No.
Fingerprints.
Whatever you're gonna do, do it fast.
Because we found his next target. He's put it in tomorrow's paper.
I'm not sure you made it Ioud enough, sir.
What can I do for you, Mr. Reese?
You wanted me to do the diIigence on the LSI HoIdings deaI again.
WeII, I found some irreguIarities.
Their CEO is in poIice custody.
No, not with their numbers, with yours.
AppIied Sciences. WhoIe division of Wayne Enterprises. . .
. . .just disappeared overnight.
I went down to the archives and I started puIIing some oId fiIes.
Don't teII me you didn't recognize your baby. . .
. . .pancaking cop cars on the evening news.
Now you got the entire R & D Department burning through cash. . .
. . .cIaiming it's reIated to ceII phones for the Army?
What are you buiIding for him now, a rocket ship?
I want. . .
. . . $ 1 0 miIIion a year for the rest of my Iife.
Let me get this straight.
You think that your cIient. . .
One of the weaIthiest, most powerfuI men in the worId. . .
. . .is secretIy a vigiIante. . .
. . .who spends his nights beating criminaIs to a puIp with his bare hands. . .
. . .and your pIan is to bIackmaiI this person?
Good Iuck.
When--
Keep that.
FOX: This is your originaI scan.
Here it is reengineered.
And there's the thumbprint he Ieft when he pushed the round in the cIip.
I'II get you a copy.
Mr. Wayne, did you reassign R & D?
Yeah. Government teIecommunications project.
Wasn't aware we had any government contracts.
You know, Lucius, I'm pIaying this one pretty cIose to the chest.
Fair enough.
ENGEL: With no word from the Batman. . .
. . .even as they mourn Commissioner Loeb. . .
. . .these cops have to wonder if the Joker wiII make good on his threat. . .
. . .in the obituary coIumn of The Gotham Times to kiII the mayor.
I've checked aII the databases. There are four possibIes.
Cross-reference the addresses.
Look for Parkside, overIooking the parade.
I got one.
MeIvin White, 1 502 RandoIph Apartments.
Aggravated assauIt, moved to Arkham twice.
What do you got on the roof?
We're tight, but frankIy, there's a Iot of windows up here.
Commissioner Loeb dedicated his Iife to Iaw enforcement. . .
. . .and to the protection of his community.
I remember when I first took office. . .
. . .and I asked if he wanted to stay on as commissioner.
And he said he wouId, provided I kept my poIitics out of his office.
CIearIy he was not a man who minced words, nor shouId he have been.
A number of poIicies that he enacted as commissioner were unpopuIar.
PoIicies that fIooded my office with angry caIIs and Ietters. . . .
-Who's that? -What happened?
They took our guns.
And our uniforms.
[TICKING ]
MAYOR: And as we recognize the sacrifice of this man. . .
. . .we must remember that vigiIance is the price of safety.
Stand by. Honor guard.
Attention. Port arms.
Ready! Aim! Fire!
Ready! Aim!
[TIMER DINGS]
Ready! Aim!
[CROWD SCREAMING ]
[GUNSHOTS]
OFFICER: Stay down! Don't move!
STEPHENS: Mr. Mayor. Get him out of here.
-I'II see you Iater. -Why are you going back?
[GUNSHOTS]
[CROWD SCREAMING ]
Get out of here.
TeII me what you know about the Joker.
[CHUCKLING ]
[ENGINE STARTS]
No.
I'm sorry, Barbara.
Jimmy, go pIay with your sister. Go ahead, honey.
STEPHENS: If there's anything we can do, anything you need. . .
. . .we're here for you.
[BARBARA SOBBING ]
Shh.
BARBARA: Are you out there?
Are you? You brought this craziness on us. You did!
You brought this on us!
Switch it off, he ain't coming. He doesn't wanna taIk to us.
God heIp whoever he does wanna taIk to.
[DANCE MUSIC PLAYING ]
Can't we go somepIace quieter? We can't hear each other taIk.
What makes you think I wanna hear you taIk?
What?
[GRUNTING ]
[CROWD SCREAMING ]
-Yeah? MAN: Second.
Okay.
-Harvey, where are you? DENT: Where are you?
I'm where you shouId be, at Major Crimes.
I'm trying to deaI with aII of this mess.
-Can I get the fingerprint anaIysis? -Rachel, listen. You're not safe there.
-This is Gordon's unit. -Gordon 's gone.
RACHEL: He vouched for these men. -And he's gone.
The Joker's named you next.
God, is there someone, is there anyone in this town we can trust?
Bruce.
We can trust Bruce Wayne.
No. Rachel, I know you're his friend, but--
Harvey, trust me.
Bruce's penthouse is now the safest pIace in the city.
Then you go straight there.
Don 't tell anybody and I'll find you there.
I Iove you.
I want the Joker.
From one professionaI to another. . .
. . .you're trying to scare somebody, pick a better spot.
From this height, the faII wouIdn't kiII me.
-I'm counting on it. -Huh!
[SCREAMS]
[BONE CRACKS] [MARONI YELLS]
[MARONI WHEEZING ]
-Where is he? -I don't know where he is. He found us.
He must have friends.
Friends? Have you met this guy?
Someone knows where he is.
Nobody's gonna teII you nothing.
They're wise to your act.
You got ruIes. The Joker, he's got no ruIes.
Nobody's gonna cross him for you. If you want this guy, you got one way.
But you aIready know what that is.
Just take off that mask, Iet him come find you.
[GROWLS]
Or you can Iet a coupIe more peopIe get kiIIed whiIe you make up your mind.
You wanna pIay games?
[GUNSHOT]
How's that feeI?
-You wouIdn't. -I wouIdn't!
-You don't think I wiII? -Mm-mm.
No. No, I wouIdn't.
That's why I'm not gonna Ieave it up to me.
Heads, you get to keep your head.
TaiIs. . .
. . .not so Iucky.
So you wanna teII me about the Joker?
[THUG CHUCKLES]
-Let's go again. -I don't know anything! God, don't!
You're not pIaying the odds, friend.
Let's do it again.
You'd Ieave a man's Iife to chance?
-Not exactIy. -His name's Schiff, Thomas.
He's a paranoid schizophrenic, former patient at Arkham.
The kind of mind the Joker attracts. What do you expect to Iearn from him?
The Joker kiIIed Gordon. He's gonna kiII RacheI.
You're the symboI of hope I couId never be.
Your stand against organized crime. . .
. . .is the first Iegitimate ray of Iight in Gotham in decades.
If anyone saw this, everything wouId be undone.
The criminaIs you arrested wouId be reIeased. . .
. . .and Jim Gordon wiII have died for nothing.
You're gonna hoId a press conference tomorrow.
-Why? -No one eIse wiII die because of me.
Gotham's in your hands now.
You can't.
You can't give in.
You can't give in!
Harvey caIIed.
He said Batman's gonna turn himseIf in.
I have no choice.
You honestIy think that's gonna keep the Joker from kiIIing peopIe?
Maybe not. But I have enough bIood on my hands.
And I've seen now what I wouId have to become to stop men Iike him.
You once toId me that if the day came when I was finished. . .
. . .that we'd be together.
Bruce, don't make me your one hope for a normaI Iife.
Did you mean it?
Yes.
Bruce.
If you turn yourseIf in, they're not gonna Iet us be together.
ALFRED: Logs as weII? BRUCE: Everything.
Anything that couId Iead back to Lucius or RacheI.
PeopIe are dying, AIfred. What wouId you have me do?
Endure, Master Wayne. Take it.
They'II hate you for it, but that's the point of Batman.
He can be the outcast. He can make the choice that no one eIse can make.
The right choice.
No, today I found out what Batman can't do.
He can't endure this.
Today you get to say ''I toId you so. ''
Today, I don't want to.
But I did bIoody teII you.
[BRUCE CHUCKLES]
ALFRED: I suppose they're gonna Iock me up as weII. . .
. . .as your accompIice.
BRUCE: AccompIice? I'm gonna teII them the whoIe thing was your idea.
Ladies and gentIemen, I've caIIed this press conference for two reasons.
FirstIy, to assure the citizens of Gotham. . .
. . .that everything that can be done over the Joker kiIIings is being done.
[CHATTERING ]
SecondIy, because the Batman has offered to turn himseIf in.
But let's consider the situation.
ShouId we give in to this terrorist's demands?
Do we reaIIy think he's gonna--?
You'd rather protect an outIaw vigiIante than the Iives of citizens?
The Batman is an outIaw.
That's not why we demand he turn himseIf in. . .
. . .we're doing it because we're scared.
We've been happy to Iet Batman cIean up our streets tiII now.
MAN 1 : Things are worse than ever! MAN 2: Amen.
Yes, they are.
But the night is darkest just before the dawn.
And I promise you. . .
. . .the dawn is coming.
One day, the Batman wiII have to answer for the Iaws he's broken. But to us. . .
. . .not to this madman.
-No more dead cops! OFFICERS: Yeah!
He shouId turn himseIf in!
MAN 3: Give us the Batman! Come on! MAN 4: Where is he?
So be it. Take the Batman into custody.
WOMAN: What? MAN 5: Is he here?
I am the Batman.
MAN 6: What? MAN 7: Come on.
RACHEL: AIfred.
Why is he Ietting Harvey do this?
-He went down to the press conference. -I know. He just stood by.
Perhaps both Bruce and Mr. Dent. . .
. . .beIieve that Batman stands for something more important. . .
. . .than the whims of a terrorist, Miss Dawes. . .
. . .even if everyone hates him for it.
That's the sacrifice he's making.
He's not being a hero. He's being something more.
Yeah, you're absoIuteIy right.
Letting Harvey take the faII for this is not heroic at aII.
You know him better than anyone.
I do.
WiII you give this to him for me? When the time is right?
How wiII I know?
It's not seaIed.
Goodbye, AIfred.
Bye, RacheI.
[CELL DOOR OPENS]
I didn't have time to taIk this through.
What are you doing?
They're transferring me to CentraI HoIding.
This is the Joker's chance, and when he attacks, the Batman wiII take him down.
Listen. This is too dangerous.
We get this guy to County, he's their probIem. The streets wiII be cIeared. . .
. . .so Iet's go. The convoys stop for no reason.
I hope you got some moves, paI.
He's using you as bait. He doesn't know if he can get the Joker.
He's faiIed so far.
How do you know what he's thinking?
I just do. Anyway, this isn't just about you.
What about the peopIe depending on you. . .
. . .to cIean the city up and do it honorabIy and--?
Harvey. TeII everyone the truth.
Heads, I go through with it.
This is your Iife. You can't Ieave. . .
-. . .something Iike that to chance. -I'm not.
[ENGINE STARTS]
You make your own Iuck.
[TRUCK HORN BLARING ]
Hey, you wait Iike everybody eIse, paI.
What the heII is that?
Obstruction ahead, obstruction ahead!
Damn it! AII units divert down onto Lower Fifth. I repeat, exit down.
Exit down!
Lower Fifth? We'II be Iike turkeys on Thanksgiving.
Jesus. Come on, get us out of here. Let's go.
Listen, we need backup. We've got company.
We got troubIe, guys.
Lock and Ioad!
[TIRES SCREECHING ]
[CAR HORNS HONKING ]
The heII was that?
-These are buiIt for that, right? -He'II need something. . .
. . .a Iot bigger to get through this.
What is that?
What is that, a bazooka?
I didn't sign up for this!
Look out.
Look out!
JOKER: Hmm.
Come on, Iet's go!
[CONSOLE BEEPING ]
[EXPLOSION]
Harvey, Harvey, Harvey Dent.
Oh, excuse me. I wanna drive.
COMPUTER: Scanning all systems. Scanning all systems.
[JOKER HUMMING ]
We gotta get topside. We need air support, now!
I Iike this job. I Iike it.
COMPUTER: Damage catastrophic. Eject sequence initiated.
[WHIRRING ]
[ENGINE ACCELERATING ]
Goodbye.
We're on point, ready to give them some of their own medicine.
That's what I'm taIking about. Air cav.
Okay, rack them up.
Rack them up, rack them up, rack them up.
[IMITATING GUNFIRE]
That's not good.
Okay, that's not good!
[LAUGHS]
[JOKER LAUGHING ]
[CAR HORNS HONKING ]
Now, there's a Batman.
Ooh, you wanna pIay. Come on.
Come on.
He missed!
You can't stop here. We're Iike sitting ducks!
[JOKER GROANS]
Come on, come on.
Come on. Come on. I want you to do it, I want you to do it. Come on!
Come on.
Come on. I want you to do it, I want you to do it. Come on, hit me.
Come on, hit me. Come on, hit me!
[YELLING ]
Hit me!
[HUMMING ]
[THUG GRUNTS]
[LAUGHS]
[GIBBERS]
Come on, come on. Aah!
CouId you pIease just give me a minute?
We got you, you son of a bitch.
Gor-- You do Iike to pIay things pretty cIose to the chest.
We got him, Harvey.
REPORTER 1 : Mr. Dent! How does it feeI to be the biggest hero in Gotham?
No, I'm no hero. Gotham's finest, they're the heroes.
REPORTER 1 : But you and your office. . .
. . .have been working with the Batman aII aIong.
No, but I trusted him to do the right thing.
REPORTER 2: Which was? -Saving my ass.
AII right, peopIe, that's enough. Let him be. Let him be.
Thank you, detective.
I've got a date with a pretty upset girIfriend.
-I figured, counseIor. REPORTER 3: Mr. Dent, sir. . .
-. . .how about one for the front page, sir? REPORTER 4: Mr. Dent.
[PEOPLE CHATTERING ]
Stand away! AII of you!
I don't want anything for his Mob Iawyer to use, you understand?
Back from the dead.
I, uh. . .
. . .couIdn't risk my famiIy's safety.
MAYOR: What do we got?
Nothing. No matches on prints, DNA, dentaI.
CIothing is custom, no IabeIs.
Nothing in his pockets but knives and Iint.
No name.
-No other aIias. MAYOR: Go home, Gordon.
The cIown'II keep tiII morning. Go get some rest.
You're gonna need it.
Tomorrow you take the big job.
You don't have any say in the matter. Commissioner Gordon.
[OFFICERS APPLAUDING ]
I'm sorry, I couIdn't risk your safety.
[BARBARA SOBBING ]
MURPHY: Look at these ugIy bastards.
-I don't feeI good. MURPHY: You're a cop kiIIer.
You're Iucky to be feeIing anything beIow the neck.
-PIease! -Step away from the bars!
THUG: My insides hurt.
Did Batman save you, Daddy?
ActuaIIy, this time. . .
. . .I saved him.
[CELL PHONE RINGS]
GORDON: Has he said anything yet?
[DOOR BUZZES]
Evening, commissioner.
Harvey Dent never made it home.
-Of course not. -What have you done with him?
Me?
I was right here.
Who did you Ieave him with?
Hm? Your peopIe?
Assuming, of course, that they are stiII your peopIe. . .
. . .and not Maroni's.
Does it depress you, commissioner. . .
. . .to know just how aIone you reaIIy are?
Does it make you feeI responsibIe for Harvey Dent's current predicament?
-Where is he? -What's the time?
What difference does that make?
WeII, depending on the time, he may be in one spot or severaI.
-If we're gonna pIay games. . . -Mm-hm?
. . .I'm gonna need a cup of coffee.
Ah, the ''good cop, bad cop'' routine?
Not exactIy.
[DOOR BUZZES]
[DOOR CLOSES]
[GROANS]
Never start with the head. The victim gets aII fuzzy. He can't feeI the next--
See?
You wanted me. Here I am.
JOKER [OVER SPEAKER] : I wanted to see what you'd do.
And you didn't disappoint.
You Iet five peopIe die.
Then you Iet Dent take your pIace.
-Even to a guy Iike me, that's coId. -Where's Dent?
Those Mob fooIs want you gone so they can get back to the way things were.
But I know the truth. There's no going back. You've changed things.
-Forever. -Then why do you wanna kiII me?
[LAUGHS]
I don't wanna kiII you.
What wouId I do without you? Go back to ripping off Mob deaIers? No, no.
No. No, you. . . .
You compIete me.
-You're garbage who kiIIs for money. -Don't taIk Iike one of them. You're not.
Even if you'd Iike to be.
To them, you're just a freak. . .
. . .Iike me.
They need you right now. . .
. . .but when they don't. . .
. . .they'II cast you out Iike a Ieper.
You see, their moraIs, their code. . .
. . .it's a bad joke.
Dropped at the first sign of troubIe.
They're onIy as good as the worId aIIows them to be. I'II show you.
When the chips are down, these--
These civiIized peopIe. . .
. . .they'II eat each other.
See, I'm not a monster.
I'm just ahead of the curve.
Where's Dent?
You have aII these ruIes, and you think they'II save you.
-He's in controI. -I have one ruIe.
Oh. Then that's the ruIe you'II have to break to know the truth.
Which is?
The onIy sensibIe way to Iive is without ruIes.
And tonight you're gonna break your one ruIe.
I'm considering it.
There's onIy minutes Ieft, so you'II have to pIay my game. . .
. . .if you wanna save one of them.
''Them''?
You know, for a whiIe there, I thought you reaIIy were Dent.
The way you threw yourseIf after her.
[BATMAN GRUNTS AND YELLS]
[JOKER LAUGHS]
Look at you go.
[NECK CRACKS]
Does Harvey know about you and his IittIe bunny?
Where are they?!
KiIIing is making a choice.
-Where are they?! -Choose between one Iife or the other.
Your friend the district attorney, or his bIushing bride-to-be.
[LAUGHING ]
You have nothing, nothing to threaten me with.
Nothing to do with aII your strength.
Don't worry, I'm gonna teII you where they are, both of them.
And that's the point. You'II have to choose.
He's at 250 52nd Street. . .
. . .and she's on Avenue X at Cicero.
-Which one you going after? -RacheI.
GORDON: We're getting Dent!
250 52nd Street!
RACHEL [OVER PHONE] : Hello?
Can anybody hear me?
Hello!
-RacheI? -Harvey.
Oh, Harvey, thank God. Are you okay?
I'm aII right. I'm in a--
I'm in a warehouse. They got me wired to these oiI drums.
I am too.
Harvey.
I want my phone caII.
I want it. I want it. I want my phone caII.
That's nice.
How many of your friends have I kiIIed?
I'm a 20-year man. . .
. . .and I know the difference between punks who need a Iesson in manners. . .
. . .and the freaks Iike you who wouId just enjoy it.
And you kiIIed six of my friends.
[MOUTHS] Six?
PIease. My insides hurt.
I don't reaIIy care. Back away.
The boss said he'd make the voices go away.
He said he'd go inside and repIace them with bright Iights. . .
. . .Iike Christmas.
You're out of your mind, paI. Back off.
Medic to the hoIding tank. Come on. Get the door open.
You guys, back off!
Listen, we don't have a Iot of time.
They toId me that onIy one of us was gonna make it. . .
. . .and that they were gonna Iet our friends choose.
Okay, RacheI.
It's gonna be fine. It's gonna be aII right. They're coming for you.
Listen to me. I'II heIp you. Just taIk me through what's going on with you.
Can you find something, anything, sharp?
I'm trying.
-What's--? -Shit.
Harvey?
[YELLS]
Harvey, what's happening?
[SIRENS WAILING ]
AII avaiIabIe units, converge at 250 52nd Street.
Do you wanna know why I use a knife?
Guns are too quick.
You can't savor aII the. . .
. . .IittIe emotions.
You see, in their Iast moments. . .
. . .peopIe show you who they reaIIy are.
So in a way, I knew your friends better than you ever did.
WouId you Iike to know which of them were cowards?
OFFICER: What's that? MEDIC: Jeez.
He's got some kind of a. . .
-. . .contusion. -I know you're gonna enjoy this.
[NECK CRACKS]
I'm gonna have to try and enjoy it even more.
OFFICER 1 : Whoa, whoa!
OFFICER 2: Just put it down.
Take it easy. Take it easy. Drop the weapon now!
-It's my own damn fauIt, just shoot him! -Let him go now! Drop it!
-What? Sorry? -What do you want?
I just want my phone caII.
RACHEL: What--? What--? What's happening?
Just talk to me, just for one second.
-AII right? -Right.
Ow.
-Ow. -Shh, shh, shh.
[CELL PHONE RINGING ]
Is that a phone?
Mount the curb!
Harvey, just in case, I wanna teII you something, okay?
Don 't think like that. They're coming.
I know they are, but I don't want them to.
I don't wanna Iive without you, and I do have an answer for you.
My answer is yes.
No! No! No!
Not me! Why are you coming for me?
No!
RacheI! RacheI!
-Harvey. -No! No! Rachel!
Okay.
RacheI!
No! No!
Harvey, it's okay. It's aII right. Listen.
Somewh--
RAMIREZ: No, commissioner!
RacheI! No!
[DENT YELLING ]
HeIIo there.
SERGEANT: Back at the MCU, the Joker's gone.
With Lau?
The Joker pIanned to be caught.
He wanted me to Iock him up in the MCU.
[SIRENS WAILING ]
[INAUDIBLE]
RACHEL: Dear Bruce:
I need to be honest and clear.
I'm going to marry Harvey Dent.
I love him, and I wanna spend the rest of my life with him.
When I told you that if Gotham no longer needed Batman, we could be together...
...I meant it.
But now I'm sure the day won 't come when you no longer need Batman.
I hope it does.
And if it does, I will be there...
...but as your friend.
I'm sorry, Harvey.
RACHEL: I'm sorry to let you down.
If you lose your faith in me, please keep your faith in people.
Love, now and always, Rachel.
ALFRED: Prepared a IittIe breakfast.
-Very weII, then. -AIfred.
Yes, Master Wayne?
Did I bring this on her?
I was meant to inspire good. . .
. . .not madness, not death.
You have inspired good. But you spat in the faces of Gotham's criminaIs.
Didn't you think there might be casuaIties?
Things aIways get worse before they get better.
But RacheI, AIfred.
RacheI beIieved in what you stood for. . .
. . .what we stand for.
Gotham needs you.
No, Gotham needs its true hero. . .
. . .and I Iet that murdering psychopath bIow him haIf to heII.
Which is why, for now. . .
. . .they're gonna have to make do with you.
She was gonna wait for me, AIfred.
Dent doesn't know.
He can never know.
What's that?
-It can wait. -That bandit. . .
. . .in the forest in Burma.
-Did you catch him? -Yes.
How?
We burned the forest down.
[GASPS]
[INAUDIBLE]
He's credible, an M & A lawyer from a leading consultancy.
He says he's waited as long as he can for Batman to do the right thing.
Now he's taking matters into his own hands.
We'll be live at 5 with the true identity of the Batman.
I'm sorry about RacheI.
The doctor says you're in agonizing pain, but that you won't accept medication.
That you're refusing to. . .
. . .accept skin grafts.
Remember that name. . .
. . .you aII had for me. . .
. . .when I was at InternaI Affairs?
What was it, Gordon?
Harvey, I. . . .
Say it.
Say it!
Two-Face. Harvey Two-Face.
Why shouId I hide who I am?
I know you tried to warn me.
I'm sorry.
Wuertz picked you up. Was he working for them?
Do you know who picked up RacheI?
Harvey, I need to know which of my men I can trust.
Why wouId you Iisten to me now?
I'm sorry, Harvey.
No.
No, you're not.
Not yet.
This craziness, it's too much.
ShouId've thought about that before you Iet the cIown out of the box.
MARONI: You want him?
I can teII you where he'II be this afternoon.
CHECHEN: Not so crazy as you Iook.
I toId you, I'm a man of my word.
Where is the ItaIian?
AII tacticaI units wiII converge on the Iocation in 20 minutes.
I want auxiIiary units to cover aII possibIe getaway routes.
CHECHEN: PIease.
Joker-man, what you do with aII your money?
You see, I'm a guy of simpIe taste.
I enjoy. . .
. . .dynamite. . .
. . .and gunpowder. . .
. . .and gasoIine.
-What the--? -Ah, ah, ah.
And you know the thing that they have in common?
They're cheap.
CALLER 1 [ON TV] : How much are they paying you to say who Batman is?
This is our chance. I want Lau aIive. The Joker, either way.
Hey, Jim. Get a Ioad of this.
ENGEL: Let's take the next caller.
CALLER 2: Harvey Dent didn 't wanna give in to this maniac.
You think you know better?
I think that if we could talk to Dent today, he may feel differently.
And we wish him a speedy recovery. Because God knows, we need him now.
You said you were a man of your word.
Oh, I am.
I'm onIy burning my haIf.
AII you care about is money.
This town deserves a better cIass of criminaI. . .
. . .and I'm gonna give it to them.
TeII your men they work for me now.
This is my city.
They won't work for a freak.
[IMITATES CHECHEN] ''Freak. ''
[IN NORMAL VOICE] Why don't we cut you up into IittIe pieces. . .
. . .and feed you to your pooches? Hm?
And then we'II see how IoyaI a hungry dog reaIIy is.
[DOGS BARKING ]
It's not about money. . .
. . .it's about sending a message.
Everything burns.
-Who is this? JOKER: I had a vision...
...of a world without Batman.
The Mob ground out a little profit...
...and the police tried to shut them down one block at a time.
And it was so boring.
I've had a change of heart.
I don 't want Mr. Reese spoiling everything...
...but why should I have all the fun? Let's give someone else a chance.
If Coleman Reese isn 't dead in 60 minutes...
... then I blow up a hospital.
CaII in every officer.
TeII them to head to their nearest hospitaI and start evac and search.
CaII the transit authority, schooI board, prisons.
Get every bus down to a hospitaI.
The priority is Gotham GeneraI. WheeI everybody out of that pIace right now.
You, you and you, you come with me.
-Where are we going, sir? -To get Reese.
I need you pIugged in, checking Gordon's men and their famiIies.
-Looking for? -HospitaI admissions.
WiII you be wanting the Batpod?
In the middIe of the day? Not very subtIe.
The Lamborghini, then.
Much more subtIe.
[CROWD SHOUTING ]
Excuse me. Let me through. Excuse me. Okay.
Sir, couId you heIp, pIease?
I'm gonna find a bus for him.
ENGEL: Sir? Commissioner, do you reaIIy think. . .
. . .an ordinary citizen wouId try to kiII this man?
ENGEL: Sir. Commissioner.
[CROWD SCREAMING ]
Get the cars around the back!
Go. Keep roIIing, Sam.
I see O'Brien and Richards.
No immediate famiIy member admitted to a Gotham hospitaI.
REESE: They're trying to kiII me. -WeII, maybe Batman can save you.
Davis, they got space. Bring him out.
Davis.
I saw Burns and Zachary.
ALFRED: Nothing on them.
And a patroIman I don't know.
REESE: Okay, so, what now?
What do we do now? Where are we going?
Send the information to Gordon.
[CELL PHONE RINGS]
Get out of here.
Davis.
Ma'am, we're gonna have to move him now.
GORDON: It's Berg, isn't it? -Commissioner.
You okay, son?
[JOKER HUMMING ]
[DENT GRUNTS]
Hi.
You know. . .
. . .I don't want there to be any hard feeIings between us, Harvey.
-When you and-- -RacheI!
--RacheI were being abducted. . .
. . .I was sitting in Gordon's cage.
I didn't rig those charges.
Your men, your pIan.
Do I reaIIy Iook Iike a guy with a pIan?
You know what I am? I'm a dog chasing cars.
I wouIdn't know what to do with one if I caught it.
You know? I just do things.
The Mob has pIans. The cops have pIans.
Gordon's got pIans.
You know, they're schemers.
Schemers trying to controI their IittIe worIds.
I'm not a schemer.
I try to show the schemers. . .
. . .how pathetic their attempts to controI things reaIIy are.
So when I say-- Ah. Come here.
When I say that you and your girIfriend was nothing personaI. . .
. . .you'II know that I'm teIIing the truth.
-I'm gonna need your weapon. -What?
Why? Because my wife's in the hospitaI?
Yeah, that'd be why.
It's the schemers that put you where you are.
You were a schemer, you had pIans. . .
. . .and Iook where that got you.
ANNOUNCER [OVER RADIO] : Police are taking every precaution...
...urging people not to take matters into their hands.
I just did what I do best.
I took your IittIe pIan and I turned it on itseIf.
Look what I did to this city with a few drums of gas and a coupIe of buIIets.
Hm? You know what I noticed?
Nobody panics when things go ''according to pIan. ''
Even if the pIan is horrifying.
If tomorrow I teII the press that, Iike, a gangbanger wiII get shot. . .
. . .or a truckIoad of soIdiers wiII be bIowing up. . .
. . .nobody panics.
Because it's aII part of the pIan.
But when I say that one IittIe oId mayor wiII die. . .
. . .weII, then, everyone Ioses their minds.
Introduce a IittIe anarchy. . .
. . .upset the estabIished order. . .
. . .and everything becomes chaos.
I'm an agent of chaos.
Oh, and you know the thing about chaos?
It's fair.
-You Iive. -Mm-hm.
You die.
Mmm. Now we're taIking.
Mr. Reese.
That's Mr. Wayne, isn't it?
-That was a very brave thing you did. -Trying to catch the Iight?
-You weren't protecting the van? -Why? Who's in it?
Don't you think I shouId go to the hospitaI?
Don't watch a whoIe Iot of news, do you, Mr. Wayne?
[IMITATES EXPLOSION]
[CROWD SCREAMING ]
Southeast.
It's Gotham GeneraI.
-Did you cIear the buiIding? OFFICER: Yeah.
GORDON: You must know how many were inside.
You have patient Iists, roII caII.
Right now we're showing 50 peopIe missing. One bus.
The other buses were heading off to hospitaIs. I guess we missed one.
What's your guess about where Harvey Dent is?
Keep Iooking. And keep it to yourseIf. Anybody asks, we got him out.
Get me the mayor's office on the Iine.
We're gonna need the NationaI Guard.
REPORTER [ON TV] : --people are still missing...
...including GCN's own Mike Engel.
I'm now being told that we're cutting to a video GCN has just received.
I'm Mike Engel for Gotham Tonight.
''What does it take to make you people wanna join in?
You failed to kill the lawyer. I've gotta get you off the bench...
-...and into the game. JOKER: Bench. Game.
[JOKER LAUGHS]
ENGEL: Come nightfall, this city is mine. JOKER: Mine.
-And anyone left here plays by my rules. -Rules.
Mr. Fox? Security is showing a break-in at the R & D Department.
If you don 't wanna be in the game...
-...get out now. -Get out now.
[CHATTERING ]
But the bridge-and-tunnel crowd are sure in for a surprise.
Ha-ha, ha-ha. ''
[JOKER LAUGHING ]
[SIRENS WAILING ]
[DOG BARKING ]
REPORTER: Gotham P.D. has shut down...
BARTENDER: Sweet Jesus. -... the area 's bridges and tunnels.
ShouIdn't you be out there, you know, doing something?
It's my day off.
I gotta take a Ieak.
Keep an eye out for me, wiII you?
[DOOR OPENS]
Now what? Need someone to shake it for you?
DENT: HeIIo.
Dent.
Jesus. I thought you was dead.
HaIf.
Who picked up RacheI, Wuertz?
-It must've been Maroni's men. -Shut up!
Are you teIIing me that you're gonna protect. . .
. . .the other traitor in Gordon's unit?
I don't know, he never toId me.
Listen, Dent, I swear to God, I didn't know what they were gonna do to you.
That's funny. . .
. . .because I don't know what's gonna happen to you either.
[GUNSHOT]
BeautifuI, isn't it?
BeautifuI.
UnethicaI.
Dangerous.
You've turned every ceII phone in Gotham into a microphone.
BATMAN: And a high-frequency generator-receiver.
You took my sonar concept and appIied it to every phone in the city.
With haIf the city feeding you sonar, you can image aII of Gotham.
This is wrong.
I've gotta find this man, Lucius.
At what cost?
The database is nuII-key encrypted.
It can onIy be accessed by one person.
This is too much power for one person.
That's why I gave it to you.
OnIy you can use it.
Spying on 30 miIIion peopIe isn't part of my job description.
This is an audio sampIe. If he taIks within range of any phone in the city. . .
. . .you can trianguIate his position.
I'II heIp you this one time.
But consider this my resignation.
As Iong as this machine is at Wayne Enterprises, I won't be.
When you're finished. . .
. . .type in your name.
[SIRENS WAILING ]
GORDON: My officers are going over every inch of the tunneIs and bridges. . .
. . .but with the Joker's threat, they're not an option.
-And Iand routes east? -Backed up for hours.
Which Ieaves the ferries with 30,000 ready to board.
I wanna use the ferries so I can get those prisoners off the isIand.
The men you put away? Those aren't peopIe I'm worried about.
You shouId be. Whatever the Joker's pIanning. . .
. . .it's a good bet Harvey's prisoners are invoIved. I wanna get them out of here.
So where is Harvey?
-We haven't found him. -Oh, Jesus.
How Iong can you keep this quiet?
Don't stop for Iights, cops, nothing.
Going to join your wife?
-You Iove her? -Yes.
You ever imagine what it wouId be Iike to Iisten to her die?
Look, take it up with the Joker.
He kiIIed your woman. He made you. . .
. . .Iike this.
The Joker's just a mad dog.
I want whoever Iet him off the Ieash.
I took care of Wuertz, but who was your other man inside Gordon's unit?
Who picked up RacheI? Must have been someone she trusted.
Look, if I teII you. . .
. . .wiII you Iet me go?
Can't hurt your chances.
It was Ramirez.
[GUN COCKS]
-But you said-- -I said it couIdn't hurt your chances.
You're a Iucky man.
-But he's not. -Who?
Your driver.
[GUNSHOT]
GUARDSMAN 1 : Stand back.
Hey, that ain't right. We shouId be on that boat.
GUARDSMAN 2: You wanna ride across with them? Be my guest.
[ENGINES STOP]
FIRST MATE: Sir, they've stopped their engines.
Right, get on the radio.
TeII them we'II come back and pick them up once we dump the scumbags.
Liberty, this is Spirit. Come in.
[STATIC CRACKLES]
CAPTAIN: What the heck was that?
[ALARM WAILING ]
MAN: What the--?
CAPTAIN [OVER RADIO] : Liberty, come in, please. This is Spirit. Come in.
Liberty, we have the same thing. We've lost both engines.
-Liberty, come in. BATMAN: Fox.
There's something going on on the ferries.
Get down to the engine room now.
MAN: Hey, buddy, what's happening?
Captain, we got a hundred barreIs down there rigged to bIow. And this.
CAPTAIN: Oh, my God.
FIRST MATE: Looks Iike some kind of detonator.
CAPTAIN: Why wouId they give us the detonator to our own bomb?
[INTERCOM BEEPS]
JOKER [OVER SPEAKER] : Tonight, you're all gonna...
...be a part of a social experiment.
Through the magic of diesel fuel and ammonium nitrate...
...I'm ready right now to blow you all sky-high.
Liberty, come in, over.
It's dead.
JOKER: If anyone attempts to get off their boat, you all die.
FOX: I'm zeroing in.
JOKER: Each of you has a remote to blow up the other boat.
His voice is on the ferry. . .
. . .but it's not the source.
West.
[CELL PHONE RINGS]
-Gordon. BATMAN: I have the Joker's location.
Prewitt Building.
Assemble on the building opposite.
At midnight, I bIow you aII up.
If, however, one of you presses the button, I'll let that boat live.
So who 's it gonna be?
Harvey Dent's most-wanted scumbag collection...
...or the sweet and innocent civilians?
You choose.
Oh, and you might wanna decide quickly...
...because the people on the other boat may not be quite so noble.
[INTERCOM SQUEALS]
[CLAMORING ]
Stay back.
WeII, now, who are you to decide? We ought to taIk this over, at Ieast.
We don't aII have to die. Those men had their chance.
-We are not going to taIk about this. -Why aren't we taIking about it?
They're taIking over the same thing on the other boat.
-Let's put it to a vote. CROWD: Yes!
[SHOTGUN BLAST]
[PHONE RINGS]
-HeIIo? RAMIREZ: Barbara, it's Anna Ramirez.
Jim needs you to pack up and put the kids in the car right away.
But the units outside. . . .
Those cops can 't be trusted.
Jim needs you away from them as soon as possibIe.
I'II caII them off for 1 0 minutes, and you'II have to move fast.
-But where am I supposed to take them? -250 52nd Street.
Leave as soon as the patrol car pulls out.
Okay.
She beIieve you?
It's because she trusts you. . .
. . .just Iike RacheI did.
-I didn't know-- -Didn't know what they'd do?
You're the second cop to say that to me.
What exactIy did you think they were gonna do?
They got me earIy on. My mother's hospitaI biIIs. . . .
-Don't! -I'm sorry.
You Iive to fight another day, officer.
SWAT LEADER: We found the missing hospitaI bus.
GORDON: Then we have a hostage situation.
It's a shooting gaIIery.
Why wouId he choose a spot with such big windows?
SWAT LEADER: We have cIear shots on five cIowns.
Snipers take them out, smash the windows, a team rappels in.
Team moves in by the stairwells.
Two, three casualties max.
-Let's do it. BATMAN: It's not that simpIe.
-With the Joker, it never is. -What's simpIe is. . .
. . .every second, those peopIe on the ferries get cIoser to bIowing--
-That won't happen. -Then he'II bIow both of them up!
-We don't have time for paper baIIots. -I want everybody to put their votes. . .
. . .on this piece of paper.
If anyone's got pens, pass it aIong.
GUARDSMAN: Thank you. Anybody eIse?
Coming through. Anybody eIse? Thank you.
COMMANDER: We need to get these votes in quickIy.
Come on.
PRISONER 1 : What are you waiting for? Push the button!
PRISONER 2: We're running out of time!
I need five minutes aIone.
No! There's no time!
We have cIear shots!
Dent is in there with them. We have to save Dent!
I have to save Dent.
Get ready.
Two minutes, then we breach.
[MUFFLED GRUNTING ]
Fox, I need picture.
[CELL PHONE RINGS]
-HeIIo? BARBARA: Jim, we're in trouble.
FOX: Okay, you got POV on aIpha. . .
...omni on beta.
Looks like clowns and hostages on two floors.
There's a SWA T team on the stairwell.
Another SWA T team on the roof.
TEAM LEADER: Line's cIear.
-Barbara, caIm down. -He has the kids!
DENT: Hello, Jim. -Harvey?
-Where's my famiIy? -Where my family died.
[BUS Y SIGNAL]
SWAT LEADER: Blue team, acquire the target.
Entry team, set your charge.
[MUFFLED GRUNTING ]
BATMAN: Fox, the SWA Ts are targeting the wrong people.
The clowns are the hostages.
Red team, go! Red team, go!
Entry team, blow and go!
Don't move.
SWAT LEADER: Take the shot.
FOX: Those SWA Ts are coming in hot.
SWAT 1 : CIowns, put down your guns.
SWAT 2: Drop your weapons! SWAT 3: On the ground, now!
SWAT 4: Doctors, get down! CIear the Iine of fire. Drop your weap--
[ALL GRUNTING ]
[DOGS GROWLING ]
SWAT 5: Freeze!
Stand down or you wiII be--
FOX: Look up.
See those bad guys on the floor above?
They're waiting to ambush the SWA T team coming up the elevator.
SWAT LEADER: Sixty seconds.
The taIIy is 1 40 against, 396 for.
[PRISONERS SHOUTING ]
So go ahead. Do it.
We're stiII here.
And that means they haven't kiIIed us yet either.
TEAM LEADER: Go, go, go!
BIue team, cover!
[HOSTAGES GRUNTING ]
Uh-oh.
[SWAT TEAM SHOUTING ]
FOX: Trouble on the floor above.
SWAT 6: Get down on the ground now!
[ALL YELLING ]
SWAT 7: Freeze! Stop or we wiII shoot.
SWAT 8: We wiII shoot you. Drop the officer.
ReIease the officer right now.
SWAT 9: Let him go now! On your knees!
PILOT: We got him. He's out of the game.
SWAT 9: Keep your hands in the air! SWAT 8: Step away from the edge!
[SCREAMS AND GRUNTS]
[SWAT TEAM SCREAMING ]
SWAT 1 0: HaIt!
SWAT 1 1 : Stay down! SWAT 1 2: Don't move!
SWAT LEADER: Be advised. Clowns are hostages, doctors are targets.
[DOGS GROWLING AND BARKING ]
Ah, you made it. I'm so thriIIed.
-Where's the detonator? -Go get him.
[BARKING ]
[BATMAN GRUNTING ]
[JOKER GROWLS]
SWAT 1 3: Put down your weapon! SWAT 1 4: Don't move!
[GRUNTING ]
You don't wanna die. . .
. . .but you don't know how to take a Iife.
Give it to me.
These men wiII kiII you and take it anyway.
No one wants to get their hands dirty.
Fine. I'II do it.
Those men on that boat? They made their choices.
They chose to murder and steaI.
It doesn't make any sense for us to have to die too.
AII the oId famiIiar pIaces.
FOX: Stand by.
[JOKER YELLS]
SWAT 2: Red team, fIoor secure. Hostages are safe.
Give it to me.
You can teII them I took it by force.
Give it to me, and I'II do what you shouId've did 1 0 minutes ago.
[BOTH GRUNTING ]
We reaIIy shouId stop this fighting, otherwise we'II miss the fireworks.
There won't be any fireworks.
And here we go.
What were you trying to prove?
That deep down, everyone's as ugIy as you?
You're aIone.
Can't reIy on anyone these days. You gotta do everything yourseIf. Don't we?
That's okay. I came prepared.
It's a funny worId we Iive in. Speaking of which, you know how I got these scars?
No, but I know how you got these.
[GRUNTS]
[LAUGHING ]
Oh, you.
You just couIdn't Iet me go, couId you?
This is what happens when an unstoppabIe force. . .
. . .meets an immovabIe object.
You truIy are incorruptibIe, aren't you?
Huh? You won't kiII me. . .
. . .out of some mispIaced sense of seIf-righteousness.
And I won't kiII you. . .
. . .because you're just too much fun.
I think you and I are destined to do this forever.
You'II be in a padded ceII forever.
Maybe we couId share one.
You know, they'II be doubIing up. . .
. . .the rate this city's inhabitants are Iosing their minds.
This city just showed you. . .
. . .that it's fuII of peopIe ready to beIieve in good.
UntiI their spirit breaks compIeteIy.
UntiI they get a good Iook at the reaI Harvey Dent. . .
. . .and aII the heroic things he's done.
You didn't think I'd risk Iosing the battIe for Gotham's souI. . .
. . .in a fistfight with you?
No.
You need an ace in the hoIe.
Mine's Harvey.
What did you do?
I took Gotham's white knight. . .
. . .and I brought him down to our IeveI.
It wasn't hard. See, madness, as you know. . .
. . .is Iike gravity.
AII it takes is a IittIe push.
[LAUGHING ]
Dent!
DENT: This is where they brought her, Gordon, after your men handed her over.
This is where she died.
I know, I was here. . .
-. . .trying to save her. -But you didn't.
-I couIdn't. -Yes, you couId've.
If you'd Iistened to me.
If you stood up against corruption. . .
. . .instead of doing your deaI with the deviI.
I was trying to fight the Mob!
You wouIdn't dare try to justify yourseIf if you knew what I'd Iost.
Have you ever had to taIk to the person you Ioved most. . .
. . .teII them it's gonna be aII right, when you know it's not?
WeII, you're about to know what that feeIs Iike, Gordon.
Then you can Iook me in the eye and teII me you're sorry.
-You're not going to hurt my famiIy. -No.
Just the person you Iove most.
[GUN COCKS]
So is it your wife?
Put the gun down, Harvey.
Harvey, put down the gun.
PIease. PIease, Harvey. PIease.
Oh, goddamn it.
WiII you stop pointing that gun at my famiIy?
BARBARA: No! -We have a winner.
No, Jim, stop him!
GORDON: Harvey. BARBARA: Don't Iet him--
Harvey!
[BARBARA SOBBING ]
I'm sorry!
For everything.
PIease don't hurt my son.
[DOGS BARKING ]
[CHATTERING ]
You brought your cops?
AII they know is there's a situation.
They don't know who or what. They're just creating a perimeter.
You think I wanna escape from this?
There is no escape from this.
You don't wanna hurt the boy, Harvey.
It's not about what I want, it's about what's fair!
You thought we couId be decent men in an indecent time.
But you were wrong.
The worId is crueI. And the onIy moraIity in a crueI worId. . .
. . .is chance.
Unbiased.
Unprejudiced.
Fair.
His son's got the same chance she had.
Fifty-fifty.
What happened to RacheI wasn't chance. We decided to act.
We three.
Then why was it me who was the onIy one who Iost everything?
-It wasn't. -The Joker chose me.
Because you were the best of us.
He wanted to prove that even someone as good as you. . .
. . .couId faII.
And he was right.
You're the one pointing the gun, Harvey.
So point it at the peopIe responsibIe.
Fair enough.
You first.
My turn.
Harvey, you're right.
RacheI's death was my fauIt.
PIease don't punish the boy.
-PIease, punish me. -I'm about to.
TeII your boy he's gonna be aII right, Gordon.
Lie. . .
. . .Iike I Iied.
It's going to be aII right, son.
[BATMAN GRUNTS]
[BARBARA SCREAMS]
Dad? Daddy, is he okay?
[BATMAN PANTING ]
-Thank you. -You don't have to thank me.
Yes, I do.
The Joker won.
Harvey's prosecution, everything he fought for. . .
. . .undone.
Whatever chance you gave us at fixing our city dies with Harvey's reputation.
We bet it aII on him.
The Joker took the best of us and tore him down.
PeopIe wiII Iose hope.
They won't.
They must never know what he did.
Five dead.
Two of them cops.
-You can't sweep that-- -No.
But the Joker cannot win.
Gotham needs its true hero.
-No. -You either die a hero. . .
. . .or you Iive Iong enough to see yourseIf become the viIIain.
I can do those things. . .
. . .because I'm not a hero, not Iike Dent.
I kiIIed those peopIe. That's what I can be.
No, no, you can't. You're not.
I'm whatever Gotham needs me to be.
CaII it in.
GORDON: A hero.
Not the hero we deserved, but the hero we needed.
Nothing Iess than a knight. . .
. . .shining.
GORDON: They'll hunt you.
BATMAN: You'll hunt me.
You'll condemn me.
Set the dogs on me.
Because that's what needs to happen.
Because sometimes...
... the truth isn 't good enough.
Sometimes people deserve more.
Sometimes people deserve to have their faith rewarded.
[ELECTRICITY CRACKLING ]
JAMES: Batman.
Batman!
Why's he running, Dad?
Because we have to chase him.
Okay, we're going in! Go, go! Move!
He didn't do anything wrong.
[BARKING ]
Because he's the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now.
So we'll hunt him...
...because he can take it.
Because he's not our hero.
He's a silent guardian...
. . .a watchfuI protector.
A dark knight.
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