[CONSOLE BEEPING ]
[EXPLOSION]
Harvey, Harvey, Harvey Dent.
Oh, excuse me. I wanna drive.
COMPUTER: Scanning aII systems, Scanning aII 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 c op, 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.
"T hem " ?
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] : HeIIo?
Can anybody hear me?
HeIIo!
-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 taIk 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 Iike 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! RacheI!
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 cIear,
I' m going to marry Harvey Dent,
I Iove him, and I wanna spend the rest of my Iife with him,
When I toId you that if Gotham no Ionger needed Batman, we couId be together,,,
,,,I meant it,
But now I' m sure the day won 't come when you no Ionger need Batman,
I hope it does,
And if it does, I wiII be there,,,
,,,but as your friend,
I'm sorry, Harvey.
RACHEL: I' m sorry to Iet you down,
If you Iose your faith in me, pIease keep your faith in peopIe,
Love, now and aIways, RacheI,
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 credibIe, an M & A lawyer from a Ieading consuItancy,
He says he's waited as Iong as he can for Batman to do the right thing,
Now he's taking matters into his own hands,
We'll be Iive 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 caIIer,
CALLER 2: Harvey Dent didn 't wanna give in to this maniac,
You think you know better?
I think that if we couId taIk to Dent today, he may feeI differentIy,
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 worId without Batman,
The Mob ground out a IittIe profit ,,,
,,,and the poIice tried to shut them down one bIock at a time,
And it was so boring,
I' ve had a change of heart,
I don 't want Mr, Reese spoiIing everything,,,
,,,but why shouId I have aII the fun? Let's give someone eIse a chance,
If CoIeman Reese isn 't dead in 60 minutes,,,
,,, then I bIow up a hospitaI,
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] : PoIice are taking every precaution,,,
,,,urging peopIe 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: Y
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] : --peopIe are stiII missing,,,
,,,incIuding GCN's own Mike EngeI,
I' m now being toId that we're cutting to a video GCN has just received,
I' m Mike EngeI for Gotham Tonight.
" What does it take to make you peopIe wanna join in?
You faiIed to kiII the Iawyer, I' ve gotta get you off the bench,,,
-,,,and into the game, JOKER: Bench, Game,
[JOKER LAUGHS]
ENGEL: Come nightfaII, this city is mine, JOKER: Mine,
-And anyone Ieft here pIays by my ruIes, -RuIes,
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-tunneI 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 tunneIs,
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, pIease, This is Spirit. Come in,
Liberty, we have the same thing, We've Iost 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 aII gonna,,,
,,,be a part of a sociaI experiment,
Through the magic of dieseI fueI and ammonium nitrate,,,
,,,I' m ready right now to bIow you aII sky-high,
Liberty, come in, over.
It's dead.
JOKER: If anyone attempts to get off their boat, you aII die,
FOX: I' m zeroing in,
JOKER: Each of you has a remote to bIow 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 BuiIding,
AssembIe on the buiIding opposite,
At midnight, I bIow you aII up.
If , however, one of you presses the button, I' II Iet that boat Iive,
So who 's it gonna be?
Harvey Dent's most-wanted scumbag coIIection,,,
,,,or the sweet and innocent civiIians?
You choose,
Oh , and you might wanna decide quickIy,,,
,,,because the peopIe on the other boat may not be quite so nobIe,
[INTERCOM SOUEALS]
[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 A nna 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 patroI car puIIs 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 rappeIs in,
Team moves in by the stairweIIs,
Two, three casuaIties 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 troubIe,
FOX: Okay, you got POV on aIpha. . .
,,,omni on beta,
Looks Iike cIowns and hostages on two floors,
There's a SWA T team on the stairweII,
Another SWA T team on the roof
TEAM LEADER: Line's cIear.
-Barbara, caIm down. -He has the kids!
DENT: HeIIo, Jim, -Harvey?
-Where's my famiIy? -Where my famiIy 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 peopIe,
The cIowns are the hostages,
Red team, go! Red team, go!
Entry team, bIow 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 eIevator,
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: TroubIe 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, CIowns 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 peopIe deserve more,
Sometimes peopIe 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 siIent guardian,,,
. . .a watchfuI protector.
A dark knight,
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