GORDON: I knew Harvey Dent.
I was his friend.
And it will be a very long time before someone inspires us the way he did.
I believed in Harvey Dent.
Dr. Pavel, I'm CIA.
DRIVER: He wasn't alone.
- Uh, you don't get to bring friends. - They are not my friends.
DRIVER: Don't worry, no charge for them.
CIA OP: And why would I want them? DRIVER: They were trying to grab your prize.
They work for the mercenary.
The masked man.
- Bane? - Aye.
Get them on board. I'll call it in
CIA OP: The flight plan I just filed with the agency...
...lists me, my men, Dr. Pavel here...
...but only one of you!
First one to talk gets to stay an my aircraft!
Who paid you to grab Dr. Pavel?
[GUNSHOT]
He didn't fly so good!
Who wants to try next?
Tell me about Bane!
Why does he wear the mask?
A lat of loyalty for a hired gun!
MAN: Well, perhaps he's wondering why someone would shoot a man...
before throwing him out of a plane
At least you can talk.
Who are you?
MAN: It doesn't matter who we are.
What matters is our plan.
Na one cared who I was till I put an the mask.
If I pull that off, will you die?
BANE: It would be extremely painful.
You're a big guy
BANE: For you.
Was getting caught part of your plan?
BANE: Of course.
Dr. Pavel refused our offer in favor of yours.
- We had to find out what he told you- - Nothing. I said nothing.
Well, congratulations, you got yourself caught!
- Sir? - New what's the next step of your master plan?
BANE: Crashing this plane...
...with no survivors.
[GUNFIRE]
PILOT: Mayday, Mayday!
[YELLs]
[GRUNTING]
Aah! What you doing to me? Let me cut!
Na!
Na, nu, nu! Na!
[PAVEL YELLING]
BANE: Na! They expect one of us in the wreckage, brother.
Have we started the fire?
BANE: Yes, the fire rises.
[PAVEL YELLING]
Calm dawn, doctor. New is not the time for fear.
That comes later.
MAYOR: Harvey Dent Day may not be our oldest public holiday...
...but we're here tonight because it's one of the most important.
Harvey Dent's uncompromising stand against organized crime...
...had made Gotham a safer place than it was at the time of his death, eight years ago.
This city has seen a historic turnaround.
Na city is without crime, but this city is without organized crime because the Dent Act...
...gave law enforcement teeth in its fight against the mob.
New people are talking about repealing the Dent Act...
...and to them I say, "Nat an my watch."
[AUDIENCE APPLAUDS]
I want to thank the Wayne Foundation for hosting this event.
I'm told Mr. Wayne couldn't be here tonight. I'm sure he's with us in spirit.
And now I'm gonna give way to an important voice...
CONGRESSMAN: You ever lay eyes an Wayne at one of these things?
Na one has. Nat in years.
MAYOR: --people put their faith in a murderous thug in a mask and a cape.
A thug who showed his true nature...
...when he betrayed the trust of this great man...
...and murdered him in cold bland.
Sweetheart, not so fast with the chow.
- Shrimp balls? - Thank you.
Jim Gordan can tell you the truth about Harvey Dent. I'll let him tell you himself.
Commissioner Gordan.
GORDON: The truth?
I have...
...written a speech...
...telling the truth about Harvey Dent.
Maybe the time isn't right.
Maybe right now...
...all you need to know is that there are...
...1000 inmates in Blackgate Prison as a direct result of the Dent Act.
These are violent criminals, essential cogs in the organized-crime machine.
Maybe, for now, all I should say about the death of Harvey Dent is this:
It has not been for nothing.
[AUDIENCE APPLAUDS]
MAID 1: You see the guy who owns the house? MAID 2: No. I heard...
...he never leaves the east wing. - I heard he had an accident.
- Yeah, that he's disfigured. He has to wear a-- ALFRED: Mr. Till?
Why are your people using the main staircase?
And where's Mrs. Bolton?
SELINA: Uh, she's at the bar, sir. Can I help?
The east drawing roam.
Unlock the dour, put the tray an the table, lack the dour again. Nothing mare.
ALFRED: I'm sorry, Miss Tate. I tried, but he won't see you.
And you mustn't take it personally.
Everyone knows that Wayne's holed up in there with 8-inch nails...
...peeing into Mason jars.
It's very good of you to let me an the grounds.
DAGGETT: Why are you wasting your time trying to talk to a man...
...who threw away your investment on some save-the-world vanity project?
He can't get your money back. I can.
I could try explaining that a save-the-world project, vain or not...
...is worth investing in, Mr. Daggett.
But you understand only money and the power you think it buys...
so why waste my time indeed'?
GORDON: Second shift reports in?
You should spend more time with the mayor.
Well, that's your department.
CONGRESSMAN: Anyone shown him the crime stats?
He goes by his gut and it bothers him, no matter what the numbers.
- Must be popular with his wife. - Nat really. She tank the kids to Cleveland.
He'll have plenty of time for visits. The mayor's gonna dump him in the spring.
- Really? - Mm-hm.
- But he's a hero. - A war hero. This is peacetime.
[SHRIEKS]
Oh, sorry, sorry. I'm so terribly sorry, Mr. Wayne.
It is Mr. Wayne, isn't it?
Although you don't have the long nails or, heh, the facial scars, sir.
Is that what they say about me?
It's just that no one ever sees you.
That's a beautiful necklace. Reminds me of one that belonged to my mother.
It can't be the same one...
...because her pearls are in this safe...
...the manufacturer clearly explained...
...is uncrackable.
Oops.
Nobody told me it was uncrackable.
I'm afraid I can't let you take those.
Lack, you wouldn't beat up a woman any more than I would beat up a cripple.
Of course, sometimes exceptions have to be made.
Goad night, Mr. Wayne.
Can I have a ride?
You read my mind.
Let's go.
ALFRED: Miss Tate was asking to see you again.
WAYNE: She's very persistent.
And quite lovely, in case you were wandering.
- I wasn't. - What are you doing?
Examining print dust. We've been rubbed.
And this is your idea cf, uh, sounding the alarm, is it?
She tank the pearls, tracking device and all.
- She? - One of the maids.
Perhaps you should stop letting them in this side of the house.
Perhaps you should start learning to make your own bed.
- Why were you dusting for prints? - I wasn't.
She was.
Sir. Congressman Gilly's wife has been calling in.
The congressman never made it home after the Wayne Foundation event.
That's a job for the police?
When you and Dent cleaned the streets, you cleaned them good.
Pretty scan we'll be chasing dawn, uh, overdue library backs.
[GORDON CHUCKLES]
And yet here you are, like we're still at war.
- What's your name, sun? - Blake, sir.
You have something you want to ask me?
It's about that night. This night, eight years ago. The night Dent died.
The last confirmed sighting of the Batman.
He murders those people, takes dawn two SWAT teams...
...breaks Dent's neck and then just vanishes?
I'm not hearing a question, sun.
Don't you want to know who he was?
I know exactly who he was.
He was the Batman.
[GORDON SIGHS]
Let's go see about the congressman's wife
ALFRED: Master Wayne?
You haven't been dawn here in a long time.
Trying to find out more about aurjewel thief. I ran her prints.
Unless she's last a lat of weight...
...she was wearing someone else's fingerprints.
She's good.
She may be, but we have a trace an the necklace.
We do. I cross-referenced the address she went back to...
...with police data an high-end B-and-E's, and, um...
Selina Kyle.
The databases are full of close-calls, tips from fences.
She's good, but the ground is shrinking beneath her feet.
We should send the police before she fences the pearls.
She won't. She likes them tan much.
And they weren't what she was after.
- What was she after? - My fingerprints.
It was printer tuner mixed with graphite an the safe.
It gives a good pull and it's untraceable.
Fascinating. You two should exchange notes aver coffee.
You're trying to set me up with ajewel thief?
At this point, I'd set you up with a chimpanzee, if it brought you back to the world.
There's nothing out there for me.
And that's the problem.
You hung up your cape and your cowl but you didn't move on.
You never went to find a life. Ta find someone.
Alfred...
...I did find someone.
I know, and you last them.
But that's all part of living, sir.
But you're not living, you're just waiting, hoping for things to go bad again.
Remember when you left Gotham?
Before all this, before Batman?
YOU were gone SEVEN YEHFS.
Seven years I waited, hoping that you wouldn't came back.
Every year, I tank a holiday. I went to Florence.
There's this café on the banks of the Amo.
Every fine evening I'd sit there and order a Fernet Branca.
I had this fantasy...
...that I would lack across the tables...
...and I'd see you there, with a wife.
Maybe a couple of kids.
You wouldn't say anything to me, nor me to you.
But we'd bath know that you'd made it.
That you were happy.
I never wanted you to came back to Gotham.
I always knew there was nothing here for you, except pain and tragedy.
And I wanted something more for you than that.
I still do.
DWP MAN: They wash up here a couple of times a month.
More when it gets colder.
Homeless, sheltering in the tunnels.
We pulled him from the basin, but other than that we didn't touch him.
ROSS: What? BLAKE: Name's Jimmy.
He's from St. Swithin's.
It's the bays' home where I coach some ball.
REILLY: Jimmy hadn't been around for months.
BLAKE: Na? Why? - Blake, you know why.
He aged cut. We don't have the resources to keep bays an after 15.
I thought the Wayne Foundation gave money for that.
Nat for the past couple of years.
- He has a brother here, doesn't he? - Mark. I'll tell him.
I'd like tn, if that's all right.
You know what he was doing in the tunnels?
Lat of guys been going dawn the tunnels when they age cut.
Say you can live dawn there.
Say there's work dawn there.
Work?
What kind of work are you gonna find in the sewers?
More than you can find up here, I guess.
BLAKE: Sc you know about him?
Of course.
Do you think he's coming back'?
I don't know.
STRYVER: You brought a date?
I like having someone around to open doors for me.
Right hand. Na partials.
- Very nice. - Mm-hm.
Nat so fast, handsome.
You gut something for me?
Ah, yes.
[SIGHS]
I don't know what you're planning to do with Mr. Wayne's prints...
...but I'm guessing you'll need his thumb.
You don't count so good, huh?
I count fine.
In fact, I'm counting to 10 right now.
Okay.
My friend's outside. Just hit "send."
[KNOCK ON DOOR]
This place is a little dead.
It'll liven up in a minute. Trust me.
Is everything okay?
Great. Catch you later.
[DOOR OPENS THEN CLOSES]
Hmm.
It would have been a lat easier...
to just give me what we agreed
We can't have louse ends.
And even in that dress, no one's gonna miss you
SELINA No.
But my friend aver there?
Every cap in the city's missing him.
STRYVER: That's cute.
But they're not gonna be lacking in a place like this.
I don't know. You did just use his cell phone.
[TIRES SCREECHING NEARBY]
SWAT 1: Ga! SWAT 2: Ga!
SWAT 3: Police! Get dawn now!
[SCREAMING]
SELINA: Help me! Help me!
Help me, please! Please help me!
[soBS]
[GUNFIRE OUTSIDE]
Keep some pressure an that, sweetheart.
Call me?
BLAKE: You okay, miss? - He's bleeding. You gotta help him.
I gut the congressman.
[SIRENS WAIL]
SWAT 4: Clear!
GORDON: Manhole! Get this up! Get the DWP dawn here!
You three, dawn with me.
You two, you go dawn, cover the next exit!
What, they went dawn there?
[GORDON GRUNTS]
- We're gonna go dawn there, right? FOLEY: That was a gas explosion, kid.
- Wasn't gas. It's a sewer. - Na one goes in till we know what's there.
We know, sir. The police commissioner.
Someone get this hothead out of here'?
And where's that DWP guy?
BANE: Why are you here?
[GORDON GRUNTS]
Answer him.
BANE: I was asking you.
It's the police commissioner.
BANE: And you brought him dawn here?
MERCENARY 1: We didn't know what to do. BANE: You panicked.
And your weakness has cast the lives of three others.
Na, he's alone.
[NECK SNAPS]
BANE: Search him.
Then I will kill you.
[MERCENARIES SHOUTING]
- He's dead. BANE: Sc show me his body.
The water runs to any one of the outflows. We'd never find him.
BANE: Fallow him! MERCENARY 2: Fallow him?
[GUNSHOT]
You okay? You okay?
HEY. hey. you awake?
[GORDON COUGHING]
[KNOCK ON DOOR]
I need to see Bruce Wayne.
I'm sorry, Mr. Wayne doesn't take unscheduled calls.
Even from a police officer.
And if I go get a warrant for the investigation of Harvey Dent's murder?
That still count as unscheduled?
WAYNE: What can I do for you, officer?
BLAKE: Commissioner Garden's been shat.
He chased a gunman dawn into the sewers.
When I pulled him but, he was babbling about an underground army.
A masked man called Bane.
Shouldn't you be telling your superior officers?
They asked me if he saw any giant alligators.
He needs you.
He needs the Batman.
- If Commissioner Gordon thinks- - Oh, he doesn't know or care who you are.
But we've met before.
It was a long time ago. I was a kid. Uh, St. Swithin's.
It used to be funded by the Wayne Foundation. It's an orphanage.
My mom died when I was small. It was a car accident, I don't really remember it
But my dad gut shat a couple years later aver a gambling debt...
...and I remember that one just fine.
Nat a lat of people know what it feels like, do they?
Ta be angry...
...in your bones.
I mean, they understand.
Faster parents.
Everybody understands...
for a while
And then they want the angry little kid to do something he knows he can't do.
Move an.
Sc after a while, they stop understanding.
They send the angry kid to a bays' home.
I figured it out tan late. You gotta learn to hide the anger.
Practice smiling in a mirror.
It's like putting an a mask.
So you showed up this one day, in a cool car.
Pretty girl an your arm.
We were so excited.
Bruce Wayne, billionaire orphan.
I mean, we used to make up stories about you, man. Legends.
And, you know, with the other kids, that's all it was, just stories, but...
Right when I saw you, I knew who you really were.
I'd seen that lack an your face before.
It's the same one I taught myself.
I don't know why you tank the fall for Dent's murder...
...but I'm still a believer in the Batman...
...even if you're nut.
Why did you say that your boys' home used to be funded by the Wayne Foundation?
BLAKE: Because the money stopped.
Might be time to get some fresh air. Start paying attention to the details.
Same of those details might need your help.
WAYNE: You check that name? Bane?
ALFRED: He's a mercenary. Na other known names.
Him and his men were behind a coup in West Africa...
...that secured mining operations for our friend John Daggett.
WAYNE: New Daggetfs brought them here. - Or so it seems.
- I'll keep digging. - Yeah.
Alfred, why did the Wayne Foundation stop funding bays' homes in the city?
The foundation is funded by the profits of Wayne Enterprises.
There have to be same.
- Time to talk to Mr. Fax, I think. - I'll get him an the phone.
No, no, no. Do we still have any cars around the place?
Yes. One or two.
I need an appointment at the hospital for my leg.
- Which hospital? - Whichever one Jim Garden's in.
DOCTOR: I have seen worse cartilage in knees. WAYNE: That's good.
Na. That's because there is no cartilage in your knee.
And not much of any use in your elbows or your shoulders.
Between that and the scar tissue an your kidneys...
the residual concussive damage to your brain tissue...
...and the general scarred-aver quality of your body...
...I cannot recommend that you go heli-skiing. - Right.
We were in this together...
...then you were gone.
WAYNE: The Batman wasn't needed any more.
- We wan. - Based an a lie.
And new there's evil rising from where we tried to bury it.
The Batman has to came back.
What if he doesn't exist any more?
He must.
YUPPIE: You took my goddamn wallet, didn't you'?
- You f-- You took my wallet! - No, I--
- Get cut. YUPPIE: She tank my-- Ah!
- Now. YUPPIE: Creep!
I don't know what he's so upset about. There's only 50 bucks in here.
Probably the watch.
[CHUCKLES]
[CHATTERING]
MAN 1: Who's that?
MAN 2: A stiff can barely climb out of his spurts car.
- Na, that's Bruce Wayne! - Mr. Wayne, aver here!
[ALL SHOUTING]
[BUTTON BEEPS E DEVICES POWER OFF]
WAYNE: I'm not sure if my assistant-- - Right through here.
Thank you so much.
[CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYING]
MIRANDA: Bruce Wayne at a charity ball.
Miss Tate, isn't it?
Even before you became a recluse, you never came to these things.
The proceeds go to the big fat spread. It's not about charity.
It's about feeding the ego of whichever society hag laid this an.
Actually, this is my party, Mr. Wayne.
Oh.
And the proceeds will go where they should, because I paid for the big fat spread myself.
That's very generous of you.
You have to invest if you want to restore balance to the world.
Take our clean-energy project.
Sometimes the investment doesn't pay off.
- I'm sorry. - You have a practiced apathy, Mr. Wayne.
But a man who doesn't care about the world doesn't spend half his fortune to save it.
And isn't so wounded when it fails...
...that he goes into hiding.
Have a good evening, Mr. Wayne.
WAYNE: Mind if I cut in?
Thank you.
[WAYNE CHUCKLES]
- You don't seem happy to see me. - You were supposed to be a shut-in.
I felt like some fresh air.
Why didn't you call the police?
I have a powerful friend who deals with things like this.
That's a brazen costume for a cat burglar.
Yeah? Who are you pretending to be?
Bruce Wayne, eccentric billionaire.
- Who's your date? SELINA: His wife's in Ibiza.
She left her diamonds behind, though. Worried they might get stolen.
It's pronounced "Ibiza."
You wouldn't want these folks realizing you're a crack, not a social climber.
You think I care what anyone in this roam thinks of me?
I doubt you care what anyone in any room thinks of you.
Don't condescend, Mr. Wayne. You don't know a thing about me
Well, Selina Kyle, I know you came here from your walk-up in Old Town.
A modest place for a master jewel thief
Which means that either you're saving for retirement...
or you're in deep with the wrong people
You don't get to judge me because you were born in the master bedroom of Wayne Manor.
- Actually, I was born in the Regency Room - I started out doing what I had to.
Once you've done what you had to, they never let you do what you want to.
Start fresh.
Ugh. There's no fresh start in today's world.
Any 12-year-old with a cell phone could find out what you did.
Everything we dais collated and quantified. Everything sticks.
Is that haw you justify stealing?
I take what I need from those who have more than enough.
I don't stand an the shoulders of people with less.
Rabin Hand?
I think I'd do more to help someone than most of the people in this room. Than you.
You think maybe you're assuming a little tan much?
Maybe you're being unrealistic about what's really in your pants other than your wallet.
Ouch.
You think all this can last? There's a storm coming, Mr. Wayne.
You and your friends better batten dawn the hatches, because when it hits...
...you're all gonna wonder how you ever thought you could live so large...
...and leave so little for the rest of us.
You sound like you're looking forward to it.
I'm adaptable.
Those pearls do lack better an you than they did in my safe.
But I still can't let you keep them.
MAN: You-- You scared her off!
Nat likely.
Must have last my ticket.
- Your wife said you were taking a cab home. - My wife?
Just you, sir?
Don't worry, Master Wayne.
Takes a little time to get back in the swing of things.
Bruce Wayne, as I live and breathe.
What brings you out of cryo-sleep Mr. Wayne?
You haven't lost your sense of humor.
Even if you have last mast of my money.
Actually, you did that.
If you funnel your entire R and D budget...
...into a fusion project that you then mothball.
Your company is unlikely to thrive
What are my options?
Well, if you're unwilling to turn an the machine...
I can't. I can't, Lucius.
Well, then sit tight.
Your majority keeps Daggett at bay...
...while we figure out a future for the energy program with Miranda Tate.
She has supported the project all the way.
She's smart. And quite lovely.
We all just want what's best for you, Bruce.
Show her the machine.
I'll think it aver.
Anything else?
Nope. WW7
These conversations used to end with an unusual request.
I retired.
Mm-hm. Well, let me show you some stuff anyway.
Just for old times' sake.
WAYNE: I figured you'd have shut this place down.
FOX: Oh, it was always shut dawn, officially.
WAYNE: All this new stuff.
FOX: After your father died, Wayne Enterprises set up 14 different defense subsidiaries.
For years, I've been shuttering and consolidating...
...all the different prototypes under one roof.
- My roof. - Why?
Keep them from falling into the wrung hands.
Oh, new you're just showing off.
Defense Department projects for tight geometry urban pacification
Raters are configured to maneuver between buildings without recirculation.
What's it called?
Oh, it has a lung, uninteresting Wayne Enterprises designation.
I just tank to calling it the Bat.
And, yes, Mr. Wayne, it does came in black.
Works fine, except for the autopilot.
Takes a better mind than mine to fix it.
Better mind?
Well, I was trying to be modest.
A less busy mind.
Yours.
[CRACKING] [WAYNE GROANING]
ALFRED: Is it really painful? - You're very welcome to try it, Alfred.
Happy watching. Thank you, sir.
Nat bad.
Nat bad at all.
If you're seriously considering going back out there...
you should hear the rumors surrounding Bane.
WAYNE: I'm all ears.
There is a prison in a more ancient part of the world.
A pit where men are thrown to suffer and die.
But sometimes a man rises from the darkness.
Sometimes the pit sends something back.
WAYNE: Bane. - Bane.
Barn and raised in hell an earth.
- Born in a prison? - No one knows why, or how he escaped.
But they do know that once he did...
...he was trained by Ra's Al Ghul, your mentor.
Bane was a member of the League of Shadows?
And then he was excommunicated.
And any man who is tan extreme for Ra's Al Ghul is not to be trifled with.
I didn't realize I was known for trifling with criminals.
That was then.
And you can strap up your leg and put your mask back on...
...but that doesn't make you what you were.
If this man is everything that you say he is, then the city needs me.
The city needs Bruce Wayne.
Your resources. Your knowledge.
It doesn't need your body, or your life.
That time's past.
You're afraid that if I go back out there, I'll fail.
Na.
I'm afraid that you want to
[BELL RINGS]
[CLAMORING]
TRADER: You can't short the stack because Bruce Wayne goes to a party.
Wayne coming back is change. Change is either good or bad. I vote bad.
On what basis?
I flipped a coin.
It says rye-- I said no rye, man.
Hey, rookie, lose the helmet. We need faces for camera.
[DEVICE BEEPING]
[TRADER CHUCKLES]
Came an. Let's go scalping.
Came an.
[PEOPLE SCREAMING]
MERCENARY 1: Everybody dawn, now!
This is a stack exchange. There's no money you can steal.
BANE: Really? Then why are you people here?
SECURITY CHIEF: Everybody, stay back! Ga dawn to the end of the black!
We have an emergency situation!
You gotta get in there!
This is a hostage situation.
No, this is a robbery. They have direct access to the online trading desk
I'm not risking my men for your money.
We have to ask you to move. We have a situation.
It's not our money, it's everybody's
Really? Mine's in my mattress.
You don't put these guys dawn, that stuffing in your mattress might be worth a whale lat less.
Cut the fiber cable and take out that cell tower.
SECURITY CHIEF: Thank you. FOLEY: That'll slaw them dawn.
COP: Move back!
All the way! Ga! Sir, get back, please!
They cut the fiber.
Cell's working.
BANE: For now.
Get all these barriers up. All of them up. Na one gets in or out of any of these streets.
Where am I supposed to move it?
Back it up.
All right, just stay in your vehicle, okay?
BANE: Haw much longer does the program need?
Eight minutes.
BANE: Time to go mobile.
MERCENARY 1: Everybody, up!
[GUNFIRE]
You two, move!
BANE: Thank you.
FOLEY: Steady.
SNIPER: I've gut something.
SECURITY CHIEF: Hold your fire, they've gut hostages.
Hold your fire!
[SHRIEKS]
[HOSTAGE 1 YELLING]
Ga, go!
HOSTAGE 1: Please! Just let me go!
HEY. please! Hey!
Shunt the tires.
There's no shat.
New back off. Back off, they've gut hostages.
MAN [ON TV]: -P.D. are pursuing the four suspects through downtown...
...in response to a hostage situation.
What's going an with the lights?
[ELECTRICAL SYSTEMS POWER DOWN]
VETERAN COP: It can't be.
What the hell was that?
Oh, bay, you are in for a show tonight, sun.
HOSTAGE 2: Please! Help, help, help!
[POWERS UP]
[GUNSHOT]
surf!!-
Put that thing away before you hurt yourself. Get in!
Let's go. You, get in the car. They've spotted the Batman.
Call everyone in. Every car patrol, beat cap, off-duty tan.
Pull them in now. I'm gonna do what Jim Gordan never could.
- What's that? - I'm gonna take dawn the Batman.
MAN 1 [OVER TV]: -are confirming four suspects are carrying two hostages...
...kidnapped from the Gotham Stock Exchange.
- Reports from the eyewitnesses- MAN 2: Scott, dead center of your screen.
MAN 1: What do you see? MAN 2: I see Batman.
MAN 1: Hard to believe, but the suspects are now being pursued...
...by what appears to be the Batman.
Well, what do you know?
Sir, what about the armed rubbers?
HOSTAGE 1: Please! Just let me go! Please!
SPOTTER [OVER RADIO]: One bike's pulled ofi. No hostage. Should we pursue?
Negative. Stay an the Batman.
- He's getting away. - Who do you wanna catch?
Same robber, or the sun of a bitch who killed Harvey Dent?
MAN 1 [OVER TV]: -the entire upper west h:'H..
...Central Heights and East Park Side areas.
DAGGETT: Eight years, and he has to pick tonight.
He's drawing the caps off Bane.
HOSTAGE 1: Please! Just let me go!
Please!
[MAN 1 SCREAMS]
[GROANS]
[SIRENS WAILING NEARBY]
COP [OVER RADIO]: We lost him.
Haw could you lose him?
COP: He's got a lot of firepower.
What, and you don't?
COP: He's heading back downtown.
Then he's as dumb as he dresses.
Close it off, gentlemen.
[BARKING]
Like a rat in a trap, gentlemen.
You might have the wrung animal there, sir.
You sure it was him?
STRYVER: Bane says the Batman interfered, but the task was accomplished.
What about the men they arrested?
He said, and I quote, "They would die before talking."
Where does he find these guys?
Open the champagne.
And can we get some girls in here?
CATWOMAN: Careful what you wish far.
Cat gut your tongue?
You dumb bitch.
Nobody ever accused me of being dumb.
You're dumb for coming here tonight.
[DAGG ETT G ROANS]
I want what you awe me.
[sun CLICKS]
Want doesn't get.
Nice outfit. Those heels make it tough to walk?
- I don't know. - Aah!
Do they'?
- Sn where is it? - Where's what?
The program. The "clean slate."
The ultimate tool for a master thief with a record.
BODYGUARD: Hold it right there!
[DAGGETT YELLS]
Where is it?
The clean slate?
Where you type in someone's name, date of birth...
...in a few minutes they're gone from every database an earth?
- Sound a little tan good to be true? - You're lying!
Rykin Data tank it to prototype stage.
That's why I bought them.
But they had nothing.
It was a gangland myth.
CATWOMAN: Stay back!
I'm not bluffing!
BATMAN: They know.
They just don't care.
You've gotta be kidding me.
- Na guns. Na killing. - Where's the fun in that?
My mother warned me about getting into cars with strange men.
This isn't a car.
See you around.
You're welcome.
I had it under central.
Those weren't street thugs.
They were trained killers.
I saved your life.
In return, I need to know what you did with Bruce Wayne's fingerprints.
Wayne wasn't kidding about a powerful friend.
I sold his prints to Daggett...
...far something that doesn't even exist.
- I doubt many people get the better of you. - Hey, when a girl's desperate...
- What's he gonna do with them? - I don't know...
...but Daggett seemed pretty interested in that mess at the stack market.
[HELICOPTER WHIRRING ABOVE]
Miss Kyle?
Sc that's what that feels like.
I see from the television coverage that you got your taste for wanton destruction back.
I retrieved this.
Aren't the police supposed to be investigating, then?
- They don't have the tools to analyze it. - They would if you gave them to them.
One man's tool is another man's weapon.
In your mind, perhaps. But there aren't many things you can't turn into a weapon.
Alfred, enough. The police weren't getting it dune.
Perhaps they might have if you hadn't made a sideshow of yourself.
- You thought I didn't have it in me. - You led a bloated police farce an a chase...
...with a load of fancy new toys from Fax.
What about when you came up against him? What then?
- I'll fight harder. I always have. - Lack. His speed, his ferocity, his training.
I see the power of belief.
I see the League of Shadows resurgent.
You said he was excommunicated.
By Ra's Al Ghul.
Who leads them now?
Ra's Al Ghul was the League of Shadows and I beat him.
Bane is a mercenary. We need to find out what he's up to
Trades of some kind. Coded.
And my fingerprint, courtesy of Selina Kyle.
Get this to Fax.
He can crack the code and tell us what trades they were executing.
I'll get this to Mr. Fax, but no mare.
I've sewn you up, I've set your bones, but I won't bury you.
I've buried enough members of the Wayne family.
- You'll leave me? - You see only one end to yaurjaurney.
Leaving is all I have to make you understand.
You're not Batman any more. You have to find another way.
You used to talk about finishing, about a life beyond that awful cave.
Alfred, Rachel died knowing that we had decided to be together.
That was my life beyond the cave. I can't just move an.
She-- She didn't. She couldn't.
What if she had?
She-- I can't change that.
What if before she died she wrote a letter...
...saying she chase Harvey Dent aver you?
And what if...
to spare you pain
...I burnt that letter?
Haw dare you use Rachel to try to stop me?
I am using the truth, Master Wayne.
Maybe it's time we all stopped trying to outsmart the truth and let it have its day.
- I'm sorry. - You're sorry?
You expect to destroy my world...
...and then think that we're gonna shake hands?
Na, nu, nu.
I know what this means.
What does it mean?
It means your hatred.
And it also means lasing someone that I have cared far...
...since I first heard his cries echo...
through this house
But it might also mean saving your life.
And that is more important.
Goad bye, Alfred.
[DOORBELL RINGING]
Alfred?
- Answering your awn dour? - Yeah.
Page three.
Seems you made a series of large put options on the futures exchange...
...verified by thumbprint.
Those options expired at midnight last night.
Lang-term, we may be able to prove fraud. But for now, you're completely brake...
...and Wayne Enterprises is about to fall into the hands of John Daggett.
The weapons. We can't let Daggett get his hands an Applied Sciences.
Applied Sciences is all lacked up and off the backs.
The energy project, however, is a different story.
Miranda Tate.
Let's convince the board to get behind her. Let's show her the reactor.
We're meeting her there in 35 minutes, so you better get dressed.
MIRANDA: You brought me out here to show me this, Mr. Fax?
FOX: Bear with me, Miss Tate.
Please keep hands and feet inside the car at all times.
This is it, isn't it?
The reactor is beneath the river...
...so it can be instantly flooded in the event of a security breach
ls Bruce Wayne really that paranoid?
FOX: I'm gonna plead the fifth an that one.
WAYNE: I thought you might like to see what your investment built.
MIRANDA: Na fossil fuels.
Free clean energy for an entire city.
MIRANDA: Three years ago, a Russian scientist published a paper...
...on weaponized fusion reactions.
One week later, your reactor started developing problems.
I think this machine works.
Miranda, if it were operational, the danger to Gotham would be too great.
Would it make you feel better to know that the Russian scientist...
...died in a plane crash six months ago?
Someone will work out what Dr. Pavel did.
Someone will figure out a way to make this power source into a nuclear weapon.
I need you to take central of Wayne Enterprises...
...and this reactor.
Ta do what with it?
Nothing.
Until we can guarantee its safety.
And if we can't?
Decommission it. Flood it
Destroy the world's best chance for a sustainable future?
If the world's not ready, yes.
Bruce, if you want to save the world, you have to start trusting it.
I'm trusting you.
Doesn't count. You have no choice.
I could have flooded this chamber at any time.
I'm choosing to trust you.
Please.
[BOARD MEMBERS CHATTERING]
All right, ladies and gentlemen. This meeting will new came to order.
DAGGETT: I'd like to point out that we have a non-board member here...
...which is highly irregular, even if his family name is above the dour.
Bruce Wayne's family built this company.
And he himself has run it.
Into the ground, sir! Does anybody disagree? Check the share price this morning.
Crazy gambling an futures has not only cast Mr. Wayne his seat...
...it's cast us all a lat of money.
And he has to go.
I'm afraid he has a paint, Mr. Wayne.
Now, back to business.
MAN 1: Mr. Wayne, aver here! MAN 2: How's it feel to be one of the people?
Mr. Wayne, they're towing your car! I didn't know what to do, they had paperwork.
Lacks like you need a ride, huh?
MAN 3: Wayne, we'll give you a ride!
Haw the hell did Miranda Tate get the inside track an the Wayne board?
She been meeting with him? Sleeping with him?
- Nat that we know cf. - You don't know much of anything, do you?
- Where's Bane? - We told him it was urgent.
- Where is that masked--? BANE: Speak of the devil...
...and he shall appear.
What the hell is going an?
BANE: The plan is proceeding as expected. DAGGETT: Oh, really?
Do I look like I'm running Wayne Enterprises right now'?
Your hit an the stack exchange, it didn't work, my friend.
And now you have my construction crews going around the city at 24 hours a day.
Haw exactly is that supposed to help my company absorb Wayne's?
BANE: Leave us. - Na. You stay here.
I'm in charge.
BANE: Do you feel in charge'?
I've paid you a small fortune.
BANE: And this gives you power aver me?
What is this?
Your money and infrastructure have been important...
...till now.
What are you?
BANE: I'm Gotham's reckoning
Here to end the borrowed time you've all been living an.
You're pure evil.
BANE: I'm necessary evil.
DAGGETT: Na. Na, nu, nu!
[DAGGETT SCREAMS]
BLAKE: When you started, why the mask?
- To protect the people closest to me. - But you were a loner, right?
- You didn't have any family? - There are always people you care about.
You just don't realize haw much until they're gone.
The idea was to be a symbol.
Batman could be anybody.
That was the paint.
- Well, it was damn good to see him back. - Nat everybody agrees.
- They'll figure that out in the end. - You gut anything an Bane's whereabouts?
Yeah. I gut 500 pages of tunnel records and a flashlight.
I could use some help, actually.
You know what? Drop me in Old Town.
WAYNE: Hey, hey, hey. I don't think so!
JEN: That's the way this works! WAYNE: I don't think so!
- That is the way-- SELINA: He's not a mark.
And he doesn't have a cent to his name, anyway.
Yeah, it's not much. But it's more than you've gut right now.
Actually, they're letting me keep the house.
The rich don't even go brake the same as the rest of us, huh?
My powerful friend might hope to change your mind about leaving.
- And how would he do that? - By giving you what you want.
- It doesn't exist. - He says it dues.
He wants to meet tonight.
Why?
He needs to find Bane. Says you'd know haw.
- Tell him I'll think about it. - Okay.
I like your place.
Mr. Wayne?
I'm sorry they took all your money.
Na, you're nut.
FOLEY: Can we help you, officer? - Uh, yeah.
John Daggetfs body was just found in a Dumpster about an hour ago.
- Thought you might want to know. - Why?
His name's all over these permits I just pulled to, uh, map the tunnels under Gotham
That's MTA maintenance, uh, sewer construction, couple of other things.
Where did you get to with the tunnel searches?
Remind me to tell detail to keep hotheads out.
We've had teams dawn there. It's a huge network.
Well, get more men. Work a grid. I want him found.
Yeah, the, uh, masked man. We're an it.
Lose the uniform, you're working for me now.
We could use some hatter heads around here.
- Sir, that could also be a coincidence. - You're a detective now, sun.
You're not allowed to believe in coincidence any more.
[THUNDER RUMBLES]
MIRANDA: Nobody's answering
Na.
I'm an my awn now.
Do you have keys'?
Never needed them.
Hope you didn't like me for my money.
MIRANDA: Suffering builds character.
I'll take care of your parents' legacy, Bruce.
Who's this?
Where's Alfred?
He left...
...taking everything.
What's that?
My power's been shut off
[MIRANDA CHUCKLES]
WAYNE: You're good at that.
When I was a child, we had almost nothing.
But an the nights when we had a fire, we felt very rich indeed.
I assumed your family was wealthy.
Nat always.
Nat when I was young.
An old mistake.
I've made a few myself.
More than a few.
We could leave.
Tonight.
Take my plane, go anywhere we wanted.
Someday, perhaps.
Nat tonight.
Don't be shy.
Wayne says you can get me the clean slate.
- That depends. - On what?
On what you want it far.
I acquired it to keep it out of the wrung hands.
Still don't trust me, huh?
Haw can we change that?
Start by taking me to Bane.
You asked.
From here, Bane's men patrol the tunnels.
And they're not your average brawlers.
BATMAN: Neither am I.
- He's behind you. - Who?
BATMAN: Me.
MERCENARY 1: What do you think you're--?
CATWOMAN: Just a little further.
I had to find a way to stop them trying to kill me.
You made a serious mistake.
BANE: Nat as serious as yours, I fear.
Bane.
BANE: Let's not stand an ceremony here...
...Mr. Wayne.
Peace has cast you your strength.
Victory has defeated you.
[BATMAN GRUNTING]
[BATMAN YELLS]
BANE: Theatricality and deception, powerful agents to the uninitiated.
But we are initiated, aren't we, Bruce?
Members of the League of Shadows.
And you betrayed us.
BATMAN: "Us"? You were excommunicated...
---W 3 Qﬂrlg of psychopaths.
BANE: I am the League of Shadows.
And I'm here to fulfill Ra's Al Ghul's destiny.
You fight like a younger man.
Nothing held back.
Admirable, but mistaken.
Oh, you think darkness is your ally?
But you merely adapted the dark.
I was barn in it.
Molded by it.
I didn't see the light until I was already a man.
By then, it was nothing to me but blinding!
The shadows betray you because they belong to me!
I will show you where I have made my home...
...whilst preparing to bring justice.
Then I will break you.
Your precious armory.
Gratefully accepted. We will need it.
Ah, yes. I was wandering what would break first.
[BATMAN YELLS]
Your spirit...
or your body
Get me Commissioner Gordon. I got a line on the congressman's kidnapping.
- Excuse me, miss. - Uh, yes?
I'm gonna need to see your ticket and identification, please.
Oh. Do you mind?
I showed your picture to the congressman. Guess what.
Don't tell me. Still in lave?
Oh, head aver heels. Pressing charges, though.
You've made some mistakes, Ms. Kyle.
- Girl's gotta eat. - And you have an appetite.
Why would you run? You can't hide with a record like this.
Maybe it's not you I'm running from.
Who then? Bane?
What do you know about him?
That you should be as afraid of him as I am.
We can offer you protection.
Okay.
When I spotted you, I was lacking for a friend of mine. Bruce Wayne.
Did they kill him?
I'm not sure.
[GASPS]
Why didn't you just...
...kill me?
BANE: You don't fear death, you welcome it.
Your punishment must be more severe.
Torture?
Yes.
But not of your body.
Of your soul.
Where am I?
BANE: Home.
Where I learned the truth about despair.
As will you.
There is a reason why this prison is the worst hell on earth:
Hope.
Every man who has rotted here aver the centuries...
...has lacked up to the light and imagined climbing to freedom.
Sc easy.
Sc simple.
And like shipwrecked men turning to seawater from uncontrollable thirst...
...many have died trying.
I learned here there can be no true despair without hope.
Sc as I terrorize Gotham...
...I will feed its people hope to poison their souls.
I will let them believe that they can survive...
so that you can watch them clambering over each other to stay in the sun.
You can watch me torture an entire city.
And then when you have truly understand the depth of your failure...
...we will fulfill Ra's Al Ghul's destiny.
We will destroy Gotham.
And then, when it is dune...
...and Gotham is...
...ashes...
...then you have my permission to die.
[YELLs]
[GROANS]
[MEN CHEERING AND WHOOPING]
GUARD: You're lacking her up in here?
The Dent Act allows non-segregation based on extraordinary need.
First time she brake out of women's correctional, she was 15.
INMATE: Little closer, baby
Why, honey? You wanna hold my hand?
[INMATE YELLS]
She's gonna be fine.
FOX: I still don't see the need of a board meeting for the energy project.
MIRANDA: Bruce gut a lat of things right.
Keeping the board in the dark was not one of them.
BANE: Haw good of you to join us.
Chair. President.
All I need new is one more ordinary board member.
Mr. Fox, would you like to nominate?
FREDERICKS No.
I will volunteer.
FOX: Where are you taking us?
[DRILLING]
You were right, commissioner. Will you excuse us, please?
What happened?
Your masked man kidnapped the Wayne Enterprises board.
He let mast of them go, but he tank three into the sewers.
Na more patrols. Na more hide and seek.
Get every available cap dawn there and smoke him cut!
The mayor won't want panic.
Sc it's a training exercise.
I'm sorry I didn't take you seriously.
GORDON: Nat you.
You're telling me the Batman's gone...
so you chase up the Daggett leads any way you can.
Yes, sir.
[MAN SPEAKS IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]
He asks how much you would pay us to let you die.
I told him. I told him you have nothing
Do it for the pleasure
They pay me more than that to keep you alive.
[PRISONERS CHANTING]
He will try the climb.
[GROANS]
WAYNE: Has anyone ever made it?
Of course nut.
[YELLs]
[SPEAKS IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]
He says there is one who did.
Achild.
A child born in this hell
Bane.
An old legend. Nothing mare.
WAYNE: Don't.
Whatever it is they want you to see, it's happening scan.
MERCENARY: Fire in the hale!
[EXPLOSION NEARBY]
BANE: Turn it an.
I only need one other board member. There are eight others waiting.
I won't do it.
MIRANDA: All right, stop.
Lucius, you'll kill this man, and yourself...
...and you'll barely slaw them dawn.
[MACHINE BEEPS]
[MACHINE POWERS UP]
BANE: Go on, then. Do your work
Take them up to the surface.
People of their status...
...deserve to experience the next era of western civilization.
BLAKE: I've been to half of Daggett's cement plants and locations they poured underground.
GORDON [OVER PHONE]: Anything strange about the pourings?
Honestly, commissioner, I don't know anything about civil engineering.
But you know about patterns. Keep lacking.
PAVE L: It's done.
This is now a 4-megaton nuclear bomb
BANE: Pull the care out of the reactor.
PAVEL: Na, you cannot.
This is the only power source capable of sustaining it.
If you move it, the care will decay in a matter of months.
BANE: Five, by my calculations.
And then it will go off!
BANE: And for the sake of your children, Dr. Pavel...
...indeed I hope it dues.
Hey. Hey!
That was you in front of the stack exchange, wasn't it?
- When? - When?
When caps were trying to pull onto Castle Street and your truck was shutting them cut.
- Oh, yeah. You're the cap. - Detective now.
And, uh, as a detective, we're not allowed to believe in coincidence.
What were you doing here? What are you working on?
Commissioner, it's Blake.
I gut two dead witnesses and a lat of questions. Call me whenev--
Wait a minute. I'm looking at four barrels of polyisobutylene
That lacks like motor ail right next to it.
Jesus, they're not making cement. They're making explosives.
- Patch me into Foley. DISPATCH: Foley's overseeing the operation.
They're heading into a trap!
REPORTER: We're seeing thousands of police heading into the sewers.
- Mr. Mayor? Literally thousands. - It's a training exercise, that's all.
New if you'll excuse me, I've gut tickets to watch our bays thrash Rapid City.
- Foley. BLAKE: It's a trap! Pull everyone out!
Bane has been pouring concrete...
...laced with explosives! - Where?
[SINGING] Oh, say, can you see By the dawn's early light
What so proudly we hailed At the lWilight's...
BLAKE: There's a ring around the tunnels! They'll blow it and trap the cops underground!
Pull them cut. Pull them out now!
SINGER: Through the perilous fight
O'er the ramparts we watched
Were so gallantly streaming
And the rockets' red glare
The bombs bursting in air
Gave proof through-
BANE: That's a lovely, lovely voice.
- That our flag was still there
Oh, say does that star-spangled banner Yet wave
O'er the land of the free
And the home of the brave
[CHEERING]
[WHISTLE BLOWS]
BANE: Let the games begin.
[RUMBLING]
[OFFICERS YELLING]
[CROWD SCREAMING]
COP 1: Everybody okay?
COP 2: Let's move! Move, move! COP 3: Go, go!
BANE: Gotham...
...take central.
Take central of your city.
- Foley. - Jesus, Blake.
Every cap in the city's in those tunnels.
Nat every cap.
[MEDICAL DEVICE BEEPING]
Sir, are you okay? I'm a police officer. I need your car right now.
[HORN HONKING]
[GUNSHOTS NEARBY]
Clear the corners, rookie.
Get my coat, sun.
BANE This...
This is the instrument of your liberation.
ANALYST: Satellite shows a radiation spike.
Whatever it is, it's nuclear.
BANE: Identify yourself to the world.
Dr. Leonid Pavel, nuclear physicist.
Pavel was confirmed dead.
Plane crash an an agency pull out of Uzbekistan, but...
It lacks like it's him.
BANE: And what...? What is this?
It's a fully primed neutron bomb...
...with a blast radius of six miles.
BANE: And who is capable of disarming such a device?
Only me.
BANE: Only you.
Thank you, good doctor!
[CROWD SCREAMS]
Now, this bomb is armed!
And this bomb is mobile!
And the identity of the triggerman is a mystery.
For one of you holds the detonator!
Now, we came here not as conquerors...
but as liberators, to return control of this city to the people.
And at the first sign of interference from the outside world...
or from those people attempting to flee...
...this anonymous Gathamite...
...this unsung hero, will trigger the bomb.
For now, martial law is in effect.
Return to your homes, hold your families close...
...and wait.
Tomorrow, you claim what is rightfully yours.
GENERAL: Pull back the fighters.
Start high-level reconnaissance flights.
Get the president an the line.
MERCENARY 1: Tanks and planes cannot stop us from detonating our device
Send an emissary to discuss terms cf access for supplies and communication.
CAPTAIN: Haw many of you are there, sun?
You don't have enough men to stop 12 million people from leaving this island.
Na. Na, we don't.
But you do.
[CHUCKLES]
Now, why the hell would I try to help you keep your hostages?
If one person crosses this bridge...
Gotham gets blown to hell
The people of our greatest city are resilient.
They have proven this before, and they will prove it again.
We do not negotiate with terrorists...
...but we do recognize realities.
As this situation develops...
...one thing must be understood above all others.
People of Gotham, we have not abandoned you.
What does that mean?
It means we're an our awn.
I have to get in front of a camera.
They will kill you the second you show your face.
Bane says he's giving Gotham back to the people. They need to know I could lead.
Bane's not gonna let that happen.
Then he'll show his true colors.
And you'll be dead.
BANE: Behind you stands a symbol of oppression.
Blackgate Prison...
where a thousand men have languished
...under the name of this man:
Harvey Dent.
Who has been held up to you...
...as the shining example of justice!
We're just gonna keep moving you till we can get you in front of the camera.
BANE: You have been supplied with a false idol to stop you...
...tearing dawn this corrupt city!
Yes! Yes! Yes!
BANE: Let me tell you the truth about Harvey Dent.
From the words of Gotham's police commissioner...
...James Gordon:
"The Batman didn't murder Harvey Dent.
He saved my boy...
...then took the blame for Harvey's appalling crimes...
so that I could, to my shame
...build a lie around this...
...fallen idol.
I praised the madman who tried to murder my own child
Well, I can no longer live with my lie.
It is time to trust the people of Gotham with the truth...
...and it is time for me to resign."
And do you accept this man's resignation?
[INMATES YELLING]
And do you accept the resignation of all of these liars?
Of all the corrupt?
BLAKE: Those men locked up for eight years in Blackgate...
...and denied parole under the Dent Act, it was based an a lie.
Gotham needed a hero.
Well, it needs it new more than ever, but you betrayed everything you stand far.
There's a paint far out there when the structures fail you...
...when the rules aren't weapons any more...
...they're shackles, letting the bad guy get ahead.
One day, you may face...
...such a moment of crisis.
And in that moment, I hope you have a friend like I did
to plunge their hands into the filth so that you can keep yours clean!
Your hands lack plenty filthy to me, commissioner.
BANE: We take Gotham from the corrupt!
The rich!
The oppressors of generations
...who have kept you down with myths of opportunity.
And we give it back to you...
...the people.
Gotham is yours!
None shall interfere. Do as you please
But start by storming Blackgate and freeing the oppressed!
MAN: Open it!
BANE: Step forward, those who would serve...
...far an army will be raised.
The powerful will be ripped from their decadent nests...
...and cast out into the cold world that we know and endure!
Courts will be convened.
Spoils will be enjoyed.
Bland will be shed!
The police will survive...
they learn to serve true justice
This great city...
...it will endure.
Gotham will survive!
[GROANING]
[GRUNTING]
[BLIND PRISONER SPEAKS IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]
He says you must first fix your back.
WAYNE: Haw does he know?
PRISONER: He was the prison doctor.
He's a morphine addict who incurred the displeasure...
...of powerful people, including your masked friend
H aw?
Many years ago, it was a time of plague.
Same of the other prisoners attacked Bane.
The doctor's fumbling attempts to repair the damage...
...left him in perpetual agony.
The mask holds the pain at bay.
Bane was the child you spake cf?
He was barn here?
The legend is that there was a mercenary who worked for a local warlord.
He fell in love with the warlonfs daughter.
They were married in secret.
When the warlord found cut...
...the mercenary was condemned to this pit.
But then he exiled him instead.
The mercenary understood that it was the daughter who had secured his release.
But what he could not know was the true price of his freedom.
She tank his place in the pit.
And she was with child...
...the mercenary's child.
Innocence cannot flower underground. It has to be stamped out.
One day, the doctor forgot to lack the cell.
But the child had a friend...
...a protector who showed the others that this innocence was their redemption.
It was to be prized.
The mother was not so lucky.
[SPEAKS IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]
This is Bane's prison now. He wouldn't want this story told.
[YELLING]
There's a vertebra protruding from your back.
It has to be put back.
[YELLs]
Stay like this until you stand.
RA'S AL GHUL: Tsk, tsk, tsk. Did you not think I would return, Bruce? Hmm?
[RA'S AL GHUL CHUCKLES]
I told you I was immortal.
I watched-- I watched you die.
Oh, there are many farms of immortality.
Once, I had a wife
...my great lave.
- She was taken from me. - You were the mercenary.
Bane is your child.
Your heir.
An heir to ensure the League of Shadows fulfills its duty...
to restore balance to civilization
Na.
You yourself fought the decadence of Gotham for years...
...with all your strength...
...all your resources, all your moral authority.
And the only victory you could achieve was a lie.
New you understand. Gotham is beyond saving.
Na.
- And must be allowed to die. - Na!
PRISONER: Yeah, just lift your head.
Oh, that's good.
Na, nu!
JEN: What's that? SELINA: This was someone's home
JEN: And now it's everyone's home
There's a storm coming, remember? This is what you wanted.
[CHATTERING]
It's for the bus, in case there's a chance to evacuate.
Any news? ls the commissioner--?
The less you know, Father. Haw are the bays doing?
REILLY: Well, we've had more power an, so they've gut some TV.
It's good to see you.
Blake, you be careful out there. They're hunting dawn caps like dogs.
Why build yourself?
WAYNE: I'm not meant to die in here. - Here, there. What's the difference?
[PRISONERS CHANTING]
[YELLs]
I told you it could not be dune.
You told me a child did it.
[CHUCKLES]
But no ordinary child.
A child born in hell
Forged from suffering
Hardened by pain.
Nata man from privilege.
ANALYST: We gut boats an the ground, sir.
Just waiting an intel.
You have ID?
Of course nut.
- Well, haw can we trust you? GORDON: We don't have any choice.
Commissioner Gordon. Captain Jones, Special Forces.
Captain. Glad to have you here.
It's aurjab, sir. Now, uh, haw many of you are there?
Well, there's dozens. I'd rather not say exactly.
But the men trapped underground number almost 3000.
JONES: Condition? GORDON: Getting food and water.
JONES: Can we break them cut? BLAKE: Yes, sir.
Take out the mercenaries south of Ackerman Park.
Blow the rubble, make a hole big enough for 10 at a time.
I'm in contact with my partner who's dawn there. They're just waiting.
- Men who haven't seen daylight in months? - Officers who haven't seen daylight in months.
What about the bomb? Satellite can't pick up radiation hat spots.
GORDON: They keep it on a truck. It must have a lead-lined roof.
- They move it constantly. JONES: Good. So you know the truck?
GORDON: Well, it's one of three. We've been tracking it.
Decay.
- You don't really think he's coming back? - Doesn't matter what I think.
Actually, it does. You should put your faith in something a little more real.
GORDON: The routes don't vary much. JONES: Okay. What about the triggerman?
Na leads. It's a bluff. Bane wouldn't give central of that bomb to someone else.
We can't take that chance. Until we have the triggerman, we just track the device.
And meanwhile, Gotham lives under a warlord, like some failed state?
Dial it back, officer. This situation is unprecedented.
- We can't do anything to risk millions of lives. - You gonna tell him what's really going an?
Captain, the situation is more complicated than you think.
There's someone you need to meet.
Came upstairs looking for a vantage point. Found the people who run the corporation.
What corporation?
Wayne Enterprises. You good?
Mr. Fax, would you like to brief the captain?
Miss Tate's fully aware of the situation.
And as CEO of Wayne Enterprises, I have to take responsibility for it.
- Why? - We built it.
You built the bomb?
It was built as a fusion reactor. First of its kind.
Bane turned the care into a bomb and removed it from the reactor.
- Here's the important part. - As the device's fuel cells deteriorate...
...it becomes increasingly unstable...
to the point of detonation
This bomb is a time bomb
And it will go off in 23 days, regardless of Bane's revolution...
or what we, or the outside world choose to do.
Sc your plan might not be as practical as you thought.
- Could you disarm it? - I could reconnect it to the reactor. Stabilize it.
- Let's move from this location and call it in. - Right. Let's go.
Na, nu, we'll take it from here. You stay and lack after these folks.
[GUNFIRE]
[PEOPLE SCREAMING]
Someone sold us cut.
Ga, go, go!
I'll die before I talk.
BANE: I'm an your schedule, captain.
[GRUNTS]
MERCENARY: There were people living upstairs.
BANE: Round them up for judgment
...and hang them where the world can see.
REPORTER: Police have cordoned ofi the entire Central Heights and East Park Side areas...
...as well as Merchant and South Shoreline Boulevards in an attempt-
[BLIND PRISONER SPEAKS IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]
He says the leap to freedom is not about strength.
My body makes the jump.
[m ENGLISH] Survival is the spirit. The soul.
My soul is as ready to escape as my body.
Fear is why you fail.
Na, I'm not afraid.
I'm angry.
[PRISONERS CHANTING]
[GRUNTS]
THOMAS: Bruce.
Why do we fall?
[GASPS]
BLIND PRISONER: You do not fear death.
You think this makes you strong. It makes you weak.
Why?
Haw can you move faster than possible...
...fight longer than possible...
without the most powerful impulse of the spirit?
The fear of death.
I do fear death.
I fear dying in here...
...while my city burns.
There's no one there to save it.
Then make the climb.
[CHUCKLES]
H aw?
As the child did
without the rope
Then fear will find you again.
Ah, supplies for your journey?
Oh, that's wonderful. That's...
[PRISONERS CHANTING]
What does that mean?
Rise.
Na.
[SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]
[CHEERING]
Na, there's been a mistake!
Take me to Bane!
I want to see Bane!
CRANE: Order!
This is a mistake! Where is Bane?
CRANE: There's been no mistake, Mr. Stryver.
You are Philip Stryver...
...executive vice president of Daggett Industries...
who for years has been living off the blood and sweat...
of people less powerful than him
Call Bane. I am one of you.
CRANE: Bane has no authority here. This is merely a sentencing hearing.
Now, the choice is yours.
Exile or death!
[ALL SHOUTING AND CHEERING]
CRANE: Order!
Exi-- Exile.
Sold.
Ta the man in the cold sweat.
You fallow the thick ice.
You try to swim, you're dead in minutes.
Has anyone made it?
GORDON: Where are they? It's not like we have a lot of time.
VETERAN COP: Haw long?
The bomb goes off tomorrow.
- We have about 18 hours to do something. - To do what?
GORDON: Ta mark the truck. Get a GPS an it so we can start to figure out haw to bring it dawn.
That's it?
Foley.
- Where's Foley, damn it? - You shouldn't be out an the streets.
- Jim, he's not here. - You let your wife came to the dour?
- When the city's under occupation? - Wait in the kitchen, honey.
What did you do, bury your uniform in the backyard?
You saw what they did to those Special Forces.
Have you forgotten all the years we were out on patrol?
When every gangbanger wanted to plant one as scan as our backs were turned?
That was different. These guys run the city. The government's done a deal with them.
Bane's gut their balls in a vice. That's not a deal.
You move an Bane, the triggerman is gonna hit the button.
You think he's given central of that bomb to one of the people?
You think this is part of some revolution?
There's one man with his finger an the button. That's Bane.
Lack, we've all gut to keep our heads dawn till they can fix this.
- If you still had a family here-- - This only gets fixed from inside...
...the city!
Lack, Peter.
I'm not asking you to walk dawn Grand in your dress blues, but something has to be dune.
- Sorry, Jim. I gotta- - Keep your head dawn?
What gaad's that gonna do when that thing blows?
You don't know that's gonna happen.
[noon LOCKS]
MIRANDA: I hear you're lacking for men, commissioner.
Haw about me instead?
Miss Tate, I, uh, can't ask you to do that.
Please.
GANGBANGER: You little punk! What'd you take?
KID: Nothing! I didn't take anything!
You steal from us, you little bastard?
Now, you boys know you can't come into my neighborhood without asking politely.
Never steal anything from someone you can't outrun, kid.
WAYNE: You're pretty generous for a thief.
- I thought they killed you. - Nat yet.
- If you're expecting an apology, I-- -it wouldn't suit you.
I need your help.
And why would I help you?
For this. Clean slate.
You'd trust me with that?
After what I did to you?
I'll admit, I was a little let dawn.
But I still think there's more to you. In fact, I think that for you...
...this isn't just a teal.
It's an escape route. You want to disappear. Start fresh.
- I can't even get off this island. - I can give you a way off...
once you get me to Lucius Fox
Find out where they're holding him and take me in.
Why do you need Fax?
- To save the city. - Who says it needs saving?
Maybe I like it this way.
Maybe you do...
...but tomorrow that bomb's going off.
Gut your powerful friend an the case?
I'm trying...
...but I need Fax.
As it approaches...
...flip the switch.
The needle hits 200, you give me the signal, I'll mark the truck. Okay?
Heads up, heads up.
- I gut it. - Mercenaries an your 5.
MERCENARY: Stand still! Keep your hands where we can see them!
Commissioner Gordon, you are under arrest.
GORDON: On whose authority?
The people of Gotham.
Na lawyer? Na witnesses? What sort of due process is this?
CRANE: Your guilt has been determined, this is merely a sentencing hearing.
Now, what will it be?
Death or exile?
Crane, if you think we're going out onto that ice willingly...
you have another thing coming
Death, then.
- Lacks that way. CRANE: Very well.
Death...
...by exile.
[ALL SHOUTING]
BANE: Bring her to me.
ROSS: Hey, we're going now. Blake says they're ready! Get your gear an!
Hey, you hear me? We're going now. Let's do it.
MERCENARY 1: Find this one a spot, got a big day tomorrow.
MERCENARY 2: We all do. It's not every day you bag Bruce Wayne.
- Bruce. WAYNE: You okay?
Picked a hell of a time to go an vacation, Mr. Wayne.
Haw long until that care ignites?
- That bomb goes off in 12 hours. - Unless we can reconnect it to the reactor.
- Can you get Miranda out of here? - Nat tonight. I'm sorry.
- Do what's necessary. WAYNE: Tonight I need you
FOX: What far? - To get me back in the game.
Sorry to spoil things, bays, but Bane wants these guys to himself.
- I won't forget about you, Miranda. - I know.
I like your girlfriend, Mr. Wayne.
He should be so lucky.
Any move I make an Bane or the bomb...
...the triggerman sets it off.
FOX: Well, they won't use radio or cell. Tan much interference.
Infrared doesn't have the range.
It'll have to be a micraburst. Langwave.
- Could you black it? - Yes.
But I'll need the EMP cannon guidance mount from the Bat.
Remember where you parked?
She fly okay?
Yeah, even without the autopilot.
- Thanks. - Autopilot? That's what you're there far.
ROSS: Okay. It's clear. Came an, quick. One at a time.
[GUNSHOT]
COP 1: Wait, wait!
COP 2: Russ!
COP 3: Ross?
- Lack it up. COP 3: Na, keep dawn.
COP 4: Get dawn!
Who are you?
BATMAN: Light it up.
BOY: Dad, check it cut. MRS. FOLEY: Haney, came take a lack.
BANE: Impossible.
Keep her close.
He'll came for her.
BATMAN: Where's Miranda Tate?
Bane tank her.
He's holed up at city hall, surrounded by his army.
This blocks the remote detonator signal to the bomb.
Get it onto it before sunrise. They might hit the button when it starts.
When what starts?
War.
[sun COCKS]
You missed a spat.
- If you're working alone, wear a mask. - I'm not afraid to be seen standing up to them.
The mask is not for you. It's to protect the people you care about.
Count to five, then throw.
[DEVICE BEEPING]
Na offense, but you gut something bigger in that belt?
- What now? - All-out assault an Bane.
But you need to get people across the bridge.
- Why? - In case we fail.
Lead an exodus. Save as many lives as you can.
You don't need me here?
You've given me an army.
New go.
Hey, thanks.
Don't thank me yet.
Well, I might not get a chance later.
You shouldn't have.
BATMAN: The midtown tunnel's blacked by debris...
...but the cannons have enough firepower to make a path for people.
Wait until the fighting begins.
You're gonna wage a war to save your stuck-up girlfriend?
Ta start it, throttle-
[ENGINE REVS]
- I gut it. - We have 45 minutes to save this city.
Na, I've gut 45 minutes to get clear of the blast radius.
- You don't stand a chance against these guys. - With your help, I might.
I'll open that tunnel, then I'm gone.
There's more to you than that.
Sorry to keep letting you dawn.
Came with me.
Save yourself.
You don't awe these people any mare.
You've given them everything.
Nat everything.
Nat yet.
MERCENARY [OVER BULLHORN]: Disperse!
Disperse or be fired upon!
There's only one police in this town.
[MERCENARIES CLAMORING]
BANE: Open fire.
[cops CHEER]
- Here it comes! - Get ready!
BANE: Sc you came back to die with your city.
Na. I came back to stop you.
NOW!
That's impossible.
Cut aver to Fifth!
Here you go. Get an the bus. Ga ahead.
You, came with me. You tan.
Hey, you, you, and you, come here, come here.
Everyone else get an the bus, okay?
You guys, you go knock on doors and spread the word, okay?
The bomb is gonna go off. Get out by the South Street tunnel or aver the bridge.
You do two blacks and you get back to the bus, all right?
Ga, go, go!
Is he back?
Keep your eyes open. Ga, go.
[MASK HISSES E BANE GROANS]
[BANE YELLING]
BATMAN: Cover the doors!
Where's your trigger?!
Where is it?!
You'd never give it to an ordinary citizen!
Where is it? Where's your trigger?
[MASK HISSING]
Where is it?! Where is it?!
Tell me where the trigger is.
Then you have my permission to die.
BANE: I brake you.
Haw have you came back?
You think you're the only one who could learn the strength to escape?
Where's the trigger?
BANE: But I never escaped.
But the child.
The child of Ra's Al Ghul made the climb.
MIRANDA: But he's not the child of Ra's Al Ghul.
[BATMAN GRUNTS]
I am.
And though I'm not ordinary...
...I am a citizen.
BATMAN: Miranda?
Why?
Talia.
My mother named me Talia, before she was killed...
...the way I would have been killed, if not for my protector...
...Bane.
Goad bye.
TALIA: I climbed out of the pit.
I found my father...
...and brought him back to exact terrible vengeance.
But by that time...
...the prisoners and doctor had done their work to my friend.
My protector.
The League took us in.
Trained us.
But my father could not accept Bane.
He saw only a monster.
His very existence was a reminder of the hell he'd left his wife to die in.
He excommunicated Bane from the League of Shadows.
His only crime was that he loved me.
I could not forgive my father.
Until you murdered him.
[BEEPING]
He was trying to kill millions of innocent people.
Innocent is a strung ward to throw around Gotham, Bruce.
I honor my father by finishing his work.
Vengeance against the man who killed him is simply a reward for my patience.
You see...
...it's the slaw knife...
...the knife that takes its time.
The knife...
...that waits years without forgetting...
...then slips quietly between the bones.
That's the knife...
...that cuts deepest.
Please.
[DETONATOR CLICKS]
Maybe your knife...
...was tan slaw.
MERCENARY: The truck is under attack.
Gordan. You gave him a way to black my signal.
Na matter.
[GRUNTS]
He's bought Gotham 11 minutes.
[BEEPING]
Came an!
This way!
COP: Stay there! What are you doing?
Blake, MCU! I'm getting these bays to safety!
You'll get us all killed!
If anyone crosses this bridge, they'll blow the city!
It's gonna blow anyway! We need to open this bridge, now!
Detective, if you take one step forward we will shoot you!
If you take two steps forward, we will blow the bridge!
Okay, go back by the bus and wait for me, all right? Ga back and wait.
TALIA: Prepare a convoy. We must secure the bomb until it detonates.
Dan'! kill him, I want him to feel the heat.
Feel the fire of 12 million souls you failed.
Goodbye, my friend.
BANE: Goad bye.
Keep moving forward! Flank them at the stairs!
Shunt them.
Shunt them all.
[GUNFIRE]
BANE: We bath know that I have to kill you now.
You'll just have to imagine the fire.
[PANTING]
About the whale no-guns thing...
...I'm not sure I feel as strongly about it as you do.
Pull up.
Stay level.
We have to farce that convoy east to the entrance to the reactor.
I need you an the ground, I'll be in the air. Ga.
The situation has changed. Your orders are out of date.
I'm a cap, like you, and I'm walking out there.
Please do not shunt me!
Shunt at his feet.
Nothing like a little air superiority.
Detective! Please stop!
Please, detective! Stop!
Stop walking!
Blow it! Du it!
You have to get that bomb here. You've gut 10 minutes.
They're pushing us to the entrance of the reactor.
They're gonna try to reconnect the care.
You idiots!
You sans of bitches!
You're killing us!
Yeah, fallow your orders!
All right, bays. Get in a circle. Bow your heads.
It's an my side.
[PANEL BEEPING]
[BEEPING]
BLAKE: Hey, Father! Let's get everyone back on the bus, okay? Go, go, go!
- Back an the bus! - There's nowhere to go.
On the bus!
FOX: You've gut to turn the truck east!
Stay straight!
[COMPUTER BEEPS]
Give me a hand! We can get a cable an it!
Fax showed me haw to override the reactor.
Oh, dear.
[ALARM WAILING]
Including the emergency flood.
TALIA: There's no way...
...this bomb...
...will be stopped.
What are you doing?
Protection from the blast. We're gonna be all right!
It's an atom bomb!
Think they need to hear that? Let them die without hope? Came an!
Prepare yourselves.
My father's work...
...is dune.
GORDON: What are you doing? BATMAN: I can get it out aver the bay!
CATWOMAN: Set it to fly out aver the water, then eject?
BATMAN: Na autopilot.
You could've gone anywhere, been anything But you came back here.
Sc did you.
I guess we're bath suckers.
- I never cared who you were. - And you were right.
Shouldn't the people know the hero who saved them?
A hero can be anyone.
Even a man doing something as simple and reassuring...
...as putting a coat around a young boy's shoulders to let him know...
...the world hadn't ended.
Bruce Wayne?
Came an! There you go! Okay, you tan. Came an, Father.
Hey, heads dawn! This is it!
- Na. - Na, that's Batman!
[BEEPING]
That's detonation!
It's out aver the bay! Clear of the city!
[CHEERING]
GORDON: "I see a beautiful city...
...and a brilliant people...
...rising from this abyss.
I see the fives for which I lay down my fife...
...peaceful...
...useful, prosperous and happy.
I see that I hold a sanctuary in their hearts...
...and in the hearts of their descendants...
...generations hence.
It is a far, far better thing that I do...
...than I have ever dune.
It is a far, far better rest that I go to
...than I have ever known."
[ALFRED SOBBING]
ALFRED: I'm so sorry.
I failed you.
You trusted me...
...and I failed you.
Can I change your mind...
about quitting the force'?
You know what you said about structures becoming shackles?
You were right, and I can't take it. The injustice.
I mean, no one's ever gonna know who saved an entire city.
They know.
It was the Batman.
LAWYER: Mr. Wayne's will was not amended to reﬂect his more modest estate.
Nonetheless, there are considerable assets to dispose of.
The contents of the house are to be sold to settle the estate's accounts...
...and the remainder is left in its entirety to Alfred J. Pennyworth.
The house and grounds are left to the city of Gotham on condition that...
...they never be demolished, altered or otherwise interfered with...
...and that they shall be used for one purpose, and one purpose only:
The housing and care of the city's at-risk and orphaned children.
My clerk can help with the smaller correspondences and instructions.
B LAK E: Blake, John.
- Nothing here. - Uh, try my legal name.
You should use your full name I like that name.
- Rabin. - Thanks.
SCIENTIST 1: Why worry about the stabilization software?
This entire autopilot system's completely obsolete.
Please, I just need to know what I could've done to fix it
But, Mr. Fax, it's already been fixed. Software patch. Six months ago.
Check the ID an the patch.
SCIENTIST 2: Bruce Wayne.
- Any news an the missing item? - Nat yet.
They better leave no stone unturned.
We can't leave a string of pearls an the manifest as last.
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