"Sub edited by: jcdr" "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." " He wasn't alone." " You don't get to bring friends." " They are not my friends." " Don't worry, no charge for them." " And why would I want them?" "They were trying to up your price." "They work for the mercenary, a masked man." "Bane?" "Get them on board." "I'll call them in." "The flight plan I just filed with the agency, lists me, my man, Dr Pavel here but only one of you." "The first one to talk gets to stay on my aircraft." "Who paid you to get Dr. Pavel?" "He didn't fly so good, who wants to try next?" "Tell me about Bane!" "Why does he wear the mask?" "A lot of loyalty for a hired gun!" "Or perhaps he's wondering why someone would shoot a man before throwing him out of the plane." "At least you can talk." "Who are you?" "It doesn't matter who we are." "What matters is our plan." "No one cared who I was til' I put on the mask." " If I pull that off, will you die?" " It will be extremely painful..." " You're a big guy. -..." "For you." "Was getting caught part of your plan?" "Of course." "Dr. Pavel refused that offer in favour of yours." "But we have to find out what he told you." "Nothing!" "I said nothing!" "Oh congratulations!" "You got yourself caught!" "Sir..." "Now what's the next step of your master plan?" "Crashing this plane... with no survivors." "Mayday!" "Mayday!" "No!" "They expect one of us in the wreckage, brother." " Have we started the fire?" " Yes." "The fire rises." "Calm down, doctor." "Now is not the time for fear." "That comes later." "Harvey Dent's day may not be our oldest public holiday, but we're here tonight because it's one the most important." "Harvey Dent's uncompromising stand against organized crime, has made Gotham a safer place than it was at the time of his death, eight years ago." "This city has seen a historic turn around" "No city is without crime, but this city is without organized crime because the" "Dent act gave law enforcement teeth in its fight against the Mafia." "Now people are talking about repealing the Dent act and to them I say: not on my watch." "I want to thank the Wayne Foundation for hosting this event, and I'm told Mr. Wayne couldn't be here tonight, but I'm sure that he's with us in spirit." "And now, I'm going to give away to an important voice..." "Who can lay eyes on Wayne at one of these sorts?" "No one has, not in years." "But 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 blood." "Sweetheart, not so fast with the chow." "Shrimp balls?" "Jim Gordon can tell you the truth about Harvey Dent." "He get to..." "Well, let him tell you himself." "Commissioner Gordon!" "The truth..." "I have... 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 one thousand inmates in Blackgate Prison as a direct result of the Dent act." "These are violent criminals essential thugs in the organized crime machine." "Maybe, for now what I should say about the death of Harvey Dent is this..." "It has not been for nothing." "Did you see the guy who owns the house?" "No." "You know, I heard he never leaves the east wing." "You know, I heard he had an accident." "Yeah that he's disfigured..." "Mr. Till!" "Why are your people using the main staircase?" " And where is Mrs. Bolton?" " She's at the bar, sir." "Can I help?" "The eastern drawing room." "Unlock the door, put the tray on the table, lock the door again." "Nothing more." "I'm sorry, Miss Tate." "I tried but he won't see you." "And you know, you mustn't take it personally." "Everyone knows that Wayne is hold up in there with 8 inch nails paving into mason jars" "It's very good of you to let me underground." "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 the 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?" "Second shift report's in," "You should spend some more time with the mayor." "Oh that's your department." "Anyone showed him the crime stats?" "He goes by his gut, and it continues to bother him no matter what the numbers." "Must be popular with his wife." "Not really." "She took the kids and left for Cleveland." "We have plenty of time for visits." "The Mayor's gonna dump him in the spring." "Really?" "But he's a hero." "A war hero." "This is peace time." "Sorry sorry." "I'm so terribly sorry, Mr. Wayne!" "It is Mr. Wayne, isn't it?" "Although you don't have long nails or 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 the safe." "The manufacturer clearly explained that it is uncrackable." "Oups." "Nobody told me it was uncrackable." "I'm afraid I can't let you take those." "Look, you wouldn't beat up a woman, anymore than I would beat up a cripple." "Of course, sometimes exceptions have to be made." "Good night, Mr. Wayne!" " Can I have a ride?" " You read my mind!" "Let's go!" "Ms. Tate was asking to see you again." " She's very persistent." " And quite lovely," " in case you were wondering." " I wasn't." " What are you doing?" " Examining print dust." "We've been robbed." "And this your idea of..." "sounding the alarm, is it?" "She took the pearls, tracking device and all." " She?" " One of the maids." "Perhaps you should stop letting them in this part 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!" "The congressman Gilly's wife has been calling in apparently the congressman never made it home after the Wayne Foundation event." "That's a job for the police." "When you and Dent cleaned up the streets, you cleaned them good." "Pretty soon we will be chasing down over due library books." "And yet, here you are, like we're still at war." " What's your name, son?" " Blake, sir." "You have something you want to ask me, officer Blake?" "It's about that night, this night, eight years ago, the night Dent died." "The last confirmed sighting of the Batman." "Who murders those people, takes down two SWAT teams, brakes Dent's neck and then just vanishes." "I'm not hearing the question." "Don't you want to know who he was?" "I know exactly who he was." "He was the Batman." "Let's go see about the congressman's wife." "Master Wayne!" "Master Wayne!" "You haven't been down here in a long time." "I'm trying to find out more about our jewel thief." "I ran her prints." "Unless she's lost a lot of weight, she was wearing someone else's fingerprints." "She's good." "She may be, but we have a trace on the necklace." "We do, so I cross-referenced the address she went back to, with police data on I and B and Es, and Selina Kyle." "Databases are full of close calls and tips from fencers." "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 too much and they weren't what she was after." " What was she after?" " My fingerprints." "That was printer toner mixed with graphite on the safe." "It gives you good pull and it's untraceable." "Fascinating!" "You two should exchange notes over coffee." "So now you're trying to set me up with a jewel 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, you'll find some how..." "Alfred..." "I did find someone." "I know, and you lost 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've were gone seven years." "For seven years I've waited, hoping that you wouldn't come back." "Every year, I took a holiday." "I went to Florence, this..." "cafe on the banks of the Arno." "Every fine evening, I would sit there and order a Fernet Branca." "I had this fantasy.." "That I would look across the tables..." "and I would see you there..." "With a wife maybe a couple of kids." "You wouldn't say anything to me, nor me to you." "But we would both know that you've made it, that you were happy." "I never wanted you to come 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." "I wash up here a couple of times a month and more when it gets colder." "Homeless sheltering in the tunnels." "Now we pulled him from the basin but other than that, we didn't touch him." "What?" "His name is Jimmy." "He's from St. Swithin's." "It's the boy's home reg." "We coached him some ball." "Jimmy had not been around for months." " No, why?" " Blake, you know why." "He aged out." "We don't have the resources to keep boys on after 16." "Yeah but I thought the Wayne Foundation gave money for them." "Not for the past couple of years." " He has a brother here, doesn't he?" " Mark." "I'll tell him." "I'd like to." "If that's alright." "You know what he was doing down there in the tunnels?" "A lot of guys would go in down in the tunnels when they age out." "They say you can live down there." "They say there's work down there." "Work?" "What kind of work you're gonna find in the sewers?" "More than you can find up here, I guess." " So you know about him." " Of course." "Do you think he's coming back?" "I don't know..." "You brought a date?" "I like having someone around to open doors for me." "Right hand, no partials." "Very nice!" "Not so fast, handsome!" "You've got something for me?" "Oh yes." "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." " This place is a little dim." " It'll lighten up in a minute." "Trust me." "Is everything okay?" "Great." "Catch you later." "It would have been a lot easier to just give me what we agreed." "We can't have loose ends." "And even in that dress, no one's going to miss you." "No, but my friend over there," "Every cop in the city is missing him." "That's cute!" "But they're not gonna be looking in a place like this." "I don't know, you did just use his cell phone." "Police!" "Get down now!" "Help me!" "Keep some pressure on that, sweetheart." "Call me?" " Careful, Miss." " He's bleeding!" "You gotta help him!" "I've got the congressman." "There!" "The manhole!" "Get this out." "Get the GWPD down here!" "You three, down with me!" "You two, you go down, cover the next exit!" "What?" "He went down there?" " We're gonna go down there, right?" " That was a gas explosion, kid." "What gas?" "It's a sewer." "No one goes in there until we know what's down there." "We know who's down there sir, the police commissioner." "Someone get this hot head out of here." "And where's that GWP guy?" "Why are you here?" "Answer him!" "I was asking you." "It's a Police Commissioner." " And you brought him down here?" " We didn't know what to do." " We just thought..." " You panicked." "And your weakness just cost the lives of three others." "No." "He's a little..." "Search him." "Then I will kill you." "He's dead!" "So show me his body!" "The water runs to any one of the out flows." "We'll never find him." " Follow him." " Follow him?" "Detective!" "Detective!" "Hey!" "Hey!" "You awake?" "I need to see Bruce Wayne." "I'm sorry, Mr. Wayne doesn't take unscheduled calls, even from a police officer." "If I go get a warrant for the investigation of Harvey Dent's murder, it'll still count as an unscheduled?" "What can I do for you officer?" "Commissioner Gordon has been shot." "He chased the gunmen down into the sewers." "When I pulled him out, he was babbling about an underground army, a masked man called Bane." "Well shouldn't you be telling your superior officers about this?" "They asked if he saw any giant alligators." "He needs you." "He needs the Batman." "Commissioner Gordon thinks..." "Oh he doesn't know or care who you are." "But we've met before." "That was a long time ago, I was a kid at St. Swithin's..." "It used to be funded by the Wayne Foundation." "It's an orphanage." "My mum died when I was small, it was a car accident." "I don't remember it." "My dad got shot a couple of years later for a gambling debt." "Oh I remember that one just fine." "Not a lot of people know what it feels like to be angry in your bones." "I mean they understand." "The fosters parents." "Everybody understands... for a while." "Then they want the angry little kid to do something he knows he can't do move on." "After a while they stop understanding." "They send the angry kid to a boy's home.." "I figured it out too late." "Yeah I learned to hide the anger, and practice smiling in the mirror." "It's like putting on a mask." "So you showed up this one day, in a cool car, pretty girl on your arm." "We were so excited!" "Bruce Wayne, a billionaire orphan?" "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 look on your face before." "It's the same one I taught myself." "I don't why you took the fault for Dent's murder but I'm still a believer in the Batman." "Even if you're not..." "Why did you say that your boy's home used to be funded by The Wayne Foundation?" "Because the money stopped." "Might be time to get some fresh air and start paying attention to the details." "Some of those details might need your help." "Have you checked that name, Bane?" "He's a mercenary." "No, I have no names." "Him and his men man were behind a coup in West Africa." "They secured mining operations for our friend, John Daggett." " And Daggett brought them here." " So it seems." " I'll keep digging." " Yeah." "Alfred, why did the Wayne Foundation stop funding boy's homes in the city?" "The foundation is funded by the profits of Wayne Enterprises." "There have to be some..." "Time to talk to Mr. Fox I think." "I'll get him on the phone." "No, no, no." "Do we still have any cars around the place?" "Yes, one or two." "I need an appointment at a hospital for my leg." " Which hospital?" " Which ever one Jim Gordon's in." "I have seen worst cartilage in knees." " It's good." " No." "That's because there's no cartilage in your knees and not much of any use in your elbows or your shoulders." "Between that and the scar tissue on your kidney, residual concussive damage to your brain tissue and the general scared over-quality of your body," "I cannot recommend that you go heli-skiing, Mr. Wayne." "Right." "We used to be in this together." "They say you were gone." "The Batman wasn't needed anymore." "We won..." "How strong a lie." "Now this evil rises again where we tried to bury him." "The Batman has to come back." "What if he doesn't exist anymore?" "He must." "You..." "It's my goddamn wallet, is it?" " You took my wallet!" " No I didn't!" " Get out!" " She took my..." "Aow!" "Now!" "Crazy!" "I don't know what he's so upset about." "There's only 60 bucks in here." "Care with the watch." "Who's that?" "Another stiff, can barely climb out of his sport car." "Well that's Bruce Wayne!" "Mister Wayne, over here!" " I'm not sure if my assistant..." " Right through here, Mr. Wayne." "Thank you so much." "Bruce Wayne at a charity ball?" "Ms. Tate, isn't it?" "Even before you became a recluse, you never came to these things" "Proceeds go to big fat spread." "It is not about charity," "It's about feeding the ego which ever society hag laid this on." "Actually this is my party, Mr. Wayne." "And the proceeds will go where they should, because I paid for the big fat spread myself." "It'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 on a plan to save it." "And isn't so wounded when it fails that he goes into hiding." "Have a good evening, Mr. Wayne!" "Mind if I cut in?" "Thank you." "You're 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 these." "It's a brazing costume for a cat burglar." " Yeah?" "Who are you pretending to be?" " Bruce Wayne, eccentric billionaire." " Who's your date?" " His wife's in Ibiza." "She left her diamonds behind though, worried it might get stolen." "It pronounced 'Ibitha'." "You wouldn't want any of these folks realizing you're a crook, not a social climber." "You think I care what anyone in this room 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 woke-up and 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 just because you were born in the master bedroom of Wayne..." "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." "There's no fresh start in today's world." "Any 12 year-old with a cell phone would find out what you did." "Everything we do is collated and quantified, everything sticks." "Is that how you justify stealing?" "I take what I need from those who have more than enough." "I don't stand on the shoulders of the people with less." "Robin Hood?" "I think I do more to help someone than most of the people in this room." "Thank you." "I think maybe you're assuming a little too 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 down the hatches, because when it hits, you're all going to 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 look better on you than they did in my safe, but I still can't let you keep them." "You scared her off!" "Not likely..." "I still lost my ticket." "Your wife said you were taking a cab home." "My wife?" "Just you, sir?" "Don't worry, Master Wayne." "It takes a little time to get back in the swing of things." "Bruce Wayne!" "Design, live and breathe" "What brings you out of the prior sleep, Mr. Wayne?" "I see you haven't lost your sense of humor, even if you have lost most of my money." "Actually you did that." "If you file your entire Rn'D budget into a fusion project that you get mock ball, your company is unlikely to thrive." "What are my options?" "Well if you're unwilling to turn on the machine," "I can't." "I can't, Lucius." "Well then sit tight." "Your majority keep 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 the best for you, Bruce." " Show her the machine." " I'll think it over." " Anything else?" " Nope." "Why?" "Well these conversation used to end with an unusual request." "I retired." "Well, let me show you some stuff, anyway." "Just for old times' sake." "I figured you had to shut this place down." "Oh, it was always shut down." "Officially." "What's the new stuff..." "After your father died, Wayne Enterprises has set up 14 different defense subsidiaries." "For years, I've been shuttering and consolidating all the different prototypes under one roof." " My roof." " Why?" "To keep them from falling into the wrong hands." "Oh now you're just showing off." "Defense department project." "Tight Geometer Urban Pacification." "Rotors are configured to maneuver between buildings without recirculation." "What's it called?" "It has a long uninteresting Wayne Enterprise's designation." "I just the took to calling it the Bat." "And yes Mr. Wayne, it does come in black." "Works fine, apart the autopilot." "Takes a better mind than mine to fix it." "A better mind?" "Well I was trying to be modest." "A less busy mind." "Yours." "It should be a bit painful." "You'll be very welcome to try, Alfred." "Happy watching." "Thank you, sir." "Not so bad..." "Not bad at all!" "If you're seriously considering going back out there, you should hear the rumors surrounding Bane." "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." " Bane!" " Right." "Born and raised in hell on 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 too 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." "Then you can just 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 is past." "You're afraid that if I go back out there, I'll fail." "No." "I'm afraid that you want to." "You can't short the stock because Bruce Wayne goes to a party." "Wayne coming back is change." " Change, is it good or bad?" " Oh, bad." " On what basis?" " I flip the coin." "I said no rye, man." "Rookie!" "Loose the helmet!" "We need faces for camera." "Come on let's go scalping." "This is a stock exchange." "There's no money you can steal." "Really?" "Then why are you people here?" "You've got to get in there!" " This is a hostage situation." " No!" "No, no, this is a robbery!" "They have direct access to the online trading desk." "I'm not risking my men for your money." "Sir, we're gonna ask you to move." "We have a situation here." "It's not our money, it's everybody's." "Really?" "Mine is in my mattress." "If don't put these guys down, that stuffing in your mattress might be worth a whole hell of a lot less." "Cut the fiber cable and take out that cell tower." " Thank you." " That will slow them down." "They cut the fiber." " The cell's working." " For now." "Get all this barriers up." "I want all of them up." "No one gets in or out of any of these streets." " Where am I suppose to move it?" " Back it up." "Just stay in your vehicle, okay?" "How much longer does the program need?" "Eight minutes." "Time to go." "Move out." "Everybody up!" "You two, move!" "Thank you." "Steady!" "Steady!" "I've got something!" "Hold your fire!" "They have hostages!" "Hold your fire!" "Go!" "Go!" "Please, let me go!" "Please!" "Hey!" " Shoot the tires!" " There's no shot." "Now back off!" "Back off!" "They've got hostages!" "Police are pursuing the 4 suspects from downtown in respond to a hostage situation" "Gotham PD..." "What's going on with the lights?" "I can't pick up anything!" "Who the hell was that?" "Oh boy you are in for a show tonight, son!" "Please!" "Help!" "Sorry!" "Put that thing away before you hurt yourself." "Get in!" "Let's go." "You, get in the car!" "We've spotted the Batman!" "All everyone in." "Every car patrol, beat cop and off duty too." "Call them in now!" "I'm going to do what Jim Gordon never could." " What's that?" " I'm going to take down the Batman." "..The 4 suspect are carrying two hostages that they kidnapped at the Gotham Stock Exchange." "Witnesses reported that..." "It seems hard to believe." "But report suspects are now being pursued, what appears to be, the Batman." "Well what do you know.." "Sir, what about the armed robbers?" "Please!" "Let me go!" "Please!" "One bike has pulled off." "No hostage." "Shall we pursue?" "Negative." "Stay on the Batman!" " He's getting away." " Who do you want to catch huh?" "Some robber or the son-of-a-bitch who killed Harvey Dent?" "Eight years and he has to pick tonight." "He's drawing the cops off Bane." "Please!" "Let me go!" "Please!" "TRANSFERRING COMPLETE" "We lost him." "How could you lose him?" "He's got a lot of firepower." "And what?" "Then you don't?" "He heads back downtown." "Then he's as dumb as he dresses." "Close it up, gentlemen!" "Like a rat in a trap, gentlemen!" "You might have the wrong animal there, sir!" "Sure it was him!" "Bane says that Batman interfered, but the task was accomplished." "And what about the men they've 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?" " Be careful what you wish for!" " The Cat got your tongue?" " You dumb bitch!" "Nobody ever accused me of being dumb." "You're dumb, for coming here tonight." "I want what you owe me." " One doesn't get..." " Nice outfit!" "Those heels, they may be tough to walk?" "I don't know, do you think?" " So where is it?" " Where's what?" "The program ' The Clean Slate '." "The Ultimate Tool for a master thief with a record." "Hold it right there!" " Where is it?" "!" " ' The Clean Slate?" "'" "Where you type in someone's name, date of birth and in a few minutes they're gone from every database on earth." "Sounds a little too good to be true?" "You're lying!" "RIKEN DATA took it to prototype stage." "That's why I bought them." "But they had nothing." "It was a gang-lying myth." "Stay back!" "I'm not bluffing!" "They know!" "They just don't care." " You've got to be kidding me." " No guns, no 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 control." " 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." "For something that doesn't even exist." "I doubt that it will get the better of you." " Hey when a girl's desperate..." " What's he going to do with them?" "I don't know but Daggett seemed pretty interested in that mess at the stock market." "Miss Kyle..." "So that's what that feels like..." "I've seen you in the television coverage, and you've got your taste for want and destruction back." "There are 3 disks." "Aren't the police supposed to be investigating them?" "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, well there aren't many things you can't turn into a weapon." "Alfred, enough!" "The police weren't getting it done." "Perhaps they might have." "If you hadn't made a side show of yourself." "You thought I didn't have it in me." "You don't!" "You led a bluntly police force, a merry chase with a load of fancy new toys from Fox." "What about when you come up against him?" "What then?" "I'll fight harder." "I always have." "Take a look, 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 just a mercenary." "We need to find out what he's up to." "Trades of some kind." "Coded." "And my fingerprints courtesy of Selina Kyle." "Give this to Fox." "He can crack the code and tell us what trades they were executing." "I'll give this to Mr. Fox but no more." "I've sewn you up, I've set your bones, but I won't bury you." "I've buried enough members in the Wayne family." "You leave me?" "You seek only one end to your journey." "Leaving is all I have to make you understand." "You're not Batman anymore." "You have to find another way." "You used to talk about finishing, about a light 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 on." "She..." "She didn't, she couldn't." " What if she had?" " She didn't and I can't change that." "What if, before she died, she wrote a letter saying she chose Harvey Dent over you?" "And what if, to spare you pain..." "I burnt that letter ...?" "How dare you use Rachel to try and stop me." "I am using the truth, Master Wayne." "Maybe it's time we all stop trying to outsmart the truth and let it have his day." " I'm sorry." " You're sorry?" "You expect to destroy my world... and then think that we're gonna shake hands?" "No." " I know what this means." " What does it mean?" "It means you're hatred, and it also means losing someone, who I've cared for since I first heard his cries echoing through this house." "But it might also mean saving your life." "And that is more important." "Goodbye, Alfred!" "Alfred?" " Answering your own door?" " Yeah." "Page three." "Seems you made a series of laud to put options on the future exchange." "Verified by thumb print." "Those options expired at midnight last night." "Long term we may be able to prove fraud but for now, you're completely broke." "And Wayne Enterprises is about to fall into the hands of John Daggett." "The weapons..." "We can't let Daggett get his hands on Applied Sciences." "Applied Sciences is all locked up and off the books." "The energy project however, it's a different story." "Miranda Tate..." "We need to convince the board to get behind her." "Let's show her the reactor." "We're meeting her there in 35 minutes so you'd better get dressed." "You brought me out here to show me this, Mr. Fox?" "Bear with me, Miss Tate." "Please keep hands and feet inside the car at all time." "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." "Is Bruce Wayne really that paranoid?" "You want to beat the freak out on that one." "I thought you might like to see what your investment built." "No fossil fuels, free clean energy for an entire city!" "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, 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 has almost figured out, a way to make this power source into a nuclear weapon." "I need you to take control of Wayne Enterprises and this reactor." " To 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 is not ready, yes." "Bruce, if you want to save the world, you have to start trusting it." "I'm trusting you." "It doesn't count." "You have no choice." "I could have flooded this chamber at any time in the last three years." "I am choosing to trust you." "Please..." "Alright ladies and gentlemen, this meeting will now come to order." "Now, I'd like to point out that we have a non-board member here." "There is highly irregular, even if his family name is above the door." "Bruce Wayne's family built this company." " And he himself has run it..." " Into the ground, sir!" "Does anybody disagree?" "Then check the share price this morning." "Crazy gambling on future, this does not only cost Mr. Wayne his seat, it has cost us all a lot of money and he has to go." "I'm afraid he has a point, Mr. Wayne." "Now back to business." "How does it feel to be one of the people, Wayne?" "Mr. Wayne, they're towing your car." "I didn't know that you were at the board, I didn't know what to say." "Looks like you need a ride huh?" "How the hell did Miranda Tate get the inside track on the Wayne Board?" "I mean, has she been meeting with him?" "Has she been sleeping with him?" "Not that we know of." "Oh clearly, you don't know much of anything, do you?" "Where is Bane?" " Well, we told him it was urgent." " Oh, where is that man..." "Speak of the devil, and he shall appear." "What the hell is going on?" "The plan is preceding as expected." "Really?" "Do I look like I'm running Wayne Enterprises right now?" "Your hit on the stock exchange, it didn't work my friend." "And now you have my construction crews going around the city at 24 hours a day." "How exactly is that supposed to help my company absorb Wayne's?" " Leave us!" " No!" "You stay here!" "I'm in charge." "Do you feel in charge?" "I have paid you a small fortune." "And this gives you power over me?" "What is this?" "Your money and infrastructure have been important... until now." " What are you?" " I'm Gotham's reckoning." "It'll end the ball of damns you've all been living on." "You are pure evil." " A necessary evil." " No!" "Well you've started quite a mess." "To protect the people closest to me." "Yeah but you're a loner, right?" "You don't have any family." "There are always people you care about." "You don't realize how much until they're gone." "The idea was to be a symbol." "Batman can be anybody." "That was the point." " That was damn good to see him back." " Not everybody agrees." "I'll figure that out in the end." "Have you got anything on Bane's whereabouts?" "Yeah, I've got 500 pages of tunnel records and a flashlight." "I could use some help actually." "You know what, drop me in the old town." " Hey, hey, hey, I don't think so!" " I don't think it works, hey!" "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 got right now." "Actually, they're letting me keep the house." "The riches don't even go broke like 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 does." " He wants to meet tonight." " Why?" "He needs to find Bane." "He says you know how." " Tell him I'll think about it." " Okay." "I like your place." "Mr. Wayne." "I'm sorry they took all your money." "No you're not." " Can we help you officer?" " Yeah." "John Daggett's body was just found in a dumpster an hour ago." "Thought you might wanna know." "Why?" "Well his name is all over these permits I just pulled to half the tunnels under Gotham." "That's MTA maintenance, sewer construction and others things..." "Where did you get to with the tunnel searches?" "Remind me to tell detail to keep hot heads out." "We've had teams down there." "It's a huge network." "Well, get more men." "Work the grid." "I want him found." "Yeah, the masked man." "We're on it." "Lose the uniform." "You're working for me now." "We could some hot heads around here." "Sir, Daggett's death could only be a coincidence." "You're a detective now, son." "You're not allowed to believe in coincidence anymore." " Nobody's answering." " No..." " I'm on my own now." " Do you have keys?" "I wouldn't even know." "I hope you didn't like me for my money." "Suffering this character." "I'll take care of your parents legacy, Bruce." "Who's this?" "Where is Alfred?" "He left." "Taking everything..." " What's that?" " Hmm well, power has been shut off." "You're good at that." "When I was a child, we had almost nothing." "But on the nights when we had a fire, we felt very rich indeed..." "I assumed your family was wealthy." "Not always, not when I was young." " An old mistake." " I had a few myself." "More than a few." "We could leave tonight." "Take my plane and go anywhere we wanted." "Some day perhaps." "Not tonight." "Don't be shy!" "Wayne says you can get me the 'Clean Slate'." " That depends..." " On what?" "On what you want it for.." "I've acquired it to keep it out of the wrong hands." "Still don't trust me huh..." " How 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." "Neither am I." " He's behind you!" " Who?" "Me!" "Where do you think you're..." "Just a little forward." "I had to find a way to stop them trying to kill me." "You made a serious mistake." "Not as serious as yours..." "I fear." " Bane..." " Let's not stand on so moody here." "Mr. Wayne..." "Peace has cost you your strength." "Victory has defeated you." "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." "Yes." "You were excommunicated by a gang of psychopaths." "I am the League of Shadows." "I'm here to fulfill Ra's Al Ghul's destiny!" "You fight like a younger man, there's nothing held back." "It's admirable, but mistaken." "Ooh, you think darkness is your ally?" "You merely adopted the dark, I was born in it." "Molded by it..." "I didn't see the light until I was already a man." "By then there was nothing to be but blinded." "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 wondering what would weight first..." "Your spirit... or your body?" "Get me Commissioner Gordon." "I've got a line on the congressman's kidnapping." " Excuse me, miss!" " Yes?" "I'm gonna need to see your ticket and identification, please." "Do you mind?" "I showed your picture to the congressman." "Guess what?" "!" " Don't tell me." "Still in love?" " Oh head over heels." "Pressing charges though." "You've made some mistakes, Miss Kyle." " Girls got to eat." " And you have an appetite." "Why would run?" "You can't hide from us with a record like this." " Maybe it's not you I'm running from." " Who then?" "Bane?" "What do you know about him?" "About you should be as afraid of him as I am." "We can offer you protection." "Okay..." "When I spotted you, I was looking for a friend of mine, Bruce Wayne." "Did they kill him?" "I'm not sure." "Why didn't you just... kill me?" "You don't fear death, you welcome it." "Your punishment must be mastered here." " You're a torturer?" " Yes." "But not of your body." "Of your soul." " Where am I?" " Home." "Where I learned the truth about despair, as will you." "There's a reason why this prison used to were as hell on earth." "Hope." "Every man who has lotted here over the centuries, has looked up to the light and imagined climbing to freedom." "So easy, so simple!" "And like shipwrecked men turning to seawater foregoing uncontrollable thirst, many have died trying." "And then here there can be no true despair without hope." "So 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 climbing over each other to stay in the sun." "You can watch me torture an entire city." "And then when you've truly understood the depth of your failure, we will fulfill Ra's Al Ghul's destiny." "We will destroy Gotham." "And then, when that is done, and Gotham is... ashes" "Then you have my permission to die." "You're locking her up in here?" "The Dent act allows non-segregation based on extraordinary needs." "First time she broke out of women's correctional, she was 16." " Yeah, a little closer!" " Why honey?" "You want to hold my hand?" "She's gonna be fine." "I still don't see the need of a board meeting for the energy project." "Bruce got a lot of things right, keeping the board in the dark was not one of them." "How good of you to join us Chair President." "All I need now is one more ordinary Board member." " Mr. Fox, would you like to nominate?" " No." "I will volunteer." "Where are you taking us?" "You were right, Commissioner!" "Would you excuse us, please?" "What happened?" "Your mask man kidnapped the Wayne Enterprise's board." "He let most of them go, but he took three of them into the sewers." "No more patrols." "No more hide and seek." "Get every available cop down there and smoke him out." " The Mayor won't want panic." " So it's a training exercise?" "I'm sorry I didn't take you seriously." "Not you, you're telling me the Batman has gone." "So you chase up the Daggett leads anyway you can." "Yes, sir." "He asks how much you would pay us to let you die?" "I told him..." "I told him you have nothing." "You tell your friend it's a pleasure!" "They pay more than that to keep you alive." "He will try to climb." "Is there any way everybody head?" "Well of course not!" "He says there is one who did." "A child." "A child born in this hell." " Bane..." " An old legend." "Nothing more." "Whatever it is they want you to see, it is happening soon." "Fire in the hole!" "Turn it on!" "I only need one other Board member, there are eight others waiting." "I won't do it." "Alright stop!" "Lucius, you will kill this man and yourself, and you'll barely slow them down." "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." "I've been at half of Daggett cement plants logged locations they pour for underground construction." "Anything strange about the pourings?" "Honestly, Commissioner." "I don't know anything about civil engineering." "But you know about patterns." "Keep looking!" "It's done." "This is now a 4 megatons nuclear bomb!" "Pull the core out of the reactor!" "No!" "You cannot!" "This is the only power source capable of sustaining it." "If you move it, the core will decay in a matter of months." " Five, by my calculations." " It will go off!" "And for the sake of your children Dr. Pavel, Indeed I hope it does." "Hey, hey!" "That was you in front of the Stock Exchange wasn't it?" "When?" "When half the city's cops try to pull onto Castle street and your truck was shutting them out." " Oh yeah... you're the cop." " Detective now." "And, as detective we're not allowed to believe in coincidences." "What were you doing here?" "What are you working on?" "Commissioner, it's Blake." "I've got two dead witnesses and a lot of questions." "Call me when..." "Wait a minute!" "Four barrels of poly-isobutilene." "That looks like motor oil right next to it." "Jesus!" "They're not making cement, they're making explosives!" " Pass me to Foley!" " Foley is overseeing the operation." "They're heading into a trap." "We're seeing literally thousands of police heading into the sewer." "Mr. Mayor, literally thousands of police..." "It's just a training exercise, that's all." "Now, if you'll excuse me," "I've got tickets to watch our boys trash Rapid City." "Foley." "It's a trap." "Pull all of them out!" "Bane has been pouring concrete rings with explosives." "Where?" "There's a ring around the tunnels!" "They're gonna blow it and trap the cops underground!" "Pull them out." "Pull them out!" "Now!" "That's a lovely lovely voice!" "Let the games begin!" "Citizens, take control..." "Take control of your city!" " Foley!" " Jesus, Blake!" "Every cop in the city is down in those tunnels!" "Not every cop." "Sir, you're okay?" "I'm a police officer, I need your car right now." "Play the corners, rookie!" "Get the coat, son!" "This, this is the instrument of your liberation." "Satellite shows a radiation spike." "Whatever it is, it's nuclear." "Identify yourself to the world!" "Dr. Leonid Pavel, nuclear physicist." "Pavel was confirmed dead, plane crash on an agency pull out of Uzbekistan but it looks like it's him." "And what, what is this?" "It's a fully prime neutron bomb with a blast radius of 6 miles." "And who is capable of disarming such a device?" "Only me." "Only you..." "Thank you, good doctor!" "Now, this bomb is armed." "This bomb is mobile and the identity of the trigger man 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 sight of interference from the outside world, or from those people attempting to flee," "this anonymous Gotham-might, this unsung hero will trigger the bomb." "But now, martial law is in effect." "Return to your homes, hold your families closed and wait." "Tomorrow you claim what is rightfully yours." "Go back the fighters!" "Start high level reconnaissance flights." "Get the president on the line!" "Tanks and planes cannot stop us from detonating our device." "Send a negotiator to discuss terms of access for supplies and communication!" "How many of you are there, son?" "You don't have enough men to stop 12 million people leaving this island." "No, no we don't." "But you do." "And 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 on our own." "I have to get in front of a camera." "Well sir, 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 is not going to let that happen." " Then he'll show his true colors" " And you'll be dead." "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 shinning example of justice." "We'll just keep moving you until we get you in front of a camera." "You have been supplied with a false idol, to stop you tearing down this corrupt city!" "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 praise the mad man who tried to murder my own child, ' ' but 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?" "And do you accept the resignation of all these liars, of all the corrupt?" "Those men locked up for 8 years at Blackgate with denied parole under the Dent act, it was based on a lie?" "Gotham needed a hero." "It needs it now more than ever." "You betrayed everything you stood for." "There's a point, far out there when the structures fail you, and when the rules aren't weapons anymore with you... you shackle those, letting the bad guy getting in." "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 look pretty filthy to me, Commissioner." "We take Gotham from the corrupt." "The rich." "The oppressors who for generation 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, and start by storming Blackgate and freeing the oppressed!" "Step forward those who would serve." "To an army, a world will be raised." "The powerful will be ripped from their decadent years... and cast out into the cold world that we know and endure." "Courts will be convened." "Spoils will be enjoyed." "Blood will be shed." "The Police will survive as they learn to serve true justice..." "This great city... it will endure ...!" "Gotham will survive!" "He says you must first fix your back." "How does he know?" "He was the prison doctor." "A morphine addict, who incurred this pleasure of powerful people, including your mask friend." "How?" "Many years ago, it was a time of plague." "Some of the other prisoners attacked Bane." "The doctors humbling attempts to repair the damage left him in perpetual agony." "The Mask holds the pain at bay." "Bane was the child who struck out?" "He was born here?" "Legend is that there was a mercenary who worked for a local warlord." "He fell in love with the warlord's daughter." "They were married in secret, but the warlord found out." "The mercenary was condemned to this pit." "But then he exiled him instead." "The mess, I understood, that was the daughter that secured his release." "But what he could not know, was the true price of his freedom." "She took his place in the pit." "And she was with a child, the mercenary child." "Innocence cannot flower underground, it has to be stemmed out..." "One day, the doctor forgot to lock the cell." "But the child had a friend, a protector." "Who showed the others that this innocence was their redemption." "It was to be priced." "The mother was not so lucky." "This is Bane's prison now." "It wouldn't want this story told." "There's a vertebra protruding from your back." "It has to be put back." "Stay like this until you stand." "Could you not think I would return, Bruce?" "I told you I was immortal." "I watched you die!" "Oh there are many forms of immortality." "Once I had a wife." "My great love." "She was taken from me." "You were the mercenary." "Bane is your child, your heir." "I'm here to ensure the League of Shadow fulfills its duty to restore balance to civilization." "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 achieved was a lie." "Now, you understand?" "Gotham is beyond saving and must be allowed to die." "No!" " What's that?" " This was someone's home." "Now, it's everyone's home." "There's storm coming remember?" "That is what we wanted." "It's for the bus, in case there's a chance to evacuate." " Any news from the commissioner?" " The less you know father.." "How are the boys doing?" "Well we had more power on, so they get some TV." " It's good to see you father." " Blake, you be careful out there." "They're hunting down cops like dogs." " Why build yourself?" " I'm not meant to die in here." "Here or there, what's the difference?" "I told you it could not be done." "You told me a child did it." "But no ordinary child, a child born in hell," "forged from suffering, hardened by pain." "Not a man from privilege." "We got blues in the ground sir." "Just waiting on intel." " Do you have ID?" " Of course not." " How can we trust you?" " You don't have any choice." "Commissioner Gordon." "Captain Jones, Special Forces." " Captain, glad to have you here." " It's our job sir." "Now how many are there?" "Well there's dozens, I'd rather not say exactly." "But the men trapped underground, number almost 3,000." " What kind of condition are they in?" " They've been getting food and water." " Can we break them out?" " Yes, sir." "Take out the mercenaries guarding the outflows south of Ackerman Park, blow the rubble, we can make a hole big enough for 10 at a time." "Now I'm in contact with my partner who is down there." "They're just waiting for the day." "Commander, they haven't seen daylight for three months." "Police officers who haven't seen daylight in three months." "What about the bomb?" "The satellite can't pick up any radiation hot spots." "How they keep it on a truck?" "It must have a lead lined roof." " They're moving constantly." " Good, so you know the truck?" "Well it's one of those three, we've been tracking it." "Decoy." "You don't really think he's coming back, do you?" "Doesn't matter what I think." "Actually it does." "You should put your faith in something a little more more real." "But the routes don't vary much." " Ok." "What about the trigger man?" " No leads." "It's a bluff." "Bane wouldn't give control of that bomb to someone else." "We can't take that chance." "Until we have the trigger man, we just track the device." "And mean while, Gotham lives under a warlord?" "Like some failed state?" "Dial it back, officer." "The situation is unprecedented." "We can't do anything to risk millions of lives." "Can you tell them?" "Aren't you going to tell them what is actually going on?" "Captain, the situation is more complicated than you think." "There's someone you need to meet." "I came up stairs looking for a vantage point." "Found the people who run the corporation living up here." "What corporation?" "Wayne Enterprises." "Mr. Fox would you like to brief the captain?" "Now Ms. Tate is fully aware of the situation." "As the CEO of Wayne Enterprises, I have to take responsibility for it." " Why?" " We built it." "You built the bomb?" "It was build as a fusion reactor." "First of its kind" "Bane turned the core into a bomb, and removed it from the reactor." "That is the important part." "As the device's fuel cells deteriorates, 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 and the outside world choose to do." "So your peace-man plan may not be as practical as you thought." "Could you disarm it?" "I could reconnect it to the reactor to stabilize it." "Let's move away from this location and call it in." "Alright let's go!" "No, I'll take it from here." "You stay and look after these folks." "Someone sold us out." "I'd die before I talk." "How about a new schedule, Captain." " There were people living upstairs." " Round them up for judgment." "And hang them where the world can see." "He says the leap of freedom is not about strength." " My body makes the jump." " Surviving is spirit." "The soul." "My soul is as ready to escape as my body." "Fear is why you're afraid?" "No, I'm not afraid." "I'm angry." "Bruce..." "Why do we fall?" "You do not fear death." "You think this makes you strong?" "It makes you weak." "Why?" "How can you move faster than possible, fight longer than possible, without the most powerful impulse of the spirit?" "The fear of death." "I did fear death." "I fear dying in here, all my city burns, there's no one there to save it." "Then make the climb!" "How?" "As the child did." "Without the rope." "That fear will fright you again." "Ah surprise for your journey, oh that's wonderful, that's..." " What does that mean?" " Rise." "No." "There's been a mistake." "Take me to Bane!" "I want Mr. Bane." "Where is Bane?" "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." "Bane has no authority here." "This is merely a sentencing hearing." "Now choice is yours: exile or death?" " Exile." " Sold!" "The man in the cold sweat." "You follow the thick ice." "If you try to swim, you're dead in minutes." "So no one made it?" "Where the hell are they?" "It's not like we have a lot of time here." " How long?" " The bomb goes off tomorrow." "We have about 18 hours to do something." "To do what?" "To mark the truck." "Get a GPS on it, so we can start to figure out how to bring it down." "That's it." "Foley!" "Where is Foley?" "Damn it!" "You shouldn't be out in the streets." "Jim, he's not here." "You let your wife come to the door, when the city is under occupation?" "What did you do?" "Bury your uniform in the backyard?" "You saw what they did to the special forces." "Have you forgotten all the years we were out on patrol?" "When every gang banger wanted to plant one as soon as our backs were turned?" "Now is different and you know it." "This guys run the city." "The government has done a deal with them." "Bane's got their balls in a vice, that's not a deal." "If you move on Bane, the trigger-man is going to hit the button." "Do you think he's given control of that bomb to one of the people?" "You think this apart of some revolution?" "There's only one man with his finger on the button, that's Bane." "Look, we've all got to keep our heads down until they can fix this." "If you had family here..." "It'll only get fixed from inside the city." "Look Peter, I'm not asking you to walk down grand in you dress rules, but something has to be done." " I'm sorry, Jim." "I gotta..." " Keep your head down?" "What good that's going to do tomorrow when that thing blows." "You don't know that's gonna happen." "I hear you're looking for men Commissioner?" "How about me instead?" " Miss Tate, I can't ask to do that." " Please." " What did you take?" " Nothing." "I didn't take anything." "You steal from us?" "You little bastard." "Now you boys know you can't come in my neighborhood without asking politely." "Never steal anything from someone you can't outrun, kid!" "You're pretty generous for a thief!" " I thought they killed you." " Not yet." " If you're expecting an apology..." " It wouldn't suit you." "I need your help." " And why would I help you?" " For this. ' Clean Slate '." "You trust me with that, after what I did to you?" "I admit I was a little let down." "But I still think there's more to you." "In fact, I think that for you, this isn't just a tool." "It's an escape, right, you want to disappear, start fresh." "I can't even get off this island." "I could give you a way off once you to get me to Lucius Fox." "I need you to find out where they're holding him and take me in." " Why do you need Fox?" " To save the city." "Who says it needs saving?" "Maybe I like it this way." "Maybe you do." "But tomorrow that bomb is going off." "Get your powerful friend on the case?" "I'm trying, but I need Fox." "Once it approaches, flick the switch." "The needle hits 200, you give me the signal." "I'll will mark truck." "Okay?" "Heads up!" "Heads up!" " I got it!" " Mercenaries at your 6." "Stand still!" "Keep your hands where we can see them!" "Commissioner Gordon, you're under arrest." "On who's authority?" "People of Gotham." "No lawyer." "No witnesses." "What sort of due process is this?" "You guilt have been determined." "This is merely a sentencing hearing." "Now what will it be?" "Death or exile?" "Crane, if you think we're going out on to that ice willingly, you have another think coming." " Death then." " Looks that way." "Very well." "Death!" "By exile." "Bring her to me!" "Hey." "Going down." "Get things ready." "Let's gear on." "Spot this one on the spot." "Got a big day tomorrow." "We all do." "Not every day you bag Bruce Wayne!" " Bruce?" " You okay?" "You pick the hell of time to go on vacation, Mr. Wayne." "How long until that core ignites?" "That bomb goes off in 12 hours." "Unless we can reconnect it to the reactor." " Can you get Miranda out of here?" " Not tonight." "I'm sorry." " Do what's necessary." " Tonight I need you." " What for?" " To get me back in the game." "Sorry to spoil things boys but they want 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 on Bane or the bomb, the trigger-man sets it off." "But they won't use radio or cell, too much interference." "Infrared doesn't have the range." "It'll have to be a micro burst, long-range." " Could you block it?" " Yes." "But I need the EMP canon guidance mounted on the Bat." "Remember where you're parked?" " Does it fly okay?" " Yeah." "Even without the autopilot." "Thanks." "Autopilot?" "That's what you're there for." "Thing's clear." "Come on, quick!" "No time." "Lock it up!" "Who are you?" "Light it up!" "Mom check it out." "Honey, take a look!" "Impossible!" "Keep her close!" "He'll come for her." " Where's Miranda Tate?" " Bane took her." "He's hold up at city hall, surrounded by his army." "This blocks servo-detonator signal to the bomb." "Get it on to it before sunrise." "If I hit the button when it starts." " When what starts?" " War." "You missed this spy." "If you're working alone, wear a mask!" "I'm not afraid of being seen standing up against these guys." "The mask is not for you, it's to protect the people you care about." "Count to five and throw." "Hey no offense, but you got something bigger in that belt?" " What now?" " All out assault on Bane." "But you need to get people across the bridge." "Why?" "In case we fail." "Leave an exodus." "Save as many lives as you can." " You don't need me here?" " You've given me an army." "Now, go!" " Hey, thanks!" " Don't thank me yet." "Well I might not get the chance later." "You shouldn't have." "The main town tunnel is blocked by debris." "But the canon have enough fire power to make a path for people." "Wait until the fighting begins!" "You're gonna wage your word to save your stuck up girlfriend?" "To start it, throttle." "I got it." "We have 45 minutes to save the city." "No." "I've got 45 minutes to get clear of the blast radius." "Because you don't stand a chance against these guys." "With your help, I might." "I'll open that tunnel, but then I'm gone." "There's more to you than that." "Sorry to keep letting you down." "Come with me!" "Save yourself!" "You don't owe these people anymore." "You've given them everything." "Not everything." "Not yet." "Disperse!" "Disperse or be fired upon!" "There's only one police in this town," "Open fire!" " Here it comes." " Get ready!" "So you came back to die with your city!" "No." "I came back to stop you." "Now!" "That's impossible." "Come over the fifth!" "Oh, hang up." "Get on the bus, go ahead." "You come with me!" "You too!" "Hey you, you and you, come here!" "Everyone else get on the bus!" "Okay." "You guys, you're going to knock on doors and spread the word okay." "The bomb is gonna go off." "Then get out by the south Street tunnel, or over the bridge." "You go, you do two blocks, you get back to the bus." "Alright?" "Go!" "Go!" " Is he back?" " Keep your eyes open." "Go!" "Cover the doors!" "Where's your trigger?" "Where is it?" "You never gave it to any ordinary citizen." "Where is it?" "Where's the trigger?" "Where is it?" "Tell me where the trigger is." "Then, you have my permission to die." "I broke you." "How did you come back?" "You think you're the only one who could learn the strength to escape?" " Where's the trigger?" " But I never escaped." "But the child, the child of Ra's Al Ghul's, who made the climb." "But he's not the child of Ra's Al Ghul." "I am." "Although I'm not ordinary, I'm a citizen." "Miranda?" "Why?" "Thalia." "My mother named me Thalia before she was killed." "The way I would have been killed if not for my protector, Bane." "Good bye." "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 the doctor had their work to my friend, my protector." "The League took us in and trained us but my father could not accept Bane." "He saw only a monster, whose very existence was the 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." "He was trying to kill millions of innocent people." "Innocence is a strong word 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 slow 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 the deepest." "Please!" "Maybe that knife was too slow." "The truck is under attacked." "Gordon." "You gave him a way to block my signal" "No matter." "He's bought Gotham 11 minutes." "Come on!" "Stay back!" "What are you doing?" "Wait." "MCU, I'm getting these boys to safety." "You're going to get us all killed." "Anyone crosses this bridge, they'll blow up 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." "Ok go back by the bus and wait for me alright!" "Just go back and wait." "Prepare a convoy." "We must secure the bomb until it detonates!" "Don't kill him." "I want him to feel the heat." "Feel the fire of 12 million souls." "You failed!" "Good bye, my friend!" "Keep moving forward!" "Plague them in the stairs!" "Shoot them!" "Shoot them all!" "We both know that I have to kill you now." "You'll just have to imagine the fire." "About the whole no guns thing," "I'm not sure I feel as strongly about it as you do." "Pull up!" "Stay level." "We have to force the convoyees to the entrance of the reactor." "I need you underground." "I'll be in the air." "Go!" "The situation has changed!" "Your orders are out of date." "I'm a cop like you and I'm walking out there." "Please do not shoot me!" "Shoot at his feet." "Nothing like a little air superiority." "Detective, please stop!" "Please, detective!" "Stop!" "Stop walking!" "Blow it!" "Do it!" "You have to get that bomb here, and you've got ten minutes." "They're pushing us to the entrance of the reactor!" "They're gonna try to reconnect the core." "Idiots!" "You sons-of-bitches!" "You killed them." "To follow your orders!" "Alright boys get into circle, bow your heads." "It's on my side." "My father, these guys will go back on the bus." "Okay?" "Go!" "Go!" "Go!" "Back in the bus." "There's no where to go!" "On the bus!" "You've got to turn the truck East!" "Stay straight!" "Give me a hand!" "We can get a cable on it!" "Fox showed me how to override the reactor." "Oh dear." "Including the emergency flood." "There's no way this bomb will be stopped." "What are you doing?" "Protection from the blast!" "We're gonna be alright!" "Get on top!" "Go!" "It's an atom bomb!" "You think they need to hear that right now?" "To watch let them die without hope?" "Come on!" "Prepare yourself." "My father's work is done." " What are you doing?" " I can get it out over the bay." " Set it to fly over water and eject?" " No autopilot." "You could've gone anywhere, did anything but you came back here." " So did you." " I guess we're both suckers." " I never cared who you were." " And you were right." "Shouldn't the people know the hero who saved them?" "Hero can be anyone." "Even a man knowing something as simple and reassuring as putting a coat around a young boy shoulders to let him know the world hadn't ended." "Bruce Wayne?" "Vlad, they go!" "Go, you too!" "Come on father." "Hey heads down!" "This is it!" "No!" "That's Batman!" "That's detonation!" "It's out over the bay, it's clear of the city." "' I see a beautiful city ' ' and the brilliant people rising from this abyss. '" "' I see the lives, for which I lay down my life.'" "' Peaceful, useful, prosperous and happy. '" "' I see that I hold a sanctuary in their hearts '" "' And in the hearts of their descendents. '" "' Generations ends. '" "' That is the far, far better thing that I do... ' '... than I have ever done. '" "'That is a far, far better rest that I go to...'" "'... than I have ever known. '" "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 the structures becoming shackles." "You were right and I can't take it, the injustice." "I mean, no one ever's gonna know who saved the entire city." "They know." "It was the Batman." "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 remainders 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." "That they shall be used for one purpose and one purpose only:" "The housing and care of the city's at risk and orphan children." "I'm a clerk and I'll help anyone with the smaller correspondences and instructions." " Blake, John?" " Nothing here." "Alright," "Try my legal name." "You should use your full name." "I like that name, Robin." "Thanks!" "Why are we even worrying about stabilization software?" "This entire autopilot system is completely obsolete." "Please, I just need to know what I could've done to fix it." "But Mr. Fox it's already been fixed, software patch, six months ago." "Check The ID on the patch." "Bruce Wayne." " Any news on the missing item?" " Not yet." "We'd better leave no stone unturned, we can't leave a string of pearls on the manifest as lost." "Sub edited by: jcdr v1.0 03.08.2012"