Most scenes together: Bruce Wayne/Batman & Henri Ducard/Ra's Al Ghul (8), Bruce Wayne/Batman & James Gordon (6), Bruce Wayne/Batman & Alfred (5)
Don't be afraid, Bruce. You're just an ordinary man in a cape. That's why you can't fight injustice, and that's why you can't stop this train.
Who said anything about stopping it?
You never learned to mind your surroundings.
Have you finally learned to do what is necessary?
I won't kill you. But I don't have to save you.
If you make yourself more than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal, then you become something else entirely.
Which is?
A legend, Mister Wayne.
You're stronger than your father.
You didn't know my father.
But I know the rage that drives you. That impossible anger strangling the grief, until the memory of your loved ones is just poison in your veins. And one day you catch yourself wishing the person you loved had never existed, so you'd be spared your pain. I wasn't always here in the mountains. Once I had a wife, my great love. She was taken from me. Like you, I was forced to learn that there are those without decency that must be fought without hesitation, without pity. Your anger gives you great power, but if you let it, it will destroy you, as it almost did me.
What stopped it?
Vengeance.
That's no good to me.
Why, Bruce? Why could you not avenge your parents?
Backup.
I'll get my car.
I brought mine!
Yours?
The Narrows is tearing itself to pieces.
This is just the beginning. If they hit the whole city with toxins, there's nothing to stop Gotham from tearing itself apart through mass panic.
How are they gonna do that?
They'll be using the train. The monorail follows the water mains along Gotham's central hub beneath Wayne Tower. If they get their machine into the station, it'll cause a chain reaction that'll vaporize the city's entire water supply.
Covering Gotham in this poison.
I'm gonna stop them from loading that train, but I may need your help.
What do you need?
Are you so desperate to fight criminals that you lock yourself in to take them on one at a time?
Actually, there were seven of them.
I counted six, Mr. Wayne.
How do you know my name?
The world is too small a place for someone like Bruce Wayne to disappear no matter how low he chooses to sink.
Who are you?
My name is merely Ducard, but I speak for Ra’s Al Ghul, a man greatly feared by the criminal underworld. A man who can offer you a path.
What makes you think I need a path?
Someone like you is only here by choice. You have been exploring the criminal fraternity, but whatever your original intentions, you have become truly lost.
And what path can Ra’s Al Ghul offer?
The path of a man who shares his hatred of evil and wished to serve true justice. The path of the League of Shadows.
You’re vigilantes.
No, no, no. A vigilante is just a man lost in the scramble for his own gratification. He can be destroyed or locked up. But if you make yourself more than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal, and if they can’t stop you, then you become something else entirely.
Which is?
A legend, Mr. Wayne. Tomorrow, you will be released. If you are bored of brawling with thieves and want to achieve something, there is a rare blue flower that grows on the eastern slopes. Pick one of these flowers. If you can carry it to the top of the mountain, you may find what you were looking for in the first place.
And what was I looking for?
Only you can know that.
Jessica The meeting's already started.
William Earle What meeting? [enters conference room, sees Fox distributing materials to board members seated around table] Fox? I seem to remember firing you.
You did. I got another job: yours.
Earle On whose authority?
Batman may have made the front page, but Bruce Wayne got pushed to page eight.
Earle What makes you think you can decide who's running Wayne Enterprises?
Well, the fact that I'm the owner.
Earle What are you talking about? The company went public a week ago.
And I bought most of the shares - through various charitable foundations, and trusts, and so forth. Look, it's all a bit technical, but the important thing is that my companys future is secure. [speaks slightly louder] Right, Mr. Fox?
Right you are, Mister Wayne. [turns to Earle, takes off glasses] Didn't you get the memo?
Where are you?!
He is in a vehicle.
Make and color?
It's a black... tank!
It's ok, they aren't going to hurt you.
[A masked and mounted Scarecrow leads the rampaging Arkham inmates.] Scarecrow Of course they are!
Crane?
No... Scarecrow!
I never stopped thinking about you, about us, and when I heard you were back I started to hope. [she kisses Bruce] Then I found out about your mask.
My mask's just a symbol, Rachel.
No. This is your mask. Your real face is the one that criminals now fear. The man I loved — the man who vanished — he never came back at all. Maybe he's still out there somewhere. Maybe someday, when Gotham no longer needs the Batman, I'll see him again.
Wait! You could die! At least tell me your name.
It's not who I am underneath, but what I do that defines me.
Bruce?
All creatures know fear.
Even the scary ones?
Especially the scary ones.
He is in a vehicle.
Make and color?
Uhh, it's a black.................tank.
