CA CIA agent
At least you can talk. Who are you?
P Prisoner
It doesn't matter who we are. What matters is our plan.
[The agent pulls up the flap, revealing Bane with his mask]
No one cared who I was until I put on the mask.
CA CIA agent
If I pull that off, will you die?
It would be extremely painful...
CA CIA agent
You're a big guy.
CA CIA agent
Was getting caught part of your plan?
Of course! Dr. Pavel refused our offer in favor of yours. We had to find out what he told you.
Dr. Pavel Nothing! I said nothing!
CA CIA agent
Congratulations! You got yourself caught. Now what's the next step of your master plan?
Crashing this plane... WITH NO SURVIVORS!
JD John Daggett
What the hell is going on?
Our plan is proceeding as expected.
Daggett Oh, 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?
Daggett No. Stay here. I'm in charge.
[reaching for Daggett's neck]
Do you feel in charge? [Stryver exits]
Daggett I've paid you a small fortune!
And this gives you power over me?
Daggett What is this?
Your money and infrastructure have been important until now.
Daggett What are you?
I'm Gotham's reckoning, here to end the borrowed time you've all been living on.
The Daggett You're pure evil!
SK Selina Kyle
[Selina has brought Batman to a trap set by Bane]
I had to find a way to keep them from killing me.
You made a serious mistake.
Ah, not as serious as yours, I fear.
Let's not stand on ceremony here, Mr. Wayne.
[Batman throws a punch, but Bane blocks it.]
Peace has cost you your strength. Victory has defeated you.
I'll get 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 of the Wayne family.
You see 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 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 on. She didn't, she couldn't.
She didn't, 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 to 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 its day! I'm sorry.
You're sorry? You expect to destroy my world, and then think we're going to shake hands?
No... no, I know what this means.
[voice breaking]
It means your hatred... and it also means losing someone that I have cared for since I first heard his cries echo through this house. But it might also mean saving your life. And that is more important.
You got something you wanna 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. He murders those people, takes down two SWAT teams, breaks Dent's neck and then just... vanishes?
I'm not hearing a question, son.
Don't you wanna know who he was?
[Gordon looks at the broken Bat-Signal for a moment]
I know exactly who he was. He was the Batman.
[A masked Bruce Wayne visits Commissioner Jim Gordon in the hospital]
We were in this together, then you were gone.
The Batman wasn't needed anymore. We won.
Based on a lie. And now there's evil rising from where we tried to bury it. The Batman has to come back.
What if he doesn't exist anymore?
He must... He must...Batman must come back...
[Bane brings Bruce Wayne to his old underground prison]
Why didn't you just... kill me?
You don't fear death. You welcome it. Your punishment must be more severe.
Yes. But not of your body... Of your soul.
Home, where I learned the truth about despair, as will you. There's a reason why this prison is the worst hell on earth... Hope. Every man who has rotted 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 sea water from uncontrollable thirst, many have died trying. I learned here that 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 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 when you have truly understood the depth of your failure, we will fulfill Ra's al Ghul's destiny. We will destroy Gotham and then, when it is done, and Gotham is...ashes... then you have my permission to die.
[Bruce Wayne leaves a party and the valet seeks his ticket]
Must've lost my ticket.
VA Valet Attendant
Your wife said you were taking a cab home.
[Cuts to Selina Kyle driving away in Bruce's car; Alfred fetches him]
Just you, sir? [Bruce remains quiet] Don't worry, Master Wayne. Takes a little time to get back in a swing of things.
[Gordon and Blake watch Bane appear before Blackgate prison] [addressing media at the gate]
Behind you stands a symbol of oppression. Blackgate Prison, where a thousand men have languished under the name of this man, Harvey Dent, [holds picture of Dent] who has been held up to you as the shining example of justice!
Commissioner, we need to keep you moving until we can get you in front of a camera.
You have been supplied with a false idol [tears up picture] 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. [reads text of speech] "The Batman didn't murder Harvey Dent. He saved my boy, then took the blame for Harvey's appalling crimes so I could, to my shame, build a lie around this fallen idol. I praised the madman 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." [calls to prisoners] And do you accept this man's resignation? [prisoners roar with approval] And do you accept the resignation of all of these liars?! Of all the corrupt?!?
Those men locked up for eight years in Blackgate and denied parole under the Dent Act, based on a lie?
It needs one now more than ever. You betrayed everything it stood for.
There's a point, far out there, when the structures fail you. When the rules aren't weapons anymore, 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!!!
[disgusted]
Your hands look plenty filthy to me, Commissioner.
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. [one of Bane's captured Tumbler Cannons blows a hole in the prison's gates, allowing his followers inside] But start by storming Blackgate and freeing the oppressed! Step forward, those who would serve! For 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! Blood will be shed! The police will survive, as they learn to serve true justice. This great city... it will endure. Gotham will survive.
