“I never cared who you were...” – Gordon, The Dark Knight Rises ... Movie Quotes Database

Gordon

[Selina and Gordon watch as Batman climbs into the Bat to carry the nuclear bomb out over the harbor.] [To Batman]

I never cared who you were...

Batman

And you were right.

Gordon

...but shouldn't the people know the hero who saved them?

Batman

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. [flies off with the bomb under the Bat]

Gordon

[Looking at the Bat as he remembers putting coat around a young Bruce Wayne; catches on]

Bruce Wayne?

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