Bruce Wayne Quotes in Justice League (2017)

Bruce Wayne: [from trailer] I'm putting together a team of people with special abilities. See, I believe enemies are coming...

Barry Allen: Stop right there. I'm in.

Bruce Wayne: You are? Just like that?

Barry Allen: Yeah, I... I need... friends.

Bruce Wayne: Agreed.

Barry Allen: [holds up batarang] Can I keep this?

Diana Prince: [from trailer] He said he'll fight with us?

Bruce Wayne: More or less.

Diana Prince: More MORE or more LESS?

Bruce Wayne: Probably more less.

Diana Prince: He said no.

Bruce Wayne: He said no.

Barry Allen: What are your superpowers again?

Bruce Wayne: I'm rich.

Bruce Wayne: [from trailer] Arthur Curry. I hear you can talk to fish.

[from trailer]

Barry Allen: [from trailer] Look man, I don't know who you are, but whoever you're looking for...

Bruce Wayne: [throws a batarang at Barry, who steps back with super-human speed] So you're fast.

Barry Allen: That feels like an oversimplification

Victor Stone: I heard about you. Didn't think you were real.

Bruce Wayne: I'm real when it's useful.

Bruce Wayne: There is a... stranger. He comes to this village from the sea. He comes in the winter when people are hungry and brings fish. Comes out of the King tide. That was last night.

[Arthur Curry turns around]

Arthur Curry: Talk.

Bruce Wayne: [in the Flash's room] Barry Allen! Bruce Wayne.

Barry Allen: You said that like it explains why there's a total stranger sitting in the dark in my second favorite chair.

Diana Prince: People said the Age of Heroes would never come again.

Bruce Wayne: It has to.

Bruce Wayne: I believe that an enemy is coming from far away. I'm looking for warriors, this stranger. Others like him. I'm building an alliance to defend us. It's very important that I see this man.

Bruce Wayne: We have to be ready. You, me, the others... there's an attack coming from far away.

Diana Prince: Not coming, Bruce. It's already here. The others... where are they?

Barbara Gordon: Batman's been on the job for a very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very long time.

Bruce Wayne: He has aged phenomenally.

Bruce Wayne: We're criminals, Alfred. We've always been criminals. Nothing's changed.

Alfred: Oh, yes it has, sir. Everything's changed. Men fall from the sky, the gods hurl thunderbolts, innocents die. That's how it starts, sir. The fever, the rage, the feeling of powerlessness that turns good men... cruel.

Alfred: You're gonna go to war?

Bruce Wayne: That son of a bitch brought the war to us two years ago. Jesus, Alfred, count the dead... thousands of people. What's next? Millions? He has the power to wipe out the entire human race, and if we believe there's even a one percent chance that he is our enemy we have to take it as an absolute certainty... and we have to destroy him.

Alfred: But he is not our enemy!

Bruce Wayne: Not today. Twenty years in Gotham, Alfred; we've seen what promises are worth. How many good guys are left? How many stayed that way?

Clark Kent: Civil liberties are being trampled on in your city; good people living in fear.

Bruce Wayne: Don't believe everything you hear, son.

Clark Kent: I've seen it, Mr. Wayne. He thinks he's above the law.

Bruce Wayne: The Daily Planet criticizing those who think they're above the law is a little hypocritical, wouldn't you say? Considering every time your hero saves a cat out of a tree, you write a puff piece editorial about an alien who, if he wanted to, could burn the whole place down. There wouldn't be a damn thing we can do to stop it.

Clark Kent: Most of the world doesn't share your opinion, Mr. Wayne.

Bruce Wayne: Maybe it's that Gotham City and me... we just have a bad history with freaks dressed like clowns.

Alfred: You know you can't win this. It's suicide.

Bruce Wayne: I'm older now than my father ever was. This may be the only thing I do that matters.

Alfred: Twenty years of fighting criminals amounts to nothing?

Bruce Wayne: Criminals are like weeds, Alfred; pull one up, another grows in its place. This is about the future of the world. This is my legacy.

Bruce Wayne: Still working? You're getting slow in your old age, Alfred.

Alfred: It comes to us all, Master Wayne. Even you've got too old to die young, though not for lack of trying.

Bruce Wayne: You don't know me, but I've known a few women like you.

Diana Prince: Oh, I don't think you've ever known a woman like me.

Lex Luthor: Boys! Mm, Bruce Wayne meets Clark Kent. Ah, I love it! I love bringing people together! How are we?

[shakes Bruce's hand]

Bruce Wayne: Lex.

Lex Luthor: Hello. Good.

[turns to Clark]

Lex Luthor: Hi, hello.

[shakes Clark's hand]

Lex Luthor: Lex. It is a pleasure... Ow! Wow, that is a good grip! You should not pick a fight with this person.

Bruce Wayne: Excuse me, miss. The other night you took something that doesn't belong to you. Stealing's not polite.

Diana Prince: Is it stealing if you steal from another thief?

Diana Prince: A hundred years ago I walked away from mankind; from a century of horrors... Men made a world where standing together is impossible.

Bruce Wayne: Men are still good. We fight, we kill, we betray one another, but we can rebuild. We can do better. We will. We have to.

Diana Prince: The others like me... Why did you say they'll have to fight?

Bruce Wayne: Just a feeling.

Bruce Wayne: All the circuses back east, burying an empty box.

Diana Prince: They don't know how to honor him, except as a soldier.

Bruce Wayne: I've failed him... in life. I won't fail him in death. Help me find the others like you.

Diana Prince: Perhaps they don't want to be found.

Bruce Wayne: They will. And they'll fight. We have to stand together.

Diana Prince: A hundred years ago I walked away from mankind, from a century of horrors. Man made a world where standing together is impossible.

Bruce Wayne: Men are still good. We fight. We kill. We betray one another. But we can rebuild. We can do better. We will. We have to.

[scene of funeral ceremony and graffiti: IF YOU SEEK HIS MONUMENT LOOK AROUND YOU]

Diana Prince: The others like me. Why did you say they'll have to fight?

Bruce Wayne: Just a feeling.

Clark Kent: Mr. Wayne! Clark Kent, Daily Planet.

Bruce Wayne: Oh, my foundation's already issued a statement in support of, uh, books.

Clark Kent: I'm sorry?

Bruce Wayne: [watching Diana Prince walk away] Wow. Pretty girl, bad habit. Don't quote me, alright?

Bruce Wayne: I can't stay down here, Alfred.

Alfred: Go upstairs and socialize. Some young lady from Metropolis will make you honest.

[to self]

Alfred: In your dreams, Alfred...

Wallace Keefe: Mr. Wayne! Mr. Wayne! I can't feel my legs! I can't feel my legs.

Bruce Wayne: We need help over here!

Wallace Keefe: [grabs Bruce] Help me. I can't feel my legs.

Bruce Wayne: You're gonna be okay, you hear me? Wallace? What do they call you, Wally? Huh?

Wallace Keefe: You're the boss, boss.

Bruce Wayne: [comforting a crying girl] Don't worry, it'll be okay. I'll find your mommy for you. Where's your mommy.

[the girl points at a destroyed skyscraper, Bruce hugs her]

Bruce Wayne: Who are you?

Diana Prince: Someone interested in the same man you are.

Bruce Wayne: [Looking at an empty wine bottle] I hope the next generation of Wayne's won't inherit an empty wine cellar. Not that there's likely to be a next generation...

Bruce Wayne: I can't stay down here, Alfred.

Alfred: Go upstair and socialize. Some young lady from Metropolis will make you honest.

[Talking to himself]

Alfred: In your dreams, Alfred...

Bruce Wayne: [in his high rise apartment] The bandit, in the forest in Burma, did you catch him?

Alfred Pennyworth: Yes.

Bruce Wayne: How?

Alfred Pennyworth: We burned the forest down.

Bruce Wayne: [while in the underground bat cave] Targeting me won't get their money back. I knew the mob wouldn't go down without a fight, but this is different. They crossed the line.

Alfred Pennyworth: You crossed the line first, sir. You squeezed them, you hammered them to the point of desperation. And in their desperation, they turned to a man they didn't fully understand.

Bruce Wayne: Criminals aren't complicated, Alfred. Just have to figure out what he's after.

Alfred Pennyworth: With respect Master Wayne, perhaps this is a man that *you* don't fully understand, either. A long time ago, I was in Burma. My friends and I were working for the local government. They were trying to buy the loyalty of tribal leaders by bribing them with precious stones. But their caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a bandit. So, we went looking for the stones. But in six months, we never met anybody who traded with him. One day, I saw a child playing with a ruby the size of a tangerine. The bandit had been throwing them away.

Bruce Wayne: So why steal them?

Alfred Pennyworth: Well, because he thought it was good sport. Because some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.

Alfred Pennyworth: [as they leave the underground bat cave] I suppose they'll lock me up as well. As your accomplice...

Bruce Wayne: [jokingly] Accomplice? I'm going to tell them the whole thing was your idea.

Harvey Dent: [during the fundraiser party held for Harvey Dent] The famous Bruce Wayne. Rachel's told me everything about you.

Bruce Wayne: I certainly hope not.

Alfred Pennyworth: Will you be wanting the Batpod, sir?

Bruce Wayne: In the middle of the day, Alfred? Not very subtle.

Alfred Pennyworth: The Lamborghini, then.

[with deadpan sarcasm]

Alfred Pennyworth: Much more subtle.

Alfred Pennyworth: [while in the underground bat cave] Know your limits, Master Wayne.

Bruce Wayne: Batman has no limits.

Alfred Pennyworth: Well, you do, sir.

Bruce Wayne: Well, can't afford to know 'em.

Alfred Pennyworth: And what happens on the day that you find out?

Bruce Wayne: Well, we all know how much you love to say "I told you so."

Alfred Pennyworth: On that day, Master Wayne, even I won't want to. Probably.

Bruce Wayne: [while in the underground bat cave] People are dying, Alfred. What would you have me do?

Alfred Pennyworth: Endure, Master Wayne. Take it. They'll hate you for it, but that's the point of Batman, he can be the outcast. He can make the choice that no one else can make, the right choice.

Bruce Wayne: Well today I found out what Batman can't do. He can't endure this. Today you get to say "I told you so."

Alfred Pennyworth: Today, I don't want to.

[pauses for several moments]

Alfred Pennyworth: But I did bloody tell you.

Alfred Pennyworth: [looks at the large gash on Bruce's arm] Did you get mauled by a tiger?

Bruce Wayne: [quietly] It was a dog.

Alfred Pennyworth: Huh?

Bruce Wayne: It was a big dog!

[pause]

Bruce Wayne: More copycats last night, Alfred, with guns.

Alfred Pennyworth: Why don't you hire them and take the weekend off?

Lt. James Gordon: [after Bruce saves Reese by blocking a truck with his car] It's mister Wayne, isn't it? That was a very brave thing you did!

Bruce Wayne: Trying to catch the light?

Lt. James Gordon: You weren't protecting the van?

Bruce Wayne: Why, who's in it?

[Reese steps out, sees Bruce, who nods slightly]

Bruce Wayne: Do you think I should go to the hospital?

Lt. James Gordon: You don't watch a whole lot of news, do you, Mr. Wayne?

Bruce Wayne: ...Because sometimes truth isn't good enough. Sometimes people deserve more.

Bruce Wayne: [standing next to the storage drawers in the applied sciences division at Wayne Enterprises] How will it hold up against dogs?

Lucius Fox: We talking Rottweilers or Chihuahuas? Should do fine against cats.

Alfred Pennyworth: I trust you don't have *me* followed on my day off.

Bruce Wayne: If you ever took one, I might.

Bruce Wayne: [standing next to the storage drawers in the Applied Sciences division at Wayne Enterprises] What about getting back into the plane?

Lucius Fox: I'd recommend a good travel agent.

Bruce Wayne: Without it landing.

Lucius Fox: [smiles] Now that's more like it, Mr. Wayne.

Bruce Wayne: I knew the mob wouldn't go down without a fight. But this is different, they crossed the line.

Alfred Pennyworth: You crossed the line first, sir. You hammered then and in their desperation they turned to a man they didn't fully understand. Some men aren't looking for anything logical. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.

Bruce Wayne: [in an empty conference room] I need a new suit.

Lucius Fox: Yeah, three buttons is a little '90's, Mr. Wayne.

Bruce Wayne: I'm not talking fashion, Mr. Fox, so much as function.

[hands him a diagram]

Lucius Fox: You want to be able to turn your head.

Bruce Wayne: Sure would make backing out of the driveway easier.

Bruce Wayne: [in his high rise apartment] You know that day that you once told me about, when Gotham would no longer need Batman? It's coming.

Rachel Dawes: Bruce. You can't ask me to wait for that.

Bruce Wayne: It's happening now. Harvey is that hero. He locked up half of the city's criminals, and he did it without wearing a mask. Gotham needs a hero with a face.

Lucius Fox: [on the midlevel shopping center in Hong Kong] It emits a high-frequency pulse for mapping an environment and records a response time.

Bruce Wayne: Sonar. Just like a...

Lucius Fox: [interrupting before he can say "bat"] Like a *submarine*, Mr. Wayne. Like a submarine.

Lucius Fox: [On the plan to capture Lau] Now, for high altitude jumps, you'll need oxygen and stabilizers; but I must say, compared to your usual requests, jumping out of an airplane is pretty straightforward.

Bruce Wayne: And what about getting back into the plane?

Lucius Fox: I'd recommend a good travel agent.

Bruce Wayne: Without it landing.

Lucius Fox: Now that's more like it. The CIA had a program back in the 60s for getting their people out of hotspots called Skyhook. We could look into that.

Bruce Wayne: [after running into Harvey and Rachel at a restaurant] So, let's put a couple tables together.

Harvey Dent: I'm not sure they'll let us.

Bruce Wayne: [gestures to the waiters to rearrange the seats] Oh, they should. I own the place.

The Joker: You can't rely on anybody these days, you gotta do everything yourself, don't we? But that's okay, I came prepared. It's a funny world we live in; speaking of which, you know how I got these scars?

Bruce Wayne: No, but I know how you got these.

Natascha: How could you want to raise children in a city like this?

Bruce Wayne: [while having a fancy dinner with Harvey, Rachel] Well, I grew up in Gotham, and I turned out all right.

Bruce Wayne: You look tired, Alfred. You'll be all right without me?

Alfred Pennyworth: [looking at all the sunbathing women] You can tell me the Russian for, "Apply your own bloody suntan lotion."

[examining one of the gauntlets for his new and improved Batsuit, Bruce presses a button, and the spikes are launched across the room, narrowly missing Fox before they bury themselves in the wall]

Lucius Fox: Perhaps you should read the instructions first?

Bruce Wayne: [sheepish] Right.

Harvey Dent: Well, I guess no answer is a no.

Rachel Dawes: Harvey...

Harvey Dent: It's someone else, isn't it?

Rachel Dawes: Harvey...

Harvey Dent: Just tell me it's not Wayne, the guy's a complete...

[Bruce comes up behind him and grabs him in a chokehold]

Rachel Dawes: What are you doing?

Bruce Wayne: [as Harvey falls unconscious] They're coming for him!

[last lines]

Barbara Wilson: Partners?

Dick Grayson: Partners.

Bruce Wayne: Partners.

Alfred: We're going to need a bigger cave.

Bruce Wayne: Well, he's over-eager. He's impulsive. I can't trust him not to get hurt.

Alfred: Perhaps the truth is you really don't trust anyone.

Bruce Wayne: Oh, don't tell me you're on his side, again.

Alfred: Despite all your talents, you are still a novice in the ways of family. Master Dick follows the same star as you but gets there by his own course. You must learn to trust him, for that is the nature of family.

Bruce Wayne: I trust *you*, Alfred.

Alfred: But I shan't be here forever.

Bruce Wayne: Alfred, am I pig headed? Is it always my way or the highway?

Alfred: Yes, actually. Death and chance, stole your parents. But rather than become a victim, you have done everything in your power to control the fates. For what is Batman? If not an effort to master the chaos that sweeps our world. An attempt to control death, itself.

Bruce Wayne: [pause] But I can't, can I?

Alfred: None of us can.

Barbara Wilson: Alfred's sick.

Bruce Wayne: Alfred's not sick, he's dying.

Dick Grayson: Dying? Why didn't he tell us?

Bruce Wayne: You know Alfred, he wouldn't say anything, but I can tell.

Bruce Wayne: I'm not the marrying kind.

Bruce Wayne: I'm late for the dedication, then I go after Freeze and Ivy alone.

Dick Grayson: LIKE HELL YOU ARE.

Bruce Wayne: -Don't push me right now.

Dick Grayson: What? Nobody can face IVY but the big, bad Bat? YOU WANT HER FOR YOURSELF

Bruce Wayne: That's right, Dick. I want HER so much I can tastE IT. That's the whole point. She's done something to us. She has us fighting over her somehow.

Dick Grayson: I know she loves me and not you, and it's driving you crazy.

Bruce Wayne: Listen Dick, why do you think she's so desperate to kiss us? I bet her lips are poisoned.

Dick Grayson: A poison kiss? You don't understand. She understands how I feel.

Bruce Wayne: She has clouded your mind and you're not thinking straight.

Dick Grayson: I am thinking straight, for the first time in a long time. I want a Robin signal in the sky. I'm sick of being in your shadow.

Bruce Wayne: My father once told me, "To succeed, we need only pick a star and follow it."

Bruce Wayne: Friend... Partner... Brother... Will *you*... trust *me* now?

[Alfred misses the doorbell]

Alfred: I must have dozed off. My sincerest apologies.

Bruce Wayne: Oh, there's no apology necessary, Alfred. It's the first time it's happened in 30 years.

Blind Prisoner: You do not fear death. You think this makes you strong. It makes you weak.

Bruce Wayne: Why?

Blind Prisoner: How can you move faster than possible, fight longer than possible without the most powerful impulse of the spirit: the fear of death.

Bruce Wayne: I do fear death. I fear dying in here, while my city burns, and there's no one there to save it.

Blind Prisoner: Then make the climb.

Bruce Wayne: How?

Blind Prisoner: As the child did. Without the rope. Then fear will find you again.

Bruce Wayne: Why didn't you just... kill me?

Bane: You don't fear death... You welcome it. Your punishment must be more severe.

Bruce Wayne: Torture?

Bane: Yes. But not of your body... Of your soul.

Bruce Wayne: Where am I?

Bane: 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 ventured 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 clamoring 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

Selina Kyle: There's a storm coming, Mr. Wayne. You and your friends better batten down 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.

Bruce Wayne: You sound like you're looking forward to it.

Selina Kyle: I'm adaptable.

[In the pit]

Crowd: [chanting] Deshi basara! Deshi basara!

Bruce Wayne: What does that mean?

Prisoner: Rise.

Bruce Wayne: I watched you die.

Ra's al Ghul: I told you I was immortal.

Bruce Wayne: Must've lost my ticket.

Valet Attendant: Your wife said you were taking a cab home.

Bruce Wayne: My wife?

Lucius Fox: This conversation used to end with an unusual request.

Bruce Wayne: I'm retired.

Lucius Fox: Well let me show you some stuff anyway. Just for old time's sake.

Doctor: I've seen worse cartilage in knees.

Bruce Wayne: That's good.

Doctor: No, 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 on your kidneys, the residual concussive damage to your brain tissue, and the general scarred-over quality of your body, I cannot recommend that you go heliskiing, Mr. Wayne

Bruce Wayne: Right.

Bruce Wayne: Mind if I cut in?

[the old man who was dancing with Selina leaves, annoyed, as Bruce starts dancing slowly with her]

Bruce Wayne: Oh, you don't seem happy to see me.

Selina Kyle: You were supposed to be a shut-in.

Bruce Wayne: I felt like some fresh air.

Selina Kyle: Why didn't you call the police?

Bruce Wayne: I have a powerful friend who deals with things like this.

[notices the cat ears that are Selina's goggle lenses]

Bruce Wayne: That's a brazen costume for a cat burglar.

Selina Kyle: Yeah? Who are you pretending to be?

Bruce Wayne: Bruce Wayne, eccentric billionaire. Who's your date?

[referring the old man she was dancing with and who is now watching them]

Selina Kyle: His wife's in Ibiza. She left her diamonds behind, though. Worried they might get stolen.

Bruce Wayne: Mm. It's pronounced Ibeetha. You wouldn't want any of these folks realizing you're a crook, not a social climber.

Selina Kyle: You think I care what anyone in this room thinks of me?

Bruce Wayne: I doubt you care what anyone in any room thinks of you.

Selina Kyle: Don't condescend, Mr. Wayne. You don't know a thing about me.

Bruce Wayne: 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.

Selina Kyle: You don't get to judge me just because you were born in the master bedroom of Wayne Manor.

Bruce Wayne: Actually, I was born in the Regency Room.

Selina Kyle: I started out doing what I had to. Once you've done what you had to, they'll never let you do what you want to.

Bruce Wayne: Start fresh.

Selina Kyle: There's no fresh start in today's world. Any twelve-year-old with a cell phone could find out what you did. Everything we do is collated and quantified. Everything sticks.

Bruce Wayne: Is that how you justify stealing?

Selina Kyle: I take what I need to from those who have more than enough. I don't stand on the shoulders of people with less.

Bruce Wayne: Robin Hood?

Selina Kyle: I think I do more to help someone than most of the people in this room. Than you.

Bruce Wayne: I think maybe you're assuming a little too much.

Selina Kyle: Maybe you're being unrealistic about what's really in your pants other than your wallet.

Bruce Wayne: Ouch.

[Bruce, wearing a ski mask, visits Gordon's hospital room]

Jim Gordon: [lying in a hospital bed] We were in this together, and then you were gone.

Bruce Wayne: The Batman wasn't needed anymore. We won.

Jim Gordon: Based on a lie. Now this evil... rises from where we tried to bury it. The Batman has to come back.

Bruce Wayne: What if he doesn't exist any more?

Jim Gordon: He must... he must...

Gangbanger: [Two street thugs catch a little boy that has stolen an apple from them] You steal from us, you little bastard?

[Selina appears and twists his arm from behind]

Selina Kyle: You boys know you can't come into my neighborhood without asking politely.

[She cracks his arm, knocking the apple into her hand. The boy watches as she knocks both thugs out]

Selina Kyle: Never steal anything from someone you can't outrun, kid.

[takes a bite out of the apple, and tosses it to the kid, who takes it and runs off]

Bruce Wayne: Pretty generous, for a thief.

[Selina turns to see Bruce approaching]

Selina Kyle: I thought they killed you.

Bruce Wayne: Not yet.

Selina Kyle: If you're expecting an apology...

Bruce Wayne: It wouldn't suit you.

Bruce Wayne: I'm not afraid. I'm angry.

[from trailer]

Bruce Wayne: [to Lucius Fox] I need you to get me back in the game.

[Bruce arrives at a charity ball, and sits at the bar as he watches Selina dancing with an old man]

Miranda Tate: Bruce Wayne at a charity ball?

[Bruce turns to see Miranda wearing a small mask]

Bruce Wayne: Miss Tate, isn't it?

[Miranda takes off her mask]

Miranda Tate: Even before you became a recluse, you never came to these things.

Bruce Wayne: Proceeds go to the big fat spread. It's not about charity, it's about feeding the ego of whichever society hag laid this on.

Miranda Tate: Actually, this is my party, Mr. Wayne.

Bruce Wayne: Oh.

Miranda Tate: And the proceeds will go where they should, because I paid for the big fat spread myself.

Bruce Wayne: That's very generous of you.

Miranda Tate: You have to invest to restore balance to the world. Take our clean-energy project.

Bruce Wayne: Sometimes the investment doesn't pay off. I'm sorry.

Miranda Tate: 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.

[Miranda turns and walks off, and Bruce approaches Selina]

[Bruce straps braces onto his leg, grimacing with pain]

Alfred Pennyworth: Is it really painful?

Bruce Wayne: Well, you're welcome to try it, Alfred.

Alfred Pennyworth: Happy watching, thank you, sir.

[Fox takes Miranda to a recycling plant]

Miranda Tate: You brought me out here to show me this, Mr. Fox?

Lucius Fox: Bear with me, Miss Tate.

[leads her inside a portakabin]

Lucius Fox: Please keep hands and feet inside the car at all times.

[presses a button. The office floor descends like an elevator down a shaft]

Miranda Tate: This is it, isn't it?

Lucius Fox: The reactor is beneath the river so it could be instantly flooded in the event of a security breach.

Miranda Tate: Is Bruce Wayne really that paranoid?

Lucius Fox: I'm gonna plead the fifth on that one.

[When the elevator office stops, they find Bruce waiting in the reactor chamber]

Bruce Wayne: I thought you might like to see what your investment built.

Miranda Tate: 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.

Bruce Wayne: Miranda, if it were operational, the danger to Gotham would be too great.

Miranda Tate: Would it make you feel better to know that the Russian scientist died in a plane crash six months ago?

Bruce Wayne: 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 control of Wayne Enterprises and this reactor.

Miranda Tate: To do what with it?

Bruce Wayne: Nothing. Until we can guarantee its safety.

Miranda Tate: And if we can't?

Bruce Wayne: Decommission it and flood it.

Miranda Tate: Destroy the world's best chance for a sustainable future?

Bruce Wayne: If the world's not ready, yes.

Miranda Tate: Bruce, if you want to save the world you have to start trusting it.

Bruce Wayne: I'm trusting you.

Miranda Tate: Doesn't count. You have no choice.

Bruce Wayne: I could have flooded this chamber any time in the last three years. I'm choosing to trust you. Please.

Bruce Wayne: This city needs me.

Alfred: 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.

Bruce Wayne: You'll leave me?

Alfred: 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 a life beyond that awful cape.

Bruce Wayne: Rachel died believing that we would be together; that was my life beyond the cape. I can't just move on. She didn't, she couldn't.

Alfred: What if she had? What if, before she died, she wrote a letter saying she chose Harvey Dent over you? And what if, to spare your pain, I burnt that letter?

Bruce Wayne: How dare you use Rachel to try to stop me?

Alfred: 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.

Bruce Wayne: You're sorry? You expect to destroy my world and then think we're going to shake hands?

Alfred: No... no, I know what this means.

Bruce Wayne: What does it mean?

Alfred: 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.

Bruce Wayne: Goodbye, Alfred.

Alfred: [about Selina Kyle] You two should exchange notes over coffee.

Bruce Wayne: So now you're trying to set me up with a jewel thief?

Alfred: At this point, I'd set you up with a chimpanzee if it'd brought you back to the world!

Bruce Wayne: There's nothing out there for me.

Alfred: 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, to find someone...

Bruce Wayne: Alfred... I did find someone.

Alfred: I know, and you lost her. But that's all part of living, sir. But you're not living. You're just waiting, hoping for things to go bad again.

Bruce Wayne: If this man is everything that you say he is, then this city needs me.

Alfred: This city needs Bruce Wayne, your resources, your knowledge. It doesn't need your body, or your life. That time has passed.

Bruce Wayne: You're afraid that if I go back out there I'll fail.

Alfred: No. I'm afraid that you want to.

Alfred: If you're seriously considering going back out there, you should hear the rumors surrounding Bane.

Bruce Wayne: I'm all ears.

Alfred: 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.

Bruce Wayne: Bane.

Alfred: Right. Born and raised in hell on earth.

Bruce Wayne: Born in prison?

Alfred: 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.

Bruce Wayne: Bane was a member of The League of Shadows.

Alfred: And then he was excommunicated. And any man who is too extreme for Ra's Al Ghul is not to be trifled with.

Rachel Dawes: Wait! You could die. At least tell me your name.

[pause]

Bruce Wayne: ...It's not who I am underneath... but what I *do*... that defines me.

Rachel Dawes: ...Bruce?

[Batman turns and leaps off the roof]

[as Wayne Manor is burning down]

Bruce Wayne: What have I done, Alfred? Everything my family... my father built...

Alfred Pennyworth: The Wayne legacy is more than bricks and mortar, sir.

Bruce Wayne: I wanted to save Gotham. I failed.

Alfred Pennyworth: Why do we fall sir? So that we can learn to pick ourselves up.

Bruce Wayne: You still haven't given up on me?

Alfred Pennyworth: Never.

Bruce Wayne: You're vigilantes.

Henri Ducard: 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.

Bruce Wayne: Which is?

Henri Ducard: Legend, Mr. Wayne.

Alfred Pennyworth: Are you coming back to Gotham for long, sir?

Bruce Wayne: As long as it takes. I'm gonna show the people of Gotham their city doesn't belong to the criminals and the corrupt.

Alfred Pennyworth: In the depression, your father nearly bankrupted Wayne Enterprises combating poverty. He believed that his example could inspire the wealthy of Gotham to save their city.

Bruce Wayne: Did it?

Alfred Pennyworth: In a way. Their murder shocked the wealthy and the powerful into action.

Bruce Wayne: People need dramatic examples to shake them out of apathy and I can't do that as Bruce Wayne. As a man, I'm flesh and blood, I can be ignored, I can be destroyed; but as a symbol... as a symbol I can be incorruptible, I can be everlasting.

Alfred Pennyworth: What symbol?

Bruce Wayne: Something elemental, something terrifying.

Alfred Pennyworth: I assume that as you're taking on the underworld, this symbol is a persona to protect those you care about from reprisals.

Bruce Wayne: You're thinking about Rachel?

Alfred Pennyworth: Actually, sir, I was thinking of myself.

Alfred Pennyworth: Why bats, Master Wayne?

Bruce Wayne: Bats frighten me. It's time my enemies shared my dread.

Henri Ducard: Your compassion is a weakness your enemies will not share.

Bruce Wayne: That's why it's so important. It separates us from them.

Carmine Falcone: You're taller than you look in the tabloids, Mr. Wayne.

[one of Falcone's attendant bodyguards gives Bruce a rough going-over to check for weapons but comes up with nothing]

Carmine Falcone: No gun? I'm insulted! You could have just sent a thank-you note.

Bruce Wayne: I didn't come here to thank you. I came here to show you that not everyone in Gotham's afraid of you.

Carmine Falcone: Only those who know me, kid. Look around you: you'll see two councilmen, a union official, a couple off-duty cops, and a judge.

[points a gun at Bruce]

Carmine Falcone: Now, I wouldn't have a second's hesitation of blowing your head off right here and right now in front of 'em. Now, that's power you can't buy! That's the power of fear.

Bruce Wayne: I'm not afraid of you.

Carmine Falcone: Because you think you got nothing to lose. But you haven't thought it through. You haven't thought about your lady-friend down at the D.A.'s office. You haven't thought about your old butler. Bang!

[Falcone pulls the trigger, but the hammer falls on an empty chamber with a click; he puts the gun away]

Carmine Falcone: People from your world have so *much* to lose. Now, you think because your mommy and your daddy got shot, you know about the ugly side of life, but you don't. You've never tasted desperate. You're, uh, you're Bruce Wayne, the Prince of Gotham; you'd have to go a thousand miles to meet someone who didn't know your name. So, don't-don't come down here with your anger, trying to prove something to yourself. This is a world you'll never understand. And you always fear what you don't understand. Alright.

[Falcone gives his bodyguards a signal to remove Bruce; they take hold of him, and he struggles against their grip]

Carmine Falcone: Yeah, you got spirit, kid. I'll give you that. More than your old man, anyway. In the joint, Chill told me, uh, told me about the night he killed your parents. He said your father begged for mercy. Begged. Like a dog.

Enormous Prisoner: You are in hell, little man!

[punches Bruce Wayne]

Enormous Prisoner: And I am the devil!

[punches him again]

Bruce Wayne: You're not the devil. You're practice.

Valet: Nice car.

Bruce Wayne: You should see my other one.

Henri Ducard: Your parents' death was not your fault.

[Bruce attacks Ducard with his sword]

Henri Ducard: It was your father's.

[Bruce furiously attacks Ducard, but is easily defeated]

Henri Ducard: Anger does not change the fact that your father failed to act.

Bruce Wayne: The man had a gun!

Henri Ducard: Would that stop you?

Bruce Wayne: I've had training!

Henri Ducard: The training is nothing! The will is everything!

[Ducard bests Bruce once again]

Henri Ducard: The will to act.

Lucius Fox: [Bruce points to the Tumbler] The Tumbler? Oh you wouldn't be interested in that.

[Cuts to Bruce test driving the Tumbler on an indoor course, with Fox in the passenger's seat describing the vehicle]

Lucius Fox: She was built as a bridging vehicle. During combat, two of these would jump over a river, towing cables. Over here on the throttle, flip that open and throttle up. This will boost you into a rampless jump.

[Bruce goes to flip the throttle]

Lucius Fox: Not now! Not... not now, Sir!

[Bruce flips it back]

The Tumbler: Afterburner disengaged.

Lucius Fox: We never could get the damn bridge to work, but this baby works just fine.

[Bruce brings the Tumbler to a stop. He is very impressed]

Lucius Fox: So what do you think?

Bruce Wayne: Does it come in black?

Ra's al Ghul: Tomorrow the world will watch in horror as its greatest city destroys itself. The movement back to harmony will be unstoppable this time.

Bruce Wayne: You attacked Gotham before?

Ra's al Ghul: Of course. Over the ages, our weapons have grown more sophisticated. With Gotham, we tried a new one: Economics. But we underestimated certain of Gotham's citizens... such as your parents. Gunned down by one of the very people they were trying to help. Create enough hunger and everyone becomes a criminal. Their deaths galvanized the city into saving itself... and Gotham has limped on ever since. We are back to finish the job. And this time no misguided idealists will get in the way. Like your father, you lack the courage to do all that is necessary. If someone stands in the way of true justice... you simply walk up behind them and stab them in the heart.

Bruce Wayne: Everyone. Everybody.

[cinks his glass]

Bruce Wayne: I, uh... I wanna thank you all for coming here tonight and drinking all of my booze.

[the guests laugh]

Bruce Wayne: No, really. Uh... There's a thing about being a Wayne that... you're never short of a few freeloaders, like yourselves, to fill up your mansion with, so, here's to you people. Thank you.

Fredericks: That's enough, Bruce.

Bruce Wayne: Mm... I'm not finished. To all of you, uh, all you phonies, all of you two-faced friends, you sycophantic suck-ups who smile through your teeth at me, please leave me in peace. Please go. Stop smiling. It's not a joke. Please leave. The party's over. Get out.

Fredericks: The apple has fallen very far from the tree, Mr. Wayne.

Bruce Wayne: Well, a guy who dresses up like a bat clearly has issues.

Bruce Wayne: [as Alfred opens the curtains] Bats are nocturnal.

Alfred Pennyworth: Bats may be, but even for billionaire playboys, three o'clock is pushing it. The price of leading a double life, I fear. Your theatrics made an impression.

[shows the newspaper to Bruce]

Bruce Wayne: Theatricality and deception are powerful weapons, Alfred. It's a good start.

Alfred Pennyworth: If those are to be the first of many injuries to come, it would be wise to find a suitable excuse. Polo, for instance.

Bruce Wayne: I'm not learning polo, Alfred.

Alfred Pennyworth: Strange injuries a non-existent social life, these things beg the question as to what exactly does Bruce Wayne do with his time and his money.

Bruce Wayne: And what does someone like me do?

Alfred Pennyworth: Drive sports cars, date movie stars, buy things that are not for sale... who knows, Master Wayne? You start pretending to have fun, you might even have a little by accident.

Henri Ducard: Are you ready to begin?

Bruce Wayne: I-I can barely stand...

Henri Ducard: [kicks him] Death does not wait for you to be ready! Death is not considerate, or fair! And make no mistake: here, you face Death.

Bruce Wayne: [answers the phone] Bruce Wayne.

Earle: What makes you think *you* can decide who's running Wayne Enterprises?

Bruce Wayne: Well, the fact that I'm the owner.

Earle: What are you talking about? The company went public a week ago.

Bruce Wayne: And I bought most of the shares. Through various charitable foundations, trusts, and so forth - look, it's all a bit technical, but the important thing is that *my* company's future is secure.

[speaks up]

Bruce Wayne: Right, Mister Fox?

Lucius Fox: Right you are, Mister Wayne.

[Fox hangs up the phone, turns to Earle and takes off his glasses]

Lucius Fox: [with relish] Didn't you get the memo?

[Earle is speechless]

Lucius Fox: It's called memory cloth. Notice anything?

[Bruce runs the material through his fingers, and shrugs, "no."]

Lucius Fox: Regularly flexible. But put a current through it...

[the cloth springs into the shape of a one-person tent]

Lucius Fox: Molecules re-align, becomes rigid.

Bruce Wayne: What kind of shapes can you make?

Lucius Fox: Can be tailored to fit any structure based on a rigid skeleton.

Bruce Wayne: Too expensive for the Army?

Lucius Fox: I don't think they tried to market it to the billionaire, spelunking, BASE-jumping crowd.

Bruce Wayne: Look, Mr. Fox.

Lucius Fox: Yes, sir?

Bruce Wayne: If you're uncomfortable...

Lucius Fox: Mister Wayne, if you don't want to tell me exactly what you're doing, when I'm asked, I don't have to lie. But don't think of me as an idiot.

Bruce Wayne: Fair enough.

Ra's al Ghul: Have you finally learned to do what is necessary?

Bruce Wayne: I won't kill you.

[he throws two bombs, breaking a window and opening the back of the train car]

Bruce Wayne: ... But I don't have to save you.

[he spreads his cape and rises out the back of the car; the train plunges off the rails and explodes]

Earle: Jessica, where are you?

[walks into outer room]

Bruce Wayne: [to Jessica] Eye on the ball, and...

Earle: Why is no one answering the phone?

[sees Bruce from behind, teaching Jessica to play golf]

Bruce Wayne: [turning around] It's Wayne Enterprises, Mr. Earle, I'm sure they'll call back.

Earle: Bruce? You're supposed to be dead.

Bruce Wayne: Sorry to disappoint.

Bruce Wayne: [about the prototype Batsuit] Tear resistant?

Lucius Fox: This sucker will stop a knife.

Bruce Wayne: Bulletproof?

Lucius Fox: Anything but a straight shot.

Bruce Wayne: Why didn't they put it into production?

Lucius Fox: Bean counters didn't think a soldier's life was worth 300 grand. So, what's your interest in it, Mr. Wayne?

Bruce Wayne: I wanna borrow it. For, uh, spelunking.

Lucius Fox: Spelunking?

Bruce Wayne: Yeah, you know, cave diving.

Lucius Fox: You expecting to run into much gunfire in these caves?

Bruce Wayne: Look, I'd rather Mr. Earle didn't know about me borrowing...

Lucius Fox: Mr. Wayne, the way I see it, all this stuff is yours anyway.

Bruce Wayne: Have you told anyone I'm coming back?

Alfred Pennyworth: Well, I just couldn't figure the legal ramifications of bringing you back from the dead.

Bruce Wayne: Dead?

Alfred Pennyworth: You've been gone seven years.

Bruce Wayne: You had me declared dead?

Alfred Pennyworth: Well, actually it was Mr. Earle, he's taking the company public. He wanted to liquidate your majority shareholding. Those shares are worth quite a bit of money.

Bruce Wayne: Well, it's a good thing I left everything to you, then.

Alfred Pennyworth: Quite so, sir. And you can borrow the Rolls if you like. Just bring it back with a full tank.

Bruce Wayne: I'm sorry I didn't tell you, Rachel...

Rachel Dawes: No. No, Bruce, I'm sorry. The day Chill died I... I said terrible things.

Bruce Wayne: But true things. I *was* a coward with a gun. Justice is about more than revenge, so thank you.

Rachel Dawes: I never stopped thinking about you. About us. And when I heard you were back, I... I started to hope.

[She kisses Bruce]

Rachel Dawes: Then I found out about your mask.

Bruce Wayne: Batman's just a symbol, Rachel.

Rachel Dawes: [Rachel touches Bruce's face] No, 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. But maybe he's still out there, somewhere. Maybe some day, when Gotham no longer needs Batman, I'll see him again.

Henri Ducard: When you lived among the criminals, did you start to pity them?

Bruce Wayne: The first time I stole so that I wouldn't starve, yes. I lost many assumptions about the simple nature of right and wrong. And when I traveled, I learned the fear before a crime and the thrill of success. But I never became one of them.

Alfred Pennyworth: [referring to ordering the separate cowl pieces from Asia] They'll have to be, uh, large orders, uh, to avoid suspicion.

Bruce Wayne: How large?

Alfred Pennyworth: Say, uh, 10,000.

Bruce Wayne: Well, at least we'll have spares.

Alfred Pennyworth: Will you be heading back to Princeton after the hearing, sir, or can I persuade you to stay on for a day or two?

Bruce Wayne: I'm not heading back at all.

Alfred Pennyworth: You don't like it there?

Bruce Wayne: I like it fine. They just don't feel the same way.

Alfred Pennyworth: I've prepared the master bedroom.

Bruce Wayne: No. My room will be fine.

Alfred Pennyworth: With all due respect, sir, Wayne Manor is your house.

Bruce Wayne: No, Alfred, it's my father's house.

Alfred Pennyworth: Your father is dead, Master Wayne.

Bruce Wayne: And this place is a mausoleum. If I have my way, I'll pull the damn thing down brick by brick.

Alfred Pennyworth: This house, Master Wayne, has sheltered six generations of your family.

Bruce Wayne: Why do you give a damn, Alfred? It's not your family.

Alfred Pennyworth: I give a damn, because a good man once made me responsible for what was most precious to him in the whole world. Miss Dawes has offered to drive you to the hearing. She probably hopes to talk you out of going.

Bruce Wayne: Should I just bury the past out there with my parents, Alfred?

Alfred Pennyworth: I wouldn't presume to tell you what to do with your past, sir. Just know that there are those of us who care about what you do with your future.

Bruce Wayne: Haven't given up on me yet?

Alfred Pennyworth: Never.

[from teaser]

Bruce Wayne: They told me there was nothing out there, nothing to fear. But the night my parents were murdered I caught a glimpse of something. I've looked for it ever since. I went around the world, searched in all the shadows. And there is something out there in the darkness, something terrifying, something that will not stop until it gets revenge... Me.

[Alfred smashes a prototype cowl with a baseball bat]

Alfred Pennyworth: It's a problem with the graphite, sir. The next 10,000 will be up to specifications.

Bruce Wayne: At least they gave us a discount.

Alfred Pennyworth: Quite. In the, uh, meantime, Sir, may I suggest you try to avoid landing on your head?

Bruce Wayne: Don't turn around. You're a good cop, one of the few.

Jim Gordon: What do you want?

Bruce Wayne: Carmine Falcone brings in shipments of drugs every week, no one brings him down, why?

Jim Gordon: He's paid up with the right people.

Bruce Wayne: What will it take to bring him down?

Jim Gordon: Leverage on Judge Faden, and a DA brave enough to prosecute.

Bruce Wayne: Rachel Dawes.

Jim Gordon: Who are you?

Bruce Wayne: Watch for my sign.

Jim Gordon: You're just one man?

Bruce Wayne: Now we're two.

Jim Gordon: We?

[meeting someone introduced as Ra's al Ghul]

Bruce Wayne: You're not Ra's al Ghul. I watched him die.

Henri Ducard: [from behind Bruce Wayne] But is Ra's al Ghul immortal?

[Bruce turns around to face Ducard]

Henri Ducard: Are his methods supernatural?

Bruce Wayne: [to Ducard] Or cheap parlor tricks to conceal your true identity, "Ra's"?

Henri Ducard: Surely, a man who spends his nights scrambling over the rooftops of Gotham wouldn't begrudge me dual identities?

Bruce Wayne: I saved your life.

Henri Ducard: I warned you about compassion, Bruce.

Rachel Dawes: [looking at the ruins of the burned down Wayne Manor] What will you do?

Bruce Wayne: Rebuild it. Just the way it was, brick for brick.

Alfred Pennyworth: *Just* the way it was, sir?

Bruce Wayne: Yeah. Why?

Alfred Pennyworth: I thought this might be a good opportunity for improving the foundations.

Bruce Wayne: In the south-east corner?

Alfred Pennyworth: Precisely, sir.

Bhutanese Prison Guard #1: [as Bruce Wayne is being pulled away from a prison rumble by the guards] Solitary!

Bruce Wayne: Why?

Bhutanese Prison Guard #1: For protection!

Bruce Wayne: I don't need protection!

Bhutanese Prison Guard #1: Protection for them!

[shows the groaning prisoners Bruce has beaten up]

[Bruce is refusing to demonstrate his commitment to justice by executing a criminal]

Ra's Al Ghul: You cannot lead these men unless you are prepared to do what is necessary to defeat evil.

Bruce Wayne: And where would I be leading these men?

Ra's Al Ghul: Gotham. As Gotham's favored son you will be ideally placed to strike at the heart of criminality.

Bruce Wayne: How?

Ra's Al Ghul: Gotham's time has come. Like Constantinople or Rome before it the city has become a breeding ground for suffering and injustice. It is beyond saving and must be allowed to die. This is the most important function of the League of Shadows. It is one we've performed for centuries. Gotham... must be destroyed.

[after taking a ride in The Tumbler]

Lucius Fox: So, what do you think?

Bruce Wayne: [smiling] Does it come in black?

Lucius Fox: [Bruce Wayne is recovering after being poisoned by Scarecrow] I analyzed your blood, isolating the receptor compounds and the protein-based catalyst.

Bruce Wayne: Am I meant to understand any of that?

Lucius Fox: Not at all, I just wanted you to know how hard it was. Bottom line, I synthesized an antidote.

Bruce Wayne: Could you make more?

Lucius Fox: You planning on gassing yourself again, Mr Wayne?

Bruce Wayne: Well, you know how it is, Mr Fox. You're out at night, looking for kicks, someone's passing around the weaponized hallucinogens...

Lucius Fox: I'll bring what I have. The antidote should inoculate you for now.

Rachel Dawes: The DA couldn't understand why Judge Faden insisted on making the hearing public. Falcone paid him off to get Chill out in the open.

Bruce Wayne: Maybe I should be thanking them.

Rachel Dawes: You don't mean that.

Bruce Wayne: What if I do Rachel? My parents deserved justice.

Rachel Dawes: You're not talking about justice. You're talking about revenge.

Bruce Wayne: Sometimes they're the same.

Rachel Dawes: No, they're never the same, Bruce. Justice is about harmony. Revenge is about you making yourself feel better. Which is why we have an impartial system.

Bruce Wayne: Your system is broken.

Rachel Dawes: [Rachel makes a sharp turn] You care about justice? Look beyond your own pain, Bruce. This city is rotting. People talk about the depression as if its history, and it's not. Things are worse than ever down here. Falcone floods our streets with crime and drugs, preying on the desperate, creating new Joe Chills every day. Falcone not have killed your parents Bruce, but he's destroying everything they stood for.

[She parks in front of a building]

Rachel Dawes: You wanna thank him for that, here you go. We all know where to find him, but as long as he keeps the bad people rich and the good people scared no one will touch him. Good people like your parents who will stand against injustice, they're gone. What chance does Gotham have when the good people do nothing?

Bruce Wayne: I'm not one of your good people, Rachel.

Rachel Dawes: What do you mean?

Bruce Wayne: All these years I wanted to kill him.

[reveals his gun]

Bruce Wayne: Now I can't.

Rachel Dawes: [Rachel slaps him twice] Your father would be ashamed of you.

Ra's al Ghul: When a forest grows too wild a purging fire is inevitable and natural. Tomorrow, the world will watch in horror as its greatest city destroys itself. The movement back to harmony will be unstoppable this time.

Bruce Wayne: You've attacked Gotham before?

Ra's al Ghul: Of course. Over the ages our weapons have grown more sophisticated. With Gothan we tried a new one: economics. But we underestimated certain of Gotham's citizens... such as your parents. Gunned down by one of the very people they were trying to help. Create enough hunger and everyone becomes a criminal. Their deaths galvanized the city into saving itself and Gotham has limped on ever since. We are back to finish the job. And this time no misguided idealists will get in the way. Like your father you lack the courage to do all that is necessary. If someone stands in the way of true justice, you simply walk up behind them... and stab them in the heart.

[Bruce has been arrested]

Chinese Police Officer: [in Mandarin] He refuses to give his name.

Chinese Police Officer: Fool, what the hell do I care what your name is? You're a criminal.

Bruce Wayne: [in Mandarin] I'm not a criminal!

Chinese Police Officer: Tell that to the guy who owned these.

[Kicks a box with "Wayne Enterprises" stamped on it]

Maitre D: Sir, the pool is for decoration, and your friends do not have swimwear.

Bruce Wayne: Well, they're European.

Maitre D: I'm going to have to ask you to leave.

[Bruce starts to write a check]

Maitre D: It is not a question of money.

Bruce Wayne: [gives him the check] Well, you see, I'm buying this hotel, and uh, setting some new rules about the pool area.

Bruce Wayne: Give it a try!

[Alfred turns on the lights of the cave]

Alfred Pennyworth: Charming.

[looks up and sees thousands of bats]

Alfred Pennyworth: At least you'll have company.

Henri Ducard: You have learned to bury your guilt with anger. I will teach you to confront it, and to face the truth. You know how to fight six men. We can teach you how to engage six hundred. You know how to disappear. We can teach you to become truly invisible.

Bruce Wayne: Invisible?

Henri Ducard: [Ducard shouts in a different language and 2 people dressed in black flip down from the ceiling] A Ninja understands that invisibility is a matter of patience... and agility.

[Bruce Wayne begins to burn down Ra's Al Ghul's temple]

Henri Ducard: What are you doing?

Bruce Wayne: What is necessary, my friend.

Bruce Wayne: Yield.

Henri Ducard: You haven't beaten me. You've sacrificed sure footing for a killing stroke.

[he taps the ice with his sword, plunging Bruce into the water]

Soldier: Get in!

Henri Ducard: Are you so desperate to fight criminals that you lock yourself in to take them on one at a time?

Bruce Wayne: Actually, there were uh, seven of them.

Henri Ducard: I counted six, Mr. Wayne.

Bruce Wayne: How do you know my name?

Henri Ducard: The world is too small for someone like Bruce Wayne to disappear, no matter how deep he chooses to sink.

Bruce Wayne: Who are you?

Henri Ducard: My name is merely Ducard, but I speak for Ra's al Ghul, a man greatly feared by the criminal underworld. A man who could offer you a path.

Bruce Wayne: We need to send these people away now.

Alfred Pennyworth: Those are Bruce Wayne's guests out there, sir. You have a name to maintain.

Bruce Wayne: I don't care about my name.

Alfred Pennyworth: It's not just your name, sir! It's your father's name! And it's all that's left of him. Don't destroy it.

Alfred Pennyworth: When you told me your grand plan for saving Gotham, the only thing that stopped me from calling the men in white coats was when you said that it wasn't about thrill-seeking.

Bruce Wayne: It's not.

Alfred Pennyworth: What would you call *that*?

[points to a TV news report showing a helicopter shot of the Batmobile being chased down the freeway by police cars]

Bruce Wayne: [as he fixes his tie] Damn good television.

Alfred Pennyworth: It's a miracle no one was killed.

Bruce Wayne: Didn't have time to observe the rules of the road, Alfred.

Bruce Wayne: Gotham isn't beyond saving.

Bruce Wayne: They're planning on dosing the entire city with toxin.

Lucius Fox: [shaking his head] Water supply won't help you disperse an inhalant...

[pauses, realizing]

Bruce Wayne: What?

Lucius Fox: ...Unless you had a microwave emitter capable of vaporizing all the water in the mains. A microwave emitter like the one Wayne Enterprises just misplaced.

Bruce Wayne: "Misplaced?"

Lucius Fox: Earle just fired me for asking too many questions about it.

Bruce Wayne: I need you to go back to Wayne Enterprises right now and start making more of that antidote. I think the police are going to need all they can get their hands on, okay?

Lucius Fox: My security clearance has been revoked.

Bruce Wayne: Oh, that wouldn't stop a man like you now, would it, Mr. Fox?

Lucius Fox: [smiling] I suppose not.

[after getting thrown out of Falcone's restaurant, Bruce takes out his wallet, removes the cash, and throws the wallet into a drum fire. He then offers the cash to a homeless man]

Homeless Man: For what?

Bruce Wayne: Your jacket.

Homeless Man: Okay.

[as he takes it off, Bruce prepares to throw his own into the fire]

Homeless Man: Hey, hey, hey, let me have it. It's a nice coat.

[They switch coats]

Bruce Wayne: Be careful who sees you with that. They're going to come looking for me.

Homeless Man: Who?

Bruce Wayne: Everyone.

[He runs off]

Homeless Man: It's-it's a nice coat...

Bruce Wayne: You were on the board?

Lucius Fox: When your father ran things, yeah.

Bruce Wayne: You knew my father?

Lucius Fox: Oh, yeah. Helped him build his train. Ah, here we are. Kevlar utility harness. Gas-powered magnetic grapple gun. The three hundred and fifty pound test monofilament. Wonderful project, your dad's train. Routed it right into Wayne Tower along with the water and power utilities. Kind of made Wayne Tower the unofficial centre of Gotham City. Of course, Earle let it go to rot. Here we are. Nomex survival suit for advanced infantry. Kevlar biweave, reinforced joints.

Bruce Wayne: Good morning. I'm here to see Mr. Earle.

Jessica: [without bothering to look up from her desk] Name?

Bruce Wayne: Uh... Bruce Wayne.

Alfred Pennyworth: Master Wayne, you've been gone a long time.

Bruce Wayne: Yes I have.

Alfred Pennyworth: You look very fashionable. Apart from the mud.

Bruce Wayne: You're gonna destroy millions of lives.

Ra's al Ghul: Only a cynical man would call what these people have "lives," Wayne. Crime, despair... this is not how man was supposed to live. The League of Shadows has been a check against human corruption for thousands of years. We sacked Rome, loaded trade ships with plague rats, burned London to the ground. Every time a civilization reaches the pinnacle of its decadence, we return to restore the balance.

Rachel Dawes: The day that Chill died, I... I said terrible things.

Bruce Wayne: But true things. I *was* a coward with a gun. Justice is about more than revenge, so, thank you.

Rachel Dawes: [Bruce and Rachel haven't seen each other for years. Bruce is wet from swimming in a "pool" in the restaurant] Bruce?

Bruce Wayne: Rachel?

Rachel Dawes: I heard you were back. What are you doing?

Bruce Wayne: Uh, just swimming. Wow, it is good to see you.

Rachel Dawes: You were gone a long time.

Bruce Wayne: I know, how are things?

Rachel Dawes: The same. Job's getting worse.

Bruce Wayne: Can't change the world on your own.

Rachel Dawes: What choice do I have when you're too busy swimming?

Bruce Wayne: Rachel, all- all this, it- it's not me, inside, I am, I am more.

European supermodel: Come on, Bruce.

European supermodel 2: We have some more hotels for you to buy.

Rachel Dawes: Bruce, deep down you may still be that great kid you used to be, but it's not who you are underneath, it's what you *do* that defines you.

Bruce Wayne: Who is he?

[implying the man imprisoned in a wooden cage]

Henri Ducard: He was a farmer. Then he tried to take his neighbor's land and became a murderer. Now he is a prisoner.

Bruce Wayne: What'll happen to him?

Henri Ducard: Justice. Crime can not be tolerated. Criminals thrive on the indulgence of society's understanding.

Bruce Wayne: How are you feeling?

Rachel Dawes: Where are we? Why did you bring me here?

Bruce Wayne: If I hadn't, your mind would now be lost. You were poisoned.

Rachel Dawes: [trying to sit up] It was... it was Dr. Crane...

Bruce Wayne: [pushing her back down] Relax, Gordon has Crane.

Rachel Dawes: Is Sergeant Gordon your friend?

Bruce Wayne: I don't have the luxury of friends.

Henri Ducard: You are stronger than your father.

Bruce Wayne: You didn't know my father.

Henri Ducard: But I know the rage that drives you.

Henri Ducard: And do you still feel responsible for your parents' death?

Bruce Wayne: My anger outweighs my guilt.

Henri Ducard: Come.

Bruce Wayne: I will go back to Gotham and I will fight men like this, but I will not become an executioner.

Henri Ducard: Bruce, please! For your own sake. There is no turning back.

Lucius Fox: Well, what is it today? More spelunking?

Bruce Wayne: No. Today it's BASE-jumping.

Lucius Fox: BASE-jumping. That like parachuting?

Bruce Wayne: Kinda. Do you have any light-weight fabrics?

Lucius Fox: You know... I think I have just the thing.

Ra's al Ghul: You were my greatest student. It should be you standing by my side, saving the world.

Bruce Wayne: I'll be standing where I belong. Between you and the people of Gotham.

Ra's al Ghul: No one can save Gotham.

Rachel Dawes: Bruce, I don't suppose there's any way to convince you not to come.

Bruce Wayne: Someone at this proceeding should stand for my parents.

Rachel Dawes: We all loved your parents, Bruce. What Chill did is unforgivable.

Bruce Wayne: Then why is your boss letting him go?

Rachel Dawes: In prison, he shared a cell with Carmine Falcone, he learned things and he will testify in exchange for early parole.

Bruce Wayne: Rachel, this man killed my parents. I cannot let that pass. And I need you to understand that, please.

Old Asian Prisoner: Did you have dream?

Bruce Wayne: Nightmare.

Old Asian Prisoner: [indicating the prison around them] Worse than this?

Bruce Wayne: What's that?

Lucius Fox: The Tumbler? Oh, you wouldn't be interested in that.

Henri Ducard: Your anger gives you great power. But if you let it, it will destroy you. As it almost did me.

Bruce Wayne: What stopped it?

Henri Ducard: Vengeance.

Bruce Wayne: I thought the point of solitary confinement was the solitary part.

Henri Ducard: These men have mistaken you for a criminal, Mr. Wayne...

Earle: Happy birthday, Bruce.

Bruce Wayne: Mr. Earle. How did the stock offering go?

Earle: Very well. The price soared.

Bruce Wayne: Who was buying?

Earle: A variety of funds and brokerages - it's all a bit technical, but the key thing is, our company's future is secure.

The Joker: Tell me something, my friend. You ever dance with the devil in the pale moonlight?

Bruce Wayne: What?

The Joker: I always ask that of all my prey. I just... like the sound of it.

[shoots him]

Bruce Wayne: I know who you are. Let me tell you about this guy I know, Jack. Mean kid. Bad seed. Hurt people.

The Joker: I like him already.

[laughs]

Bruce Wayne: Now you know the problem was... he got sloppy. You know? Crazy. He started to lose it. He had a head full of bad wiring, I guess.

[Walks towards the fireplace]

Bruce Wayne: Couldn't keep it straight up here.

[Points to his head]

Bruce Wayne: He was the kind of guy who couldn't hear the train until it was 2 feet from him.

The Joker: Hmm.

[Smiles and nods his head]

Bruce Wayne: You know what happened to this guy, Jack?

The Joker: [Shakes his head]

Bruce Wayne: Well... he made mistakes. Then he had his

[grabs a poker and smashes a vase]

Bruce Wayne: LIGHTS OUT! Now you wanna get nuts? Come on! Let's get nuts.

Bruce Wayne: [Vicki goes to answer the front door; mouths] I'm Batman, I'm Batman.

[about one of his suits of armor]

Bruce Wayne: It's Japanese.

Knox: How do you know?

Bruce Wayne: Because I bought it in Japan.

Bruce Wayne: You're a real nice girl, and I like you a lot, but right now, shut up.

The Joker: Bruce... Wayne, n'est-ce pas?

Bruce Wayne: Most of the time.

Vicki Vale: He's really wonderful? He loves you a lot.

Bruce Wayne: Alfred's a great one. I Couldn't find my socks without him.

Bruce Wayne: You wanna get nuts? Come on! Let's get nuts!

Vicki Vale: I just gotta know, are we gonna try to love each other?

Bruce Wayne: I'd like to. But he's out there right now. And I've gotta go to work.

Bruce Wayne: Let me tell you about this guy I know. Jack. Mean kid. Bad seed. Hurt people.

The Joker: I like him already.

Alfred Pennyworth: Miss Vale called again. Dare I suggest that your present course of action might simply strengthen her resolve. She is quite tenacious.

Bruce Wayne: You're right about that.

Alfred Pennyworth: And if I may say so, quite special. Perhaps you could try telling her the truth.

Bruce Wayne: Y'see, my life is really... complex.

Vicki Vale: What about *your* family?

Bruce Wayne: Well, actually, Alfred is my family.

Vicki Vale: You know, this house and all this stuff really doesn't seem like you at all.

Bruce Wayne: Some of it is very much me. Some of it isn't.

Dick Grayson: All I can think about every second of the day is getting Two-Face. He took my whole life. And when I was out there tonight, I imagined it was him that I was fighting, even when I was fighting you. And all the pain went away. Do you understand?

Bruce Wayne: Yes, I do.

Dick Grayson: Good, cause you gotta help me find him. And when we do, I'm the one who kills him.

Bruce Wayne: So, you're willing to take a life.

Dick Grayson: Long as it's Two-Face.

Bruce Wayne: Then it will happen this way: You make the kill, but your pain doesn't die with Harvey, it grows. So you run out into the night to find another face, and another, and another, until one terrible morning you wake up and realize that revenge has become your whole life. And you won't know why.

Dick Grayson: You can't understand. Your family wasn't killed by a maniac.

Bruce Wayne: Yes, they were. We're the same.

Bruce Wayne: "We're 5 little items of an everyday sort. You'll find us all in a tennis court". In... A-E-I-O-U. Vowels.

Alfred Pennyworth: Not entirely unclever, sir, but what do a clock, a match, chess pawns, and vowels have in common? What do these riddles mean?

Bruce Wayne: Every riddle has a number in the question and they arrived at this order: 13, 1, 8, and 5.

Alfred Pennyworth: 13, 1, 8, and 5. What do they mean?

Bruce Wayne: Perhaps letters of the alphabet?

Alfred Pennyworth: Of course, 13 is M.

Bruce Wayne: 1 would be A, 8 would be H, and 5 would be E.

Alfred Pennyworth: M-A-H-E.

Bruce Wayne: Perhaps 1 and 8 are 18.

Alfred Pennyworth: 18 is R. M-R-E.

Bruce Wayne: How about Mr. E.?

Alfred Pennyworth: Mystery.

Bruce Wayne: And another name for mystery?

Alfred Pennyworth: Enigma.

Bruce Wayne: Mr. E. Nygma. Edward Nygma. Stickley's suicide was obviously a computer-generated forgery.

Alfred Pennyworth: You really are quite bright, despite what people say.

Dick Grayson: I need a name! Batboy, Nightwing, I dunno. What you think? What's a good sidekick name?

Bruce Wayne: How about Dick Grayson, college student?

Dick Grayson: Screw you!

Bruce Wayne: Just what the hell do you think you were doing?

Dick Grayson: You got a real graditiude problem, you know that Bruce? I need a name, Batboy? Nightwing? I don't know, help me out, what's a good side-kick name?

Bruce Wayne: How about: Dick Grayson; College Student.

Dick Grayson: Screw you. I just saved your life. You owe me.

Bruce Wayne: You were totally out of control, you're gonna get yourself killed.

Dick Grayson: You're looking at a new partner.

Bruce Wayne: [Aggravated] No!

Dick Grayson: Bruce. whenever you go out at night, I'll be watching. And wherever Batman goes, I'm gonna be right beside him. I mean, how you gonna stop me?

Bruce Wayne: [Stands up] I can stop you.

Dick Grayson: [Hands Alfred his costume] Al. Put this next to the Bat suit, where it belongs.

Alfred Pennyworth: [Bruce is with Chase when he contacts him] I'm sorry to bother you, sir. But I have some rather distressing news about Master Dick.

Bruce Wayne: What, is he all right?

Alfred Pennyworth: I'm afraid Master Dick has... gone traveling.

Bruce Wayne: He ran away?

Alfred Pennyworth: Actually, he took the car.

Bruce Wayne: He boosted the Jag?

Alfred Pennyworth: Not the Jaguar. The other car.

Bruce Wayne: The Bentley?

Alfred Pennyworth: No, sir. The other car.

Alfred Pennyworth: Master Bruce. Master Bruce. How are you, young man?

Bruce Wayne: You haven't called me that for a long time.

Alfred Pennyworth: Old habits die hard. Are you all right?

Bruce Wayne: Where's Chase?

Alfred Pennyworth: I'm afraid they've taken Dr. Meridian. Master Dick has run away. The cave has been destroyed. And there's another riddle.

Bruce Wayne: [Edward extends his had to shake Bruce's] Mister...?

Edward Nygma: Ohhhhh... Bruce Wayne.

Bruce Wayne: No, that's uh, *my* name. And you are?

Edward Nygma: Oh! Nygma. Edward... Edward Nygma. You hired me personally. We've never actually met, but your name is on the hiring slip. I have it.

Bruce Wayne: I'm gonna need that hand back, Ed.

Bruce Wayne: Oh! Yes, of course! I'm sorry. It's just that... you're my idol.

Fred Stickley: Back to work, Edward.

Edward Nygma: [yanks arm away] And *some* people have been trying to keep us apart

Fred Stickley: *Back to work, Edward*!

Bruce Wayne: It's okay. So, Mr. Nygma, what's on your mind?

Edward Nygma: Precisely! What's on all our minds? Brainwaves.

[giggles, running back toward his cubicle]

Edward Nygma: The future of Wayne Enterprises is brainwaves.

Fred Stickley: You'll have to forgive this, Mr. Wayne; I personally terminated this project this morning!

Bruce Wayne: It's okay.

Edward Nygma: [pops out with a high-tech contraption] I have it! Voila! Huh? My invention beams any TV signal directly into the human brain. By stimulating the neurons, manipulating brainwaves if you will, this device makes the viewer feel like they're actually inside the show! Why be brutalized by an uncaring world?

Bruce Wayne: Did you say manipulating brainwaves?

Edward Nygma: Well... uh... yes.

Bruce Wayne: Hmmm.

Edward Nygma: Not that someone like you would need this. Someone so... sophisticated... and intelligent. I just need additional funds and time for human testing. Let me show you, *please!*

Bruce Wayne: Now look, Ed. I'm going to need a full set of technical schematics on this, all right?

Edward Nygma: I want you to know we're gonna be full partners on this Bruce! Look at us! Two of a kind!

Bruce Wayne: You call my assistant Margaret, she'll set something up.

Edward Nygma: [grabs Wayne by the arm] Uhhhhhh... that's not gonna be good for me. I need an answer now. I think I deserve it.

Bruce Wayne: I'm sorry, Ed, then the answer's no. Stimulating neurons... tampering with people's brainwaves... it just raises too many questions. I'm sorry. Thanks, everybody, factory looks great; keep up the good work.

Fred Stickley: All right, everyone. Back to work...

[in Nygma's ear]

Fred Stickley: We'll *discuss this later*!

Edward Nygma: [watching Wayne leave] You were supposed to understand!... I'll *make* you understand.

Bruce Wayne: I was scared at first, but only at first.

Selina Kyle: A kiss under the mistletoe. You know, mistletoe can be deadly if you eat it.

Bruce Wayne: But a kiss can be even deadlier... if you mean it.

[silence as they realize each other's identities]

Selina Kyle: Oh, my God. Does this mean we have to start fighting?

Bruce Wayne: Let's go outside.

Selina Kyle: It's gonna be a hot time on the cold town tonight.

Bruce Wayne: You-you've got kind of a - kind of a dark side, don't you?

Selina Kyle: No darker than yours, Bruce.

Selina Kyle: [Selina walks Bruce to the elevator] You don't seem like the type who does business with Mr. Shreck.

Bruce Wayne: No, you don't seem like the type that takes orders from him.

Selina Kyle: Well, that's a... long story.

Bruce Wayne: You know, I could... free up some time.

[Bruce walks in elevator]

Selina Kyle: I'm listed.

Bruce Wayne: I'm tempted.

Selina Kyle: I'm working.

Bruce Wayne: [Elevator doors close] I'm leaving!

Bruce Wayne: Here's what I want you to do... tell Selina - tell Miss Kyle in there - tell her, uh, tell her I had to go out of town, a big business deal came up or some... no, you know what? Tell her, you know, not in some dumb, "be my girlfriend" kind of way...

Alfred: I will relay the message.

Bruce Wayne: Great.

[runs out]

Alfred: Miss Kyle...

Selina Kyle: Alfred, hi!

Alfred: Mr. Wayne told me to tell you...

Selina Kyle: Mr. Wayne? Oh, Bruce. Yes. Um, would you tell him for me that, uh, I've been going through a lot of changes, and... no. Um, just that this is not a rejection, my abruptly leaving. In fact, he makes me feel the way I hope I really am... no! Could you just make up a sonnet or something? A dirty limerick?

Alfred: One has just sprung to mind.

Selina Kyle: Thanks!

[runs out]

[last lines]

Alfred: Well, come what may. Merry Christmas, Mister Wayne.

Bruce Wayne: Merry Christmas, Alfred. Good will toward men... and women.

Alfred: Let's not forget about repairing the Batmobile. There's certain security to consider. It's not as though we can take it to any old "Joe's bodyshop," is it, sir?

Bruce Wayne: Security? Who let Vicki Vale into the Batcave? I'm sitting there working and I turn around, there she is. "Oh hi, Vick - come on in."

Bruce Wayne: [notices Selina's injuries] What happened?

Maximillian 'Max' Shreck: Did you injure yourself on that ski slope? Is that why you cut short your vacation and came back?

Selina Kyle: You know, it's... a blur. I-I mean, not complete amnesia. I-I-I - I remember Sister Mary Margaret puking in church and Betsy Riley saying it was morning sickness and I remember the time I forgot to wear my underpants to school and the name of the boy who noticed was Ricky Friedberg.

[smile vanishes]

Selina Kyle: He's dead now. But last night: complete blur. Couldn't you just die?

Bruce Wayne: [working on the Batcomputer. Alfred sets down a bowl of soup in front of him. He picks up the spoon and takes a sip, only to spit it out] Cold!

Alfred: It's vichyssoise.

Bruce Wayne: [stares, not knowing why it's important]

Alfred: It's *supposed* to be cold.

Bruce Wayne: The point is, Max, Gotham City has a power surplus. I'm sure you know that. My question is: what's your angle?

Maximillian 'Max' Shreck: Power surplus? Bruce, shame on you. No such thing. One can never have too much power. If my life has a meaning, that's the meaning.

Bruce Wayne: Yeah, well... I'm gonna fight you on this. And I've already spoken to the mayor and we see eye to eye, so...

Maximillian 'Max' Shreck: Mayors come and go. Blue bloods tire easy. You think you can go fifteen rounds with Muhammed Shreck?

Bruce Wayne: Well, I guess we're gonna find out. Course, I don't have a crime boss like Cobblepot in my corner, so it might...

Maximillian 'Max' Shreck: Crime boss? Shows what you know, Mr. to-the-manor-born-with-a-silver-spoon. Oswald is Gotham's new golden boy. If his parents hadn't eighty-sixed him, you two might've been bunkies at prep school!

Maximillian 'Max' Shreck: I'd offer you a coffee, but my assistant is using her vacation time.

Bruce Wayne: Good time, too. Everyone but the bandits will be slacking off till after New Year, anyway.

Bruce Wayne: You know what, I mistook me for somebody else.

Bruce Wayne: [reading news archives on the Red Triangle Circus] "Red Triangle Circus put on a swell show with fierce lions... circus returns with a Freak Show, may not be suitable for kids. Featuring a poodle lady, the world's fattest man... and an aquatic bird boy."

Alfred: Why are you so determined to prove this Penguin is not what he seems? Must you be the only lonely man-beast in town?

Bruce Wayne: [continues reading] "... circus folded its tents yesterday, perhaps forever after numerous reports of missing children. In several towns, police have closed down the Red Triangle's fairgrounds, however at least one freak show performer vanished before he could be questioned."

Alfred: I suppose you feel better now, sir.

Bruce Wayne: No, actually I feel worse.

Bruce Wayne: I don't want to hurt you. I don't want either of us to end up killing the other. But we're running out of alternatives. Perhaps it all hinges on tonight. I don't know what it was that bent your life out of shape, but maybe I've been there, too. Maybe we could work together. I could rehabilitate you. You don't need to be alone. We don't have to kill each other. Let me help you.

Bruce Wayne: All these years, and I don't know who he is any more than he knows who I am.

Alfred: Are you sure of that?

Bruce Wayne: What do you mean?

Alfred: I mean... Don't underestimate him.

Bruce Wayne: You're not like I am Barbara, it's still a game for you, still a thrill. I'm gonna ask you politely, one last time. Where is he?

The Joker: Why aren't you laughing?

Bruce Wayne: Because I've heard it before. And it wasn't funny the first time.

Mitch: I don't know where he is, I swear to God.

Bruce Wayne: Swear To *me*.

Bruce Wayne: I'm going to count to 10. 1... 9.

Bruce Wayne: I've been thinking lately about you. You and me. About how this is going to end. About who will end up killing who.

[At Bruce's parents' grave]

Bruce Wayne: It doesn't mean I don't care anymore. I don't want to let you down, honest, but... but it just doesn't hurt so bad anymore. You can understand that, can't you? Look, I can give money to the city - they can hire more cops. Let someone else take the risk, but it's different now!

[thunder and lightning]

Bruce Wayne: Please! I need it to be different now. I know I made a promise, but I didn't see this coming. I didn't count on being happy.

[thunder and lightning]

Bruce Wayne: Please! Tell me that it's okay.

Andrea Beaumont: [enters] Maybe they already have. Maybe they sent me.

[They embrace in the rain]

Arthur Reeves: [on TV] What kind of city are we running when we depend on the support of a potential madman!

[click]

Alfred: What rot, sir! Why you're the very model of sanity. Oh by the way, I pressed your tights and put away your exploding gas balls.

Bruce Wayne: Thank you, Alfred.

Andrea Beaumont: What's that you're practicing?

Bruce Wayne: Jujitsu.

Andrea Beaumont: Gesundheit... That was a joke.

[at Andrea's mother's grave]

Andrea Beaumont: So, tell me - with all that money and power, how come you always look like you want to jump off a cliff?

Bruce Wayne: Why do you care?

Andrea Beaumont: I don't. Mom was asking.

Andrea Beaumont: Hi. Hey, what happened to you? Trip over some loose cash? It's been three days since we met and still no calls. I figured you must be dead or something.

Bruce Wayne: You expect every guy you meet to call you up?

Andrea Beaumont: The ones who are smart enough to dial a phone.

[Bruce proposes to Andrea]

Andrea Beaumont: I never thought this would happen. I always felt like... like I'd thrown you a curveball, like you never knew what to do with me, because I wasn't in "The Plan".

Bruce Wayne: You are now. I'm changing the Plan.

[Bruce's crime-fighting training is derailed by his infatuation with Andrea]

Bruce Wayne: What am I doing, Alfred? This isn't part of the Plan! I must be going nuts!

Alfred Pennyworth: If I may be so bold, sir, I'd say quite the opposite.

[after meeting Sal Valestra]

Bruce Wayne: Is my shirt too big, or is that my flesh crawling?

Alfred Pennyworth: How many did I kill?

Bruce Wayne: Seven.

Alfred Pennyworth: But there were only four of the ruffians.

Richard Grayson: You killed three of them twice.

Alfred Pennyworth: Where are the bodies?

Bruce Wayne: We threw them out the window.

Bruce Wayne: Maybe you should go back to the hospital and wait for your uncle to call.

Linda Page: I'd like to find out what's going on.

Bruce Wayne: I'd like to find out how he did that disappearing act. I'd like to try that when the creditors come after me.

Richard Grayson: [referring to Linda] You're liable to carry that masquerade too far.

Bruce Wayne: Think so?

Richard Grayson: Yes, I do. Why don't you let her know who you really are instead of letting her think you're just a good-for-nothing playboy?

Bruce Wayne: Well, if she knew I was the Batman, she might worry - not that she cares anything about me. Besides, on account of special assignment from Uncle Sam, our success depends on keeping our ability to keep our identity a secret.

Richard Grayson: And suppose she asks about your status in the army?

Bruce Wayne: Oh, I'm only still a 4-F.

Bruce Wayne: [seeing Prince Daka] Oh, a Jap!

Dr. Tito Daka aka Prince Daka: [as Batman struggles against two zombies] It is useless to struggle. My zombies are too strong, even for a superior person like yourself to cope with.

Linda Page: You think we can catch them?

Bruce Wayne: Sure, I just hope we catch them before a speed cop catches us.

Bruce Wayne: How long until the rest of the Type 1 Batsuit is repaired?

Alfred Pennyworth: Not long sir. In the meantime, the Type 2 suit is ready.

Bruce Wayne: Okay. Thank you, Alfred.

Alfred Pennyworth: Indeed, sir. The first one got wrecked when you went head-to-head with Poison Ivy.

Alfred Pennyworth: Sir, would you like some water?

Bruce Wayne: How about some coffee? Or tea?

Alfred Pennyworth: Which do you prefer?

Bruce Wayne: It doesn't matter. Surprise me.

[last lines]

[Vickie receives a phone call from "Bruce Wayne" that is actually a recording]

Bruce Wayne: Vickie, I'm sorry, I can't keep our date. I need a vacation; I'm leaving town for a week. You understand, don't you?

Vicki Vale: Well, of course, Bruce. You must be completely worn out.

[to Batman]

Vicki Vale: You know, I thought I had discovered your identity, but I just found out I was wrong.

Batman: Really? Who did you think I was?

Vicki Vale: Bruce Wayne. Wasn't that silly?

Batman: Yes, wasn't it?

Amanda Waller: his is crown jewels here, Mr. Wayne. And you do understand my legal exposure. If anyone knew what I procured for you...

Bruce Wayne: Listen... I can keep a secret, okay? What do you want?

Amanda Waller: People are asking questions about Midway City. The kind of people who can get the answers. And if they can get those answers, my head will be on a pike.

Bruce Wayne: Consider yourself under my protection. If you deliver.

Amanda Waller: [hands him several files regarding metahumans] Why, Mr. Wayne?

Bruce Wayne: Just like to make friends.

Amanda Waller: There's the difference between us. You believe in friendship, I believe in leverage.

Bruce Wayne: Good night.

Amanda Waller: You look tired. You should stop working nights.

Bruce Wayne: You should shut it down, or my friends and I will do it for you.