Batman: The Dark Knight Page #9

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to other hospitals. My guess is we missed one.

Yeah? Well, what's your guess

about where Harvey Dent is?

Keep looking.

And keep it to yourself.

Now if anybody asks, we got him out.

Get the mayor's office on the line.

We're going to need the national guard.

Fifty people are missing,

including GCN's own Michael Engel.

I'm now being told that we're

cutting to a video GCN has just received.

I'm Michael Engel for Gotham Tonight. What

does it take to make you people want to join in?

You failed to kill the lawyer. I've got to

get you off the bench and into the game.

Come night fall this city is mine. And

anyone left here plays by my rules.

Mr. Fox, security is showing a

break-in at the RND department.

If you don't want to be

in the game. Get out now.

But the bridge and tunnel crowd

are sure in for a surprise. HA HA! HA HA!

Sweet Jesus!

Shouldn't you be out there?

Doing something?

It is my day off.

I got to take a leak.

Keep an eye out for me.

Now what? You need

someone to shake it for you?

Hello

Dent?

Jesus ... I thought

you was dead.

Half.

Who picked up Rachel, Wuertz?

Must have been Maroni's men.

Shut up!

Are you telling me that you're going to

protect the other traitor in Gordon's unit?

I don't know! He never told me.

Listen, Dent. I swear to God I didn't know

what they were going to do with you.

That's funny.

Because I don't know what's

going to happen to you either.

Beautiful, isn't it?

Beautiful, unethical, dangerous.

You've turned every cell phone

in Gotham into a microphone.

And a high-frequency generator receiver.

You took my sonar concept

and applied it to every phone in the city.

With half the city feeding you sonar

you can image all of Gotham.

This is wrong.

I've got to find this man, Lucius.

At what cost?

The database is null-key encrypted.

It can only be accessed by one person.

This is too much power for one person.

That's why I

gave it to you.

Only you can use it.

Spying on 30 million people isn't

part of my job description.

This is an audio signal.

It feeds off within range of any phone

the city you can triangulate its position.

I'll help you this one time.

But consider this my resignation.

As long as this machine is at

Wayne Enterprises, I won't be.

When you finish,

type in your name.

My office is looking over every

inch of the tunnels and bridges,

but with the Joker's threat

there are limited options.

And land routes east?

Backed up for hours.

We'll just release the ferries.

With thirty thousand ready to board.

Plus I want to use the ferries so I can

get some of those prisoners off the island.

The men you and Dent put away?

Those aren't people I'm worried about.

You should be. Whatever

the Joker's planning

it's a good bet that Harvey's

prisoners might be involved.

I want to get them out of here.

So where is Harvey?

We haven't found him.

Jesus ...

How long can you keep this quiet?

Don't stop for lights, cops, nothing!

Going to join your wife?

You love her?

Yes

You ever imagine what it would

be like to listen to her die?

Look take it up with the Joker. He killed

your woman. He made you ... like this.

The Joker's just a mad dog.

I want whoever let

him off the leash.

I took care of Wuertz. Who is your

other man inside Gordon's unit?

Who picked up Rachel? It must have

been someone she trusted.

Look, if I tell you

you'll let me go?

Can't hurt your chances.

It was Ramirez.

But you said ...

I said it couldn't hurt your chances.

You're a lucky man.

But he's not.

Who?

Your driver.

Hey, man! We should

be on that boat!

You want to ride a bus with them?

Be my guest.

Sir, they've stopped their engines.

Right. Get on the radio.

Tell them we'll come back and pick

them up once we dump the scum bags.

Liberty, this is Spirit. Come in.

What the heck was that?

Liberty, come in please. This is Spirit.

We have the same problem.

We lost both engines.

Fox. There's something going on

on the ferries.

Get down to the engine room now

Captain, we got a hundreds barrels

down there rigged to blow. And this.

-- Oh my God!

-- Looks like some kind of detonator.

Why would they give us the detonator

to our own bomb?

Tonight you are all going to

be part of a social experiment.

For the magic of diesel fuel

and ammonium nitrate,

I am ready right now

to blow you all sky high.

Liberty, come in. Over.

It's dead.

Anyone attempts to get

off their boat, you all die.

I'm zeroing in.

Each of you has a remote

to blow off the other boat.

The voice is on the ferry.

But it's not the source.

West!

-- Gordon.

-- I have the Joker's location.

Prewitt Building.

Put some along

the building offices.

At midnight I blow you all up.

If however one of you presses the

button, I'll let that boat live.

So whose it going to be? Harvey Dent's

most-wanted scum bag collection?

Or the sweet and innocent civilians?

You choose.

Oh! And you might want

to decide quickly because...

the people on the other boat

may not be quite so noble.

Stay back!

Well who are you to decide?

We ought to talk this over at least.

We don't have to die.

Those men had their chance.

We are not going to talk about this.

Why aren't we talking about it?

They're talking over the

same exact thing on the other boat.

Let's put it to a vote.

Hello?

Barbara. It's Anna Ramirez.

Jim needs you to pack up and

put the kids in the car right away.

But the unit's outside?

Those cops can't be trusted.

Jim needs you away from them

as soon as possible.

I'll call them off for ten minutes.

And you'll have to move fast.

Where am I supposed to take them?

Leave as soon as the patrol car pulls out.

Okay.

Did she believe you?

That's because she trusts you.

Just like Rachel did.

I didn't know ...

Didn't know what they were going to do?

You're the second cop

to say that to me.

What exactly did you

think they were going to do?

They got me early on. My mother's

hospital bills ...

Don't!

I'm sorry ...

You live to fight

another day, office.

We found the missing hospital bus.

And we have a hostage situation.

It's a shooting gallery. Why would he

choose a spot with such good windows?

We have clear shots on five clowns. The

snipers take them out, smash the windows,

A team repels in,

a team moves in by the stairwells.

Two, three casualties max.

Let's do it.

It's not that simple.

With the Joker it never is.

What's simple is that every second we don't take in those

people on the ferries get closer to blowing each other up

That won't happen.

Then he'll blow both of them up!

We don't have time for paper.

I want everybody to put their

votes on this piece of paper.

If anyone's got a pen pass it along.

We need to get the votes in quickly.

I need five minutes alone.

No! There's no time!

We have clear shots! Dent is in there

with them. We have to save Dent.

I have to save Dent!

Two minutes. Then we rush.

Fox, I need picture.

-- Hello?

Jim, we're in trouble!

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