The Dark Knight Page #7

SELINA:

No. But my friend over there...?

Stryver looks at Selina's 'date' drooling into a bowl of

nuts at the bar - he looks familiar...

SELINA:

Every cop in the city's missing

him.

Across the bar, the TV on mute -

MANHUNT FOR MISSING CONGRESSMAN.

Stryver looks at Selina.

STRYVER:

Cute. But they're not gonna be

looking in a place like this.

SELINA:

I don't know... You did just use

his cell phone.

Stryver glances down at the cell phone as - SCREECH - the

Thugs look out the window at cop cars and SWAT units

descending on the bar. Stryver glances at the window and -

SMASH - Selina CRACKS his head against the table, grabs

25.

Second Thug's gun hand, flips over the table, firing at the

other Thugs, who drop. The SWATs batter down the door.

Selina crouches, cowering, screaming.

SWAT:

It's alright, Miss. Just stay down

-

The SWATs barrel past, chasing the remaining Thugs back

through the bar and out into the back alley. Selina smiles.

EXT. ALLEY BEHIND BAR - CONTINUOUS

The Thugs turn and open up on the SWATs with automatic

weapons.

INT. DIVE BAR - CONTINUOUS

Selina moves to the door. Spots the Congressman under the

bar, clutching his bleeding leg.

SELINA:

Keep some pressure on that,

sweetheart.

She adjusts her dress in the broken mirror behind the bar.

Moves for the door.

CONGRESSMAN:

(WEAK)

Call me?

EXT. DIVE BAR - CONTINUOUS

Selina waltzes out - right into Blake. She feigns panic.

SELINA:

There's a man in there - he's

bleeding!

BLAKE:

It's okay, Miss. It's okay.

Blake helps Selina down onto the tailgate of a SWAT truck.

He heads into the bar, weapon drawn. Selina slips behind the

truck and into the night.

26.

INT. DIVE BAR - CONTINUOUS

Blake enters, gun drawn. Spots the Congressman.

BLAKE:

(INTO RADIO)

I've got the Congressman - bullet

to the leg, but he's okay.

EXT. ALLEY BEHIND BAR - CONTINUOUS

The SWATs return fire. The Thugs lay down cover fire, then

race around a corner into a smaller passage.

A cop car pulls up, blocking the mouth of the alley - Gordon

jumps out, gun drawn.

The SWATs approach the passage, massing on both corners

tactically. The two corner SWATs exchange hand signals,

counting down... They round the corner, aiming low and high.

The passage is empty.

The SWATs cover a fire escape, but Gordon spots at once -

GORDON:

Manhole!

He races to the manhole cover - SWATs wrench off the cover,

Gordon grabs a flashlight from the nearest SWAT.

GORDON:

You three, down with me. You two,

head down to cover the next exit -

SWAT:

Where -?

GORDON:

Get the DWP down here, now!

Gordon starts climbing down the ladder...

INT. SEWERS - CONTINUOUS

Gordon moves down the tunnel, flashlight low. Three SWATs

fall in behind...

27.

EXT. ALLEY BEHIND BAR - CONTINUOUS

Blake comes into the alley. Cops surround the manhole.

COP:

Where's the DWP guy?

BLAKE:

They went down there?

FOLEY:

(shaking his head)

And Gordon took SWAT in after them.

INT. SEWERS - CONTINUOUS

Gordon hears a noise up ahead - pushes forward, rounds the

corner. BANG! GUNFIRE. SWATs return fire, shots sparking off

the concrete walls, then - BOOM - behind him the tunnel

ERUPTS IN FIRE, blasting the SWATs. Gordon races forward,

tearing through the tunnels.

EXT. ALLEY BEHIND BAR - CONTINUOUS

Blake jumps back as a fireball bursts out of the manhole.

INT. SEWERS - CONTINUOUS

Gordon races around a corner, gun drawn. A noise makes him

turn - WHACK, he is clobbered from behind by a Thug.

EXT. ALLEY BEHIND BAR - CONTINUOUS

Blake pushes forward.

BLAKE:

Come on, we gotta get down there -

COP:

That was a gas explosion, kid -

BLAKE:

Gas? This is a sewer!

FOLEY:

No one goes in there till we know

what's down there.

28.

BLAKE:

We know what's down there, sir. The

Police Commissioner!

FOLEY:

Somebody get the hothead out of

here. And get me a DWP guy!

Blake backs off. Gets an idea - goes for his patrol car.

INT. SEWERS - CONTINUOUS

Thug 1 flips Gordon onto his back.

THUG 1

This one's alive. (Looks closer.)

Jesus. It's the Police

Commissioner.

THUG 2

What do we do?

THUG 1

Take him to Bane.

The two Thugs drag Gordon down through the maze of tunnels.

As they descend deeper they encounter work crews of muscular

men wielding large drills and jackhammers, working the walls

and ceiling of the larger tunnels. Some of the men are armed

Mercenaries, overseeing gangs of homeless street kids. They

stare as Gordon is dragged past. The Thugs drag Gordon

between two waterfalls, into -

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