The Dark Knight Rises Page #10

WAYNE:

But all this new stuff?

FOX:

After your father died, Wayne

Enterprises set up fourteen

different defense subsidiaries.

I've spent years shuttering them

and consolidating all the

prototypes under one roof. My roof.

WAYNE:

Why?

FOX:

Stop them falling into the wrong

hands. Besides, I thought someone

might get some use out of them...

Wayne shakes his head.

FOX:

Sure I can't tempt you to

something? Pneumatic crampons?

Infrared lenses? Least let me get

you something for that leg.

WAYNE:

It's fine the use it gets these

days.

FOX:

Well, then I have just the thing

for an eccentric billionaire who

doesn't like to walk...

Fox opens a door - we glimpse a sleek vehicle. Wayne's eyes

light up.

37.

WAYNE:

Now you're just showing off.

FOX:

Defense Department project for

tight-geometry urban pacification.

Rotors configured for maneuvering

between buildings without

recirculation.

WAYNE:

What's it called?

FOX:

It has a long and uninteresting

Wayne Enterprises designation. So I

took to calling it the Bat. And

yes, Mr. Wayne, it does come in

black.

Wayne touches its sleek side. Marveling.

FOX:

Works great except for the

autopilot.

WAYNE:

What's wrong with that?

FOX:

Software-based instability. Take a

better mind than mine to fix it.

WAYNE:

Better mind?

FOX:

I was trying to be modest. A less

busy mind. Yours, perhaps.

Wayne looks wistfully at the machine. Turns away.

WAYNE:

I told you. I retired, Lucius.

INT. EXAMINATION ROOM, GOTHAM GENERAL HOSPITAL - NIGHT

Wayne listens, distracted, while a Doctor examines an X-ray.

DOCTOR:

I've seen worse cartilage in knees

-

38.

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 and

shoulders. Between that and the

scar tissue on your kidneys,

residual concussive damage to your

brain tissue and general

scarred-over quality of your

body... (Takes a deep breath.) I

cannot recommend that you go

heli-skiing. About the only part of

your body that looks healthy is

your liver, so if you're bored I

recommend you take up drinking, Mr.

Wayne.

Wayne smiles. The Doctor leaves. Wayne pulls on a ski mask,

steps to the window, hops up, pulls a wire from his cane,

which he clips to his belt. He props his cane behind the

frame - jumps out. The wire unspools from the cane as -

EXT. TENTH FLOOR, GOTHAM GENERAL HOSPITAL - CONTINUOUS

Wayne drops three floors...

INT. PRIVATE ROOM, GOTHAM GENERAL - CONTINUOUS

Gordon lies in his bed, hooked up to machines. Wayne, in ski

mask, stands over him. Gordon's eyes flutter open. He tries

to speak with a weak, hoarse voice...

GORDON:

We were in this together. Then you

were gone...

WAYNE:

The Batman wasn't needed anymore.

We won.

GORDON:

Built on a lie. Our lie. Now

there's evil rising from where we

tried to bury it. Nobody will

listen... The Batman has to come

back.

39.

WAYNE:

What if he doesn't exist anymore?

GORDON:

He must. He must.

INT./EXT. LAMBORGHINI ON GOTHAM STREETS - NIGHT

Wayne pulls up in front of a row of shabby subdivided town

houses. Checks a tracking device. Jon, provocatively

dressed, leads a Yuppie Banker-type in through a front door.

INT. SELINA'S APARTMENT - CONTINUOUS

Selina sits in a small room getting ready to go out. She

picks up the pearls - hears a disturbance in the hall.

JEN (O.S.)

I told you - money first -

YUPPIE (O.S.)

Goddammit, you took my wallet!

INT. STAIRWELL OUTSIDE SELINA'S APARTMENT - CONTINUOUS

The Yuppie has Jen against the wall - he reaches back to hit

her with an expensive wristwatch-clad arm. But Selina has

grabbed his wrist with a powerful grip.

SELINA:

Get out.

YUPPIE:

She took my wallet!

Selina twists his arm behind him in a blinding move.

SELINA:

Now.

She releases the Yuppie, who moves off down the stairs.

Selina turns to Jen. Who is examining a wallet.

SELINA:

I told you not to try it with the

a**holes, Jen.

JEN:

They're all a**holes.

40.

SELINA:

Okay, the a**holes who hit.

JEN:

I don't know what he's so upset

about, he only had sixty bucks in

here.

SELINA:

Probably the watch.

YOUNG WOMAN:

Watch?

Selina opens her hand and gives Jen the Yuppie's Rolex.

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