The Dark Knight Rises Page #12

WAYNE:

Maybe you're assuming too much.

SELINA:

Or maybe you're being unrealistic

about what's really in your pants

other than your wallet.

WAYNE:

Ouch.

SELINA:

You think all this can last?

Wayne glances around at the sumptuous party.

SELINA:

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 to the

rest of us.

WAYNE:

Sounds like you're looking forward

to it.

45.

SELINA:

I'm adaptable.

WAYNE:

These pearls do look better on you

then they did in my safe...

Wayne rolls her into his shoulder - reaches up to the back

of her neck, unclasps the necklace.

But I still can't let you keep

them.

The pearls slide off her neck into his other hand. Selina

looks at him. Angry. Then kisses him, hard, and disappears

into the crowd. Wayne's cane reappears.

RICH TWIT:

(ANNOYED)

You scared her off.

WAYNE:

Not likely.

EXT. MUSEUM - MOMENTS LATER

Wayne approaches the Valet. Pats down his pockets.

WAYNE:

I must have lost my ticket -

VALET:

Your wife said you were taking a

cab home, sir.

WAYNE:

My wife?

INT./EXT. LAMBORGHINI RACING DOWN STREETS - CONTINUOUS

Selina permits herself a little smile as she guns the

engine.

INT. ROLLS ROYCE - LATER

Alfred watches in the mirror as Wayne climbs into the back.

ALFRED:

Just you, sir?

Wayne gives him a withering glare.

(MORE)

46.

ALFRED (CONT'D)

Don't worry, Master Wayne. Takes a

little time to get back into the

swing of things.

Wayne dials his phone.

FOX (O.S.)

This is Fox.

WAYNE:

Remember those 'unusual requests' I

used to make?

FOX (O.S.)

I knew it!

Up front, Alfred listens. Concerned.

INT. BATCAVE - DAY

Wayne pushes a button on a hi-tech carbon fiber brace

strapped to his good knee - the brace tones. As Wayne starts

moving his knee, bending, stretching, Alfred puts down a

Thermos.

ALFRED:

You've got the wrong leg, sir.

WAYNE:

You start with the good limb so it

learns your optimum muscle

patterns.

Wayne swaps the brace to his bad knee. Puts his weight on it

- the knee bends, kicks. He sits again. Cautious.

Now we tighten it up.

Wayne gingerly pushes a button - the brace starts to shrink

tight to his leg, digging in. Wayne grits his teeth.

ALFRED:

It is terribly painful?

WAYNE:

(GRITTED TEETH)

You're welcome to try it, Alfred.

ALFRED:

Happy watching, thank you, sir.

Wayne shouts as the brace clicks home. He gets to his feet.

47.

WAYNE:

Not bad -

Wayne executes a perfect roundhouse, knocking out a brick.

Not bad at all.

Alfred picks up the brick. Considers it. Uneasy. He follows

Wayne across the bridge to the cube.

ALFRED:

Master Wayne, if you're considering

going back out there you need to

hear some rumors surrounding Bane.

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.

WAYNE:

Bane.

ALFRED:

Born and raised in a hell on earth.

WAYNE:

Born in a prison?

ALFRED:

No one knows why. Or how he

escaped. But they know who trained

him one he did...R¯'s al Gh¯l. Your

A U:

mentor.

Wayne takes this in. Shocked.

ALFRED:

He plucked Bane from a dark corner

of the earth and trained him in the

blackest disciplines of combat,

deception and endurance. Just like

you.

WAYNE:

Bane was a member of the League of

Shadows.

48.

ALFRED:

Until he was excommunicated. And a

man considered too extreme for R¯'s

A:

al Gh¯l is not to be trifled with.

U:

WAYNE:

I didn't realize I was known for

trifling with criminals.

ALFRED:

That was then. And you can strap up

your leg and put the mask back on.

But it won't make you what you

were.

WAYNE:

Which was?

ALFRED:

Someone whose anger at death made

him value all life. Even his own.

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