The Dark Knight Rises Page #17

BATMAN:

Miss Kyle -?

But she is gone.

So that's what that feels like.

INT. BATCAVE - NIGHT

Alfred is studying security camera footage of Bane killing

at the stock exchange. A roar builds - the waterfall glows

brighter until...SMASH! The Bat breaches, downdraft spraying

water. Two cubes rise - the Bat lands, Batman jumps out.

Alfred brushes water off his suit.

ALFRED:

Very inconspicuous. Shall I tell

the neighbors you got yourself a

new leaf-blower?

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WAYNE:

We bought all the neighbors.

Alfred takes the cowl from him, then the cape, as they walk.

ALFRED:

From the look of the television

coverage, you seem to have your

taste for wanton destruction back.

WAYNE:

(pulls out USB drive)

I retrieved this.

ALFRED:

Shouldn't the police be gathering

the evidence?

WAYNE:

They don't have the tools to

analyze it.

ALFRED:

They would if you gave them to them

-

WAYNE:

One man's tool is another man's

weapon.

ALFRED:

In your mind, perhaps. But there

aren't many things you couldn't

turn into a weapon.

WAYNE:

Alfred. Enough. The police weren't

getting it done -

ALFRED:

Perhaps they would've if you

haven't made a sideshow of

yourself.

WAYNE:

Perhaps you're upset you were

wrong.

ALFRED:

Wrong?

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WAYNE:

You thought I didn't have it in me.

Alfred looks at him. Puts down the cape and cowl.

ALFRED:

You don't. You lead a bloated

police force on a merry chase with

some fancy new toys from Fox. What

about when you come up against him.

What then?

Alfred points to the monitor - Wayne sees Bane killing...

WAYNE:

I'll fight harder, I always have.

ALFRED:

When you had something to fight

for. What are you fighting for now?

Not your life.

Wayne moves to switch off the monitor. Alfred grabs his

hand.

ALFRED:

Take a good look. At his speed, his

ferocity, His training. I see the

power of belief. Of the fanatic. I

see the League of Shadows

resurgent.

WAYNE:

You said he was excommunicated.

ALFRED:

By R¯'s al Gh¯l. Who leads them

A U:

now?

WAYNE:

R¯'s al Gh¯l was the League of

A U:

Shadows. And I beat him. Bane's

just a mercenary, and we have to

find out what he's up to.

Wayne plugs the USB in, hits keys. Text scrolls.

WAYNE:

Trades of some kind. Coded...

The screen blanks, a thumb print appears.

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ALFRED:

Is that -?

WAYNE:

Mine. Courtesy of Selina Kyle.

Wayne pulls out the USB, rises.

Get this to Fox - he can crack the

code and tell us what trades they

were executing.

Alfred looks at Wayne. Takes the USB.

INT. HALL, WAYNE MANOR - CONTINUOUS (NIGHT)

As Wayne hits the bottom of the stairs, Alfred calls.

ALFRED:

I'll get this to Fox. But no more.

Wayne hears his tone of voice. Turns to him.

ALFRED:

I've sewn you up and set your

bones...but I won't bury you. I've

buried enough members of the Wayne

family.

WAYNE:

You'd abandon me?

ALFRED:

You see only one end to your story.

Leaving is all I have to make you

understand:
you aren't Batman

anymore - you have to find another

way. You used to talk about

finishing. About life beyond that

awful cave -

WAYNE:

Rachel died knowing we'd decided to

be together. That was my life

beyond this cave and I can't just

move on. She didn't. She couldn't.

Alfred considers this. Looks away.

ALFRED:

What if he had? What if she wasn't

intending to make a life with you?

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WAYNE:

She was, I can't change that -

ALFRED:

What if, before she died, she'd

written a letter? Explaining that

she'd chosen Harvey Dent over you?

Wayne watches, confused, as the old man prepares to say -

ALFRED:

And what if, to spare you

pain...I'd burned that letter?

Wayne stares at Alfred, shocked.

WAYNE:

Why would you say such a thing?

ALFRED:

Because I have to make you

understand.

WAYNE:

You're lying.

ALFRED:

Because you are as precious to me

as you were to your own mother and

father and I swore to them that I

would protect you and I haven't.

WAYNE:

You're lying!

ALFRED:

I've never lied to you. Except when

I burned Rachel's letter.

Wayne turns on the old man, furious.

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