The Dark Knight Rises Page #18

WAYNE:

How dare you use Rachel to stop me!

ALFRED:

I'm using the truth, Master Wayne.

Maybe it's time we all stopped

trying to outsmart the truth and

just let it have its day. I'm

sorry.

68.

WAYNE:

Sorry?! You expect to destroy my

world, then shake hands?!

ALFRED:

No. I know what this means -

WAYNE:

What does it mean, Alfred?!

ALFRED:

It means your hatred. It means

losing the person I've cared for

ever since I heard his first cries

echo through this house. But it

might also mean saving your life.

And that is more important.

Wayne looks at Alfred. Furious. Summons the worst thing to

say and says it quietly and calmly.

WAYNE:

Goodbye, Alfred.

ALFRED:

(QUIET)

Goodbye, Bruce.

Wayne mounts the stairs...Alfred watches him go. Turns.

INT. MASTER BEDROOM, WAYNE MANOR - MORNING

Wayne is woken by the doorbell.

INT. STAIRCASE, WAYNE MANOR - MOMENTS LATER

As Wayne moves through the empty house, tying his dressing

gown, he can't resist one tentative.

WAYNE:

Alfred?

But Alfred is gone.

INT. FRONT HALL, WAYNE MANOR - CONTINUOUS

Wayne opens the front door the find Fox. Fox is surprised.

69.

FOX:

Answering your own door?

WAYNE:

Yes. Could you decode the trades on

that drive?

Fox hands Wayne a newspaper - the main headline:

BATMAN BACK TO FOIL OR MASTERMIND STOCK RAID...

FOX:

I didn't need to. Page three.

Wayne turns the page:

WAYNE DOUBLES DOWN - AND LOSES...

FOX:

It seems you made a series of large

put options on the futures

exchange. Verified by thumb print.

The options expired at midnight

last night.

Wayne looks up from the newspaper, reeling.

FOX:

Long term we may be able to prove

fraud, but for now...you're

completely broke. And Wayne

Enterprises is about to fall into

the hands of John Daggett.

WAYNE:

The weapons - we can't let Daggett

get his hands on Applied Sciences -

FOX:

Applied Sciences is shut up tight,

and off the books. The energy

project is a different story.

WAYNE:

Miranda Tate. We need to convince

the board to get behind her. Let's

show her the reactor -

FOX:

We're meeting her there in

thirty-five minutes. You better get

dressed.

70.

EXT. WAYNE ENTERPRISES RECYCLING PLANT - DAY

A scrapyard on the Gotham river. Across the water, the

towers of Gotham. Lucius leads Miranda from her car.

MIRANDA:

You brought me out here to show me

a rubbish dump, Mr. Fox?

FOX:

Bear with me, Miss Tate.

They arrive at a Portakabin and enter.

INT. PORTAKABIN - CONTINUOUS

Miranda looks around the derelict office. Fox smiles at her.

FOX:

Keep your hands and feet inside the

car at all times.

He hits a button and the floor descends, Miranda is shocked

as the office becomes an elevator into -

INT. ELEVATOR, FUSION REACTOR - CONTINUOUS

They descend diagonally into a massive concrete tunnel...

MIRANDA:

This is it, isn't it?

FOX:

The reactor is beneath the river so

that it could be instantly flooded

in an event of a security breach.

MIRANDA:

Is Bruce Wayne really that

paranoid?

FOX:

I'm gonna plead the fifth on that

one.

Miranda marvels as they step off the elevator. She spots a

figure deep within: Bruce Wayne.

WAYNE:

I thought you might like to see

what your investment built.

71.

MIRANDA:

No radiation, no fossil fuels.

Free, clean energy for an entire

city.

WAYNE:

If it worked. It doesn't.

Wayne leads Miranda to the core. Two perpendicular rings of

electromagnets suspend a bowling-ball-sized mass of metal.

Wayne hits buttons - the ball glows, then dies to cold.

WAYNE:

Ignition, yes. But no chain

reaction.

MIRANDA:

You've built a lot of security

around a damp squib.

Nothing.

About three years ago a Russian

scientist published a paper on

weaponized fusion reactions. One

week later your reactor started

developing problems... (Looks at

Wayne.) I think this machine works.

WAYNE:

Miranda, if it were operational,

the danger to Gotham would be too

great.

MIRANDA:

Would it make you feel better to

know that the Russian scientist

died in a plane crash six months

ago?

WAYNE:

Someone else will work out what Dr.

Pavel did. Someone else will figure

out how to turn this power source

into a nuclear weapon. I need you

to take control of Wayne

Enterprises and this reactor.

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