The Dark Knight Rises Page #25

EXT. GOTHAM STADIUM - DAY

The Mayor, flanked by Security, talks to a crowd of

Reporters.

REPORTER:

We're seeing literally thousands of

police heading into the sewers -

MAYOR:

A training exercise, that's all. If

you'll excuse me, I've got tickets

to watch our boys thrash Rapid

City.

The Mayor heads into the stadium with the crowds...

INT. SEWERS - CONTINUOUS

Hundreds of SWATs wade, flashlights swinging, heading

towards the center... Teams are converging from different

entry points...

INT./EXT. CRUISER ON GOTHAM STREETS - CONTINUOUS

Blake is on the phone.

BLAKE:

I've been to half Daggett's cement

plants, logged locations they've

poured for underground

construction...

97.

GORDON (O.S.)

Anything strange about the

pourings?

Blake glances at a large map - dots mark pouring locations.

BLAKE:

Honestly, Commissioner, I don't

know anything about civil

engineering.

GORDON:

But you know about patterns. Keep

looking.

Blake pulls up in front of a cement plant.

INT. REACTOR PLANT - CONTINUOUS

Dr. Pavel finishes his work. Turns to Bane. Grave.

DR. PAVEL

It's done. This is now a

four-megaton nuclear bomb.

BANE:

(to his men)

Pull the core out of the reactor.

DR. PAVEL

(HORRIFIED)

You can't. This is the only power

source capable of sustaning it - if

you move it, the core will decay in

a matter of months.

BANE:

Five, by my calculations.

DR. PAVEL

And then it will go off.

BANE:

For the sake of your family, Dr.

Pavel, I hope so.

Dr. Pavel stares as Mercenaries start to disconnect the

core...

98.

EXT. CEMENT PLANT - CONTINUOUS

Blake is led through a fence by a Worker.

WORKER:

Boss is about to leave.

Blake walks past cement mixers. Spots someone. A Driver.

BLAKE:

Hey.

The Driver turns.

BLAKE:

That was you outside the stock

exchange, right?

DRIVER:

When?

BLAKE:

When? When half the city's cops

were trying to pull onto Castle

Street and your truck shut them

out.

DRIVER:

Oh yeah. You're that cop -

BLAKE:

Detective, now.

Behind Blake the Worker puts his hand is his pocket...

BLAKE:

And as a detective...I'm not

allowed to believe in coincidences

ANYMORE -

Blake spins, drawing his weapon. The Worker lunges with a

knife, Blake smashes his hand to one side and shoots him.

The Driver grabs him from behind. Blake wrestles, but the

Driver is strong, trained. Blake can't aim his gun, he fires

behind, into a steel mixer - the bullets ricochet, one

catches the Driver in the back and he goes down... Blake,

gasping, kneels beside the Driver.

BLAKE:

What were you doing?! What?!

The man dies. Blake looks down at his gun. Disgusted. Tosses

is down. Pulls out his phone. Dials.

99.

BLAKE:

Commissioner, I'm at the Fourteenth

Street plant with two dead

witnesses and a lot of questions.

Call me -

Blake freezes, stooped to pick up his gun. Looking at some

empty barrels...

Commissioner, they've got

Polyisobutylene here... (Looks

around.) And motor oil. They

weren't making cement, they were

making explosives -

INT./EXT. CRUISER OUTSIDE CEMENT PLANT - MOMENTS LATER

Blake grabs his carts - scanning the pattern of the dots -

realizes.

BLAKE:

Oh, God.

Blake fires up the cruiser and pulls out, hard.

INT./EXT. CRUISER ON GOTHAM STREETS - CONTINUOUS

Blake is driving furiously, shouting into the radio -

BLAKE:

Patch me into Foley!

DISPATCH:

(OVER RADIO)

Foley's overseeing the operation -

BLAKE:

They're heading into a trap!

EXT. MTA TUNNEL - MOMENTS LATER (DAY)

Foley, concerned, takes the radio from a colleague.

FOLEY:

Foley.

BLAKE:

It's a trap! Pull everyone out!

Bane's been pouring concrete laced

with explosives -

100.

FOLEY:

Where?

BLAKE:

There's a ring around the tunnels -

they're gonna blow it and trap the

cops underground!

Foley looks up with dread at the mouth of the tunnel.

FOLEY:

Pull out! Pull 'em out!

INT. BOILER ROOM - CONTINUOUS

Mercenaries rise from a hole in the floor - Bane emerges...

INT. GOTHAM STADIUM - CONTINUOUS

The Mayor, in a corporate box, mouths the National Anthem...

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