The Dark Knight Rises Page #26

INT. LOCKER ROOM TUNNEL - CONTINUOUS

The Mercenaries pull out detonators. Bane listens to the

kickoff like a hunting dog sensing the wind...decides.

BANE:

Let the games begin.

The Mercenaries hit the detonators.

INT. SEWERS - CONTINUOUS

SWATs react - the tunnel roof behind collapses... Chunks of

concrete structure drop - thousands of police throughout

different tunnels are trapped...

EXT. GOTHAM STADIUM - CONTINUOUS

The crowd goes wild as a Receiver catches - starts a run -

the Mayor looks on, suddenly confused.

As the Receiver sprints for the end zone, the field behind

him DROPS away in smoking ruins, swallowing Players...

The crowd is not cheering but SCREAMING... The Mayor's box

EXPLODES...

101.

The Receiver, nearing the touchdown, glances back - sees

Armageddon - the entire field is now a smoking mass of

rubble, but for one strip of turf...Mercenaries pour out of

the tunnel, creating a gauntlet...

INT./EXT. CRUISER ON GOTHAM STREETS - CONTINUOUS

Blake's cruiser swerves to avoid eruptions of asphalt. An

eruption TOSSES Blake's cruiser onto its roof.

EXT. GOTHAM RIVER - CONTINUOUS

All bridges, except the Gotham Bridge, suffer controlled

demolitions.

INT. LOCKER ROOM TUNNEL - CONTINUOUS

Bane steps into the smoking stadium, a gladiator walking

into the arena...TV cameras swing onto him. Passing a dead

umpire, he takes the men's headset - surveys the screaming

crowd, lifts an arm for silence, raises the mike to his

mask.

BANE:

Gotham, take control of your

city...

INT./EXT. OVERTURNED CRUISER ON GOTHAM STREET - CONTINUOUS

Blake squeezes out of his cruiser, reaches in for the radio.

BLAKE:

Foley?

FOLEY:

(OVER RADIO)

Jesus, Blake! Every cop in the

city's down in those tunnels!

BLAKE:

(REALIZES)

Not every cop...

Blake pulls the shotgun from his cruiser - flags down a car.

102.

INT. HOSPITAL ROOM - CONTINUOUS

Gordon's heart-rate monitor alarms. Gordon wakes, groggy...

INT. HOSPITAL LOBBY - CONTINUOUS

Patients and Doctors crowd the entrance. mercenaries with

automatic weapons force their way in - hit the stairwell.

INT./EXT. CAR GOTHAM STREETS - CONTINUOUS

Blake drives, swerving around dazed and terrified people.

Flames and smoke billow from the sewers.

EXT. GOTHAM HOSPITAL - CONTINUOUS

Blake races up to the hospital entrance.

INT. CORRIDOR, GOTHAM HOSPITAL - CONTINUOUS

Two Mercenaries move room to room, searching.

INT. HOSPITAL ROOM - CONTINUOUS

Gordon pulls himself out of his bed, wheeling his IV.

INT. CORRIDOR, HOSPITAL - CONTINUOUS

Blake jumps into the corridor, gun raised. Shots echo down

the hall - Blake sprints.

INT. HOSPITAL ROOM - CONTINUOUS

Blake leaps into the room, gun high - freezes as warm metal

touches the base of his skull.

GORDON (O.S.)

Clear the corners, rookie.

Blake turns. Gordon holds his service weapon. The

Mercenaries are on the ground, dead.

GORDON:

Get my coat, son.

103.

EXT. GOTHAM STADIUM - CONTINUOUS

Mercenaries pull the glowing core onto the field.

BANE:

This is the instrument of your

liberation...

INT. PENTAGON WAR ROOM - CONTINUOUS

Analysts and military personnel assess the situation.

ANALYST:

Satellite shows a radiation

spike...

ANALYST 2

Whatever it is...it's nuclear.

EXT. GOTHAM STADIUM - CONTINUOUS

The Mercenaries thrust Dr. Pavel to his knees before Bane.

BANE:

Identify yourself to the world.

DR. PAVEL

Dr. Leonid Pavel, nuclear

physicist.

Bane turns Dr. Pavel's head for the cameras.

INT. PENTAGON WAR ROOM - CONTINUOUS

Armed Forces and Intelligence staff scramble to verify.

CIA ANALYST:

Pavel was confirmed dead - plane

crash on an Agency pull-out of

Uzbekistan... But it certainly

looks like him -

He points to a monitor with a photo of Dr. Pavel. An Air

Force General rubs his chin, thinking, nervous.

104.

EXT. SKIES ABOVE GOTHAM - CONTINUOUS

F-22's streak over the river, sizing up the island.

EXT. GOTHAM STADIUM - CONTINUOUS

Bane rests his powerful hand on Dr. Pavel's shoulder.

BANE:

Tell the world what this is.

DR. PAVEL

A fully primed neutron bomb. With a

blast radius of six miles.

BANE:

And who can disarm this device?

DR. PAVEL

Only me.

BANE:

Thank you, Doctor.

Bane snaps Dr. Pavel's neck in front of the world.

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