The Dark Knight Rises Page #28

Bane drops the burning picture.

BANE:

Let me tell you the truth about

Harvey Dent. In the words of

Gotham's Police Commissioner, James

Gordon...

INT. BLAKE'S APARTMENT - CONTINUOUS

This gets Blake's attention. Gordon watches, uneasy...

EXT. BLACKGATE PRISON - CONTINUOUS

Bane unfolds the pages of Gordon's undelivered speech...

BANE:

'The truth about Harvey Dent is

simple in only one regard - it has

been hidden for too long. After his

devastating injuries, Harvey's mind

has recovered no better than his

mutilated face. He was a broken,

dangerous man, not the crusader for

justice that I, James Gordon, have

portrayed him to be for the last

eight years. Harvey's rage was

indiscriminate. Psychopathic. He

held my family at gunpoint, then

fell to his death in the struggle

over my son's life. The Batman did

not murder Harvey Dent - he saved

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BANE (CONT'D)

my boy. Then took the blame for

Harvey's appalling crimes, so that

I could, to my shame, build a lie

around this fallen idol.'

INT. BLAKE'S APARTMENT - CONTINUOUS

Blake stares at the TV, Gordon's face lowers into his

hands...

BANE (V.O.)

'I praised the madman who tried to

murder my own child.'

EXT. BLACKGATE PRISON - CONTINUOUS

The crowd is silent, stunned, as Bane continues to read.

BANE:

'The things we did in Harvey's name

brought desperately needed security

to our streets... But I can no

longer live with my lie. It is time

to trust the people of Gotham with

the truth, and it is time for me to

resign.'

Bane folds the papers. Looks out to the stunned crowd.

Do you accept this man's

resignation?

Individuals in the crows start shouting 'Yes!'

INT. CELLBLOCK, BLACKGATE PRISON - CONTINUOUS

Prisoners cheer, pounding against the bars. Selina

watches...

EXT. BLACKGATE PRISON - CONTINUOUS

BANE:

Do you accept the resignation of

all the liars?! All the corrupt?!

More and more of the crowd is chanting 'Yes!'

110.

INT. BLAKE'S APARTMENT - CONTINUOUS

Blake turns to Gordon, who stares at the TV.

BLAKE:

These men, locked up in Blackgate

for eight years, denied parole

under the Dent Act. Based on a lie.

GORDON:

A lie to keep a city from burning

to the ground. Gotham needed a

hero, someone to believe in -

BLAKE:

Not as much as it does now. But you

betrayed everything you stood for.

GORDON:

(looks at Blake)

There's a point. Far out there.

When the structures fail you. When

the rules aren't weapons anymore,

they're shackles, letting the bad

get ahead. Maybe one day you'll

have such a moment of crisis. And

in that moment, I hope you have a

friend like I did. To plunge their

hands into the filth so you can

keep yours clean.

BLAKE:

Your hands look pretty filthy to

me, Commissioner.

Gordon stares at him. Blake goes back to packing.

EXT. BLACKGATE PRISON - CONTINUOUS

Bane signals a Tumbler - its turret turns to the prison

doors.

BANE:

We take Gotham from the corrupt.

The rich. The oppressors of

generations who've kept you down

with the myth of opportunity. And

we give it to you, the people.

Gotham is yours - none shall

interfere. Do as you please...

The Tumbler fires, blowing the doors to hell.

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BANE (CONT'D)

But start by storming Blackgate and

freeing the oppressed... Step

forward, those who would serve...

Bane's men surge through the burning gates...

INT. BLACKGATE PRISON - CONTINUOUS

Selina watches as Prisoners stream out of open cell doors.

She makes her way quietly through the excited throng.

BANE (V.O.)

For an army will be raised...

Mercenaries hand out weapons to escaping Prisoners...

EXT. PARK BOULEVARD - DAY

As Mercenaries shoot open locks, people storm into expensive

apartment buildings overlooking the park...

BANE (V.O.)

The powerful will be ripped from

their decadent nests...

INT. BEAUTIFUL OLD GOTHAM APARTMENT - DAY

People ransack the apartment...

BANE (V.O.)

...and cast into the cold world the

rest of us have known and

endured...

EXT. PARK BOULEVARD - DAY

Wealthy people are herded onto the street by Mercenaries...

BANE (V.O.)

Courts will be convened...

INT. STOCK EXCHANGE - DAY

A kangaroo court is in session, presided over by a Criminal

we recognize from Blackgate. Bane watches from the

gallery...

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BANE (V.O.)

The spoils will be enjoyed...

INT. ELEGANT APARTMENT, PARK BOULEVARD - DAY

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