The Dark Knight Rises Page #31

FOLEY:

How can we trust you?

GORDON (O.S.)

We don't have any choice.

Gordon and Blake emerge from the back of the room.

SPECIAL FORCES 1

Commissioner Gordon? Captain Jones,

Special Forces.

GORDON:

Captain, glad to have you here.

120.

CAPTAIN JONES:

How many of you are there?

GORDON:

Dozens. I'd rather not say exactly.

But the men trapped underground

number almost three thousand.

CAPTAIN JONES:

What kind of shape they're in?

GORDON:

They've been getting water, food.

CAPTAIN JONES:

Could we break them out?

BLAKE:

Yes, sir - take out the mercenaries

guarding the outflow south of

Ackerman Park, blow the rubble,

you've got a hole big enough for

ten at a time. I'm in contact with

my partner - they're waiting for

the day.

SPECIAL FORCES 2

Men who haven't seen daylight for

three months?

BLAKE:

Men with automatic weapons who

haven't seen daylight in three

months.

CAPTAIN JONES:

What about the bomb? The satellites

can't see any radiation hot

spots...

EXT. DOWNTOWN STREET - DAY

Blake scouts with Jones. A rumble makes them turn.

GORDON (V.O.)

They keep it on a truck - it must

have a lead-lined roof. They move

it constantly.

CAPTAIN JONES (V.O.)

But you know the truck?

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GORDON (V.O.)

They've got three of them. The

routes don't vary much.

Two Tumblers lead a massive black truck down the street.

Captain Jones reaches into his jacket and triggers a Geiger

counter. Shows Blake the display. Nods. One of the Tumblers

stops, turns back. Blake leads them down a side street.

INT. LOWER STOREROOM - CONTINUOUS

CAPTAIN JONES:

What about the triggerman?

GORDON:

No leads. It's a bluff - Bane

wouldn't give control of that bomb

to someone else.

CAPTAIN JONES:

We can't take that chance. Until we

have the triggerman, we just track

the device, smuggle men over -

BLAKE:

While Gotham lives under a warlord,

like in some failed state?

CAPTAIN JONES:

Dial it back, officer. This

situation is unprecedented. We

can't do anything to risk millions

of lives.

BLAKE:

(TO GORDON)

Aren't you gonna tell him?!

GORDON:

Captain, things are more

complicated than you think. There's

somebody you need to meet. Blake?

Blake nods, leads Jones and his men up the stairs.

EXT. SIDE STREET, DOWNTOWN - CONTINUOUS

Blake leads them to the door of an empty bank.

122.

INT. TELLSONS BANK - CONTINUOUS

They head across the empty lobby to an elevator.

INT. OFFICES ABOVE TELLSONS - MOMENTS LATER

Blake leads them into empty offices. Cots and makeshift

furnishings line the offices and corridors.

BLAKE:

I was up here looking for a vantage

point. Found the people who run the

corporation who owns it living

here.

CAPTAIN JONES:

Which corporation?

FOX (O.S.)

Wayne Enterprises.

Lucius Fox is there, with Miranda Tate.

BLAKE:

Captain, meet Mr. Fox. Mr. Fox, I'd

like you to brief the Captain.

Captain Jones indicates Miranda.

FOX:

Miss Tate is fully aware of the

situation.

MIRANDA:

And as CEO of Wayne Enterprises, I

have to take responsibility for it.

CAPTAIN JONES:

Why?

MIRANDA:

Because, Captain, we built it.

CAPTAIN JONES:

You built the bomb?

FOX:

It was built as a fusion reactor.

The first of its kind. Bane turned

the core into a bomb, then

disconnected it from the reactor.

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BLAKE:

And here's the important part.

FOX:

As the device's fuel cells decay,

it's becoming increasingly

unstable...until the point of

detonation.

BLAKE:

The bomb's a time bomb.

FOX:

And it will go off. In twenty-three

days.

Captain Jones reels at this news.

BLAKE:

Bane's revolution is a sham. He's

watching Gotham rearrange its

deckchairs while the whole ship's

going down. Your appeasement plan

might not be as practical as you

thought.

Captain Jones throws Blake a look. Addresses Fox.

CAPTAIN JONES:

Could you disarm it?

FOX:

I don't know, But I could reconnect

it to the reactor. Stabilize it.

CAPTAIN JONES:

We'd have to let the Pentagon know.

SPECIAL FORCES 2

They'll be monitoring our

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