The Dark Knight Rises Page #35

MIRANDA:

Bruce?

FOX:

You picked a hell of a time to go

on vacation, Mr. Wayne.

WAYNE:

How long until the core ignites?

FOX:

That bomb goes off in twelve hours.

WAYNE:

Unless we can connect it to the

reactor.

FOX:

If you can get it there. I'll find

a way to plug it back in.

(Indicates Miranda.) Can you get

Miranda out?

136.

WAYNE:

Not tonight. I'm sorry.

MIRANDA:

Do what's necessary.

WAYNE:

(TO FOX)

Tonight I need you.

FOX:

What for?

WAYNE:

To get me back in the game.

Catwoman comes down the stairs with the Thugs.

CATWOMAN:

Sorry to spoil things, boys, but

Bane wants these guys himself...

The thugs pull Wayne and Fox to their feet - Miranda looks

up.

WAYNE:

I won't forget about you.

MIRANDA:

I know.

EXT. COLONNADE, HOLDING AREA - CONTINUOUS

The Thugs lead Wayne and Fox along the colonnade. Catwoman

spins, takes out one Thug with a heel, one with a punch to

the throat. Fox smiles as she unlocks his wrists.

FOX:

I like your girlfriend, Mr. Wayne.

CATWOMAN:

He should be so lucky.

And she's gone. Fox turns to Wayne. Who shrugs.

INT. DARK SPACE - NIGHT

Lights flicker on... Wayne and Fox are in the Bat-Bunker.

137.

WAYNE:

Any move I make against Bane or the

bomb - the triggerman sets it off.

FOX:

They can't be using radio or cell -

too much interference. Infrared

doesn't have the range. It could

only be micro-burst long wave...

Wayne opens a panel in the wall, takes out equipment:

mini-mines, Batarangs, utility belt...

WAYNE:

Could you block it?

FOX:

Yes. I need the EMP cannon-guidance

mount from the Bat. You remember

where you parked?

Wayne nods. Smiles. The Batsuit rises from the floor...

INT. ABANDONED STOCK EXCHANGE - EVENING (LATE DAY)

Gordon and his men on trial. Crane presides.

CRANE:

The charges are espionage and

attempted sabotage... Do you have

anything to say in your defense?

GORDON:

No lawyer, no witnesses. What sort

of due process is this?

CRANE:

More than you give Harvey's

prisoners, Commissioner. Your guilt

is determined, this is merely a

sentencing hearing. What's it to

be, death or exile?

GORDON:

Crane, if you think we are going

willingly out onto that ice, you've

got another think coming.

CRANE:

Death, then?

138.

GORDON:

Looks that way.

CRANE:

Very well... Death... (Smiles.) By

exile.

He smashes his gavel. Bane leans in to one of his men,

indicates Miranda.

BANE:

Bring her to me.

INT. STAIRWELL, SKYSCRAPER - SUNSET

Wayne bounds up the stairs. Fox follows, out of breath

LUCIUS:

I think it's time to talk about my

year-end bonus...

EXT. ROOFTOP, SKYSCRAPER, GOTHAM - MOMENTS LATER

Fox emerges to see Wayne uncovering the Bat... As the sun

sets, Fox starts pulling apart the gun mount.

FOX:

She fly pretty well?

WAYNE:

Even without the autopilot...

FOX:

Autopilot? That's what you're there

for.

EXT. GOTHAM RIVER - NIGHT

Gordon and the rest of the men stand at the edge of the ice.

A Mercenary fires his gun in the air. Gordon takes a breath,

then leads his men onto the ice...which creaks and groans...

Further out, Gordon stops - sniffs - looks down: a pool of

liquid, beside it: a flare. Gordon picks it up, puzzled.

BATMAN (O.S.)

Light it up.

139.

Gordon, energized by the familiar voice, lights the flare -

jams it into the liquid, sending a trail of FIRE across the

ice - up into a building where it forms the shape of a

BAT...

INT. FOLEY'S BROWNSTONE - CONTINUOUS

FOLEY'S KIDS

Dad! Check it out!

FOLEY'S WIFE

Honey, take a look!

Foley moves to a back window. Sees the flaming sign.

EXT. GOTHAM STREET - CONTINUOUS

A Mercenary nervously approaches Bane's back.

MERCENARY:

Sir?

Bane turns. The Mercenary points at the sign.

MERCENARY:

You think it's really him?

BANE:

Impossible...

INT. FOLEY'S BROWNSTONE, BEDROOM - MOMENTS LATER

Foley yanks up the floorboards. Pull his dress blues from

their hiding place.

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