The Dark Knight Rises Page #5
BLAKE:
I didn't want to bother you up
here, but they're looking for you.
GORDON:
What's the problem, son?
BLAKE:
Congressman Gilly's wife's been
calling. He hasn't made it home
from the Wayne Foundation event.
GORDON:
That's a job for the police?
BLAKE:
Sir, I've been a cop for a year and
I've only logged half a dozen
arrests. When you and Dent cleaned
the streets you cleaned 'em good.
Pretty soon we'll be chasing
overdue library books.
Gordon smiles at this. Blake looks at his stack of files.
BLAKE:
But here you are. Like we're still
at war...
GORDON:
Old habits.
17.
BLAKE:
Or instinct.
GORDON:
What's your name, son?
BLAKE:
Blake, sir.
GORDON:
You have something you want to ask
me, Officer Blake?
BLAKE:
It's that night. This night, eight
years ago. The night Dent died.
GORDON:
What about it?
BLAKE:
The last confirmed sighting of the
Batman. He murders those people,
takes out two SWAT teams, breaks
Dent's neck...then just vanishes?
GORDON:
I'm not hearing a question, son.
Blake shifts uneasily. Then looks at Gordon.
BLAKE:
Don't you want to know who we was?
Gordon turns to look at the broken searchlight. He brushes
his fingers across its rusted shell.
GORDON:
I know exactly who he was. (Turns
to Blake.) He was Batman.
Gordon walks past Blake, heading for the stairs.
GORDON (O.S.)
Let's go see about the
Congressman's wife...
18.
INT. EAST WING, WAYNE MANOR - MORNING
Alfred takes his tray into the bedroom. The bed is empty.
ALFRED:
Master Wayne?
Alfred's voice echoes through the vast mansion. No reply.
INT. STUDY, WAYNE MANOR - MOMENTS LATER
Alfred hits three notes on the piano. The bookcase opens.
INT. ELEVATOR SHAFT - CONTINUOUS
Alfred descends into the caverns beneath Wayne Manor.
INT. BATCAVE - CONTINUOUS
Alfred walks through the arches as the stone floor starts to
lower, becoming a ramp. At the bottom, Alfred is level with
a series of dark slate obelisks - a bridge over the water to
where Wayne sits at a computer atop a massive slate cube.
ALFRED:
You haven't been down here in a
long time...
WAYNE:
Just trying to find out more about
our jewel thief. I ran her prints
Wayne pulls up a mug shot - a fat, male armed-robbery
suspect.
- but she was wearing someone
else's fingerprints. She's good.
ALFRED:
She may be. But we have the trace
on the necklace.
WAYNE:
We do, so I cross-referenced the
address she went back to with
police data on high-end
B-and-E's...
Wayne hits a key. A photograph of the Maid appears.
Selina Kyle. The databases are full
of close calls, tips from fences...
19.
Newspaper headlines appear -
THE CAT STRIKES AGAIN, POLICE SUSPECT 'CAT' BURGLAR IN JEWEL
HEIST.
WAYNE:
She's good, but the ground is
shrinking beneath her feet.
ALFRED:
We should send the police before
she fences the pearls.
WAYNE:
She won't. She likes them too much.
And they weren't what she was
after.
ALFRED:
What was she after?
WAYNE:
My fingerprints. There was printer
toner mixed with graphite on the
safe. Gives you a good pull, and
it's untraceable.
ALFRED:
Fascinating. Maybe you should
exchange notes over coffee.
WAYNE:
Now you're trying to set me up with
a jewel thief?
ALFRED:
At this point, sir, I would set you
up with a chimpanzee if I thought
it would bring you back into the
world.
WAYNE:
There's nothing out there for me.
ALFRED:
And that's the problem. You hung up
the cape and cowl, but never moved
on. You won't get out there and
find a life. Find someone -
WAYNE:
(BITTER)
I did find someone, Alfred.
20.
ALFRED:
I know. And then you lost them.
That's part of living, sir. But
you're not living - you're waiting.
Hoping for things to go bad again.
Wayne says nothing.
Remember when you left Gotham?
Before all this. Before Batman.
Seven years you were gone. Seven
years I waited. Hoping that you
wouldn't come back.
Wayne looks at Alfred. Not understanding.
Every year I took my holiday. I'd
go to Florence. There's a café by
the Arno... Any fine evening I
would sit there and order a Fernet
Branca...
INSERT CUT:
Alfred seated in a café sipping his drink...I had a fantasy. I liked to imagine
that one day I'd look across the
tables, and see you. Sitting there
with your wife. Perhaps some kids.
You wouldn't say anything to me, or
me to you, but we'd both
know...that you'd made it. That you
were happy.
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