Batman Begins

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Batman Begins is a 2005 American superhero film based on the comic book character created by Bob Kane and Bill Finger. It stars Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Liam Neeson, Cillian Murphy, and Katie Holmes. It is directed by Christopher Nolan.

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[edit] Bruce Wayne/Batman

  • I seek … the means to fight injustice. To turn fear against those who prey on the fearful.
  • My anger outweighs my guilt.
  • The first time I stole so that I wouldn't starve, I lost many assumptions about the simple nature of right and wrong. And when I traveled, I learned the fear before a crime and the thrill of success. But I never became one of them.
  • I will not become an executioner.
  • Gotham isn't beyond saving.
  • [On the duration of his stay in Gotham] As long as it takes to show the people of Gotham that their city doesn't belong to the criminals and the corrupt.
  • [To Detective Flass, hanging upside down from grappling hook] Do I look like a cop?
  • [To Alfred, in reference to keeping the guests busy] Tell them that joke you know!
  • I don't have the luxury of friends.
  • They told me there was nothing out there, nothing to fear. But the night my parents were murdered I caught a glimpse of something. I've looked for it ever since. I went around the world, searched in all the shadows. And there is something out there in the darkness, something terrifying, something that will not stop until it gets revenge. [Pause] Me.
  • Bats frighten me. It's time my enemies shared my dread.
  • People need dramatic examples to shake them out of apathy, and I can't do that as Bruce Wayne. As a man, I'm flesh and blood. I can be ignored, I can be destroyed. But as a symbol … as a symbol, I can be incorruptible. I can be everlasting.
  • You're not the devil … you're practice.
  • [To Lucius Fox after test-driving the "Tumbler"] Does it come in black?
  • I won't kill you. … But I don't have to save you.
  • It's not who I am underneath, but what I do that defines me.

[edit] Jim Gordon

  • I'm no rat. In a town this bent, who's there to rat to anyway?
  • [To Batman] I think you're trying to help … [notices that he is gone] but I've been wrong before.
  • I gotta get me one of those. [Referring to the "Tumbler" AKA the Batmobile]

[edit] Rachel Dawes

  • Justice is about harmony. Revenge is about you making yourself feel better. Which is why we have an impartial system.
  • As long as he keeps the bad people rich and the good people scared, no one'll touch him. Good people like your parents who'll stand against injustice, they're gone. What chance does Gotham have when good people do nothing?
  • Your father would be ashamed of you.
  • You enjoy your party, Bruce. Some of us have work to do.
  • It's not who you are underneath - it's what you do that defines you.
  • I spent a lot of time being scared for you. Then I heard you came back … the man I loved, the man who vanished … he never came back at all. Maybe one day, when Gotham no longer needs Batman, I'll see him again.

[edit] Henri Ducard/Ra's al Ghul

  • The world is too small for a man like Bruce Wayne to simply disappear. No matter how deep he chooses to sink.
  • If you make yourself more than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal and if they can't stop you, you become something else entirely – a legend, Mister Wayne.
  • To manipulate the fear in others you must first master your own.
  • Death does not wait for you to be ready! Death is not considerate or fair. And make no mistake: here, you face death.
  • You've travelled the world to understand the criminal mind and conquer your fears. But the criminal is not complicated. What you really fear, is inside yourself. You fear your own power .. your own anger... the drive to do great - or terrible - things.
  • To conquer fear, you must become fear. You must bask in the fear of other men. And men fear most what they cannot see. You have to become a terrible thought. A wraith. You have to become an idea! Feel terror cloud your senses. Feel its power to distort.. to control. And know that this power can be yours. Embrace your worst fears. Become one with the darkness.
  • Crime cannot be tolerated. Criminals thrive on the indulgence of society's understanding.
  • Your parents' death was not your fault. It was your father's. [Bruce attacks wildly and fails to land any blows] Anger does not change the fact that your father failed to act.
  • You haven't beaten me. You have sacrificed sure footing for a killing stroke.
  • I know the rage that drives you. That impossible anger strangling the grief, until the memory of your loved one is just poison in your veins. And one day, you catch yourself wishing the person you loved had never existed, so you'd be spared your pain. Your anger gives you great power. But if you let it, it will destroy you … as it almost did me.
  • There are those without decency who must be fought without hesitation, without pity.
  • You never learned to mind your surroundings!
  • The training is nothing! Will is everything! The will to act.
  • Men fear most what they cannot see.
  • Create enough hunger and everyone becomes a criminal.
  • Only a cynical man would call what these people have "lives", Wayne. Crime. Despair. This is not how man was supposed to live. The League of Shadows has been a check against human corruption for thousands of years. We sacked Rome, loaded trade ships with plague rats, burned London to the ground. Every time a civilization reaches the pinnacle of its decadence, we return to restore the balance.
  • No one can save Gotham. When a forest grows too wild, a purging fire is inevitable and natural. Tomorrow the world will watch in horror as its greatest city tears itself apart through fear. The movement back to harmony will be unstoppable this time.
  • Throughout the ages, our weapons have become more sophisticated. With Gotham, we tried a new one: economics. But we underestimated certain of Gotham's people. Like your parents. Gunned down by the very people they were trying to help. Their deaths galvanized the city into saving itself, and Gotham has limped on ever since. We are back to finish the job. And this time no misguided idealists will get in the way. Like your father, you lack the courage to do all that is necessary. If someone stands in the way of true justice, you simply walk up behind them and stab them in the heart.
  • [While exiting the flaming ruins of Wayne Manor] Justice is balance. You burned my house and left me for dead. Consider us even.
  • Gentlemen, it is time to spread the word. And the word is – panic!
  • Don't be afraid, Bruce. You're just an ordinary man in a cape. That is why you cannot fight injustice and that is why you cannot stop this train.
  • Have you finally learned to do what is necessary?
  • [Batman lands on top of a monorail support] Well, well. You took my advice about theatricality a bit … literally.
  • You will never learn.

[edit] Dr. Jonathan Crane/Scarecrow (or The Scarecrow)

  • The work offered by organized crime must have some sort of attraction to the insane.
  • [After having gassed Batman with fear toxin] Ah, having trouble? Take a seat. Have a drink. [Splashes gasoline on Batman] You look like a man who takes himself too seriously. You want my opinion? You need to lighten up. [Lights Batman on fire]
  • Would you like to see my mask? I use it in my experiments. Probably not very frightening to a guy like you, but these crazies, they can't stand it. [Sprays Falcone with fear toxin] They scream and they cry, much as you're doing now!
  • Patients suffering delusional episodes often focus their paranoia on an external tormentor. Usually one conforming to Jungian archetypes. In this case, a scarecrow.
  • I respect the mind's power over the body. It's why I do what I do.
  • This is where we make the medicine. Perhaps you should have some … clear your head.
  • Dr. Crane isn't here right now. But if you'd like to make an appointment …
  • There is nothing to fear but fear itself! I'm here to help!
  • [After being driven insane by his own fear toxin] Scarecrow … Scarecrow …

[edit] Carmine Falcone

  • [Sees Bruce Wayne enter the restaurant] You could've just sent a Thank You note.
  • [Bruce Wayne is frisked in the restaurant] No gun? I'm insulted.
  • Look around you. You'll see two councilmen, a union official, a couple of off-duty cops and a judge. Now, I wouldn't have a second's hesitation blowing your head off right here and right now in front of them. That's power you can't buy. That's the power of fear.
  • Because you think you got nothing to lose. But you haven't thought it through. You haven't thought about your lady friend down in the DA's office. You haven't though about your old butler. Bang! People from your world have so much to lose. Now, you think, because your mommy and your daddy got shot, you know the ugly side of life, but you don't. You've never tasted desperate. You're … you're Bruce Wayne, The Prince of Gotham. You'd have to go a thousand miles to meet someone who didn't know your name. So don't come down here with your anger, trying to prove something to yourself. This is a world you'll never understand. And you always fear … what you don't understand.
  • Yeah, you got spirit, kid. I'll give you that. More than your old man, anyway. In the joint, Chill told me about the night he killed your parents. He said your father begged for mercy. Begged. Like a dog.
  • Never underestimate Gotham City. People get mugged on their way home every day of the week. Heh, sometimes … sometimes things just go bad.
  • [Half-heartedly faking insanity to get out of prison] Yeah, Dr. Crane, I can't take it anymore. It's all too much. The walls are closing in. Blah, blah, blah. Couple more days of this food, it'll be true.
  • [Having actually been driven out of his mind] Scarecrow … scarecrow …

[edit] Various

  • Thomas Wayne: And why do we fall, Bruce? So we can learn to pick ourselves up.
  • Thomas Wayne: [last words] Don't be afraid.
  • Thomas Wayne: Gotham's been good to our family. But the city's been suffering. People less fortunate than us have been enduring very hard times. So we built a new, cheap, public transportation system to unite the city. And at the center … Wayne Tower.
  • Mr. Earle: You're in excellent hands. We'll be watching the empire. When you grow up, it'll be waiting for you.
  • Alfred: I give a damn, sir, because a good man once made me responsible for what was most precious to him in the whole world.
  • Alfred: What's the point of all those push ups if you can't even lift a bloody log?
  • Joe Chill: Your honor, not a day goes by that I don't wish I could take back what I did. Sure, I was desperate – like a lot of people back then – but that don't change what I did.
  • Lucius Fox: [on why Batman's body armor was discontinued] They didn't think that a soldier's life was worth three-hundred grand.
  • Lucius Fox: … and over here on the throttle: [flips open afterburner guard] flip that open and throttle up. This will boost you into a rampless jump. [Bruce presses the button] Not now!
  • Police Officer: [trying to describe the Batmobile] It's a black … tank!
  • Police Officer: Can you at least tell me what it looks like? [Batmobile thunders by] Never mind …
  • Police Officer: What street is he taking? [2nd Officer looks up at a building] He's not on a street, he's flying on rooftops!
  • Lucius Fox: You expecting to run into much gunfire in these caves?
  • Lucius Fox: I don't think they tried marketing to the billionaire base-jumping, spelunking crowd.
  • Homeless Man: [to Bruce Wayne after he is kicked out of Carmine Falcone's bar] You shoulda' tipped better!

[edit] Dialogue

[Bruce Wayne and a prisoner are in the morning chow line, Wayne looks at a fellow prisoner]
Prisoner: They are going to fight you.
Bruce Wayne: Again?
Prisoner: Until they kill you.
Bruce Wayne: Can they kill me before breakfast?
[A fellow prisoner accosts Bruce Wayne in the morning chow line]
Prisoner: You are in hell, little man. And I … am the devil.
Bruce Wayne: You're not the devil. You're practice.
[After a brawl in the prison yard, Bruce is dragged away by guards.]
Guard: Solitary!
Bruce Wayne: Why?!
Guard: For protection.
Bruce: I don't need protection!
Guard: Protection for them.
Thomas Wayne:You know why [the bats] attacked you, don't you? They were afraid of you.
Young Bruce Afraid of me?
Thomas Wayne: All creatures feel fear.
Young Bruce: Even the scary ones?
Thomas Wayne: Especially the scary ones.
Ducard: Are you so desperate to fight criminals that you lock yourself in to take them on one at a time?
Bruce Wayne: Actually, uh, there were seven of them.
Ducard: I counted six, Mister Wayne.
Ducard: If you make yourself more than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal, then you become something else entirely.
Bruce Wayne: Which is?
Ducard: A legend, Mister Wayne.
Ducard: You're stronger than your father.
Bruce Wayne: You didn't know my father.
Ducard: But I know the rage that drives you. That impossible anger strangling the grief, until the memory of your loved ones is just poison in your veins. And one day you catch yourself wishing the person you loved had never existed, so you'd be spared your pain. I wasn't always here in the mountains. Once I had a wife, my great love. She was taken from me. Like you, I was forced to learn that there are those without decency that must be fought without hesitation, without pity. Your anger gives you great power, but if you let it, it will destroy you, as it almost did me.
Bruce Wayne: What stopped it?
Ducard: Vengeance.
Bruce Wayne: That's no good to me.
Ducard: Why, Bruce? Why could you not avenge your parents?
Ducard: Your compassion is a weakness your enemies will not share.
Bruce Wayne: That's why it's so important. It separates us from them.
Alfred: Are you coming back for long, sir?
Bruce Wayne: As long as it takes. I want to show the people of Gotham that their city doesn't belong to the criminals and the corrupt.
[Bruce is machining throwing weapons in the shape of bats]
Alfred: Why bats, Master Wayne?
Bruce Wayne: Bats frighten me. It's time my enemies share my dread.
[He throws the completed batarang, embedding it in a wall]
[Bruce is being shown the prototype Nomex survival suit]
Bruce Wayne: Tear resistant?
Lucius Fox: This sucker will stop a knife.
Bruce Wayne: Bulletproof?
Lucius Fox: Anything but a straight shot.
Bruce Wayne: Why didn't they put it into production?
Lucius Fox: Bean counters didn't think a soldier's life was worth $300 grand. So what's your interest in it, Mr. Wayne?
Bruce Wayne: I wanna borrow it. For, uh, spelunking.
Lucius Fox: Spelunking?
Bruce Wayne: Yeah, you know, cave diving.
Lucius Fox: You expecting to run into much gunfire in these caves?
Bruce Wayne: Look, I'd rather Mr. Earle didn't know about me borrowing it...
Lucius Fox: Mr Wayne, the way I see it, all this stuff is yours anyway.
[In Gordon's Office]
Batman: [holds Gordon up with a stapler] Don't turn around. You're a good cop, one of the few.
Gordon: What do you want?
Batman: Carmine Falcone brings in shipments of drugs every week. Nobody takes him down. Why?
Gordon: He's paid up with the right people.
Batman: What would it take to bring him down?
Gordon: Leverage on Judge Faden, and a DA brave enough to prosecute.
Batman: Rachel Dawes.
Gordon: Who are you?
[The "gun" is then revealed to be a stapler, unknown to Gordon]
Batman: Watch for my sign. [retracts the stapler and backs off]
Gordon: You're just one man?
Batman: Now we're two.
Gordon: We?
[Bruce looks and points his head at the "Tumbler" resting in the garage]
Bruce Wayne: What's that?
Lucius Fox: The Tumbler? Oh, you wouldn't be interested in that. [cuts to Bruce driving it on a test track, with Fox in the passenger's seat describing how it works] She was built as a bridging vehicle. During combat, two of these would jump over a river, towing cables. Over here on the throttle, flip that open and throttle up. This will boost you into a rampless jump. [Bruce goes to flip the throttle. The Tumbler accelerates]
Lucius Fox: Not now! Not... not now, Sir!
The Tumbler's computer: Afterburner disengaged.
Lucius Fox: We never could get the damn bridge to work, but this baby works just fine.
[Bruce brings the Tumbler to a stop. He's very impressed with how it works]
Lucius Fox: So, what do you think?
Bruce Wayne: Does it come in black?
Bruce Wayne: [as Alfred opens the curtains] Bats are nocturnal.
Alfred Pennyworth: Bats may be, but even for billionaire playboys, three o'clock is pushing it. The price of leading a double life, I fear. Your theatrics made an impression. [shows the newspaper to Bruce]
Bruce Wayne: Theatricality and deception are powerful weapons, Alfred. It's a good start.
Alfred Pennyworth: If those are to be the first of many injuries to come, it would be wise to find a suitable excuse. Polo, for instance.
Bruce Wayne: I'm not learning polo, Alfred.
Alfred Pennyworth: Strange injuries a non-existent social life, these things beg the question as to what exactly does Bruce Wayne do with his time and his money.
Bruce Wayne: And what does someone like me do?
Alfred Pennyworth: Drive sports cars, date movie stars, buy things that are not for sale... who knows, Master Wayne? You start pretending to have fun, you might even have a little by accident.
[Batman interrogates the corrupt Detective Flass while dangling him off the edge of a building]
Batman: Where were the other drugs going?!
Det. Flass: I never knew! I don't know! I swear to God!
Batman: Swear to me!
[Batman drops Flass, then pulls him back up]
Det. Flass: I don't...I don't know! I never knew! Never! They...They went to some guy for a couple days before they went to the dealers!
Batman: Why?
Det. Flass: There was something...Something else in the drugs...Something hidden.
Batman: What?
Det. Flass: I never went to the drop-off point! It was in the Narrows! Cops only go there in force!
Batman: Do I look like a cop?
[Batman drops Flass again, stops him just short of the ground, and dumps him onto the sidewalk]
Jumpy Thug: Where are you?!
Batman: [hanging upside down, right behind him] Here.
Carmine Falcone: [muttering to himself] What the hell are you?
[Batman bursts through the sun roof of Falcone's limousine]
Batman: I'm Batman.
[Batman headbutts Falcone into unconsciousness, then sees the Homeless Man he traded coats with years earlier]
Batman: Nice coat.
[He flies off; the Homeless Man stares after him]
Homeless Man: Thanks.
[On arriving at the docks & noticing drug dealers being arrested]
Cop at Docks: Falcone's men?
Gordon: Does it matter? We'll never tie him to it anyway.
Cop at Docks: I wouldn't be too sure of that.
[They notice Falcone strapped tight to a police floodlight almost forming a bat-like symbol in the sky]
[The jailed Falcone (who has been feigning insanity) has managed to get Dr. Crane to come down to speak with him]
Carmine Falcone: Yeah, Dr. Crane, I can't take it anymore. It's all too much. "The walls are closing in." Blah, blah, blah. Couple more days of this food, it'll be true.
Dr. Jonathan Crane: What do you want?
Carmine Falcone: I want to know how you're gonna convince me to keep my mouth shut.
Dr. Jonathan Crane: About what? You don't know anything.
Carmine Falcone: I know you wouldn't want the police to take a closer look at those drugs they found. And I know about your experiments with the inmates of your nuthouse. See, I don't go into business with a guy without finding out his dirty secrets. And those goons you used – I own the muscle in this town. Now, I've been bringing your stuff in for months, so whatever he's planning, it's big, and I want in.
Dr. Jonathan Crane: Well, I already know what he'll say: that we should kill you.
Carmine Falcone: Even he can't get me in here. Not in my town.
Dr. Jonathan Crane: [sighs, then takes off his glasses and matter-of-factly says] Would you like to see my mask? I use it in my experiments. [he gets out a mask – a burlap sack stitched and altered to look like a scarecrow's head] Now I'm probably not very frightening to a guy like you, but these crazies, they can't stand it. [he puts the mask on]
Carmine Falcone: So when did the nut take over the nuthouse?
[Crane sprays a hallucinogenic gas from his briefcase into Falcone's face; he begins to scream in terror as the gas takes effect: Crane's voice is altered, and the mask appears to move like a real face]
Dr. Jonathan Crane: They scream and they cry, much as you're doing now.
[Cuts to late outside Falcone's cell, where his screaming can still be heard]
Dr. Jonathan Crane: Well, he's not faking. Not this one. I'll talk to the judge and see if I can get him moved to the secure wing at Arkham. I can't treat him here.
[Rachel observes Falcone, truly insane and muttering "scarecrow" over and over. Dr. Crane walks in]
Dr. Jonathan Crane: Miss Dawes, this is most irregular. I have nothing further to add to the report I filed with the judge.
Rachel Dawes: I have questions about your report.
Dr. Jonathan Crane: Such as?
Rachel Dawes: Isn't it convenient for a 52 year old man who has no history of mental illness to suddenly have a complete psychotic breakdown, just when he's about to be indicted?
Dr. Jonathan Crane: Well, as you can see for yourself, there is nothing "convenient" about his symptoms. [They look at Falcone, still muttering "Scarecrow"]
Rachel Dawes: What's "scarecrow"?
Dr. Jonathan Crane: Patients suffering delusional episodes often focus their paranoia on an external tormentor. Usually one conforming to Jungian archetypes. In this case, a scarecrow. [pause] Outside, he was a giant. In here, only the mind can grant you power.
Rachel Dawes: You enjoy the reversal?
Dr. Jonathan Crane: I respect the mind's power over the body. It's why I do what I do.
[After the power shuts down in Arkham]
Dr. Jonathan Crane: He's here.
Thug: Who?
Dr. Jonathan Crane: [distantly] The Bat-Man!
Thug: What do we do?
Dr. Jonathan Crane: What anybody does when a prowler comes around … call the police.
Thug: You want the cops here?
Dr. Jonathan Crane: At this point, they can't stop us. But the Batman has a talent for disruption. Force him outside, the police will take him down.
Thug: [indicates Rachel] What about her?
Dr. Jonathan Crane: [grins] She hasn't got long. I gave her a concentrated dose. The mind can only take so much. Now go.
[Batman uses Dr. Crane's hallucinogenic gas against him, and begins to interrogate. The effects of the gas keep Crane paralyzed with fear]
Batman: [his voice and appearance are altered due to the effects of the gas] Crane … who are you working for?
Dr. Jonathan Crane: [whispering] Ra's … Ra's al Ghul.
Batman: Ra's al Ghul is dead. Who are you working for, Crane?!
Dr. Jonathan Crane: [distraught] Dr. Crane isn't here right now … but if you'd like to make an appointment …
[Batman hears the police sirens and start to look around. He then growls into Crane's face and lets go of him]
[Gordon carries an unconscious Rachel]
Batman: How is she?
Lt. James Gordon: She's fading. We've got to go. [pause] I'll get my car.
Batman: I brought mine.
Lt. James Gordon: Yours? [He turns and sees the Tumbler start up. It races past him, and runs over a police car, destroying the lightbar and smashing the windshield] I've gotta get me one of those.
[The Tumbler races across the river]
Policeman #1: He is in a vehicle.
Dispatcher: Make and color?
Policeman #1: It's a black... [pause; sirens activate elsewhere] ...tank!
Alfred Pennyworth: When you told me about your grand plan for saving Gotham, the one thing that stopped me from calling the men in the white coats was that you said it wasn't about thrill seeking.
Bruce Wayne: It isn't.
Alfred Pennyworth: [points at the TV] Then what do you call that? [On the TV, we see a breaking news report, with a helicopter shot showing the Batmobile being chased down the freeway by police cars]
Bruce Wayne: Damn good television!
[Bruce wants Lucius Fox to mass-produce the antidote for Crane's hallucinogenic gas]
Lucius Fox: Planning on gassing yourself again, Mister Wayne?
Bruce Wayne: Well, you know how it is: it's late at night, and you're out looking for kicks, and somebody starts passing out the weaponised hallucinogens …
Ducard: [after Bruce insults all the party guests to make them leave] Amusing, but pointless. None of these people have long to live. Your antics at the asylum have forced my hand.
Bruce Wayne: So Crane was working for you.
Ducard: His toxin is derived from the organic compound found in our blue flowers. He was able to weaponize it.
Bruce Wayne: He's not a member of the League of Shadows?
Ducard: Of course not. He thought our plan was to hold the city to ransom.
Bruce Wayne: But really, you are going to release Crane's poison on the entire city.
Ducard: Then watch Gotham tear itself apart through fear.
Bruce Wayne: You're going to destroy millions of lives.
Ducard: Only a cynical man would call what these people have "lives," Wayne. Crime. Despair. This was not how man was supposed to live. The League of Shadows has been a check against human corruption for thousands of years. We sacked Rome, loaded trade ships with plague rats. Burned London to the ground. Every time a civilization reaches the pinnacle of its decadence, we return to restore the balance.
Bruce Wayne: Gotham isn't beyond saving. Give me more time. There are good people here.
Ducard: You are defending a city so corrupt, we have infiltrated every level of its infrastructure. When I found you in that jail, you were lost. But I believed in you. I took away your fear, and showed you a path. You were my greatest student It should be you standing by my side, saving the world.
Bruce Wayne: I'll be standing where I belong: between you, and the people of Gotham.
Ducard: No one can save Gotham. [nods to henchmen, who begin vandalizing the house and set it on fire] When a forest grows too wild, a purging fire is inevitable and natural. Tomorrow, the world will watch in horror as its greatest city destroys itself. The movement back to harmony will be unstoppable this time.
Bruce Wayne: You've attacked Gotham before?
Ducard: Of course. Over time, our weapons have grown more sophisticated. With Gotham, we tried a new one - economics. But, we underestimated certain of Gotham's citizens. Such as your parents. Gunned down by one of the very people they were trying to help. Create enough hunger and everyone becomes a criminal. Their deaths galvanized the city unto saving itself and Gotham has limped on ever since. We are back to finish the job. And this time, no misguided idealists will stand in the way. Like your father, you lack the courage to do all that is necessary. If someone stands in the way of true justice, you simply walk up behind them, and stab them in the heart.
Bruce Wayne: I wanted to save Gotham. I've failed.
Alfred: Why do we fall, sir? So that we can learn to pick ourselves up.
Bruce: You still haven't given up on me?
Alfred: Never.
Rachel Dawes: Wait! You could die! At least tell me your name.
Batman: It's not who I am underneath, but what I do that defines me.
Rachel Dawes: Bruce?
Rachel Dawes: [consoling a scared little boy] It's okay, they aren't going to hurt you–
[A masked and mounted Scarecrow leads the rampaging Arkham inmates; his voice is altered by the gas]
Scarecrow: Of course they are!
Rachel Dawes: Crane?
Scarecrow: No … Scarecrow!
Ducard: Don't be afraid, Bruce. You're just an ordinary man in a cape. That's why you can't fight injustice, and that's why you can't stop this train.
Batman: Who said anything about stopping it?
[Ducard turns to see that Batman has destroyed the train's brakes, as Gordon sets off an explosion that destroys the tracks ahead]
Batman: [overpowering Ducard] You never learned to mind your surroundings.
Ducard: Have you finally learned to do what is necessary?
Batman: I won't kill you. But I don't have to save you.
Earle: Jessica, where are you?
[walks into outer room]
Bruce Wayne: [to Jessica] Eye on the ball, and...
Earle: Why is no one answering the phone? [sees Bruce from behind, teaching Jessica to play golf]
Bruce Wayne: [turning around] It's Wayne Enterprises, Mr. Earle, I'm sure they'll call back.
Earle: Bruce? You're supposed to be dead.
Bruce Wayne: I'm sorry to disappoint.
[Earle fires Fox]
William Earle: I'm merging your department [Applied Sciences] with Archives, and I am firing you. [pause] Didn't you get the memo?
Jessica: The meeting's already started.
William Earle: What meeting? [enters the conference room and, in disbelief, sees Fox, resplendent in a suit and bow tie, distributing materials to board members seated around the table] Fox? I seem to remember firing you.
Lucius Fox: You did. I got another job: yours.
Earle: On whose authority?
[Cut to Bruce being driven by Alfred]
Alfred Pennyworth: Batman may have made the front page, but Bruce Wayne got pushed to page eight. [Bruce reads the headline: "Drunken Billionaire Burns Down Home."] [Bruce answers the phone]
Bruce Wayne: Bruce Wayne.
William Earle: What makes you think you can decide who's running Wayne Enterprises?
Bruce Wayne: Well, the fact that I'm the owner.
William Earle: What are you talking about? The company went public a week ago.
Bruce Wayne: And I bought most of the shares - through various charitable foundations, and trusts, and so forth. Look, it's all a bit technical, but the important thing is that *my* company's future is secure. [speaks slightly louder] Right, Mr. Fox?
Lucius Fox: Right you are, Mister Wayne. [turns to Earle, takes off his glasses, and relishly says] Didn't you get the memo?
[Bruce's two European supermodels are bathing in a decorative pool]
Maitre D: Sir, the pool is for decoration, and your friends do not have swimwear.
Bruce Wayne: [looks that way] Well, they're European.
Maitre D: I'm going to have to ask you to leave. [Bruce starts to write a check] It is not a question of money.
Bruce Wayne: [gives him the check] Well, you see, I'm buying this hotel, and uh, setting some new rules about the pool area.


Batman: [knocks on new Bat-signal] Nice.
Gordon: Couldn't find any mob bosses.
Batman: Well, Sergeant?
Gordon: Oh, it's lieutenant now. You really started something. Bent cops running scared, hope on the streets …
Batman: But?
Gordon: The Narrows is lost. And we still haven't picked up Crane or half the inmates of Arkham that he freed.
Batman: We will. We can bring Gotham back.
Gordon: And what about escalation?
Batman: Escalation?
Gordon: We start carrying semi-automatics, they buy automatics. We start wearing Kevlar … they buy armor-piercing rounds.
Batman: And?
Gordon: And you're wearing a mask … and jumping off rooftops. Now, take this new guy. Armed robbery, double homicide. Got a taste for the theatrical. Like you. Leaves a calling card. [hands Batman a clear plastic evidence bag containing a playing card; Batman turns it over to reveal that it is a Joker card]
Batman: I'll look into it. [walks to edge of roof]
Gordon: I never said thank you.
Batman: [turns around to look at Gordon] And you'll never have to.
[Batman spreads his cape and leaps off the roof]

[meeting someone introduced as Ra's al Ghul]

Batman: You're not Ra's al Ghul. I watched him die.
Ducard: [from behind Bruce Wayne] But is Ra's al Ghul immortal?

[Bruce turns around to face Ducard]

Ducard: Are his methods supernatural?
Batman: [to Ducard] Or cheap parlor tricks to conceal your true identity, "Ra's"?
Ducard: Surely, a man who spends his nights scrambling over the rooftops of Gotham wouldn't begrudge me dual identities?
Batman: I saved your life.
Ducard: I warned you about compassion, Bruce.

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