Post by Young Justice on Mar 13, 2007 21:37:16 GMT -5
The Dark Knight
Suggested Cast:
Batman/Bruce Wayne - Christian Bale
Joker/Chemical Engineer - Heath Ledger
Catwoman/Selina Kyle - Kate Beckinsale
Harvey Dent - Aaron Eckhart
Barbara Gordon - Emmy Rossum
Sal Moroni - Ray Liotta
Lt. Gordon - Gary Oldman
Alfred - Michael Caine
Lucius Fox - Morgan Freeman
Carmine Falcone - Tom Wilkinson
Holly Robinson - Piper Perabo
Harleen Quinzel - Rachel McAdams
Tony Zucco - Bob Hoskins
Leslie Thompkins - Vanessa Redgrave
[flashback]
The chemical engineer gets an instant message on his mobile phone. He leaves the lab on Wayne Chemical Engineering where he works and goes to a maximum-security area. There he takes a chemical material, puts it in a recipient and heads to a remote warehouse of the company.
Batman is at his vehicle, is waiting outside of the facility. He intercepts the instant message. He gets out of the car and goes towards to the facility.
In the warehouse the engineer gets together with two criminals. He says the chemical weapon they have ordered is ready but the agreed payment is not enough. He wants more money. In this exact moment two other criminals appear. They are from the Carmine Falcone gang. They say the criminals who hired the chemical engineer are from Sal Moroni gang and this business should be carried by Falcone, since he is the mob lord of Gotham, even in prison. All criminals draw their guns and going to shoot each other and kill the engineer that happens to be in between. In this exact moment, Batman hits one of the criminals with a kick while he disarms the other with his Bat-shurikens. The engineer seizes the opportunity and gets away with the chemical weapon.
Batman fights with the criminals and defeats them. After that he goes after the engineer who happens to get enclosed. He can go only where he has come before and face Batman or enter in toxic contamination area, where there are lethal gases. The engineer then puts on a protect suit with a translucent red helmet, and enter the toxic area. Batman sees the engineer entering and puts his gas mask with protect googles and enter the toxic area. After the engineer tried to miss Batman, he gets enclosed again. Batman says he has to give in but he says that he can’t do it. The engineer walks back, stumbles and falls down in a vat of chemical products. Batman tries to reach him but he is not able to.
[/flashback]
Bruce Wayne examines the Joker card Lt. Gordon has given to him. Bruce and Alfred talk about the modifications they have done in the cave.
The recently indicated public D.A. Harvey Dent arrives at the Gotham Court. In this session, Falcone is released for lack of evidence after stayed in prison a few months. The proofs have been lost by the Police Dept.
In Harvey’s office, he and Gordon talk about how Sal Moroni is getting big in Gotham’s underworld and his rivalry with Carmine Falcone. They also talk about why Harvey has moved to Gotham. Harvey says, with the appearance of Batman, Gotham is a very interesting city to live if your will is to fight against crime. Gordon talks about the fact of the old DA has been murdered and that his assistant Rachel Dawes has leaved Gotham for personal reasons. That’s why Harvey has been nominated in such a hurry. While they talk, Harvey always keeps throwing up a coin. Gordon asks about it. Harvey says that this is a two-headed coin he received from his father. He enjoys having it around because it brings him luck.
[flashback]
Harvey as a child tries to beat his dad in a head and tails coin game, but always lose. The father shows him that he always loses because of the two-headed coin. The kid tries to take the coin for him, but fails and his dad slaps him very hard in the face.
[/flashback]
Bruce Wayne, at his manor, receives Dr. Leslie Thompkins, recently arrived from humanitarian missions on Africa. They talk about how Leslie had been colleague of Bruce’s father and friends of the Waynes and helped Alfred in raising Bruce after the tragedy. Leslie asks Bruce a question she already suspects the answer: Bruce is Batman. They argue about the crime fighting methods of Bruce. He then explains her that while he fights at night as Batman, he also will fight crime through this foundation that will take the name of this father: The Thomas Wayne Foundation. Bruce asks her to be the president of the foundation. Even though disagreeing with Batman’s methods, she accepts the job. After Bruce leaves, Alfred and Leslie talk about Bruce’s childhood and the fact that he is Batman nowadays.
Later tonight, Bruce Wayne, Lucius Fox and Leslie Thompkins are at the Wayne Foundation announcement party. Sal Moroni and Carmine Falcone show up and create an embarrassing situation. Lucius comments with Bruce if he is enjoying the new motorcycle he borrowed from Wayne Industries. Falcone escorted by his girlfriend Selina Kyle and her friend Holly Robinson talks with Bruce Wayne about how the things in Gotham have been changing since the millionaire’s return. Bruce flirts with Selina and Falcone gets pissed. Sal leaves unnoticed. Falcone asks his driver to leave Selina and Holly home because tonight is going to be a business night. Bruce gets aware of the movements and also leaves unnoticed.
Sal goes to an abandoned warehouse and meets his henchmen armed to the teeth. They are preparing to invade a drug lab from Falcone.
Selina and Holly are dropped in their fancy apartment in Gotham’s downtown. Their flat has lots of cats. Holly likes them very much. Selina says Holly she is going to bed and locks herself in her room. She rapidly puts on a black combat suit and goes out by the window.
Bruce goes with his car to an isolated place in the middle of the city. He enters in a hidden door. Inside there’s a mini headquarters with his uniform and other gadgets. He puts his Batman suit and goes out with his Bat-cycle.
[flashback]
The Wayne Chemical employee arrives to the margin of this river. The one where the sewers of the chemical facility are dropped. Feeling a lot of burns and itches on his skin, the engineer takes his protect suit off. Worried, he runs home to see if his pregnant wife is ok. When he gets to his home door, he sees it open. He looks slowly inside and sees two Sal Moroni henchmen waiting for him and his wife dead by their feet. Horrified, he takes the chemical weapon sample and throws it in at the apartment. The henchmen start to twist their bodies and to feel sick. They are dying. After they are drop dead, the engineer enters and holds his dead wife. Then he looks in the mirror and sees that his face, hair and lips are totally decolorized, plain white. Then he looks to the faces of the dead mobsters and sees the collateral effect of this chemical weapon he invented: the face of the people gets with a slightly smile. The Jokes stands up and starts to laugh frenetic and nervously.
[/flashback]
The Joker, with his green hair, sits aside with a green hair tint. He paints his lips red and dresses his purple outfit up. But he does that in a way we can’t see him entirely in the screen.
Falcone gets to his drug lab to inspect how the business has been running since he has been put to jail. He says to his henchmen that he can’t stay too long there because he has to be more careful now he recently left prison.
In this exact moment, Sal henchmen invade the lab and start a huge gunfight. Falcone leaves rapidly towards an emergency exit. When the gunfight reaches its top, a gas bomb explodes in the middle of the cross fire. Batman breaks in with his motorcycle through a wall. He jumps on some henchmen and disarms others with his shurikens. Far away, Seline watches the fight with a hi-tech binocular. After some time, Batman manages to defeat the most of the henchman and Gordon and a Swat squad breaks in. Batman gets away before the police take over the situation. Selina leaves.
Few minutes after, when all the bad guys are already being booked, Gordon heads to a dark corner of the lab and there is Batman waiting to talk with him. Batman tells Gordon that this was a Sal Moroni’s attack against Falcone and that a gang war is going to break loose in Gotham. In this moment, one of the Sal’s henchmen starts to twists his body. Another henchman does that too, and another too, as well. As a matter of fact all henchmen, Sal’s and Falcone’s, are doing that now. Suddenly they all start to laugh nervously. Gordon goes check it out. When he looks at one of the henchmen, the mobster is dead with a smile.
Batman looks to the roof and sees a silhouette of a man watching. When he sees Batman has caught him, the person runs away. Batman throws his rope and goes chase the guy. The suspect runs for a few roofs and manages to escape for a while, but Batman throws him a rope and gets to take the guy down. When Batman is going to turn him back, he receives an electrical discharged from the guy’s hand. The mysterious man stands in and Batman sees his face. He says: Nice to meet you, Batman. My name is Joker! He throws a bunch of ultra sharp metal cards e jumps from the building direct into a truck in movement. When Batman starts to get set to go after him, he already has been gone.
Selina gets in a flat in the poor area of the city. She pushes a hidden button in a cabinet and opens a secret door. She enters and activates a visual communicator. In the other side of the screen, a feminine silhouette appears. The mysterious woman and Selina talk about the happenings of that evening: Gang war, Batman and the new player in town: Joker. The mysterious woman says to Selina to keep the watching because the League of Shadows has unfinished business in Gotham and needs all the inside information.
[flashback]
The Moroni henchmen go again talk to the Wayne Chemical employee. They want to know about the product development. The engineer says that he changes his mind and don’t want to involve himself in something this big. Then the bad guys show him this baby clothes. The very one that his wife had bought for his future son. The henchmen say ifi the engineer doesn’t stick to the plan, his wife and future son will die.
[/flashback]
In the next evening, Bruce gets to the Wayne industries to meet his new employee. Lucius introduces him to Barbara Gordon. Barbara explains that she is Lt. Gordon’s niece and she moved to Gotham because of the new times Batman has brought to the city. Bruce sees that she is a wonder girl, already graduated in the MIT with only 20 years old. Lucius says that she is a computer and internet expert and will work in a very important sector of Waynetech. In this moment Bruce looks through the window and sees the Bat-signal in the horizon. He apologizes to Barbara and Lucius and excuses himself because he has an important meeting.
Harvey and Gordon are in the top of the police building waiting for Batman. Both talk about how bad are their marriages because of their commitment to the fight of crime. Batman appears. They talk about what is happening in the underworld of Gotham. Harvey does an inflamed speech about how Moroni and Falcone put themselves above the law and they have to be stopped. Gordon says that the situation is worse because of this new villain, the Joker. They made a pact to end the crime in Gotham, without trespassing the murder line. When Gordon and Harvey look away for a second, Batman disappears.
[flashback]
The police get in the home of a young Harvey. They have received a call from the boy saying that his father has beaten his mother. His mom says that this is a kidding from the boy. She says she actually has fallen from the stairs. Even the policemen seeing the Harvey’s mom beaten state, they do nothing and go away. When the door closes, Harvey’s father goes out from a room holding a baseball bat.
[/flashback]
Bruce is at the cave with Alfred. Bruce is analyzing a sample from the Joker’s poison. He starts to speculate if the Joker wouldn’t be or have access to a person with advanced chemical knowledge.
In this very moment, Barbara, working late at Waynetech has this same idea, and start to research online about criminals with chemical knowledge.
Falcone goes to Selina flat, but she isn’t there right now. So Falcone uses the opportunity to get together with Holly. Holly says she loved the lipstick she received from Falcone as a gift that afternoon. Falcone, who didn’t know about it, plays along with Holly. They get into Holly’s room and starts to kiss. Suddenly they feel a body paralysis. The Jokers shows up. He makes his ironic speech while Holly and Falcone are agonizing paralyzed. As far as the Joker makes his monologue, Falcone and Holly start to laughing each second stronger and louder, until they die with a smile in their faces. When the Joker leaves, it shows that all the henchmen in the flat are dead as are all the residents in the building. All with a smile.
[flashback]
The employee of the Wayne Chemical is training boxing at the company’s gym facility. He is approached by two men pretending to be employees. They speak they got to know that he had already did some dirty work in the company to gain a small money and ask him if he is interested in making some big money creating a product to be sold unofficially.
[/flashback]
Selina gets home late at night and finds her flat door open. She prepares herself to strike and find all dead. She sees Holly dead. She had created feelings for her friend, almost if she was her younger sister. Revolted, she leaves the crime scene.
The Falcone funeral. Sal Moroni appears and asks all the mobsters to hunt the Joker down. The panic gets into the city. The people are afraid to touch everything and everyone. Gas masks sell like water. The mayor Hamilton Hill and the police commissioner Loeb appear on TV trying to say that everything is ok. In another graveyard in the city, Selina buries Holly. Bruce shows up and says to Selina he wants to help personally all the Joker’s victims through his foundation. Selina deliver Bruce Holly’s parents address. They kiss each other. Selina then leaves.
Selina goes to the flat she has in the poor part of Gotham. She wears his Catwoman suit. A black body armor, similar to the one Batman uses. She uses the cat motif as homage to Holly and her love for the cats. She opens her secret room and pushes an auto destruction button. Catwoman jumps towards the city buildings as her flat explodes on fire.
Batman, Catwoman, Sal Moroni, Gordon and Harvey, each one with their own way go interrogating, separately, bad guys from Gotham’s underworld in search for Joker information. In that same night, in a Waynetech computer, Barbara spends another night compiling data about Batman and investigating about the Joker.
A few weeks later, the Wayne Foundation gives a beneficent party to raise funds for the Joker victims. Lucius is in his office preparing to go to the party when he receives the visit from Batman. Lucius receives a sample of the antidote for the Joker’s poison and ask Lucius to prepare a few copies and large-scale production. After, at the party are Harvey, Gordon, Lucius, Leslie, Barbara, Bruce, the Mayor and the commissioner Loeb. Several rich people are writing checks down for the Wayne foundation. When the Mayor finishes to write his check he starts to laugh and all the people who have signed start to laugh too. Bruce realizes the pen is poisoned and takes it with a towel and isolates it.
With this confusion, the Joker shows up, kills some bodyguards and takes control of the party. Bruce wants to face Joker as Batman but he can’t. Bruce pays attention to see if the Joker is about to kill anyone. Bruce is ready to sacrifice his secret identity in this case. But before Joker does anything more dangerous, Catwoman arrives and attacks the Joker. Bruce seizes the opportunity and goes to his office. Barbara follows Bruce without getting noticed. Bruce types a code in this desk and a secret doors open where there is a Batman suit. Bruce dresses as Batman and goes after Joker.
The Joker throws his laugh gas to the guests to create more confusion. Harvey helps to save Leslie and Lucius. Catwoman fights against the Joker but gets into the cross fire from the police. Catwoman attacks officer Renee Montoya while Gordon hits Joker in the arm. Catwoman turns into Gordon and says that the Joker is hers and gets ready to attack the Lt. when Batman stops her. In this confusion, Joker manages to escape. Catwoman goes after him and Batman follows.
Batman goes after Catwoman for several rooftops in the town in a relentless chase. Batman wants from Catwoman a lead about the Joker. Batman finally reaches her. They fight, and Batman defeats her after a long showdown. When Batman is about to interrogate her, she calls him Bruce. Batman gets confused. She takes her mask off and shows herself as Selina Kyle. She says that she could have ended the Joker that night and Batman has stopped her. In the heat of the discussion they end up kissing each other. In the middle of the kiss, Selina hits Batman and fades in the darkness.
Barbara accesses her computer and checks her hacker program. In it she reads Bruce’s password. She goes to the Bruce’s office, types the same code and enters the secret room. She discovers that Bruce Wayne is Batman. Barbara decides to find out who the Joker really is and with the possession of this information confront Bruce.
A few days later, Batman goes to the Lucius office to receive the antidote. Lucius comment by making copies of it he discovers that the poison can act in several ways. It can be of an immediate or retarded effect, or even stays inert in the people’s body and be triggered by an external agent. Batman asks Lucius to start large-scale production because all people in Gotham can be contaminated.
Alfred and Bruce are in the cave reviewing data about the Joker and Bruce remembers the episode in the Wayne Chemical a few months back. He raises the file of the employee that wanted to sell a chemical weapon to the Sal Moroni henchmen.
Batman searches down a flat destroyed by fire in Gotham. This was the flat from the former employee of Wayne Chemical. The owner had a wife but they were never seen afterwards. Without bodies, without news. Batman is convinced that this man is probably the Joker, but he has no leads of his whereabouts. Far away, Catwoman watches Batman.
[flashback]
The employee of Wayne Chemical arrives home tired of working. He complains with his wife he wanted to quit to pursue a comedian career. The woman says he can’t because he has to support their baby that is about to born. And he already is making not enough money. He has to make much more income than he is doing now.
[/flashback]
Barbara and Gordon are at home. Barbara is at the computer and Gordon is in the living room reviewing data about Joker’s case. Barbara is doing some cross information about chemical products purchase values and suspect financial activities. The doorbell rings. When the door opens, shows the Joker holding an iron bar. He hits a stroke in Barbara’s back, making her paralytic. Gordon is terrified and tries to help his niece. The Joker starts to beat Gordon up and while he does that, he explains his plan. He is going to prove his theory: A sane man can be turned crazy because of a bad day. Before Barbara is taken she manages to send a message trough his mobile phone.
Batman is at his car when he receives a call from Alfred. The butler says that Barbara has sent an email to Bruce Wayne with only the saying: Jack Napier. Batman runs this name in the car’s computer and discovers a trail of deposits and weird financial connections with this name. A list that starts a few days before the events of the Wayne Chemical and ends in a purchase of an abandoned amusement park in a island on the Gotham suburbs. Batman looks to the Bat-signal turned on far away and heads towards the Police tower.
Harvey tells Batman that Gordon and Barbara were kidnapped. Batman says to Harvey he has a good idea where they are and that Moroni is one of the targets of the Joker. Batman gives Harvey a few antidote copies and says him to go to the Moroni manor because all people there can die any minute.
Catwoman, who had intercept Bruce’s message, goes to the underworld to do her own investigation. She finds out that some bad guys was trying to sell this amusement park and a guy named Jack Napier wanted to buy it. These bad guys never showed up again.
Batman gets back to the cave. He prepares himself to go out, save Gordon and Barbara and arrest the Joker for good. While he does that, he imagines Gordon dead and his wife, son and niece Barbara at his funeral. He imagines her in the same position that happened to him when he was a child. He enter in his new boat and goes towards the abandoned park.
The Joker wakes Gordon up. Gordon is naked and chained like he was a beast in a freak show circus. The Joker makes one of his ironic monologues and takes Gordon tho the Hall of Mirrors. He shows there, images of her niece in a wheelchair, in the Love Tunnel. Gordon gets desperate. Joker beats him down again and says he is going to the Love Tunnel e will make Gordon sees everything through the screen.
Batman gets to the park and faces several traps prepared by the Joker. He is passing by a lot of the park’s deadly attractions until he arrives at the Hall of Mirrors.
Batman finds Gordon tied up and beaten. Batman frees him and Gordon tells Batman that his niece is held prisoner in the Love Tunnel. Gordon says he is ok and releases Batman to go after the Joker, but says to Batman do not kill the clown. Batman is supposed to arrest him and bring down him to the justice. Gordon says that if in this day or another day Batman crosses the line of murder, Gordon will arrest him personally. He adds if Batman kills the Joker, actually will be Joker that is going to be the winner. Batman agrees and goes after the Joker.
Harvey Dent and a group of policemen invades Sal Moroni’s house. They carry the antidotes for the Joker’s poison. The henchmen of Moroni and his family were already feeling the effects of the poison and the policemen stop to help them. Harvey runs to the second floor and finds Sal Moroni agonizing, already smiling with the effect of the poison. Alone, Harvey waits until Moroni is dead. After, he kneels down and injects the antidote in the murdered mobster. Montoya reaches the room just after that and asks if Moroni is still alive. Harvey says they couldn’t manage to get there in time, while he throws his coin up.
[flashback]
Harvey with about 17 years, open his bedroom door and sees his father beating up his mother in front of the stairs of his two-floors house. He looks at his father and pushes him across the stairs. Calmly he gets downstairs and takes from his dead father the two-headed coin.
[/flashback]
The Joker gets to the Love Tunnel and sets up to hurt Barbara with a very sharp and big knife. In this exact moment, he is hit by a kick from Catwoman. They fight and the Catwoman is defeated. When the Joker is about to kill Catwoman, the arm of the Joker is hit by a Bat-shuriken. The Joker escapes from the Love Tunnel.
Batman chases Joker until they arrived at the rollercoaster. The Joker jumps into a car and Batman gets another just behind it. During the ride, they fight. The Jokes shots a few rounds against Batman, who dodge the bullets with his armor. Batman jumps from his car to one next to Joker’s. They both exchange punches and kicks. In a more extreme slope, Batman uses his cape to fly towards the Joker and knock him down to the ground. The Joker is pretty injured but still manages to get back on his feet. Batman, then, beats him several times. He says to the Joker he is not going to kill him, but will make him suffer a lot. When the Joker is almost unconsciously, he tells Batman a joke. The one he says in the final of “The Killing Joke”.
Suggested Cast:
Batman/Bruce Wayne - Christian Bale
Joker/Chemical Engineer - Heath Ledger
Catwoman/Selina Kyle - Kate Beckinsale
Harvey Dent - Aaron Eckhart
Barbara Gordon - Emmy Rossum
Sal Moroni - Ray Liotta
Lt. Gordon - Gary Oldman
Alfred - Michael Caine
Lucius Fox - Morgan Freeman
Carmine Falcone - Tom Wilkinson
Holly Robinson - Piper Perabo
Harleen Quinzel - Rachel McAdams
Tony Zucco - Bob Hoskins
Leslie Thompkins - Vanessa Redgrave
[flashback]
The chemical engineer gets an instant message on his mobile phone. He leaves the lab on Wayne Chemical Engineering where he works and goes to a maximum-security area. There he takes a chemical material, puts it in a recipient and heads to a remote warehouse of the company.
Batman is at his vehicle, is waiting outside of the facility. He intercepts the instant message. He gets out of the car and goes towards to the facility.
In the warehouse the engineer gets together with two criminals. He says the chemical weapon they have ordered is ready but the agreed payment is not enough. He wants more money. In this exact moment two other criminals appear. They are from the Carmine Falcone gang. They say the criminals who hired the chemical engineer are from Sal Moroni gang and this business should be carried by Falcone, since he is the mob lord of Gotham, even in prison. All criminals draw their guns and going to shoot each other and kill the engineer that happens to be in between. In this exact moment, Batman hits one of the criminals with a kick while he disarms the other with his Bat-shurikens. The engineer seizes the opportunity and gets away with the chemical weapon.
Batman fights with the criminals and defeats them. After that he goes after the engineer who happens to get enclosed. He can go only where he has come before and face Batman or enter in toxic contamination area, where there are lethal gases. The engineer then puts on a protect suit with a translucent red helmet, and enter the toxic area. Batman sees the engineer entering and puts his gas mask with protect googles and enter the toxic area. After the engineer tried to miss Batman, he gets enclosed again. Batman says he has to give in but he says that he can’t do it. The engineer walks back, stumbles and falls down in a vat of chemical products. Batman tries to reach him but he is not able to.
[/flashback]
Bruce Wayne examines the Joker card Lt. Gordon has given to him. Bruce and Alfred talk about the modifications they have done in the cave.
The recently indicated public D.A. Harvey Dent arrives at the Gotham Court. In this session, Falcone is released for lack of evidence after stayed in prison a few months. The proofs have been lost by the Police Dept.
In Harvey’s office, he and Gordon talk about how Sal Moroni is getting big in Gotham’s underworld and his rivalry with Carmine Falcone. They also talk about why Harvey has moved to Gotham. Harvey says, with the appearance of Batman, Gotham is a very interesting city to live if your will is to fight against crime. Gordon talks about the fact of the old DA has been murdered and that his assistant Rachel Dawes has leaved Gotham for personal reasons. That’s why Harvey has been nominated in such a hurry. While they talk, Harvey always keeps throwing up a coin. Gordon asks about it. Harvey says that this is a two-headed coin he received from his father. He enjoys having it around because it brings him luck.
[flashback]
Harvey as a child tries to beat his dad in a head and tails coin game, but always lose. The father shows him that he always loses because of the two-headed coin. The kid tries to take the coin for him, but fails and his dad slaps him very hard in the face.
[/flashback]
Bruce Wayne, at his manor, receives Dr. Leslie Thompkins, recently arrived from humanitarian missions on Africa. They talk about how Leslie had been colleague of Bruce’s father and friends of the Waynes and helped Alfred in raising Bruce after the tragedy. Leslie asks Bruce a question she already suspects the answer: Bruce is Batman. They argue about the crime fighting methods of Bruce. He then explains her that while he fights at night as Batman, he also will fight crime through this foundation that will take the name of this father: The Thomas Wayne Foundation. Bruce asks her to be the president of the foundation. Even though disagreeing with Batman’s methods, she accepts the job. After Bruce leaves, Alfred and Leslie talk about Bruce’s childhood and the fact that he is Batman nowadays.
Later tonight, Bruce Wayne, Lucius Fox and Leslie Thompkins are at the Wayne Foundation announcement party. Sal Moroni and Carmine Falcone show up and create an embarrassing situation. Lucius comments with Bruce if he is enjoying the new motorcycle he borrowed from Wayne Industries. Falcone escorted by his girlfriend Selina Kyle and her friend Holly Robinson talks with Bruce Wayne about how the things in Gotham have been changing since the millionaire’s return. Bruce flirts with Selina and Falcone gets pissed. Sal leaves unnoticed. Falcone asks his driver to leave Selina and Holly home because tonight is going to be a business night. Bruce gets aware of the movements and also leaves unnoticed.
Sal goes to an abandoned warehouse and meets his henchmen armed to the teeth. They are preparing to invade a drug lab from Falcone.
Selina and Holly are dropped in their fancy apartment in Gotham’s downtown. Their flat has lots of cats. Holly likes them very much. Selina says Holly she is going to bed and locks herself in her room. She rapidly puts on a black combat suit and goes out by the window.
Bruce goes with his car to an isolated place in the middle of the city. He enters in a hidden door. Inside there’s a mini headquarters with his uniform and other gadgets. He puts his Batman suit and goes out with his Bat-cycle.
[flashback]
The Wayne Chemical employee arrives to the margin of this river. The one where the sewers of the chemical facility are dropped. Feeling a lot of burns and itches on his skin, the engineer takes his protect suit off. Worried, he runs home to see if his pregnant wife is ok. When he gets to his home door, he sees it open. He looks slowly inside and sees two Sal Moroni henchmen waiting for him and his wife dead by their feet. Horrified, he takes the chemical weapon sample and throws it in at the apartment. The henchmen start to twist their bodies and to feel sick. They are dying. After they are drop dead, the engineer enters and holds his dead wife. Then he looks in the mirror and sees that his face, hair and lips are totally decolorized, plain white. Then he looks to the faces of the dead mobsters and sees the collateral effect of this chemical weapon he invented: the face of the people gets with a slightly smile. The Jokes stands up and starts to laugh frenetic and nervously.
[/flashback]
The Joker, with his green hair, sits aside with a green hair tint. He paints his lips red and dresses his purple outfit up. But he does that in a way we can’t see him entirely in the screen.
Falcone gets to his drug lab to inspect how the business has been running since he has been put to jail. He says to his henchmen that he can’t stay too long there because he has to be more careful now he recently left prison.
In this exact moment, Sal henchmen invade the lab and start a huge gunfight. Falcone leaves rapidly towards an emergency exit. When the gunfight reaches its top, a gas bomb explodes in the middle of the cross fire. Batman breaks in with his motorcycle through a wall. He jumps on some henchmen and disarms others with his shurikens. Far away, Seline watches the fight with a hi-tech binocular. After some time, Batman manages to defeat the most of the henchman and Gordon and a Swat squad breaks in. Batman gets away before the police take over the situation. Selina leaves.
Few minutes after, when all the bad guys are already being booked, Gordon heads to a dark corner of the lab and there is Batman waiting to talk with him. Batman tells Gordon that this was a Sal Moroni’s attack against Falcone and that a gang war is going to break loose in Gotham. In this moment, one of the Sal’s henchmen starts to twists his body. Another henchman does that too, and another too, as well. As a matter of fact all henchmen, Sal’s and Falcone’s, are doing that now. Suddenly they all start to laugh nervously. Gordon goes check it out. When he looks at one of the henchmen, the mobster is dead with a smile.
Batman looks to the roof and sees a silhouette of a man watching. When he sees Batman has caught him, the person runs away. Batman throws his rope and goes chase the guy. The suspect runs for a few roofs and manages to escape for a while, but Batman throws him a rope and gets to take the guy down. When Batman is going to turn him back, he receives an electrical discharged from the guy’s hand. The mysterious man stands in and Batman sees his face. He says: Nice to meet you, Batman. My name is Joker! He throws a bunch of ultra sharp metal cards e jumps from the building direct into a truck in movement. When Batman starts to get set to go after him, he already has been gone.
Selina gets in a flat in the poor area of the city. She pushes a hidden button in a cabinet and opens a secret door. She enters and activates a visual communicator. In the other side of the screen, a feminine silhouette appears. The mysterious woman and Selina talk about the happenings of that evening: Gang war, Batman and the new player in town: Joker. The mysterious woman says to Selina to keep the watching because the League of Shadows has unfinished business in Gotham and needs all the inside information.
[flashback]
The Moroni henchmen go again talk to the Wayne Chemical employee. They want to know about the product development. The engineer says that he changes his mind and don’t want to involve himself in something this big. Then the bad guys show him this baby clothes. The very one that his wife had bought for his future son. The henchmen say ifi the engineer doesn’t stick to the plan, his wife and future son will die.
[/flashback]
In the next evening, Bruce gets to the Wayne industries to meet his new employee. Lucius introduces him to Barbara Gordon. Barbara explains that she is Lt. Gordon’s niece and she moved to Gotham because of the new times Batman has brought to the city. Bruce sees that she is a wonder girl, already graduated in the MIT with only 20 years old. Lucius says that she is a computer and internet expert and will work in a very important sector of Waynetech. In this moment Bruce looks through the window and sees the Bat-signal in the horizon. He apologizes to Barbara and Lucius and excuses himself because he has an important meeting.
Harvey and Gordon are in the top of the police building waiting for Batman. Both talk about how bad are their marriages because of their commitment to the fight of crime. Batman appears. They talk about what is happening in the underworld of Gotham. Harvey does an inflamed speech about how Moroni and Falcone put themselves above the law and they have to be stopped. Gordon says that the situation is worse because of this new villain, the Joker. They made a pact to end the crime in Gotham, without trespassing the murder line. When Gordon and Harvey look away for a second, Batman disappears.
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The police get in the home of a young Harvey. They have received a call from the boy saying that his father has beaten his mother. His mom says that this is a kidding from the boy. She says she actually has fallen from the stairs. Even the policemen seeing the Harvey’s mom beaten state, they do nothing and go away. When the door closes, Harvey’s father goes out from a room holding a baseball bat.
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Bruce is at the cave with Alfred. Bruce is analyzing a sample from the Joker’s poison. He starts to speculate if the Joker wouldn’t be or have access to a person with advanced chemical knowledge.
In this very moment, Barbara, working late at Waynetech has this same idea, and start to research online about criminals with chemical knowledge.
Falcone goes to Selina flat, but she isn’t there right now. So Falcone uses the opportunity to get together with Holly. Holly says she loved the lipstick she received from Falcone as a gift that afternoon. Falcone, who didn’t know about it, plays along with Holly. They get into Holly’s room and starts to kiss. Suddenly they feel a body paralysis. The Jokers shows up. He makes his ironic speech while Holly and Falcone are agonizing paralyzed. As far as the Joker makes his monologue, Falcone and Holly start to laughing each second stronger and louder, until they die with a smile in their faces. When the Joker leaves, it shows that all the henchmen in the flat are dead as are all the residents in the building. All with a smile.
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The employee of the Wayne Chemical is training boxing at the company’s gym facility. He is approached by two men pretending to be employees. They speak they got to know that he had already did some dirty work in the company to gain a small money and ask him if he is interested in making some big money creating a product to be sold unofficially.
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Selina gets home late at night and finds her flat door open. She prepares herself to strike and find all dead. She sees Holly dead. She had created feelings for her friend, almost if she was her younger sister. Revolted, she leaves the crime scene.
The Falcone funeral. Sal Moroni appears and asks all the mobsters to hunt the Joker down. The panic gets into the city. The people are afraid to touch everything and everyone. Gas masks sell like water. The mayor Hamilton Hill and the police commissioner Loeb appear on TV trying to say that everything is ok. In another graveyard in the city, Selina buries Holly. Bruce shows up and says to Selina he wants to help personally all the Joker’s victims through his foundation. Selina deliver Bruce Holly’s parents address. They kiss each other. Selina then leaves.
Selina goes to the flat she has in the poor part of Gotham. She wears his Catwoman suit. A black body armor, similar to the one Batman uses. She uses the cat motif as homage to Holly and her love for the cats. She opens her secret room and pushes an auto destruction button. Catwoman jumps towards the city buildings as her flat explodes on fire.
Batman, Catwoman, Sal Moroni, Gordon and Harvey, each one with their own way go interrogating, separately, bad guys from Gotham’s underworld in search for Joker information. In that same night, in a Waynetech computer, Barbara spends another night compiling data about Batman and investigating about the Joker.
A few weeks later, the Wayne Foundation gives a beneficent party to raise funds for the Joker victims. Lucius is in his office preparing to go to the party when he receives the visit from Batman. Lucius receives a sample of the antidote for the Joker’s poison and ask Lucius to prepare a few copies and large-scale production. After, at the party are Harvey, Gordon, Lucius, Leslie, Barbara, Bruce, the Mayor and the commissioner Loeb. Several rich people are writing checks down for the Wayne foundation. When the Mayor finishes to write his check he starts to laugh and all the people who have signed start to laugh too. Bruce realizes the pen is poisoned and takes it with a towel and isolates it.
With this confusion, the Joker shows up, kills some bodyguards and takes control of the party. Bruce wants to face Joker as Batman but he can’t. Bruce pays attention to see if the Joker is about to kill anyone. Bruce is ready to sacrifice his secret identity in this case. But before Joker does anything more dangerous, Catwoman arrives and attacks the Joker. Bruce seizes the opportunity and goes to his office. Barbara follows Bruce without getting noticed. Bruce types a code in this desk and a secret doors open where there is a Batman suit. Bruce dresses as Batman and goes after Joker.
The Joker throws his laugh gas to the guests to create more confusion. Harvey helps to save Leslie and Lucius. Catwoman fights against the Joker but gets into the cross fire from the police. Catwoman attacks officer Renee Montoya while Gordon hits Joker in the arm. Catwoman turns into Gordon and says that the Joker is hers and gets ready to attack the Lt. when Batman stops her. In this confusion, Joker manages to escape. Catwoman goes after him and Batman follows.
Batman goes after Catwoman for several rooftops in the town in a relentless chase. Batman wants from Catwoman a lead about the Joker. Batman finally reaches her. They fight, and Batman defeats her after a long showdown. When Batman is about to interrogate her, she calls him Bruce. Batman gets confused. She takes her mask off and shows herself as Selina Kyle. She says that she could have ended the Joker that night and Batman has stopped her. In the heat of the discussion they end up kissing each other. In the middle of the kiss, Selina hits Batman and fades in the darkness.
Barbara accesses her computer and checks her hacker program. In it she reads Bruce’s password. She goes to the Bruce’s office, types the same code and enters the secret room. She discovers that Bruce Wayne is Batman. Barbara decides to find out who the Joker really is and with the possession of this information confront Bruce.
A few days later, Batman goes to the Lucius office to receive the antidote. Lucius comment by making copies of it he discovers that the poison can act in several ways. It can be of an immediate or retarded effect, or even stays inert in the people’s body and be triggered by an external agent. Batman asks Lucius to start large-scale production because all people in Gotham can be contaminated.
Alfred and Bruce are in the cave reviewing data about the Joker and Bruce remembers the episode in the Wayne Chemical a few months back. He raises the file of the employee that wanted to sell a chemical weapon to the Sal Moroni henchmen.
Batman searches down a flat destroyed by fire in Gotham. This was the flat from the former employee of Wayne Chemical. The owner had a wife but they were never seen afterwards. Without bodies, without news. Batman is convinced that this man is probably the Joker, but he has no leads of his whereabouts. Far away, Catwoman watches Batman.
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The employee of Wayne Chemical arrives home tired of working. He complains with his wife he wanted to quit to pursue a comedian career. The woman says he can’t because he has to support their baby that is about to born. And he already is making not enough money. He has to make much more income than he is doing now.
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Barbara and Gordon are at home. Barbara is at the computer and Gordon is in the living room reviewing data about Joker’s case. Barbara is doing some cross information about chemical products purchase values and suspect financial activities. The doorbell rings. When the door opens, shows the Joker holding an iron bar. He hits a stroke in Barbara’s back, making her paralytic. Gordon is terrified and tries to help his niece. The Joker starts to beat Gordon up and while he does that, he explains his plan. He is going to prove his theory: A sane man can be turned crazy because of a bad day. Before Barbara is taken she manages to send a message trough his mobile phone.
Batman is at his car when he receives a call from Alfred. The butler says that Barbara has sent an email to Bruce Wayne with only the saying: Jack Napier. Batman runs this name in the car’s computer and discovers a trail of deposits and weird financial connections with this name. A list that starts a few days before the events of the Wayne Chemical and ends in a purchase of an abandoned amusement park in a island on the Gotham suburbs. Batman looks to the Bat-signal turned on far away and heads towards the Police tower.
Harvey tells Batman that Gordon and Barbara were kidnapped. Batman says to Harvey he has a good idea where they are and that Moroni is one of the targets of the Joker. Batman gives Harvey a few antidote copies and says him to go to the Moroni manor because all people there can die any minute.
Catwoman, who had intercept Bruce’s message, goes to the underworld to do her own investigation. She finds out that some bad guys was trying to sell this amusement park and a guy named Jack Napier wanted to buy it. These bad guys never showed up again.
Batman gets back to the cave. He prepares himself to go out, save Gordon and Barbara and arrest the Joker for good. While he does that, he imagines Gordon dead and his wife, son and niece Barbara at his funeral. He imagines her in the same position that happened to him when he was a child. He enter in his new boat and goes towards the abandoned park.
The Joker wakes Gordon up. Gordon is naked and chained like he was a beast in a freak show circus. The Joker makes one of his ironic monologues and takes Gordon tho the Hall of Mirrors. He shows there, images of her niece in a wheelchair, in the Love Tunnel. Gordon gets desperate. Joker beats him down again and says he is going to the Love Tunnel e will make Gordon sees everything through the screen.
Batman gets to the park and faces several traps prepared by the Joker. He is passing by a lot of the park’s deadly attractions until he arrives at the Hall of Mirrors.
Batman finds Gordon tied up and beaten. Batman frees him and Gordon tells Batman that his niece is held prisoner in the Love Tunnel. Gordon says he is ok and releases Batman to go after the Joker, but says to Batman do not kill the clown. Batman is supposed to arrest him and bring down him to the justice. Gordon says that if in this day or another day Batman crosses the line of murder, Gordon will arrest him personally. He adds if Batman kills the Joker, actually will be Joker that is going to be the winner. Batman agrees and goes after the Joker.
Harvey Dent and a group of policemen invades Sal Moroni’s house. They carry the antidotes for the Joker’s poison. The henchmen of Moroni and his family were already feeling the effects of the poison and the policemen stop to help them. Harvey runs to the second floor and finds Sal Moroni agonizing, already smiling with the effect of the poison. Alone, Harvey waits until Moroni is dead. After, he kneels down and injects the antidote in the murdered mobster. Montoya reaches the room just after that and asks if Moroni is still alive. Harvey says they couldn’t manage to get there in time, while he throws his coin up.
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Harvey with about 17 years, open his bedroom door and sees his father beating up his mother in front of the stairs of his two-floors house. He looks at his father and pushes him across the stairs. Calmly he gets downstairs and takes from his dead father the two-headed coin.
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The Joker gets to the Love Tunnel and sets up to hurt Barbara with a very sharp and big knife. In this exact moment, he is hit by a kick from Catwoman. They fight and the Catwoman is defeated. When the Joker is about to kill Catwoman, the arm of the Joker is hit by a Bat-shuriken. The Joker escapes from the Love Tunnel.
Batman chases Joker until they arrived at the rollercoaster. The Joker jumps into a car and Batman gets another just behind it. During the ride, they fight. The Jokes shots a few rounds against Batman, who dodge the bullets with his armor. Batman jumps from his car to one next to Joker’s. They both exchange punches and kicks. In a more extreme slope, Batman uses his cape to fly towards the Joker and knock him down to the ground. The Joker is pretty injured but still manages to get back on his feet. Batman, then, beats him several times. He says to the Joker he is not going to kill him, but will make him suffer a lot. When the Joker is almost unconsciously, he tells Batman a joke. The one he says in the final of “The Killing Joke”.