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BATMAN
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Screenplay by
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Sam Hamm
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Based on the Character Created by
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Bob Kane
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MOM For God's sake, Harold, can we please just get a taxi??
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DAD I'm trying to get a -- (shouting) TAXI!!
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JIMMY We're going the wrong way.
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DAD Put that away. We'll look like tourists.
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DAD (cont.) We'll never get a cab here. Let's cut over to Seventh.
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JIMMY Seventh is that way.
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DAD I know where we are!
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VOICE Hey, mister. Gimme a dollar?
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DERELICT Mister. How about it. One dollar? (standing up) One dollar, man. Are you deaf? Are you deaf? -- Do you speak English??
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STREET PUNK Do the kid a favor, lady. Don't scream.
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NICK (emptying the wallet) All right. The Gold Card. (tossing the credit card in EDDIE's face) Don't leave home without it.
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EDDIE Let's beat it, man. I don't like being up here.
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NICK What, scared of heights?
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EDDIE I dunno, man. After what happened to Johnny Gobs --
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NICK Look, Johnny Gobs got ripped and walked off a roof, all right? No big loss.
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EDDIE That ain't what I heard. That ain't what I heard at all. (beat) I heard the bat got him.
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NICK Gimme a break, will you? Shut up...
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EDDIE Five stories, straight down. There was no blood in the body.
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NICK No shit. It was all over the pavement.
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EDDIE There was no blood, man. (beat) My brother says... all the bad things you done... they come back and haunt you...
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NICK Listen to this. How old are you? There ain't no bat.
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EDDIE My brother's a priest, man.
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NICK No wonder you're such a chickenshit. Now shut up. (conclusively) There ain't no bat.
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EDDIE You shouldn'ta turned the gun on that kid, man. You shouldn'ta --
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NICK Do you want this money or don't you? Now shut up! Shut up --
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NICK (cont.) I'm gettin' outta here.
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NICK (cont.) Don't kill me... don't kill me...
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BATMAN I won't kill you. I want you to do me a favor.
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BATMAN (cont.) Tell your friends. Tell all your friends.
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BATMAN
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DENT ... it is no longer enough to go after the small-time punks and petty criminals who infest the streets of Gotham City. Crime and corruption must be attacked at the root!
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DENT If elected, my first act as district attorney will be to return an indictment against Boss Carl Grissom!
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DENT (on the TV screen) Together we can make Gotham city a safe place for decent people to live and work and play.
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JACK NAPIER Decent people shouldn't live here. They'd be much happier someplace else.
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ALICIA Anything new?
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JACK The usual gas. If this clown could lay a hand on Grissom... I would've had to kill him by now.
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ALICIA If Grissom knew about us... he might kill you.
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JACK Don't think so, angel. I'm too valuable. That's the way I've planned it. (pause) And besides, he doesn't know.
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ALICIA You look just fine, Jack.
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JACK ... I didn't ask.
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MEDIC That one there won't say a word. The other one's raving his head off.
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ECKHARDT Variety, huh? The spice of life.
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PATROLMAN They found him hugging a drainpipe. He was scared to come off the roof.
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KNOX Great, but tell me: is this another you-know-what? 'Cause if so, it's the third one this week.
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PATROLMAN (testily) I dunno. What's "what"?
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KNOX Good answer. I'm gonna put you in for a commendation.
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ECKHARDT Oh Christ, it's Knox.
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KNOX Hiya, gents. This anything I should know about?
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ECKHARDT Nothing out of the routine.
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NICK A bat, I tell you, a giant bat! He wanted me to do him a favor...!
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KNOX No offense, boys, but these guys are seeing something up there.
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ECKHARDT No comment. Print what you like.
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KNOX Come on. One question. Is there a six-foot bat in Gotham City?
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KNOX (cont.) If so, is he on the police payroll? If so, what's he pulling down after taxes?
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JACK You didn't show up.
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ECKHARDT We had another bat sighting.
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JACK I'm sure that was vitally important. Listen: things are heating up. Someone is leaking information to Harvey Dent.
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ECKHARDT I'm doing the best I can. If it's a problem --
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JACK Eckhardt... our problems are your problems.
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ECKHARDT I'll work on it.
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JACK Very nice, Lieutenant. But a little ostentatious on a cop's salary, don't you think?
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ECKHARDT (knocking his hands away) I answer to Grissom, punk. Not to you.
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JACK You're a smart boy, Eckhardt. You should be thinking about the future.
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ECKHARDT Ambition. (nodding his head) Forget it, Jack. You'll never run that organization.
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JACK And why's that?
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ECKHARDT You're a psycho, friend. You're an A-one crazy boy and Grissom knows it.
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JACK Here. Use mine.
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JACK (cont.) It's all right, boys. Lt. Eckhardt here is a good cop. A real good cop. (pause; smiling) Inexpensive.
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KNOX What have you got for me, Jerry?
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KNOX (cont.) Nice, but... maybe a little more gore on the fangs, huh?
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COLLEAGUE Hey Knox, you got a visitor.
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KNOX I'm real busy, Clark. Be a pal and dust him, okay?
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COLLEAGUE This one you might want to dust yourself.
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KNOX ... Vicki Vale.
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VICKI How'd you know it was me?
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KNOX Honey -- I would know any randomly selected square inch of Vicki Vale. (grinning) If I had a good enough hint.
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KNOX (cont.) Where the hell have you been?
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VICKI A nice, restful vacation.
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KNOX God, a girl could get hurt doing this.
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VICKI I do get hurt.
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KNOX Got any more of those?
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VICKI Nothing I'm at liberty to reveal here. What's new and hot in Gotham City?
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KNOX It's too good, Vick. We got a six- foot bat that swoops out of the night and preys on evildoers.
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VICKI (laughing) Evildoers, huh? Big or small?
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KNOX Small so far. I mean -- they don't allow bats in boardrooms, do they.
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VICKI Speaking of which... I hear the notorious Bruce Wayne is throwing a big do for the Harvey Dent campaign.
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KNOX Yeah. Hottest ticket in town. Every law'n'order freak in the city's gonna be there.
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KNOX (cont.) Wa-a-it. Vicki. You're not saying --
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KNOX (cont.) Aw, Vicki. Vicki! (apprehensively) Got a date?
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KNOX (cont.) Vicki, baby, I love you, I've always loved you. Will you marry me?
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VICKI (straightening her clothes) No.
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KNOX Well, I'm starving. Will you at least buy me a hamburger?
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VICKI Yes, but please -- be gentle.
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GRISSOM Nine points ahead in the new poll. I don't like the way this is shaping up.
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JACK We can always pop him. -- Or pop someone close to him.
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