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