Justice and Vengeance (Batman Begins)

A young Bruce Wayne, while playing with young Rachel Dawes, falls down a well and is attacked by a flurry of bats. After his father, Thomas Wayne, pulls him from the well, Bruce begins having nightmares about bats. One night the Waynes go to the opera where Bruce becomes scared at some of the dancers' portrayals of bats. Bruce experiences a panic attack and asks his father if they can leave. The family exits the theater into an alley, where they are approached by a mugger who murders both Thomas and Martha Wayne. Before he dies, Thomas Wayne tells his son, "Don't be afraid."
After being comforted at the police station by police sergeant Jim Gordon and being told "good news" about the shooter, Joe Chill, being arrested, Bruce is taken home by family butler Alfred Pennyworth, who raises him in the absence of his parents.
Now a young adult, Bruce has returned from Princeton University for the parole hearing of his parents' murderer which was arranged as part of a deal to testify against the crime boss Carmine Falcone. Rachel Dawes is now a Gotham City Assistant District Attorney. The killer is granted parole, but is murdered immediately after the hearing by a mob operative. Bruce Wayne was planning to kill him as well, but was robbed of the opportunity. When Rachel learns this, she explains the difference between vengeance and justice to Bruce, and then tells him that his father would be ashamed.
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