The Batman 2: The Long Halloween Movie

The Batman 2: The Long Halloween is a 2015 American superhero film and part of The DC Bruce Timm Rebirth Fanon-Verse. It is the sequel to The Batman (2013) The Film follows Batman attempts to unravel the mystery of murders committed on holidays throughout the year, and uncover the true identity of the serial killer Holiday.
=== The Deal ===
In 2015, Hoping to solicit help in laundering his funds, Gotham City mob boss Carmine Falcone meets with billionaire Bruce Wayne under the guise of repairing the relationship between their families. Bruce, committed to the betterment of Gotham City, declines.
=== The Long Halloween Begins ===
On Halloween, someone murders Johnny Viti, Falcone's nephew, and leaves a jack-o'-lantern at the crime scene. Gotham City PD Captain James Gordon suspects Falcone is responsible because Viti was planning to testify against him. He, Batman, and District Attorney Harvey Dent make a pact to take down Falcone without breaking the law.
=== The Cat ===
Catwoman leads Batman to Falcone's cash stockpile, with Harvey following. Based on a coin flip, Harvey decides to burn the money rather than move it legally and risk Falcone stopping them.
=== The Bomb of Halloween ===
Falcone hires triad member Mickey Chen to bomb Harvey's house.
=== Survived ===
Harvey and his wife Gilda survive but are hospitalized. On Thanksgiving night, he left his room in the hospital and decided to go to the Falcone Tower in order to deal with the Roman once and forall, now acting more direct and unhinged than before. Though, before he was able to do something stupid, Gordon intervened and calmed Harvey down, giving him his weapon in order to keep his family safe.
=== You Are Week ===
After said assassination attempt had failed and Dent had been hospitalized, Alberto was having a talk with his father, while Carmine prepared dinner for their annual Thanksgiving dinner. He told his son that Dent merely still lived because he allowed him to and that Oxford had changed him for the worse, which was the reason why he was never let in charge of anything in the family. Alberto then tried to explain to his father that he indeed did someting of worth for the family, by sending flowers to Gilda Dent, in the name of the Falcone family, in an effort to seem less suspicious. This angered Carmine very much, but not because it would make them look even more guilty, but rather because the sole thought of Alberto speaking for the family deeply enraged him. He chocked Alberto and reminded him that he would never have anything to say in the family business, due to his weakness.
=== China Town Ambush ===
Batman had found a lead on the attempted murderer of Harvey Dent. He used his Batmobile to chase Chen throughout the whole city, until they arrived in Chinatown, where Chen's car crashed and he was forced to flee on foot. Batman chased him into an alley and threw one of his Batarangs at him, incapacitating him. He tried to interrogate the criminal, even going so far as to punch him right into the open wound his Batarang had caused, but was interrupted by three other members of Chen's gang, the San Ho Hui, appearing.
=== Into The Lair of The Monster ===
Though they proved to be a far greater challenge than Chen, Batman was still able to take all of them out, even though he needed Catwoman's assistance for the last and biggest one. He then followed Chen's trail into the sewers, where he found that Grundy had captured him and was probably going to kill him. Batman however, was able to convince the undead Zombie to let his hostage go, so he could be alone again.
=== GCPD Interrogation ===
Batman brought Chen to the Gcpd headquarters to interrogate him together with Gordon. After several attempts that all lead to Chen claiming he was innocent, Bruce grew angry and started to hurt him, but Gordon quickly intervened and prevented him from doing so, saying that everything he said would be useless if he was hurt.
Gordon then called his right hand woman Renee Montoya to take him out of the room and release him again, seeing as they had no real evidence against him. They then discussed if Harvey could have been the one who had killed Johnny Viti, due to a comment made by Mickey Chen, but regarded it as a lie and resorted back to the principle of Occam's razor. That the easiest solution, in this case Falcone being the one responsible, was often the right one.
=== The Long Thanksgiving ===
After that, they both returned home to celebrate Thanksgiving, with Bruce going back into the city again later to give Grundy a part of the dinner Alfred had prepared for him. In the same night, Chen and all of his friends and gang members were murdered by the same person who had killed Johnny Viti, named Holiday because he always struck on Holidays.
=== Thanksgiving Kill ===
Mickey Chen and all of his friends and gang members were murdered by the same person who had killed Johnny Viti, named Holiday because he always struck on Holidays.
=== Arkham Visit ===
On December 24th, Batman and Gordon visited the Arkham Asylum in order to speak to Julian Day, the Calendar Man, whom they wanted to ask about the murder cases on the last two major holidays. With him being a criminal who operated exclusively on holidays, he seemed the logical choice for a consultant in this case. During their talk, he repeatedly mocked them and seemed to know more than he wanted to tell, but in the end, came to the conclusion that Harvey, who was absent from this meeting, was the most likely person to be Holiday. While Bruce and the captain didn’t want to hear any of this, Day did not give in and further elaborated his theory. At the end of their conversation, Day also made a comment about what a "joke" Batman's efforts of protecting the city were. The emphasis on the word joke made Batman realize that it had to have something to do with the Joker, his archnemesis, only locked up a couple of cells next to the Calendar Man. He rushed to the mad clown's cell and forced the guard to open it, and looked for him in his bed, but beneath the its sheets, he only found a mash of food from the last weeks, placed there to make it seem like he was still there. The guard then told him that Joker had threatened his child to force him to release him, before the first murder of the Holiday killings had taken place. Batman then saw the face of Harvey Dent on a newspaper lying on top of the double and quickly used his Grappling Gun to leave the building, in order to warn him.
=== A Christmas Visit ===
On Christmas Eve, Joker visited and ambushed Harvey Dent in his home. He had waited for him there for him to come home, while Gilda, Dent's wife, went Christmas shopping. The two of them fought and the Joker gained the upperhand, while laughing and making jokes all the time. He said that he thought it possible that Dent himself was Holiday, a deduction which his fellow inmate the Calendar Man also had made. He then knocked Dent out after he provoked him by calling his joke unfunny and left, in order to follow other leads. On his way, Batman way contacted by Alfred in the Batmobile, who informed him that the Joker had already visited several families that night, all having the name Dent, which further demonstrated Joker's intentions. Having arrived at the Dent house, he found Harvey beaten unconscious next to his Christmas tree and after helping him recover, he asked him where the homicidal clown went, to which Dent answered that he went to Maroni.
=== Maroni ===
Joker then pays Sal Maroni a visit in his Ristorante, where he poisoned the crime bosses food with his toxin. Maroni, who had survived due to not being hungry that evening, was told that he should share any information he had about Holiday, while his friend Freddie was not as lucky, having become little more than another grinning corpse the Joker had left behind.
After arriving at the Maroni's Restaurant, Batman witnessed Salvatore Maroni, son of Luigi Maroni, carrying the corpse of a man into his car. A man with bleached skin and a giant grin on his face. Before he had even realized he was there, Batman incapacitated the mobster and asked him what the Joker wanted from him. Maroni answered and reported that the clown had poisoned their food with his toxin and that, while he wasn’t hungry, his friend Freddie was and was now the grinning corpse in his car.
After being asked where the Joker went, Maroni replied that before Batman's arrival in Gotham, people like the clown wouldn’t come out of the shadows, but ever since him, people like Joker, Killer Moth and Killer Croc came from everywhere. He then proposed to ask Carmine Falcone himself to find out who was killing his people, which Batman found helpful and left him to go to the Falcone Tower.
=== Tower Visit ===
Joker went to Carmine Falcone, and silently ambushed him in his tower. Carmine though, had heard him enter the room and pointed with a gun at the clown, only to find out that the Joker had already removed the ammunition from it, rendering it useless and the Roman defenseless. The Joker did not hurt him though, and merely asked him to report directly to him each and every piece of information he found out about the killer and left him again. Upon leaving the room, he was noticed by Falcone’s bodyguard Milos Grapa, who started to chase him and tried to kill him, though unsuccessfully, as the Joker managed to escape the scene, leaving nothing behind than some of his cards. This though, proved to be a grave mistake, seeing as shortly after the clown had escaped, the real Holiday arrived and killed Grapa, before Batman arrived too in his Batmobile and found the cards, causing him to believe Joker to be the main suspect for the killings.
=== Who is Holiday? ===
Returning to the Batcave, Bruce tells Alfred he suspects five people of being Holiday: Maroni, Falcone's sister Carla Viti, Joker, Falcone, and Harvey. However, Bruce gives Harvey the benefit of the doubt because a psychiatric evaluation showing "wild aberrations" resulted in Harvey being denied a pistol permit.
=== New Year's Eve ===
Bruce attends a New Year's Eve yacht party celebrating Gotham's children's clinic, hosted by Falcone, who calls out Bruce during his speech as the son he never had, angering Alberto. Harvey and Gilda were on the New Year’s Eve parade in the city, where they met Gordon and his wife Barbara. During the parade Harvey and his wife started arguing about him barely being home anymore due to his work. Gilda mentioned that Harvey was not like someone she once knew, which visibly upset Dent.
=== Flight of The Joker ===
Bruce meets with Selina Kyle, who calls off their relationship due to their conflicting secret identities. Joker attempts to gas a concurrent celebration in Gotham Square using a stolen plane, hoping that Holiday is among the crowd. Meanwhile, Selina meets with Alberto to learn about the Falcone family. Alberto laments about never being respected by his father, who also rejected his fiancée from Oxford University. Batman foils Joker's scheme, and when Joker remarks that he "loves a good puzzle", Batman deduces that Alberto, who would benefit the most from killing his father's enemies and is known for his love of puzzles, is the killer.
=== The New Year's Eve Kill ===
At the yacht, Batman accuses Alberto of being Holiday, targeting his father's associates to gain power within the family. Alberto denies wanting control of the family business, citing he no longer wishes to be in his father's shadow. As the New Year starts, Alberto is shot dead by Holiday and falls into the water. Batman pursues Holiday, who manages to escape via a speedboat. As the ship is evacuated, Batman tells Gordon and Harvey to assign a protective detail to Falcone.
=== The Funeral ===
At Alberto's funeral, Falcone again pressures Bruce to help launder his funds. When Bruce refuses, Falcone introduces the woman accompanying him. Vines grip Bruce's arm as they shake hands and cause his eyes to turn green, indicating that the woman, revealed to be Poison Ivy, has taken control of him.
=== Without Batman ===
In the three months since Alberto's death, in 2016, the Holiday Killer has targeted the Falcone and Maroni families on Valentine's Day, Saint Patrick's Day, and April Fools' Day. Meanwhile, Bruce has signed much of his assets to Falcone under Poison Ivy's influence.
=== Cat Vs. Plants ===
Catwoman arrive at Wayne Manor and defeats Ivy and rescues Bruce. Alfred calls the police and Bruce's lawyers to arrest Ivy and stop the transactions.
=== Mother's Day Fear ===
On Mother's Day, while investigating the murder of Chong, a black market arms dealer posing as a Chinatown teahouse owner, the GCPD discovers he was supplying Holiday with firearms. Meanwhile Scarecrow's cell open at Arkham by some unknown and escapes and injects Batman with fear toxin during a confrontation. Forced to relive his parents' deaths, Batman is eventually found by Catwoman and taken home.
=== The Visit ===
Sofia Falcone came to Gotham to visit her father but Carmine gave Scarecrow, a job with the help from The Mad Hatter, who escape also. Gordon and Harvey question Bruce about his family's connections to Falcone. Bruce recalls how, as a boy, he watched his father save Falcone's life following an assassination attempt by the Maronis.
=== Father's Day Kill ===
On Father's Day, Holiday kills Maroni's father, Luigi, prompting Maroni to approach Harvey and offer to testify against Falcone in exchange for immunity.
=== Hitman For Hire ===
Catwoman later follows Carmine Falcone to a cemetery and sees him pay a hitman to kill Harvey Dent.
=== Riddles ===
Batman defeated The Riddler, who robs a gem store, Edward gave Batman, a riddle about Holiday, who was once speared by him but Batman left the scene for the cops to take him to Arkham.
=== The Fourth of July Bank Robbery ===
Scarecrow and Mad Hatter rob a bank for Falcone but were ambushed by Batman, who in turn was knocked unconscious by the rhyming Mad Hatter, who struck his head with a vase from behind, just as he was about to finish off Crane.
=== Grave Attack ===
Mad Hatter and Scarecrow took Batman prisoner and stuffed him inside a bag, while bringing him with them as they headed to the Falcone family grave in order to give Carmine the money they had stolen. On their way though, Batman had woken up and as they searched for him, knocked the Hatter out while he used Scarecrow's own fear gas on him, putting him into an almost catatonic state, unable to fight the vigilante. They were both taken to Arkham again, though they wouldn’t be staying long.
=== A Hit of A Man ===
During the fireworks display, Falcone's hitman attacks Harvey and Gilda on the boardwalk. Catwoman intervenes, but the hitman knocks out both of them. Harvey awakens to find the hitman dead and one of Holiday's guns nearby. He flees as the police arrive.
=== Harvey Dent The Holiday Killer? ===
Carla Viti publicly accuses Harvey of being Holiday but Harvey didn't believe it.
=== Court Day ===
Harvey has Maroni in court, Batman meets Gordon but in order to present the judge with enough evidence to apprehend Falcone. Unfortunately though, Maroni did not plan to betray Carmine, as much as he would have liked it. He publicly accused Harvey of being the Holiday Killer, before throwing a bottle of acid into his face. While Maroni was taken away, Gordon, Batman and the rest of the present people saw the consequences of this accident. Harvey's complete left side of his face was burt away and scarred. He was then taken to the Gotham Hospital again, this time under strict police surveillance. After this, the media, the Falcone Family as well as Batman and Gordon all had Dent as the primary suspect in the Holiday case.
=== The Hospital ===
Harvey is hospitalized but escapes and is picked up by Falcone's men. Harvey realizes it is a trap, and the two men are here to kill him for Johnny and Alberto's death. Harvey kills his guards and flees into the sewers.
=== The Zombie and The DA ===
Harvey met the mysterious Zombie only known as Solomon Grundy, who repeatedly said the first phrase of the rhyme on which his name is based: "Born on a Monday." Dent spoke to him and while he only repeated this one sentence, Grundy seemed to try to communicate with him. Or he merely did what he always did, without even understanding Harvey's problems. Either way, after their conversation, Dent saw his accident as his "rebirth", such as Grundy's Monday. He tore the bandages off his face and exposed the now scarred half of his face to the outside.
=== Another Kill From Holiday ===
On Falcone's birthday, Carla is killed by Holiday.
=== Another Prison Visit ===
Batman visits Day at Arkham but Day said it is Labor Day but Batman has a plan to lure Harvey out.
=== Prison Convoy ===
Now calling himself Two-Face, Harvey and Grundy, who now was something resembling his right hand man, attacked the prison transport, where Salvatore Maroni was being used as bait in order to capture Dent. As Two-Face came out of the shadows and showed Maroni the result of his own work, Jim, still hurt from the car crash, amied a gun at him and ordered him to surrender. Harvey quickly realized what this meant and did as he was asked to do. But before he was able to lay down his weapons. the real Holiday Killer shot Maroni in the head from the alley they were in, Holiday escapes as Batman chase him but Two-Face escaped together with Grundy.
=== The Holiday Killer ===
Batman continues to chase Holiday and takes him down. Holiday is revealed to be Alberto Falcone, son of Carmine Falcone, who had faked his death.
Carmine visits Alberto in prison and tells him why did he do it. Alberto admits to committing all of the Holiday murders, including that of his cousin Johnny Viti. His father offers to use his influence to free Alberto, if he only admits to killing Maroni. Alberto refuses, however, smugly bragging that his new reputation as Holiday makes him much bigger than his father and all the gangsters in the mob put together; Alberto then tells his father that the days of the mob controlling Gotham are over, and that "freaks" like himself will be the ones to control the city's fate from now on. He is convicted by the jury and sentenced to the gas chamber. Although Alberto initially receives the death sentence, his unstable mental state allows him to instead plead insanity. He is imprisoned in Arkham Asylum instead, across the hall from the Calendar Man, another holiday-obsessed villain who is afraid that Holiday might overshadow him.
=== Halloween ll ===
At Wayne Manor, Alfred prepares for another Halloween while Bruce questions his motives for fighting crime. Alfred reassures him his parents would have been proud of him regardless of their connections to the mob. Batman asks Catwoman about her obsession with the Falcone family. She confesses that Falcone is her father and only wants to know her mother's name.
=== Attack of The Villains ===
Two-Face, and Grundy attack Arkham and free several inmates but not Calendar Man; Poison Ivy, Scarecrow, and Mad Hatter engage the GCPD while Two-Face, Grundy, Joker, and Penguin attack Falcone's building. They overwhelm Falcone's guards and his daughter Sofia.
=== Batman and Catwoman Vs. Gotham's Most Wanted ===
Two-Face prepares to flip a coin to decide whether Falcone will live or die. Batman and Catwoman arrive and defeated Ivy, Scarecrow, Hatter, Grundy, Joker, and Penguin but cannot prevent Two-Face from shooting Falcone. Distraught, Sofia falls out a window to her death after trying to kill Harvey but Catwoman failed to save her.
=== The End of The Long Halloween ===
Catwoman reveals her face to Falcone, who mentions the name "Louisa", and Batman inadvertently reveals his identity while offering to get medical help. Two-Face turns himself over to Gordon, claiming responsibility for the murders but tells them that there were two Holiday killers. Gordon is confused, as Alberto has already confessed to all of the killings. While Batman initially dismisses Two-Face's statement, he points out the fact that Two-Face, having killed Falcone and the last of his collaborators on Halloween, could technically be considered Holiday. While Two-Face is imprisoned at Arkham along with the recaptured criminals, Alberto can delay his execution based on insanity.
=== Two? ===
Months later, on Christmas Eve, Gilda is packing boxes to leave Gotham but takes one box to her furnace, containing a pistol, a hat, and what appears to be her husband's clothing. As she burns the items, she thinks about how she took it upon herself to start the Holiday killings to try to end Falcone's hold on Gotham and reduce her husband's workload so that they would have time together. She has the wild suspicion that Alberto was lying, instead choosing to believe that Dent himself had taken up the killings on New Year's Eve and that the two were finally working together by sharing secrets. Nevertheless, she is content with Alberto as their scapegoat, knowing the authorities are incapable of finding the other Holiday killer without Dent on their side and states that she still believes her husband can be cured.
=== The Post Credit Scene ===
On Halloween, children start trick-or-treating again.That night, Flash and Green Arrow, visit Bruce, who is now in a relationship with Selina.
== Cast ==
* Ben Affleck as Bruce Wayne / Batman
* Zoë Kravitz as Selina Kyle / Catwoman
* Jared Leto as Jack Oswald White / Joker
* Aaron Eckhart as Harvey Dent/Two-Face
* Savannah Lee Smith as Dr. Pamela Isley / Poison Ivy
* Rahul Kohli as Dr. Jonathan Crane / Scarecrow
* Andy Serkis as Jervis Tetch / Mad Hatter
* Colin Farrell as Oswald Cobblepot / Penguin
* Paul Mescal as Edward Nashton / Riddler
* Lou Ferrigno as Cyrus Gold / Solomon Grundy
* Jeremy Irons as Alfred Pennyworth
* J.K. Simmons as Lieutenant James W. Gordon
* James McAvoy as Julian Gregory Day / Calendar Man
* Jennifer Lopez as Sofia Falcone
* Robert Pattinson as Stanley Merkel
* Ian McShane as Carmine Falcone
* Jayme Lawson as Bella Reál
* Gina Torres as Barbara Eileen Gordon
* Michael Zegen as Alberto Falcone / Holiday
* Maggie Gyllenhaal as Gilda Dent / Holiday 2
* Jennifer Lawrence as Carla Viti
* David Zayas as Salvatore Maroni
* Kevin Conroy as Luigi Maroni
* Matthew Wood as Johnny Viti
* Miguel Ángel Silvestre as Mickey Chen
* Charlie Hunnam as Oliver Queen/Green Arrow
* Ezra Miller as Berry Allen/The Flash
* Jake Gyllenhaal as Jack Ryder
* David Harbour as Detective Harvey Bullock
* Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje as Waylon Jones / Killer Croc (Cameo)
* Brian McManamon as Basil Karlo / Clayface (Cameo)
* Alex Morf as Victor Zsasz (Cameo)
* William Fichtner as Milos Grapa
* Giancarlo Esposito as Dr. Victor Fries / Mr. Freeze (Cameo)
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