Oracle Database: Bruce Wayne 3

## Characters

* James Gordon
* Batman

## Location

* GCPD Building, Gotham City, NJ
* June 4th, 1997 9:14 PM

## VOX Archive

* **James Gordon:** [sigh, door opens, footsteps, sniff, rustling, yawn, joint popping, chair scrapes, sigh] Too many, shifts Jim... too many damn shifts. [footsteps, floor board creaks, rustling, window opening, lighter strikes, puff, puff, exhale, distant police sirens, scoff] You wanted to be the hero right Jim... say a city from a brink of all this... [sigh, puff, puff, exhale] to prove that a city isn't above just corruption, right? [cynical chuckle, long puff, exhale, light bulb flickering, .5 seconds of silence, distant quiet footsteps, distant cape rustling, backup generator powering up] The hell? [sigh] Of course Loeb didn't pay the light bill...
* **Batman:** [cape rustling, scuffle, wood breaks] Don't move... or I'll be sure you wake up with your hand in a cast. [silence: ten seconds, distant car honks] I'm going to move me hand so I trust that you won't do anything stupid.
* **James Gordon:** [pained sigh, wood shifting] I've heard of you... you're the one who putt Flass in Gotham General aren't you? What do you want?
* **Batman:** He was corrupt... trash who took money for his own goals. I'm here tonight to see if you're the same way... Maroni's making a power grab for a series of shell companies there's no police patrols investigating them. Why?
* **James Gordon:** He's paid off the landlords and the cops who were looking into the place after we found out it was a drug den.
* **Batman:** What would be needed to take him down?
* **James Gordon:** At least a DA who's willing to even start a case... and even then some concrete evidence that could be held up in court by a judge who hasn't been brought off.
* **Batman:** Harvey Dent and Rachel Dawes.
* **James Gordon:** Why even come here? What if I had shot tonight?
* **Batman:** I've been watching you for the last couple of months... you're one of the most honest cops I've seen ever since I arrived.
* **James Gordon:** It's not exactly like you're the most trustworthy... you brought at least eight criminals to us last week three with minor concussions, five with broken bones.
* **Batman:** They need to be afraid... they have to be, criminals are a scared and cowardly lot. They need to be scared of something that'll force them to stay in at night.
* **James Gordon:** And how do I know when to reach out to you? [pouch clasps opens, clatter]
* **Batman:** One way transmitter if you need me it'll send a contact from your location. Don't try to track it... I've already added a virus to prevent hacking.
* **James Gordon:** How... you're just one man?
* **Batman:** Now we're two... [window opens, cape rustling, rapid footsteps, stairs rattling]
* **James Gordon:** Two? [footsteps] Hey! [expletive, radio click, rapid footsteps, door opens] I need officers on the south corner meet me on the roof! [rapid footsteps, metallic rattling against brick, rapid footsteps, rapid gunshots, rapid footsteps, door slams open, gun pouch opened] Freeze! Hands in the air, now! There's gonna be another six officers on this roof in a couple seconds. I wouldn't jump if I were you
* **Batman:** [strangled gasp, whisper enhancement: what are you doing Bruce?] Do you actually trust them... any of them? We both know that they'll take the shoot with or without your orders.
* **James Gordon:** That's not the point, and I won't have some rogue vigilante fighting criminals... it's not like it'll matter either way.
* **Batman:** Then you must know that this is the only way to save this city... stop the disease, take it out all together. I know you're scared for your family but I have to do this.
* **James Gordon:** Then take off the mask if you really want me to trust you...
* **Batman:** [quiet scoff] I'm sorry, Jim but I can do that... use the communicator I put on your desk meet me near the old Maroni theater tomorrow night, [gas pellets explode, cough, cough, wheeze, hack, rapid footsteps: six footsteps, rapid gunfire] Damn... [rapid footsteps, jump, grapnel line fires rapid footsteps, line reeling, thud, rapid footsteps, distant shout, cape rustling, rush of wind, wood breaking, pained groan, wood shifting, cough, cough, beep] Alfred, tell Lucius that we might have to expand the cape's wingspan... [stumbling footsteps, door opens] I know that's the third order, just have him oversee the sketches... and try to send the car around...

## Trivia

* The meeting between Batman and Gordon is based on Batman Begins.