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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.