film story movie synopsis The Dark Knight
The film starts offevolved with a gang of fellows with clown mask breaking into the financial institution where the mob has a big portion in their money stashed. It starts offevolved with 5 clowns, each getting a cut of the spoils. They advise that a sixth member of the gang - nicknamed 'The Joker' - who did the planning, however sat out the robbery, would not deserve a reduce. As the theft goes on, the clowns begin to kill each different with the intention to get a bigger cut, until a faculty bus crashes through the wall of the bank, killing some other clown. A mob financial institution supervisor, who changed into himself shot with an automated weapon after he attempted to take out the clowns with a shotgun, tells the ultimate clown that he does not recognize who he is coping with. The clown kneels down and tells the banker, "I consider something would not kill you clearly makes you...Stranger..." then eliminates his masks to reveal that he himself is The Joker. Joker puts a grenade into the banker's mouth and boards the bus, leaving a wire connected to the pin. The bus pulls out with all the bank's cash and the pin pops out. It's miles just a fuel grenade. The Joker joins a long line of college buses leaving the scene because the police arrive.
Gotham is then visible at night with criminals afraid to devote crimes below the watchful signal of the batsignal projected onto the clouds. We see Lt. James Gordon manning the batsignal, awaiting Batman with Det. Anna Ramirez, who asks if he is coming. Gordon explains that it's far k if he is not, hoping that he's busy somewhere else. He asks about Ramirez' mom, who is inside the clinic.
Meanwhile, in a parking storage, the Scarecrow, still at-big after escaping Arkham Asylum, is negotiating with the Russian mob individuals, led by means of The Chechen, over the sale of a number of his fear-inducing drugs. The sale is interrupted while some of Gotham's citizens dressed as Batmen wanna-be's begin capturing at the men. As he gases one of the faux Batmen together with his mind-changing drugs from his cuff, the Scarecrow notes that they're not the real Batman, because Batman might in no way use a gun. The Batmobile/Tumbler crashes through a barricade and Scarecrow notes, "it truly is greater love it!" The Batmobile, pre-programmed to "LOITER" and then "INTIMIDATE", fires rockets into a close-by office, sending the last mobsters jogging. The real Batman arrives on the scene and bends the rifle barrel of one of the wanna-be Batmen before knocking him out.
The Chechen sends his rottweilers to assault the Batmen, and as Batman saves them he's taking the dogs out after being badly bitten inside the arm. The Scarecrow tries to escape in a white van however Batman jumps onto the van and begins reducing into the facet with his device known as the mangler. Scarecrow swerves right into a assist which sends Batman to the ground. As Scarecrow receives away down a spiraling passageway, Batman leaps onto the roof of his van, smashing it to a halt. He leaves the fake Batmen and the Scarecrow together with some of the mobsters tied up together for the police to finally spherical up. Whilst one of the impostors says he is trying to help, Batman harshly tells him he doesn't need any help.
Gordon arrives at the bank the Joker held up earlier with Ramirez who shows him the Joker's image from a protection digital camera. Batman arrives to check out the scene, noting that they've irradiated the drug cash to make it simpler to trace. Whilst Gordon asks him if the Joker is a risk, Batman informs him that he can't worry approximately one guy when there is an entire mob to bring down.
The next day, as Bruce Wayne stitches himself up from the dog chew, Alfred offers his issues, caution Bruce to 'recognise his limits'. He notices Bruce maintaining a near watch on newly appointed district legal professional Harvey Dent thru a few computer displays, as Bruce is attempting to decide whether or not or not Dent can be depended on. Alfred wonders if he is without a doubt spying on the connection that Rachel Dawes has advanced with Harvey Dent.
Harvey Dent arrives in court to sign up for Rachel Dawes in prosecuting mobster Salvatore Maroni, the alleged new chief of the Falcone crime own family. One of Maroni's men takes the fall in courtroom, and attempts to shoot Dent from the witness stand. The gun does not go off and Dent punches the person earlier than he is hauled off to jail. Maroni is in the end let loose, to the dismay of Dent.
Dent meets Lt. Gordon, and after a quick change of phrases, they both explicit their mistrust for the ones which might be operating in every other's offices. Harvey interrogates Gordon over his involvement with the Batman and Harvey tells him he wants to meet him. Gordon requests search warrants for five banks which might be believed to be keeping the remainder of the mobs money. Dent agrees to again Gordon's seek warrants, forming a tenuous trust with the honest Gordon, who in flip hails Dent as Gotham's "White Knight" even as Dent questions Gordon approximately any other nickname they had for him whilst he became at I.A.D., a nickname Gordon claims to don't have any understanding of.
Lucius Fox holds a board meeting at Wayne corporations, negotiating an joint task with Lau, the pinnacle of Lau safety Investments, based totally in Hong Kong. After the meeting with Lau, Wayne expresses his reservations with Lucius Fox about Lau's commercial enterprise operation, seemingly unlawful based totally on their profits. After agreeing to cancel the deal, Wayne asks Fox for a new suit. He explains that he needs to be lighter, and quicker, in case he runs into any extra guard dogs and that he desires to have the ability to show his head.
That night time, Harvey dines out with Rachel. Harvey tells Rachel he had to make a reservation weeks in advance, and even then had to exercised his impact to get a table at the very stylish restaurant. Bruce and his date, the prima ballerina for the Russian ballet, encounter Rachel and Harvey. Bruce has them pull a table together with the intention to dine together, informing Harvey that he owns the restaurant. At first, Bruce appears jealous and threatened via Harvey, based totally on the reality that he is dating his own love interest, however Harvey explains how he helps the paintings of Batman and appreciates his help. Bruce adjustments his music and informs Harvey that he intends to throw a huge fund-raiser for him.
In the meantime, all of the pinnacle mob contributors are having a non-public assembly in a restaurant kitchen. Due to their inner assets within the police, they were aware that the banks that their money turned into stashed in were going to be searched. Lau seems to them on a tv screen from his aircraft on his manner again to Hong Kong. He informs the mob that each one in their cash has already been moved to a single comfortable area, simply as Lt. Gordon and business enterprise are searching the banks, finding not anything however the irradiated trace cash. Whilst the Chechen expresses challenge over the person with the clown makeup stealing $sixty eight million from one in every of their banks, Maroni dismisses him as nothing but a nobody.
The Joker enters within the room, and after killing a adverse mob member's crony by means of manner of a 'magic trick', sits down and talks with the mob about how pathetic they have come to be given that Batman got here around. He tells them their one solution is to 'Kill the Batman', and gives to do so for half the mob's money. He warns them approximately Lau, pronouncing he is aware of a "squealer while he sees one", prompting Lau to show off his display. The mob laughs, and as one of the mobsters, Gambol, rises from his seat and threatens the Joker, the Joker opens his coat, exposing grenades. Gambol tells the Joker that he is placing a price out on his head. The Joker tells the mob that after they plan to take things a bit greater critically, provide him a name, and offers them with 'his card', a joker gambling card. And with that, he exits. However not earlier than caution that Batman will come for Lau.
Harvey Dent, with Gordon, lights the batsignal to satisfy with Batman, who appears. As Dent and Gordon blame each other for the cash's disappearance because of leaks from corrupt officers within the different's departments, they give an explanation for to Batman that they need Lau lower back, figuring out that Batman is below no person's jurisdiction. They want to make him speak, and surrender all the mob contributors' names. Batman is of the same opinion and disappears.
Fox suggests Wayne his new fit, and Wayne starts planning an impromptu journey to Hong Kong. Fox will accompany him, making it appear to be the most effective cause for his visit was to cancel the negotiations with Lau's enterprise.
Gambol is gambling pool with some of his associates until one in all them informs him that a collection of hoodlums have killed the Joker, and has the frame. The frame is added in protected in a bag, and as Gambol is set to pay, the Joker rises up and holds a knife to his face whilst his men maintain guns to his buddies' heads. The Joker tells a story approximately how he got his scars from his father, after which kills Gambol. He gives the 3 surviving friends an possibility to sign up for his crew, but he has best one commencing. He depart the three with the halves of a broken, sharp pool stick and no preference but to combat every different for their lives.
In the meantime, Fox arrives in Hong Kong to meet with Lau. He checks in his cellular cellphone on the the front desk at Lau's building, as there are no mobile telephones allowed on the premises. Fox meets with Lau, and informs him of Wayne organizations' plans to cancel negotiations together with his business enterprise. However, he secretly keeps one cell telephone in his pocket, which has been tailored to produce a sonar map of the encircling location. Upon leaving the building, he does not choose up the cellphone he dropped off, and he produces the map of the building to Bruce Wayne. That night time, the cellphone that Fox left on the front table emits a high frequency that shuts down all strength within the constructing. Batman crashes in through a window in Lau's office, and after a vicious combat with some of his guards, grabs Lau and escapes through sending a balloon connected to a cable to a aircraft he has chartered flying over Lau's building.
Lower back in Gotham, Lau is interrogated by using Rachel with Dent and Gordon looking on. Rachel presses him to provide them the money Lau has taken, however Lau will now not supply in. After she threatens to have him moved to the County lock-up, Lau tells her that he can supply them the names of the mobsters and their pooled investments. Dent then realizes that they may have the leverage they need in a RICO case of conspiracy to hyperlink all the mob members together. Gordon makes a decision to maintain Lau in his maintaining cellular at the major Case Unit building and Lau agrees to cooperate with the police, and provide the names of the mob members.
Gordon seems at Maroni's eating place because the police rush in to arrest all the mob participants in attendance. As all of the mob members that Lau knowledgeable the police are rounded up for arraignment, decide Janet Surrillo reveals a Joker card within the middle of the stack of conviction papers. Dent gives a televised impromptu interview denying Batman's involvement whilst expressing gratitude for the police work in bringing the mob participants to justice.
Dent, Gordon, and Commissioner Loeb meet with the mayor to tell him that Dent's rash indictment of the mob participants will deliver the mayor easy streets for 18 months. The mayor informs Dent that his brash movements will convey down the total might of Gotham's underworld and corrupt residents solely upon him. When the mayor asks if Dent is prepared to be the metropolis's goal the useless body of a Batman wanna-be striking through a noose slams towards the mayor's window dressed up in a Batman match, with makeup on his face just like the Joker's - whole with the edges of the mouth sliced into a smile - and with a Joker card pinned to him reading 'Will the actual Batman please rise up?'. Bruce and Alfred watch on as a video tape is played on the information of the Joker tormenting the wanna-be earlier than killing him. He then guarantees that till Batman takes to the air his masks and suggests absolutely everyone who he actually is, people will die each day.
As Harvey Dent's fund-raiser at Wayne's penthouse gets underway, Rachel and a frightened Dent arrive and mingle. Wayne arrives with 3 fashions thru helicopter and seeks out Harvey, whom he applauds and throws his full aid at the back of claiming, "I consider in Harvey Dent." minutes later, Rachel meets with Bruce on the balcony disillusioned that Bruce is making amusing at Dent however Bruce tells her that he honestly believes in Harvey and that he may be the White Knight with the intention to permit him to hold up his mantle as Batman so that they can be collectively. Dent joins them to thank Bruce and retrieve Rachel.
In the meantime Gordon discovers that there are three strains of DNA on the Joker card, from Commissioner Loeb, Harvey Dent, and choose Surrillo, the judge that is trying all of the mob members and located the cardboard many of the paperwork. Gordon takes this as a threat on their lives, and starts arrangements to guard them. In the case of the judge and Commissioner Loeb, however, this fails. The judge's car blows up when the police arrive to take her into defensive custody and Commissioner Loeb dies of extreme poisoning from his liquor bottle earlier than Gordon can prevent him from consuming.
Dent takes Rachel apart to ask her to marry him, but she is torn and cannot give him an answer. Bruce subdues Dent and locks him in a closet whilst Rachel watches in surprise. Bruce tells Rachel that they (the Joker and his goons) have come for Harvey and to live hidden from sight.
The Joker and his goons burst in telling the guests that they are this night's 'entertainment." The Joker scans the room looking for Harvey Dent while Rachel steps ahead. He grabs her and pulls a knife on her telling her a special model of the tale approximately how he got his scars, claiming that his spouse become scarred by loan sharks and that he took a razor to himself to "make her smile," however that she left him over it. Rachel kicks him away and he comes after her saying that he likes that "little fight" in her, while Batman indicates up and sends him reeling. A fight breaks out between Batman, the Joker, and his goons with the Joker and the goons beating on Batman quite properly. When Batman profits the higher hand he sees the Joker conserving a gun at Rachel's head as he dangles her out of a shot out window. Batman demands he permit her pass, to which the Joker replies "Very terrible preference of words" and lets her fall. Batman dives out the window and saves her the use of his cape to gradual their fall as they crash into the roof of a car on the road. The Joker reputedly vanishes from the scene.
Day after today, Wayne attempts to figure out what the Joker is after. Alfred relates a tale of when he became in Burma with friends trying to nullify the neighborhood criminals by way of bribing them with jewels. One thief however, tossed these bribes away and endured to raid the neighborhood convoys. While Bruce appears harassed over this conduct Alfred informs him that some men can't be reasoned with, they do not want anything in particular, that they kill for sport. Alfred observes that they just want to watch the sector burn, as Bruce fixates at the Joker's face on a display.
Batman is seen on the threshold of a rooftop listening in to cell telephone frequencies while he overhears a plot against Harvey Dent. Gordon rushes to the apartment with Ramirez and Batman to find two policemen murdered, with the final names "Harvey" and "Dent." Ramirez starts in charge Batman, however Gordon cuts her off. As Batman gets rid of a bit of concrete wall that carries a bullet used inside the murders in hopes of locating evidence, Gordon notes that the Joker has left an advance replica of the following day's newspaper indicating the dying of the mayor.
At Wayne enterprises, Fox meets with Wayne's accountant Coleman Reese, who claims to recognize approximately positive issues with Wayne's investment in research and development, claiming that Wayne has a few sort of government mission with cell telephones for the army underway. He also uncovers Fox's designs for the Batmobile/Tumbler. He tells Fox that he needs $10 million consistent with 12 months for the rest of his life to maintain this a mystery. Fox smiles and says, "allow me get this instantly. You watched that your consumer, one of the wealthiest and maximum effective men in the global is a secretly a vigilante who spends his nights beating criminals to a pulp along with his naked hands, and your plan is to blackmail this person? Excellent good fortune."
Fox allows Wayne reconstruct the bullet taken from the murder scene and produces a fingerprint. Fox asks him if he has reassigned the R&D department. Bruce recognizes that he has, claiming he is playing this one "near the chest."
Wayne traces the bullet fingerprint's proprietor to an apartment overlooking the funeral speeches for Commissioner Loeb and takes to the air on bike.
As the rite keeps on the road underneath, Wayne inspects a room in which he believes the Joker is probably, and he unearths several men tied up. They tell Wayne that their guns and uniforms had been stolen. Wayne inspects binoculars mentioned of a blinded window. The window blind is connected to a timer. Because the timer reaches 0, the blinds speedy increase, and the police snipers located around the location all shoot in that course. On the equal time, the Joker, who had removed his make-up and performed himself off as a member of the honor guard for the ceremony, turns and takes a shot on the mayor, but Lt. Gordon dives within the way, getting shot within the again and falling. Anybody panics and runs, however the police shoot one member of the honour protect in the leg and haul him into a truck. Dent himself climbs within the truck, and upon examining the criminal, sees that the name-tag on his uniform reads 'Officer Rachel Dawes'. He calls Rachel and informs her that she's been targeted, and to get to the most secure vicinity she will, which in her case is Bruce's penthouse. He tells her he loves her, but there is no solution from Rachel.
Gordon's own family is visited at domestic, to tell them of the loss of life of Gordon on the funeral ceremony. Gordon's spouse, Barbara, shouts out on the empty sky to Batman that he has introduced this craziness upon Gotham. Gordon's young son catches a short glimpse of Batman mournfully looking the scene.
In the meantime, Batman enters a club and grabs Maroni after beating on his men. He interrogates Maroni on the Joker's whereabouts, who claims that he have to have held him from a better area. Batman drops him off the ledge, injuring his legs and learns that Maroni has no concept where the Joker is. Maroni explains that the Joker has no pals and nobody will supply him up due to the fact unlike Batman, he performs via no rules.
As Dent is interrogating the captured so-referred to as honor guard member about what he is aware of about the Joker, he is enraged and holds a gun to his head. He flips his father's fortunate silver greenback for his life, developing on heads. As he flips the coin again, Batman shows up and snatches the coin in midair, asking if Dent could surely go away a thug's lifestyles up to threat, to which Dent answers, "no longer precisely." He informs Harvey that this crook - Thomas Schiff - is a paranoid schizophrenic affected person from Arkham Asylum and that he might not study some thing from him. He additionally tells Harvey that if everybody saw this unjust way of interrogating someone, all that appropriate paintings that Dent's completed for Gotham might be misplaced. He tells Harvey to preserve a press convention tomorrow, because he desires to use that possibility to show himself in. As Batman leaves, Harvey yells at him that he can not deliver in.
Bruce arrives back in his penthouse to locate Rachel ready. She tells him that turning himself in will no longer stop the Joker's murderous rampage, but Bruce says he has enough blood on his palms already. He reminds her that she promised him that they could be together if and while he hung up the mantle of Batman. She tells Bruce now not to make her his simplest desire for a everyday life and that they share a kiss. She tells Bruce that if he turns himself in as Batman that the town will in no way allow them to be together.
Again at Wayne's secret base of operations for Batman, he and Alfred begin destroying the whole thing that would tie Lucius Fox or Rachel to Batman. Alfred attempts to speak Bruce out of it, asking him to endure those trying times and permit Batman to make the proper preference that no one else can for the coolest of the city. Bruce explains that Batman can not undergo the responsibility for innocents death, specifically in which Rachel is involved.
At the clicking convention, Harvey tries to cause with the assembled press and police to now not provide in to the worry that the Joker has unleashed upon the city. He agrees that Batman is a vigilante but that the human beings of Gotham need to maintain him responsible, and not supply in to the whims of this terrorist known as the Joker. But, the human beings are overcome with fear, crying out "No more dead cops," to applause indicating that Harvey will no longer be able to sway them. Upon his failure, Harvey publicizes that he is the Batman, and receives handcuffed and brought away. Bruce Wayne is proven with a glance of confusion on his face.
Rachel, looking the information conference at Bruce Wayne's penthouse, confronts Alfred over Bruce's seeming cowardice in permitting Harvey to take the autumn whilst he claims to be Batman. Alfred explains to Rachel that Batman is rather permitting himself to be something else besides a hero, in particular a discern out of doors of the device that the human beings can each flip to or blame in times of need, that Batman can 'take it". Rachel offers Alfred a letter for Bruce and tells him to provide it to Bruce whilst the time is proper. While Alfred asks what it is, she tells him it is open and hugs him before departing to peer Harvey as he is being transported to the County lock-up.
While being taken to a convoy to be able to delivery him to a county, Harvey explains to Rachel that this is Batman's danger. He then pulls out the coin and says "Heads: I undergo with this," and flips it, touchdown on heads. While Rachel tells him that he can not leave some thing like that to chance, he tosses her the coin, revealing that it's far a -headed coin. During this shipping, he's planning on getting attacked by the Joker, and he is planning on Batman to come and store him, and to seize the Joker. The convoy takes to the air.
Whilst transporting Harvey, the Joker and a few goons start taking out the police motors in a big semi truck. He pulls out an RPG and starts firing on the armored truck carrying Dent. The Tumbler arrives and attempts to prevent the Joker, and is hit by way of one of the Joker's RPGs. His automobile takes 'catastrophic' damage, and he's compelled to eject. However, the ejection in this vehicle is a motorbike, the Batpod, that deploys out the front of the car. Batman chases down the Joker on his Batpod, and after firing a few cables on the truck and weaving them thru some light poles and homes, flips the truck completely over. The Joker emerges with a Smith & Wesson M76 Submachine gun and shoots at Batman, who speeds towards him on his Batpod, all of the at the same time as screaming at Batman to hit him. Batman honors his very own non-lethal code and swerves around the Joker then crashes into the flipped truck, falling to the ground. Because the Joker jumps on him with a knife, one of the SWAT officials holds a shotgun to the returned of his head, and upon disposing of his helmet and mask, indicates that it became Lt. Gordon, who faked his loss of life to defend his circle of relatives. The Joker is hauled away to the MCU. Harvey gets out of the truck and right into a cruiser, declaring he's off to see a involved female friend.
At Gordon's essential Crimes Unit building, Gordon is promoted to Commissioner with the aid of the Mayor. The Joker shares a mobile with a huge man who complains about his insides hurting. Commissioner Gordon, after reuniting along with his family, gets a name explaining that Harvey by no means made it domestic. He returns to the jail to interrogate the Joker. During the interrogation, Batman appears and starts beating at the Joker, searching for out where Harvey is. The Joker gets below Batman's pores and skin telling him that they may be both freaks and that when the humans of Gotham now not view Batman as a need, they'll activate him. Batman becomes enraged and places a chair under the door and beats the Joker savagely, however the Joker just laughs and defiantly tells Batman that there's not anything he can do to him to hurt him and that he truly enjoys the beatings. The Joker sadistically famous that no longer just Harvey, however Rachel are in separate locations, each tied up and strapped to explosives as a way to explode in a short amount of time. He gives the places of the 2, saying that he best has time to store one among them and that he have to make a desire a good way to violate Batman's "code" of non-deadly method...That one in all them will die on the grounds that Batman can not shop them both. Batman heads off, telling Gordon that he's going after Rachel. Gordon gets a few guys prepared and heads off after Harvey.
As Batman and the police are speeding closer to the two prisoners, Harvey awakens to pay attention Rachel's voice. Whoever captured them set up an intercom device so that the 2 can talk. Harvey tells Rachel that the whole thing might be good enough, and Rachel tells Harvey that she wants to marry him. While Dent attempts to transport in his chair to discover some thing sharp to cut his ropes with, he falls over and knocks an oil drum down, and gasoline spills throughout 1/2 of his face. In the meantime, returned at the jail, the Joker tricks a cop and holds him hostage, and he tells the opposite police officers he simply needs his cellphone call. After getting a cell smartphone and dialing a range of, the big man that was within the mobile with him blows up. The Joker had cut him open and implanted a mobile cellphone-brought about tool inside of him. The Joker grabs Lau and flees the jail.
Batman arrives at the deal with that the Joker had advised him Rachel turned into at, but whilst he opens the door, he finds Harvey Dent alternatively, who screams in depression at having been located instead of Rachel. Gordon arrives at the meant place for Dent however the warehouse explodes and Rachel is killed. As Batman saves Dent by way of carrying him out of the warehouse, the explosion ignites the gasoline that saturated Dent's face, horribly burning it. Dent is taken to Gotham widespread hospital. Batman visits Dent within the hospital, and leaves him the 2-headed coin that they observed on the web site where Rachel died. One facet of the coin is still brilliant, whilst the alternative aspect is scraped and burnt.
Alfred reads Rachel's letter. She explains that she goes to marry Harvey Dent and that after she told him that she could be with him when he now not need to be Batman that she supposed it. However, she realizes that he'll usually be Batman so she will be able to constantly be there as his buddy.
Bruce expresses to Alfred his devastation behind dropping Rachel and that he feels accountable for inspiring madness and dying. He tells Alfred that she changed into going to watch for him. Alfred chooses not to provide him her letter, announcing the time is not right and that with Harvey Dent hospitalized, it will likely be as much as him by myself to combat the crime in Gotham city. Meanwhile, Harvey wakes up inside the clinic with a huge bandage over 1/2 of his face, unearths his now scarred two-headed coin, and screams out in pain over dropping the only character he cherished.
Commissioner Gordon visits Dent and tries to inform him how sorry he is for what has transpired, questioning why Dent refused pores and skin grafts and painkillers and the way he can stand to be in unrelenting agony over his disfigurement. Harvey is filled with rage for Gordon not listening to him when he warned Gordon no longer to consider the corrupt officers that Dent investigated at some stage in his time in inner Affairs which has resulted in Dent's disfigurement and ultimately Rachel's loss of life. Dent demands Gordon tell him the nickname that they had for him while he became in I.A., which Gordon ashamedly replies "Harvey two-Face," whilst being forced to stare at the giant burns and scarred tissue that cover half of Harvey's face. As Gordon leaves an emotionally devastated Harvey, he runs into Maroni in the hallway who tells him that the Joker has long past too a ways and that if Gordon wants the clown, he knows wherein he can be.
Wayne's accountant Reese appears on a news display claiming to have the ability to inform the world who Batman is. He tells Gotham that he is going to show Batman's identity, but before he can, the Joker calls in to the show announcing that he doesn't need this attorney to damage his fun. He says that if the lawyer isn't killed inside 60 minutes, he is going to blow up a health facility. This triggers the police to rush in and guard the lawyer, and try to convey him to safety. On the same time, other police are evacuating all of the hospitals in Gotham town. When they get to Gotham trendy, a police officer tries to evacuate a nurse in Harvey Dent's room, which then seems to be the Joker, and he kills the cop. He then explains to 2-Face how he wishes to introduce a touch anarchy and chaos, how smooth it's far to carry down all the precise people within the world and the way it is all honest. Joker unties two-Face and fingers him a pistol. Two-Face, bent on revenge and now believing the entirety inside the world have to be determined with the aid of chance, flips the double-headed coin to decide whether or not or now not to shoot Joker which Joker is of the same opinion is simplest fair. Even though we don't see it, the coin glaringly lands at the smooth facet because the next scene suggests Joker leaving Gotham fashionable health center as it blows up inside the historical past.
Afterwards, the Joker appears on television again, forcing kidnapped GCN reporter Mike Engle to read out his plans. He reads that Gotham town now belongs to the Joker, starting that very nighttime. Every body that does not need to be a part of his recreation must leave now, but they are going to have a hard time leaving the metropolis via the bridges. He alludes to the reality that some thing huge changed into going to happen that very night time. All through which, -Face enters a nearby bar where Detective Wuertz - the 'dirty' cop that had picked him up after the Joker become captured - hangs out. After questioning him, he flips the coin which lands at the dirty side and he kills Wuertz. At the same time, Batman makes use of Fox's 'cell phone sonar' era to turn every single cellular telephone in Gotham right into a sonar tool, giving him the possibility to undercover agent on each person in Gotham. He calls Fox in, and tells him to monitor the screens, and supply him updates at the Joker's place whilst he sees him. Fox is appalled that Batman could use his generation to spy on the citizens of Gotham and reluctantly has the same opinion to help, mentioning that the system must be destroyed after the Joker is captured or he's going to need to retire. Batman tells Fox to go into his call into the console whilst the assignment is over.
Two-Face continues to question mob participants, looking to discover the identification of the dirty cop that kidnapped Rachel. When confronting Maroni in Maroni's car, he learns that the alternative cop is Ramirez. He then flips the coin for Maroni, which lands at the clean aspect. "lucky guy," he comments earlier than he flips it again. It lands at the grimy aspect and he buckles up and states, "but he is not" as he shoots Maroni's motive force, inflicting the auto to veer off the road and crash into the dockyards. Meanwhile, massive ferries leave Gotham due to the Joker's threats. One is inhabited by criminals that Harvey and Gordon helped put away, the other is full of harmless citizens - the city's bridges apparently being stressed with explosives. Even as crusing off, the two boats completely lose all power and their engines die. Each ships ultimately recognise that there are explosives strewn all about the boat, and that they both find detonators. It's far at the moment that the Joker's voice is heard over the loudspeaker of each ferries, and he informs them that they're a part of a social test. The detonator on each boat is for the alternative boat. One ferry need to press the button and destroy the other boat by nighttime, or else the Joker will smash both boats. This brings about plenty chaos in both boats, and a number of soul looking about morality and about if every body may want to sincerely do one of these aspect.
Fox unearths the Joker, who's holed up in a building still being built with many clown guards. Batman notifies Gordon of the area, and speeds off towards the constructing. In the meantime, two-Face forces a worried Ramirez to name Gordon's circle of relatives and inform his spouse and kids to satisfy her at the precise spot in which Rachel turned into killed. They believe her because they accept as true with her. Afterwards, two-Face, angered with Ramirez's pleas to spare her life for the sake of her sick mom, flips for Ramirez's lifestyles. The coin lands on heads, so he just knocks her out, telling her that she "lives to combat some other day." As Gordon arrives at the building where the Joker is, he gets a name from his own family telling him they're being held captive by using two-Face within the area wherein Rachel became killed. Gordon rushes off to keep his own family as Batman breaks in to the building. After figuring out that the clown guards are the actual hostages and the medical doctors/hostages are the Joker's goons, he beats down some SWAT contributors so one can prevent them from killing the clown guards, and he disables the goons as he makes his manner as much as the Joker's region. While he subsequently confronts the Joker, the Joker sends the Chechen's rottweilers after him, and whilst Batman fights them off, the Joker beats him brutally with a blunt metal item, and eventually throws him close to the edge of the building, trapping him beneath a metal beam.
On the equal time, the 2 boats are nonetheless debating what to do with the detonators. On the 'criminal ferry', one in all the most important and meanest-looking convicts makes a speech about the warden preserving the cause no longer understanding how to take lifestyles, then is going up to the warden and asks to take the cause so he himself can do what the warden must have finished ten mins ago. The warden fingers the convict the trigger and the convict directly throws it out of the ferry, making it impossible for all and sundry at the convict ferry to blow up the 'innocent' ferry. On the harmless ferry, after having voted to apply their detonator, the officers can not convey themselves to act out the selection. A person stands up, takes the detonator however is not able to press the button.
The Joker, on top of Batman whilst protecting him down, shows symptoms of disappointment whilst neither of the ferries' passengers will hunch to his stage. As he is approximately to smash the 2 boats, Batman fires his gauntlet darts at him, knocking the detonator out of his arms, and throws him over the edge of the building. Before he can hit the ground, however, Batman fires considered one of his grappling gun gear at him and saves him. At the same time as hanging in front of Batman, the Joker tells him that the two of them are destined to combat forever, and how Batman absolutely IS incorruptible. The Joker famous to him, but, that his actual plan was to engineer the autumn of Gotham's White Knight, Harvey Dent, seeing that that might introduce a lot extra chaos while a good guy like Dent is shown descending into chaos and evil. Batman heads off to find Harvey, even as the SWAT team captures the Joker.
At 250 52nd St, Gordon arrives to see -Face holding his own family hostage. -Face knocks him to the floor and tells him that he is going to make him go through just as he did, as he grabs his young son Jimmy and prepares to turn the coin for his fate. Batman arrives and tells him to stop, and guilty the human beings responsible for Rachel's demise. So then -Face flips the coin for Batman, which lands on the dirty, scarred side, and two-Face shoots him. He then flips the coin for himself and it lands at the clean facet. As he is flipping the coin for Gordon's son, he tells Gordon to mislead the boy and inform him that the whole lot could be very well, just as Dent himself had to inform Rachel earlier, seconds before she was killed. Batman receives up and tackles him and that they fall off of the constructing together. Unseen by them, the coin lands on the smooth side. Batman hands Jimmy as much as Gordon as Batman himself falls to the ground next to two-Face, who lies immobile.
As Gordon climbs down to test on Batman, Batman laments that, ultimately, the Joker won. By way of corrupting Harvey Dent and turning him evil, he tore down the quality of them. If Gotham had been to find out about Dent's murders, then the symbol of desire and faith he had given Gotham would lessen and all of the prisoners he helped placed again in prison could be let loose, thus developing chaos. Batman explains that Gotham can in no way find out about the murders, and takes the blame of them on himself, so that the Joker would not win and the city's peace might stay.
We see a montage of Commissioner Gordon and other individuals of the Gotham city Police branch collected at a memorial to Harvey Dent. It is unclear whether or not he become killed or now not. Gordon then smashes the Bat sign above the MCU constructing, at the same time as Alfred burns Rachel's notice and Lucius shuts down the sonar gadget with a pleased appearance. Batman, within the heritage, continues to explain that via taking the blame of the killings, the religion that the human beings of Gotham had in Harvey Dent may be rewarded, and they can feel justified.
Batman then runs from Gordon because the cops start to chase him, and Gordon tells his son that while Harvey Dent became the hero Gotham wished, Batman is the hero that Gotham deserved. The bat-sign is destroyed and a manhunt is issued for Batman. Batman gets on his Batpod and speeds away, whilst Gordon publicizes:
The Dark Knight Trailer
The film starts offevolved with a gang of fellows with clown mask breaking into the financial institution where the mob has a big portion in their money stashed. It starts offevolved with 5 clowns, each getting a cut of the spoils. They advise that a sixth member of the gang - nicknamed 'The Joker' - who did the planning, however sat out the robbery, would not deserve a reduce. As the theft goes on, the clowns begin to kill each different with the intention to get a bigger cut, until a faculty bus crashes through the wall of the bank, killing some other clown. A mob financial institution supervisor, who changed into himself shot with an automated weapon after he attempted to take out the clowns with a shotgun, tells the ultimate clown that he does not recognize who he is coping with. The clown kneels down and tells the banker, "I consider something would not kill you clearly makes you...Stranger..." then eliminates his masks to reveal that he himself is The Joker. Joker puts a grenade into the banker's mouth and boards the bus, leaving a wire connected to the pin. The bus pulls out with all the bank's cash and the pin pops out. It's miles just a fuel grenade. The Joker joins a long line of college buses leaving the scene because the police arrive.
Gotham is then visible at night with criminals afraid to devote crimes below the watchful signal of the batsignal projected onto the clouds. We see Lt. James Gordon manning the batsignal, awaiting Batman with Det. Anna Ramirez, who asks if he is coming. Gordon explains that it's far k if he is not, hoping that he's busy somewhere else. He asks about Ramirez' mom, who is inside the clinic.
Meanwhile, in a parking storage, the Scarecrow, still at-big after escaping Arkham Asylum, is negotiating with the Russian mob individuals, led by means of The Chechen, over the sale of a number of his fear-inducing drugs. The sale is interrupted while some of Gotham's citizens dressed as Batmen wanna-be's begin capturing at the men. As he gases one of the faux Batmen together with his mind-changing drugs from his cuff, the Scarecrow notes that they're not the real Batman, because Batman might in no way use a gun. The Batmobile/Tumbler crashes through a barricade and Scarecrow notes, "it truly is greater love it!" The Batmobile, pre-programmed to "LOITER" and then "INTIMIDATE", fires rockets into a close-by office, sending the last mobsters jogging. The real Batman arrives on the scene and bends the rifle barrel of one of the wanna-be Batmen before knocking him out.
The Chechen sends his rottweilers to assault the Batmen, and as Batman saves them he's taking the dogs out after being badly bitten inside the arm. The Scarecrow tries to escape in a white van however Batman jumps onto the van and begins reducing into the facet with his device known as the mangler. Scarecrow swerves right into a assist which sends Batman to the ground. As Scarecrow receives away down a spiraling passageway, Batman leaps onto the roof of his van, smashing it to a halt. He leaves the fake Batmen and the Scarecrow together with some of the mobsters tied up together for the police to finally spherical up. Whilst one of the impostors says he is trying to help, Batman harshly tells him he doesn't need any help.
Gordon arrives at the bank the Joker held up earlier with Ramirez who shows him the Joker's image from a protection digital camera. Batman arrives to check out the scene, noting that they've irradiated the drug cash to make it simpler to trace. Whilst Gordon asks him if the Joker is a risk, Batman informs him that he can't worry approximately one guy when there is an entire mob to bring down.
The next day, as Bruce Wayne stitches himself up from the dog chew, Alfred offers his issues, caution Bruce to 'recognise his limits'. He notices Bruce maintaining a near watch on newly appointed district legal professional Harvey Dent thru a few computer displays, as Bruce is attempting to decide whether or not or not Dent can be depended on. Alfred wonders if he is without a doubt spying on the connection that Rachel Dawes has advanced with Harvey Dent.
Harvey Dent arrives in court to sign up for Rachel Dawes in prosecuting mobster Salvatore Maroni, the alleged new chief of the Falcone crime own family. One of Maroni's men takes the fall in courtroom, and attempts to shoot Dent from the witness stand. The gun does not go off and Dent punches the person earlier than he is hauled off to jail. Maroni is in the end let loose, to the dismay of Dent.
Dent meets Lt. Gordon, and after a quick change of phrases, they both explicit their mistrust for the ones which might be operating in every other's offices. Harvey interrogates Gordon over his involvement with the Batman and Harvey tells him he wants to meet him. Gordon requests search warrants for five banks which might be believed to be keeping the remainder of the mobs money. Dent agrees to again Gordon's seek warrants, forming a tenuous trust with the honest Gordon, who in flip hails Dent as Gotham's "White Knight" even as Dent questions Gordon approximately any other nickname they had for him whilst he became at I.A.D., a nickname Gordon claims to don't have any understanding of.
Lucius Fox holds a board meeting at Wayne corporations, negotiating an joint task with Lau, the pinnacle of Lau safety Investments, based totally in Hong Kong. After the meeting with Lau, Wayne expresses his reservations with Lucius Fox about Lau's commercial enterprise operation, seemingly unlawful based totally on their profits. After agreeing to cancel the deal, Wayne asks Fox for a new suit. He explains that he needs to be lighter, and quicker, in case he runs into any extra guard dogs and that he desires to have the ability to show his head.
That night time, Harvey dines out with Rachel. Harvey tells Rachel he had to make a reservation weeks in advance, and even then had to exercised his impact to get a table at the very stylish restaurant. Bruce and his date, the prima ballerina for the Russian ballet, encounter Rachel and Harvey. Bruce has them pull a table together with the intention to dine together, informing Harvey that he owns the restaurant. At first, Bruce appears jealous and threatened via Harvey, based totally on the reality that he is dating his own love interest, however Harvey explains how he helps the paintings of Batman and appreciates his help. Bruce adjustments his music and informs Harvey that he intends to throw a huge fund-raiser for him.
In the meantime, all of the pinnacle mob contributors are having a non-public assembly in a restaurant kitchen. Due to their inner assets within the police, they were aware that the banks that their money turned into stashed in were going to be searched. Lau seems to them on a tv screen from his aircraft on his manner again to Hong Kong. He informs the mob that each one in their cash has already been moved to a single comfortable area, simply as Lt. Gordon and business enterprise are searching the banks, finding not anything however the irradiated trace cash. Whilst the Chechen expresses challenge over the person with the clown makeup stealing $sixty eight million from one in every of their banks, Maroni dismisses him as nothing but a nobody.
The Joker enters within the room, and after killing a adverse mob member's crony by means of manner of a 'magic trick', sits down and talks with the mob about how pathetic they have come to be given that Batman got here around. He tells them their one solution is to 'Kill the Batman', and gives to do so for half the mob's money. He warns them approximately Lau, pronouncing he is aware of a "squealer while he sees one", prompting Lau to show off his display. The mob laughs, and as one of the mobsters, Gambol, rises from his seat and threatens the Joker, the Joker opens his coat, exposing grenades. Gambol tells the Joker that he is placing a price out on his head. The Joker tells the mob that after they plan to take things a bit greater critically, provide him a name, and offers them with 'his card', a joker gambling card. And with that, he exits. However not earlier than caution that Batman will come for Lau.
Harvey Dent, with Gordon, lights the batsignal to satisfy with Batman, who appears. As Dent and Gordon blame each other for the cash's disappearance because of leaks from corrupt officers within the different's departments, they give an explanation for to Batman that they need Lau lower back, figuring out that Batman is below no person's jurisdiction. They want to make him speak, and surrender all the mob contributors' names. Batman is of the same opinion and disappears.
Fox suggests Wayne his new fit, and Wayne starts planning an impromptu journey to Hong Kong. Fox will accompany him, making it appear to be the most effective cause for his visit was to cancel the negotiations with Lau's enterprise.
Gambol is gambling pool with some of his associates until one in all them informs him that a collection of hoodlums have killed the Joker, and has the frame. The frame is added in protected in a bag, and as Gambol is set to pay, the Joker rises up and holds a knife to his face whilst his men maintain guns to his buddies' heads. The Joker tells a story approximately how he got his scars from his father, after which kills Gambol. He gives the 3 surviving friends an possibility to sign up for his crew, but he has best one commencing. He depart the three with the halves of a broken, sharp pool stick and no preference but to combat every different for their lives.
In the meantime, Fox arrives in Hong Kong to meet with Lau. He checks in his cellular cellphone on the the front desk at Lau's building, as there are no mobile telephones allowed on the premises. Fox meets with Lau, and informs him of Wayne organizations' plans to cancel negotiations together with his business enterprise. However, he secretly keeps one cell telephone in his pocket, which has been tailored to produce a sonar map of the encircling location. Upon leaving the building, he does not choose up the cellphone he dropped off, and he produces the map of the building to Bruce Wayne. That night time, the cellphone that Fox left on the front table emits a high frequency that shuts down all strength within the constructing. Batman crashes in through a window in Lau's office, and after a vicious combat with some of his guards, grabs Lau and escapes through sending a balloon connected to a cable to a aircraft he has chartered flying over Lau's building.
Lower back in Gotham, Lau is interrogated by using Rachel with Dent and Gordon looking on. Rachel presses him to provide them the money Lau has taken, however Lau will now not supply in. After she threatens to have him moved to the County lock-up, Lau tells her that he can supply them the names of the mobsters and their pooled investments. Dent then realizes that they may have the leverage they need in a RICO case of conspiracy to hyperlink all the mob members together. Gordon makes a decision to maintain Lau in his maintaining cellular at the major Case Unit building and Lau agrees to cooperate with the police, and provide the names of the mob members.
Gordon seems at Maroni's eating place because the police rush in to arrest all the mob participants in attendance. As all of the mob members that Lau knowledgeable the police are rounded up for arraignment, decide Janet Surrillo reveals a Joker card within the middle of the stack of conviction papers. Dent gives a televised impromptu interview denying Batman's involvement whilst expressing gratitude for the police work in bringing the mob participants to justice.
Dent, Gordon, and Commissioner Loeb meet with the mayor to tell him that Dent's rash indictment of the mob participants will deliver the mayor easy streets for 18 months. The mayor informs Dent that his brash movements will convey down the total might of Gotham's underworld and corrupt residents solely upon him. When the mayor asks if Dent is prepared to be the metropolis's goal the useless body of a Batman wanna-be striking through a noose slams towards the mayor's window dressed up in a Batman match, with makeup on his face just like the Joker's - whole with the edges of the mouth sliced into a smile - and with a Joker card pinned to him reading 'Will the actual Batman please rise up?'. Bruce and Alfred watch on as a video tape is played on the information of the Joker tormenting the wanna-be earlier than killing him. He then guarantees that till Batman takes to the air his masks and suggests absolutely everyone who he actually is, people will die each day.
As Harvey Dent's fund-raiser at Wayne's penthouse gets underway, Rachel and a frightened Dent arrive and mingle. Wayne arrives with 3 fashions thru helicopter and seeks out Harvey, whom he applauds and throws his full aid at the back of claiming, "I consider in Harvey Dent." minutes later, Rachel meets with Bruce on the balcony disillusioned that Bruce is making amusing at Dent however Bruce tells her that he honestly believes in Harvey and that he may be the White Knight with the intention to permit him to hold up his mantle as Batman so that they can be collectively. Dent joins them to thank Bruce and retrieve Rachel.
In the meantime Gordon discovers that there are three strains of DNA on the Joker card, from Commissioner Loeb, Harvey Dent, and choose Surrillo, the judge that is trying all of the mob members and located the cardboard many of the paperwork. Gordon takes this as a threat on their lives, and starts arrangements to guard them. In the case of the judge and Commissioner Loeb, however, this fails. The judge's car blows up when the police arrive to take her into defensive custody and Commissioner Loeb dies of extreme poisoning from his liquor bottle earlier than Gordon can prevent him from consuming.
Dent takes Rachel apart to ask her to marry him, but she is torn and cannot give him an answer. Bruce subdues Dent and locks him in a closet whilst Rachel watches in surprise. Bruce tells Rachel that they (the Joker and his goons) have come for Harvey and to live hidden from sight.
The Joker and his goons burst in telling the guests that they are this night's 'entertainment." The Joker scans the room looking for Harvey Dent while Rachel steps ahead. He grabs her and pulls a knife on her telling her a special model of the tale approximately how he got his scars, claiming that his spouse become scarred by loan sharks and that he took a razor to himself to "make her smile," however that she left him over it. Rachel kicks him away and he comes after her saying that he likes that "little fight" in her, while Batman indicates up and sends him reeling. A fight breaks out between Batman, the Joker, and his goons with the Joker and the goons beating on Batman quite properly. When Batman profits the higher hand he sees the Joker conserving a gun at Rachel's head as he dangles her out of a shot out window. Batman demands he permit her pass, to which the Joker replies "Very terrible preference of words" and lets her fall. Batman dives out the window and saves her the use of his cape to gradual their fall as they crash into the roof of a car on the road. The Joker reputedly vanishes from the scene.
Day after today, Wayne attempts to figure out what the Joker is after. Alfred relates a tale of when he became in Burma with friends trying to nullify the neighborhood criminals by way of bribing them with jewels. One thief however, tossed these bribes away and endured to raid the neighborhood convoys. While Bruce appears harassed over this conduct Alfred informs him that some men can't be reasoned with, they do not want anything in particular, that they kill for sport. Alfred observes that they just want to watch the sector burn, as Bruce fixates at the Joker's face on a display.
Batman is seen on the threshold of a rooftop listening in to cell telephone frequencies while he overhears a plot against Harvey Dent. Gordon rushes to the apartment with Ramirez and Batman to find two policemen murdered, with the final names "Harvey" and "Dent." Ramirez starts in charge Batman, however Gordon cuts her off. As Batman gets rid of a bit of concrete wall that carries a bullet used inside the murders in hopes of locating evidence, Gordon notes that the Joker has left an advance replica of the following day's newspaper indicating the dying of the mayor.
At Wayne enterprises, Fox meets with Wayne's accountant Coleman Reese, who claims to recognize approximately positive issues with Wayne's investment in research and development, claiming that Wayne has a few sort of government mission with cell telephones for the army underway. He also uncovers Fox's designs for the Batmobile/Tumbler. He tells Fox that he needs $10 million consistent with 12 months for the rest of his life to maintain this a mystery. Fox smiles and says, "allow me get this instantly. You watched that your consumer, one of the wealthiest and maximum effective men in the global is a secretly a vigilante who spends his nights beating criminals to a pulp along with his naked hands, and your plan is to blackmail this person? Excellent good fortune."
Fox allows Wayne reconstruct the bullet taken from the murder scene and produces a fingerprint. Fox asks him if he has reassigned the R&D department. Bruce recognizes that he has, claiming he is playing this one "near the chest."
Wayne traces the bullet fingerprint's proprietor to an apartment overlooking the funeral speeches for Commissioner Loeb and takes to the air on bike.
As the rite keeps on the road underneath, Wayne inspects a room in which he believes the Joker is probably, and he unearths several men tied up. They tell Wayne that their guns and uniforms had been stolen. Wayne inspects binoculars mentioned of a blinded window. The window blind is connected to a timer. Because the timer reaches 0, the blinds speedy increase, and the police snipers located around the location all shoot in that course. On the equal time, the Joker, who had removed his make-up and performed himself off as a member of the honor guard for the ceremony, turns and takes a shot on the mayor, but Lt. Gordon dives within the way, getting shot within the again and falling. Anybody panics and runs, however the police shoot one member of the honour protect in the leg and haul him into a truck. Dent himself climbs within the truck, and upon examining the criminal, sees that the name-tag on his uniform reads 'Officer Rachel Dawes'. He calls Rachel and informs her that she's been targeted, and to get to the most secure vicinity she will, which in her case is Bruce's penthouse. He tells her he loves her, but there is no solution from Rachel.
Gordon's own family is visited at domestic, to tell them of the loss of life of Gordon on the funeral ceremony. Gordon's spouse, Barbara, shouts out on the empty sky to Batman that he has introduced this craziness upon Gotham. Gordon's young son catches a short glimpse of Batman mournfully looking the scene.
In the meantime, Batman enters a club and grabs Maroni after beating on his men. He interrogates Maroni on the Joker's whereabouts, who claims that he have to have held him from a better area. Batman drops him off the ledge, injuring his legs and learns that Maroni has no concept where the Joker is. Maroni explains that the Joker has no pals and nobody will supply him up due to the fact unlike Batman, he performs via no rules.
As Dent is interrogating the captured so-referred to as honor guard member about what he is aware of about the Joker, he is enraged and holds a gun to his head. He flips his father's fortunate silver greenback for his life, developing on heads. As he flips the coin again, Batman shows up and snatches the coin in midair, asking if Dent could surely go away a thug's lifestyles up to threat, to which Dent answers, "no longer precisely." He informs Harvey that this crook - Thomas Schiff - is a paranoid schizophrenic affected person from Arkham Asylum and that he might not study some thing from him. He additionally tells Harvey that if everybody saw this unjust way of interrogating someone, all that appropriate paintings that Dent's completed for Gotham might be misplaced. He tells Harvey to preserve a press convention tomorrow, because he desires to use that possibility to show himself in. As Batman leaves, Harvey yells at him that he can not deliver in.
Bruce arrives back in his penthouse to locate Rachel ready. She tells him that turning himself in will no longer stop the Joker's murderous rampage, but Bruce says he has enough blood on his palms already. He reminds her that she promised him that they could be together if and while he hung up the mantle of Batman. She tells Bruce now not to make her his simplest desire for a everyday life and that they share a kiss. She tells Bruce that if he turns himself in as Batman that the town will in no way allow them to be together.
Again at Wayne's secret base of operations for Batman, he and Alfred begin destroying the whole thing that would tie Lucius Fox or Rachel to Batman. Alfred attempts to speak Bruce out of it, asking him to endure those trying times and permit Batman to make the proper preference that no one else can for the coolest of the city. Bruce explains that Batman can not undergo the responsibility for innocents death, specifically in which Rachel is involved.
At the clicking convention, Harvey tries to cause with the assembled press and police to now not provide in to the worry that the Joker has unleashed upon the city. He agrees that Batman is a vigilante but that the human beings of Gotham need to maintain him responsible, and not supply in to the whims of this terrorist known as the Joker. But, the human beings are overcome with fear, crying out "No more dead cops," to applause indicating that Harvey will no longer be able to sway them. Upon his failure, Harvey publicizes that he is the Batman, and receives handcuffed and brought away. Bruce Wayne is proven with a glance of confusion on his face.
Rachel, looking the information conference at Bruce Wayne's penthouse, confronts Alfred over Bruce's seeming cowardice in permitting Harvey to take the autumn whilst he claims to be Batman. Alfred explains to Rachel that Batman is rather permitting himself to be something else besides a hero, in particular a discern out of doors of the device that the human beings can each flip to or blame in times of need, that Batman can 'take it". Rachel offers Alfred a letter for Bruce and tells him to provide it to Bruce whilst the time is proper. While Alfred asks what it is, she tells him it is open and hugs him before departing to peer Harvey as he is being transported to the County lock-up.
While being taken to a convoy to be able to delivery him to a county, Harvey explains to Rachel that this is Batman's danger. He then pulls out the coin and says "Heads: I undergo with this," and flips it, touchdown on heads. While Rachel tells him that he can not leave some thing like that to chance, he tosses her the coin, revealing that it's far a -headed coin. During this shipping, he's planning on getting attacked by the Joker, and he is planning on Batman to come and store him, and to seize the Joker. The convoy takes to the air.
Whilst transporting Harvey, the Joker and a few goons start taking out the police motors in a big semi truck. He pulls out an RPG and starts firing on the armored truck carrying Dent. The Tumbler arrives and attempts to prevent the Joker, and is hit by way of one of the Joker's RPGs. His automobile takes 'catastrophic' damage, and he's compelled to eject. However, the ejection in this vehicle is a motorbike, the Batpod, that deploys out the front of the car. Batman chases down the Joker on his Batpod, and after firing a few cables on the truck and weaving them thru some light poles and homes, flips the truck completely over. The Joker emerges with a Smith & Wesson M76 Submachine gun and shoots at Batman, who speeds towards him on his Batpod, all of the at the same time as screaming at Batman to hit him. Batman honors his very own non-lethal code and swerves around the Joker then crashes into the flipped truck, falling to the ground. Because the Joker jumps on him with a knife, one of the SWAT officials holds a shotgun to the returned of his head, and upon disposing of his helmet and mask, indicates that it became Lt. Gordon, who faked his loss of life to defend his circle of relatives. The Joker is hauled away to the MCU. Harvey gets out of the truck and right into a cruiser, declaring he's off to see a involved female friend.
At Gordon's essential Crimes Unit building, Gordon is promoted to Commissioner with the aid of the Mayor. The Joker shares a mobile with a huge man who complains about his insides hurting. Commissioner Gordon, after reuniting along with his family, gets a name explaining that Harvey by no means made it domestic. He returns to the jail to interrogate the Joker. During the interrogation, Batman appears and starts beating at the Joker, searching for out where Harvey is. The Joker gets below Batman's pores and skin telling him that they may be both freaks and that when the humans of Gotham now not view Batman as a need, they'll activate him. Batman becomes enraged and places a chair under the door and beats the Joker savagely, however the Joker just laughs and defiantly tells Batman that there's not anything he can do to him to hurt him and that he truly enjoys the beatings. The Joker sadistically famous that no longer just Harvey, however Rachel are in separate locations, each tied up and strapped to explosives as a way to explode in a short amount of time. He gives the places of the 2, saying that he best has time to store one among them and that he have to make a desire a good way to violate Batman's "code" of non-deadly method...That one in all them will die on the grounds that Batman can not shop them both. Batman heads off, telling Gordon that he's going after Rachel. Gordon gets a few guys prepared and heads off after Harvey.
As Batman and the police are speeding closer to the two prisoners, Harvey awakens to pay attention Rachel's voice. Whoever captured them set up an intercom device so that the 2 can talk. Harvey tells Rachel that the whole thing might be good enough, and Rachel tells Harvey that she wants to marry him. While Dent attempts to transport in his chair to discover some thing sharp to cut his ropes with, he falls over and knocks an oil drum down, and gasoline spills throughout 1/2 of his face. In the meantime, returned at the jail, the Joker tricks a cop and holds him hostage, and he tells the opposite police officers he simply needs his cellphone call. After getting a cell smartphone and dialing a range of, the big man that was within the mobile with him blows up. The Joker had cut him open and implanted a mobile cellphone-brought about tool inside of him. The Joker grabs Lau and flees the jail.
Batman arrives at the deal with that the Joker had advised him Rachel turned into at, but whilst he opens the door, he finds Harvey Dent alternatively, who screams in depression at having been located instead of Rachel. Gordon arrives at the meant place for Dent however the warehouse explodes and Rachel is killed. As Batman saves Dent by way of carrying him out of the warehouse, the explosion ignites the gasoline that saturated Dent's face, horribly burning it. Dent is taken to Gotham widespread hospital. Batman visits Dent within the hospital, and leaves him the 2-headed coin that they observed on the web site where Rachel died. One facet of the coin is still brilliant, whilst the alternative aspect is scraped and burnt.
Alfred reads Rachel's letter. She explains that she goes to marry Harvey Dent and that after she told him that she could be with him when he now not need to be Batman that she supposed it. However, she realizes that he'll usually be Batman so she will be able to constantly be there as his buddy.
Bruce expresses to Alfred his devastation behind dropping Rachel and that he feels accountable for inspiring madness and dying. He tells Alfred that she changed into going to watch for him. Alfred chooses not to provide him her letter, announcing the time is not right and that with Harvey Dent hospitalized, it will likely be as much as him by myself to combat the crime in Gotham city. Meanwhile, Harvey wakes up inside the clinic with a huge bandage over 1/2 of his face, unearths his now scarred two-headed coin, and screams out in pain over dropping the only character he cherished.
Commissioner Gordon visits Dent and tries to inform him how sorry he is for what has transpired, questioning why Dent refused pores and skin grafts and painkillers and the way he can stand to be in unrelenting agony over his disfigurement. Harvey is filled with rage for Gordon not listening to him when he warned Gordon no longer to consider the corrupt officers that Dent investigated at some stage in his time in inner Affairs which has resulted in Dent's disfigurement and ultimately Rachel's loss of life. Dent demands Gordon tell him the nickname that they had for him while he became in I.A., which Gordon ashamedly replies "Harvey two-Face," whilst being forced to stare at the giant burns and scarred tissue that cover half of Harvey's face. As Gordon leaves an emotionally devastated Harvey, he runs into Maroni in the hallway who tells him that the Joker has long past too a ways and that if Gordon wants the clown, he knows wherein he can be.
Wayne's accountant Reese appears on a news display claiming to have the ability to inform the world who Batman is. He tells Gotham that he is going to show Batman's identity, but before he can, the Joker calls in to the show announcing that he doesn't need this attorney to damage his fun. He says that if the lawyer isn't killed inside 60 minutes, he is going to blow up a health facility. This triggers the police to rush in and guard the lawyer, and try to convey him to safety. On the same time, other police are evacuating all of the hospitals in Gotham town. When they get to Gotham trendy, a police officer tries to evacuate a nurse in Harvey Dent's room, which then seems to be the Joker, and he kills the cop. He then explains to 2-Face how he wishes to introduce a touch anarchy and chaos, how smooth it's far to carry down all the precise people within the world and the way it is all honest. Joker unties two-Face and fingers him a pistol. Two-Face, bent on revenge and now believing the entirety inside the world have to be determined with the aid of chance, flips the double-headed coin to decide whether or not or now not to shoot Joker which Joker is of the same opinion is simplest fair. Even though we don't see it, the coin glaringly lands at the smooth facet because the next scene suggests Joker leaving Gotham fashionable health center as it blows up inside the historical past.
Afterwards, the Joker appears on television again, forcing kidnapped GCN reporter Mike Engle to read out his plans. He reads that Gotham town now belongs to the Joker, starting that very nighttime. Every body that does not need to be a part of his recreation must leave now, but they are going to have a hard time leaving the metropolis via the bridges. He alludes to the reality that some thing huge changed into going to happen that very night time. All through which, -Face enters a nearby bar where Detective Wuertz - the 'dirty' cop that had picked him up after the Joker become captured - hangs out. After questioning him, he flips the coin which lands at the dirty side and he kills Wuertz. At the same time, Batman makes use of Fox's 'cell phone sonar' era to turn every single cellular telephone in Gotham right into a sonar tool, giving him the possibility to undercover agent on each person in Gotham. He calls Fox in, and tells him to monitor the screens, and supply him updates at the Joker's place whilst he sees him. Fox is appalled that Batman could use his generation to spy on the citizens of Gotham and reluctantly has the same opinion to help, mentioning that the system must be destroyed after the Joker is captured or he's going to need to retire. Batman tells Fox to go into his call into the console whilst the assignment is over.
Two-Face continues to question mob participants, looking to discover the identification of the dirty cop that kidnapped Rachel. When confronting Maroni in Maroni's car, he learns that the alternative cop is Ramirez. He then flips the coin for Maroni, which lands at the clean aspect. "lucky guy," he comments earlier than he flips it again. It lands at the grimy aspect and he buckles up and states, "but he is not" as he shoots Maroni's motive force, inflicting the auto to veer off the road and crash into the dockyards. Meanwhile, massive ferries leave Gotham due to the Joker's threats. One is inhabited by criminals that Harvey and Gordon helped put away, the other is full of harmless citizens - the city's bridges apparently being stressed with explosives. Even as crusing off, the two boats completely lose all power and their engines die. Each ships ultimately recognise that there are explosives strewn all about the boat, and that they both find detonators. It's far at the moment that the Joker's voice is heard over the loudspeaker of each ferries, and he informs them that they're a part of a social test. The detonator on each boat is for the alternative boat. One ferry need to press the button and destroy the other boat by nighttime, or else the Joker will smash both boats. This brings about plenty chaos in both boats, and a number of soul looking about morality and about if every body may want to sincerely do one of these aspect.
Fox unearths the Joker, who's holed up in a building still being built with many clown guards. Batman notifies Gordon of the area, and speeds off towards the constructing. In the meantime, two-Face forces a worried Ramirez to name Gordon's circle of relatives and inform his spouse and kids to satisfy her at the precise spot in which Rachel turned into killed. They believe her because they accept as true with her. Afterwards, two-Face, angered with Ramirez's pleas to spare her life for the sake of her sick mom, flips for Ramirez's lifestyles. The coin lands on heads, so he just knocks her out, telling her that she "lives to combat some other day." As Gordon arrives at the building where the Joker is, he gets a name from his own family telling him they're being held captive by using two-Face within the area wherein Rachel became killed. Gordon rushes off to keep his own family as Batman breaks in to the building. After figuring out that the clown guards are the actual hostages and the medical doctors/hostages are the Joker's goons, he beats down some SWAT contributors so one can prevent them from killing the clown guards, and he disables the goons as he makes his manner as much as the Joker's region. While he subsequently confronts the Joker, the Joker sends the Chechen's rottweilers after him, and whilst Batman fights them off, the Joker beats him brutally with a blunt metal item, and eventually throws him close to the edge of the building, trapping him beneath a metal beam.
On the equal time, the 2 boats are nonetheless debating what to do with the detonators. On the 'criminal ferry', one in all the most important and meanest-looking convicts makes a speech about the warden preserving the cause no longer understanding how to take lifestyles, then is going up to the warden and asks to take the cause so he himself can do what the warden must have finished ten mins ago. The warden fingers the convict the trigger and the convict directly throws it out of the ferry, making it impossible for all and sundry at the convict ferry to blow up the 'innocent' ferry. On the harmless ferry, after having voted to apply their detonator, the officers can not convey themselves to act out the selection. A person stands up, takes the detonator however is not able to press the button.
The Joker, on top of Batman whilst protecting him down, shows symptoms of disappointment whilst neither of the ferries' passengers will hunch to his stage. As he is approximately to smash the 2 boats, Batman fires his gauntlet darts at him, knocking the detonator out of his arms, and throws him over the edge of the building. Before he can hit the ground, however, Batman fires considered one of his grappling gun gear at him and saves him. At the same time as hanging in front of Batman, the Joker tells him that the two of them are destined to combat forever, and how Batman absolutely IS incorruptible. The Joker famous to him, but, that his actual plan was to engineer the autumn of Gotham's White Knight, Harvey Dent, seeing that that might introduce a lot extra chaos while a good guy like Dent is shown descending into chaos and evil. Batman heads off to find Harvey, even as the SWAT team captures the Joker.
At 250 52nd St, Gordon arrives to see -Face holding his own family hostage. -Face knocks him to the floor and tells him that he is going to make him go through just as he did, as he grabs his young son Jimmy and prepares to turn the coin for his fate. Batman arrives and tells him to stop, and guilty the human beings responsible for Rachel's demise. So then -Face flips the coin for Batman, which lands on the dirty, scarred side, and two-Face shoots him. He then flips the coin for himself and it lands at the clean facet. As he is flipping the coin for Gordon's son, he tells Gordon to mislead the boy and inform him that the whole lot could be very well, just as Dent himself had to inform Rachel earlier, seconds before she was killed. Batman receives up and tackles him and that they fall off of the constructing together. Unseen by them, the coin lands on the smooth side. Batman hands Jimmy as much as Gordon as Batman himself falls to the ground next to two-Face, who lies immobile.
As Gordon climbs down to test on Batman, Batman laments that, ultimately, the Joker won. By way of corrupting Harvey Dent and turning him evil, he tore down the quality of them. If Gotham had been to find out about Dent's murders, then the symbol of desire and faith he had given Gotham would lessen and all of the prisoners he helped placed again in prison could be let loose, thus developing chaos. Batman explains that Gotham can in no way find out about the murders, and takes the blame of them on himself, so that the Joker would not win and the city's peace might stay.
We see a montage of Commissioner Gordon and other individuals of the Gotham city Police branch collected at a memorial to Harvey Dent. It is unclear whether or not he become killed or now not. Gordon then smashes the Bat sign above the MCU constructing, at the same time as Alfred burns Rachel's notice and Lucius shuts down the sonar gadget with a pleased appearance. Batman, within the heritage, continues to explain that via taking the blame of the killings, the religion that the human beings of Gotham had in Harvey Dent may be rewarded, and they can feel justified.
Batman then runs from Gordon because the cops start to chase him, and Gordon tells his son that while Harvey Dent became the hero Gotham wished, Batman is the hero that Gotham deserved. The bat-sign is destroyed and a manhunt is issued for Batman. Batman gets on his Batpod and speeds away, whilst Gordon publicizes:
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