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A clown faced man approaches him but is given an electrical shock when he tries to take off his mask. The Joker laughs at him and pretends to get shocked. He’s acting really happy, and is about to start beating Batman when our good friend Lt. Gordon shows up. He was only faking dead! They let Harvey out of the armored truck. Rachel’s there too. They get ‘taken home.’

Back at the station, they’re throwing the Joker in a cell. Gordon comments on how he has no other aliases, he’s only got knives and lint in his pockets, etc. The mayor tells Gordon he’s commissioner now. Everyone claps. We pan over to the Joker who’s clapping too. A bit later another guy is thrown into the same cell. He complains of stomach pains. The Joker is taken to an interviewing room. They discover that Harvey Dent and Rachel Dawes are missing. He asks the Joker where they are. He replies, “What time is it?” Gordon asks what that’s got to do with it. He tells him that it’s the difference between him being in one place, and him being in a lot of places. Gordon uncuffs him and leaves. The lights come on and Batman comes out of the corner. He starts beating the Joker but he just gets happier and happier with every hit. He comments how Batman only has one rule. If he breaks it, he’s just like him. He tells him where Rachel is and where Harvey is and tells him that he’s going to have to choose. Batman goes off to save Rachel while Gordon and his men go to save Harvey.

We see Harvey sitting in a room, surrounded by oil drums. There’s a timer and a phone and he can hear Rachel. He tells her it’s going to be okay, that they’re coming for her. She tells him that that’s what she’s afraid of. She can’t live without him. He knocks his chair over, some oil spills.

Back at the station there’s a guy watching over the Joker. He keeps saying that he wants his phone call. The Joker keeps pushing his guard’s buttons.  He is provoked and takes off his jacket, intending to beat him up. In the holding cells, the guy is still saying that he doesn’t feel good. The Joker has the police officer hostage and when the other officers yell at him, he says that he just wanted his phone call.

Rachel and Harvey are still talking. Batman bursts into…Harvey’s room. The Joker lied. Harvey screams out “No!” Batman grabs him anyways, We see Rachel. Gordon and his men are outside. The timer runs out and the warehouse explodes. So does Harvey’s. He’s not far away enough so one half of his body (the one coated in oil) catches on fire.

The Joker is given a phone. The man in the holding cell is on the ground. Some people are looking at a giant scar on his stomach. His stomach lights up. One man gets out “Is that a phone?” before they explode too. The Joker goes to another holding cell. Lau is in it. He takes him and leaves.

Batman goes to where Rachel died, and finds the coin. He goes to Harvey’s hospital room and leaves it there. Back at the Wayne penthouse, Alfred is preparing breakfast. He reads Rachel’s letter. It says that she’s going to marry Harvey; she loves him. She knows that there will never be a day when he doesn’t need Batman, but she does love him as well. He places it on the tray. He talks with Bruce who is quite upset. He tells him that he needs to endure. When he leaves, he takes the letter with him.

It’s a warehouse, and there’s a giant pile of money with Lau on top of it. The mob guy with the dogs says it’s all there, what’s he going to do with it? The Joker tells him that he’s a simple man. He likes dynamite, gunpowder, and gasoline. A clown face starts dumping gas on the money. The Joker tells the man that fortunately these things are cheap. He takes his cigar and torches the money, telling the man that he cares too much about money. He then kills him and it is implied that he feeds him to the dogs.

Gordon talks to Harvey (at this point we only see half of his face). He yells at Gordon for having corrupt people in his division. It’s his fault that Rachel is dead. Gordon asks why he won’t get skin grafts. Harvey asks him what the nickname was for him when he was in internal affairs. Gordon gulps and says “Two face”. Harvey turns (the other half of his face is pretty gross) and says ‘Why should I hide what I am?’ Gordon leaves.

We see the man (Reese) from Wayne Enterprises who figured out who Batman is. He’s going to reveal it to the world on TV. The station gets a phone call from the Joker. He doesn’t want to know who the Batman is anymore and he certainly doesn’t want Reese ruining it for him. The people of Gotham have one hour to kill him, or he blows up a hospital.  Bruce sighs, and leaves, taking the Lamborghini (not the Batpod, which is too conspicuous as Alfred puts it). Gordon and another officer are transporting Reese. He’s telling his people to evacuate all the hospitals, but especially Gotham Memorial (where Harvey is). Batman texts him, telling him the names of two officers who have relatives in hospitals (they may try to kill Reese). One of them is the other guy helping him. Gordon tells him to give him his weapon. He doesn’t, but Gordon managed to force him to point it elsewhere when he shoots. We see a man in a truck watching the car with Reese. He accelerates when a Lamborghini flies in front of the car.

Back at the hospital, one of the police officers goes back in, looking for his friend since everyone is out. He walks into Harvey’s room and sees a nurse. ‘She’ turns around. It’s the Joker. He shoots the officer. (At this moment he is wearing a red curly wig and a dress. My friends and I nearly cried from laughing.) He tells Harvey that it’s all the mob bosses fault that Rachel is dead. It was all planned, and the Joker doesn’t plan. He just does. It’s no fun when everything goes well. Chaos is fair, that sort of thing. He lets him out, and gives him a gun. Harvey takes the coin and tells him that one side will allow him to live; the other will lead to his death.

Back at the crash, Gordon is asking Bruce if he was trying to save Reese. Bruce says that he’s sorry he was trying to run the red light. Reese sees him and they share a look. He won’t be turning him over anytime soon. The Joker walks out of the room. Things explode. Once he’s out of the hospital he turns back and hits the detonator a couple of times then tries again. This time the entire thing explodes. He gets into the back of a bus that was transporting patients to other hospitals. Gordon hears the blast and realizes where it came from. He goes there. Someone tells him that a bus is missing and that no one knows where Harvey Dent is or where a local news anchor is.

There is a broadcast from the Joker. Look out for bridges. We see police officers scanning various bridges. Cut to a bar, and the bartender asking why his patron isn’t out there. The man at the bar replies that it’s his day off. The bartender goes to the bathroom and Two Face shows up. He asks who transported Rachel. It was Ramirez. Two Face shoots the man and leaves. We also see Two Face get into a mob boss’ car and shoot the driver. The car flips and the man is killed.

It’s nighttime. They’re transporting the prisoners that Harvey Dent was prosecuting; they think the Joker will target them next. They’re put onto a ferry. We see two ferries and the lights flicker on one. All their communications have been cut off and they can’t move. The same happens with the other. One boat has prisoners and the other has civilians. They go to look in the holds and they find oil drums and a detonator. They’re confused, why give them the detonator?

We see Gordon’s wife. She gets a call from Ramirez, she and her children need to go to a meeting place, the police outside are corrupt. She says okay. We see Ramirez; Two Face is holding her at gunpoint. She tries to explain that it was her mother’s hospital bills that made her do it. He flips the coin and tells her it’s her lucky day. He punches her.

Back on the ferries, the Joker’s voice is heard. They have the detonator for the other ferry. It’s up to them who lives or dies. If neither one is gone by midnight, they’re both gone. One man on the civilian boat is very vocal. They should press it right now and go home. On the convict ferry the guards are pulling out their guns, keeping them at bay.

Fox’s secretary comes in. There’s a break-in in the R&D sector. He goes down and finds Batman. He’s used his sonar technology to convert all the phones to create a model of the city. If the Joker’s voice is heard, they’ll know where he is. Fox says that as long as this machine exists at Wayne Enterprises, he won’t be there after tonight. Batman simply says, when you’re done enter your name. He leaves. Soon it recognizes the Joker’s voice and Fox directs him an address. He also tells Gordon.

We see Gordon and some SWAT guys. They’ve found the Joker in a building overlooking the river. They see hostages and men in clown masks. Batman shows up, and demands time with the Joker. He flies over. He sees that the real hostages were put in clown masks and the real bad guys are dressed as doctors and patients. He turns on the sonar thing. His eyes turn like white. He can now pretty much see through walls. He goes up. The SWAT teams come in and he has to prevent them from hurting the real hostages, so he fights them and the doctors. Eventually SWAT figures it out.

Back on the civilian ferry, there’s a vote, they’re going to use the detonator. The captain says something about how he can’t do it since the other boat hasn’t killed them yet. On the convict boat one man walks up to the chief guard and says to give it to him. The guard can’t take a life, but he’ll do what needs to be done. He can tell his superiors that it was taken by force. On the civilian ferry, the vocal man walks up and says he’ll do it. The guard hands the man the detonator. He then throws it out the window and walks back to his seat. Back on the civilian ferry the man picks it up and is about to do it, but puts it back and walks back to his seat.

Gordon gets a phone call from Two Face. He has Gordon’s family and he wants him to meet him where his family died.

Batman finds the Joker, who now has the dogs. They attack him, but he fends them off. He and the Joker fight. They end up on a construction thing. The Joker tells him that it’s too late. The fireworks will be starting any second. Midnight comes and neither boat explodes. He’s shocked and Batman pushes him off the building. The Joker laughs as he falls, but Batman shoots a cable and catches him. He still can’t break his one rule. The Joker tells him how it’s still too late. He’s changed Harvey Dent. Once Gotham finds out what he’s done, it’s all over. Batman leaves him swinging.

Gordon goes to the warehouse where Rachel died. He sees his family and Two Face standing over them. He blames Gordon, so which member of his family does he love most? That’s who’s going to die. He finally selects his son. He flips the coin. Batman is there. Two Face can’t do this. It wasn’t the boy’s fault. It was theirs, Gordon, Batman and Harvey’s. They gave the city back, but there was a cost. They have to face it. Two Face agrees. He starts with Batman. He flips the coin. He tells him too bad and shoots him. Then moves onto himself. He lives. As he flips for Gordon’s son, Batman tackles him (good ol’ bulletproof suits). Gordon runs to the side that they went over. Batman’s holding on to the edge and his son. He passes him the son and lets go. He falls next to Two Face. Gordon runs down. He’s still alive. They look at Two Face. They can’t let Harvey’s vision die like that. Batman reaches over and turns his face so the normal side shows. He tells Gordon that Gotham needs their White Knight, their hero. He tells him that he was always meant to be an outcast. Batman will take the blame for the cops’ murders.

Gordon tells him that he’ll be hunted. He understands. He pushes Gordon’s walkie talkie to him and tells him to call it in. The police come in and he runs. This is then interspersed with clips of Gordon reading a eulogy (Harvey Dent was the man that Gotham didn’t deserve but the one that they loved. Or something like that.), Alfred burning Rachel’s letter, Fox typing in his name (which destroys the machine), and Gordon destroying the Bat signal. Gordon tells his son that Batman is the Knight that Gotham deserves, but that one that it will hunt (it’s the opposite of what he says about Harvey); he’s their Dark Knight.

 

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