150 Best The Dark Knight Rises Quotes

- That's detonation!
- It's out over the bay! Clear of the city!

Lucius: It has a long uninteresting name. I just took to calling it... The Bat, and yes, Mr. Wayne, it does come in black.

- Now you understand.
- Gotham is beyond saving.
- No.
- And must be allowed to die.
- No!
Prisoner: Yeah, just lift your head.
- Oh, that's good.
- No, no!

- You guys, you go knock on doors and spread the word, okay?
- The bomb is gonna go off. Get out by the South Street tunnel or over the bridge.
- You do two blocks and you get back to the bus, all right?
- Go, go, go!
- Is he back?
- Keep your eyes open. Go, go.

- Sorry.
- Put that thing away before you hurt yourself. Get in!
- Let's go. You, get in the car.
- They've spotted the Batman.

- But the child.
- The child of Ra's Al Ghul made the climb.
Miranda: But he's not the child of Ra's Al Ghul.
- I am.
- And though I'm not ordinary...
- ...I am a citizen.

Alfred: [at Bruce's grave] I'm so sorry. I failed you. You trusted me, and I failed you.

Lucius: This conversation used to end with an unusual request.
Bruce: I'm retired.
Lucius: Well let me show you some stuff anyway. Just for old time's sake.

Yuppie: You took my goddamn wallet, didn't you?
- You f-You took my wallet!
- No, I--
- Get out.
Yuppie: She took my-Ah!
- Now.
Yuppie: Creep!
- I don't know what he's so upset about.
- There's only 60 bucks in here.
- Probably the watch.

Bane: [addressing media reporters outside the prison] Behind you is a symbol of oppression. Blackgate Prison, where a thousand men have languished under the name of this man,
[holds up a picture of Harvey Dent]
Bane: Harvey Dent, who has been held up to you as the shining example of justice!
John: [to Gordon, at Blake's apartment] Commissioner, we need to keep you moving until we can get you in front of a camera.
Bane: You have been supplied with a false idol to stop you from tearing down this CORRUPT CITY! Let me tell you the truth about Harvey Dent from the words of Gotham's police commissioner, James Gordon.
[holds up Gordon's speech papers and begins to read]
Bane: "The Batman didn't murder Harvey Dent, he saved my boy then took the blame for Harvey's appalling crimes so that I could, to my shame, build a lie around this fallen idol. I praised the mad man who tried to murder my own child but I can no longer live with my lie. It is time to trust the people of Gotham with the truth and it is time for me to resign."
[calls to prisoners]
Bane: And do you accept this man's resignation? Do you accept the resignation of all these liars? Of all the CORRUPT?
[prisoners roar with approval]
John: Those men locked up for eight years in Blackgate, and denied parole under the Dent Act, based on a lie?
Jim: Gotham needed a hero...
John: It needs it now more than ever. You betrayed everything you stood for.
Jim: There's a point, far out there when the structures fail you, and the rules aren't weapons anymore, they're... shackles letting the bad guy get ahead. One day... you may face such a moment of crisis. And in that moment, I hope you have a friend like I did, to plunge their hands into the filth so that you can keep yours clean!
John: [disgusted] Your hands look plenty filthy to me, Commissioner.

- He asks how much you would pay us to let you die.
- I told him. I told him you have nothing.
- Do it for the pleasure.
- They pay me more than that to keep you alive.
- He will try the climb.

John: What. The hell. Is going on?
Bane: Our plan is proceeding as expected.
John: Oh really? Do *I* look like I'm running Wayne Enterprises right now? Your hit, on the stock exchange, it didn't work, my friend! And now you have my construction crews going around the city at 24 hours a day! How exactly is that supposed to help my company absorb Wayne's?
Bane: [to Stryver] Leave us!
John: No! You stay here, I'm in charge!
Bane: [puts his hand on Daggett's shoulder] Do you *feel* in charge?
[Stryver leaves]
John: I paid you a small fortune.
Bane: And this gives you *power* over me?
John: What is this?
Bane: Your money and infrastructure have been important... 'til now!
John: What are you?
Bane: I'm Gotham's reckoning. Here to end the borrowed time you've all been living on!
John: You're pure evil!
Bane: I'm *necessary* evil!
[breaks Daggett's neck; Stryver flinches]

- That you should be as afraid of him as I am.
- We can offer you protection.
- Okay.
- When I spotted you, I was looking for a friend of mine. Bruce Wayne.
- Did they kill him?
- I'm not sure.

- A child.
- A child born in this hell.
- Bane.
- An old legend. Nothing more.
Wayne's Lawyer: Don't.
- Whatever it is they want you to see, it's happening soon.

- No. That's because there is no cartilage in your knee.
- And not much of any use in your elbows or your shoulders.
- Between that and the scar tissue on your kidneys...
- ...the residual concussive damage to your brain tissue...
- ...and the general scarred-over quality of your body...
- ...I cannot recommend that you go heli-skiing.
- Right.

Jim: [reading from the book "A Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens] I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss. I see the lives for which I lay down my life, peaceful, useful, prosperous and happy. I see that I hold a sanctuary in their hearts, and in the hearts of their descendants, generations hence. It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.

Jim: I never cared who you were...
Batman: And you were right.
Jim: ...but shouldn't the people know the hero whot saved them?
Batman: A hero can be anyone. Even a man doing something as simple and reassuring as putting a coat around a young boy's shoulders to let him know that the world hadn't ended.
[takes off in the Bat]
Jim: Bruce Wayne?

- Excuse me, miss.
- Uh, yes?
- I'm gonna need to see your ticket and identification, please.
- Oh. Do you mind?

- Blood will be shed!
- The police will survive...
- ...as they learn to serve true justice.
- This great city...
- ...it will endure.
- Gotham will survive!

- ...in response to a hostage situation.
- What's going on with the lights?
Veteran: it can't be.
- What the hell was that?
- Oh, boy, you are in for a show tonight, son.
- HOSTAGE 2: Please! Help, help, help!

- She fly okay?
- Yeah, even without the autopilot.
- Thanks.
- Autopilot? That's what you're there for.

Mercenary: [OVER BULLHORN] Disperse!
- Disperse or be fired upon!
- There's only one police in this town.

- ...when he betrayed the trust of this great man...
- ...and murdered him in cold blood.
- Sweetheart, not so fast with the chow.
- Shrimp balls?
- Thank you.
- Jim Gordon can tell you the truth about
- Harvey Dent. I'll let him tell you himself.
- Commissioner Gordon.

- ...we will fulfill Ra's Al Ghul's destiny.
- We will destroy Gotham.
- And then, when it is done...
- ...and Gotham is...
- ...ashes...
- ...then you have my permission to die.

- That's impossible.
- Cut over to Fifth!

Bane: [to Batman] Peace has cost you your strength! Victory has defeated you!

Jen: What's that?
Selina: This was someone's home.
Jen: And now it's everyone's home.
- There's a storm coming, remember?
- This is what you wanted.

- So your plan might not be as practical as you thought.
- Could you disarm it?
- I could reconnect it to the reactor. Stabilize it.
- Let's move from this location and call it in.
- Right. Let's go.
- No, no, we'll take it from here.
- You stay and look after these folks.
- Someone sold us out.
- Go, go, go!

Selina: No.
- But my friend over there?
- Every cop in the city's missing him.
Stryver: That's cute.
- But they're not gonna be looking in a place like this.
- I don't know.
- You did just use his cell phone.

[Bane's men announce their entry into the stock exchange, as the food delivery man shoots down a trader, while the shoeshiner and janitor fire their guns into the trading screen. As the screens shut off, Bane comes in and walks over to one trader]
Trader: This is a stock exchange! There's no money you can steal!
Bane: Really? Then why are you people here?
[Bane drags the trader by his tie across the floor to a computer terminal, slams his head against the table, and uses his security card to log-in and start the application on the shoeshiner's laptop]

Jim: [Gordon and his men have been brought into Crane's kangaroo court] No lawyer, no witnesses? What sort of due process is this?
Dr. Jonathan Crane: Your guilt has been determined. This is merely a sentencing hearing. Now, what will it be? Death or Exile?
Jim: Crane, if you think we're going to walk out on that ice willingly, you got another thing coming!
Dr. Jonathan Crane: So it's death then?
Jim: Looks that way.
Dr. Jonathan Crane: Very well. Death!
[smashes gavel]
Dr. Jonathan Crane: By exile!

- More than a few.
- We could leave.
- Tonight.
- Take my plane, go anywhere we wanted.
- Someday, perhaps.
- Not tonight.

Bane: I broke you. How have you come back?
Batman: You think you're the only one who can find the strength to escape? Where's the trigger?
Bane: But I never escaped.
Batman: But the child... the child of Ra's al Ghul made the climb.
Miranda: [from behind Batman] But he's not the child of Ra's al Ghul
[She stabs Batman with a knife. He reels in pain and shock]
Miranda: I am. And though I'm not ordinary, I am a citizen.
[She reveals the trigger]
Batman: [anguished] Miranda... why?
Miranda: Talia. My mother named me Talia before she was killed, the way I would've been killed if not for my protector: Bane.

- Eight minutes.
Bane: Time to go mobile.
- MERCENARY 1: Everybody, up!
- You two, move!
Bane: Thank you.
Foley: Steady.

- ...for something that doesn't even exist.
- I doubt many people get the better of you.
- Hey, when a girl's desperate...
- What's he gonna do with them?
- I don't know...
- ...but Daggett seemed pretty interested in that mess at the stock market.
- Miss Kyle?
- So that's what that feels like.

[Batman and Selina have just escaped from Bane and his mercenaries in the Bat. Batman lands it on top of a skyscraper and Selina immediately hops out]
Catwoman: See you around.
Batman: You're welcome.
Catwoman: I had it under control.
Batman: Those weren't street thugs, they were trained killers. I saved your life. In return I need to know what you did with Bruce Wayne's fingerprints.
Catwoman: Wayne wasn't kidding about a "powerful friend".
[beat]
Catwoman: I sold his prints to Daggett. For something that doesn't even exist.
Batman: I doubt many people get the better of you.
Catwoman: Hey, when a girl's desperate.
Batman: What's he gonna to do with them?
Catwoman: I don't know. But Daggett seemed pretty interested in that mess at the stock market.
[Batman is distracted by the spotlight of a police chopper doing the rounds. He looks up at it, then turns back to Selina]
Batman: Miss Kyle?
[Catwoman has vanished]
Batman: So that's what that feels like...

Bane: And you brought him down here?
- MERCENARY 1: We didn't know what to do.
Bane: You panicked.
- And your weakness has cost the lives of three others.
- No, he's alone.
Bane: Search him.
- Then I will kill you.

Wayne's Lawyer: Has anyone ever made it?
- Of course not.

CIA: [to three prisoners] The flight plan I just filed with the agency lists me, my men, Dr. Pavel here but only one of you! First one to talk gets to stay on my aircraft!
[grabs a hood]
CIA: Who paid you to grab Dr. Pavel?
[No answer, the agent fires his gun away from the prisoner's head]
CIA: He didn't fly so good!
[pulls the hood back into the plane]
CIA: Who wants to try next?
[grabs another prisoner]
CIA: Tell me about Bane! Why does he wear the mask? A lot of loyalty, for a hired gun!
Bane: Or perhaps he's wondering why someone would shoot a man, before throwing him out of a plane?
CIA: At least you can talk. Who are you?
Bane: It doesn't matter who we are, what matters is our plan.
[the Agent removes the hood]
Bane: No one cared who I was until I put on the mask.
CIA: If I pull that off, would you die?
Bane: It would be extremely painful.
CIA: You're a big guy!
Bane: For you.
CIA: Was getting caught part of your plan?
Bane: Of course... Dr. Pavel refused our offer in favor of yours, we had to find out what he told you.
Dr. Pavel: Nothing! I said nothing!
CIA: Well, congratulations! You got yourself caught! Now what's the next step in your master plan?
Bane: Crashing this plane... with no survivors!

- Pull up.
- Stay level.

- I never cared who you were.
- And you were right.
- Shouldn't the people know the hero who saved them?
- A hero can be anyone.
- Even a man doing something as simple and reassuring...
- ...as putting a coat around a young boy's shoulders to let him know...
- ...the world hadn't ended.

- Unlock the door, put the tray on the table, lock the door again. Nothing more.
Alfred: I'm sorry, Miss Tate.
- I tried, but he won't see you.
- And you mustn't take it personally.
- Everyone knows that Wayne's holed up in there with 8-inch nails...
- ...peeing into Mason jars.
- It's very good of you to let me on the grounds.

- Come with me.
- Save yourself.
- You don't owe these people any more.
- You've given them everything.
- Not everything.
- Not yet.

- He saw only a monster.
- His very existence was a reminder of the hell he'd left his wife to die in.
- He excommunicated Bane from the League of Shadows.
- His only crime was that he loved me.
- I could not forgive my father.
- Until you murdered him.

- He was trying to kill millions of innocent people.
- Innocent is a strong word to throw around Gotham, Bruce.
- I honor my father by finishing his work.

- One day, the doctor forgot to lock the cell.
- But the child had a friend...
- ...a protector who showed the others that this innocence was their redemption.
- It was to be prized.
- The mother was not so lucky.
- This is Bane's prison now.
- He wouldn't want this story told.

Bane: We take Gotham from the corrupt! The rich! The oppressors of generations who have kept you down with myths of opportunity, and we give it back to you... the people. Gotham is yours. None shall interfere. Do as you please. Start by storming Blackgate, and freeing the oppressed! Step forward those who would serve. For and army will be raised. The powerful will be ripped from their decadent nests, and cast out into the cold world that we know and endure. Courts will be convened. Spoils will be enjoyed. Blood will be shed. The police will survive, as they learn to serve true justice. This great city... it will endure. Gotham will survive!

- I like having someone around to open doors for me.
- Right hand. No partials.
- Very nice.
- Mm-hm.
- Not so fast, handsome.
- You got something for me?
- Ah, yes.

Bane: We both know that I now have to kill you. You'll just have to imagine the fire!

- My body makes the jump.
- Survival is the spirit. The soul.
- My soul is as ready to escape as my body.
- Fear is why you fail.
- No, I'm not afraid.
- I'm angry.

- You idiots!
- You sons of bitches!
- You're killing us!
- Yeah, follow your orders!
- All right, boys. Get in a circle.
- Bow your heads.
- It's on my side.

- He's getting away.
- Who do you wanna catch?
- Some robber, or the son of a bitch who killed Harvey Dent?
- MAN 1 [OVER TV]: --the entire upper west hill...
- ...Central Heights and East Park Side areas.
Daggett: Eight years, and he has to pick tonight.
- He's drawing the cops off Bane.

Blind: You do not fear death. You think this makes you strong. It makes you weak.
Bruce: Why?
Blind: How can you move faster than possible, fight longer than possible without the most powerful impulse of the spirit: the fear of death.
Bruce: I do fear death. I fear dying in here, while my city burns, and there's no one there to save it.
Blind: Then make the climb.
Bruce: How?
Blind: As the child did. Without the rope. Then fear will find you again.

- We have to force that convoy east to the entrance to the reactor.
- I need you on the ground,
- I'll be in the air. Go.
- The situation has changed.
- Your orders are out of date.
- I'm a cop, like you, and I'm walking out there.
- Please do not shoot me!
- Shoot at his feet.

Catwoman: My mother warned me about getting into cars with strange men.
Batman: This isn't a car.

Batman: Tell me where the trigger is. Then... you have my permission to die!

John: Not a lot of people know what it feels like to be angry, in your bones. I mean, they understand, foster parents, everybody understands, for awhile. Then they want the angry little kid to do something he knows he can't do, move on. So after awhile they stop understanding. They send the angry kid to a boys home. I figured it out too late. You gotta learn to hide the anger, practice smiling in the mirror. It's like putting on a mask.

- He's dead.
Bane: So show me his body.
- The water runs to any one of the outflows.
- We'd never find him.
Bane: Follow him!
- MERCENARY 2: Follow him?

Gangbanger: You little punk! What'd you take?
Kid: Nothing! I didn't take anything!
- You steal from us, you little bastard?
- Now, you boys know you can't come into my neighborhood without asking politely.
- Never steal anything from someone you can't outrun, kid.
Wayne's Lawyer: You're pretty generous for a thief.

- I'm trying...
- ...but I need Fox.
- As it approaches...
- ...flip the switch.
- The needle hits 200, you give me the signal,
- I'll mark the truck. Okay?
- Heads up, heads up.

Bane: Gotham...
- ...take control.
- Take control of your city.
- Foley.
- Jesus, Blake.
- Every cop in the city's in those tunnels.
- Not every cop.

Bruce: Why didn't you just... kill me?
Bane: You don't fear death... You welcome it. Your punishment must be more severe.
Bruce: Torture?
Bane: Yes. But not of your body... Of your soul.
Bruce: Where am I?
Bane: Home, where I learned the truth about despair, as will you. There's a reason why this prison is the worst hell on earth... Hope. Every man who has ventured here over the centuries has looked up to the light and imagined climbing to freedom. So easy... So simple... And like shipwrecked men turning to sea water from uncontrollable thirst, many have died trying. I learned here that there can be no true despair without hope. So, as I terrorize Gotham, I will feed its people hope to poison their souls. I will let them believe they can survive so that you can watch them clamoring over each other to "stay in the sun." You can watch me torture an entire city and when you have truly understood the depth of your failure, we will fulfill Ra's al Ghul's destiny... We will destroy Gotham and then, when it is done and Gotham is ashes, then you have my permission to die

- COP 1: Everybody okay?
- COP 2: Let's move! Move, move!
- COP 3: Go, go!

- From here,
- Bane's men patrol the tunnels.
- And they're not your average brawlers.
Batman: Neither am I.
- He's behind you.
- Who?
Batman: Me.
- MERCENARY 1: What do you think you're--?

- I had to find a way to stop them trying to kill me.
- You made a serious mistake.
Bane: Not as serious as yours, I fear.
- Bane.
Bane: Let's not stand on ceremony here...
- ...Mr. Wayne.

- Chair. President.
- All I need now is one more ordinary board member.
- Mr. Fox, would you like to nominate?
Fredericks: No.
- I will volunteer.
Fox: Where are you taking us?

Bane: [after imploding the football field, Bane and his mercenaries appear, and Bane picks up a microphone off one of the coaches] Gotham, take control! Take control of your city.
Bane: [the bomb is wheeled in] This... this is the instrument of your liberation!
[His mercenaries bring Dr. Pavel forward and make him kneel in front of Bane]
Bane: Identify yourself to the world.
[holds microphone in front of Dr. Pavel, as if he is conducting a news interview]
Dr. Pavel: Dr. Leonid Pavel, nuclear physicist.
Bane: And what... what is this?
Dr. Pavel: It's a... fully primed neutron bomb, with a blast radius of six miles.
Bane: And who is capable of disarming such a device?
Dr. Pavel: Only me.
Bane: Only you. Thank you, good doctor!
[snaps Dr. Pavel's neck. The crowd screams in terror]
Bane: Now, this bomb is armed! This bomb is mobile! And the identity of the triggerman is a mystery. For one of you holds the detonator! And we came here not as conquerors, but as liberators to return control of this city to the people. And at the first sign of interference from the outside world, or for those people attempting to flee, this anonymous Gothamite - this unsung hero - will trigger the bomb. For now, martial law is in effect. Return to your homes, hold your families close, and wait. Tomorrow you claim what is rightfully yours.
[Bane drops the mike, turns, and leaves the playing field]

- ...in a few minutes they're gone from every database on earth?
- Sound a little too good to be true?
- You're lying!
- Rykin Data took it to prototype stage.
- That's why I bought them.
- But they had nothing.
- It was a gangland myth.

- Well, congratulations, you got yourself caught!
- Sir?
- Now what's the next step of your master plan?
Bane: Crashing this plane...
- ...with no survivors.
- PILOT: Mayday, Mayday!

- I have to get in front of a camera.
- They will kill you the second you show your face.
- Bane says he's giving Gotham back to the people. They need to know I could lead.
- Bane's not gonna let that happen.
- Then he'll show his true colors.
- And you'll be dead.

- SWAT 3: Police! Get down now!
Selina: Help me! Help me!
- Help me, please! Please help me!

Catwoman: I blow that tunnel open, I'm gone.
Batman: There's more to you than that.
Catwoman: Sorry I keep letting you down.
[pause]
Catwoman: Come with me. Save yourself. You don't owe these people any more. You've given them everything.
Batman: Not everything. Not yet.

Wayne's Lawyer: The Batman wasn't needed anymore.
- We won.
- Based on a lie.
- And now there's evil rising from where we tried to bury it.
- The Batman has to come back.
- What if he doesn't exist anymore?
- He must.

- Oops.
- Nobody told me it was uncrackable.
- I'm afraid I can't let you take those.
- Look, you wouldn't beat up a woman any more than I would beat up a cripple.
- Of course, sometimes exceptions have to be made.
- Good night, Mr. Wayne.

Bruce: I'm not afraid. I'm angry.

- Well, get more men. Work a grid.
- I want him found.
- Yeah, the, uh, masked man. We're on it.
- Lose the uniform, you're working for me now.
- We could use some hotter heads around here.
- Sir, that could also be a coincidence.
- You're a detective now, son.
- You're not allowed to believe in coincidence anymore.

Bane: No! They expect one of us in the wreckage, brother.
- Have we started the fire?
Bane: Yes, the fire rises.
- Calm down, doctor.
- Now is not the time for fear.
- That comes later.

Alfred: I'll get this to Mr. Fox, but no more. I've sewn you up, I've set your bones, but I won't bury you. I've buried enough members of the Wayne family.
Bruce: You'll leave me?
Alfred: You see only one end to your journey. Leaving is all I have to make you understand, you're not Batman anymore. You have to find another way. You used to talk about finishing a life beyond that awful cape.
Bruce: Rachel died believing that we would be together; that was my life beyond the cape. I can't just move on. She didn't, she couldn't.
Alfred: What if she had? What if, before she died, she wrote a letter saying she chose Harvey Dent over you? And what if, to spare your pain, I burnt that letter?
Bruce: How dare you use Rachel to try to stop me?
Alfred: I am using the truth, Master Wayne. Maybe it's time we all stop trying to outsmart the truth and let it have its day. I'm sorry.
Bruce: You're sorry? You expect to destroy my world and then think we're going to shake hands?
Alfred: No... no, I know what this means.
Bruce: What does it mean?
Alfred: It means your hatred... and it also means losing someone that I have cared for since I first heard his cries echo through this house. But it might also mean saving your life. And that is more important.
Bruce: Goodbye, Alfred.

Alfred: If you're seriously considering going back out there, you should hear the rumors surrounding Bane.
Bruce: I'm all ears.
Alfred: There is a prison in a more ancient part of the world, a pit where men are thrown to suffer and die. But sometimes a man rises from the darkness. Sometimes the pit sends something back.
Bruce: Bane.
Alfred: Right. Born and raised in hell on earth.
Bruce: Born in prison?
Alfred: No one knows why or how he escaped, but they do know that once he did he was trained by Ra's Al Ghul, your mentor.
Bruce: Bane was a member of The League of Shadows.
Alfred: And then he was excommunicated. And any man who is too extreme for Ra's Al Ghul is not to be trifled with.

- This is a stock exchange.
- There's no money you can steal.
Bane: Really? Then why are you people here?

- My mother warned me about getting into cars with strange men.
- This isn't a car.

Bane: [Listening to the national anthem before the Gotham football game] What a lovely, lovely voice.
[Song ends and football game begins]
Bane: Let the games begin!
[hits detonator and bombs go off across Gotham]

John: You made some mistakes, Miss Kyle.
Selina: A girl's gotta eat.
John: Well, you got quite an appetite.

Batman: He was trying to kill millions of innocent people
Talia: 'Innocent' is a strong word to throw around Gotham, Bruce. I honor my father by finishing his work. Vengeance against the man who killed him is simply a reward for my patience...
[Talia twists the knife in Batman's side]
Talia: You see, it's the slow knife... the knife that takes its time, the knife that waits years without forgetting, then slips quietly between the bones... that's the knife that cuts deepest.

- Ah, yes. I was wondering what would break first.
- Your spirit...
- ...or your body.

- Bruce Wayne?
- Come on! There you go!
- Okay, you too. Come on, Father.
- Hey, heads down! This is it!
- No.
- No, that's Batman!

Miranda: Suffering builds character.
- I'll take care of your parents' legacy, Bruce.
- Who's this?
- Where's Alfred?
- He left...
- ...taking everything.

- We can't do anything to risk millions of lives.
- You gonna tell him what's really going on?
- Captain, the situation is more complicated than you think.
- There's someone you need to meet.
- Came upstairs looking for a vantage point.
- Found the people who run the corporation.
- What corporation?
- Wayne Enterprises. You good?

- What about the men they arrested?
- He said, and I quote,
- "They would die before talking."
- Where does he find these guys?
- Open the champagne.
- And can we get some girls in here?
- CATWOMAN: Careful what you wish for.

[Bane wrecks the CIA plane and grabs Dr Pavel]
Bane: Calm down, Doctor! Now's not the time for fear. That comes later.

- What kind of work are you gonna find in the sewers?
- More than you can find up here, I guess.
Blake: So you know about him?
- Of course.
- Do you think he's coming back?
- I don't know.

- Steady.
Sniper: I've got something.
- SECURITY CHIEF: Hold your fire, they've got hostages.
- Hold your fire!

John: I just can't take it. I mean, nobody will ever know who it was who saved an entire city.
Jim: They know who it was; it was the Batman.

Gangbanger: [Two street thugs catch a little boy that has stolen an apple from them] You steal from us, you little bastard?
[Selina appears and twists his arm from behind]
Selina: You boys know you can't come into my neighborhood without asking politely.
[She cracks his arm, knocking the apple into her hand. The boy watches as she knocks both thugs out]
Selina: Never steal anything from someone you can't outrun, kid.
[takes a bite out of the apple, and tosses it to the kid, who takes it and runs off]
Bruce: Pretty generous, for a thief.
[Selina turns to see Bruce approaching]
Selina: I thought they killed you.
Bruce: Not yet.
Selina: If you're expecting an apology...
Bruce: It wouldn't suit you.

- Feel the fire of 12 million souls you failed.
- Goodbye, my friend.
Bane: Goodbye.
- Keep moving forward!
- Flank them at the stairs!
- Shoot them.
- Shoot them all.

- HOSTAGE 1: Please! Just let me go!
- Please!

- DRIVER: Don't worry, no charge for them.
CIA: And why would I want them?
- DRIVER: They were trying to grab your prize.
- They work for the mercenary.
- The masked man.
- Bane?
- Aye.
- Get them on board. I'll call it in.

- Give me a hand!
- We can get a cable on it!
- Fox showed me how to override the reactor.
- Oh, dear.
- Including the emergency flood.

- SWAT 4: Clear!
- GORDON: Manhole! Get this up!
- Get the DWP down here!
- You three, down with me.
- You two, you go down, cover the next exit!
- What, they went down there?

- We're gonna go down there, right?
Foley: That was a gas explosion, kid.
- Wasn't gas. it's a sewer.
- No one goes in till we know what's there.
- We know, sir. The police commissioner.
- Someone get this hothead out of here?
- And where's that DWP guy?

- Where is it?!
- You'd never give it to an ordinary citizen!
- Where is it? Where's your trigger?
- Where is it?! Where is it?!
- Tell me where the trigger is.
- Then you have my permission to die.

Bruce: If this man is everything that you say he is, then this city needs me.
Alfred: This city needs Bruce Wayne, your resources, your knowledge. It doesn't need your body, or your life. That time has passed.
Bruce: You're afraid that if I go back out there I'll fail.
Alfred: No. I'm afraid that you want to.

Alfred: [to Bruce] Remember when you left Gotham? Before all this, before Batman? You were gone seven years. Seven years I waited, hoping that you wouldn't come back. Every year, I took a holiday. I went to Florence, there's this cafe, on the banks of the Arno. Every fine evening, I'd sit there and order a Fernet Branca. I had this fantasy, that I would look across the tables and I'd see you there, with a wife and maybe a couple of kids. You wouldn't say anything to me, nor me to you. But we'd both know that you'd made it, that you were happy. I never wanted you to come back to Gotham. I always knew there was nothing here for you, except pain and tragedy. And I wanted something more for you than that. I still do.

- Like a rat in a trap, gentlemen.
- You might have the wrong animal there, sir.

John: Bane? What do you know about him?
Selina: That you should be as afraid of him as I am.

- COP 1: Wait, wait!
- COP 2: Ross!
- COP 3: Ross?
- Lock it up.
- COP 3: No, keep down.
- COP 4: Get down!
- Who are you?

- And it also means losing someone that I have cared for...
- ...since I first heard his cries echo...
- ...through this house.
- But it might also mean saving your life.
- And that is more important.
- Goodbye, Alfred.

Alfred: [about Selina Kyle] You two should exchange notes over coffee.
Bruce: So now you're trying to set me up with a jewel thief?
Alfred: At this point, I'd set you up with a chimpanzee if it'd brought you back to the world!
Bruce: There's nothing out there for me.
Alfred: And that's the problem. You hung up your cape and your cowl, but you didn't move on, you never went to find a life, to find someone...
Bruce: Alfred... I did find someone.
Alfred: I know, and you lost her. But that's all part of living, sir. But you're not living. You're just waiting, hoping for things to go bad again.

- Hey. Hey!
- That was you in front of the stock exchange, wasn't it?
- When?
- When?
- When cops were trying to pull onto Castle
- Street and your truck was shutting them out.
- Oh, yeah. You're the cop.
- Detective now.
- And, uh, as a detective, we're not allowed to believe in coincidence.

- So it's a training exercise.
- I'm sorry I didn't take you seriously.
- GORDON: Not you.
- You're telling me the Batman's gone...
- ...so you chase up the Daggett leads any way you can.
- Yes, sir.

Bruce: I watched you die.
Ra's: I told you I was immortal.

- MAN 1: What do you see?
- MAN 2: I see Batman.
- MAN 1: Hard to believe, but the suspects are now being pursued...
- ...by what appears to be the Batman.
- Well, what do you know?
- Sir, what about the armed robbers?
- HOSTAGE 1: Please! Just let me go! Please!

Fox: Well, they won't use radio or cell.
- Too much interference.
- Infrared doesn't have the range.
- It'll have to be a microburst. Longwave.
- Could you block it?
- Yes.
- But I'll need the EMP cannon guidance mount from the Bat.
- Remember where you parked?

- GORDON: I knew Harvey Dent.
- I was his friend.
- And it will be a very long time before someone inspires us the way he did.
- I believed in Harvey Dent.

Batman: [Hands over device] This blocks the remote detonator signal to the bomb. Get it onto it before sunrise. They might hit the button when it starts.
Jim: When what starts?
Batman: War.

- ...and in the hearts of their descendants...
- ...generations hence.
- It is a far, far better thing that I do...
- ...than I have ever done.
- It is a far, far better rest that I go to...
- ...than I have ever known."

- Return to your homes, hold your families close...
- ...and wait.
- Tomorrow, you claim what is rightfully yours.
- GENERAL: Pull back the fighters.
- Start high-level reconnaissance flights.
- Get the president on the line.

- You don't need me here?
- You've given me an army.
- Now go.
- Hey, thanks.
- Don't thank me yet.
- Well, I might not get a chance later.

- Bane took her.
- He's holed up at city hall, surrounded by his army.
- This blocks the remote detonator signal to the bomb.
- Get it onto it before sunrise.
- They might hit the button when it starts.
- When what starts?
- War.

Bane: Theatricality and deception are powerful agents to the uninitiated... but we are initiated, aren't we Bruce? Members of the League of Shadows!
[Lifts Batman by the neck]
Bane: And you betrayed us!
Batman: You were excommunicated... by a gang of psychopaths!
[Bane viciously beats Batman and throws him to the ground]
Bane: I AM the League of Shadows, and I'm here to fulfill Ra's al Ghul's destiny!
Bane: You fight like a younger man, with nothing held back. Admirable but mistaken.
[Batman uses an EMP device to cut the lights]
Bane: Oh, you think darkness is your ally. But you merely adopted the dark; I was born in it, moulded by it. I didn't see the light until I was already a man, by then it was nothing to me but BLINDING!
[grabs Batman from the shadows and continues to beat him]
Bane: The shadows betray you, because they belong to me!
[repeatedly punches Batman in the face, breaking his cowl]
Bane: I will show you where I have made my home while preparing to bring justice. Then I will break you.
[hits detonator, blowing a hole into the bottom of Wayne Enterprise]
Bane: Your precious armory, gratefully accepted! We will need it.
[Batman desperately stands and swings at Bane]
Bane: Ah, yes... I was wondering what would break first...
[lifts Batman high]
Bane: Your spirit, or your body?
[slams him on his knee]

- CATWOMAN: Stay back!
- I'm not bluffing!
Batman: They know.
- They just don't care.
- You've gotta be kidding me.
- No guns. No killing.
- Where's the fun in that?

- That bomb goes off in 12 hours.
- Unless we can reconnect it to the reactor.
- Can you get Miranda out of here?
- Not tonight. I'm sorry.
- Do what's necessary.
Wayne's Lawyer: Tonight I need you.
Fox: What for?
- To get me back in the game.
- Sorry to spoil things, boys, but Bane wants these guys to himself.
- I won't forget about you, Miranda.
- I know.

- Wayne coming back is change.
- Change is either good or bad. I vote bad.
- On what basis?
- I flipped a coin.
- It says rye-I said no rye, man.
- Hey, rookie, lose the helmet.
- We need faces for camera.
- Come on. Let's go scalping.

- Aah! What you doing to me? Let me out!
- No!
- No, no, no! No!

- Your resources. Your knowledge.
- It doesn't need your body, or your life.
- That time's past.
- You're afraid that if I go back out there,
- I'll fail.
- No.
- I'm afraid that you want to.

- You missed a spot.
- If you're working alone, wear a mask.
- I'm not afraid to be seen standing up to them.
- The mask is not for you.
- It's to protect the people you care about.
- Count to five, then throw.

Bruce: Must've lost my ticket.
Valet: Your wife said you were taking a cab home.
Bruce: My wife?

Bane: Turn it on.
- I only need one other board member.
- There are eight others waiting.
- I won't do it.
Miranda: All right, stop.
- Lucius, you'll kill this man, and yourself...
- ...and you'll barely slow them down.

- Keep some pressure on that, sweetheart.
- Call me?
Blake: You okay, miss?
- He's bleeding. You gotta help him.
- I got the congressman.

- I don't know.
- Aah!
- Do they?
- So where is it?
- Where's what?
- The program. The "clean slate."
- The ultimate tool for a master thief with a record.
- BODYGUARD: Hold it right there!

- Peace has cost you your strength.
- Victory has defeated you.

- The shadows betray you because they belong to me!
- I will show you where
- I have made my home...
- ...whilst preparing to bring justice.
- Then I will break you.
- Your precious armory.
- Gratefully accepted. We will need it.

- ...but I'm guessing you'll need his thumb.
- You don't count so good, huh?
- I count fine.
- In fact, I'm counting to 10 right now.
- Okay.
- My friend's outside. Just hit "send."

Alfred: Master Wayne?
- Master Wayne?

- You told me a child did it.
- But no ordinary child.
- A child born in hell.
- Forged from suffering.
- Hardened by pain.
- Not a man from privilege.

Ra's: You, yourself fought the decadence of Gotham for years with all your strength, all your resources, all your moral authority and the only victory you achieved was a lie. Now you understand Gotham is beyond saving and must be allowed to die.

- You're a big guy.
Bane: For you.
- Was getting caught part of your plan?
Bane: Of course.
- Dr. Pavel refused our offer in favor of yours.
- We had to find out what he told you--
- Nothing. I said nothing.

- Exi-Exile.
- Sold.
- To the man in the cold sweat.
- You follow the thick ice.
- You try to swim, you're dead in minutes.
- Has anyone made it?

- Members of the League of Shadows.
- And you betrayed us.
Batman: "Us"? You were excommunicated...
- ...by a gang of psychopaths.
Bane: I am the League of Shadows.
- And I'm here to fulfill
- Ra's Al Ghul's destiny.

Congressman: Anyone shown him the crime stats?
- He goes by his gut and it bothers him, no matter what the numbers.
- Must be popular with his wife.
- Not really. She took the kids to Cleveland.
- He'll have plenty of time for visits.
- The mayor's gonna dump him in the spring.
- Really?
- Mm-hm.
- But he's a hero.
- A war hero. This is peacetime.

- ...breaks Dent's neck and then just vanishes?
- I'm not hearing a question, son.
- Don't you want to know who he was?
- I know exactly who he was.
- He was the Batman.
- Let's go see about the congressman's wife.

Bane: [Sewer thugs have captured Jim Gordon, who is barely conscious] Why are you here?
Sewer: [thug kicks Gordon, who groans] Answer him!
Bane: I was asking you.
Sewer: It's the police commissioner.
Bane: And you brought him down here?
Sewer: We didn't know what to do.
Bane: You panicked, and your weakness has cost the lives of three others.
Sewer: No he's alone...
[Bane grabs the thug and crush his throat, he drops dead to the ground]
Bane: [to the second thug] Search him, then I will kill you.
Sewer: [Jim Gordon throws himself over the balcony into the running sewer water, the thugs shoot at him] He's dead.
Bane: So show me his body.
Sewer: The water runs to any one of the outflows. We'll never find him.
Bane: [Bane puts a GPS in the thug's pocket] Follow him!
Sewer: Follow him?
[Bane shoots the sewer thug]

- Nothing like a little air superiority.
- Detective! Please stop!
- Please, detective! Stop!
- Stop walking!
- Blow it! Do it!

- How could you lose him?
Cop: He's got a lot of firepower.
- What, and you don't?
Cop: He's heading back downtown.
- Then he's as dumb as he dresses.
- Close it off, gentlemen.

- Gave proof through--
Bane: That's a lovely, lovely voice.
- --That our flag was still there
- Oh, say does that star-spangled banner
- Yet wave
- O'er the land of the free
- And the home of the brave

- The less you know, Father.
- How are the boys doing?
- REILLY: Well, we've had more power on, so they've got some TV.
- It's good to see you.
- Blake, you be careful out there.
- They're hunting down cops like dogs.
- Why build yourself?
Wayne's Lawyer: I'm not meant to die in here.
- Here, there. What's the difference?

Catwoman: You could have gone anywhere, but you came back.
Batman: So did you.
Catwoman: Well then I guess we're both suckers.
[she kisses him]

Bane: Speak of the devil and he shall appear.

Fox: You've got to turn the truck east!
- Stay straight!

[In the pit]
Crowd: [chanting] Deshi basara! Deshi basara!
Bruce: What does that mean?
Prisoner: Rise.