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PUSH IN as Batman reaches towards his cowl. SCREEN
WIPES TO REVEAL...
BRUCE WAYNE – CLOSE
Pulls off a pair of VR goggles.
WIDER
Bruce and Dick, also in VR goggles, stand on an empty platform in the back of the Batcave.
DICK
I got the diamond. Quell problemo, Bruce?
BRUCE
You left your back wide open. Freeze could have killed
you.
Dick demonstrates a spinning back kick that would have dropped Freeze in his tracks.
DICK
I had it covered.
(OVER) A doorbell RINGS.
DICK
You know, in the circus, The Flying Graysons were a
team. We had to trust each other. We had to count on each person to do his
part. That's what being partners is all about.
(loud)
End simulation.
Ambient lights come up in the cave.
DICK
Sometimes counting on someone else is the only way to
win.
(OVER) the doorbell RINGS again.
DICK
(puzzled)
Where's Al?
Dick heads for the door.
BRUCE
(following)
Couldn't we just for once pretend that I'm the teacher
and you're the student?
INT. WAYNE MANOR – FOYER – AFTERNOON
Columns of dancing sunlight fill the giant entryway. Dick goes to the front door as Bruce meets Alfred emerging in the background.
ALFRED
I must have dozed off. My sincerest apologies, sir.
BRUCE
No apology necessary. That's the first time in thirty
years.
Bruce smiles, but he can't take his eyes off Alfred. The butler seems pale, older than usual.
DICK
Mystery pizza delivery?
Dick opens the door. A young girl stands in the autumn light, beautiful,
dressed in prim, schoolgirl clothes, BARBARA WILSON.
DICK
Please be looking for me.
BARBARA
I'm so sorry to trouble you, but-
That's when the girl sports Alfred. The old man's eyes widen.
BARBARA
Uncle Alfred?
Barbara rushes in, past Dick and Bruce, into the old butler's arms. he holds her close. Bruce and Dick face each other.
BRUCE & DICK
(mouthing)
Uncle?
EXT. WAYNE ESTATE GARDENS – AFTERNOON – WALKING
Bruce, Alfred, Dick, and Barbara tour.
BARBARA
How long has it been, Uncle Alfred?
ALFRED
Ten years.
(to Bruce)
Barbara isn't really me niece, sir. She's Joanna
Clark's daughter.
BRUCE
Of course. Alfred still keeps your mother's picture in
his room.
DICK
Anybody want to tell us kids in the cheap seats who
Joanna Clark is?
ALFRED
Joanna and I were in love in London. But when I
realized our age difference was too extreme –
BARBARA
Uncle Alfred left for America. Much to my mother's
dismay –
ALFRED
Eventually she married a young physician.
EXT. WAYNE ESTATE – STABLES – WALKING – CONTINUOUS
DICK
Al's main squeeze. Is she here?
(off everyone's looks)
I'm about to scrape the bottom of my shoe off my
tongue, right?
BARBARA
My parents were killed in an auto accident ten years
ago. Alfred has been supporting me ever since.
BRUCE
You have?
ALFRED
Secrets are a virtual prerequisite in this house,
don't you think?
BARBARA
I'm on break from –
BRUCE
Oxbridge Academy?
BARBARA
Their new computer sciences division. How did you
know?
BRUCE
I recognized the accent.
They have come to the garage. A motorcycle sits out front.
BARBARA
What is it? It's beautiful.
The way the sun catches Barbara, she looks like an angel.
DICK
You can say that again.
(catching himself)
It's a competition racer I've been fixing up. Maybe one day I'll show you how to ride.
ALFRED
You certainly will not.
BARBARA
Oh no, those things frighten me.
BRUCE
Well, I hope you'll stay with us.
ALFRED
There's a lovely inn just down --
BARBARA
All this luxury really isn't my style but –
(still eyeing the bike)
I'd love to stay.
BRUE
Then it's settled.
ALFRED
Oh, but, sir. So much goes on-
BRUCE
Don't be silly, Alfred. After all, she's family.
EXT. GOTHAM AIRPORT – TARMAC – NIGHT
A vintage DC-3 steams on the runway. Pilots descend the gangway.
Pamela Isley, dressed as a grieving window,
supervises the LUGGAGE
HANDLERS' debarkation of a coffin. An immense coffin.
PAMELA
Be gentle. He's always been touchy.
HANDLER
Whatever you say, lady.
Pam watches the Handlers carry the coffin away. She turns, walks off across the tarmac.
FAVOR THE BAGGAGE HANDLERS
As they bear the coffin to the terminal.
HANDLER
(imitating Pam)
He's always been touchy. Right.
A GIANT FIST CRASHES through the splintering lid. The Handlers drop the coffin as a figure
emerges. Bane, wearing his full costume, his injector pack strapped to his
back.
Bane lifts a Handler, begins swinging him like a baseball bat,
sending the other Handlers flying.
EXT. AIRPORT – TARMAC
A LIMOUSINE sits at the edge of the runway. A lone BUSINESSMAN approaches the waiting car. The DRIVER smiles, opens the door. he Businessman
climbs in to find...
INT. LIMO – NIGHT
Pam sits sprawled on the back seat, showing no small bit of leg.
BUSINESSMAN
There must be some mistake –
PAMELA
Silly darling, there's no need to pretend in front of
the driver.
She grabs his face kisses him passionately. She lets go, the Businessman slumps to the seat. Dead.
PAMELA
Love hurts. In my case it kills.
THE REARVIEW MIRROR
The limo driver watches on. Suddenly a hand reaches in SNAPPING his neck, drags out his body. Bane climbs into the driver's seat.
PAMELA
Once around the park.
INT. ALFRED'S ROOM
The door is ajar. (OVER) a gentle KNOCK. Barbara pushes inside, wearing a long terry robe.
The room is empty. She notices a pile of envelopes on the desk.
ENVELOPES – CLOSE
All addressed to Wilfred Pennyworth. Royal Court of Mirajanpore. All
stamped RETURN TO SENDER.
ALFRED (OVER)
I didn't know sneaking around was on the curriculum at
Oxbridge.
Barbara starts, turns. Alfred steps from the shadows in his robe.
BARBARA
I'm sorry, Uncle, I came to tuck you in. And...
ALFRED
You came to tuck me in. That's quite a switch.
(off the envelopes)
I am looking for my brother, Wilfred. He is first
butler to the Maharajah of Mirajanpore. But Mirajanpore is a floating court, it
travels across India, so Wilfred can be rather difficult to find.
Alfred TAPS his computer keyboard.
SCREEN – CLOSE
Full motion images of a resplendent royal court, carried entirely on the back of elephants.
BARBARA (OVER)
I guess they don't have fax machines on elephants.
ALFRED
I have been trying to reach Wilfred with no success.
As one grows older, one yearns for family.
BARBARA
(she smiles)
It's good to see you again, Uncle. I've missed you.
ALFRED
As I've missed you.
(kissing her head)
Sleep well, child.
Barbara heads out, closing the door behind her.
INT. HALLWAY – CONTINUOUS
Barbara walks to her room. She pauses, waiting for the light under Alfred's door to go out. Then she disappears inside.
INT. WAYNE MANOR – BARBARA'S ROOM – CONTINUOUS
Barbara whips off her robe. Underneath, a tight black leather motorcycle outfit. She begins pulling on sleek black boots.
EXT. WAYNE MANOR – NIGHT _ CONTINUOUS
A knotted climbing rope tumbles out of one of the windows. A figure expertly descends into the courtyard below. Turns, face now visible in the moonlight. Barbara.
INT. WAYNE MANOR GARAGE – NIGHT – CONTINUOUS
Kids collect Matchbox and Corgi. Billionaires collect the real
thing. Barbara ENTERS, cloaked in the shadows, moves stealthfully past the myriad cards
until she comes to the row of motorcycles.
She stops at a sleek competition bike, climbs on, pulling a racing
helmet from her back-pack, expertly kick-starts the ENGINE.
Barbara rides out through the open garage into the night.
INT. SNOWY CONES ICE CREAM FACTORY – NIGHT
Freeze is standing at his computerized work-station, entering data into the keyboard.
FREEZE
Maybe this time, this new formula, will return you to
me.
Freeze hits a switch. A beat. Then an ALERT panel flashes a simple message: "TEST
FAILURE"
Freeze SLAMS the console with his fist.
FOLLOW Freeze as he rises, walks through the open
door into...
INT. FREEZE'S VAULT – NIGHT
Freeze stares up at his wife in her frozen sarcophagus, fighting back the tears.
FREEZE
No cure tonight, my love. Forgive me. But soon, I
promise you. Soon.
INT. LIMOUSINE – DAY
Morning. Bane drives. Ivy sits in the back seat, applying brown contact lenses, donning a dark wig. Pamela Isley once more.
PAMELA
(to the Charlie jingle)
Kind of Hip, kind of Wow, Ivy. Kind of Free, kind of
Now, Ivy.
EXT. GOTHAM OBSERVATORY – DAY _ESTABLISHING
A stone and copper observatory in the process of being restored, set atop the banks above the Gotham River and the city beyond.
INT. OBSERVATORY
An immense circular hall under construction. Within, a partially
installed telescope. Bruce stands flanked by his stunningly beautiful date (JULIE MADISON), a SCIENTIST and his ASSOCIATE, all on a podium backed by blueprints, facing the PRESS.
BRUCE
My father once told me that to succeed we need only
pick our star and follow it. And so Wayne Enterprises is donating the world's
most advanced telescope to Gotham's Observatory Restoration Project. Perhaps
this telescope will give future generations a chance to find their own stars.
GOSSIP GERTY
Brucy, is it true this new telescope can see all
around the globe?
SCIENTIST
Yes, if you'll watch the monitors –
A MONITOR BANK – CLOSE
A graphic of the earth. Equidistant satellites in geosyncronous orbit are highlighted.
SCIENTIST
Satellites already in orbit allow us to reflect light
around the planet.
ON SCREEN – A graphic ray of light is reflected from a satellite over
Australia, to a satellite over the U.S., and then beamed to a graphic of the
Gotham-based telescope.
ASSOCIATE
From here we'll be able to see the sky anywhere on
earth.
BRUCE
Just don't point it at my bedroom.
GOSSIP GERTY
Brucy, you and the exquisite Julie Madison have been
going out forever. Are you planning to tie the knot?
BRUCE
Get married? me? No...
JULIE
No!?
BRUCE
Umm. What I mean is... no plans at the moment...
JULIE
But soon...
GERTY
Soon?
BRUCE
Ah... Sooner or later... all relationships evolve
and...
JULIE
And?
BRUCE
(to Julie)
Can I get some help over here?
