The Dark Knight Rises Quotes

Bane We both know I have to kill you now. I suppose you'll just have to imagine the fire.

John Blake Blake, John.

Clerk Nothing here.

Blake Ah. Uh, try my legal name.

Clerk You should use your full name. I like that name. "]".

Blake Thanks.

Jim Gordon I can't change your mind about quitting the force?

John Blake What you said about structures becoming shackles? You were right. I just can't take it. I mean, nobody'll ever know who it was that saved an entire city.

Gordon They know. It was the Batman.

Bruce Wayne/Batman You were excommunicated by a gang of psychopaths!

Selina Kyle/Catwoman The rich don't even go broke the same as the rest of us, huh?

Selina Kyle Mr. Wayne? I'm sorry they took all your money.

Bruce Wayne No you're not.

Bruce Wayne Must've lost my ticket.

Valet Attendant Your wife said you were taking a cab home.

Bruce My wife?

Alfred Just you, sir? Don't worry, Master Wayne. Takes a little time to get back in a swing of things.

Selina Kyle I blow that tunnel open, I'm gone.

Batman There's more to you than that.

Selina Sorry I keep letting you down. Come with me, Bruce. Save yourself. You don't owe these people any more. You've given them everything.

Batman Not everything, Selina. Not yet.

Alfred Pennyworth If you're seriously considering going back out there, you should hear the rumors surrounding Bane.

Bruce Wayne 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 darkness sends something back.

Bruce Bane?

Alfred Bane. Born and raised in hell on Earth.

Bruce Born in a prison?

Alfred No one knows why, or how he escaped. But they do know that once he did, he was trained under 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.

Bruce I didn't realize I was known for trifling with criminals.

Alfred That was then. And you can strap up your leg and put your mask back on. But that doesn't make you what you were.

Bruce If this man is everything that you say he is, then this city needs me.

Alfred The 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.

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. Today, we turn myth to reward! We turn the water into wine and implore you drink deep of the cup. Gotham is yours. None shall interfere; do as you please. But start by storming Blackgate and freeing the oppressed! Step forward, those who would serve, for an 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.

Jim Gordon What's your name, son?

John Blake Blake, sir.

Gordon You got something you wanna ask me, Officer Blake?

Blake It's about that night — this night eight years ago, the night Dent died — the last confirmed sighting of the Batman. He murders those people, takes down two SWAT teams, breaks Dent's neck and then just vanishes?

Gordon I'm not hearing a question, son.

Blake Don't you wanna know who he was?

Gordon I know exactly who he was. He was the Batman.

CIA agent At least you can talk. Who are you?

Prisoner It doesn't matter who we are. What matters is our plan.

Bane No one cared who I was until I put on the mask.

CIA agent If I pull that off, will you die?

Bane It would be extremely painful...

CIA agent You're a big guy.

Bane ...for you.

CIA agent 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 agent Congratulations! You got yourself caught. Now what's the next step of your master plan?

Bane Crashing this plane... WITH NO SURVIVORS!

Jim Gordon I never cared who you were

Batman And you were right.

Gordon But shouldn't the people know the hero who saved them?

Batman A ] 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.

Gordon Bruce Wayne?

John Blake Not a lot people know what if feels like to, like... to be angry, in your bones. I mean, they understand. I mean, foster parents, everybody understands. For a while, at least. But then they want the angry little kid to do something he knows he can’t do: move on. So, after a while, 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. So, you showed up this one day in a cool car, pretty girl on your arm. We were so excited! Bruce Wayne, billionaire orphan? I mean, we use to make up stories about you, man. Legends. And, you know, with the other kids, that's all it was, just stories, but... right when I saw you, I knew who you really were. I'd seen that look on your face before. It was the same one I taught myself. I don't know why you took the fall for Dent's murder, but I'm still a believer in the Batman, even if you're not.

Taglines The Legend Ends

Selina Kyle I had to find a way to keep them from killing me.

Batman You made a serious mistake.

The Riddler Ah, not as serious as yours, I fear.

Batman Bane?

Bane Let's not stand on ceremony here, Mr. Wayne.

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

Jim Gordon We were in this together. Then you were gone.

Bruce Wayne The Batman wasn't needed anymore. We won.

Gordon Based on a lie. And now there's evil rising from where we tried to bury it. The Batman has to come back.

Bruce What if he doesn't exist anymore?

Gordon He must. He must...

Alfred Pennyworth 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-I went to Florence. There's this cafe, on the banks of the Arno. Every fine evening, I would sit there and order a-a Fernet Branca. I had this fantasy that I would look across the tables and I'd see you there, with a... wife, maybe a-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.

John Daggett What the hell is going on?

Bane Our plan is proceeding as expected.

Daggett 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 Leave us.

Daggett No. Stay here. I'm in charge.

Bane Do you feel in charge?

Daggett I've paid you a small fortune!

Bane And this gives you power over me?

Daggett What is this?

Bane Your money and infrastructure have been important until now.

Daggett What are you?

Bane I'm Gotham's reckoning, here to end the borrowed time you've all been living on.

The Daggett You're pure evil!

Bane I'm necessary evil.

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

Bane Behind you stands a symbol of oppression: Blackgate Prison, where a thousand men have languished under the name of this man, Harvey Dent, who has been held up to you as the shining example of justice!

John Blake 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 tearing down this corrupt city! Let me tell you the truth about Harvey Dent- from the words of Gotham's police commissioner, James Gordon. {{mono|"The Batman didn't murder Harvey Dent. He saved my boy, then took the blame for Harvey's appalling crimes so I could, to my shame, build a lie around this fallen idol. I praised a madman 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."}} And do you accept this man's resignation? And do you accept the resignation of all of these liars?! Of all the corrupt?!

Bruce Wayne/Batman There are always people you care about. You just don't realize how much until they're gone. The idea was to be a symbol. Batman could be anybody. That was the point.

Bane Calm down, doctor! Now is not the time for fear. That comes later.

Bruce Wayne/Batman One man's tool is another man's weapon.

Bruce Wayne 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 rotted 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 clambering 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!

Selina Kyle You think this can last? There's a storm coming, Mr. Wayne. You and your friends better batten down the hatches, because when it hits, you're all gonna wonder how you ever thought you could live so large and leave so little for the rest of us.

Bruce You sound like you're looking forward to it.

Selina I'm adaptable.

John Blake So, all those men locked up for eight years in Blackgate and denied parole under the Dent Act, based on a lie?

Jim Gordon Gotham needed a hero.

Blake It needs it now more than ever. You betrayed everything you stood for.

Gordon There's a point, John, far out there, when the structures fail you. When 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!

Blake Your hands look plenty filthy to me, Commissioner.

Bane We take Gotham from the corrupt!

Taglines A Fire Will Rise

Bane Oh, you think darkness is your ally, but you merely adopted the dark. I was born in it, molded by it. I didn’t see the light until I was already a man. By then, it was nothing to me but blinding! The shadows betray you, because they belong to me!

Alfred Pennyworth 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 Wayne 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, about a life beyond that awful cave.

Bruce Alfred, Rachel died knowing that we had decided to be together. That was my life beyond the cave. I can't just move on. She... She didn't. She couldn't.

Alfred What if she had?

Bruce She-- I mean, I can't change that.

Alfred What if before she died, she wrote a letter saying she chose Harvey Dent over you? And what if, to spare you 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-- I'm sorry.

Bruce You're sorry? You expect to destroy my world, and then think that we're going to shake hands?

Alfred No. 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.

Bane Speak of the devil and he shall appear!