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Batman: Reborn (Part 5)
By Carnotaur3
INT. HIDEOUT – NIGHT
Screaming, DELUDION falls to the wooden floor and weeps. He’s distraught, from what we don’t know, but his eyes give it away.
DELUDION
What… are you? Why are you? STOP! I don’t think I need you anymore.
DELUDION pulls his hair in agony.
DELUDION (cont’d)
I don’t want pain anymore… I don’t want any pain.
FLASHBACK:
EXT. ALLEY – DARK
TOD HOWLING tries to get his car door to open but he is stopped by a flying bat, hitting him in the face. He rolls on the asphalt.
TOD is in his teen years.
BULLY
Damages to my truck, you ass hole!
The BULLY whacks him in the stomach, making him lose his breath for ten seconds.
TOD
Please…
BULLY
What? You want me to kill you? I’d rather see you suffer!
He kicks him in the face.
END FLASHBACK:
EXT. HIDEOUT – NIGHT
DELUDION looks up. His eyes seem to be brewing a storm. It was a storm that had been raging inside him since he was a child.
He roars with rage!
CUT TO:
EXT. POLICE ROOFTOP – NIGHT
Unplugging the BAT SPOTLIGHT from it’s outlet, COMMISSIONER GORDON gives up hope that BATMAN would return to the roof top once more.
COMMISSIONER GORDON
I don’t understand it.
Surprisingly, the RUBBER BAT SUIT shows up like a ghostly goblin.
BATMAN
Commissioner Gordon. You need me?
COMMISSIONER GORDON
More like wanted you.
BATMAN stares, his eyes a deep, cold abyssal ocean.
COMMISSIONER GORDON (cont’d)
I just wanted to make sure that it was you tonight.
BATMAN
It was.
COMMISSIONER GORDON
Where were you, Batman? Where were you this whole time – this past six years?
BATMAN isn’t so cold anymore. For a change, he shows off his emotional side.
BATMAN
I don’t know.
COMMSSIONER GORDON
What do you know?
BATMAN
I know Deludion isn’t what he seems to be. He wasn’t brought up as a killer, he became one. Like a high-school nerd who gets murder into his mind following his long and torturous past.
COMMISSIONER GORDON
So, rage makes him tick?
BATMAN
Exactly. But his rage alone can’t explain his powers. I suggest you check out local scientific facilities. There may be some kind of chemicals that could have made him into what he is now.
COMMISSIONER GORDON
My brother works at one. I’ll see what I can do.
BATMAN
Another thing is he has the ability to make people see things which aren’t there. Be careful. I’ll keep you posted with new information.
BATMAN takes off into the night, blending into the darkness of the city.
COMMISSIONER GORDON
God be with you.
CUT TO:
INT. JAIL CELLS – NIGHT
The bluish tinted bars appear to quiver as a human shadow passes by it.
In his cell bed, TINSIL wakes up, sweating all over. It seems like he’s had a nightmare of some sorts. He makes sounds which only a frightened man would make and he hears something behind him.
Turning around, TINSIL looks at the bars.
A voice echoes inside the small enclosure. It laughs dryly and harshly.
TINSIL
(Whispering)
Who is there?
VOICE
Come on, Tinsil, can’t recognize my voice?
TINSIL
(Frightened)
Maybe.
VOICE
Why did you have to be such a coward; running off like that like you were a little boy that just pissed his pants.
TINSIL takes a gulp.
TINSIL
Deludion?
DELUDION
That’s right, cupcake.
TINSIL
I thought you were a goner, I mean you couldn’t...
DELUDION
Use my powers? Oh, I figured out the trigger. My brain is connected to them. If something happens to my head, they just disappear. My anger is also connected.
TINSIL
Are you angry right now?
BEAT.
DELUDION
(Showing up right next to him)
Yes!
TINSIL jumps out of the way and looks past the bars to see him in another location.
DELUDION (cont’d)
What you jumping at?
TINSIL shuts up.
DELUDION (cont’d)
I’ve got another deal to make with you. So listen up, and listen good. If you promise to be a good little boy, I’ll get you out of here, free of charge.
TINSIL
You’re not yanking my chain?
DELUDION
Cross your heart and hope you die.
(Grins)
Of course, your other men can come along.
TINSIL
Now, I’m not so sure.
DELUDION
I didn’t forget about your pay!
DELUDION passes a sack full of diamonds through the bars and across the rock floor. TINSIL cautiously picks it up with his filthy hands. TINSIL cracks a smile.
DELUDION (cont’d)
(Smiling too)
So, how about it?
CUT TO:
EXT. STREETS – NIGHT
The BATMOBILE, in all its glory, speeds through the chaotic streets of GOTHAM CITY. CRONIES are everywhere!
They’re smashing cars, busting store windows, spray painting their signature, and looting anything they can get their hands on.
The BATMOBILE stops in front of a CRONIE. He looks at it and shoots into the black windows, but he only scraps the surface. He fires some more until he runs out of ammunition.
BATMAN opens the windshield and jumps out.
BATMAN
I don’t like it when people scratch my car.
He gives him a good SMACK in the face and the CRONIE’S out cold.
Another CRONIE tries to pry the windshield door open after it had closed, but electricity passes through his body before he can even make a mark on it.
A group of CRONIES surround BATMAN when he’s not looking and a few of them charge, but BATMAN ducks, leaving the two gangsters leaping into each other. The DARK KNIGHT grabs one and throws him onto the street.
A fourth CRONIE takes out a machete, sparking interest to BATMAN.
The CRONIE shows off a trick, placing the machete in his right hand and throwing it under his leg only to grasp it around his shoulder with his left hand.
Next, he juggles it around and around until he finally gets rid of it, making it slice into the air and toward our hero.
BATMAN catches it with both hands.
BATMAN
Return to sender.
He sends it sailing back at the CRONIE, surprising him and sticking into his chest.
The gangster falls to the floor, dead.
UP AHEAD:
TINSIL and DELUDION stare at GOTHAM CITY HALL, people running and screaming out of it as some CRONIES shoot the place up.
TINSIL
You know some people sacrifice their own people for the good of the neighborhood? What would you do for a Klondike Bar?
DELUDION
The same!
And with that, DELUDION sets off fire out of his hand and onto CITY HALL, sending the whole building into flames.
DELUDION laughs hysterically.
BATMAN shows up but he’s too late, people are dying in the building already, there’s nothing he can do.
DELUDION
(Noticing Batman)
It’s almost unbelievable what you can accomplish in one night, Batman - One night of pure mayhem.
BATMAN runs at him, but DELUDION uses the palm of his hand to hit him in the jaw and make him spill on the street.
With BATMAN getting back on his feet, TINSIL gets behind him and puts him in a head lock. Thinking fast, BATMAN falls backwards so that TINSIL can be caught under him. It works. TINSIL lays unconscious as BATMAN, again, gets on his two feet.
DELUDION
Think fast!
DELUDION throws a scorpion at him. BATMAN frantically pushes it away and looks down to see only a bouncing ball.
DELUDION (cont’d)
When are you going to learn?
BATMAN throws a punch into DELUDION’S stomach, but he stays on his feet, not making a groaning noise. DELUDION grabs BATMAN’S head and hits it with his head. BATMAN falls to the ground as DELUDION runs away.
FADE TO:
EXT. STREET – DAY
JENNIFER stands in the middle of an orgy of T.V. REPORTERS, trying to get the exclusive story of the CITY HALL burning.
JENNIFER
(To anybody)
Was the mayor in there?
She tugs on a man’s shirt, he responds by looks back.
JENNIFER (cont’d)
Excuse me, sir, was the mayor in the building?
MAN
That’s what I heard.
JENNIFER is stunned.
CUT TO:
EXT. CLASSY RESTAURANT – NIGHT
Folding her napkin into her lap, JENNIFER sets the forks straight onto the table cloth. She carefully puts the wine glass up to her lips and sips, then, sets it down.
On the other side of the table is BRUCE, who is grinning at her ways.
BRUCE
You like things perfect, don’t you?
JENNIFER
Hey, it’s not like I have an obsessive compulsive disorder or anything like that.
BRUCE laughs.
BRUCE
I’m only teasing.
JENNIFER doesn’t seem too thrilled about it though.
BRUCE (cont’d)
Is something wrong?
JENNIFER
Yeah.
BRUCE
What?
JENNIFER
You.
BRUCE
Me?
JENNIFER
Yes, you.
BRUCE looks around at the other people dining out in the restaurant, and then, back to JENNIFER.
BRUCE
Do you mind telling me?
JENNIFER
Where do you go, Bruce?
BRUCE
What are you talking about?
JENNIFER
Where do you go when you’re not at work? With another woman? Drink beer with the boys?
BRUCE
Jen, I go no where.
JENNIFER
I called the other day – your office, expecting to get you, but instead I got your secretary. She said you were out on something important. That was not a first. I have gotten that for four days.
She tears up, gets her napkin to wipe it off, and proceeds again.
JENNIFER (cont’d)
Why are you so busy, Bruce? What can be more important than me?
BRUCE puts his hands onto his face.
BRUCE
I knew it would come to this. I knew it. Jen, my life is too complex for you, now.
JENNIFER
Why won’t you tell me?
BRUCE
Because I’m afraid of the risks behind it. Because I’m afraid of loosing you.
JENNIFER
You're going to loose me if you don’t tell me.
BRUCE shakes his head.
BRUCE
I can’t do it.
JENNIFER throws the napkin at his face and runs out of the restaurant.
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7/7/2003 11:17:01 PM
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