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Batman: Reborn (Part 6)
By Carnotaur3
EXT. RESTAURANT – NIGHT
BRUCE runs to grab JENNIFER’S arm. She gets pulled back.
BRUCE
Trust me. I would tell you. But I can’t because I love you too much.
JENNIFER
What can possibly be so secretive that it could hurt me physically?
BRUCE
I can’t say.
JENNIFER
I love you too much to be around you now.
JENNIFER walks down the sidewalk and throws her hand up in the air.
JENNIFER (cont’d)
TAXI!
A few moments later, one arrives. She gets into it not even looking back at her boyfriend.
BRUCE WAYNE, distraught that his dark and dangerous path has taken him down, turns the opposite way to walk.
As he strolls through the dark alleys, he gets the feeling of someone watching him, sneaking around the buildings.
As before, BRUCE stops and alerts himself. Suddenly, something jumps on his back and grabs him from behind.
VOICE
Don’t make a sound, don’t even look.
BRUCE remains calm as the person takes him around back into a dumpy, rotten door.
CUT TO:
INT. HIDEOUT – DARK
As soon as they enter the hideout, the man let’s go of BRUCE and steps into the light.
It’s DELUDION.
DELUDION
Finally, Mr. Wayne, we are together.
BRUCE
Why?
DELUDION
It’s like I said before, Bruce, we are similar.
BRUCE
Maybe, in some way, but our morals are different.
DELUDION
I have a proposition for you, Bruce Wayne. I am not a vengeful man, I’m not a criminal. I am, though, a very sad man. I have been tortured through names and beatings. I have been taken advantage of since I was born. And I want you, Mr. Wayne, a man who has also followed a sad path as well, to tell the public, that this man (POINTS TO HIMSELF) is not a bad person. I want to be treated for the first time in my life with some respect.
BRUCE
That’s a pretty hard persuasion, given the fact you have already murdered innocent lives. Your respect for what you are has already been given.
DELUDION
I know about your parent’s death when you were a boy.
BRUCE
Everybody dies, Deludion, I make the fact of my parent’s death a strength for my character not a weakness.
DELUDION
Wrong, it is a weakness, and I can see it in your eyes. You can’t go on everyday with the emotion running through you, and you think to yourself, “If I had done something I would have stopped it from happening”. I can see it, Mr. Wayne. And you would save even more pain to those around you if you just followed my instructions.
BRUCE
What if I don’t get them to like you?
DELUDION
What if I were to say that the fate of Gotham City lied in your hands?
BRUCE
I would say it would be just like every other day.
DELUDION
I can do so much damage to this city that it will respectfully be a ghost town before it’s all over.
BRUCE
Deludion, as much as you might think you are the savior to this world you are really the evil one. Save yourself and you also save millions of others. You’ve the wrong path.
DELUDION
Then-
DELUDION takes BRUCE by the shirt and opens the door.
DELUDION (cont’d)
-I hope you don’t make the same mistake as I have.
He pushes BRUCE out and the door jams shut.
COMMISSIONER GORDON (V.O.)
No name, no address, nobody knows this guy.
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EXT. POLICE DEPARTMENT – DAY
COMMISSIONER GORDON shakes his head when holding up a paper.
COMMISSIONER GORDON
I’m afraid we’re getting no where really fast. So, I’m going to be really blunt with you people.
In front of him stand several police officers. All awaiting for his orders.
COMMISSIONER GORDON (cont’d)
I need everyone of you, and everyone not here at this present time, to search every broken down warehouses, every shack, and every vacant building that you can find in Gotham City. Who are we searching for - none other than Deludion and his gang of Cronies. Gentlemen, I’m not going to lie. This guy is powerful, but use every recourse you have and take him down!
DETECTIVE SPACEY stands nearby eyeing the COMMISSIONER.
COMMISSIONER GORDON (cont’d)
Move now, we don’t have all night.
SPACEY walks up to him.
SPACEY
Need me for anything, sir?
COMMISSIONER GORDON
Yeah, we’re going to go visit my brother.
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INT. BATCAVE – DARK
BATS flutter across the wet dripping ceilings of the cold, hollow cave, their screeches harkening to us a sense of justice and fear.
At the CONTROL section of the cave, BRUCE WAYNE is sitting in his chair, watching the many screens for any disturbance that could happen in GOTHAM.
ALFRED takes up a glass of water from the rocky desk.
ALFRED
So, is their any other reason why this Deludion is such an interest to you.
BRUCE
Alfred, do you remember before my parents died I was attending Southward Middle School?
ALFRED
Yes, I remember perfectly well.
BRUCE
Well, there was this kid that I always saw was being picked on. Everyday, he was picked on.
ALFRED
That’s him isn’t it?
BRUCE
Yes, it is. Tod Howling is his real name.
BRUCE presses a button on the computer and outcomes a new window with a file on TOD HOWLING.
BRUCE (cont’d)
After a car crash killing his parents, he went into a very serious case of trauma. He later became a need for psychiatric help, joining up with Dr. Kindle. He and Dr. Kindle were together for a few years until he thought Tod was better to go back out in the real world.
ALFRED
That’s such a sad history.
BRUCE
I can’t figure out where he worked from there, maybe the shoe place where his first murder took place.
ALFRED
You are giving this information to Commissioner Gordon, aren’t you, sir?
BRUCE
Yeah, Alfred, I am.
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INT. KINGSLEY’S SCIENTIFIC STIDIES FACILITY – DAY
COMMISSIONER GORDON sits down in a hard, squeaky chair, drinking coffee, and listing attentively to his soft speaking brother.
DETECTIVE SPACEY watches this conversation from the doorway.
GORDON
I can’t tell you how many days we’ve been working on the knowledge pill. I just can’t tell you. So many days put into it and then in a matter of days it goes missing.
COMMISSIONER GORDON
Fran, was this thing tested?
GORDON
No, we hadn’t even performed any tests on it. It was only a matter of days we could go into it but before that could happen someone had taken it.
SPACEY
I’d hate to call you a liar, since you are the chief’s brother, but we checked out ever single security guard to this facility. Everyone was on duty that night.
COMMISSIONER GORDON
Let me handle this, Spacey.
(To Francis Gordon)
Now, Fran, I’m sick and tired of the lies you have been spurting out today. According to the guards, they say you left the building really late that night.
A long silent pause comes between the two brothers. Finally, DR. FRANCIS GORDON speaks the truth.
GORDON
Alright, listen, you know how mom and dad grew up? Of course you do. I had made a bargain with a common criminal to take the chemicals for exchange of money - Big sums of money. You know I’m not a very well funded guy. All my bosses would get a million bucks for what I do and I get fucking squat. I just always wanted mom and dad to share my wealth. They’ve never had much.
COMMISSIONER GORDON
Ok, so what does this chemical do, supposedly?
GORDON
Gain knowledge quicker and more efficient. At least, that’s what we wanted it to do.
COMMISSIONER GORDON
What happened that night?
GORDON
I proceeded to give him stuff, but a police man was at the end of the alley. He screamed at us and we ran off into some shoe store.
COMMISSIONER GORDON
Now, wait a minute, did you say shoe store?
GORDON
Yeah, we hid the stuff under a sink.
Getting up quickly, COMMISSIONER GORDON turns to DETECTIVE SPACEY.
COMMISSIONER GORDON
Spacey, go back to the She Shop, check out what he’s saying.
GORDON
Why do you want it back?
COMMISSIONER GORDON
Listen, Francis, your immoral action can be forgiven if you do one thing for me.
GORDON
What’s that?
COMMISSIONER GORDON
If indeed we find some of that stuff left, is there a way to test it and come up with a vaccine?
GORDON
I suppose so. We’ve never tried it though, I don’t know if it’ll work.
COMMISSIONER GORDON
You must try, Fran. I have to go.
COMMISSIONER GORDON gets his coat and runs out the door.
7/17/2003 9:19:09 PM
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