Batman: Caped Crusader (2024) s01e10 Episode Script

[dramatic music playing]
[Harvey] No, no, no, no.
I didn't ask for a lawyer,
and if I did, I wouldn't ask for you.
So, what is this, you here to gloat?
No, Harvey.
This is the last place I wanna be tonight,
but somebody needs to help you.
Oh, sure, Miss Goody-Two-Shoes,
Babs Gordon.
Well, you can just [sighs]
Just let me rot in here.
I don't deserve help.
Not from anyone, least of all from you.
Well, I'm not leaving.
So, how about this? We'll flip for it.
Heads, I'm your lawyer,
and you listen to me.
Tails, I walk outta here,
and you can keep arguing with yourself.
How about that? Heads.
Looks like I'm your lawyer then.
Okay.
Fine, I guess.
Good. I'll get you transferred
for a psych evaluation.
Till then, you don't talk to anyone.
Oh, here.
You can keep that. It's yours anyway.
I got it from the property clerk.
[show theme music playing]
Do we know where they're holding Dent yet?
[Flass] They're moving him around
the next few days. Arkham, then court.
Well, listen, the guy knows too much.
About my business
and some powerful men downtown, too.
Harvey did a lot of favors
for the right people over the years.
He's an itch that needs to get scratched.
No, no! Wait! What about Polly?
- Stop!
- Wait.
He just wants this.
[whimpers] Thank you!
Thank you, thank you.
[dramatic music playing]
Okay, Miss Gordon.
We'll bring your client out.
Thanks.
So, how are you holding up?
Not well, but there are people
in here worse off than me.
Well, you won't be here long.
The doctor'll see you today,
and the hearing is set for tomorrow.
I've got a few ideas
to get you out of all of this
and into a private hospital.
Someplace that'll really help you.
No, I killed people.
There's no way I'm not doing time.
They'll lock me up forever.
- I would.
- It's not so cut and dried.
You're a victim, too.
I think we can count on some leniency,
if you're willing to cooperate.
You were the DA for a decade.
If anyone knows where
the bodies are buried, it's you.
So you give up
a few of the crooks at City Hall,
and we walk you out of here.
You'd be exposing corruption.
By admitting I knew about it
and did nothing.
Does a guy like that deserve leniency?
Come on, Harvey.
You've gotta give me something.
Some way to defend you.
I'm sorry, Barbara.
I wanna help you, but it's not easy.
Because
Because I'm weak, okay?
I'm a useless, disgusting crybaby!
How hard is that to understand?!
You stuck-up, little
I'm sorry. I didn't mean that.
It's okay, just
took me by surprise, is all.
Me too.
It's his favorite trick.
Do you ever use a door?
What's going on with the Dent case?
Nothing so far.
I'm trying to get him a deal,
but it's like he snapped.
I never liked the man,
but seeing him like this
Dent put his thumb on the scale
in court sometimes,
but he did care about justice.
You need to reach that part of him.
I'll try,
if I can get him to listen to me
instead of the voices in his head.
Someone has to.
Hey, uh, I'm sure you'll keep
dropping in whenever you want,
which is swell,
but maybe I should have a way
to contact you, too?
- I mean, it's only fair that
- Klondike5-0127.
You have a phone number?
When I need one.
I thought you were gonna tell me
to leave a blue light on in the window.
[door buzzing]
Bruce Wayne.
My pal, my buddy.
What's the plan tonight,
dinner at Marko's,
maybe a show at the Copa?
[chuckles]
Think I'll have to miss it.
I'm sorry about the other night, Harvey.
I shouldn't have made you come out.
I just thought if we pretended
everything was normal
Yeah, that's the Bruce Wayne way,
isn't it?
- The great pretender.
- What does that mean?
Nothing.
I'm just angry sometimes.
But none of this is your fault,
you were only trying to be my friend.
Harvey, you know it isn't your fault,
either, right?
This was done to you.
You were driven over the edge.
You need treatment, not a jail cell.
Get your lawyer to cut some kind of deal,
and I can help you.
You know anyone else who did what I did
wouldn't be able to make a deal.
But you can.
You're not somebody else.
That's not really justice, is it?
Don't start growing a conscience now,
Dent.
Just help yourself, that's all I'm saying.
You can still have a life.
Harvey Dent doesn't give up, remember?
Sorry, Bruce.
That was just a campaign slogan.
I take it Harvey's condition
was as expected?
So, what are we going to do, Master Bruce?
I don't know.
[Barbara] Just let me do the talking
when we get there, okay?
Yes, I know how hearings work, Gordon.
Don't worry about me, just
[suspenseful music playing]
[all coughing]
[officers grunting]
[car doors closing]
[engine starts]
[tires squealing]
[engine starts]
[tires squeal]
[music continues]
[groans]
Evening, Dent.
Hello, Flass.
I should've guessed
it'd be you and Bullock.
So, how much is this great escape
gonna cost me?
Sorry, Dent. This isn't a breakout.
It's the big sleep.
You know, I always knew you two
were the crookedest cops in Gotham.
Takin' payoffs, bribing people,
but somehow,
I still thought we were friends.
Hey, don't try to make me
feel guilty here.
You're the one who messed up.
And you were no better than us, Dent.
Just the next stop up the line.
- Is that how you saw it?
- That's how it is, Dent.
Guys don't get their faces melted off
for no reason.
Shoulda stayed smart and
played along with Boss Thorne.
It's that way. Left.
Now, remember what I said.
Just hand him over to Thorne's guys
and walk away.
- Then we're done.
- Yeah.
Huh.
I always assumed
you were the one in charge, Bullock,
but it's Flass.
I never saw it.
- Pretty sharp, Flass.
- What?
What's he talkin' about?
Don't listen to him. Shut up, Dent.
So, let me guess,
whenever someone needs
to get their hands dirty,
it's you who does it, right, Bullock?
Yeah, Flass makes sure your
fingerprints are all over everything.
You're a puppet and a fall-guy
all in one package, you big dumb son of
I said shut up!
[grunts, sighs]
[suspenseful music playing]
- [grunting]
- [Barbara] Harvey!
Gordon?
How did you get here?
How do you think? I followed you.
I'm gonna get these off, and then
we're getting you into protective custody.
We have to get you somewhere safe.
You think I'm safe with the cops?
Those two were about
to hand me over to the mob!
We'll go to my dad. You know him.
Sorry, I'm doing this my way now, Gordon.
Time to pay Boss Thorne another visit.
- Like hell.
- [handcuffs ratchet]
What are you doing?!
I'm not letting you
go off on a suicide mission.
You crazy broad! You
[sighs] You shouldn't have done that.
You're putting yourself in danger,
Barbara.
Well, then, we'd better get out of here.
[tires squeal]
[groans]
[dramatic music playing]
Bullock? Come on, Sloppy Joe, get up.
[grunting]
Now, where is he?
- Gone.
- Oh, God.
- We're cooked.
- No. We'll be okay.
Thorne's men are around the corner,
and Dent can't have gotten far.
We'll find him.
[Harvey] I mean it.
I'm not going to the cops.
I'll gnaw off my hand if I have to.
Relax. I'm not taking you in, okay?
[line ringing]
- Gordon.
- It's me.
Barbara, thank God.
I heard you were there when Dent escaped.
It wasn't an escape, Dad.
It was a kidnapping.
- What?
- I'll explain later,
but right now, I need your help.
[man] First, it's stay close,
guard the boss and his kid.
Now it's meet two bent cops
in the middle of nowhere?
I'm tellin' you, we should be gettin'
overtime pay for this.
Hey, look!
All right, Dad, we'll see you there.
- And be careful.
- Yeah, you too.
Are you done now?
No. Not yet.
[suspenseful music playing]
[line ringing]
[telephone rings]
- [Alfred] Hello?
- This is Barbara Gordon.
Can I, uh,
speak to the Batman?
- Wait, what?
- Hold the line, please.
- [line clicks]
- [Batman] Hello, Barbara.
[sighs]
You are something else, Gordon.
- Because I'm trying to save you?
- Yeah.
You actually think there's some
kind of happy ending for me.
God! I'm trying to remember
if I was ever as naive as you,
but I think I was once.
I think I wanted to change things.
Before I saw how the world really works.
Oh, God. I'm gonna throw up
just listening to myself.
Then stop talking.
That's it. That's the car we saw.
They gotta be here somewhere.
All right, let's go,
and don't take any chances.
You see ‘em, you shoot.
Hey, you recognize that car, right?
Gordon's daughter.
She must've seen us with Dent.
Neither of them can leave these docks.
You hear what I'm saying?
Yeah, you're sayin' it's time
for the dirty work.
- Did you hear something?
- No.
And this fog is making it hard to see.
[Batman] Fifteen men.
Two of them are yours.
Flass and Bullock.
We were expecting them.
- Dad.
- Barbara.
Don't look at me, this was her idea.
We have to move.
The south exit's still clear, for now.
So, this is the big plan?
You protect me long enough
that I can testify against Thorne
and half of City Hall and then what?
You expect that to change anything?
Yes, I do.
[Harvey] Not in this city. No.
A hundred other monsters'll show up
to replace anyone you take down.
This is a losing battle.
The four of you can't hold back the tide.
I don't care. You will testify, Dent.
Because you don't bend with the world
when it goes bad.
You push back.
He's right. I know the system's
stacked against us,
but I'm getting you
in front of a judge tonight, Harvey.
Even if it costs me my job.
[groans]
Go. I'll handle this.
Oh, crap.
[groans]
[suspenseful music playing]
[man grunts]
[muffled grunting]
- You
- Shh! Listen.
Thorne is only after me. No one else.
Uncuff me, and I'll lead them all away.
I can't do that.
Hey, over here! I got ‘em!
[all grunt]
[grunting with rage]
Harvey, stop it!
Please, Barbara!
You have to let me go.
Freeze.
[both grunting]
I said freeze.
You see any more?
No.
Wait. Where's Barbara?
[suspenseful music continues]
[Bullock] All that gunfire,
this place'll be swarming with cops soon.
[Flass] We'll be long gone by then.
[Bullock] And what if we're not?
Then you let me do the talking.
There's still nothing they got on us
that'll stick.
[both grunt]
[music continues]
[grunting]
[groaning]
[yells]
Where are Dent and your daughter?
- We got separated.
- I'll find them.
[suspenseful music continues]
- [barking]
- [both gasp]
- [man] There they are!
- [gunfire]
[Harvey grunts]
[gunfire continues in distance]
[both shout]
Just uncuff us and run already!
- That's not happening, Harvey.
- [groans]
Now let's go.
I can't.
I can't, Barbara.
Don't do this.
You can't die
for someone like me.
I don't plan on dying tonight.
Wait. We got turned around.
We can go back to my car, it's this way.
Come on, Harvey. We're close.
[Harvey groaning]
[Bullock] Look at this, Flass.
Someone got winged.
They're headed back to her car.
- [Barbara panting]
- [Harvey grunting]
See? I told you.
No [gasping]
I'm not gonna make it.
You're wasting your time.
Isn't that what you said
I do for all my clients?
Oh, God. Don't make me laugh.
[Barbara] Come on, Harvey,
just a few more steps.
- Huh?
- I wouldn't, Bullock.
[groaning]
Huh? [gasps]
[both groan]
[Barbara gasps]
[grunts]
[dramatic music playing]
[Flass] Hey, hey, hey, hold on!
That was a righteous shoot!
You can't do this.
You're just some lousy vigilante!
I'm a goddamn cop!
[gunfire]
[whimpering]
- [growls, grunts]
- [groans]
[grunts]
[Harvey groaning]
Harvey, why did you do that?
Damned if I know
Barbara.
[somber music playing]
[sirens in distance]
If you're still around when they get here,
I'll have to take you in.
I saw something in him,
when he went over the edge.
Something that reminded you of yourself?
Listen to me, sir.
Harvey Dent was twisted by ambition.
He lost sight of his own humanity.
That isn't you.
You're still inside there, Master Bruce.
I see it more and more all the time.
You've even made friends, in your own way.
Four of us against an endless tide.
Dent was right, those are terrible odds.
But I'll take 'em.
Thank you, Pennywo Alfred.
Thanks, Alfred.
Just tell them to keep their mouths shut,
and my lawyers'll take care of everything.
And tell them I said nice work, too.
A bullet in the back is just
what that bastard deserved.
[laughs ominously]
[gasps]
[suspenseful music playing]
[thunder crackles]
[maniacal laughter]
[maniacal laughter continues]
[laughter fades]
Perfect.
[show theme music playing]