1 INT. BATCAVE -BATMAN'S COSTUME VAULT
Chrome and shadow. A black gauntlet SNAPS into place. A cape WHIPS over a dark rubber back.
A bat-shaped buckle LOCKS.
2 INT. BATCAVE ROBIN'S COSTUME VAULT - INTERCUT
A silver throwing-bird is chosen from a weapon's array.
Gloved hands lift a black eye mask. Tunic armor CLICKS shut,
turning to reveal the chest-borne insignia of a Robin.
3 INT.BATCAVE
BATMAN - CLOSE. Emerges from his costume vault.
WIDER
Deeper excavation has doubled the size of the cavern.
New state-of-the-art computing systems flash.
Surveillance screens monitor news and police FREQUENCIES.
Crime's worst nightmare.
Batman strides towards the rising steam-obscured pedestal
which bears the sleek, redesigned Batmobile.
ROBIN appears in the door of his costume vault, dressed in
the black and red of his Nightwing costume.
Two dark avengers stand suited, ready to take back the night.
BATMAN
Nice suit. And today you are?
ROBIN
Nightwing. Scourge of darkest evil.
BATMAN
This is all about fashion for you, isn't it?
ROBIN
It's the gear. Chicks love the gear.
ALFRED steps forward, out of the shadows.
ALFRED
Do call if you're going to be late for dinner, sir.
4 TURBOS - CLOSE. ROAR. The Batmobile SHOOTS away through
the arches of the cave access tunnel.
5 The compass to of the Batmobile service pedestal splits
wide like the opening petals of a flower, revealing a
sleek, turbo-charged motorcycle. meet Robin's bike: The
Redbird.
ALFRED
Drive carefully, Master Wing.
ROBIN
Don't wait up, AL.
6 The REDBIRD'S TURBO - CLOSE. EXPLODES into life.
The powerful bike SHOOTS after the Batmobile.
7 ALFRED watches them go.
Then, he relaxes, lets his weight
fall against the main console, a man not as well as he seems.
8 INT. BATCAVE ACCESS TUNNEL - BATMOBILE - MOVING
Batman is behind the wheel, Robin visible through the
window.
BATMAN
Ten police cruisers frozen solid on
the Gotham Expressway . . .
9 INT. BATCAVE ACCESS TUNNEL - REDBIRD - MOVING
Robin is on his bike, data scrolling on his console monitor.
ROBIN
... A giant drilling truck burrowing under
the city ...
BATMAN
Mr. Freeze.
ROBIN
The batcomputer tracks him heading
for the Gotham Museum.
BATMAN
The new antiquities exhibit. The
Second Sun of the Sudan.
ROBIN
Of course. He's going to steal the
giant white diamond.
BATMAN
No, Robin. He's going to jail.
10 BATMAN'S MONITOR - CLOSE - THE GOTHAM MUSEUM
PUSH IN
11 EXT. GOTHAM MUSEUM - NIGHT
A stone and glass palace set on the edge of Gotham's
Central Park.
12 INT. GOTHAM MUSEUM - NIGHT
A GIANT DRILLING TRUCK points up through the rubble of the
shattered museum floor.
13 WIDER. A great hall bearing the skeleton of a mighty
brontosaur amongst a myriad of other exotic antiquities.
All frozen.
14 HOLD on A GIANT DIAMOND CASE
The case begins to glow blue, then white, the shatterproof
glass EXPLODING into a thousand flying fragments.
15 RACK IN through the storm of ice and glass, ACROSS the
frozen floor, PAST exhibits of Aztec ruins peppered now
with three FROZEN GUARDS, UP stone steps of a pyramid
altar TO REVEAL...
...A silver suited figure stands, bald head visible beneath a
helmet,
A high-tech bazooka in his hand. MR. FREEZE
FREEZE
The Iceman Cometh.
16 WIDER
A gang of Thugs in thermal suits, THE ICEMEN, skate to the
base of the steps. Two hold a MOANING, shivering GUARD
captive.
GUARD
Please. Show some mercy.
Freeze begins down the altar steps. A SHIMMERING, TERRIFYING
GOD.
FREEZE
I'm afraid my condition has left me
cold to your pleas of mercy.
17 Freeze FIRES his weapon, the beam of cryonic energy
engulfing the Guard, turning him to ice.
FREEZE
(knocks on the guard's cheek)
Copsicle.
Freeze closes, now, on the shattered case.
FREEZE
In this universe, there is only one
absolute. Everything...
Freeze swipes away the shattered glass and steel, from the
debris lifts a tremendous diamond.
FREEZE
...Freezes.
Freeze holds the diamond high over his head, the light
hitting the gem like a star.
18 THE SKYLIGHT - CLOSE. EXPLODES.
Batman free-falls into
the room, hitting the brontosaurus and sliding down its neck,
SMASHING Freeze with his feet, the diamond sliding
across the frozen floor.
FREEZE
(aiming his pistol)
Bat on ice, anyone?
19 Batman KICKS the pistol high in the air, catches it.
BATMAN
Didn't your mother ever tell you not
to play with guns?
20 Freeze cartwheels across the room, kicking the gun away
from Batman, catching it in mid air.
FREEZE
You're not sending me to the cooler.
21 Freeze FIRES. Batman dodges the blast. Freeze takes aim
again.
22 THE FRONT DOORS - CLOSE. BLOW OPEN
Robin, on the Redbird, flies into the room.
23 BATMAN uses the distraction, flying-kicks the gun into
the air.
24 ROBIN soars over Freeze's head, kicks the airborne gun to
the altar atop the giant pyramid.
ROBIN
Score. And the crowd goes wild.
25 Robin lands, laying his bike sideways in a slide,
KNOCKING a precious vase into mid air. he grabs a statue,
using it to whip around in a dismount.
26 BATMAN catches the falling vase, replaces it, as Robin
skates beside him. The two heroes race for Freeze.
FREEZE
Grab the gem. Kill the heroes.
28 MORE INCEMEN in hockey masks, sticks in hand, rush the
caped crusaders from both sides.
29 ROBIN
It's the hockey team from hell.
30 FREEZE is racing towards the altar and his fallen gun.
SIX GUARDS rush in through a side door and swarm the
unarmed Freeze. Mistake.
Freeze begins wailing on the Guards. It's a straight
display of fisticuffs executed with unbelievable speed
and precision, hooks, jabs, upper and lower cuts
all perfectly delivered, felling the assault force.
30A FREEZE
Cop-suey.
He begins racing again for his gun.
31 BATMAN AND ROBIN begin a martial arts extrordinaire,
blocking stick blows, punching and kicking the Icemen.
32 THE GEM lays on the ice behind the wall of advancing
ICEMEN.
33/34 BATMAN AND ROBIN grab two assailants, slipping between
their legs, skates popping out of their boots, as they
snatch the Icemen's sticks and trip the villains.
35 FREEZE has made it to his gun. He turns, FIRES, creating
an ice bridge to the floor.
FREEZE
Caution. Bridge may ice over.
35A He slides down the ice bridge to the floor below.
Starts racing for his giant drilling truck.
36 BATMAN begins skating towards Freeze.
BATMAN
You get the ice. I'll get the iceman.
37 ROBIN skates through the Thugs, double sticking,
CHECK-ING them wildly into the boards, reaches
down and scoops up the diamond.
ROBIN
Sweet.
38/39 FREEZE is racing towards his truck, Batman closing fast
behind him.
Freeze spins and FIRES.
40 BATMAN ducks, using his cape as an ice shield, deflecting
the beam into a closing Iceman behind him, freezing the
villain solid.
41 FREEZE disappears behind the giant brontosaurus.
42 ROBIN skates into line with Batman, both heading fast for
Freeze.
ROBIN
(shows the diamond)
I got mine. Where's yours?
43 FREEZE FIRES his gun, freezing the legs of the mighty
Brontosaur.
FREEZE
What killed the dinosaurs? The ice age.
44/45 Freeze pushes on the belly of the beast, the mighty
creature toppling forward, EXPLODING in front of Batman
and Robin.
46 ROBIN
He's definitely extinct.
47/48 BATMAN AND ROBIN skate fast to avoid the debris.
49 AN ICEMAN flies in from the side, hitting Robin's hand,
sending the gem flying free.
50 ANOTHER ICEMAN skates to the gem, HITTING it with his
stick, sending the diamond flying up onto the landing by
the front doors.
51 FREEZE has made it to his truck, is climbing towards the
hatch.
52 THE ICEMEN are a rushing wall between the caped crusaders
and the gem. Batman and Robin skate toward the villains,
pulling flagpoles from a display as if they are about to
joust the Icemen.
At the last second, Batman and Robin drive their poles
into the ice, vaulting over the heads of the Icemen
towards the landing and the waiting gem above.
53 FREEZE has climbed to the hatch of his vehicle.
FREEZE
Hit me boys.
54/55 Batman and Robin land on the landing inches from the gem.
An Iceman skates from the wings, with a SLAPSHOT, sends
the diamond flying.
56 FREEZE'S GLOVE - CLOSE. The diamond HITS. A perfect
catch.
FREEZE
Thanks for playing.
57 Freeze drops into the cab of his giant drilling truck.
The hatch starts to slide closed.
58 BATMAN
Round up the thugs. I'll get Freeze.
59/60 Batman leaps onto the banister, slides standing down the
rail and jumps, dropping into the closing hatch after
Freeze.
61 INT. DRILLING TRUCK - CONTROL CAPSULE
A bank of control panels are set inside the giant glass
head of the drill. Batman falls in to find Freeze standing
at the main console.
BATMAN
Stop the insanity.
FREEZE
Nice of you to drop in.
Freeze hits a button. A tremendous ROAR.
62 INT. MUSEUM
The capsule, set on the end of an ejection cylinder,
BLASTS out of the drilling truck, rising like a rocket
towards the roof.
63 ROBIN jumps on another banister, slides down, grabs a
banner and swings himself onto the side of the cylinder,
clutching a porthole ledge and hanging fast.
64 EXT. GOTHAM MUSEUM
The capsule BLOWS through the top of the museum, ROCKETING
towards the starry night sky above.
65 ZOOM IN. Robin clings to the side of the rocket for dear
life.
66 INT. CAPSULE
Batman is thrown to the floor by the powerful
acceleration. Freeze stays upright, protected by his
mighty suit.
BATMAN
You were a great scientist once.
Don't squander your genius on evil.
FREEZE
I hate being lectured.
67 Freeze throws Batman, hard, into the bulkhead, uses his
pistol, to FREEZE Batman's ankles and wrists to the wall
in chunks of ice.
FREEZE
Watch the numbers, Batman. For they
are the harbingers of your doom.
68 ALTIMETER CLOSE. 10,000 feet and climbing fast.
FREEZE
Can you feel it coming? The icy cold
of space. At 30,000 feet your heart
will freeze and beat no more.
THE ALTIMETER CLOSE. 15,000 feet and rising.
69 EXT. CAPSULE
Robin has climbed onto the nose-cone. Is struggling
against the acceleration, using bat-magnets to crawl
towards the escape hatch.
70 INT. CAPSULE
Freeze steps into a glide-wing backpack mounted on the wall.
FREEZE
After you have frozen, your icy tomb
will plummet back to Gotham.
BATMAN
Freeze, you're mad. This capsule
will slaughter thousands.
Freeze releases the door behind him, the sky WHIPPING past
beyond.
FREEZE
Ain't it grand? Freeze well.
Freeze leaps out into the night.
71 EXT. NIGHT SKY
Freeze begins to plummet towards the lights of Gotham
below.
72 FREEZE'S BACKPACK - CLOSE. A sleek wing extends from its
housing. Freeze angles himself downward in mid air, using his
glide wing to control his fast flight towards the distant city.
73 INT. CAPSULE
74 The controls, the glass nose-cone, the capsule itself are
all frosting over. The hatch opens. Robin drops in.
ROBIN
I was just hanging around.
BATMAN
I thought you were going to stay in
the museum and round up the thugs.
ROBIN
How about, nice to see you? Glad
you're here to save my life.
75 Robin pulls a laser from his utility belt, FLASH MELTS
one of his ice-shackles.
BATMAN
When we get home, we're having a
little communication workshop.
Robin FLASH METLS the other ice gauntlet. Batman is free.
ROBIN
Is it cold in here or is it just me?
76 ALTIMETER - CLOSE. 20,000 and rising. Ice is forming
everywhere.
BATMAN
Got to make sure this rocket doesn't
turn Gotham into a crater.
77 Batman whips a bat-shaped charge, throws it onto the
ceiling. An armed light on the charge flashes green.
ROBIN
Now what? We call a taxi?
78 Batman grabs a handle marked CAUTION: EXPLOSIVE BOLTS.
Robin smiles, grabs a similar handle on the opposing metal
door.
BATMAN
Watch the first step.
ROBIN
Surf's up.
79 Both pull the release handles, leaping onto the capsule
doors as the EXPLOSIVE bolts BLOW them into space.
80 THE BATCHARGE LIGHT - CLOSE. Goes red.
81 EXT. NIGHT SKY - FALLING
As the capsule EXPLODES above them raining falling
debris, Batman and Robin skyboard on the doors down
towards...
82 FREEZE is ROCKETING to earth, the diamond in his hand.
83 BATMAN AND ROBIN race towards Freeze and the city
below.
The caped crusaders avoid skyscraper turrets and elevated
bridges as they follow in Freeze's wake.
84 BATMAN swoops down above the villain, pushing off his
skyboard, grabbing Freeze around the neck, the diamond
flying into mid air.
85 ROBIN maneuvers in a grand flip, grabs the falling gem.
86/87 FREEZE releases his glide pack buckle, dislodging Batman,
the hero and the glide pack spinning away from Freeze.
88 BATMAN dumps the glide pack, arcs back into his rushing
drop.
92 FREEZE is descending fast towards the giant smoking
93 chimney of a towering industrial complex. He aims his gun
at the smoking toward and FIRES, the fast maw quickly
covering with snow.
94 Freeze plummets into the snowy chimney.
95 BATMAN AND ROBIN drop into the ice shaft after the
villain.
96 FREEZE FIRES his gun as he falls, slowing his descent by
turning the chimney into a madly snaking tunnel of ice
before him.
97 BATMAN AND ROBIN tumble head first through layers of snow
after the villain. They pull their Batgrapples and FIRE.
98 BATGRAPPLES - CLOSE. Hit the wall. Catch.
99 BATMAN AND ROBIN use their tethers to slow their descent,
landing hard in...
100 INT. INDUSTRIAL BASEMENT
A long submarine-like corridor
ROBIN
Cool. Can we do that again?
101 Batman and Robin race towards Freeze who is fleeing down
the other end of the corridor. he points his gun at the
ceiling. FIRES.
102 The sprinkler system pipes EXPLODE, forming a mighty,
intense blizzard in the wind-tunnel.
103 BATMAN
Sudden temperature drop. Watch out
for the...
104 A blast of wind ROARS down the tunnel, SLAMMING the
doors, sending snow and ice whipping towards them
BATMAN
Wind.
105 Batman and Robin WHIP their capes over their faces, push
forward, fighting the storm, going through the doors one
by one.
106 INT. BOILER ROOM
Frozen. At the terminus of the tunnel. A frozen boiler
stands in the center of the icy moat of the building's
INTERNAL RESERVOIR. The door swings open, Batman pushing
inside.
107 Freeze flies from behind the door, SLAMMING the metal
portal hard into Batman's face. Batman tumbles forward.
108 Freeze raises his gun. Another figure leaps in from the
hallway, going for Freeze. Robin.
109 Freeze FIRES, turning the boy into a frozen sculpture of
ice. He plucks the diamond from his icy hand.
109A EXT. CROSS SECTION OF GOTHAM CITY-VFX
A schematic map of Gotham. Freeze's vehicle burrows
underneath the city, freezing the firmament in its path
and clearing away the debris, heading towards the boiler
room.
110 INT. BOILER ROOM
(OVER) a RUMBLING.
Suddenly the wall EXPLODES. Freeze's
drilling truck appears in the clearing smoke.
111 FREEZE
Can you be cold, Batman? You have
eleven minutes to thaw the bird.
What will you do, chase the villain
or save the boy?
Freeze leaps onto the giant vehicle.
FREEZE
Your emotions make you weak. That is
why this day is mine.
(smile)
Stay cool, bats.
112 And Freeze is gone, sealing the tunnel hole after him
with a blast of ice, clearing the frosted pane to wave
goodbye.
113 Batman moves fast to the boy wonder, touches his frozen
skin. He whips out his bat-laser, points at the icy
reservoir and FIRES.
114 THE RESERVOIR - CLOSE. The frozen water melts, begins to
SIMMER.
115 The caped crusader immerses Robin in the steaming sea.
115A Under the water, the boy's face is perfectly still.
116 A long beat. Then Robin's head breaks the surface.
COUGHING. Alive
ROBIN
Did we get him?
117 EXT. SOUTH AMERICAN RAIN FOREST - NIGHT
(OVER) THUNDER. Lighting flashes on a maze of tends and
tarpaulins affixed to the ruins of a decaying PRISON MORTE.
A "FOR SALE OR LEASE" sign is illuminated by the storm.
SCREEN READS - Meanwhile, somewhere in the South American
Jungle...
118 INT. TENTED GREENHOUSE LAB - NIGHT
Bunsen Burners flicker. Beakers BUBBLE.
Martha Stewart does Fankenstein.
PAMELA ISLEY, lovely features hidden by a glasses and bad
hair, shape obscured by her lab coat, TALKS into a
cylindrical micro-recorder.
PAMELA
I still have high hopes for the
animal plant cross-breedings
Pam surveys the two lab tables. One table is a mass of plants.
The other is covered with tanks of spiders, snakes and
scorpions. Tubes run from the lethal beasts into a jar of
milky fluid labeled VENOM.
More tubes run from the Venom jar into the plants.
One plant twitches as it receives the toxins.
PAMELA
If I can only find the correct dose
of Venom, these plants will be able
to fight back like animals.
I will have given flora a chance against
the thoughtless ravages of man.
(OVER) An agonized SCREAM. Terrified, Pam walks towards
the source of the WAILS, a gothic prison door to which the
tent is affixed. The portal is marked: PROJECT GILGAMESH.
PAMELA
Personal note: my work would proceed
faster if Dr. Woodrue weren't always
whisking my Venom samples back to
his mysterious Gilgamesh Wing. Why
won't he let me into his lab?
(OVER) Another blood-curdling SCREAM. Pam turns off the
recorder.
PAM
What is he doing in there?
119 Just then the door opens, a startled Pam dropping her
recorder as lightning flashes and DOCTOR JASON WOODRUE
ENTERS. Einstein's hair. Manson's eyes.
WOODRUE
Dr. Isley, loveliest flower in our
garden. How fare our little wards?
Woodrue moves in, too close, backing Pam against her
worktable, his face inches from hers. He spots the jar of
Venom.
WOODRUE
What do we have here? A lovely new
supply of Venom.
(lifts the jar)
I'll just take this to my laboratory
for further study.
PAMELA
What exactly are you working on in
there? What are those screams?
A bright flash of lightning. Woodrue advances on Pam.
WOODRUE
How I'd love to share my secrets with
you. But I ask you, sweet sapling,
can you be trusted? You refuse my
invitations to dine. You hide your
honeyed buds behind these sallow robes.
(OVER) More lightning and ever more deafening THUNDER.
WOODRUE
Ah, but there's romance in the air
tonight. Perhaps a moonlit stroll in
the jungle. And then, later, in the
dark, we can share everything.
Woodrue has her up against the wall, his twitching lips
only inches from hers. Pam winces, manages to step away.
(OVER) another SCREAM.
PAMELA
You have to tell me what you're
doing with my Venom.
WOODRUE
(nasty)
You must show me your secrets,
blossom, before I show you mine.
120 Pam watches him leave. As the door to the Gilgamesh wing
swings closed, Pam kicks her fallen recorder, the metal
cylinder rolling between door and jamb, keeping the
entrance from sealing.
121 INT. LABS - GILGAMESH SECTION - WALKING
Pam steals through the crumbling hallway of the abandoned
prison following the SCREAMS (OVER) as they grow ever
LOUDER.
122 INT. LABS - GILGAMESH CHAMBER
Banks of flashing SuperCrays. A gurney is surrounded by
SPARKING and HUMMING equipment. Frankestein meets
Frankenstien.
Woodrue emerges from the shadows, a portable phone in
hand.
WOODRUE
Ladies and gentlemen of the
un-United Nations.
(into the phone)
And our mystery bidder.
123 Pull BACK TO REVEAL
A small bridge arcs over the room. AN AMERICAN GENERAL,
A RUSSIAN COMMISSAR, A SHEIK, and A DICTATOR all watch on
from above.
WOODRUE
I give you the future of military
conquest.
A scrawny PRISONER in a too-large tank suit is dragged
into the room by several gun-toting CAPOS and shackled to
the gurney. His bald skull is adorned with three
surgically implanted ducts.
WOODRUE
May I present Antonio Diego, serial
murderer serving life in prison and
sole surviving volunteer.
Diego SPITS.
WOODRUE
And what a charmer he is.
124 WIDER. Pam slips in, unseen, hides behind a stack of
circuit boxes, watching on as Woodrue lifts the jar of
milky Venom.
WOODRUE
The super solder serum, code named
Venom, patent pending of course.
Woodrue pours the venom into a high-tech injector pack
strapped to the back of the gurney. He lifts an open-front
black and white mask attached by snaking tubes to the
injector pack.
WOODRUE
Notice the hassle free zipper.
He pulls the oversized mask over Diego's head, tubes fitting
into the ducts in his skull, zips the fabric closed over his
face.
WOODRUE
(lifts a remote)
Time to scream.
He hits a control stud on the remote. The injector pack
begins PUMPING the milky Venom into Diego's skull. Diego
SCREAMS.
125 Something strange happens to the prisoner. His chest
begins to enlarge. His neck becomes thick. his forearms grow.
WOODRUE
Behold, the ideal killing machine. I
call this little number...Bane. Bane
of humanity. Imagine it, your own
personal army made up of thousands
of these super soldiers. Bidding
begins at a mere 10 million.
Woodrue ups the Venom flow. Impossibly the prisoner grows
larger. Arm and leg shackles SNAP. Bane lurches for the
Venom pump, SMASHING consoles, SPARKING components raining
down around Pam.
PAM SCREAMS.
As Capos rush to subdue Bane, Woodrue strides to the dazed
Pam.
WOODRUE
Welcome to my parlor.
126 INT. CORRIDOR - WALKING
Woodrue is escorting a nervous Pam back towards her lab.
WOODRUE
...Our original sponsor had no
stomach for military applications.
he cut the funding for our work -
PAMELA
Our work?
WOODRUE
Without your research, I could never
have come this far. Join me. The two
of us, entwined, side by side...
They have arrived at Pam's workshop. Woodrue opens the
door.
127 INT. PAMELA'S WORKSHOP - CONTINUOUS
PAMELA
Join you? I've spent my life trying
to protect plants from extinction
and now you corrupt my research into
some maniacal scheme for world
domination. When I get through you
won't be able to get a job teaching
high school chemistry, do you hear
me, you psycho?
WOODRUE
Well, I can respect your opinion.
Woodrue shoves Pam viciously backwards into the inter-
connected tables, plants and poisonous beasts raining
down on top of her.
WOODRUE
Sadly, I'm not good at rejection.
Woodrue begins pulling shelves of cages and BUBBLING
beakers CRASHING down atop the struggling Pam, burying her
and all her specimens entirely.
WOODRUE
I'm afraid you'll have to die.
128 WOODRUE - CLOSE. Smiles as the SOUNDS of Pam's struggle
are finally silenced. He turns, heading back into the
hallway.
WOODRUE
(loud)
Fellow maniacs, bidding begins!
129 INT. BATCAVE - NIGHT
Bruce stands with Dick, now wrapped in a blanket, steaming
mug in hand, watching the main monitor.
BRUCE
Gotham University Labs. Security
video. Two years ago.
130 SCREEN - CLOSE. The image of a dazzling hi-tech lab-
oratory. A beautiful young woman (NORA FRIES) lays on
a gurney. A SCIENTIST works a bank of controls over a
SMOKING vat of cryonic solution. Handsome, the intense
gaze of genius, the man Freeze once was.
BRUCE
Dr. Victor Fries Two time Olympic
Decathelete. Nobel Prize winner in
molecular biology. After his wife
contracted a rare disease, McGregor's
Syndrome, he hoped to freeze her in
cryogenic sleep until he could
discover a cure. Here's where
everything goes north.
Alarms flash. A panel EXPLODES. Fries is BLOWN into the
vat of cryogenic solution.
BRUCE
That liquid is fifty below.
Fries SCREAMS, engulfed in the mists of the cryonic
solution, his skin now frozen, bluish, his hair brittle,
all but gone.
DICK
That's gotta hurt.
BRUCE
Somehow he survived. But the
cryoslution mutated his body.
131 The display shows a turning schematic of Fries.
DICK
What happened to his wife?
BRUCE
Presumed dead. No one knows.
The display now shows a turning Mr. Freeze. Compartments
in both suit sleeves are highlighted, flashing diamond
shapes within.
BRUCE
He needs extreme cold to survive.
His cryo-suit uses diamond enhanced
lasers to keep him at zero degrees.
DICK
Let me get this straight. A
brilliant citizen, disfigured by a
horrible accident, re-emerges as a
psychotic super-villain bent on
theft, revenge and destruction.
You see a pattern here?
BRUCE
< Maybe it's something in the water.
Bruce returns Dick's smile.
BRUCE
Well, if it's ice the iceman
wants...Alfred!
132 INT. COSTUME VAULT - CONTINUOUS
Alfred stands near the costumes, clutching a console, a
man in intense pain. He lets the wave subside, regains his
composure.
133 INT. BATCAVE - CONTINUOUS
Alfred emerges as if nothing were wrong.
BRUCE
I need the Wayne Diamonds.
DICK
We gonna trap ourselves a snowman?
BRUCE
Absolutely. Just as soon as you take
ten hours training in the simulator.
DICK
Whoa, I made a mistake. I'm sorry.
Don't go all protective on me. It
won't happen again.
BRUCE
Dick, you were reckless. You could
have been killed.
DICK
I'm fine. See. Me. here. Alive.
How are we gonna work together if
you're never going to trust me?
ALFRED
How, indeed?
Bruce stares at the two of them. He smiles a wry smile.
BRUCE
When did I become the bad guy?
134 INT. BACK STAIRCASE - WALKING
Bruce and Alfred travel the winding stair that leads from
the Batcave to the top of the house.
BRUCE
He's over-eager, impulsive. I can't
trust him not to get hurt.
ALFRED
Perhaps the truth is you don't
really trust anyone.
BRUCE
Don't tell me you're on his side.
Again.
ALFRED
Despite all your talents, you
are still a novice in the ways of family.
Dick follows the same ends as you but
gets there by his own course. You
must learn to trust him. For that
is the nature of family.
They step through a doorway into...
135 INT. ALFRED'S QUARTERS - NIGHT - CONTINUOUS
BRUCE
I trust you, Alfred.
Alfred seems oddly pained by Bruce's words.
ALFRED
But I shan't be here forever.
Bruce stares at Alfred a beat. But Alfred just smiles.
ALFRED
Good night, Master Bruce.
135A EXT. WAYNE MANOR - HALLWAY
Bruce EXITS his butler's room. Looks to the end of the
hallway.
135B A YOUNGER BRUCE, no older than ten comes racing around
the corner, trips, tumbling to the wooden floor. Another
figure steps out behind him. ALFRED, decades younger, kneels
by the boy, brushing off his knees, giving the boy comfort.
135C BACK TO SCENE
BRUCE - CLOSE. Blinks away the images from the past, only the
fragile ghosts of memory, moves off down the empty hallway.
135D INT. ALFRED'S QUARTERS - NIGHT
Alfred sit at his computer, activates the screen. he
lifts a CD, slips in into the disk drive, begins to TYPE.
COMPUTER
Override engaged. Copying protected
files.
Alfred lifts a micro-recorder.
ALFRED
Still unable to reach you. have
vital information you must see...
136 SCREEN - CLOSE. The files Alfred is copying. Batmobile
design. Batsuit schematics. All downloading onto the small
disk.
137 EXT. SOUTH AMERICAN JUNGLE - PRISON MORTE - NIGHT
A full moon shines over the hidden complex.
138 INT. TENTED GREENHOUSE LAB
Woodrue stands at Pam's workstation, TALKING on his
portable phone as he rifles through her research.
WOODRUE
Yes, sir, I'm so pleased you won the
bidding, Your Supreme Ruthlessness..
(OVER) Bane SCREAMS in the distance.
WOODRUE
We're making the final modifications
on Bane right now. We'll have a
thousand super soldiers out to you
tomorrow by overnight mail...
139 He hangs up. HOLD on a patch of ivy in the b.g. Perfectly
still. Suddenly the leaves RUSTLE, as if being moved from
beneath.
Woodrue turns as a figure BURSTS, fast, from beneath the
brush.
Magenta hair. Chlorophyll green eyes. Ravaged clothes
revealing the form and demeanor of a goddess. The woman
who was once Pamela Isley smiles, moves forward.
WOODRUE
Dr. Isley? Pamela? You look great.
Especially for a dead woman.
PAMELA
Hello, Jason. I think I've had a
change of heart.
Her lips glisten. She leans in and kisses him.
PAMELA
Quite literally. I don't think I'm
human anymore. The animal-plant
toxins had a rather unique effect on
me. They replaced my blood with
aloe, my skin with chlorophyll and
fill my lips with Venom.
Woodrue begins to CHOKE. He falls, clutching his throat.
PAMELA
Oh, and Jason? One other thing.
Silly me, I probably should have
mentioned this earlier. I'm poison.
(shrugs)
It's a jungle in here.
140 Pam spills beakers of chemicals onto the floor. She
throws a Bunsen burner to the ground, the lab suddenly in
flames.
PAMELA
Let the flames touch the sky. For I
am nature's arm, her spirit, her
will. Hell, I am mother nature.
The time has come for plants to take
back the world so rightfully ours.
Because it's not nice to fool with
mother nature.
Something catches Pam's eye. Pam lifts a broken beaker
On it, the Wanye Enterprises logo. (OVER) Bane SCREAMS
in the distance.
PAMELA
Coming, Bane darling. We've got a
plane to catch.
141 EXT. SNOWY CONES ICE CREAM FACTORY - NIGHT
An abandoned ice cream factory built in the shape of a
snowman's face, a dripping cone stuck onto the giant
snowball head.
142 INT. SNOWY CONES ICE CREAM FACTORY
Abandoned. Always freezing. Ice sculpture everywhere.
Freeze walks the bowels of the old factory.
ICEMEN in parkas and SNOW BUNNIES eat frozen dinners,
GUFFAWING as they watch TV. The SEXIEST BUNNY sidles up
to Freeze.
MS. B. HAVEN
Freezy, I'm feeling...hot.
FREEZE
I find that unlikely.
MS. B. HAVEN
Okay, my hair is brittle, my skin
is dry and I don't care. I'd
weather blizzards to have you.
You're the most perfect man I've
ever known.
FREEZE
To be frozen. To never change. A
life of perpetual ice-olation.
There is little perfection in that.
MS. B. HAVEN
(pushing closer)
What say we turn up the heat?
FREEZE
You're skating on thin ice. My
passion thaws for my bride alone.
MS. B. HAVEN
Forget your frosty femme. These lips
are wet and ready to get frostbite.
FREEZE
Hop away little bunny. Before I
cool your jets. Permanently.
The Bunny storms off.
FREEZE
I wonder how cold I can get my
shower...Frosty!
Freeze's faithful aide, FROSTY, appears by his side.
FREEZE
Everyone is always having a good
time. Except me. Try as I might,
can find no pleasure. Perhaps my
heart truly has turned to ice.
143 Freeze lifts his gun and FIRES, freezing Frosty solid.
FREEZE
Well, that was fun. There's hope for
me yet.
143A Freeze stares at his frozen aide a beat, changes the
setting on his gun and FIRES, a THAWING BEAM melting
Frosty so he stands now, soaked and dripping like a wet cat.
143B Freeze turns on his heel. Frosty follows him past
mounting files of research. Scrawled schematics An icy
workshop.
FREEZE
Do you think I'm mad, Frosty?
FROSTY
(wringing out his sleeves)
That's really a judgment call, boss.
145 A flashing display on his suit watch reads LOW POWER.
FREEZE
Battling the bat exhausted my power.
From a safe, Freeze takes three small diamonds, place
them in the suit compartment. His power levels spike to
normal.
FREEZE
But I was successful nevertheless.
146 Freeze continues to a pedestal atop which sits a machine
powered by two giant diamonds. Slots for two more diamonds
are empty. He removes the giant stolen diamond from within
his tunic, place the gem in an empty third slot.
FREEZE
One more giant diamond of this size
and my freezing cannon will be
complete. I will hold Gotham ransom.
Unless the city bows to my demands,
it's winter forever here in goat-town.
The city fathers will have no choice
but to give me the billions I need
to complete my research, to find the
cure for...
146 Freeze has come to a frozen wall.
FREEZE
Leave us. We need quality time.
148 As Frosty EXITS in the b.g., Freeze enters a walk-in
freezer, lifts a frozen dinner box. A SECRET VAULT opens.
Freezes steps into...
148A INT. FREEZE'S SUBTERRANEAN COLD VAULT
Within, a computerized glacier-like sarcophagus bears his
frozen wife, a snowflake pendant around her neck.
FREEZE
(touches the glass)
Soon we will be together once more.
Freeze turns towards his research, heading back to work.
FREEZE
Nothing frustrates a man like a
frigid wife.
149 INT. LIMBO - NIGHT
Robin is fighting Mr. Freeze and his cronies. Robin
delivers a fast set of spinning kicks to the Thugs,
felling them like toys.
150 A Thug carrying a large diamond breaks free, racing away.
Robin leaps for the escaping Thug, putting his back to
Freeze.
151 Freeze raises his joined fists high above Robin's head,
coming down fast. Robin is done for.
152 Suddenly Batman swing out of the dark, his boots flying
into Freeze's chest, sending the villain hard to the
ground.
153 Batman drops to Freeze's chest, HAMMERS a series of
punches into his tunic, rendering him unconscious. Batman
looks up at Robin.
154 BATMAN
We'll be starting again now.
155 Just then Freeze's hand shoots up, grabbing Batman by the
throat.
156 BATMAN
Pause virtual reality simulation.
PUSH IN as Batman reaches towards his cowl. SCREEN WIPES
TO REVEAL...
157 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.
158 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.
159 Ambient lights come up in the cave.
160 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?
162 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 b.g.
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?
163 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?
164 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?
165 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.
166 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.
167 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.
170 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.
171 FAVOR THE BAGGAGE HANDLERS as they bear the coffin to the
terminal.
HANDLER
(imitating Pam)
He's always been touchy. Right.
172 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.
173 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...
174 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.
175 THE REARVIEW MIRROR
176 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.
177 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.
178 Alfred TAPS his computer keyboard.
179 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.
180 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.
181 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.
182 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.
183 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.
184 Barbara rides out through the open garage into the
night.
185 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...
185A 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.
186 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.
187 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.
188 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 -
189 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?
Julie smiles, turns to the PRESS. the very picture of
composure.
JULIE
Bruce and I are lucky enough to be
recklessly in love. And that is
most certainly enough for us.
(to Bruce)
For now.
FOLKS LAUGH, charmed.
SCIENTIST
Now, if you'll all follow me, I'll
show you the central control grid...
The Scientist and Associate tour Julie and the Press around
the telescope, leaving Bruce to confer with two of his Aides.
GUARD (OVER)
Mr. Wayne?
190 WIDER
Pam, hair in a bun, face behind glasses, cloaked in a
frumpy suit, is standing behind two door GUARDS.
GUARD
She doesn't have a pass, sir.
BRUCE smiles, waves off the guards with a gesture.
BRUCE
They're overly protective. You're
Not going to hurt me are you, Ms...
PAMELA
Dr. Pamela Isley.
BRUCE
What can I do for you, Doctor? A
research grant? A hospital wing?
PAMELA
Actually, I already work for you.
Or did. Your arboreal preservation
project in South America.
BRUCE
We cut our support. A conflict of
ideologies. Dr. Woodrue was a lunatic.
PAMELA
I see you knew him.
BRUCE
That lab was consumed by fire last
week. how did you manage to escape?
PAMELA
I have here a proposal showing how
Wayne Enterprises can immediately
cease all actions that toxify our
environment.
Bruce takes the proposal, scans it. Pam's eyes shine
despotic.
PAMELA
Forget the stars. Look here, at the
Earth, our mother, our womb. She
deserves our loyalty and protection.
And yet you spoil her lands, poison
her oceans, blacken her skies.
You're killing her.
BRUCE
Your intentions are noble, but no
diesel fuel for heat. No coolants to
preserve food. Millions would die of
cold and hunger alone.
PAMELA
Acceptable losses in a battle to save
the planet.
BRUCE
People come first, Dr. Isley.
191 The tour has returned. Pam turns to the Press.
Begins to soapbox.
PAMELA
Mammals. So smug in your towers of
stone and glass. A day of reckoning
is coming. The same plants and
flowers that saw you crawl blind
from the primordial soup will
reclaim this planet. Earth will
be a garden again. Somehow, some
way, I will bring your man-made
civilization to its knees and
there will be no one to protect you.
Pam's tirade is so extreme, folks around her LAUGH.
GOSSIP GERTY
You must be new in town. In Gotham
City, Batman and Robin protect us.
Even from plants and flowers.
BRUCE
Perhaps you'd like to meet them.
Bruce nods and an Aide hands Pam an invitation.
192 INVIATION - CLOSE. Batman and Robin to appear at the
Flower Ball.
BRUCE
The caped crusaders are helping us
auction off a prized diamond to
raise money for the Gotham Botanical
Gardens. Just a few mammals doing
what we can for our world's plants.
GOSSIP GERTY
So, Brucy, will the delicious Ms. Madison
be your date for the flower ball tonight?
PAMELA
Tell me, billionaire, would you warm
faster to my pleas if I looked more
like Ms. January here?
BRUCE
Although the Wayne Foundation is
hosting the event, sadly I will be
unable to attend. Thank you all.
(to Pam)
Good day, Doctor.
Pam watches him go, trailed by press. Peers at her invitation.
PAMELA
Batman and Robin. Militant arm of
the warm-blooded oppressors. Animal
protectors of the status quo. First
I'll rid myself of the fur and
feathered pests. And then Gotham
will be mine for the greening.
193 INT. SNOWY CONES ICE CREAM FACTORY
194 Nora and Victor Fries kiss at their wedding altar. The
195 video images change to show the couple playing with a
196 puppy. Nora LAUGHS as her husband crowds beside her. He
EXITS frame, hands her something.
NORA
Oh, Victor, it's beautiful.
Nora holds her snow-flake necklace up for the camera.
Places it around her neck, smiling up tot he warm summer
sun.
197 PULL BACK TO REVEAL
Freeze sits watching the images on his screen.
FROSTY (OVER)
'Scuse me, chief. I got something
her you might want to see.
198 Frosty stands in the door, newspaper in hand. Without
shifting his gaze, Freeze lifts his freezing gun, FIRES.
Frosty Freezes.
FREEZE
I hate it when people talk during
the movie.
199 Freeze continues staring at the screen. Finally the happy
images are just too much for him. He FIRES his gun at the
screen, the picture EXPLODING into flying shards of light.
FREEZE
One more diamond, my love. One more.
200 Freeze rises. he breaks off the cover of the frozen paper
201 in Frosty's hand. PAPER-CLOSE. Wayne Donates Diamond to
Flower Ball.
202 EXT. GOTHAM BOTANICAL GARDENS - NIGHT
An immense glass greenhouse set atop the roof of a mighty
skyscraper. Elegant guests mill admist the stars.
203 INT. GOTHAM BOTANICAL GARDENS - GREENHOUSE - NIGHT
A hanging banner reads GOTHAM CHARITY FLOWER BALL. A
GIANT BEAST MASK covers the entrance. DRUMMERS STOMP on
congo drums. GUESTS dress as flowers. TWO COSTUMED
GORILLAS romp about the room.
203A Batman and Robin stand by the stage.
ROBIN
You think Freeze will take the bait?
BATMAN
He'll be here.
203B ATOP THE STAIRS. The two Gorillas have converged on the
DRUMMERS. One begins dancing around, covertly KNOCKING
the drummers unconscious with his paws.
204 ON STAGE. The MC walks out, followed by Gossip Gerty.
MC
Ladies and Gentlemen. Gossip Gerty
of Good Morning Gotham and I welcome
you to the gem of our evening.
204 Two armed guards emerge bearing a palette upon which
hangs a silver necklace supporting a perfect, grapefruit
sized diamond.
GOSSIP GERTY
The famed Heart of Isis, on loan
from the Collection of my close,
personal friend Bruce Wayne.
The MC gestures and several woman step forward dressed as
flowers, each more strikingly gorgeous than the next.
MC
Tonight, on auction, an opportunity
to dine with one of our fabulous
flowers, the famed diamond draped
around her neck.
GOSSIP GERTY
Ooo, look at all these luscious
lovelies. let's start the bidding.
MAN #1
Ten thousand for Chrysanthemum.
MAN #2
Twenty thousand for Lilac.
MAN #3
Thirty thousand for Rose.
GOSSIP GERTY
Boys, please. Show some gusto.
205 THE TOP OF THE STAIRS. ONE GORILLA begins to BEAT the
drums. The other removes her paw mitts. Her gorilla's
head. From within her gorilla costume, steps a vision.
Skin tight green costume made of leaves. Green boots and
mask. magenta hair. Glowing green eyes. Meet POISON IVY,
simply the most beautiful woman known to man.
205A ROBIN-CLOSE. Smiles.
ROBIN
Gorilla my dreams.
206 Ivy lifts her green gloved hands, both filled with piles
of sparkling dust, blows the powder over the startled
patrons.
207 FOLLOW THE DUST as it spins out in fairy-like spirals,
curling through the crowd.
208 THE CROWD - VARIOUS SHOTS. Folks blink their eyes,
suddenly bewitched, as Ivy tilts backwards, falling into
the arms of several jungle clad men on the ballroom floor.
209 IVY saunters over a bridge made of the backs of kneeling
men, through the parting crowd, towards Batman and Robin.
IVY
Hi there.
MC
(sputtering)
And you are...
IVY
Poison. Poison Ivy.
210 BATMAN - CLOSE. Dazed. Like a man who's drunk a quart of
love potion. He takes her hand.
IVY
Why not send junior to bed early, I
could come and take your measurements?
Ivy turns now to Robin, offers the other hand. She blows
another volley of dust into Robin's face.
IVY
On the other hand, youth does have
its advantages. Endurance. Stamina.
211 ROBIN - CLOSE. Also suddenly smitten, perhaps even
harder.
IVY
Why settle for second place? Robin
is a sidekick, a junior partner. If
we were a team, you'd be the star.
Forget the geriatric bat. Come, join
me, my garden needs tending.
The two help her up onto stage. She turns to the
mesmerized MC.
IVY
I'll take it from here, pal.
Ivy lifts the diamond, places it around her neck.
IVY
Some lucky boy's about to hit the
honey pot. I'll include an evening
of my company for the winner. I'll
bring everything you see here. Plus
everything you don't.
(off Batman and Robin)
And I'll bring my imagination.
MAN #1
50 thousand for Poison Ivy - -
MAN #2
100 thousand for Poison Ivy - -
BATMAN
One million - -
ROBIN
(sotto voce)
You own it.
(loud)
Two million - -
The two lock eyes.
BATMAN
(sotto voce)
You don't have two million.
(loud)
Three million - -
ROBIN
(sotto voce)
I'll borrow it from you.
(loud)
Four million - -
IVY
You two boys aren't going to fight
over little old me, are you?
Batman reaches to his utility belt, draws a batarang.
BATMAN
Five million - -
Robin reaches to his utility belt, pulls a throwing bird.
ROBIN
Six million - -
GOSSIP GERTY
Is it getting nippy in here?
212 THE TEETH of the giant mask EXPLOSE as Freeze's truck
213 SMASHES into the room from an elevated bridge beyond.
214 Standing atop the vehicle, backed by swirling mists,
Freeze, his Icemen following behind.
FREEZE
(drawing his gun)
Did I use the wrong door again?
215 Batman hurls his batarang, knocking Freeze's pistol free.
Batman and Robin race forward, engulfed by the rushing
force of Icemen.
HIS PISTOL flies into the hands of one of the Guests. A THUG
rams the Guest from behind, the gun bouncing into the air.
215A A swarm of armed SECURITY GUARDS and GUESTS swamp Freeze.
215B FREEZE
When technology fails...brute force.
215C FREEZE moves like lightning, SMASHING guards with mighty
punches, WHIPPING guests flying across the room.
FREEZE'S PISTOL bounces from Guest, to Thug, to Guest like
a wildly fumbled football, a Thug finally tipping the soar-
ing gun back towards Freeze.
215D FREEZE
Alright, everyone, chill!
216 Freeze FIRES, turning a few guests and several exotic
flower arrangements into ice.
FREEZE
I should have been a decorator.
217 Freeze starts for the stage.
218 BATMAN and ROBIN are in mid-melee, fighting off an army
of Icemen.
219 Batman SMASHES one Thug three times in the chin.
220 Robin does a spinning side kick to another approaching
villain, then ducks, sending one villain crashing into
another.
221 Batman grabs a Thug, throws him to Robin, who punches
him back to Batman who punches him back to Robin.
222 Both punch him simultaneously, the Thug flying back
through the air. They begin fighting their way towards
the stage.
223 FREEZE climbs onto the stage to face Poison Ivy.
FREEZE
Let me guess, Plant Girl? Vine Lady?
Ms. Moss?
IVY
Listen, Captain Cold, the suit, maybe,
even though silver went out in the
70's. But those boots are unforgivable.
What is it with men?
FREEZE
I'd love to stand here all day and
exchange fashion tips but I'm kind
of pressed for time. So hand over
the diamond, Garden Gal, or I turn
you into mulch.
Ivy pulls a handful of dust from her belt-pouch, blows it
towards him. The dust swirls around his helmet. Ivy
frowns.
FREEZE
Pheromone dust. Designed to heat a
man's blood. Doesn't work on the
cold hearted. Now, if you please...
Freeze extends his gloved hand.
IVY
Well, if you insist.
Ivy hands him the diamond.
FREEZE
Clever little clover.
224 Just then one of the Thugs flies across the room,
SHASHING into the back of the stage.
FREEZE
That's my exit cue.
FREEZE races for his truck.
225 BATMAN and ROBIN dispatch the last Iceman, make for the
stage.
BATMAN
(to Gordon)
You have eleven minutes to thaw those
guests, Commissioner.
226 Batman and Robin race after the escaping Freeze and his
men.
227 Ivy stares after them. She lifts a small souvenir. A tiny
glass globe that says Welcome To Gotham. Shakes the
bauble, the tiny city within suddenly covered by snow.
Gordon appears behind her.
GORDON
Miss Ivy, you've just met one of
the most sinister men in Gotham.
IVY
That's no man. That's a God!
Gordon moves off as the second Gorilla arrives on stage,
removes his mask. Bane.
IVY
Enough monkey business. We've got
work to do.
228 EXT. GOTHAM CITY - NIGHT
A GIANT STATUE stands amidst Gotham's sky-scrapers.
CLOSER.
Freeze in his Ice Truck, two Crony Trucks behind him,
race up the interconnecting bridges that crisscross
Gotham's skyline.
229 INT. FREEZE'S TRUCK
FREEZE - POV. Gothamites veer their cars off the roadway in
his path as Freeze spots the statue. He reaches for his dashboard.
Freeze hits a flashing gun-shaped button on the dash.
230 EXT. FREEZE'S TRUCK - NIGHT
A giant freeze-gun atop the truck FIRES.
231 EXT. GOTHAM ROOFTOPS - NIGHT
THE STATUE'S HEAD - CLOSE. Freezes, the neck of the giant
figure EXPLODING in a storm of ice.
232 FREEZE'S TRUCK swerves off the road, leaping through the
hole in the statue's neck and racing onto its shoulder.
His Crony trucks follow, all racing away down the statue's
arm.
233 THE BATMOBILE AND THE REDBIRD follow in close pursuit,
BLOWING through the hole in the statue's neck.
234 INT. BATMOBILE
BATMAN - POV. The Freeze vehicles are heading towards the
hand of the statue. Batman hits a button.
235 MONITOR - CLOSE. Flashing schematics of the various
trajectories of the Freeze vehicles and their imminent
jumps from the hand, over the abyss of the city, to the
lower rooftops beyond.
BATMAN
Pull back. You can't make the jump.
236 EXT. REDBIRD
ROBIN
I can make it.
237 EXT. STATUE'S ARM
The Batmobile is shooting down the arm, the Redbird close
behind
238 BATMAN
Pull back.
ROBIN
I can make it.
Robin SHOOTS a wheelie, overtaking the Batmobile.
239 INT. BATMOBILE
BATMAN
Redbird control codes.
240 MONITOR - CLOSE. Schematics for the Redbird flash.
BATMAN
Disable engine.
241 EXT. REDBIRD - NIGHT
Robin's engine warning-light goes on. The motor begins to
DIE. The abyss is coming up fast. Robin side-grounds the
bike, SKIDDING.
242 EXT. STATUE'S HAND - NIGHT
Freeze and his cronies split towards the separate fingers.
243 SUPER-THRUSTERS fire and Freeze's truck clears the jump,
landing on the sloping roof on the other side of the
abyss.
244 His Crony Trucks follow, taking different fingers, flying
into the air towards the rooftops beyond. Not high enough.
246 EXT. ROOFTOP ABYSS - NIGHT
One Crony truck BLOWS into an elevated billboard, the other
EXPLODING into the opposing building.
246A EXT. ROOFTOPS
Freeze's truck hits the roof, breaks SCREECHING, spinning
180 degrees, his freeze gun now pointing back over the abyss.
247 EXT. STATUE'S HAND
The Redbird slides dangerously close to the end of the
finger and the abyss below, finally coming to a halt as
248 the Batmobile ROCKETS its engine and roars past, flying
over the chasm.
249 ROBIN stands on the fingertip, SHOUTING his rage into
the night.
250 EXT. ROOFTOPS ABYSS
The Batmobile soars over the abyss towards Freeze's truck.
251 INT. FREEZE'S TRUCK - NIGHT
FREEZE
It's a cold town.
Freeze hits the flashing gun-shaped button on the dash.
252 EXT. FREEZE'S TRUCK - NIGHT
The freeze-gun FIRES its deadly blast, hitting the
Batmobile.
252A EXT. STATUE'S HAND - NIGHT
Robin watches as the flying Batmobile begins to ice over
from Freeze's cryonic blast.
254 INT. BATMOBILE
The controls are frozen. A monitor flashes: SYSTEMS
FAILURE.
255 BATMAN - POV. The windscreen is covering with ice.
257 EXT. ROOFTOP ABYSS
The Batmobile is falling across the abyss like frozen
sculpture. Suddenly the windscreen EXPLODES as Batman is
catapulted through the glass like a torpedo, flying into
the air high above the busy city.
257A EXT. LOWER ROOFTOPS
The frozen Batmobile drops to the safety of the rooftops on
the other side of the abyss.
258 EXT. NIGHT SKY
Batman flips, angling down, WHIPPING his cape open like
the wings of a giant dark angel, riding the urban winds
in a racing glide towards Freeze's truck below.
260 INT. FREEZE'S TRUCK - NIGHT
261 THE SHADOW OF THE BAT falls over the open cab of Freeze's
truck.
FREEZE
Uh-oh.
262 FREEZE - POV. Batman, cape extended, soars directly over
the cab.
263 EXT. FREEZE'S TRUCK
Batman SMASHES through the glass driver's dome, wrenching
Freeze out of the cab, and soaring towards...
267 EXT. LOWER ROOFTOP
Batman lands standing in the moonlight, a stunned Freeze
rolling out of his cape, diamond still in hand.
BATMAN
I'm putting you on ice.
268 EXT. WAYNE MANOR - NIGHT - VFX
The moonlit mansion sits on its clifftop perch above the
river. PUSH IN as a portion of the cliff BURNS AWAY TO
REVEAL...
269 INT. BATCAVE - NIGHT
Bruce and Dick argue.
DICK
I could have made the jump.
BATMAN
You could have splattered your
brains on the side of the building.
DICK
This is no partnership. You're never
going to trust me.
BATMAN
Trust you? You can't even keep
your head on the job. All you could
think about was Poison Ivy.
DICK
You just can't stand that she
might have wanted me instead of
you; that's your idea of friendship,
isn't it, Bruce? You have to have
everything. Your house. Your rules.
Your way or the highway. It's
Batman and Robin not Robin and
Batman. I'm sick of it.
Dick is right up in Bruce's face.
BRUCE
Yes it's my rules. My rules that
keep us alive. And if you want to
stay in this house and on this
team then you'll abide by them.
270 INT. ALFRED'S QUARTERS - NIGHT
Alfred is completing a cassette tape.
ALFRED
I have tried every address I
know for you. I am praying this
reaches you. We have very little
time.
Alfred puts the tape in the envelope. (OVER) a KNOCK.
Bruce ENTERS.
ALFRED
Congratulations on your
apprehension of Mr. Freeze. Batman
monopolized the evening news.
BRUCE
Thanks.
But the billionaire seems anything but celebratory.
ALFRED
Is there something wrong, sir?
BRUCE
Alfred, am I pigheaded? Is it always
my way or the highway?
ALFRED
Why, yes, actually. Death and chance
stole your parents. But rather than
become a victim, you have done
everything in your power to control
the fates. For what is Batman if
not an effort to master the chaos
that sweeps our world, an attempt
to control death itself.
270A BRUCE - POV. Out the window, young Bruce and Alfred lay
wreaths on a windy grave. Alfred puts his arm around the
boy, holds him close.
270B BACK TO SCENE
BRUCE
But I can't can I?
ALFRED
No, my boy. I'm afraid none of us can.
271 INT. WAYNE MANOR GARAGE - NIGHT
The competition bike's headlight goes out.
272 WIDER
Barbara walks the bike steahtlfully back into the garage.
273 A HAND touches her shoulder. Barbara moves fast, flipping
the assailant over her shoulder in an expert judo move.
274 She spins to face...Dick. Floored in every sense of the
word. Barbara's demeanor suddenly changes. All school
girl politeness.
BARBARA
Oh. I'm so sorry. I'd just never
seen anything like it. So massive.
I took it out for a spin. I do so
hope I didn't inconvenience you.
(off his look)
Ah yes, the outfit. For a...costume
party. Just trying it out. One never
knows how leather will wear.
(helping him up)
Judo lessons at school, you know.
All the rage, really. I suppose
they've taken better than I thought.
Again, my greatest of pardons.
She's gone before Dick has a chance to speak. he stares
after her. All is not as it seems in Wayne Manor.
275 EXT. ARKHAM ASYLUM - NIGHT
Moonlight illuminates the familiar castle out of
nightmare.
276 INT. ARKHAM ASYLUM CORRIDOR
Several ARMED GUARDS are rolling a giant sub-zero refrig-
erator on a gurney, the door chained and padlocked shut.
Freeze is jammed inside, face visible through the torn off
freezer compartment door.
HEAD GUARD
You're the common cold. And we're
the cure. Welcome home, frost face.
FREEZE
Allow me to break the ice. My name
is Freeze. Learn it well for it is
the chilling sound of your doom.
277 INT. ARKHAM ASYLUM - FREEZE'S CELL - NIGHT
Glowing rings on the floor and ceiling project a shimmer-
ing column of snowing cold within the center of the room.
Two GUARDS dump a suitless Freeze out of his frigidaire
prison onto the floor, begin dragging him into the cold field.
278 Freeze throws off the Guards in a sudden fury, SMASHING
one in the head with closed fists, kicking the other in the face.
279 He rushes for the door. Mistake. As his body passes out
of the hypothermic field, he tumbles to his knees, his
skin turning gray as he begins to wither and die.
GUARD (OVER)
Look at him stew. How do you like
your bad guy, medium or well done?
280 The Guards stand over him, Laughing as he crawls back
over the filed threshold. His color begin to return to
normal.
GUARD #2
Get used to it. You're gonna be here
a very long time.
Freeze looks up at the Guard who stands now at the wall
sink, washing his hands. A beat. Then Freeze smiles.
FREEZE
I'm afraid not. You see the means
of my liberation is in your hands.
Sadly, you will not live to see it.
281 EXT. GOTHAM ALLEY - NIGHT
The entrance to an abandoned Turkish bath-house. Ivy and
Bane approach a boarded-up portal.
IVY
Batface and Birdbrain turned out to
be more resistant to my love dust
than expected. No matter, I'll give
them a stronger dose. Next time,
they'll literally be dying for me.
282 Bane SMASHES through the wooden boards with joined fists,
two by fours splintering like balsa. They disappear inside.
283 INT. BLOSSOM STREET TURKISH BATHS - NIGHT
Abandoned. Mid-eastern furniture crumbles. Slaves and
sycophants cover the walls, weeping color.
IVY
A fixer-upper, yes. But with a
certain homey charm.
That's when the shadows in the cave begin to move. One
slips across the doorway. More appear on all sides,
encroaching.
IVY
Ah, a minus. Current tenants.
One figure steps into a column of moonlight. Pale. The
toughest of urban predators. These are a gang of punks
called the GOLUMS.
GOLUM
Hello, pretty.
IVY
Hello yourself. I love this place. I
hope it's priced to sell.
GOLUM
We love you. You look good enough to
eat.
IVY
Oh, that I am. Come and get me.
If you can.
The Golums close in. IVY SLAMS the activation stud on
Bane's chest.
284 BANE - CLOSE. Venom is pumped from his backpack through
the tubes on his back into his skull.
285 The Golums attack. But Bane hurls them off like animals.
Kick and beats them, tossing them into walls, until the
survivors race away.
IVY
For the strong, silent type, you are
most persuasive. Let's redecorate.
(crossing the baths)
First, the light is all wrong.
286 Bane rips a hanging board from the ceiling, the old
wooden planks tumbling to the floor, sudden moonlight
streaming in from above.
IVY
Also, what is this floor?
287 Bane stomps the floor, now revealing the dirt beneath.
IVY
Au natural. Still, I've always
hankered for something on the water.
288 Bane SMASHES a water main with his foot, irrigating the
soil.
IVY
Now a little color. It took God
seven days to create paradise.
Ivy withdraws a handful of tiny seeds from Bane's satchel.
IVY
Let's see if I can do better.
289 Ivy drops the tiny plants on the ground. They begin to
sprout into vines that spawn fast-budding flowers.
Ivy lifts the Welcome to Gotham Bauble in her hand.
IVY
Bane, I've found a fellow who strikes
my fancy. A cool customer, yes. Icy
demeanor, no question. But I detect
a certain ruthless charm I may be
able to use to my advantage.
(off the dead thugs)
290 INT. WAYNE MANOR - LIVING ROOM - NIGHT
Candlelit. A table set for two. Alfred fills Bruce's wine
goblet, walks away. His forehead beads with sweat. A man
hiding pain.
291 BRUCE - POV. Across the table sits Ivy. She licks her
lips.
IVY
Bruce?
Bruce blinks. Looks again. Not Ivy at all but Julie.
JULIE
You're not even listening to me.
BRUCE
What? I'm sorry. You were saying...
JULIE
We've been going out over a year
now and...Okay, here goes. Bruce,
I want to spend my life with you.
Ivy saunters up behind Bruce, runs her hands down his chest.
Bruce rises, shaking off the vision. Goes over to Julie.
BRUCE
Julie, I'm not the marrying kind.
There are things about me you
wouldn't understand.
JULIE
I know you're a dedicated bachelor.
That you've had a your wild nights.
BRUCE
Wild doesn't exactly cover it.
JULIE
But there's nothing you've done
under the cover of darkness I
couldn't learn to understand.
BRUCE
I wouldn't bet on that.
JULIE
I'm betting on you. You'll make
someone a good husband one day.
But I can't wait around forever.
Don't answer now. Just think it
over.
(leaning close)
Here's some food for thought.
They kiss passionately. Bruce opens his eyes. He's kissing
Ivy. He recoils. But it's only Julie before him, looking
up, puzzled.
JULIE
Who's Ivy?
BRUCE
What?
JULIE
You just called me Ivy. Who's Ivy?
BRUCE
I wish I knew.
292 INT. BATCAVE - ROBIN'S COSTUME VAULT - NIGHT
(OVER) loud MUSIC. Various magazine covers of Robin. Dick
is at his computer terminal, staring at a monitor.
293 MONITOR - CLOSE. A newsphoto of the flower ball
survivors.
DICK
Enhance detail, 14 to 19.
A corner of the screen is highlighted, the IMAGE expands.
IVY.
DICK
Who are you?
(OVER) an ALARM SOUNDS. The screen suddenly changes to an
IMAGE of Barbara climbing out of her window, rappelling down
an exterior wall.
COMPUTER
Alert! Unauthorized motion within
specified parameters.
DICK
Got ya!
Dick is up fast, heading for the door.
295 INT. WAYNE MANOR GARAGE - NIGHT - MINUTES LATER
Barbara has donned her leathers once again. She mounts the
competition bike. Kick-starts the ENGINE, peeling out into
the night.
Dick rolls another racer out of hiding in the shadows. Pulls on
his racking helmet. He kicks his ENGINE and starts after her.
296 EXT. GOTHAM ALLEY - NIGHT
Groups of motorcycle gangs have gathered. Each is represented
by a single racer. Leather clad. Costumed. Dyed hair. Pierced
faces. Boys and girls for whom speed is a drug, the streets their
home.
Barbara pulls up her bike. A rider (BANKER) looks her up
and down.
BARBARA
What's the entry fee?
BANKER
Two-fifty.
Barbara nods, hands the cash. Another biker (SPIKE) steps
forward.
SPIKE
You got a handle?
BARBARA
Folks call me Three-Jump.
SPIKE
You're the babe won the tunnel run
two nights ago. That was trike
racing. This is the big time. Maybe
you should ride my hog instead.
Barbara smiles.
BARBARA
How about a side bet?
As Spike and Barbara move in line beside the other racers,
another helmeted racer emerges from the shadows to pay his
entry fee. His face hidden by his helmet, Barbara can't
see that it's Dick.
The racers, all helmeted, are in their starting positions.
Engines are REVVED. Banker raises a pistol in the air and
FIRES.
298 Bikers SHOOT into the street. Some go over the tops of
299 cars, others across the tops of stoops. Barbara watches as a
biker beside her careens into an EXPLODING pile of trash cans.
300 Two bikers are going neck and neck towards a racing
301 truck. They split at the last instant, fly up off parked
302 cars, then hit the ground, one SPINNING OUT, the other
taking a position at the front of the pack.
303 Barbara, Spike, two others hold the lead, leaving the
rest in the dust. One of the bikers hits an oil skid,
flies into a FIREBALL.
304 THE FINISH LINE is a series of flashing yellow warning
beacons atop the incomplete construction of a draw-bridge
in the near distance.
The race is down to three, Barbara, Spike and a third
biker, all racing now onto the bridge, riveted steel
beneath their wheels.
305 THE FINISH LINE is coming up fast, and just beyond the
line of flashing cones, an abyss separating the two as yet
unconnected sides of the bridge. The trick is to cross the
finish line first, but not so fast you can't brake before
going over the edge into the water below.
306 Spike is trying to keep up. But he's coming up on the
finish line too fast for his taste.
SPIKE
Crazy broad.
307 He hits his BRAKES, slowing, falling out of position.
Barbara looks across to see the racer on the other side.
Barbara can't see his face, but it's Dick.
308 The finish line is coming up fast. Instead of braking,
both GUN their ENGINES.
309 THE FINISH LINE - CLOSE. Barbara flies over the line,
Dick a hair behind her, and then both shoot over the edge
of the unfinished bridge, into the air, soaring high above
the abyss.
310 Dick's front wheel hits the metal roadway on the other
side of the gap, spinning rubber catching steel.
311 Barbara's front wheel hits the edge badly, rolling
backward.
312 Dick spins over his shoulder, sees what's happening.
Barbara's bike is losing purchase, slipping backwards
over the edge.
313 Dick ditches his still moving bike and helmet, rolling
off on tucked shoulder, leaping towards the edge as
Barbara's bike finally slips, she and her hog tumbling
downwards into the abyss.
314 Dick's jump sends him over the edge, hands extended, feet
catching the lip of the bridge, hand grabbing Barbara's
ankle, her bike plummeting beneath her as her helmet falls
into the water below.
315 Dick hangs by one foot, holding a dangling Barbara by her
ankle.
DICK
So, this is where you hang out.
316 EXT. GOTHAM BRIDGE - NIGHT
Barbara stands in the b.g. receiving her winnings from
Banker and Spike. Dick rights his bike as she approaches.
BARBARA
I could have made it, you know. I
didn't need your help.
DICK
Whatever you say, lady. It's all in
a day's work for me.
Barbara tries to hand Dick her winnings.
BARBARA
This is to replace the bike I lost.
I'll get you the rest.
DICK
Keep it.
BARBARA
Of course, Dick Grayson, ward of
the fabulously wealthy Bruce Wayne.
Why would you need a few hundred
dollars?
DICK
Hey, what's your problem?
BARBARA
I guess, the truth is I'm just not
comfortable with the idle rich. Even
when they try to act like heroes.
Dick pats the back of his seat.
DICK
Well you better get comfortable real
fast, sister. Cause we've only got
one bike and it's a long walk home.
319 INT. WAYNE MANOR - GARAGE
Dick and Barbara dismout.
BARBARA
I started racing after my parents
died. There was something about the
speed, the danger, that took me out
of myself, that made the hurt
go away. You wouldn't understand.
DICK
You'd be surprised.
BARBARA
Street racing isn't exactly an
acceptable major at Oxbridge. They
kicked me out. it doesn't matter.
I've won enough money to do what
I've always dreamed.
DICK
Just don't tell me you're hoping to
run away and join the circus.
They head towards the entrance tot he house.
BARBARA
Alfred has supported me my whole
life. Now I'm going to pay him back.
I'm going to liberate him from his
dismal life of servitude.
DICK
What are you talking about?
BARBARA
Servants, Masters, it's ridiculous.
Alfred is the sweetest, most noble
man alive and he's subjugated all
his life and dreams to someone else.
320 INT. WAYNE MANOR - FOYER - WALKING - CONTINUOUS
DICK
Alfred and Bruce are like family.
BARBARA
Paying someone to prepare your
meals and do your laundry and
clean your dishes, you call that
family?
DICK
Alfred's happy here.
BARBARA
Happy.
(a beat)
You honestly don't know, do you?
You can't even see what's in
front of your own eyes.
They've reached the main stair. Dick stares at her
puzzled.
BARBARA
Look at his skin. At how he's hiding
the pain all the time. Can't you see
it? Alfred's sick.
And with that, Barbara disappears upstairs. Dick stares
after her.
BRUCE (OVER)
Alfred's not sick.
Bruce steps from the shadows. Sits now at the foot of the
steps.
BRUCE
He's dying. And I can't deal with it.
DICK
But he's never said a word-
BRUCE
You know Alfred. He'd never say
Anything. But I can tell. Until
you came along, Alfred was the
only family I ever had. Without
him, I don't know how I would
have survived. He saved my life,
Dick. And I've never told him.
DICK
Talk to him, Bruce. There's nothing
worse than losing someone without
telling them how you feel.
BRUCE
I'm scared, Dick. Maybe for the
first time in my life. I'm really
scared.
321 INT. ARCKHAM ASYLUM - FREEZE'S CELL - NIGHT
Freeze stands within the anti-thermic field, crafting a
tiny ice sculpture of his wife. He lifts the miniature
gearworks from an alarm clock, places the ice sculpture
atop of it, the statuette beginning to turn. He covers the
figure with a drinking glass.
GUARD(OVER)
Hey Icehead, you got a visitor.
322 WIDER
A GUARD stands by the door.
GUARD
Your sister's here to see you.
323 FREEZE - CLOSE. Puzzled.
FREEZE
(to himself)
Sister?
The Second Guard ENTERS, followed by a woman in a cloak.
None other than Poison ivy.
324 INT. ARKHAM LOCK-UP - NIGHT
A tiny basement room with a single barred window where
prisoner's effects are kept. Mannequins display familiar
costumes, Joker's, Riddler's, Freeze's.
325 A GUARD sits against the wall, watching TV. Suddenly two
fists SMASH through the cement wall and grab the chair,
wrenching the seated Guard through the wall in a storm of
dust.
Bane ENTERS, walks to Freeze's suit.
326 INT. FREEZE'S CELL
The two Guards stand by the console as the door seals
behind Pam.
GUARD
Don't mind us, ma'am. You can converse
freely.
But Pam isn't interested in Freeze, instead walks to the
Guards.
PAMELA
Oh, I don't mind you at all.
Pam begins a saunter around the room, shedding her cloak
to reveal her skintight Ivy costume.
PAMELA
You're not that attractive. Pretty
average I'd say. But your fantasies
aren't average, are they?
327 INT. ARKHAM HALLWAY - HALLWAY
(OVER) ALARMS. Bane, rolling Freeze's suit in a shopping
cart, barrels down the hallway, KNOCKING Guards and
Doctors into walls.
328 INT. FREEZE'S CELL
Pam's saunter has brought her back to the two mesmerized
Guards.
IVY
Men. The most absurd of all God's
creatures. We give you life and we
can take it back just as easily.
She holds one Guard's chin in each hand. Leans in to kiss
them.
IVY
What if I told you one kiss from me
would kill you?
GUARD
Right
GUARD #2
Whatever.
IVY
I really am to die for.
She kisses first one, then the other. They CHOKE, fall.
Dead.
FREEZE
Impressive
IVY
Well, I, my most unabominable
snowman, have been impressed by you.
In fact I propose a pairing. So I'm
here to set you free.
FREEZE
An enticing offer. But what does the
lady want in return?
IVY
Let's cool it for now. There's
someone I want you to meet.
330 Ivy presses a button and the door slides open. Bane
runs in, wheeling Freeze's suit. Ivy seals the door
behind him.
FREEZE
Ah, a laundry service that delivers.
Bane rolls the cart across the cryonic field. Freeze
begins to dress.
IVY
I love that belt. What are you,
about a fifty Big and Tall?
FREEZE
I always go a size smaller. Makes
me look slimmer.
331 FREEZE - POV. His watch like status display shows his
power supply. Dangerously low. Auxiliary Power Only.
Freeze opens his sleeve compartments. Empty.
FREEZE
They've confiscated my generator
diamonds. I'm running on empty.
332 (OVER) the SHOUTS of approaching Guards. The flame of a
laser torch begins to cut around the side of the front
door.
333/ IVY hits the Venom pump. Bane lifts his fists and tries
334 to SHASH the far wall. It doesn't break.
IVY
Not good.
335 (OVER) the SHOUTS of more Guards coming down the hall.
Freeze reaches for his holster. Empty.
FREEZE
No gun. How disarming.
IVY
I wonder if I can get a cell with
a view of the gardens?
FREEZE
Dear daisy, don't despair.
336 Freeze walks to a sink set into the cell wall. He turns
on the water. Freeze cracks his gauntlet seal, cryo-gas
HISSING out.
FREEZE
Always winterize your pipes.
337 Freeze aims the gas jet at the spigot. PIPES around the
room begin to freeze, bulging with the cold, frozen water
within them splitting metal, rushing towards, CRACKING,
the stone wall.
338 EXT. ARKHAM ASYLUM - NIGHT
The wall of Freeze's turreted isolation tower begins to
CRACK.
339 INT. ARKHAM ASYLUM - FREEZE'S CELL
The wall has split apart, revealing the night beyond.
Bane, Ivy, and Freeze look down at the rushing river far
below.
IVY
I hate heights.
340 The cell door flies off its hinges.
FREEZE
You'll hate prison more.
The three villains jump.
341 EXT. ARKHAM ASYLUM - NIGHT
Three tiny figures plummet towards the fast rushing waters
below.
342 INT. WAYNE MANOR - NIGHT - WALKING
Bruce walks with Alfred through the old house, shutting out
lights.
BRUCE
Are you well, old friend?
Alfred stops, stares into his charge's eyes, then turns
away.
ALFRED
I am as well as can be expected.
BRUCE
Alfred, I know you're sick -- I
can get you the best doctors.
ALFRED
I've seen the best doctors--! A
gentleman does not discuss his
health. It's not civilized. I
hope I've taught you at least
that much, young man.
Bruce bites back a bitter smile. He knows better than to
push him when he's like this.
BRUCE
Have you ever regretted your life
working here, Alfred?
ALFRED
Attending to heroes? No sir. My
Only regret is that I was never
able to be out there with you.
BRUCE
Not all heroes wear masks.
Alfred smiles.
BRUCE
Alfred, if I've never told you...I
just want to say...
ALFRED
Yes?
Bruce looks away, fighting tears, unable to say the words.
342A BRUCE - POV. Out the window, a young Bruce plays hide
and seek with Alfred, the old Butler gone behind a hedge,
then back again.
342B BACK TO SCENE
DICK
(running in)
Freeze has escaped.
OUT THE WINDOW. The Batsignal shines in the night sky.
343 INT. LIMO - NIGHT
Filled with flowers. Bane sits at the wheel, Ivy and Freeze
in back, watching the Snowy Cones Ice Cream Factory,
surrounded now by a police perimeter.
FREEZE
My reserves are exhausted. I must
have the gems that power my suit.
IVY
You are looking unseasonably hot.
Let's go inside and grab your rocks.
The Batmobile SCREECHES up. Batman and Robin race inside.
FREEZE
In my weakened state I am no match
for the bat and the bird.
IVY
You leave Batman and Robin to me.
Freeze looks skeptical. Ivy smiles seductively.
IVY
Trust me. Vegetable magnetism.
FREEZE
Fine. While I retrieve my diamonds,
you and meatloaf will bring my wife
to your lair. She's frozen in -
IVY
Hold it. You never said anything
about a wife, frozen or otherwise-
Freeze moves fast, grabbing her neck, SMASHING her against
the seat back. Bane moves in but Ivy SHOOS him off with a
gesture.
FREEZE
You will rescue my wife
IVY
OK, OK. Ms. Ivy to the rescue. Now
where do I find your brittle bride?
346 INT. FREEZE'S LAIR
Police tagged and tapped. Batman and Robin examine
Freeze's lab. Commissioner Gordon ENTERS, drops a video
disk in a console player.
GORDON
There's no sign he came back here
after the escape. We pulled this
off the surveillance cameras at
Arkham.
346A MONITOR - CLOSE. The three villains daring aerial escape.
Batman hits a switch. The image of Ivy fills the screen.
ROBIN
She's definitely part of this. It's
weird, for a while Ivy was all I
could think about. But then...
BATMAN
I know. The feeling just vanished.
ROBIN
I can't believe we were fighting
over a bad guy.
BATMAN
Bad, yes. Guy, no. This is one
majorly beautiful evil person.
ROBIN
I'm totally over her. Positively.
BATMAN
Me too. Great stems, though.
ROBIN
Umm-hmmmm.
BATMAN
Definitely.
Batman has gone to the walk-in freezer. Examines a wall of
food. He lifts a frozen oriental dinner. The secret vault
swings open.
ROBIN
How did you...?
BATMAN
(off the box)
Open Sesame...Chicken.
346B INT. FREEZE'S VAULT
Batman and Robin ENTER, examine Nora Fries in her
sarcophagus.
BATMAN
She's still alive. He's adapted his
freezing technology to reverse
McGregor's Syndrome.
(off a scrolling monitor)
He's even found a cure for the early
stages of the disease.
ROBIN
Can he save her?
BATMAN
No. Her case is too advanced. But
maybe, someday, with more research-
346B FAIRY-LIKE SPIRALS begin winding through the room.
Batman and Robin, both dazed, follow the dust through a
snaking passage, wrench open two service doors TO REVEAL...
346C INT. SNOWY CONES FACTORY - INDUSTRIAL BASEMENT
Bane stands atop a staircase overlooking an industrial
basement crisscrossed by catwalks above giant mixing vats
and conveyer belts. He hits a switch, the machinery WHIRRING
to life.
BATMAN
No beauty...
ROBIN
Just the beast.
BATMAN rushes the monster. Bane SIDESWIPES him, sending him
flying off the stairs towards the basement below.
Robin uses Batman's distraction to SMASH into Bane's chest.
Robin bounces off, landing hard atop the landing.
ROBIN
Ouch.
(standing)
Anymore at home like you?
The two begin to fight atop the stairs.
346D INT. SNOWY CONES ICE CREAM FACTORY
The front doors BLOW open. Gordon and the Cops stare up
to face Mr. Freeze, standing atop the steps.
FREEZE
I hate uninvited guests.
The Cops race up the stairs towards Freeze. He pulls a lever
marked COOLANT GAS. VENTS around the room begin to HISS blue
freezing gas.
346E INT. SNOWY CONES INDUSTRIAL BASEMENT
Batman has landed in a giant ice cream mixer. He rolls clear
of the giant stirring arm, flipping out of the vat to face...
Poison Ivy. She smiles, blows a handful of dust into his face.
IVY
I must confess, the combination of
heroic daring-do and an anatomically
correct rubber suit puts fire in a
girl's...lips.
She leans in to kiss him. Batman stares a beat, shakes it
off.
BATMAN
Why do all the gorgeous ones have to
be homicidal maniacs? Is it me?
346F BATMAN - POV. Bane is spinning Robin over his head.
Batman races up the steps towards his partner.
346G INT. SNOWY CONES FACTORY
The Cops are fighting through the HISSING coolant gas
towards Freeze at the top of the stairs. Freeze reaches
for another lever.
FREEZE
Why don't you boys slip into
something more comfortable?
346H THE ICY STPES - CLOSE. SNAP into a steep, curving ramp.
Freeze PUNCHES the lead Cop backwards into his shivering
cohorts, the police tumbling in a slipping pile down to
the floor below.
346I INT. INDUSTRIAL BASEMENT - TOP OF STAIRS
Bane hurls Robin down the steps. Batman SMASHES into Bane,
both falling off the platform, taking their fight to a catwalk below.
346J INT. BASEMENT FLOOR
Robin stands, behind him a giant miller's wheel carries
planks of wood through a chopper and back up as pallets
of popsicle sticks.
IVY (OVER)
Her pretty birdie.
Robin spins to face Ivy. She blows a pile of dust into his
face. She begins advancing, backing him towards the chopper
blades.
ROBIN
Give it up. If you threw yourself-
IVY
(leaning in)
At you? Polly want a kiss?
She leans in, lips pursed.
346K ON THE CATWALK OVER
