(bombs exploding)
(button clicking)
(bomb exploding)
(Joker laughing)
- And I thought my jokes were bad.
- Give me one reason why I shouldn't have
my boy here pull your head off.
- How about a magic trick?
I'm gonna make this pencil disappear.
Ta-da!
It's gone.
You wanna know how I got these scars?
My father was a drinker and a fiend.
And one night he goes off crazier than usual.
Mommy gets the kitchen knife to defend herself.
He doesn't like that.
Not one bit.
So, me watching, he takes the knife to her,
laughing while he does it.
He turns to me and he says, why so serious?
He comes at me with the knife.
Why so serious?
He sticks the blade in my mouth.
Let's put a smile on that face.
(gun booms)
Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.
We are tonight's entertainment.
Only have one question.
Where is Harvey Dent?
You know where Harvey is?
Do you know who he is?
It's simple, we kill the Batman.
(men laughing)
- If it's so simple, why haven't you done it already?
- If you're good at something, never do it for free.
- How much you want?
- Uh, half.
(men laughing)
- [Man] You're crazy.
- I'm not, no, I'm not.
- [Rachel] Okay, stop.
- Well hello, beautiful.
You must be Harvey's squeeze.
And you are beautiful.
Well you look nervous, is it the scars?
You wanna know how I got 'em?
Come here.
Hey.
Look at me.
So I had a wife, who was beautiful, like you,
who tells me, I worry too much.
Who tells me I oughta smile more.
Who gambles and gets in deep with the sharks, hey.
One day they carve her face
and we have no money for surgeries.
She can't take it.
I just wanna see her smile again.
I just want her to know that I don't care about the scars.
So I stick a razor in my mouth and do this to myself.
And you know what?
She can't stand the sight of me.
She leaves.
Now I see the funny side.
Now I'm always smiling.
(Joker grunts)
Got a little fight in you.
I like that.
Evening, Commissioner.
(Commissioner sighs)
- Harvey Dent never made it home.
- [Joker] Of course not.
- What have you done with him?
- Me?
I was right here.
Who did you leave him with, hm?
Your people?
Assuming of course that they are
still your people and not Maroni's.
Does it depress you, Commissioner,
to know just how alone you really are.
Does it make you feel responsible
for Harvey Dent's current predicament?
- Where is he?
- What's the time?
- What difference does that make?
- Well, depending on the time
he may be in one spot or several.
(Harvey grunts)
Hi.
You know, I don't want there to be
any hard feelings between us, Harvey.
When you and uh-- - Rachel!
- Rachel were being abducted,
I was sitting in Gordon's cage.
Now I didn't rig those charges.
- Your men, your plan.
- Do I really look like a guy with a plan?
You know what I am?
I'm a dog chasing cars.
I wouldn't know what to do with one if I caught it,
you know, I just do things.
The mob has plans, the cops have plans, Gordon's got plans.
You know, they're schemers.
Schemers trying to control their little worlds.
I'm not a schemer.
I try to show the schemers how pathetic
their attempts to control things really are.
So when I say, come here, when I say
that you and your girlfriend was nothing personal
you'll know that I'm telling the truth.
(head thumps)
Never start with the head, the victim gets all fuzzy.
He can't feel the next--
(hand slams)
See.
- You wanted me, here I am.
- You let five people die.
Then you let Dent take your place.
Even to a guy like me, that's cold.
- Where's Dent?
- Those mob fools want you gone
so they can get back to the way things were.
But I know the truth.
There's no going back.
You've changed things, forever.
- Then why do you wanna kill me?
(Joker laughing)
- I don't wanna kill you.
What would I do without you?
Go back to ripping off mob dealers?
No, no, no, no, you, you complete me.
- You're garbage who kills for money.
- Don't talk like one of them, you're not.
Even if you'd like to be.
To them you're just a freak, like me.
They need you right now.
But when they don't, they'll cast you out, like a leper.
See their morals, their code, it's a bad joke.
Dropped at the first sign of trouble.
They're only as good as the world allows them to be.
I'll show you, when the chips are down,
these uh, these civilized people, they'll eat each other.
See, I'm not a monster.
I'm just ahead of the curve.
I took your little plan and I turned it on itself.
Look what I did to this city
with a few drums of gas and a couple of bullets.
You know what I noticed?
Nobody panics when things go according to plan,
even if the plan is horrifying.
If tomorrow I tell the press
that like a gangbanger will get shot,
or a truck load of soldiers will be blown up,
nobody panics because that's all part of the plan.
But when I say that one little old mayor will die,
well then everyone loses their minds!
You didn't think I'd risk losing the battle
for Gotham's soul in a fist fight with you?
No.
You need an ace in the hole.
Mine's Harvey.
- What did you do?
- I took Gotham's white knight
and I brought him down to our level.
It wasn't hard.
See madness, as you know, is like gravity.
All it takes is a little push.
(Joker laughing)