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[Joker laughing]

vroom

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vroom

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[gunfire]

[screaming]

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vroom

vroom

(male #1) Don't move, or I'll...

(Robin) You'll what? Shoot me?

[groans]

- Huh? - Hah!

- Ah! - Uh..

[groans]

Twenty rounds a second, and you were still too slow.

[gun cocking]

I'm not slow, punk.

- Me neither. - I've got him.

[groans]

[grunts]

- Ah! - Robin!

[bats screeching]

I had to take him down.

You shattered his collarbone!

He's a drug-dealing pimp.

I didn't think I had to prop up some pillows

before I took him out.

We needed him, he would've talked

but you put him into shock.

Sorry. That was dumb.

But he deserved it.

[boy laughing]

(young Bruce) That movie was amazing!

Hey, dad, imagine if Zorro came riding through Gotham

on his horse right now!

[Thomas chuckles]

(Thomas) Well, Bruce, I'm not so sure

a masked vigilante would be welcomed

in Gotham City.

Sadly, they'd probably just lock

someone like Zorro in Arkham.

(Bruce) Those were his last words to me.

Lately I've been wondering if he was right.

I had years and you, Alfred

to help me come to terms with the murder of my parents.

But I must have been crazy to put Jason in the field

before he'd recovered from his loss.

His father, murdered by Two-Face

his mother succumbing to illness.

His actions as Robin

are guided by unresolved pain and anger.

He's a danger to himself, a danger to our mission.

I have no choice.

Jason's going off active duty immediately.

(Jason) Fine with me.

Jason.

Jason?

vroom

[beeping]

[groaning]

[groans]

[coughs]

Wow! That looked like it really hurt.

[Robin groaning]

[Robin groaning]

(Joker) Whoa. Now hang on.

That looked like it hurt a lot more.

So let's try and clear this up, okay, pumpkin?

What hurts more?

- A or B? - 'Ah..'

- Forehand.. - Aah.

Or backhand?

[Robin groaning]

[laughing]

[mumbles]

[mimics Robin mumbling]

A little louder, lamb chop.

I think you may have a collapsed lung.

That always impedes the oratory.

[spits] Ah.. Uh..

Now, that was rude.

The first Boy Blunder had some manners.

[groaning]

I suppose I'm going to have to teach you a lesson

so you can better follow in his footsteps.

Nah. I'm just gonna keep beating you with this crowbar.

[groaning]

[Joker laughing]

[laughing continues]

vroom

[door opens]

- Huh! - Jason.

- Bruce? - What are you doing here?

You followed me. Figures.

I was about to guess the same of you.

But I didn't follow you to Bosnia, I followed Ra's al Ghul.

He's got you jumping through hoops

to marry his daughter again, huh?

Well, I'm on my own mission here.

- I'm tracking Joker. - Joker? Here?

And you're tracking him alone? You know how dangerous...

I know that he shot Barbara through the spine!

'And I know he didn't stop there.'

'But you only put that waste of life back in a cell.'

Well, he's broken out, again.

And someone had to do something...

Jason, Ra's is attempting to build dirty bombs

that could kill thousands with radiation poisoning.

He's here in Bosnia

buying nuclear material from an unknown seller.

[sighs]

Joker got a hold of stolen uranium.

I got a lead he's selling it to terrorists.

Excellent detective work, son.

I think it's gonna take Batman and Robin together

to close this case.

Ra's' men are trying to get the uranium across the border.

We'll lose them if we don't act now.

Batcycle only seats one, you take them down

while I investigate that warehouse we tracked Joker to.

No. Stay here. Just watch that warehouse until I return.

- But... - Jason, for once..

Please listen to me.

Don't go after Joker alone.

He's just too dangerous.

You read me?

Loud and clear. Just hurry back.

vroom

vroom

Okay, kiddo, I gotta go.

It's been fun though, right?

Well, maybe a smidge more fun for me than you.

I'm just guessing, since you're being awful quiet.

Anyway, be a good boy, finish your homework

'and be in bed by 9:00.'

And, hey, please tell the big man

I said "Hello."

[laughing]

[door shuts]

[laughing continues]

[grunting]

[groaning]

[grunting]

[groaning]

[grunting]

[lock rattling]

[grunting]

[thuds]

[beeping]

[beeping]

vroom

boom

[grunting]

[grunting]

No.

Jason.

(Bruce) We save lives every day.

Strangers'.

And there's always enough time.

But for Jason..

Thank you.

But you already know

how I failed to save Jason from this life.

What you don't know

is how I failed to save him from the next.

In the five years following Jason's death

I redoubled my efforts to protect Gotham City, alone

to avoid endangering anyone else.

As always, Nightwing had other ideas.

The years Dick spent at my side as the first Robin taught him..

...a little too much.

Now he has the annoying habit of showing up

at the exact moment I need an extra hand.

[grunting]

Or fist.

Of course, I can never admit that to him.

It would only encourage him.

But I appreciate his loyalty..

Aah!

...his sense of family.

boom

[grunts]

[groaning]

It seems fitting that Nightwing was there

the night it all began.

I was tracking an arms shipment

for the crime lord called Black Mask.

Hijackers intercepted his shipment.

We persuaded the driver to confess

he worked for a rival of Black Mask's

called The Red Hood.

A sniper ended the interrogation.

Could've ended us

but he laid out the red carpet to follow him instead.

A trap.

So I followed him

leaving Nightwing behind, and safe.

The sniper made pursuit easy

but never allowed me close enough to ID him.

Then he led me to the factory.

[glass shatters]

That place, where the Red Hood died..

Stay away! It's a setup!

Aah!

...where the Joker was born.

My first great failure.

The sniper, a new Red Hood, seemed to know all of it.

He was sending me a message.

boom

And it echoed Bosnia.

boom

I cleared my mind by focusing on the facts.

The Amazo heist and reports from Nightwing

showed that Red Hood was taking over

the crime syndicates of Gotham with deadly force.

Some of Gotham's most wanted, slaughtered.

I had to protect the rest, had to stop this Red Hood.

The first person to question

was the last person I ever wanna see.

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[Joker laughing]

I needed Nightwing to accompany me to Arkham Asylum

to divide Joker's attention.

[laughing]

Get him to reveal a connection

to the Red Hood

and help contain..

[grunts]

[groans]

Well..

...the effort proved useless.

[Joker groans]

[laughing]

With no accomplice or base of operations to investigate

we turned to Red Hood's known target, Black Mask.

We staked out his latest drop of trafficked weapons

hoping for interference.

We weren't disappointed.

boom

[electricity crackling]

[helicopter whirring]

[clamoring]

The Red Hood's ability to evade us was irritating

but educational.

Advanced parkour, counter-attacking on the run..

boom

...and the skill to escape my grappling lines.

Nobody cuts my grappling lines.

Frustration made me stupid and careless.

I dropped right into another trap.

[beeping]

boom

Another inferno.

vroom

[train chugging]

Another escape.

Because of my choice, my mistake

Dick was injured.

I couldn't even look him in the eye.

Going forward, I had to work alone.

I needed to finish this alone to avoid repeating mistakes

and because this was getting personal.

Knowledge of my tactics, my history

escaping with those damned explosions

and evidence that he even knew my name

it all pointed to an impossible conclusion.

But if I've learned anything over the years

it's that the impossible

is just the unthinkable lying in wait.

I needed to find him again, but I wasn't the only one

hunting the Red Hood.

To flush him out, Black Mask declared all-out war

against Red Hood's organizations.

Gotham City was caught in the crossfire.

[groans]

[screaming]

When I finally caught up to him

he was barely surviving an ambush..

[gunshots]

[groans]

...outnumbered four to one, by high-tech assassins.

[electricity crackling]

I balanced the scales.

To protect them and to test him

his maneuvers, his timing, our coordination

as familiar as Jason's

when he fought at my side as Robin.

[grunting]

[groaning]

[grunts]

[screaming]

No!

But then he crossed the line..

...just to make a damn point.

He was cleaning up Gotham

by controlling it with deadly force

because my way didn't work.

A familiar argument.

That was the moment I knew.

Jason, the son I had lost, had returned.

He'd been resurrected.

The body I brought home from Bosnia five years ago

was a fake.

How could I not have looked inside his coffin

before we buried it?

Stupid and careless.

Following his death, I had allowed myself

a moment of weakness.

I allowed myself to be deceived.

There was only one other person in Bosnia

who could have pulled this off.

Ra's al Ghul.

Ra's is a formidable enemy, but an honorable one.

He'd even tried to get me to marry his daughter, Talia.

There was once a twisted sense of family between us.

But that was before Bosnia..

[helicopter whirring]

...before his deal with the Joker.

[laughing]

[thunder rumbling]

Bombing the banks of Europe

with Joker's stolen uranium

was only one part of their bargain.

Distracting me from their deal was another.

I thought killing Robin was the third part.

I was wrong. Ra's had no idea Robin was in Bosnia.

Robin's intel and backup

tipped the balance of the mission in our favor

and teaming up afforded us the chance

to relieve a growing disconnect between us.

Then it happened.

It was uncharacteristic humility for Ra's

to admit that he underestimated Joker.

His body language, his micro expressions

the fact that he, too, is a father

it was clear that Ra's was deeply grieved

by Jason's passing, as was I.

Desperate to rectify his disservice to me

he found a way to steal Jason's body

for submersion in his Lazarus Pit

as it had helped him cheat death.

Ra's used its supernatural properties

to resurrect my son.

But the cost was high.

While the Pit revivifies the body

its effects on the mind are less predictable.

The process drove Jason mad.

[screaming]

He escaped the house of al Ghul

despite Ra's' efforts to contain him.

The Lazarus Pit was obvious.

I was prepared for that part of the story.

It was only after hearing the rest of it

that Jason had been lost to both of us for five years

did I realize the true reason I confronted him.

I wanted Ra's to be responsible for the Red Hood.

I wanted to blame someone else for what Jason had become.

But I alone was responsible for Jason's path.

The Red Hood was a nightmare of my own making.

[whooshing]

I had to get back to Gotham to stop him.

[sirens wailing]

The war in Gotham had escalated.

Red Hood took the battle directly to Black Mask.

[whooshing]

[glass shatters]

boom

[screaming]

And Black Mask, never one to get his own hands dirty

broke the Joker out of Arkham

to hire him to kill the Red Hood.

[choking]

[gunshots]

[choking]

[laughing]

Clearly, he hadn't heard that hiring the Joker

doesn't work out well.

[Joker laughing]

[sighs]

Black Mask quickly found himself

hoisted with his own petard

tied up in the back of a trailer

and soaked in gasoline.

Sure enough, Joker got Red Hood's attention.

But getting Joker out of Arkham

was Jason's goal all along.

Black Mask was just the pawn to make it happen.

Jason was playing a long game of revenge

against the entire criminal underworld

against Joker..

[whooshing]

...against me

all building to a final confrontation.

[Joker screaming]

He captured Joker, and summoned me to meet them.

I knew I couldn't be late.

[Joker groaning]

Never missing a chance to gain a psychological advantage

Jason chose Crime Alley as our meeting place

where I lost my father and mother to a murderer..

...where I gained a son.

[thunder rumbling]

Jason wanted it all to end that night

but I was going to save my son, or die trying.

[whooshing]

[groans]

[screams]

[grunting]

boom

[thunder rumbling]

[grunts]

[grunting]

[thuds]

We could've fought all night.

[grunting]

But no blow would land as hard as the one I felt

when he finally removed the helmet.

[thunder rumbling]

For that moment, I was just a father again.

I didn't wanna fight anymore.

I begged him to stop, to let me help.

But he wasn't done.

So neither was I.

[grunting]

[crashes]

[both grunting]

It was always a contest with Jason

him against the world.

Even dying didn't teach him he was wrong.

There was no more reasoning, no more holding back.

He wanted pain, I was ready to unleash it.

Ready to drag that kid through fire

through hell and back, to show him once and for all

his contest wasn't with the world, it was with himself.

[grunts]

[groans]

And then he finally got the moment

he'd been planning for five years.

[door shatters]

[laughing]

[groans]

Jason said he'd forgiven me

for not saving him that night in Bosnia

but that I didn't avenge his death afterward.

That I didn't kill Joker for killing him

was a betrayal he could not live with.

So he crafted his final challenge for me.

He wanted to look me in the eye

while forcing me to make a choice

between our ideals.

Kill Joker or kill Jason

to stop him from killing Joker.

But life isn't a game and death is never a choice.

To make it so is our undoing, it would be my undoing.

I think about killing Joker every day

ending the monster that I let loose on the world.

But I'll never allow myself that release

a promise I made to my father and mother

an example to a son that I will never stop fighting

to protect from himself.

[gunshot]

Aah! Ah..

[groaning]

[beeping]

No! Don't spoil it! This is better!

[groans]

I'm the only one who's gonna get what he wants tonight!

Yes! Bing, bang, boom!

'We all go out together!'

Don't you just love a happy ending?

[laughing]

[groans]

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boom

[glass shattering]

[rubble clattering]

[laughing]

I can never stop fighting to protect them from themselves..

[laughing continues]

...to protect them from me.

We only come to know the true power of evil

when we work to suppress it in ourselves.

You know, when you say spooky stuff like that

you justify my contingency plans to defeat you.

What I'm saying, Bruce

is that you are the strongest person I know

not because of the monsters you fight on the outside

but for the demons you battle on the inside.

'Your willingness to open up to me about this'

well, that shows real strength.

And the day you stop reaching out for this support

is the day I know I need to activate

my contingency plan for you.

[chuckles]

We'll find Jason together

right after I find the check.

Thank you, Clark, and I paid the tab.

- Before you arrived. - But how did...

You order the same thing every time.

Even over dessert you have to be two moves ahead? Really?

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