The Dark Knight Scene 7 Summary

Batman vs. The Joker

  • Two-Face takes down the corrupt cops who kidnapped him and Rachel, then settles Maroni's hash with a literal flip of the coin.
  • Fox walks into a vast room at Wayne Tower filled with monitors and a single chair. Thanks to the technology Fox used to help him nab Lau, Batman has turned every cellphone in Gotham into a camera to find the Joker.
  • Fox is not down with the plan, which is cool with Bruce, provided he gets a little help on this one task.
  • The Joker reveals his endgame: two ferries—one full of criminals and one full of normal citizens—are wired with explosives; each one has the detonator to the other.
  • The Joker will spare whichever ferry blows up the other one first, or blow them both up if neither one has acted before midnight.
  • Batman crashes his party, stopping the nearby SWAT team from accidentally killing the wrong people, then watching with the Joker as neither ferry blows up.
  • He trips up the Joker before the clown can blow up both ferries, and even saves the Joker's life by catching him with his grappling gun as the Joker plummets to his doom.
  • It seems like we might have a victory, hard won for the good guys, until the Joker points out that Harvey's officially gone 'round the bend.
  • Gordon arrives where Harvey is holding his family hostage: the gutted warehouse where Rachel died.
  • Harvey, Gordon, and Batman have a tense game of "It's All Your Fault" in front of Gordon's terrified family.
  • Harvey flips his scarred coin—now the only way he makes decisions—and shoots Batman when the bad side comes up.
  • He then flips again with the gun pointed at his own head. The clean side comes up.
  • Finally, he points his gun at Gordon's son, intending to punish the boy for Gordon's failure.
  • Before he can fire, Batman tackles him—body armor works, kids—and the trio goes toppling over the side of the building.
  • Batman saves Gordon's son, but Harvey plummets to his death.
  • Batman decides to take the rap for everything Harvey did as Two-Face in order to maintain the honor of Harvey Dent. Gordon reluctantly agrees to hunt him.
  • We see Alfred burning Rachel's final letter and Fox destroying the phone sonar device as Batman rides off into the night alone.