So we've got Batman on the run, accused of killing a bunch of cops.

Meanwhile the Riddler has his eye on someone from his crappy apartment, and that's Coleman Reese. Coleman Reese if you remember was the little punk accountant who thought he could extort Wayne Enterprises. He knows Bruce Wayne's secret.

The Riddler wants Reese to tell him who's Batman. He doesn't want Reese to tell other people, he wants to torture the real Batman with his information himself. He wants Reese's information. He wants the power of it. And so he kidnaps Reese and puts him in a virtually unwinnable little obstacle ala Silence of the Lambs. He says I'll let you go if you tell me who Batman is. Reese however, is stubborn.

Reese knows the valuable of his knowledge, and he doesn't want to give it up.

Cut to the Gotham Police precinct. Commissioner Gordon is being accused of being in on this whole crooked cop situation that's now become famous and blown out of proportion long after somewhat solved. The people of Gotham have no way of knowing if they can trust Gordon as long as they don't think they can trust Batman. There is no proof yet that Batman and Gordon are working together, and until that happens, the lobby against Gordon is as ineffectual as their lobbies towards most things in Gotham.

Five minutes in as an ugly scene with Gordon and some reporters where Gordon holds his cool while the reporters fling verbal bombs and have to be held back by the other cops.

Gordon walks into his office, and there's Batman waiting for him. Gordon shuts the door and says how's everything while you're on the run? I'm going to get you out of this, you can't survive like this. Batman says gruffly "never mind that, come with me."

He takes him out back where the Riddler has left a clue intentionally for Gordon and Batman and the others to solve. He can't help it. Entailed in the clue is undeniable evidence that the Riddler has Reese. And so they have a hostage situation, and Gordon and Batman follow the clues that are SURPRISINGLY EASY. Nothing like the 60s show where they had a tiny clue and were able to unlock the code through free random association. The Riddler is so Chris Nolan-realistically compulsive that Gordon and Batman are tangoing with the Riddler in no time.

What ensues is a scene similar to RoboCop 2 where Murphy and Lewis end up kicking a bunch of henchmen's asses only so that little kid shoots Robo in the face and they have to retreat. Batman and Gordon leave after failing to overcome a weapon that the Riddler uses when he comes face to face with them finally. They leave, but not before one of the witnesses in the vicinity get a picture of them leaving on his cellphone. For the first time, there is undeniable evidence that Gordon is still working with a "wanted murderer" who takes the law in his own hands. And so Gordon, will be put in position where he'll have to flee.

The Riddler and some crooked cops intertwine in a gunfight as they try to cease Gordon. And Batman will swoop in, bust up all these guys, and save Gordon.

The Riddler goes back to his hideout and tells a now thoroughly unkempt, stinkin' Coleman Reese that it's time to tell him who Batman is or he's going to kill him. Reese won't bite. Instead what he does...after being faced with a new obstacle he can't win but is all complicated and zany...tries to pull a fast one.

He wants to keep his secret -- that Bruce Wayne is Batman -- but what he does is tell the Riddler that Batman can be found at Wayne Enterprises and at many things Bruce Wayne owns. This way he sets the Riddler up in a situation where Batman might take him down.

Harley Quinn is on the rocks with the Joker who is locked up, drugged up, completely Hannibal-Lectarized in a straitjacket with metal choker and mouth piece in Arkham Asylum. Harley likes Batman and cheers him on and hopes he succeeds. Harley will serve as the subconscious message of "Batman's sexy" that Christian Bale so wants in what he regards to be an extraordinarily asexual film series. He wants to be seen with chicks more. So Harley hypes up Batman, pisses off her ex-boyfriend the Joker by pointing out that his complicated plan with Harvey Dent is sexy and brilliant, and thus the Joker acts like HE likes Batman too...in order to have Harley plot against Batman. She doesn't believe him. She knows all about her ex boyfriend's penchant for reverse psychology and mind manipulation. It's then that the Joker points out that of all the times Batman could have iced him, he didn't. And if that's not evidence that Batman was in on his crime spree, he doesn't know what is.

Harley agrees.

And so her and a stranger in the sewage area next door to the Riddler's underground hideout named the Penguin end up teaming with the Riddler while Coleman Reese now has a Jim Henson beard and fro going on and dirty t-shirt. They take Coleman up on his words and decide to go and visit some of these places that this tycoon Bruce Wayne owns. The Riddler swears, he SWEARS, that Batman must really be out for this Bryce Wayne guy. The Penguin says it figures -- Wayne Enterprises is involved in things like shady mergers with Lao Securities, and gas pellets and microwave emitters.

There's a big fight downtown, one that sees Gordon and Batman efficiently and effectively destroy every CLUE that would lead to them figuring out Bruce Wayne is Batman that is left around the property accidentally. They do all this, leave, and meanwhile the feds have the Penguin 100 floors up, cornered, or so it seems. The Penguin jumps through a plate glass window, opens that umbrella, the dramatic Hans Zimmer music plays and he drops down and out of sight "WHACK-WHACK-WHACK-WHACK--"

By now because Gordon has been associated with the bad element in Gotham, the feds have now come to town. Batman and Gordon forget about one of the clues. And it looks like Riddler and company are finally onto him. But it's shot down because the Penguin tells them about his showdown on the roof, and how those were feds, and because they don't know the situation with Gordon, they take it as PROOF that Bruce Wayne isn't Batman, that Batman is actually truly just INVESTIGATING Wayne, because those feds with guns tells the Penguin it's possible that other branches of government regulators have come to town, Like the securities exchange commission! To go after Wayne Enterprises!

So they go back to the hide-out, bitch it out, Harley doesn't buy a word of this. She's got an attitude. Reese whines. And so they simply kill him. They shoot Reese. Yeah.

And then they go and get the one person they figure WOULD know who Batman really is, and so they KIDNAP COMISSIONER GORDON!

Now Gordon's in one of those unwinnable physical challenges ala Double Dare that the Riddler has concocted for him. They ask him who Batman is. And Gordon really, really doesn't know! They of course...don't believe him. And so the tension builds.

And it's up to Lucius, Alfred, and Batman to put together clues that the Riddler DIDN'T intentionally leave at their malay downtown in order to figure out where Gordon is and save the day baby.

One problem. The feds want Gordon too. Gotham is filled with crooked cops. The feds know this, and when they interrogate them, EACH of them try to save their butts by passing the buck on Gordon. They all go looking for Gordon! Part of what Batman has to do is bust these guys up!

It's around this time that Batman will end up in a holding cell. He will get caught, and escape like it's nothing. And you remember that one older cop we liked from Dark Knight who was like "I'm a twenty year man". Remember? With the flask? He saves this cop at the station AS WELL as escape.

And that's how Dark Knight III should go.

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