Aaron Eckhart credited as playing...
Harvey Dent
- The Joker: You know. I don't want there to be any hard feelings between us, Harvey. When you and, uh...
- Harvey Dent: Rachel!
- The Joker: Rachel were being abducted. I was sitting in Gordon's cage. Now, *I* didn't rig those charges.
- Harvey Dent: Your men. Your plan.
- The Joker: 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.
- Harvey Dent: [while having a fancy dinner with Bruce, Rachel and Natascha] You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.
- The Joker: I just did what I do best. 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. Hmmm? You know... You know what I've noticed? Nobody panics when things go "according to plan." Even if the plan is horrifying! If, tomorrow, I tell the press that, like, a gang banger will get shot, or a truckload of soldiers will be blown up, nobody panics, because it's all "part of the plan". But when I say that one little old mayor will die, well then everyone loses their minds!
- [Joker hands Two-Face a gun and points it at himself]
- The Joker: Introduce a little anarchy. Upset the established order, and everything becomes chaos. I'm an agent of chaos. Oh, and you know the thing about chaos? It's fair!
- [still holding the gun, Two-Face pauses and takes out his coin]
- Two-Face: [showing Joker the good side] You live.
- The Joker: Mm-hmm.
- Two-Face: [showing the scarred side] You die.
- The Joker: Mmm, now we're talking.
- Harvey Dent: [during a press conference] The night is darkest just before the dawn. And I promise you, the dawn is coming.
- Batman: [in the back of a factory at 250 52nd Street] What happened to Rachel wasn't chance. We decided to act! We three!
- Two-Face: Then why was it me who was the only one who lost everything?
- Batman: It wasn't.
- Two-Face: The Joker chose ME!
- Batman: Because you were the best of us! He wanted to prove that even someone as good as you could fall.
- Two-Face: [bitter] And he was right.
- Harvey Dent: Alfred, right?
- Alfred Pennyworth: [during the fundraiser party held for Harvey Dent] That's right, sir.
- Harvey Dent: Yeah, Rachel talks about you all the time. You've known her, her whole life!
- Alfred Pennyworth: Oh, not yet, sir.
- Harvey Dent: Heh heh heh. Any psychotic ex-boyfriends I should be aware of?
- Alfred Pennyworth: [smiles] Oh, you have no idea.
- Harvey Dent: [during the fundraiser party held for Harvey Dent] The famous Bruce Wayne. Rachel's told me everything about you.
- Bruce Wayne: I certainly hope not.
- Salvatore Maroni: [in the back seat of his car] Look, if I tell you, will you let me go?
- Two-Face: Can't hurt your chances.
- Salvatore Maroni: It was Ramirez.
- [Two-Face pulls the coin out and cocks his gun]
- Salvatore Maroni: [panicking] But you said...
- Two-Face: I said it couldn't hurt your chances.
- [flips coin; good side]
- Two-Face: You're a lucky man.
- [flips again; bad side]
- Two-Face: He's not.
- Salvatore Maroni: Who?
- Two-Face: [buckles seat belt] Your driver.
- [He shoots the driver in the back; the car goes flying off the road]
- Two-Face: You thought we could be decent men, in an indecent time! But you were wrong. The world is cruel, and the only morality in a cruel world is chance. Unbiased, unprejudiced... fair. His son's got the same chance she had. Fifty-fifty.
- Batman: What happened to Rachel wasn't chance. We decided to act. We three.
- Two-Face: Then why was it me who was the only one who lost everything?
- Batman: [grieved] It wasn't...
- Harvey Dent: [in his hospital room] Remember that name you all had for me when I was at Internal Affairs? What was it, Gordon?
- Lt. James Gordon: Harvey, I...
- Harvey Dent: Say it.
- Two-Face: Say it!
- Lt. James Gordon: Two-Face. Harvey Two-Face.
- [Dent turns his head, showing Gordon the mutilated side of his face]
- Harvey Dent: Why should I hide who I am?
- Detective Wuertz: Listen, Dent, I swear to God I didn't know what they were gonna do to you.
- Two-Face: That's funny...
- [pulls out coin]
- Two-Face: 'Cause I don't know what's gonna happen to you either.
- Two-Face: The joker chose me!
- Batman: Because you were the best of us. He wanted to prove that even someone as good as you could fall.
- Two-Face: And he was right.
- Batman: You're the one pointing the gun, Harvey. So point it at the people responsible.
- Two-Face: Fair enough.
- [to Batman]
- Two-Face: You first.
- [Flips the coin]
- Two-Face: [Shoots Batman and points the gun at himself]
- Two-Face: My turn.
- Two-Face: [threatening Jimmy with a gun] Tell your boy it's going to be all right, Gordon. Lie, like I lied.
- Lt. James Gordon: It's going to be all right, son.
- [Two-Face flips the coin; Batman tackles him and they fall; the coin lands good-side up]
- Bruce Wayne: [after running into Harvey and Rachel at a restaurant] So, let's put a couple tables together.
- Harvey Dent: I'm not sure they'll let us.
- Bruce Wayne: [gestures to the waiters to rearrange the seats] Oh, they should. I own the place.
- Harvey Dent: [on TV] I don't know about Mr. Lau's travel arrangements, but I'm sure glad he's here.
- The Chechen: I put word out. We hire the clown.
- [looks at the others]
- The Chechen: He was right. We have to fix real problems: Batman.
- [They don't see Gordon enter]
- Lt. James Gordon: Ah our boy looks good on the tube.
- Salvatore Maroni: You sure you want to embarrass me in front of my friends, Lieutenant?
- Lt. James Gordon: Don't worry. They're coming too.
- [Other cops enter and arrest the mobsters in the restaurant. Cuts to various locations in Gotham City, as the police do a massive round up of the mobsters in town. We see Stephens loading one thug into a police car, underneath an 'L' line, saying]
- Detective Stephens: Have a nice trip. See you next fall.
- [cuts to a courtroom, where Judge Surillo is reading the massive charges]
- Judge Surrillo: 747 counts of extortion, 849 counts of racketeering, 246 counts of fraud, 87 counts of conspiracy to murder...
- [as she flips through the documents, she finds a Joker playing card]
- Judge Surrillo: ... 527 counts of obstruction of justice. How do the defendants plead?
- [a massive army of defense lawyers start jostling and yelling all at once. The stenographer looks up, confused]
- Judge Surrillo: Order! Order in the court!
- [cut to the Mayor's office, where the Mayor is berating Harvey for his actions. Gordon and Commissioner Loeb are also present]
- Mayor Anthony Garcia: 549 criminals at once. How did you convince Surillo to hear this farce?
- Harvey Dent: She shares my enthusiasm for justice. After all, she is a judge.
- Mayor Anthony Garcia: Well even if you're able to blow enough smoke to get convictions out of Surillo, you're going to set a new record at appeals for quickest kick in the ass.
- Harvey Dent: It won't matter. The head guys make bail, sure... but the mid-level guys, they can't, and they can't afford to be off the streets long enough for trial and appeal. They'll cut deals that include *some* jail time. Think of all you could do with 18 months of clean streets.
- [the Mayor waves Gordon and Commissioner Loeb out]
- Mayor Anthony Garcia: The public likes you, Dent. That's the *only* reason this might fly. But that means it's on you. They're all coming after you now. Not just the mob: politicians, journalists, cops. Anyone whose wallet's about to get lighter. Are you up to it?
- [Dent smiles]
- Mayor Anthony Garcia: You better be. They get anything back on you, those criminals will be back on the streets...
- [he walks over to the window and looks out]
- Mayor Anthony Garcia: Followed swiftly by you and me.
- [a dead Batman wanna-be in Joker makeup, with the sides of his mouth sliced into a grin, bangs into the window, causing the mayor to jump. Police lower the dead body, which is hanging from a noose, and they find a Joker card that says "WILL THE REAL BATMAN PLEASE STAND UP?"]
- Batman: [about Lau] If I get him to you, can you get him to talk?
- Harvey Dent: I'll get him to sing.
- Lt. James Gordon: We're going after the mob's life savings. Things will get ugly.
- Harvey Dent: I knew the risks when I took this job, Lieutenant.
- [turns back to Batman]
- Harvey Dent: How will you get him back any...
- [Batman has disappeared]
- Lt. James Gordon: He does that.
- Harvey Dent: Lightly irradiated bills. Fancy stuff for a city cop. Have help?
- Lt. James Gordon: We liase with various agencies.
- Harvey Dent: Save it, Gordon. I want to meet him.