Rogues

Rogues Part 1: Killer Croc

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INT. AXIS CHEMICALS - NIGHT

 A FRIGHTENED MAN'S POV: He walks nervously across a catwalk, breathing heavily. Everything he sees is slightly out of focus and tinted red.

He looks back and sighs. Nobody's there.

He looks forward again to see a terrifying bat-like figure shrouded in darkness, glaring at him from the other end of the catwalk.

FRIGHTENED MAN: No! I-It's not me!

The frightened man attempts to remove his crimson domed helmet, but it's too tight. He takes a few steps back, trips, and reaches out for the railing. The rusted metal gives way as he falls into an oversized vat of smoldering green chemicals. Playing cards individually rise to the surface including a JOKER card.

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INSERT - TITLE SCREEN "Rogues"

MONTAGE - OPENING CREDITS

A) Harvey Dent splashed with acid across the face by a witness in court. B) Killer Croc in a professional wrestling match biting into his opponent's shoulder. C) A teenage boy watching his high school burn, enraptured by the flames. D) The Penguin entertaining guests at the Iceberg Lounge. E) A cat burglar breaking into a museum, stealing an ancient necklace.

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PART 1: KILLER CROC

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INT. ARKHAM ASYLUM REC ROOM- DAY

RIDDLER, POISON IVY, FIREFLY, and KILLER CROC play poker around a small, circular table.

Riddler deals as TWO-FACE enters, pulling up a chair.

TWO-FACE: Deal me in Nygma.

RIDDLER: Big day today, isn't it Harvey?

TWO-FACE: What's it to ya?

RIDDLER: Only that it's the 22nd day of the 2nd month. Exactly 2 years after you first joined us in this lovely asylum.

POISON IVY: You've been talking to Julian Day again, haven't you Eddie?

RIDDLER: Why yes Pamela, in fact I have. Seeing Julian is the only way I can keep sane in all this monotony.

KILLER CROC: That's why they call him the Calendar Man. Heh, Heh.

RIDDLER: (condescendingly) Yes Croc, that is exactly why. Bravo. It's just a shame he's locked up in here with nobody to match him on an intellectual level.

Riddler pauses to look around the room.

RIDDLER: Except me of course.

TWO-FACE: (chuckles) Well what Calendar Man didn't tell ya is that I've got a special appointment with the doc today. And maybe I'll-

Two-Face is cut off as crazed laughter echoes through the halls.Killer Croc shivers

KILLER CROC: There he goes again. He gives me the creeps.

FIREFLY: Aw, forget him. He'll be locked up in that cell till the cows come home.The laughing continues in the background.

TWO-FACE: You haven't been here long, have you Lynns?

FIREFLY: Naw, the Bat got me a couple weeks back.

TWO-FACE: Then you don't know him. He's been in and out more times than I think even Bats knows.

FIREFLY: Is that why he's always laughing?

Poison Ivy smiles, and holds back a chuckle.

POISON IVY: No he's just crazy. But don't think for a minute that that makes him stupid. It only makes him-