The Dark Knight

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JOKER: Hi.

The Joker draws closer to Dent's bed. Dent strains at the leather cuffs binding him to the bed.

JOKER: Y'know, I don't want there to be any hard feelings between us, Harvey.

The Joker loosens Dent's restraints.

JOKER: When you and, uh...

HARVEY DENT: RACHEL!

JOKER: ...Rachel were being abducted, I was sitting in Gordon's cage. I didn't rig those charges.

DENT: Your men. Your plan.

JOKER: Do I really look like a guy with a plan?

Dent's hand is trembling.

JOKER: You know what I am? I'm a dog chasing cars. I wouldn't know what to do with one if I caught it! I just do things. The mob has plans.The cops have plans. Gordon's got plans. Y'know they're schemers. Schemers trying to control their little worlds. I try to show the schemers how pathetic their attempts to control things really are. So when I say that you and your girlfriend was nothing personal, you know I'm telling the truth. It's the schemers that put you where you are. You were a schemer, you had plans, and, uh, look where that got you.

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, hmm? You know what I noticed? Nobody panics when things go according to plan. Even when the plan is horrifying. If tomorrow I told the press that, like, a gang-banger would 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 everybody loses their minds!

Hands him the pistol. Dent holds it to the Joker's head.

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?

Dent looks into the Joker's eyes. Finding meaning.

JOKER: It's fair.

Dent looks down at the coin in his hands. Turns it over, feels it's comforting weight. Shows the Joker the good side.

DENT: You live.

He turns the coin over. The flip side is deeply scarred.

DENT: You die.

The Joker looks at the coin. Looks at Dent, admiringly.

JOKER: Now we're talking.

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