In Gotham City, the Joker robs a mob bank with his accomplices, whom he has secretly ordered to kill each other; he ultimately kills the last survivor. That night, Batman and Lieutenant James Gordon contemplate including new district attorney Harvey Dent in their plan to eradicate the mob. However, Batman wonders if Dent can be trusted. Bruce runs into Rachel Dawes and Dent, who are dating, and after talking to Dent, he realizes the man is sincere and decides to host a fundraiser for him.
Meanwhile, mob bosses Sal Maroni, the Chechen, and Gambol meet with other gangsters to discuss both Batman and Dent, who have been cracking down on their operations. Lau, a Chinese mafia accountant, informs them that he has hidden their money to preempt Gordon's plan to seize the mobsters' funds and flees to Hong Kong to escape from Dent's jurisdiction. The Joker appears and offers to kill Batman for half of the mafia's money, but they flatly refuse and Gambol places a bounty on the Joker's head instead. Not long after, the Joker kills Gambol and takes control of his men.
In Hong Kong, Batman captures Lau and delivers him to the Gotham City police, where Lau agrees to testify against the mob. In retaliation, the mobsters hire the Joker to kill Batman and Lau. The Joker issues an ultimatum to Gotham: people will die each day until Batman reveals his identity. When Commissioner Gillian B. Loeb and Judge Surillo are murdered by corrupt police, the public readily blames Batman, prompting Bruce Wayne to decide to reveal his identity. Before Wayne can do so, Dent holds a press conference to try and persuade the public not to sell Batman out just because of one terrorist, but the public insists that Batman turn himself in. Dent announces that he is Batman and is arrested as part of a plan to draw the Joker out of hiding. The Joker attempts to ambush the police convoy transporting Dent to jail, but Batman and Gordon intervene and capture him. In recognition of his actions, Gordon is appointed the new police commissioner.
That night, Dent and Dawes disappear. At the police station, Batman interrogates the Joker, who reveals that Dent and Dawes' police escorts were on Maroni's payroll, and that they are now captive in warehouses rigged with explosives on opposite sides of the city, so that Batman cannot save them both. Batman leaves to save Dawes, while Gordon and the police head after Dent. With the aid of a smuggled bomb, the Joker escapes police custody, taking Lau with him. Batman arrives, but finds Dent instead of Dawes. Batman saves Dent, but the ensuing explosion disfigures half of Dent's face. Gordon arrives too late at the other warehouse and Dawes perishes. Aboard a cargo ship, the Joker burns Lau to death atop a pile of his half share of the mob's money, and has the Chechen killed before taking control of his men.
Meanwhile, an accountant at Wayne Enterprises, Coleman Reese, figures out his boss must be Batman from enormous expenditures for research and development he cannot trace. After failing to blackmail the company, he decides to go public with his knowledge. However, realizing that he does what he does only because of Batman, the Joker changes his mind about unmasking Batman and issues a public ultimatum: either Reese is killed or a hospital will be destroyed. When the police start evacuating all the hospitals instead, the Joker goes to Gotham General Hospital, frees Dent from his restraints, and gives him a gun after telling him to exact revenge on the people responsible for Dawes' death, as well as Batman and Gordon for not saving her. Dent flips his lucky coin do determine the Joker's fate; the toss is in his favor. The Joker destroys the hospital on his way out and hijacks a bus full of hospital patients.
Dent goes on a personal vendetta, confronting Maroni and the corrupt cops one by one, using his coin to determine whether they live or die. The Joker announces that anyone left in Gotham at nightfall will be in danger. With the bridges and tunnels out of the city closed due to a bomb threat by the Joker, the authorities begin evacuating some people by ferry. The Joker has explosives placed on two of the ferries, one transporting convicts to keep the Joker from freeing them, and the other with civilians. He informs the passengers the only way to save themselves is to push the trigger he has provided to blow up the other ferry; otherwise, he will destroy both at midnight. The Joker's plan fails after the passengers on both decide not to destroy each other.
Batman locates the Joker and the hostages from the hospital. Realizing the Joker has disguised the hostages as his own men, Batman is forced to attack both Gordon's SWAT team and the Joker's henchmen in order to save the real hostages. Batman finds the Joker, and after a brief fight, is able to subdue him, preventing him from destroying both ferries. When Batman refuses to kill the Joker, the Joker acknowledges that Batman is truly incorruptible, but that Dent was not, and that he has unleashed Dent upon the city.
Leaving the Joker tied up, Batman searches for Dent. At the ruins of the building where Dawes died, Batman finds Dent holding Gordon and his family at gunpoint. Dent judges the innocence of Batman, himself, and Gordon's son through three coin tosses. As the result of the first two flips, he shoots Batman in the abdomen and spares himself. Before Dent can determine the boy's fate, Batman, who was wearing body armor, tackles him and all three fall off the side of the building. Gordon's son is saved, but Dent and Batman fall to the ground below resulting in Dent's death.[7]
Knowing that the citizens of Gotham will lose hope if Dent's rampage becomes public, Batman convinces Gordon to hold him responsible for Dent's murders. Gordon delivers the eulogy at Dent's funeral and smashes the Bat-Signal. Police swarm the building, and Batman flees as Gordon and his son watch.
Cast
Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne / Batman
Heath Ledger as The Joker
Aaron Eckhart as Harvey Dent / Two-Face
Gary Oldman as James Gordon
Maggie Gyllenhaal as Rachel Dawes
Michael Caine as Alfred Pennyworth
Morgan Freeman as Lucius Fox
Ng Chin Han as Lau
Eric Roberts as Sal Maroni
Colin McFarlane as Gillian B. Loeb
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