" Two against two are better odds." ―Batman īruce tells Dick that he will retire as Batman, now that he has found happiness with Chase. Unknown to Bruce, however, Nygma has drawn Bruce toward The Box, which absorbs his fears and memories it also reveals his identity as Batman unto Riddler and Two-Face. Batman turns away and smiles, knowing she has chosen him as Bruce. He then goes as Batman to Chase's apartment, where she reveals that, though she loves Batman, she has fallen in love with someone else. In a trap laid for him, Batman is saved by Dick, but Bruce still refuses to let Dick become his partner. At a business party of NygmaTech (Nygma's new company), Two-Face begins robbing the guests, hoping Batman will arrive, which he does. They rob many museums and other wealthy areas, collecting diamonds and money. Their deal sealed, Two-Face and the Riddler start their rampage. The two villains make a deal: if Two-Face helps him steal enough priceless goods and money to fund his project, the Riddler will use " The Box" (his invention) to learn Batman's true identity by taping Bruce's brainwaves. He proceeds to show Two-Face his invention from Wayne Enterprises in his lair. Meanwhile, Edward Nygma, inspired and delighted by watching Two-Face's raid at the circus, decides to become a villain himself, the Riddler. Dick pleads to let Bruce train him as a partner, but Bruce refuses, feeling he cannot drag Dick into his crime-stopping world. After a joyride with the Batmobile, Dick saves a girl from a gang and defeats their leader, but is soon overwhelmed by their numbers Batman saves him. Before long, Dick accidentally stumbles across the Batcave and discovers Bruce's alter ego. Initially, Dick wants to leave, but finds that he and Bruce share a love for motorcycles, with Bruce even offering to give Dick a rare one if he stays and fixes it. When Dick returns, he finds that Two-Face has killed the rest of his family by shooting up the wires they were climbing on, sending them to their deaths.įeeling empathy for Dick's loss and feeling responsible for Batman's failure to show at the circus, Bruce takes a reluctant and devastated Dick in as a foster son. The youngest member, Dick (Chris O'Donnell), manages to push Two-Face's bomb out of the circus tent and into the water surrounding the tent by going ahead of his family. The Flying Graysons, circus acrobats, work to remove the bomb through an opening at the tent's top. Bruce finally gets up and yells that he's Batman but nobody hears him not even Two Face. They also bring a bomb that Two-Face will detonate if Batman does not reveal his identity at the circus (Two-Face blames Batman for failing to thwart a criminal who threw acid on Dent's face, disfiguring him). Two-Face and his thugs arrive at the event, firing guns and terrorizing the audience. After this, Bruce invites her to the Charity Circus at the Hippodrome. Meridian, who establishes that whoever is leaving the riddles is a " wacko" who is obsessed with Bruce. Nygma leaves a riddle at the scene for Bruce and resigns from Wayne Enterprises.Ī while later, Bruce receives a second riddle at Wayne Manor and consults Dr. Nygma then murders Stickley and tampers with the security tapes, overwriting them to make it look like Stickley committed suicide.
He demonstrates his invention's powers on him, stealing Stickley's brainwaves to raise his own brain-power in the process. Driven mad by the amount of work he did being useless, Edward captures Stickley. However, when he asks for a response to his idea, Bruce answers negatively, saying that manipulating brainwaves is dangerous tampering and " raises too many questions." Nygma complains, but Fred Stickley, a senior worker, fires Nygma in response to his insubordination. He has invented an item that manipulates people's brainwaves and channels television programs into people's minds, making it feel like they are " inside the show." When Bruce Wayne enters, he presents his invention to him and shows him how it works. While this is going on, Edward Nygma ( Jim Carrey), a lowly worker at Wayne Enterprises, is doing unauthorized research at work. Batman rescues the hostage, but is unable to foil the robbery. Chase Meridian ( Nicole Kidman), who becomes enamored with the vigilante. Batman ( Val Kilmer) arrives at the scene, consulting with Dr. The movie opens as Two-Face, the former DA Harvey Dent ( Tommy Lee Jones), holds a hostage in a bank vault.