Batman: The Movie

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NARRATOR:
This yacht is bringing a

revolutionary invention to Gotham.

On a peaceful motor ride,

millionaire Bruce Wayne...

...and his ward, Dick Grayson,

have been summoned to Wayne Manor...

...by an urgent but anonymous

call for help.

The invention and its custodian

are reported in grave danger...

...aboard the yacht.

Never ones

to shirk responsibility...

...Bruce and Dick, with

characteristic speed and resolve...

...descend promptly to the Batcave.

And then, as they have done

many times before...

...as Batman and Robin,

courageous warriors against crime...

...they are off, once again,

to the rescue.

Batteries to power.

Turbines to speed.

Roger. Ready to move out.

Batmobile to airport, red alert.

Prepare Batcopter for takeoff.

Batmobile approaching.

MAN:
Red Alert! Gotham Tower to all

aircraft in the control zone.

Enter your holding pattern.

Batcopter cleared for takeoff.

It's good to know

they're up there doing their job.

Batdrift angle:
03 to starboard.

Roger. Correcting to port.

Altitude:
31 7. Sink rate: 0.49.

-Drop Bat ladder.

-Bat ladder away.

Lock computer on afterdeck.

Set automatic Bathold.

Watch out. This could be tricky.

Have no fear. I'll keep all my wits

about me. So long, for a minute.

Batman to Robin,

ease off on the power!

Increase sink rate!

Roger! Wilco!

Take her up!

Holy sardine!

Hand me down

the shark-repellent Bat spray!

GORDON:
Enough pictures.

BATMAN:
This must be brief.

O'HARA:
You're lucky they'll talk.

-Mr. Merrick of The Gotham City Times.

A yacht approaching the city

is said to have disappeared.

-Nonsense. How can a yacht disappear?

-lt isn't true?

I stand on my answer.

Mr. Stanley of The Globe.

-lt was a Big Ben Distilleries yacht?

-That's right.

Isn't the proprietor,

Commodore Schmidlapp...

...bringing with him a new invention

from Big Ben's lab?

-No more questions about that ship.

-What about that shark?

BATMAN:
Unfortunately, it chanced

to swallow a floating mine.

I wouldn't worry about that.

You there, Miss--

Comrade Kitanya lrenya Tatanya

Karenska Alisoff.

From The Moscow Bugle.

You grace us with your presence.

May I be of service?

Please, take off the mask

to give the better picture.

-Batman take off his mask?

O'HARA:
She's mad.

BATMAN:

Chief O'Hara, all of you.

This young lady is a stranger.

Her request is not unnatural...

...however, impossible to grant.

-lmpossible?

-lndeed.

If we were to remove our masks,

our true identities would be revealed.

-Ruining their value as crime fighters.

-Not even we know who they are.

In fact, our own relatives don't know.

But your so curious costumes....

Don't be put off by them.

Under this we're ordinary Americans.

You're like the masked vigilantes

in the Westerns?

Batman and Robin are

deputized agents of the law!

-"Support your police" is our message.

-Well said, Robin.

And no better way to end

this conference.

-Thank you and good day.

MAN:
Batman--

O'HARA:
Never mind, everybody out.

Come on, we're all busy here.

A fine job. You allayed their fears.

If l'd told the truth,

panic would grip the city.

The truth. And what is the truth?

A decoy. An anonymous warning...

...that Schmidlapp's in danger,

to lure me into a trap.

An attempt on his life.

While they were luring you

to a watery grave...

...the yacht was being hijacked?

-Precisely!

-And who behind it?

What known super criminals

are at large now?

I'll check at once, Batman.

Let's have the latest status report

on criminals at large. Thank you.

Coming up on

the closed-circuit TV screen.

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