
Batman: Year One
BATMAN YEAR ONE:
Screenplay
BY FRANK MILLER:
FADE IN.
EXT. GOTHAM CITY, NIGHT
LIGHTNING RIPS across a jet-black SKY.
THUNDER CRASHES.
LIGHTNING casts GOTHAM CITY in stark relief. SIRENS WAIL.
CAR ALARMS SCREAM. A CACOPHONY.
LIGHTNING SILHOUETTES a menacing POLICE HELICOPTER, ROARING
downward like a monster insect.
LIGHTNING... SPARK? SHOWER. WILD.
REVEAL:
A sweating, tormented sleeper — BRUCE WAYNE.
His eyes hollowed, skin pale, he TOSSES and TURNS. Then
FLINCHES. 3 more times he —
FLINCHES:
FLINCHES:
FLINCHES. Then —
His EYES pop open WIDE
BRUCE WAYNE SCREAMS
It is the sound of INCOMPREHENSIBLE HORROR.
INT. BRUCE WAYNE'S APARTMENT - NIGHT
Awoken from his NIGHTMARE by the sound of his own scream,
disoriented, BRUCE goes to the sink and SPLASHES cold water
in his face.
BRUCE (V.O.)
Father. WHERE are you? What will I
DO?
His hands tremble. Distant THUNDER sounds.
EXT. EAST END SIDEWALK - MORNING
LITTLE AL, a gigantic, early middle-aged black man carries a
bag of doughnuts and two coffees.
He whistles as he walks through a run-down slum.
He stops and inserts a key at a grimy storefront: The sign
reads, AL and Son, Repair, Service, Salvage.
REVERSE SHOT OF:
INT. AL'S GARAGE - MORNINGLITTLE AL hits the lights revealing a meticulously clean
auto repair shop
LITTLE AL:
Bruce? Bruce? You here?
LITTLE AL continues his search in the—
EXT. JUNK YARD BEHIND AL'S GARAGE - MORNING
It's a dreary, dirty, isolated place.
Its sole occupant, BRUCE, loads large car parts onto a
flatbed TRUCK bearing the 'AL and Son' logo.
He carries the heavy transmissions and engine blocks on his
broad, muscular shoulders.
LITTLE AL:
Morning sunshine.
BRUCE says nothing, he just STARES at LITTLE AL with
troubled, tired eyes.
LITTLE AL (CONT'D)
(Hands BRUCE a coffee)
OK twinkle toes. Let's take a look
at the job orders.
The two head up a wooden staircase over the garage and enter—
INT. BRUCE WAYNE'S APARTMENT - MORNING
It's the claustrophobic room of an obsessive compulsive.
Neatly organized electronic hobby projects line the walls—
POLICE SCANNERS, RADIOS and TVs. Their readouts and displays
provide the only light.
LITTLE AL opens the blackout curtains. Sunlight pours in.
LITTLE AL:
(opens a ledger)
So the load on the truck is the
DiMotto order, right?
(BRUCE nods)
You finished the rebuild on that
caddie, and the tranny for Spencer.
(BRUCE nods some more)
I guess that's it, huh?
You know I COULD put in a couple
days, help you out down here, if
you want a break.
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