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: INT. DARK AREA - NIGHT 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 - MORNING LITTLE 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.