Dying Is Easy (2021)

Michael Madsen: Bullock

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• [Bullock waits for Batman by the Bat-signal] 

  Batman : Bullock! What do you want?

  [Bullock turns around] 

  Bullock : Hey! You showed up. How's it hanging there, Bats?

  Batman : I don't have any time for your lack of candor, Bullock. Talk.

  Bullock : You think I enjoy coming up here in the middle of the night? Freezing my butt off, just because Gordon's in the hospital. I got real cases. I got actual things to do. Three of my men are missing. And you know what? I'm gonna find out where they are, one way or another. I don't really have a lot of... extra time... to babysit... a freak in a, in a cape flying around the city pretending to be a superhero.

  [Bullock makes whooshing sounds] 

  Bullock : You know, just because Gordon respects you doesn't mean I have to, right?

  Batman : That goes both ways.

  Bullock : Listen, you know what? I have some good news for you. The pasty-face clown... is, uh, dying.

  Batman : Anything else?

  Bullock : Well, uh, he's demanding to see you, of course. You guys, uh, spend most of your life together, right? I thought maybe you'd be excited and do a little celebration from your side of things. Well, as far as I'm concerned, one of you madness dwellers is getting exactly what you deserve.

  Batman : The death of the Joker is nothing to celebrate.

  Bullock : All I'm saying is that somebody should've pulled the trigger on him a long time ago.

  Batman : Well, you're the one with a gun, and a license to kill.

  Bullock : Yeah, well, don't take me there...

  Batman : Yeah, do it, and you'll see exactly how deep this well of madness can run.

  [pause, as Bullock receives a message on his radio] 

  Bullock : Excuse me.

  [Bullock turns around to use his radio] 

  Bullock : Listen! I thought I told you to give me a minute! Anyway...

  [Bullock turns around and notices that Batman has disappeared] 

  Bullock : Anyway... Hey, Bats!

• [as GCPD recovers the bodies of the three missing officers, Bullock walks into an alley] 

  Bullock : So, you've been playing everyone, the whole time. Me included.

  [Batmen appears beside Bullock] 

  Batman : It had to be real.

  Bullock : You think I was... too stupid to sell it?

  Batman : Those are your words, not mine.

  Bullock : I wish we could've saved the men in time.

  Batman : Those men were already dead.

  Bullock : What... excuse me? What was that? What'd you just say?

  Batman : I said they were already dead.

  Bullock : You knew they were dead.

  Batman : Yes.

  Bullock : What was all of that about? Why did you do all that for them?

  Batman : I didn't do it for them. I did it for their families. I had to take away hope, so their families could heal. It's said that the worst thing to come out of Pandora's box were not the sorrows or the plagues. It was hope itself. Hope's a gamble. Hope lacks certainty. And this city knows all too well what hopelessness and pain can do. It drives them mad. Now without hope, maybe the families can start the healing process and move on.

  Bullock : Yeah. Hmm. I can see why Gordon respects you. I used to think you were too crazy to deal with. But I realize now, I think that Halloween costume... that you're not such a bad guy after all.

  [Bullock turns around, but realizes that Batman has disappeared] 

  Bullock : What an asshole.