The Dark Knight (2008)

Morgan Freeman: Lucius Fox

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• Lucius Fox : [to Reese]  Let me get this straight, you think that your client, one of the wealthiest and most powerful men in the world, is secretly a vigilante, who spends his nights beating criminals to a pulp with his bare hands, and your plan is to blackmail this person?

  [Reese's face falls and Fox smiles] 

  Lucius Fox : Good luck.

• Bruce Wayne : [standing next to the storage drawers in the applied sciences division at Wayne Enterprises]  How will it hold up against dogs?

  Lucius Fox : We talking Rottweilers or Chihuahuas? Should do fine against cats.

• Bruce Wayne : [standing next to the storage drawers in the Applied Sciences division at Wayne Enterprises]  What about getting back into the plane?

  Lucius Fox : I'd recommend a good travel agent.

  Bruce Wayne : Without it landing.

  Lucius Fox : [smiles]  Now that's more like it, Mr. Wayne.

• Bruce Wayne : [in an empty conference room]  I need a new suit.

  Lucius Fox : Yeah, three buttons is a little '90's, Mr. Wayne.

  Bruce Wayne : I'm not talking fashion, Mr. Fox, so much as function.

  [hands him a diagram] 

  Lucius Fox : You want to be able to turn your head.

  Bruce Wayne : Sure would make backing out of the driveway easier.

• Lucius Fox : [talking to Reese while focusing on his work]  What can I do for you, Mr. Reese?

  Reese : You wanted me to do the diligence on the L.S.I. Holdings deal again? Well... I found some irregularities.

  Lucius Fox : Their C.E.O. is in police custody.

  Reese : No, not with their numbers. With yours.

  [Fox now brings his gaze up to Reese in interest] 

  Reese : Applied Sciences, a whole division of Wayne Enterprises just... disappeared overnight. I went down to the archive and started pulling some old files.

  [takes out a blueprint of the Tumbler and places it on his desk, Fox removes his glasses, starting to take the conversation more seriously now] 

  Reese : Don't tell me you didn't recognize your baby out there pancaking cop cars on the evening news. Now you got the entire R&D department burning through cash claiming it's related to, uh, cell phones for the army? What are you building for him now? A rocket ship?

  [Fox says nothing and continues to stare at Reese with some amusement] 

  Reese : I want ten-million dollars... a year... for the rest of my life.

  Lucius Fox : [Fox leans forward and coolly says]  Now, let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of the wealthiest, most powerful men in the world is secretly a vigilante who spends his nights beating criminals to a pulp... and your plan is to *blackmail* this person?

  [at this point Reese's self-assertiveness is gone and is left totally speechless. Fox smiles] 

  Lucius Fox : Good luck.

  Reese : [beat, embarrassed, gesturing to the Tumbler blueprint he mutters]  Keep that...

• Lucius Fox : [on the midlevel shopping center in Hong Kong]  It emits a high-frequency pulse for mapping an environment and records a response time.

  Bruce Wayne : Sonar. Just like a...

  Lucius Fox : [interrupting before he can say "bat"]  Like a *submarine*, Mr. Wayne. Like a submarine.

• Lucius Fox : [On the plan to capture Lau]  Now, for high altitude jumps, you'll need oxygen and stabilizers; but I must say, compared to your usual requests, jumping out of an airplane is pretty straightforward.

  Bruce Wayne : And what about getting back into the plane?

  Lucius Fox : I'd recommend a good travel agent.

  Bruce Wayne : Without it landing.

  Lucius Fox : Now that's more like it. The CIA had a program back in the 60s for getting their people out of hotspots called Skyhook. We could look into that.

• [examining one of the gauntlets for his new and improved Batsuit, Bruce presses a button, and the spikes are launched across the room, narrowly missing Fox before they bury themselves in the wall] 

  Lucius Fox : Perhaps you should read the instructions first?

  Bruce Wayne : [sheepish]  Right.

• Lucius Fox : No, I really came to tell you that our business deal has to be put on hold. You see, we can't afford to be seen to do business with whatever it is you're accused of being. I'm sure a businessman of your stature will understand.

  Lau : I think, Mr. Fox, a simple phone call might have sufficed.

  Lucius Fox : Mr. Wayne didn't want you to think that he was deliberately wasting your time.

  Lau : Just accidentally wasting it.

  Lucius Fox : That's very good, Mr. Lau. Accidentally. Very good.

• Batman : [seeing the wall of monitors for the first time at the Applied Sciences division in Wayne Enterprises]  Beautiful, isn't it?

  Lucius Fox : Beautiful... unethical... dangerous. You've turned every cellphone in Gotham into a microphone.

  Batman : And a high-frequency generator-receiver.

  Lucius Fox : You took my sonar concept and applied it to every phone in the city. With half the city feeding you sonar, you can image all of Gotham. This is *wrong*.

  Batman : I've gotta find this man, Lucius.

  Lucius Fox : At what cost?

  Batman : The database is null-key encrypted. It can only be accessed by one person.

  Lucius Fox : This is too much power for one person.

  Batman : That's why I gave it to you. Only you can use it.

  Lucius Fox : Spying on 30 million people isn't part of my job description.