GORDON – “I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss...”

Blake pulls out his badge. Throws it into the river.

GORDON (V.O.) – “I see the lives for which I lay down my life, peaceful, useful, prosperous and happy…I see that I hold a sanctuary in their hearts, and in the hearts of their descendants, generations hence. It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done...”

Gordon closes the book, looking down at Bruce Wayne’s grave.

“It is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known..”