After the opening logos, leaves start falling and we hear a voiceover.
BRUCE WAYNE (VO)
There was a time above... A time before...
The camera pans up, two coffins are being carried to a crypt.
BRUCE WAYNE (VO)
There were perfect things. Diamond absolutes.
But things fall... Things on Earth...
Cut to another angle, a mansion is seen in the distance, and three people are ahead of the coffins: an elderly man, a British guy with a hat (ALFRED PENNYWORTH) and a boy....
BRUCE WAYNE (VO)
And what falls is fallen.
...who just before entering the crypt starts running.
ALFRED
Master Wayne. Bruce! Bruce, are you alright.
As young Bruce Wayne pa**es by tombstones, he enters a nearby forest. Cut to black..
OPENING CREDITS
Scenes of Bruce Wayne running through the woods and eventually falling down an open trapdoor are intercut with the events that lead to the funeral, where outside a screening of Zorro Bruce's parents THOMAS and MARTHA WAYNE are shot by a mugger.
THOMAS
Martha...
In the underground cave, Bruce sees an enormous group of bats hanging from a nearby cave. They wake up and fly in his direction. Eventually Bruce calms down, is surrounded, and starts floating towards the open trapdoor as the circle of bats fly towards there. As the screen turns to white, the voiceover returns. .
BRUCE WAYNE (VO)
In the dream they took me to the light. A beautiful lie.
Letters appear reading.
METROPOLIS - MANKIND IS INTRODUCED TO SUPERMAN
BRUCE WAYNE
- Jack.
JACK
- Bruce.
BRUCE WAYNE
Jack, listen to me. I want you to get everyone out of the building. Right now. You understand?
Let's go. Come on, start moving now, people.Let's go. The boss wants us out of the building.So, let's make it happen.
Jack.
Jack!
AUTOMATED MESSAGE
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Heaven god.
Creator of heaven and earth.
Have mercy on my soul.
JACK!!!
WALLACE
Mr. Wayne! Mr. Wayne! I can't feel my legs. I can't feel my legs.
BRUCE WAYNE
We need help over here!
WALLACE
Help me. I can't feel my legs.
BRUCE WAYNE
You're going to be okay, you hear me? Wallace. What do they call you, Wally? Huh?
WALLACE
You're the boss, Boss.
BRUCE WAYNE
Alright. You're going to be okay.
WALLACE
Easy, easy. Come on. Oh my god. I can't feel my legs. I can't... I can't feel my legs.
Bruce sees a girl about to be crushed by falling debris, and saves her.
BRUCE WAYNE
It's okay. You're going to be okay. You're okay, alright. Huh. Okay, you know what? We're going to find your mom. Where is she?
The girl points at a destroyed skyscraper, Bruce hugs her.
18 MONTHS LATER
NAIROBI, AFRICA
LOIS LANE
Are you a terrorist, general?
GENERAL AMAJAGH
They did not tell me the interview was with a lady.
LOIS LANE
I'm not a lady, I'm a journalist.
GENERAL AMAJAGH
What I am, is a man with nothing, except a love of my people.
Uh, don't open...
You just exposed...
LOIS LANE
Who's paying for these security contractors, general?
GENERAL AMAJAGH
Who pays for the drones that pa**ed over our heads at night? One question begs another.
Yes?
CIA. They're tracking us.
No!
Not her. We just used her credentials as cover.
She doesn't know anything.
It's okay, Lois.
LOIS LANE
I... I didn't know.
GENERAL AMAJAGH
Ignorance is not the same... as innocence. Miss Lane.
Get up!
Stand up!
Move out!
GENERAL AMAJAGH
Take 1 step, you will see the inside of her head.
The women in the village heard a noise. Like the sky crack open. He came down, so many dead. Even worse came after. The government attacked. No mercy in the villages. My parents tried to run...
SENATOR FINCH
The world has been so caught up with what Superman can do, that... no one has asked what he should do. Let the record show that this committee holds him responsible.
He'll never answer to you. He answers to no one. Not even I think, to god.
- Hey.
- Hey.
LOIS LANE
I was going to cook. Surprise you.
They held hearings about what happened.
They're saying that...
CLARK KENT
I don't care. I don't care what they're saying. The woman I love could have been blown up or shot.
LOIS LANE
Think of what could have happened.
Well, think about what did happen. I didn't k** those men if
that's what they think.
If that's what you're saying?
I'm saying I want to understand what happened.
LOIS LANE
I'm saying, thank you for saving my life. I'm saying there's a cost. I just don't know if it's possible.
Don't know what's possible? For you to love me and be you.
LOIS LANE
Clark, you're going to flood the apartment.
Mmm-hmm.