the dark knight

[Zomboid]

Originally Posted by ScruU2wice

spoiler question.

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When Gordon says "Five dead," what five is he referring to?

Spoilers!

At the end of the film, Gordon says, "five dead, two of them cops," referring to Harvey Dent's (Two Face's) victims, but it isn't completely clear how Gordon arrived at this number. Here is what we know and what we can speculate on: The first death was Detective Wuertz, who Dent shot in the bar. Then, just before the car ride where Dent kills Maroni, we see Maroni get into his car with another passenger entering from the other side. Maroni is surprised when he starts talking to the person who is supposed to be in the car with him, and then realizes it's Dent instead. We can assume Dent killed the passenger to take his place in the car. Next was Maroni's driver, who Dent shoots, and then Maroni himself, who we presume died in the resulting crash. The tally is now four: Wuertz, Maroni's driver, Maroni, and the unnamed passenger. Since Ramirez (the female cop) was only punched out and not killed, the fifth would have to be the cop in the hospital, the one who goes to retrieve Harvey, only to be gunned down by the Joker. Since no one knows that the Joker was there, it would be presumed that Harvey killed him--though we in the audience know better. Gordon might mean Dent himself. But that would only leave one cop among the five dead; and he says there are two. It's also possible that more of Dent's murders were filmed but cut out of the final release, resulting in this slight continuity problem.